A generally accepted consensus here is that ratings here on MAL dont matter.

I usually look at the score first, anything under a 6 is usually pretty mediocre or generic. I think if you like the genres you should watch it instead of looking at the score. Some genres are at the moment lower rated than I think they should be, but it is mostly personal love for the genre in general.

There’s an association between rating and quality I believe and this show is pretty average so a mid 6 rating from the population is appropriate.

I think generally the overall rating is a pretty good indicator. Aka, if it’s a 6-6.49, it’s indicative of a below average show, 6.5-6.9, is a decent show, 7-7.9 is a good show, and 8+ is a great show. It’s been pretty accurate imo. Anything below 6 is always trash. Of course ratings are subjective, so your opinion may vary, like for example Bocchi and Lycoris Recoil are extremely overrated imo but others disagree.

Personally, Senpai herself brought this series to a 6 imo after her brain degraded to that of a 5th grader. Seriously, the fact that she assumed she would have no control over her emotions at work if she were to start a relationship with her Kouhai is ridiculous. Unnecessary way for her to “kouhaizone” him. Had she actually not have any feelings for him, the premature rejection would’ve been understandable.

idk, i don’t think this show or the one you talked about deserved any higher rating than it has on MAL

Comedy is subjective unlike good animation and action, so that can vary greatly.

@LordKirkis It is fun seeing people discuss anime on MAL without ranting like 5 year olds
These days I haven't seen much toxicity on anime threads and it feels good being able to talk about anime like civilised people keeping Shounen fans aside

Hope we will keep seeing threads such as these where people can actually talk and not insult each other in the future

For me? I find it kind of boring. I’ve liked several Project 9 rom-coms, Higehiro, Tanazaki-kun, Stepsister-Ex I all really enjoyed. This one doesn’t capture my attention as easily as those. To me, the primary indicator of a shows quality is whether or not you feel engaged throughout (how quickly does time pass while watching?) and I don’t feel it with these characters.

It's not really offensively bad or anything it's just that we've seen everything here like a thousand times before so anime fans are kinda getting sick of it. Nothing wrong with enjoying it but yeah mal scores are literally meaningless, the second something hits 9 stars fma and aot fans start review bombing it out of fear that it'll take the top spot. 90% of all mal reviews are from 2 fanbases that think mal scores have value despite the fact that they are actively decreasing said value by being idiots.

ye i agree there are some fantastic comedies that have a horribly low score. But shows like my tiny senpai and nagatoro are very deserving of at most a 6 imo. They’re all just run of the mill comedies. Not bad, just ok

i came in expecting a 4 and came out being a 6. I think it was mainly just the personalities of the characters that annoy the hell out of me. I especially hate the nerdy trope like the mc.

im a guy that enjoys turn your brain off anime junk food but even junk food atleast has to taste good
theres literally nothing good about my tiny senpai and fails at everything

and you wonder why i pick random shows each season and just click plan to watch. i honestly don't care what others think about a show, because i'm my own judge.

I don’t go off of other people ratings. Everyone as different tastes. I decided for my self. I do check after I finish something just being curious before I score. The only thing that will detour me is the anime quality. If it is so bad it kinda looks like a half ass anime game . It’s a hard pass. Others that that I’ll probably watch it once even if it ends up being ok

As you get older you see demographics are destiny with ratings. Series that cater to both men and women, and are generally the tamest get the highest scores. This is also why mal scores quite frankly are useless in the grand scheme of things. Series that are ecchi obviously made to cater to men will get bad reviews from people outside the target demographic. When you go by mal ratings you accept everyones scores as genuine whether they be a 12 year old newbie, a bot, or a 80 year old granny. Reminds me a lot of how people treat metacritic game reviews as scripture. My advise is watch what you think will interest you regardless of ratings.

I wish these threads could exist for popular Shonen series as well. CSM threads were abhorrent

Yep I too have stopped giving a shit about MAL ratings about early this year bc shows like Dangers in my Heart had such a low score it had like a 6.80 rating and I was like this show deserves a higher rating like 8 for example. Now that the show ended it ended up with a final score of 8.31🤩

I’ve noticed that animes that are rated 6.00-6.49 are good/enjoyable (like my one hit kill sister) while 6.50-7.00 mean it’s enjoyable and fairly more decent (like Kamikatsu or The Legendary Hero is Dead)😫🔥🔥🔥🔥 [those are shows that got shitted heavily yet we’re really enjoyable]

I’ve literally come to the conclusion that ppl never give a show a chance and simply judge a book by its cover and ride the hate train and give it a bad rating without letting all the episode air first, the “first 3 episode rule” is such a flaw that makes ppl turn off a show when it’s just getting good🤦🏽‍♂️😕😕😕

Things that aren't too deep or esoteric, but still congratulate middling IQs in subtle ways get the highest scores.
see https://myanimelist.net/anime/44/Rurouni_Kenshin__Meiji_Kenkaku_Romantan_-_Tsuioku-hen
Almost at a 9 rating, and generally regarded as one of the best things in anime. But all it is is a pastiche animated repackaging of dark chambara melodramas from the 60s directed by guys like Kobayashi, Okamoto, etc.
Is it BAD? No. But when viewers go into it having only the context of the TV or manga version of Kenshin (which are full of broad 90s slapstick humor and shonen tropes) and get a grim, morally ambiguous OVA that does a lot of gesturing at quiet poignancy and "depth," the viewer gets an artificial sensation of having penetrated the "surface" of what anime has to offer. It allows viewers to congratulate themselves, so it gets extremely high ratings.

The bias against dumb comedy is just the inverse of that phenomenon. Postmodernism says that art comes from uncertainty, moral ambiguity, suffering, the tension of boundaries being indistinct, etc; so, a midwit sees a dumb comedy show as the opposite of art, and something that carries low or negative cultural cache.

Nostalgia and pure familiarity also play a role. FLCL's rating hovers around an 8, because it's a good OVA everybody saw on adult swim. Diebuster, which is cut from the same cloth (frankly equally good, made by much of the same staff who did FLCL, similar art style, similar short form, visual storytelling approach, etc) has a score in the mid 7s. So that's half a point lower just because not everybody saw it on toonami in the mid 2000s.