| What do you consider an average anime, most anime have score around 7, not around 5 I'm not generous with my ratings but I won't say it's too hard to get a score above 5 from me, if I don't like the show and would give it a bad rating, most of the times I just delete it from my list and I don't give it a rating to me average anime is the one that makes no impression on me, or only negative ones - it is boring, disgusting... so the question stands, what does anime you rated a 5 mean to you? |
| For me, 5/10 is quite a bad show. I didn't like it pretty much at all except for some random scenes here and there. |
SerafosDec 20, 2023 11:39 AM
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| 5 for me means "I got adequate entertainment from this. I don't regret watching it, but I also don't think I'd have been missing out if I didn't watch it". |
| Half-baked in what it was trying to do, or a show that didn't have much content nor substance to begin with. |
| 5 is what I would consider as "below average", still watchable but not very good. |
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| For me 5 is a bad show. I hated it. Its got some good points but a lot more bad points that can't he overlooked. |
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| 5/10 is average, as its definition says. The truth is I have a tendency to be lenient so a lot of times I give 6/10 to shows that otherwise would deserve 5/10. |
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| I wouldn't recommend it nor would I ever watch it again. Not even as background but it's not so awful I don't think it's worthwhile others enjoy it. |
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| 5/10 = neither good nor bad + fairly forgettable |
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| The reasons for the ratings I give differ from series to series but in general: -Shows I find boring almost always get a 4 or lower so a 5 is at the very least not boring -Shows I have an somewhat of an attachment to I rate 6 or higher. Shows I rank 5 I felt no emotion towards besides a little enjoyment. -A anime to me is a show that is one that I enjoyed enough to finish but not enough to watch it again; I would rewatch my 6s but not my 5s and definitely not my 4s. |
| Considering that 4 = bad (at least according to MAL), by definition 5 = not bad. It shouldn't be used for anime you hate or regret watching. With that said, what actually a 5 means to you depends on how you want to shape your list. For example, my scores are skewed downward because I have no use for 4 different levels of bad and, considering that 5/10 corresponds to three stars out of five (if no decimals are allowed, 5-6/10 = 3/5), it's totally ok to see it as a positive score. |
| All my scores have weight. I am often asked: "Why did you give anime X a 5 or a 6, do you hate it?" While my 5 is a positive score. In my scoring system 4 and 5 are scores for average anime. 6 is good, 7 is very good. |
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| I have my scores defined on my profile: 5: Just Mediocre. It's definitely not bad, but it either doesn't have any unique qualities, or it's being held back by something like weak writing. Unlike 90% of the people on this site, I actually use the full 10 point scale, so 5 is average to maybe just slightly below. |
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| Average or (mostly) it was good for what it did, but all in all it wasn't anything different a.k.a. more of the same cliche. Again, not bad IMO |
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| It can be for different reasons, if could be its just overall average or has a god awful story but objectively the voice acting, animation, art style and so on are incredible. |
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| Not a good show, but not a bad show. Its just an anime that I watched but it wasnt that good than I expected. |
| For me, I use "5" rating for Anime that failed to deliver in almost every essential aspect of a story/an Anime. Something that's probably watcheable but would not be worth the time to do so and is better spent elsewhere. |
| "I will use my ball to make you remember." -- Haruka Kiyomine, 2024 |
| It could mean a number of things: Something that I fundamentally disagree with when it comes to some aspect(s)/concept(s) or was somewhat disappointed by, but I still like it. Something that didn't click with me enough to be considered an overall positive experience, but I still had a nice time with it. Something that was very engaging, but had quite a few things that I hated, which somewhat ruined the whole experience. Regardless of how engaging and entertaining something is as a whole, I'm going to give it 5/10 (or even lower in extreme cases) if there are a lot of things that constantly annoy me (characters, presentation, dialogues - virtually anything that manages to continuously get on my nerves). Enjoyable recaps or compilation films also get 5/10, but I'm not sure if this rule will persist in the future. Nothing else comes to mind at the moment. I'd rather talk about a particular anime/manga/game etc. and explain my reasoning behind the score rather than try to describe all the possible meanings behind each number. The way I rate is pretty simple on the surface, but it can also get pretty complicated when it comes to details for each particular case. In any case, 5/10 is still a relatively nice score on my scale, and even 4/10 is not the end of the world (although I'd really struggle to describe it as an overall enjoyable experience). 3/10 usually means that I struggled to gain anything from the experience or was extremely annoyed/unimpressed/bored/disappointed (usually a combination of these), for the most part, while 2/10 and 1/10 scores are just pure hate territory. Depending on how these negative impressions combine, I can either choose to drop something or power through it, so it doesn't always mean that "lowest score = dropped". I also used to finish everything in the past due to OCD, so it's only natural for me to have tons of completed long-running series with very low scores. |
| 5 usually means I didn't have a good time watching the show. It might have some good/entertaining moments, but my major impression of the show is negative. Anything lower than a 5 for me doesn't necessarily mean it's a terrible show, but sometimes also means I heavily disliked some part of it that made me petty, e.g., I hated the art style. |
