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Sep 7, 2024 10:39 PM
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Would you ever consider continuing or rewatching an anime if enough time has passed since you have dropped it? And if you had to pick up an anime in your drop list, which one would you give the 2nd chance?

If I had to choose one I would go with My Hero Academia. I initially dropped it about 5 years ago because it because it felt very childish, but I'm more patient and open-minded with anime nowadays, so I would consider giving it another shot. Especially since I like the vibes I've been getting of the posters after Season 4/5 and I've heard it has become darker overall. But I wouldn't prioritize it over some others I'm planning to watch.
Sep 7, 2024 10:40 PM
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I gave Show By Rock!! another chance and it was a good choice. Now it's one of my favorite anime.

I'm not sure about my current dropped list. Not a big fan of those shows.

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Sep 7, 2024 11:07 PM
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I gave Show By Rock!! another chance and it was a good choice. Now it's one of my favorite anime.

I'm not sure about my current dropped list. Not a big fan of those shows.

@Serafos

Finding a new genre to enjoy amongst your dropped list is very interesting. I think there are a lot of anime that I dropped simply because it was the first in X genre and I learned I didn't like it at the time, so that might happen for me as well. Unfortunately, most of the anime that I 'drop', I just never put on my list or I just deleted them entirely, so my drop list is a bit weak.

I did drop Gekai Elise, since I didn't find the focus on medicine very appealing, but I could see that potentially changing sometime in the future.
Sep 7, 2024 11:08 PM
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Yeah I try again from time to time. There's usually a good reason I pick up a show in the first place, and sometimes I wonder if I was too hasty or just in the wrong headspace when I gave up on it. I'll probably try 86 and Vivy again at some point.

But of course, some of them I never want to look at ever again.
Sep 7, 2024 11:40 PM
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I am a no drop policy once I started I will finish it. Mostly I pick that I enjoy.
Sep 7, 2024 11:43 PM
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I have revisited a number of dropped anime, some just confirmed the mostly negative feelings that I had in the first place, but some came with pleasant surprises. One of those pleasant surprises would be Oregairu, which I had initially dropped because I thought it was super cringe. But after about a year or so later I picked it up again and realized that it was actually pretty good. Funny thing is, I ALMOST dropped My Hero after the first season for similar reasons. Was really childish. But I said f*ck it let's keep going, and ended up actually really really enjoying the following seasons, even 4 and 5 in which people started to grow tired of it all. Like you said, sometimes you just have to be open-minded, and perhaps you just weren't in the right headspace when you picked up an anime that you had dropped.

Got a boatload of dropped anime, most you can easily tell right from the first episode that it's going to be all bad, and will never touch them again. Others, I just didn't care for at the time, but clearly they are something good and deserve to get another chance. Just quickly going through my dropped list, here are some that you might think I was stupid for dropping; and yeah you'd probably be right. At the time, just wasn't feeling it.

Monster
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Bleach
Beastars
Devilman Crybaby
Mushishi

These are the big ones that most likely all will unanimously agree that they should be completed. The rest, the other 289 on my dropped list, I think you can at least have SOME understanding to why I dropped it. Just last season, I dropped Jellyfish Don't Swim in the Night if that's what it's called, because I kept seeing reviews and such saying it fell off. Plus I had just finished Girls Band Cry which was a banger, maybe had a bit of cute girls fatigue, but I genuinely wasn't feeling that first episode of Jellyfish. But if a second season gets announced for that (idk if the story is done or anything like that), then I'd probably try it again. New season announcements for my dropped anime are also kind of a big way to get me back on board.

But yeah from this small list above, if I had to choose one, I think I should at least go back and finish Monster. Gonna guess that most would agree.


