Internet search shows me this website: https://anistats.kluge-it.tech/

But I’m not sure if it includes score differences stats

Christmas in January is probably one of my favorite movies ever, but it only has a 5.57 on MAL. It’s only 46 minutes and it’s the most densely good anime I’ve ever seen. As in like, it’s the best anime ever per-minute.

If you have a MAL account, you can plug in your username to anime.plus and you can view a bunch of stats including what your biggest score differences are. Here’s everything that I have rated around +2 points higher than the average score:

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (2009)	10	7.24	+2.76
Paniponi Dash!	10	7.44	+2.56
1-gatsu ni wa Christmas	8	5.57	+2.43
Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou	10	7.60	+2.40
Gamers!	9	6.72	+2.28
B-gata H-kei	9	6.82	+2.18
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu	10	7.82	+2.18
Hibike! Euphonium	10	8.03	+1.97

All of these I would say are quite underrated, though Kare Kano and Hibike! Euphonium are pretty well-renowned. Haruhi is also very popular.

The first season of Golden Kamuy was amazing but I took a break after the first episode or two of the second season and totally forgot the plot. It’s pretty dense and has a lot of characters so it’s easy to forget exactly what was going on last.

I gotta get back into it at some point

It’s funny how before you are familiar with something, you can mentally place it in the same category as something it’s totally distinct from. Like if I ever heard of people talking about Love Live or idolM@ster, I kinda just placed all that information into the same box.

I had always put Prison School and High School of the Dead in the same box. Both some kind of trashy ecchi with a surface-level heavy theme. But actually, they are SO different.

Prison School is so creative, the stakes and tension feel so real. The silliness and seriousness blend together perfectly. It’s truly amazing and there’s nothing else like it. Also, the soundtrack is among the greatest of all time.

The anime and manga kinda suffer from their own problems. The anime is just a little too short to cover the parts of the manga that were truly jaw-dropping, like the room full of snakes or the futon scene. On the other hand, the manga suffers from the INFAMOUSLY long and boring and just awful “cavalry battle” arc which is just as bad or worse than its reputation would imply. Some people also really dislike the very end but I actually quite like how it ended and can’t really imagine there being a more sensible ending.

Basically yeah. The holes didn’t line up quite right and I didn’t feel like maneuvering it to get any more than 2.

Motherboard standoffs… Pretty sure my motherboard is supposed to have like 9 of them but I only have maybe 2.

Trying to think of more objective ones rather than “Gamers! is really underrated” or “you should watch Galaxy Angel”…

• the first 5 stages of Initial D were done by a different studio every time
• Hideaki Anno, director of Evangelion, voices the main character in The Wind Rises
• Hideaki Anno also animated the god warrior scene from Nausicaa
• the story and characters of Hibike! Euphonium closely mirror Ace wo Nerae!
• Azumanga Daioh was the first in the “cute girls doing cute things” genre and is super influential
• Likewise, Urusei Yatsura was one of the most influential anime of all time

I feel like the intuitive answer is that:

• The OP changes the pace/mood, so postponing it establishes the entire first episode as an introduction, much like the introductory pre-OP segments of any other episode.
• Suspense for people who are excited to hear the new theme
• More time for exposition if you only have 1.5 minutes dedicated to theme songs instead of 3 minutes
• Ends the episode on a high note to give a good first impression, since OP is usually higher priority/focus than the ED or have popular artists

I kinda agree but I wonder what in particular you are thinking of as better? Do you mean something in the same theme/genre or just in general?

If you can understand the last sentence then you now understand how Japanese functions despite omitting pronouns 90% of the time

I will definitely check this out because I was not a fan of the vibe in the movie or SAC.

I’m kinda 50/50 on that. Parents should be doing better, but most are probably unequipped to fight A.I., short-form video, social media, and other things that harm focus and education. You also cannot just expect parents to do better and hope that they will change. Parenting is not subject to very much government regulation (for obvious practical and ethical reasons) but education systems are, and can be changed systematically through law or policy.

So I agree that parents are responsible, but there’s not really any kind of systematic change that I can imagine would fix that problem.

Have you tried their new game?

I know it’s all a matter of taste but do you really think there’s a Sega Saturn game that’s even half as good as Super Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time?

I’m so certain that this Rhythm Heaven level is based on this song & album art. The color palette/style is the same, and the music is really similar too.

Regardless of what this case is about, I think it’s wrong to offer plea deals that negotiate the sentence below the death penalty.
Even if I’m 100% innocent, I’m gonna take the plea deal instead of risking my life in court.
If there are crimes so serious that they warrant the death penalty, there should be a trial. And if we’re okay with letting this person live, why did we consider taking their life in the first place? It’s a very coercive way to do “justice”. Admit to the crime or else we might kill you.

I like it when they at least differentiate the title a little bit. Makes it a little bit easier to distinguish between the two games.

Remakes often have different staff, art direction, design philosophy, gameplay, etc. so personally I kinda prefer that they give it a new title instead. Using the exact same title makes me feel like they’re trying to replace the original.

The animated cutscenes in the original P3 are really cool and stylish. I don’t care for them all that much in P4 or P5, but it can definitely be done well. My understanding is that P3Re removed most (all?) of the 2D animation, so you might have your wish anyway.

Personally I find that the more anime I watch and the more “anime-literate” I become, I naturally develop a kind of backlog regardless of recommendation algorithms. For example: I watch Mawaru Penguindrum -> I search up the director -> I find out that director Ikuhara is famous for making several other interesting surreal anime -> Yurikuma Arashi, Sarazanmai, and Revolutionary Girl Utena added to the backlog.

I also definitely get a lot out of browsing random people’s profiles and adding stuff that they have on favorites (I have like 45 profiles bookmarked in my browser). This is personally my favorite way to find stuff, just jumping between reviews and profile and conversations in comments.

And then of course there’s other sites where you can find recommendations like lemmy, r/anime, or Youtube. It’s hard to find good anitube nowadays, but there’s still some really good channels out there if you dig. ZNoteTaku and The Bellman are some of my favorites that I’ve found. Trixie the Golden Witch, too. Maybe STEVEM, hazel, and I’ve heard kenny lauderdale is supposed to be good. (This could be its own thread).

But anyway I’m kinda rambling. There’s plenty of ways to find recommendations. Personally I don’t find recommendation algorithms necessary. But if you do, then maybe stick to AniList or MAL. Personally I use MAL but it doesn’t really matter. If you have friends with anime lists, use whatever they use.

Take a look at the user interface of each one and see what you prefer. MAL / AniList users tend to have a strong preference for one UI over the other (I’m on team MAL for that one). I’m not very familiar with animeplanet but I’d also recommend checking out Kitsu.io (or Kitsu.app now, I guess) especially if you want to log western animation like Avatar TLA, My Little Pony, or Arcane.