The one big but minor thing that can make me actually give up on something I otherwise like is the art style.

Now, I have a very wide variety of styles that I can appreciate, but, for instance, when it's something that's supposed to be drop-dead beautiful, super serious, shiny, polished, etc., etc., but the anatomy is absolutely nightmarish, it tends to break my suspension of disbelief. Code Geass was one I dropped for this reason. I was enjoying the story, and I LOVED the way the faces - especially the eyes - were drawn...but I could not get over the noodle people look everyone had going on when the camera zoomed out.

Most of the other things, if I'm enjoying the premise enough, I can tolerate...but damn will I revise the hell out of it in fanworks. A few examples of pet peeves, with things that I watched in spite of them:

‣ Stagnant characters. Gundam Seed is a major example of this. Let me be the first to say, I ADORED the character Kira COULD and SHOULD have been. But then, we find out, Fukuda writes about like Stephenie Meyer in that he makes his main character a shameless self-insert and changes major plot plans on a whim based on fan reactions and his mood. The result was, not only was Kira cheated out of character development - he remained the same irresponsible little shit he was in the beginning of the series because we can't ~tarnish his innocence~ because ignorance and innocence are CLEARLY the same thing - but so was VERY NEARLY EVERYONE WHO HAD A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF INTERACTION WITH HIM.

...sadly, by the time I realized that Kira was only ever going to be responsible when it was convenient to make him look good, I was too hooked on the story to give it up. So instead, as I rewatch it and rage about What Could Have Been, I have begun conceptualizing a live-action fan remake. It will be the third that I write. The other two will be mentioned here as well as the things they are based on also have major pet peeve elements...

‣ The mirror twin of the above: "Hello, my name is _____, I'm 12 years old, and this is my Sonic the Hedgehog OC!" Or, disproportionate character development. Red Ranger gets all the cool stuff, everyone else is Worf. Bleach is a HUGE culprit here and I blame my brother for making me like it. But dammit, the concept is so fun, and the universe is so full of potential, and there are so many great characters...just, only one of them ever gets to...actually do anything useful. He and I are doing a live-action remake of that, too, because that universe has way too much potential to just piss away like that.

‣ Flashback abuse. I have no problem with flashbacks to backstory - sometimes they can be poorly done, but that's a minor annoyance at worst. What I hate is flashbacks to things that happened FIVE MINUTES AGO. Cluster Edge was a series I loved in spite of this, but it was painfully obvious that the animation budget for that series was roughly a pocket full of change and a case of beer. I'll be damned if I'm not going to go back and edit out all the pointless flashbacks - which probably comprised about a third of the entire length of the series - before I watch it again, let alone show it to anyone else.

‣ Passing the Idiot Ball because it's convenient to the plot. This is probably one of my worst pet peeves; it rarely ruins a story for me because it tends to be short-lived but when it happens, oh boy does it ever make me rage - especially when it's easily avoidable. For example, I am rewatching Gundam 00 with several friends and in one of the episodes we watched today, a group of possible allies, possible enemies (turned out to be enemies, surprise) boards the protagonist faction's ship...and are promptly allowed to do whatever they want. In fact, the person who explicitly gave one of them permission to wander around the ship unsupervised was the brilliant, perfectionist tactical forecaster, i.e., someone who should have had a lot more foresight than that. This character proceeds to break into the supercomputer that controls everything about the protagonists' organization, and is discovered by the character who is the (at this time, very strict) custodian of said supercomputer...who questions this stranger for about 2 seconds, receives no answers (no, really, she just says "It's a secret~!" as her answer for everything), and then lets her go without another word.

The exact same resulting plot could have been achieved in a way that actually makes sense with minimal effort. Since they have access to this supercomputer, if they had been detained, they could just let themselves out, and even create an emergency to distract the crew while they made their escape (in fact, a perfect excuse already happens within that episode). But no. That would make too much sense.

...this is the other series I'm doing a fan rewrite of. This is one of the scenes I just rewrote. Can you tell.

There are other things, but they're less pet peeves and annoyances, and more...things that actually genuinely cause me distress on a much more than "fairly irritated" level. These are things which, CAN make me stop reading/watching a thing because they are actually harmful and I do not need that in my life nor do I need to be supporting it. But sadly, even a lot of things that mean well play into it sometimes. When that happens, all I can do is make fan works to correct it. For instance:

‣ Double standards; e.g., men can be anything, but women can only be perfect tomboyish-attitude-yet-girlishly-sexy badass, or cutesy submissive perfect wife arm candy. Sadly because this is so widespread it would be hard to avoid everything that has it, but that doesn't mean I don't hate it and when it is too exaggerated, I will drop a thing. Dear media: More Harley Quinn types and other female antivillains, antiheroes, and everything in between, please and thank you.

Though, gendered double standards are the most common ones but far from the only ones that make me want to flip tables.

‣ Queerbaiting/villainous queercoding/general mistreatment of LGBT characters. This is where my love-hate relationship with Gundam 00 gets intense. They had, a first in the franchise, a major character who was canonically about as queer as a three-dollar bill. It was confirmed that he was intersex, nonbinary, or (most likely) both. It was confirmed that he was transgender (it is stated in no uncertain terms that the state of his physical body vs. his gender identity is important to the ship's doctor). It is confirmed multiple times over that he, a person who leans toward the masculine end of the spectrum, had romantic feelings for another main character who was male, and in fact this led to positive character development for him. You can see where this would be really exciting to me.

But then, I'm GUESSING Bandai decided "Whoooa, hold the phone, we're being waaay too progressive here; it's going to alienate the hateful basement-dwelling troglodytes who buy a lot of model kits. ...what do you MEAN Gundam is supposed to have an ideology of peace? Don't give me that! MODEL KIT SALES!!11" And then they proceeded to introduce a large group of villains, closely linked to the main character mentioned above, all similarly queer; being one of them was supposed to make you evil, apparently. And they started shoving the most horribly forced different-sex pairings on most of the characters who were shown to be good.

This series did great things too, hence why I stuck with it and still am active in the fandom for it, but I'm not going to lie, I felt pretty betrayed. And the joke is on me, because now as I write my remake, I have to get a bunch of the very same models that Bandai sold me out to sell, so I can film the battle scenes. It's a good thing I like them anyway.

‣ You know what, why don't I just say "showing the author's harmful biases" in general and call it a day?