Okay, I admit that this is one of my most click bait-style headings so far, since the word ‘Abandoned’ is probably a little too strong for some of these entries.
And so here’s the usual disclaimer – I’m not ruling out one day returning to any of these shows… one of which at least I am 99.9% certain I will finish.
Sonny Boy
Ideally I want to come back to this when (now that?) it’s finished, so I can watch more episodes back-to-back, since having a break between each episode at the beginning wasn’t working for me.
I think I’ve seen the first three, and despite being hooked on the premise and the unanswered questions, and enjoying the visual aspects, I don’t think I’m actually interested in any of the characters.
The Case Study of Vanitas
Might return to this one day as I was enjoying the world, but I found Vanitas too annoying for a lead character.
Once he upgraded from being just annoying to ‘dude that commits sexual assault at the first opportunity’ I groaned and not only because it didn’t play like a flawed character who will one day change, and seemed more designed to fall rather neatly within the ‘cheap thrills’ category.
The Detective Is Already Dead
Nearly finished the first episode.
Might try to take a second look one day, as the premise caught my attention to begin with.
TEXHNOLYZE
99.9% sure I will finish this sometime during 2021.
I’m six or so episodes in and I was enjoying SO much about the anime. It is also just a tiny bit familiar too, as though I’d seen some of it a long time ago.
But whether my memory is any good or not is an issue I’ll put to one side for now, however, because I’ve been able to pinpoint what made me pause my viewing: for whatever reason, I’m just not in the mood for dystopian/bleak stuff at the moment.
I will be sooner or later, but it’s been over a month since I started and I haven’t returned just yet.
How about you? Seen/planning to see/abandoned any of these?
The Review Heap 
I’ve only seen one of these anime and it’s not surprising which one it is. For starters, I wanted to say “WHY?!”, but I had to chill out. Hahaha! It’s all good. I respect if you don’t want to watch any dystopian stuff at the moment because Texhnolyze gets very dark later on.
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Haha! Yeah, I know I’ll return to it when I’ve got the room for it – fascinating first episode where it just holds back on dialogue for the first half!
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Thanks for appreciating the humor. The first episode is one of the most memorable for me and that is one of the reasons why. The first words of dialogue in Texhnolyze are “I’m listening” by Onishi which I find to be poetic and metaphorical.
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It is, yeah! I was also fascinated to see how my interest and sympathy swings somewhat between Ichise, Onishi and Yoshii (at this early point).
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Nice. There are certainly a good amount of twists and turns throughout that series.
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