I’m thinking of writing reviews for the anime I’ve watched, but before doing so, I’d like to share my method of rating anime. Well, It is not very professional but rather personal and subjective.

My ratings are from 0-100 points.

90-100pts  = Masterpiece

80-89.9pts = Excellent

70-79.9pts = Great

60-69.9pts = Good

50-59.9pts = Decent

40-49.9pts = Not Really Good

30-39.9pts = Weak

20-29.9pts = Bad

10-19.9pts = Awful

0-9.9pts = WORST EVER

I don’t think I’m going to have any reviews with points below 30points, cause I’m not going to finish it…

Animes which achieve 70points and above would be fantastic and would recommended to everyone.

Story

Hmm, this is very subjective and personal. There are stories that I like but you may not like them…  Some stories could make you laugh with them, but some epic failure couldn’t make the humour common.

Factors which take into account are:

1. Genre of anime (what type the story is, Action? Romance? Fantasy? or others…)
2. Strong Plot? or Fan-Service? or both. (If the anime is made with a strong plot, they should not waste most of their episodes on fan-servicing…)
3. The progress of the story. (to be simple, how they told the story…)

“Happy ever after” ending doesn’t always earn extra points, “Kill them all” ending sometimes get higher points… what I seek is a GOOD story, I wont complaint even if the ending is bad… as soon as the ending is reasonable.

Animation

Factors which take into account are:

1. The time the anime was released (I wouldn’t expect the quality of an anime released in 1998 to have the same quality as one released in 2008, I mean the technology used to make it…)
2. What type of the released anime, Movie? OVA? TV series? (movies are held to have higher quality than OVA, while OVA are held to have higher quality than TV series)
3. The “look and feel against genre” of the anime. (If the anime is goofy and has goofy looking anime, I won’t necessarily hold that against it.)
4. Art. (is the Anime production company is doing it properly? mostly same principle as above)
5. Design. (character design or mecha design…)

I’m not an Anime Expert, basically how I rate it is…if the animation is well done, I rate it high.  If it isn’t, then I won’t rate it high.  Pretty simple I think.

Audio

Again, partially subjective to whether I just like it or not. However, I do pay attention to whether the music helps define or confuse the look and feel of the anime. Is the soundtrack used suitable for the anime? What is the music quality? The Opening song, Ending song and Insert song. Seiyuu (aka. 配音).

Factors which take into account are:

1. Opening theme, Ending theme, Insert theme.
2. Opening & Ending animation.
3. BGM / Soundtrack.
4. Seiyuu (aka. Voice Cast / 配音)

Personal Rating

While the left 10 points is calculated according how much I enjoyed the anime. The most simple rating among the 4 parts.

Point Calculation

1. 40points for Story.
2. 30points for Animation.
3. 20Points for Audio.
4. 10Points for personal rating.

40+30+20+10 = 100. Pretty simple isn’t it?