Right now, i have settled the dispute logically between the rational and irrational. Indeed the best blend is a mixture of both, which boils down to simple three questions i ask myself which ends up as the basis for me to score anime. NO more silly comparisons and debates whether a show deserves the same rank as some other high rated show or not.
1) What did the show wanted to give me?
2) How did the show give me whatever it wanted to give?
3) How did i feel about what the show was giving me?
I take a simple overview of the points in front of me and the next is simply written in the MAL scoring system itself. These three testaments are what allows me to say whether a show was good, very good, fine etc.
This is how i used to feel about rating previously
10 -> Masterpiece: A show that can change me as a person and becomes part of my daily life and self. OR just leaves me literally mind blown.
Simply put, a masterpiece with the perfect execution. Least level of human errors, the perfect theme, and the production quality that was needed to it. Or a show that deserves a 9 but actually made a strong enough impact on me to be given a 10 a a form of appreciation. P.S Fairy Tail and Re zero are a 10 no matter what, so they are exclusive to these laws.
9 -> Great: Top tier anime, Just what anime should be attached with personal feelings.
An anime that you don't see often, The Gems, that carry an amazing adventure to their name, and despite having a few short comings, can be considered next to master pieces. Or simply a show that might have deserved a 10 but since i do not want to have alot of 10's, a 9 works just fine, as well as shows, that should be an 8 but left a strong enough impact on me to be given an Honorary 9.
8 -> Very Good : Top tier anime, Just what anime should be.
The ace among all scores, the score that best defines all the anime out there that should be seen, appreciated and loved. A show, despite having short comings ( if any, not necessary to have them ) that was able to give the impact and experience that people wanted. All the anime out there that left a name, a message a meaning. And obviously having a good production.
7 -> Good: Enjoyable and good time spent.
The number that follows an anime, that was a decent experience. It was not something that stood out from what it was. A normal show, that was not meant to invoke anything special but regardless became the reason of a good time pass, something that becomes a nice memory. Shows that try to do something different but not necessarily pull it off are also from the same category. Obviously, such shows often, not always but often lack the best execution, and sometimes even consist of issues that should be addressed properly. P.S some shows that were supposed to be a 6 are sometimes given a 7 too due to perhaps the experience or perhaps due to a little fame a show has made for itself over time that makes the viewer slightly in touch with it.
6 -> Fine: enjoyable and fair time spent. NOT a waste of time.
Not much of a difference between a 6 and a 7 at times, but, shows that lived the life they were meant to live, a show that chose a genre, and stuck to it by the book, a show that one watches only because he watches anime. A fair time pass. ( not time waste ) Are often to leave things vague in the viewers mind, more like shows that are incomplete without their source material. Or a good show, that derailed off its path and did some heavy mistakes that caused it to suffer or backfire it's own potential.
5 -> Average: Waste of time.
Meh shows ( ones which were supposed to be good ) which were not bad enough to be called bad, barely acceptable. Shows that were having a weak plot. That means, a show with potential that wasted it big time.
4 -> Bad: Just as the name says, bad to the extent where you outlook the good and remember it for what it should not have been remembered.
A show that is bad, a show that was trying to do something but failed in a way that it became something that could no longer be used as something for entertainment.
3 -> Very Bad: The budget to make such anime should have been used to feed the poor.
Waste of time, Clearly a very bad anime, something that had no reason to be bad but was still bad, both, is respects to plot, themes, characters, animation, direction etc. Not a single Redeeming Quality. Shows that should have been dropped. shows that lead you in circles for no reason at all, shows that shouldn't really have been animated.
2 and 1 -> Horrible: The feeling when "kirito" comes in and saves the day
Shows that are basically the same as 3, except, these ones had the nerves to have me add my personal hate to them as well. To be able to make me angry enough and hateful enough not to forget them out of animosity.
apologies for the late response, thought I already responded and got sidetracked till I came by, and realised you messaged last...
That's unfortunate about getting rejected by the army!
haha, I just moved my clothes out of the boxes 2 days ago, for 4 small cheap drawers that not all my clothes fitted in and have the lat piled up on top! I got annoyed of waiting for a closet and dealing with a messy room!
Still don't have the closet!!
Well first time I've heard of Hostel, but from the research I just did, seem pretty similar...
I guess I'm still setting things up around my place, probably will for a while lol, there's a lot of renovations to do I reckon...
I'm currently waiting on a closet from my boss, he was offering for free, and been using boxes lately to store my clothes, so I hope he brings that sometime soon.
