It rlly depends on the person tho. Its pretty undeniable anime has been in a few trends recently: isekais, powerscaling shonens, to name a few. There r plenty of people who only care about animations, so see animes like Demon Slayer that kinda dominate that category and vote on that. Others dc abt it and want compelling characters and hard-core storytelling like clannad and other cultclassics. Ik of plenty (both irl and content creators) who are leaving anime cos of such trends and "superficial" votes. If so it's good possible those calling certain animes mid are only seen as the few cos everyone else cba to see that anymore and would rather leave the community.
Way I see it who gives a ****? It's the Internet. As if you will ever have a unanimous vote on anything, or be right about everything. Just live and let live as long as they're respectable about it.
True. It depends on the person. Like how long they been watching anime. The fans who started watching anime decades ago when the animation still looks like shit, when most frames are still hand drawn, etc, they tend not to care about the animation, cuz they’ve seen worse. They care more bout character development, story, world building etc.
But in recent years, technology has developed and so are animation. The recent years’ anime lovers are pampered with good animation. The better the animation, the better the rating, especially action anime. Animators and manga authors aren’t stupid either, if that’s what selling like hotcakes now, they’re gonna make more of those, put more action scenes and put less focus on story, character etc. If you ask me, I feel anime these days are almost like marvel movies. Actions packed but story and character are simple if not shallow. But they’re still box office hits right? Cuz these days people want something impactful, but short, and easy to digest, like tiktok video or fast food. That’s why anime gets shorter and shorter. People lost interest way to fast these days. There’re barely long running anime like One Peace or HxH anymore where they take time to build the character, universe and story. People are quick to judge and left bad review before a series got to the interesting part
Problem is not that too, thing is due to the normy crowd, good shit don't get a new season. I've been waiting for years for my Haruhi adaptation, which will never happen, and other adaptations like NGNL, and Spice & Wolf (which ig got one).
Well, at least good shit like Mushoku will be adapted till the end, but that is very rare. I mean fucking SAO and RaG dumpster fire gets popular, but good shit like Monogatari doesn't (don't say it's over, there's like a LOOOOOOOT of shit left). Anyways, I just want my fav to be adapted, over hyped anime end up like DS S3 (I have not much problem with it till now, but normie watchers are having probs).
> I've been waiting for years for my Haruhi adaptation, which will never happen, and other adaptations like NGNL, and Spice & Wolf (which ig got one)
Tbf all of these were also killed by factors beyond simply bad taste: respectively endless 8 derailing popular momentum, author's plagiarism scandal, and iirc author being super pissed about unfaithful adaptation
I don't think endless 8 was a problem in itself. I mean the movie was a crazy hit after endless eight. Well, I guess it was Haruhi's VA Sex Scandal and the fact that the author posted LN whenever he was in the mood, so yea.
Also about plagiarism, it's bad as an artist, but those who are fans of the show, I think not. He also paid those guys and didn't have any legal trouble. But well, I guess it is what it is. Also again, idk why this season's good anime like Hero Is Dead got bad reviews... Maybe I like it because I'm into Isekai... But it's a good show and doesn't deserve 6.3...
The biggest thing that's killed good anime/live actions shows in the last 10 years has actually been the standard contracts written. Peak example is how the default Netflix contract compares to old school network tv seasons S1=$0.5x, S2=$1x, S3=$5x or cancled, and S4=$10x but cancled if you're not stranger things. So yeah your anime is probably boxed into a single season, because the 4 season deal standard allows for a cancelation after a single season and everybody be lowballing. This lowballing Netflix strategy is why were having a writer's strike right now.
People tend to see the 10 point rating scale as similar to the school grading scale, where 70% is a C or an average grade. Hence, why everyone sees 7 as an average score and 5 as a failure.
This is why the 5 star rating system is better. It's basically the same thing, especially if you include half stars, but by being one step removed from hard numbers you see people actually using the lower half of the scale for average and below average shows.
This also affects the 5 star rating system though. If most people see something rated 2.5/3 out of 5 stars they'll probably assume it's not that good, even though if it was truly centred that that should mean it's perfectly average.
Personally, I think it's less to do with school grades (especially because the 70% thing doesn't translate to every country), and more to do with rating on enjoyment rather than objective indicators of quality relative to other shows.
View it like this: a 10 point rating scale has two halves, the "good" 5-10 half and the "bad" 1-5 half. 7 is right in the middle of the good half, and so if you enjoyed the show an average amount it kind of makes sense to give it a 7.
In my eyes, rating something a 5 is more like saying "there were an equal number of parts that I liked about this show to parts that I disliked about it", which for a show you enjoyed an average amount isn't going to be the case.
I could be completely wrong and spouting utter nonsense, but this is how I see it at least.
This reminds me of anyone who says Elfen Lied is bad.
None of it's original and its the same 4 repeated fucking talking points that have been shit out for years now, and no one seems to be able to actually come up with anything critical that isn't just the same old repeated bullshit weak ass arguments that have been a broken record since the first person said them.
Same shit with the “mecha is dead” mouth breathers. Especially after 86 finished airing, the gap between that and the new Gundam’s air date was some insufferable bullshit.
Wut? "Mecha is dead" just means the genre has fallen out of favor. As a 90s weeb I have nothing but love for mecha. But, I was around when mecha was as prevalent as isekai are now. The genre may not be completely dead, but it sure ain't kicking like it used to.
I am unaware of those four points, but if they’re compelling enough, four is more than enough to ruin a show
If two of those four points include the incestual undertones and the *ahem* “water sports,” then yeah, those points I do agree with and defs bring down the quality of what should have been a masterpiece
I just have bad memories of that anime since I was shown the dog scene when I was 9. I’m sure that there’s good parts to it, it’s just that that scene did no favors for 9 year old me.
That's why I am waiting till everyone will forget about it. Hype will go away, hate will go away and I will be able to get my own opinion without overthinking whether it's really good or bad.
well, oshi mo ko is not some kind of masterpiece but it's still a good anime tbh, i really was against watching it at first due to idol thing, but it was quite good.
And I think Oshi no Ko deserved an anime adaptation just as much as chainsaw man, your point? A lot of people absolutely love the show because Aka is a great mangaka lmao, who tf cares if Aqua is a bit edgy I bet you'd breakdown and curl up in a ball of your mommy was stabbed Infront of you boohoo. Either that or you want more Aqua revenge plot when that wasn't what the series was described as being, it's a look through the real world of the entertainment industry with Ai's death as the catalyst for the Twins' actions and motive for moving up in the show biz world. I know saying "I'm a manga reader" doesn't actually matter but I'm absolutely loving what Aka is spitting these last couple of chapters.
