What, How and Why You Put Manga in Dropped Reading Status?

[Nyanyan444]

Just like the title said. Add some evidence too if you're too lazy to list the manga one by one.

 

[GipoScribantino]

I put there anything I had in the "Reading" list and that I don't read anymore, as the list title would suggest.
Of course I could simply remove the status at all, but I like keeping a record of what I read in the past even if I didn't reach the end.

 

[Nyanyan444]

I put there anything I had in the "Reading" list and that I don't read anymore, as the list title would suggest.
Of course I could simply remove the status at all, but I like keeping a record of what I read in the past even if I didn't reach the end.

You give me some idea.

 

[solstice258]

When it fails the vibe check, it goes to the dropped bin.

example: Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku
I just started not feeling it with the artstyle and male mc's friend group and stopped reading it.
It's not bad at all but it didn't vibe with me. I wish some people would stop shitting on things they simply don't vibe with.

This one though, was ass XD
It's like a saturday morning cartoon trying to disguise as a low budget romcom manhua. (tbh I don't remember much, it's been- FOUR YEARS?!)

 

[undeed]

What: ain't gonna list all 200+ of it (I'll just use this and this as evidence)

How : what do you mean by "how"? just click the button
😅

Why: usually

• For series that I scored 5, it means that I truly lost interest in it. They are still serviceable. I still read them sometimes when the updates popped up in my feed, but usually it goes like next, next, next, close tab after 5 pages
• For series that I scored 4, it means I reached the point where I thought the "WTF, that's so dumb" moments were just too many-too much, and that I needed to stop reading it for my own peace of mind.
• For series that I scored 3, there are usually 2 cases. The first is when I find it so repulsive from the start, and I don't really like the art, and I can't foresee any improvement will happen in the future. I usually just drop those within 10 chapters/1 volume.
• The other case is when I gave it a 4 for so long but I still wanted to see where this shit was going. And then it reached to the point where I thought that was beyond dumb, so illogical, it was idiotic, etc., etc., and for the sake of my own sanity this has to stop now. Cases like this usually lead me to lower the score even further when I decide to drop it.
• Below that, it's just the extreme case of score 3. For example I found the dumbest point within the first 3 chapters, I hated the art, I felt offended by the story, and I see no improvement after 5 chapters.
• There are also numerous titles that I only read the 1st chapter, and I thought I don't even have the will to put this in my database

 

[Nyanyan444]

@undeed
I interpret that you still want to know what shit can that manga be but don't want to add it on reading list, but can you just ignore it?

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

I don't use it for manga i don't like after just 3/4 chapters. But for those i've read up to 20 chapters or more, i put a status. If i don't feel it but don't dislike the manga, it goes in "on hold" and i'll continue it in the future, when i will be in the mood, or when the manga will be complete (binge reading make everything better compared to a scan per week). But if i'm very disapointed and think the manga is really not worst reading at all, it's in dropped list.

Also, some very long mangas that drag and loose their steam (most of them are slice-of-life) goes in "Dropped" after some thinking (example : wataten, recently, sadly).

 

[Robinisback]

I don't really get what's the point of dropped status is, but I've put Mushoku Tensei in the dropped list just for the sake of hating on it.

 

[Mielly]

I think the "dropped" status is useful for avoiding something that's happened to me before: I pick up a story that shows up on the homepage a lot, realize it's not worth reading, forget about it, encounter it again on the homepage months or even a year later and re-read the first few chapters before coming to the same conclusion as before. Clicking on a title and seeing a "Dropped" status is faster.

 

[undeed]

@undeed
I interpret that you still want to know what shit can that manga be but don't want to add it on reading list, but can you just ignore it?

uh... what do you mean?
Here on Mangadex, I almost never turn off notifications. I simply ignore them in my mind.
And occasionally think "oh, someone still found it interesting and translated it" when I see an update.

Similar to what @Mielly said above, I use it just as a marking point at which chapter I decided that it was just too much.
Sometimes I ended up hate-reading them to the completion, just because.
Usually when I find out that "oh, so it has finished? Alright, let's see the ending".
That's why you see completed series with 3s and 4s on my list.
Because I simply came to the same conclusion as before.

 

[Hitspark]

My drops typically revolve around a few things.

1. Premise not being fulfilled. I've got a couple manga that exist to do nothing but pull the reader along on a string with no promise or intent to progress properly. One of them literally being Rent A Girlfriend.

2. Bestiality. When I start seeing the animals get freaky, it tells me everything I need to know from then on out.

3. Edgefests that aren't fun. I like edgy manga, especially when the author is visibly aware of how edgy they're being, but they have to be fun. A manga that exists to try and bait people into a story about NTR is edgy but not fun because I'm not here for you to lie to me about what I'm reading. A series that outright abuses the Sexual Violence and Gore tags isn't fun because as soon as I see it, I know there's no reason for me to care about any of the women in the series. They're gonna be your target eventually.

4. Series that hide the fact they're BL/GL until later on (Rather I should say UPLOADERS NOT TAGGING THEIR MANGA). I'm not into it.

5. Idiocy beyond my ability to withstand. I can handle dumb protags, I can handle dumb plots. I can't handle authors having dumb characters/plots and then trying to justify it as though it makes sense.

One Manga tried to gaslight me (the reader) into thinking the MC who got kicked out of his party was a jerk because he comes back a bit pissy after a "Misunderstanding". Meanwhile we spend a trillion chapters showing everyone in his party was a dickhead that almost got him killed several times over and now the ring leader of being dickheads is macking up on the girl he liked but we're supposed to pretend it's the other guy overreacting. Listen, author...I'm not stupid. There's a reason your manga got axed before it hit 35 chapters, my guy.

 

[Maxmordon113]

I started reading "Now that we draw" because I thought the artstyle was cute and the concept was interesting. However, the more I read, the more I hated the Male lead due to his nature of panicking constantly, never getting anything straight and just being a pain to look at all the time. That is the main reason, but the other is because I have a feeling that this story will drag on and on so I dropped.

The only other manga I put in dropped is "Hope you are happy lemon", which has the same issue of characters not communicating, plot going nowhere.

 

[5hijima]

I started reading "Now that we draw" because I thought the artstyle was cute and the concept was interesting. However, the more I read, the more I hated the Male lead due to his nature of panicking constantly, never getting anything straight and just being a pain to look at all the time. That is the main reason, but the other is because I have a feeling that this story will drag on and on so I dropped.

The only other manga I put in dropped is "Hope you are happy lemon", which has the same issue of characters not communicating, plot going nowhere.

i feel like dropping "hope you're happy , lemon" too , for the same reasons
ill read it in an attempt, just to see if it does get or go anywhere

 

[kohelemon]

1. RAVAGES OF TIME: Dropped because after rereading the 30 first chapters, it didn't feel too interesting. First time I read a multifaceted story and was not impressed.
2. VAGABOND: First five chapters in and I could tell where things were going, and didn't like it.
3. RECORD OF RAGNAROK: Lost interest after the first fight, I like a bit more substance with my battles.
4. KARATE APOCALYPSE: Meh...

 

[Jairo481]

I personally use that list to save all mangas "dropped" by their author or TL that way I can check up on them every few months (some of them have crawl out of their graves thankfully)