| ....but then why don't you choose anime with MAL score below 6 or anime which has rank of like >7000 when you pick new anime to watch? All I see you only pick anime with MAL score of 7 and above while claiming to be not care about score or rank. If you truly don't care, go watch those anime with MAL score below 6 please, otherwise you are just a hypocrite tsundere who actually care about MAL score/rating/rank.  Be true to yourself and just admit you care about MAL score or rank, there is nothing to be ashamed about it because I care about MAL score and rank. I avoid anything below 6 because I have no time to search for treasure among trashes and I'm proud of that, I mean even among anime with MAL score of above 7 I still find quite a lot of trashes :D |
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| Me, caring about the scores! B-B-B-BAKA! How can I care about the scores! The scores don't mean nothing to me! I... I mean, the scores don't mean anything to me! They're just... scores! How can they mean anything to me? *punches OP in the face* |
| Not really an issue to me because I actually do care about mal scores, and so I wouldn't watch something rated too low. |
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| I watched anime below a 6 score in the past and I still have some on my PTW list, though not many. Most of them really are just not good, but I won't stop a bad score from watching it if it's interesting to me. |
| People don't realize that only 5% of all anime are rated above 8.00. You can't really say that scores are useless if most of your favorites belong to the top 5% highest rated anime (even if it's just because higher score = better animation). |
| Scores do matter to some extent, but if an anime doesn't interest me no matter how high or low it ranked, I won't watch it. |
| Bish, I watch whatever catches my eye. If it has a higher rating, that has less to do with me and more to do with most people giving scores of 6 or higher apparently. Not that I'm one to talk since I rarely dip below a 5 with the way I rate things. |
FanofActionApr 21, 2024 2:24 AM
| In a slightly different way to the opening post example, I do believe everyone cares about scores. They care less about the bad scores or at least try/pretend not to because it gets you no where. I'm sure most don't enjoy having something they like being belittled or berated and in reverse, having something they disliked being glorified, but I do believe most, if not everyone, will enjoy what they do liked being appreciated and talked about in a positive manner by others, thus appreciate something they enjoy having a high score. |
| I mean, there's a huge difference between scores and rankings. A high average score from members gives a solid indication of a shows quality, whether you agree with the majority on them or not is down to individual tastes, but it's hard to deny that highly rated shows have at least some good points, whether its down to the writing, or the high production values or whatever else. The score can serve as a good point of reference when looking for new shows to watch. It's an entirely different matter to care about how high a particular show gains among the rankings. I've personally never understood the obsession some people have over which show deserves the #1 spot. Especially not to the point its gotten to in the past where scores would be intentionally skewed by downvoting contenders or by setting up bot accounts so their chosen victor reaches the top. Like, what does it actually prove? That you have the highest ranked on your favourites, so what? It really doesn't change anything. I don't see why it needs to be made into some kind of competition anyway, isn't having many great shows to fall in love with better than selling your soul to one single piece of media? Most people getting into anime (who I imagine would be the ones checking out the most popular lists the most anyway) are going to be looking at the top 10, the top 20, the top 50 etc, for recommendations, not just watching the highest ranked and calling it a day. Yeah, I don't care about the rankings, never have. But that doesn't mean the MAL scores themselves aren't useful. |
RennApr 21, 2024 2:42 AM
| I watched Joshikausei with rating 5.82, and this anime with rating 5.28. Joshikausei is really good for me. I am glad that I found this on YouTube. For the second one? At least I enjoyed it (I'm not read the manga, so...👀) And recently, this one. Worse if compared to the anime above, at least for now. Still enjoy it :) |
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| I honestly never look at the scores because I know that 90% of the time, I will disagree with it after watching the anime. |
| Usually the rating is just an additional factor for me to see how people received the show that interests me. But if it's below 7.5 or even 6+, I'll definitely get a bad aftertaste trying to watch the show. |
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| I never look at the score in the first place. I only watch anime that looks intersting to me. |
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| I already have such animes in my completed/hold/ptw and I don't care about the rating, what's the problem than? I am excluding here AWC restrictions which forces me to watch once in a while an anime which is +8.00 or Below 6.00 etc. Examples: Nanocore Comet Lucifer Ange Vierge [6.00 so I'll include] Gekidol Henkei Shoujo C House Complex Goddamn Yumekuri Divine Gate Cestvs: The Roman Fighter Hagane Orchestra Idol Jihen Glamorous Heroes Tsuujou Kougeki ga Zentai Kougeki de Ni-kai Kougeki no Okaasan wa Suki desu ka? Shuumatsu no Harem Cardfight!! Vanguard: overDress Nyamen Nanatsu no Bitoku Tesla Note Aki-Sora Mahou Sensou Bikini Warriors Devidol! Futsal Boys!!!!! Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall Vazzrock The Animation Isekai Shoukan wa Nidome desu Kizuna no Allele Inu ni Nattara Suki na Hito ni Hirowareta. Shitcom Shinsatsushitsu KokuhakuBattle Athletess Daiundoukai ReSTART! Banished Hero Highspeed Etoile Rinkai Touken Ranbu Blue Reflection Ray Circlet Princess Conception Dolls' Frontline Fairy Ranmaru: Anata no Kokoro Otasuke Shimasu Hoshi no Samidare Scarlet Nexus The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki - Northern War |
ZettaikenApr 21, 2024 4:11 AM
| Sorry OP but I actually watch stuff rated bellow 6. No hypocricy here. |
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| Scores and rankings are good indicators of what sucks and what doesn't, but they're not always great. For example, K-On! should have a higher ranking, at least in the top 10. Silly MAL users, tsk tsk. |
| This argument is flawed. The connection between me not watching an anime and the anime having a score of <6 is that the anime is bad and uninteresting. I have enough experience with media that I don't need to look at the score to guess if it's bad or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation #Third factor C (the common-causal variable) causes both A and B MAL score might be ok at finding the really bad anime out there, but it's still very unreliable since a lot of anime get a bad rating simply for handling unpopular topics or having an unusual format. |
VaturnaApr 21, 2024 7:17 AM
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| it still doesn't matter and i don't care. |
Reply to Spunkert
I never look at the score in the first place. I only watch anime that looks intersting to me.
