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Mostly here to just categorize and review anime. Outside of this place, I'm a photographer, writer, and wildlife enthusiast.

I mostly don't rate anime for shows that I don't complete, and I don't complete shows I don't like, and I don't start shows I don't think are going to be at least average. Most of the shows I watch are, I feel, 5s and 6s. They're serviceable as fiction, but don't really do a ton for me.

There's a decent gap between a "5' and a "6", but as it gets further from 5, a media of media needs to be, imo, more and more exceptional. For me, that either means narratively very well considered and adept at audience and expectation management, or that it has to be self-aware of its own premise. It would take something really exceptional for me to score it a 10, and likewise, something would need to be exceptionally bad for it to be a 1 -- and for that reason, it takes a lot for me to score something a 1, and aside of a few rare cases, I don't think that'll happen-.

Admittedly, there's a couple shows or manga that I really like despite not doing that, and it's usually for sentimental reasons, but if pressed I'd definitely admit to that.