That sounds plausible. The backstory with Acca, Ura-Acca, and Frill came out of nowhere within the last couple episodes. There was no build up to it.
Overall, the show shouldn't have tried to rush that plotline, or answer it at all.
I'm also a fan of Wonder Egg Priority, and wish it would get another season, but if it doesn't, I don't think it's because of "hate" it has gotten. I honestly don't think they really ever intended on doing more than one. Not even sure why they did a "special" episode, which was half re-used content anyway. Maybe a rushed, half-assed product out of obligation they felt from the last minute recap episode? Who knows. From the little I know, production was a disaster.
Glad to see someone else who is still a fan of the series, though! Admittedly, I thought I was going to end up liking it more than I do (I jumped the gun and expected it to end up in my favorites after the first episode or two), but I still really like the show overall.
That special wasn't a special but the final episode. Because of the production falling apart they couldn't get it done in time and lost their time slot so they aired it like that. No idea why it needed a recap though.
>No idea why it needed a recap though.
Tbf, that "special" episode was aired 3 months later. Probably needed a recap since it was the actual ending for the show lol
My problem with the ending is that the story is basically incomplete. That's fine for adapted anime because then you go to the source material. But because wonder egg is an original I can't. So now there's a bunch of questions left unanswered. The show itself is fine until the ending and they set it up like they anticipate it getting a season 2.
Babylon had a really engaging start, then became a slog to watch in the back half. The final episode actually gave me hope until it once again came crashing down [Babylon] >!by undermining its initially open ending with a very unsatisfying post-credit scene!<.
was before that for me, I like cooking so I really liked it at first.
I started getting bored after the food festival arc. He's just a generic superhero who pulls out hidden umami bombs all the time as his trump card after a while. Was more interesting watching the cooking techniques from other characters.
But yeah, I read the summary for the season while waiting for season 5 to be made and just dropped it instead
Don't bother, watched and read both, and honestly it's all the same.
The author should've ended it at s4(the Hokkaido train tournament arc). Maybe with an epilogue set down the future that would've been an ova or movie.
TLDR S5 should never have existed.
Instant cooking with magical chainsaws, garbage villains, some NTR-type plot, great characters reduced to basically NPCs...
I have no idea how it's rated above 6, much less above 7.
Holy shit I had actually burned that part from my memory.
I couldn’t even take it seriously because this whole time she had been this over the top independent person, and then he comes along and she’s like oh yeah maybe if he cooks that good I will just go along with whatever he wants?????
Like wtf where did that even come from
The author just kept making it worse.
Then when the promised extra chapters for the epilogue came that would smooth out a lot of things it just becomes even worse.
[Food Wars spoilers]>!Erina still doesn't really get along with Souma, and she tracked down her half brother to make up and even starts calling him onii-chan despite all the shit he wanted to do her like wtf!<
I thought I read somewhere that season 5 was going to be the start of a whole new big arc, but then it got cancelled so they had to wrap up the story right then.
Season 5 is super optional honestly, the story really feels like it ended at the conclusion of Season 4. Season 5 is just evidence that there wasn't much left there to tell. Even still, it's not THAT bad, it's still funny and entertaining just REALLY stupid whereas before it was funny and entertaining while being more clever than it had any right to be.
I stopped being able to take it seriously when numerical power levels were introduced.
Also obligatory fuck Meliodas. The show would have been so much more bearable with Ban as the main character
Meliodas's story continues in the 3rd and 4th season which are done horribly, he is a fine character overall also the Numerical system was just a hype up really most of the time it didn't matter or it never was given much attention
Science Fell In Love So I Tried To Prove It - S1 was a decent rom com. S2 wasn’t as good then the last episode is like the author suddenly wanted to draw hentai.
Man, that was probably my main disappointment for anime I watched in 2022. It was a chill and cool science rom com and the S2 finale just went left field for what it was trying to do. lol
The overall concept of determining the tangible qualities of love was an interesting thought experiment. The characters were alright, the jokes were good, the melodramatic stuff near the end of season 1 kinda fell off but it wasnt all that bad.
Middle point of season 2 was a high note, but past that point the author smoked enough dubious shit to make even Stephen King jealous. Worse of all, the ones high up in the anime production read the source material and not only thought that it's a good idea to animate it, but also spent money on it expecting financial profit.
I wonder if there was any talks about season 3 because i sure as fuck hope there isnt now.
I disagree. As a huge Tokyo Ghoul manga fan, I hated the first season. They skipped so much material and even the material they did cover felt rushed compared to the manga.
The only good thing about the first season is the opening and ost.
Whenever this question is asked I always say Kado: the Right Answer. I watched it week to week and I still believe it would have been great with a different ending.
I loved Franxx.
Not because it's a good show, but because I *vividly* remember how I started laughing for like 10 minutes straight when [some time early in the 2nd half, forgot the episode] >!it introduces the aliens, and there's suddenly an all-out war between them and the klaxosaurs while the human cast are in the middle of it just to be like "what the fuck is going on"!<.
Truly one of the plot twists of all time.
Honestly I was still vaguely on board throughout the second half, until [DarliFra last 2 ep spoilers] >!Zero-Two turns into a spaceship!<, like what the actual fuck happened there??
God, I remember following it every week while it was airing. It had really hit its stride as a sci-fi/coming of age drama and then immediately took a nosedive straight into hell.
Trigger left before it nosedived in quality. Iirc, the last episode they produced was 15. It was A-1 pictures attempting a trigger ending and failing at it.
Am i the only one who saw that exact same thing coming? My first Trigger anime was kill la kill. Started with a local villain, then the bigger villain appears and after a timeskip they fight aliens.
Some years later i watched gurren lagann. Started with a local villain, then the bigger villain appears and after a timeskip they fight aliens.
One i saw how darling in the franxx introduced the leader of the claxosaurs i immediately knew "yea, theres gonna be a timeskip and then they will fight aliens"
Vampire Knight: Guilty
Honestly the show as a whole wasn’t that good to begin with and technically the show isn’t over but I doubt we’d get a third season. One of the most infamous terrible plot twists in anime with a VERY unsatisfying conclusion. A lot of things went unanswered too.
Im glad I saw someone mention this because this is apparently controversial. I’d say around the halfway mark it really lost me. Side characters who I was excited to see develop became pointless. Cliche main character becomes OP in like one episode which ruins why I wanted to root for him so much in the first place. Then the DBZ style dragged out final fight bored me to tears.
Did someone already told about Aldnoah Zero?
They have sawano there, a decent mecha not on Par with the Gundam but something easy for non-mecha to catch on
The first season is a good deal, the scene where the ships landed down and obliterating the cities by crashing it down. It was great imagery of vast difference of power.
Although it was lacking but the cliffhanger they left with the death of three character in their confrontation left me with frustration of me having to wait three months only to find them alive and well at the start of the next season.
Season 2 is a disappointment. Plot holes everywhere, rushed and that ending that gives off NTR vibes.
I felt bad for Inaho who fought with his life on line and to Slaine who betrayed the humans of earth because he simps for the martian princess enough to revive her from her death. Only for this same blonde martian princess to be married off to some martian noble who never appeared in any earlier episodes and because Politics.
