Do you ever stop an anime halfway, then come back months later and love it?

Sure, I think most people have that happen from time to time.

yeah one piece. i watch it in bursts bc it’s 1000eps+ and im not a manga guy yet. so thats one for sure, i always loved it from episode 1 i was hooked but life be lifin

ye frieren for me

Apothecary diaries! The first 5 episodes did not do it for me. Decided to give it another try and became obsessed.

I do this a lot actually, I'll jump to another anime in the mean time that I'm in more of a mood for then eventually come back to the one I stopped

yeah, *Konosuba* lmao

dropped it the first time after like two episodes, and then a few months later I was convinced to try it again and it's one of my favorite comedies now

Very normal

You will binge it when you have important work to do

Yes, this has happened to me many times

Definitely... not. (That's unless I need to wait for the other half to get aired ofc.)

Very very rarely. Sometimes it just isn't time to watch something, but something that is good enough will typically be good no matter when you watch it.

The first time I tried to watch *Teasing Master Takagi-san*, I found it so disturbing that I had to drop it after 5 episodes. More than a year later, I tried it again, having mentally prepared myself better, and was able to finish it. I wouldn't say I loved the show, but my impression of it improved enough that I gave S1 a 6/10 MAL rating.

Hell nah, I can do that for mangas but not anime or I'd just use Chat GPT to summarize what I've forgotten. It's even worse for novels, Jesus Christ.

Yep and the biggest one was One piece back in 2006 and picked it back up in 2008 because I didn't have any new anime to watch and manga to read I managed to get everything to the waiting a week for new content stage .

I've stopped fist time I think just before meeting Usopp and then I've started reading the manga went back to the anime and I've seen it so far like 5-6 times in Japanese and 3 times English dub

I have not. Everything I've put on pause for a while has had the same issues when I pick them back up later.

Heard the ending is ... Mmmm bad

Not only anime but TV shows in general for me.

Did it with Delicious in Dungeon.


I was watching it weekly till around episode 6. I guess I wasn't just feeling it especially when Frieren was airing and i found it to be the more engaging fantasy anime.



Months later I completed and I indeed loved it, it definetely stands on its own ground as an unique fantasy show seprate from others.

Yes. All the time. When my moods change, so does my mental capacity for what I want to watch. Something might be completely unwatchable for me one day then a year later one of the best things ever.

Minami-ke for me. Watched S1 earlier this year. It was the kind of show I was looking for. Just everyday lives of ordinary girls. But I found the pace did get kinda slow at times, even for a slice of life. So while I did not plan to drop the series, it took me only about a month or so ago to pick up S2 after finishing S1. But this time, whether I was more in the mood for it or S2 was just better, I watched S2 and S3 in about a month. I found it a lot more enjoyable and there were much more character interactions.

Vinland saga S2. Tried to binge watch it but its so heavy and drama intense that it ended but feeling like i was trying to watch several long films back to back. Wasn't in the mood for that so put it off for several months and did an episode a day and it was a lot more enjoyable that way.

I couldn't get through the first ep of Sora Yori Tooi Basho at first and couldn't buy into the characters. When I later watched it, I loved the characters and wanted to actively see how they would grow.

At the start of the season, I go through everything that will air this season, mark those that I want to watch, and if there isn't enough animes in one season on airing that I care about, I pick the oldest one from my watchlist that I didn't watch yet and "add it to the current season".

This is also usually the anime, depending on episode count and following airing seasons, that then may get paused for a while

One Piece. I do this monthly. I get about halfway through an ark, listen to all the talking, learn about all the characters, then break for a while a couple episodes before the fighting starts. Works perfectly, I can reset my annoyance at the pacing and enjoy the fights. I can also just turn my brain off for those last episodes of the arc since the fighting really doesn’t take all that much brainpower to understand. IMO the best way to watch One Piece. (No idea how people sit down and watch 1000+ episodes over the corse of a few weeks, yall are insane)

Yes, apothecary diaries

Happened to me with Orb, ended up loving it!

Never happened to me.

I've "paused" watching very long shows purposefully and then picked them back up a few months later.

