What do you do if you read the first chapter of a series and don't like it?

Question: You read 1st chapter of new series and don't like it, now what?
Choices:
I drop the series - votes: 3200 (20.9%)
I'll try a few more chapters. Maybe it gets better? - votes: 9603 (62.6%)
Go get someone else's opinion before continuing - votes: 835 (5.4%)
I'll finish what I start. Keep reading everything! - votes: 438 (2.9%)
This never happens. I do my research before even reading the 1st chapter - votes: 1257 (8.2%)
There were 15333 total votes.
The poll ended: June 25th 2011

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Second option. It takes at least a few chapters for me usually before I decide to continue on or stop reading it.

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Second option. It takes at least a few chapters for me usually before I decide to continue on or stop reading it.

Yup. Same here.

I don't expect mangaka's to have perfected a story in its first chapter

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second.
but
it depends on how bad it is

when you buy the magazine you just keep reading it every week/month
but if i only read it online i probably only gonna give it a couple of chapters

I give the series a few chapters, maybe a volume, to see whether I continue to read or not.

Unless I can't handle the art. If the art's no good, bye bye.

I hate above all else dropping something i started that apply for everything so of course manga is included.

I mostly read completed scanlated manga since i hate starting to read ongoing manga when i don't know when they will finish.

So i finish everything i started no matter how bad i think the manga is that's why i normally don't read lot of manga with 10+ chapter unleast i know i will love it.

I have dropped some series after the first chapter because it really isn't my kind of series. I don't do it that often since I usually take a while to start a new series but every once in a while something just doesn't work for me and I'm not that interested in waiting for it to settle in.

Not all series work out for me. 🙄

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drop the series if i don't like the art.
wait for more chapters to see how the story goes on.
so between first and second opt

i usually give up on a series after reading the first volume

I usually keep reading unless it's bad.

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If the first chapter is bad, I'll try to keep reading until I've at least finished the volume, then decided if I want to keep going after that. So far though I only have 2 series that I dropped, so it doesn't happen often.

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i read at least 20~30 chapters to make my decision
and i never drop complete series with less than 6 volumes.

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I'll usually keep reading for at least a volume, unless there's some element that I just really dislike.

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Oh, good question. For me, unless the first chapter is really terrible (the art is terrible or the story includes someting I really don't like), I'll read several more chapters (at least the whole first volume) before I decide.
It's because usually, I need several chapters before I can really get into the story, so after only one chapter, I don't feel like I'm ready to judge it yet. Also, when reading a story that's dull, I'm often plagued by the thought, "But what if in the next chapter it gets better, and I chose to quit right before it gets good? That'd be such a shame," and so I feel like I just can't give up yet. I drop it when I get to the point where I dread reading another chapter... but that may take fifty chapters or so.

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sometimes i read forty something chapter till i stop...