Which one is worse?
| I've noticed some people say stuff like this: rohan121 said: The worst a show can be is borring which I do not consider it borring. But I've noticed that boredom gets me to rate something "meh". My really low scores tend to be when a show actively did something to annoy me -- like the plot took a turn that didn't make sense in my opinion, or characters did things that were unwarrantedly stupid, or something like that. So I'm just curious, which one of these is worse for your watching experience -- feeling bored with the show, or having the show actively do something that irritates you? Alternatively, are you more okay with a show not having much happening, or more okay with a show having stuff happening that goes against what you'd like to see? |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| for me it's the boring generic stuff that gets low rating though also the irritating case, but that is more rare |
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| I would say boredom is worse. I can overlook a show being ridiculous and dumb if it can entertain like with the ending of Re Creators. For a show to annoy me it requires some investment of interest. |
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| At least with stuff I actively dislike, there is at least a chance to gain enjoyment from hating by making fun of it, or showing it to friends to laugh at it. Always tryin' to see the good in the bad, that's me. But, you can't really do that if a show is just, like, dull. There's also some other reasons why someone might watch a show they don't like. Like, I'm watching Naruto Shippuden right now, and I'm slowly realising how much I hate it, but I'm gonna watch all 500 episodes because I started it when I was in high school and never finished it. Now I'm at the end of college, I think it would make a good bookend. |
| for me boring stuff gets put on on-hold forever by the time i get around to it, i usually forget a lot of stuff lol idk if a show has "annoyed me" other than trying to on purpose with how the plot is designed, but that would be a + for actually invoking emotions |
RedPlatyJun 21, 2019 2:44 PM
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| well irritating Anime can be for the most part good but pisses me off for various reasons. I.E - "Kuzu No Honkai" , "Cross Ange" they both had various reasons that made me rather angry, frustrated. Honkai made me mixture of pissed off and depressed as I rather hate any sort of casual intimacy for whatever non vanilla romance reason. Ange had infuriating scenes and lead character annoyed me alot. But in the end they were as whole rather good Anime, just personal enjoyment value suffered a lot because of reasons. Whilst.. Anime just bores the hell out me.... I just end up dropping them. But watching Anime that isn't boring enough to drop and basically is on the balance of dropping or not.. those type of series can be annoying. Those I usually end up watching 1-2 ep a day. Whilst good anime I binge a lot. so I'll vote to boredom. |
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| I'd say boredom is the worse of the 2 mainly because it becomes a pain to finish. Like it was pretty hard to get through shows like Medaka Box and GJ-bu and to some extent Genshiken fully. That being said irritated isn't that much better either. However I find at least with a frustrating show like School Days, it does give that motivation to see how it all is gonna play out |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
| Annoyance is far worse when I'm watching something solo because I don't sit there and make jokes to myself about how terrible something is - if I sat there laughing at my own jokes in private, I'd question my sanity - and chances are if I'm annoyed at something I'm actually fucking annoyed and pissed off about it and not laughing about it. A laughably bad show and an infuriatingly bad show are two separate things, and annoyance seems more aligned with the latter than the former. Boredom is just a waste of time and it's not offensive in of itself. It's dull and I'd probably either alt tab a lot with it running in the background or drop it, which is what I've usually done in those instances. I'm not annoyed, I'm just not at all interested in anything its doing. If I'm watching it with other people, boredom is worse because riffing on a bad show can thrive in a simulwatch environment. I've watched shows that I feel like I would've disliked on my own and had a great time watching them when we simul'd it over in the club. Boredom doesn't open up that realm of possibility. Since I do watch most stuff on my own at the end of the day, though, boring is still preferable to annoying or infuriating. |
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| Being irritated at a show is way worse than just being bored with it. |
| I will happily watch a garbage show if there's something entertaining about it: a character I like, good music or animation, etc. But if it's a chore to watch then even a decent anime will end up in my dropped list pretty quickly. That's why some of the anime I dropped are rated as high as a 5. |
