As the title states, name (a) show(s) that you do not particularly like but kept watching or would watch another season of, if made. For you fellow No-Drop people, if you would've dropped the show, don't include it. Some of mine are as follows:
-Nisekoi: Only watch for the girls
-SNAFU: I don't even know why I watched both seasons+OVA for this
Posted Mar 24, 2016, 8:28 PM UTC
Fairy Tail.
Overall, it's not that good. But it has its moments.
FT Zero was pretty fun. I actually liked it more than any of the story arcs since Grand Magic Games (which is a little lame cause Tartaros was my fav arc in the manga but the anime kinda flopped with it)
FT Zero was amazing. I was actually planning to drop it since I didn't like Tartaros that much, but then Zero happened.
Durarara
I liked the first season, but ever since everyone became superhuman, I've really had a hard time enjoying it. But say there are more sequels made, I might as well watch it if I've come this far.
Maybe it is because I'm watching weekly but I find that I don't enjoy Durarara. I keep forgetting who is who half the time. Even the original I remembered it was a slog to get through a lot of the time.
if you didn't enjoy durarara then you're not gonna like baccano unless you've already seen it. i love the non-linear plot lines in both since almost everything seems to be related to one another
and as for the characters, durarara tends to this. character shows up then disappears to wherever such as the little imoutos. they're not really adding anything to the plot and they're just there to observe what the fuck is going on in the city
Really? I personally don't like Durarara all that much, but I think Baccano is pretty great. I felt like it has more focus, especially since it does everything within 13 episodes, whereas durarara spent a long time on set-up, with the conclusion coming now.
I like everyone besides Mikado in this show since he became so goddamn edgy.
Izaya 2.0 ish.. [Durarara Ketsu] (/s "that latest episode though... he killled himself")
Yeah I saw the latest episode, I don't like his development at all...
I watched all of toradora in 2 sittings... Why? I don't like romance anime too much.. I hated taiga as a character... Why???
Your Lie In April. Hated it from episode one, but the animation was so gorgeous and it had so much praise that I went through all 20+ episodes to find ..absolutely nothing of interest. ;_;
Wow, this one is extremely highly rated. Did you watch this while airing or after it was done?
I watched it a long time after it aired, fairly recently, in fact. It's probably just that I have an extremely low tolerance for slower paced anime.
This show showed me a slow pace doesn't kill it for me. I couldn't figure out how nearly two episodes about 3 people playing one song each (roughly) gripped me as well as it did.
I skipped the episodes entirely :-( since it didn't progress the story at all. Although, from the few clips I saw, the animation and music there was done excellently.
I don't understand people who watch somehing they don't like just for the animation, recently I have seen people like you that watched Phantom World just for the quality
Like I mentioned in my comment, it was for the high rating as well as the animation. And yeah ..things like The Qwaser of Stigmata has nice animation, but no ..just ..no.
Seikon no Qwaser is pure plot.
A great animation with good characters can actually save a mediocre story for me. I don't think a bad animation with average/mediocre characters can be saved by a good story for me though.
I can't really say I didn't like it, but Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.
I finished it this week and I loved the characters, and Shaft visual style fits so well with the series, just that I couldn't get half of the things they were parodying about, specially the japanese culture ones (tradition or popular people there), also the pacing is crazy fast, I had to stop 4-5 times per episode to read the stuff they show in screen for 2 seconds.
I was always like "I don't really laugh that much with this" yet I kept watching until the end just for the great cast of characters and how visually appealing the show is, I still feel guilty for rating it only 7 because I think that if I knew more of Japanese culture the anime would be an easy 9, or even 10.
The ending (sadly manga only) is SO PERFECT tho.
Garo Crimson Moon. I'm only watching it because I liked the first Garo, and because it's near the end anyways so I might as well see it all the way through. It's also fun to make fun of.
Dagashi Kashi. Solely for the sake of seeing that 3-second loop of Hotaru dancing during the ED. I'm not a proud man.
I swear I feel sometimes like I'm one of the only people that likes Dagashi Kashi on this forum.
(Feel free to correct me wrong anybody)
Nah, I like the show, too.
Nope you aren't alone! Enjoy it for what it is! :)
It's not that bad per se, but when the premise of the show is just candy, I think it needed to be much crazier and varied to stay funny for more than a few episodes.