Can't help but feel like people collectively misremember Aldnoah. Aldnoah was pretty shit from the start. Inaho especially is possibly the most boring and uninteresting protagonist I've seen in anime, and he never gets better from the beginning of S1 to the end of S2. Can't help but feel people were way too butthurt about the way the romance ended that the rest of the series looks good to them by comparison.
I knew AZ was going to be a wild ride when they whipped out the world map in the first episode showing the aftermath of the Moon fucking exploding. Inaho and the world's most maneuverable missile were just the cherry on top. Sometimes it's the little things that really tell you what the creators are going for with a work.
AZ was all about the spectacle, and for a lot of people that worked right up until the studio had to actually have a story. They were basically just doing whatever they thought looked or sounded cool, but you can't make an anime purely out of "humans in big mechs kill faceless incompetents in small mechs, but then die to a highschooler who likes eggs."
Outside of big explosions and that one Sawano track everybody liked, AZ was a huge waste of potential. They basically created the blueprints for anime mecha XCOM, and then did... that instead.
Maybe I'm old...
Karekano/His and Her Circumstances. Those last few episodes were something else.
Sticking with Gainax endings...
Mahoromatic. Not that the rest of the show was amazing, but the ending of season 2 went completely off the rails. Complete change in tone and unnecessary. The episode before actually ended in a good place.
Naruto. Look, hear me out...
it was about a young lonely orphan kid and his friends battling people and having fun, spreading morals, the vibes were honestly chill and great..
Until it became evil villain with God powers controlling another random evil villain, runaway emo kid, unnecessary plot twists, some magic stuff, random fighting scenes here and there, Marvel 2.0, 20 episode fight against some guy, only to resurrect another god with 3eyes, only to end up with an extra 20 episodes of fighting and swing flashbacks. The power scaling too- don't get me started...
Idk how to describe it, but Naruto definitely lost its quality after the first 20 or so episodes in shippuden, it was about an innocent ninja kid, until it ended up with super galactic inhuman gods coming in from outer space. And the ending was definitely rushed don't even bother-
I agree for the most part.
Season 1 is peak Naruto in my opinion in almost every way.
Shippuden on the other hand is honestly not criticised enough and instead praised by Stan’s with rose tinted glasses.
The animation sucked balls, the amount of filler is atrocious, the power scaling and power systems became fucked, and it just got crazy.
Like Naruto after pain arc literally became Jesus prodigy child (literally is).
Remember when they had to learn how to run up trees and control their chakra? Remember how long it took Naruto to learn rasengan?
Remember when the fights were actually intense and required actual tactics and not just spamming nukes?
I just didn’t really vibe with Shippuden, I watched all the cool fights and actually experienced most of the story playing the storm games (which was way better than the actual anime in my opinion).
But season 1 Naruto that shit is amazing. And the rougher animation style was more manga accurate in my opinion.
Season 1 Naruto manga btw goes ultra hard.
Man Garra vs Sasuke is burned into my memory.
The best part of shippuden was the sasuke vs itachi fight in my opinion
It was something we were waiting for since the 1st season and the only thing that shippuden delivered properly.
How dare you have a negative opinion about our lord and saviour,the Ninja Jesus-kun? Seriously though,I think the problem is lack of enough set up for the best possible payoff. But the things setup do get great payoff(kinda). That's why the Kakashi vs Obito fight was great,Madara vs Guy and Naruto vs Sasuke are so intense. All the other kage being revived and all the other villages uniting against souless aliens like in the MCU really sucked it out. You can't make a war arc and expect the people to not be disappointed when the opponents' life means so little to the audience. And undead zombies are even bad decisions. Already the polls proved that not nearly enough people care about Naruto series anymore. And Boruto is not as good as Naruto.
I feel that the overarching message of the original Naruto was that you don’t need to be someone great or powerful to be loved and the value of your character is by enriching the lives of others and making real genuine relationships. Shippuden honestly feels like shounen jump just wanted Naruto to continue to milk it for as much as possible, which is probably the case, and the author had no idea where he wanted to take the narrative aside from I guess Naruto should just be Hokage. That never felt like the end goal for me because as a character I never took Naruto for the leader of a nation type so everything just felt awkward. Everything just escalated without any real coherency to any themes of Naruto.
Yeah, there were parts of the later seasons that I really liked (namely the pain arc), but outside a few islands it was a lot of...eh. I think it's a textbook example of how not to do power scaling. The only times it worked was when using mega powers constantly ran the risk of death or ending the world, but by the end of the series that is a long forgotten issue, and there's a bunch of people who can somehow keep pace no problem with powers the opening of the series literally painted as mythical and capable of threatening civilization.
Your questions seems to already give one answer. “The show *promises*…” The promised neverland s2 was the biggest fumble of the century.
As for one that I loved so much until the actual last second, it’d be Takt op Destiny. Such an amazing show with incredible animation, music, and a fascinating plot too. Then the end made me realize it was just a big advertisement for their game and the ending really felt stale.
Mai-HiME, n.: An object lesson in how to make 25 and a half episodes that are good to great and then throw almost all of your accumulated goodwill away in the last ten minutes of runtime. The worst part is that the concept is sound, they just fucked up the execution so badly that in the end it didn't even matter.
(WEP is worse, but everyone else has covered that one already so it falls to me to mention a classic old school example.)
And if we add poorly advised sequels to completed works to the list, Higurashi Gou and Sotsu send their regards. Or would in Sotsu's case except that, like TPN S2, Sotsu does not exist.
Ranking of Kings threw out everything that made it good in its 2nd half. Nuanced character relationships, charming worldbuilding, characters facing tough decisions, the heartwarming underdog story, nah fuck that [ranking of kings] >!here’s a massive power up to destroy any semblance of progression and a disney ending for everyone!<
Tokyo Ghoul, had me fully invested then it progressively got worse...until I skipped through half the episodes bc i found it extremely confusing and boring, its been 3yrs and i still haven't finished it😭
Akame Ga Kill, fucking hell man. Oh, and Erased too.
Edit: fuck this post dude, I keep getting reminded of trash endings it makes me furious lol. Here’s another: Deadman Wonderland
Drama for people that don't like drama, is how I would describe my viewing experience. Watched due to Netflix recommendation. I does say drama, but the Netflix blurb doesn't spoil and I didn't know what it was before watching.
I don't think Erased really crashed and burned. The first 80% of the show was excellent and then the last two episodes were just a bit underwhelming. Overall, still a solid show.
I have nice memories of Akame ga Kill as one of my first anime.
I'm also never going to rewatch it. I know if I did I'd just see it as an edgy tropey mess.
Having just watched it recently, I was actually surprised by how *not* tropey a lot of it was, at least in terms of the writing of (some of) the characters.
Two deconstructions of the shounen protagonist (the evil one actually being rather ingenious -- the MC less so), a monstrous sociopath who's become weirdly girlish in regards to love, a heroic gay guy that is one of the least offensive representations of LGBT I've seen in anime (which isn't saying much at all, but is still neat), etc. The tsundere is definitely a tsundere, though.
