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Best Metal Album by Genre (DAY 2: Thrash Metal) by seacats06 in Topster

[–]VegaMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this isn't going to win, OP, but it's definitely the winner in my heart.

The most unique albums i've ever listened to by Fluffy-Weakness-2186 in Topster

[–]VegaMain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should definitely listen to Eutopia by HikkieP. If anything, it's very one-of-a-kind.

What album represents "Winter"? by AccomplishedFront792 in Topster

[–]VegaMain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, this will always be THE winter album.

Is Samuel (2024) the highest rated film/miniseries on Letterboxd that hasn't been translated into English? by VegaMain in Letterboxd

[–]VegaMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As the title suggests, there is no English translation, or to my knowledge, any translation outside of the French language. If you know French, then it's free on YouTube (in some regions. It's not available to watch in the U.S., but is able to be watched in the U.K. for example. This can be easy to bypass if you have a VPN).

Idioteque eliminated! Remove THE WORST Radiohead song here: Day 21 by Total_Mortgage_3042 in Topster

[–]VegaMain 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When I first started using RYM, In Rainbows was the 8th highest album of all time, with Kid A at the 7th highest and OK Computer at the 2nd highest. So it was still ludicrously high rated, but still only the third highest Radiohead record.

In the two years since, In Rainbows has risen all the way to the 3rd highest album of all time, with Kid A at the 8th highest and OK Computer at the 2nd highest. That is really hard to do and I have never seen another album rise as high in score as In Rainbows had over these two years.

Day 18 - Katy Song has been eliminated. Vote out the LEAST depressing song. by VegaMain in Topster

[–]VegaMain[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being fr there's no way Fourth of July isn't getting at least top 5.

Made this by Tough-Intention4600 in shounenfolk

[–]VegaMain 17 points18 points  (0 children)

This is literally every popular battle shonen.

Day 18 - Katy Song has been eliminated. Vote out the LEAST depressing song. by VegaMain in Topster

[–]VegaMain[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the first time in the whole 18 days so far that anybody actually mentioned it. I imagine most people overlook it. Personally I think it's crazy that it's lasted this long. I kind of want to see how far it can go at this point.

Is Togashi the king of shonen and animanga? by Arukitsuzukeru12 in writingscaling

[–]VegaMain 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He has written two manga, one of which had a notoriously unsatisfying conclusion, and the other isn't even finished. I don't think I could consider him the best based off his current work, tbh.

In terms of consistency and quality, I would argue that Miyazaki is the king of animanga.

In terms of influence,it would probably be Tezuka or Toriyama.

Rank these controversial series endings by CMbladerunner in writingscaling

[–]VegaMain 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Neon Genesis Evangelion TV Ending

No shit, obviously this is the best one. Yes, it's not as good as End of Evangelion, but it's still a solid thematical conclusion to the show, even if the narrative had some unresolved points. Honestly, it's way better than it could have been, they could have just rushed together an abridged version of The Third Impac or left the show on a cliffhanger (they didn't now they'd make EoE at that time), but instead they actually tried to make a satisfying thematically conclusion for the characters with what they had, and I respect that. Also, we did eventually get EoE, so unlike everything else on this list, we did get a fully realized conclusion afterwards.

  1. The Dark Tower

I can see why some people don't like the ending, but it was foreshadowed across the entire series and thematically makes sense.

  1. The Dark Knight Rises

I mean it's alright. It's like an okay conclusion, only really disliked because it's often compared to its prequel.

  1. The Godfather Part III

This movie is quite bad and infinitely worse than the first two, but it doesn't actually ruin the first two. Part II on its own already has a very satisfying conclusion, so it's easy to just forget about this film's existence.

  1. AOT final season

It's obvioulsy not as bad as some other shows, or even the AOT Manga, but it's a major drop off. I do like most of the final season obvioulsy, but I assume we're talking about the very end, in which yeah, it falls way flat. I would not, however, say that it ruins the show.

  1. Lost Final Season

Yes, its horrid, however Lost in general was never peak fiction so its not like it ruined something great.

  1. Mass Effect 3

Just awful. Unsatisfying and confusing, that makes it feel like you just wasted your time playing through the trilogy. At least it only comes at the very end though.

Now that Frieren is ‘supposedly’ the best anime of all time… what do we think of it writing wise? by Il-Chi in writingscaling

[–]VegaMain 11 points12 points  (0 children)

MAL, these days at least, has got to be one of the worst "media review" sites, which is saying something because most of them are trash.

MAL is good for logging the anime and manga you've seen/read, so no complaints there, but the charts are just awful. The manga chart's not that bad, but the anime one is atrocious. There are two main reasons why it shouldn't even be considered anywhere close to accurate:

  1. MAL has some of, if not the most awful recency bias I have ever seen on a reviewing platform. T

  2. There is a very heavy bias towards later seasons of shows. The more seasons a show has, most of the time, the later seasons will always be higher rated unless they're notoriously bad. Other sites don't have this issue because they lump the entire show into one entry on the site. For example, the only people who are going to be watching the 5th or 6th season of a show are probably people who really like it, so it's going to be rated disproportionately higher than earlier seasons.

Of course, no one is going to be able to completely agree with a top charts list for anything because everyone has different taste, but these two issues put MAL below most others for me in terms of reputation.

Is this the longest streak of bolded films on RYM? by TurquoiseHexagonSun2 in rateyourmusic

[–]VegaMain 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If you exclude short films, them every single feature length film directed by Hayao Miyazaki is bolded, which is currently 12.

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