I think that "pacing" quality can be evaluated rather mechanically. If you push through too fast that you can't properly flesh out plot points or tie up loose ends or skip enormous sections of the source material like in the first half a season of SAO, then it's too fast paced. If on the other hand, you spend a lot of time meandering without doing anything like in Naruto, especially if you have a lot of filler, then you're too slow paced. 5/5 means perfect balance while anything else means different magnitudes of either problem, though I normally think that being too fast paced is a much better problem to have than being too slow paced. Soul Eater I'd give a 4/5 on pacing, being slightly on the slow side, even despite me wishing there was more to watch.
Objective qualities aside however, personally one of my favorite shows. 17/20.
I think that "pacing" quality can be evaluated rather mechanically. If you push through too fast that you can't properly flesh out plot points or tie up loose ends or skip enormous sections of the source material like in the first half a season of SAO, then it's too fast paced. If on the other hand, you spend a lot of time meandering without doing anything like in Naruto, especially if you have a lot of filler, then you're too slow paced. 5/5 means perfect balance while anything else means different magnitudes of either problem, though I normally think that being too fast paced is a much better problem to have than being too slow paced. Soul Eater I'd give a 4/5 on pacing, being slightly on the slow side, even despite me wishing there was more to watch.
Objective qualities aside however, personally one of my favorite shows. 17/20.