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Oct 29, 2021 9:35 PM
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i remember 12 years ago gintama and the saiki kusou no psi nan manga were rated horribly as well, untill suddenly when they become mainstream their ratings jumped insanely high, is this just normally the case with japanese type humor manga?

lots of people in reviews were saying they don't understand japanese humor, in this case why is gintama rated so well nowdays, im genuinely curious who dislikes this series, is it just the case of mismatched audience? i remember dorohedoro being rated super low during its airing time, but 1 year after its ratings skyrocketed.
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Well for me, this anime is so freaking hilarious, especially when Drac turns into sand and funny moments of John.



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I don't understand why people hate this show, if they can't handle anything humorous then why bother watching this while there are other animes that can satisfy them better? I personally think the genre fits so much in this show and there are many funny moments between Ronald and Draco, love the VAs who are potraying them, just like what I imagine their voice to be when I was reading the manga :3
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Neostorm-X said:
i remember 12 years ago gintama and the saiki kusou no psi nan manga were rated horribly as well, untill suddenly when they become mainstream their ratings jumped insanely high, is this just normally the case with japanese type humor manga?

lots of people in reviews were saying they don't understand japanese humor, in this case why is gintama rated so well nowdays, im genuinely curious who dislikes this series, is it just the case of mismatched audience? i remember dorohedoro being rated super low during its airing time, but 1 year after its ratings skyrocketed.


Comedy shows are always treated unfairly. The excuse is usually 'comedy is subjective'.
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Because it's not that funny.
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I don’t think it’s amazing but I don’t understand why it’s rated so low.
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This will sound like a Rick and Morty copypasta, but comedy is not as accessible as other genres, there is no universal language of comedy and it requires involvement with the proposal



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I don't understand either, it's pretty funny and even cute! The voice actors are amazing and John is best boi <3 From the ratings I thought I wasn't going to like it but I'm enjoying it very much!
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Well for me, this anime is so freaking hilarious, especially when Drac turns into sand and funny moments of John.


Yeah this shit is so much better than that Repititive Cringy One dimensional Komi San

The characters are fun here
Their interactions, the concept, the setting and the jokes are better written here, they're not Cringy
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RealKurapikaTard said:
Natsuki_SanJuan said:
Well for me, this anime is so freaking hilarious, especially when Drac turns into sand and funny moments of John.


Yeah this shit is so much better than that Repititive Cringy One dimensional Komi San

The characters are fun here
Their interactions, the concept, the setting and the jokes are better written here, they're not Cringy


I’m confuse, what does this have to do with Komi san, aren’t they totally different anime?
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I don't have a high standard for comedy, but I watched the first episode, and didn't really find it funny. Maybe I was not in the best mood that day, but yeah I still wasn't impressed in that moment


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I would say the main feature for this anime is Comedy. However it is like a hit or miss show. I believe that's what fails to get into people. There are some jokes or scenes I understand and others I don't get (maybe i am not comical enough). but the show's funny enough in some ways.
Plus I'm sure lots of people on MAL are into action, lots of shounen, gore, horror. When they see vampire stories they want more genres like that which this anime is not giving enough off.
I'm giving the show either 6 or 7 so far. Definitely 7 for the art and characters. I really like Ronaldo and John...quite interesting characters. It's not that bad..in fact it's slowing catching onto my interest. just slowly. but if the writing start to lack as it goes on, I might drop the score to a 4. I hate it when I go below 5 but I will if I have to.

This might sound cliché but you know that weak vampire...I'm sure the author wants to keep him weak as others always portray vampires to be always powerful, noble and bold so they might turn it 180 degrees around. It might sound cliché but I really want the vampire to turn out to be actually a strong guy...so yh I can't hide my interest for actions even with comedy)
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I don't know why either. This show is really funny to me, reminds me of why I like Japanese humour the most, it's always so over the top. The voice actors help a lot, acting is on point!
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I think you’re exactly right, most comedy anime I watch has a low rating on MAL. I think it’s just the kind of people that usually keep up with rating things doesn’t match with the audience they’re aimed towards. I think this show’s amazing.
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RealKurapikaTard said:
Natsuki_SanJuan said:
Well for me, this anime is so freaking hilarious, especially when Drac turns into sand and funny moments of John.


