Is it wrong to drop an anime (12-25 eps) after 1 episode?

Jonouchi-Katsuya said:


I have dropped in a similar timeframe myself. I don't mark them but yeah. >.> It is like I click the show on crunchy, check it out up to the song. Make judgments. And say "FUCK THIS SHIT IM OUT"

I donno. You were never in an anime club so I am going to guess you never had to be exposed to anime you actually hated and had to sit through the entire thing. You don't appear to have many dropped/on hold anime. Your average rating is high. I am going to guess, you are very good at determining by the picture on the outside, by the synopsis if you would like the show. AND you have never participated in anime in a very social way. because if you had, you would have seen a lot more anime you didn't like. I mean, rating anime below a 6 seems unfathomable to you except in dire circumstances.

You don't really explore out of your taste pallat much. Maybe you haven't had a period where you tired of what you loved before and needed to expand your taste.

Also being 21... you are going to generally JUST NOW start to experience anime being not intended for you. May even take until next year. But if you don't feel it, I am happy. But normally when people become not a teenager anymore, they have a major shift in anime preference.

I felt it it me right at 20. But I think it might even be different for men.

Fact is you need to face that you judge anime without watching it all the time.

Kittens-kun said:



I don't judge anything until I watch it. And I haven't dropped an anime yet because I haven't watched anything I felt was so bad to warrant it. I can tell that you think I'M the strange one here. That I'm a filthy casual that doesn't do any critical thinking about what he watches. That I'll just eat up whatever you throw at me, and never complain about it.


But to me, dropping something within such a short time span is is what's odd. Unless you felt what you saw was disturbing, disgusting, or that it was personally insulting and offensive, then I don't see a reason to drop so early. You can't tell me it was the story or the characters because you've barely had time to experience either of those aspects.


And I'm not directing that at flannan because his explanation was perfectly acceptable. If you feel like something is just too relateable, to the point where it brings back negative emotions or memories, then I think the logical thing to do would be to stop watching it.


I'm not against dropping shows, there's too much anime and not nearly enough time to watch it all. You'd obviously want to spend what limited time you have watching something you enjoy. I just think you should give every show a fair shake. I'm not saying to watch like half of it, just enough to actually grasp what it is you're watching, then weed out what you don't like.