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Is ANN the worst anime site on the internet?
Aneroph:
--- Quote from: kristen on July 27, 2009, 12:25:59 PM ---MAL is the worst site. It gives nearly no info, and it's rating system is hilarious, since it's anonymous comments.
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What makes you say that? I've used MAL many, many times to look up characters, voice actors, staff, producers, and other anime information. I like it especially for seeing the voice actors for characters and cross referencing the actors with their other characters. It even includes the English cast (not that I look at it though), and pictures of the staff when available. Perhaps I'm missing something to this argument....
Lupin:
--- Quote from: kristen on July 27, 2009, 12:25:59 PM ---anidb is a fairly bad site. It has a lot less info that ann, and it has a rating system that has a good amount of bias based off of group names instead of the actual quality of the episodes.
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Are you saying this because people vote lowly of your group? Does AniDB really has less info? Or does ANN has less? People base their votes off the reputation of a group, just like every other poll.
It depends on what info you are looking for.
For people interested in R1 news/releases, ANN is very useful
For people interested in Fansubs, AniDB is the way to go.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: Lupin on July 27, 2009, 12:41:17 PM ---
--- Quote from: kristen on July 27, 2009, 12:25:59 PM ---anidb is a fairly bad site. It has a lot less info that ann, and it has a rating system that has a good amount of bias based off of group names instead of the actual quality of the episodes.
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Are you saying this because people vote lowly of your group? Does AniDB really has less info? Or does ANN has less? People base their votes off the reputation of a group, just like every other poll.
It depends on what info you are looking for.
For people interested in R1 news/releases, ANN is very useful
For people interested in Fansubs, AniDB is the way to go.
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Honestly another great thing about AniDB is showing what Fansubs have released, they don't show ALL fansubs (which is something needs to be worked on unless if I am missing something). Does ANN show who subbed what and what they completed?! Sure they've got a lot of information about the staff and producers behind anime, but so does AniDB and MAL, plus the fact that both AniDB and MAL supports character descriptions, relations, relateds, etc.
Edit -- Just wanted to say I don't look at fansub ratings, they are using their free time to translate, time, edit, karaoke, encode, etc. to release anime to their fans. Chihiro is among the best right now so yea. I favor Chihiro among other fansubs out there for the past two seasons (almost 3). I used to always go for Frostii over Chihiro, but now its 1st come 1st serve since Chihiro pulled their weight.
Lupin:
AniDB has its flaws. It depends heavily on its users to improve its database. For example, I had to add this to the database last week because nobody added them yet despite being around for three months.
At least AniDB doesn't tout itself as the "Internet's Most Trusted Anime Databse"
kristen:
Lupin, no, I'm not. I'm saying it because when I make an offer and need info, I get pretty much all of it from ANN. anidb I can get like the bare bones, and then that's it.
anidb is the best site to get info on the fansub releases, but it is so heavily biased. Like, Eclipse's Hayate has a rating of 8.74. I'd expect the release to be absolutely perfect in every way for that type of a rating. Instead, I spotted a few typos, some grammar errors, and things typical in like a 7.0 - 7.5 rating. Heck, season two they got a 8.75 and made a typo within the first three minutes (http://www.chihiro-subs.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/samescript.jpg, line 14 on the right.)
You naturally know about the anti-chihiro bias on anidb, such as how the Minami-ke Okaeri started as a 7.4 and dropped to a 6.3 over the season, even though there was no drop in subbing quality, or how Asu no Yoichi dropped 1.5 points (From 7.5 to 6.0) when we actually improved quality as we went on.
Anyways... /tangent on that.
MAL is worse. Just see http://www.chihiro-subs.com/2009/04/23/asura-cryin-03-released/ . LOL. XD
OK... as for the info they have, MAL is better than anidb in the amount of info supplied about the show, but it failed me yesterday when I was trying to find the voice actor for a minor role I liked in a series.
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