why so low ratings?

Oriotiar said:
Because for people who didn't read the manga it's one more generic shounen and for people who did read the manga it's so far quite a bad adaption.
If you had some interest in Radiant or want a good shounen: read the manga, it's better from the get go and great after vol 1.

OwlHeart said:
I agree with a lot of people here. I also agree with it being to early to rate the anime.

If I were to rate the first 5 episodes, I'll give it a 6 (and that's me being nice). I've completed 200 animes until now. I haven't read the manga of the anime. When I rate animes I compare it to others (ofc. I do, I also think everyone does). It's a matter of your own taste! When I rate animes I use the whole scale (open spoiler for seeing my "own" description of the numbers). Everything over 5 for me is watchable. Some 5 might be bad, but others might be good. I don't trust ratings on MAL, because many people use 6 as bad, 7 as average, and 8 to 10 as excellent. This anime I think will deserve a 6, but nothing more. Why? First of the intro is too much like a mix between Fairytail and Hunter X Hunter. I also think the pacing is wrong. Nothing has happened in 5 episodes (take that with a grain of salt). I'll be honest ... I'm a bit bored. BUT! This is because I've watched too many animes like this anime. If you don't compare it to your favorites (mine being Hunter x Hunter and Bungou Stray Dogs), the anime suddenly becomes fine. It's a good starter-anime, but I personally wouldn't recomend it to someone who has watched a lot of animes like this. After reading some of your comments on this, I would recomend them reading the manga (and again, I haven't).



Before you attack me. This is a matter of taste! I respect your taste, you respect mine. Not everyone enjoys the same anime.

JugoKun said:
But i promise you, Radiant is so good he knockout a lot of Japanesse manga in his message, his character development and his morals. Who do you prefer to believe? A guy who is up to date with the original work (chapter 76) or people who have barely seen the 3/4 of the first chapter?

Zehennagel said:
l'elite de la nation se redirige vers d'autres sites on dirait.
honetement ca a pas l'air exeptionel mais j'irais surement lire le manga plus tard vu que apparement l'anime part en filler...

Stripes said:
I love how people expect these average ass shows to have 7+.

JugoKun said:
It's a good scale i think, my scale would be more like this :
0 : Exterminate this anime/manga
1 : Awful
2 : Extremely bad
3 : Very bad
4 : Bad/Meh
5 : Average/not so bad
6 : good, but not much
7 : good, great ideas, great development but not much to stand out
8 : Very good, very well ploted and though into the scenary and the mc dev. Stand out of a lot of others
9 : Great, very well though, excellent and very strong message and mc psychological, ideological development, the mc questions himeself many times.
10 : God level anime/manga

For the moment, as just anime, without look with the manga, i give to the anime a 4 or a 3. Cliché as fuck, unbearable mc, no messages, too much for kids (attenuated) and too much "japanesed"

For the manga, i give it a 9. Very well plot, interessting mc development and psychological evolution, strong messages present from the 1st chapter, the autor don't hesitate a second to kill important characters to allow his mc to mature and grow.

Ryulightorb said:


how is the mc unbearable ? he is quite likeable imo curious on what makes you think that way but your right about the rest

JugoKun said:
Tiens, c'est rare de croiser des kheys par ici xd, je te conseille vraiment le manga, il est clairement plus adulte. Ici l'animé a été fait pour convenir à un public d'enfants, donc pas mal de scènes plutôt "violentes" ont été retirées, en plus du message que le manga essaie de faire passer. Le tome 1 a cet espèce de coté 'niais' mais a aussi un coté beaucoup plus sombre et sérieux, et là ya juste le coté niais

Zehennagel said:
bha c'est souvent comme ca avec les animes c'est plus visé pour les enfants quand c'est adapté surtout les shonens. de ce que j'ai entendu l'anime m'attire vraiment pas donc j'irais surement lire le manga bientot, mais je suis pas vraiment dans une periode shonen, plus seinen donc faudra voir.

