What are some manga you’ve dropped for personal reasons.

[HoangDinh]

Works by Furuya Minoru. I did manage to finish Saltiness, but the other ones I try cut too deep with the darkness. The situations are too real and generate a lot of genuine anxiety for me. He draws intimidating strangers.
I didn't give up on reading the rest of his works, but every time I want to stop after 1 or two chapters and never return. The guy has a talent for writing the most awkward and painful social situations.

Is that so? I don't think Boku to Issho are those (it's pretty funny) and his most controversial manga is Himitsu, it's dark and sad making the ending predictable but I like it.

 

[kohelemon]

I haven't read many series I ditched, though, I am reading several series at once, and some i've utterly stopped reading or almost stopped. Spoiler Warnings going forward:
ALMOST STOPPED:
Steel Ball Run: Mostly Because of the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Chapter. I poo you not, that chapter had me terrified for weaks, I swear I literally cried, I don't like that stuff, and I didn't entirely expect it from Jojo. I took a break for a month, and then returned. It's still one of my top favorite Jojo Parts, I just skip Tubular Bells Arc and that Chapter nowadays, Lucy Steel went through too much.
Baki: The Ending with Ali Jr. A big thing in that Portion of the series was for me the Love which empowered Baki. All of a sudden, Baki simply seems like he's gained all he needs from Kozue, he's doesn't need her, meanwhile, she remains hesitant, keeps seeing Ali, and the ending. Sure, it was pleasing to see Ali Jr. decked on by literally everyone, but still Kozue went to him, and It didn't really matter that Kozue felt like a mother to him. No such thing was said, only toward the ending of Baki Hanma I think. One of the Top reasons I'll probably never reread That Baki Part, just ruined Kozue and the whole Love Empowerment, which is sort of out the window later in the series. Without that ending, I'd love this part almost more than Baki Hanma.
STOPPED:
Seven Deadly Sins and Yu Yu Hakusho: Now the Latter I enjoyed more than the former, it is not that either were bad, I liked them. I just discovered HNK and SNK after some time and forgot about them. Same thing happened when I tried HXH, I discovered One Piece and never looked back. Yu Yu Hakusho is excellent, Seven Deadly Sins is alright, it actually inspired me to write a story in a Arthurian Setting of sorts... Of course my abandoning the Manga for HNK changed the atmosphere of that story significantly.
Tokyo Revenger: I like it, well I liked it, but I halted, as it's sort of darker atmosphere, which was enthralling indeed made me suspect darker more traumatic material was ahead, stuff I might've not been able to stomach, so I stopped reading.
Doctor Stone: I have a weird thing, Love Disputes and/or triangles, and in the first few chapters, I liked it but I had this weird feeling, that when they awoke the toughest guy in the school or whatever, and the other guy's girlfriend/love interest, the girl would leave him for the tough guy or choose the tough guy. I know, stupid reason to drop a series, insecure am I, indeed, and when I read manga, I prefer to be entertained, and if love is there, it is only a small part, or integral and pure. I hate lover's games, flip-flopping, it trivializes and sours things for me. Love is just a strong part of my life, and any time is played with so... so easily it's excruciating to watch. Makes me wonder of the pains ahead.
Sakigake!! Otokojuku: To be honest, it's hilarious in it's beginning, I've only paused my reading since I have little time.

