Diagnosis
You watch the popular stuff, but as if through glass: no fandoms, no favourites, no comment-section wars. Scores slightly below the crowd, almost no delight. Anime is a good way to spend an evening for you, not a part of your personality.
The Calm · Middle-grounders
You watch what everyone watches. You feel less than everyone.
«Watched it. Fine. Next.»
Rarity
2.2%
Rare · 2,039 of 91,136 profiles
Class mean score
7.02
across all ratings by the class's viewers
Ratings per list
~249
on average per viewer of the class
Diagnosis
You watch the popular stuff, but as if through glass: no fandoms, no favourites, no comment-section wars. Scores slightly below the crowd, almost no delight. Anime is a good way to spend an evening for you, not a part of your personality.
Symptoms
Recognise yourself in at least three? This is probably your card.
Superpower
No hype will ever take your common sense.
Weak spot
It's hard to find a show that truly hooks you.
Class breakdown
You watch what everyone watches — but as if through glass. Season hits, loud sequels and timeless classics flow through your list in an even stream and get scores slightly below average. Not because they didn't land: “liked it” just never switches on at full power for you.
The algorithm sees you as a mainstream viewer without mainstream enthusiasm: a popular list, with scores consistently half a point to a point cooler than the crowd. What separates you from the Skeptic is passivity: the Skeptic actively doubts and checks, while you simply note it — watched, fine, next. No fandom wars, no favourite studio, no title worth arguing over.
It isn't burnout or a pose, it's temperament. Anime is the background of your life, not its content, and there's freedom in that: you never get disappointed because you never get enchanted. And the rare titles that break through the glass stay with you for a long time.
Kindred spirits
If anime characters kept rating lists, these would score titles in the spirit of «Observer».
The class shelf
The popular titles this class most often gives a calm 5–7: watched it. fine. next.
928scores of 5–7Tokyo Ghoul73.5% of the class · Shikimori 7.79
894scores of 5–7Noragami65.5% of the class · Shikimori 7.94
875scores of 5–7Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba80.3% of the class · Shikimori 8.40
857scores of 5–7One-Punch Man Season 258.4% of the class · Shikimori 7.52
857scores of 5–7My Hero Academia56% of the class · Shikimori 7.82
840scores of 5–7Tokyo Ghoul √A54.8% of the class · Shikimori 7.03
816scores of 5–7Akame ga Kill!64.2% of the class · Shikimori 7.48
778scores of 5–7Jujutsu Kaisen78.5% of the class · Shikimori 8.49
763scores of 5–7Classroom of the Elite52.9% of the class · Shikimori 7.82
757scores of 5–7Sword Art Online63.1% of the class · Shikimori 7.23The card is built from the ratings of all 2,039 viewers of the class — each class has its own recipe highlighting its signature. Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
Few titles manage to break the glass the Observer watches the industry through. Here are the ones that got the most detached viewer on the site involved.
18.48class scoreCode Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R248.9% of the class · Shikimori 8.92
28.45class scoreFullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood52% of the class · Shikimori 9.11
38.43class scoreHunter x Hunter52.5% of the class · Shikimori 9.03
48.38class scoreSteins;Gate62.2% of the class · Shikimori 9.07
58.38class scoreFrieren: Beyond Journey's End59.5% of the class · Shikimori 9.25
68.40class scoreGreat Teacher Onizuka43.1% of the class · Shikimori 8.68
78.31class scoreGurren Lagann50.6% of the class · Shikimori 8.65
88.30class scoreBerserk47% of the class · Shikimori 8.61
98.24class scoreVinland Saga63% of the class · Shikimori 8.78
108.26class scoreCode Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion54.5% of the class · Shikimori 8.71How the collection is built: we take the ratings of all 2,039 viewers of the class and compute each title's in-class mean score and audience size. The top features titles the class both watches en masse AND rates highly (a weighted rating that cuts off stray single votes). Music videos and 18+ are excluded. The collection recalculates as the base grows.
Shikimori profiles whose ratings match the class portrait the closest. The percentage shows how much the class dominates their taste spectrum.
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