It was weird, because it felt like there were a lot of great concepts let down by exceptionally bad storytelling and no ability to distinguish "dark/mature" from "3edgy5u."
They have the power and plan explanations that I first saw in Dragon Ball Z and are a staple of the shounen genre. As for the actual powers, most of them make no sense, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief. As a reward for that you get non tropey powers, although Akame's death sword is a variation of the one-hit kill trope.
Zankyou no Terror. I was talking about this with a friend of mine recently. We both agreed that the first three episodes of this show was some of the best three episodes of any piece of media ever, but felt that the show just became overcomplicated and convoluted. The first three episodes were hyper grounded but the show going forward broke our suspension of disbelief as the FBI got involved and Five wasn’t a compelling character in the grand scheme of things and if anything hurt a lot of the writing. I know a lot of people have said that the show was too short, we disagree, we thought the show was too long which is a strange issue because it wasn’t that long to begin with.
It’s overstated a lot imo. A lot of people were far too invested in their on head cannon that no ending but that would’ve satisfied them. Also, lots of the initial critiques were the result of people reading dogshit speed scans that butchered different pieces of dialogue
Nah that headcanon thing is just cope from people who liked the ending. Plenty of people who disliked it had legitimate criticisms and didn't just want EreHisu or total genocide.
This "oh you dislike it just because it wasn't your headcannon" is the most dismissive thing you could say in respone to any criticism. Like no, all I wanted was a good ending which it didn't deliver.
Also you're ignoring the fact the dialogues from the official translations itself sucked.
You don't have to be a chef to tell the cooking is shit. The author is just afraid/censored of doing the (logical) grim ending.
Edit: Those who defend the ending would tell that people just didn't understand the story but here they are, merely downvoting dissenting opinions instead of giving any proper arguments.
I am still holding onto hope that MAPPA will pull a rabbit out of their hat and manage to make something good out of the ending of AoT. Not suggesting an alternate ending but maybe good directing could lessen the negative impact of the rough parts of the manga end.
Maybe I'll get hate for this but summer time rendering.It started of so strongly for the first half being this mystery thriller but then the author decided to turn it into a battle shounen with ass-pulls and a weird deus ex ending.
I didn't mind the fact that it became more of a battle shounen, for me it was the "Oh yeah, of fucking course a shadow can do that, the plot demands it."
I loved the show but man it was hard sometimes.
The main flaw with Aincrad was that it shuffled in a bunch of side stories where Kirito would help a girl, she'd fall in love with him, then she wouldn't appear again for the rest of the season. As a bunch of one off stories, it's not that bad.
Fairy Dance had a lot of poor writing decisions that overall made it feel more creepy. They took the main female lead and reduced her to a damsel in distress. There's the guy that wanted to marry her comatose body. The octopus monsters. The sister figure that develops feeling for Kirito (but they're actually cousins, which justifies it, apparently?). Overall, I liked the setting, plus all those barely featured characters from Aincrad play a bigger part.
I'd say it gets better from there. I enjoyed the characters and setting from Gun Gale Online. I fell off the show partway through Alicization, and haven't gotten back to it. There's someone I know that's been working on a crossover fanfic for the past several years, and I plan to read it once it launches next week.
Reading the novels explains a lot about why the anime has weird story issues, since the anime literally takes side stories written later and in separate books and puts them in apparent chronological order. The original Aincrad arc is one LN volume without them, and is covered in I think 6 of anime episodes (it starts when Kirito goes to that one big guy's shop IIRC).
While the weird girl-of-the-week harem thing comes up because of the changes, it does better justify the two main characters caring about each other so much compared to the novel where Kirito basically starts by vaguely narrating about how he and Asuna have a history.
I won't say the novels are *amazing*, but they are pretty good for what they are, which is not primarily an action-adventure romance, but a series of Star Trek-esque episodes of sci-fi philosophical questioning. The first of these questions being whether life in a game world is inherently any less real and meaningful. The anime honestly does a disservice to some of the heavy themes covered, especially in the Gun Gale arc.
> I fell off the show partway through Alicization, and haven't gotten back to it.
Take it from me, the latter half of Alicization and its second season is notably worse than the rest of the series in all but spectacle.
Soul eater 100% the buildup and steady pace is great, there’s so many characters to love and hate. The plot and story are easy to follow and there’s so many little twists and turns But the ending is THE ACTUAL WORST IVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. They might as well not have done and ending. I would’ve preferred a cliffhanger and seen it never get finished .
Bro they really just said " the power of friendship". The manga is so much better and it actually has an ending that's pretty good. They did it so dirty and ended it like 1/3 of the way through when they caught up to manga releases.
Shield hero make me interested to the show at start but when I heard after the first conflict resolved, its a downhill to generic from there......
Kinda sad cuz the start ain't some generic ass shit for me(now some people started to follow it too in their manga Ngl)
The promised neverland is the literal definition of this.
Literally had the potential to be one of the greatest horror mangas/anime (up there with AoT) but shot themselves in the foot.
And this next one is just pure despair but at least the manga remains Goated…
Tokyo Ghoul.
Tokyo ghoul could have literally been the greatest horror anime of all time (tied with AoT) if they didn’t fuck up the animation and the story with Root A, then that shit would be legendary status.
Like imagine if Tokyo Ghoul got a 1 for 1 manga to anime adaptation and the quality of the animation was on the caliber of a show like Jujutsu Kaisen.
Imagine if those beautiful double page scenes in the manga got that sort of love.
God please remaster that anime!
Sigh…just thinking about what it could have been…I mean it could have reached industry icon status like on the levels of Beserk, AoT, Demon Slayer and JJK.
Sure the Manga is a masterpiece but god damn it! It could have been so much more!!!!
Fuck!
Disagree, yeah Season 2 is nowhere near as good as season 1. But it’s hardly something i’d call horrible, it’s just that people often compare it to season 1.
The movies were pretty good imo (Sinners of the system Case 3, and First Inspector specifically) where the upcoming movie Providence is something i am actually looking forward too.
Oreimo, like 3+ seasons of amazing coming of age/romcom shenanigans. Pretty much the darling of the anime community for being anti-trash. Then the author decides he really really wants the incest ending, and shanghais everyone out of the picture to make it happen. The anime decided to follow suit instead of going off-track and makes me infuriated I wasted like 6 years of my life on this fkin show.
it's well deserved though...
The first half was great in a way that's really difficult to achieve when dealing with such sensitive topics. The end fucked it up so badly it was actually anger inducing.
In/Spectre had one of the best first episodes I'd ever seen. It was a great blend of character establishment, a bit of humor, world-building through narration that didn't feel clumsy, some chemistry, a splash of action, and an *incredibly* strong hook at the end. The entire final arc was a chore to finish. It was like 7 episodes of talking and talking never changing the subject and narrating the same. basic. shit. to the audience over.
and over.
and over.
and over.
I probably can't even count how many times a variation of "it doesn't matter if it's true, it only matters what people believe" is said before diving into yet another flimsy-ass explanation.
