Anime series you want to watch but hold back on for personal reasons?

NubFix said:
Yes, "Mo Dao Zu Shi"
As a native Chinese speaker and a Chinese (race, not nationality), I'm going to feel very weird when they speak Chinese and using Chinese names.

andantina said:
(I kinda wrote a book, but tl;dr-- FLCL because it reminds me of a long-lost friend that I don't have the chance to reconnect with)

I only started watching anime about 2 years ago, but since I'm friends with a lot of anime fans I'd hear names floating around even before then. One of whom was a girl I'll call "H". She has always been into nerdy things and had multiple strong interests/hobbies before she got into anime.

For a year or so we were really good friends and hung out almost every day, mostly during summer vacation. We played games together, went on walks around town, etc. and I eventually developed a strong crush on her. One day, I tried calling H but she wouldn't answer. Then I tried to text her-- still no luck. Found out later that day that my parents had declared her a "bad influence" and cut off all contact we had. I was barely a teenager at that time, I'm college-age now. I still haven't found a way to contact her.

The catch is, like 3-4 days before she vanished, H had recommended me an anime called FLCL. I looked it up recently and literally everything about that show reminds me of her. The aesthetics are right up her alley, the intense soundtrack sounds like something she'd listen to... even the character Haruko resembles her a bit. It's uncanny. And even though the show looks really really cool, I just can't bring myself to watch it because of that.

Asturaetus said:
Have seen neither ReZero nor SAO yet. I kinda have a hard time starting anything that is surrounded by a lot of hype or hate. Because you can't really escape people making a lot of fuss about it and even if you don't want to it still influences your expectations to a certain degree.

The problem is the longer you hold off on starting such titles the more it accumulates.

And once I actually come around to watching such a title I more often than not find myself disappointed. Because with hyped titles - they can't match their supposed reputation as "the next best thing" and I'm sitting there thinking to myself: "That's it?". And with hated titles I'm disappointed in myself in buying into the hate because more often than not the negative points brought up against it are either just nitpicks or not as important to me as it seems to be to others.

Well and so it's often easier to just watch something different that doesn't come with all this baggage. Further accentuated by the fact that there are so many anime - there is always something different that catches your attention and that you can watch. So you hold off such titles even longer. It's a vicious cycle. ^^

ChartTopper60 said:
@Full_anime_Fan this

I won't watch Death Note for a long time just because of this.

opughku said:
The promised never land because children get eaten and thats weird

ktulu007 said:
I've had a few review requests (Hoshi no Kirby, Dash Kappei, Transformers Micron Legend) that I wanted to finish/ watch if only for the people who requested the reviews. But I wasn't able to find them in their entirety in Japanese with subtitles.

And I absolutely refuse to do another review over an English dub.

FoxFire75 said:


pretty much the same for me, only it's my brother and his basketball <.<
and while talking about sports I can't enjoy anymore, let's add soccer - I would never watch a soccer anime cause it only reminds me of that fanatic baka i dated once -.-

Naruto, cause I already caught a bunch of episodes here and there thx to friends watching it a long time ago and I basically know the story; I am not sure I wouldn't be bored now, I don't wanna try cause rn I m thinking fondly of it and once I am bored that might change hah

Mo Dao Zu Shi - I watched the 50 episodes live action series and it was SO DAMN SAD man, I don't know if I can live thru that again ack

gwendal738 said:
Servamp. I had a bad fall out with my former best friend, and that was one of the anime that she had always hyped up and recommended to me. Can't watch it now because that will remind me of her and make me angry lmao. And if it does turn out to be good, I know that my opinion of it will be tainted because I can't help but cringe at the thought that I like the same thing as her. Which sounds ridiculous written out like this, but still. Can't do it.

AlexThePotato said:

I had never written a review before. At least, I don't think so. I've started to use the review section's stars for story, soundtrack, etc so to help me better rate some shows by rating each section and then averaging it out to get an overall score. I think writing intellectual critiques as you do is really interesting. I had done one or two for art critique. I love seeing a person analyze a show to give reason to why something is good or why a concept is bad in a more refine manner beside "This sucks".