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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One piece, 100 episodes, and they tell me to continue, it’ll get good they say.
Hoshi no Samidare. I loved the manga but the anime just isn’t hitting. But perhaps that’s only because of my expectations since I loved the manga.
I’ll have to revisit that to see if it will hit after I have let it stew a while.
i couldn’t get through two episodes as a huge fan of the manga. it was a total letdown.
Yeah honestly. I tried really hard but couldn’t make it past episode 7. And with things like this it won’t get a other chance.
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.
Very much yes, making it into a harem-power fantasy was such a letdown
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
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.
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.
Manga it is based on is actually WORSE, the anime is decent in comparison
In recent memory: Zenshuu. I was incredibly let down by the isekai bait and switch.
Schwarzes Marken, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Amanchu! Advance, Aldnoah;0, Horimiya: the missing pieces, Nyaruko, Lycoris Recoil, Magical Destroyers, VTuber Legend, the Misfit of deamon academy 2
Most of them started out strong but fell brutally off
Biggest one: Aldnoah Zero
Some potential contenders are: The Detective Is Already Dead, Akame ga Kill, and Shield Hero.
For me it was My Hero Academia. I gave up on it at the start of Meta Liberation Arc.
Toaru Majutsu no Index has a lot of animes, seasons, spin-off and so on and when I tried to watch it I only got mad. Why a guy with amnesia can act like nothing happened? How nobody can see that your best friend/colleague/love interest/family is not the same person anymore? How your magic hand make you defeat trained soldiers with guns? Just shoot the protag for god sake.
Re:Creators I love the animation, the setting, the idea, the soundtrack but I don’t know the show is so anticlimactic.
Yeah I didn’t like Index but the Railgun spinoffs are peak
I really want to like Hellsing Ultimate. The same story I love, but turned up to 11! Nazis fighting the Vatican fighting Vampires, what’s not to love?
Well it turns out when you turn everything up to 11, it mostly just becomes noise. A lot of the interesting subtle moments that I enjoyed in Hellsing were either dropped or abridged. Don’t even get me started on the extreme tone flipflopping! I stopped watching about halfway through, and don’t think I’ll ever pick it back up.
You should watch Hellsing Ultimate Abridged. It’s just great
Agreed the abridged version does the series well
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.
Wolf’s Reign.
Great soundtrack, terrible narrative.
Deadman Wonderland is one of my top shows that I wish would get a remake
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.
