Review guideline: Difference between revisions

Many reviewers at AniDB prefer to divide their reviews into the follow sections: Animation, Sound, Story, Character, Value, and Enjoyment. It is logical, and by no means a bad way to structure an anime review. Structuring your review into sections allow readers to easily locate information they want instead of searching for it in your review.  However, this method of writing restrict may restrict your thought process, explicitly dividing your review into sections.  If you choose to not divide your review into such sections, try to at least keep in mind the following guidelines stated later in this guide.  Always keep in mind that your review is to help users decide whether or not they want to watch.  '''"Sell" your opinions and ideas.  Do not hold back simply because your opinion does not jive with the majority.'''  Perhaps whoever is reading your review may have similar tastes. By not stating your honest opinion, you may adversly affect your credibility in the future.

Commenting on fansub quality is unnecessary because you are reviewing the anime itself, not the fansub.  You can comment on a particular fansub's quality by either voting or posting your thoughts on a particular group (see: [[Votes: Anime: Group|groupvotes per anime]]) in the [[Group Info]] area. This area can be found for all anime entries. Post your comments on fansub quality there.

Try to keep your review as spoil free as possible.  Although it is quite hard to review certain anime without spoiling, try to be as informative, but as unrevealing as possible.  Please consider those who have not watched the anime before. By including spoilers you will more than likely hinder his or her viewing experience.

**Is the animation realistic or fantasy-like?

**What kind of perspective was the animation done from?

**What do you think the director was trying to achieve with this kind of animation?

**Is the animation style unique, or is the animation style similar to another anime you are familiar with?

**Does the animation style fit the mood of the anime?

**Was this animation style memorable?

**Does the animation use repeating frames? Did this add or detract from your enjoyment?

**How was the animation's fluidity?

***Was it choppy and jittery?

**Did the anime use pan shots?

***Was it used effectively or overused?

*Describe the backgrounds

**How were the backgrounds and inatimate objects drawn?

**If they were detailed, point out certain examples that you could.

***Were they memorable?

***Did they immerse you or had no effect?

***If they weren't detailed much at all, do you think it was done that way on purpose? Or was it meant to be that way?

*Describe the character designs

**Were different character designs important to this anime?

**Could you recognize characters easily by say just looking at their soliette?

**If characters looked similar to each other, was it fustrating, or it wasn't important?

*Describe the opening and ending sequence

**Did they fit the anime?

**Was it misleading or memorable?

First off, the seiyuu (voice actors). If one of the voice actors is doing a horrible job since his/her voice doesn`t fit the character at all, now is your chance. Or if someone is doing such a good job that the voice of that person keeps the bad storyline interesting, tell it.

Tell why it is a great opening song, like when it fits the series very well, or if it doesn`t fit at all even though it`s a good opening song.

How is the story? Is the plot deep and good enough to make an interesting anime, or is there no plot at all and is it only fighting or fanservice?

Are the characters unrealistic, are they annoying or are they welldeveloped and do they change when the series progresses ?

The value of a series is like saying how much rewatch value it has. Is it a series/movie which you would likely rewatch some time, or was it as uninteresting that you will never ever watch it again?

This is easy. How much did you enjoy this series/movie? Tell us what you particularly liked and disliked (try not to spoil though).