Popular series you dropped and where you dropped them?

[Papasmurf]

Since a fair few users here have read dozens of series I thought this might be worth a topic.

Technically I have like a hundred series on "dropped" because I read some of them but never read all of them nor do I plan to finish them... so I'll just list ones I started with the intention of finishing them but didn't because of the plot being bastardized through shitty writing or because I couldn't finish the series for other reasons like lack of scanlations, ceasing publication etc.

Dragon Ball

Only watched GT because it was on Toonami/Cartoon Network, but would've dropped it after the Baby saga if I were just watching it online.

Watched Super up to the end of the Future Trunks arc and hated the ending, and so watched the ToP arc only on and off until just losing interest altogether during the recruitment portions. I later watched some of the episodes in the actual tournament, but didn't watch it consistently on a weekly basis until around the time of the Ultra Instinct Sign/Kefla episodes. Probably won't watch the Broly/Moro arcs if and when they're animated.

I just decided to drop the manga recently after chapter 59 because it's just garbage.

One Piece

Never really watched the anime consistently other than when it was on TV. Read the manga up to the end of Dressrosa barring certain faggotry arcs like Davy Back Fight and Fishman Island/Punk Hazard. Dropped it after Dressrosa because it just couldn't sustain my interest. I'm not impartial to picking it up again though.

Naruto

Dropped it when I was reading it weekly during the Kakuzu/Hidan arc. Didn't pay any attention to it for years after that until 2012 because that Tobito reveal turned out to actually be true and I decided to find out what happened. I did however read Konan vs. Obito sometime around 2010-2011 just to see if this "Madara" was hot stuff. Needless to say, the war was horrible to epic proportions so I just skipped from Madara getting betrayed by Zetsu to the ending, barring Obito's death because I was waiting for that bitchshit to die as painfully as possible. Read like one chapter of Boruto, not reading or watching any more of it.

Bleach

Hated it immediately when they copied Soul Society's formula to bring that Hueco Mundo copypasta faggotry into play, so I dropped it. I picked it up again in like 2013-2014 to see how much I could take of torturing myself by reading it, ended up enduring most of the Hueco Mundo/Fake Karakura Town arc and the Fullbring arcs, at the cost of several million brain cells dying. Never read any of the Thousand Asspull War other than the ending, for obvious reasons.

Fullmetal Alchemist

Watched all of Brotherhood, although the early episodes gave me cancer with how much they were rushed.

Dropped the 2003 series after Lab 5 or whatever that was, although I did watch the ending and that horrid Conquerer of Shamballa movie.

Inuyasha

Dropped it during the Moryomaru arc because it was giving me cancer. I later went back and read all of it when I had nothing better to do. Needless to say, time wasted.

I watched most of the original series and all of Final Act because I was a fanboy when I was a 13 year old and I wanted to see how they adapted the later volumes.

Digimon series

Dropped it after the first 10 episodes or so of Savers. Skipped most of Tamers between the Real World/Deva arc and the Beelzemon/Zhuquiaomon arcs because I missed the reruns on Fox Kids and those episodes were boring as sin. Watched tri. only because it was part of my childhood when I watched Adventure and 02, even if I didn't like the latter series too much. Needless to say, I regret it and when they asspulled Omegamon in the second fucking episode of the remake Adventure series... NOPE! Decided I had enough of that mess. 2

I did read all of Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01, because it's at least better than anything Digimon's anime produced after Tamers.

Pokemon series

Watched up to about the Advanced Challenge season and dropped it. Watched some episodes afterwards on and off, but mostly the league and gym battle portions that actually matter. Never watched Diamond & Pearl/BW/XY in their entirety. When Ash literally went to school and won the most pathetic league possible to finally be inducted a champion after like 22 years... yeah I decided I had enough of that. I'm not watching any of Pokemon ever again lol.

I read all of the Special manga up to the end of the Black & White chapter (around volume 52), but lost interest because all the arcs afterwards are based on lackluster games like BW2 and the ones on the 3DS/Switch and the BW2 chapter is being published too irregularly for me to give a fuck.

Gundam series

Watched all of G Gundam and Gundam Wing, but Seed and Seed DESTINY were too gay for me to bother with any new series. I'm not opposed to watching 0083 or Origin or War in the Pocket though.

Yu-Gi-Oh! series

Originally dropped it after the Waking the Dragons/Doma season bored me to death when I was watching the dub. When I later rewatched the sub I watched it all, other than some of the filler. Dropped GX around the time some nobody faggot used a copy of Ra in a phail attempt to bring back Yami Marik/Battle City nostalgia, not that I watched it that consistently to begin with. Later watched the final duel between Jaden and Yugi, but everything afterwards I basically didn't watch.

