For most of the first half of Fall 2024, a number of anime have begun to stand out on the MyAnimeList tracking site, but not always for positive reasons. Some series after airing, despite accumulating a high number of active viewers, also have more drop-offs on the platform, as users decide whether to continue watching each title of this season or not.
This is understandable, since most fans apply the famous “four episode rule”, as a practice that requires waiting until the fourth episode to make a final decision on whether to continue or not. give up a movie.
The “four episode rule” has become an unofficial rule in the anime community, especially on watching platforms like MyAnimeList.
The logic behind this rule is very simple. Generally, an anime will introduce its ideas, initial developments, and main characters in the first four episodes. As a result, at this point, many fans feel they have enough information to determine whether a series continues to hold their interest, or if they want to move on to another series.
This practice, faithfully followed with each new anime season, also has a significant impact on the drop statistics of popular anime titles.
To put it more simply, for an anime, after watching the first 4 episodes but you feel it's not interesting enough for you to continue watching, that's when the word 'drop' is used.
Below is the ranking of the highest dropped anime of Fall 2024:
20. Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles season 2 – 971 dropeos.
19. Negative Positive Angler – 989 dropeos.
18. Mecha-Ude: Mechanical Arms – 1043 dropeos.
17. Nina the Starry Bride – 1045 dropeos.
16. A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School! – 1214 dropeos.
15. If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student – 1296 dropeos.
14. I'll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History – 1377 dropeos.
13. Good Bye, Dragon Life – 1395 dropeos.
12. The Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World's Greatest Clan – 1410 dropeos.
11. Demon Lord, Retry! R – 1414 dropeos.
10. Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii – 1420 dropeos.
9. Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister – 1431 dropeos
8. The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest – 1432 dropeos.
7. 365 Days to the Wedding – 1434 dropeos
6. Let This Grieving Soul Retire – 1503 dropeos
5. Dandadan – 1584 dropeos
4. Loner Life in Another World – 1972 dropeos
3. You are Ms. Servant – 2050 dropeos
2. Blue Lock season 2 – 2272 dropeos
1. Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror – 6333 dropeos
If you look at it in a positive way, the fact that an anime series is dropped does not necessarily only bring negative feelings. This is also an opportunity for audiences to search and discover new works that may be more suitable to their current interests.
