30 Day Manga/Anime Meme - Day 7
Jul. 17th, 2012 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heavenly_pearl07. A manga/an anime you disliked enough to stop reading/watching
None. I'm a completist. If I start a series, I always finish it, unless there's some reason why I can't (like the company shuts down, or Netflix is missing discs, or the rest wasn't licensed.) However, there were definitely a couple of times I almost considered it.
For manga, it was Hot Gimmick. Even before I started it, I had a feeling I wouldn't like it based on all the reviews I had read about it, but I had like this morbid curiosity to see if Ryoki Tachibana (the main love interest) was really as horrible as everybody said he was. Besides, the series had been re-released in four affordable omnibus editions, and I'm always a sucker for those, so I decided to give it a try. Turns out that yes, Ryoki was as terrible as advertised (he's now tied with Akito from Fruits Basket as my least favorite manga character ever), but unlike FB, I didn't really care for any of the other characters either, and the plot was only mildly interesting when Ryoki wasn't around. (I pretty much hated every scene he appeared in -- that's how much I loathe him.) Still, I continued on, hoping that maybe Ryoki would at least become a little better by the end...but, yeah.
When it comes to anime, the one series that almost made me throw in the towel was Di Gi Charat, quite the accomplishment considering there was only one disc to watch. Each "episode" was only about three minutes long (excluding the OP and ED, which, if I remember correctly, they played for every episode, unlike the similar Hetalia, which wisely grouped the mini-episodes into longer episodes.), and by the end of the second episode, I wanted to eject the DVD and break it in half. (Stupidest. Anime. Ever.) Alas, it was rented from Netflix, and I certainly wasn't going to pay for a damaged disc, so somehow I forced myself to watch the rest of the remaining episodes. (Luckily, there were only fourteen more of them.) I...kinda regret that I did. -_- That's forty-eight minutes of my life I will never get back.
None. I'm a completist. If I start a series, I always finish it, unless there's some reason why I can't (like the company shuts down, or Netflix is missing discs, or the rest wasn't licensed.) However, there were definitely a couple of times I almost considered it.
For manga, it was Hot Gimmick. Even before I started it, I had a feeling I wouldn't like it based on all the reviews I had read about it, but I had like this morbid curiosity to see if Ryoki Tachibana (the main love interest) was really as horrible as everybody said he was. Besides, the series had been re-released in four affordable omnibus editions, and I'm always a sucker for those, so I decided to give it a try. Turns out that yes, Ryoki was as terrible as advertised (he's now tied with Akito from Fruits Basket as my least favorite manga character ever), but unlike FB, I didn't really care for any of the other characters either, and the plot was only mildly interesting when Ryoki wasn't around. (I pretty much hated every scene he appeared in -- that's how much I loathe him.) Still, I continued on, hoping that maybe Ryoki would at least become a little better by the end...but, yeah.
When it comes to anime, the one series that almost made me throw in the towel was Di Gi Charat, quite the accomplishment considering there was only one disc to watch. Each "episode" was only about three minutes long (excluding the OP and ED, which, if I remember correctly, they played for every episode, unlike the similar Hetalia, which wisely grouped the mini-episodes into longer episodes.), and by the end of the second episode, I wanted to eject the DVD and break it in half. (Stupidest. Anime. Ever.) Alas, it was rented from Netflix, and I certainly wasn't going to pay for a damaged disc, so somehow I forced myself to watch the rest of the remaining episodes. (Luckily, there were only fourteen more of them.) I...kinda regret that I did. -_- That's forty-eight minutes of my life I will never get back.
