>needing more than one episode/chapter to tell if a series

>>161770775
By this logic Owari no Seraph and Aldnoah.Zero were great shows

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>>161770952
>Owari no Seraph and Aldnoah.Zero were great shows
Agreed.

>needing more than reading the summary to tell if a series is good
What is this, amateur hour?

>>161770775
>needing more than a poster and credits to tell if a series is good

>>161770775
I guess Sword Art Online really is a nice anime

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>>161770775
Remember this?

>>161771058
i remember dropping it LOL

>>161771053
>>161770952
>he thought the first episodes were good

Brainlets detected

>>161771058
Never seen a show go downhill so fast.

>>161770775
>needing more than a meme to tell if op is a faggot

>>161770775
I can drop an anime after the first episode.

Even if i like the first few episodes I'll still drop it if there's something i don't like about it

>>161771127
>not liking legitimately great introductory episodes
See this is why elitism should die.

>Triggers and Gainaxes production is trash now

>>161771189
There isn't a single good Gainax or Trigger show with a bad first episode.

I once dropped an anime on episode 11

>>161770775
shitposting is for brainlets*

>>161771182
The way they handled exposition in AZ's episode alone should've tipped you off it was shit.

SAO is decent in the first 3 episodes.

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>>161771182
SAO first episode was literally shit and full of plothole / contradictory

Kill yourself

>>161771058
Everyone was so fucking mad after the second episode.

>>161771189
The way those studios do their budget the first episodes are usually some of the best. You stupid or something?

>>161770775
I dropped GTO 40 episodes in because I was bored of the whole female student blackmails him because he's a scumbag and asspulls his way out of the situation theme

>>161770775
This doesn't work. Look at Madoka and Stein's gate and TTGL

Literally all of those had a pivotal moment in the later episodes.

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>needing more than seeing if /a/ hates it to tell if a series is good

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>>161771232
I dropped Golden Time at episode 10. I sometimes wonder if I should finish it but I heard it got even more stupid later on.

>>161771341
TTGL was good even at the first few episodes. They were pretty much just monster of the week but the art style and humor / character development / interaction more than made up for it

>>161771366
Agreed. Boku no Pico is a great anime.

>>161771341
What do you mean about TTGL. It gets the blood pumping as soon as they find Lagann

>>161770775
dropping shows is for brainlets

>>161771341
>plotfag

>>161770775
Typically you can tell with a screenshot or like, under 60 seconds of watching. Watching shit episodes is something people only do to pad their MAL account

>>161771402
>>161771418
I remember watching it weekly with /a/ lots of people dropped it before kamina died. Then it became a cult classic where entire pages were filled with whatever happened. It was great and quite the ride. It went from just being watchable to GOAT

lots of GAR posting though in the early episodes

>>161771341

But you can tell they are good episodes. A good episode isn't just something that gets you hooked or has to be something that makes you mindblown. You can tell if a show is going to generally have competent writing or not from one episode. A good writer wouldn't let the first episode above all else be bad. The base has to be strong.

Madoka, Steins;Gate, and TTGL all had good direction and writing the first episode. Sure, it's not guaranteed that a good or even great first episode leads to a great show. TTGL could have ended up being episodic and not achieving anything too meaningful. Steins;Gate could have been a time travel story with tons of plotholes and random shock moments. Madoka could have just been really weird and soulless. But the rest of the show's quality usually won't deviate too much from the beginning, and any great show will definitely have a good first episode.

>>161771294
>>161771282
>muh plothole
>muh exposition
Bleh. What a fucking about it? You've not explained anything bad about it.

>>161771376
TADA
Also OP is right, plot twists and unexpected events in general don't make a series good if it was bad up to that point and you should be able to call it quits in episode 1 if you want.

>>161771609
The exposition was boring and unnatural. There's no point in watching an anime that botches that crucial element.

You really can tell quite quickly if you'll like it or not though.
Since you can pay attention to the direction, the framing, and the kind of shit that goes on in the episode. Unless the producers and directors change (lucky star) it isn't going to change much in feel.

Even for stuff you don't like you can objectively look for quality in terms of animation, dialogue, etc.

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>not watching multiple episodes at 1.5x speed at once

>>161771662
Please explain further. I want to further my own knowledge and decide why I objectively have a shit taste.