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| Boredom is worse, that means that the show has nothing to keep my attention and I'm a pretty easy guy to please, let's say the show is trash and very boring, nothing happens, yet, if they have a one ecchi scene per episode or just a cute/hot girl in order for me to watch her, it's enough. The last monogatari was atrocious, boring beyond despair, truly a disaster, but it had hot girls. If a show annoys me, I'll get over it, it's not like I will get annoyed every single episode. |
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| Ummm, there aren't many shows that actively irritate me. There have been a few, like Shigatsu, Onegai Teacher or Sankarea, these varied from annoying to just infuriating in case of Shitgatsu, but these are so rare and most negative experiences are much more mild than that. If a show is frustrating like that then it's definitely worse than just being boring. I find it baffling that this is even a question, being frustrated is definitely worse than being bored. If you're bored, you drop the, the feeling ends. Annoyance can persist. But if by irritating we also mean milder feelings like 'damn this is stupid' and 'how does that make sense' and generally just questioning the quality of the show than I take that over being boring. I know there's been a lot of talk on this forum (at least few months back) about importance of 'execution' and it's a favourite word of some MALers but personally I am not sure if I entirely agree. I'd rather watch something that feels trashy yet fresh (Mirai Nikki comes to mind) over something that's decently put together, but boring and done hundreds of times before. |
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| There could be a lot of stuff going on but still boring. When the plot gets so over the top that I just don't care anymore. That's annoying and I'd consider it a bad show. If the show is boring in a sense that it is too slow and not much happens, well, it depends on how good it is in general. But I most likely would just drop it and forget with no hard feelings. |
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| If a show is boring, then that in and of itself irritates me, so... I guess if I had to pick then I would say annoyance is worse. If a show is just boring or nothing special, I will probably give it a score of around a 5/10, which would just make it average. |
 What's the difference? |
| I'm gonna have to go with annoyance, because with boredom, it just becomes a dull chore to watch when the pacing is too sluggish and/or nothing in the anime is interesting at all, or in rare cases, I nearly fall asleep due to how boring it is. *CoughDynamicChordcough* Annoyance, on the other hand and in my opinion, has more problematic elements, such as unlikable characters, clichés I can't stand, or the overall story that took a turn for the worst. |
FaidraGalaxyJun 21, 2019 4:06 PM
| Being boring is definitely worse, and will almost certainly swiftly lead to the anime in question finding itself on my Dropped list. On the other hand, if it's bad in a way that makes me laugh or pisses me off I'll probably finish it because at least I'm getting something out of it. |
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| Being bored is the worst offender. At least getting annoyed is entertaining in it's own way. |
| i just recently dropped Kaiba since its fucking boring to me meanwhile i still enjoy Revisions even though the characters are annoying |
| Boring is basically "still bearable". However when an anime pisses you off or irritates you, it can urn the worst score possible if not just be dropped then and there. Even the most boring show I have ever seen, I would still rate a 2/10. But a show that for whatever reason angered or annoyed me, out of pure spite I would rate it a 1/10. Regardless of how high quality it is, or how good the story is up until a point or how well characters were developed. |
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| Both boredom and consistent annoyance would result in a drop, so it's about equal. |
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| I mean, I can annoyed by something and still find an anime entertaining. There's been countless anime with characters that annoyed me to no end but I still liked the rest of it. |
deg said: i just recently dropped Kaiba since its fucking boring to me meanwhile i still enjoy Revisions even though the characters are annoying I think Revisions is kinda watchable because of how silly it take itself to be. It knows the MC is fucking annoying and it constantly makes fun of him. The shows knows itself to be a kind of a parody of shounen shows like Attack of Titan. This kind of ironic attitude is what makes it OK to be stupid. Meanwhile the truly unbearable ones are shows like Nagi no Asu kara which features a bunch of annoying kids and has taken itself very seriously as if those senseless, contrived melodrama has anything to teach us about humanity. |
