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What are some series where the anime is rated significantly higher than the source material?

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Today, 12:20 AM
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The most recent example I can think of is Takopi's Original Sin where the Anime is rated at 8.84, but the manga is rated 7.80. What are some other series where there's a discrepancy of scores favoring the anime?
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https://myanimelist.net/anime/10162/Usagi_Drop
https://myanimelist.net/manga/3468/Usagi_Drop

People got upset that the manga changed theme from parenting to romance and pretend the manga doesn't exist, but we know it exists, no matter how much gaslight people do, the girl ends up with her adoptive father and that's how the story ends.

https://myanimelist.net/manga/100128/Yakusoku_no_Neverland
https://myanimelist.net/anime/39617/Yakusoku_no_Neverland_2nd_Season

Second season sucked and killed the anime.

https://myanimelist.net/manga/2/Berserk
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32379/Berserk

People hated the cgi and thought berserk "deserved" better.
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Today, 12:36 AM
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I'd say a lot of them are rated higher due to more people trying it more because they prefer watching anime
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I'd say a lot of them are rated higher due to more people trying it more because they prefer watching anime
@nachomaxo1 I don't know if it's because they prefer it or because it's easier to access anime in English than manga in English. In particular, it's a lot easier to browse for new anime than for manga.
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@nachomaxo1 I don't know if it's because they prefer it or because it's easier to access anime in English than manga in English. In particular, it's a lot easier to browse for new anime than for manga.
@therealnagora

There is nothing hard about browsing manga in English, it might be just for you though.
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Berserk
JoJo's part 5,6(only 1 of the 3 part 6 listings tho)
Frieren?
AOT at it's highest
Gintama at it's highest
I guess Bocchi
Most of Demon Slayer
Elusive samurai went from like 6.7 to 7.8
Oshi no Ko
Ranking of Kings

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Berserk
JoJo's part 5,6(only 1 of the 3 part 6 listings tho)
Frieren?
AOT at it's highest
Gintama at it's highest
I guess Bocchi
Most of Demon Slayer
Elusive samurai went from like 6.7 to 7.8
Oshi no Ko
Ranking of Kings



How is Berserk anime rated higher than the manga?

The thread is not about which anime you rated higher than the manga but which anime have higher rating than the manga originals.

I think most people got the thread topic wrong.
geberimToday, 1:38 AM
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How is Berserk anime rated higher than the manga?

The thread is not about which anime you rated higher than the manga but which anime have higher rating than the manga originals.

I think most people got the thread topic wrong.
@geberim yeah mistake on my part. Like zoned out or something, but the rest should be correct
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The reason why some anime are higher rated than their source material because most people on mal watches only anime and if there would be more users rating manga this would be tie often times I think.
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@therealnagora

There is nothing hard about browsing manga in English, it might be just for you though.
@geberim Yeah, that's right. Everyone can sit at home and flick through the available manga using the remote control on their TV.

Don't be so fucking stupid.
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@jacobPOL @nachomaxo1

Why would more votes result in a higher rating?

Seems reasonable to assume votes follow a somewhat normal distribution, with more votes potentially increasing the spread, but why would it change the average/mean?
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@jacobPOL @nachomaxo1

Why would more votes result in a higher rating?

Seems reasonable to assume votes follow a somewhat normal distribution, with more votes potentially increasing the spread, but why would it change the average/mean?
@SanguineSeagull becaue they are often times based on how many users in total rated that certain series. For example let's take lupin III part 2 https://myanimelist.net/anime/1425/Lupin_III__Part_II this has the score of 7.77 rated by 13,172 users and if this had for example additional 7k users this would have 8.00 score.

Edit: this is how mal scoring system works.

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@SanguineSeagull becaue they are often times based on how many users in total rated that certain series. For example let's take lupin III part 2 https://myanimelist.net/anime/1425/Lupin_III__Part_II this has the score of 7.77 rated by 13,172 users and if this had for example additional 7k users this would have 8.00 score.

Edit: this is how mal scoring system works.

@jacobPOL gotcha, thanks.

Pure curiosity - do you know what # 'm' is / can you point me to the documentation?
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@jacobPOL gotcha, thanks.

Pure curiosity - do you know what # 'm' is / can you point me to the documentation?
@SanguineSeagull

it's taken from here.

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@geberim Yeah, that's right. Everyone can sit at home and flick through the available manga using the remote control on their TV.

Don't be so fucking stupid.
@therealnagora

No matter how hard I try I can't be possibly more stupid than yourself.
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@jacobPOL gotcha, thanks.

Pure curiosity - do you know what # 'm' is / can you point me to the documentation?
@SanguineSeagull m is the minimum number of scores required for an anime or manga to get an official score instead of N/A. The value of m isn't told anywhere, but from empirical evidence we can notice that m = 100.
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The reason why some anime are higher rated than their source material because most people on mal watches only anime and if there would be more users rating manga this would be tie often times I think.
@jacobPOL

Not all anime are adapted from manga.
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@jacobPOL

Not all anime are adapted from manga.
@geberim I know, but op mentioned some series where anime has higher score than the source material.
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@geberim I know, but op mentioned some series where anime has higher score than the source material.
@jacobPOL

And the source material is not always manga as shown in Zarutaku's examples.

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