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Sep 7, 2024 11:56 PM
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I’ve done this multiple times. Very recently too in fact.
Sep 8, 2024 12:07 AM
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I rarely ever do it, but two instances I remember doing were:

  1. Overlord: Dropped after one and a half episodes in either 2015 or early-2016 because I found them boring. Gave it another shot in 2018, and yeah, those initial one-and-a-half episodes really sucked. Luckily, the rest of the series was pretty nice, and Overlord II became one of my favorites.
  2. Shingeki no Kyojin: Started around 2013, went for the manga really early on, got pissed that the story just didn't progress in the manga, and if the anime covered less than that, then it was even worse. Since the contents and scenes from "The Final Season" did interest me (It was the plot progression I was looking for), I watched the entire thing in early 2021 (Never finished S1 since I already knew everything that happened there from the manga, which covered most of season 2, but I watched that one to remind myself of the plot). Didn't watch the ones from 2022 forward, though, since after the end of "The Final Season" I just went ahead and read the manga.
Sep 8, 2024 12:20 AM
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I haven't done it yet (I think), but I am always thinking of giving Lovely★Complex a second shot, since do wonder if I was too harsh in dropping it at episode 2 and giving it a 3/10. Also Kamisama Kazoku to a lesser extent, since I didn't even give the second episode a shot, and dropped it with a 4/10.
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Oioioioi1234 said:
if you had to pick up an anime in your drop list, which one would you give the 2nd chance?

Maybe https://myanimelist.net/anime/38853/Ex-Arm because I'm curious if it really is that bad aside from the low-budget 3dcgi.
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I rarely ever do it, but two instances I remember doing were:

  1. Overlord: Dropped after one and a half episodes in either 2015 or early-2016 because I found them boring. Gave it another shot in 2018, and yeah, those initial one-and-a-half episodes really sucked. Luckily, the rest of the series was pretty nice, and Overlord II became one of my favorites.
  2. Shingeki no Kyojin: Started around 2013, went for the manga really early on, got pissed that the story just didn't progress in the manga, and if the anime covered less than that, then it was even worse. Since the contents and scenes from "The Final Season" did interest me (It was the plot progression I was looking for), I watched the entire thing in early 2021 (Never finished S1 since I already knew everything that happened there from the manga, which covered most of season 2, but I watched that one to remind myself of the plot). Didn't watch the ones from 2022 forward, though, since after the end of "The Final Season" I just went ahead and read the manga.
@thewiru

Yeah, sometimes the first couple of episodes aren't at all indicative of the rest of the anime, it is rare though. For me this happened with Kaguya-sama where the atmosphere was so dull and suffocating until ep 4/5 when it started getting a lot better. That's one of the cases where giving the popular series a few extra episodes with "the benefit of the doubt" came in pretty useful.
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It’s quite common for me to drop an anime and never return to it. There are several reasons like Loss of Interest.. Sometimes, the story or characters just don’t appeal to me, leading to a lack of motivation to continue..
With so many anime available, i prioritize more interesting anime over the ones I dropped .
If the plot doesn’t meet my expectations and I don't find it to my liking , i decide it’s not worth the time.
Most often an anime might not align with my preferred genres and themes.. This is the most obvious reason for me to drop anime and never return to it..
Specific events or developments in the anime turn me off, such as repetitive tropes or realism, tragic plot, negative psychological twists... I avoid such anime
Sep 8, 2024 1:15 AM

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There are some anime I gave a second chance.
For most of them, my second attempt only confirmed that I was 'right' to have dropped it (really not my cup of tea).
But for a few of them, yeah I didn't regret giving it another go, I enjoyed it a lot more than the first time :)
Sep 8, 2024 1:24 AM

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Rather than forcing myself to watch something I'm not vibing with, it's better to drop and try again from the start in the future. I'm retrying more and more anime from my dropped list and I did change my mind sometimes. Definitely worth it.

