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MadaraUchiha

MadaraUchiha

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Did you all notice it in your myanimelist account? 
An entry called 'A MAL Documentary' is added under 'currently Watching' and will be rated 10/10.
It also has like 1.3 million members, more than Death Note, which is #1 in terms of popularity.
 
I haven't noticed this at all. Well I don't have a Mal account and I don't think the guest account got this feature
 
I don't have one to be pranked, but Toonami is running good with the pranks tonight, so the anime world is full of pranksters right now.
 


Yeah you need to be a member for that.
Demon_skeith said:
I don't have one to be pranked, but Toonami is running good with the pranks tonight, so the anime world is full of pranksters right now.
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Yeah, I read about it like right now, and I wish I could've watched it too.
 
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Sindar said:
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Yeah just saw it, and MAL does have 5 million accounts. I was curious and I was pretty shocked to see that. I guess it's not really used that much these days. Barely one anime per year makes it to 500,000 entries. Though this year(particularly Spring 2018), there's gonna be a lot of participation, since half the anime are sequels to extremely popular anime.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Yeah just saw it, and MAL does have 5 million accounts. I was curious and I was pretty shocked to see that. I guess it's not really used that much these days. Barely one anime per year makes it to 500,000 entries. Though this year(particularly Spring 2018), there's gonna be a lot of participation, since half the anime are sequels to extremely popular anime.
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But, the fact is, Yuri On Ice was the most popular show of 2016(more popular than even My Hero Academia, at that time at least), and it barely has like 230,000 entries. Now, MHA has like 750,000 entries, so maybe MAL's primary fan-base is mostly Shounen, isekai and fantasy, but still. Plus, in the last two years, I've seen an exceptionally high recency and sequel bias. Shows are easily able to get past 8 and 8.5, with less number of votes.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
But, the fact is, Yuri On Ice was the most popular show of 2016(more popular than even My Hero Academia, at that time at least), and it barely has like 230,000 entries. Now, MHA has like 750,000 entries, so maybe MAL's primary fan-base is mostly Shounen, isekai and fantasy, but still. Plus, in the last two years, I've seen an exceptionally high recency and sequel bias. Shows are easily able to get past 8 and 8.5, with less number of votes.
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I also think that the only incentive is to make entries about older ones, since the people who update their list every time they watch an episode is a niche group. Lol, I made a list when I watched like 6 anime.

Yeah, that's why I mentioned recency bias. Tastes are subjective, yes, but sometimes I just don't get it when anime get scores close to 8.5. There's this Winter 2018 anime called Yuru Camp, that currently has a great score, and I watched the first two episodes in Jan, and it was the most boring, uninspired bland, thing I watched in quite some time, and I never imagined it would often be compared to a master-work like Sora Yori. But, what I learnt was that for people who liked it, it was 'comfy'.
Old anime have it pretty rough. I've watched very, very few anime pre-2000, and Cardcaptor Sakura was my favourite but its score, IMO, is pretty low(it has like an 8.2, but still). And, the funny thing is the animation holds up incredibly well. Though, the ones around 2006-2010 have the highest scores, since that's around the time the site was in its early years.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
I also think that the only incentive is to make entries about older ones, since the people who update their list every time they watch an episode is a niche group. Lol, I made a list when I watched like 6 anime.

Yeah, that's why I mentioned recency bias. Tastes are subjective, yes, but sometimes I just don't get it when anime get scores close to 8.5. There's this Winter 2018 anime called Yuru Camp, that currently has a great score, and I watched the first two episodes in Jan, and it was the most boring, uninspired bland, thing I watched in quite some time, and I never imagined it would often be compared to a master-work like Sora Yori. But, what I learnt was that for people who liked it, it was 'comfy'.
Old anime have it pretty rough. I've watched very, very few anime pre-2000, and Cardcaptor Sakura was my favourite but its score, IMO, is pretty low(it has like an 8.2, but still). And, the funny thing is the animation holds up incredibly well. Though, the ones around 2006-2010 have the highest scores, since that's around the time the site was in its early years.
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You told me about that for some show a few months back, and I saw it myself for Made in Abyss. It had like 8.3 at around week 5, which is when I started watching it, and two weeks after it got over, it had like 8.92. The difference being, the anime becomes exceptional in the last 4 episodes. Yuru Camp stays the same, so it's probably a niche group who started giving it a high score from the start, unlike MiA, which will somewhat sustain that score since it has attained some degree of popularity, and those who are gonna watch in the future to catch up to the upcoming sequel will probably give it a decent score.