I didn't read any of the sequel series after the original run of the YGO manga, other than Yu-Gi-Oh! R.

There are other popular series I dropped but those are the most mainstream ones.

 

[SSJ2]

HxH in the Dark Continent arc. I will never allow my eyes to be burned by that digital ebola ever again.

 

[Papasmurf]

HxH in the Dark Continent arc. I will never allow my eyes to be burned by that digital ebola ever again.

I didn't even read most of the Election arc tbh. I only watched it because it was part of the 2011 animu. I also dropped HxH in that gay boat arc because it gave me aids.

 

[withheldforprivacy]

Sword Art Online: Dropped it after I watched Season 1, because I realized I did not need to wactch the rest of the series to jack off to Leafa, Asuna etc

Pokemon: Dropped somewhere during Johto Saga, when I got tired of all episodes since the beginning of the series having essentially the same plot.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Only going to mention ones I permanently dropped on account of dropping and giving a series a second chance just count as putting it on-hold.

Bleach - Dropped it in the Thousand Year Blood War Arc. I initially planned to drop it in the Fullbring Arc but continued to see how the shitshow would end. My tolerance for it ceased in the chapter with the Gotei 13 talking about how they'd have to combine their power to destroy some kind of wall, at which point the Saint Seiya plagiarism had reached too far After that, I just skipped to the last chapter once it had finished.

My Hero Academia - Dropped it after the first volume of the manga due to how its early chapters already presented it as being the epitome of run of the mill Shonen, something that doesn't seem to have changed.

Tokyo Ghoul - Dropped it after volume 3, which was so slow paced and predictable that it was a pain to get through.

Ansatsu Kyoshitsu - Dropped it after the Koro-Sensei Origins flashback. The series' formulaic nature and bland characters provided little worth in continuing it.

Pokemon (Anime) - Initially dropped it in Black/White due to how much Ass Ash/Satoshi's intelligence had been nerfed. I picked it up again for X/Y, but dropped it fully after he lost the Kalos League.

Gintama - Dropped the manga not long after the reveal about the fate of Gintoki's master as the tonal whiplash of going from a meta comedy to a mostly serious and dramatic series was damaging to its consistency. When you have arcs such as someone breaking the 4th wall to resolve a conflict, you can't exactly go into a serious and grounded drama. Dropped the anime when Katsura fought that gorilla alien for similar reasons.

Kingdom - Dropped it on chapter 294 as Xin succeeding through shouting and willpower like a generic Shonen protagonist clashed too much with the focus of trying to be about battles fought with military strategy, causing me to quickly lose interest after he killed that general.

Magi - Dropped it after the flashback on the origins of Djinn. Despite some good concepts, the manga made itself hard to invest in with its poorly handled protagonist and his overly broken abilities as well as how black and white the morality of many of its characters were.

Nanatsu no Taizai - Dropped it at chapter 160 due to how the constant plot twists (aka. asspulls) removed character agency through constantly having them mind controlled in some way, not to mention the power inflation held the same problem as in any generic Shonen that far outstays its welcome.

One Punch-Man - Didn't view the anime after the first season as the Boros Arc took away any potential it had through taking things seriously, making a satire of tropes in action series quickly become the very thing it was poking fun at. I dropped the manga after volume 8 for similar reasons.

Shingeki no Kyojin - Dropped the anime at episode 22 due to how plot armoured and bland the main trio were despite the series selling itself on the dangers of its world and the pacing of the anime becoming poor after episode 16. From what I've heard, it isn't worth continuing anyway with how extreme its shift of focus becomes later on and some of the Shyamalan-esque plot twists it has making it hard to take seriously.

Angel Beats! - Tried tolerating the first 3 episodes, though even getting past the first 5 minutes of episode 1 was painful with how making purgatory into a typical high school of all settings ruined any potential it held. After that, it was followed by unconnected episodic adventures and melodramatic character backstories that really held no worth in viewing it for longer.

Fate/stay-night: Unlimited Blade Works - Dropped it after 8 episodes. Fate/Zero already had its problems, so tolerating a series with a far more generic and plot-armoured protagonist along with a writing style no different from a typical Shonen or harem series (though not quite as much as the visual novels, at least) definitely wasn't happening.

Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso - Dropped halfway through episode 4. The rapid moodswings of the blonde girl and the tonal whiplash it provided each scene made it hard to take this melodramatic tripe serious in any way.

Erased - Dropped it after the first episode. Time resets don't make a good plot, and what I've heard from later on about how predictable its villain was and the :withheld vibes it gains definitely didn't make me want to revisit it.