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| 5 for me, means I don't feel like I wasted my time with it, but at the same time, I don't feel I would be missing out if I hadn't watched it. Anything below 5 usually means I have some active dislike for the show overall, to varying degrees. anything above 5 I have an interest in that shows future to varying degrees. It's kind of the "meh, well I now know that exists" spot on my list, leaving me with no real positive or negative thoughts towards it. |
| 5 to me means i thought it had some redeeming qualities or a good plot but have serious flaws that detract from it. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. |
| I'm using only 6-10. I used to play with the ratings a bit in the past, but nowadays I consider it a waste of time. That's why I don't bother to use 1-5. If it's not a good show, I will not get back to it, so I don't need to think about the rating. Whether it's 2 or 4, it doesn't matter, it's not good anyway, so I can just leave it as completed. I don't care if my ratings won't contribute to the overall picture, and I think it's better to focus on the positives. You can check my rating system in detail on my profile. |
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| It means average but not boring enough to drop. |
| To me, giving something a 5 means it's just mediocre, and as such I wouldn't recommend it because I don't think it's worth it. |
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| By the words of Anatoli Diatlov from HBO's Chernobyl Series (I doubth the real one had says this but bear with it) A 5 for me means: "Not Great, Not Terrible" It's just in the middle, not good enough to be good, but not bad enough to be bad. It could also mean wasted potential |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| Enjoyable shows to me, I don't often rate Anime high score unless they gave me a strong impression. |
| 5 to me is completely average. It's so-so. Not amazing but not really bad in any stand out way. Any negative parts are balanced out by the good parts. A decent time killer but not something I would ever care to see again. Most things I feel fall into this category. A lot of stuff just exists with me being fairly neutral about it. I feel like everything starts out as a 5 and either rises or falls in score based on what it does next. To fall below 5 it has to agitate or annoy me in some way, and to rise above it it has to really excel in at least one category, like really funny, great art, etc. There's so much stuff that is so middle of the road that doesn't even try to stand out, that's what gets a 5. |
| In most cases I rate anime as 5/10 when it's not only typical and generic but also provoke a strong desire to watch it in a fast forward mode. If anime is not so special but at least keep my attention then it's automatically 6/10 at least. |
| 5/10 means it was ok. Half of it was bad, but half of it I enjoyed |
Gee, it sure is boring around here |
| usually means there were moments I enjoyed enough that I can’t claim to outright dislike it, but a lot less than there would be in shows rated 6 or higher also if I don’t like one aspect of the show enough it can bring a rating to a 5 but not a 4 because I can’t claim to think it’s bad overall not a popular rating for me as most shows in that range are either straight up in the I don’t like it territory while still being kinda inoffensive (4) or leave me with a “that was a fine way to spend my time” feeling and not much else (6) |
| 5/10 on my list means... Average. I usually forget pretty fast about shows I rate this way. They are mediocre. Not very bad, but not good either. |
| Average, mid, neither good nor bad, equally good and bad. A 6/10 is better than that and 4/10 is worse. |
| I would describe a show with a score of 5 as a mediocre show. Not horrible, but not great either. A score of 4 is a bad show, and a score of 6 is a show that is just okay. I only like shows that are at least a 7. |
| If I was to erase my memory of every anime I've watched and only had my list to go off of, a 5 is the lowest score of the anime on the list that I would watch. If I wouldn't want myself to watch it, it is below a 5. |
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| If when the final credits roll, I say to myself, "Well, that was an anime alright," I give it a 5/10. |
| 5 means average, middling, so-so. It's neither good nor bad. The pros and cons cancel each other out to neutral. No strong feelings to be found. The highest praise I'd give to something average would be it's watchable. Conventionally using the entire scale means 1-4 are negative, 5 is neutral, and 6-10 are positive. |
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| 5 = It means: "You're lucky I even finished you to give you a proper rating, but honestly you were pretty disappointing. I acknowledge you have tried, but you weren't able to shine in any category, you failed miserably. Better luck next time! AKA average. |
| When will Black Clover release new anime?! It has been 3 years already since March 2021... |
| I rate my shows starting from 5 so an anime rated 5 didn't have anything special at all in it |
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| I don't usually give shows a rating below 6 or 7, so 5 for me is pretty bad |
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| 5 I use as my "average" score, although this is a sort of average of all anime. If I watched a proper 12 episode TV series and it only deserves a 5 that's honestly embarrassing, since it's competing against things like music videos and OVAs, so having length on its side and still winding up as average is definitely not a good thing. Usually if I give a TV series a 5 it's because it generally means that I couldn't find much to enjoy about it. All of its qualities I care about are either neutral or negative. For shorter anime a 5 isn't as bad. If I gave a music video a 5 it means it gave me what I expected, nothing special, but also not particularly poorly produced. |
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| 5s for me are the most forgettable anime that do nothing interesting a bad anime leaves an impression, you usually remember it a 5 is one that you see when looking through your list and say, "what is this, i don't even remember ever watching this" |
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| Something that is so bad its forgettable and has nothing that would make me consider really going back to it. |
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