Ever stop watching something because it became too something?
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I stopped watching Brooklyn 99 for a while because they started a romance storyline, sorta.
I tend to drift away from anything that starts a romantic subplot between main characters. It just annoys me after a while. It's so over-used that you can almost predict it ahead of time.
I tend to drift away from anything that starts a romantic subplot between main characters. It just annoys me after a while. It's so over-used that you can almost predict it ahead of time.
Yep. Several harem anime I've watched have become so generic, I just had to stop. Princess Lover, Fortune Artieral, and To Love-Ru[footnote]How this got three seasons is fucking beyond me![/footnote]. Everything about them was generic. Tsundere, childhood friend, and loli. It was like someone was trying to remake Love Hina thinking it would sell, completely forgetting that Love Hina is now what you don't want to make harem like.
I've been eye-balling Toriko on Hulu, seems to be similar to One Piece. I'll tread a little more carefully now.
I've been eye-balling Toriko on Hulu, seems to be similar to One Piece. I'll tread a little more carefully now.
Like Elfgore, I've stopped watching a couple of anime but it was because they were too stupid. I couldn't watch Strike Witches and can't watch Kantai Collection because the idea of strpping airplane/battleship parts to girls and sending them to war was just too much for me.
Anyways, the rest of the show is actually pretty unconventional as far as most harems go, in that it's actually working its way to a genuine harem end and when Dakrness began printing in an 18+ magazine the author was given free reign over the amount of smut he was allowed to inject into the show, basically turning it into almost soft-core porn. If you've seen more than just the first season then feel free to disregard this post.
If you're talking about season 1 of To Love Ru the you should just skip everything after Lala's father appears. The anime completely diverged from the manga and took a downward spiral into why-are-you-doing-this-land.Elfgore said:
Anyways, the rest of the show is actually pretty unconventional as far as most harems go, in that it's actually working its way to a genuine harem end and when Dakrness began printing in an 18+ magazine the author was given free reign over the amount of smut he was allowed to inject into the show, basically turning it into almost soft-core porn. If you've seen more than just the first season then feel free to disregard this post.
Green Lantern: the Animated Series, as soon as Razer went back on his words of love to Aya, I stopped watching for two reasons:
1, it was such an act of moral cowardice on his part that I didn't care what happened to him after that which considering how much a total arsehole he'd been for most of the show, says a lot.
2, it badly telegraphed the ending: "Oh, the emergent emotions of a sapient, mechanical being have been badly hurt; I wonder how this will go".
1, it was such an act of moral cowardice on his part that I didn't care what happened to him after that which considering how much a total arsehole he'd been for most of the show, says a lot.
2, it badly telegraphed the ending: "Oh, the emergent emotions of a sapient, mechanical being have been badly hurt; I wonder how this will go".
I watched a majority of the first season, I ended up skipping like four episodes, all of Motto, and three episodes of Darkness. After that, I'd had enough. Darkness looked like it was trying to do something more, but I just couldn't stomach it anymore. Rito is one of the worst protagonist ever to spawn in anime history. Add to that Lala getting a background role and that I would need a third hand to count the people in his harem, just made me quit.VanQ said:
And what I think hurt this series was trying to put a twenty page chapter into a twenty minute episode. When every episode from like seven to twenty-two feels like filler, you gotta problem. Motto fixed that by having multiple chapters in one episode, which made me actually kinda enjoy it.
I stopped reading Hot Gimmick because it was just too full of angst and suffering. It was pretty much page after page after page of an annoying protagonist being humiliated by equally annoying side characters and unhealthy love interests. In short, I stopped reading Hot Gimmick because it was just too Hot Gimmick.
Currently watching Jormungand and seriously considering to stop watching it seems far too directed. A reason I stop watching many, many series.
What I mean by that is there's a very obvious design in advance of what each scene is supposed to convey and it'll only ever convey that one single thing.
There's the action scene in which nobody ever gets hurt unless they're faceless characters, designed to show off how skilled, dangerous and bad-ass the characters are (despite their obvious storm-trooper academy credentials). There's the death scene in which characters die but only ever after having one final deep conversation underlining the one single trait that defined their character. etc.
It annoys me to no end and appears highly artificial.
What I mean by that is there's a very obvious design in advance of what each scene is supposed to convey and it'll only ever convey that one single thing.
