Ghemotoc said:GoZha said:And here's where we need to start comparing scores, a conversation that @Ghemotoc suspiciously dropped. Why do you think SnK's score and amount of favorites got high in later seasons but not BnHA's despite the similar popularity rankings? I think that's a pretty good indication that the community mostly did indeed think that later seasons were better. How else could that be explained?
Once again keep in mind that I am not saying that a score indicates whether a work is a masterpiece; keep the conversation on community reception
Comparing scores 5 years later isn't going to show you anything with the tendency of scores to drop extremely sharply with time. You mentionned SAO and used its score at some point to prove it wasn't generally considered a masterpiece. Welll guess what? SAO is old, its score dropped massively once not-so-fans got around watching it.
SNK's first season score DID drop sharply. It was in the top 10 when it aired.
Lemme rewrite it in big:
SNK s1 was top 10 on MAL after airing, and s2 was hyped like the return of the messiah on AD I could answer your specific arguments but there is no need to, because facts are enough.
Once again, I have no intention of stiring drama, but rewriting history is a big nope, and presenting opinions as fact is a big nope too as far as I'm concerned. There's no real need for you to get defensive about it tho, SNK s1 was massively praised, maybe you weren't paying attention, but I don't see why you'd stick against it like it actually matters to you. Do you really care that much if people massively praised s1 and you disagree with them? Because I really don't see why that'd be a problem.
I'll add that all the normie friends who recommended AoT s1 to me never mentionned the other seasons, so it's safe to say only s1 had that massive mainstream burst of popularity, too.
I actually didn't know that the first season was ever in the top 10. So I went checked on the wayback machine and what I found was that season 1's score peaked at #9 with a score of 8.98 in October 2013 if you want to check it yourself. But 3p2 was once #2 with a score of 9.16 at one point while it was airing and it hasn't dropped below 9.00. So the highest that szn 1 ever was is still lower than the lowest that szn3pt2 ever was. So in terms of scores, it looks like 3p2 does get more praise.