| I was talking about this with a friend a few weeks ago and we had a really great discussion about it. I wrote a blog post concerning my own choices (feel free to comment!) and I was wondering if any of you would like to share your own experiences. I know this happens to everyone. A show suddenly turning good after you were considering stopping. What were some shows like that for you guys? |
| Juuni Kokki. First eps are so bad, Youko is a whiny little bitch you just want to cuntpunch, but damn does it have a turnaround. And she becomes epic. Just gotta get through the first arc really. |
| This happened to me sooo many times. The most notable time was when I was watching School Rumble (gasp). I liked it allot in the beginning, but at either the 5th or 6th episode I started to lose faith. After realizing that I had nothing else to do for the rest of the night however, I forced myself to continue watching whic ultimately led to me loving the show. |
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| The first few episodes of School Rumble bored the hell out of me. It just seemed...a bit dry & average at best. I wouldn't have kept going if I wasn't constantly prodded to do so. But as SR is one of my favorite series, I turned out to be very grateful for said prodding. |
| There are quite a number of anime that I plan on not watching, yet I did: Black Lagoon Blood+ Gundam 00 Second Season Kekkaishi Kurogane no Linebarrels Persona: Trinity Soul Prism Ark Rosario to Vampire Rosario to Vampire Capu2 Shigofumi Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu To Love Ru Tower of Druaga Trinity Blood True Tears |
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| hmm.. Ergo Proxy and Clannad |
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| i think it was like this in one piece. the first episode, this childish character design and so on, but then i watched on and thought that this series must be good, because so many people love it. and then i was suddenly addicted to it :] |
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| dropped on Toradora... but im still stuck in episode 4... lol im now watching To Aru Majutsu no Index Akane Iro ni Somura Saka ef : a tales of melodies Clannad After Story Rosario + Vampire Capu2... :D |
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion,it's now one of my favorite shows. |
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| Blood+. It's so insanely boring for the first 20 episodes, but somewhere around Diva's introduction, the show became....awesome. Yeah, 20 episodes is a bit long to get a series going, but it's a great second half without a doubt. |
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| I watched one episode, I thnk it was episode 12 of Eureka Seven. Bad Idea to start with episode 12 instead of 1 XD So I dropped it... ...and 1/2 Year later I watched the whole 50 Episodes - that was an great anime. One of my favorites. |
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| Neon Genesis Evangelion. It starts out good enough, but really dips in quality until episode 15, when it becomes fucking awesome. Excel Saga. I made the mistake of watching it dubbed the first time and almost ended up dropping it because I couldn't take her voice any more. |
| At the moment i can think only of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni , Boushou Renkin and Soul Eater |
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| I almost didn't watch code geass or tengen toppen gurren lagaan as there were too many robots in it for my liking. But i love them now. |
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| I had that with D.Gray-man. The first 50 episodes aren't that interesting, but after that it's just great ! Too bad the series stopped at a crucial point in the story. |
| the first 3 episodes of Nanoha were making me sick xD but i continued thanks to all the people who already watched it, and turned out to be one of my favorite anime. |
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| Doesn't happen to me much - I hate wasting my free time, so I drop pretty fast (learned to do this after way too many shows that did not improve). But it has happened a couple of times: Baccano - the first two or three episodes weren't my thing at all, but I ended up kind of liking it. NANA - the first episode was awesome. The Hachi backstory episodes were really painful (boring) for me to watch. But I knew they'd be over eventually so I stuck it out and now I rather like it. Hachi improves, but she was pretty irritating in the flashbacks. I'll read the manga when I decide that I can face the backstory part again. |
