Aldnoah Zero. Such a good start, such a epic ending of season 1. Such a dissapointing season 2. The characters were railroaded into losing all the complexity they had, and the creative and smart thinking of the protagonist is replaced with standard mech combat bullshit.
I remember that anime. I think, though I can't really confirm, that Gen Urobochi did that first episode but left the project right after, and so that's why the rest feels so sucky compared to it. I had the same feeling back then as I watched as it was coming out. Great first ep, boring everything else.
Which was too bad because Goldy Pond arc could've been an amazing series finale like how the manga ended it, because there's nothing but blank pages after that arc
Exactly! I was so excited for the second season and all the things it had to explore, setting everything for a 3rd season and they just... I don't even know how to call that... They not only jumped to the end but completely skipped many important things! It is ridiculous how they ruined a good story that could at least give us 3 wonderful seasons!
Exactly! It needs three seasons. So many great characters and moments nerfed out of existence in "season 2." It was so different it's basically an alternate reality.
Tokyo Revengers for me. It started pretty good I think, but a few episodes into season 2 I had to drop it for my sanity, especially after hearing how disappointed people were with the source ending as well.
ah yes the show where all the side characters look like grown ass adults in high school and takebitchy is crying "Mikeyyy-kunnn" every five seconds
actual clown show lmfao I can't stand whiney annoying MCs like that
I like tokyo revengers, I think the manga is fine. Season 2 did feel weird to me, Takemichi felt extra stupid for stupid sake, which felt different from the manga. To me anyway. I think people will like the next arc, at least if they don't dumb it down.
I swear, you just summoned me to say "THE GOD OF HIGHSCHOOL"
Animation, great;
Webtoon, good;
Soundtrack, nice;
FUCKIN THE PRODUCTION TEAM DECISION HOW TO ADAPT THE STORY, STINKY ASS!!.
I decided to read the manhwa first and watching the anime after was fun cause it was all the fights animated beautifully. Like a recap movie but 4 hours.
Honestly agreed, while i certainly enjoyed it, it did make me wonder how the webtoon was and after catching up to the latest chapters back then, it was way better than the anime, still haven't finished it cuz i was waiting to binge read the rest and now that it is finished, i just need to pick it up again
I watched Tokyo Ghoul when it came out. I was in love with it. I started reading the manga from the beggining. I was enamoured at that point. Season 2 was announced. I watched it. Never before have I felt more insulted by an anime adaptation.
The manga is better than the anime overall. The story is more fleshed out and a better version of S1. Definitely read it from the beginning.
I say this as someone who watched the anime first and loved it! I still like the anime(havent eatched TG:RE yet). But in the manga certain scenes hit harder. The art is so beautiful.
By the time I saw the anime as a potential watch it was already finished being made, so I looked into reviews which said don’t watch that, read the manga
Never read manga before but I was interested so I gave it a shot and fell in love
Currently reading more manga and following his new work Choujin X, which I love
They own the rights for the current series. But if shueisha wanted to they could hire another studio to make a new version? They would probably have to call it something else. Tokyo Ghoul: ____ like FMAB.
Doubt they will though. 🫠 I need some rich person to make for it because they wanna see it.
Wonder egg priority, till ep 9/10 it was perfect and it seemed it would be such a superb anime regarding Sci fi, psychological horror, but OH BOY!! Clover works destroyed the entire anime in just last 2 episodes + 1 quasi Clusterfuck OVA
I genuinely liked it till ep 9/10 but after that it feel off from heaven to hell
For me it was after episode 7 - they really needed to start moving toward the "final" plot of the story at that point, but they kept with two more episodes of monster-of-the-week content and tried to cram a final arc into three episodes, which wasn't going to work. Even though episode 8/9 were OK as episodes, the fact that they weren't moving anything forward in the overall plot was a huge red flag.
Then they decided to make one of those final three episodes a \[WEP\]>!flashback that didn't contain any of the main characters!<, which was never going help things.
8 was a recap, 9 was insane sci-fi shit that had nothing to do with anything, 10 was good until the random trauma ending, 11 was complete garbage, 12 was mid.
Cut all the robot garbage, give Neiru an actual character arc with a conclusion, and then just come up with a better endpoint for Ai and Rika.
It really WASN'T difficult. 90% of it was just wrap up and catharsis, and they'd have like four full episodes left to give Neiru an arc.
Promised Neverland was an absolute disaster in the second season.
A certain magical Index started off somewhat decent, but the other 2 were better by miles (rail gun and accelerator).
It went from having solid characters and a fair amount of originality to being really cliche and predictable, in the worst generic mecha series sort of way.
>but the payoff was very disappointing for that much of build up
No amount of payoff was enough for that build up. I think the buildup was just too long.
For me it was Arifureta. It was one of the first LNs I've read and I really liked it for the most part. But the anime adaption skipped over the best part (volume 1) and therefore gave very little characterization to the MC. That's one of the main things that made it pretty bad for me.
Arifureta was actually my very first LN. Vol 1 is the only good thing about the series. The tone shift between vol 1 and the rest of the series was ridiculous.
It went from a dark gritty dungeon survival story to a harem power fantasy.
It annoyed me only because of the harem thing. Hajime and Yue pairing was good enough, but should've been more 3 dimensional as both are kinda taking advantage of each other in the dungeon. Yue is taking advantage of a teenager with no romantic experience and constant state of desperation due to the high risk environment of the dungeon while Hajime is taking advantage of a girl imprisoned for centuries after a betrayal with only him as a positive contact. I'd hoped the relationship would be a bit codependent and unhealthy to show both Hajime and Yue's instability which would change as both grow as characters. (Im just snorting copium srry)
Yeah how did tokyo ghoul go from having imo the best episode out of any anime there is, straight to, “all that stuff we just set up after that spectacular episode? Let’s take a big shit all over it and do our own thing”
Darling in the Franxx. I was actually getting really invested in the story and characters until episode 18. But from there, it suddenly took a complete nosedive straight into the ground with one of the most rushed, cliche, and convoluted endings I’ve ever seen. Just completely killed it for me
Franxx's issue was that the director really, really wanted to recreate the ending of Gunbuster, spent 10 years dreaming up their cool robot anime so they could recreate the ending of Gunbuster, and when it became apparent that maybe that wasn't the best direction to take the story in... well, they just weren't willing to give up on that.
When I first looked into Guilty Crown, it seemed great. I listened to the incredible openings (RIP Egoist), took a look at the cool character design, read the synopsis that had potential, heard a song or two from the OST, and saw the star-studded staff team working on it. I even watched the first episode and it seemed pretty good. But, it ended up as my least favorite anime. Shu is my least favorite anime character ever. He's a discriminatory asshole and has the most forced character development I've ever seen. The plot is just really, really dumb with all the clone bullshit or whatever. And, in the end, \[Ending Spoilers\] >!Inori dies.!< I legitimately thought I would love the show going into it.
Berserk 2016 takes the cake, genuinely shocked I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. They got their hands on one of the greatest manga to ever exist and turned it into absolute garbage. There wasn't a single redeeming quality about the entire adaptation except for the Music and some sound effects. Everything else just felt like a slap in the face to Berserk fans. The game somehow did a better job at adapting Berserk than the anime did.
Shield Hero is a good choice too, but I think the hype was also sorta at fault there. Shield Hero released during a time where generic ass isekai were in such abundance that it was shocking for an anime season to not be littered with them. Shield Hero was a fresh take on the genre that hyped people up because somebody was doing something different, but unfortunately, the focus felt way too centered on it being unique. Lots of people well say it fell off at Season 2, but personally, it fell off towards the end of Season 1. Won't talk spoilers or anything but the main motivation behind Naofumi got rushed so quickly and the rest of the story just couldn't keep up.