Gintama had some controversy in Fall 2017. The season before this one, called Gintama: Porori-hen, had scores of 9+ before it even started airing, so people got pissed off and started giving it a score of 1, which is why it has the lowest score of all Gintama entries(among the main ones). Although the truth is those people saw the Japanese raws.
But yeah, the fan-base of Gintama is kind of a vocal minority too, and it's annoying to see 10 Gintama entries in the top 25 or 50. Even though I like Gintama a lot, it's the main reason why I value popularity+number of votes more than the actual score itself.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
You told me about that for some show a few months back, and I saw it myself for Made in Abyss. It had like 8.3 at around week 5, which is when I started watching it, and two weeks after it got over, it had like 8.92. The difference being, the anime becomes exceptional in the last 4 episodes. Yuru Camp stays the same, so it's probably a niche group who started giving it a high score from the start, unlike MiA, which will somewhat sustain that score since it has attained some degree of popularity, and those who are gonna watch in the future to catch up to the upcoming sequel will probably give it a decent score.

Gintama had some controversy in Fall 2017. The season before this one, called Gintama: Porori-hen, had scores of 9+ before it even started airing, so people got pissed off and started giving it a score of 1, which is why it has the lowest score of all Gintama entries(among the main ones). Although the truth is those people saw the Japanese raws.
But yeah, the fan-base of Gintama is kind of a vocal minority too, and it's annoying to see 10 Gintama entries in the top 25 or 50. Even though I like Gintama a lot, it's the main reason why I value popularity+number of votes more than the actual score itself.
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Bummer, because the stats when it comes to watching, completed, dropped, on-hold and plan-to-watch are pretty much the, with Sora Yori having a few thousand less in each.
But, the scores for Sora Yori are more geared towards 9 and 10, whereas Yuru Camp's is between 8 and 9.

Yeah, it was really stupid to see my home-page filled with Gintama hate reviews. That's really jobless and immature. Well, Tokyo Ghoul has only two seasons, and most people hate the second one so that's not an issue.
But with Gintama it's very, very ridiculous. And, you know what, the series is on a break again for this spring. It returns again in summer, so that's one more entry with an 8.9+ score.
Oh you told me about that, and while I prefer the popularity list more(and give credence to score and number of votes), that is indeed a good list.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Bummer, because the stats when it comes to watching, completed, dropped, on-hold and plan-to-watch are pretty much the, with Sora Yori having a few thousand less in each.
But, the scores for Sora Yori are more geared towards 9 and 10, whereas Yuru Camp's is between 8 and 9.

Yeah, it was really stupid to see my home-page filled with Gintama hate reviews. That's really jobless and immature. Well, Tokyo Ghoul has only two seasons, and most people hate the second one so that's not an issue.
But with Gintama it's very, very ridiculous. And, you know what, the series is on a break again for this spring. It returns again in summer, so that's one more entry with an 8.9+ score.
Oh you told me about that, and while I prefer the popularity list more(and give credence to score and number of votes), that is indeed a good list.
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Sure, but the point is the second one is very very polarizing so, grouping the first and the second together would not paint a good picture.
I would say that some kind of a mean scorecan apply to stuff like Nanatsu no Taizai or Bakuman or Food Wars season 2 or AoT season 2 since they are just as good as the first one, but when it's something like say HeroAca season 2, which pretty much dominated the entire year in terms of discussion(and even over-powered Attack on Titan sesaon 2), and more importantly, when it blew the first season out of the water, it does deserve a separate spot. So, it's kind of a case by case scenario. But, yeah I agree every OVA and special should be excluded from the over-all list.
 
MadaraUchiha said:
Sure, but the point is the second one is very very polarizing so, grouping the first and the second together would not paint a good picture.
I would say that some kind of a mean show can apply to stuff like Nanatsu no Taizai or Bakuman or Food Wars season 2 or AoT season 2 since they are just as good as the first one, but when it's something like say HeroAca season 2, which pretty much dominated the entire year in terms of discussion(and even over-powered Attack on Titan sesaon 2), and more importantly, when it blew the first season out of the water, it does deserve a separate spot. So, it's kind of a case by case scenario. But, yeah I agree every OVA and special should be excluded from the over-all list.
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Even original anime end on a note that gives opportunities for sequels.
AoT merely gives space for a sequel. However, it has a beginning, middle and end. That can't be denied.
Plus, when it comes to seasonal anime, there's change of staff sometimes, and it's pretty apparent in the case of AoT. The first season is a testosterone fueled action adventure, while the second one is more of a thriller.

And, why not? I mean, these long-running manga are divided into story arcs anyway, and when it starts to suck, you may as well pull out. Lots of people dropped Naruto during the war arc. They may as well have ended with the Pain arc because technically, Naruto entire character arc is over, which is being acknowledged by the village.
Be it BNHA, Food Wars, Nanatsu no Taizai, all of these don't have cliffhanger endings, and you can be happy with just watching the first one.
And yeah, I get your point, season 2 is something that has a beginning dependent on something, but it can still be judged on its own merits and values, because it was produced as a separate entity that continues from season 1, unlike Naruto or One Piece.
In that way, if I enjoyed My Hero Academia season 2 the most in 2017, more than any other anime I watched, then yes, it does make sense to include it in a list.
 
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