The Series I'm most surprised I've read and enjoyed are of course Jojo, HNK/SNK and Akira
For Jojo, I was scared of it for years! But, after I started I couldn't stop reading the manga, until that month of course. For HNK/SNK I was also terrified, when I was young I was wandering the manga section of the library and discovered a volume of Berserk, I don't remember what I saw, but the art styles looked similar so I avoided HNK for many years, until, saddened by the short break One Piece Had before Kaido's Defeat and the wait for more Jojo I decided to read HNK and I do not regret it. I stands above all Manga to me.
Meanwhile, as can be told, I'm terrified of "Sexual Violence" and so forth, Akira bore almost nothing of the sort, but it was a lot more sexual in some moments than I remembered. I was like 14-15 when I read the series, I had just stopped reading DC Comics since so much was different, and I needed something, and Akira gripped me, It was masterful and inspired me immensely. I was an Anime-Anti before I discovered MHA, and after reaching volume 15 and finding no more at the library, the Akira Volumes drew me in, and the Cyberpunk Setting, Drama, Action, it engrossed that younger, more crazy me. I don't want to say I've matured, that's a insulting word to me, more so I've mellowed out, I know when to hold back when it comes to writing, and what to read, nevertheless, Akira was in a more violent and dark age of reading for me, and I don't regret reading it. In a way it reminds me of all the conforming I've had to do, for others who don't care anymore, and reminds me to write for me, to enjoy life, no matter how weird people look at you!
Sorry this Post is Tangential, so as can be told the most Personal of the Stopped and/or Almost Stopped selections would be Doctor Stone and Baki! I still think both are grand, Doctor Stone is beautifully drawn, and Baki is a sprawling series, sure Itagaki may have a problem with america, but I feel that's a misconception. America is one of the Top Countries, of course, in a series where the Protagonist's Dad is a Overwhelming Monster, he'd seek to humiliate, ruinate, and dominate all who consider themselves at the heights of the world.

 

[MilkDrinker]

Is that so? I don't think Boku to Issho are those (it's pretty funny) and his most controversial manga is Himitsu, it's dark and sad making the ending predictable but I like it.

Boku to Issho is definitely dark despite being a comedy series. I'm not saying the author's works are bad, he's a 10/10 writer. Just what's with his fetish for the degenerates of society? He absolutely loves having the mc being followed by an insane loud homeless stranger on their way home thing, a very pants-shittingly unnerving situation in real life, and seems like he loves putting situations like these in every work of his.

Speaking of Jojo, I've got JJBA fatigue. I've read it up to SBR a long time ago, slowed down because things weren't being translated or released quickly enough. Completely lost any interest in going back to it after a while, the insane hype because of that Anime in 2015-16 definitely helped me loathe it more. It used to be crazy unique, but now it just feels... idiotic, and it's that kind of idiocy I don't want to bother with. I hear things about the bizarreness of the new one, how the MC got three testicles or something, and all it makes me do is groan out loud and keep avoiding it.

 

[Ranzo]

I've dropped quite a few series now that I think about it (I guess that happens when you read hundreds of series)
Here are a few
Komi-San:
Honestly, as soon as they changed classes I started getting tired of it and I really didn't care much for the love triangle they developed. It lost that strange magic that it had developed and maybe it's great now but I said adios after 258 and haven't looked back.
Fukushuu wo Koinegau Saikyou Yuusha wa, Yami no Chikara de Senmetsu Musou suru: (I should have never read it based on that title alone)
This is one of the first series that I remember dropping and I did it for several reasons...I hated the protag which I think in a revenge story you should have some motivation for rooting him but instead the author just decided to piss on the floor and expect me to clean it up. Also, not interested in torture with sexual violence, I guess I'm vanilla like that. For the life of me I'm shocked that this is still ongoing (especially when I think of all the superior series that were shitcanned too early)
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime:
This was a painful drop for me because for a huge chunk of the series I absolutely loved it. I loved the mc and all the characters and the great romance between the main. What really killed it for me was when they

Spoiler: spoiler

arbitrarially split Shirayuki from Zen after Zen's brothers wedding really crushed the romantic momentum it had been building up to so I had to bid it a fond farewell. Plus, when I learned that Kiki and Mitsuhide hadn't gotten together it cemented my reason to drop it.

Tokyo Revengers:
I stopped reading this series shortly after Kisaki's

Spoiler: reason

fucking retarded reason for killing Hinata over and over again was over the fact that he had a one sided crush in FUCKING KINDERGARTEN! Holy shit I thought there was nothing worse than the, "But we promised to get married when we were children," trope but here we are.

