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My anime principles
- Enjoyment is the most important aspect
When enjoyment is at the lowest, I won't give a higher score just because a secondary aspect is somewhat decent. I'm not trying to be objective.
- If I don't like it, I'll drop it after one episode
"Never drop, because there's always a chance it could get better": utterly false. If I force myself to watch something I'm not liking, there's a very high chance I'll hate it even more and it certainly will never become a masterpiece. On the other hand, something that starts well can easily end up bad.
- I rate the anime I drop
Because there's a difference between something not so bad, but that I didn't find worth watching anymore (4), and something I actively despise (1). If I watched less than 25%, it won't matter to the overall average ratings. In any case, when I rate a dropped anime I'm only judging what I saw, not the entirety of it.
- Scores do matter, to some extent
Of course, it doesn't mean that a higher rated show will always be better than a lower rated one. It's just that the percentage of good shows increases with the mean score. However, since the entries in the 6.00-7.99 range are about 15 times more than those rated above 8, there might still be more good anime in the lower ratings, in absolute terms.
- I change my scores over time
I watch a new anime and I find it amazing. I would give it a 10, but it really isn't on par with the other 10s, so it becomes a "high" 9. Sooner or later, the 9s will be filled with anime of that level of quality, so much that I'll have to drop the low 9s to 8, then the low 8s to 7 and so on.
- Rewatching is worth it
If something really is that good, rewatching is never a waste of time. Rewatching a 10, at least one year after, should always be a better experience than watching a new 6, otherwise calling it a 10 is wrong.
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