I think Moonrise wrapped up well, no need for a sequel.
My home has 3 bedrooms, a lounge, a kitchen, a laundry room, bathroom, a garage, and a shed, right now I'm only 1 living there, kinda hoping to keep it that way, for as long as possible, because, I really hated flatting, it annoyed me, that I had to sometimes wait 4 hours from when I got home from work just to use the kitchen, go without breakfast, because often times kitchen already in use when I got up, and I disliked that my room was right next to the laundry room, and some people were staying up past midnight doing laundry, I tried complaining to the landlord, all he did was stick a post it note on the wall stating times to use the laundry room, which no one read, if u ask me, the landlord should have locked it during those times!
Yeah I'm interested in slice of life series, and the mix with fantasy was interesting to me in Dungeon Meshi.
Honestly I love my new place so far, much more prefer it then when I was flatting!
I did finish Moonrise, and I quite liked it. It's currently sitting at my favorite for the year
I chose to check out the Versailles no Bara movie, it's pretty bad, well I should have expected I never liked the original show, tbf it held my interest better then the original show, but it also feels worse as well due to how rushed it is!
I see. I respect your dedication to the anime! From what I've seen in videos of the upcoming arc (watched a series of videos summarizing each chapter of arc 6), it'll be the best season of Re:Zero to date!
Season 3 was definitely a spectacle to watch, from beginning to end!
No worries, I hope that things are going well for you at the moment! I recently filmed a video at an anime convention that I went to a few days ago and I'm almost done editing it. Have an OP and ED straight from Re:Zero!
Thought I might make a quick reply before disappearing on ya for weeks as I'm moving from flatting to my house this week! And won't have internet set up anytime soon, might even have it set up a week after moving in, as get the keys just before the long weekend on April, I got a 10 day weekend coming up here, due to Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Anzac Day on 25th and in-between I chose to take annual leave while getting situated in my new home.
Just started Moonrise recently, and really loving it, seeing it becoming potential for anime of the year I reckon! Reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist and Legend of the Galactic Heroes tbh, think you'd like it too!?
I haven't really been watching much else though, just been busy packing, Finished Takagi-San film though and absolutely loved it, more then I was expecting too, I had skipped it thinking I'd rather wait for more adaptions only to find out it was an original ending, and really think it improved on the manga counterpart!!
Lol I recently rewatched Re Zero myself too from season 1, I actually ended up enjoying season 2 a lot more this rewatch then I remember!
I did finish Re:Zero season 3 on the same day the final ep came out, honestly still wasn't really fond of this season.
(THIS WHOLE PARAGRAPH CONTAINS SPOILERS! I'm just feeling like stating why, but if you don't want to read this paragraph, due to spoilers, I'm more then okay with that!) I guess so I'll start with the good first, I really liked the first episode, the introduction was super cool, getting to see new enemies, like Alphard, Sirius and Capella, I really think the animation and art improved heaps, between S2 and S3, now for my dislikes, I really disliked Corneas Regulus, and I felt the show pandered on him for far too long, even during his fight with Subaru, I didn't even think he had much reason to be in the story, the main episode I dislike was Subaru's new ability of regeneration, I know it's only his leg right now, but it's been stated by Capella that it could potentially spread, and I feel like if it did, it would make his return by d*ath abilities unusable as he just regenerate anything he loses, meaning there's nothing he can do now to stop a bad future, also the ending just felt whack and rushed!
are you not enjoying some stuff with Dungeon Meshi, I remember liking mostly everything right from start!?
I bought my first house recently, though I don't move in till 3 weeks from unconditional which will be april 17th,
The remake to Urusei Yatsura is high, but I feel like manga and original are quite low on my list, Othough I really enjoyed a lot of the old movies, I just felt the remake cuts a lot of fluff, makes it a better consistency in way of keeping up with story and character development, and was actually what got me interested in Yatsura, as before I struggled to watch or even read it!
What are you meaning by 1k club, amount of anime, I'm guessing?
Re Zero ep 9 still felt a bit average to me, was hoping for a longer episode, seeing as so much time off, but better then the last few I saw, guess we're only getting the 1 long episode out of the season.
Of course I chose to type that out without seeing episode 10 lol, didn't know it was out, I take back what I said, I'm on the hype train again now, is all I'm going to say lol, not a long episode, but really worth it!
