A full year of suspensions

In the time-honored tradition of never dropping anything, but suspending series forever, there were more in the year since Flying Witch fell flat on its face.

Planetarian: Seen 3. It's very short, but it's basically the suffering porn, like Grave of the Fireflies, which I dropped 2/3 in too. It wasn't that bad, although the only worse thing that I watched in the genre was Plastic Memories. But meh.

Getsuyoubi no Tawawa: Seen 0.7. Looked at it thanks to Evirus, but there wasn't much in there, just the hook. I hear that the comics still run.

Sweetness and Lightning: Seen 2. It didn't hold my attention and the reasons were pretty much blogged right in the opener bracket post.

Orange: Seen 3.5. It's chewing and chewing on the stupid suicides. The topic is real, but the drama they chose was hollow. The flashforwards became exceedingly annoying after the third one or so. I ended dropping it in a middle of an episode. Yamakan could direct a better series than this.

Fuuka: Oops, the suspension was blogged, in an update. Seen 5.

Minami Kamakura: Seen 7. This failure was unexpected as the anime chose its path. But it comes down to: if I wanted a shonen, I would watch Yowamushi Pedal. At least the sports drama there was gripping. Remember the 2nd year losers? They were so good in that show. Here though? The creators could not decide if they want us watch girls or bicycles, so they gave us neither.

Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan: Seen 18 (!). Really liked it at first, but it was going nowhere and overstayed its welcome.

Kemono Friends: Seen 1. It's impossible to overstate the enthusiasm online that accompanied this anime. It might have been as big as Madoka, at least in Japan. But the 3D was just too bad, and the journey of self-discovery too overt. The best part I remember was actually not the anime, but the story of Grape-kun the penguin.

Tsugumono: Seen 5. The story of a magical towel that turns into a cute and boisterous girl... was decent. But not enough to stay.

Tsuki ga Kirei: Seen 2. The plot twists in this love story were toothache-inducing (meaning, the lost beanie).

Konohana Kittan: Seen - unknown. And I don't remember a thing about this. The only note preserved was "supposed to be sweet, but is weak". And I absolutely do not remember what it means.

Monster: Seen 35. Please, Tenma, just shoot me. I cannot take this anymore. BTW, 35 episodes long was only 50% through! I guess the only good thing about it was that one guy had a SIG P226 and the other guy had a Beretta 92.

Girlish Number: Seen 2. All this blogging, and came to nothing.

Hisone to Masotan: Seen 0. My reaction was violent: "minutes until full idiocy, dragon's flying is shit". People who were in tune with the style of it, really liked the series. But not me.

Ryuou no Oshigoto: Seen 2. The recorded complaint was: "The show took a ridiculously formulaic turn with mother declaring a seemingly impossible challenge." This is one that I might actually revisit in the future. But it's not likely — only more likely than the rest of this list.

Uma Musume: Seen 1. Needed something more than Silence Suzuka than production values in order to stay.

Amanchu: Seen 1. That was hanging on the queue for more than a year. But there's always something more interesting. BTW, everyone says that thematic concerns were overblown about it, and it anything it's a modern Aria. Oh well.

Animegataris: Seen 3. On reflection, I think this was just a little too weird. Omo hated it.

Hakumei to Mikochi: Seen 4. I followed the manga, and perhaps I was poisoned, but the anime somehow completely screwed the tone. Early on there was a moment when Hakumei almost falls to her death in a workplace accident, and Iwashi saves her with a prompt action. You would never know how good it was if you were watching the anime, the scene was so dull and clumsily executed. I started to get the picture when the story of the joint concert with Konju was super dumbed down for the anime. The only time the anime became thrilling to watch was the scene where Hakumei meets Orochi. That was some Hedgehog-in-the-Fog level stuff, for a couple of seconds. The online reaction was much the same, complaints that the anime was boring came thick. At first I was anticipating coming back to the whiners when the adaptation reaches jucier parts, like the hand-to-hand fighting with the criminals in the slums where Konju lived (Chicago and New York had nothing on that place, maybe Hong Kong would be comparable). But then I dropped the anime myself and now I suspect that anime managed to screw that arc too. And I cannot be bothered to check.

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