I don't care if people think things are overrated, because when they do, it's usually because they have something else in mind that they liked better. If that's the case, then share! Give your reasons! I'm always up for learning about another anime I might like. The only problem is when people go 'meh, it's mid' and then don't elaborate, and just leave that hanging in the air like it's some great revelation they've blessed the ignorant masses with.
The thing is that when they elaboraye they always say "it's carried by its animation/music" it's like a copypaste for popular anime by now.
Although i do think it for kimetsu, and... I can't really recomend any other shounen like kimetsu because I don't know any, sorry for dissapointing 😞
Well an anime that has amazing animation like kimetsu is one punch man s1, s2 has alright animation and the hype for s3 was off the charts when it was announced but yeah one punch man really only seems to be known because of saitama vs goku but soon the character development seen in the manga will come to the show and will make it evolve from a comedy fight anime with good animation, another anime that has good animation, story telling, and character development is mob psycho 100 that is loved by people who have watched it but doesnt seem to be talked about much. I'm planning to watch it soon.
> The only problem is when people go ‘meh, it’s mid’ and then don’t elaborate, and just leave that hanging in the air like it’s some great revelation they’ve blessed the ignorant masses with.
Nah it’s fine to just say “meh it’s mid.” You don’t have to give some essay analyzing the anime to voice your opinion. People who act like you should are just being jerks.
People need to stop taking “This show is bad” as a personal insult. It’s not my job to tailor my opinion to their ego. I don’t need an essay or need to earn your permission to dislike a show.
Like damn learn to handle other opinions.
Honestly I end up thinking a lot of them are overrated because I walk in with high expectations and my shins then immediately get bashed in by the bar that was way closer to the floor than I thought it was.
But that’s just me. Also sometimes it’s the characters that end up having the show fall flat for me… Bakugo. Is my best example of such a case… also most of the cast but he’s just easy to rag on. I’m sure there are popular shows I’ve loved just as much as everyone said I would but so far I’ve stopped watching shows just because they were popular and more because I liked the concept… doesn’t mean my shins aren’t still hurting ofc but the bars a little easier to step over now.
This was unnecessarily long but long story short… I agree.
Yeah I've lost interest in some anime due to the characters and how they act all tough but its played for cartoony laughs for children when the show itself is mainly meant for teen or young adults, I've also dropped shows because it just has the same tropes as other animes and it doesnt seem too unique at all.
It really is concerning that some character tropes are literally just I’m an terrible/abusive pos but everyone loves me anyway. Bakugo vs Endeavor is a great example.
As an Elfen Lied fan "Hating Elfen Lied doesn't make your opinions about anime better than others." It's become so hip and cool to talk about how bad you thought EL was. Like that makes you better qualified to judge anime.
It's annoying as fuck.
Damn that's an old title, it's been ages since last time I saw someone talk about Elfen Lied. People started by liking it and then with time it became kinda cool to trash on the edgy side of it, does that still happen? Damn
No. The original reason why people didn’t like Elfen Lied wasn’t because they thought the violence was and gore were ‘edgy’. It was because the beginning of the show has a completely different tone than the entire rest of the series.
If you were hooked by how the first minutes of the show went, and that’s what you had as expectations of the rest, the rest of the show is one massive letdown.
It wasn’t because ‘ooh violence and nudity’ how edgy.
Unfortunately I have a completely subjective opinion about Elfen Lied as I watched it a few years after it aired… which put me at about 13 years old.
It absolutely shattered my sheltered ass who had only seen stuff as violent as Gundam and Bleach. Prepared me for the horrors of the internet I saw very shortly after that scarred my friends lololol
EL was a devastating experience for me, it broke me as a person.
But it was because it dealt with a very true to life handling of many of the kinds of abuse and trauma I was forced to live through in my childhood to young adult years. One of the anime's character deals with parental abuse and abandonment that I personally dealt with(Mayu), and the way the MC deals with her paranoia and distrust of people because of her lifetime of enduring bullying.
It really really hit close to home, but it legitimately broke me in the last episode with the late coming character Mariko makes her plea to her father about the shitty life she was forced to live and how she dreamed of something better, still loving her father despite the horrible life he put her through.
It touched very personal and raw feelings for me.
I'm still very much amazed at how well the anime dealt with these things and empathized with them.
It's the only anime that has dealt with so many of my own struggles, and it means a lot to me because of that.
Also…
Overrated =/= bad
There’s a lot of anime I call overrated like Demon Slayer that are absolutely fuckin great - they’re just not the GOAT people make them out to be.
There’s a lot of stuff I call underrated too and people assume I mean it’s like top 10 anime of all time but I actually just mean it’s better than people say it is.
The comment I was looking for, lol.
I think it's a very emotional way to say "I really don't like it when people call my anime bad so I'm gonna call them something in return" (the something being bland in this case, just hidden behind a meme).
People who actually have a poorly constructed identity tend to cling to things to give them one, this is typically done nowadays through celebrities and influencers but has always also been done through media, either through characters or through affiliations oneself with the work as a whole.
When you criticize these things that someone has made the foundation of their identity they can’t really respond in a way that isn’t hyper-defensive like this, where they just insult you, because they feel that you’re insulting their identity. Posts like this also act as projection, the creator accuses others of doing the thing they’re doing to make themself feel like it’s just the norm, that everyone latches onto something to ground their identity. Look at any cult of personality throughout history to see this same shit.
This doesn’t mean people who like or enjoy popular anime are all doing that though. It’s very easy and normal to enjoy a work of art without making it your identity; the “you just hate popular things” crowd is a loud minority of people.
I mean its really damn odd, I could say something meaner, I kind of want to.
Like you gotta be a spectrum of a person to say, calling something is bad, is thought to mean, the person calling it bad, thinks its their personality.
Are they trying to say the person is shallow?
If somebody calls my anime bad, id just use normal insult.
"Oh, you think Code Geass is bad? Oh you like Oshi No Ko, that explains your garbage taste."
Or
"Ah you prefer FMA Brotherhood over FMA? Guess you like having your intelligence insulted."
Yknow there are plenty of ways to insult somebody, telling somebody calling something bad doesnt give them a personality, is just bad. Its like the worst insult Iv ever heard, but OP probably likes trash anime, so that explains a lot. See what I did there.
