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Jul 5, 2025 12:56 PM
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Its already 9+ ik it takes time but how still it is rated around 7,5
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Jul 5, 2025 1:07 PM
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Obviously overrated with 66.1% of 10. People use to give real ratings, nowadays nobody should cares.
Jul 5, 2025 1:14 PM
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the site takes a while to compute some grades, but I don't think this anime can get 9+

The grade will probably be between 8.2 and 8.7
Jul 5, 2025 1:16 PM
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Reply to utopia-
the site takes a while to compute some grades, but I don't think this anime can get 9+

The grade will probably be between 8.2 and 8.7
@utopia- ye prob it cant get 9+ but its 9+ (currently)
Jul 5, 2025 1:47 PM
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I think it's because of the number of members who rated this anime.

There are more 100k members who added this anime, but only more than 700 members who rated this anime (obviously from Japan since the first episode was released first in Japan).

700 members OUT OF 100,000 members, that cause the average rate of 7/10
Jul 5, 2025 1:57 PM
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Maybe some of those 10s are from people who have Kaoru in ptw and not in watching 🤔
Jul 5, 2025 2:09 PM
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Why do you care so much on what the rating is?
Jul 5, 2025 2:26 PM
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Why do you care so much on what the rating is?
@Yotsugi_Ononoki it's fun
Jul 5, 2025 2:39 PM
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it's at 8.68 now ii
Jul 5, 2025 3:06 PM
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@utopia- ye prob it cant get 9+ but its 9+ (currently)
@Zaneqin the rating is already going up, just stay calm because the anime was released today
Jul 5, 2025 8:45 PM
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Reply to curlypubes
it's at 8.68 now ii
@curlypubes now its 8,90 peak
Jul 5, 2025 8:47 PM
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Crazy how before the rating was like around 7.4 but now it's 8.90. Crazy jump. I don't really care about the rating though this anime definitely deserves high ratings it's was surprising to see such a jump. Now I wonder if it'll maintain it's rating, raise of fall. 8.90 is pretty high I think right? So I'm guessing it'll fall but I do hope it maintains it's high rating.

Also just realized the top 3 scores of tv anime right now are all clover work. Fragrance, Dress up darling, and Bunny girlsenpai/Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus

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Jul 5, 2025 8:50 PM
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The obsession people have for the dick measuring contest that is MAL ratings is fascinating.
Jul 5, 2025 8:58 PM
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why are u mad bro like yall said Its just ratings so i can care like i want
Jul 5, 2025 9:10 PM

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Ik this is a masterpiece and I'm a huge fan of it myself, but I don't like it that people are rating it based on the manga. It's the same incident as when Lord of the Mysteries first arrived. At least watch 5-6 episodes at first.
Jul 5, 2025 10:38 PM
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The obsession people have for the dick measuring contest that is MAL ratings is fascinating.
@RippleLover Good thing it's rating went up (I guess) though it's a little too high imo but this is exactly why no one takes/should take MAL ratings seriously. People don't even care what's good anymore. Just bunch of people spamming 10/10 for their fav shows. Same hypocrites will call Crunchyroll AOTY awards a "popularity contest" like this is any better lol.
Jul 5, 2025 10:39 PM
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Ik this is a masterpiece and I'm a huge fan of it myself, but I don't like it that people are rating it based on the manga. It's the same incident as when Lord of the Mysteries first arrived. At least watch 5-6 episodes at first.
@Rom-Com_lover Eh, perhaps they're just going by the logic that since the anime is adapting the manga, it's also bound to be just as good, if not better.
Jul 6, 2025 12:45 AM
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Ik this is a masterpiece and I'm a huge fan of it myself, but I don't like it that people are rating it based on the manga. It's the same incident as when Lord of the Mysteries first arrived. At least watch 5-6 episodes at first.
@Rom-Com_lover yeah I'm ngl episode 1's highlight was just the girl smiling at the cam with her hair swaying in the wind after dropping a generic one liner.

Obviously not hating cause it's just episode 1 so ther's nothing to work with and characters need to be introduced but I've seen these exact scenes in 30 billion other romcom anime before just off episode 1 it's not that insane yet.

Still really excited to see how their relationship will play out in future episodes though.
Jul 6, 2025 1:39 AM

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everybody obsessed with ratings on this site needs to touch grass
Jul 6, 2025 2:16 AM

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Reply to RippleLover
The obsession people have for the dick measuring contest that is MAL ratings is fascinating.
@RippleLover It's funny how people like you give 1/10 hate scores to popular shows and then talk about obsession with ratings.
Jul 6, 2025 2:51 AM
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Reply to Rom-Com_lover
Ik this is a masterpiece and I'm a huge fan of it myself, but I don't like it that people are rating it based on the manga. It's the same incident as when Lord of the Mysteries first arrived. At least watch 5-6 episodes at first.
@Rom-Com_lover totally agree with you here it's almost as bad as the people that rate this 1/10 just to hate, as an anime only it gives me the impression that this first episode will be as good or near as good as the score given and as much as people love this story the first episode is just not close to the score it's got at the minute, even if it will get there eventually it's misleading.
Jul 6, 2025 3:01 AM
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It's on ranked #20 now with 8.92. Hope we can maintain this score or get higher score. Either way this romance anime for me is a masterpiece 🙌🏻💗
Jul 6, 2025 3:07 AM

