Your red flags/criteria for dropping an anime without giving it a chance

MadanielFL said:
Dropping anime is for the weak, real ones keep watching even the worst garbage.

Windum said:
I refuse to watch Bubble because Urobuchi is involved in it. Watched almost all of his works and they are terrible. Besides I heard that the movie flopped too.

Jamison2210 said:
I wouldn't start an anime that I wouldn't like in the first place...

Kokoro_135 said:
1-jojo
2-yuri or yaoi
3- 99% of shows with goody two shoes protagonists who want to save everyone they meet.
4-excessive ecchi

rohan121 said:
My signs
-I dislike the Mc
-I believe a meteor destroying their world would be good.
-MC has no worthwhile conflicts
-Edgy and dumb

Weeaboo_Bomber said:
- Whiny/overtly angsty teen mc
- male mc who's afraid of women and acts like an incel
- overtly cliche characters, particularly uber dominant obnoxious women
- bad humor, too much fanservice/lewd jokes
- woman pandering, SJW content, SJW appeasing
- shonen ai/shoujo ai, yaoi/yuri
- too much engrish
- Too many characters who have retarded names
- Annoying characters who constantly make wrong decisions
- Overpowered characters
- Goody two shoes who wants to save everybody
- superficial, girly sugar sweet kids anime
- etc.

I can watch anime with many of the mentioned flaws and I'm not always that picky but most of the time because I feel like my life is too short to spent too much time with crap.

epidemia78 said:
I generally stick to the 3 episode rule before dropping but sometimes it's obvious way sooner than that whether or not a show is worth watching.

It's usually cliches that seal the deal. I don't mind anime cliches when they're done at least semi-competently but sometimes it's like a checklist of tropes as if the show was made by a soulless AI.

BobertkcussineP said:
If a character was drawn cross-eyed.

Nurguburu said:
I don't drop any anime so I don't have criterias/red flags.

Isaac_02 said:
OK. I just raise the red flag if the anime is so disappointing, or if it's too boring, or I just hated it for jealousy.
But I'm sure I'll change my mind about it only if I give it a second chance.

palm-tree said:
I guess I don't really have any. The overall "feel" of a show is usually what makes me stick with it or drop it, rather than individual elements.

There are things that make me doubt an anime will be good (for example, a clingy imouto character, named "superpowers" in sports anime, or a "save the club!" main plot in school anime), but nothing in particular that would make me instantly drop something without giving it a chance. I've liked plenty of anime with these things in it, and more, even if these things annoy me by themselves. I would have missed out on many pleasant surprises, even some of my favorites, if I had some kind of criteria or firm list of things I would and wouldn't watch.

WeFeed said:
I don't drop much stuff since I pretty much like everything I've watched

but I have dropped some stuff not alot tho

deftdraft said:

Ah yes, crossed eyes , also "my dressup Darling, purplish, sparkling, sha shapes in it eyes"
(Watched it anyway)
🤣

MadanielFL said:
Dropping anime is for the weak, real ones keep watching even the worst garbage.

BobertkcussineP said:

Nah brotha this is fine:



This is what will make me not try something:

BobertkcussineP said:

Nah brotha this is fine:



This is what will make me not try something:

MadanielFL said:
Dropping anime is for the weak, real ones keep watching even the worst garbage.

erikkamirs said:
If I don't feel like bothering to watch the next episode or if I forget to, then I drop it. Sometimes I might come back later, sometimes not.

Most of Spring 2022's seasonal anime I dropped after the 1st episode, but I might come back to them after they complete. A lot of Winter 2022's seasonals I dropped after 8 episodes, but I may come back and complete them later.

If I'm not invested enough to binge episode after episode, than most of the time, I will drop the anime.

I dropped Mirai Nikki after 19/26 episodes. I dropped Love Live! School Idol Project after 9/13 episodes. I dropped Nichijou 10/26 episodes. I dropped Ousama Ranking 20/23 episodes (I might come back to it later). I dropped Battle Game in 5 seconds after 6/12 (I read the manga and didn't feel like watching it again).

