Vysarine said: I rarely drop anime. Usually I do a bit of research beforehand to see if I would like it going in (which is why I usually give out high scores) Same here. That's also the reason why I don't bother watching 30 fucking shows every season. |
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On_the_Lam said: What fucking anime do you watch that are entertaining from their very first 5 minutes what the fuck Try Masou Gakuen HxH. Everything you need to know about the show can be learned in 5 minutes. But in general yes, less than a whole episode is not enough to understand an anime. But it can be enough to drop it. |
| In my case I only add to my drop list after watching at least 1 epsiode but I have dropped series after minutes of watching it. For example Durarara and Overlord, Taboo Tatto being the most recent but haven't added them to my drop list, because maybe I'll tray tackling them in the future. But reading your statement I realize that adding them to the drop list may alert other user to not recommend them to me. |
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On_the_Lam said: kingfroggy said: -overrated anime which is normal to have Huuge expections (fmab) and again fuk me up with childish behaviors.. (Because it tries to be mature but 100% fails.. i resisted until ep 43 so fma fans, u can t say anything) I have personally not given up on it yet. 34 episodes in since last year and I'm trying to find the motivation to finish it. IT'S SO FUCKING BORINGGGGGGG. Better for u if you will never find that motivation ahaha after ep 30 up to 43 is like 4 hours of banging the head against the wall.. i will never understand where that 9.27 came out from |
| I don't know. in rl, i've seen a lot of anime. read a lots of manga. evenmore, i read a lots of ligt and web novel. there's a lots of things that i didn't add on my list. so i careless 'bout this stuff. clearly, everything that impress me were on my list but things that i hate. i don't even remember them muchless added onto my droplist. why your life is so complicated my friend?. . . |
| Mushoku Tensei is the best harem light novel out there and Rudeus is my man'. . . |
| How can you decide whether or not you'll enjoy a show based on the first 5-10min? That's not even 1/10 of the entire show. It's just silly to add something on your dropped list if you didn't even finish the first episode atleast. |
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| I don't drop anime, the shit anime i watch usually is on purpose and it's short anime like dokuro-chan and I finish it to have it finished. Only dropped fairy tail cause it has 175 fucking chapters, but i think dropping a movie or dropping something without finishing first episode is kinda weird cause you can miss what it has to offer (if it has something) For example, i'm watching no game no life now. I found the first episode kinda boring, and i though about dropping but days later i watched the second and i liked it way more. I think 3 episode rule is okay. |
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| I'll only add it to my drop list if I made it through an entire episode at least, though I try to go for 3 or 4 before deciding to list it as dropped. I have quit an anime partway through the first ep, but I don't even bother listing it then. |
| I drop a heck lot of anime... ranging from 1 ep to several episodes to half to almost full season. They weren't even that bad. I dropped most of them because I lost interest, even the most popular ones. Some old 90s series were there because I never completed them during childhood. Sometimes I go back to my own dropped list and pick back a few things because my taste seems to change overtime. I believe there's no need to feel bad about dropping shows. Tho if I'm already watching an episode for 5 mins, I dont see why I cant endure another 15 minutes of it. I understand about movies tho. I'm currently trying to find the motivation to finish several movies like Bakemono no Ko and Santa Company, but since I'm planning to finish them eventually, they're still on PtW, not dropped. |
| I used to put anime in my dropped list when I was younger, but mostly after 4+ episodes ... if I decided to drop it after (or halfway through) the first episode, I wouldn't put it on my list at all. Now I delete everything I drop from my list, including some things I have seen a lot of (Naruto or Bleach dropped after many many episodes). |
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| I also drop anime, but never after 5 minutes. Currently watching Steins;gate and I'm at episode 7. I would probably drop it if it Steins;gate wasn't so highly recommended to me. I just wanna find out why it's so good for everyone else. Btw: of course you might not like attack on titan, but I still think you should give it a bigger chance since 5 minutes is so short. It's all up to you and your taste in anime in the end though. |
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164cm said: I used to put anime in my dropped list when I was younger, but mostly after 4+ episodes ... if I decided to drop it after (or halfway through) the first episode, I wouldn't put it on my list at all. Now I delete everything I drop from my list, including some things I have seen a lot of (Naruto or Bleach dropped after many many episodes). But... why? Don't you want to make notes of anime you've seen a lot of? |
