i have many other thoughts, also this is just my opinion, which is of course objectively correct.

How I rank media (mostly relevant to my MAL numerical rankings but i'm thinking about doing more reviews here?)

0: Watching this was so excruciatingly boring it made me want to kill myself. Contains absolutely zero interesting or redeeming qualities.

1: Utterly terrible, zero redeeming qualities aside from the fact that it manages not to be boring. (This is excruciatingly terrible.)

2: Terrible, but has at least one redeeming quality or interesting feature that saves it from 1 status. (This is terrible.)

3: The state of being a 3 is an interesting one, as it must have more than one interesting or redeeming quality, but not enough place into the 4 range. (This is terrible, and it might have some potential.) The Tokyo Ghoul Root A anime is a 3.

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Underrated Anime (According To M Stardustrifle) Masterpost

Here's a list of anime that I think are underrated. This list is based around my own tastes and preferences. I might add to this list at any time.

(The Weeb Ass Shit scale ranks anime on three criteria. A high W, or "Weeb" score means that the show incorporates a lot of anime tropes or elements of Japanese culture that might be confusing to someone not familiar with them. A high A, or "Ass" score means that the show is high in fanservice or other sexual content. And a high S, or "Shit" means that I think that the show is high quality.)


Title: Shiki
Genre: Horror/Suspense/Supernatural
Episode Count: 22
W/A/S Score: W4, A3, S9.5
Elevator Pitch: In a small Japanese town, a mysterious plague starts sweeping the village, killing its inhabitants at alarming rates not long after a mysterious new family moves into the Western castle up on the mountain.

Unsurprisingly, it’s vampires.

This anime uses its large cast of characters and isolated setting to the fullest, showing us a variety of reactions to the supernatural menace, which really creates a sense of horror, showing how every possible response one could think of having is for naught, as the horror builds and builds before a crescendo of violence at the end where no one is innocent and no one is safe.

This is my current favorite anime.

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