| Since most reviews are usually not worth reading, I don't get influenced by them. There are the few good reviews out there but I always find myself curious about a certain anime whether I check reviews or not. But then again, I mostly check reviews on anime that I have seen before because of their tendency to write spoilers. After all, I never read them to form an opinion of something. |
TallonKarrde23 said: Fierce_Deity22 said: TallonKarrde23 said: MrAwesome2014 said: I don't read them since most of them are either biased or from the future. Being biased is the entire point of a review of subjective material such as anime. Yet you always hear in a review "I will try not to be biased" That's because the people writing them are dipshits, which further proves my point that you shouldn't ever listen to their opinions either. Do you ever write reviews? |
TallonKarrde23 said: Fierce_Deity22 said: TallonKarrde23 said: MrAwesome2014 said: I don't read them since most of them are either biased or from the future. Being biased is the entire point of a review of subjective material such as anime. Yet you always hear in a review "I will try not to be biased" That's because the people writing them are dipshits, which further proves my point that you shouldn't ever listen to their opinions either. I don't see how writing a review makes you a dipshit. Care to explain? |
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Forgetfulness said: Hotdogman said: He probably means people who write reviews and say "I will try not to be biased" when reviews is inherently biasedTallonKarrde23 said: Fierce_Deity22 said: TallonKarrde23 said: MrAwesome2014 said: I don't read them since most of them are either biased or from the future. Being biased is the entire point of a review of subjective material such as anime. Yet you always hear in a review "I will try not to be biased" That's because the people writing them are dipshits, which further proves my point that you shouldn't ever listen to their opinions either. I don't see how writing a review makes you a dipshit. Care to explain? that's probably true, though Fiercediety made a lovely generalization that all reviews have that. |
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| I tend to not use reviews as a basis for deciding to watch an anime and instead I only read them after I finish the anime so I can get another opinion on the anime. So I would say no, they don't influence me. |
| Inferno Cop's reviews were very convincing, what can you do about it.. |
| I sometimes read the first paragraph. If I read those huge walls of text completely, I'd be halfway through the first episode by the time I finish reading one. |
| If you generalize, you're wrong. |
| I get influenced by my own reviews. I go "Series x is like a small penis, it has very good ease of entry but it never quite hits the spot... wait a minute, fuck this metaphor. And fuck this show. 1/10" |
| My subjective reviews: katsureview.wordpress.com THE CHAT CLUB. |
-Klad- said: not only that. how i score after I finished an anime is also affected by reviews. I must admit it , I really don't watch an anime when it's scored by two or three users with a score 5 or 6 . I know this is not a good thing , since you should go for it and then score it yourself , but sometimes I get influenced by other's review , and then hesitate to start that anime . What about you ? TallonKarrde23 said: That might be true taken the entire MAL reviews as a whole, but the more "helpful" ones (at least for popular anime) are usually quite good.Nobody who reviews anime knows how to write, how to review, and usually doesn't know shit about anime. |
| My Reviews and Rants: http://bunny1ov3r.wordpress.com/ 痛就是爱 |
| no it does not but sometimes i try to look for high scores from anime i hate to see why they like it so much |
| RRRRRRRRRR |
| Pretty sure every review on the front page of each anime page on this site(the only ones I read) are up voted based on popular opinion and are as such going to be either 10s or very low. Regardless of how 'good' the review is people will only up vote it if it corresponds to their uninformed watered down opinion. So just a lesson for you guys, if you want people to read your reviews, kiss a lot of ass and make sure that it doesn't fight the stream of conformity. |
weak said: That's why my reviews are on my blog. Try voting that down, bitches.So just a lesson for you guys, if you want people to read your reviews, kiss a lot of ass and make sure that it doesn't fight the stream of conformity. |
| My subjective reviews: katsureview.wordpress.com THE CHAT CLUB. |
| Depends on the score given: 1-5 Too much focusing on bad things. Read just for the lulz 6-8 I try to believe in them 9-10 N'ah. |
| i go with 7+s avg scores then watch the first episode and decide for myself. I read the recommendations side more than the reviews |
