| Yes,I agree. This is becoming so ridiculous at this point but like you said there is nothing much that can be done apart from not allowing any rating below 3 and above 9. At this point if people are looking for reliable ratings they need to look for other sites. |
CheezaApr 9, 2019 12:50 PM
| Putting this anime aside, I have taken a few years off of anime. I really think when I left the mean score for anime was often 7.4 or so. Now every season TONS of shows are below 7s, and even in the 5 range. I feel like the whole system is skewing lower over time. |
| Yep, the synopsis is cool, and the first episode was fine. It definitely made me want to see more. The characters seem likeable and the VAs are doing a good job. The music is fine, though the op/end songs are rather generic - but, to be fair, most anime openings and endings are generic. CGI aside, it's well animated, and I love this art style. And the CGI itself is serviceable, I guess. It's not noticeably worse than in many other newer series. I'm also shocked by the score. I was expecting something around 7.0~7.2 at the very least. I agree that the ratings on MAL seem to be less and less reliable. I remember watching Double Decker and being similarly shocked by the unusually low rating - I mean, fine, it wasn't Tiger & Bunny, to this day we don't even know where was that advertised connection to the world of T&B, and the plot twist at the end was weird and rushed, but otherwise it was a charming series with great music (and with an AMAZING outro) and colourful characters of the type that you can't help but miss a bit after a given series ends. |
AirsaberApr 9, 2019 3:58 PM
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| I haven't started watching yet (plan to) so I don't know how the 1st episode is so far but how is it that it is already a 6.7 rating when there is only 1 episode out?? I never post in the forums so maybe this is just something I'm not familiar with but it seems weird to me. You would think people would wait for a few more eps. to come out before judging it hardcore but I digress. |
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| @Rethromono I've started to enjoy anime much more after disabling scores and reviews via uBlock Origin (right click → block element; repeat until you're satisfied with the result; if something breaks - check "My Filters" tab in the options and remove the faulty ones). There's nothing wrong with relying on other people's opinions, but honestly seeing them involuntarily all the time is much more harmful than it's useful. Many shows with the scores lower than 7 are very enjoyable, yet the people think they're utter trash without even trying to watch them.  |
| This show is quite bad tho. Basically Sirius 2.0, but worse. |
| It's bad though, and the score reflects it. If it isn't as bad as new episodes come out then it will eventually hit the 7 mark. |
| My mean = 4,48 It's not like I don't like animes. For me 5/10 is a decent anime that I like to watch but who doesn't struck me. People have their own scale, stop considering everybody with your point of view.. |
| I've had to stop caring about ratings at this point, and I've only been on MAL for like... a couple years. I first joined to not only keep track of the shows I watch but also to filter out what's good and what isn't. Except, when you have quality shows and people giving bad ratings (I can't remember what show it was, but the other day I checked the reviews and the people that gave it 3-6 need to have their heads checked), you literally cannot trust other people's judgement. For real, we literally don't know anything about this particular show, other what we've seen in the first episode. For now the jury's still out on it -- I need to see more episodes before I can assess whether it's good quality or not. So far I have no complaints about it. |
| MAL has always been unreliable and unusable. Wait til the show is finished at the very least before even looking at the score, and even then take it with a boatload of salt. |
| Shoot first, think never. |
| Why? The first episode was dogshit, from the plot to the characters to the QUALITY animation to the bad CG. |
HellsMalice said: MAL has always been trash, and most of the users are equally so. Just come here for information and don't ever expect any sort of community or real ratings. It's just so you can compare scores with friends for fun. Most here are idiots who over analyse everything to try and sound intelligent. +1 FACTS right here. This could not be anymore truer then it is. |
| "You can't spell slaughter without laughter". |
| if an anime is actually good eventually it's rating will increase no matter what the rating was at the start but in all honesty first episode of fairy gone was just meh.. will w8 till 3 4 episodes to give it a rating..... |
PhantomAssasinApr 10, 2019 11:56 PM
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| If MAL is unusable then why are we using it Seems like an overreaction to me |