I haven't heard of anything about a sequel happening tbf for BNHA, we'll see I guess lol
Yeah S3 Slime was really good, I felt like I didn't mind the CGI it's really good CGI IMO, the characters and all that I mentioned before, wasn't that well done, I saw the anime, and just showed I completed the manga, because it adapts it all, without reading, it's what I do with all manga, except ones I have interest in reading more off that anime never finished, or was spoiled like cases of JJK and MHA etc.
I understand the hate for CGI full adaptions, but if you ask me, I don't mind it, as long as there not berserk 2016 level, but Kengan I reckon looks good, Baki is good at some points when it did it's CGI, Ajin I liked more because of it's CGI.
Not much change, catching up with Arifureta, feels like a guilty pleasure isekai, not a good one, but not a bad 1, and trying to get back on track on some airing shows.
I did feel Cartoons were superior for a wee bit last year, with Arcane S2, Jentry Chau, Beast Boy cartoon, and Invincible Fight Girl, that I should have said in my previous comment but forgot as watched them while I was seeing family, and forgot to mention, those shows were really good.
I recently changed my favorites list quite a bit, coz I wanted some new anime and characters that I've been enjoying a lot lately, in my list Jojo I don't will leave unless they make part 7, Othough Fire Force final season is close so maybe take that or Dororo if it's a good adaption, and I would only swap Yu Yu with Scott Pilgrim if it got an entry, but I want that 1 to always stay, as I really love it!
I felt like making a reply as it's been a while, I know your busy and all, but really do enjoy talking to you...
hope you're doing well!?
I recently finished Slime anime S2, and film, and I'm actually thoroughly enjoying, I thought it lost all interest due to the dues ex machina scene in season 2 part 1, but after trying the film, I've been loving every scene since,
I caught up on Blue Exorcist, it's latest season had Shiemi and Rin become a couple, which I liked, and Kirigakure Shura had a really decent arc, but so did Yukio that was a remake of the filler arc in season 1, which just confused me, why did they choose to say the arc was filler, if it's just been remade cannon, and A1 honestly did their filler version better, as it had more action and wrapped up better.
Othough I am interested in white haired Rin!!
I tried to finish Kengan Ashura on my birthday, as I was really enjoying season 1, but season 2 was choc full of boring character motives and monologues, and a really unique but disappointing ending that made my birthday feel not the best!
Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest S1 was good, I honestly only enjoyed seeing Edoland again the most, but it was still good, honestly it seems too fast paced, compared to old fairy tail, animation stuck the same, Edo Lucy had her manga suit instead of the semi censored anime suit, which I felt was a nice change!
Honestly Re:zero has been doing a lot of stuff that I wasn't too pleased about, I'll keep quiet tho about spoilers, unless you don't mind, but I feel like I'll go back to loving it when ep 9 comes eventually comes out next year... Maybe, but the last few episodes were awful imo!
Haha yeah understandable your thoughts on Bleach, I really liked the manga arc, but I can see where you're coming from, and the anime is just a huge step up IMO, and I'm definitely continuing it to the end!!
I remember you asking if I checked out Look Back when it just released, and I couldn't find it, well I did get around to it, and I thought it was a really amazing movie, kinda felt like a really expensive advertisement for the manga to a certain degree, as the ending is a little different, and feels incomplete, and slow paced compared to manga, but still really good!
I've finished a few manga lately that I was thinking of holding off for anime first but got spoiled on the endings, and felt no patience...
Boku no Hero Academia was fine of an ending, also felt incomplete, and set up, for a sequel.
Jujutsu Kaizen has got to be the worst ending I have ever seen from something, that I felt started so freaking good!!
Oshi no Ko's ending wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I kinda liked it!
Speaking of spoilers, been enjoying and rewatching Uzaki-chan lately, and going to rate each season as I finish them, I'm just about done with the first season, and I never got past the first when I first tried it, back when it was first made, just felt it was rather stupid, I'd probably give it a 7 out of 10 so far...
damn maybe I should stop watching Chibi reviews videos, as he's the one who spoiled all those anime/manga for me, but I do quite like him!
One Piece Fishman Island arc, is still alright so far, I haven't disliked any eps yet, haven't liked yet either lol
Oh I nearly forgot to mention, I recently saw the Beast Boy Lone Wolf cartoon, that recently came out, and really loved it, good to see a Teen Titans project I liked in a long time! It's short but it's good!
Yea, VNs are quite daunting to get into considering the amount of time usually needed to get through even one full route. Thankfully there’s plenty of guides you can search up on the internet to make things easier.