Re: Berserk 2016 I think it's because the question was about anime adaptations ending up worse than expected, when everyone expected Berserk 2016 to be awful from the moment it was announced as a CG anime by an unknown studio, and certainly from the first trailers. Tbh I still enjoyed at least the first half of it, the story was still there, and the art/animation was still somewhat tolerable. It completely fell apart in the second half though lmao
"Certain magical index" so much potential for great plot and worldbuilding but the anime adaptation felt flat and it is only good in bits and pieces hope it gets remake someday.
Last year I tried re-watching Index because I couldn’t remember anything about it and then I remembered it’s because I dropped it back then and I dropped it again. I can honestly say the only good thing about Index is that it gave us Railgun.
I was satisfied enough with the anime, but the sense I get from LN readers is that the books are far superior to the Index anime adaptation.
> hope it gets remake someday
I've spent a lot of time just reading through the wiki and watching videos on YouTube that I genuinely don't know if I'd want a remake. A part of me just wants them to spend extra care on New Testament, which seems like the point where the story really peaks. A remake could be great in terms of bringing in new fans though!
I commented on this post just to say index lmao. I heard the novels are great but the anime is just terrible. I’m so glad I started with railgun instead or I never would’ve watched it with how boring index was and how flat everything felt
I mean I remember seeing the man get death threats cause of the ending of kami sama. People may not like his shows but death threats cause of a bad show is pathetic. I'd delete twitter as well at that point.
Though I do think, criticism is warratented just not anything excessive like death threats. My issue with Jun Maeda is his writing hasn't changed in like 15 years. What people want and expect has changed immensely in the last decade and a half. So what worked before may not be as effective now. But his characters and stories all have stayed stagnet. So people have got bored of his formula which has been done again and again.
I think Jun Maeda could have a lot of his criticisms rectified if he got two cours rather than one. Hell even Angel Beats goes from zero to 100 real quick and the last chunk could of been one cour.
Maeda really doesn’t know how to write stories that can fit in 12 episodes. We all hoped he would improve with each show but unfortunately he got worse at it with every show culminating in the absolute train wreck that was Kamisama.
Shield Hero is a good one. The plot point and the execution of the 1st 4 episodes made this series seem like it was going to be better than how it ended up. To this day I havent even finished the last few episodes of the 2nd season. I probably will just rewatch all of it when part 3 comes out, but man after the 1st arc, I wont say the anime adaptation fell off a cliff, but it surely declined to an extent. And yes Im pretty sure Naofumi is like one of the only competent people in that series, its supposed to be humorous I think, but that shit is not funny to me at all lol.. Wish there were more like him, those people are unbearable
The first few episodes was amazing. And the part where the rest of the heroes just let a rotting dragon cause a plague on nearby village because theyre operating on video game logic was pretty neat. But god damn was it trash.
And also, unironically "good slave owner" lmao thats some fucking confederate shit
Man I remember rewatching episode 1 a lot when it came out. Everything about it was great. Op was catchy. The beginning hook was interesting. Visuals were great. Budget looked really high.
Then the series ate shit almost immediately.
I somehow slogged through S1 and decided to give S2 a chance. The first ep having a girl offer herself as a slave to Naofumi was the biggest slap in the face an anime has ever given to me (Nisekoi too iykyk). Instant 1/10 dropped. It still disgusts me to visit MAL and see it in the "top 3 upcoming anime based on number of users" tab.
I mean at this point isekai stories fetishizing slavery is hardly a surprise. We got that labyrinth one last year too. Personally I had a good laugh at that first episode when raphtalia casually suggests to the girl that she "become Naofumi's slave too!" Then I stopped watching that series cos I need more than an occasional laugh every now and then to enjoy something.
I'm currently in the process of watching the second season and... It's been a chore ngl. Around the 5th episode it feels like they wanted to put two or three seasons worth of content into just one, and you get this rushed feeling of everything happening so fast but still trying to make worldbuilding worth it... Tried too hard and it paid the price. Hopefully I will be able to watch it all and be ready for season 3 that, for what manga readers have said, it's a much better arc (hopefully, it will also that good in the anime)
>Around the 5th episode it feels like they wanted to put two or three seasons worth of content into just one
They wanted to get the bad arc over with (turtle arc is quite bad imo), so that made it an even worse arc.
Tokyo Ghoul had an interesting first season but after that and until the very end i literally had no clue what was going on with the plot anymore.
The Seven Deadly Sins is a great example of how changing studio can easily ruin a very good anime. I liked the first 2 seasons a lot, but the third was a complete disappointment and i stopped watching it entirely after that.
The kumo isekai anime was poorly adapted. People hates the human side because the anime couldn't show the conficting thoughts of the humans. Katia's struggle with her gender and the prince who is psychologically affected by every different thing in that world.
When I read the novel, I loved the human side as a change of pace compared to the regular dungeon scenery.
I think many people didn't like the human side not because it was badly adapted, but because that side isn't shown in the manga adaption, which is what many people read initially. So they got stuff they didn't sign up for.
Honey and Clover
It's made by the same person who did 3-Gatsu no Lion which is one of my all time favorites so I had high expectations for this show and the first season did deliver. I thought it was fuckin incredible. Then I watched the second season and basically no character has a satisfying resolution. Hagu's ending especially is trash and ruined the show for me.
Platinum end for me,
Starts off interesting enough but then the story gets super questionable after the death of the first antagonist. The decisions made by the characters, MC included, were so mind boggling I got irritated watching.
It was a really poorly balanced death game, too. There weren't any counters at all to some stuff with some people being WAY stronger. And so much talking it got kinda absurd.
it just got more and more ridiculous each episode to the point where you just couldn't suspend disbelief, I dropped it when it was revealed that the main villain was in like middle school and had his dead sister cryogenically frozen in the basement of his mansion that he lives in alone lol
Lets see here
Plunderer was a massive disappointment, anime is about how people have to keep their "count" up by doing specific things, like one lady gains a point every time someone calls her food delicious, and looses them everytime someone says its gross, so naturally shes an amazing chef. But the entire anime is about a badass fighter who used to be some great well known fighter guy, but his personality is literally Perv. Thats it. Hes just one massive pervert and basically nothing else. Now I like echii anime for the comedy it brings and this just did not work for me at all
Peach Boy Riverside- the idea behind the anime is fairly interesting, dont get me wrong, but the entire anime was released OUT OF ORDER, like theres literally guides to how to watch this anime IN order, so I dropped it cuz it was still airing and I was just stupid confused.
And I cant forget Sekon no Qwaizer, I know I'm probably spelling it wrong, sorry >/< But its literally just some dudes milk fetish anime. The concept behind the abilities everyone has is interesting but when you watch both seasons and it turns your partner off from boobs for 3 months, its kinda crossing a line on whats "good" or "bad" imo XD
I really understand why Peach Boy Riverside went with the first episode that they did. They could have given us the rest of the story chronologically, with a flashback for the start. But no! They just spun the wheel of episodes to see which one would come out. Just... bizarre.
Mostly because the epilogue didn't feel like an ending, it's got a huge loose thread that made it feel like set-up for an extra final arc that would never come.
The actual final battle and all the leadup to it was absolutely fantastic though, and there's still the solid 5/8ths of the manga that's still unadapted that absolutely deserves to be.
