My rating system goes as follows:
10 – Masterpiece
My absolute favorites. I love everything about these shows. Can also be a nostalgia hit like Naruto (Classic).
9 – Great
I really love these as well. Not much different from a 10 — I just think slightly less often about them.
8 – Really Good
High-quality shows I genuinely enjoyed. Most of them are must-watch material. Very few negatives — I’m just not throwing 9s and 10s at everything.
7 – Good
A show I like and think positively of, but with minor issues or simply “not fully for me.”
6 – Decent
A fine show, very watchable. Not bad, not great. Mostly not my thing.
5 – Average
I dislike these. They feel empty and forgettable — often worse to sit through than 4s or 3s.
4 – Bad
Plain bad, but sometimes entertaining in a dumb way. Most of my guilty pleasures end up here.
3 – Really Bad
Awful experience. Not much to say.
1 and 2 – Awful
The 9s and 10s of the low end. I rarely give these unless a show truly deserves it. Pretty much unwatchable.
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Did watch the 1979 adaptation already and loved that one a lot, so my expectations are different from most people keep that in mind. Do think they do a great job at retelling it, do think it is a bit rushed here & there but that's bc the old adaptation toked it's time. Not as great as the original but still great imo, who doens't love a great classic story. I certaintly do and the artstyle still has that classic look to it, while having that modern touch to it.
Feel the same about being between a casual and elitest, even if it is a bit more to the latter.
Felled 50/50 about it from the 500s to the 900s and now realize i'm further off from casual.
Nice list btw all of your top 10s are goated, Hajime no ippo being my all-time favorite.
Did ever planned to catch up with the manga at all? the anime stopped around 1/3rd of Manga, what's a lot but worth it imo.
The most recent episode was particularly hard to watch. He kidnaps two girls, gropes one of them, he tells his friend (who is also a girl) "yeah i squeezed her tits", she's like, "in a romantic way? (cuz I still wanna fuck you)", he responds, "nah just a little experiment", and then she's like "oh I guess it's fine then". Like what????? Then they both go back to find that he kept them so long that they both pissed themselves and have become completely emotionally broken, the friend seems hardly disturbed by this, they patch them up a bit and all of the sudden they're fine and not distraught anymore, even go so far as to say that if he wants to have sex with them they should at least marry first (as if she'd be okay with it then?!?!), they put some facepaint on them and threaten that it will become permanent if they don't walk around the school like that for at least a day, then they go "okay cool, nice getting to know you", jump out of a window and bada bing bada boom problem solved. As if those girls are not going to tell anyone about this and get him kicked off the school for being a complete psychopath. Which won't happen cuz it's this show.
It's honestly got to be one of the most egregious episodes so far, and that's saying something.
But basically complaining about bad shows is more fun than praising good shows so now I got something to talk about.