Jev's taste in anime vs MyAnimeList users

Does Jev like the anime that MyAnimeList users like, and where does it disagree most?

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Jev's ranking of 1,359 anime agrees moderately with MyAnimeList users' (rank correlation 0.66). It likes old films like Vampire Hunter D and the Dragon Ball Z movies more than fans do, and series like Welcome to the NHK and Major S3 far less.

How to read this: Each dot is a title. Across: its rank among MyAnimeList users. Up: its rank for Jev. The labeled ones are the biggest disagreements.

1,359 items; 90% interval 0.64 to 0.69.

In short

Jev and MyAnimeList fans broadly agree on which of 1,359 anime are good (rank correlation 0.66), though far from perfectly.
The sharpest splits are long-running sequels: fans rate the Major and Junjou Romantica seasons highly, while Jev ranks them near the bottom.
In the other direction, it warms to older action films like Vampire Hunter D and the Dragon Ball Z movies more than fans do.

What the data shows

Somehow Palpatine returned. meme: Jev likes Dragon Ball Z Movie 4 far more than MyAnimeList does — Jev likes Dragon Ball Z Movie 4 far more than MyAnimeList does

Moderate agreement: rank correlation 0.66 (90% interval 0.64 to 0.69), second only to films among the five catalogs.
Jev likes older action films more than fans do: Vampire Hunter D and several Dragon Ball Z movies (numbers 3, 4 and 7), plus Koufuku Graffiti.
It likes some fan favorites much less: Welcome to the NHK (Jev 1.42 on the 0-to-4 scale, users 3.33), the sequels Major S3 and Major S6, Junjou Romantica and Terra e....

What it means, and what it doesn't

Jev's anime taste roughly follows the fans, and splits where fans' devotion runs deepest: later seasons of long-running series and a few cult favorites. Its extra warmth for 80s and 90s action films looks like an outsider's taste, the anime a general viewer has heard of.

It doesn't mean Jev has watched them. And the sequels at the bottom are the clearest case of fans rating what they already love.

Caveats

Fans rate what they chose to watch. MyAnimeList users rate shows they chose, and later seasons of a series are rated almost only by people who loved the earlier ones. That's likely why sixth seasons score so well with their audience.
Ratings squeezed into five levels. MyAnimeList ratings run 1 to 10; they were binned onto the project's five described levels. The comparison uses ranks, not levels.
A 2016 catalog. The ratings come from a 2016 dataset of titles with at least 300 ratings, so recent anime isn't here.

Jev on this experiment

Would a person find it interesting to read?: Yes77%
Does it describe you?: No76%
Would you have predicted it?: No64%
How fair is the comparison?: The comparison is reasonable
How much should a reader rely on it?: Moderately
Which caveat matters most?: Fans rate what they chose to watch80%

Why ask this

Anime fans rate a lot and argue about it more. Comparing Jev with MyAnimeList, the biggest fan database, shows whether a model's sense of good anime matches the people who watch it, and where it doesn't.

Someone asking "what should I watch after Cowboy Bebop?" gets the model's taste, not the fandom's. Knowing where the two part ways shows which recommendations to trust.

How this was done

The people and the data

MyAnimeList users, via a public 2016 dataset of their 1-to-10 ratings. For each title, the experiment uses the distribution of its ratings, set on the same five levels Jev answers on. The 1,359 titles are TV series and films with at least 300 ratings each, from old films like Vampire Hunter D to long-running series like Major, whose seasons each appear as their own title.

What Jev was asked

Every title one at a time:

How much would you enjoy watching Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu (TV series)?
You'd give up on it early · You'd finish it but forget it within a week · You'd enjoy it once and not rewatch it · You'd recommend it to a friend · You'd rewatch it and count it among your favorites

Each was also asked with the answers reversed, and the two averaged. Jev never saw the MyAnimeList ratings.

How it was measured

The analysis ranks all 1,359 titles by Jev's average level and by the users', and compares the orders with a rank correlation (1 means the same order, 0 means none). Ranks, because the scales differ.

Where these questions live

1,359 questions across 1 topic of the map. Each opens on the map with every question in it.

Ratings

Anime Ratings1,359

Every question

All 1,359 questions behind this result, the telling ones first: the examples the analysis points to, then the ones where Jev misses, biggest gap first.

Jev’s own answer

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