| If I start an anime and it end's up being extremely boring and with a banal plot I will most certainly drop it without a second thought. |
  “The most shameless thing in the world is political power that can be inherited regardless of ability or talent!” |
| I genuinely want to finish an anime but sometimes, work comes up and I stop watching and lose interest and sometimes forget about it. Then, by the time I I remember it, new anime pop up and I cannot find the time binge it. Other times, I drop it because I lose interest and don't wish to watch them such as Deathnote because the main antag is replaced with less favorable characters or Berserk 2017 because the CGI is not great to watch |
"Perfection is perception. For me, humanity's imperfections is what makes it perfect"  |
| I'm what you might call a completionist, in that I always try to finish what I start. I have plenty of anime on my PTW that I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy (and so far my PTW has always grown faster than I've been able to work it off), so I have little reason to seek out anime that might not be my thing. Once I get into a show, even if it turns out to be boring or not-in-a-good-way ridiculous, I'll generally finish it. If that happened with an anime with 100+ episodes or something like that it's more likely I'd convince myself to drop it but that hasn't happened yet. I've only ever started one anime that I found so utterly unpleasant to watch that I had to drop it, and that was "Teasing Master Takagi-san"; what I watched left such an awful impression that I just wanted to take a hot shower and rinse away the memory. |
A møøse once bit my sister... |
ZonedIn said: At what point do you decide to drop an anime? Do you ever force yourself to finish a series, or do you drop it as soon as 1 thing displeases you? I'm asking this because i'm genuinely curious, as to what makes you drop an anime after you've only seen 2 episode into a 25 episode series. The way i see it is at least finish the series (if it isn't THAT long) then rate it a 1 if you wish, but just at least finish it. At the very least, I always follow the 3 episode rule. After that, I'll still try to watch an episode here or there, even if I'm not particularly fond of it. I think the point at which I decide to drop a series is when I realize that I'm dreading - or otherwise not looking forward to - watching another episode. I used to force myself to finish everything, but that got to be very hard to keep doing. Now I'm a sort of pseudo-completionist; I'm more relaxed about dropping anime, but I have a somewhat informal rule that I'll pick it up again eventually and watch it to completion, even if it has to be at a super slow pace. |
| If I didn't like it by episode 5 and I found it dumb/boring I just drop it. I watch for entertainment and if it's not doing it well then it is dropped. |
| If it's boring mostly. There's always better anime to watch |
| I read the synopsis, if it convinces me then I watch at least 3 episodes. If after that 3 episodes, the plot or characters don't convince me, then I drop it. |
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| I usually drop an anime when I don't feel motivated enough to start watching another episode. If the anime is hooks me, then I'll usually binge it if I can. |
RealTheAbsurdist said: -Shit pacing -Nothing interesting happening -Bland dialogue -Bland art -Obnoxious characters AGREED. and ofc, a meaningless story or characters |
| Cross Ange,, Disgusting rape filth!! Dropped!! Enen no Shouboutai , I dont like hes stupid smile and then the creep looked down in to MY waifus cleavage!! Hell no!! , Dropped!! Uta∽Kata , Male in the op!! I can feel that one is going to have heterosexuality in it!!,, Dropped!! |
Yuri-CrusaderNov 9, 2019 10:20 AM
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| for me : slow pacing, bad animation, too much comedy, |
“You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin” . |
| I drop an anime when I find it either to disgusting or to boring to justify my continued viewing. I never drop a show forever, I'll come back to it... some day. |
| I use the "do I care about what I'm watching rn?" test, in which I don't force myself to watch something I've lost interest in, though I may test my patience some depending on mood. |
| I tend to drop an anime when I put it on-hold because I'm busy. And when I go back to watch it, I suddenly don't have the urge to continue. But months later, either I feel like I have the mood to watch it again or I won't ever continue watching because I have forgotten all about it and I'm too lazy to start from the beginning. |
  “𝕴 𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙 𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖆 𝖜𝖔𝖗𝖑𝖉 𝖎𝖓 𝖜𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖍 𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖊 𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖆𝖓 𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖗𝖞 𝖜𝖆𝖞.” --------⚖-------- 𝖆𝖓𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖌𝖆 𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙 |
| Am I enjoying it? I continue watching. Am I not enjoying it? I drop it. It's amazingly simple. |
 "I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." ― Jorge Luis Borges [url=]Goodreads[/url] | [url=]Letterboxd[/url] |