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>>161770775
>Not judging anime by the key visuals

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>>161770775
>not watching the first five episodes to gauge a series' quality

>>161771341
>Any of these shows are good

>>161771838
Honestly it's hard not to do it when you're looking for some specific type of show. I've missed plenty of good series due to this bad habit and I still haven't learned.

I think that 3 episodes rule works well for originals and anime based on products, like card games.
For manga, ln, and vn, synopsis and one episode should be more than enough.

>what's occult academy?

>>161770775
>needing more than a glassreflection or gikku review

>>161771852
Imagine being so casual you need to watch over 100 minutes of something to tell it's shit.

>>161771022
>needing more than a title to tell if a series is good

>believing any anime to be good
I'll never understand anyone who doesn't just consume all media produced anywhere at any time

>>161771058
what was wrong with it?

>>161771987
Imagine being so lpeb s to not desire more information before disregardinging a searrsies

>>161771852
>not watching the first 13 episodes to gauge a series quality

You can't really tell if something is good that quickly, because they often put good shit at the start, run out of ideas half way through, or just botch the ending.
You should be able to tell if something is bad pretty quickly though.

>not knowing if a show is good or not just by the title
I pity you brainlets.

>>161772225
Having a stroke, buddy?

>>161772225
Why would you want more information on things you don't like? Just watch something else.

>Needing more than a PV at the end of another series to judge quality

>>161770775
>Not watching the entire series even if it's terrible, then writing a long, poorly abbreviated critique on a Chinese cartoon image forum

>>161771341
TTGL was shit from the first episode.

Madoka and Steins;Gate were great from the first episode.

Plot is not the determining factor of a show's quality. Execution is.

>needing more than a youtube first impressions video to tell if a series is good

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>>161770775

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>people in this thread actually watch anime youtubers

>>161770952
Owari no Seraph was pretty good in comparison to the rest of the garbage airing the same year.

>>161770775
True. Garbage anime are obvious 5 minutes in.

Kado is an absolute prime example of a show going from great to a travesty in the span of 2 episodes. You really can never tell how things will go until you see the whole show.

Anything less is just an uninformed and useless opinion

>>161770775
Not watching bad shows, to know how to spot a bad show within 1 episode and save 40 minutes for workng thru back ligs.

>>161770775
Tip: it's not the third episode that'll tip you off, it's the third to last episode that'll show just how shitty a show gets.

>>161772744
> workng thru back ligs.
Anon are you ok?

>all these useless brainlets missing the fucking point

What OP is saying is - if an anime is shit at episode one it will remain shit. The chance of that changing by the end of episode 3 is highly unlikely.

I sure as hell haven't experienced it in my 18 years of watching Taiwanese moving caricatures.
So I agree with him completely.

Three episode rule is for morons. Even a full ep is pushing it, I know if I'm going to enjoy an anime 3 minutes into the very first episode.

Considering how fucking formulaic anime is, the only way you need more than one episode or a synopsis is if you're a newshit.

>not judging anime solely on how attractive the girls are

>>161770775
>needing more than one glance at the title to tell if a series is good

>dropping anime
what are you gonna watch, young sheldon?

>>161770775
>see promotional articles
>no waifu material
>its shit

Are you idiots so dumb that you have to watch something to know if theres something of worth in there?

>watching anime

I judge a series based off second-hand descriptions on /a/.

I have never actually watched any anime.

>>161773324
3 episode rule is a dumb meme, but a lot of shows start off lukewarm and get better after they're past introductions and exposition, especially character driven stories. I guess you and OP wouldn't know though.

>>161774203
If an anime doesn't have a good hook there's a high chance it's shit. It's the first thing you learn in any writing class whether it's for cinema, theater or literature.

If you can't even get the most basic prerequisite of a good narrative down, why should I give you the benefit of a doubt for fucks sake?

>>161770775
Gungrave.

>>161770775
>needing more than the anime's source material to tell if a series is good

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>>161770775
Thanks to this shitty logic we get more and more first episode spoilers.

>>161770775
so utena is a generic shoujo show with nothing special about it
okay

>>161774664
>first episode spoilers.
>spoiler

That word doesn't mean what you think it does.

>>161771662
Please elaborate

>not knowing if an anime is good purely by the VA casting

>>161770775
Go watch the first 3 episodes of Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse.