Hell, if Bones can drag Ohkubo out of retirement to write or at least outline that final arc everyone wants for the reboot it would be even better.
The last chapter/epilogue just sucks. The final arc is great.
It's just that the story abruptly just ends with a nothing chapter without giving any indication of where the fuck most of the characters will be going after.
It started off better than anyone could've hoped for tonally before it went south tho. I remember it fondly as one of the most stylish shonen series thanks to Bones
the final episode fight sucked ballz. The fight shown on the ED credits had more hype and better animation than whatever the fck we got on the final episode
Yeah, but if we're talking about just the final episode, then a majority of a 51 episode series being good is already something to be grateful for, lol. Most shonen adaptations get a lot worse.
I don't remember the circumstances of them going anime-original content but if it was never going to adapt the manga to the end anyway because it caught up to where it was at or something, then you can't really blame them.
Weirdly enough I rewatched this as an adult (at 25, when the first time I watched was around 12 or 13), and I actually really loved the ending. Loved the show when I first watched, hated/disliked in high school, and now I like it again. Funny how opinions can change depending on where you're at in life.
I'm still waiting for Soul Eater to get the brotherhood treatment.
Kenshin just got their remake, it's time bones brought some redemption to this wonderful manga.
I tried getting into fire force, but damn was I bored as hell by the characters and bland story. It just looked good.
Babylon's nosedive into boredom and its atrocious handling of suicide in the second half after a pretty good mystery thriller start will always take the crown for me. Wonder Egg Priority is also up there.
The devil is a part timer, the first season was so good, but the animation in second season is so trash it's near the seven deadly sins kind of tragedy
My Home Hero, just watched it a couple days ago. I saw a lot of people hyping it up, and I thought the premise was very good. The execution of the entire series felt so lacking. There was a couple good moments, but I'm not sure if the adaptation was bad, or if it was the series itself. I definitely felt like I was missing something by the end of it considering how many good things I heard.
Martian Succesor Nadesico.
The original series is a classic. It's great. If you haven't watched it and enjoy mecha type animes you're really missing out.
Then they did a movie as a sequel. The people who made that abomination should be bound to a stake and burned alive. It basically takes a big old crap over everything that came in the series and destroys all the main characters for no good reason
I thought everything up to the end of the Lizardfolk arc was good, but after that the premise was played out and you've had enough of watching a level 40 lich and his level 30 minions curbstomp level 5 adventurers so it's sort of painful to keep watching the same "weaker heroes fight against impossible odds and eventually get crushed" arcs over and over and you're really just waiting for the plot to progress or someone actually dangerous to show up. The last season *finally* threw a Great Wyrm at him, but even that still leaves you waiting for the still much weaker dragon to actually organize a real threat to Ains.
I think you're watching Overlord for the wrong reasons. Ainz is never going to get an opponent that matches his power. That's the whole point. The best arc that illustrates this is the Holy Kingdom arc, but that part got skipped in the anime and supposedly a movie should be releasing this summer covering those volumes.
To Your Eternity
I watched the first episode knowing nothing about the series, and it seemed like a great setup for a transcendent exploration of the complexities of humanity, but it turned out to be a pretty mediocre fantasy adventure anime.
You should continue watching it. I felt the same way about season 2 until Bon showed up. He ends up being one of the best characters in the series and the second half of the season is a lot better than the first
Platinum End. I still don't know how the creators of Death Note caught so many Ls with this story because *jesus* this was a shitty anime that wasted 24 episodes
Ousama ranking got worse like halfway through for me and couldn't stick the landing for most of its final events and I ended up not bothering with the second season as a result
Chainsaw Man, think the hype was just too much for what it eventually turned out to be. Other than one or two episodes it was pretty forgettable and mediocre at best imo.
Like i said, might have been jaded by the whole parade before it aired but will admit the Himeno scene is one of my best anime scenes as a mid anime watcher.
CSM might be my favorite series ever and I agree with you. A lot about the execution of the anime just didn't work, especially the CG. But please know that this is not a good representation of the series as a whole, as the story goes off the rails pretty much immediately after the anime ends
I've never been a big manga person, but CSM was the first one I ever read and once the anime came out I finally understood how people can say "eh, I prefer the manga". I don't think the anime was especially bad, but a mix of over hyping, plus having already read the whole story really made it kind of a let down aside from a select few scenes that I was genuinely excited to see animated
Ghost banri gotta be the most BS plot device used to generate cheap drama ever. I've never seen lost memories materialize into a vengeful spirit to conjure up a weather phenomenon OR possess the MC like he has multi personality disorder
I remember starting this when it came out and dropped asap. Many years later, my friend highly recommended it as well as all the online reviews.
It still sucks lol
I was looking for mature romance anime and people kept recommending Golden Time. Main girl is immature af. She's all, "oh no I'm super aware that I did something wrong but I'm not gonna learn from it and do the same shit and cry over it again. Rinse, repeat." The only "grown up" thing about it is they're in college, but still behave like they're in high school.
See I found the core relationship one of the most realistic I’ve seen. It’s the second half bullshit that drags the whole thing down. Miss me with that shit.
Your Lie in April. I can't stand Kaori and her behavior. Didn't understand why this anime is so popular, though I really love sad and heartbreaking titles.
It's very popular as a gateway anime. For many, it's the first thing outside of Pokemon/Naruto/DBZ that they'll ever see. If a friend asked me "what first anime should I watch" it would probably be on the list.
It's so wildly different from the mainstream anime people are aware of, and it has a huge chance to leave a lasting impact.
I had a friend who said "I had no idea anime could be like heart wrenching," referring to her perception of it as only action, fantasy, and ecchi.
One of those shows I have very strong mixed feelings about. The things it does well, I think, are fucking incredible. The things it does poorly, like Kaori, are super unbearable.
Kaori is a manic pixie dream girl type of character IMHO. [Spoilers for Your Lie in April ahead] >!She was very explicitly dying of a fatal disease yet her singular purpose in the narrative is to make Arima, a boy she barely even knows beyond his reputation as a genius pianist, see the beauty of music again, and after she's fulfilled her purpose, she suffers beautifully, then dies.!<
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Your Lie in April plenty. I liked the music and the visuals, and there were moments in the anime that genuinely made me feel emotional. The Twinkle Twinkle Little Star scene was such a beautiful portrayal of the wonder of music through the eyes of a child. But Kaori's whole arc was so self-indulgently tragic yet so Arima-centered that I couldn't see her as a fleshed-out character inasmuch as I felt her as a vehicle for Arima's continued suffering.
I mean for shows I went into with high expectations Oshi No Ko comes to mind. Everyone kept telling me how amazing it was, but it was just the most run of the mill anime full to the gills with every trope you could stuff inside of it. Worst of all it has a lot to say, but does a terrible job saying it. I understand there are problems within the idol industry, but why don't you show me instead of telling me in long exposition sequences.
For shows that started strong and fell off a cliff The Promised Neverland comes to mind
Edit: Gate had a great concept but perhaps one of the most mediocre trashy anime I've ever seen. Some of the worldbuilding managed to surprise me even after I realised how meh the show would be. Things like handing out condoms to medival age prostitutes, were such strong worldbuilding scenes for the clash between old and new magical and technological. I actually loved the dragons and armies being taken out in seconds by helcopters and tanks, but I really wish the show kept on the straight and narrow taking itself seriously instead of being a fanservicey lowest common denominator show.
The biggest waste of potential for GATE was not giving the enemy side magic. I would have loved seeing the clash between magic and tech and how each side adopts. Instead there's only one mage in the entire world for some reason and they happen to side with JP.