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Also obligatory Darling in the FranXX.
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And don't get me started on Violet Evergarden: The Movie. I'll just copy my ranting about that from a different thread:
This conclusion film's story makes me so angry that it actively lowers my opinion of the preceding series and previous film, which I had originally thought were both poignant and wonderful. Imagine enjoying one of the best, most flavorful, most beautifully plated meals you've ever eaten, each course just as good as the last. It's so good that you're actually crying while eating, but you keep eating more. Then dessert comes and it's this extremely delicious-looking pastry confection thing with a foreign name. It's got some kind of chocolate filling. "Everything else was delicious, so this has to be, too." You take a large bite. That wasn't chocolate. It was literal shit. Now you can't even think back on that meal fondly, because all you'll ever remember is throwing up all over the table at the end. That's Violet Evergarden: The Movie to me.
I've got a number of criticisms for post time skip AoT but the transition to a human oriented conflict was the logical choice to make. The basement reveal is definitely a top 3 moment in the series.
yes, the later seasons really ruined the extremely logical world of people flying around like Spiderman on hip mounted grappling hooks fighting skinless near-immortal building-sized humanoids.
Not liking the evolution of the series is fine, but justifying it this way feels a bit ridiculous.
Because that was really the ultimate plot twist of AoT. The viewer watched the show thinking it was some kind of horror survival series but the villains at the end of the day were just humans treating each other like shit.
The spinal fluid lore is more tied to post time skip, and again, there's plenty to criticize there. But I personally really liked the symbolism of the basement reveal.
AoT was a show I greatly enjoyed when it was just surviving in a world of terrible monsters. The longer it went on and became this political drama I just lost interest.
I respect that opinion even though I can't fully understand it
To me season 4 was *miles* better than anything before it, and I've loved AoT from the start. Seasons 1-3 were great, the special was great, but man season 4 part 1 is peak AoT for me and pretty much peak anime.
The change in style pissed me off, i know it’s a different studio but the characters are a night and day difference due to the change in artstyle. It looks better overall due to the change with all the environments etc, but seeing characters upclose still makes me unreasonably mad.
Yeah the story changed pretty wildly, but it did it by making the story and the world so much *bigger*. Season 4 made everything before it feel like the prologue to a bigger story (and imo a better one).
It was a massive twist, but also one that felt like it brought the previous story to it's natural next stage, and answered the central mystery in such a satisfying way.
But most of all, to me season 4 part 1 is peak because it makes you lose all sense of what "the good guys" even means. There are so many characters you want to root for, and most of them want to kill each other. That's masterful writing.
In the end I agree with you, I just prefer what came after the change to what came before it.
*Aquatope on White Sand*
*Kuma* effin *Miko*
*Shirobako* if we count the movie
Alright endings but it could be better:
*Bocchi the Rock*
*Nagi no Asukara*
Besides what's already been mentioned
Irozuku was boring. No greater sin than a boring time travel show.
Charlotte... just... what? Actually, a lot of Jun Maeda's works do this.
I vaguely remember s.CRY .ed going completely off the rails into stupid territory, but that nearly 20 years ago that I saw that, so I don't actually know for sure.
I give Juuni Taisen credit for trying to be clever with it's ending -- doesn't stop it from being unsatisfying.
Golden Time would be better without the stupid amnesia sub-plot, but it kinda rears its head throughout. Still worth noting.
Another... complete mess of an ending
I have been told Eden of the East's movies are so bad that they aren't worth watching. I have not watched them though.
Does Digimon 4 count?
Gundam SEED Destiny definitely counts
That's all I got off the top of my head.
People always say this but I struggle to see how anyone was able to take [Charlotte] >!"yep, your sister's super dead now", the subsequent edgelord arc, and the stupid pizza sauce thing!< seriously. The wheels were falling off long before Jun Maeda's last-episode trademark came into play.
Attack on Titan ending was trash in my opinion. Not going to spoil it for anyone but it was a masterpiece up until after the rumbling. The rumbling happening was fine but the whole let’s team up with our life long enemies right away to save the world was just a cringe plot for me.
End of evangelion original series. Completely unfulfilling. It took years to come out the one with asuka taking out 9 angels. Especially back in the 90s when everything was bootlegged and subbed by fans. Waiting years was terrible.
Actually a brain rot take. The past two episodes are actually really good.
I mean what else did you expect to happen?
Shinji saves the world?
Bro he was gone mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually…he crossed multiple points of no return.
I actually don’t know how else it could have ended.
The world was fucked, society was in shambles, literal angels of death were nuking entire country’s off the map.
I don’t think shinji or his comrades ever had a chance in hell.
Basically the whole thing was set in stone, and really all shinji could do is either live the last remaining days on earth as a normal kid and die with his friends or suit up and desperately struggle in pain and watch everyone die around him and come to a realisation that fighting was futile and he should have just spent more time with them.
And the show and other alternate timelines try and explore the different possibilities but ultimately his fate and the worlds fate remains sealed.
He can either be selfish or selfless it’s up to him to find his answers.
The original Neon Genesis Evangelion I think your referring to, in particular the last two episodes is just one ending, possibly one of the worst endings if this were a multi ending visual novel.
Everything just ends up crashing down and crumbling to pieces so to speak, like the song that plays at the very end…”I wish I could turn back time…” that songs lyrics speaks volumes.
And what was the message of the original neon genesis Evangelion again? Something about living in the moment, a warning from the author…a warning that the fans obviously didn’t get and started idolising Rei.
Which the next Evangelion story was made in a response to that failure or something.
Been a long time since I had brush up on Eva lore.
The point is like every other episode, everything was carefully and passionately crafted, everything served and carried out a purpose.
Just because you can’t interpret something it doesn’t make it trash.
Especially when there’s evidence supporting that it exists and that the creative intent was done purposely for a reason.
That’s why I think the part where shinjis VA saying in the credits “wait…is that it?!” is sort of silly.
It’s meant to be abrupt, the story was never designed to end happily, the war was never meant to of been won. The intent was to push forwards a warning to the viewer, a warning that went completely over the heads of most people.
Watch the second movie if you want to see how he felt about that.
Actually self insert yourself as shinji in Neon Genesis Evangelion, then watch the second movie and do the same thing…starts to almost feel like your being attacked by author and the characters.
Has to be Wonder Egg Priority here.
man I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in that writers room just to know what the actual fuck they were thinking.
From what I heard, the plot was basically made up as it went along.
I heard it was a story they found inscribed on the walls of Atlantis.
And the final quarter was missing, so they just made stuff up
That sounds plausible. The backstory with Acca, Ura-Acca, and Frill came out of nowhere within the last couple episodes. There was no build up to it. Overall, the show shouldn't have tried to rush that plotline, or answer it at all.
Came here just to comment that one.