Perfectly good anime, but for some reason I didn't bother to continue watching after some point. I got bored and distracted by something else. 😐

Some dropped anime I won't come back to include: The Promised Neverland: Season 2; Deep Insanity: The Lost Child; Kendenshi; Try Knights; etc., etc. etc. Because they sucked lmaooooo.

TheFireNinja said:
It's nothing really specific. Usually a few episodes are enough to tell me whether or not an anime is going to be for me. I have gotten farther in certain series. But I ultimately ended up discontinuing them at a point and not returning back to them. I just don't believe in forcing yourself to watch something you don't like as watching TV is supposed to be a leisure and enjoyable activity. Often times, people who I see watching series that they don't like all the way through end up being very disappointed or being toxic to communities who enjoy those shows just because they weren't able to understand the hype or had broken expectations. I of course don't imagine myself being one of those people. But nevertheless, it's just TV. Everyone is going to have their different tastes and criteria for shows they like, and some people just have to accept that.

deftdraft said:
Hi there, fellow MAL wanderers!
After just passing 100 mark for number of watched animes(rookie numbers, but please bear with me)
I decided to have set myself a few criteria, some stuff that makes me wanna drop an anime immediately, kinda like red flags:
(Please, please don't hurt me, just wanna have normal discussion)
1-School Theme is very major, and that "new transfer student" thingy,instant drop, no second chance
2-I am [insert name here] starts explaining every nook and cranny of plot right off the bat(I wanna understand some stuff myself you know)
3-assuming there is a good looking boy, passes a hallway, everyone be like" woah, he's hot"/ same but for girl "wow, she's pretty"
That's simplified and shortened version of ut, wouldn't dare to name more
Soooo... What are your red flags?

deftdraft said:
Hi there, fellow MAL wanderers!
After just passing 100 mark for number of watched animes(rookie numbers, but please bear with me)
I decided to have set myself a few criteria, some stuff that makes me wanna drop an anime immediately, kinda like red flags:
(Please, please don't hurt me, just wanna have normal discussion)
1-School Theme is very major, and that "new transfer student" thingy,instant drop, no second chance
2-I am [insert name here] starts explaining every nook and cranny of plot right off the bat(I wanna understand some stuff myself you know)
3-assuming there is a good looking boy, passes a hallway, everyone be like" woah, he's hot"/ same but for girl "wow, she's pretty"
That's simplified and shortened version of ut, wouldn't dare to name more
Soooo... What are your red flags?

SofiaBulga said:
1st red flag is if the cover-art for an anime is children-like or has an abundance of 3D.

2nd red flag is if the genres for Kids, Parody, Gag humour and Idol are precent in the description.

3rd red flag is if it's a sequel, spin-off or something akin to those of an anime I've dropped or rated low.

TheMechaManiac said:


1. Main character yaoi.
2. Transsexuals.
3. Moeblob design.

deftdraft said:


Myself rather avoid childish looking animes too, oh well, everything has its own audience

SofiaBulga said:


These look childish, but I'll still give them a chance:

Aharen-san wa Hakarenai
Kono Healer, Mendokusai
Healer Girl

MadanielFL said:
Dropping anime is for the weak, real ones keep watching even the worst garbage.

Sayali567 said:
Because people like you have no life that's why you keep watching trash shows but for us we don't have time to waste on shit

MadanielFL said:
You're right, that is 1000% true and a fact.

ryo-san said:
The isekai tag and a stupid looking generic male character in medieval clothing and/or carrying ugly looking sword and a filthy stinky shield represented on the cover poster..

Like you can't spell medieval without me, die..that period in human history is a disgrace... Torture, poverty-stricken people and slavery for the sexual pleasure of these kings and queens and no progress..

This period should be forgotten and erased from history..