Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War and all its episodes are being reviewbombed

And if it couldn't be any truer that Bleach TYBW is being review bombed with mass 2/10s just like AoT, just take a look at the statistics for the latest Bleach episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28478477/ratings/

It went from 9.2 to 8.3 all of a sudden. The highest-rated episode, which was released almost a year ago, also just fell to 9.5 all of a sudden.

Hi @KS701 !

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

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Hello,

I would like to report review bombing targeting Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. There appear to be many 1-star reviews that are intended to lower the title’s rating rather than provide a genuine review of the show.

Several reviews are off-topic and mainly promote other anime, especially Mushoku Tensei. For example, one review titled “Mushoku Tensei better” gives Bleach a 1/10, but mostly argues that Mushoku Tensei is better instead of providing a meaningful review of Bleach.

I understand that users are allowed to dislike the show and give it a low rating. However, could you please investigate 1-star reviews that are promotional, repetitive, off-topic, or may be part of a coordinated campaign?

Title page: https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt43711315/reviews/?rating=1&ref_=tt_ururv_histo_1

Examples of reviews to investigate:

• https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt43711315/reviews/?item=rw11796601&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

• https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt43711315/reviews/?item=rw11796177&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

• https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt43711315/reviews/?item=rw11795910&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Please note that these three examples are only a small sample among hundreds of potentially fake, off-topic, or promotional reviews.
Thank you for checking whether these reviews comply with IMDb’s Community Guidelines and rules on spam or promotional content.

After episode 5 of bleach TYBW there has been forced review bombing by specifically rezero and mushoko tensei fan bases rating the episode a 1 this is extremely childish poor class and forced without any logical helpful information for people to view we need them to be reported and those forced ratings to be gone its not fair one bit. Due to this a lot of fans of bleach and other shows have been review bombing back we need the actions and consequences caused by Mushoko and rezero fans to come to an end so both shows can move its own way 

Prezada equipe do IMDb,

Gostaria de denunciar um possível caso de ataque coordenado às avaliações contra o episódio mais recente de Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Calamity, Temporada 4, Episódio 5, "Defend You".

O episódio alcançou inicialmente uma avaliação extremamente alta e recebeu um grande número de notas 10/10 pouco depois de seu lançamento. Pouco tempo depois, houve um aumento significativo de notas 1/10, que parece ter ocorrido em um período muito curto, levantando a possibilidade de uma ação coordenada com o objetivo de reduzir artificialmente a nota geral do episódio.

Alguns fatores tornam esse padrão de votação suspeito:

Os episódios anteriores da mesma temporada receberam avaliações extremamente altas no IMDb, incluindo 9,3, 9,7, 9,3 e 9,8, demonstrando uma recepção muito positiva da temporada.

"Defend You" seguiu essa mesma recepção positiva logo após seu lançamento, antes do aumento repentino das notas 1/10.

A quantidade e o momento em que essas avaliações mínimas apareceram parecem incompatíveis com a recepção geral do episódio e podem indicar um comportamento organizado de review bombing, em vez de avaliações negativas espontâneas de espectadores.

Respeito o direito dos usuários de dar avaliações negativas caso realmente não tenham gostado do episódio. Entretanto, campanhas coordenadas com o objetivo de manipular as notas prejudicam a integridade do sistema de avaliações do IMDb e a confiança da comunidade na plataforma.

Solicito respeitosamente que o IMDb investigue a atividade de votação desse episódio, incluindo possíveis aumentos incomuns nas avaliações 1/10, contas criadas recentemente ou outros padrões de votação suspeitos.

Caso seja identificada manipulação coordenada, peço que sejam aplicadas as medidas previstas nas políticas do IMDb para avaliações inválidas ou fraudulentas.

Agradeço pela atenção e por trabalharem para preservar a integridade do sistema de avaliações do IMDb.

Atenciosamente,

Um usuário do IMDB.