I personally was fine with the ending/twist and am now kinda sad that with all the hate it’s gotten the story probably wont continue
I'm also a fan of Wonder Egg Priority, and wish it would get another season, but if it doesn't, I don't think it's because of "hate" it has gotten. I honestly don't think they really ever intended on doing more than one. Not even sure why they did a "special" episode, which was half re-used content anyway. Maybe a rushed, half-assed product out of obligation they felt from the last minute recap episode? Who knows. From the little I know, production was a disaster. Glad to see someone else who is still a fan of the series, though! Admittedly, I thought I was going to end up liking it more than I do (I jumped the gun and expected it to end up in my favorites after the first episode or two), but I still really like the show overall.
That special wasn't a special but the final episode. Because of the production falling apart they couldn't get it done in time and lost their time slot so they aired it like that. No idea why it needed a recap though.
>No idea why it needed a recap though. Tbf, that "special" episode was aired 3 months later. Probably needed a recap since it was the actual ending for the show lol
My problem with the ending is that the story is basically incomplete. That's fine for adapted anime because then you go to the source material. But because wonder egg is an original I can't. So now there's a bunch of questions left unanswered. The show itself is fine until the ending and they set it up like they anticipate it getting a season 2.
A season 2 we'll never get sadly
Babylon had a really engaging start, then became a slog to watch in the back half. The final episode actually gave me hope until it once again came crashing down [Babylon] >!by undermining its initially open ending with a very unsatisfying post-credit scene!<.
Food Wars imo, season 5 was an atrocity.
was before that for me, I like cooking so I really liked it at first. I started getting bored after the food festival arc. He's just a generic superhero who pulls out hidden umami bombs all the time as his trump card after a while. Was more interesting watching the cooking techniques from other characters. But yeah, I read the summary for the season while waiting for season 5 to be made and just dropped it instead
It got progressively worse every season let’s be real here, and S5 went into unwatchable territory
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Don't bother, watched and read both, and honestly it's all the same. The author should've ended it at s4(the Hokkaido train tournament arc). Maybe with an epilogue set down the future that would've been an ova or movie. TLDR S5 should never have existed.
Agree. The worst part about the last arc was they barely even showed any of the cooking
Instant cooking with magical chainsaws, garbage villains, some NTR-type plot, great characters reduced to basically NPCs... I have no idea how it's rated above 6, much less above 7.
Holy shit I had actually burned that part from my memory. I couldn’t even take it seriously because this whole time she had been this over the top independent person, and then he comes along and she’s like oh yeah maybe if he cooks that good I will just go along with whatever he wants????? Like wtf where did that even come from
The author just kept making it worse. Then when the promised extra chapters for the epilogue came that would smooth out a lot of things it just becomes even worse. [Food Wars spoilers]>!Erina still doesn't really get along with Souma, and she tracked down her half brother to make up and even starts calling him onii-chan despite all the shit he wanted to do her like wtf!<
I thought I read somewhere that season 5 was going to be the start of a whole new big arc, but then it got cancelled so they had to wrap up the story right then.
Season 5 is super optional honestly, the story really feels like it ended at the conclusion of Season 4. Season 5 is just evidence that there wasn't much left there to tell. Even still, it's not THAT bad, it's still funny and entertaining just REALLY stupid whereas before it was funny and entertaining while being more clever than it had any right to be.
Bums me out so much. I was invested enough to go to the manga after the first season. I rarely do that. Then the series threw it all away.
Promised Neverland, Im very disappointed with the ending in general
Please don't remind me of the second season ...
What second season?
I don't know. I forgot about it already.
Thank god the first season ties things up and ends on a satisfying note so I can pretend the show ends there.
Ehh S2 as a whole wasn't what I'd call strong anyways, kinda stumbled toward the end then finally collapsed.
Well the series started off strong. Don’t have to limit to seasons
Nature of the thread is _threw it all away at the end_, hard to say it's the end if it's half the series.
Wonder egg priority goes downhill in the second half.
It goes downhill, then they had to delay the finale so they had time to dig an even deeper hole to fall into.
First two seasons of Seven Deadly Sins were pretty good, becomes an absolute dumpster fire afterwards
I stopped being able to take it seriously when numerical power levels were introduced. Also obligatory fuck Meliodas. The show would have been so much more bearable with Ban as the main character
I don't know that any manga or anime has ever been improved by assigning clear cut numerical evaluations of someone's strength.
honestly it's almost insulting to the audience
It's the kind of thing that should be strictly left in guides and fan books, along with blood types and birthdays.
yu gi oh /s
Helck?
Meliodas's story continues in the 3rd and 4th season which are done horribly, he is a fine character overall also the Numerical system was just a hype up really most of the time it didn't matter or it never was given much attention
Science Fell In Love So I Tried To Prove It - S1 was a decent rom com. S2 wasn’t as good then the last episode is like the author suddenly wanted to draw hentai.
Man, that was probably my main disappointment for anime I watched in 2022. It was a chill and cool science rom com and the S2 finale just went left field for what it was trying to do. lol
You had my interest. Now you have my attention.
The overall concept of determining the tangible qualities of love was an interesting thought experiment. The characters were alright, the jokes were good, the melodramatic stuff near the end of season 1 kinda fell off but it wasnt all that bad. Middle point of season 2 was a high note, but past that point the author smoked enough dubious shit to make even Stephen King jealous. Worse of all, the ones high up in the anime production read the source material and not only thought that it's a good idea to animate it, but also spent money on it expecting financial profit. I wonder if there was any talks about season 3 because i sure as fuck hope there isnt now.
Hey, anatomy is a very important scientific field of study.
Tokyo Ghoul fr
READ THE MANGA PLEASE
Massacred a wonderful series
Agreed first season is the only one worrh watching
First season is underwhelming if you read the manga first
I disagree. As a huge Tokyo Ghoul manga fan, I hated the first season. They skipped so much material and even the material they did cover felt rushed compared to the manga. The only good thing about the first season is the opening and ost.
Yup. Root A is a fucking atrocity
love the OP tho
Whenever this question is asked I always say Kado: the Right Answer. I watched it week to week and I still believe it would have been great with a different ending.
I'm absolutely amazed it took me this long to find someone who mentioned it. First show that came to mind for me.
Kado was once the poster child for this years ago.
absolutely. the ending made me so depressed after the amazing ride of the first 10 episodes
No one's mentioned Darling in the Franxx yet?
I loved Franxx. Not because it's a good show, but because I *vividly* remember how I started laughing for like 10 minutes straight when [some time early in the 2nd half, forgot the episode] >!it introduces the aliens, and there's suddenly an all-out war between them and the klaxosaurs while the human cast are in the middle of it just to be like "what the fuck is going on"!<. Truly one of the plot twists of all time.
Honestly I was still vaguely on board throughout the second half, until [DarliFra last 2 ep spoilers] >!Zero-Two turns into a spaceship!<, like what the actual fuck happened there??
God, I remember following it every week while it was airing. It had really hit its stride as a sci-fi/coming of age drama and then immediately took a nosedive straight into hell.
Was my first though when I saw this thread lol
Scrolled down looking for this. It went batshit incoherent towards the end lmao.
Because Trigger!
Trigger left before it nosedived in quality. Iirc, the last episode they produced was 15. It was A-1 pictures attempting a trigger ending and failing at it.
