patkarunungan

I'm Patrick. I'm more active in MAL, but I created this for friends and contacts who either don't have MAL or have a beef with MAL's mods as well as its general clunkiness.

How I rate things. It's mostly if I enjoy it or not plus if I am impressed with a few technical stuff: story, animation, art direction, cinematography and editing, and any socio-political message either explicitly or subtext, or perhaps I love a certain character.

Note also that I don't rate anime based on certain rubrics such as this is 7/10 for animation, 6/10 for story then average all that. Based on my whim and my gut feel, I tend to weigh different criteria differently depending on the anime.

Thus, these numbers are ordinal numbers rather than cardinal numbers, i.e. I am rating each anime not only by itself but also in relation to other anime I rated thus far and, in the case of seasonal anime, how I rate or will rate other anime in the season.

10 = Critically acclaimed masterpiece that I also enjoyed or an anime I enjoyed so much and spoke to my deepest values that I choose to ignore perceived flaws

9 = really great and perhaps other people's 10 or critically acclaimed but did not win my heart as much as 10s

8 = very good or I would have rated a 7 but it has great visuals

7 = good

6 = slightly better than average; it's a decent score

5 = passing score; enjoyable to a certain extent and still worth watching despite defects or perhaps it should technically be higher but I did not like a thing or two such as the message

4 = can be enjoyed to some extent but the flaws are more glaring than those in my 5's

3 = liked by others and have some merits but did not click with me

2 = really bored; perhaps it didn't make sense even if there are fun elements

1 = objectively appalling and/or my subjective experience with it is so appalling