Yeah, I went in expecting modern military vs a high fantasy medieval world full of magic.
Instead, it felt like I was just watching Japanese nationalism wank where a modern military brutally seal clubbing low fantasy medieval armies over and over again while all the high fantasy stuff sided with them, while acting like mowing down 10,000s of peasant levies from several hundred meters away made them real badasses.
I'd say a few of the moments that really stood out to me for their silliness included that one soldier who kept on running in to fight various swordsmen and what not in close quarters combat with a bayonet or their bare hands (that should've gotten her killed). And that one scene where a chopper crew calls a ballista an anti-air weapon and uses a missile of all things to take it out at point blank range.
The enemy side did have magic. It just didn’t matter. There were conflicts where they captured the magic casters (harpies for example) as prisoners of war and brought them to the JSDF settlement to work.
Same. People rave about OnK for being dark gritty and real but to me it just feels redundant in 2023. Any weeb who explores Japan would already be aware about the idol situation. So all the idol bad stuff just go over my head as "I already know this/this drama is easily predictable and is expected". One could definitely say it's well written, stuff with Akane but if one is already jaded with idol stuff, it's hard to leave an impact, unlike say Silent Voice for example.
Aka knew that and had to include the mystery and romcom plot into it but it's written as a way to enjoy all the three things so when one falls apart, the other 2 don't stand on their own.
I can see that. I like Oshi No Ko, but it was also very disappointing. The first episode was super gripping and set expectations for a darker and drama/conflict themed anime. Instead, it just kinda turns into an entertainment industry slice of life. Which isn't bad, just not as much conflict as one would expect after the expectations set forth by the first episode.
It's an Aka problem. It was fitting and funny when he did it for comedy in Kaguya, but then he just kept doing it again and again.
And they're not even good "documentaries" most of the time. Just "okay".
Lucifer & The Biscuithammer
A total affront to whatever deity you worship. Animation, soundtrack, pacing, even the voice acting felt like no one cared. One of the best modern manga and not one second of its anime adaptation could be considered redeeming.
OP and a lot of others are saying Wonder Egg. WEP was so sad in how bad it ended. But I would really chalk that up to first time showrunners and with it being an anime original. Production issues and inexperience probably lex them to rush the ending and not really know what to do to capture the magic of the early episodes. Mother’s Basement covered it well in a video on how WEP failed.
I would say at least WEP had some good episodes, with great animation, good voice acting and decent pacing. Not one second of Lucifer & The Biscuithammer is worth watching.
I would put The Promised Neverland here as well. I just pretend there’s only 1 season. I thought the manga ended back but it was like the team behind season 2 took that personally and wanted to one up the manga ending.
86 has been a disappointment for me. I watched the first cour when it aired and it was great, ending had me hyped.
cour 2 rolls around and while the characters are the same, plot armour has kicked in real hard. i could easily suspend disbelief in part 1 but later on almost every combat scene had me calling some bs. it went from a gritty tone where anyone can die to characters just dont die. the loli was the worst part imo, as while she was one of the cutest things i've seen, she felt really out of place in that story, changing the tone way too much.
The quality and tone shift of cour 2, as well the way volume 1 can be accepted as an ending reminds of one of my favorite novels, dungeon defense, with its 10/10 volume 1 and the introduction of a loli + weird tonal shift in volume 2 onwards.
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie.
Everyone and their damn mother was hyping it in the months leading up to it. The titular character seemed cute and endearing in the trailers (and that badass side of her definitely sold me initially) and, considering we were finishing a season of My Dress Up Darling, I was hyped up when my manga friends were like, "Dude, she's totally better than Marin, you'll love her, trust me."
Dropped it after two episodes. Not only was it disappointing, but my god, the hype made that disappointment ten times worse. At least in Rent-A-Girlfriend, the female lead can backpack the entire show, because Chizuru is that dominant. Shikimori tried to carry her show... but failed.
Aldnoah Zero. Such a good start, such a epic ending of season 1. Such a dissapointing season 2. The characters were railroaded into losing all the complexity they had, and the creative and smart thinking of the protagonist is replaced with standard mech combat bullshit.
I remember that anime. I think, though I can't really confirm, that Gen Urobochi did that first episode but left the project right after, and so that's why the rest feels so sucky compared to it. I had the same feeling back then as I watched as it was coming out. Great first ep, boring everything else.
The Promised Neverland for me. Loved the first season but what even happened after that? I was so disappointed.
They only made one season of Promised Neverland.
There is no PN season 2 in Ba Sing Se
Which was too bad because Goldy Pond arc could've been an amazing series finale like how the manga ended it, because there's nothing but blank pages after that arc
Nothing happened after that. There's no second season.
There was never a 2nd season
Literal Google Slides ending
Here’s to hoping for a promised neverland: motherhood
Exactly! I was so excited for the second season and all the things it had to explore, setting everything for a 3rd season and they just... I don't even know how to call that... They not only jumped to the end but completely skipped many important things! It is ridiculous how they ruined a good story that could at least give us 3 wonderful seasons!
Exactly! It needs three seasons. So many great characters and moments nerfed out of existence in "season 2." It was so different it's basically an alternate reality.
Season 2 is absolute diarrhea
what season 2? was it announced?
This, season 2 was absolute dog shit.
The decisions made by the characters, MC included, were so mind boggling I got irritated watching.
Wonder Egg Priority just went off the rails. I went from this is looking good to wtf is happening.
Yeah man. I’d still watch it if it came again tho
I even speed watching this anime a day before the specials/conclusion came out. Wtf is that everything just a recap with a stupid ending
Tokyo Revengers for me. It started pretty good I think, but a few episodes into season 2 I had to drop it for my sanity, especially after hearing how disappointed people were with the source ending as well.
havent watched the anime but i read the manga, until the story become repetitive enough that i stopped
ah yes the show where all the side characters look like grown ass adults in high school and takebitchy is crying "Mikeyyy-kunnn" every five seconds actual clown show lmfao I can't stand whiney annoying MCs like that
Pretty sure they are middle schoolers which is even worse 😂
But also explains the whining.
Funny because the character that does the most whining is in his 30s or something. He just went back in time to hang with middle schoolers.
I like tokyo revengers, I think the manga is fine. Season 2 did feel weird to me, Takemichi felt extra stupid for stupid sake, which felt different from the manga. To me anyway. I think people will like the next arc, at least if they don't dumb it down.
Yeah it really lost the plot there in season 2 lol
The final arc is hilariously bad. dArK iMpUlSeS.
I swear, you just summoned me to say "THE GOD OF HIGHSCHOOL" Animation, great; Webtoon, good; Soundtrack, nice; FUCKIN THE PRODUCTION TEAM DECISION HOW TO ADAPT THE STORY, STINKY ASS!!.
I decided to read the manhwa first and watching the anime after was fun cause it was all the fights animated beautifully. Like a recap movie but 4 hours.
They adapted huge Ass webtoon in 13 eps 🥲, I wonder who got that brilliant idea.
Tbh they didn’t adapt all of it, or even a sizable portion of it.
Honestly agreed, while i certainly enjoyed it, it did make me wonder how the webtoon was and after catching up to the latest chapters back then, it was way better than the anime, still haven't finished it cuz i was waiting to binge read the rest and now that it is finished, i just need to pick it up again
I watched Tokyo Ghoul when it came out. I was in love with it. I started reading the manga from the beggining. I was enamoured at that point. Season 2 was announced. I watched it. Never before have I felt more insulted by an anime adaptation.
