Anime Discussion Thread - Page 2978

On July 14 2013 11:07 biology]major wrote:
if you guys want objectivity all you need to do is have tladt users rate anime. boom

On July 14 2013 11:07 biology]major wrote:
if you guys want objectivity all you need to do is have tladt users rate anime. boom

On July 14 2013 11:33 OutlaW- wrote:
What else. Monogatari is suffering imo a little from the absence of koyomi, but it's consistent and I like it.

On July 14 2013 12:27 Ecael wrote:

Hanekawa is actually a pretty good narrator, just that we don't seem to be getting much narrating with this adaptation.

I guess if nothing else it means Hana should be less of a pain.

On July 14 2013 12:34 OutlaW- wrote:

She might very well be, but I don't really like her. I don't know if you've been pausing to read all the bits in the flash screens (black, red, purple, etc.) but some good narration can be found there. At least there's lots of crab, though I always end up imagining how much better she would look if she still had long hair

On July 14 2013 11:35 Zergneedsfood wrote:


shooooot this guy gets it.

Basically, anything I don't like bad is bad and everything I like is good. That's basically how simple life is, really. It's just objective truth guyz.

On July 14 2013 11:55 Sentenal wrote:
So you think shows like SAO, Code Geass R2, and SnK deserve their scores?

Look, even if you say that I have a "biased opinion" in thinking a show doesn't deserve its MAL score, the same exact thing can be said about each and every person who rates things on MAL. If you are saying lots of people's ratings matter more, then that is by definition an appeal to its popularity, or lack there of.

On July 14 2013 12:52 Dark_Chill wrote:


Do I think shows like those deserve their scores? Nope. Do other people? Yes. What's so freaking hard to understand about this. Your opinion on a show is not the end all be all. Maybe if you were getting into an argument about quality of voice acting, quality of sound, quality of art, all sorts of objective ratings, fine you could do that. But that's not it.
Mal measures enjoyment. Whether it be for reasons of fanservice, so bad it's good, unique plot/characters/setting, whatever. If people enjoyed it, then they give it a good mark. If lots of people enjoyed it, then it gets an overall good mark.
This is actually getting really stupid. 216 789 people rated Code Geass and it got an score of 8.99. Are you seriously arguing that all of those people gave it a high rating because they were sheep who gave in to its reputation?

Saying multiple ratings as a source is an appeal to its popularity is just wrong. It's using common sense. Of course 2 people saying it's good is more valuable to me than one person saying it's good. Two people saying it's bad is more valuable to me than one person saying it's bad. If they were the only three people who had watched it, would it be an appeal to its popularity trusting the two people over the one? People are different, and if multiple people like the same thing, that seems to me like I might like it too.

Basically, no, your opinion on what's good and what's bad is not worth more than Mal. It is actually worth a lot less. The reason it's worth more here on TL is because most of the active posters know each other to some degree and value each other's opinions. If my friend who likes a lot of the same things as I do told me to watch something, I'd probably watch it.