| TTGL, I've actually dropped the series twice, once at episode 2 then at 10, then watching it now. Pretty good, not sure why I stopped watching it back then. Akane iro-ni Somaru Saka - Boring, got a bit better near the end at least. Kurogane no Linebarrels - Started out Ok, but I stopped watching at first episode for weeks then continuing and now I've catched up but seriously considered not doing it. GTO - HATED the animation watched half the episode, then someone convinced me it was damn good so I stuck with the animation and fell in love with it pretty fast. H20 - Boooring, barely worth watching the full series, if it was more than 13 episodes I'd definently drop it. Tower of Druaga - Generic, but it was ok at least. Probably more but I can't remember |
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| Da Capo, I thought it was going to be another one of those lame harems but it was different, I liked it. |
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| Yeah, I'm pretty glad I idn't give up on Akane iro ni Somaru Saka. Episode 10 turned out reall good and I can't wait to watch the last.... 2 episodes... |
| Well for this season: Hyakko & Toradora |
| Azumanga. it hooked me after 15th episode or something. |
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CCZilla said: Blood+. It's so insanely boring for the first 20 episodes, but somewhere around Diva's introduction, the show became....awesome. Yeah, 20 episodes is a bit long to get a series going, but it's a great second half without a doubt. Wow, I made a post that was very similar to this once. I called it insanely boring too. But I loved the rest of the show so I'm glad I didn't drop it. other ones that I almost dropped but ending up liking were Code Geass, Clannad, Kanon, H2O ~Footprints in the Sand~, Jigoku Shoujo, Kagihime Monogatari Eikyuu Alice Rinbukyoku, Kaikan Phrase, Rozen Maiden and xxxholic |
Asako said: Juuni Kokki. First eps are so bad, Youko is a whiny little bitch you just want to cuntpunch, but damn does it have a turnaround. And she becomes epic. Just gotta get through the first arc really. Word for word that is how I felt. Strange how that works. I used to hate the first arc, but when I re-watched it I enjoyed it the second time around. I sure am glad I stuck with it too, because it turned out to be among the greatest series in existence. |
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| Hokuto no Ken - The 1st few episodes weren't all that impressive to me, but the awesomeness of Hokuto Shin-Ken caught on quickly Welcome to the NHK - I initially wasn't into it, but once I resaw the first episode, I started to like it. Yakitate!! Japan - The first ep to me was boring. If I wasn't with an anime club that made it their "to watch" series for the semester, I probably wouldn't have even made it to the 2nd episode. The 2nd episode TOTALLY made up for it. |
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| well I gotta say that I had my doubts with Jigoku Shoujo. Because at first the plot didn't seem to go anywhere...but in the end, I'm I kept watching ^^ |
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| Kinda did this with Seto no Hanayome. Watched the first episode(which WAS lame, not going to lie). Had the series on-hold for an eternity and I just recently picked it back up. It's been a lot better than I thought it would be after watching the first ep. |
| Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora, loved the ending |
| Seto no Hanayome School Rumble Lucky Star Maria-sama ga Miteru |
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| This happens to me a lot, as I'm generally quick to judge a series and ditch it if it isn't entertaining me. Luckily I have friends to straighten me out sometimes, as I would never have kept up with One Piece (which went on to become my favorite anime), Juuni Kokuki, School Rumble or Azumanga, and quite a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head. |
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| Tales of the Abyss - I was just about ready to drop it, but then the main character did a 180 degree personality change, plus pasts started to be revealed... so it's not bad at all, now. |
| Ruroni Kenshin, when I heard music during the fight at 7th or 8th episode with crazy eyes I drooped it but seems the music changed so I'm watching it now at episode 27 and it is at least 6/10. I'm drunk so some cant understand what I written. Like me for Ex... |
| I don't think so but it's happened to me where I'd be really into a long series then go back and watch the first season and think "Why did I keep watching this show?" I guess I just didn't like the first season the 2nd time around. |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh GX... where to begin... XD I watched the first season in a week or so, and while it was really addictive to watch, it just wasn't very good. After hearing a bit about the new characters in season two (Edo and Saiou), I liked the sound of them, so I gave it another chance and watched through the second season. This part was a bit better overall, and I did really like Edo's story, but it still only a mediocre show overall, and ended up on my On Hold list for a loooong time. After about six months, I decided I love Yu-Gi-Oh enough to give GX one last chance. So I started watching season three. And I am so glad I did. Seasons three and four were amazing. Like, almost as good as DM. <3 (Save the last two episodes, but that's another story.) tl;dr: GX was lame, then it was mediocre, then it was awesome and now it's my third favorite series. X3 |