OwlHeart said:
I agree with a lot of people here. I also agree with it being to early to rate the anime.

If I were to rate the first 5 episodes, I'll give it a 6 (and that's me being nice). I've completed 200 animes until now. I haven't read the manga of the anime. When I rate animes I compare it to others (ofc. I do, I also think everyone does). It's a matter of your own taste! When I rate animes I use the whole scale (open spoiler for seeing my "own" description of the numbers). Everything over 5 for me is watchable. Some 5 might be bad, but others might be good. I don't trust ratings on MAL, because many people use 6 as bad, 7 as average, and 8 to 10 as excellent. This anime I think will deserve a 6, but nothing more. Why? First of the intro is too much like a mix between Fairytail and Hunter X Hunter. I also think the pacing is wrong. Nothing has happened in 5 episodes (take that with a grain of salt). I'll be honest ... I'm a bit bored. BUT! This is because I've watched too many animes like this anime. If you don't compare it to your favorites (mine being Hunter x Hunter and Bungou Stray Dogs), the anime suddenly becomes fine. It's a good starter-anime, but I personally wouldn't recomend it to someone who has watched a lot of animes like this. After reading some of your comments on this, I would recomend them reading the manga (and again, I haven't).



Before you attack me. This is a matter of taste! I respect your taste, you respect mine. Not everyone enjoys the same anime.

Oriotiar said:

Personaly I would compare it to HxH cause they seem to have the same issue, I've started watching HxH recently and if it wasn't for all the praise it got, i would have stop watching, i think the begining might be even worst than Radiant so far, but if trust most people who watch it, it should become great later on, if the studio don't totaly screw up, Radiant should end up like that too, boring start good following.
But if they continue to simplified the story and character is going to be trash--'

OwlHeart said:


I don't understand what you mean the issue of both animes are? Is it the pacing? Is it something else? What do you not like about the beginning of Hunter x Hunter? I'm just curious! Thought, this might be another discussion ... :)
I absolutely love Hunter x Hunter, and yes I can see similarities, but the beginning is so much better than this anime in my opinion. Gon gets out of the island he has grown up on in the first episode, 2nd episode they're looking for the examination place, 3rd episode they arrive and begin the hunter exam (in the end of the episode). It took Radiant three episodes to get Seth out of his home (in the end of the 3rd episode he is out). Another episode was now spent by our characters getting into debt, while looking for another person. I can see the promise in the anime, and it is 21 episodes according to MAL, so I'll be patient and hope that the start is just vert slow.

OwlHeart said:


I don't understand what you mean the issue of both animes are? Is it the pacing? Is it something else? What do you not like about the beginning of Hunter x Hunter? I'm just curious! Thought, this might be another discussion ... :)
I absolutely love Hunter x Hunter, and yes I can see similarities, but the beginning is so much better than this anime in my opinion. Gon gets out of the island he has grown up on in the first episode, 2nd episode they're looking for the examination place, 3rd episode they arrive and begin the hunter exam (in the end of the episode). It took Radiant three episodes to get Seth out of his home (in the end of the 3rd episode he is out). Another episode was now spent by our characters getting into debt, while looking for another person. I can see the promise in the anime, and it is 21 episodes according to MAL, so I'll be patient and hope that the start is just vert slow.

OwlHeart said:

I don't understand what you mean the issue of both animes are? Is it the pacing? Is it something else? What do you not like about the beginning of Hunter x Hunter? I'm just curious! Thought, this might be another discussion ... :)
I absolutely love Hunter x Hunter, and yes I can see similarities, but the beginning is so much better than this anime in my opinion. Gon gets out of the island he has grown up on in the first episode, 2nd episode they're looking for the examination place, 3rd episode they arrive and begin the hunter exam (in the end of the episode). It took Radiant three episodes to get Seth out of his home (in the end of the 3rd episode he is out). Another episode was now spent by our characters getting into debt, while looking for another person. I can see the promise in the anime, and it is 21 episodes according to MAL, so I'll be patient and hope that the start is just vert slow.

