New Poll - Rating the Average
2 weeks ago
Posts: 10754
This week's poll was suggested by our user LazyReviewer. What would you rate the "average" series?
You can submit poll ideas here http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903
Previous Poll Results:
Question: How many series have you started but stopped reading without finishing?
Choices:
- <10 - votes: 281 (14%)
- 10-50 - votes: 643 (32.1%)
- 51-100 - votes: 406 (20.3%)
- 101-500 - votes: 443 (22.1%)
- 501-1k - votes: 108 (5.4%)
- 1k+ - votes: 121 (6%)
There were 2002 total votes. The poll ended: October 19th, 2024 10:37am PDT
Maybe I should've added a 10k option just to see
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2 weeks ago
Posts: 4
Definitely a seven. Even though 5 is in the middle, it's not really reflective of the average quality of manga that actually made it to publishing. Manga that should have a 1-3 just don't make it that far, so there's not a lot of reasons to use those ratings. Some people do treat 1 or 10 ratings essentially as an upvote/downvote, but if you're actually rating with something approaching 'objectivity' then 7 is probably in the middle of the manga that overcome both the barriers of publisher acceptance and translator pick-up.
5/10. I wouldn´t say that this is a mathematic D- to even F, don´t they start with 49/100 points, but absolutely a big fat D. MID. Being average isn´t good and is the same as being mediocre. Both mediocre and average even mean "Mittelmaß" in German so I have Fax & Logic Tm on my side.
I have little interest in a 6/10 in most cases and drag lower-scoring media only along in the most extreme of cases.
I also read EU/US comics and am a librarian.
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2 weeks ago
Posts: 241
average is a 7... 6 is below average... and 1-5 are just measures of how bad it is... i do like somewhat an average manga so i cannot rate those below 7
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2 weeks ago
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If I were to be forced to read a random assortment of manga and rate them , I am sure I would rate them with an average around 5 (maybe even lower with my narrow genre interests).
But, of course no one actually does that(I hope...) I only actually pick up and read things that I think might interest me in the first place, and so my average is closer to 7 like others are saying (actually 6.25 according to my own statistics, I read a lot of mid stuff, it turns out...).
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5 should be the average mmm... If you think 5 is not the average, you haven't read enough shitty manga that drag down the whole ranking system down mmm...
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2 weeks ago
Posts: 241
Quote from VawX
5 should be the average mmm... If you think 5 is not the average, you haven't read enough shitty manga that drag down the whole ranking system down mmm...
i did read enough... i just have different meaning for average
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2 weeks ago
Posts: 614
on a scale of 1-5 a 3 would be average, so for a 10 scale it should extrapolate to a 6.
2 weeks ago
Posts: 390
Quote from VawX
5 should be the average mmm... If you think 5 is not the average, you haven't read enough shitty manga that drag down the whole ranking system down mmm...
Not actually a reasonable take, 5 only makes sense as an average if you're inherently ranking against other published manga. If you're comparing against all media globally, manga comes out ahead for sure.
I voted 6 and that was only because I counted self-published webmanga which have drastically varying quality. If you only count series published by actual companies as "manga", I think 7 would be reasonable.
2 weeks ago
Posts: 25
It depends on what "average" means.
Since the question was
what would you rate the "average" manga
I chose 5 because I've definitely read enough bad and extremely mid manga to think that all together they'd probably even out. For me, in general conversation "the average" something usually means some hypothetical most typical/common example of something; the midpoint.
But if the question had been
what would you rate an "average" manga
I'd have probably put 7 since that phrases the question as talking about a specific individual manga that I'd describe as "average", and I feel like "meh" or "nothing special" would be more along the lines of what I'd call a 5, with emphasis on "average" as an adjective leaning slightly positive but unenthusiastic.
So with a random sampling, on average I'd probably find way more mangas I'd rate as a 5 than a 7, but generally speaking the kind of manga I'd actually describe as average would be more in the range of around 6-8.
2 weeks ago
Posts: 11
This depends on the data pool.
If I had to go randomly pick manga from everything out there and then read and rate them, my average rating would probably be around 4/10.
I think, as a whole, there is more garbage out in the world than manga that are actually good.
Now, considering that I do a bit of research before I start reading something in order to only pick up manga that I'm likely to enjoy in the first place, my average rating of what I read tends to be 7 or higher.
1 week ago
Posts: 9
I rate for myself, so that if I come back on the series, I know how enjoyable it was for me or not.
Comics I rate 5/10 are the ones not interesting me, that could be fine to read but that I don't have high hopes for.
Although I said that, I picked the 1/10 option for the poll, because something average is something boring, and if a comic manages to make me say it's boring, then it deserves a 1/10 coming from me.
On another note, I guess the average note I give should probably be below four or maybe even below three. I give way less 10s, 9s, 8s, and 7s than 4s, 3s, 2s, and 1s. I probably rate 75% of the time below 5, but I remember more the ones above, so I can't really do precise statistics if I just try to think about it x)
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1 week ago
Posts: 71
Rating in general, I'd say 6, but rating the ones I read it's a 7/8. Usually I snoop through some of the shared images of the manga and the comments before reading, so if it seems terrible, I don't even start...
Actually, looking at my reading list I see mostly 8 and 9 ratings, so it seems I'm not too picky. Or perhaps, it's because I don't bother to rate the boring ones.
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1 week ago
Posts: 90
Quote from VawX
5 should be the average mmm... If you think 5 is not the average, you haven't read enough shitty manga that drag down the whole ranking system down mmm...
Agreed because I personally used to rate everything 7 that I somewhat enjoyed at the time, and after reading 100s of the same stories 5 or 6 does feels more appropriate for a thing I still enjoy but really couldn't tell you why it's worth reading. The thing that changed my mind was someone asking me why I rated things so highly if I considered them average. Maybe not most people, but a good amount seem to consider the middle of the scale as average. I sort of preferred that rating system but always felt I was giving something a bad score if I went lower than 7.
Plus this is the same as the recent brainrot people have in general with saying everything is mid, and mid=bad. Being less than amazing doesn’t make something immediately trash. I just don't want to be one of those people at this point.
1 week ago
Posts: 124
For me 7 means there is nothing wrong with it. the last 3 are preference points. If I feel something should be below a 7 then I ask myself if I was the intended audience before rating it. I read all genres so if I don't like a particular genre trope that is more a me problem than something wrong with the manga.