| I vowed never to drop a series, but I have really felt like it a couple of times. Those that I nearly dropped but I actually ended up liking... Rozen Maiden - the first two episodes had me wtf'ing, since I was like "this is a kids show, seriously wtf is this shit". But then, I kept watching, and got into it, and it became pretty damn entertaining. Escaflowne - I watched the first episode and left it for ages, putting it off. I eventually came back to it and the series ended up being pretty good. Tenjou Tenge - Also put it off at like ep 7 for ages. I came back to it, and it ended up being ok. Wasn't brilliant, but still reasonably entertaining. |
| I can think of a few. Twelve Kingdoms (Junni Kouki)- Like someone else said before, Yoko is a whiny little *insert bad word here* at the beginning. I felt a little bit naseous and quickly dropped the series. Then after my friend almost disowned me I picked it up again and suddenly after a few episodes it became so stupidly awesome. Now it is one of my all-time favorite series. I've seen it three times and own the DVD's and the light novels. Yay for me. Android Ana Maico 2010- It was just so BORING the first few episodes. People kept calling it a comedy, but I begged to differ. A few days ago when I was sick I randomly decided to watch it and out of nowhere it became funny, charming almost. I think it won my heart with the gay studio hijacker waving a gun around and screaming, "Take me to Beruit!" Hehe. Good times. .Hack//Signs- Same as above, it was so boring. I mean that series is basically all dialogue. Even the backgrounds are relatively the same. Then the second time I gave it a try and I ended up marathoning it in one day. It takes some patience, but I still love that series. Still haven't seen Roots though. Honey and Clover- Hagu freaked me out. She looked like a kid, and since Takemoto fell in love with her I thought that the anime was advocating child porn or something equally retarded. Which is depressing since I have the same unfortunate problem of looking younger then my age. I've learned from my stupidity. |
| I would have to say... Shugo Chara. At the beginning I was like "oh, it's super girly with no original points and a generic "be yourself 'cause that's the best~!" theme." Then I kept watching and found all the love triangles and hte corssdressing and now i just love it. <3 It's still got the cuteness it had at the beginning, but it's mroe intersting now. Not that I partictularly like the main character, but there are enough other characters I do love that I watch it. |
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| Idolmaster Xenoglossia, I was about to drop it, I believe it was around episode 6 or 7, but I gave it a chance and it turned out pretty well. |
| Lucky Star - I watched the first episode... and stopped for a week. And then I watched the whole of it.. Death Note - I thought it sucks. The first scene is so boring (in the Shinigami world) so I said to myself that I will never waste my time on that. Some weeks after, when I got bored, I played it... and wow... |
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| I can think only think of two right now: Sola ~ In the beginning I actually fell asleep after each episode (not kidding :P), but after things started to pick up it became more interesting. The ending was still...okay. School Rumble ~ This was really boring until they introduced more characters. Which took about 5 episodes? It's something like that and if it wasn't for my brother who really enjoyed this series I probably would have dropped it. |
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| Gurren Lagann |
| Kanon, although I only rated it highly because of nostalgia as it was similar to things that happened in my life.. any other story and I probably would have not liked it. |
| Bleach |
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| Utawarerumono It was very calm at first and and felt like a supernatural slice of life for the first 13 episodes or so, but then it got serious with wars, problems of being a ruler, dark pasts, differences between genders and so forth |
| Azumanga Diaoh. Oh God I am happy I gave it another chance. Funny story behind it. I was ordering anime online and I accidentally put Azumanga Daioh on my shopping cart (I'm still not sure how, an act of god maybe?) and bought it, and when all my anime came in the mail I saw it and was like "What the hell, I didn't order this - guess I'll watch it anyway since I paid for it though".. Turns out to be one of my favorite animes of all time. |
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