| Well I have the Itou Junji: Collection as a four...and I'd say it's a fair score. |
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| Scores are just a way to rank anime from best to worst. Rating an anime 4/10 doesn't have any intrinsic meaning, it just means that you liked it more than the anime you rated 1-3. If you don't rate anything below 4, your 4s will be no different from the 1s of someone who's using the full scale. If you rate based on enjoyment, any score will always be fair and you won't have to justify yourself. Anime is entertainment, after all. |
| OP asks about inflated scores (as in, higher than it should be) in the thread title and then proceeds to complain about low scores. I feel like I have ascended the mortal need for words. |
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Kosmonaut said: OP asks about inflated scores (as in, higher than it should be) in the thread title and then proceeds to complain about low scores. I feel like I have ascended the mortal need for words. I am confusion as well... aight imma head out |
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| Many anime deserve a score of 4 or lower of course. Many shows between 1 and 6 fall into that imo The mean score of all scores on MAL is 6.5, so there's your average :v |
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| > makes me wonder how different ratings would be if the scale was from 5-10 instead of 0-10 Probably scores would be much much higher >I understand everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but being able to give something like FMAB a score of 2 doesn't seem fair. If it's genuine feelings, then nothing wrong with that. People can have different opinions like you said |
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| The whole thing is subjective. You can't argue about the scores when it boils down to people's opinions and feelings for them. |
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| I'd argue that MAL scores are more inflated than deflated, simply because a lot of users rate from the 5-10 scale. Like someone above me said, rating an anime a 4 doesn't necessarily mean you hate it, it could just be not as good as the 5s but better than the 3s. |
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| I use scores as an extra way to track rewatches, since there is no setting to show rewatch column on your list. Not sure if any other people do this, but with enough it might have an effect. Almost everything on my list is either unscored, or a 1/2. |
| No. If anything scores are inflated. People don’t bother to use the whole rating scale. A 6 is a good score for me. 5s are decent and 4s are okish. I don’t understand why people don’t personalize their scoring system so they give anime a range of scores. It’s so much easier to distinguish quality |
| Once you read many good novels (not light novels) and watch good hollywood and netflix shows, you will understand that the scores on many anime are rather inflated. |
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Zaygo said: good hollywood I’m surprised our affinity is as good as it is at negative 16% |
| well a matters, of perspective. I use the entire scale but most people would think its inflated eg - score of 5 would anyone be enthusiastic to watch anime rated as 5 in mal? answer is no, they would avoid it. yet people consider 5 score as decent anime for there list. but I consider 5 as beginning of bad which exactly sit well with how ratings are on mal most people consider my scores as inflated on contrary I believe their scores are the one deflated it only natural to have decent anime at 6 or 7 instead of 5 for me, because atleast I have some amount of experience in choosing and mal rating has also made in such a way so that people don't go and choose bad anime as higher probability people saying over inflated for people with peak at 7 is foreign concept. |
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|| If everyone's entitled to their opinion, then they're also entitled to their ratings seeing as the latter is pretty dependent on the former. There's no such thing as a wrong opinion just as there's no wrong way to rate shows, even if people don't use the rating scale to the fullest and decide that a 7 is the score to give an average show then that's totally fine. |
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Chiribei said: Zaygo said: Once you read many good novels (not light novels) and watch good hollywood and netflix shows, you will understand that the scores on many anime are rather inflated. >"Good Hollywood" The bar is on the floor. Well I don't see much competition for movies like Amadeus, Seven, Schindlers List, Inception, Shutter Island etc.. in anime. |
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| Trust me mate there are A LOT of anime that deserve 1 or 2 out of ten. |
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| I would say they are wildly inflated. 7 does not mean average, 5 does. |
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Bfolls said: Zaygo said: good hollywood I’m surprised our affinity is as good as it is at negative 16% Well I looked at your list and I'd say your taste is generally good. Something I did not expect after seeing Elfen Lied at 10. But we all have our guilty pleasures just like Another is a 9 for me. |
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| [quote=Chiribei message=63501382] Zaygo said: Also, I don't even mean that as a point of contrast to anime, since, when you think about it, that's quite similar to anime in it's own regard, since there's also more bad anime (again, especially now) than there is good anime. I agree. Its best to just watch good stuff from every medium. But I do think some anime/manga are wildly overrated compared to when you see the top list on imdb or rotten tomatoes. As an example Grand Blue manga has a score higher than 9 and ranks 7 overall. And yes I agree that hollywood has vastly degraded. Its a common phenomenon with all media nowadays. |
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| I feel like it depends on the person, I personally have a personal rating system, like when I rate stuff 10, those are my favorites, 9 and 8 are animes i like in general depending on how good they are over the other they end up in either, 7 they are guilty pleasures or nostalgic animes to me, which means I still love them, but I know some of them aint the greatest, 6 are my mid level animes, 5 are my meh animes, 4 is for animes I disliked, 3 is for animes to childish for my liking, 2 are the boring ass animes that i usually have to drop, and 1 is like the lowest of the trash or animes i find distasteful. Anything I drop i consider a rating of 0. All of that might sound stupid to others but this is how they rank in my head anyways... |
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| Again, the problem lies in the stupid descriptors. "4" shouldn't be described as "bad". Remove the descriptors, let people put their own meanings into those numbers and the problem is solved. |
| if you dislike FMAB, it's fair to rate it a 1/10, all anime are subjected to the the same rating scale, I myself have some 2s and 3s |
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Zaygo said: Once you read many good novels (not light novels) and watch good hollywood and netflix shows, you will understand that the scores on many anime are rather inflated. I agree with this heavily. Just two name two examples of my favourite movies: The Lighthouse and The Shawshank Redemption. I have yet to see an anime that comes close to those in terms of art. You're very on the nose. |
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