Do you watch anime rated below a 7/10?

tchitchouan said:
My whole anime viewing experience is watching anime below 7/10.
Rarely do i find hentais or ecchis that reach a 7 or an 8.
Score don't matter to me, i only want to be entertained.

Ionliosite2 said:
Of course I do, I don't care much about MAL scores. I'm currently watching Vlad Love which has a score of 5.86 and it is great, you can tell the joke flew over MAL kids' heads

Sachyan said:
The mean score on MAL is fucked up, people usually tend to give a lot of high scores, there's just too much of 8~10s, and some people even refuse to rate anything below a 5, so you can't really tell what's good and bad based solely on the mean score. It can't be trusted sadly. That being said, I usually disregard the mean score and trust more in some of my friends scores. 

Bfolls said:
I definitely take ratings into account when picking shows but I’ll give anything a chance. Boruto has been a pleasant surprise. I was expecting a train wreck based on the ratings but it’s not bad. Not as good as Naruto and it definitely has 20-30 episode stretches of being very boring, but I’ve enjoyed it a lot

And outside. Of LotGH and K-on 2nd season, none of the shows I’ve given a 10 have a score over 8.

Or maybe I just have terrible taste

Nirinbo said:
Where's the option "I do care about MAL scores, but that doesn't mean I won't watch something that caught my interest just because it's rated low"

Scores need to be interpreted, because they also depend on the people who gave them and not just on the inner qualities of the show. There are quite a few <7 anime I love, but I can see why they don't appeal the mass audience.

Ecchi is a good example of what I said above, since the mainstream audience systematically rates this genre lower. That doesn't mean that scores are useless: for example, I'll acknowledge that a 7.5 score for an ecchi anime is just as outstanding as an 8.6 of the latest popular shounen.

Imoutocore said:
MAL scores have been manipulated so much that you shouldn't trust them at all. Places like anidb, anilist, and anime-planet are somewhat better, but not by a lot. Too many shows have been botted and spammed with alts to manipulate their score, coupled with the people that throw out 10's based on enjoyment, and even worse people that think 7 is “average”.

Marander said:
Yes. Well, I have unpopular opinions quite often, so I don't like to rely too much on MyAnimeList rating to decide to watch a work or not. They can help me set expectations, but never decide whether to watch or not. I watched School Days, after all, and while I thought it was pretty bad, it's definitely not the antichrist or atrocity that so many people talk about and much of the score is tied to the emotional upheaval associated with betrayal and the characters in a plot of horror (and, of course, the bizarre and macabre ending). But School Days, in my opinion, is not even close to being worse than Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi, despite the second grade being higher. There are works that are not very well known in some seasons that receive a very low score, as is the case of Pet and, more recently this season, Hikari no Ou. Despite this, they are interesting niche plots and, in my opinion, better than some 7+ or 8+ works, so I don't see the reason to ignore them.

elgatosaika said:
i generally find sixes to be more interesting than sevens
sevens are usually the lowest common denominator whereas sixes tend to have some feature that pissed off a whole bunch of people which gave the show angry 1s
so to me they might be more interesting as i like contentious stuff

romagia said:
i do care and also watch everything.. i feel unrepresented in the poll

5.xx shows tend to be more wild stuff
6.xx tends to be just extremely mid..


also for really obscure shorts and ovas.. 5.xx is kinda the expected rating..
should be treated totally differently from a 2010+ full length seasonal rated 5.xx

Nirinbo said:
I mean that a high score may catch my interest, but a low rated anime can do the same for different reasons (interesting premise, word of mouth, animation studio and staff, score of the source material, etc.). 

I cannot know exactly who rated a certain anime, but after watching enough anime I can identify some patterns typical of the average MAL user. Underrating ecchi anime is one of those patterns, but there are more: short (I mean 3-12 mins episodes), unfinished, controversial, 3DCG, iyashikei, low member count anime are all underrated from my experience. 

I'll make an example to explain what I mean: 8.40 is a pretty high score for Houseki no Kuni (anime), so are 3DCG anime really underrated as I said above? After looking at the score of the source material, I noticed that a 8.96 manga like HnK resulted in a first season of the anime rated 8.40; a comparable action series like Made in Abyss went from 8.78 (manga) to 8.66 (s1 anime). Both adaptations are considered quite good, but the difference in the score between 2D and 3D is noticeable. 

PenguinLam said:
For the most part, score has no influence on me, although if it's rated higher than 8.50, or lower than 7.00, then I do give that some consideration. But if it's 7.00 to 8.50, then not really. Opinions in the population will vary by a lot, but if a large portion of the population likes or does not like an anime, then they're probably up to something.

I don't think I've ever seen an anime rated below 6.00.

This only applies to new anime. For season 2 etc., whether it's rated 9.50 or 5.50 probably won't influence my decision to watch it.

Jackson1333 said:
Two of my leading criteria for picking random non seasonals are, Is it rated R+ and does it have a loli as one of the main characters. If the answer to both of these questions is yes, then it likely doesn't have a rating over 7. >:3c

On a more serious note, when I first got into anime, I basically just sorted by the highest rated, and watched what everyone else seemed to think was good. But as I started to learn what my tastes were, I started venturing into more lesser-known shows, and even watching anime seasonally, which has led me to a lot of great series that weren't the highest rated. 

epidemia78 said:
MAL overrates anime, not the other way around. So low scores are usually more trustworthy than high ones. I've watched a few 6s and almost always agree with the rating. 6 is not a bad score, just temper your expectations or you will be disappointed.

it's those 8s and 9s you gotta watch out for. Those I take with a grain of salt.

Crow_Black said:
yep and if you seek validation over how high your score/ranking your favorite series has or how much it sold or whatever else it may be then yeah, you need to fucking game over yourself irl right away because nobody at all with a brain would care about how that kind of stuff at all be it online or specially offline.

Slimsith said:
I usually put anything "I" rate 6 or less into my "dropped" list, but that doesn't stop me from watching it.

I only do that because I like to have my list specific to go through to rewatch, or go back and continue with.

MAL's ratings are subjective IMO anyway, besides just because someone's opinion differs, doesn't mean much really, unless they have a unique perspective to a certain series.

I can't let someone else's opinion stop me from watching something, it just ain't happening.

On the other hand, I've watched anime that people will suck off and swallow (Love to death), but I might find it boring or I'll watch it and end up up just not liking it.

In the end ratings mean squat.

Cammell123 said:
Very rarely, I focus more on the reviews than overall rating though

If there is a good-written review that is in favor of a poorly rated anime I will watch it