Thread:Shikifan/@comment-28818979-20180709152707/@comment-34364075-20181020160207

You can just read some reviews for the anime to judge whether it’s bad or not.

Reviews themselves are subjective, but they also contain irrefutable facts, like how the relationship between characters progress, whether the plot is full of holes, etc. Popular doesn’t mean that it’s good and vice versa *cough* Darling in the FranXX *cough*

In Steins;Gate’s case, it’s more likely that ‘bad’ actually means disappointment, since people who have played the game all said that the anime doesn’t do it justice. Same as Persona 5 (although Persona 5 has enough appeal to be called good).