| When you drop something, how harsh are you? To me, dropped means that I have lost interest in a show (probably by missing a week for a seasonal), or I have no interest in trying to get into it. I tried it and it didn't catch my interest. If I sincerely WANT to try to get back into someday, it'll be on hold. However, I feel like when seeing others drop something I enjoy, it feels like they're spitting on something I like. What about you? |
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| Dropping is just stopping to watch something and not planning on going back to it. Something so bad, you can't watch any more episodes of. |
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| I agree with you. If I drop something, it's because I've seen enough that I know I'll hate it and I don't want to waste my time, I've lost interest, or the show hasn't gripped me enough to continue. If it's something good that I'm slowly losing interest in (for me, Monster), I'll put it on hold and take a break. As for how I see it in others, it depends. If something like Kill la Kill or Gurren Lagann don't grip you in the first few episodes, you'll never get into it, so I would understand. However, if it's a slow burn that builds to a gargantuan ending like Eva or Ergo proxy, than I would encourage them to finish it. |
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| Anime is entertainment, so I drop anime that I don't find entertaining. I get bored pretty easily, I think I dropped about 30% of the anime series I started watching (excluding multiple entries from the same franchise and standalone movies). It may sound harsh, but it's the best way to prevent a burn-out. Important notes: dialogue heavy =/= boring, action heavy =/= entertaining. Sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't. How do I see it in others? Well, everyone's taste is different. |
| When I drop something, it's because I don't want to continue it for whatever reason. Most often it's because I'm not interested enough to watch further. This doesn't mean that I found the show bad, it just means either that I lost interest (as I say on my profile too "Oftentimes, I might not have anything against shows I dropped, but simply just feel that I got the idea, and don't need to watch further") or that I never was that into it in the first place (in my list I say that these shows didn't click with me). Sometimes I might drop a show if I'm against a certain element of it that I more often than not wasn't anticipating (e.g. characters/character behaviors that I dislike so much that they ruin the show for me or plot elements that aren't to my liking). When I put on hold stuff I often end up dropping them after a while and thus putting them on hold was me pausing watching them while making my mind up on whether I was interested enough to continue, but that's not always the case; once I did end up finishing a show that was on hold (though I didn't rate it that highly afterwards; only gave it a 6/10), and what I currently have on hold is stuff I wait to finish airing because for the one of them I don't quite know what to think of (it seems like it could be bad, but I'd like to give it the benefit of the doubt, because it still seemed promising plotwise when I put it on-hold, and I don't want to wait for it every week only for it to end up being bad, and would rather binge a few episodes after it finishes airing and make up my mind on it afterwards) and the other airs only once every 3 weeks so I don't want to cluter my Watching tab. |
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| There are also the rare times that a user would add it a show to their dropped as they don't have interest in ever starting it (or starting its sequels) so that in recommendations would limit the chances of seeing that show suggested through a computational site or from another user |
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| Dropped just means I stopped watching it. Whether that be temporary or permanent. I really don't really give a crap what other people drop, it's more interesting to talk about anime we both like than go "Oh so why did you drop this one?" On hold for me is usually where I shove a bunch of previously finished entries that got annoyingly dredged up cause a new OVA is announced. It's there cause it's either not subbed or I didn't bother anymore when it was |
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| For me, dropping means i stop watching something i dislike so much, or something that completely loses my interest. |
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| If the show is way too annoying or boring, then I'll drop it. |
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| I never drop anything anymore. I still will put some things on-hold, but once I've properly started a show there's no backing out. Back when I did drop, though, a lot of them were ones I just got bored of or started for reasons that I no longer needed them for. It wasn't exactly an insult to them that they were in my drop list. |
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| Dropped to me means I don't want to watch the show. It may not be that I didn't like it, it could be for a variety of reasons |
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| Dropped simply means : Ain't got time for that shit |
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| There were a few shows from my drop list I decided to eventually finish. As well as some shows from on-hold were sent to dropped. It's too vague to define. Titles on hold have a probability to be watched some time. Chances to return to something dropped are close to zero, but still not zero though. |
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| It means I'm very unlikely to come back to that show. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
maha_thecat said: However, I feel like when seeing others drop something I enjoy, it feels like they're spitting on something I like. The advice I will give my great-grandchildren in my deathbed is: "Don't pay attention to what anime others are watching or dropping. They are probably doing it exactly for the same reason as you. Imagine if you stopped dropping shows only in order to avoid hurting other people's feelings. Everyone has aaarrghhh." |
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| For me Dropped is when I start to watch something and end up disliking it so much that I will never try to finish it. |
| If Ufotable makes an anime remake of the Fate route and Tsukihime I can say that I lived a full life. |
| i don't drop anything. if i don't want to read or watch something anymore, i just remove it from my list. |
| Protesters, assemble!! |
| I stopped updating my dropped list a long back because I hate seeing many dropped in my list. So my dropped is not accurate. Doesn't Dropped list in others mean "Cool person didnot cringe watch it to get bragging rights"? |