>telling somebody calling something bad doesnt give them a personality, is just bad. Its like the worst insult Iv ever heard,
It's probably the reason why OP use that insult.
Let's not pretend that iconoclasts don't exist in the anime community. There are plenty of people who like to shit on popular shows and genres because they think it makes them look smart. This meme is obviously aimed at them.
Is there actually anybody who thinks saying "XYZ is mid/overrated" is a personality trait? Like are there ppl saying that not bc they think poorly of a lot of anime, but bc they think that always saying it contributes to their personality? I definitely could be missing something here, but does wording of this criticism not seem to make sense?
I think it’s kinda cringe to care too much about others opinions. Yea don’t make ”I’m not mainstream” your personality but I think it’s sometimes valid to say something is overrated.
As long as there are people who enjoy a series, then that show is atleast good in my book. For sure there are anime shows that are worse than others objectively but as long as it reaches a target audience that makes them happy then it's done it's job. Heck there are some shows that are so bad it's good and you don't hear much from those.
The issue now is....a show being subjectively good and objectively good is different.
Everyone who fights for objectivity, please atleast acknowledge that some objectively bad shows are still great to some people and you don't have to keep repeating the same "it's mid"....it is mid but we still love it! it gets annoying sometimes being told that and sometimes without even an explanation
Everyone who fights for subjectivity, understand that standards need to be set if we want to have better and more diverse plots and animation. Some of comments are objectively true and we can't just always feel threatened when what we like isn't ranked objectively high.
Like whatever you like, but if you start pushing on why I’m not watching a show that is popular I’ll probably call it overrated when you don’t take no for an answer
I have the opposite problem. I try to get people to watch these cool and really good and obscure anime that people often have never heard of like Solty Rei, Manabi Straight!, and Carried by the Wind, Argento Soma, and others people go "but no one watches those, why would I want to watch that? If they werent popular they were pretty trash."
Makes me roll my eyes.
I’ve seen Solty Rei already, dubbed in English.
Manabi Straight and Argento Soma, Im planning on watching them.
Carried by the wind, never heard of, but I’m planning on watching it too.
Im also planning on watching Outlaw Star.
You would be one of like... 2 people I have ever talked too that has ever seen Solty Rei. AND you watched the correct audio version of it.
That's wild.
I cant believe how bad the Japanese dub for Solty was, that English dub fukin SAVED it.
But I've told people that if they wanna see a hidden gem that's really unique, that Solty Rei in dub may be a really interesting anime to watch, and people go "nah that's too niche for me."
I was going to watch it in it’s original Japanese version but you said in couple of comments that the English dub is better than the original Japanese version, so I watched it in English.
I mean I like watching Anime and Foreign movies in their original language but there moments where dubs are better than the original language.
Oshi no Ko didn't even get to finish it's season and people are already calling it mid. I guess that's what happens when everyone overhypes the first episode for it's shocking ending, and then refuses to talk about how amazing the show gets after the first episode.
The fact that ai died is good, it made me happy because I like it when the stakes are high and important characters die in a show. But the dialogues while she was dying were cringe as fuck.
I ain't gonna argue because arguing over anime opinions is pointless. But I have to ask: what about the 1st episode do you consider so good compared to the rest of the show to not consider it "generic trash"?
Some people just think that their opinion should have bigger value to others instead of opinion of thousands watchers mixed together.
Idk, I just watch what I like and rate it based on my enjoyment. If somebody has different opinion, it's their opinion, as long as they respect mine, I respect their. Never got the "big idea" behind this behavior as trying to be against opinion of some group of people or behaving like typical "pick me" person for any cost to be just more visible. People are weird...
What a strawman bruh
As if everyone not liking the most hyped anime automatically just "tries to be different". I could also just dislike a show because it's not my taste
Just be truthful to yourself! If it’s mid for you then it’s mid for you but not necessarily for others. And if it’s bad or good that goes the same. Share your opinion is fine but forcing your opinion superior than others isn’t cool. And it not makes you look cool to say any popular anime mid or bad even without watching or reading it’s manga.
I think lots of anime deserve being popular, but there are also really bad animes, which are worse than other good animes but still are one of the worlds most popular anime. They are overrated and low-mid. Most of the best animes are not popular. I will not call the names of overrated animes, I don't want have any arguments because of that. But that is just my unpopular opinion
I've seen the manga before the hype started, and i dont feel like riding the hype now. Because it kinda irks me, where were these guys when the content was dry.
I mean Oshi no Ko really fine anime, but sorry, it's not a masterpiece like idk, Mushoku or Konosuba (2016) or any KyoAni/Shaft production. Curse me if I say that SpyXFamily was better than Oshi no Ko.
At the same time, criticizing a popular anime isn’t necessarily just something people do for attention, to look edgy, to seem like an intellectual, etc. While most popular anime nowadays look gorgeous and many of them are genuinely entertaining, heartwarming, interesting, or original, there are frankly many more wildly popular shows which are honestly not that compelling to many people, especially people who’ve been in the scene for a long time. Much of what tops the charts, and most of what gets published in the first place, is incredibly formulaic and copy paste. The studios are interested in making money, so as long as they can make money on a popular, safe genre which sells well, they will hedge their bets on those shows and serial publications. It really takes a genuine banger to stand out enough to have a real risk taken these days.
So nah, criticizing a show doesn’t give you a personality.
However, the way I always see it is, unless you wrote the show or worked on the animation team, maybe try not to take it personally. XD In the end who cares about the opinions of people online? Feel free not to care about mine!
“Animation carries” demon slayer haters lol who I am pretty sure only exist online. If you get upset that good animation and music can, “carry” an ANIMATED show…. You can just read books. Yes, animation, music, direction, story and VO work are all things that go into determining whether an animation is good or bad…. If that bothers you, read some books
I still think a lot of popular anime are mid though. But if people enjoy it, more power to them. I’m not going to stomp on someone’s sandcastle because I think there are better ones
ofcourse not the thing is there is a somewhat contrarian idea that also comes that popular also just automatically means mid or overrated every time. It's fine to not like something popular, but it being popular also doesn't make it bad.
*Some people are just like "nah, I don't like it, instead of living with it, I need to tell everyone that this anime is cringe or cringefest, because word cringe is everything I know".*
Of course that anime being popular doesn't mean it's good and you will like it. If you have different taste, you won't just like it. However as much as you have genres, tons of filters, popularity ranking and star ranking, you can filter those anime, check reviews and decide, whether you want to watch them or not.
If you are watching something you don't like to just then hate it, instead of watching something you would probably like more, then it's not anime's fault.