• (Note to Administrators: This comment was merged here, but it contains independent data evidence for a separate title.) Hello IMDb Support Team, I am requesting a data verification review for "Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World" (Season 4). The user rating breakdowns for the latest episodes show a massive, artificial bimodal distribution (an anomalous spike in 1/10 votes compared to near-zero votes in the 2-9 range). This targeted voting campaign has caused severe, unnatural drops across multiple episode URLs:
  • Season 4, Episode 8 & 11 logs (Title ID: tt4179940):
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4179940/ratings/
    Impact: Forced down to a 9.7/10 despite over 86% organic 10-star reviews.
  • Season 4, Episode 12 & 13 logs (Title ID: tt4212183):
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4212183/ratings/
    Impact: Heavy influx of 16.2% artificial 1-star votes (5.7K+ malicious entries) dragging the true score to a 9.4/10 and 8.9/10 respectively.
  Could an official IMDb Administrator or Data Editor please review the raw voting logs for these specific Re:Zero URLs and apply the standard weighted rating filters to restore the true user scores? The statistical charts are attached below as verification. Thank you.    

Hi IMDb Support,

I want to report a possible rating/review bombing issue affecting several episodes of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War – The Conflict.

The episodes I noticed are:

• S4.E1 — God of Thunder — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39128668/?ref_=ext_shr

• S4.E2 — Son of Darkness — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711307/?ref_=ext_shr

• S4.E3 — Blood for My Bone — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711311/?ref_=ext_shr

• S4.E4 — The Perfect Crimson — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711314/?ref_=ext_shr

• S4.E5 — Defend You — https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711315/?ref_=ext_shr

I noticed that these episodes have received a lot of 1/10 ratings, and some of them appeared within a relatively short period of time. I also came across some reviews that don't really discuss the episodes themselves and instead talk about other shows or seem to be mainly intended to lower the ratings.

I know everyone can rate an episode however they want, including 1/10. I'm not asking IMDb to remove genuine negative ratings. I just think the pattern is unusual enough to be worth checking.

Could you please take a look at the ratings and reviews for these episodes and see if there is any coordinated rating manipulation?

There are also five more episodes still to come in this season, so I would appreciate it if IMDb could keep an eye on the upcoming episodes as well in case the same pattern continues.

Thanks for looking into it.

Hi IMDb Support Team, 

I'd like to report several review bombing issues affecting Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. It's no secret that there is currently an ongoing "review-bombing war" between Bleach fans and Re:Zero, I'm not here to point fingers I'm just here to speak up for Bleach fans as I have been monitoring the Bleach episodes very closely. 

The episodes I noticed: 

- S1 E6 : The Fire -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23471800/?ref_=ttrt_ov_bk 

This episode was settled at a 9.7 for years (it already received its fair share of review bombs upon initial release) but has been affected by recent review bombings as it was one of the highest rated episodes of the entire series. It has since fallen to a 9.6 and is only dropping as the ratio of 1s and 2s are very close to the 9s and 10s for new voters. I have photo evidence if you'd like, before the review bombing it was sat at 9.7 (27k), naturally the popularity of the final season and recent episodes prompted several thousands to go back and positively review other great Bleach episodes but also high rated episodes like these from prior seasons became vulnerable to review bombs. 9.7 (27k) (settled score) -> 9.7 (29k) (score after peak popularity introducing some downvoters) -> 9.6 (31k) (downvoters were successful). Of those 2k people, over 400 voted a 1 star which ultimately led to the episode dropping to a 9.6. 

- S1 E7 : Born in the Dark -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23731504/?ref_=tt_ov_ep_nx 

This episode settled at a 9.6 for years and again it already received its fair share of review bombs upon release. And for reasons mentioned previously, it has got a new wave of review bombs. It was at 9.6 (~17k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (20k) (after popularity hit and beginnings of new review bomb wave) -> 9.5 (21k) (downvoters were successful). Again I have photo evidence but I will be happen to verbally explain the change again, anyway I'm sure you have all this data and are able to go back and check historical changes but I'll mention it anyway for completeness. Of the recent 1k voters, over 400 were 1 star votes!! this led to the overall rating dropping down to a 9.5. 

- S1 E13 : The Blade Is Me -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25056416/?ref_=tt_ov_ep_nx 

This episode was settled at a 9.6 (~17k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (19k) (popularity hit and beginning of new review bomb wave) -> 9.5 (21k) (downvoters successful). Of those last 2k voters, over 350 voted it a 1 star alone. This pushed it down to a 9.5 and saw yet another high rated episode from the series first season, that aired 4 years ago, get ruined by review bombs. 

[I did not monitor S2 episodes, but S2 altogether gained 40k voted since the latest season started airing and given how S1 S3 and S4 have been affected, I'm sure some of the S2 eps have also gone down in ratings.] 