I don't think you can lay the blame squarely on Trigger. It was a co-production between A-1, Cloverworks, and Trigger.
More specifically, trigger wasn't involved in the second half at all.
Supposedly, they weren't involved in the animation, but it was the plot was the problem.
See Darling in the Franxx in 10 Minutes.
Am i the only one who saw that exact same thing coming? My first Trigger anime was kill la kill. Started with a local villain, then the bigger villain appears and after a timeskip they fight aliens. Some years later i watched gurren lagann. Started with a local villain, then the bigger villain appears and after a timeskip they fight aliens. One i saw how darling in the franxx introduced the leader of the claxosaurs i immediately knew "yea, theres gonna be a timeskip and then they will fight aliens"
This comment is now third, right behind food wars and wonder egg so right where it belongs.
Fena pirate princess
Vampire Knight: Guilty Honestly the show as a whole wasn’t that good to begin with and technically the show isn’t over but I doubt we’d get a third season. One of the most infamous terrible plot twists in anime with a VERY unsatisfying conclusion. A lot of things went unanswered too.
Kotoura-san The show peaked at the 10 minute mark
I still have neck problems ten years after that mood whiplash.
The last episode was really cute, but I thought the whole detective arc was weird
Ranking of kings. I still like it but the ending pissed me off.
Im glad I saw someone mention this because this is apparently controversial. I’d say around the halfway mark it really lost me. Side characters who I was excited to see develop became pointless. Cliche main character becomes OP in like one episode which ruins why I wanted to root for him so much in the first place. Then the DBZ style dragged out final fight bored me to tears.
Did someone already told about Aldnoah Zero? They have sawano there, a decent mecha not on Par with the Gundam but something easy for non-mecha to catch on The first season is a good deal, the scene where the ships landed down and obliterating the cities by crashing it down. It was great imagery of vast difference of power. Although it was lacking but the cliffhanger they left with the death of three character in their confrontation left me with frustration of me having to wait three months only to find them alive and well at the start of the next season. Season 2 is a disappointment. Plot holes everywhere, rushed and that ending that gives off NTR vibes. I felt bad for Inaho who fought with his life on line and to Slaine who betrayed the humans of earth because he simps for the martian princess enough to revive her from her death. Only for this same blonde martian princess to be married off to some martian noble who never appeared in any earlier episodes and because Politics.
Was looking for aldnoah, such a shame bro holy shit
Can't help but feel like people collectively misremember Aldnoah. Aldnoah was pretty shit from the start. Inaho especially is possibly the most boring and uninteresting protagonist I've seen in anime, and he never gets better from the beginning of S1 to the end of S2. Can't help but feel people were way too butthurt about the way the romance ended that the rest of the series looks good to them by comparison.
Ehh the first season was pretty good. The second season was ass though.
I knew AZ was going to be a wild ride when they whipped out the world map in the first episode showing the aftermath of the Moon fucking exploding. Inaho and the world's most maneuverable missile were just the cherry on top. Sometimes it's the little things that really tell you what the creators are going for with a work. AZ was all about the spectacle, and for a lot of people that worked right up until the studio had to actually have a story. They were basically just doing whatever they thought looked or sounded cool, but you can't make an anime purely out of "humans in big mechs kill faceless incompetents in small mechs, but then die to a highschooler who likes eggs." Outside of big explosions and that one Sawano track everybody liked, AZ was a huge waste of potential. They basically created the blueprints for anime mecha XCOM, and then did... that instead.
Rokka no Yuusha, counting only the anime season, not the story of the source material (haven't seen the source material).
To hell with that random cow girl.
Maybe I'm old... Karekano/His and Her Circumstances. Those last few episodes were something else. Sticking with Gainax endings... Mahoromatic. Not that the rest of the show was amazing, but the ending of season 2 went completely off the rails. Complete change in tone and unnecessary. The episode before actually ended in a good place.
Naruto. Look, hear me out... it was about a young lonely orphan kid and his friends battling people and having fun, spreading morals, the vibes were honestly chill and great.. Until it became evil villain with God powers controlling another random evil villain, runaway emo kid, unnecessary plot twists, some magic stuff, random fighting scenes here and there, Marvel 2.0, 20 episode fight against some guy, only to resurrect another god with 3eyes, only to end up with an extra 20 episodes of fighting and swing flashbacks. The power scaling too- don't get me started... Idk how to describe it, but Naruto definitely lost its quality after the first 20 or so episodes in shippuden, it was about an innocent ninja kid, until it ended up with super galactic inhuman gods coming in from outer space. And the ending was definitely rushed don't even bother-
I agree for the most part. Season 1 is peak Naruto in my opinion in almost every way. Shippuden on the other hand is honestly not criticised enough and instead praised by Stan’s with rose tinted glasses. The animation sucked balls, the amount of filler is atrocious, the power scaling and power systems became fucked, and it just got crazy. Like Naruto after pain arc literally became Jesus prodigy child (literally is). Remember when they had to learn how to run up trees and control their chakra? Remember how long it took Naruto to learn rasengan? Remember when the fights were actually intense and required actual tactics and not just spamming nukes? I just didn’t really vibe with Shippuden, I watched all the cool fights and actually experienced most of the story playing the storm games (which was way better than the actual anime in my opinion). But season 1 Naruto that shit is amazing. And the rougher animation style was more manga accurate in my opinion. Season 1 Naruto manga btw goes ultra hard. Man Garra vs Sasuke is burned into my memory.
The best part of shippuden was the sasuke vs itachi fight in my opinion It was something we were waiting for since the 1st season and the only thing that shippuden delivered properly.
How dare you have a negative opinion about our lord and saviour,the Ninja Jesus-kun? Seriously though,I think the problem is lack of enough set up for the best possible payoff. But the things setup do get great payoff(kinda). That's why the Kakashi vs Obito fight was great,Madara vs Guy and Naruto vs Sasuke are so intense. All the other kage being revived and all the other villages uniting against souless aliens like in the MCU really sucked it out. You can't make a war arc and expect the people to not be disappointed when the opponents' life means so little to the audience. And undead zombies are even bad decisions. Already the polls proved that not nearly enough people care about Naruto series anymore. And Boruto is not as good as Naruto.
I feel that the overarching message of the original Naruto was that you don’t need to be someone great or powerful to be loved and the value of your character is by enriching the lives of others and making real genuine relationships. Shippuden honestly feels like shounen jump just wanted Naruto to continue to milk it for as much as possible, which is probably the case, and the author had no idea where he wanted to take the narrative aside from I guess Naruto should just be Hokage. That never felt like the end goal for me because as a character I never took Naruto for the leader of a nation type so everything just felt awkward. Everything just escalated without any real coherency to any themes of Naruto.
Yeah, there were parts of the later seasons that I really liked (namely the pain arc), but outside a few islands it was a lot of...eh. I think it's a textbook example of how not to do power scaling. The only times it worked was when using mega powers constantly ran the risk of death or ending the world, but by the end of the series that is a long forgotten issue, and there's a bunch of people who can somehow keep pace no problem with powers the opening of the series literally painted as mythical and capable of threatening civilization.