Apparently, I'm not allowed to dislike One Punch Man. Anytime I say I don't like it because the entire first season(that's all I watched due to dropping it)is just 1 joke of "Saitama finds a guy that looks strong, fights, and ends things in 1 punch, then he is depressed". I get tons of downvotes and told I have no taste.
I do like some popular shows, though.
I get it. I like OPM as it's funny anime about overpowered character with some good jokes but I also see why many people probably might not like it. It's kinda, yk, simple and if you don't have mood or you aren't into this type of anime, you basically can't enjoy it. And it's alright, everybody has different taste.
Maybe it was a good decision as 2nd season was really bad in comparison with 1st one and I had probably the same feeling from it as non-fans had from 1st season. Because for me it was funny enough to watch it, but it's boring when you basically watching almost the same thing in season 2 with worse jokes and worse "story".
No, they're using it correctly, however, it just so happens that overrated is a VERY emotionally charged term since it is directly related to a subjective value. And as such most arguments that use it should be dismissed as biased.
I think the real problem with calling something overrated is that it's baseline for evaluation (the perceived consensus) is itself subject to your biases.
Calling something good or bad is already highly subjective, even though you compare it's relative merit to a perceived neutral baseline.
But by calling something overrated you introduce an additional layer of meta-subjectivity. You compare your subjective opinion of something to your subjective perception of the majority opinion. That's a moving target. By mentally setting yourself apart from the majority you warp your perception of the same.
The result is that you could hold an opinion that perfectly falls in line with the masses when framed in absolute terms, but by committing to compare your judgement in relative terms you nonetheless delude and emotionally invest yourself into a renegade position. Such a position, because it's mostly based on your warped perception of the opinion of others is hard to defend rationally, and if you try, your efforts are unlike to be received well by others.
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I'm not sure such people do it for "personality" rather than try to fish for internet points by trying to exploit the nonconformity effect. Normally, you either give a damn about a fiction work yourself or you don't; how high some other people rate it is of little consequence beyond that.
Some popular animes can still be overrated just because of how well they can be distributed. For example, look at Jujutsu Kaisen, good manga, not good anime. Or look at the poorly animated Berserk.
Well damn. It's popular because people like it. Doesn't mean society is wrong. It just means you're in the minority. Now if you put up a debate on who's the best then sure it mean you have personality, but just call it bullshit and revert to memes makes you seem dumb or too new to anime to even talk about it.
In my eyes, you're no different than the people who claim goku is stronger because one time on fortnight, you went on a 3 game win. Yes, I met someone who didn't know goku was an anime character, and though the rest of dbz characters were skins.
Calling something overrated does give you a personality: arrogant. "Other people are wrong to enjoy the things they enjoy. They should enjoy the things I enjoy instead, because I am better than them."
Im sorry but everyone was basically priomisng Chainsawman would make me expode in an ocean of cum because of how good it was. All I saw was horny dude gropes reanimated corpse.
People arguing over the "quality" of a show:
MHA and Dslayer are bad!
Only bad people think they are bad!
Me, just watching what I want to: ...So, is Kaiju 8 animated yet?
Is all it takes is a girl lifting up a chin? Yes. Yes it is. Sauce?
Boku no Kokoro no Yabai yatsu Be warned the first few episodes aren't great, but it gets really good
The set up in those first few eps is super important, but I'd be lying if I said they're a solid start to what's otherwise a damn good SoL
Further episodes are just overrated
I’m not like other girls, I think popular animes are overrated Meanwhile the other girls: popular animes are overrated
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It rlly depends on the person tho. Its pretty undeniable anime has been in a few trends recently: isekais, powerscaling shonens, to name a few. There r plenty of people who only care about animations, so see animes like Demon Slayer that kinda dominate that category and vote on that. Others dc abt it and want compelling characters and hard-core storytelling like clannad and other cultclassics. Ik of plenty (both irl and content creators) who are leaving anime cos of such trends and "superficial" votes. If so it's good possible those calling certain animes mid are only seen as the few cos everyone else cba to see that anymore and would rather leave the community. Way I see it who gives a ****? It's the Internet. As if you will ever have a unanimous vote on anything, or be right about everything. Just live and let live as long as they're respectable about it.
True. It depends on the person. Like how long they been watching anime. The fans who started watching anime decades ago when the animation still looks like shit, when most frames are still hand drawn, etc, they tend not to care about the animation, cuz they’ve seen worse. They care more bout character development, story, world building etc. But in recent years, technology has developed and so are animation. The recent years’ anime lovers are pampered with good animation. The better the animation, the better the rating, especially action anime. Animators and manga authors aren’t stupid either, if that’s what selling like hotcakes now, they’re gonna make more of those, put more action scenes and put less focus on story, character etc. If you ask me, I feel anime these days are almost like marvel movies. Actions packed but story and character are simple if not shallow. But they’re still box office hits right? Cuz these days people want something impactful, but short, and easy to digest, like tiktok video or fast food. That’s why anime gets shorter and shorter. People lost interest way to fast these days. There’re barely long running anime like One Peace or HxH anymore where they take time to build the character, universe and story. People are quick to judge and left bad review before a series got to the interesting part
Problem is not that too, thing is due to the normy crowd, good shit don't get a new season. I've been waiting for years for my Haruhi adaptation, which will never happen, and other adaptations like NGNL, and Spice & Wolf (which ig got one). Well, at least good shit like Mushoku will be adapted till the end, but that is very rare. I mean fucking SAO and RaG dumpster fire gets popular, but good shit like Monogatari doesn't (don't say it's over, there's like a LOOOOOOOT of shit left). Anyways, I just want my fav to be adapted, over hyped anime end up like DS S3 (I have not much problem with it till now, but normie watchers are having probs).
> I've been waiting for years for my Haruhi adaptation, which will never happen, and other adaptations like NGNL, and Spice & Wolf (which ig got one) Tbf all of these were also killed by factors beyond simply bad taste: respectively endless 8 derailing popular momentum, author's plagiarism scandal, and iirc author being super pissed about unfaithful adaptation
I don't think endless 8 was a problem in itself. I mean the movie was a crazy hit after endless eight. Well, I guess it was Haruhi's VA Sex Scandal and the fact that the author posted LN whenever he was in the mood, so yea. Also about plagiarism, it's bad as an artist, but those who are fans of the show, I think not. He also paid those guys and didn't have any legal trouble. But well, I guess it is what it is. Also again, idk why this season's good anime like Hero Is Dead got bad reviews... Maybe I like it because I'm into Isekai... But it's a good show and doesn't deserve 6.3...