S3 E9 : Don't Chase A Shadow -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33990561/?ref_=ttep_ep_9 

This episode settled at a 9.7 and was the shows joint highest rated episode alongside S1 E6 until S4 E4 aired. This was a 9.7 (30k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (36k) (downvoters successful). Unfortunately for this episode I did not take a picture of the vote distribution prior to the episode rating falling so I couldn't tell you the rough number of new voters that voted it a 1 or 2 that led to it to drop. But it is evident that did indeed happen given what happened to S1 E6 which was an episode of the same rating from 2 seasons earlier, let alone the other episodes mentioned above and the S4 episodes I will mention below. 

S4 E1 : God of Thunder -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39128668/?ref_=ttep_ep_1 

This episode was settled at a 9.3 (15k at the time of S4 E5 release) but was then hit with immense popularity since it was in the latest season and thus was indirectly one of the episodes that were most targeted by review bombers. It went from a settled 9.3 (23k) (it was settled here for a month until the release of S4 E5 where all the bleach review bombs started) -> 9.3 (23k) -> 9.3 (29k) -> 9.2 (34k). Again I don't have an image of the vote distribution before to compare to what it is now, but this is indeed a result of review bombs/downvoters. 

S4 E2 : Son of Darkness -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711307/?ref_=ttep_ep_2 

From here onwards is where the review bombs/downvotes reach its worst. This episode was settled at a 9.7 (15k votes at the time of S4 E5 release so had been settled for weeks) -> 9.6 (30k) (first wave of downvotes) -> 9.5 (35k second wave of downvotes). Of the last 5k voters, over 1.1k were 1 star votes! resulting in the episode decreasing a further 0.1 rating and thus decreasing 0.2 overall! 

S4 E3 : Blood for my Bone -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711311/?ref_=ttep_ep_3 

Much like S4 E1, this episode was settled at a 9.3 (13k votes at the time of S4 E5 release) -> 9.3 (21k) -> 9.3 (28k) -> 9.1 (32k). So in those 4k votes it received enough votes to drop by 2 ratings!  

S4 E4: The Perfect Crimson -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711314/?ref_=ttep_ep_4 

Formerly the series highest rated episode before S4 E5 released and thus before the start of the review bombing war. The episode was a 9.8 (19k) (at the time of S4 E5 release) -> 9.7 (30k) ->9.7 (37k) -> 9.6 (38k) -> 9.6 (42k) (downvoters beyond successful).  From 37k votes to 42k votes, the episode received 1k 1 star votes! 

S4 E5: Defend You -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711315/?ref_=ttep_ep_5 

The episode that started all the Bleach review bombs. It debuted a 10 rating and stayed that for at least 24k votes. But its natural for this drop down to a 9.9 as historically all other episodes have that have ever been a 10. So I won't chalk this down to abnormal review bomb behaviour. But what followed is absolutely ridiculous. The episode then became a 9.9 (27k) and stayed that way until 9.9 (50k). Then it went down to a 9.8 (51k) and of those 1k voters, over 200 people voted it a 1 star! Then it managed to keep the 9.8 until 72k votes and dropped to 9.7 (72k). Currently it sits at 9.7 (81k) and of the last 11k voters, 1.4k were 1 star votes. So it seems now the downvotes, at least for this episode, are less frequent as before they generally averaged a 1 in 5 as in for every 5 new voters 1 would be a review bomber/downvoter. But nonetheless there are still review bombs incoming and the episodes mentioned here are only trending down because of it, especially the S4 episodes. Just as a fact the average rating for S4 episodes (at the time of S4 E5 release0 was 9.6, now after all the review bombs/downvotes it has dropped to a 9.4 and is only dropping. 

Please could you investigate and fix this issue as soon as possible, in whatever way you can, before even more episodes get hit or before existing episodes that have been hit get hit even harder. 

Thank you for your support, we appreciate your help. 

Edit:
I just came across the following post on twitter. The user brags about creating 200 fake accounts to review bomb S4 E5 alone and we can assume they've used those same 200 accounts to contribute to the review bombing of other bleach episodes. He says the next milestone is for the episode to drop to a 9.5. Please can you guys fix these problems and give these episodes their rightful ratings.
https://x.com/Kanki_mh2/status/2092615320582205887?s=20

  
https://x.com/Okeanix1/status/2092356611662577792

This is a user with a strong community in the Re:Zero fandom, and here she is clearly inciting hate towards Bleach fans and pioneering a review bombing/downvoting movement to get every Bleach ep below a 9. These people will not stop, PLEASE can you help us with this.
   

