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My list is unapologetically subjective, as I largely rate by gut feeling. There is no fixed system or rating pattern. I tried using one for many years and deemed it unfair and simplistic, grading a show based on a handful of preset criteria, regardless of the creator's intent, its genre and many other factors that may make certain aspects more or less valuable. Any attempts to refine my grading system resulted in something that was either exceedingly complex, or seemed abstract and arbitrary, so I decided to forgo all that and rate fully subjectively, without much thought. And frankly, I consider any viewer, claiming they have an objective magic formula which rates all shows fairly, either a liar or deluded. Thus, my ratings reflect my general feelings towards a show, how highly I value it, if I enjoyed it, or in the case I didn't, whether I saw any value in it regardless. They are my genuine feelings towards a show at the time I inputted them into this list.

While I do take many objective qualities of a work into account, I place a very high weight on intangible factors, such as 'did this show succeed in conveying the emotions it attempted to convey?', 'is there any passion poured into this work or does it feel robotic?' among many others. Most importantly, my tastes, likes, wants and moods are dynamic and not static. Therefore, shows I watched a long time ago may be rated according to entirely different criteria than shows I've rated recently. In fact, I may wake up on the wrong side of bed one day and not enjoy a show I would have otherwise praised.

As such, ratings are not and were never meant to be logically consistent and I expect anyone to be able to promptly find contradictory ratings in this list. The brief comments I've written for each entry may clarify the reason as to why a certain score has been given and shed some light onto which angle I'm rating each individual show from. Longer comments on each show can be found on my anilist profile, which has no character limit. There I try to go into more detail when I deem it necessary.

Additionally, my 1-10 rating philosophy is slightly different than most other people. To put it simply, one should view my ratings as school grades, that is, 5 and above is a 'pass' and everything below a 'fail'. The general idea besides that is that it's relatively easy to pass, but very hard to get a good grade. So, you'll see a lot of 7's. The reason for this being, that if I consider something to be below a 5, then I'll rarely even bother finishing it. And if I drop something, then I won't rate it at all, unless I feel compelled to. In detail, the scores mean: