Reign of the Seven Spellblades (light novel)
| First few eps were 10/10, by the end it was 5/10 Another show gimped by pacing |
Kitsune_089May 7, 2:23 PM
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| I am anime only, meaning I don’t read written material. I will look at art, images, some articles, trailers before an anime comes out. This anime actually caught my attention and I was very interested in watching. The beginning started off pretty good with world building, explaining the academy, the characters were all interesting, and a few episodes were fun. But as the anime went on, a lot of unrelated side issues were taking time away from what seemed like the the main story, which was the students and this strange academy. Plus there was a lot of copying from Harry Potter and other popular stories, so that was kind of strange. I changed from, “oh this looks good”, to “I’m confused and not sure what this anime is about”. I ended up rating it a (6) Fine. |
ejleonMay 8, 11:53 AM
Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating.  |
| It was trash but apparently it was really popular in Japan while it was airing so maybe expect a season 2, although i won’t be watching anymore |
Yeshaiah2015yesh said: Kreshre said: every episode was really good started off not fine but ended really good hype for season 2, 8.4 out of 10 if you really call this as a 8.5/10, i just feel bad for the other anime's with really good story line, which scored the same. isn't it too high, even most of the greatest animes of all time scored 8/10. Hey you didn’t notice that I did not give this a 10/10 π I’m trying to rate better |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| Early on held potential, by the end it came down a bit. That one episode when Oliver dueled that one guy and that twist was revealed (If someone can explain it better than I can, thank you) was the highlight of the show. |
 "You fought to the end. You survived. That's why you're here now. I think that's something you should be more proud of." - Vladilena Milizé |
Dubcow126 said: I heard that the light novel is very loved and praised,it’s just that the studio butchered the anime adaptation I am a LN reader. You are right, the LN is the one of the most promoted ones in the community. Bad LN adaptations are very common nowadays because they are made to promote LN sales. EDIT: To OP: Sorry, I don’t understand the question you are asking. I have read 9 volumes, I can try my best to answer the question you want to ask. |
NewestPersonHereMay 9, 2:23 AM
holo-simp said: just saw ur mean score of 8.96 π I refuse to believe the 520 anime you have rated are averaged about a score 9... perhaps you should go over the list and change some ratings aha Going by that mean score is very misleading, it does not give an accurate picture of my rating of anime. For example, you assuming that I rated all 520 anime a 9, which is not true. π π However, after talking to people, I am re-watching and re-rating anime so I can bring that down some. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
holo-simp said: ejleon said: Going by that mean score is very misleading, it does not give an accurate picture of my rating of anime. For example, you assuming that I rated all 520 anime a 9, which is not true. π π However, after talking to people, I am re-watching and re-rating anime so I can bring that down some. oh I mean,,, obviously you have not rated every single anime a 9, but the majority of them must be a 9... The issue is that when I started on MAL every anime I liked, I just rated a 10/10, believing it might help it get a 2nd 3rd (etc) season, but that was quite a noob assumption. I had no idea how the anime community works So my rating is currently way off at the moment. I have been asking other people how they rate anime to get more input on how to rate anime. Would you mind sending me a message about how you rate anime? That would help me a lot. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
| The LN is decent, I like it, but I still have to read more to see how good it can actually be... |
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Todday said: ejleon said: The issue is that when I started on MAL every anime I liked, I just rated a 10/10, believing it might help it get a 2nd 3rd (etc) season, but that was quite a noob assumption. I had no idea how the anime community works So my rating is currently way off at the moment. I have been asking other people how they rate anime to get more input on how to rate anime. Would you mind sending me a message about how you rate anime? That would help me a lot. You should rate anime how you want to rate and not listen to other people. I rate high because I enjoy what I watch. Other people seem to watch shows they don’t like and then give them 1-3 ratings. You don’t have to justify the way you rate, just do you Thank you for sharing and your encouragement, I greatly appreciate it. I am asking to hear other perspectives, in case I agree, and then want to incorporate that into my rating. But in the end it will be my own personal rating still. |
| Note: I don’t lazily watch 3-5 episodes, biasedly compare to other anime, or unfairly judge by surface level similarities. With every anime I start, I watch the entire series, both Japanese Sub & English Dub, then judge each anime based on what they present, to give an honest and fair rating. |
Reply to ejleon
Todday said:
You should rate anime how you want to rate and not listen to other people. I rate high because I enjoy what I watch. Other people seem to watch shows they don’t like and then give them 1-3 ratings. You don’t have to justify the way you rate, just do you
ejleon said:
The issue is that when I started on MAL every anime I liked, I just rated a 10/10, believing it might help it get a 2nd 3rd (etc) season, but that was quite a noob assumption.
I had no idea how the anime community works
So my rating is currently way off at the moment.
I have been asking other people how they rate anime to get more input on how to rate anime.
Would you mind sending me a message about how you rate anime?
That would help me a lot.
The issue is that when I started on MAL every anime I liked, I just rated a 10/10, believing it might help it get a 2nd 3rd (etc) season, but that was quite a noob assumption.
I had no idea how the anime community works
So my rating is currently way off at the moment.
I have been asking other people how they rate anime to get more input on how to rate anime.
Would you mind sending me a message about how you rate anime?
That would help me a lot.
You should rate anime how you want to rate and not listen to other people. I rate high because I enjoy what I watch. Other people seem to watch shows they don’t like and then give them 1-3 ratings. You don’t have to justify the way you rate, just do you
Thank you for sharing and your encouragement, I greatly appreciate it.
I am asking to hear other perspectives, in case I agree, and then want to incorporate that into my rating.
But in the end it will be my own personal rating still.
| @ejleon There is no rating system that is objective but based on your responses, it seems you understand that. I see two perspectives on rating anime. If we just assume somehow we watched every single anime in existence, the average should be a 5. Hopefully it's intuitive why that would be the case. The average score of all anime, naturally will be dead center. Some people will just go with that and rate anime they have no strong opinions of a 5. Stuff they dislike is lower, stuff they enjoy gets higher. I disagree with using 5 as the "default" rating to go off of. We are already filtering anime series out before even watching one second of it. Looking at genre, ratings, reviews, synopsis, PVs, artworks, studios etc, viewers will dismiss some series entirely while giving others a try. If you do this, then your score should not be averaging a 5 since before you even watch a series; you have already picked something you have a higher chance of liking. Depending on how good you are at picking stuff that you like, a series may have a higher chance of appealing to you. That means of the series you did watch, it should average ABOVE 5 due to a pre-selection bias. 6-7 is what I think makes sense for me. But that's your own judgement call. If you randomly pick series to watch completely blind, then sure; a average of 5 will be the mathematical outcome eventually, but that's not how 99% of people pick shows to watch. On this note, MAL ratings don't tell you much unless there is more information associated with it. People who drop a show will naturally rate it lower as they dropped it for a reason. Those that finished will tend towards rating it higher, otherwise they wouldn't sit through 12+ episodes of something they hated. There is a reason season 2s and 3s get higher ratings than season 1 on average although only marginally. Only people that liked the first season would watch a second, filtering out those that didn't like it and thus inflating the ratings. If the subsequent season gets a lower rating than the previous; the series did something wrong. There's also the possibility a show gets better later on, or gets worse later on. Seeing at what point do people drop a show will also be informative so we know if it started off bad (1-3 ep) or if it got worse over time (ep 6+). |
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