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Nothing out of the ordinary here. Just another spare-time anime watcher and manga reader. I cannot even define what kind of anime I enjoy most. I just pick up an anime as I trip over it. I do not care if I belong to the intended target audience and what tag has been affixed to it.
And I have no qualms about dropping a series if it is not to my taste. I never read reviews before I watch something but enjoy reading them after I am done - I am fond (and a little bit jealous) of eloquent writing skills. And amused when I am reading reviews while wondering if the reviewer and me have actually just watched the same series.
I strive to write a review here and there myself - but usually it never amounts to much more than making notes in my comments tags for later reference and then never finding the time to actually write something coherent. Maybe I am just not obsessive enough about anime to assume that the rest of the world couldn't do without my opinion about some of them.
I will rate what I watched - although I do not follow an exact and scientific model in any way. My personal (sometimes predominantly technical) interest in all things visual and audio will naturally influence my ratings - artwork, animation, BGM and voice-acting play a very important part for me. But there is also this elusive and totally subjective "enjoyment"-factor. Just because a series manages to offer amazing visuals and a pleasing OST doesn't necessarily mean that the plot, storyboard and directing is not utter crap, right?
Even though I try to factor in many facets of a series or a movie before giving a verdict I admit that there are those rare cases where the visual extravaganza, technical wizardry and directing skills are so mind-bogglingly formidable that I tell my common sense to shut up for a while and just succumb to the awesomeness. Falling prey to style over substance I guess. Is this unfair? Probably. Will I reconsider? Nope. Feel free to accuse me of shallowness in these cases if that helps.
So if I rate one series a 8 and the other a 7 that means what exactly? It means I enjoyed one series a bit more than the other. The reason could be just one of my whims, my form of the day, the hairdo of the main character or because the story moved me and one of my favorite seiyuu was in it. Whatever.
In short:
[9/10] --- My favorite series. They impressed me in multiple ways and left an impact. They compelled me to search for another anime as good or even better. They are so memorable that even multiple rewatches would not be boring. Innovative, creative, charismatic, heartwarming - something special. Might not be perfect in all conceivable aspects but if there were flaws I was able to blithely ignore them.
[8/7] ---- Very good anime. But there were aspects I did not care about and flaws that slightly irked me while watching. Enough flaws to make me utter some critique out loudly over dinner. Or they did not impress me enough to get really involved on a personal level. Or I felt something was missing. But nevertheless they are absolutely worth watching.
[6] ---- I had issues here. Enough issues and critique to not going as far as calling it good and recommend it without hesitation. Still predominantly enjoyable aspects though.
[5] ---- My baseline. Average and mediocre in every regard. But on some level I was able to enjoy some aspects.
[4] ---- Generic. No merits. No creativity. No inspiration. Mary Sue in anime form. Essentially a waste of time.
[3/2] --- Yep I use these ratings when applicable. If someone tries to sell me a fruit-box with quadrangular wheels claiming it to be a racing car I am entitled to the opinion that this stinks. Go away bad anime!
[1] --- Insults your status of being a thinking, self-aware entity.
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