Yeah this shit is so much better than that Repititive Cringy One dimensional Komi San

The characters are fun here
Their interactions, the concept, the setting and the jokes are better written here, they're not Cringy


I dont even consider shit like, nagatoro/uzaki/komi
Comedy anime, its more like.
“Ex porn authors first manga” genre, they almost all have similar plots with no tension of progression, and all their jokes are extremely “safe” or designed to appeal to as large of a mundane audience as possible.
Also rely on meme generation of the characters to spread the word, and also all the authors have done porn before,
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RealKurapikaTard said:


Yeah this shit is so much better than that Repititive Cringy One dimensional Komi San

The characters are fun here
Their interactions, the concept, the setting and the jokes are better written here, they're not Cringy


I dont even consider shit like, nagatoro/uzaki/komi
Comedy anime, its more like.
“Ex porn authors first manga” genre, they almost all have similar plots with no tension of progression, and all their jokes are extremely “safe” or designed to appeal to as large of a mundane audience as possible.
Also rely on meme generation of the characters to spread the word, and also all the authors have done porn before,
Komi-san's author never did hentai stuff, the manga is pretty much devoid of sexual content outright. Your looking way too hard to find reasons to compare a romcom to a gag comedy series like this one, they might both be comedies but they are radically different subgenres that any comparisons between are apples to oranges.

Dralc's lower rating has less to do with some romcom stealing its thunder and more to do with its first couple episodes just being pretty weak and ongoing shows largely having a score based on their start cause dropped votes and people with less than 1/3rd of the show watched dont count once a series finishes airing, its reception would be identical regardless of how many other series came out in a single season.
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Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit,

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Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

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This show is definitely a hit/miss show. I'm on the miss side since it feels way, way too forced, loud and obnoxious for its own good without really having funny humor or much to go along with besides that. It ain't no Grand Blue with its humor, or Gintama, etc. Just my opinion though, I can definitely see people either really enjoying it or finding it to be one of the more annoying shows of the year. The rating is to really do more with the quality itself compared to examples you mentioned like Saiki too.
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This show is definitely a hit/miss show. I'm on the miss side since it feels way, way too forced, loud and obnoxious for its own good without really having funny humor or much to go along with besides that. It ain't no Grand Blue with its humor, or Gintama, etc. Just my opinion though, I can definitely see people either really enjoying it or finding it to be one of the more annoying shows of the year. The rating is to really do more with the quality itself compared to examples you mentioned like Saiki too.


explain more about the quality?
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7.00 used to be the average score, now it's somewhere around 6.50.
With a larger user base in MAL nowadays means more votes which also means lower average score


not true at all,
look at where the user based is concentrated on.

its not concentrated evenly, take attack on titan or my shit academia for example, they have more members than 100,000 of the most obscure manga/anime.
most people on this site only watch 1 or 2 anime and give them a 10/10 always.

its only the people who don't like a specific show from the audience that watches every seasonal show that gives bad scores.
its very baised, it exactly what happened with dorohedoro.
the seasonal isekai watchers and shounen boys hated it, but once they all droped the score went up by 2 points, since more anitubers talked about it, and non isekai watchers started watching it and the score went up.
same thing happened with saiki.

saiki had like a 6.5 at one point, but once the isekai junkies droped it, after the season ended, people who were interested started searching for it on their own.

basically the audience of "seasonal" watchers are the one that watch stuff like this.

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I don't have a high standard for comedy, but I watched the first episode, and didn't really find it funny. Maybe I was not in the best mood that day, but yeah I still wasn't impressed in that moment


how do you find Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai and grand blue funny? its literally just all beer jokes for example over and over again.
it was funny for me the first 10 chapters then got super repetitive
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explain more about the quality?


Comedy is subjective of course so there is an audience that likes it, but I feel like with this series compared to other comedy series out there, the comedic timing of jokes are never on point and the humor always feels forced in its delivery. Being loud and random, and having Draluc turn into sand every 5 seconds gets really old, really fast, and its not helped by how overused it is, how similar everyone feels cast-wise and its like adding water on water, no real chemistry either with the characters to balance out the humor well. Too much shouting too for jokes that don't pack any sort of punch whatsoever for me.