But if i actually dropped a show, i never went back to it. If i check my list of "dropped" anime on MAL/Anilist...i ain't watching none of that ever again.

Me with Shinsekai Yori

I did with spy x family - wasn't too bothered to start with and now I'm obsessed

fullmetal alchemist brotherhood. i think i watched that over a year. didn’t click until the final arc.

Yes.
Undead unluck. I thought it was crap from the first episode.... Forgot about it and later came back.

Holy shit I've never been so wrong in my life.

I'm 86, I'm only on Chapter 20 after 7 months of playing and I really like it, to be honest.

I wouldn't say drop. But back when I first watched Mobile Suit Gundam there was a large gap between some episodes before I committed to finishing the show. Can't recall any recent shows. Most I either keep up with every week or drop completely.

Hyakko was a case of coming back years later and loving it

lord of mysteries, it was too confusing and not really in the mood for it when I started. I dropped it and tried watching it again recently and was obsessed.

I did that for Steins;Gate back in the day. Dropped it like 4 or so episodes in while it was airing, and then came back to it years later and watched the whole thing.

It's not a "drop it because I don't like it" situation, but I've been doing it with Gintama over the past 2~ years. Because of the format of the show, if anything else comes up that I want to watch I can easily put it on pause for however long and then come back to continue.

Usually when I start an anime, I feel the moral obligation to finish it.

Yes! I’ve noticed my state of mind can really impact certain anime when watching that will cause me to put it down. Then later down the line if I’m less stressed or my mental health has improved since, I’ve had success returning to this anime.

Vinland saga for me. Watched the first episode 2 years ago and absolutely hated it. Then a few months back my friend said its absolutely amazing, so i gave it another go. The story caught me instantly this time for some reason. I can confidently say its one of my favorite anime now

SSSS.Gridman.

I watched a few episodes as it was airing, stopped watching, and then randomly saved the remaining episodes on my tablet to watch while I was in Japan.

Excellent show.

Never dropped but I did pause a bunch of stuff 2020/2021 when I was new to the hobby then coming back to them once I got things figured out

* K-On - Loved the show loved the music
* Gakkou Gurashi - Only thing I hate is how hard it is to recommend it
* Flying Witch - A great comfort anime
* Psycho-Pass S1 - Great first season torn on whether I should watch past that point
* Fresh Precure - My favorite Precure Season
* Steins Gate - Came back for the rewatch and I enjoyed every bit of it (SG0 was weaker but still mostly enjoyable barring one particular episode)

Not really, I'm still stuck on episode 4 of Frieren 😅

Basically never. I have a GIANT dropped list, and every single one I've ever given a second shot has been as bad or worse on second or third attempt. I just leave them dropped now, it's never worth it.

Yo, this is killing me because I KNOW there was a show where I had exactly this experience, but I think whatever it was I enjoyed it so much on the second try that I have erased any memory of it being something I bounced off of at first.

If we're talking about anime you drop not because their bad but for other reasons, then for me it's Odd Taxi. The show did nothing wrong, but in my infinite wisdom I decided to watch 15+ seasonals when it was airing. I legitimately thought that this would be fine despite my permanent anime burnout, it took me ages to get back into the mood to finish Odd Taxi and 86.

Golden Kamuy. I stopped after episode 1. That CG bear was fucking atrocious.

Jojo's (Part 3 in particular). I wasn't feeling this part so i dropped it for a few months but then when i picked it up again, i really loved it

I think I’ve watched the first episode of Lord of Mysteries 3x now.

I did this with odd taxi

Did that with air 2006 not too long ago. Now I just need to end kanon lol

Monster.

Yes sir: AOT

I did that with Naruto, I just randomly stopped watching it but I love the anime

I dropped Samurai Champloo as I couldn't get into the episodic nature at the time. Went back and watched it a few years later as it was always so highly rated and loved it.

Monster is another one that I dropped at around 30 eps. Went back and finished it and loved it too.

This definitely happens more so with TV shows for me. Plenty of good shows where I've loved the first or multiple seasons, but can't start the latest due to needing to be in the mood.