Highly acclaimed anime you dropped.

[Dalrien]

Try starting from either Episode 13, 14, or especially 15 with the introduction of a few new characters... Then, see if Brotherhood's worth watching through in general...

Though the FMAB adaption of the manga goes through the same motions as the original does with it's first 25 or so episodes, outright skipping the introduction isn't a good idea. That's because while they are very similiar, there's quite a few details which weren't present at all In FMA03 adaption.

One key difference the character of Shou Tucker.

 

[Deathmageddon]

Crosse Ange: I don't care for yuri. Or rape scenes. Or shows about sex in general. Or pretentious acronyms for naming things that look like dragons, "D.r.a.g.o.n.s." Or edgy shit where the only likable characters die immediately.

Elfen Lied: Do I need a reason not to watch gore and torture porn?

Freezing: Seriously, who watches this sadistic shit?

Fate: See above, I'm clearly too much of a prude to get into anything adapted from actual porn. ("Oh, but there's only 15 minutes worth..." Shut up. The proportions are irrelevant. If you have a bowl of M&Ms and only five of them are poisoned, would you eat any?) Interesting premise, but wasted on an eroge with boring as shit main characters (and that includes Saber), hyperbolically detestable supporting characters, and worms shaped like dicks. Seriously, someone build a museum of worthless, postmodern "art" and put the entire Fate franchise right between "Petra" and "Piss Christ."

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Fun Times.

One Piece - This is at best what I'd call... a poor series. The art style and action and everything about the show points towards slapstick and comedy. Which is fine, and when it sticks to being silly, it's fine. Great even. But the further it goes the more stupidly dramatic it gets. With character deaths of people who did nothing supposed to be big and momentous... Until you realize they're just pirates and all that means is a pirate is dead. Who cares. I sure don't!

It doesn't help the big battle thing that happens before the time skip is with a bunch of characters you barely know anything about, and so means nothing. Ace has no story to him at this point, and all the develop we do get of him is, "Onii-san I love you. Whitebeard Sensei I love you. Blackbeard I dislike you for pirate justice." Or. Something. And we're supposed to care about him, which is unfortunate, but he comes back with blond hair and a swanky hat and is at least cooler looking.

Bleach - Unfortunately it's boring. I was okay with it up until we saved the princess in the tower arc. (Rukia) I could never watch the series or read the manga for very long.

Death Note - Mary-Sue the baddish good guy. I actually liked this series until I saw Code Geass. Which having a similar protagonist, Lelouch suffers a lot for what he's doing.

Gurren Lagann - Mn. I didn't like the changes from OVER THE TOP WACKY TO let's look at this creepy underground complex where everything just slows down, THEN WE FIGHT A GIANT BATHTUB AFTER THAT. Also the series kinda burnt out for me on that. Not bad, but, it couldn't keep my attention.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, or whatever the thing is called. - Thanks fan-base. I couldn't get very far because of that. Also someone showed me a later movie before fully getting into the series and bllehuughghhdh.

Code Geass R2 - Yeah, went off the deep end and got too over the top.

Sword Art Online - It's like Twilight, WITH VIDEO GAMES. Bad characters, bad romance, and a whole lotta stupid. Honestly it wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't know about .Hack, particularly the GU games. (Though that third one got kinda weak with making Haseo so... bland.)

Naruto - Kyuubi dad to completely undermine all the work that Naruto did to get to that state. Fucking lame. I dropped it there, and kinda just checked in again for the ending, so there's that. It has more problems then that, but, I could hang out with it until that point where I could just not care for it any more.

Darker Then Black - Like. Episode 22-25 or something were so boring I dropped it, and I couldn't go back to finish it for the last episode. So. There's that.

 

[FPLOON]

Try starting from either Episode 13, 14, or especially 15 with the introduction of a few new characters... Then, see if Brotherhood's worth watching through in general...

Though the FMAB adaption of the manga goes through the same motions as the original does with it's first 25 or so episodes, outright skipping the introduction isn't a good idea. That's because while they are very similiar, there's quite a few details which weren't present at all In FMA03 adaption.

One key difference the character of Shou Tucker.

Given @9tailedflame:'s main reason for dropping FMAB, I don't think not seeing the introduction of Shou Tucker again, for example, would be the best selling point in terms of giving that adaptation another chance...

 

[Nuuu]

Fairy Tail:
As shonen as shonen could get. After the first episode I had high hopes that the show would do something really interesting and unique with its bright, colorful setting and magic. Ended up extremely dissapointed after a few episodes that didn't seem to utilize the setting much at all.

Sword Art Online:
Reasons stated millions of times before. Never turned back after I discovered Log Horizon, which does everything I wanted SAO to do but trades off some suspense and action (which I don't see as a big negative).