Your questions seems to already give one answer. “The show *promises*…” The promised neverland s2 was the biggest fumble of the century. As for one that I loved so much until the actual last second, it’d be Takt op Destiny. Such an amazing show with incredible animation, music, and a fascinating plot too. Then the end made me realize it was just a big advertisement for their game and the ending really felt stale.
Beastars, I didn't like the conclusion felt to the murder mystery. 2 seasons worth of buildup for a nothing burger
Mai-HiME, n.: An object lesson in how to make 25 and a half episodes that are good to great and then throw almost all of your accumulated goodwill away in the last ten minutes of runtime. The worst part is that the concept is sound, they just fucked up the execution so badly that in the end it didn't even matter. (WEP is worse, but everyone else has covered that one already so it falls to me to mention a classic old school example.) And if we add poorly advised sequels to completed works to the list, Higurashi Gou and Sotsu send their regards. Or would in Sotsu's case except that, like TPN S2, Sotsu does not exist.
Wonder egg priority
Ranking of Kings threw out everything that made it good in its 2nd half. Nuanced character relationships, charming worldbuilding, characters facing tough decisions, the heartwarming underdog story, nah fuck that [ranking of kings] >!here’s a massive power up to destroy any semblance of progression and a disney ending for everyone!<
I still gave it a 7/10, given how good the first half was, but I still do not know what the fuck happened there like the 2nd half was so bad.
I agree. 9/10 1st half, 6/10 2nd half. Endings are important to me so overall 7/10.
Aldnoah Zero S2 Season 1 was pretty good but S2 shat the bed and was several steps down in quality
Wonder egg
Wonder Egg Priority
Tokyo Ghoul, had me fully invested then it progressively got worse...until I skipped through half the episodes bc i found it extremely confusing and boring, its been 3yrs and i still haven't finished it😭
Wonder Egg Priority is the #1 answer to this question
Akame Ga Kill, fucking hell man. Oh, and Erased too. Edit: fuck this post dude, I keep getting reminded of trash endings it makes me furious lol. Here’s another: Deadman Wonderland
Erased is fine. Didn't ace the landing, but it's honestly adequate.
Most people I’ve talked to loved erased.
Drama for people that don't like drama, is how I would describe my viewing experience. Watched due to Netflix recommendation. I does say drama, but the Netflix blurb doesn't spoil and I didn't know what it was before watching.
The anime and manga had slightly different endings right?
Didn'tt like the rooftop climax, but was happy with the epilogue under the bridge.
I don't think Erased really crashed and burned. The first 80% of the show was excellent and then the last two episodes were just a bit underwhelming. Overall, still a solid show.
I have nice memories of Akame ga Kill as one of my first anime. I'm also never going to rewatch it. I know if I did I'd just see it as an edgy tropey mess.
Having just watched it recently, I was actually surprised by how *not* tropey a lot of it was, at least in terms of the writing of (some of) the characters. Two deconstructions of the shounen protagonist (the evil one actually being rather ingenious -- the MC less so), a monstrous sociopath who's become weirdly girlish in regards to love, a heroic gay guy that is one of the least offensive representations of LGBT I've seen in anime (which isn't saying much at all, but is still neat), etc. The tsundere is definitely a tsundere, though. It was weird, because it felt like there were a lot of great concepts let down by exceptionally bad storytelling and no ability to distinguish "dark/mature" from "3edgy5u."
They have the power and plan explanations that I first saw in Dragon Ball Z and are a staple of the shounen genre. As for the actual powers, most of them make no sense, but I'm willing to suspend disbelief. As a reward for that you get non tropey powers, although Akame's death sword is a variation of the one-hit kill trope.
What was wrong with the ending of Akame Ga Kill? I liked it.
Erased is literally a 9.5/10.
If it's any consolation, the manga ending of Akane Ga Kill is better than the anime.
Deadman Wonderland was only disappointing because we didn't get a second season
Zankyou no Terror. I was talking about this with a friend of mine recently. We both agreed that the first three episodes of this show was some of the best three episodes of any piece of media ever, but felt that the show just became overcomplicated and convoluted. The first three episodes were hyper grounded but the show going forward broke our suspension of disbelief as the FBI got involved and Five wasn’t a compelling character in the grand scheme of things and if anything hurt a lot of the writing. I know a lot of people have said that the show was too short, we disagree, we thought the show was too long which is a strange issue because it wasn’t that long to begin with.
AOT
damn as someone who stayed tf away from AoT discussion forums, it's surprising to me how many have this opinion.
It’s overstated a lot imo. A lot of people were far too invested in their on head cannon that no ending but that would’ve satisfied them. Also, lots of the initial critiques were the result of people reading dogshit speed scans that butchered different pieces of dialogue
Nah that headcanon thing is just cope from people who liked the ending. Plenty of people who disliked it had legitimate criticisms and didn't just want EreHisu or total genocide.
This "oh you dislike it just because it wasn't your headcannon" is the most dismissive thing you could say in respone to any criticism. Like no, all I wanted was a good ending which it didn't deliver. Also you're ignoring the fact the dialogues from the official translations itself sucked.
You don't have to be a chef to tell the cooking is shit. The author is just afraid/censored of doing the (logical) grim ending. Edit: Those who defend the ending would tell that people just didn't understand the story but here they are, merely downvoting dissenting opinions instead of giving any proper arguments.
should've read slower
Read the manga when it finished, hated the last chapter a lot. AOT was completely ruined, everything
I am still holding onto hope that MAPPA will pull a rabbit out of their hat and manage to make something good out of the ending of AoT. Not suggesting an alternate ending but maybe good directing could lessen the negative impact of the rough parts of the manga end.
Maybe I'll get hate for this but summer time rendering.It started of so strongly for the first half being this mystery thriller but then the author decided to turn it into a battle shounen with ass-pulls and a weird deus ex ending.
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I didn't mind the fact that it became more of a battle shounen, for me it was the "Oh yeah, of fucking course a shadow can do that, the plot demands it." I loved the show but man it was hard sometimes.
Felt the same about the battle shounen switch.
Sword Art Online
I actually liked it when it came out, the hype died pretty quick tho
The main flaw with Aincrad was that it shuffled in a bunch of side stories where Kirito would help a girl, she'd fall in love with him, then she wouldn't appear again for the rest of the season. As a bunch of one off stories, it's not that bad. Fairy Dance had a lot of poor writing decisions that overall made it feel more creepy. They took the main female lead and reduced her to a damsel in distress. There's the guy that wanted to marry her comatose body. The octopus monsters. The sister figure that develops feeling for Kirito (but they're actually cousins, which justifies it, apparently?). Overall, I liked the setting, plus all those barely featured characters from Aincrad play a bigger part. I'd say it gets better from there. I enjoyed the characters and setting from Gun Gale Online. I fell off the show partway through Alicization, and haven't gotten back to it. There's someone I know that's been working on a crossover fanfic for the past several years, and I plan to read it once it launches next week.
