7 Красных Флагов в Аниме — Как отсеять Проходняк за МИНУТУ!

A Seven-Point Red-Flag System for Screening Anime

Mellivora presents a personal checklist for quickly deciding whether an anime is worth trying. It can help avoid disappointments, but it isn’t a foolproof way to find every hidden gem.

1. The Title

Long titles featuring words like reincarnation, rebirth, or another world are treated as warning signs for isekai. Mellivora jokes that titles rarely predict quality—except when they give away that particular formula.

• Effectiveness: 9/10
• Applicability: 3/10

2. The Rating

Mellivora suggests approaching shows rated below roughly 7.7 with caution. A low score can still hide something worthwhile, and a high score doesn’t guarantee quality, so ratings are a first filter rather than a final verdict.

• Effectiveness: 6/10
• Applicability: 10/10

3. The Poster

A generic pile-up of characters doesn’t reveal much. A poster with a more unusual or deliberate visual style earns a small plus, though Mellivora admits this is a shaky way to judge a show.

• Effectiveness: 2/10
• Applicability: 6/10

4. The Source Material

Knowing whether an anime is adapted from a Chinese web novel, Korean manhwa, light novel, or manga—or whether it has an original script—can help set expectations. Publication history may also be worth looking into.

Mellivora considers manga the “gold standard.” Original anime are more of a gamble: they may be unusual and ambitious, or simply baffling.

• Effectiveness: 8/10 for a quick check; up to 9/10 for deeper research
• Applicability: 9/10 for a quick check; 5/10 for deeper research

5. What People Praise

This is Mellivora’s most important and most demanding test: praise should match what the genre promises. Action anime should be praised for its action, romance for how it develops relationships, and fantasy for its world and adventures.

If the buzz focuses only on an unrelated “deep” theme, Mellivora suspects the fundamentals may be weak. He illustrates this with a car seller who talks about the factory’s blue walls and a dog giving birth in the back seat—but never mentions mileage or accidents.

• Effectiveness: 10/10
• Applicability: 3/10

6. The Author’s Track Record

A creator’s work before or after a breakout hit may be much weaker than that hit. Mellivora argues that editors and luck can play a major role in producing a masterpiece, so a famous author’s next project shouldn’t automatically get a free pass.

• Effectiveness: 7/10
• Applicability: 3/10

7. Japanese Folklore and Mysticism

Mellivora is especially cautious about stories built around yokai, Shinto themes, spirits, or Japanese mythology, particularly in modern settings. His theory is that familiar cultural material can attract a supportive audience and make a story easier to write, allowing mediocre work to get by.

He acknowledges that there are exceptions, but says these titles are more often middling than exceptional.

• Effectiveness: 9/10
• Applicability: 9/10

The “Perfect Anime”

The video’s central joke is that the ideal anime according to this checklist would have a short, non-isekai title, a strong rating, a stylish poster, manga or original-source origins, and praise for delivering on its genre. Its author’s reputation would come from that very work—and it would contain no Japanese folklore.

Mellivora’s method helps him avoid plenty of disappointments, but he admits it sometimes causes him to miss hidden diamonds.

Personality

The video features one main presenter: Mellivora.