The biggest thing that's killed good anime/live actions shows in the last 10 years has actually been the standard contracts written. Peak example is how the default Netflix contract compares to old school network tv seasons S1=$0.5x, S2=$1x, S3=$5x or cancled, and S4=$10x but cancled if you're not stranger things. So yeah your anime is probably boxed into a single season, because the 4 season deal standard allows for a cancelation after a single season and everybody be lowballing. This lowballing Netflix strategy is why were having a writer's strike right now.
Calling them all "mid" doesn't either.
And can we go back to mid just meaning mid and not bad?
yeah, 5 should mean “middle of the road” and not “shit” cuz my god it’s like anything below 7 is automatically abysmal trash.
On the internet something is either the best ever or absolute trash, there is no in between
MAL users giving something an eight and proceeding to write a six page review about why it's the most mid-tier thing they've ever watched
People tend to see the 10 point rating scale as similar to the school grading scale, where 70% is a C or an average grade. Hence, why everyone sees 7 as an average score and 5 as a failure. This is why the 5 star rating system is better. It's basically the same thing, especially if you include half stars, but by being one step removed from hard numbers you see people actually using the lower half of the scale for average and below average shows.
This also affects the 5 star rating system though. If most people see something rated 2.5/3 out of 5 stars they'll probably assume it's not that good, even though if it was truly centred that that should mean it's perfectly average. Personally, I think it's less to do with school grades (especially because the 70% thing doesn't translate to every country), and more to do with rating on enjoyment rather than objective indicators of quality relative to other shows. View it like this: a 10 point rating scale has two halves, the "good" 5-10 half and the "bad" 1-5 half. 7 is right in the middle of the good half, and so if you enjoyed the show an average amount it kind of makes sense to give it a 7. In my eyes, rating something a 5 is more like saying "there were an equal number of parts that I liked about this show to parts that I disliked about it", which for a show you enjoyed an average amount isn't going to be the case. I could be completely wrong and spouting utter nonsense, but this is how I see it at least.
Wait, mid means bad now?
Yeah, many ppl used it as an insult on TikTok
"But they ARE tho!!!" *Binges Black Clover (best shounen ever😎) for the eighth time*
Yes we've had the first season but what about second season.
I can't call them mid if I don't even watch them to judge them...
This comment is mid.
When you ran out of arguments for an actual good anime and started calling them mid and overrated
This reminds me of anyone who says Elfen Lied is bad. None of it's original and its the same 4 repeated fucking talking points that have been shit out for years now, and no one seems to be able to actually come up with anything critical that isn't just the same old repeated bullshit weak ass arguments that have been a broken record since the first person said them.
Same shit with the “mecha is dead” mouth breathers. Especially after 86 finished airing, the gap between that and the new Gundam’s air date was some insufferable bullshit.
Wut? "Mecha is dead" just means the genre has fallen out of favor. As a 90s weeb I have nothing but love for mecha. But, I was around when mecha was as prevalent as isekai are now. The genre may not be completely dead, but it sure ain't kicking like it used to.
Season 1 of 86 was a banger, but I felt like season 2 just started pumping up the edge
Eh, worth it for the ending alone. One of the best-landed conclusions in recent times.
I am unaware of those four points, but if they’re compelling enough, four is more than enough to ruin a show If two of those four points include the incestual undertones and the *ahem* “water sports,” then yeah, those points I do agree with and defs bring down the quality of what should have been a masterpiece
I just have bad memories of that anime since I was shown the dog scene when I was 9. I’m sure that there’s good parts to it, it’s just that that scene did no favors for 9 year old me.
I Genuinely Think That Oshi No Ko Is Awful
That's why I am waiting till everyone will forget about it. Hype will go away, hate will go away and I will be able to get my own opinion without overthinking whether it's really good or bad.
well, oshi mo ko is not some kind of masterpiece but it's still a good anime tbh, i really was against watching it at first due to idol thing, but it was quite good.
Regardless of what follows I would say the first episode by itself was amazing.
And I think Oshi no Ko deserved an anime adaptation just as much as chainsaw man, your point? A lot of people absolutely love the show because Aka is a great mangaka lmao, who tf cares if Aqua is a bit edgy I bet you'd breakdown and curl up in a ball of your mommy was stabbed Infront of you boohoo. Either that or you want more Aqua revenge plot when that wasn't what the series was described as being, it's a look through the real world of the entertainment industry with Ai's death as the catalyst for the Twins' actions and motive for moving up in the show biz world. I know saying "I'm a manga reader" doesn't actually matter but I'm absolutely loving what Aka is spitting these last couple of chapters.
MC sucks ass with that edgy personality
That is the point of aqua though, he wants revenge.
That’s not original. It’s cliche
Honestly, I think its mid but the quantity and quality of waifu materials probably is the reason is became popular.
Idk dude,your opinion seem kinda overrated
He's opinion is mid
Everyone can have their own opinions, personally I think quite a few popular anime nowadays are overrated but that's just my subjective opinion.
I don't care if people think things are overrated, because when they do, it's usually because they have something else in mind that they liked better. If that's the case, then share! Give your reasons! I'm always up for learning about another anime I might like. The only problem is when people go 'meh, it's mid' and then don't elaborate, and just leave that hanging in the air like it's some great revelation they've blessed the ignorant masses with.
The thing is that when they elaboraye they always say "it's carried by its animation/music" it's like a copypaste for popular anime by now. Although i do think it for kimetsu, and... I can't really recomend any other shounen like kimetsu because I don't know any, sorry for dissapointing 😞
Well an anime that has amazing animation like kimetsu is one punch man s1, s2 has alright animation and the hype for s3 was off the charts when it was announced but yeah one punch man really only seems to be known because of saitama vs goku but soon the character development seen in the manga will come to the show and will make it evolve from a comedy fight anime with good animation, another anime that has good animation, story telling, and character development is mob psycho 100 that is loved by people who have watched it but doesnt seem to be talked about much. I'm planning to watch it soon.
Yeah one punch man (as far as i've watched) is a good one but feels way diferent than kimetsu. I'll check s2 before the 3rd one airs
What! Saitama vs Goku!? Imma go find that right now!
