Reviews

Reviews on Waifora are first-class user content: they have their own slug, surface on the media detail page, and feed into media ranking signals. This page documents how to write one that ships.

Structure

A Waifora review has three parts:

1. Summary — a one-sentence pitch (≤200 chars). What's the takeaway for someone deciding whether to watch/read?
2. Body — the actual review.
3. Axis scores + overall score — see below.

Scoring axes

Each axis is on a 0–100 scale (slider snaps to multiples of 5, range 10–100).

Media	Axes
Anime	Plot · Visuals · OST · Characters · Pacing
Manga	Plot · Art · Characters · Pacing

The overall score is independent of the axes — it's the reviewer's own gestalt rating. Waifora does not auto-compute the total from the axes (overall = mean(axes) is too rigid for human judgment; a work can be more or less than the sum of its parts). Use the axes to explain strengths and weaknesses; use the overall score for your final feeling.

Length

• Minimum: enough to back up the score. A one-liner with a 90/100 is hard to trust.
• Maximum: a 1,000-char summary; the body itself has no hard cap, but very long reviews bury the lead — keep it focused.
• The first paragraph is the most important — it appears in previews on the media detail page.

Spoilers

• No spoilers in the summary, ever.
• In the body, mark spoiler sections clearly with the spoiler tag (or stick to broad-strokes plot beats only).
• Marketing-material spoilers (anything in the official synopsis / opening trailer) are not considered spoilers.

Tone and conventions

• Write as if explaining to one specific friend, not the internet at large.
• First person is fine. Strong opinions are fine. Personal attacks on staff, voice actors, or other reviewers are not.
• Avoid review-bombing tropes ("0/100, I hate this") with no justification — moderators may remove zero-effort reviews.
• Don't paste the official synopsis as the body. We already have the synopsis.

What gets rejected / removed

• Spam, off-topic ad copy, bot output, AI-generated text with no human input.
• Reviews of works the reviewer has clearly not engaged with (e.g. reviewing an anime by quoting the manga only, with no anime-specific observation).
• Hateful content targeting people (creators, voice actors, other users).
• Heavy spoilers in the summary or unmarked in the body.

Edits and updates

• You can edit your review at any time from the review's edit page.
• A meaningful score change after an edit is logged (so moderators can spot review-manipulation patterns).

After publishing

• Other users can upvote/downvote your review. Vote signals feed into the review ranking on the media page.
• A repeatedly high-quality contributor may be invited to the Moderators team.