Naruto/Bleach/DBZ/Inuyasha:
Just lost interest. Too many episodes of the same old story.

 

[Dalrien]

Try starting from either Episode 13, 14, or especially 15 with the introduction of a few new characters... Then, see if Brotherhood's worth watching through in general...

Though the FMAB adaption of the manga goes through the same motions as the original does with it's first 25 or so episodes, outright skipping the introduction isn't a good idea. That's because while they are very similiar, there's quite a few details which weren't present at all In FMA03 adaption.

One key difference the character of Shou Tucker.

Given @9tailedflame:'s main reason for dropping FMAB, I don't think not seeing the introduction of Shou Tucker again, for example, would be the best selling point in terms of giving that adaptation another chance...

It might not be, but skipping the first 13 episodes Is one way to get yourself majorly confused In the future due to certain details, and that Is never enjoyable. @9tailedflame

 

[Jute88]

Well I'll give the short version of my list:

Death Note:

Pretty neat concept, totally buggered up by prime characters being unlikable jerks, with the actual sympathetic characters being just evil. The whole plot was just something I couldn't suspend disbelief for either.

I came to this series with wrong expectations. I was hoping it to be more philosophical, Light pondering about killing criminals and the value of life. Instead it's a cat and mouse game. Sigh....

One Piece:

The art style is a bit too silly for me, but I got over that initially. My problem is with the plot, the plot basically stopped and refused to progress in any meaningful fashion.

One of my favorite anime, because of the world building. It's interesting to see how different views towards justice clash with themselves and how pirates value different things.

InuYasha:

The first few seasons really held me, then the story tripped, introduced new antagonists allowing others to flat drop off the map. This one really outstayed it's welcome with me. It lasted long enough that the main cast all became horrifically annoying, now to the point when a promo for it comes on anywhere I have to change the channel.

two words: status quo. male character A has feelings towards female character B. At some point they have a tender moment where they confess their love for one another, but remind themselves, that they still have to defeat the Big Bad, so they don't advance their relationship but wait.

Very next episode character A is hitting on every young maiden he sees in the next village, forgetting all about the heart to heart talk they had. And this happens at least three or four times in the show. And I watched every episode. I still don't understand how I did it...

Sailor Moon(The Original, with the original English dub especially.):

Too many of the episodes that were produced between manga releases come off as terribly stupid and the last time I saw them they were in the orignal dub, which made them even worse. The story episodes might have worked if the filler hadn't been obnoxious. Also the original english dub voice team made me want to wretch.

I can sorta feel your pain. The Swedish dub-version I grew up watching was miles better. My gf showed the english dubbed version, and boy, are they horrible.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Sailor Moon(The Original, with the original English dub especially.):

Too many of the episodes that were produced between manga releases come off as terribly stupid and the last time I saw them they were in the orignal dub, which made them even worse. The story episodes might have worked if the filler hadn't been obnoxious. Also the original english dub voice team made me want to wretch.

I can sorta feel your pain. The Swedish dub-version I grew up watching was miles better. My gf showed the english dubbed version, and boy, are they horrible.

The funny part is that I can confirm that the story works, as I adore both the Manga and Sailor Moon Crystal... It's too bad that falling behind has caused me to drop Crystal because I can't handle binging that series. There's not enough salt in my body to compensate for how often it brings tears to my eyes.

Edit: Also crying while trying to watch it is a real pain because it becomes impossible to read the subtitles.

 

[Jute88]

Sailor Moon(The Original, with the original English dub especially.):

Too many of the episodes that were produced between manga releases come off as terribly stupid and the last time I saw them they were in the orignal dub, which made them even worse. The story episodes might have worked if the filler hadn't been obnoxious. Also the original english dub voice team made me want to wretch.

I can sorta feel your pain. The Swedish dub-version I grew up watching was miles better. My gf showed the english dubbed version, and boy, are they horrible.

The funny part is that I can confirm that the story works, as I adore both the Manga and Sailor Moon Crystal... It's too bad that falling behind has caused me to drop Crystal because I can't handle binging that series. There's not enough salt in my body to compensate for how often it brings tears to my eyes.

Edit: Also crying while trying to watch it is a real pain because it becomes impossible to read the subtitles.

No choice but to learn Japanese then!
Btw, did the whole original series have those "moral of today's episode"-clips at the end? The Swedish one luckily didn't have those.

 

[KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime]

Sailor Moon(The Original, with the original English dub especially.):

Too many of the episodes that were produced between manga releases come off as terribly stupid and the last time I saw them they were in the orignal dub, which made them even worse. The story episodes might have worked if the filler hadn't been obnoxious. Also the original english dub voice team made me want to wretch.