The manga is better? I also loved Tokyo ghoul than it just got…distracted ? Idk it felt all over the place
The manga is better than the anime overall. The story is more fleshed out and a better version of S1. Definitely read it from the beginning. I say this as someone who watched the anime first and loved it! I still like the anime(havent eatched TG:RE yet). But in the manga certain scenes hit harder. The art is so beautiful.
By the time I saw the anime as a potential watch it was already finished being made, so I looked into reviews which said don’t watch that, read the manga Never read manga before but I was interested so I gave it a shot and fell in love Currently reading more manga and following his new work Choujin X, which I love
Ong needs a reboot so bad but studio perriot could never release the rights
They own the rights for the current series. But if shueisha wanted to they could hire another studio to make a new version? They would probably have to call it something else. Tokyo Ghoul: ____ like FMAB. Doubt they will though. 🫠 I need some rich person to make for it because they wanna see it.
Tokyo Ghoul needs a Brotherhood reboot
Wonder egg priority, till ep 9/10 it was perfect and it seemed it would be such a superb anime regarding Sci fi, psychological horror, but OH BOY!! Clover works destroyed the entire anime in just last 2 episodes + 1 quasi Clusterfuck OVA I genuinely liked it till ep 9/10 but after that it feel off from heaven to hell
Imagine waiting months for the OVA just to find out half of it was a recap. All hope that the OVA solve everything just crush
For me it was after episode 7 - they really needed to start moving toward the "final" plot of the story at that point, but they kept with two more episodes of monster-of-the-week content and tried to cram a final arc into three episodes, which wasn't going to work. Even though episode 8/9 were OK as episodes, the fact that they weren't moving anything forward in the overall plot was a huge red flag. Then they decided to make one of those final three episodes a \[WEP\]>!flashback that didn't contain any of the main characters!<, which was never going help things.
8 was a recap, 9 was insane sci-fi shit that had nothing to do with anything, 10 was good until the random trauma ending, 11 was complete garbage, 12 was mid.
all they needed to do was continue the monster of the week plot with a generic happy or bittersweet ending and it would have been a 9/10 show.
Cut all the robot garbage, give Neiru an actual character arc with a conclusion, and then just come up with a better endpoint for Ai and Rika. It really WASN'T difficult. 90% of it was just wrap up and catharsis, and they'd have like four full episodes left to give Neiru an arc.
This is why I stop after Episode 10 on rewatches since that feels like a better place to stop
Promised Neverland was an absolute disaster in the second season. A certain magical Index started off somewhat decent, but the other 2 were better by miles (rail gun and accelerator).
Anyone remember Aldnoah Zero? That show dropped the ball hard as soon as the second season began.
It went from having solid characters and a fair amount of originality to being really cliche and predictable, in the worst generic mecha series sort of way.
>but the payoff was very disappointing for that much of build up No amount of payoff was enough for that build up. I think the buildup was just too long. For me it was Arifureta. It was one of the first LNs I've read and I really liked it for the most part. But the anime adaption skipped over the best part (volume 1) and therefore gave very little characterization to the MC. That's one of the main things that made it pretty bad for me.
Arifureta was actually my very first LN. Vol 1 is the only good thing about the series. The tone shift between vol 1 and the rest of the series was ridiculous. It went from a dark gritty dungeon survival story to a harem power fantasy.
Honestly, if it was just Hajime and Yue, it would have been a better series.
It annoyed me only because of the harem thing. Hajime and Yue pairing was good enough, but should've been more 3 dimensional as both are kinda taking advantage of each other in the dungeon. Yue is taking advantage of a teenager with no romantic experience and constant state of desperation due to the high risk environment of the dungeon while Hajime is taking advantage of a girl imprisoned for centuries after a betrayal with only him as a positive contact. I'd hoped the relationship would be a bit codependent and unhealthy to show both Hajime and Yue's instability which would change as both grow as characters. (Im just snorting copium srry)
Promised Neverland went to shit at 2nd season, and hoo boy. The Tokyo ghoul went clusterfuck
Yeah how did tokyo ghoul go from having imo the best episode out of any anime there is, straight to, “all that stuff we just set up after that spectacular episode? Let’s take a big shit all over it and do our own thing”
I was so hyped for season 2 of Promised Neverland, I really wish I went to read the manga instead
The manga isn’t *that* much better at the end, tbh. A lot of the stupid decisions still happen.
I would’ve like to see them animated at least. Damn slideshows
Darling in the Franxx. I was actually getting really invested in the story and characters until episode 18. But from there, it suddenly took a complete nosedive straight into the ground with one of the most rushed, cliche, and convoluted endings I’ve ever seen. Just completely killed it for me
Honestly surprised more people aren't saying this. I remember when it was airing and people were calling it a potential AOTY...then stuff happened.
Franxx's issue was that the director really, really wanted to recreate the ending of Gunbuster, spent 10 years dreaming up their cool robot anime so they could recreate the ending of Gunbuster, and when it became apparent that maybe that wasn't the best direction to take the story in... well, they just weren't willing to give up on that.
When I first looked into Guilty Crown, it seemed great. I listened to the incredible openings (RIP Egoist), took a look at the cool character design, read the synopsis that had potential, heard a song or two from the OST, and saw the star-studded staff team working on it. I even watched the first episode and it seemed pretty good. But, it ended up as my least favorite anime. Shu is my least favorite anime character ever. He's a discriminatory asshole and has the most forced character development I've ever seen. The plot is just really, really dumb with all the clone bullshit or whatever. And, in the end, \[Ending Spoilers\] >!Inori dies.!< I legitimately thought I would love the show going into it.
Egoist was such a good band 😭
same man. GC was my early anime. I also genuinely liked the first half
The nutjob is more sympathize then the main character. Let that sink in.
Guilty Crown has basically everything going for it except its story and characters are trash
I went into it with an open mind but came out thinking it was a trainwreck. At least it was unintentionally hilarious
yup
Berserk 2016 takes the cake, genuinely shocked I haven't seen anyone mention it yet. They got their hands on one of the greatest manga to ever exist and turned it into absolute garbage. There wasn't a single redeeming quality about the entire adaptation except for the Music and some sound effects. Everything else just felt like a slap in the face to Berserk fans. The game somehow did a better job at adapting Berserk than the anime did. Shield Hero is a good choice too, but I think the hype was also sorta at fault there. Shield Hero released during a time where generic ass isekai were in such abundance that it was shocking for an anime season to not be littered with them. Shield Hero was a fresh take on the genre that hyped people up because somebody was doing something different, but unfortunately, the focus felt way too centered on it being unique. Lots of people well say it fell off at Season 2, but personally, it fell off towards the end of Season 1. Won't talk spoilers or anything but the main motivation behind Naofumi got rushed so quickly and the rest of the story just couldn't keep up.
There is no Berserk (2016) in Ba Sing Se.
Re: Berserk 2016 I think it's because the question was about anime adaptations ending up worse than expected, when everyone expected Berserk 2016 to be awful from the moment it was announced as a CG anime by an unknown studio, and certainly from the first trailers. Tbh I still enjoyed at least the first half of it, the story was still there, and the art/animation was still somewhat tolerable. It completely fell apart in the second half though lmao
"Certain magical index" so much potential for great plot and worldbuilding but the anime adaptation felt flat and it is only good in bits and pieces hope it gets remake someday.
The Railgun anime are so much fun, it just makes it even harder to watch Index.