After that my momentum died.
Namaikizakari: One of those classic shoujos were the ML is a dickbag who routinely forces himself on the FL who is of course has no goddamn backbone and let's him get away with it. I know that the audience is supposed to simp for the dude because he's hot but spoiler I'm also a dude and that has no effect on me broooooo.
1-nen A-gumi no Monster:
I hated how Momo kept referring to herself in the third person constantly and how the translator just kept that in there even though THAT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK IN ENGLISH!
Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta: This felt really oppressive for me which I kind of like initially but as I said before, not a fan of sexual violence.
Jūjika no Rokunin: One of those garbage series that I started reading becuse I knew it was edgelord trash but dropped when they decided to spice it up by injecting a fuckton of...you guessed it! Rape! It's like they drew me in with the edgelord revenge and creative murders and thought I'd stick along for the rape. No.

 

[ankiwi]

Chitose is in the Ramune bottle

I don't like stories where the ML or the setting is in a high school where they believe a caste system exists, it's really cringey and no one thinks like this. Chitose takes the perspective of the cool kids in this kid of story setting and tries to show how normal and cool they are and not the stereotype the "lower caste" kids thinks they are. Problem for me is how no "lower caste" kid thinks like this in this day and age but this story really tries to stereotype them into thinking as such like a typical rom com protag. It's just a really cringey read and it relies on you believing that people actually believe in this caste system when only really characters in manga believe it. It's hard to put into words. SkittleSenator on NU words it better but yeah it feels very idk preachy towards a belief that doesn't exist nowadays.


Another is some usagi titled manga I can't remember the name of but the ML is arrested because his Female friend makes a joke about how he's a stranger while he's out shopping with the little girl he's taking care of to the cops just so she can play with her. Iirc I wasn't alone in this and the author got a lot of hate which led to them dropping the series.

 

[ieatass69]

Another is some usagi titled manga I can't remember the name of but the ML is arrested because his Female friend makes a joke about how he's a stranger while he's out shopping with the little girl he's taking care of to the cops just so she can play with her. Iirc I wasn't alone in this and the author got a lot of hate which led to them dropping the series.

NGL I was expecting usagi drop but it's not lol

 

[HoangDinh]

Another is some usagi titled manga I can't remember the name of but the ML is arrested because his Female friend makes a joke about how he's a stranger while he's out shopping with the little girl he's taking care of to the cops just so she can play with her. Iirc I wasn't alone in this and the author got a lot of hate which led to them dropping the series.

If you ever find it again, give me the name

 

[nimo2]

KanoKari.

I thought the premise had potential, even if I found the whole compensated dating concept troubling. I gave it a honest try... then Kazuya reminded me of how much of a simp I was in school, which looking back was probably my cue to GTFO, but I kept reading because I thought he, like myself, would eventually grow up, but no. Almost 300 chapters later and I bet he's still the same poor fucking excuse of a """man""" he was in chapter 1.

Never again will I waste my time with any of your fucking garbage, R*iji.

 

[beep_repair]

Parallel Paradise - Below average smut/fan service even for an isekai, girls that come into contact with the MC and notice his bulge (owo) turn into horny b*tches that can barely function until they get a dose of creme de nut. Which is a massive problem in a post apocalyptic world where said girls are all trained to fight monsters that want to oof them and when they give their own creme de nut, its literal poison that there is no cure for. MC's creme doesn't do that of course, instead it changes the girls fate where they don't have to worry about spontaneously dying because that's apparently a thing to explain why everyone doesn't hide out in safe havens with massive walls that the monsters can't breach.

THIS. So much hate, tho I feel the smut/fan service deserves a golf clap average-plus. Supporting rant here.

 

[beep_repair]

It's hard to remember much about the series I've dropped. Forgetting is kind of the point, after all. But looking over my recent reads and ratings...

Art Club Girl - A charming little 4-koma series loved by many. Unfortunately, I didn't laugh, and the art didn't give me any other reason to stick around. Pure comedy is, I think, the least forgiving genre. When it doesn't connect, it's unbearable.

The Reader Has Despaired - Wretched edgelord garbage. Included here to represent the many rape/slave/ryona-themed sewage bowls I've noped out of. I have no idea who might enjoy this sort of thing and, for once, I bless the gift of ignorance.

DEAD Tube - Yamaguchi Mikoto certainly knows how to grab and hold the reader's attention. But the ultra-serious approach to fundamentally silly material made me cringe too hard for long-term engagement. A silly approach to serious things is the ascended master's path.

