| if i don't wanna watch it, i don't...simple as that. |
| I see dead people |
| Anything with BL or yaoi tag. Instant drop. Shoujo I don't care much for either but I'll at least try and give them a chance, but usually if it's not that great I'll drop as well. I also don't have the patience for a lot of kids anime. |
| 1. It has harem tag. 2. It has ecchi tag. 3. A random person with no backstory reincarnates. (basically, 99.99% of isekai) 4. It is made by Kyoto Animation, Trigger or Shinkai Makoto. 5. It is a blatant moe bait. 6. It is based on a novel with a long name. 7. It is an adaptation of Nishio Ishin's work. |
Nemo_NiemandJun 6, 2022 3:39 AM
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That's the author of Monogatari, a notorious harem/ecchi/moe/pedo bait which almost everyone praises as something deep and smart. And fanbase are very pretty people who wished me death and promised to find and kill me and my family countless times lol. So, anything made by this author is a fat NO for me. |
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deftdraft said: Nemo_Niemand said: That's the author of Monogatari, a notorious harem/ecchi/moe/pedo bait which almost everyone praises as something deep and smart. And fanbase are very pretty people who wished me death and promised to find and kill me and my family countless times lol. So, anything made by this author is a fat NO for me. Ahhh.. Damnnn.. My man triggered a whole fan base lol "Find me and my family and kill me" Im dying over here... Thanks for the laugh Well, it's not even a joke. They actually bombed me with such threatenings. |
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| Only red flag is if it's still shit after 5 episodes. |
| I'm somewhat picky when it comes to adding anime to my watch list; until it piques my attention, I won't watch it. As a result, I've only dropped a few animes because I won't watch anything that appears uninteresting. |
I love bread |
| Characters; I can always tell when a character has more depth that requires further exploration vs "this is legit all there is to them" right off the bat. Not saying all cardboard character animes are unwatchable, but that's definitely a red flag. Add in obnoxious over-pandering writing, like having to EXPLAIN everything (this usually goes hand-in-hand with no character depth; this combo can never *show* you and let you gauge the story and characters yourself, they just "tell" you what you should think) or pander to the audience with the most obvious or nonsensical anime tropes or logic, that's when I know this is not worth my time. It's not going to suddenly 'get good' even if I watch until the end, and so I don't. Some you can tell this right away, others take a few episodes, but it's always within 5 for me. The subject of character depth is a tricky one, so I'm not saying every single character has to be filled to the brim with emotional complexity; they just need to be perfect for the story they're in and at least represent SOMETHING for the narrative itself, otherwise why would they exist in the first place? |
CrimsonCWJun 7, 2022 6:24 AM
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| Very very vey very colorful hair and clear signs of trope characters. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
O_T_T said: Dropping it immediately is giving it a chance. It had the chance to not do any of the shit that makes it get dropped immediately. Based on the reactions I've had to recently announced and released anime, I'd say the biggest red flag for myself is just an evident lack of creativity. Repetitive concepts, sticking to tropes of the genre, shallow characters, and so forth. For that reason, I've come to avoid the Shounen, Sports, Romance and Isekai genres almost entirely, and most things based of Light Novels, since those all rarely produce anything worthwhile. 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.. I think you're conflating some mediocre dark fantasy you read once with reality. The medieval period was a lot more complex and far less dramatic than you're claiming, about the only thing you're right about is that there was widespread poverty. No im not... And big hairy men in stinky armour who didn't shower for 5 years like those knights |
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| If the premise seems boring and uninteresting. |
| Anything made by Lim dall young, a living meme at this point lol. Aside from that it's following the overused template without variety or creativity. |
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| My only problem is being boring. Or gross. |
| My waifu is the most wonderful waifu. Mai Valentine. We're freaking out that we're running out of time, but to do what? Should i stop and think of that? Is there something i could do to slow it down? Live in a day for once, instead of watch it sprinting by |