As is, most of the gags play out in pretty similar ways, with Hotaru taking the candy they're advertising that episode too seriously and Coconuts thinking she's a weirdo. Rinse and repeat. But then again, humor is pretty subjective.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
It's good for what it tries to be, it's just that some people (and the source's crazy popularity) were hyping it up way too much, leading to unattainable expectations.
There are dozens of us!! Dozens!!
Erased had a good hook and not much else. Maybe the last episode will change my mind when I watch it? (Lol)
AMNESIA I knew was awful in terms of the lack of common sense and personality in the heroine, Heroine.
Thing is, it was a very eventful show, so it kept me hooked for the most part. I even bought the visual novel on Steam back when it was $2.99.
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya. Watched both seasons (including all of the endless eight) but never reached a point where I even remotely liked Haruhi. Mikuru (and Kyon's behavior about her) was pretty meh at best too. Despite this, I also went on to watch the movie and the Nagato (best girl) spinoff as it aired. Luckily I liked both of those much more than the original show. So it all worked out. :)
It does get tedious after a while. I was bored at episode 6 or so x_x
Maoyuu Maou Yuusha I was really hoping for something similar to Spice & Wolf but instead I got nothing. Would watch a 2nd season!
I agree. I was extremely disappointed with how the anime turned out. The romance went no-where, the characters did next to nothing mid-way through the series, and the ending was the exact opposite of satisfying. Although, I have to say, the speech scene near the end was well executed.
Agreed, that speech was pretty good.
Sword art online. Start watching the first season with a friend, then continued on my own, even though I didn't like it. Than I watched season two weekly while it aired. I'm not sure why, it just seemed funny to me.
GATE.
I can't stand the shameless army propaganda. I hate that everyone in the show that isn't bowing down to the awesome JDSF is portrayed as cartoonishly weak or selfish. There is not even a hint of any of the psychological trauma/stress that comes with being a soldier in war zone. The characters are trope-y as hell, with Itami's age and profession being the only thing keeping him from being just another harem MC-kun.
I was convinced to watch the first season, thought it was pretty weak, but hoped that S2 would improve. No dice. Other than Fire Dragon battle, nothing about this has been remotely entertaining.
I was really only watching this show for Pina, who was a strong character but is now a damsel in distress just Asuna from SAO's Fairy Dance arc. Somehow, people are quick to blast SAO for this (I like SAO but this was rightfully criticized), yet when GATE does it, its suddenly a non-issue.
Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic.
I'm forcing myself through it. Very slow progress, but I should be able to finally finish this trash soon.
I watch Akikan because I want to finish it because I started it and for no other reason. It's not terrible, it's just so ugh
I understand this and I used to have the idea that with every show I started, I would watch every sequel and part to the show as well. Of course that didn't happen but I also feel the need to at the very least finish the season I started.
I honestly thought Glasslip was going to get better and something would happen. I held out for the hope and was let down.
Natsume Yuujinchou. When I started watching this I thought it would be an action anime with Youkai, instead of that, it was a Slice of Life with Youkai (Sometimes I don't read the synopsis when I want to watch an anime, don't even the genres).
I'm not a big fan of Slice of Life anime, and Natsume Yuujinchou wasn't a exception, even so, I watched the three seasons, the four season when it was airing (and even gave 8/10 to this one), after that a Special and a OVA, and recently, added on my plan to watch list the fifth season.
I don't know, I think I watched all just because of Nyanko-sensei.
There are several shows I watched more than one season of even though I didn't find the first season particularly compelling. Haruhi, Higurashi, Nisekoi, Code Geass, Tokyo Ghoul, Rurouni Kenshin, and Clannad, to name a few. I liked the second seasons of some of these shows though, it's just the first seasons that I really didn't get into.
As for ones I've only seen one season of and didn't care for, but intend to watch more of because of reputation, those would be K-On, Lupin III, and Pretty Cure.
The longest shows I've slogged through, not getting the appeal, would be Rurouni Kenshin and Pretty Cure. I liked the Kyoto arc in Kenshin a lot (or really just episode 42 to 61), but it's such a small part of the overall show that I was bummed out while watching it most of the time.
Very recent case: JoJo Stardust Crusaders first season.
I have Stockholm syndrome for Bleach & Naruto.