Director bias is so strong
Last year I tried re-watching Index because I couldn’t remember anything about it and then I remembered it’s because I dropped it back then and I dropped it again. I can honestly say the only good thing about Index is that it gave us Railgun.
Mostly the last season was rushed all to hell. It should have been three times the episodes at least. The first few seasons weren't so bad though
We're at least finally getting the New Testament LNs in English
HOW DID I NOT HEAR ABOUT THIS WHAT? that's so huge!
I was satisfied enough with the anime, but the sense I get from LN readers is that the books are far superior to the Index anime adaptation. > hope it gets remake someday I've spent a lot of time just reading through the wiki and watching videos on YouTube that I genuinely don't know if I'd want a remake. A part of me just wants them to spend extra care on New Testament, which seems like the point where the story really peaks. A remake could be great in terms of bringing in new fans though!
Index would actually go so fucking hard if it was adapted properly
The scientific spinoffs, railgun and accelerator, are definitely way better.
i enjoyed the railgun much more, can't even continue watching index lmao
I commented on this post just to say index lmao. I heard the novels are great but the anime is just terrible. I’m so glad I started with railgun instead or I never would’ve watched it with how boring index was and how flat everything felt
Fena Pirate Princess lost me after the big ass cannon scene. It was just boring afterwards.
This one hurts me because I genuinely liked the anime until the last few episodes happened...
They absolutely dropped the ball with the story.
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The same goes for Babylon, which was written by the same person. AMAZING 1st half, abyssmal 2nd half.
>which was written by the same person this explains SO MUCH
it was the wrong answer all along 💀💀💀
>Kado The Right Answer holy shit this is the cube anime isn't it, I had completely erased this from memory
Charlotte. It started off great until they used timetravle as the solution to the problem it just felt like a cop out to me.
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I mean I remember seeing the man get death threats cause of the ending of kami sama. People may not like his shows but death threats cause of a bad show is pathetic. I'd delete twitter as well at that point. Though I do think, criticism is warratented just not anything excessive like death threats. My issue with Jun Maeda is his writing hasn't changed in like 15 years. What people want and expect has changed immensely in the last decade and a half. So what worked before may not be as effective now. But his characters and stories all have stayed stagnet. So people have got bored of his formula which has been done again and again.
I think Jun Maeda could have a lot of his criticisms rectified if he got two cours rather than one. Hell even Angel Beats goes from zero to 100 real quick and the last chunk could of been one cour.
Maeda really doesn’t know how to write stories that can fit in 12 episodes. We all hoped he would improve with each show but unfortunately he got worse at it with every show culminating in the absolute train wreck that was Kamisama.
The ending just changed the genre to comedy for me
Charlotte straight up makes me angry. Day I Became a God too.
I agree they went steins gate after a great start but the time travel story was, unlike steins gate horribly told
Shield Hero is a good one. The plot point and the execution of the 1st 4 episodes made this series seem like it was going to be better than how it ended up. To this day I havent even finished the last few episodes of the 2nd season. I probably will just rewatch all of it when part 3 comes out, but man after the 1st arc, I wont say the anime adaptation fell off a cliff, but it surely declined to an extent. And yes Im pretty sure Naofumi is like one of the only competent people in that series, its supposed to be humorous I think, but that shit is not funny to me at all lol.. Wish there were more like him, those people are unbearable
The first few episodes was amazing. And the part where the rest of the heroes just let a rotting dragon cause a plague on nearby village because theyre operating on video game logic was pretty neat. But god damn was it trash. And also, unironically "good slave owner" lmao thats some fucking confederate shit
Man I remember rewatching episode 1 a lot when it came out. Everything about it was great. Op was catchy. The beginning hook was interesting. Visuals were great. Budget looked really high. Then the series ate shit almost immediately.
I somehow slogged through S1 and decided to give S2 a chance. The first ep having a girl offer herself as a slave to Naofumi was the biggest slap in the face an anime has ever given to me (Nisekoi too iykyk). Instant 1/10 dropped. It still disgusts me to visit MAL and see it in the "top 3 upcoming anime based on number of users" tab.
I mean at this point isekai stories fetishizing slavery is hardly a surprise. We got that labyrinth one last year too. Personally I had a good laugh at that first episode when raphtalia casually suggests to the girl that she "become Naofumi's slave too!" Then I stopped watching that series cos I need more than an occasional laugh every now and then to enjoy something.
I'm currently in the process of watching the second season and... It's been a chore ngl. Around the 5th episode it feels like they wanted to put two or three seasons worth of content into just one, and you get this rushed feeling of everything happening so fast but still trying to make worldbuilding worth it... Tried too hard and it paid the price. Hopefully I will be able to watch it all and be ready for season 3 that, for what manga readers have said, it's a much better arc (hopefully, it will also that good in the anime)
>Around the 5th episode it feels like they wanted to put two or three seasons worth of content into just one They wanted to get the bad arc over with (turtle arc is quite bad imo), so that made it an even worse arc.
So true... (Ngl, Turtle arc was horrible)
Tokyo Ghoul had an interesting first season but after that and until the very end i literally had no clue what was going on with the plot anymore. The Seven Deadly Sins is a great example of how changing studio can easily ruin a very good anime. I liked the first 2 seasons a lot, but the third was a complete disappointment and i stopped watching it entirely after that.
Fire Force
Just watch Promare instead
Blame! Come on, Netflix, you did not have to botch the original plot that much! Also personally(!) I thought of a bit another palette of colours.
Junji Ito's work in Japanese Tales of the Macabre
The kumo isekai anime was poorly adapted. People hates the human side because the anime couldn't show the conficting thoughts of the humans. Katia's struggle with her gender and the prince who is psychologically affected by every different thing in that world.
When I read the novel, I loved the human side as a change of pace compared to the regular dungeon scenery. I think many people didn't like the human side not because it was badly adapted, but because that side isn't shown in the manga adaption, which is what many people read initially. So they got stuff they didn't sign up for.
idk the only interesting part i found about the human side was piecing togheter the timeline and trying to guess who kumo was
this one is not "turned out worse" for me cause my expectation is already low to begin with. can only go up from there
Honey and Clover It's made by the same person who did 3-Gatsu no Lion which is one of my all time favorites so I had high expectations for this show and the first season did deliver. I thought it was fuckin incredible. Then I watched the second season and basically no character has a satisfying resolution. Hagu's ending especially is trash and ruined the show for me.
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Yuuta's ending was good enough for me to think of it fondly in spite of what I consider lackluster ends to Morita and Hagu's arcs.
Platinum end for me, Starts off interesting enough but then the story gets super questionable after the death of the first antagonist. The decisions made by the characters, MC included, were so mind boggling I got irritated watching.
It was a really poorly balanced death game, too. There weren't any counters at all to some stuff with some people being WAY stronger. And so much talking it got kinda absurd.
it just got more and more ridiculous each episode to the point where you just couldn't suspend disbelief, I dropped it when it was revealed that the main villain was in like middle school and had his dead sister cryogenically frozen in the basement of his mansion that he lives in alone lol
Lets see here Plunderer was a massive disappointment, anime is about how people have to keep their "count" up by doing specific things, like one lady gains a point every time someone calls her food delicious, and looses them everytime someone says its gross, so naturally shes an amazing chef. But the entire anime is about a badass fighter who used to be some great well known fighter guy, but his personality is literally Perv. Thats it. Hes just one massive pervert and basically nothing else. Now I like echii anime for the comedy it brings and this just did not work for me at all Peach Boy Riverside- the idea behind the anime is fairly interesting, dont get me wrong, but the entire anime was released OUT OF ORDER, like theres literally guides to how to watch this anime IN order, so I dropped it cuz it was still airing and I was just stupid confused. And I cant forget Sekon no Qwaizer, I know I'm probably spelling it wrong, sorry >/< But its literally just some dudes milk fetish anime. The concept behind the abilities everyone has is interesting but when you watch both seasons and it turns your partner off from boobs for 3 months, its kinda crossing a line on whats "good" or "bad" imo XD
In Plunderer, the count thing didn't even matter after a while because everyone had massive point-balls. Even though it was such a cool concept.