Dandadan - No cap amazing. Ye should get the Illithids to force all unmapped pinks to read it by remote application of Archonic engram codes (dank ones). But I'm on extended break. Thing is, Dandadan sets out raining surreal and hilarious anvils down upon your dome. Thus concussed, you watch a coherent sci-fi story precipitate from a solution of absurd non-sequitur.

The growth of this improbable illumination seems magical. Mystery and nonsense, however, require shadows. And once Dandadan's lights hit full power, the bones of a standard shonen battle manga lie all too starkly revealed. It's like waking in the arms of a pungent stranger. The bones kept poking me in the eye, saying, "lol u hate me rite?" So yeah. We on break.

Akebi-chan's Nude Uniform - Though quite tame, I found the simpering cuteness and "purity" of this series repulsive. The fact that it caters to the uoogh! crowd doesn't offend me. Someone has to take their money. But if that's your niche, don't try to pass the slime trail off as wholesome nostalgia for the innocence of childhood. Slug hard or gtfo.

Hospital Porn Activity - This is a token example lazily chosen, but I wind up dropping 99/100 sleezy "long strip" series after the initial binge. The damn things tend to go on forever without getting anywhere, and the art almost always lacks flavor. As a rule, pointlessly convoluted soap opera plotting is the absolute last thing I want from comics. And soulless art-by-committee, no matter how technically accomplished, runs a very close second (no, color does not help).

Moscow 2160 - Dropped because I did not wish to continue seeing it. Though I also found the story irritating, that hardly matters. Eyeball repellant is, with rare exceptions, a one-punch dealbreaker. I'm not disparaging Moscow 2160's art, by the way. It's objectively fine. But I seem to be allergic.

Re:zero 3, Daisanshou - V1 C3 killed the entire franchise for me (corresponds to E12 of anime S1, and C1 of LN V4). In this chapter, Emilia, the woman MC Subaru claims to love, makes a very simple request, practically begging him to respect her by taking it seriously. Unable to weasel out, our brave romantic hero grudgingly agrees.

However, since actually honoring Emilia's request would sideline him during a significant moment in her life - one that does not in any way concern him - Subaru immediately decides to break his promise. His justification, endlessly repeated throughout Re:zero, is that he desperately wants to be important to Emilia and, more crucially, to "protect" her.

So Subaru charges off after his beloved, resulting in disaster. Does he learn anything from it? Does he question the narcissistic "heroism" that prompted him to betray Emilia? Of course not! Subaru instead doubles down because AAGH, MUST PROTEC!! Which might be ok, if the story didn't wind up celebrating his garbage values and behavior. Which it 100% does 🤮

I hate this sequence of events more than any other I've encountered in manga/anime (the big drop in 2020's When They Cry extension isn't far behind). Not because what I've described is the worst thing imaginable - far from it - but because I'd so enjoyed Re:zero prior to that point. And I couldn't forgive it afterward.

P.S. In reviewing the above selections, please do not notice that I am a fulltime trash hoover. Thanx!

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

It's hard to remember much about the series I've dropped. Forgetting is kind of the point, after all. But looking over my recent reads and ratings...

Art Club Girl - A charming little 4-koma series loved by many. Unfortunately, I didn't laugh, and the art didn't give me any other reason to stick around. Pure comedy is, I think, the least forgiving genre. When it doesn't connect, it's unbearable.

The Reader Has Despaired - Wretched edgelord garbage. Included here to represent the many rape/slave/ryona-themed sewage bowls I've noped out of. I have no idea who might enjoy this sort of thing and, for once, I bless the gift of ignorance.

DEAD Tube - Yamaguchi Mikoto certainly knows how to grab and hold the reader's attention. But the ultra-serious approach to fundamentally silly material made me cringe too hard for long-term engagement. A silly approach to serious things is the ascended master's path.

Dandadan - No cap amazing. Ye should get the Illithids to force all unmapped pinks to read it by remote application of Archonic engram codes (dank ones). But I'm on extended break. Thing is, Dandadan sets out raining surreal and hilarious anvils down upon your dome. Thus concussed, you watch a coherent sci-fi story precipitate from a solution of absurd non-sequitur.

