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For those who don't know, My Anime List is a site where you can keep track of what you've been watching and how you rate it, and see other people's lists. It's a pretty good place to get an idea of what's worth watching, but if the discussion forums are anything to go by the median user is pretty dumb. Looking at ADTRW posters' lists might be more helpful than randomly selected users. If enough people post I might also try to scrape some stats. Anyway, here's mine.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 08:08 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 13:07 |
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Here's mine. I haven't really filled it in much yet, though.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 10:13 |
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Sure why not. It's kind of fun watching MAL's slow decline into romanized insanity.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 11:03 |
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Guyver posted:Sure why not.  edit: and despite that, in my comparatively meagre list of 17 completed there are still ~4 that don't appear anywhere on yours, which I guess shows how much is out there. ShardPhoenix fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 11:29 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 11:25 |
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Guyver posted:Sure why not. Yeah, I'd actually prefer it if they just used the translated titles. When I looked at my own list it took a wee while for me to remember what half the romanised titles actually referred to.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 11:37 |
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Chas McGill posted:Yeah, I'd actually prefer it if they just used the translated titles. When I looked at my own list it took a wee while for me to remember what half the romanised titles actually referred to.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 11:59 |
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Here you go. I've sort of codified my rating scheme: 1 - Shows that offend me deeply. Only one show on my list has this score right now and I only saw it as part of a group watch. 2 - Not used, because even the worst anime has to offer is better than this if it doesn't offend me deeply  3 - Awful 4 - Generically bad, nothing redeeming 5 - Bad but with one or two redeeming qualities/instances of goodness 6 - Either I liked it but thought it was bad, or didn't like it but thought it was good, quality-wise 7 - Standard for "good", not remarkable but overall fairly solid 8 - Very enjoyable or otherwise high-quality 9 - Fantastic 10 - Otherwise a 9 but had a significant effect on my perspective on what a show can be There are a couple outliers that don't really play well with this system. I'll also throw in a link to MALgraph, which shows you a bunch of extra neat statistical information based on your list. It can determine your "favorite" studios and genres, give you recommendations, show how your ratings change based on year of production, etc. Mine is here. Relambrien fucked around with this message at Mar 23, 2013 around 23:24 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 12:20 |
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Here's Mine. I had one a while ago but I don't remember the username so I made one today. Haven't decided what to watch in spring beyond Aku no Hana but this is my highlights I remember off the top of my head. Also made a Manga list with just a couple manga I remember reading. Looking at my numbers I give 9s away a lot but anything I mark as 10 I feel truly deserves it. Edit: Also yes I hate the romanization obsession too. Senerio fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 14:02 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 13:50 |
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Sure. Mine's right here Chalk me up as someone who also hates MAL's obsession with romanization.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 13:55 |
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Cinema Discusso has a thread called "Rate the Latest Movie You've Seen" and it's pretty neat. Can this thread be used in the same way?
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 14:04 |
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Mercrom posted:Cinema Discusso has a thread called "Rate the Latest Movie You've Seen" and it's pretty neat. Can this thread be used in the same way?
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 14:38 |
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Chas McGill posted:I'm not sure about the fate of the Recommendation thread, but couldn't we use that one for the same purpose? Although I suppose linking MALs is an indirect way of showing how you rate animes anyway.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 14:44 |
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Just as a reminder, there is an ADTRW group on MAL albeit somewhat dead. http://myanimelist.net/clubs.php?cid=1151 It's also private so we need active club officers to add more users. At least one club officer, mrvacbob, is still appears to be active so we could revive the club. EDIT: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Edward_IV Edward IV fucked around with this message at Apr 11, 2013 around 15:24 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 17:23 |
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Mine, not really as big as it looks because it's padded out with tons of short specials that I list for completion's sake. Also MAL's title listings are dumb yes. Nobody calls Spirited Away "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" here for instance.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 17:54 |
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Why is the default color scheme for the manga list so gosh dang hideous? I had to switch it over to the anime theme. http://myanimelist.net/mangalist/LatinaPride I combed through the top 1000 most popular but this doesnt feel right. I sorta thought I had read more than 50 series in my life. Mercrom posted:Cinema Discusso has a thread called "Rate the Latest Movie You've Seen" and it's pretty neat. Can this thread be used in the same way? I dont see why not, the Rec thread is dead anyway. Last series I read was Sumire 16-sai, and its completly adorable. Its about a middle aged ventriloquist controlling a doll of a 16 year old high school girl. Its a gag manga at heart, but in serious scenes the old man sort of fades away and Sumire takes on a less doll like appearance as everyone comes to accept her as a part of their class. The final chapters really good too, and a perfect ending. Meme Emulator fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 18:26 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 18:22 |
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I finished watching My Little Monster because I'm paying for Crunchyroll and I don't want Space Brothers to be the only show I watch on it (I click on the seinen category and am confronted with this), so I'm trying to be a bit more tolerant and branch out. I thought the series was OK, not offensive, but not great either. High school nonsense with wacky side characters and a frosty protagonist. 6/10.
