A self-reminder mostly.
!!
Left noticeable emotional impact.
:D
Funny.
:D!
Very funny!
o_0
Weird/unexpected things going on.
boobfest
Gratuitous fanservice/objectification of females. Melon breast syndrome, unnaturally skimpy clothes, etc. Stuff that is typically neither aesthetic nor called for, or done that way as a satire.
MANLINESS
Similar to above, except for males: overstated musculature, loud voices, rampant macho-ism, I WILL PROTECT EVERYONE, I WILL SACRIFICE MYSELF FOR MY FRIENDS, WHAT'D YOU SAY 'BOUT MY MOMMA, and that kind of stuff.
music
Has unexpectedly good and/or memorable music.
xd-humor
Funny in very specific or unorthodox ways, whether intentionally or otherwise. "So bad it's good" is included.
eye candy
Very pleasing visually in terms of art and/or animation quality.
gay characters
Contains character that are super annoying, horribly drawn, or otherwise incorrigible.
no plot
Either doesn't contain an overarching plotline, or there's too little of it, or it's so pathetically executed it could have done without it.
too long
Contains too much filler or just takes too long to advance the story and leaves you wishing it took way fewer episodes to say the same things.
too short
The inverse of the above: a show that doesn't tell the full story due to lack of episodes, or condenses it too much for it to be comprehensible, or (in case with slice-of-life/gag comedy) leaves you craving for more of the same. Note to self: I should probably put this on more titles.
wp
Short for wasted potential. Applicable to botched adaptation, failure to expand on a good premise, failures in pacing or other aspects of execution, or taking a very wrong turn with the storyline and losing the emotional and/or intellectual connection as a result. Note to self: I should probably put this on more titles.
clever
Doesn't hold one's hand through the story or characters' intentions, poses interesting questions (often in forms of metaphors) without dumbing them down, and generally treats the viewer's intelligence with respect.
gore
Gratuitous amounts of blood or otherwise graphic violence. Can be ubiquitous as in ninja anime, or concentrated in short but gruesome patches as in LoGH or works by Yoshiyuki Tomino.
abrupt ending
Ends without a proper conclusion to the story arc (think Ghibli/Makoto Shinkai movies) or wraps things up way too quickly, creating a huge inconsistency in pacing.
CONVENIENCE
Story has too much plot convenience elements: deus ex machinas, characters "reading the script", etc.
bad adaptation
Botches up the original manga/LN badly, often in many ways. Often happens to good manga.
cat surrealism
Using (anthropomorphic) cats as characters in surreal stories happens more often than one would expect. Some of these are actually good, too.
my childhood
Something that I have (partially) watched as a kid, on TV or VHS.
bullshit
Either the story or its execution contains too many stupid or superfluous elements to the point where they become insulting.
boring
Something that is so bad I either drop it or fastforward through it.
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