Jamison2210 said: I wouldn't start an anime that I wouldn't like in the first place... Lol what do you mean? You don't know if you'll like an anime until you've started it. |
| Characters making those anime filler sounds like "eh?!", "uum", "mm" or stuttering a lot, especially in shows which are trying to be in anyway serious. I'm more ok with it in comedy or slice of life/moe shows though but it's still annoying. Crazy characters whose pupils get small and grin really wide to show that they're going insane. It's just looks stupid and lame and the fact that the show thinks it's cool is a red flag lol. Characters who are supposed to be geniuses but you can tell the author is just dumbing everyone else down to make the mc seem smarter. And in general, power fantasies where the character acts like a smug asshole are annoying. Over the top otaku characters Characters with insanely big balloon tits. Looks ugly. |
ProfessorOshino said: Jamison2210 said: I wouldn't start an anime that I wouldn't like in the first place... Lol what do you mean? You don't know if you'll like an anime until you've started it. I know for a fact something like Boku No Pico isn't anything relevant to me whatsoever, and I don't even have to watch a single episode to realize that. |
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
| Pedo/Loli & SisCon/Incest Stuff. Although I saw some stuff that had a tiny bit of it but was still a great watch so I can tolerate it somewhat now if it's in a weird joke way. And ofc, non-heterosexual stuff. Don't need to explain that I guess. Simply not interested in seeing a show about a romance about two same sex genders. Other than that I am willing to give most stuff a go but I prefer drama + romance and whatever else they throw in the mix. |
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CrimsonCW said: ProfessorOshino said: Lol what do you mean? You don't know if you'll like an anime until you've started it. I know for a fact something like Boku No Pico isn't anything relevant to me whatsoever, and I don't even have to watch a single episode to realize that. Yeah that's not an anime but a hentai. And it can be inferred that something is not your taste when its contrary to your sexual preference. Get better logic. |
ryo-san said: O_T_T said: Dropping it immediately is giving it a chance. It had the chance to not do any of the shit that makes it get dropped immediately. Based on the reactions I've had to recently announced and released anime, I'd say the biggest red flag for myself is just an evident lack of creativity. Repetitive concepts, sticking to tropes of the genre, shallow characters, and so forth. For that reason, I've come to avoid the Shounen, Sports, Romance and Isekai genres almost entirely, and most things based of Light Novels, since those all rarely produce anything worthwhile. I think you're conflating some mediocre dark fantasy you read once with reality. The medieval period was a lot more complex and far less dramatic than you're claiming, about the only thing you're right about is that there was widespread poverty. No im not... And big hairy men in stinky armour who didn't shower for 5 years like those knights My, oh my. Let's start with the "sex slavery" angle. Much as overly-fetishised edgy tripe will have you believe otherwise, this actually never happened to any widespread degree. Virtually all of the medieval nobility were against any sort of relations with their vassals, due to a belief that they were intrinsically, biologically of different stock and must retain their purity. Obviously this is nonsensical, but it does mean that everyone was spared from this illicit pleasure trade you think was all the rage. Then there's the idea of "no progress" - the invention of the printing press, glasses, clockwork, blast furnace, heavy soil plow and even the wheelbarrow disagree with you. And to say that medieval has "die" in it, as though that means something, well that's just stupid. "Cabbage" has "age" in it, but it doesn't make you older when you eat it. It really would be salutary for you to look more into history, for your own benefit. ProfessorOshino said: CrimsonCW said: I know for a fact something like Boku No Pico isn't anything relevant to me whatsoever, and I don't even have to watch a single episode to realize that. Yeah that's not an anime but a hentai. And it can be inferred that something is not your taste when its contrary to your sexual preference. Get better logic. It's still an example of not watching something they know just from cursory information they won't enjoy. That it's technically not anime (even though it's a case of one encompassing the other anyway) is a ridiculous straw to grasp. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| bad cliches like deadpan protagonist, ditzy female lead, etc. |
