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I've honestly yet to start a series that I found genuinely horrible or appalling. Well, aside from Gantz, that is, but that technically even never made it to my manga list when I read it since apparently it was so bad I forgot to add it. It may be a while before I encounter and intentionally start another one, as well. I've pretty well got my preferences figured out and I know generally how far out of that comfort zone I can easily flow. And I can kinda tell at this point if a series will absolutely not be anywhere in my comfort zone, so I don't really expect to assign any scores lower than 3 anytime soon.
Honestly, I had abandoned all hope that I'd be able to resume it at the time (something like 5 years ago) and felt my time was better spent watching more readily available anime. I just haven't gotten deep enough in my Funimation and Crunchyroll queues (or my MAL queue, for that matter) to consider resuming it (looking at the Funimation app library on my phone, it seems it's one of the shows available to me, but so is most of Funimation's library).
@both of the above: Having not read much of the source material for most popular shonen, I can't be bothered to figure out what is and what isn't filler, honestly, even if guides exist.
Now that just confuses me because the audio has to sound somewhat distorted, and that'd bother me.
12 episode anime tend to have pacing issues. It's either dawdle and spend time introducing characters, or rush in and give you no time to experience character development and get attached to characters. Kinda tricky to get in that sweet spot that has a balance of both.
If I start a story, I typically have to know what happens, no matter the medium, as long as I've got enough time to sink into it. Even if it's bad, because there's often at least one character I've gotten attached to.
I did this recently, and wasn't afraid to lower scores on series I know I had fun with but that I felt were generally terrible. Don't be afraid to drop it harshly if you enjoyed it but you're also pretty sure it was terrible.
Mine tend to be biased toward if I think the show was legitimately greatly or poorly executed. I've enjoyed a few of the series I gave a 4 to, but I did feel that they were very poorly executed (like both seasons of Rosario + Vampire, for instance). Though, on the flip side, I found Akira interesting and well executed, but it lost a few points because other aspects of it just simply didn't appeal to me and those were strong enough to knock it down from the 8 or 9 that I'll typically start an interesting and well executed series off at in my head. Individual characters (see SAO: most of the supporting ladies saved the first season) and episodes (Episode 5 earned No Game No Life an 8) will also define how I score a series. Soundtracks can somewhat alter a series score as well, albeit pretty rarely (Discotheque did not save Rosario + Vampire S2, though the entire Panty & Stocking soundtrack has already earned it a baseline score 8 despite not having watched an episode of it yet).
Pretty arbitrary on my part, with a bias toward whether I felt it was well executed or not.
Honestly, I had abandoned all hope that I'd be able to resume it at the time (something like 5 years ago) and felt my time was better spent watching more readily available anime. I just haven't gotten deep enough in my Funimation and Crunchyroll queues (or my MAL queue, for that matter) to consider resuming it (looking at the Funimation app library on my phone, it seems it's one of the shows available to me, but so is most of Funimation's library).
@both of the above: Having not read much of the source material for most popular shonen, I can't be bothered to figure out what is and what isn't filler, honestly, even if guides exist.
Now that just confuses me because the audio has to sound somewhat distorted, and that'd bother me.
12 episode anime tend to have pacing issues. It's either dawdle and spend time introducing characters, or rush in and give you no time to experience character development and get attached to characters. Kinda tricky to get in that sweet spot that has a balance of both.
If I start a story, I typically have to know what happens, no matter the medium, as long as I've got enough time to sink into it. Even if it's bad, because there's often at least one character I've gotten attached to.
I did this recently, and wasn't afraid to lower scores on series I know I had fun with but that I felt were generally terrible. Don't be afraid to drop it harshly if you enjoyed it but you're also pretty sure it was terrible.
Mine tend to be biased toward if I think the show was legitimately greatly or poorly executed. I've enjoyed a few of the series I gave a 4 to, but I did feel that they were very poorly executed (like both seasons of Rosario + Vampire, for instance). Though, on the flip side, I found Akira interesting and well executed, but it lost a few points because other aspects of it just simply didn't appeal to me and those were strong enough to knock it down from the 8 or 9 that I'll typically start an interesting and well executed series off at in my head. Individual characters (see SAO: most of the supporting ladies saved the first season) and episodes (Episode 5 earned No Game No Life an 8) will also define how I score a series. Soundtracks can somewhat alter a series score as well, albeit pretty rarely (Discotheque did not save Rosario + Vampire S2, though the entire Panty & Stocking soundtrack has already earned it a baseline score 8 despite not having watched an episode of it yet).
Pretty arbitrary on my part, with a bias toward whether I felt it was well executed or not.
