The fact that out of 65 votes almost 20% gave this 5/5, makes me wonder what on earth were...

Couldn't agree more with you!! And have you seen the comments? They made exhale a long hopeless sigh (︶︿︶)
Anyways, different people, different opinions, I guess.

While I agree with you that this manga isn't that good, people have different ways of rating mangas. Some people rate them on their merit, if they have good plot, characters, etc. I rate them on my personal enjoyment, not how great the plot/characters are. If I went by if the manga was objectively good, I would have to give some mangas that I hate 5 stars. Maybe the people who gave it 5 stars really enjoyed it, or maybe they thought it was a good manga. Who knows?
╮(￣▽￣)╭ Different strokes for different folks.

It's fine to rate mangas by whichever criteria suits you, after all opinions are free to have (altho painful to express sometimes >_>)
But many ppl think that if you don't give a manga 5/5, it means it wasn't good, and give at most 3 stars when something was really bad.

But it shouldn't be so. I mean for me, even mangas i rated 3 stars were nice, and if you think about it 3 is the middle, meaning "it was an ok read", not that good, but didn't annoy or bore you
4 stars means good, and 5 means great. And i use a tag "the best" for things that were exceptionally good, since not every 5/5 is the same
This way you can actually use the rating system

But if you give everything 5 stars , it's like you don't even care what you're reading #－.－)

Take for example the one shot Gore_Whore just recommended http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/tears_of_a_devil/ , how can that manga and this one possibly be of the same quality （/TДT)/

(Just for for references sake, i gave this manga 1/5 and tears of a devil 4/5, and no, that doesn't mean i didn't like it or that it was bad!!!)

Sorry, I made my comment before taking a nap and now that I am wide awake I see that you were meaning 5 on a scale of 5, not 10. *facepalm* God! I can be so stupid sometimes!! I should have read your post carefully a 2nd time before commenting. I really need to fix my habit of jumping onto topics of other people made on the mangas I liked.
Anyways, just scratch out my 1st comment please. I actually liked this oneshot a quite a lot. Sure not enough to give it a 5 star on a scale of 5 but enough to give it at least 3. It was my mistake & misunderstanding. Sorry for ignorantly butting in your topic. It's time like this that wish mangago made an option to delete these embarrassing comments. *dejected sigh*

It's ok, don't worry about it (≧∀≦)
And this topic of rating has been stewing in my head for some time now, and kind of blew up here :p

And it's not like i didn't like the oneshot at all, at first i wanted to give it 3/5, and i did put the tag i use for 2 star manga, so i gave it like a weak 2? (i have 7 tags from "bad" to "the best" to help me rate a manga, cuz i;m too lazy to write a comment every time xD ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ )

That last page totally threw me off
http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/hakanakumo/mh/c001/22/
I suppose it was supposed to be romantic, but considering that the guy was emotionally insecure enough to try and commit suicide over a rumor, it just came off as an attempt to use his instability to chain him
And the personality of the actor guy is just . . . (╯°Д °)╯╧╧

*sigh* over analyzing manga┗( T﹏T )┛

I agree that this isn't a 5/5 but I don't think we should complain on people's personal taste or the ratings they give and jus comment or opinions of the manga... On here there are a variety of people some younger some older. Some maybe jus started yaoi/shounen ai or even manga for that matter so they will have different opinions on this compared to others who have maybe read more or less .. And once they come back and read it they might feel different about it than before

I don't often rate manga and when I do it's usually for my personal reference of what I might want to re read or a few other reasons - just like u might create a tag on a manga for when look back on it for a kind of reference - and it's usually (not always but usually) for you not for the next person that sees the tag

when i give a rating its for a few different reasons and it's surely not to tell the next person what they should or shouldn't read or that they shouldn't have a worse or better rating than me.. People rate things on what they might feel at the time of reading the manga. Like I said before some people have read more mangas(and in this case yaoi/shounen ai) and some people have read less manga than other people. I'm not going to complain on others people ratings because I don't read my manga based on what other people rate it - I usually read the summary, look at genre, read multiple comments and more but even then that still won't stop me from reading it if I want to and rating it how I want to.. So let's jus enjoy the mangas ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶ ---Btw a side note first time using the little characters or whatever u call it ╮(￣▽￣)╭

I agree. It’s more like a 5/10..the story is lacking. It’s not unique nor interesting. When I score manga, I think about how it compares to other manga I’ve read. I gave a perfect score to Complex, Ten Count, and Yondaime Ooyamoto Tatsuyuki because they really made me emotionally attached to the characters and their stories. Those manga are obviously longer...you can’t fit a lot of content into 35 pages.

I really liked Pikapika Days though. It was super cute and wholesome, despite it being so short :)