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| When will people realise that aggregate MAL scores do NOT have a perfectly symmetrical Normal Distribution, with 5/10 being "average" and anything above that should be reserved for "good" anime. People will rate it however they like. Since anime is for entertainment of course there is a skew towards the higher end of the rating system. This is most likely due to people not watching shows they're not likely to enjoy, or dropping them before they finish the episode if it's boring (I do this a lot). So the people who end up scoring would give mostly what you guys think is always a "good" score of 7 and above. If I'm giving my time to something for 12 x 24 minutes at least, then I want tha time to be worth at least a 7/10 or 8/10. Why would I sit through something I deem to be worth only half of the available points it can get on a rating system? |
ittou_shuraApr 11, 2019 4:00 PM
| I hope MAL is just the MAL Anime fan base subjective reviews/responses forever. While I check out lots of Anime in a normal season and make my own mind up anything that I watch that is already completed is normally an 8+. |
| 6.7 is too low it should be at least 7 |
| This isn't new. And yes, the MAL review system requires improvement. |
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You should try actually looking at the stats before screaming about people sabotaging scores by giving it a 1/10. |
| /welp Looks like there is yet another show that I'm gonna have to watch and love just to spite the instant rating people. ;b |
Ericonator said: By definition, everything is retro since by the time you realize something has happened it's already in the past.  |
I still don't understand this concept. I thought percentages for school marks (I'm in a country where the common way is using a 20 points scale) were meaning that people had succeeded in this % of the test. Like, for example, someone who only did well on 50% of an exam (based on the score value of each exercice, not the "length" or whatever) got the average score (in other words, 50%). I myself wouldn't consider having the mean/pass mark good but in no way is it terrible. If 70% is average in North AMerica, are students only considered doing good if they reach 90-100% ? @EGOIST Apart from the clunky 3D figures integration, what was actively bad ? It was simply run-of-the-mill as far as this episode could tell us. |
Rei_IIIApr 12, 2019 7:38 AM
| My rating for the first episode was 5. Average. I might raise the score by the end of the series if it improves. |
| 臭い- |
| But if everything is treated or reviewed the same way, then, does it even matter? All anime is the victim here, hence, it doesn't make any other anime any more of a victim than the others, for they all have encountered shitty biases too... Everything is grounded on shaping people's minds and biases, and I think an anime that could combat that is the greatest of the caste! HAHA! |
 "The universe was made, just to be seen by my eyes." |
| MAL scores a joke. They mean nothing. |
| BANZAI NIPPON. Nippon is the Land of freedom. Nippon is the Land of Peace. Nippon is the Land of Justice and Prosperity. In Nippon, we trust. We love Nippon, we love Anime. Anime love us, Nippon love us. 日本 |
| Don't take MAL ratings seriously. |
 It’s okay to look back at the past, just don’t stare too long |
| Let's see... Gonna vent out everything wrong about this anime I do not oppose CG, I do not agree many of the Mal rating, and I really want to like PA Work's porject, but this first episode is just ... bad. And it's hard to defend it. The opening is the only good part about this anime. CGI is breaking immersion, yet the CGI part is the only part which combat is actually good... The 2D combat camera, position is questionable and kinda awful to say the least. Characters are all unlikable from the get go, especially Maria. She's the type of mc I despise the most... Like geez, your friend already killed dozen of people as terrorist, and all you do is telling people not to chase/hurt her while she kill everyone? Why not try stopping her yourself to avoid more bloodshed? Wtf? Also why is this government guy recruiting this terrorist's friend who not only know and want to help the terrorist, but she outright interfere the mission and cause the fugitive to escape? Also the direction and pacing is not good either. We watch the same flashback 3 times in just 1 episode, and the shifting of scene is just awkward. The production quality and animation is not good either (just because the color frame is good =/= good animation/ production). This anime quality is like 1/10 the quality of Nagi no Asukara. Please PA, if you can't handle combat , don't make a combat oriented show. I really want to like your work, but this first episode is just bad. Modified by Ventus_S, 26 minutes ago |
