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I'm into romance/shoujo mainly, drama and ecchi when in the mood.
What's important to me is characters and stories.
I dislike dubs so I watch only subs.
I wrote a few reviews but stopped eventually because the review guidelines are too restrictive.
Check out my comments on animes in my list instead (click the "more" link next to each entry in my anime list). I take good care to not include any spoilers. They can be my impressions just after having completed the show or they can be something I've written long after because I didn't do this right from the beginning (often it's after having watched it again).
It should be noted that I follow to the letter MAL's hints on scoring. So when I think an anime is 'Good' I just rate it 7 (Good). I therefore generally give lower ratings than other people, even when I believe something is underrated. What matters to me is the consistency of the rating within my list, so one can sort it by score.
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All Comments (1) Comments
One thing that immediately noticed is that there were no romance anime rated below 5 on MAL. This is strange, but there is a possible reason: people are less likely to rate bad animes. They just drop them and forget them.
Yet the relatively bad rating of Glasslip has proven again that MAL's ratings are unreliable and the reviews rarely useful. I wasn't even surprised to find out that Glasslip is perfectly fine. Most reviewers love to talk about themselves, between the lines. There are those who start their reviews with "The industry"; they are self-proclaimed "industry" experts that are showing off their supposed knowledge of "the industry". There are those who start their review with "The community"; they are self-proclaimed community experts who are reviewing their own position within the community. And there are those who write walls of text, who try to show off how smart they are or seem like they are trying to get a job as an anime critic. Problem is, it is quite difficult to write a good review and to avoid spoilers. It's a fool's errand, actually.
I don't believe in "crowd rating". That's what produces little-known jewels and overhyped shows. MAL's "like-only" system for review doesn't help either: if you want to downvote a "bad" review, your only option is to upvote the other top reviews because people rarely go to the second page of reviews. It's like Google results: you either are on the first page or you don't exist. I wish MAL would switch to a system a more appropriate meta-review system.
There are bad reviewers, but there are no such a thing as a "good reviewer". There's only people with the same tastes and mindset as you. MAL has a few features about this, but they should make it as easier to find people with the same affinities.