Petty reasons you refuse/drop a series

[Pandastrophic]

Love at first sight makes me drop the comic instantly, like especially if it happens within the first few pages as soon as character A and B look at eachother (I dont like attraction at first sight either).

Honestly im fine with a variety of art styles but what i cant get past is terrible colour choices, i dropped a comic bc the one of the characters had the most horrible shade of green as a hair colour.

[kip]

with comics,, bad fonts???? and like, "each character has their own font" type deals.
ugh, i just, can't read those. it's a huge distraction from the story for me

with series (anime, "normal") it takes a bit more to get me to quit but if i don't like the way the main actors looks (especially things like piercings, i dont know why, can't stand it), or "all toddlers" series where everyone's a college kid or younger like. listen, im gonna need some characters who arent striaght up children (*sidenote 'all toddler' series applies more to normal ones than anime because almost all anime is all-toddlers)

with anime i also almost always avoid self-describing "horror" anime becuase it never, ever lives up to the expectations and always feels very lukewarm. id rather have my horror in manga form where there's a lot less limitations lol

[Draconic]

The "BL" on the thumbnail.

I don't hate the BL genre, I allergic to that word on the thumbail because it's everywhere!

There is no need to put the" BL" onto thumbnail, when your comic is in the BL category!

[baasinsimple]

A cookie cutter art style or slow pacing. Like a typical Manwha style that doesn't go beyond just readable for me or just a blatant Steven Universe, Cartoon Network or Adventure Time copy because they're relatively easy Art styles to copy, hell a middle schooler can do it. It's not like I just can't like it when somebody does their own thing with it (Look at Spire, it's bloody amazing.) Also, slow pacing reading one page a week is kinda a killer for me because these people aren't gonna make progress anytime soon. They can spend the better part of a year writing an acceptable fight, so I can't help but drop things in that format. I rather get 10-12 pages a month in one bite rather than a grand total of 4 spread out.

[IdiotWithPencil]

I usually don't let small things(amateurish art style is the exception) derrail me from at least trying a story, although the one thing that makes me drop a series harder than an eminem diss track are dumb/selfish/bad characters. I remember dropping this one series about a potion selling girl cause she acted like an entitled shit to the god and the whole world were idiots that would just bow down to her superior intelligence

I really enjoyed Kill la kill`s first episode, but the excesive nudity/revealing clothes made me too umconfortable to continue watching it.

me toooooooo

said the same thing until mi sister told me she got use to it in the end(it becomes white noise after a while), and thank god I listened cause in the end they actually gave a legit story reason for the fan service and why less clothes are better than fully clothed XD

[Jenny-Toons]

I remember dropping this one series about a potion selling girl cause she acted like an entitled shit to the god and the whole world were idiots that would just bow down to her superior intelligence

OH my gosh, yes! Especially if it's the protagonist!

They're the biggest assholes on the planet and people rightfully do not like them. But we're supposed to set aside that "in your face" fact because they can save the world or something. I see it rampant in a lot of manga where protagonist is just full on groping people out of the blue, but "hey, they have the powers to save the universe and defeat God, so it's ok!" Big reason I dropped them.

I rather prefer it when the author is out and about with the fact that their characters are assholes and playing with how that can interfere with their journey or how it affects their surroundings than trying to justify the behavior and convince readers to turn a blind eye to it.

[IdiotWithPencil]

They're the biggest assholes on the planet and people rightfully do not like them. But we're supposed to set aside that "in your face" fact because they can save the world or something.

sounds like most wuxia manhuas if I'm honest, also the reason why I don't like most wuxia manhuas, their too "might makes right and if you don't like it then you must die"

[NickRowler]

I used to watch a lot of anime as a teen but nowadays, I avoid it. Mostly because I hate the modern anime art style. Heck look at the OG Digimon vs the new one, they all look so bland. I also can not stand moe/loli characters, which have blown up in popularity over the last 10 years. Anime feels too much catered to otakus now. I feel alienated watching modern anime.

I also hate realistic gore and mutilation, it makes me uncomfortable. i can tolerate Super Jail but not those Tru Crime shows.

I also dropped that new Sabrina show like a hat when they started mentioning Satan and Satanists. It feels like it was written by those paranoid christians who think witches equal Satanist. It also lacks knowledge that most modern Satanist don't worship the devil and are more of an anti-Christian group that fight Christian groups who abuse laws. Most modern witches/neo-Pagans are peaceful. I know there are the neo-Nazi pagans, but this show wasn't really talking about them.

[ZombieOwl]

Usually, it's something like this:
"Wait, is that main character a tsundere? Okay....puts on jet pack BAIIIIIIIIiiiii."
Or if it's the same rehashing of "Brown Haired Boy gets Rainbow Harem"; one look and I'm out ^^;

on the other hand, sometimes I'm so petty I will watch the whole thing, or at least the rest of the season, just so I can effectively tear it apart when the time comes XD

[Penni]

So I know RWBY is very popular but I have never been able to watch 10 seconds of it because I HATE the animation. It's so stiff and off putting to me. It makes me cringe.

