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A little about me as a viewer
I like to watch and experience good anime and talk about it. That doesn't mean that I don't enjoy anime that I wouldn't consider good. Anime which doesn't appeal to a heavy story line such as comedy or slice of life centric anime or anime that just doesn't seem right to score probably won't be scored, yet may be tagged as recommended.

If you want further justification on how and why I rated something or if you have any other question, feel free to ask me, since I'm more than enthusiastic about it.

Recently, I've noticed that if an anime ticks me off or makes me mad throughout watching it at some or many points or continuously throughout the anime, it likely will heavily impact the score it receives. For example, if there is a glaring issue with something, it will have to have an answer and I will be waiting for the answer until the end and if it never comes, the disappointment is always taken into account when considering a score and it will almost always drop pretty harshly. For example Death Notes second half


What factors I try to base my anime score on:

Storyline and Plot
This includes a good suspense dynamic in a show, for instance Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju might have a lot in the drama aspect, but when it doesn't have a balanced suspense dynamic in its dialogue, it's easy for the viewer to stop paying attention. Or maybe admiring an interesting world with an interesting plot or a brilliant climax might sway the whole anime, but to be honest, I'd prefer plot and climax over an interesting world, but for me it's the story that is most important. For that to happen though, there can't be any glaring inconsistencies in world building and there can't be any questions hanging about unanswered that aren't supposed to be unanswered.

Character development and attachment
Interesting characters might also be good, but generally characters who grow with experiences learned throughtout the series or from keypoint experiences from the character origin or something else clever(although, recently, I find character development to be not essential for a good story or plot). if the show fails to make the viewer grow attached to the character(s), even the most suspenseful climaxes will feel redundant, one example of this in my experience is Fate/Zero being very flashy and have great scenes, yet fail to make me care about the characters along with the too established destiny of the battle royale plot making it boring.

Character interaction.

Overall enjoyment.
This factor will have less to do with being a general rating factor, and more with spesific show presentation of the other factors which ultimately makes me enjoy the show. In other words: me enjoying the show won't inherently make me rate it higher. Just because an anime is scored 4 or 3 doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it, but I probably didn't. The presentation which can connect all these factors often play a huge part in my enjoyment.






A warning about watching anime
One thing I'll say though, is that a lot of anime is infested with homophobic, sexist, transphobic and sometimes even racist comments and characters. So new anime that has these elements really rubs me the wrong way. Due to the culture in Japan, I'd expect some sort of conservatism and that is reflected in many anime in different ways mind you, which often exclude things like the option of a casual gay relationship and if it does exist, its almost always in jest and made fun of or at the very least which makes gay couples seem out of place. On the flipside, gay relationships could be something idealized by some female fetish or unhealthy obsession, or maybe, lesbian or gay relationships gets a focus and legitimization you'd see from cultures that barely has started the process of accepting it(not to say that the last bit is bad), and this supposed approval from at the very least the female characters who seem obsessed, makes gay relationships seem like a fetish or scandalous which isn't necessarily great. It feels like if there exist gay people in anime, it's almost always either fetishized or stigmatized or idealized with no in-between. Trans characters are almost never portrayed in a positive light which I find deeply disturbing and knowing this amplifies the negative experience every time I see it. The more common thing you'll see is transwomen characters portraying as muscular men or a genuine transwoman trying to be feminine with makeup and crossdressing while the anime painfully makes it clear to us that they're failing at it and everyone sees it except them and it's often a comedy skit for the usual characters to puke or escape from them as the character itself is portrayed as blissfully ignorant at the fact that they're failing to seduce or be feminine. I suppose it's appropriate to distinguish how trans women are portrayed, and what's called femboys, which are weirdly enough not necessarily looked at in disgust or the like, but often with confusion, surprise and vulnerable masculinity when obsessively trying to make sure in their head that they're a dude when considering that they're passing or attractive to them. It isn't always obvious to tell apart when an anime is portraying transpeople or femboys since transphobic anime would categorize both of them as male anyways, but often times, they will seemingly make it hard for trans people to pass, while femboys almost always passes for a woman. It is easy to tell if the reactions from other characters would be inappropriate for any feminine passing or non passing person, so that's also a way to go about this. I find these negative portrayals of lgbtq+ really disturbing and it throws me off every time I see it. It's not funny and it leaves a bad taste in my mouth when someone is trying their best to make themselves comfortable and anime seems to be almost unanimously mocking this highly vulnerable group which is already facing severe discrimination, harassment and difficulties in their lives. I might want to drop an anime if these things come up if it's a relatively new anime which won't get traction, but I'd rather watch it through if it does get traction so I can justify everything I might say about the anime later. You can also note that girls are definitely not portrayed well either, I'd say many anime are misogynistic, some just troublesome and few not at all sexist. Its sad, but its reality and if its an old anime, I could consider it the past and let it stay and wait for progress, but if its new it'll be highly troublesome.