On_the_Lam said: kingfroggy said: Better for u if you will never find that motivation ahaha after ep 30 up to 43 is like 4 hours of banging the head against the wall.. i will never understand where that 9.27 came out from Don't tell me nothing happens during those episodes either. Wtf?? I tried so hard to format my brain and delete those eps ahaha but i failed, i still have nightmares.. do yourself a favour and drop that shit |
I like to keep my anime list "clean" haha. Yeah, I know it's not useful at all, but I really don't care about those dropped titles anymore. Seeing a lot of titles on my dropped/on-hold lists discouraged me from watching anything before. Now I'm into anime again and it works for me! |
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| I try to watch 2 or 3 episodes of something before I drop it, but I also dislike dropping things, so I often will sit through something even if I don't like the first episodes. Although I technically dropped Tatami Galaxy after the first ten minutes; not because it was bad, but the subtitles were too fast lol |
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| I have dropped way more shows that are actually in my dropped list here on MAL, but a lot of them I never even finished one episode I am quite picky when it comes to anime so my dropped list would probably be at around (60+) shows so double in size I don't ask for recs much cos I find a lot people here on MAL aren't good at recommending things that I will actually like anyway so having my dropped list not exactly up to date is okay. I don't think it is a problem dropping movies either if your not enjoying it why finish watching it when you can spend that time watching something that you do enjoy. As for dropping popular anime I have a tonne of popular anime in my dropped list they just wasn't for me. |
| I dropped JK Meshi! before completing the first episode. I remember getting like 30 seconds in and realizing that the show wasn't what I thought it would be. As for dropping popular anime, I dropped One Punch Man 3 episodes in. I just couldn't get into it, the show never really grasped me and I gave it a fair chance. As my personal rule, I won't rate anything that I've dropped. It probably doesn't affect the overall rating but I believe that if I dropped something it's because it wasn't an anime suited to my tastes and it has nothing about it being poorly made. Anime that are truly bad I wouldn't watch in the first place anyways. |
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| I only add dropped anime to my list if I watched a decent amount of it before dropping. I very often drop anime on the first episode, so my list would be overflowing with dropped anime if I added them. |
| I at least try to watch at least 1 episode before dropping something. If I can't even handle even 1 episode, then directly delete that shit from my list... Example : Tokyo Ghoul! |
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| I don't really drop movies, the only exception was when the subs ended up so bad that it was literally unwatchable so I dropped it. But I left it at 1/1 on dropped. 0/1 kinda seems like you haven't even tried it and just put it there preemptively or for some other reason. I have also dropped some TV shows after or during the first episode. Always seasonals that were missing tags and had vague synopsis that I ended up gravely misjudging. Like missing an ecchi/harem/shit tag in an otherwise potentially interesting synopsis. That's the most common reason. Rail Wars, Upotte, Busou Shinki come to mind. I also have a few shows on there I just checked out for some completionist reason. Like Super Sonico because at the time I was watching every White Fox anime that came out. Or the shitty Higurashi Kira OVA which I had to give a try because I've seen everything else from the franchise. And sometimes I just picked up every show that sounded remotely like it could have potential and then cut the ones that made me least curious after the first 1-3 episodes. That was back when I was overdosing on seasonals all the time. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I dropped psycho pass movie in 15 minutes |
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| I try to keep track of my failures so that I don't try to go back and watch them again. Everything I tried and dropped is in my dropped list to the best of my knowledge anyway. Even if it was an insta-drop where I just stopped watching partway through the first episode and knew it was not for me or had an extreme negative reaction to it. I usually just round up and leave it as one episode completed since a fraction of an episode is still more than 0 episodes. Doing that is not my norm though, I usually at least finish the entire first episode, sometimes 3-5 or more before I decide to drop it. |
KruszerAug 16, 2016 2:00 PM
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| i drop anime like no tomorrow that i don't even bother updating my dropped list anymore i'll watch the second ep to see if it gets any better, but for the most part, if an anime doesn't interest me from the get-go then it's most likely gonna be dropped |
| I don't bother adding anime to my dropped list unless I've seen at least 3-4 episodes. No point in adding something to my dropped list when I didn't even give the first episode a full shot. |
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| My dropped anime list only have anime that I dropped after finishing 1-3 episodes (except Kyou kara maou, but I'm reading the manga instead). Some anime are not on my dropped list because I'm putting it off watching them at all. Attack on Titan, Tokyo Ghoul, Death Note, etc. A popular anime that I dropped really quickly was Guilty Crown. It was my first intro into the mecha genre and after an episode I really disliked it and avoided the genre in general. I have a lot of stuff on hold though, that I haven't watched for months/years, but I might come back to those someday... maybe. |
