Why won't you finish that anime you liked but left unfinished? (2025)

Serafos

NoelleIsSleepy

katanagatari
nichijou
ousama ranking
vinland saga
bleach (which I've had on hold for a decade even though I like it??)

at some point I think I just have to force myself back into it. I do like em but I never know why I put them on pause.

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Shirayukin

Watching this show gives me a wave of nostalgia from watching the original series, so I wanted to watch it as similarly as how I watched the original back then: watching only one episode a day on TV.

Setting it up on TV is not hard at all, but I just need extra motivation to do that since it's easier to just watch on my phone, so I end up watching something else instead when I feel like watching something - a show I don't mind watching on my phone. I also prioritize watching ongoing shows, so it makes completed shows like CCS: Clear Card-hen becoming more set aside.

I sometimes broke my "rules" and ended up watching more than 1 episode in one go, but I still do not want to binge it since the show is very episodic, so it's still not progressing much.

Anyways, this thread makes me want to watch the show - lemme just start at least 1 episode right now lol.

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Quadruple_Oi

For instance, I've taken around 5 breaks while catching up to One Piece, each being anywhere between 1-6 months long in duration. Part of the reason for these breaks is that I watch it in spurts, so I put it on hold when I got busy. But those breaks, which were meant to last <1 month, almost always lasted longer than I would have wanted even though I liked it a lot. I think it has something to do with the momentum/mood because it was really easy to get back into it with a few episodes.

There's also Dangers in my Heart S2, which I put on hold during the middle of the season. I didn't really intend to put it on hold, but I just never got into the mood to watch the next episode even though I knew that I would enjoy it similarly to each of the previous episodes. I suppose in this case, the main couple already went past the phase in their relationship that I was most interested in, so it no longer had the same draw for me as before. If I had watched it after the season finished airing tho, I would've likely finished it easily, but the waiting between weeks made me lose motivation for it. I think I experience similar issues for Slice-of-Life anime which they typically make up for with unexpected twists/surprises.

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• Sometimes I’m just not in the right headspace for a show, especially if it’s something deep or abstract like Serial Experiments Lain. I need to be in the mood to really get into it, and if I’m not, I’ll drop it. Later, when I’m more into that kind of vibe, it finally clicks.
  

• I might like a show, but life gets in the way—whether it’s work, or other hobbies. Sometimes I get distracted by something else, and the show just falls off my radar. When things settle down, I’ll pick it back up and realize how much I was enjoying it.
  

• Sometimes I’m just not ready to appreciate a show because of where I am in life, or I don’t fully get the themes. After a break or some time passes, I come back to it, and suddenly everything makes sense—I end up loving it.
  

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_AsHin_

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Also gintama! I loved it so much but there’s just so many episodes :,) 2025 goal is to finish it.

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_AsHin_ said:
If I started an anime but didn’t finish, it’s probably cz I got sidetracked by something else like another show, book, or just life stuff. Sometimes, if Im really into something, I kinda avoid finishing it cz I dont wanna say goodbye to the story or the characters I got attached to.

more or less the same here, but it's usually a fansub release I follow as they're either stopped or stalled for whatever reason. I do finish them eventually.

laymey

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Notoshin

ive been waiting for someone to ask this

demon king daimao. i watched this shi time ago, when i was watching anime on youtube.
one of my starter harem anime alongside rasario vampire. but yea i only have it on hold because i didnt want it to end. over the years, its gotten easier to move on after finishing an anime, but back then, that shit was tough for me - especially since i didnt know what anime to watch right after, unlike how i do today.

so yeah i definitely plan to watch that last episode one of these days.

as for my other on-hold anime 😬😬 looking kinda iffy
ranma is also getting a remake or smth

TransferUser

Meitantei Conan is still ongoing, so... even if I continued it would be no use. Might as well wait until there are more episodes.
Though, at this point I might rewatch from the beginning again. Wouldn't be the first time in the past 28 years that this anime has been ongoing.

Also, since they fired Kamiya Akira from voicing Kogorou Mouri I lost a lot of motivation to keep watching.

deltahalo241

LostSpectre

If you reply back to me and I never respond, I lost interest and don't care. Sorry about that.

JaniSIr

Rinrinka

pk8list

Also the lack of time or mood can be a reason as well

DGottem

Black Clover has been on hold since 2021 or 2022. It was interesting but there were more interesting shows at the time. I'll watch it after I catch up with One Piece.

As for Code Geass, I'm not sure why I put it on hold or why I haven't continued watching it. It's been on hold since early 2023. Who knows how long it'll stay there? I intend to watch it at some point, though. If I don't watch it this year, I might as well drop it.

Both shows have been on hold before I created my MAL account.

alshu

I like Hyouge Mono, but I was never in the mood for it. When the process dragged out for years and year I decided to officially drop it.

Also I waited for too long the fansub of Sabu to Ichi Torimono Hikae to come out of hiatus...but I have different plans for it.
I intend to finish it raw.

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RainyEvenings

If that's the case then it's because the rest of the episodes are missing and not available on the internet or it's lost media like original golgo 13 series

Sirius_noah

however, most of the shows left on hold for me due to not being that very exiting or because they have a lot of episodes, i don't watch long animes usually.
i tend to watch 12 ep animes most of the time for that reason, some colleagues of mine were making fun of me for only watching 12 ep animes.....

Gesmick

Don't get me wrong, I like it, although I don't wanna sit through 1000+ episodes. I do not have that much time on my hands neither.

The longest anime I have on hold is Black clover, it has been around a year and a half. I don't plan on continuing yet, I want to watch all the anime that I have been holding off for months.

aReviewer

There are a lot of titles on my watching list. If I had to pick one, it would be the «PSYCO-PASS» series after the second one, including the movie version. People say that it is not as good as the first series, but I would still like to come to its end.
The most recent one is «Spice and Wolf». I was fond of the first adaptation, so I have high hopes and skepticism. I haven't touched the new one because I wanted to binge-watch it after it's completed.

By contrast, I'm about to retire from the «Toaru» series.
It's getting harder for me to keep up with those who are overpowered students based on light novels.

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red-tomato

An admin's dickhead Soul banned me from MAL t('v't)

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