The growth of this improbable illumination seems magical. Mystery and nonsense, however, require shadows. And once Dandadan's lights hit full power, the bones of a standard shonen battle manga lie all too starkly revealed. It's like waking in the arms of a pungent stranger. The bones kept poking me in the eye, saying, "lol u hate me rite?" So yeah. We on break.

Akebi-chan's Nude Uniform - Though quite tame, I found the simpering cuteness and "purity" of this series repulsive. The fact that it caters to the uoogh! crowd doesn't offend me. Someone has to take their money. But if that's your niche, don't try to pass the slime trail off as wholesome nostalgia for the innocence of childhood. Slug hard or gtfo.

Hospital Porn Activity - This is a token example lazily chosen, but I wind up dropping 99/100 sleezy "long strip" series after the initial binge. The damn things tend to go on forever without getting anywhere, and the art almost always lacks flavor. As a rule, pointlessly convoluted soap opera plotting is the absolute last thing I want from comics. And soulless art-by-committee, no matter how technically accomplished, runs a very close second (no, color does not help).

Moscow 2160 - Dropped because I did not wish to continue seeing it. Though I also found the story irritating, that hardly matters. Eyeball repellant is, with rare exceptions, a one-punch dealbreaker. I'm not disparaging Moscow 2160's art, by the way. It's objectively fine. But I seem to be allergic.

Re:zero 3, Daisanshou - V1 C3 killed the entire franchise for me (corresponds to E12 of anime S1, and C1 of LN V4). In this chapter, Emilia, the woman MC Subaru claims to love, makes a very simple request, practically begging him to respect her by taking it seriously. Unable to weasel out, our brave romantic hero grudgingly agrees.

However, since actually honoring Emilia's request would sideline him during a significant moment in her life - one that does not in any way concern him - Subaru immediately decides to break his promise. His justification, endlessly repeated throughout Re:zero, is that he desperately wants to be important to Emilia and, more crucially, to "protect" her.

So Subaru charges off after his beloved, resulting in disaster. Does he learn anything from it? Does he question the narcissistic "heroism" that prompted him to betray Emilia? Of course not! Subaru instead doubles down because AAGH, MUST PROTEC!! Which might be ok, if the story didn't wind up celebrating his garbage values and behavior. Which it 100% does 🤮

I hate this sequence of events more than any other I've encountered in manga/anime (the big drop in 2020's When They Cry extension isn't far behind). Not because what I've described is the worst thing imaginable - far from it - but because I'd so enjoyed Re:zero prior to that point. And I couldn't forgive it afterward.

P.S. In reviewing the above selections, please do not notice that I am a fulltime trash hoover. Thanx

Disagree on Dandadan and Moscow but 100% agreeing on Akebi, that shit belongs to the trash bin as much as its author to jail

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

Tomo-chan is a girl is the first one coming to my mind.
Rarely I read such a lazy compilation of stereotypes and recycled gags, a true insult to comedy and readers' time;
even the occasionally good gag or moment got immediately wasted and drowned into repetitiveness.
Fumita's pedo background didn't help either https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/485llo8/iroenose

 

[ankiwi]

If you ever find it again, give me the name

Koneko Hiroimashita, it's kitten not rabbit idk why I was thinking of rabbit/usagi. It's chapter 7.1 of you just want to get straight to the chapter that ruined it. I get it's supposed to be funny haha but it rubbed me the wrong way how the girl just did that to the guy and brushed it off like it's NBD

 

[Darroth]

Oh man, there was this manga I read a decade ago called Salad Days. It's an anthology rom com series where all the students of a class hook up like Tsuredure Children. It's a very sweet lighthearted series, then in one chapter a guy's girlfriend breaks up with him to date his bully because his bully gave food to an abandoned puppy. I've never raged so much before or since at a manga.

 

[HoangDinh]

Koneko Hiroimashita, it's kitten not rabbit idk why I was thinking of rabbit/usagi. It's chapter 7.1 of you just want to get straight to the chapter that ruined it. I get it's supposed to be funny haha but it rubbed me the wrong way how the girl just did that to the guy and brushed it off like it's NBD

ZAMN SHE'S 12?