Here's my list of anime I dropped and then I tried again or plan to:

worth watching (sorted from masterpiece to barely watchable)


dropped again


plan to retry
Sep 8, 2024 2:14 AM

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I kind of dropped Gintama after the Farewell Arc. I might pick it back up and finish it in the future, I guess, but I'm not sure.
Sep 8, 2024 9:48 AM

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I did that with Steins;Gate and Oregairu. Steins;Gate I grew bored of, but I dropped it right before it get interesting and when I got back to it, I got hooked right away. Oregairu I dropped more than once because I just didn't like the characters. I picked it back up years later, maybe 8-9 years, and while it's really cheesy but it was not bad and I find the MC is actually the strength of the story. I guess I just was able to view it in a different perspective and enjoyed it more after leaving it for years.

From my dropped list, I would pick up Natsume Yuujinchou. I didn't think it was bad but I got tired easily with episodic anime especially when I binge watch it, and that's what I did with Natsume. I am able to appreciate those kind of anime more now by watching slowly so I am open about giving Natsume another chance.
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Better to revisit a dropped anime and watch it till the end, than to live forever in uncertainty if the show "gets good later on" or not.
Sep 8, 2024 12:37 PM

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Rather than forcing myself to watch something I'm not vibing with, it's better to drop and try again from the start in the future. I'm retrying more and more anime from my dropped list and I did change my mind sometimes. Definitely worth it.

Here's my list of anime I dropped and then I tried again or plan to:

worth watching (sorted from masterpiece to barely watchable)


dropped again


plan to retry
Nirinbo said:
Rather than forcing myself to watch something I'm not vibing with, it's better to drop and try again from the start in the future


I like this approach because often my enjoyment of an anime is dependent on the current momentum of my emotions towards it. If I'm not vibing with it, even if it starts getting better later on, I'm less likely to pick up on these due to already being dissatisfied, or it's less easy to be swayed by interesting shifts in plot. On the other hand, if I'm vibing with an anime, I usually can give it the benefit of the doubt for a dry few episodes believing that the writing will get good eventually.

Also, just curious, but I wanna know why you dropped Mushishi when you retried it again. I've heard good things about it making me want to watch it sometime soon. Did you think it was outright bad or just not your cup of tea?
Sep 8, 2024 1:01 PM

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Sometimes I drop anime I lost interest in rather then it being bad. I would certainly go back for some of it
Sep 8, 2024 1:03 PM

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Princess Connect was good giving it a 2nd chance, but I usually would never give 2nd chances to any anime.
Sep 8, 2024 1:26 PM

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Show gets dropped for a reason, picking it back up just means revisiting frustration and boredom.
Sep 8, 2024 1:37 PM

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i dropped hxh the first time i saw it, 2 years later i picked it up and watched it and it was very good. Of the ones i have dropped the only one i can see myself picking up is bleach and thats just cuz i made it so far to leave it unfinished, however im waiting for it to be completely over so i can just binge it.
Sep 8, 2024 1:47 PM

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I just picked up Yatagarasu again.

The only other dropped anime I remember doing that with is K-on!
Sep 8, 2024 2:00 PM
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I've gone back a few times and ended up enjoying the show years later. Some on my drop list I even liked when I dropped them. I just either didn't want to commit to the watching the whole series at that time, or wanted to stop on a high note while the show was still good. I may or may not return to those later.
Sep 8, 2024 2:09 PM
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Nah, I won't do that, it's better to just look for the latest or upcoming anime.
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Dropping anime is for the weak!!!!!!
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Nirinbo said:
Rather than forcing myself to watch something I'm not vibing with, it's better to drop and try again from the start in the future


I like this approach because often my enjoyment of an anime is dependent on the current momentum of my emotions towards it. If I'm not vibing with it, even if it starts getting better later on, I'm less likely to pick up on these due to already being dissatisfied, or it's less easy to be swayed by interesting shifts in plot. On the other hand, if I'm vibing with an anime, I usually can give it the benefit of the doubt for a dry few episodes believing that the writing will get good eventually.

Also, just curious, but I wanna know why you dropped Mushishi when you retried it again. I've heard good things about it making me want to watch it sometime soon. Did you think it was outright bad or just not your cup of tea?
@Oioioioi1234 There are plenty of anime often accused of being boring that didn't bore me at all, but also many that bored me as well; Mushishi falls into the latter category even after trying it twice.