Madoka Magica - Dropped after the 3rd episode. The "shocking" twist everyone talks about was too rapid of a tonal shift and, from what I've heard, it quickly just becomes a pile of pretentious edge that you can expect of an Urobutcher work.

Spice and Wolf - Dropped after 8 episodes. Slice of life that spends most of its time expositing on economics doesn't make for an interesting plot.

Steins; Gate - Dropped after episode 21. It started off decent, but quickly went off the rails halfway through with how the protagonist become plot-armoured enough to escape from a trained professional and the following episodes were basically a dating sim with time resets.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX - Dropped after 5 episodes with how much the cast were amazed at Judai pulling off very basic strategies. Might be tempted to go back to it through the dub though as that's at least a self-aware comedy.

One Piece - Still reading the manga, but dropped the anime at Dressrosa due to the poor pacing/animation and the manga's flaws already being bad enough.

Rurouni Kenshin - Less of a solid drop and more of a technicality. I dropped the anime after the Kyoto Arc due to how bad the filler ending that follows it is known to be.

Hunter X Hunter - Dropped the Dark Continent Arc for now at least. Might be tempted to come back to it once it becomes more than verbose text walls of information that bogs down the pacing of the plot.

 

[SSJ2]

I guess I could also add Nanatsu no Taizai, though I only dropped it due to getting current in the manga at the time. I believe I was 110 chapters in and lost interest to keep up with it on a weekly basis.

Edit: Looking at my manga list I also dropped Toriko after 27 chapters. Never grabbed my attention.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Looking at my manga list I also dropped Toriko after 27 chapters. Never grabbed my attention.

Hey...You need to pick it up, then we can get on IRC and discuss it for 3 hours...XD

In all seriousness though, that was probably the right decision. Toriko's first part is entertaining if you're a fan of 80s Shonen manga, but it doesn't really have much worth deeper than that, and the second part embodies everything wrong with the Nekketsu (Battle Shonen) sub-genre.

 

[Kyo]

dropped akame ga kill despite having seen most of it because mad edge and i just couldn't stand it anymore

dropped fairy tail because zero stakes and zero intrigue to the fights

dropped mirai nikki like 19 episodes in because it was funny to watch up to a certain point but just wasn't anymore so no point

dropped bleach manga in thousand year blood war because it was just terribly paced and kept making shit up as it went along, read the last chapter though

other stuff not really worth talking about because they're just not memorable

 

[Symbiote]

Dropped watching Jojo yesterday after Dio ran off with the mask. Boring as hell.

 

[Papasmurf]

Might as well add some more

Hunter x Hunter

Dropped it after the Hunter Exams because it couldn't sustain my interest and it felt like a crappy, unremarkable shonen series at first. Later watched the 1999 anime and the Phantom Troupe OVA. Dropped that anime when it went to Greed Island because it gave me cancer. Later read the Heavens Arena in the manga and watched both the anime and manga of the Phantom Troupe arc in the 2011 version. When it came time to watch Greed Island I again skipped it, because the asinine training chapters and the boring dodgeball game gave me cancer. I tried to sit through the manga for the Chimera Ant arc but the horrid art like the lion guy fighting some other faggot gave me ebola so I switched to the anime and watched up to the Election arc. Dropped it permanently during Negro Continent for reasons that are pretty obvious.

Spice and Wolf

Dropped it after the first season because it's just not interesting and I had to force myself to sit through the first season in the first place.

Baccano!

Dropped it after the first few episodes because it couldn't sustain my interest and my depression issues at the time gave me horrible concentration skills that required me to really concentrate to be able to watch series.

One-Punch Man

Dropped it early on for similar reasons, plus the formula seems stale.

I'll add a few more as I don't have the time to jog my memory for this shit right now.

 

[Boo Brand Milk]

- From 2001 to 2012 I dropped DBZ three episodes into the Great Otherworld Fillertournament arc. Only started watching Broly/Buu because of Fourstar.

- Pokemon sometime after the first US 'season' after Ash started a new quest

- Only watched Gundam Wing, even then the returns were diminishing

- I think I watched all the Sailor Moon dub episodes. Heard that the final season sucked and there's a reboot now.

- Not anime but gave up on the Simpson's after 2002 (it sucked after 1997), Family Guy after the third season, and South Park after the seventh season. None of those shows ended yet somehow.

 

[ahill1]

one punch man

-- this type of manga/story is just not my style. I don't like something that proposes to be fully gag.

jojo's bizarre adventures

-- it didn't manage to grab my attention. i've read parts 1 and 2 but frankly i think that's enough.