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CHC said: deg said: i just recently dropped Kaiba since its fucking boring to me meanwhile i still enjoy Revisions even though the characters are annoying I think Revisions is kinda watchable because of how silly it take itself to be. It knows the MC is fucking annoying and it constantly makes fun of him. The shows knows itself to be a kind of a parody of shounen shows like Attack of Titan. This kind of ironic attitude is what makes it OK to be stupid. Meanwhile the truly unbearable ones are shows like Nagi no Asu kara which features a bunch of annoying kids and has taken itself very seriously as if those senseless, contrived melodrama has anything to teach us about humanity. ye and also the time travel plot is good enough on Revisions and i never seen Nagi no Asu kara so i cannot comment on that |
| An exceedingly boring show, especially if it's properly structured and told consistently, is devoid of emotional responses and as a result creates a lack of interest for discussion. Forgettable. An exceedingly annoying show is something i can rant about and enjoy the rant. Boredom is the antithesis of entertainment, i think it's the worst thing you can feel about something from an entertainment industry. |
 I don't believe in the Devil. You should. He believes in you. |
| This is actually one of the more balanced polls I've seen here on AD compared to the lopsided 90/10 polls. Being bored shows that I'm not really enjoying it at all. While being annoyed by something may hurt my opinion of the show, there's still other parts of it that I can enjoy. It's just I have zero motivation to watch something if it bores me. Why bother when I could use that time for something else? |
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Reina_Orikasa said: Yeah, I'm pretty surprised to see it be this close.This is actually one of the more balanced polls I've seen here on AD compared to the lopsided 90/10 polls. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| This is a very interesting question because I drop a lot of shows for both reasons. If I had to choose, I find shows that irritate me to be worse than shows that bore me. For example, I stopped reading Fairy Tail after its tournament arc because it kept making me angry. It was just bullshit after bullshit after bullshit, like it just did not stop. I just kept getting more and more angry every week at what I saw and knew I had to drop it because it was not a healthy thing to consume. On the flip side, I'm watching Hitori no Bocchi this season, and for the most part, I think its average and boring a lot of the times. However, it has enough strong moments for me with its occasional fluff and laugh out loud humor that I'm still willing to continue to watch it. It doesn't really do anything spectacular, but it doesn't really do anything abhorrent either. I'm just simply content with it and it's one of my favorites from the Spring 2019 lineup. |
FrankyPJun 22, 2019 1:28 AM
| boredom is worse for me, I just think of my precious time being wasted while trying to bear it because it might get better, mostly it doesn't |
| I think boredom is worse for me. Irritated only means the show is still good. |
| In the moment annoyance it's worst, because it makes me hate what i'm watching, while boredom just makes me indefferent, so my feelings towards the show can be less negative. But after some time, i forgot the shows that bore, meanwhile i can still remenbers the shows that annoyed me. So i'll say annoynace is worse, because that makes a bad show stick with me even if i want it to go away. |
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| Boredom. Stuff like Mushishi/Haibane Renmei and all that other unimaginative stuff. I'd rather watch stuff that annoys me like School Days, at least that Anime brings the emotion and excitement out of me. |
| Definitely boredom. If it irritates me it's at least engaging on some level and I can pick apart what irritates me. Boring anime are just a chore to sit through. |
 Latest reviews: Wonder Egg Priority and A Couple of Cukoos |
| I see boring can make a bad to mediocre show and actively annoying can make a shit to bad show |
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| The ultimate truth is this,i can pull through a boring show if i really want to but true annoyance comes when i want to watch something bc im bored but i cant decide on what to watch so i can spend days planning on what to watch just to end up watching NOTHING |
"those who aren't able to find a more miserable person than themselves turn to the internet and call others losers,even though they've never met"- Satou from nhk |
