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Mnemosyne - Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi.

Most people who watch anime refuse to rate what they watch as bad because no one actually wants to admit they picked a bad show to watch, and have it reflect poorly on their tastes or choices, lets call it fear of criticism.

Most of the positive ratings also come from hype, when a new show comes out it usually comes out with a blast and then finds its spot a few years later on, take for example The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, it was in the top 5 when it premiered and now its dropping back.

I'll also have to disagree with your criticism and say that it really had no positive side. For everything that it put out there I can find at least 2 anime that did that and this much better.

I'm inclined to think that a significant portion of the votes are from people rating on the enjoyment of the unusually high content of sex and gore. Personally, I found even the quality of this diminished quickly over the course of the series, to say nothing of the plot.

Now on the the dark side:
- If I anyone ever asks me to point him an anime with gratuitous nudity and sex, I won't have to think long. Mind you, I have nothing against sex and nudity as long as they have a sense in the story. (Neither am I against girls love, I even enjoyed Strawberry Panic!.) But spoiler[ nude piercing-torture, lesbian orgies with a girl who looks like she's 14 or angels who rape-eat their victims ] just for the hell of it felt contrived. And excessive clothing damage every other minute didn't help either.. .By the way spoiler[what did the angels exactly do to the dog]?
- And I had problems with the story as well, for example Rin spoiler[ reconstructing herself from little bits in the ocean and miraculously finding the egg during that time.] And I think that explanations that contain the word fate are invalid. Also if she could achieve that, why couldn't Laura (the red-haired one) spoiler[ reconstruct herself? If it is explained with only her head being immortal, what was the deal before she got a cybernetic body?] The rest was mostly thrown together just to shamelessly exploit the sometimes undeniable cool-factor.

So my overall opinion is not that bad as my present rating, but I'm really curious about why this show is rated that high.

Well all the violence and titulation was a plus not a negative in my book, animated violence doesn't really bother me at all since it's obviously not real and the nudity is just art. Plus all the violence was reduced to a less serious level since most of the characters could just regenerate the damage. I also liked the storylines and found them interesting, the main characters were very likable and I cared what happened to them, and production values were nice. All in all, it was fun, a campy and enjoyable little series that's so bad it's good like the Ikki Tousen series and Tenjho Tenge. I gave it a Very Good, only downside was the disturbing nature of a few scenes and the plot holes which kept it from getting higher rating.

Mnemosyne was rated as highly as it is because it entertains both halves of me. No it's not perfect there's better shows out there that do the same thing and it's got it's flaws but I enjoyed watching it and that's all that matters.

So you are honestly telling me that after 500 anime you are never bored with the same old anime, and don't give a shit what kind of crap will come out next as long as its mildly entertaining!? If thats true then I can come up with only two explanations: either you are mega otaku with no social life and hate all other people, thus your selfishness, or you lied and don't really have the experience you claim you do. I can not believe that anyone would always settle for 'very good' and not demand excellence, its just unnatural.

You might want to dial it back a notch, ShadowTrader. What's so wrong about someone not being finicky in their choice of enjoyable anime? It certainly doesn't call for ad hominem attacks. I disagree with Kruszer's opinion that Mnemosyne's plot was anywhere near interesting enough to keep my attention, but I'm not dishing out insults because of it.