Do you assign a score while you're still watching an anime?
| So this just crossed my mind after looking at someone's list who had multiple series scored after only watching one or two episodes: frankly I just don't understand that. I've always had a strict "no score until I'm finished" policy, because the ending is just as crucial as the journey in my eyes. To be honest, I often spend time letting a series sink in for a day after finishing it, or even researching certain aspects of the show to get a firmer grasp of what I had just seen (mainly for anime with deeper meanings and symbolism) before coming to a solid conclusion. I don't really care one way or the other- the each their own, but I'm curious to see how this poll turns out. EDIT: Interesting results so far. I was expecting this to be closer to 50/50, but it's stayed at roughly 33/67 the entire time. |
GreyleafMay 28, 2019 3:31 PM
 "I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." ― Jorge Luis Borges [url=]Goodreads[/url] | [url=]Letterboxd[/url] |
| I'd never score after only a couple episodes unless I outright hated it and drop it, halfway through perhaps I'll give a preliminary one but will certainly change it depending on the conclusion. It can be so hard to stick the landing as Game of Thrones has shown us just recently... |
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| No. I rate it after I'm done watching it. Whether it be good, bad or after dropping it. If I meet any of those 3 criteria that's MY green light to go rate what I thought of what I watched. Some shows start off strong and end poorly ie. Game of Thrones. IMO I think stuff like that is should be rated after the fact that it is finished. It can give a clear indicator of what the general public thought of the whole thing. Beginning, end, and everything in between. Not only that but it can help people in their decision if the show is worth watching or not also beginning, middle and end. |
| warning this idiot is a professional retard |
| If it's a long running show and I really want to rate it, then I'll do so, but I must be 100 episodes into the show. There have only been two shows in which I rated earlier before finishing and that's Gintama and Keroro Gunsou. The rest I only rate until after completion. |
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| Normally I wait till after I've finished a series, with some exceptions. If the series is more than 2 cour I typically get impatient and give it a rating, though I don't always do so (I still haven't put my rating down for Jojo part 5), or if I'm watching a show at a slower pace and it's episodic. |
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| I rate something as soon as I know my general enjoyment level and adjust it when necessary. My ratings are most useful to myself, anyway, so it's good to know at a glance which on-hold show I should get back to based on what I gave it last season when I paused it. Also, if only the people who finish it score it, it will inflate the average, since mainly only those who like it will finish it. I think for that reason, it's important to rate your disliked/dropped shows, too. |
| I always had the unspoken/unwritten rule that I have to have seen a certain number of episodes before scoring a show, or with shorter ones that they have to be a certain lengths, which is why I barely score any OVA's/specials and the alike even if its like 20+ episodes if they're all only 3 minutes long there's most likely nothing to score in comparisant to the actual show. Not to mention that they normally do something entirely different with those. And since I'm normally marathoning shows I rate them when I'm done ^^ The only ones I rate before finishing are seasonals so far, but even those I only score if I'm at least a certain number of episodes/percentage into the show. And even then, the score is not final until I'm done with the show. |
rip. |
| I watched Texhnolyze yesterday and scored it 9/10 after it ended lol |
| Depends. If it's a short 12-24 episode series, i'll usually just wait 'till i finish before i rate. If it's a long-running 100+ episode series, i'll probably give a temporary rating when i'm about 40-50 episodes in, give or take. By that point, i think i'll have a fairly clear grasp on my general thoughts and feelings towards the series. |
| I used to score some anime while I was watching them if they were particularly long. Currently I don't score any anime I haven't finished unless it's for a meme, like Pingu or Miru Tights. |
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| Only after, but I keep a note pad open in the corner of my other monitor to quickly jot my thoughts down in case something happens. And if I notice something either done really well or really poorly done I'll make note of it when it either breaks my immersion or seriously impresses me. |
   大好き "I just want to be an ancient demigod loli" |
| Honestly I have a general idea of what score I'm giving around half way through the show but I don't give it until the end because well, you never know what's going to happen and it could get better or worse. (copypasted from this thread) |
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| Unless the series is really bad I wait until the end. |
| first impression matters. I give everything a score from the start, which I modify as the show progresses. most of them don't change that much overall, it's unusual for an anime to go beyond it's basic concept of fail so hard. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
| During. The moment I form an opinion of an anime is when I score lt. If that opinion changes then I'll edit the score. |
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| 100% after cause I notice most of the time the ending can change my mind about the anime |
  "O kawaii koto" ( ´• ᴗ •` ) I wish i could love myself~ |