Chas McGill fucked around with this message at Mar 21, 2013 around 20:31 |
| # ? Mar 21, 2013 20:27 |
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http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Demicol I only update it like every 2 months or so, whenever I suddenly remember I made one but I updated it as best I could real quick just now. I don't really bother to rate the shows, I did it for a few at the beginning but gave up, I just use it to keep track of what I've seen.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 21:10 |
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http://myanimelist.net/animelist/bilbowski77 I never watched much to begin with, so my list is quite short. I own about 10 more series not listed, but if I ever get around to watching them, I'll add them in. And honestly, most of the stuff I really like is on my manga list. Anime is nice, but personally I just find manga to be more satisfying.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 22:53 |
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Edward IV posted:Just as a reminder, there is an ADTRW group on MAL albeit somewhat dead. If you've no luck getting in touch with MrVacBob I can probably get a hold of hannibal. Might be just as well setting up a new group though.
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| # ? Mar 21, 2013 23:13 |
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Here's mine. I've watched a lot more than that, but only just started putting it together (prompted by this thread).
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 00:09 |
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This is mine: http://myanimelist.net/animelist/Redcrimson19 I mostly use it to keep track of what I've watched and what episode of my backlogged anime I'm on.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 01:46 |
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The Black Stones posted:Chalk me up as someone who also hates MAL's obsession with romanization. Man, tell me about it, I was just looking at my list and wondering what the gently caress Majo no Takkyuubin was and why in the world I had it rated so highly (  turns out it's Kiki's Delivery Service) Manga list Anime list I go through waves of being rating-crazy; on MAL, Netflix, Goodreads or what have you, as long as I don't actually have to commit to a real review and can just hit a number. E: I swear I've read more manga than that, huh. a kitten fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 02:20 |
| # ? Mar 22, 2013 02:12 |
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Anime list. There's a lot of poo poo on there, and I've certainly let the "watching" list get out of hand. I, too, don't bother particularly with the rating system.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 02:30 |
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Animes. There's a bunch of stuff I've watched that isn't on here cause I haven't been keeping it updated very well for the past couple of years. Good a time as any to try and bring it back up to par, I guess.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 03:01 |
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Never
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 05:01 |
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All the cool kids are doing it.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 12:25 |
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I recently watched Steins;Gate expecting it to be a mix of Primer and Inception due to it effectively being the highest rated anime of all time. It's not like those things though. It's pretty badly paced and as a science fiction story it's worse than Haruhi, since it's not as unique and doesn't seem to be as open to interpretation. However, the main character is amazing, and when it doesn't try to be serious it is one of the funniest series I've ever seen, so I give it a 7/10. My list for reference.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 12:53 |
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Mercrom posted:My list for reference. .(Either that or you have a lot of persistence in finishing shows you don't like). ShardPhoenix fucked around with this message at Mar 22, 2013 around 13:06 |
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ShardPhoenix posted:Your list looks like you believed MAL's suggestion that 5/10 is "average"
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 13:13 |
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Mercrom posted:Nah, I just rate the same as I do on IMDB. 1 is straight up offensive, 5 is OK, 10 is The Wire.