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Scoring description:

A significant amount of good anime isn't rated and is instead tagged with ''Top Tier''. So if you want more of what I think is good anime, you should click the link or in my animelist CTRL + F and write ''Top Tier'' to find more good shows. I will also tag things that I found to be pretty good as ''Pretty Good'' and What shows I found enjoyable as ''Enjoyed''.



If it isn't rated, I either don't know what to give it or I might think it's unfair for the show to rate it based on the factors I use.

Although I might have scored an anime for example a 6, it might be split into multiple ratings. let's say I rated a first arc a 4 and a second arc a 8, then the score would be 6.

Tags
''+'' Strong rating, close to being rated higher.

''-'' Weak rating, close to being rated lower.

''re'' I'm gonna rewatch this and reevaluate.

''Top Tier'' The anime would be considered at least close to 9 or 10 if my rating system were closer to a traditional(or more mainstream) rating system of considering highlighted features of an anime OR, I am very confident that the anime is great. For example, if it a comedy anime which is centered around the comedy and the goal is to entertain and be funny and is tagged with ''Top Tier'' then it would be rated 9 or more on the basis of fulfilling that criteria because of how funny it is.

''Pretty Good'' would have similar criteria as Top Tier except it would be somehow not the same quality as Top Tier shows

''Obligatory'' are tagged to anime that I think everyone should watch, almost regardless of their taste. I would have to find someone who has a very specific dislike of the certain type of anime for me to not recommend them to watch it.(and of course, the topics at hand might be challenging)

''Enjoyed'' If you like a lot of the same shows I do, check this tag out for a huge quantity of shows I like.

''very much'' This is the ones that I Enjoyed very much, which may be a more quality over quantity list than ''Enjoyed''.

''Removable'' I should maybe remove the rating from these shows since it might be better to rate those shows with other factors

The scores

1 What a 1 means is that the show is so bad that I can't understand how anyone would think the anime in question would be good in any way. The anime community seems to justify an anime being good based on enjoyment only, which is intuitive, but I wouldn't think people who only think about enjoyment when considering whether a show is good or not to be a good system for others. Which is why when I made this way of rating a show, I try to create a utility out of it. Thus, the anime scored 1 is shows I wouldn't recommend to anyone under any circumstance.

2 Essential things are missing, these have major problems. for it to be a 2 instead of a 3, it has to be something seriously wrong the the anime

3 Severely lacking and/or having multiple problems to the point where I would call it severely bad. For it to be a 3 instead of a 4, it has to have some serious flaw(s). The gap between 3 and 4 is massive to the extent that I almost always would say a 3 was bad with a strong conviction, but be almost apathetic about the rating towards 4s when comparing the two ratings.

4 Lacking. Might not be that different from an anime rated 5, but I consider these worse. I'd say these are bad anime

5 Might've had potential, might've been a blunt anime with some good characteristics. These often have a notable premise, but ended up dull. After watching a 5, I would feel pretty apathetic or maybe critical to justify my score, but that goes for everything under 7 anyways, but the levels of critique go up the lower the score and levels of apathy are about the same for 5 and 6.

6 Decent to a certain degree, but nothing special, unless tagged as such. This is a slightly positive score. These have similar traits with anime scored 5, but slightly better. Although, the gap between 6 and 7 is huge. 6 is a lot closer to 5 then it is to 7, so if there is a 6 +, it might not really be close to 7, but closer than other anime rated 6 only.

7 Some I enjoyed and/or acknowledge as good, this is the first overall positive score. They might have some problems or lack what's needed to be as good as the anime with 8 or more. Might be some of the best in certain genres or other categorization I generally don't like or think fulfill everything I look for in anime, yet are good. anime rated 7 is a lot better than anime rated 6.

8 All anime with 8 or above I enjoyed, think are good and would recommend. The absolute majority of these rustled my emotions in one way or another

9 Great anime which I would consider to be close to the best anime and that is certainly arguable, yet in my opinion isn't.

10 The best of the anime I've seen