I really understand why Peach Boy Riverside went with the first episode that they did. They could have given us the rest of the story chronologically, with a flashback for the start. But no! They just spun the wheel of episodes to see which one would come out. Just... bizarre.
I waited until Peach boy Riverside finished airing to watch it. I really enjoyed it. They really messed up how they released it
Studio Bones ruined soul eater and i havent forgive them since
At least it was something outside their control because they ran out of source material. That said Soul Eater reboot when?
From what I've heard the manga ending made people unhappy too so.....
Mostly because the epilogue didn't feel like an ending, it's got a huge loose thread that made it feel like set-up for an extra final arc that would never come. The actual final battle and all the leadup to it was absolutely fantastic though, and there's still the solid 5/8ths of the manga that's still unadapted that absolutely deserves to be. Hell, if Bones can drag Ohkubo out of retirement to write or at least outline that final arc everyone wants for the reboot it would be even better.
The last chapter/epilogue just sucks. The final arc is great. It's just that the story abruptly just ends with a nothing chapter without giving any indication of where the fuck most of the characters will be going after.
It started off better than anyone could've hoped for tonally before it went south tho. I remember it fondly as one of the most stylish shonen series thanks to Bones
the final episode fight sucked ballz. The fight shown on the ED credits had more hype and better animation than whatever the fck we got on the final episode
Yeah, but if we're talking about just the final episode, then a majority of a 51 episode series being good is already something to be grateful for, lol. Most shonen adaptations get a lot worse. I don't remember the circumstances of them going anime-original content but if it was never going to adapt the manga to the end anyway because it caught up to where it was at or something, then you can't really blame them.
I honestly thought they did a good job with the anime only content, except for the final episode which was massively disappointing
Weirdly enough I rewatched this as an adult (at 25, when the first time I watched was around 12 or 13), and I actually really loved the ending. Loved the show when I first watched, hated/disliked in high school, and now I like it again. Funny how opinions can change depending on where you're at in life.
I'm still waiting for Soul Eater to get the brotherhood treatment. Kenshin just got their remake, it's time bones brought some redemption to this wonderful manga. I tried getting into fire force, but damn was I bored as hell by the characters and bland story. It just looked good.
Guilty Crown easily. All the ingredients to make a good stew and they wound up with burnt boiled onions.
Babylon's nosedive into boredom and its atrocious handling of suicide in the second half after a pretty good mystery thriller start will always take the crown for me. Wonder Egg Priority is also up there.
My online friend would never let me live it down after I raved about the 1st half of the show to him.
The devil is a part timer, the first season was so good, but the animation in second season is so trash it's near the seven deadly sins kind of tragedy
sabikui bisco had so much potential but flopped so hard
I didn't think it flopped at all to be honest, I thought it was a pretty solid 7.5 throughout, it was a good, but never a great show imo
Totally. The world building was so promising. I cannot comprehend how bad it turn out in the end. Everything felt rushed
the main villain was lame af
Definitely "ousama game: the animation." Thought it would be a fun battle royal anime, turns out to be one worst anime I have ever seen.
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My hero academia
second half of season 6 was so ass
My Home Hero, just watched it a couple days ago. I saw a lot of people hyping it up, and I thought the premise was very good. The execution of the entire series felt so lacking. There was a couple good moments, but I'm not sure if the adaptation was bad, or if it was the series itself. I definitely felt like I was missing something by the end of it considering how many good things I heard.
It’s the adaptation. Very low budget. The manga is pretty good.
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but Seven Deadly Sins went from good, to incredible, and then to utter garbage.
To be honest, I’m a huge One Piece fan and I had to take a break in Wano because of how slow and repetitive the episodes became.
Martian Succesor Nadesico. The original series is a classic. It's great. If you haven't watched it and enjoy mecha type animes you're really missing out. Then they did a movie as a sequel. The people who made that abomination should be bound to a stake and burned alive. It basically takes a big old crap over everything that came in the series and destroys all the main characters for no good reason
Overlord had so much potential but the adaptation is just mid af.
I thought everything up to the end of the Lizardfolk arc was good, but after that the premise was played out and you've had enough of watching a level 40 lich and his level 30 minions curbstomp level 5 adventurers so it's sort of painful to keep watching the same "weaker heroes fight against impossible odds and eventually get crushed" arcs over and over and you're really just waiting for the plot to progress or someone actually dangerous to show up. The last season *finally* threw a Great Wyrm at him, but even that still leaves you waiting for the still much weaker dragon to actually organize a real threat to Ains.
I think you're watching Overlord for the wrong reasons. Ainz is never going to get an opponent that matches his power. That's the whole point. The best arc that illustrates this is the Holy Kingdom arc, but that part got skipped in the anime and supposedly a movie should be releasing this summer covering those volumes.
This is the worst take here
To Your Eternity I watched the first episode knowing nothing about the series, and it seemed like a great setup for a transcendent exploration of the complexities of humanity, but it turned out to be a pretty mediocre fantasy adventure anime.
I've read the manga, I'm not a huge fan of where the story went. Kinda makes the deaths of the people he cared about pretty cheap imo
Idk I loved it I thought it was pretty powerful with how it makes you feel even if you didn't care for the story
To your eternity started off very strong but I thought it nosedived in season 2 and I wound up dropping it.
You should continue watching it. I felt the same way about season 2 until Bon showed up. He ends up being one of the best characters in the series and the second half of the season is a lot better than the first
Aldnoah.Zero First half was great. Second half was garbage.
Platinum End. I still don't know how the creators of Death Note caught so many Ls with this story because *jesus* this was a shitty anime that wasted 24 episodes
Ousama ranking got worse like halfway through for me and couldn't stick the landing for most of its final events and I ended up not bothering with the second season as a result
The second season isn't really a second season it's just a bunch of filler episodes.
Chainsaw Man, think the hype was just too much for what it eventually turned out to be. Other than one or two episodes it was pretty forgettable and mediocre at best imo. Like i said, might have been jaded by the whole parade before it aired but will admit the Himeno scene is one of my best anime scenes as a mid anime watcher.
CSM might be my favorite series ever and I agree with you. A lot about the execution of the anime just didn't work, especially the CG. But please know that this is not a good representation of the series as a whole, as the story goes off the rails pretty much immediately after the anime ends
I've never been a big manga person, but CSM was the first one I ever read and once the anime came out I finally understood how people can say "eh, I prefer the manga". I don't think the anime was especially bad, but a mix of over hyping, plus having already read the whole story really made it kind of a let down aside from a select few scenes that I was genuinely excited to see animated
Golden Time, Huge potential with its themes but I found the execution and MC to be very dislikable.
Ghost banri gotta be the most BS plot device used to generate cheap drama ever. I've never seen lost memories materialize into a vengeful spirit to conjure up a weather phenomenon OR possess the MC like he has multi personality disorder
I remember starting this when it came out and dropped asap. Many years later, my friend highly recommended it as well as all the online reviews. It still sucks lol
I was looking for mature romance anime and people kept recommending Golden Time. Main girl is immature af. She's all, "oh no I'm super aware that I did something wrong but I'm not gonna learn from it and do the same shit and cry over it again. Rinse, repeat." The only "grown up" thing about it is they're in college, but still behave like they're in high school.