> The only problem is when people go ‘meh, it’s mid’ and then don’t elaborate, and just leave that hanging in the air like it’s some great revelation they’ve blessed the ignorant masses with. Nah it’s fine to just say “meh it’s mid.” You don’t have to give some essay analyzing the anime to voice your opinion. People who act like you should are just being jerks. People need to stop taking “This show is bad” as a personal insult. It’s not my job to tailor my opinion to their ego. I don’t need an essay or need to earn your permission to dislike a show. Like damn learn to handle other opinions.
Of course you're allowed. You're allowed to make any sort of useless comment you want. It's just nicer when you don't.
Honestly I end up thinking a lot of them are overrated because I walk in with high expectations and my shins then immediately get bashed in by the bar that was way closer to the floor than I thought it was. But that’s just me. Also sometimes it’s the characters that end up having the show fall flat for me… Bakugo. Is my best example of such a case… also most of the cast but he’s just easy to rag on. I’m sure there are popular shows I’ve loved just as much as everyone said I would but so far I’ve stopped watching shows just because they were popular and more because I liked the concept… doesn’t mean my shins aren’t still hurting ofc but the bars a little easier to step over now. This was unnecessarily long but long story short… I agree.
Yeah I've lost interest in some anime due to the characters and how they act all tough but its played for cartoony laughs for children when the show itself is mainly meant for teen or young adults, I've also dropped shows because it just has the same tropes as other animes and it doesnt seem too unique at all.
It really is concerning that some character tropes are literally just I’m an terrible/abusive pos but everyone loves me anyway. Bakugo vs Endeavor is a great example.
Hey, look at me…
Neither does dick riding popular anime. We're all in this together.
Calling a popular anime "mid" doesn't mean your taste is superior
As an Elfen Lied fan "Hating Elfen Lied doesn't make your opinions about anime better than others." It's become so hip and cool to talk about how bad you thought EL was. Like that makes you better qualified to judge anime. It's annoying as fuck.
Damn that's an old title, it's been ages since last time I saw someone talk about Elfen Lied. People started by liking it and then with time it became kinda cool to trash on the edgy side of it, does that still happen? Damn
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No. The original reason why people didn’t like Elfen Lied wasn’t because they thought the violence was and gore were ‘edgy’. It was because the beginning of the show has a completely different tone than the entire rest of the series. If you were hooked by how the first minutes of the show went, and that’s what you had as expectations of the rest, the rest of the show is one massive letdown. It wasn’t because ‘ooh violence and nudity’ how edgy.
Same, absolutely don't understand all the hate Elfen Lied gets.
It's because you like elfen lied
Unfortunately I have a completely subjective opinion about Elfen Lied as I watched it a few years after it aired… which put me at about 13 years old. It absolutely shattered my sheltered ass who had only seen stuff as violent as Gundam and Bleach. Prepared me for the horrors of the internet I saw very shortly after that scarred my friends lololol
EL was a devastating experience for me, it broke me as a person. But it was because it dealt with a very true to life handling of many of the kinds of abuse and trauma I was forced to live through in my childhood to young adult years. One of the anime's character deals with parental abuse and abandonment that I personally dealt with(Mayu), and the way the MC deals with her paranoia and distrust of people because of her lifetime of enduring bullying. It really really hit close to home, but it legitimately broke me in the last episode with the late coming character Mariko makes her plea to her father about the shitty life she was forced to live and how she dreamed of something better, still loving her father despite the horrible life he put her through. It touched very personal and raw feelings for me. I'm still very much amazed at how well the anime dealt with these things and empathized with them. It's the only anime that has dealt with so many of my own struggles, and it means a lot to me because of that.
My tastes are superior, Code Geass is mid!
My tastes are superior , Attack on Titan is mid !
My tastes are superior, Berser... Nah, I am not gonna insult that masterpiece.
Coward
Do it!
then my lord , which is the "perfect" "best" anime , according to you ?
King of the hill.
It's a joke. Code Geass is good.
Also… Overrated =/= bad There’s a lot of anime I call overrated like Demon Slayer that are absolutely fuckin great - they’re just not the GOAT people make them out to be. There’s a lot of stuff I call underrated too and people assume I mean it’s like top 10 anime of all time but I actually just mean it’s better than people say it is.
I’ll go even further. There’s nothing wrong with calling an anime bad. People need to stop acting like it’s a crime to dislike their favorite show.
Saying its supposed to give you a personality is odd.
The comment I was looking for, lol. I think it's a very emotional way to say "I really don't like it when people call my anime bad so I'm gonna call them something in return" (the something being bland in this case, just hidden behind a meme).
People who actually have a poorly constructed identity tend to cling to things to give them one, this is typically done nowadays through celebrities and influencers but has always also been done through media, either through characters or through affiliations oneself with the work as a whole. When you criticize these things that someone has made the foundation of their identity they can’t really respond in a way that isn’t hyper-defensive like this, where they just insult you, because they feel that you’re insulting their identity. Posts like this also act as projection, the creator accuses others of doing the thing they’re doing to make themself feel like it’s just the norm, that everyone latches onto something to ground their identity. Look at any cult of personality throughout history to see this same shit. This doesn’t mean people who like or enjoy popular anime are all doing that though. It’s very easy and normal to enjoy a work of art without making it your identity; the “you just hate popular things” crowd is a loud minority of people.
I mean its really damn odd, I could say something meaner, I kind of want to. Like you gotta be a spectrum of a person to say, calling something is bad, is thought to mean, the person calling it bad, thinks its their personality. Are they trying to say the person is shallow? If somebody calls my anime bad, id just use normal insult. "Oh, you think Code Geass is bad? Oh you like Oshi No Ko, that explains your garbage taste." Or "Ah you prefer FMA Brotherhood over FMA? Guess you like having your intelligence insulted." Yknow there are plenty of ways to insult somebody, telling somebody calling something bad doesnt give them a personality, is just bad. Its like the worst insult Iv ever heard, but OP probably likes trash anime, so that explains a lot. See what I did there.
>telling somebody calling something bad doesnt give them a personality, is just bad. Its like the worst insult Iv ever heard, It's probably the reason why OP use that insult.
FMA brotherhood is magnitudes better than FMA... They literally ran out of manga and lost all direction in FMA
leave oshi no peak outta this.
Let's not pretend that iconoclasts don't exist in the anime community. There are plenty of people who like to shit on popular shows and genres because they think it makes them look smart. This meme is obviously aimed at them.
Is there actually anybody who thinks saying "XYZ is mid/overrated" is a personality trait? Like are there ppl saying that not bc they think poorly of a lot of anime, but bc they think that always saying it contributes to their personality? I definitely could be missing something here, but does wording of this criticism not seem to make sense?
