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Sep 23, 2021 8:12 PM
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I was just reading some of the reviews, and I was a little annoyed how some of them were saying that there isn’t any story at all after watching only 4 episodes. Like I know that this is by no means a story heavy series, but giving it a bad rating just because there isn’t much of a story developed four episodes in is a overly harsh in my opinion. Idk do y’all agree?
Sep 23, 2021 8:18 PM
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It's a preliminary review. It's for first thoughts, when the show is done airing people will post proper reviews with their final thoughts

Sep 23, 2021 8:19 PM
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G1llette said:
It's a preliminary review. It's for first thoughts, when the show is done airing people will post proper reviews with their final thoughts

Oh yeah. Kinda forgot that’s how it works.
Sep 23, 2021 8:20 PM
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I absolutely hate them, but it helps the people with the 3 episode rule decide if they want to watch it or not
Sep 23, 2021 9:16 PM
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Unless those "reviewers" update their reviews, once the anime ends, all those reviews would get removed. A little bit of reviews like that are great as well, for gatekeeping.
Sep 24, 2021 6:17 AM
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its still airing, use your brain to understand the logic of how old the review is date wise and the correlation to the impressions (thus upvotes) it has. wait for the show to end -_-
Sep 24, 2021 3:48 PM
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Same, I've only started watching the series now, but it just doesn't make sense to have a review after only watched 4 episodes. I mean I would somewhat understand if you dropped a series after a couple of episodes (I've done this before), but a review only works when the full context is given and everything has been experienced.
Sep 25, 2021 7:23 AM
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I never understand the hate for preliminary reviews.

It's genuinely not that difficult to understand their purpose and the fact that they are treated differently under MAL's system anyway.

You just use them to decide whether or not you want to watch something as it airs, something as a reason to understand why someone dropped something.
Sep 26, 2021 9:15 AM
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They're def just prelim reviews so even if I hard disagree with at least some of them, their only real longevity is until the show ends.

That being said, I hope to write a better one than everything presented and better than what I know some others are probably gonna drop on the site.
Sep 26, 2021 5:48 PM
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jknightkt22 said:
I was just reading some of the reviews, and I was a little annoyed how some of them were saying that there isn’t any story at all after watching only 4 episodes. Like I know that this is by no means a story heavy series, but giving it a bad rating just because there isn’t much of a story developed four episodes in is a overly harsh in my opinion. Idk do y’all agree?


they haven't even watched 4 episodes,
their puting 4 so they can pretend they obeyed the stupid 3 episode rule,

in reality they only watched 1 episode and got triggered from the rape and gave it 1/10.

happened with goblin slayer as well,
except unlike goblin slayer this show is actually dark with seinen and dark humor in every episode, instead of goblin slayer who only has a single episode like that and turns into generic rpg anime later.
Sep 26, 2021 5:49 PM
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jknightkt22 said:
G1llette said:
It's a preliminary review. It's for first thoughts, when the show is done airing people will post proper reviews with their final thoughts

Oh yeah. Kinda forgot that’s how it works.


yeah but its fucking retarded due to how mal puts the most upvoted reviews at the front instead of the most recent which is stupid, because even once the thing finishes and people put different reviews up, no one sees them since the preliminary reviews are always already upvoted first so they never get to see the rest of the reviews.
Sep 26, 2021 5:53 PM
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Etherius_ZS said:
Unless those "reviewers" update their reviews, once the anime ends, all those reviews would get removed. A little bit of reviews like that are great as well, for gatekeeping.


no they don't they usually stay up.
so you have reviews of ongoing series in 2021 dating back in 2007 which only has 2 chapters read giving it a 1/10 to manga still showing up in the front page.
Sep 27, 2021 6:56 AM
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Neostorm-X said:
Etherius_ZS said:
Unless those "reviewers" update their reviews, once the anime ends, all those reviews would get removed. A little bit of reviews like that are great as well, for gatekeeping.


no they don't they usually stay up.
so you have reviews of ongoing series in 2021 dating back in 2007 which only has 2 chapters read giving it a 1/10 to manga still showing up in the front page.

Well, if the manga is ongoing, then obviously preliminary reviews would be present. Moroever, anything related to the manga database is updated extremely slowly, so even if the review gets reported, it would take a long time for the review to get removed.
Sep 28, 2021 7:00 PM
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Etherius_ZS said:
Neostorm-X said:


no they don't they usually stay up.
so you have reviews of ongoing series in 2021 dating back in 2007 which only has 2 chapters read giving it a 1/10 to manga still showing up in the front page.

Well, if the manga is ongoing, then obviously preliminary reviews would be present. Moroever, anything related to the manga database is updated extremely slowly, so even if the review gets reported, it would take a long time for the review to get removed.


yet this is still a huge issue with a lot of manga reviews,
i've seen so many people leaving 2 chapter reviews of a 500 chapter series and it always staying at the very top because it was the oldest review, this is an issue on mal that needs to be dealt with

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