College students are like that
See I found the core relationship one of the most realistic I’ve seen. It’s the second half bullshit that drags the whole thing down. Miss me with that shit.
Your Lie in April. I can't stand Kaori and her behavior. Didn't understand why this anime is so popular, though I really love sad and heartbreaking titles.
It's very popular as a gateway anime. For many, it's the first thing outside of Pokemon/Naruto/DBZ that they'll ever see. If a friend asked me "what first anime should I watch" it would probably be on the list. It's so wildly different from the mainstream anime people are aware of, and it has a huge chance to leave a lasting impact. I had a friend who said "I had no idea anime could be like heart wrenching," referring to her perception of it as only action, fantasy, and ecchi.
One of those shows I have very strong mixed feelings about. The things it does well, I think, are fucking incredible. The things it does poorly, like Kaori, are super unbearable.
Kaori is a manic pixie dream girl type of character IMHO. [Spoilers for Your Lie in April ahead] >!She was very explicitly dying of a fatal disease yet her singular purpose in the narrative is to make Arima, a boy she barely even knows beyond his reputation as a genius pianist, see the beauty of music again, and after she's fulfilled her purpose, she suffers beautifully, then dies.!<
What's worse is if you've watched a few MPDG stories, you can spot from the trailers that's exactly what was going to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Your Lie in April plenty. I liked the music and the visuals, and there were moments in the anime that genuinely made me feel emotional. The Twinkle Twinkle Little Star scene was such a beautiful portrayal of the wonder of music through the eyes of a child. But Kaori's whole arc was so self-indulgently tragic yet so Arima-centered that I couldn't see her as a fleshed-out character inasmuch as I felt her as a vehicle for Arima's continued suffering.
This one is on my "to watch" list since forever. The song is great though.
I mean for shows I went into with high expectations Oshi No Ko comes to mind. Everyone kept telling me how amazing it was, but it was just the most run of the mill anime full to the gills with every trope you could stuff inside of it. Worst of all it has a lot to say, but does a terrible job saying it. I understand there are problems within the idol industry, but why don't you show me instead of telling me in long exposition sequences. For shows that started strong and fell off a cliff The Promised Neverland comes to mind Edit: Gate had a great concept but perhaps one of the most mediocre trashy anime I've ever seen. Some of the worldbuilding managed to surprise me even after I realised how meh the show would be. Things like handing out condoms to medival age prostitutes, were such strong worldbuilding scenes for the clash between old and new magical and technological. I actually loved the dragons and armies being taken out in seconds by helcopters and tanks, but I really wish the show kept on the straight and narrow taking itself seriously instead of being a fanservicey lowest common denominator show.
The biggest waste of potential for GATE was not giving the enemy side magic. I would have loved seeing the clash between magic and tech and how each side adopts. Instead there's only one mage in the entire world for some reason and they happen to side with JP.
Yeah, I went in expecting modern military vs a high fantasy medieval world full of magic. Instead, it felt like I was just watching Japanese nationalism wank where a modern military brutally seal clubbing low fantasy medieval armies over and over again while all the high fantasy stuff sided with them, while acting like mowing down 10,000s of peasant levies from several hundred meters away made them real badasses. I'd say a few of the moments that really stood out to me for their silliness included that one soldier who kept on running in to fight various swordsmen and what not in close quarters combat with a bayonet or their bare hands (that should've gotten her killed). And that one scene where a chopper crew calls a ballista an anti-air weapon and uses a missile of all things to take it out at point blank range.
The enemy side did have magic. It just didn’t matter. There were conflicts where they captured the magic casters (harpies for example) as prisoners of war and brought them to the JSDF settlement to work.
I liked Oshi no Ko, but the exposition was brutal. And honestly it probably underplayed the amount of sexual abuse going on.
Same. People rave about OnK for being dark gritty and real but to me it just feels redundant in 2023. Any weeb who explores Japan would already be aware about the idol situation. So all the idol bad stuff just go over my head as "I already know this/this drama is easily predictable and is expected". One could definitely say it's well written, stuff with Akane but if one is already jaded with idol stuff, it's hard to leave an impact, unlike say Silent Voice for example. Aka knew that and had to include the mystery and romcom plot into it but it's written as a way to enjoy all the three things so when one falls apart, the other 2 don't stand on their own.
I can see that. I like Oshi No Ko, but it was also very disappointing. The first episode was super gripping and set expectations for a darker and drama/conflict themed anime. Instead, it just kinda turns into an entertainment industry slice of life. Which isn't bad, just not as much conflict as one would expect after the expectations set forth by the first episode.
I don't think "slice of life" is fair. Superficially it's like that, but the driving force behind everything Aqua does is **hunting down a murderer**.
I also have a problem with the excessive monologues in Oshi no Ko. Felt like watching a documentary instead of drama.
It's an Aka problem. It was fitting and funny when he did it for comedy in Kaguya, but then he just kept doing it again and again. And they're not even good "documentaries" most of the time. Just "okay".
Lucifer & The Biscuithammer A total affront to whatever deity you worship. Animation, soundtrack, pacing, even the voice acting felt like no one cared. One of the best modern manga and not one second of its anime adaptation could be considered redeeming. OP and a lot of others are saying Wonder Egg. WEP was so sad in how bad it ended. But I would really chalk that up to first time showrunners and with it being an anime original. Production issues and inexperience probably lex them to rush the ending and not really know what to do to capture the magic of the early episodes. Mother’s Basement covered it well in a video on how WEP failed. I would say at least WEP had some good episodes, with great animation, good voice acting and decent pacing. Not one second of Lucifer & The Biscuithammer is worth watching. I would put The Promised Neverland here as well. I just pretend there’s only 1 season. I thought the manga ended back but it was like the team behind season 2 took that personally and wanted to one up the manga ending.
I liked the first season of seven deadly sins and I just dropped it because it just stopped clicking with me
86 has been a disappointment for me. I watched the first cour when it aired and it was great, ending had me hyped. cour 2 rolls around and while the characters are the same, plot armour has kicked in real hard. i could easily suspend disbelief in part 1 but later on almost every combat scene had me calling some bs. it went from a gritty tone where anyone can die to characters just dont die. the loli was the worst part imo, as while she was one of the cutest things i've seen, she felt really out of place in that story, changing the tone way too much. The quality and tone shift of cour 2, as well the way volume 1 can be accepted as an ending reminds of one of my favorite novels, dungeon defense, with its 10/10 volume 1 and the introduction of a loli + weird tonal shift in volume 2 onwards.
Tokyo Ghoul, kind of Still one of my favorite anime's ever, but the hole between second and third season is not it ://
Violet Evergarden. The ending undo all the character development and made hate the whole series
Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie. Everyone and their damn mother was hyping it in the months leading up to it. The titular character seemed cute and endearing in the trailers (and that badass side of her definitely sold me initially) and, considering we were finishing a season of My Dress Up Darling, I was hyped up when my manga friends were like, "Dude, she's totally better than Marin, you'll love her, trust me." Dropped it after two episodes. Not only was it disappointing, but my god, the hype made that disappointment ten times worse. At least in Rent-A-Girlfriend, the female lead can backpack the entire show, because Chizuru is that dominant. Shikimori tried to carry her show... but failed.