Thank you, though I myself don’t really find it particularly fancy by any means 😅
I appreciate the offer, but unfortunately I’m not an active player, at least not for quite some time up to now. My priorities have gone elsewhere like reading VNs, the local translations for global haven’t been good as of lately, and it’s just mental exhaustion from trying to even keep up with gacha dailies…I also don’t want to revisit my past gacha addition which put me through a lot of trouble in the not-so-distant past. Sorry if this seems too complicated.
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how are you? its been so many days since we last talked
That's unfortunate about getting rejected by the army!
haha, I just moved my clothes out of the boxes 2 days ago, for 4 small cheap drawers that not all my clothes fitted in and have the lat piled up on top! I got annoyed of waiting for a closet and dealing with a messy room!
Still don't have the closet!!
Well first time I've heard of Hostel, but from the research I just did, seem pretty similar...
I guess I'm still setting things up around my place, probably will for a while lol, there's a lot of renovations to do I reckon...
I'm currently waiting on a closet from my boss, he was offering for free, and been using boxes lately to store my clothes, so I hope he brings that sometime soon.
My home has 3 bedrooms, a lounge, a kitchen, a laundry room, bathroom, a garage, and a shed, right now I'm only 1 living there, kinda hoping to keep it that way, for as long as possible, because, I really hated flatting, it annoyed me, that I had to sometimes wait 4 hours from when I got home from work just to use the kitchen, go without breakfast, because often times kitchen already in use when I got up, and I disliked that my room was right next to the laundry room, and some people were staying up past midnight doing laundry, I tried complaining to the landlord, all he did was stick a post it note on the wall stating times to use the laundry room, which no one read, if u ask me, the landlord should have locked it during those times!
Honestly I love my new place so far, much more prefer it then when I was flatting!
I did finish Moonrise, and I quite liked it. It's currently sitting at my favorite for the year
I chose to check out the Versailles no Bara movie, it's pretty bad, well I should have expected I never liked the original show, tbf it held my interest better then the original show, but it also feels worse as well due to how rushed it is!
Season 3 was definitely a spectacle to watch, from beginning to end!
No worries, I hope that things are going well for you at the moment! I recently filmed a video at an anime convention that I went to a few days ago and I'm almost done editing it. Have an OP and ED straight from Re:Zero!
Just started Moonrise recently, and really loving it, seeing it becoming potential for anime of the year I reckon! Reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist and Legend of the Galactic Heroes tbh, think you'd like it too!?
I haven't really been watching much else though, just been busy packing, Finished Takagi-San film though and absolutely loved it, more then I was expecting too, I had skipped it thinking I'd rather wait for more adaptions only to find out it was an original ending, and really think it improved on the manga counterpart!!
Are you also reading the light novel?
I did finish Re:Zero season 3 on the same day the final ep came out, honestly still wasn't really fond of this season.
(THIS WHOLE PARAGRAPH CONTAINS SPOILERS! I'm just feeling like stating why, but if you don't want to read this paragraph, due to spoilers, I'm more then okay with that!) I guess so I'll start with the good first, I really liked the first episode, the introduction was super cool, getting to see new enemies, like Alphard, Sirius and Capella, I really think the animation and art improved heaps, between S2 and S3, now for my dislikes, I really disliked Corneas Regulus, and I felt the show pandered on him for far too long, even during his fight with Subaru, I didn't even think he had much reason to be in the story, the main episode I dislike was Subaru's new ability of regeneration, I know it's only his leg right now, but it's been stated by Capella that it could potentially spread, and I feel like if it did, it would make his return by d*ath abilities unusable as he just regenerate anything he loses, meaning there's nothing he can do now to stop a bad future, also the ending just felt whack and rushed!
are you not enjoying some stuff with Dungeon Meshi, I remember liking mostly everything right from start!?
I bought my first house recently, though I don't move in till 3 weeks from unconditional which will be april 17th,
The remake to Urusei Yatsura is high, but I feel like manga and original are quite low on my list, Othough I really enjoyed a lot of the old movies, I just felt the remake cuts a lot of fluff, makes it a better consistency in way of keeping up with story and character development, and was actually what got me interested in Yatsura, as before I struggled to watch or even read it!
Re Zero ep 9 still felt a bit average to me, was hoping for a longer episode, seeing as so much time off, but better then the last few I saw, guess we're only getting the 1 long episode out of the season.
Of course I chose to type that out without seeing episode 10 lol, didn't know it was out, I take back what I said, I'm on the hype train again now, is all I'm going to say lol, not a long episode, but really worth it!