 

[panzerkampfwagyu]

Revenge Channel Uramin: Went in hoping to see some kind a story about a mastermind doing some fun revenges using really interesting and karmic plans. Instead, I'm not even sure what the author wanted to write there.
Like, it starts out looking like an edgy revenge power fantasy, but then the FMC gets raped by a complete rando(Seriously, the guy was a complete small fry, but raped her like it was nothing, when the FMC was supposed to be at least competent enough at this thing to form an entire community around it) and afterwards we are supposed to sympathize with the bully cunt that actually got a karmic humiliation early.
To quote myself:

Yeah, this author really doesn't know what the fuck they are writing.
At least actually know that before creating, author.
Pretty disappointing

The Maid I Hired Recently Is Mysterious: Note, this is only for the serialized version, the pre-serialized version I still like.
The reason I dropped it was because it dropped the entire character dynamic for generic vanilla. Like, despite me being someone who finds NTR hilarious, I can appreciate Vanilla, but what I cannot appreciate was that wonderful dynamic of the MC having an extreme power level in comparison to the maid being pretty much gone.

Watashi no Oshi wa Akuyaku Reijou: While I liked the series initially, it kinda devolved into an author tract with time.
Started out and stayed a somewhat fun Yuri comedy for a while, but kinda started to take itself too seriously later on, while also going from having an acknowledgement of the main character being Lesbian, which was kinda neat and well-handled IMO, to story beats that had somewhat of an misandrist undertone(with how the character the MC took over's childhood friend was handled, not sure if it was intended, but it kinda read that) and the story outright preaching pro-gay messages with no tact at all.

 

[Mangamoz]

Isekai Shihai No Skill Taker

I got tired of the main protag of a erotica harem series constantly cucking himself with tentacles powers to avoid getting the girls pregnant.

His logic of why he doesn't just have sex with the girls gets more and more contrived as the series goes on.

As a commentator said in a chap, he could have just created a condom out of his own tentacles by now with how skilled he is at using them.

 

[warm_panties]

Oshi no Ko

The story's amazing but shit just isn't for me

Betrayal, Murder, Manipulation, it's just fucked up I can't continue to read it, my heart is just weak to endure all that

I mean life's already hard for me, so I can't find a reason to burden myself more with those fictional psychological stuff

Like bitch I read manga to soothen my heart, make myself happier, and NOT to make it hurts more, I get some people find excitement in thrilling stuff, nerve wrecking plot, but PERSONALLY not for me (sorry)

The reason I read it in the first place is because I biasedly follow what Kaguya-sama's author write, since I like that series lot so I thought this one might be as wholesome as Kaguya..

but NOPE I was mistaken by the first 20 chapter of the story (first 10 chapter are the BEST chapter to me, until the "Tragedy" occurred)

so yeah that's that

THIS. You have said exactly what I wanted to say. Huge part of why Flying Witch is one of my favourite manga is because it is a light hearted and comforing read.

I simply don't have the capacity for an additional emotional or mental weight. I am struggling enough as it is. I came here to heal and be relaxed. I overthink and suffer enough.

I am also being careful on what I emotionally invest in. I don't care if my tastes are shallow, because I am a shallow person in the first place.

Reading this as I type I realized that i might have a lot of unresolved issues.

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

Oh man, there was this manga I read a decade ago called Salad Days. It's an anthology rom com series where all the students of a class hook up like Tsuredure Children. It's a very sweet lighthearted series, then in one chapter a guy's girlfriend breaks up with him to date his bully because his bully gave food to an abandoned puppy. I've never raged so much before or since at a manga.

Possibly most retarded plot twist ever

 

[popo53414]

Beelzebub. I am glad the anime ended where it did because the manga abandoned the comedy tone and tried to be dark and serious. What I hated most was that the author turned the "boys contracted with demons" into a shonen power up unit format (you know, zanpakuto, stand user, super sayajin etc) and all the other pairs didn't have any unique chemistry going on between themselves. They were just there for some actions.

Don't feel like I need to mention stuff I've been dropping recently. Mostly pedo baits.