I still respect it because I'm sure that every real expert considers it a masterpiece, but at the same time I do think that Natsume Yuujinchou has a better adaptation (thanks to the god-tier soundtrack) and a better main character; maybe Mushishi has better episodic plots, but I'd rather read the manga if that's the only thing I care about.
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Maybe, but only in certain cases. There are animes like Platinum End and Shaman King where I just know that I will never like them. But something like Hell's Paradise could perhaps deserve a 2nd chance in the future depending on the reception that it gets when the next season drops. Either way I don't drop that much shows because I like to finish them even if I'm not liking them too much.
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That's a good question. Personally, in my case I don't think I would revisit a dropped anime, but not for the reason you think.

It is extremely rare for me to drop an anime; in fact I can count on one hand the number of titles I have dropped since I really got into anime.

I think I've only dropped 4 titles since dropping the anime, but I wouldn't say it was because I hated the show outright. Each case was situation specific:

One show I dropped because I realized how stupid the humor was and to be honest, I only picked it up because it was one of those 12 minute anime and thought it would be a good way to kill time in between shows I was interested in. I was wrong, and dropped the show midway through the season

Another show had a premise that I found boring after 3 episodes so I dropped it

Another I got about 2/3 through... then I just lost interest

And the last one... watched the first season, but midway through the second season, I felt like the show had "lost the plot" and was going in directions that felt like it was just... "wasting time" at that point and strayed too far from the plot I thought it was about

Would I revisit any of these? Unlikely, but only because all but maybe the last one I have no real interest in revisiting
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That's a good question. Personally, in my case I don't think I would revisit a dropped anime, but not for the reason you think.

It is extremely rare for me to drop an anime; in fact I can count on one hand the number of titles I have dropped since I really got into anime.

I think I've only dropped 4 titles since dropping the anime, but I wouldn't say it was because I hated the show outright. Each case was situation specific:

One show I dropped because I realized how stupid the humor was and to be honest, I only picked it up because it was one of those 12 minute anime and thought it would be a good way to kill time in between shows I was interested in. I was wrong, and dropped the show midway through the season

Another show had a premise that I found boring after 3 episodes so I dropped it

Another I got about 2/3 through... then I just lost interest

And the last one... watched the first season, but midway through the second season, I felt like the show had "lost the plot" and was going in directions that felt like it was just... "wasting time" at that point and strayed too far from the plot I thought it was about

Would I revisit any of these? Unlikely, but only because all but maybe the last one I have no real interest in revisiting
@Trivia-man-Frank

I feel you with the last one, I've watched many shows that were appealing in the first season, but the second season either makes it lose its touch or meanders too much with the plot making it feel like a different show. Recently this has happened for me with an isekai called Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy. Suddenly entering a school arc that seemed so random and I couldn't get invested into the new characters at all. I ended up finishing the 2nd season and it had some decent parts towards the end, but that one arc really detracted from my enjoyment of the show overall.
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Thinking about it, I just realized it was actually five shows; two of them were the second season problem we both experienced.

But as a rule, in general I do try to watch shows through once I’ve started them because I feel it’s not fair to judge a show until you’ve watched it through; think of it as the anime version of “don’t judge a book by its cover”. What gives me the right to call a show “bad” unless I’ve seen it through? Maybe it has redeeming qualities that come later.