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| # ? Mar 22, 2013 13:14 |
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So, I watched Madoka Magica. The show looks and sounds great. I can't say it excels in any other area though. The biggest problem is that I didn't find the characters neither very likable nor believable. The pacing suffers greatly because of this, since the many episodes that are spent solely on trying to develop the characters and their motivations are kind of wasted. Then there's the plot, which sounds like it was made specifically for me because it deals with nihilism and extreme cynicism. It even brings up scientific concepts I've wanted to see explored more in sci-fi (Entropy and the heat death of the universe). However, the resulting combination of these things was just too silly and when they were revealed I seriously had to stop watching because I was laughing too hard. I haven't laughed that hard at an anime since Detroit Metal City, and that ruined the tension for a while. As for deeper meanings in the plot, I don't see any. I approve of the cynicism and the nihilism and the portrayal of the universe as a cold unforgiving place, but the show doesn't use those things to bring up any important philosophical questions like for example Life of Pie does. I thought the ending was cool in many ways though. I gave the show a 6/10, and I'll probably watch the movies when they come out and maybe reassess the plot.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2013 00:30 |
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CuLT posted:If you've no luck getting in touch with MrVacBob I can probably get a hold of hannibal. Might be just as well setting up a new group though. MAL's club interface seems to be broken (or I should try even more browsers); nothing happens when I try accepting invitations. hannibal's still alive, I can reach him on twitter if he's not paying attention.
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| # ? Mar 27, 2013 03:55 |
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So looking at my list, while I give out 9s like hotcakes, it takes a special type of show/manga to get that 10th point. I've only given out five.
What do you guys think raises a 10 over a 9?
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 12:29 |
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Senerio posted:So looking at my list, while I give out 9s like hotcakes, it takes a special type of show/manga to get that 10th point. I've only given out five. Yea, I was the same way. Out of everything I rated, I only coughed up a 10 for 20th Century Boys, One Piece and Jojos Part 2 and 4. Which is odd looking back, because I think 20th Century Boys is probably the weakest out of all the Urasawa stuff Ive read (Monster and Pluto, havent dug into Billy Bat yet), but something about it really clicked with me. Maybe it was just the passage of time in the story.
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 12:54 |
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Yeah, I mentioned in my first post here that for me, a 10 is a show that's otherwise a 9 but gave me some significant perspective shift. My 10s right now are:
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 16:11 |
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Relambrien posted:Yeah, I mentioned in my first post here that for me, a 10 is a show that's otherwise a 9 but gave me some significant perspective shift. My 10s right now are:
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 16:59 |
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Relambrien posted:a 10 is a show that's otherwise a 9 but gave me some significant perspective shift. This is pretty much the system I use, as well. For me a 9 is a show that's basically the best possible version of itself that could reasonably be expected, but didn't resonate with me personally or really have a lasting impact on me.
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 17:04 |
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I agree with the idea of 10s requiring some kind of perspective shift. The two 10s that I have basically shifted the goalposts of what I consider to be good anime. I judge series against them, whether they're in the same genre or not. Time of Eve - A lesson in heartfelt and economical anime storytelling. Six well-crafted 15m episodes with memorable characters, themes, and stories. Legend of the Galactic Heroes - A true epic. Probably the only anime I'd bother describing as 'awesome'. It might be over 100 episodes long, but they flew by. Funny to think that my two favourites are so disparate in length, scale, and presentation.
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| # ? Mar 28, 2013 17:56 |
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Senerio posted:What do you guys think raises a 10 over a 9? Gene Wolfe (author of The Book of the New Sun, my favourite books) said "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure". Change read to watched and I think that's a pretty good standard for a 10/10 TV show too. So far I haven't watched that many shows but I've given a 10 to FLCL (which I indeed rewatched with increased pleasure) and Neon Genesis Evangelion (which I haven't rewatched yet, although I did also watch and really like Rebuild 1.0 and 2.0, which I suppose is close enough). "9 but with an unusually strong personal impact" is also a fine standard for a 10 I think. What it definitely doesn't mean to me is "perfect" because I can point out plenty of flaws in the shows I've given a 10, but I still think they deserve it. ShardPhoenix fucked around with this message at Mar 29, 2013 around 02:00 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 13:07 |
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I tend to rate everything I even enjoyed a little too high at first and then adjust the score downwards after a while (i.e. when I get bored enough to poke at a silly list of animes/manga I've watched). I think mostly the 10s are ones that I not only enjoyed immensely, but that I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to someone else. It definitely helps if the show or comic still creeps into my thoughts months, or even years later. ShardPhoenix posted:Gene Wolfe (author of The Book of the New Sun, my favourite books) said "My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure". That's a pretty cool quote, and being able to revisit something repeatedly and get more and different things out of it every time is something that all my true favorites in any media all share.
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