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| I think you should give a series a better chance. "Lucky Star" had a stupid first episode, but it was still great show overall. |
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| I only do it with seasonal stuff that I pick up. I pick almost all the seasonal every time but because a lot of them shit and I'm lazy I drop most of them before even the first episode is finished. If something was on my ptw for a long time or is over I'll give it like 3-4 episodes |
| Could not finish episode 1 of Kiss x Sis. So god fucking awful! |
| I add everything I make an attempt to watch because a list should help me keep track of these kinds of things (right?). |
| I dropped Absolute Duo and probably some other anime I don't remember halfway episode one. I don't add them to my list whenever I do that. |
| I can see why you would add, but I personally would be to lazy to add an anime which I haven't even finished the first episode. Hell, sometimes I won't even add anime that I dropped after 5 or 6 episodes because I forgot to add them when I started watching. I've done that before with some anime (NGNL, Shirobako, ReZero...) |
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| I don't think dropping an anime is really something to be proud of. Its only real purpose is to possibly return to a dropped show or not accidentally try it a second time. |
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| If it has more than one episode and it's on my dropped list without any episodes watched, that's more likely to mean "will not watch" than "dropped part-way through the first episode", but I'd likely note it in the tags either way. |
| Do you only add anime to your dropped list after you've seen a certain amount? I have to have seen at least the first episode. There are a couple of shows that I started watching, realized quickly they are not for me, and dropped partially through the first episode but I didn't add them to my list. If I can't make it through one episode I won't even bother. Have you rated any anime in your dropped list that you've seen less than 1/5 of? I don't bother rating anything I drop either. I don't really dwell on how a dropped show would rate. Have you ever dropped an anime more than halfway through? Do you even drop anime? I drop a lot of anime and that includes some that I've watched the majority of. Reasons vary a lot. Some like Inu Yasha I got bored of how repetitive it was. Others like Rurouni Kenshin I couldn't force myself to watch any more. I dropped Bubblegum Crisis 2040 because I was never able to get my hands on the last DVD. Years later a friend got a copy and loaned it to me but by that time I forgot pretty much everything about the show up to that point. I tried to watch but got lost quickly and decided to leave it as dropped since I was in no mood to rewatch the entire thing. What do you think about people who drop anime movies or put popular anime in their dropped list that they haven't seen much of? I don't think nothing of it. Everybody is different and may drop anime for many reasons. |
 ...even a saint needs a soldier to do the dirty work. |
| A lot of anime I've dropped is just like that.... The record is 3 minutes with Active Raid. |
| I add most anime I watch. Even those I drop part way through the first episode. Mostly as a reminder DO NOT WATCH THIS. Oh there were questions. Do you only add anime to your dropped list after you've seen a certain amount? I add everything But I usually push through the first episode. I think there was one show I only made it 18 minutes in. I could not watch any further. Have you rated any anime in your dropped list that you've seen less than 1/5 of? Yup. I rate a lot of things. It just more me keeping tabs on how shit the show was. I run an anime club. I need to keep tabs. Have you ever dropped an anime more than halfway through? Do you even drop anime? I think so- if I make it halfway and drop probably do to life I dropped it and never got interested in it again. Kinda like what happened to Naruto. I like it but it is dropped I guess for now? Maybe I will feel like watching long running shonen again soon. . And I am the drop master. Drop it like it's hot. Drop like no tomorrow. If I hate it... I rate it and trash it. What do you think about people who drop anime movies or put popular anime in their dropped list that they haven't seen much of? I figure they just want to make sure they don't watch again. :/ Shouldn't rate anime movies on account of it screwing with their score. Just put a note next to it. But shows you have seen less than 1/5th of... don't count in the score. If someone hates something they need to let reccers know, they need to remind themselves why they dropped it. |
Energetic-NovaAug 16, 2016 9:50 PM
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| Usually im extremely good at finding anime I know i will enjoy. From a 5-10 I will not regret any anime i watched. Maybe below that and we have bad anime that i made a mistake. But I wouldnt drop an anime. Seems like you wanted to watch AoT because of other ppl. Personally I know that FMA isnt my cup of tea just because of the type of anime it is. So im not gonna even give it a chance to drop it. But i feel where ur coming from. |
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