I can sorta feel your pain. The Swedish dub-version I grew up watching was miles better. My gf showed the english dubbed version, and boy, are they horrible.

The funny part is that I can confirm that the story works, as I adore both the Manga and Sailor Moon Crystal... It's too bad that falling behind has caused me to drop Crystal because I can't handle binging that series. There's not enough salt in my body to compensate for how often it brings tears to my eyes.

Edit: Also crying while trying to watch it is a real pain because it becomes impossible to read the subtitles.

No choice but to learn Japanese then!
Btw, did the whole original series have those "moral of today's episode"-clips at the end? The Swedish one luckily didn't have those.

I'm pretty sure the entire first season did, though this iirc was around the same time that Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe and a lot of other kids programing was doing the exact same thing. Basically in the 80's and 90's TV had such a bad reputation for mind poisoning in the US that you could only air stuff with a moral of the day message at the end.

Edit: Well air stuff aimed at children and expect parents to allow the kids to watch.

Edit 2: This pretty much stopped in the early 90's, but some shows held on to it until the end of the decade. Trying to have some sort of "educational" tag was really hot button stuff for children's television.

 

[Jute88]

Sailor Moon(The Original, with the original English dub especially.):

No choice but to learn Japanese then!
Btw, did the whole original series have those "moral of today's episode"-clips at the end? The Swedish one luckily didn't have those.

I'm pretty sure the entire first season did, though this iirc was around the same time that Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, GI Joe and a lot of other kids programing was doing the exact same thing. Basically in the 80's and 90's TV had such a bad reputation for mind poisoning in the US that you could only air stuff with a moral of the day message at the end.

Edit: Well air stuff aimed at children and expect parents to allow the kids to watch.

Edit 2: This pretty much stopped in the early 90's, but some shows held on to it until the end of the decade. Trying to have some sort of "educational" tag was really hot button stuff for children's television.

Wait, the Turtles had those as well? Not here, and they had the original english dub as well. Glad they got rid it, I hate it when shows talk down to the viewer. Fun fact, the turtles theme was slightly altered to Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, because the word ninja was considered bad in UK at the time.

 

[sageoftruth]

Not sure if this counts. I dropped Ouran High School Host Club. I enjoyed the manga and decided to check out the anime on Netflix. Unfortunately, the subtitles synced very poorly with the dialogue, basically displaying a message well after a character had already finished saying it. That seriously messed with the comedic timing of the show and confused me a lot, so I had to give it a pass.

 

[stormtrooper9091]

Rurouni Kenshin
GetBackers
Fullmetal Alchemist
One Piece
Naruto

all of them were in full force when I abruptly stopped watching and never continued

 

[Tony2077]

Not sure if this counts. I dropped Ouran High School Host Club. I enjoyed the manga and decided to check out the anime on Netflix. Unfortunately, the subtitles synced very poorly with the dialogue, basically displaying a message well after a character had already finished saying it. That seriously messed with the comedic timing of the show and confused me a lot, so I had to give it a pass.

i got the manga after watching the dubbed anime version of it

 

[Auron225]

Monster

Yeah, it's actually quite brilliant, and yet... something about the way the dialoge was written just made it feel kind of goofy, in that typical anime sense. Not that there's anything wrong with being goofy, but the show was going for a very serious and dour tone, and the dialoge I found didn't really match up. I'm thinking of maybe picking it back up again, or maybe I should just go read the manga.

Same choice of anime for me, but I'm more harsh about it. I gave it like 20 episodes and was just bored. Interested in the beginning but it just progressed so damn slowly that I ceased caring. An episode would introduce some new character, have some barely related plot going on with them, and then they'd leave in the end and no real progress with the overarching plot has been made. I can forgive that sort of thing if it was mildly interesting or fun to watch anyway, but this didn't even have that. I don't understand the praise for this show.

 

[Treeberry]

Psycho Pass season 2. I didn't make it very far, I thought a shop locking everyone inside - victims and perpetrator - was pretty stupid and logically, you'd think such a system wouldn't be in place (anymore) given what happened in the previous season. I'm aware of the later plot stupidity as well and people seem to goo-ify more in this season as well.

Gantz. Ugh.

I dropped Haruhi because I both forgot and couldn't be bothered with the different viewing orders.

 

[kuolonen]

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Made by delusional people for delusional people. Relationships are a mess and the most horrid sort of status quo imaginable. Moral of the story is that don't try to heal psychological damage from yourself or others, embrace your insanity and go run through the subway screaming magic while wearing something you ordered from leather fetish shop online. Near the end of the series I just had to drop it, as I might have otherwise put my fist through my computer screen. Well, I say drop, but I actually fast forwarded the last episodes and skipped a lot just to see if it actually gave satisfactory ending as opposed to the gut wrenching offense to rationality I was fearing it would turn out to be. My fear was correct.