I'm talking about episodes 16, 17, and 18 specifically. Their scores didn't behave like all the others. Usually they get a very high rating until there are 100+ votes, then the weighted mean pushes the score down. But these episodes had a second massive rating drop (each at a different time), it seems unnatural. Especially ep 16: it was bombed from its release: in the beginning it had 7.7 rating and had to climb its way up to 8.1. Even if #17 and #18 are legit, #16 is definitely an odd one out. Also, based on how good and hype this episode is, I feel like it should've been at least 8.4 (comparing to scores of other episodes).

Hi IMDb Team,

I wanted to flag some obvious review bombing happening on the latest Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War episode ("Defend You"):

• Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711315/?ref_=tt_epspo_ep_5

Right after the episode dropped, it had a 10/10 from organic early reviews. However, over the past few hours, cross-fandom groups on social media   organized a targeted campaign to review bomb it. There's been a massive spike in 1-star ratings and spam reviews from brand-new accounts, dragging the score down to 9.7/10 almost instantly.

Could the Data Integrity team take a look at the recent voting logs and account activity for this episode? Hopefully, the weighted rating filters can clear out these fake/bot votes to keep the rating accurate.

Appreciate the help!

Proof of some accounts review-bombing
  

Hi IMDb Support Team, 

I'd like to report several review bombing issues affecting Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War. It's no secret that there is currently an ongoing "review-bombing war" between Bleach fans and Re:Zero, I'm not here to point fingers I'm just here to speak up for Bleach fans as I have been monitoring the Bleach episodes very closely. 

The episodes I noticed: 

- S1 E6 : The Fire -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23471800/?ref_=ttrt_ov_bk 

This episode was settled at a 9.7 for years (it already received its fair share of review bombs upon initial release) but has been affected by recent review bombings as it was one of the highest rated episodes of the entire series. It has since fallen to a 9.6 and is only dropping as the ratio of 1s and 2s are very close to the 9s and 10s for new voters. I have photo evidence if you'd like, before the review bombing it was sat at 9.7 (27k), naturally the popularity of the final season and recent episodes prompted several thousands to go back and positively review other great Bleach episodes but also high rated episodes like these from prior seasons became vulnerable to review bombs. 9.7 (27k) (settled score) -> 9.7 (29k) (score after peak popularity introducing some downvoters) -> 9.6 (31k) (downvoters were successful). Of those 2k people, over 400 voted a 1 star which ultimately led to the episode dropping to a 9.6. 

- S1 E7 : Born in the Dark -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23731504/?ref_=tt_ov_ep_nx 

This episode settled at a 9.6 for years and again it already received its fair share of review bombs upon release. And for reasons mentioned previously, it has got a new wave of review bombs. It was at 9.6 (~17k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (20k) (after popularity hit and beginnings of new review bomb wave) -> 9.5 (21k) (downvoters were successful). Again I have photo evidence but I will be happen to verbally explain the change again, anyway I'm sure you have all this data and are able to go back and check historical changes but I'll mention it anyway for completeness. Of the recent 1k voters, over 400 were 1 star votes!! this led to the overall rating dropping down to a 9.5. 

- S1 E13 : The Blade Is Me -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25056416/?ref_=tt_ov_ep_nx 

This episode was settled at a 9.6 (~17k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (19k) (popularity hit and beginning of new review bomb wave) -> 9.5 (21k) (downvoters successful). Of those last 2k voters, over 350 voted it a 1 star alone. This pushed it down to a 9.5 and saw yet another high rated episode from the series first season, that aired 4 years ago, get ruined by review bombs. 

[I did not monitor S2 episodes, but S2 altogether gained 40k voted since the latest season started airing and given how S1 S3 and S4 have been affected, I'm sure some of the S2 eps have also gone down in ratings.] 

S3 E9 : Don't Chase A Shadow -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33990561/?ref_=ttep_ep_9 

This episode settled at a 9.7 and was the shows joint highest rated episode alongside S1 E6 until S4 E4 aired. This was a 9.7 (30k) (settled score) -> 9.6 (36k) (downvoters successful). Unfortunately for this episode I did not take a picture of the vote distribution prior to the episode rating falling so I couldn't tell you the rough number of new voters that voted it a 1 or 2 that led to it to drop. But it is evident that did indeed happen given what happened to S1 E6 which was an episode of the same rating from 2 seasons earlier, let alone the other episodes mentioned above and the S4 episodes I will mention below. 