I haven't heard of anything about a sequel happening tbf for BNHA, we'll see I guess lol
Yeah S3 Slime was really good, I felt like I didn't mind the CGI it's really good CGI IMO, the characters and all that I mentioned before, wasn't that well done, I saw the anime, and just showed I completed the manga, because it adapts it all, without reading, it's what I do with all manga, except ones I have interest in reading more off that anime never finished, or was spoiled like cases of JJK and MHA etc.
I understand the hate for CGI full adaptions, but if you ask me, I don't mind it, as long as there not berserk 2016 level, but Kengan I reckon looks good, Baki is good at some points when it did it's CGI, Ajin I liked more because of it's CGI.
Not much change, catching up with Arifureta, feels like a guilty pleasure isekai, not a good one, but not a bad 1, and trying to get back on track on some airing shows.
I did feel Cartoons were superior for a wee bit last year, with Arcane S2, Jentry Chau, Beast Boy cartoon, and Invincible Fight Girl, that I should have said in my previous comment but forgot as watched them while I was seeing family, and forgot to mention, those shows were really good.
I recently changed my favorites list quite a bit, coz I wanted some new anime and characters that I've been enjoying a lot lately, in my list Jojo I don't will leave unless they make part 7, Othough Fire Force final season is close so maybe take that or Dororo if it's a good adaption, and I would only swap Yu Yu with Scott Pilgrim if it got an entry, but I want that 1 to always stay, as I really love it!
hope you're doing well!?
I recently finished Slime anime S2, and film, and I'm actually thoroughly enjoying, I thought it lost all interest due to the dues ex machina scene in season 2 part 1, but after trying the film, I've been loving every scene since,
I caught up on Blue Exorcist, it's latest season had Shiemi and Rin become a couple, which I liked, and Kirigakure Shura had a really decent arc, but so did Yukio that was a remake of the filler arc in season 1, which just confused me, why did they choose to say the arc was filler, if it's just been remade cannon, and A1 honestly did their filler version better, as it had more action and wrapped up better.
Othough I am interested in white haired Rin!!
I tried to finish Kengan Ashura on my birthday, as I was really enjoying season 1, but season 2 was choc full of boring character motives and monologues, and a really unique but disappointing ending that made my birthday feel not the best!
Fairy Tail 100 Years Quest S1 was good, I honestly only enjoyed seeing Edoland again the most, but it was still good, honestly it seems too fast paced, compared to old fairy tail, animation stuck the same, Edo Lucy had her manga suit instead of the semi censored anime suit, which I felt was a nice change!
Honestly Re:zero has been doing a lot of stuff that I wasn't too pleased about, I'll keep quiet tho about spoilers, unless you don't mind, but I feel like I'll go back to loving it when ep 9 comes eventually comes out next year... Maybe, but the last few episodes were awful imo!
Haha yeah understandable your thoughts on Bleach, I really liked the manga arc, but I can see where you're coming from, and the anime is just a huge step up IMO, and I'm definitely continuing it to the end!!
I remember you asking if I checked out Look Back when it just released, and I couldn't find it, well I did get around to it, and I thought it was a really amazing movie, kinda felt like a really expensive advertisement for the manga to a certain degree, as the ending is a little different, and feels incomplete, and slow paced compared to manga, but still really good!
I've finished a few manga lately that I was thinking of holding off for anime first but got spoiled on the endings, and felt no patience...
Boku no Hero Academia was fine of an ending, also felt incomplete, and set up, for a sequel.
Jujutsu Kaizen has got to be the worst ending I have ever seen from something, that I felt started so freaking good!!
Oshi no Ko's ending wasn't as bad as I was expecting, I kinda liked it!
Speaking of spoilers, been enjoying and rewatching Uzaki-chan lately, and going to rate each season as I finish them, I'm just about done with the first season, and I never got past the first when I first tried it, back when it was first made, just felt it was rather stupid, I'd probably give it a 7 out of 10 so far...
damn maybe I should stop watching Chibi reviews videos, as he's the one who spoiled all those anime/manga for me, but I do quite like him!
One Piece Fishman Island arc, is still alright so far, I haven't disliked any eps yet, haven't liked yet either lol
Oh I nearly forgot to mention, I recently saw the Beast Boy Lone Wolf cartoon, that recently came out, and really loved it, good to see a Teen Titans project I liked in a long time! It's short but it's good!
Thank you, though I myself don’t really find it particularly fancy by any means 😅