>>161770952
The first season of A/Z was great though.

>>161776100
All three were shit, just like the rest of the show. What of it?

>ITT people hiding behind the pretense of "intelligence" or "intellectualism" to justify their judging a show without having watched it
This is an epic /v/ thread if you ask me.

What's the fastest you've dropped a show?

>>161776314
Yeah first season was like 8.5/10 yet the second was like a fucking 2.5/10

>>161776438
100 microseconds

>>161776438
350mph

>>161776438
I know I've dropped shows before finishing the first episode many times but I can't remember which ones they were or at what point I dropped them anymore.

Probably about 3 to 5 minutes into the plot.

>>161770775
Anime in general is for brainlets though, mangas are the superior intellectual choice

>>161776438
Before Serval catches Kaban in episode 1 of Kemono Friends

What about a show where the first 2 episodes are total shit but the third episode is so good that it redeems the entire show?

>>161776916
There is no such show

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>>161771294
>Plotholes in the first episode
what?

>not watching the recap episode before starting a new anime
Best moments Youtube videos are also acceptable

>>161777055
>not choosing anime based on meme compilations

>>161776438
5 seconds after the OP finished. That's how long it took for the first accidental pervert scene to happen.

>>161771058
The first episode was over dramatic edgy bullshit.

>not knowing the quality of an anime by the assistant who gets coffee foreveryone
plebs

the only way the three episode rule makes any sense is if you have zero life obligations and/or zero other hobbies.

>>161777055
I only watch the shows people recommend to me on Reddit, so I don't have to waste my time maybe watching a bad YouTube video

>>161770775
I can usually tell by the promotional images if its going to be good.

OP is so simple-minded and lamebrained he fails to spot the problem with only giving new series one episode to prove themselves.

MOST of the time, you can indeed assess an anime's quality by one episode, but the rule of 3 makes itself necessarry precisely because of those shows which are the exception to the norm.

Only low powerlevel faggots can't name at least a dozen series with great first EPs and disappointing everything else, and the opposite: series with slow starts which improve as they go.

Nobody spared Madoka a second glance until ep 3 happened.

>>161777105
>not by the brand of underwear worn by the CEO of the publisher

>>161770775
3 eps is a good rule to drop something if it starts getting shit, but if the first episode is shit to start, yeah, 3 eps is excessive to make a decision or not.

The 3 episode rule was extremely jarring for me when watching Kemono Friends desu. The first episode was great, but the next two were kinda boring compared to the first. Glad I forced myself to continue for Serval and Kaban, since everything after Ep5 was a blast.

>>161777160
>Nobody spared Madoka a second glance until ep 3 happened
Newfag detected. It had a very notable pedigree of collaborators, no one was going to pass up an anime by shaft with character designs by Ume and music by Yuki Kajura. Not to mention the first ep's visuals were very striking and it's not like Mami's death was the first hint it wasn't a normal Mahou Shoujo. Frankly, no one was surprised. The flags were all there.

>>161774606
Baccano.

>>161776438
I dropped Hand Shakers in two minutes because it literally made me nauseous.

The first 20 episodes of Gintama sucked. Hell, it didn't get really hilarious until the second year.

>watched more than 20 anime unlike OP
>most anime the first episode is boring
>watch later episode
>clever twist and good character and plot developments not only makes the series good but also redeems the slow first part of the series

3 episode rule is a meme but not for the reason you are talking.

>>161776438
First episode of SAO. Granted I read the LN before, but starting off with the edgy and retarded beta/cheater shit made me nope out.

>>161771058
it wasn't bad

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>>161771732
holy fucking shit anon chill the fuck out

>>161772126
needing anything to tell if a series is good

I usually just watch the first episodes, pick what I like and wait to see which other fanbase is having the most fun mid season.

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>>161770775
normalfag meme
>>161771529
Tripfags

cursed thread

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>>161771732
>bd
>480p

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>>161770775
>needing more than the cover
You only need to see some fag and a group of girls with some shitty VN-tier character designs and you know it's pure garbage.

>>161771548
>Steins;Gate
i fucking hated the 1st 6 episodes of steins. Okabe is annoying as fuck. i ended up enjoying the show afterwards.

