How many episodes do you watch before judging an anime ?

Heredity said:
if it's a extended release ova or hentai (which just kinda assume they're done until the next episode is randomly produced), i understand. but i can see anime on that there on-hold list that with 1 episode viewed that you might have possibly started in their airing season (if you consider when they aired) and then just shoved into your on-hold list. seems silly to me, really. sometimes you just gotta let go.

let it go.
let it go.
frozen movie reference.
let it go.

gamer2710 said:
One. If the first episode fails to interest me, then there is no point in continuing. First impressions are important.

IntroverTurtle said:
Seems silly to you that I sometimes get overwhelmed with the amount of anime I pick up each season or get bored so I put an anime on hold until I feel like watching it? I see no reason to drop it. Next thing you're going to be telling me that I should drop the anime in my watching list that I only watch an episode of when I'm bored once every couple of months. All that matters is the intent. I intend to pick up all the anime on my on hold list, that's why they're there and not in my dropped list, I actually looking forward to some.

Never watched it so it is not effective.

Tapey said:
I watch the entire series before judging.

Unless it's it kanon (2006)

Heredity said:
that's what they all say. 'oh yeah, i swear on me mam i'll watch that there anime i started 3 years ago!'

i just moved a bunch of anime from my on-hold list to my dropped list a couple of hours ago because i'd forgotten about them entirely. i just come to terms with the fact that i obviously don't care enough to continue them, lol.

JizzyHitler said:
i put mushishi on hold 4 years ago, and i put noein on hold 5 years ago, finished noein a few months back and just picked up mushishi again and plan to finish it before season 2, so far one piece is the longest on hold show i have anymore which i stopped watching sometime in 2013 and am just waiting to get in the mood to watch something like it again

I finished bleach, i can finish any fucking thing at this point if i can complete that.

Heredity said:
eh? it just seems like you're doing it for the sake of an anime list on a website to me. i've been around here long enough to know that folk here get high and mighty about their 'nothing dropped' status (while their on-hold list just steadily gets bigger and bigger).

if i don't watch an episode of an anime for months, it goes to my on-hold list. if i don't watch that on-hold anime after all, it goes to my dropped list. if i ever do feel like watching that dropped anime, i pull it from the dropped list for a second chance. i'd consider an on-hold list of over 100 anime quite overwhelming, actually.

actually, if i watched an episode (just 1) of something and found it to be interesting enough i might throw it on my ptw list instead. it's probably going to be so long until i get around to it that i'll need to rewatch the first episode anyway.

IntroverTurtle said:
Well you don't really know how I think, do you. And I've been here long enough to see that as user's completed anime grows higher, so does usually all other parts of their list not just on hold.

Well if I have no intention of watching an anime for a while, I'll put it on hold, that simple, I pick it up when I feel like watching it then it goes to my watch list until I finish it. If it's on your dropped list why would you pick it up? I thought dropped meant you had no intention of ever picking it up. I didn't know it was like second on hold level. I'd consider an on hold list of over 100 for someone who's watched over 1,500 anime to be quite normal actually. And relatively the size of our on hold lists to our completed list is close. Mine would be even closer if I didn't count the ones that aren't on hold voluntarily.

I've done that a few times, it depends.

Heredity said:
from what i've observed the on-hold list of a user who doesn't drop any anime is usually larger and stays larger for longer.

well, what if i dropped an anime 4 years ago because i thought it to be boring bu then a person i knew mentioned something about it that i'm now interested in? i can of course pull that anime out of my dropped list and try watching it again. it's not exactly locked in there. my attitude towards certain genres has changed too, anime that i dropped while younger might now actually interest me. hell, i might just give certain anime a second chance (like hyouka).

oh, and mal hasn't updated the on-hold count on my profile for some reason. i actually only have 13 on-hold anime, not 21.

fyi, i'm not attacking you. i'm continuing this line of discussion because you stood up and begged the question, lol.

IntroverTurtle said:
Only one user? And that's quite a specific userbase for you to observe. Almost to a point that I don't believe it.

I guess that's possible. But it doesn't sound like something that should be normally happening.

Give it time, and then our numbers are a little different. Though I haven't deducted the anime in my on hold list for subbing problems, episode problems, and the such.

Yeah I get it.

Heredity said:
only one user?' no, that's not what i typed at all.

so you seem to think that a dropped list is some sort of abyss that one could never actually pick an anime up from again? that's interesting.

godly-bell said:
i personally watch 3 episode to give me a generally idea of the anime .
which was why i watched total eclipse muv luv to ep 20 before dropping it

Jimmu said:
One Episode.
Literally if I bore to death then there is no point in continuing.