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?
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
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.