| @Spunkert I do the same. Score is good to giving a glimpse of what quality, more or less, you can expect from a show, but as a factor it ain't decisive to me. The most important thing is always what the show is like, whether it looks interesting or not, mostly when it comes to its description and preferably several non-spoiler images. In short, yes, I don't care abouts scores to the point to let them decide what to watch. 🗿 |
| The ratings on the site are so high that it's hard to find something interesting that's below 7. You can dismiss the ratings and still "accidentally" end up only watching anime over 7 because it's not that hard to do. |
Reply to Adnash
@Spunkert I do the same. Score is good to giving a glimpse of what quality, more or less, you can expect from a show, but as a factor it ain't decisive to me. The most important thing is always what the show is like, whether it looks interesting or not, mostly when it comes to its description and preferably several non-spoiler images.
In short, yes, I don't care abouts scores to the point to let them decide what to watch. 🗿
In short, yes, I don't care abouts scores to the point to let them decide what to watch. 🗿
| @Adnash Same. I don't ever check scores before watching anime or reading manga. I watch, because it exists, so perceived quality will not deter me from watching. |
| Why would i take scores and ranking into consideration if i don’t care about numbers in the first place…? |
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| I don't really care about the Mal score and I've watched a lot of animes with ratings lower than 6, my list won't let me lie. ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧ |
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| I usually play it safe and stick to the higher rated anime but I'll never regret watching A Centaur's Life. The episode where they look at each others bits and pieces lives rent free in my brain. Why do the centaurs have regular ass human toilets in their house? oh no it's happening again |
| I openly pick up anime regardless of rating. Following 1 under 7 rating this season so far. Under 7s are pretty rare nowadays. |
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| Nah, I do have a few anime below 6 under my belt and in my PTW. It's just that while the MAL ratings are often wrong, they're hardly ever wrong by a lot. Overrated anime are usually at least decent and the ones with terrible scores are usually indeed bad. |
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| Time is our most valuable resource. However flawed mal ratings may be, they are always there accompanying every show and since there is almost an endless supply of anime, I need a way to distinguish the extremely crappy ones. I am not going to waste my valuable time by always picking low scored anime just in case I find something worthwhile, since the chances of that happening are decreased by a lot, should the score fall below a certain threshold. Do I watch low scored anime? Of course, if the title, synopsis, art style and other factors intrigue me, but generally they are not my first choice. The root of the problem is over supply along with over availability in combination with our need to extract as much value as possible from our limited time. There are some exceptions to this logic as well. As others have already pointed out cg and below average animation seem to be demonized on this site. Armed with this knowledge (since such things are of no issue to me, unless they are of abysmal quality) I am more inclined to watch low scored cg anime for example |
KouroubeloApr 21, 2024 2:38 PM
| Bees Don’t Waste their Time at Explaining to Flies that Honey is Better than Shit |
| I don't care about high scores but I do care about low scores lol. Things that have a score under a 6 on this site are probably pretty abysmal. Looking for good stuff in that range is like sorting through a garbage bin. Maybe you'll find something good occasionally but is it worth the hassle? |
| A lot of the OVAs from the 80s are rated in the 5.00s/6.00s so checkmate. |
| Didn't know people who watch shows with rating 6.10-6.50 care about score. Bellow 6? Those are usually titles that have noticeable flaws or short specials, music videos as far as I know. I watched a lot of those with rank bellow 7, to some I even gave a score 9. So yeah, I don't care about score, hate, blabbing etc. I watch what I like, or what I think I would find interesting depending on my tastes. |
Reply to FanofAction
@Zarutaku The only thing that's been "exposed" is the fact people are either too generous or too lazy to use the lower scores. Kinda hard to watch anything lower than a 6 when barely anything gets lower than a 6.