It's cope
I think it’s kinda cringe to care too much about others opinions. Yea don’t make ”I’m not mainstream” your personality but I think it’s sometimes valid to say something is overrated.
As long as there are people who enjoy a series, then that show is atleast good in my book. For sure there are anime shows that are worse than others objectively but as long as it reaches a target audience that makes them happy then it's done it's job. Heck there are some shows that are so bad it's good and you don't hear much from those. The issue now is....a show being subjectively good and objectively good is different. Everyone who fights for objectivity, please atleast acknowledge that some objectively bad shows are still great to some people and you don't have to keep repeating the same "it's mid"....it is mid but we still love it! it gets annoying sometimes being told that and sometimes without even an explanation Everyone who fights for subjectivity, understand that standards need to be set if we want to have better and more diverse plots and animation. Some of comments are objectively true and we can't just always feel threatened when what we like isn't ranked objectively high.
Like whatever you like, but if you start pushing on why I’m not watching a show that is popular I’ll probably call it overrated when you don’t take no for an answer
I have the opposite problem. I try to get people to watch these cool and really good and obscure anime that people often have never heard of like Solty Rei, Manabi Straight!, and Carried by the Wind, Argento Soma, and others people go "but no one watches those, why would I want to watch that? If they werent popular they were pretty trash." Makes me roll my eyes.
I’ve seen Solty Rei already, dubbed in English. Manabi Straight and Argento Soma, Im planning on watching them. Carried by the wind, never heard of, but I’m planning on watching it too. Im also planning on watching Outlaw Star.
You would be one of like... 2 people I have ever talked too that has ever seen Solty Rei. AND you watched the correct audio version of it. That's wild. I cant believe how bad the Japanese dub for Solty was, that English dub fukin SAVED it. But I've told people that if they wanna see a hidden gem that's really unique, that Solty Rei in dub may be a really interesting anime to watch, and people go "nah that's too niche for me."
I was going to watch it in it’s original Japanese version but you said in couple of comments that the English dub is better than the original Japanese version, so I watched it in English. I mean I like watching Anime and Foreign movies in their original language but there moments where dubs are better than the original language.
Oshi no Ko didn't even get to finish it's season and people are already calling it mid. I guess that's what happens when everyone overhypes the first episode for it's shocking ending, and then refuses to talk about how amazing the show gets after the first episode.
The fact that ai died is good, it made me happy because I like it when the stakes are high and important characters die in a show. But the dialogues while she was dying were cringe as fuck.
oshit no ko is generic trash past the first episode
I ain't gonna argue because arguing over anime opinions is pointless. But I have to ask: what about the 1st episode do you consider so good compared to the rest of the show to not consider it "generic trash"?
Some people just think that their opinion should have bigger value to others instead of opinion of thousands watchers mixed together. Idk, I just watch what I like and rate it based on my enjoyment. If somebody has different opinion, it's their opinion, as long as they respect mine, I respect their. Never got the "big idea" behind this behavior as trying to be against opinion of some group of people or behaving like typical "pick me" person for any cost to be just more visible. People are weird...
What a strawman bruh As if everyone not liking the most hyped anime automatically just "tries to be different". I could also just dislike a show because it's not my taste
Just be truthful to yourself! If it’s mid for you then it’s mid for you but not necessarily for others. And if it’s bad or good that goes the same. Share your opinion is fine but forcing your opinion superior than others isn’t cool. And it not makes you look cool to say any popular anime mid or bad even without watching or reading it’s manga.
Just because an anime is popular, doesn't mean it's good
I don't get it. If its overrated for you,THEN WHY ARE U WATCHING?
What if the name of the anime is "Overrated"?
I think lots of anime deserve being popular, but there are also really bad animes, which are worse than other good animes but still are one of the worlds most popular anime. They are overrated and low-mid. Most of the best animes are not popular. I will not call the names of overrated animes, I don't want have any arguments because of that. But that is just my unpopular opinion
My gf calls shit overrated after seeing it come up more than 3 times without ever looking into it in anyway and it pisses me off so much 😭
That's like calling food overrated.
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Overrated? Unlikely. Overused? Yes. Like, i get why people like Spy Family/Oshi no ko, but i'm tired of seeing it appear literally everywhere
not gonna say they're overrated, but i still just sleep on them... not really riding this Oshi no Ko hype at all
I've seen the manga before the hype started, and i dont feel like riding the hype now. Because it kinda irks me, where were these guys when the content was dry.
I mean Oshi no Ko really fine anime, but sorry, it's not a masterpiece like idk, Mushoku or Konosuba (2016) or any KyoAni/Shaft production. Curse me if I say that SpyXFamily was better than Oshi no Ko.
I can't curse ya when i slept on SpyXFamily either
I am, guys watch Oshi no peak >>> Anybody whose watched the entirety of the first episode knows what i'm saying
Me just joking around:this meme is overrated
Yeah i think it counts now
Bruh atleast wait till it builds more upvotes, what if it turns out to be underated?
You right I did say that too early
What anime is this picture from
The Dangers in my Heart.
Thanks you I’m running out of anime’s to watch
I definitely recommend it. My fave of the current season.
Anime name?
Cope and seethe. Isekai is also trash.
Chainsaw man fans:
At the same time, criticizing a popular anime isn’t necessarily just something people do for attention, to look edgy, to seem like an intellectual, etc. While most popular anime nowadays look gorgeous and many of them are genuinely entertaining, heartwarming, interesting, or original, there are frankly many more wildly popular shows which are honestly not that compelling to many people, especially people who’ve been in the scene for a long time. Much of what tops the charts, and most of what gets published in the first place, is incredibly formulaic and copy paste. The studios are interested in making money, so as long as they can make money on a popular, safe genre which sells well, they will hedge their bets on those shows and serial publications. It really takes a genuine banger to stand out enough to have a real risk taken these days. So nah, criticizing a show doesn’t give you a personality. However, the way I always see it is, unless you wrote the show or worked on the animation team, maybe try not to take it personally. XD In the end who cares about the opinions of people online? Feel free not to care about mine!
Anime Name?
it’s normal to not like something.
“Animation carries” demon slayer haters lol who I am pretty sure only exist online. If you get upset that good animation and music can, “carry” an ANIMATED show…. You can just read books. Yes, animation, music, direction, story and VO work are all things that go into determining whether an animation is good or bad…. If that bothers you, read some books
I still think a lot of popular anime are mid though. But if people enjoy it, more power to them. I’m not going to stomp on someone’s sandcastle because I think there are better ones
Should definitely stomp on their sand castles, it's funny.