Shows like SKET Dance follow the boke-tsukkomi route with its humor to make sure there is a sense of balance to the jokes there, and even in episodes where not much happens, dynamics and jokes always feel distinctive enough with jokes not being forced on every couple seconds. Gintama has so many supporting characters that work with the series that you can have different characters with different dynamics take the spotlight and you can get whatever kind of humor out there, whether its traditional boke-tsukkomi stuff with random topics or whether its fourth-wall breaking humor, and those kind of series can be compelling too outside just the gags. This series isn't that versatile either so it can get old fast.

So yeah, too much quantity, lack of balance and poor comedic timing on top of weak chemistry. Again, it's only my opinion but given the low score and some of the comments I've read from this series too, it's definitely not the next comedy great, that's for sure.
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I don't have a high standard for comedy, but I watched the first episode, and didn't really find it funny. Maybe I was not in the best mood that day, but yeah I still wasn't impressed in that moment


how do you find Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai and grand blue funny? its literally just all beer jokes for example over and over again.
it was funny for me the first 10 chapters then got super repetitive

I actually didn't laugh much with kaguya-sama. It's just one of my favorites because I really love the characters

As for Grand Blue, I don't know how else to say this, but you are in the extreme minority. I can understand if you don't like repetitive beer jokes, but the rest of us dumbasses love it for some reason unknown to man


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The show saw a significant improvement in the last couple of episodes, but before that it was kinda lackluster. I don't necessarily agree with the rating but I think it's expected for this kind of shows to have such a "low" score.
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Yeah. Why it's rating so low! I'm really enjoying this anime. I love the jokes.
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It's just your daily dose of comedy every week. It is enjoyable to watch when you just wanna have fun!


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IDk. I just know that the sand at times may be overused. However, character interactions have been quite fun. And this show has best boy John holding it together.
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The first couple episodes were ok but nothing amazing, however since episode 4 it’s been damn hilarious so I think this is another case of MAL browsers having too itchy of a judgement trigger finger early on (what else is new lmao)
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It's a comedy that gets much funnier when you get to know characters,, their quirks and relationships (which also progress thoughout).
In fact most comedies aren't much good from the beggining. Gintama's first 10/20 episodes for example were probably one of the weakest.
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Gintama's first 10 episodes for example were probably one of the weakest.
I'd say its the first 20 episodes to the number count. The red ghost girl was the first episode of that series that people seem to like and before that its pretty easy to drop from how unenjoyable it is.

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Jizzy, I know you have no idea how to argue for shit,

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Jizzy as you would call yourself because youre a dick The most butthurt award goes to you And clearly you havent watched that many shows thats why you cant determine if a show is unique or not Or maybe you're just a child who likes common stuffs where hero saves the day and guys gets all the girls. Sad taste you have there kid you came up to me in the first place making you look more like a kid who got slapped without me even knowing it and start crying about it to me

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yea though the rating is so low. for me, its funny i laugh every episode. the show itself is underrated although it made by madhouse
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The first few episodes are the weakest part of the show and some people drop it too early or don't give another chance. It will get better when more characters appear in the upcoming episodes who eventually become regular casts of this show
Nov 16, 2021 11:44 PM
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It deserves a way better rating.
It's hilarious.
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As someone who's currently watching it, I just feel like the skits are very hit or miss. Sometimes they can be hilarious, or even subvert your expectations. Other times they are repetitive and unfunny.


Though it is only halfway through it's run, so my opinion is subject to change.
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Well, I guess it's harder to make a really good comedy anime: most action anime don't need much to please people (just make some decent action animation scene and people will be singing their praises). That said, most comedy anime I've seen aren't that good. I mean... Not every show can be Konosuba. But I guess it's also a matter of personal taste: I found Uramichi Oniisan from last season hilarious. Though, honestly, in this anime particularly, I think it's just not that funny. The script could've been better. The characters are good, but the story and the jokes could've been a lot better.
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how do you find Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai and grand blue funny? its literally just all beer jokes for example over and over again.
it was funny for me the first 10 chapters then got super repetitive

I actually didn't laugh much with kaguya-sama. It's just one of my favorites because I really love the characters

As for Grand Blue, I don't know how else to say this, but you are in the extreme minority. I can understand if you don't like repetitive beer jokes, but the rest of us dumbasses love it for some reason unknown to man


i literally only found it funny the first few chapters. almost all the shitty jokes are about beer and getting drunk and about girls. the author is so horrendous at writing about humor.
i remember reading through the entirety of baka no test and thinking people were ironically praising it for being funny (same author btw) so it really came a surprise to me that people really actually find these repetitive jokes funny.