Oriotiar said:

The pacing was indeed a problem in HxH, gon did more thing but most of them were unimportant, but that wasn't not the main problem. The biggest issue was the tone of the serie it was way to childish, that plus the constant "be a good person" moral make the episodes really hard to watch. And when they get into the exam part, the stupidly of some part also is a problem, like when the old lady state that not making decision is the good answer when being a hunter put you in dangerous situation, or when they don't break thing in the tower during the whole exam to finaly breaking the wall, or most of the fight and gamble in said tower.
The way people act on the island was also quite stupid at time. Now aside from the "it's good later on" reason, i'm only watching for Isoka, mostly cause the part with him loose said childish/stupid atmosphere.
But i totaly agree with what you said on Radiant, nothing really happend by now. Why did they choose too extend the worst part of the manga? I really don't understand what they're trying do.

Anime_Critic said:
So far, I hate Seth, and I hope he nearly gets killed from his decisions. This anime just deprives the concept of stakes, because of his carefree attitude. It's an action anime, so there should be some thought process involved, but nope Seth and Melie are just dumb. At first, we see this Nemesis blasting this ray of destruction, so Seth's life was at stake. In episode 11, they both got blasted by two bursts, and it's practically a gust of wind. Then, this bandaged sorcerer comes along and is evenly matched against Seth. I say "evenly" because Seth blocked one of Grimm's attacks like Seth's power was equal to Grimm's. There is no sense of danger shown so far, and it's one of the top cheesy adventure anime.

AND DOC...ooof. I hate that guy. I don't know if he's there for comedic relief, but his character is just pathetic. He whines and whines all the time to the point where I just want him not to appear anymore. I can't blame him for his character because Seth and Melie are just mindless people who don't give a dam about anything.

So far, I despise the characters. I hate every single one of the characters (except Alma), cause they don't do anything significant. I liked Seth at first, but he just keeps on being reckless. It's not even the heroic kind of recklessness, he doesn't think about the stakes, almost like he knows that anime has his back. Also, I thought his reason for becoming a sorcerer was to get rid of the Nemesis. Now it's all about Alma, Alma, Alma.....I guess he lost his resolve.

I would rate this a 5, but I'm waiting for that progression in character. Only then will I bump it up to a 6.

JugoKun said:
I advice you to read the manga instead of watch the anime, there are actually 20 chapters released (the next chapter begin the volume 4) and all what you (and I) hate in the anime aren't in the manga. In the manga, Seth and Melie are FAR to be this dumb, Seth changes during each chapter and mature. Actually, the last chapter chocked everyone, it was pretty funny and cool to see their reactions as a French manga reader :D
Here are the chapters : https://mangadex.org/title/16444/radiant

MarchinBunny said:
I am a bit iffy on the anime vs the source. A lot of people seem to be claiming the source is better, but I don't see it. To me the source explains a bit more where the anime doesn't which is good, but there is far more crap in the source that is just stupid. Like Seth punching a cow or tying up two children. The main character comes off as a total idiot in the source. Not a big fan of that.

I like the anime better where he was showing off his powers and accidentally caused chaos. But the source he punches a cow. Like seriously? He thought it was a nemesis. Even if you never seen a nemesis before, Alma even pointed out the cow on the milk carton so he has seen a cow before.

So in my opinion, the anime does it better in some regards, though I do wish they wouldn't skip on important information. But maybe they have something else in mind to explain it all in a similar but different way.

edit: Oh do keep in mind, I have not read all of the source, only up to maybe the second episode of the anime and now reading more. So my comment is only based on a small portion so far.

Ryulightorb said:
Watched episode 1 and 2 and whilst it's nothing special it's pretty decent def not a 6.6 show.

charliechuckle said:


I'm at Episode 15 and that rating is ironically correct.

The anime is too over the top to be taken serious, too serious to be funny, and just nonsensical far too often. Every serious anime needs at least one person with common sense to be worthy of a higher than 6 rating.