| Dr stone was so bad it made me want to quit anime alltogether. In my opinion, when it feels like you need to put effort to keep watching, you should drop it. |
| If the anime is boring. If it's around 12 episodes, I might complete it. |
| There were a lot of times where I put animes on-hold due to busy schoolwork, but didn't have the motivation to finish after I had time again either because I would forget what the animes were about or there were other new animes I was interested in. In this case I usually drop those on-hold animes with no hard feelings but there are exceptions in which I rewatched the animes and ended up completing them anyways. |
| I mostly drop anime if I find them so boring that I don't think I could bring myself to finish them. In the cases of Magimoji Rurumo and Great Teacher Onizuka, Kouta Shibaki and Eikichi Onizuka are so pervy that they put me off the whole shows. |
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| 1. If I completely abandoned the anime completely 2. If it's bored me to death 3. nothing interesting happening. |
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| After watching a minimum 3 episodes I decide to drop animes that : - Have a bad plot - rubbish characters - stupid decisions made by characters - Not punishing/killing people that clearly deserve it - brain dead MC |
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| Cuz it feels like a chore , ofc I will drop something if I'm bored of watching it |
 "I want to show that woman the true Yoshikage Kira. I want her to hear how I feel deep inside. That I want to take your slender neck into these hands and strangle you to death." |
| 1. There are things in the show that actively annoy me, and the show has insufficient redeeming qualities. For example, Mana in Conception is very annoying, and the show just isn't good enough to overcome that. 2. There just isn't enough in the show to catch my interest. I get to the end of episodes and can't remember what happened, because I wasn't paying attention. There's just no point in continuing. 3. Whatever I'm using to watch the episodes goes away, and I no longer have access. Bummer. |
| I'll drop a show if it's not keeping my interest long enough for me to finish. I'll usually delete it from my list altogether. I deleted plenty of shows rather than adding them to my drop list. |
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| I rarely dropped anime since I tend to give it a chance or I'm expecting it to change in the later episode. I also focuses on the story so when an anime story line is awful, full of plot holes and dragging then I immediately drop it. |
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| Boredom...pure boredom. I don't care how bad or stupid something is as long as it isn't boring. The only exception to this rule is if a character annoys me so much that it keeps me from enjoying the rest of the show. This rarely happens though. |
| i've had those anime where during each episode, i find it too boring and leave every couple minutes, do something else, and go back to the episode. if that continues and i just don't find myself comfortable with sitting through the anime, i'll just drop it |
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| I tried to watch Liz To Aoi Tori,but it was so unbearably boring that i honestly couldn´t even finish it.I normally don´t drop movies since i prefer to at least finish them,but this was an exception.I understand how people can appreciate the little details in this movie such as the sound direction,but it failed to keep my attention. |
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| The only reason I would drop an anime is that it's unbearable You know what I mean, like the ones that you watch feels like an hour passed instead of 24 minutes |
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| Overboard ecchi seems to be the big one for me. I like action, drama, comedy, great characters & interesting settings. Can be bad if it overtakes everything else on a show. Especially since it can break believability or force characters to act out of character(this can sometimes work if they did it simply as a one off joke) |
Freshell said: Exactly this.I use the "do I care about what I'm watching rn?" test, in which I don't force myself to watch something I've lost interest in, though I may test my patience some depending on mood. Except I have dropped 699 and you have dropped 0? |
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| If anime is too annoying or boring for me I drop it immediately. No point in watching anime if its raising bad feelings in me, better to start another one that will have positive feelings on me instead :) . Sometimes even half of episode is enough to drop anime. (most common reasons to drop anime for me are: forced comedy with deformated faces, pointless psycho things, trashtalking during most of episode) |
| i drop an anime when i find it boring and i catch myself just waiting for the end of the episode / show. |
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| The only thing I don’t understand is when people watch 20/24 of the anime and then drop it or some shit. |
| Double cup full of purrp, you can see me leanin. |
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