| I see what you're saying and i agree, that does happen, but i don't think there's enough people doing that to change the score more than half a point. I didn't even know there was any hype behind it, but a 6 feels right to me... |
I think I don't know wtf I'm doing. Maybe. Probably. |
| All the people saying this anime is bad have absolutely no idea what a bad anime truly is. Either this or either their brain cannot process too much exposition for them. They need to be spoonfed everything otherwise they'll get lost. |
| This is a good show actually. People are overreacting. |
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| We are using MAL right now. Why is it unusable? |
| I don't watch something based on its scoring on MAL anymore as many anime on MAL that are rated below a 7 are actually not even bad and some I have actually really enjoyed if I like the PV and the synopsis sounds interesting enough I will give the anime a try and I will make my own judgement on it. |
| Your problem is Americans, they are the only ones in the anime community who overhype junk and down rate good stuff because its "too hard" for them to comprehend. I seen anime that were rated 5/10 and wondered what in Gods name made people rate this 5? Then I realised because it contains something that offends Americans too easily. Its like when Americans started to review bomb LOGH back in the day, yeah... Does not mean everything rated 5 or 6 is a masterpiece, of course not people have different opinions outside America in the real world, but generally you should take scores with a grain of salt, a good example of American kids rating anime 10 out of 10 because it contains the most cliche love story in the universe Kuzu no Honkai and Domestic Girlfriend where super hyped and almost had scores of 8 when they came out, why? Because they contain goodie scenes that Americans like, frankly I never seen such bad anime with characters so dumb you have to question whether these were originally hentai stories that TV Tokyo tried to make child friendly or something. |
| "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." - Plato |
SChazal said: SMGJohn said: Your problem is Americans, they are the only ones in the anime community who overhype junk and down rate good stuff because its "too hard" for them to comprehend. I seen anime that were rated 5/10 and wondered what in Gods name made people rate this 5? Then I realised because it contains something that offends Americans too easily. Its like when Americans started to review bomb LOGH back in the day, yeah... Does not mean everything rated 5 or 6 is a masterpiece, of course not people have different opinions outside America in the real world, but generally you should take scores with a grain of salt, a good example of American kids rating anime 10 out of 10 because it contains the most cliche love story in the universe Kuzu no Honkai and Domestic Girlfriend where super hyped and almost had scores of 8 when they came out, why? Because they contain goodie scenes that Americans like, frankly I never seen such bad anime with characters so dumb you have to question whether these were originally hentai stories that TV Tokyo tried to make child friendly or something. I won't disagree. I just finished the first arc of Boogiepop and all the comments were filled with people screaming how it made no sense, how bad the writing is and that they need a couple of brains to understand it. I doubt that most of the toxic anime community read books, because Boogiepop's narration till now has been superb. Goes back and forth, and the viewer has to sit back after the episode to piece together what exactly happened. Seems as if most of the MAL community don't like to use their brains and want a liner narration. I'll be checking out Fairy Gone especially because it has a bad rating. Lmao, people who said this is good storytelling and writing really need to go expand their knowledge and pool of anime/ novel/ story as a whole.. There're much better execution out there. The backstory of Fairy Gone is good, but the execution, characters ,pacing are handled horribly, thus the low rating. We got the same 3 flashback in the same episode cuz the director thought the audience is too stupid to understand mcs' relationship, so gotta replay it again and again to try to force on their chemistry on us. Instead of use it as a hook, instead of using more subtle way to reveal their relationship, they choose to fed up right in our face and expect us to sympathize both mcs, which they failed miserably doing so. All I get from this whole thing is Mariya is whiny, annoying, obsessive, and irresponsible. Seriously it's not just American, I read other comments from China and most of them agree this first episode is bad, with questionable direction and characters. The animation and quality is not even good in first episode standard. Especially in PA Work standard this first episode production value is trash. |
Ventus_SApr 14, 2019 1:57 PM
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