How Do I Go About Rating Anime?

Updated from the M.A.R.S. Ratings and Reviews page:

There is so much Anime out there it is hard to tell what you should rent much less buy. It is usually involves a lot trial, error and some guesswork for a lot of people. I am here to give you a hand in solving this problem for you. I intend to rate all of the Anime that I have viewed and what I have in my collection (Which is a lot of Anime.)


The Anime will be subject to a rating on a "ONE TO FIVE" U.N. SPACY INSIGINA SCALE. (For any of you anime fans that do not know U.N. Spacy is from
Robotech {Macross})

A " " would be OUTSTANDING!, an A (You must get this NOW.)
A " " would be EXCELLENT!, a B (You should see this very soon.)
A " " would be AVERAGE!, a C (Rent this when you have seen the others.)
A " " would be OK!, a D (If you must see all Anime avaliable, RENT this)
A " " would be POOR!, an F (Well...this is utter crapola, but if you don't mind your eyes bleeding.)

The Anime contained on this page will be rated by me, and Anime Central contributers, all anime fans. All Anime on this site will consist a 1 (worst) to 5 (best) rating, as seen above and you will also get a review/summary of the Anime, spoiler free of course! This is how we feel about the Anime in question, and hopefully this will lessen the confusion you may have had, so you can make a better decision.

I wanted to post this here so anyone that hasn't seen the M.A.R.S. site knows how ratings and reviews here are going being done in the future.

Anime on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim

Anime on Cartoon Network
For those of you that don't know Cartoon Network has anime on during the week during the regular lineup and espically on Saturday nights during adult swim. The current lineup for Saturday night usually between 9:00 and 11:00 is as follows:

Naruto
One Piece
Bobobo-bo Bo-Bobo
IPGX
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball GT

Anime on Adult Swim
During the Adult Swim protion of the night they have the more mature anime on for older audiences usually between 11:00-2:00 (11:30 now, they put Futurama on instead of Inuyasha, dumb and annoying being its not anime) after 2:00 they are relplayed. The current lineup is as follows:

Full Metal Alchemist
Eureka 7
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (season 1)
Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig (season 2) - Totally awesome series
Samurai Champloo - Totally awesome series as well
Inuyasha

Cartoon Network seems to rotate a lot and not all of these are on all the time, some appear after the adult swim episodes after 2:00 and some during the week.

That being said, I will start posting ratings and mini reviews soon.

Howdy everyone.......

Hello there, my name is Postman, and you might have heard of me from Shootthecore. I'm going to be helping Morrigan with some articles from time to time. I'm most interested in the video game field, and have been playing since the Atari 2600 era (yes I'm old). That doesn't mean I'm a stranger to anime though. I can still remember my first viewing, it was Robot Carnival playing late night on the USA network. I was amazed by the animation quality and the mature handling of subject matter; this was no cartoon! Since then I was hooked, and have enjoyed quite a number of titles.

Some of my favorites include the Starblazers series, Vampire Hunter D, Grave of the Fireflys, and Salamander (based on the Gradius game.) I don't get a chance to view too much anime now, however I'm fortunate to have access to Comcast on demand, and they have a free anime section which plays great stuff from time to time.

How I want updates on Anime Central to be done, as well as anime updates

Well since my last M.A.R.S. update I have watched a lot of anime and I haven't put any of it on the main site. I am now looking at this list of new anime sitting in front of me that I need to get on the site. I am going to post it all here on the blog site, I probally have like 60+ or so titles I haven't put up yet.

I plan to put up one or a few every so often, depending on how long the summaries of them are. I don't like to go into a lot of detail and spoil plot details or anything, I usually give my feelings about the anime and if I feel you guys will like it. If you go over to M.A.R.S. you will see hundreds of anime ratings, summaries and reviews on the "Ratings and Reviews page." That is a great start and you can see how I like to do things. I don't know how often I will update there now, but that's why I started the Anime Central Blog site and there is a lot of existing content there for you to enjoy.

I really want to help give existing anime fans, as well as, new anime fans, or soon to be fans, an idea of what to start with or where to go next. There is a lot of anime out there, and like movies, range from great to crap. I find there to be a lot more good anime then crap, but if I can help you won't need to see it.

Well until my next post, enjoy watching anime!

Second staff writer at Anime Central - Hunter

Welcome Hunter as the second staff writer for Anime Central. He is also an anime fan, loves videogames movies and other stuff. He knows his stuff, so like Postman he will contribute articles from time to time. He will also introduce himself in the coming days.

New staff writer at Anime Central - Postman

Welcome Postman as the new staff writer for Anime Central. Hes an anime fan, he is geared toward the videogame aspect of the site and will contribute articles from time to time. He will introduce himself in the coming days.

A new way to spread anime information

I am Animefanjr, a very big anime fan.
I been running my anime site for years, my site is:


M.A.R.S Morrigan's Anime Ratings Site:
http://www.geocities.com/morriganjr/

I haven't had the time to update, so I decided to try blogging to share info with you. I love Anime but I have more of a life now and a wedding coming up so updating the site has become an afterthought.... unfortunately.... Although I am still watching anime. So I want to use this site to spread info about anime that I have seen but are not able to put on the site. So enjoy and I hope this will help people decide what anime to watch and which to avoid. Of course its my personal tastes but at least I can give you an idea of what is IMHO is a good watch.

Your comments and feedback are wanted. As well as anime, we will discuss other anime related stuff, comics/manga, videogames and movie information.

Now my grammar will sometimes be bad, I try to keep it in check, but I'm sure most of us are not English professors and don't care. If you do....oh well, I'm sorry.

That being said, lets start enjoying anime!