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Cloverworks really having their best season this summer

Jul 6, 2025 3:24 AM
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Don’t worry, it will be fixed by me. 10/10
Jul 6, 2025 3:25 AM
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watsym said:
Cloverworks really having their best season this summer


This is absolute cinema
Jul 6, 2025 3:30 AM
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@Chris_D_silva You just proved my point tho. On MAL, Solo Leveling and JJK have more haters than Frieren and Vinland Saga (especially the former), so it's no surprise the ratings are lower. Same way these anime won the AOTY awards cuz they have more fans outside of MAL. If every JJK and Solo Leveling fan in existence were on MAL they would be higher rated than both Vinland Saga and Frieren respectively. MAL users think the entire world revolves around this site. Lots of casual anime watchers don't even know what MAL is. Others don't even care.
Jul 6, 2025 5:26 AM

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Reply to RippleLover
The obsession people have for the dick measuring contest that is MAL ratings is fascinating.
@RippleLover True! MAL ratings stopped to make sense many years ago.
Jul 6, 2025 10:24 AM

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The obsession people have for the dick measuring contest that is MAL ratings is fascinating.
@RippleLover Lol fr, MAL ratings has taken over dick measuring contests and has now become the main standard for arguments.
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Jul 6, 2025 10:35 AM

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Obviously overrated with 66.1% of 10. People use to give real ratings, nowadays nobody should cares.
@Yuya-Noboru I don't mind the fact that people rate it 10/10, as long as it's not THIS early! This gives me the same vibe Oshi No Ko did when everyone gave it 10/10 and it was a number 1 anime after releasing just 1 episode. Like geez even though the "3 episode rule" isn't a very good rule it at least generally gives a good enough idea of the show to make a "preview rating" of sorts. Doesn't really matter though at the end of the day because MAL ratings are entirely based on the user base, and the user base being anyone on the internet kinda just makes the "serious" part disappear for areas where its needed like ratings.


I wish putting up a sign saying "please give serious thought out critique with MAL ratings" would do something. The internet is the birthplace of brain rot, tons of memes, "twitter level" arguments, and somehow "text based" sarcasm. Which TBF there's not necessarily anything wrong with that but it often gets put where it's not supposed to be.
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Jul 6, 2025 11:25 AM

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Reply to watsym
Cloverworks really having their best season this summer

@watsym And not a single one of those is good
Jul 6, 2025 11:42 AM

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People really are making a huge fuss over nothing lol

+ if Frieren and Vinland Saga are rated higher than JJK and Solo Leveling, maybe it's because they're better

+ stop complaining about users giving an early rating. Either the anime is consistent and the rating stays still, or the rating goes down over time

+ all three Cloverworks anime are good shows, don't hate just because it's not your cup of tea
Jul 7, 2025 9:26 AM

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Reply to watsym
Cloverworks really having their best season this summer

@watsym

My Dress Up Darling is fun, but Kaoru Hana is all that matters to me this season barring AK.

Jul 10, 2025 8:39 AM

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@Yuya-Noboru I don't mind the fact that people rate it 10/10, as long as it's not THIS early! This gives me the same vibe Oshi No Ko did when everyone gave it 10/10 and it was a number 1 anime after releasing just 1 episode. Like geez even though the "3 episode rule" isn't a very good rule it at least generally gives a good enough idea of the show to make a "preview rating" of sorts. Doesn't really matter though at the end of the day because MAL ratings are entirely based on the user base, and the user base being anyone on the internet kinda just makes the "serious" part disappear for areas where its needed like ratings.


I wish putting up a sign saying "please give serious thought out critique with MAL ratings" would do something. The internet is the birthplace of brain rot, tons of memes, "twitter level" arguments, and somehow "text based" sarcasm. Which TBF there's not necessarily anything wrong with that but it often gets put where it's not supposed to be.
@MewsicMagic You're totally right. And I'd go further saying that people shouldn't be able to rate an anime that hasn't ended yet.

Seriously. This would reduces reviewbombing and make ratings more reliable and representative of the whole show.


That said, I watched the first episode and it was pretty good.
Jul 10, 2025 5:37 PM

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@MewsicMagic You're totally right. And I'd go further saying that people shouldn't be able to rate an anime that hasn't ended yet.

Seriously. This would reduces reviewbombing and make ratings more reliable and representative of the whole show.


That said, I watched the first episode and it was pretty good.
@Yuya-Noboru Yeah, I have (almost) no doubt this show is probably pretty good (I haven't watched it yet), I just felt like it was too early to call this a "masterpiece" at least in MAL rating terms (it's like #30 all time already). Honestly, if this show turns out to be a masterpiece, that's a good thing, I just have a immense dislike towards giving something a "crown" in a sense when it's barely shown us everything it has. I've got nothing against this show, in fact I have no opinion on it because I haven't even seen it yet, I just have something against the extremely high hype trying to make this out to be a masterpiece. I'm not even really against the hype, just against calling it a masterpiece this early (probably due to the hype).
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Jul 11, 2025 1:54 AM
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People just dumber these days that colors on screen translate to 10/10
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