S4 E1 : God of Thunder -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39128668/?ref_=ttep_ep_1 

This episode was settled at a 9.3 (15k at the time of S4 E5 release) but was then hit with immense popularity since it was in the latest season and thus was indirectly one of the episodes that were most targeted by review bombers. It went from a settled 9.3 (23k) (it was settled here for a month until the release of S4 E5 where all the bleach review bombs started) -> 9.3 (23k) -> 9.3 (29k) -> 9.2 (34k). Again I don't have an image of the vote distribution before to compare to what it is now, but this is indeed a result of review bombs/downvoters. 

S4 E2 : Son of Darkness -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711307/?ref_=ttep_ep_2 

From here onwards is where the review bombs/downvotes reach its worst. This episode was settled at a 9.7 (15k votes at the time of S4 E5 release so had been settled for weeks) -> 9.6 (30k) (first wave of downvotes) -> 9.5 (35k second wave of downvotes). Of the last 5k voters, over 1.1k were 1 star votes! resulting in the episode decreasing a further 0.1 rating and thus decreasing 0.2 overall! 

S4 E3 : Blood for my Bone -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711311/?ref_=ttep_ep_3 

Much like S4 E1, this episode was settled at a 9.3 (13k votes at the time of S4 E5 release) -> 9.3 (21k) -> 9.3 (28k) -> 9.1 (32k). So in those 4k votes it received enough votes to drop by 2 ratings!  

S4 E4: The Perfect Crimson -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711314/?ref_=ttep_ep_4 

Formerly the series highest rated episode before S4 E5 released and thus before the start of the review bombing war. The episode was a 9.8 (19k) (at the time of S4 E5 release) -> 9.7 (30k) ->9.7 (37k) -> 9.6 (38k) -> 9.6 (42k) (downvoters beyond successful).  From 37k votes to 42k votes, the episode received 1k 1 star votes! 

S4 E5: Defend You -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt43711315/?ref_=ttep_ep_5 

The episode that started all the Bleach review bombs. It debuted a 10 rating and stayed that for at least 24k votes. But its natural for this drop down to a 9.9 as historically all other episodes have that have ever been a 10. So I won't chalk this down to abnormal review bomb behaviour. But what followed is absolutely ridiculous. The episode then became a 9.9 (27k) and stayed that way until 9.9 (50k). Then it went down to a 9.8 (51k) and of those 1k voters, over 200 people voted it a 1 star! Then it managed to keep the 9.8 until 72k votes and dropped to 9.7 (72k). Currently it sits at 9.7 (81k) and of the last 11k voters, 1.4k were 1 star votes. So it seems now the downvotes, at least for this episode, are less frequent as before they generally averaged a 1 in 5 as in for every 5 new voters 1 would be a review bomber/downvoter. But nonetheless there are still review bombs incoming and the episodes mentioned here are only trending down because of it, especially the S4 episodes. Just as a fact the average rating for S4 episodes (at the time of S4 E5 release0 was 9.6, now after all the review bombs/downvotes it has dropped to a 9.4 and is only dropping. 

Please could you investigate and fix this issue as soon as possible, in whatever way you can, before even more episodes get hit or before existing episodes that have been hit get hit even harder.

Infact now, S4E1 has dropped to a 9.1 now and S4E2 has dropped to a 9.4!!

Thank you for you reading this long post, us Bleach fans would appreciate any help at all.

Also I came across the following online (that further proves there is indeed a review bombing movement towards the Bleach episodes) :

I just came across the following post on twitter. The user brags about creating 200 fake accounts to review bomb S4 E5 alone and we can assume they've used those same 200 accounts to contribute to the review bombing of other bleach episodes. He says the next milestone is for the episode to drop to a 9.5. Please can you guys fix these problems and give these episodes their rightful ratings.
https://x.com/Kanki_mh2/status/2092615320582205887?s=20

   
https://x.com/Okeanix1/status/2092356611662577792

This is a user with a strong community in the Re:Zero fandom, and here she is clearly inciting hate towards Bleach fans and pioneering a review bombing/downvoting movement to get every Bleach ep below a 9. These people will not stop, PLEASE can you help us with this.
   