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| It may influence if I watch the show. But there have been times where I watch the show and never listen to a reviewer ever again because they were flat out wrong. |
| I almost did when I was gonna watch K-on for the very first time, basically this was his rant:ALL THEY DO IS EAT FUCKING CAKE AND DRINK TEA!!!!!! He kept ranting about how there was not alot of music and he made it sound like K-on was like 3/4 cake and tea. I'm hella glad I didn't listen to him otherwise I wouldn't be loving anything and everything kawaii/moe than I am now. Also I wouldn't have met the awesomeness that is Azunyan! Fuwa fuwa nyan posse we up in this bitch breh!!!! Keki or die bitches!!!!! :3 |
Korrvo said: I like lolis. I don't like them sexually. It's hard to not like lolis, their cuteness pander to the same emotions that naturally makes us fathers. But it's hard to get off to anything that doesn't have any adult women characteristics like large tits, ass, and thighs. http://imgur.com/qgjKHGn |
| nope people who write most of reviews are dumb... |
Its better to have burned out than to have never really shined... |
| If the genres do not appeal to me and the picture does not appeal to me, and the top two reviews are like below 7s, I most likely will ignore the show. |
| Never. Most of them are worthless. |
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| Only thing that makes me question whether i want to watch an anime or not, it's the opening theme. |
| Not really, except when they are generally more interested in the points I'm interested in. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| No. Cause everyone have own opinion. Someone like that anime and someone dont. |
~I am just one sadist who supports friends~  |
| Sometimes I do, but that's why I try not to read reviews. Sometimes they put you off and you lose interest in watching a particular anime, only to realise you would have actually liked the series. |
| Aliis si licet, tibi non licet. |
| You must always remember that reviews are subjective. Taking that into account, as well as along the lines of what Gigguk said in his panel at Alcon 2013 (a good reviewer can communicate to the reader/viewer/listener why they like or dislike something, whilst a greater reviewer can determine why someone else would like/dislike something), I like knowing the opinions of others because it gives me a view of an anime from different perspectives. I usually try and find reviews on things I've already seen because I prefer discovering something new (to me) through trailers or watching the first episode (although I do understand there are instances where certain anime pick up speed later on). One situation that could lead to me changing my opinion of an anime is if I see a review of something that I watched years ago (watched Evangelion when I was 12. I was like what is this I don't even) while reviewers base their opinions on their experiences of something they've recently watched or rewatched |
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| Sometimes. If I read a really good review then I'll put it on my plan to watch list. Arpeggio for example, I would never have watched it if there would have been no review of it on the front page of Kotaku. |
| They actually do influence me because I can't be bothered watching an anime if it is shit. That is why I read the sypnosis, the wiki articles and reviews before I put an anime on my plan to watch list. |
| No, because I don't read them. I enjoy things more when I don't know much about them going in, and I'd rather form my own opinions about stuff anyway. It doesn't really matter to me what random somebody thinks about a series because that person is not me and I don't trust their opinions and judgements. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| It depends on their personality, how they convey their message and if they have reasoning behind disliking or liking the anime they're reviewing. Alot of reviewers I've seen give bullshit reasoning and evidence as to why they consider an anime good or bad (usually when said anime is being reviewed negatively) "It has bad animation." "The writing is bad." Typically what I see from those reviewers I described above, I've seen reviewers on MAL that give horrendous reviews, and I kinda just sit back and think to myself. "We're you even thinking when you wrote this." I'm only influenced if the person makes an influential review. Otherwise I brush it off. |
 LuckyKotori said: He even rated Bible Black higher than Fate/Zero. |
| I try not too because you might read a review on a anime that says it's bad but in reality could be the best thing in the world. |
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