Coppelion
Interesting premise. Dumb execution. If they'd have gone for more realistic approach it might have been good, but the fights for example were so divorced from reality they might as well had had magic to go along with them. Also anvilicious as all hell.

Phantom of Inferno
Honestly don't even know here to begin with this one. The protagonists mind-boggling stupidity is one thing. The moralizing message of the show is another.

 

[sageoftruth]

Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions
Made by delusional people for delusional people. Relationships are a mess and the most horrid sort of status quo imaginable. Moral of the story is that don't try to heal psychological damage from yourself or others, embrace your insanity and go run through the subway screaming magic while wearing something you ordered from leather fetish shop online. Near the end of the series I just had to drop it, as I might have otherwise put my fist through my computer screen. Well, I say drop, but I actually fast forwarded the last episodes and skipped a lot just to see if it actually gave satisfactory ending as opposed to the gut wrenching offense to rationality I was fearing it would turn out to be. My fear was correct.

I dropped Chunibyo after

Spoiler

Yuuta asserted his relationship status with Rikka

Spoiler

. I remember him doing that and it was so sudden that I was like, "What? How?... When?..." Up until this point, Rikka had come across as nothing but a nuisance to him. This led me to wonder if I had really started this series at the beginning, or if there were other episodes where the two of them actually had a moment together, because this completely came out of left field for me. Anyway, I ended up dropping it to see if I was right about there being episodes I missed.

 

[JamesStone]

Deadman's Wonderland



Don't know if this one's highly acclaimed or not but my friends spoke highly of it, so here it goes.

Dropped it on my third episode. I really can't stand a world where the common folks living in it seem completely and totally retarded.
First a lawyer somehow manages to convince a jury that a (13, 14? can't quite remember) kid blew up an entire classroom without explosives, while being in the middle of ground zero, with zero motive, zero knowledge of bomb making and absolute and complete confusion stampered across his face (in reality some flying uberdude called Wretched Egg - I shit you not).

Then he gets sent to a prison without parole that doubles as an amusement park. The prisoners are used in death games and controlled through a collar that poisons them daily, and needs "candy" (literal wrapped candy with an antitoxin or some shit) to survive. Could be an exploration of a dark, dystopian society? Nope, no one on the outside knows this is happening, and they think the death games are ALL STAGED. Really??? You think prisoners would run around pretending to be stabbed by a giant spike (just one example) for the amusement of a bunch of school boys/girls?

He also discovers he has blood powers that allow him to create weapons out of his blood and that's why he was framed to go to the jail, because there's some ancient bloodfighting tradition or whatever, didn't get too far.


Honestly, all this grinded my gears, but I could support it. I've seen more retarded things in animes.

BUT THEN COMES SHIRO. THAT STUPID LITTLE SHIT.
Shiro is a flying naked (somewhat) girl that just perfectly exemplifies everything wrong with the Genki Girl bullshit anime writers like to rub on the audience's face. Nothing she does has any foot in reality, no one reacts strongly to her behavior or presence, and her voice is so ear-rupturing annoying I'd rather hear a stereotypical drama protagonist ***** and moan about how bad their sheltered, confortable lives are than watching another second of Shiro. It was the final nail in the coffin of an anime that I can't recommend to anyone I give even the slightest hint of a shit about.

 

[DementedSheep]

I don't have a great record with long running anime series despite some people actively trying to get me into it so most of them

Notable ones:

Elfin lied: There might be a decent plot underneath the soft core porn and it's gore fetish but I'm not going to wade through all that to get to it. It dose have an awesome opening theme song though.

FMA and FMA: brotherhood. I have a friend who kept trying to get me to watch it but I've already read it. FMA annoyed me because it went off in a random direction while FMA: brotherhood has the opposite problem because it's treading old ground. Book to movie I'll watch but with manga to anime it just doesn't add enough. Most of the time I prefer the manga if only because the stock style characters and the way the dialogue is written in a lot of them is less annoying when you don't hear their voice.

InuYasha: The only reason I was watching it to start with was because the monsters and folklore was interesting. The main cast certainly isn't and I barely remember what the core plot was. It too long and overstayed it's welcome.

Naruto: Some of the side characters are alright but I hate the main cast. It and Bleach are not really my thing in the first place.

Witch Hunter Robin: Terrible dubbing.

Ergo Proxy: I did actually watch all the way through but ONLY because it was short and watched half of it waiting for it to get better so I figured I might as well finish it. It feels like it trying way to hard to be philosophical and it doesn't really work. For such a short a series it wastes a lot of time on random shit and feels like it's jumping around and missing bits.

I keep forgetting to watch Ghost in the Shell and Attack on Titan because those are two that I considered watching without being nagged to.