| Last year I watched Mahou Shoujo Magical Destroyers, and during the experience I remember complaining that it never really "clicked". I finished the anime, rated it a 6/10, but still felt that it was 1-2 more points than it was worth, just because I liked it's message. Whenever I find myself thinking about it nowadays, however, I just remember the good parts, and not the ones I disliked. Similarly, recently I finished Mieruko-chan. It took me ten days to finish it, and I had a ton of complaints I wrote in my review. Yet, when think about it nowadays, I can only remember the parts I liked about it, the ones which resonated with me, and that makes me want to up it's score from the 5/10 I gave it. So, what's more important? The experience you had of watching an anime, or the aftertaste it gave you? |
| I remember the feeling of the experience, so that's most important. |
| Good experience leads to good aftertaste. |
| for me it's strangely the opposite, i often mostly remember my issues with it instead of what i enjoyed, but to answer, I try and balance both best I can. |
| :O |
| Experience is more important, but aftertaste is very important too. Boku no Hero Academia was generally fun to watch, but has bad aftertaste. I don't really think any of the characters are cool, and events of the series are like a blur in my mind, signifying how unmemorable the show is. I initially rated each season around 7, but lowered it by one notch later on. |
| Both are important, but I prefer bad experience with good aftertaste than the opposite. |
| Both are equally important but I think one is intersectional to the other: aftertaste can you get you to reappreciate certain stuff you enjoyed, but I don't believe in reevaluating a whole "bad" experience just because the aftertaste is good, that's just gaslighting yourself about how much you liked something. Anime that were good experiences can get better with aftertaste, but an anime that was painful for you to go through won't suddenly become "good" just because you thought it over. |
Atromentina2 hours ago
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| "Is "anime experience" more important than "anime aftertaste"?" Like with food, both are important. If the aftertaste is horrible, than there were some artificial flavoring agents in it. Not having indigestion later is important too. "Whenever I find myself thinking about it nowadays, however, I just remember the good parts, and not the ones I disliked." This is not aftertaste tho...that's remembering liking a pizza in certain restaurant 2 years ago or something in that line. That's remembering having a good experience despite the pizza being too greasy, or a bit dry or whatever. "So, what's more important?" For me everything. |
| Mieruko-chan was dogshit as a manga, can't believe it got an adaptation and people actually watched it. |
| Taiga best girl forever. |
| The aftertaste. When I rewatch an anime that left me a good aftertaste, I almost always raise the score. It basically means: "remember those early episodes you watched when you still didn't know whether the anime was good or not? Try watching them now that you know the anime is indeed good." |
| I'm not rating shows by how many flaws they have, just on whether I enjoyed them, so if my impression changes, I'll consider updating the score. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
Reply to Subarctic-Forest
Mieruko-chan was dogshit as a manga, can't believe it got an adaptation and people actually watched it.
| @Subarctic-Forest I don't know if the story actually goes somewhere, but the monsters in the manga looked way better than the anime. |
| If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that. |
| magical destroyers way incredibly shallow and inconsistent. it prided itself in being a "truly underground anticorpo anime that dares to challenge the status quo" and the entire message was "go like things, consoom." the least it should've done is not look like awful jank. |
| 馬鹿げた倫理 全部ガラクタで |
Reply to LostSpectre
@Subarctic-Forest I don't know if the story actually goes somewhere, but the monsters in the manga looked way better than the anime.
| @LostSpectre I stopped after around 30 chapters. It hadn't gone anywhere by then, maybe it eventually does idk. |
| Taiga best girl forever. |
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