the author literally only knows one joke, male protagonist gets beat by a girl after doing some perv thing, or accused of perv thing, protagonist sucks at school blah blah blah, tries cheating or fails etc. literally 100+ chapters of this repetitive garbage and the plot goes no where, each character is literally a cardboard cutout.
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Humor is something really subjective. You can find the same kind of results with Horror shows. Some genres divides the audience.
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I think another thing to note that might be more relevant than the "humor is subjective" argument, is that this show is very fast paced. I don't think I can think of a show that is as fast as this one. They throw so many jokes at the viewer in a short period of time that some people might get overstimulated no matter how funny the jokes are, if that's the right way to say it.

Also, this show in particular takes longer than usual to introduce all the characters, so their full potential isn't realized until episodes 5 or 6, long after most people dropped this show. It's hard to show new, funnier situations when you have to dedicate a large portion to introducing so many characters, and even harder when the staff does it as slow as for this show.

Those 2 reasons are probably the biggest reasons why some people dropped it.
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The first three episodes were really weak. But the show just got better with supporting characters introduced and adding variation to the comedy.
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It's common with every type of genre, ratings change overtime. Comedy anime get more shit because every person has a different sense of humor and most of these anime are done in Japanese humor, which doesn't appeal to other people I guess. It's way harder to find a good comedy anime than an action one
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well, is a type of comedy some might not enjoy, but lol is sometime needed
to be truthful, sometime i get fed up with fantasy, dramas, series series, and this one comes as a fresh breath of air.
Yes, is dumb, but cute too.
I think we should not judge after the first episode.Watch at least a bit.
Yes i repeat, is dumb, but is sometime good to watch something like that.

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Because it is not funny for most people and also lacks characters that are memorable; it is that simple. There is no grand mystery going on here. These type of questions always baffles me to be honest.

For example, a comedy series like Vlad Love (also a gag comedy and somewhat comparable to this one) had its funny moments every now and then, but that didn't mean it was a good comedy series overall (for most people), therefore its low score.

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People like lame comedies these days. like that pathetic excuse of a “deconstruction of capitalism” or whatever the schtick was for Meikyu Black Company last season, which was so highly rated but I just couldn't bring myself to finish it. Same w Komi-san. I appreciate Komi for what it is but damn, the score is too high for my liking. Every joke on vampire dies in no time hits different, I haven't stopped laughing at the show 6 weeks in. At this point scores on MAL are barely a suggestion, you have to dig deep and try for your own taste of anime.

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In my case, most of the time I don't think the anime is funny, for example in the first episode it used the vampire being weak and 'dying' easily so much that it lost its fun for me that I can't laugh at it anymore, few jokes in the anime I think it's funny, I like the voice actors and john the most, that's what keeps me going

Not that it's done in a bad way, but it's not my type of humor, this must have happened to people who dropped or are giving low grades to the anime
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Unless its the funniest anime someone's ever seen, then comedy anime get rated really low for no good reason. Especially ones like this where it's a variety show with multiple segments in each episode.
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Because it is not funny for most people and also lacks characters that are memorable; it is that simple. There is no grand mystery going on here. These type of questions always baffles me to be honest.

For example, a comedy series like Vlad Love (also a gag comedy and somewhat comparable to this one) had its funny moments every now and then, but that didn't mean it was a good comedy series overall (for most people), therefore its low score.


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Don't worry too much about ratings, lots of shows have an unfortunately low one, as for why, at least for me, I like the characters a lot but most if not all of the jokes land flat for me, if I chuckle once each episode is saying too much.
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Because some people don't know what comedy means and get disappointed when they take comedy anime seriously.
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You think this is rated low? It's in the low 7s which I would say is a pretty average score. I personally think it deserves less, like low to mid 6s. I pushed myself to watch it and ended up dropping at episode 5.
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This show was full throttle with it's comedy without stopping for rest, everyone shouting at the top of their lungs for all of the episode is not funny or at least grows tiresome. Had some good laughs, but much more miss than hit IMO.
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You think this is rated low? It's in the low 7s which I would say is a pretty average score. I personally think it deserves less, like low to mid 6s. I pushed myself to watch it and ended up dropping at episode 5.

Well this anime was getting 6 score in October, although the score suddenly increased into 7 right now
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