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| I sample alot of Anime, dropping is a way of saying I gave something a chance and it wasn't for me. |
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| "Dropped" for me means "I don't have plans to continue watching this show." The difference between that and "Stalled"/"On-hold" is that for "Stalled"/"On-hold" I'm still "yeah I kinda do feel like I wanna finish it sometime". Though to be fair at this point me having Mai-HiME on hold for like a decade is a running gag in itself. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I NEVER dropped an anime, ever. Even if the anime is really bad, my brain would keep telling me to go back and finish the damn anime xD |
| Anime is overrated |
| i lost interest / got bored of it. when others do it just means they stopped watching it for some reason |
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| i drop anime or manga when its not captivating me and i lose interest. maybe the trailer looked cool or the synopsis sounded fine but then i find out that i didn't like the execution of the idea. |
| Dropped just means you simply don't want to go back to it. Don't know why some anime fans seem to make such a big deal about not wanting to finish shows. I can watch a show and enjoy however many episodes, and stop watching whenever and that's like some evil crime that I didn't finish every single episode. For example if I watch Detective Conan, and I just wanted to watch 50 episodes, I'm doing the show wrong for not wanting to watch 1000 episodes, the heck? The show was great, but I just didn't feel like watching any more. There's also the assumption that if I drop a show I didn't like it, which I also find annoying. |
| pretty much all my drops are seasonals since I don’t really go out of my way to watch mediocre shows that are from the past (finished airing shows), but as for seasonals there’s no real indicator if something will be worth while or not and since I tend to try everything that airs in a given season I have a couple drops each season |
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| I have not dropped a show yet and I don't plan to anytime soon - my motto is to never drop a show. maha_thecat said: However, I feel like when seeing others drop something I enjoy, it feels like they're spitting on something I like. I agree with this comment, especially if it's a decent Anime or one of my favourites. |
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| This will be hard to answer since I NEVER dropped anything in my life. |
| For me it means that I just don't want to watch it like I lost interest or I just simply don't like it. Not sure how I feel about others tho. |
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| it means nothing but a WEAKNESS to me, my mah aint raised no bitch, commitment is the key!! i enjoy & appreciate everything!! ( even the most mediocre ones ) |
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| I pretty much agree with the above. There's always something to appreciate in the most mediocre of anime, but in any case my brain simply doesn't allow dropping. Have to finish whatever I start |
| Dropped to me generally means permanently. I say generally because there is ONE anime that I dropped like 8 years ago when I didn't like slow paced anything that I MAY give another try. May. And honestly the only reason I'm considering it is the person that created it has a lot of series that were turned into anime and this particular series is the only one I didn't like. So... yeah. |
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maha_thecat said: When you drop something, how harsh are you? To me, dropped means that I have lost interest in a show (probably by missing a week for a seasonal), or I have no interest in trying to get into it. I tried it and it didn't catch my interest. If I sincerely WANT to try to get back into someday, it'll be on hold. However, I feel like when seeing others drop something I enjoy, it feels like they're spitting on something I like. What about you? Most of the time I'm just bored with the show and want to stop pretending I can keep them on hold forever. But I usually do want to try to finish them eventually, especially if there aren't that many episodes left. If I've dropped it quickly , especially at 3 episodes, it means that I don't like it and I'm not going to even try. When I see other people drop shows, especially ones I like, it kinda hurts. But I understand that not everyone has the same tastes and is going to like the same things. |
| When I drop manga, I usually didn't like it and don't plan on coming back. I guess it works differently for some people though |
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| I only dropped 2 things so far and I did it, because I just couldn't take it anymore, too annoying. I don't want to get back to either Fairy Tail or One Piece, but I don't mind skimming through episodes in detail, which I already did for One Piece years ago. Dropping means I don't watch episodes fully anymore or plan to watch them fully in the future, which is pretty self-explanatory. In the future, I plan to mark as "dropped" only things that I truly drop and forget about, but those that I partially watch and complete, I may still consider completed, as long as I comprehend the story. maha_thecat said: However, I feel like when seeing others drop something I enjoy, it feels like they're spitting on something I like. Depends on what comment they leave about it, if any. But otherwise, I'm sure they had a reason to drop it, so it doesn't matter to me all that much. Although, sometimes I take these things personally too, it really just depends on the circumstances. |
| Drop when I get bored and know this is trash but I always add in list so not to accidently watch it again |
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| Dropping is when you decide to not watch and finish the show. I normally don't drop a show, if I get past 3 episodes I'll watch it regardless of how bad it is. I don't consider dropping something when I have only watched one episode tho. For example, I "dropped" Angels of Death after one episode, but I might come back to it later ¯\_(γ)_/¯ |
| It simply means "I watched some of this show, but do not want to watch any more." What depends on the person is probably how they drop. For instance, I usually drop if the show makes me turn it off mid-episode, or if I really can't be arsed to turn on the next one. Then again, other people might drop practically everything that they aren't actively following, much like most people use their On Hold section. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| For me, dropping an anime means I give up on watching something because of how bad it is. If there was a 0 score here on MAL, I'd give those that score. |
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| i'll drop something if i lose interest in the series or i'll just read the source material |
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