| 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. |
SerafosSep 7, 10:45 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. |
| I am a no drop policy once I started I will finish it. Mostly I pick that I enjoy. |
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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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| I’ve done this multiple times. Very recently too in fact. |
I rarely ever do it, but two instances I remember doing were:
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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. |
Daviljoe193Yesterday, 1:04 AM
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. 🙂 But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people.    |
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. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| 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 |
| 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 :) |
| 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 |
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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. |
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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. |
ShirayukinYesterday, 1:37 PM
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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. |
| Sometimes I drop anime I lost interest in rather then it being bad. I would certainly go back for some of it |
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| Princess Connect was good giving it a 2nd chance, but I usually would never give 2nd chances to any anime. |
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| Show gets dropped for a reason, picking it back up just means revisiting frustration and boredom. |
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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. |
| I just picked up Yatagarasu again. The only other dropped anime I remember doing that with is K-on! |
| Dropping anime is for the weak!!!!!! |
| Hard chance I'll ever be visiting that list. |
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Reply to Oioioioi1234
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
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. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)  |
Reply to Kirika_Madeleine
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 |
| Not yet, I might probably give Ninku another chance but I'm not feeling like doing so rn. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| tried it two times with Shield Hero and HOTD and i regretted that decision. |
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Reply to YN_ON
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. |
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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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