| @FanofAction There is lots of Anime with MAL score below 6, in fact the median MAL score of the "Top Anime" ranking is 6.55 right now (excluding N/A scores), meaning that half of all Anime have a MAL score below 6.55 and the other half above. But if people check their personal list and count the number of Anime with MAL score below 6.55 that number will almost certainly be much smaller than those with MAL score above 6.55 The median MAL score of my completed list is 7.26 so I watch a lot more of the upper half. |
ZarutakuApr 23, 2024 6:01 AM
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Rinrinka said: ....but then why don't you choose anime with MAL score below 6 or anime which has rank of like >7000 when you pick new anime to watch? All I see you only pick anime with MAL score of 7 and above while claiming to be not care about score or rank. If you truly don't care, go watch those anime with MAL score below 6 please, otherwise you are just a hypocrite tsundere who actually care about MAL score/rating/rank. Be true to yourself and just admit you care about MAL score or rank, there is nothing to be ashamed about it because I care about MAL score and rank. I avoid anything below 6 because I have no time to search for treasure among trashes and I'm proud of that, I mean even among anime with MAL score of above 7 I still find quite a lot of trashes :D You do you, but i genuinely don't care and tend to only notice/be curious about scores after watching something (unless the score is super high or super low) Anime with scores below 7 i've enjoyed - Dark Cat (3.28) - Panzer Dragoon (3.30) *crap but cute - Joubuna Tire! (5.03) - Uchuu Kyoudai: Apo's Dream (5.32) - Kuro Nyago (5.33) - Suteneko Tora-chan (5.70) - Ahiru no Ko (5.71) - Sword Gai (5.74) *season 2 sucked though - Kiki to Lala no Hakuchouza no Ohimesama (5.84) - Kemono to Chat (5.94) - Neko nanka Yondemo Konai (5.97) - Revisions (6.02) - Hakujaden (6.09) - Push (6.17) - Tamagotchi the movie (6.27) - Avengers Confidential: Black Widow to Punisher (6.28) - Redo Of Healer (6.34) *enjoy might not be the right work for it but... - Konjiki no Gash Bell!!: Ougon no Chichi wo Motsu Otoko (6.41) - Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Zexal (6.43) - Corpse Party (6.43) - Ni no Kuni (6.44) - Pokémon: Camp Pikachu (6.50) - Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho Picture Drama (6.50) - Fake (6.50) - The Ocean Waves (6.54) - Lupin II vs Cat's Eye (6.56) - Dragon Ball Z movie 2 (6.58) - Sonic X (6.58) - Toutotsu ni Egypt (6.59) - Nyanpire (6.65) - Dragon Ball z movie 9 (6.69) - Pokémon: Pikachu and Pichu (6.71) - Sword Art Online II (6.71) - Digimon Adventure: 20th Memorial Story (6.75) - Precure Full Bloom (6.75) - Crayon Shin-chan Movie 31 (9.76) - Futari wa Precure: Max Heart Movie 1 (6.81) - Pokémon: Pikachu's Summer Vacation (6.81) - Black★Rock Shooter (6.81) - Da Li Si Rizhi (6.83) - Digimon Frontier (6.84) - Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanzawa (6.85) - Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions (6.87) - Pokémon 4Ever (6.90) - Detective Conan: Zero's Tea Time (6.92) - Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Picture Dramas (6.92) - Ore Tsushima (6.96) - Digimon Savers (6.96) - Uzaki-chan Want's To Hang Out (6.99) *pretty sure it was higher when i started it though - Pokémon: Destiny Deoxys (6.97) I know there's lots of spinoffs and sequels, but considering there's people who would also avoid those based on score... |
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Reply to Zarutaku
@FanofAction There is lots of Anime with MAL score below 6, in fact the median MAL score of the "Top Anime" ranking is 6.55 right now (excluding N/A scores), meaning that half of all Anime have a MAL score below 6.55 and the other half above.
But if people check their personal list and count the number of Anime with MAL score below 6.55 that number will almost certainly be much smaller than those with MAL score above 6.55
The median MAL score of my completed list is 7.26 so I watch a lot more of the upper half.
But if people check their personal list and count the number of Anime with MAL score below 6.55 that number will almost certainly be much smaller than those with MAL score above 6.55
The median MAL score of my completed list is 7.26 so I watch a lot more of the upper half.
| @Zarutaku Ok, fine. I've gone through several past seasons of anime , and at the very least 5's are more common than I thought. I still stand mostly by what I said though, just knock what I stated down a number. I've seen some 4's but those are extremely rare and anything lower is even more rare than that. |
| ??? Sure... this doesn't like generalisation at all... |
| I've never actually made that claim. I've always maintained that a MAL rating of 6 or below is an indication that the show isnt great. it's the really high scores that I've learned to distrust. |
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| Joke's on you I do that with Himegoto lol |
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| I dont pick what i watch of MAL scores. I just pick what looks interesting to me. Although sometimes watching absolute dumpster fires can be entertaining |
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