| I don't score anything that's not completed, unless I've dropped it and have enough of an opinion to give it a score based on that. For dropped series, they get scored similarly to completed series. I do have a few dropped series that I've scored based on a very small number of episodes, and they are usually low scores, though in a few cases they are higher and basically act as reminders to myself that "this wasn't half bad, but I just wasn't interested in it", or "I used to watch this and really liked it" for a couple long runners. Aside from that (and if any of those shows I end up restart watching, which hasn't happened yet), I don't score things that I'm still watching or have on-hold. That's because, while like @nyugvo6 said "first impression matters" (which can often lead me to drop series with premises that annoy me), the execution matters more when it comes to shows I'm actually willing to watch. Maybe I'm just more patient, but I've found that some stories that take a long time to "spin up" have quite spectacular "payouts" at the end that make it worth it, so something that might seem boring early on to some viewers is often just fine for me as long as I'm reasonably interested in the setting and characters. Like @Reina_Orikasa I sometimes find myself coming up with an opinion in mid-show, but I try to remind myself to keep an open mind that the ending could make it turn out other ways, and I don't rate until after I'm done watching all of it. That said, most of what I watch is one or two cours long, not long-runners where it might make sense to rate after watching a substantial but incomplete amount of the show. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| a seasoned watcher can judge the general quality of a show within the first few episodes, possibly even within the first episode, fairly easily. Usually the show doesn't really change in quality that much from your first impression, only by around plus/minus 2 points from your original score. |
| I really don't have rules regarding this, sometimes I rate early, other times only after finishing, though if I'm going to drop something that's still gonna be rated no matter what, to reflect that said something didn't work me and/or I have no interest in finishing it. |
| I often rate a series after a couple of episodes only to give friends who are watching my profile an idea of how I like it, though in most cases it changes while I'm watching it, right after finishing it, or a couple weeks / months in some cases after to make it more coherent with the rest of my list ( I try not to do that anymore, it happened mosly when I didn't have a solid grasp of what I liked ). In the end it doesn't really change anything except maybe to get a progressive idea of your mindset. |
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| If it's a longer ongoing series like one piece, yes. Usually don't rate shorter anime until I finish it but I will rate shows whenever I want to, so it doesn't matter. Also I don't see the need to rate shows when you've only seen the first few episodes. |
| I always score at the end in case shit like darling in the franxx happens. The first half is good but then it goes downhill, and I don't want to get others peoples or my own hopes up. |
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| While watching, because, why not? It's not that I wouldn't be able to change the score whenever I want, right? The way some people are saying, it feels like they can't change the score whatsoever after they'd chosen it, so they'd need to wait until the very end to hit the button. It's funny. |
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| Sometimes i rate something when it's not finished if i have a feel for what score it should be. I can just change the score at the end if my feelings on it change, no big deal. |
| only after i finish it. unless an anime is really bad i do not rate it until after. (if its so bad i rate it before i finish it it usually means im dropping it) |
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| I generally only rate things after I completed them, because the quality of it may vary a lot between it's run. I remember I rated Nisekoi as it came out and I kept shifting it's score from 9 to 6 to 7 to 9 again, to 8... It's better to just rate it when it's over. Now for things that I'm following for a long time like One Piece or Berserk, I don't mind giving it a "place holder" rating, but that doesn't mean it'll change. I did change my scores of Bleach and Naruto upon completing them. |
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| I only rate things after I finish them. Exceptions are only when anime are airing since they have a limited amount per week. Most of the ratings change from week 1 to week 12 while airing so its kind of a bad habit. |
| Yes but I might change them when I finish. I won't rate it if I'm not planning on completing it... well that's unless it's so bad that it offends me. |
| Many episodes have insane payoff that can be hard to gauge without the whole picture. So it makes sense to score them after the end, except if : - the show is seasonal (meaning nobody is rating it through the "big picture" lens) - it's 40+ episodes long (depending on personal tolerance) - way too many things seem unredeemable, like absolutely revolting art or stuff like that (again, depending on personal tolerance) In the end though, there is no "right" way to do it. Reading everyone's opinion is quite interesting! |
 罪に罪を重ねるだけだよ if you erase sin with a sin, you just add to your sins . |
| I score based on how much I enjoyed the series I'm watching up to that point. Doesn't matter if I'm 1 episode in or 800. |
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| I generally wait until completion. But once I feel like I have a good understanding of an anime, I might go ahead and rate it. Then I'll adjust accordingly after completing it if necessary. |
| yeah, i don't get why some people do that. i always rate after finishing it, or whenever i dropped it. also, when people write reviews after watching a couple of episodes.. like why? why would you do that? i wonder if they would change the score when they reach the ending if their feelings changes? |
celestiaMay 28, 2019 3:58 AM
| i rate it per episode for the build up it creates. my score probably wont be the same by the time it ends |
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| I have enough information to rate a show after a couple episodes. It's often right, but if the show goes up or down in quality changing it only takes a few clicks. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| I legit see no problem on score while watching. Yes, the series can become a lot better or a lot worse, but so does my score |
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