There's the action scene in which nobody ever gets hurt unless they're faceless characters, designed to show off how skilled, dangerous and bad-ass the characters are (despite their obvious storm-trooper academy credentials). There's the death scene in which characters die but only ever after having one final deep conversation underlining the one single trait that defined their character. etc.
It annoys me to no end and appears highly artificial.
The thing that gets me about Hot Gimmick, is that I read it and I think "This shit might work in some kind of medieval or freshly post-industry setting, but in a modern setting it just seems ridiculous". Does Japan just not have blackmail laws or something? Or labor laws?Queen Michael said:
Anyhoo; another show I got the shits with was the new ThunderCats; up until this point, Tygra was the favoured son and Lion-O was thought of as the loser who no one wanted to be king, and suddenly the show turns this on its head. Not a bad idea, but executed with all the grace and class of a backstreet tit-wank.
Stopped reading Magi because it became The Phantom Menace mixed with Naruto/Bleach/every fucking generic superpowered angsty teenagers manga you can think of.
Stopped watching Supernatural after season 8 because it became too hard to take seriously on any level anymore, plus all the wasted potential they had. "Hey, let's have something about Lovecraftian mythology, but just make it one lame episode and never mention it again despite there being enough material for multiple seasons!"
Stopped watching Supernatural after season 8 because it became too hard to take seriously on any level anymore, plus all the wasted potential they had. "Hey, let's have something about Lovecraftian mythology, but just make it one lame episode and never mention it again despite there being enough material for multiple seasons!"
Sons of Anarchy. It became too STUPID. After season 3 I knew I wouldn't be able to watch a lot more of it. But I somehow managed to watch another season before I gave up on it. But the show just progressed to another level of dumb. Characters started making obviously wrong choices just so the plot could move forward. Newly introduced characters always felt out of place, irrelevant and boring. It's lazy writing 101. It's a shame. First two seasons were amazing.
That's probably the best way to describe it, it's always struck me as "One Piece + Chefs". If you're going to check it out you're better off with the manga though. The anime ends up going its own separate way and ending early while the manga has pretty much entered its "Grand Line" phase of the story.Elfgore said:
Baka to Test season 2 just became "guys do something dumb and all the girls go full tsundere mode and beat them for the rest of the episode." I started hating every character in that show. None of the fun whimsy or sweetness of season 1, no continuing storyline to care about and no more Hideyoshi fan service. Booo!
I also quit Casshern Sins the first time, because it spends several episodes building up the story and, just as it gets interesting, there are several filler episodes with glacial pacing where nothing important happens. I did try the show again last year and finished it and it's actually worth getting through those episodes, but they are the worst.
I also quit Casshern Sins the first time, because it spends several episodes building up the story and, just as it gets interesting, there are several filler episodes with glacial pacing where nothing important happens. I did try the show again last year and finished it and it's actually worth getting through those episodes, but they are the worst.
Oh, the anime did that? I only read the manga.anthony87 said:
I enjoyed it much more when it was more about the weird creature of the week they went after (I liked the weird 'farting on apples to emotionally traumatize them'-stuff, ok?). Somehow that made the world feel larger? It has become more aimless, I still keep up with it, but it's starting to feel like nothing is really happening.
I stopped reading Bleach once the Vizards were introduced. I kind of liked how it started and I stuck through it up until Rukia was rescued but I just couldn't stick with it for the long haul. It felt like I made it through a couple of arcs anyway. When it comes to anime though, I stopped watching Melancholy of Haruihi Suzumiya fairly early on. I think it was the time-travel/de ja veux episodes that made me lose interest.
I gave up reading the "Sword of Truth" novels sometime late in high school. After a while, it stopped feeling like a fantastical adventure and more like a thinly veiled rant against socialism.
I gave up on Cowboy Bebop because it was too disjointed. I like my plots to actually have, well, a plot. I was more than half way into the show and I still had no idea what they were trying to do or achieve. To me, it was an entire series comprised of filler episodes with no continuity other than characters returning. Utterly disappointing.
Yeah, I gave up Durarara mid-season for the same reason OP stated. I was really excited to see that it seemed to bring together some unique characters with a unique plot, then BLAMO! several shitty anime plot twist that made me lose hope that it would be any different. Never had any interest to continue even though it all happened in one episode. Sad I tried to recommend it to people before.