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Wow, your symbols make no sense.

What does a circle with a line through it mean? What does the up arrow mean? The down arrow? The X is easy, but the others don't seem to serve any purpose other than to make one wonder what they mean.

Maybe a key would help. Or just use words instead of symbols to more clearly share whatever those symbols are trying to share.

For example, you gush about how awesome you think Fate/Zero is then give it a down arrow. Did you just feel bad about having nothing but positive things to say and wanted to try to balance it out with a negative looking symbol? Seriously confused here.

Fate/Zero recieves a red arrow because, even though the episodes are still great, it's a little below the ones from the last column (which I don't agree; I think they're in the same level).

Nayu wrote:

Wow, your symbols make no sense. What does a circle with a line through it mean? What does the up arrow mean? The down arrow? The X is easy, but the others don't seem to serve any purpose other than to make one wonder what they mean. Maybe a key would help. Or just use words instead of symbols to more clearly share whatever those symbols are trying to share. For example, you gush about how awesome you think Fate/Zero is then give it a down arrow. Did you just feel bad about having nothing but positive things to say and wanted to try to balance it out with a negative looking symbol? Seriously confused here.

I believe the symbols represent how this batch of episodes do compared to the last ones. Did it o better, worse, or is stable? The circle with a line means stable, in this case.

Fate/Zero recieves a red arrow because, even though the episodes are still great, it's a little below the ones from the last column (which I don't agree; I think they're in the same level).

The only problem I see is that Un-Go and Majikoi have stable grades in the chart at the top of the column but red arrows in their comments.

blackseer wrote:

Fate/Zero recieves a red arrow because, even though the episodes are still great, it's a little below the ones from the last column (which I don't agree; I think they're in the same level).

The arrows are in relation to their position on the chart. It's not that eps 5-6 of F/Z are weaker than 1-4, it's just that Mirai Nikki bumped it down a spot on the list. Speaking of which, Mirai Nikki sounds completely unappealing to me. To have everything answered by 'Deus Ex Machina' is something I would hate. I'm sure for those who don't mind such will enjoy it though.

See those arrows on the side of the page and below each title? They don't mean too much this week, since it's the first column, but over the weeks, you'll see those change. They simply represent the movement of titles in the list. If a title moves up in the rankings, it'll get a green arrow. If it moves down (even if it's just from first to second), it'll get a down arrow. Since this week every title made the list for the first time, they all get an up—except two titles. One of them gets a big red “down” because it really fouled my first impression from the Fall Preview, and the other one… well, that one gets a big, fat X. Because time is money, and that title just isn't bringing home the bacon.

Yes, you believe this to be true. But there's no chart stating this, no indication that this is how these symbols work. If I arrived here from Mars and wanted to know which streaming video would be a good one to watch, do these symbols give me (in my Martian english reading eliteness) any indication of what they mean? Not really, we have to infer (or in some cases just straight out guess) what they mean. Symbols should be there for clarification of the text, not to add new, unnecessary confusion.

Nayu wrote:

Yes, you believe this to be true. But there's no chart stating this, no indication that this is how these symbols work. If I arrived here from Mars and wanted to know which streaming video would be a good one to watch, do these symbols give me (in my Martian english reading eliteness) any indication of what they mean? Not really, we have to infer (or in some cases just straight out guess) what they mean. Symbols should be there for clarification of the text, not to add new, unnecessary confusion.

She explained what the symbols would mean in the first column. So, I guess if you're an alien who reads season updates without looking at the first part of the season for context, it could be confusing.

I almost stopped watching a few episodes in because I hated every single character except for Kaito and his gal pal Nonoha. But, be it through character development or Stockholm Syndrome, I eventually grew to love even the most obnoxious of them, and then I was hooked. Even boisterous Gammon, the frenemy who was always getting in the way, became delightful to watch