I’ll start, Deadman wonderland, I remember watching it when I was just a teen, it was wonderfully gory, had sex appeal, an interesting premise, all the things a young guy likes. But I got to I think the third episode and I was like “what happened?” The action totally fell off, no character development was happening, it was just boring.
This sticks out to me since I have such a high suspension of disbelief so I like pretty much all media, the fact that this made teenage me stop watching a series midway just shows how much I didn’t like it compared to the start.
What about y’all, what series let you down?
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Biggest one: Aldnoah Zero
Some potential contenders are: The Detective Is Already Dead, Akame ga Kill, and Shield Hero.
You youngsters.
Magic Knight Rayearth. Isekai magical girls with dnd fantasy elements and mecha. So, you know, little me’s favorite stuff. The princess summoned them because she was too chicken to commit suicide and needed them to pull the trigger.
Spy x Family - has a weird vibe that is unsettling tbh, idk how to describe it and the plot seems slow and the relationships superficial
My Hero Academia - it’s marvel superheroes (which I also don’t like) and some of the powers people are born with just seem like horrific genetic conditions that bring nothing but misery for the individual.
spoiler
Like one dude has a
spray bottle for a head. Are they even human anymore? Can this guy even eat food? IDK.GAMERS.
a romantic comedy and a video game club? With real life copyright free references to games that we know…? With a catchy OP loaded with video game references??? I’m intrigued.
No let’s use every fucking trope and make EVERY plot and conflict revolve around misunderstandings that could make be resolved instantly if the characters had more than 2 braincells and actually EXPLAINED instead of saying “ahhh eeehh ohh boy it’s not what you think…!” “Why are you leaving? It’s not what you think I swear!” look I can handle a few for plot sake but you can’t make everything rely on the characters stupidity.
Also it was cancelled after s1 (probably for the best)
Solo Leveling. I think after seeing so many recommendations (and better animes) I expected too much of it. It’s just a very basic Isekai with flat, tropey characters and boring art style. It has some really cool fight scenes, I’ll give it that. Forced myself to watch the first season to the end in the faint hope it’ll do something interesting, but nope.
I guess it’s watchable if you’re looking for a simple power fantasy and don’t mind tropes.
Manga it is based on is actually WORSE, the anime is decent in comparison
Yeah that second season in particular. My nephew told me he was really enjoying it so I thought I’d watch it too so we could talk about it but damn. First season wasn’t bad I like the world. But those characters just got worse and worse and worse. Second season is so one dimensional. It’s just your standard power fantasy and the main character is so goddamn boring. He’s a cringe character is what he is. Like zero self-reflection ability.
Season 3 of Death Note. I liked the bleak end of season 2, season 3 just felt like it came up with a contrived continuation to turn the tables. It was like a fanfiction.
Post L Death Note sucked.
Yeah it felt like they didn’t want the series to end because it was making so much money, so they came up with the dumbest replacement character
I fucking hated Near. I wanted to finish it up to see it though but damn the post L arc feels like retreading but not being as good
Speaking of making money and continuing past expiration date. The Netflix movie. Shudders wilem Defoe was they only good about it
Shield Hero. I loved the initial premise of an anti-hero doing what he could to just survive in a world that was against him. His only companion a slave that he was raising almost like a surrogate daughter, the two of them against the world.
I thought it was an interesting premise. Then the tone completely shifted and it turned into a generic power fantasy isekai where basically everyone loved him. Completely lost me the second they introduced Filo or whatever her name was.
Wolf’s Reign.
Great soundtrack, terrible narrative.
Bleach falls off so hard after the Soul Society arc. The pacing slows down to a complete crawl and practically every subsequent arc just recycles the same tropes and patterns over and over with the occasional shocking moment or two.
Genesis of Aquarion had a strong concept but the execution increasingly fell flat for me as it went on.
Guilty Crown had a very strong start but the finale was so forgettable I fully forgot what happened in the last 3 episodes within about a week.
Mirai Nikki has a very strong start, a mediocre middle section, and a finish that would have been incredible if it made any sense with the show up until that point. The twist itself does work, but the emotional journey of the main characters is done in a way that’s more edgy than it is relatable.
Darker Than Black is probably the biggest example of this. The dub helps fix some of the plot holes, but basically the showrunner who had the shows bible left the production about halfway thru season 1, so everything else after that point was the rest of the writers room just winging it, and it only kinda works, with the S1 finale being mediocre after such a great first few episodes. Season 2 is fully awful IMO.
God I found guilty frown after finishing code geass leaving me wanting. I was so bored I didn’t finish
Edit: I just realized I had a typo in Crown. It fits so I’m leaving it
I watched it as it was coming out. Just kept hoping they would turn it around or unveil that the bland parts were actually all careful setup for some masterful twist. Nope, it’s just bland.
For me it was My Hero Academia. I gave up on it at the start of Meta Liberation Arc.
Overlord. It started out interesting but then… nothing really happens. It’s just a way for the author to showcase their fetish characters.
I don’t actually watch a lot of anime but reading this question, my immediate answer is PSYCHO-PASS. Season 1 is a masterpiece of a story regardless of the medium IMO. Philip K. Dick tier.
Then they carried on with it instead of stopping there. The movie was ok, season 2 was meh and the villain was a bit much. And I haven’t even been able to bring myself to watch any other content from it. Not sure I’d want to because I prefer to pretend that sometimes it’s about art and not always about money and that they stopped after telling the story they wanted to tell in season 1 without turning it into a franchise.
I do not acknowledge anything psycho pass after season 1. When I bought the season 1 Blu-ray at Best buy season 2 was there (which despite being cheaper for being a newer show) and I left it…
The way they fucked things up with gratuitous violence that unlike season 1 did not feel earned and the ending that explains it is so… Stupid. I feel like the director wanted to see Akane tortured mentally because they got off on it or something
Season 3 was fucked from day 1 when it became an Amazon prime exclusive and the launched was botched to all hell. After the fucked launch I only got 3 episodes in.
One day I’ll need to watch sinners of the system
Season 3 was fucked from day 1
Kinda glad that I haven’t got that far then lol. Although one day I’d like to catch up with season 3 and Sinners of the System just for completion sake. But I’m definitely not as amped about it as I was with season 1 anymore, so I’ll get to it some time. It’s just not exactly high priority.
Wonder Egg Priority had so much potential but the last third of it was just so awful.
aldnoah zero started pretty ok then dropped like a burning messerschmitt
Whenever I see the name of Aldnoah Zero, certain part of my unconscious memory unlocks and I get angry because of the season 2.
I really enjoyed season 1 and I thought the finale was pretty bold. Then season 2 happened. Without going into spoilers, watching season 2 felt like watching Death Note Season 3 or Star Wars: The Last Jedi. That is to say, there was much confusion and anger.
Biggest just because there was a lot of hype around it, but I didn’t really like Jujutsu Kaisen as much as I hoped. Bad power scaling and weird jump cuts between scenes.
Yeah, the power scaling broke it for me, too. The magic system is certainly imaginative, but it feels so arbitrary! It’s so stylish, but I just can’t get invested in anything that happens, because it never feels like it was earned.