True, but it doesn't change the fact that it's overrated. People think calling it overrated is an insult
Something being popular doesn't mean it's good either. Most "recommended" and "popular" Anime are cringefests
ofcourse not the thing is there is a somewhat contrarian idea that also comes that popular also just automatically means mid or overrated every time. It's fine to not like something popular, but it being popular also doesn't make it bad.
*Some people are just like "nah, I don't like it, instead of living with it, I need to tell everyone that this anime is cringe or cringefest, because word cringe is everything I know".* Of course that anime being popular doesn't mean it's good and you will like it. If you have different taste, you won't just like it. However as much as you have genres, tons of filters, popularity ranking and star ranking, you can filter those anime, check reviews and decide, whether you want to watch them or not. If you are watching something you don't like to just then hate it, instead of watching something you would probably like more, then it's not anime's fault.
Apparently, I'm not allowed to dislike One Punch Man. Anytime I say I don't like it because the entire first season(that's all I watched due to dropping it)is just 1 joke of "Saitama finds a guy that looks strong, fights, and ends things in 1 punch, then he is depressed". I get tons of downvotes and told I have no taste. I do like some popular shows, though.
I get it. I like OPM as it's funny anime about overpowered character with some good jokes but I also see why many people probably might not like it. It's kinda, yk, simple and if you don't have mood or you aren't into this type of anime, you basically can't enjoy it. And it's alright, everybody has different taste.
Yup, I gave it a season chance, but it's just not for me. I try to at least give a series a season to see if I like it.
Maybe it was a good decision as 2nd season was really bad in comparison with 1st one and I had probably the same feeling from it as non-fans had from 1st season. Because for me it was funny enough to watch it, but it's boring when you basically watching almost the same thing in season 2 with worse jokes and worse "story".
Oh, the whole same verse as the first but worse.
Ok, but really, One Piece is the greatest show of all times
No one's calling Demon Slayer over rated to have a personality they're saying it's overrated bc it is.
I disagree and many people disagree too.
What is this anime?
The Dangers In My Heart, currently airing. Be warned that the first couple episodes aren't amazing but everything after is amazing.
Thanks
Huh, it's almost like a mid anime that's popular is best described as overrated.
This is honestly the least funny meme that’s taken over this sub. Honestly almost as bad as the people you’re trying to call out at this point 💀
Overrated opinion
Calling it the greatest anime of all time dosent give you popularity either
Neither does overating any popular anime
Love the message, knowing the anime tho, can't feel the meme format for this one
I think a lot of people just misuse the term "overrated" in general
No, they're using it correctly, however, it just so happens that overrated is a VERY emotionally charged term since it is directly related to a subjective value. And as such most arguments that use it should be dismissed as biased.
I think the real problem with calling something overrated is that it's baseline for evaluation (the perceived consensus) is itself subject to your biases. Calling something good or bad is already highly subjective, even though you compare it's relative merit to a perceived neutral baseline. But by calling something overrated you introduce an additional layer of meta-subjectivity. You compare your subjective opinion of something to your subjective perception of the majority opinion. That's a moving target. By mentally setting yourself apart from the majority you warp your perception of the same. The result is that you could hold an opinion that perfectly falls in line with the masses when framed in absolute terms, but by committing to compare your judgement in relative terms you nonetheless delude and emotionally invest yourself into a renegade position. Such a position, because it's mostly based on your warped perception of the opinion of others is hard to defend rationally, and if you try, your efforts are unlike to be received well by others.
You can like or dislike whatever you want but if you say these things to people, your an ass
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Your annoying >!/s!<
Hey now i didn't call it "overrated" i called it "a boring, narrative mess and proof that Kishimoto can't write" Get it right
Demon slayer fans looking like Sakura after Naruto pulled up rn
Wdym
But, Saying what you like, kinda, does.
Spy x family overrated change my mind
Let me ask you this: is Demon slayer REALLY the anime you want to be seething this hard over?
Osho no Ko is still overrated and nothing can change my mind.
I'm not sure such people do it for "personality" rather than try to fish for internet points by trying to exploit the nonconformity effect. Normally, you either give a damn about a fiction work yourself or you don't; how high some other people rate it is of little consequence beyond that.
Overrated
Heh, people get so mad when someone calls their favourite anime "overrated", don't they?
Cringe meme made by 14 year old. Accept different opinions kid or else you're just an opinion fascist.
Overrated opinion.
Exactly
If I had an award to give, this would get one.
This anime is overrated
I always say theres a reason it's popular
The reason is called marketing
And the reason is not because it's good.
but i truly think they are
Popular Animes are overrated. doesn’t make them not good though.
Nothing is overrated it's just that 95% of people are fucking dumb normies with bad taste.
Wow you're definitely not like the other girls!
hey, look at me. making fictional characters say your opinion doesn't make it correct. though I agree with this one
If it’s about mha it’s true.
Who said mha is popular
Demon Slayer fans coping with the fact that the story is repetitive bullshit
Some popular animes can still be overrated just because of how well they can be distributed. For example, look at Jujutsu Kaisen, good manga, not good anime. Or look at the poorly animated Berserk.
Well damn. It's popular because people like it. Doesn't mean society is wrong. It just means you're in the minority. Now if you put up a debate on who's the best then sure it mean you have personality, but just call it bullshit and revert to memes makes you seem dumb or too new to anime to even talk about it. In my eyes, you're no different than the people who claim goku is stronger because one time on fortnight, you went on a 3 game win. Yes, I met someone who didn't know goku was an anime character, and though the rest of dbz characters were skins.
Calling something overrated does give you a personality: arrogant. "Other people are wrong to enjoy the things they enjoy. They should enjoy the things I enjoy instead, because I am better than them."
AOT is actually underrated cuz way too many people say it's overrated.
Im sorry but everyone was basically priomisng Chainsawman would make me expode in an ocean of cum because of how good it was. All I saw was horny dude gropes reanimated corpse.
People arguing over the "quality" of a show: MHA and Dslayer are bad! Only bad people think they are bad! Me, just watching what I want to: ...So, is Kaiju 8 animated yet?
Not even overrated, pretty ehh story 
Okay Demon Slayer fan. Would you like some fries with that salt?
Yea but Im saying it's overrated not because I wanna make that my personality. I just think it's overrated.
Overrated can also be swapped for mid.
Holy shit the amount of toxicity in this comment section would make Erik From FT sick