[Kura]

Oh yeah, I have the same issue with that series especially 3D, also has this same issue with Dragon Prince, the animation was just not fun to try and watch at all. (Though I finished watching Dragon Prince, as it was much shorter and I was watching with other people who were interested in it)

[Luminosophy]

So I know RWBY is very popular but I have never been able to watch 10 seconds of it because I HATE the animation. It's so stiff and off putting to me. It makes me cringe.

The story and characters themselves put me off RWBY, tbh. I can deal with the weird style and the one great thing it has going for it is the fight scenes, but it's not really enough to slog through how horrifically 'anime' it all is to get to them. x_x

Another reason I'll drop a series is humor that (in my mind) tries to be too relevant/mimic how kids on the internet act these days. I think it really dates the series, and it's especially distracting when the series is set in a fantasy/historical setting.

This reminds me, when series will hamfist in pop culture references that are so blatant and awkward. Just to be like "Haha look how hip and cool we are, we know what a meme is!" It's so weird too, because you know in a few years it'll be dead and people watching later will have no idea what the characters are talking about it. I dunno if that was also part of what you meant though.

Oh, I know, I dropped that new She-Ra show like no tomorrow because the designs just... Really bothered me. She-Ra's in particular was so milk toast. Give me buff She-Ra with a detailed face back!

I saw a ton of criticism hating on She-Ra's design for being too 'masculine'. I don't really see what they're seeing but I agree with this, overall cast designs are very bland and lacking some kind of dimension. Clips / trailers from the animation put me off watching it though. Ooooh boy, there's a lot of basic drawing fundamentals missing here in all the scenes. There's just a line where it's way too obvious to not keep noticing and it breaks immersion. @_@

[kimketli]

I don't know about such tiny things. I drop series usually because serious reasons like:
- When they produce a half hour inner dialogue about their dilemma and also their backstory during three sec fightscene...
Attack on Titan could do this... They over-dramatized everything. Oh god how I hated that series. I can not point out a good element of it. I gave a chance to it because everyone loved it but I could not bear more than some episodes. It was a main reason I did not start to watch animes again. I don't consider myself as an animefan anyway. There are more things I hate in anime than I like.
- Bonus: when the 3D animation FPS does not match with 2D animation FPS... It kills me.

[HGohwell]

For me it totally depends what I went into it expecting. For instance I don't mind fanservice, even excessive fanservice because sometime I fanservicey comedy is just fun, as long as they're up front about it. If you're going to go "this is a super deep dark story we want you to take it seriously but also omg look boobs for no reason" it's not going to work. For instance Cross Ange is a pile of beautifully animated and voiced fanservicey trash but if you know that from the very start and doesn't pretend to be otherwise and if you can tolerate that there's actually something of a half decent plot under there. But if I watched Handshakers because it was billed as much the same team as K which I adore (the decline after S1 of that should have clued me into how this was going to go) but I couldn't get passed episode 1 even after several attempts, the animation was an awfully obvious 3d, the boobs were huge, the jiggle physics were awful and was the girl making sex noises in battle really necessary in a show you're trying to tell me is serious and threatening?

Although the pettiest reason is probably because my friend insisted something was "the best show ever" in all seriousness and then that she'd "never connected to a character like this before" about the villain in all seriousness, without a hint of irony or joke, and then said she couldn't be friends with anyone who didn't like the show it was so important to her. It was already dragging as a show, but it had potential so I was sticking, but after that I dropped it so fast.

[monotone_ink]

The animators are being paid a half eaten cupcake per 20 frames drawn, they're doing their best.

[monotone_ink]

I don't necessarily drop many series, but I do find myself struggling when characters start monologuing about their motivations really sentimentally. Not only does it slow down the pace, but it also ruins the fun of watching a character's actions and figuring out their personality from there.

I know the first episode of Darker than Black did this, if any of you have watched it. It was an alright show.

[dawgofdawgness]

I don't necessarily drop many series, but I do find myself struggling when characters start monologuing about their motivations really sentimentally.

I read a comic and on the 10th page the main character bluntly STATED her inner conflict. Something along the lines of "i can't love anyone because they always get hurt or die." Who SPEAKS LIKE THAT??? It was so awkward and out of place that I just put it down and never picked it up again.

[Kyuu]

I almost dropped Fate Extra just because Shaft.
But the boobs fan services made me stay enough to get me hooked.

[rmdooley]

When a villain gets hyped up in the story as being the baddest, scariest, most cunning, conniving, treacherous monster of unspeakable terror and then they finally show up and the only thing they threaten is your sense of self-worth because you made yourself vulnerable with the anticipation of an awesome antagonist and instead you get the equivalent of a grumpy mall cop with a hangnail

[Jenny-Toons]

Are you somehow doing all of the reasons people are mentioning above?

I mean...these are just personal reasons people leave a series; a lot of the reasons, however, are pretty legit because we see it done so many times in a boring way or as a way to skim on actual writing.

For example, my story has a "fall in love at first sight" moment in it, and some people probably won't read my comic because of that. Just...there's not much you can really do about that; just tell your story and hopefully improve as you go along.