| Huh... I'm really surprised this is so close. I don't really get annoyed or irritated by anime. My enjoyment is on a level which begins at zero. The only time I hold any animostiy towards a show is more for an ideological reasons that have nothing to do with the show. I sometimes rant about MP100 for how ugly art can be overlooked by so many just because it's animated well and how the character development gets played up as though it's the best, most-depth character development ever when it's merely very good. I'll moan about Carole & Tuesday for being the exact opposite of otaku-bait; how it wears a polished, refined looking skin which appeals to people who don't like the typical cute, big-eyed anime style and then those people then praise it as the best thing ever but guarenteed they wouldn't be saying that if it actually looked like anime. But in both these cases, I don't hold too much animosity towards the shows themselves. As I said, it's more the ideologies at work around the community reactions. Lunilah said: An exceedingly boring show, especially if it's properly structured and told consistently, is devoid of emotional responses and as a result creates a lack of interest for discussion. Forgettable. An exceedingly annoying show is something i can rant about and enjoy the rant. Boredom is the antithesis of entertainment, i think it's the worst thing you can feel about something from an entertainment industry. Other than the bit about "annoying" shows (honestly, I still have no clue how people could allow themselves to get annoyed at shows...), I fully agree with eveything else said. I believe emotional response should be held in the highest regard when assessing anime and if there is none at all then it has completely failed. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
YossaRedMage said: Yeah, I actually expected a lopsided response against my preference, based on sentiments I'd seen aired in the forum here, but I guess it's quite different from my impressions. (Or maybe I didn't word it properly? I can't really tell for this...)Huh... I'm really surprised this is so close. YossaRedMage said: I also agree with the prioritization of my emotional response (though my cognitive response also factors into my ability to feel impressed by a show), but perhaps more saliently, I feel that my opinion of a show can go down below your "zero" which I just see as a neutral reaction.I believe emotional response should be held in the highest regard when assessing anime and if there is none at all then it has completely failed. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| boredom because if i cannot feel anything for the anime itself im sure im not enjoying it at all |
GlennMagusHarvey said: I also agree with the prioritization of my emotional response (though my cognitive response also factors into my ability to feel impressed by a show), but perhaps more saliently, I feel that my opinion of a show can go down below your "zero" which I just see as a neutral reaction. Yeah, what you say makes sense, but for some reason I can't relate to it. I think you worded it pretty well. I think... this might be related to how I don't really watch stuff with any kind of expectations and I don't see what happens in the plot as a choice where there's someone (the author/production team) to get mad at - at least, not while watching. I can imagine if someone is watching a show and a character does something which one didn't expect and they thought it would have been better another way then that would be really annoying. To be fair, I do very rarely do that, but I'm quite self-aware of the fact that most of the time the story is just the story to me and I follow along without thinking too much about the anime as 'production', if that makes sense. So I sort of sit at a base of 0 and when things work for me in the story the number goes up but when they don't I just stay at zero. Whereas maybe if someone is thinking of how the plot point / character decision / whatever would have been better another way, then their enjoyment would go below zero... for reasons... I've worded all this really badly lol and I'm not even sure I know what I'm trying to say. I'll post anyway in case anyone can pull anything meaningful out of it lol. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| I use to thought it was boredom, until I saw High School of the Dead, and basically every single thing about the show annoyed me a lot. I never felt a level of anger towards a show like this |
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YossaRedMage said: I actually do the same thing too, but I think it's just that at the end of it I ask myself whether I liked it or not, and "meh" sits at the middle of that scale.I think... this might be related to how I don't really watch stuff with any kind of expectations |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
GlennMagusHarvey said: YossaRedMage said: I actually do the same thing too, but I think it's just that at the end of it I ask myself whether I liked it or not, and "meh" sits at the middle of that scale.I think... this might be related to how I don't really watch stuff with any kind of expectations Fair play. Swing and a miss with that theory I guess. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| why do we need to rate which one is the worst? both can destroy an anime imo but usualy potentialy good anime are wasted because of annoyance whearas with boredome, it feels like it was bad to begin with so nothing is wasted anyway. |
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