What I like About Anime And How I Rate it.

My taste in anime is so unusual because I am very smart and intellectual, and my world view is unusual as well. I see some of these shows differently from other people.

I like either shows where everything is perfectly idyllic and everyone is very nice GuP, Bofuri, Gochiusa, K-On!, Overlord, some of the isekai.

Shows I want to be in, perhaps. Though that is a little more complex.

Or very dark shows where I can relate to characters and their experiences: Code Geass, Black Lagoon, Elfen Lied, Watamote, Gyakkyou Burai Kaiji. Revolutionary Girl Utena, Jigoku Shoujou

They give me sense that someone understands me and my problems.

Also, I like comedies if they can make me laugh, like Gintama, Nichijou and Excel Saga.

I do not like shows where I cannot relate to characters. That have woman types I hate. Where they just doing stuff or going wild out of boredom for no reason at all. Ergo Proxy, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Guilty Crown, Samurai Champloo.

How I rate anime

I judge on summary of experience.

10 Greatest of them all. Only Code Geass earned it, see my review to know why.

9 Exceptional and special in some particular way, see detains in my reviews, very tldi

8 Great and enjoyable shows that I can recommend for pure entertainment purposes.

7 Not as great but good shows that I can recommend.

6 Has some flaws by alright.

5 Nothing bad nothing good, or a balance of bad and good

4 3 Bad, just bad

2 1 Stuff that exceptionally annoys me for various reasons.

All cases would be considered individually without summary judgement.

I judge based on:

like/not like (do I find characters and setting appealing, if char a girl, then often but not always if I want her as my lover)

interesting/not interesting (am I curious about it, do I want to know what will happen)

can relate/cannot relate (Does it makes sense to me. Are characters just do the opposite of what I would have done in their place or wanted them to do)

deep and profound/shallow (this is the most complex criteria, since I know literary analysis I can get more out of some shows, I often give them 9 and 10 in my list, though some are 7 and 6)

No special bonuses for minor stuff. Just quality of art or music cannot fix failures in the above criteria. If anything, I can get music separately and listen to it without the show.

Well minor redeeming qualities can lift anime from 1 to 2.

10 and 9 reserved to exceptional in some particular way shows. There is no other way to reward or note them otherwise.

8 is maximum for normal show, therefore.

There are couple of exceptions to that rule mostly for intellectual and complicated shows such as Serial Experiments Lain, Revolutionary Girl Utena or Infinite Ryvius.

In simple directive terms: 

10-7 watch

6-5 possibly watch as well.

4-1 do not watch.