| good opinions on anything, block = I own you |
O_T_T said: ryo-san said: No im not... And big hairy men in stinky armour who didn't shower for 5 years like those knights My, oh my. Let's start with the "sex slavery" angle. Much as overly-fetishised edgy tripe will have you believe otherwise, this actually never happened to any widespread degree. Virtually all of the medieval nobility were against any sort of relations with their vassals, due to a belief that they were intrinsically, biologically of different stock and must retain their purity. Obviously this is nonsensical, but it does mean that everyone was spared from this illicit pleasure trade you think was all the rage. Then there's the idea of "no progress" - the invention of the printing press, glasses, clockwork, blast furnace, heavy soil plow and even the wheelbarrow disagree with you. And to say that medieval has "die" in it, as though that means something, well that's just stupid. "Cabbage" has "age" in it, but it doesn't make you older when you eat it. It really would be salutary for you to look more into history, for your own benefit. ProfessorOshino said: Yeah that's not an anime but a hentai. And it can be inferred that something is not your taste when its contrary to your sexual preference. Get better logic. It's still an example of not watching something they know just from cursory information they won't enjoy. That it's technically not anime (even though it's a case of one encompassing the other anyway) is a ridiculous straw to grasp. The first guy is a textbook 'me-generation' zoomer of our times; they don't look into anything, let alone history; in fact they want to live in denial of it forever and even rewrite it for their own benefit. So this is a big request of him to ask; I doubt it will ever happen. He didn't even reply to a comment about it I left him. Just the fact one of his points was "OMG IT HAD A MEAN WORD IN IT!111" is all the proof you need, really. And thank for that reply at the end. Better than I could've put it! :) If it's on MAL, guy, it's still an anime. |
CrimsonCWJun 7, 2022 7:57 AM
| Life can be cruel and unfair. At worst it can traumatize and cripple you. The desire for wanting things to return to the way they were can cost everything and changes nothing. The best way is to keep moving forward, struggle on. Anger can be powerful but can only get you so far. Let people into your life even if some of them leave you in time. Fight. Like. Hell. For everything and everyone you love. Always. |
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? for me? I rarely drop things. Mostly because I won't give every single generic looking show a chance. but when I do drop things, I drop them when they are both boring and I don't care about what happens enough to push through it. |
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| How do you drop an anime without giving it a chance? Wouldn't that just be... not watching it? It's only dropping if you're already watching it and decide to, well, drop it. But at that point you have already checked it out, aka given it a chance. So I'm not sure what you mean, dropping an anime early on after it disappoints you or just avoiding it altogether because you don't like the theme/setting/genre/etc...? Either way it's rarely as simple as having a clear red flag, it's usually a combination of things that will make me want to drop something during the first episode. I don't think think there is a single trope I hate so much it would make me instadrop a show, but if a bunch of bad tropes accumulate in the first ep, I might consider it. But most of my ep 1 drops are either shows that were mistagged and that I would have avoided if they were properly tagged, or stuff I was just trying out to see if it is as bad or boring as I expected because there was a tiny part of me that thought it could surprise me. As for stuff that makes me not want to check out a show - harem or magical girl tags would be one, being a VN adaptation is another. Mecha too, for the most part (at least when it comes to seasonals/non-gundams). Anything else I need more information to figure out whether I want to give it a shot or not. Like romance anime for example have their own red flags for me but they are hard to put into words. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I think I hastily drop a lot of anime, sometimes I've dropped anime watching the first 5 or 10 minutes.. and I drop when I see anything that I think is not enjoyable to me, but I forget that there are shows that get gradually better, their potential couldn't be judged from 5 or 10 minutes.. In retrospect, I also notice that some anime have weak beginnings (maybe just the ones I've seen?) and perhaps this is why there is a 3 episode rule. My criteria was/is the direction and dialogue mainly.. generally, I used to believe that one would know if something's enjoyable or not in the first 5 minutes of a movie or a show - but that would only narrow down your choices. It's true that there's nothing better than a show/film that has strong opening scene or the 5 minutes, but those are few... I remember, long ago, I dropped Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei after literally the first five minutes thinking it may not be for me, but something prompted me to check it again now and I couldn't have been more wrong previously, I am in love with the anime.. It's a little lesson to me, to be more patient and willing. I also dropped a lot of other 'good' anime for various reasons, I wonder if I'm missing good things.. |
