overrated

Overrated is just a word kids use when they can't understand how other people value things differently. Coping mechanism for contrarians.

How about you read more into it before watching and hating on it next time

Dude, why can’t you just let people enjoy it?

I was just asking the same thing, this is just episode 2, but in what aspect do people give this anime high marks? Graphics? That's why I was fooled, for me the story is more important. This is just another cliche about someone being underestimated and then later getting recognition. Well, the graphics are good, but I prefer graphics with 2D style coloring, not the eye-blinding ones.

lol are you daft? Of course I had to use the word to point out the word I was referring to.

As for the second part, by this time, this topic has been discussed so extensively that it should be self-explanatory just by what I said. But here, let me give a brief history lesson on the now common sense aspect of the discussion so you don't have to do a 5-second google search on how ratings work and risk injuring yourself: Whenever a new show comes out and it proves itself highly in at least one aspect (in this case, very high production quality rivaling movies), the ratings reflect what those few initial episodes make people expect from the rest of the show. As the show progresses and as more people watch it, the ratings adjust averaging the perceived notions of its audience towards a still subjective, but more normalized ratio that includes more nuanced considerations (story progression, character development, pacing, atmosphere, delivery, production, innovation; to name a few obvious ones).

In that regard, ratings –being a metric of mere enjoyment– can never be above (or below) whatever the hell its audience chooses it to be. You can disagree with an average score of course, but your contribution to that number is only a fraction of the overall appreciation of everyone who watched it, so in the grand scheme of things, your personal opinion is kinda irrelevant.

And that is why the use of the word "overrated" (oops, I used it again in context) is exactly what I said: a coping mechanism for contrarians who can't come to terms with the fact that they are a minority opinion and make blanket judgements to either stir controversy or seek some outsider validation of their feelings. It is especially meaningless in the early airing stages of a show where the ratings only reflect on a couple of episodes.

There, easily refuted. You're welcome.

@Animaticide lol, kiddo can't understand jokes. Poor kiddo.

About your argument, it is true that a single aspect could boost a score early on, but there's not a single aspect where we can say that it is a really great show. No, it is not movie level quality, it is not even close to that. In this show there's an extensive use of blurring, which generally indicates 2 things. Their line work is weak and they needed to hide, while movie level quality shows don't hide it and/or they struggled with the blending of the foreground-background and 2d-3d, again movie level quality shows don't struggle with that either. So far the animation is above average, good, but not great. In that regard, we actually have movie level quality shows in this season, but it has lower score. That's why we can clearly say that it is overrated.
(Also, you can check how in that show, they don't hide their line work. Blurring in movie level quality shows is only used for focusing different parts of the screen. The show is Elusive Samurai.)

When it comes to the effects, even the 2d effects, they are pretty inconsistent because sometimes it is sharp and sometimes it isn't, which also proves my point. I put together montage about some screenshots from the show. The video was 1080p. Btw, there were even moments when they used 3d model that was sharp or at least sharper.
I also added one screenshot from CSM. I don't consider CSM as a movie level quality show, but they did better job and they didn't try to hide the line work.
https://imgur.com/a/5s7jJi7
Short explanation:
1. Sharp shadow of the glasses
2. Flames blurred. Remember the tiles on the ground for the next pic.
3. Ground sharp, even the column and the tiles different.
4. Pretty clearly 3d modell where everything sharp, except the magic which looks blurry as hell. Physically impossible and makes no sense directing-wise.
5. Attack beams and smoke blurry eventhough this should be in focus
6. As comparison, CSM's smoke is sharp, you can clearly follow the line even with this faint solution.

Obviously the character animation works, but that alone does not make something great.

As for the ratings, no, ratings are not solely about enjoyment in some cases it has nothing to do with it. Everyone comes up with his own unique rating system that might have nothing to do with enjoyment. For example, in my case, enjoyment is only 10% of the score that I give. Having a solely enjoyment based list wouldn't help others to look for shows that might be interesting for them.
So, in reality, most of the users try to incorporate some kind of objective evaluation. We know this because that's why people argue about shows.

Therefore, we can clearly call things overrated, but not in itself, because without a reference point, you can't call anything overrated. So when we have an Elusive Samurai level of animation that is much more consistent and yet it has lower score, we can call one overrated or the other one underrated.
With that in mind, people who think overrated is used by kids, are kids themselves. :)

There, easily refuted. You're welcome. :)

@Maxine1994
Tagged you here, so you can read it.
Btw, I already pointed out why it is overrated in other topics as well, because this is not a new discussion.