Given that this is a highly strategic, engineered campaign with mass compliance that shows absolutely no signs of slowing down, the continuous and severe drop in episode ratings requires immediate action. I have included visual evidence of a user bragging about creating 200 bot accounts to downvote an episode, which serves as just one clear example of a massive, widespread movement. Immediate intervention from the IMDb data team is urgently needed to investigate the full scope of this manipulation and restore rating integrity across the entire title.

Thanks again for reading this very long but hopefully informative post.

boohoo bleach's ratings dropped from insanely good to insanely good it never deserved a 10/10 in the first place mushoku tensei on the other hand has had all of its recent episodes drop by 1.5 stars with over 60% 1 star reviews all occurring after august 25 

mushoku tensei has getting relentlessly review bombed starting 2 days ago every episode in season 3 so far has gone down by 1.5 stars it used to be sitting above an 8 average and is now below a 7 for example the recent episode debuted with maybe an 8.5? now its at a 6.4 and this happened 3 days after the episode released over 60% of the reviews on each season 3 episode are 1 stars the automated system isnt enough this is easily the worst review bombing in history and needs to be dealt with manually how is this even allowed to happen this is the most obvious review bombing ever and should be completely reverted and everyone review bombing should have their voting power taken away for a show to be review bombed this bad with zero action taken by imdb other than a trash automated system is insane all of this is being done by the bleach and re zero fans as well looking at any of their accounts proves they have a bias and are giving 1 stars solely to scue the ratings of mushoku tenseis latest episodes obviously there is a system in place but at a certain point it doesnt work any more and the ratings get heavily manipulated in a negative way regardless of the system trying to stop it this is because of the overwhelming ammount of people in the fandoms review bombing mushoku tensei compared to how big the mushoku tensei fandom is and how many people are reviewing it on imdb i think the ammount of people asking for bleachs ratings to be fixed on this forum is proof enough if anything mushoku tensei should be fixed first

 Dear IMDb Support Team,

I am reporting what appears to be an ongoing, large-scale coordinated rating manipulation/review-bombing campaign affecting Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World Season 4 and Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3.

Over the past approximately 3 days, both series appear to have received an unusually large influx of low ratings, with nearly 10,000 additional ratings appearing to have been added to individual episodes. This is affecting essentially every episode of Re:Zero Season 4 and every episode of Mushoku Tensei Season 3.

For example, Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 11 (4x11) was previously rated approximately 9.9/10 with 70,000+ votes, but within roughly three days its rating has fallen to approximately 9.6. Re:Zero Season 4 Episode 13 (4x13) was previously around 9.9/10 with 15,000+ votes, but has now fallen to approximately 9.2.

What is especially concerning is that the rating changes appear to be happening in repeated waves. The ratings of Re:Zero Season 4 episodes appear to be dropping approximately every 12 hours, as additional large numbers of low ratings are added.

There are also indications that this activity is being coordinated by members of the Bleach community/fandom, apparently as part of an effort to target the ratings of Re:Zero and Mushoku Tensei. I understand that this is an allegation, and therefore I am specifically asking IMDb to investigate the voting data, account activity, timing, and patterns to determine whether there is evidence of coordinated voting. I can provide screenshots and other evidence regarding the alleged coordination if required.

I understand that users are entitled to rate episodes according to their genuine opinions, and I am not asking IMDb to remove ratings simply because they are negative. My concern is specifically the unusual scale, timing, rapidity, and apparent coordination of the voting activity.

The simultaneous and extremely rapid decline across multiple episodes of two different anime series raises serious concerns that this may be organized rating manipulation rather than ordinary audience response.

I respectfully ask IMDb to take appropriate action to protect the integrity and reliability of its rating system. If IMDb's investigation confirms that votes were generated through coordinated or otherwise inauthentic activity, I ask that the affected votes be removed or discounted in accordance with IMDb's policies, and that appropriate measures be taken to prevent further manipulation.

IMDb's ratings are relied upon by millions of users as an indication of audience reception. Allowing coordinated rating manipulation to substantially alter the ratings of individual episodes could undermine confidence in the entire rating system. For the integrity and credibility of IMDb's ratings, I believe this situation warrants an immediate investigation and appropriate action as soon as possible. The ratings are dropping every 12 hours update with new 500-1000 1 stars votes on each episodes of Rezero and mushoku tensei.

Thank you for taking the time to investigate this matter. I am willing to provide screenshots, timestamps, vote-count comparisons, and other evidence that may assist your investigation.  

@Ab_J_Sam​  could any imdb staff please also respond to my report on one of the largest ongoing reviewbombing crisis in imdb history