silentviewJun 7, 2022 8:50 AM
| Jokes on you, I never drop an anime no matter how bad it is. I'm a masochist completionist |
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| Ecchi and Harem genres are my go to "do not touch" area of anime, I hate them both. |
| Just an avid anime watcher of 20 years, not much else I could say about myself (that I don't want to reveal, of course, just ask if you wanna know more!) "So...look up, face forward, toward your chosen horizon and just...walk on." - Noah, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 |
CrimsonCW said: O_T_T said: My, oh my. Let's start with the "sex slavery" angle. Much as overly-fetishised edgy tripe will have you believe otherwise, this actually never happened to any widespread degree. Virtually all of the medieval nobility were against any sort of relations with their vassals, due to a belief that they were intrinsically, biologically of different stock and must retain their purity. Obviously this is nonsensical, but it does mean that everyone was spared from this illicit pleasure trade you think was all the rage. Then there's the idea of "no progress" - the invention of the printing press, glasses, clockwork, blast furnace, heavy soil plow and even the wheelbarrow disagree with you. And to say that medieval has "die" in it, as though that means something, well that's just stupid. "Cabbage" has "age" in it, but it doesn't make you older when you eat it. It really would be salutary for you to look more into history, for your own benefit. It's still an example of not watching something they know just from cursory information they won't enjoy. That it's technically not anime (even though it's a case of one encompassing the other anyway) is a ridiculous straw to grasp. The first guy is a textbook 'me-generation' zoomer of our times; they don't look into anything, let alone history; in fact they want to live in denial of it forever and even rewrite it for their own benefit. So this is a big request of him to ask; I doubt it will ever happen. He didn't even reply to a comment about it I left him. Just the fact one of his points was "OMG IT HAD A MEAN WORD IN IT!111" is all the proof you need, really. And thank for that reply at the end. Better than I could've put it! :) If it's on MAL, guy, it's still an anime. I guess Europeans never traded slaves..or enslaved asian countries or africans .. they absolutely didn't slaughter the aboriginals and Indians to take over north america and australia.. They invented wheel barrow... Oh my god... . I don't wanna reply cause it's fun laughing at all of you getting triggered over anime... Fuck medieval anime.... keep yapping Yea eating cabbage doesn't make you younger does it.?? Or obviously it makes you old.. I guess you love the medieval ages and wanna eat rats and drink piss while getting off on the special' torture devices of the racist aristocrats...they hated black and asian people..only white people was allowed some rights Really wish they make more anime like Moriarty the patriot and show how to deal with them.. |
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| I've dropped more than 100 anime, most of them by the end of the first episode because I didn't care about anything that happened. That's my general criteria: if I don't care about what happens next, I have no reason to watch, so I drop it. I don't see the value in pushing through to finish everything. I have better things to do. |
| This is mostly relevant to isekai in particular, but it has to be either well written or self aware in it's bad quality. Nothing turns me off more than a ridiculous isekai world that the protagonist and the show takes completely seriously. SAO is probably the most obvious example of this, and as a result SAO abridged is literally of better quality than the original. |
| i can't stand anime that looks dark, as if it was nighttime all the time. also anime with ugly character designs. |
| I'm not particularly trigger happy about dropping anime, I have dropped about 3 shows in the last 3 years, two of them being seasonals I went into entirely blind. |
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