>>1248626My dude MAL gave Elfen Lied a 7.5.
I sometimes use MAL to try and stumble upon new things, and I personally love Trigger, but it's not a good measure of whether or not something's "good" or not.
I would recommend talking about the actual attributes of the thing you're talking about from a first-hand perspective. The quality of the frames you saw. The type of animation. The quality of the writing in-terms of the things you care about.
Just deferring to review scores overly empowers places like MAL (or metacritic) to become gatekeepers that respond to the whims of memetics, social pressure, and the corrupt financial overlords that control major platforms. One of my favorite games (Lighting Returns) is a game that is almost universally panned and it doesn't matter to me. Because ultimately, something's value is in terms of what it does FOR YOU and not what it does for a bunch of liberal arts majors who are being pimped out to whatever advertiser wants a high review score or not. Or whichever botnet can falsify the user score on Metacritic or elsewhere.
My point is that your evaluation of something should be on the primary source. The material itself. You shouldn't base appraisal on something on a secondary source. Then your reality is just a framework constructed by some horrible financial overlords which have collectively ruined all inspiring media in the west for the last 32 years through gatekeeping methods like Metacritic (and yes MAL).
I'm sure you didn't ask for a ran but my night hasn't been well and it was on my mind so I wrote it for anyone who cares.