Would i call the shows I didn’t finish bad? For me personally, I don’t think it’s fair to do so since I didn’t watch them through so how can I have a properly informed opinion. I have my reasons for not finishing them, and they had their shortcomings, but I won’t specifically refer to them as “bad shows” since it isn’t fair to do so
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I am a no drop policy once I started I will finish it. Mostly I pick that I enjoy.
@Kirika_Madeleine Yeah I also do that but out of 350+ anime i dropped only on School Days Maybe I don't need to explain the reason
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Not yet, I might probably give Ninku another chance but I'm not feeling like doing so rn.
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The anime found in my dropped list all suck.
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my vote goes to boogiepop and others i drop it because of bad animation
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Yes, I give chances where I think there's potential and I may find my right mood for certain show, but there are some perma-dropps (like 86 and Shield Hero) in my list.
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i dropped jojo after the 1st season because i didnt like how the characters were going to be different the next season. I randomly started season 2 and got hooked. Now ive watched every season and im reading steel ball run. i dropped code geass after 3 episodes because i got bored, but everyone loves it so maybe ill pick it up again.
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tried it two times with Shield Hero and HOTD and i regretted that decision.
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tried it two times with Shield Hero and HOTD and i regretted that decision.
@YN_ON Highschool of the Dead was fine until the final episode. I like it except the shit ending.
Sep 9, 2024 2:15 AM
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No, I would rather rewatch something i did like than starting something over i did not like.
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I already thought about it, and even tho I didn't try it yet, I'll probably give one of my dropped shows a second chance.
However, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna try it again after the first try, because most of the shows I drop are things I didn't like at all. Animes that just aren't resonating with me at the moment I put on On Hold, or back on Plan to Watch or even leave them on Watching just to come back later.


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The only time I did that was To Love Ru. When I first watched it I couldn't get passed the first five episodes. It was at time, the worst series I ever seen. Then I tried it again 4 years later (from 2014 mind you) and yeah while I don't think it's the worst thing imaginable it was pretty mid both the original and Darkness.

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On and off, I've considered revisiting shows I previously dropped to see if I may have made misassumptions on initially viewing them. Some cases, I do complete them and my reception tends to vary on them depending on my personal tastes. Other times, I just can't engaged enough to want to attempt rewatching them.

Only cases I wouldn't consider a rewatch of a dropped series are any that stretch for hundreds of episodes at a time, such as a decent number of the shounen long-runners like Detective Conan, One Piece, or Naruto Shippuden. Unlike my younger days of fandom, I don't have the time and patience to trek through that many episodes for a series.
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Deciding to pick One Piece back up was a shitty choice. But hey, at least I got it to quadruple digits this time.
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I might get hate for this, but I dropped AOT in 2017. I watched first 10 episodes and got bored. But at the same time, It was my first year of watching anime actively, I started watching anime in 2016 but more actively in 2017. I've seen so many major spoilers but I'm type of person who likes spoilers and I want to know what's gonna happend so i get even more excited about it lol. I am not sure If I will ever give it a second chance. It's the only anime I truly dropped and never looked back

Around same time I tried Amagi Brilliant Park and dropped it too but I gave it a chance last year and I kind of enjoyed it.

I looked at first 2 minutes of 3-gatsu no Lion and dropped it because I didn't like the animation art. After watching Your Lie in April with similar art animation, and after watching different art animation, I didn't care about it anymore and I gave it another chance and 2nd season of 3-gatsu ended up being my favorite anime :)
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LenRea said:
Deciding to pick One Piece back up was a shitty choice. But hey, at least I got it to quadruple digits this time.

Why did you watch it that far just to drop it right before the best arc starts?
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LenRea said:
Deciding to pick One Piece back up was a shitty choice. But hey, at least I got it to quadruple digits this time.

Why did you watch it that far just to drop it right before the best arc starts?
@Zarutaku because Wano gave me brain damage. Yamato was hot tho.
Idk I guess I decided to watch the upcoming Wit remake instead. Do you think I'm wrong?
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@Zarutaku because Wano gave me brain damage. Yamato was hot tho.
Idk I guess I decided to watch the upcoming Wit remake instead. Do you think I'm wrong?
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I guess I decided to watch the upcoming Wit remake instead. Do you think I'm wrong?

Sounds like you have lots of patience :P and you would probably get randomly spoiled about the ending before the remake even starts.
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I gave Kimetsu no Yaiba 2nd chance score didn't change 4/10 and I wasted my time rip.

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I dropped Lucky Star, watched it again a decade later, and loved it.

I'm sure I could be persuaded to give something on my Dropped list another shot.

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