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>watch Mayoiga/The Lost Village with my roommates
>first three episodes, we think this is pretty decent
>this happens at the end of an episode
>only goes downhill from here
>more than half the characters, even a few the intro focuses on, aren't even important
The worst part is we joked about a bunch of shit happening that ended up becoming true, like Koharun being the true villain. There were so many obvious cliches too. I was hoping for some kind of Baccano kind of vibe with having a lot of various, interesting characters, but even the characters themselves stopped giving a shit about their own plot by the second half.

>>161770775
>brainlet

Back to your containment thread.

>>161776438
I dropped Isekai Smartphone at the OP.

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>>161779194
>Such blanket statement retardation.

>>161781337
Are you inferring that Konosuba is not pure garbage

>>161780875
I miss those threads.

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>>161781370
>Doesn't even know the difference between implying and inferring.
>Calls Konosuba pure garbage.

nigger if you cant tell a show is garbage within minutes then you're retarded

>2017
>Not telling how good an anime is going to be based off how bad the previous season shows in the same genre were.
You have to see every single colored in cell since man evolved on Mars to post here.

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>>161781469
Now that's just embarrassing

Dropping or continuing a show depends on my humor at the time. I've dropped shit I don't even remember the name 15 seconds into the first episode and also dragged myself through other shit like Glasslip. I dragged myself through the first GARBAGE half of GuP so I could shitpost about it, but by the end of the anime I was loving it.

>>161780225
Yeah but is it worth it wasting 2 hours of your life to watch an anime you hate? Just to wait for it to pick up later? It's just a tv show, it's not like you'll gain anything valuable.

>>161770775
>normalfags memes are now allowed on /a/
What happened?

>>161771182
>muh elitism
Fuck off. Go back to MAL

series get worse over time
see: Akagi

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>>161781806
>Yeah but is it worth it wasting 2 hours of your life to watch an anime you hate?
That's a question for the philosophers buddy. My answer is that I don't expect every hour of my life to be enjoyable but I think if the time spent deepens my appreciation of other things it's well spent. As you watch more anime your appreciation of the medium as a whole deepens, so even watching mediocre series can be worthwhile, in moderation of course. I also think ignoring things I don't immediately like will only deprive myself of good experiences in the long term. For myself, I didn't enjoy my time with Urusei Yatsura but I am glad I completed it because it has deepened my appreciation of a lot of other anime I've watched since. I guess you could say I value understanding more so than enjoyment.

I think you probably disagree though so here's some anime tiddies to make up for whatever time was spent wasted reading this post.

>>161772607
No, it was a 4/10 and the average quality of anime that year was like 4.7.

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>>161777160
If an episode gets better later, people will talk about how it gets better later.
There's no need to subject yourself to 3 episodes of shit when you have people to do that for you.

>>161770775
You can usually tell the quality of the show by a cover or visual alone.

>not being able to tell the quality of a show by the first three letters of the title

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>>161783168
r8

>>161783388
Using string substitution wildcards is cheating

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>>161783520
here's an easier one then

>>161770775
>Needing cognitive functions to tell if a series is good.

>>161770952
>Owari no Seraph ep1
I had a real bad feeling about it from halfway through the first episode. But I soldiered on, and lo and behold the entire series was dull, lame shit.
Yup, you can really tell from episode one.

>>161772580
>Anime youtubers do exist

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>>161774052
You have acquired a level of /a/ superior to /a/... Seriously though what the fuck are you doing here? Do you at least read manga?

>>161776438
Centaur no nayami at the very moment i missclicked the first episode

>>161776438
Never

>>161771341
All of them are trash so it's shitty counter-argument.

>>161774587
Fuck off, most of the shows with a hook are trash.

>>161783591
anime sounds retarded

>>161770775
Your shitty life is a meme OP.

>>161772436
>TTGL was shit from the first episode.
and it gets good later

>Madoka was great from the first episode
no it wasn't

>>161785659
i come here just for the reaction images

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>>161776567
Unbelievably this.
I highly recommend A/Z to any one with the caveat of stopping at season 1.

>>161776916
Go on. Share with the class

>>161771232
dropped eureka seven on 40
fight me

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>Not watching the first three cours of each anime that airs
Being a timelet sure is suffering... guess it comes from being poor and having to work.

>>161776438
About 5 seconds into that Eva@School abortion.

>>161791188
Dumb frogposter

>>161770775
In most cases I only need two except for SoL with yuribait like Urara.