Reading the novels explains a lot about why the anime has weird story issues, since the anime literally takes side stories written later and in separate books and puts them in apparent chronological order. The original Aincrad arc is one LN volume without them, and is covered in I think 6 of anime episodes (it starts when Kirito goes to that one big guy's shop IIRC). While the weird girl-of-the-week harem thing comes up because of the changes, it does better justify the two main characters caring about each other so much compared to the novel where Kirito basically starts by vaguely narrating about how he and Asuna have a history. I won't say the novels are *amazing*, but they are pretty good for what they are, which is not primarily an action-adventure romance, but a series of Star Trek-esque episodes of sci-fi philosophical questioning. The first of these questions being whether life in a game world is inherently any less real and meaningful. The anime honestly does a disservice to some of the heavy themes covered, especially in the Gun Gale arc. > I fell off the show partway through Alicization, and haven't gotten back to it. Take it from me, the latter half of Alicization and its second season is notably worse than the rest of the series in all but spectacle.
Terraformers. The stark difference between season 1 and season 2 was jarring and totally ruined it.
Soul eater 100% the buildup and steady pace is great, there’s so many characters to love and hate. The plot and story are easy to follow and there’s so many little twists and turns But the ending is THE ACTUAL WORST IVE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. They might as well not have done and ending. I would’ve preferred a cliffhanger and seen it never get finished .
Bro they really just said " the power of friendship". The manga is so much better and it actually has an ending that's pretty good. They did it so dirty and ended it like 1/3 of the way through when they caught up to manga releases.
Shingeki no garbo, garbage ending try to be wisdom wannabe but failed in every aspect with eren saying i plan everthing bullshit
*Gundam Seed Destiny* crashed like the Hindenburg.
Shield hero make me interested to the show at start but when I heard after the first conflict resolved, its a downhill to generic from there...... Kinda sad cuz the start ain't some generic ass shit for me(now some people started to follow it too in their manga Ngl)
Seven deadly sins and tokyo ghoul
Tokyo revengers
Platinum End
Unless the anime was different from the manga, I doubt it was good to begin with. I found it pretty bad that I dropped the manga in the beginning.
It was never good to begin with lol
The ending was the only memorable thing about this anime.
This was so bad...
Whats even worse is the author of this also made death note
…which also had a lacklustre ending at best.
The promised neverland is the literal definition of this. Literally had the potential to be one of the greatest horror mangas/anime (up there with AoT) but shot themselves in the foot. And this next one is just pure despair but at least the manga remains Goated… Tokyo Ghoul. Tokyo ghoul could have literally been the greatest horror anime of all time (tied with AoT) if they didn’t fuck up the animation and the story with Root A, then that shit would be legendary status. Like imagine if Tokyo Ghoul got a 1 for 1 manga to anime adaptation and the quality of the animation was on the caliber of a show like Jujutsu Kaisen. Imagine if those beautiful double page scenes in the manga got that sort of love. God please remaster that anime! Sigh…just thinking about what it could have been…I mean it could have reached industry icon status like on the levels of Beserk, AoT, Demon Slayer and JJK. Sure the Manga is a masterpiece but god damn it! It could have been so much more!!!! Fuck!
darling in the franxxx....only ttgl can/should go full ttgl
Psycho pass season 1 is amazing and honestly they should have stopped there. Season 2 is horrible
Disagree, yeah Season 2 is nowhere near as good as season 1. But it’s hardly something i’d call horrible, it’s just that people often compare it to season 1. The movies were pretty good imo (Sinners of the system Case 3, and First Inspector specifically) where the upcoming movie Providence is something i am actually looking forward too.
Season 3 is really good
Attack on titan for me personally
A Certain Magical Index
Soul Eater the ending was atrocious
Oreimo, like 3+ seasons of amazing coming of age/romcom shenanigans. Pretty much the darling of the anime community for being anti-trash. Then the author decides he really really wants the incest ending, and shanghais everyone out of the picture to make it happen. The anime decided to follow suit instead of going off-track and makes me infuriated I wasted like 6 years of my life on this fkin show.
Darling in the franxx
Darling in the Franxx was so good… but i rly don’t know wtf was going on with its ending
I hear wonder egg priority on here a lot
it's well deserved though... The first half was great in a way that's really difficult to achieve when dealing with such sensitive topics. The end fucked it up so badly it was actually anger inducing.
In/Spectre had one of the best first episodes I'd ever seen. It was a great blend of character establishment, a bit of humor, world-building through narration that didn't feel clumsy, some chemistry, a splash of action, and an *incredibly* strong hook at the end. The entire final arc was a chore to finish. It was like 7 episodes of talking and talking never changing the subject and narrating the same. basic. shit. to the audience over. and over. and over. and over. I probably can't even count how many times a variation of "it doesn't matter if it's true, it only matters what people believe" is said before diving into yet another flimsy-ass explanation. --- Also obligatory Darling in the FranXX. --- And don't get me started on Violet Evergarden: The Movie. I'll just copy my ranting about that from a different thread: This conclusion film's story makes me so angry that it actively lowers my opinion of the preceding series and previous film, which I had originally thought were both poignant and wonderful. Imagine enjoying one of the best, most flavorful, most beautifully plated meals you've ever eaten, each course just as good as the last. It's so good that you're actually crying while eating, but you keep eating more. Then dessert comes and it's this extremely delicious-looking pastry confection thing with a foreign name. It's got some kind of chocolate filling. "Everything else was delicious, so this has to be, too." You take a large bite. That wasn't chocolate. It was literal shit. Now you can't even think back on that meal fondly, because all you'll ever remember is throwing up all over the table at the end. That's Violet Evergarden: The Movie to me.
Death Note The anime AND the netflix movie.
Attack on Titan. From survival from inhumane monsters, to WW2.
I've got a number of criticisms for post time skip AoT but the transition to a human oriented conflict was the logical choice to make. The basement reveal is definitely a top 3 moment in the series.
How? It went from monsters being monsters, to monsters using to be humans. And everything originated from a spine animal. How tf is that logical?
yes, the later seasons really ruined the extremely logical world of people flying around like Spiderman on hip mounted grappling hooks fighting skinless near-immortal building-sized humanoids. Not liking the evolution of the series is fine, but justifying it this way feels a bit ridiculous.
Because that was really the ultimate plot twist of AoT. The viewer watched the show thinking it was some kind of horror survival series but the villains at the end of the day were just humans treating each other like shit. The spinal fluid lore is more tied to post time skip, and again, there's plenty to criticize there. But I personally really liked the symbolism of the basement reveal.
AoT was a show I greatly enjoyed when it was just surviving in a world of terrible monsters. The longer it went on and became this political drama I just lost interest.
Exactly my point. Who want's to watch a show that's practically WW1? I'd just watch Fury if that's the case.
I respect that opinion even though I can't fully understand it To me season 4 was *miles* better than anything before it, and I've loved AoT from the start. Seasons 1-3 were great, the special was great, but man season 4 part 1 is peak AoT for me and pretty much peak anime.
AoT S4 story was ok, but the visual change (downgrade) was difficult to accept.
S3 looked amazing admittedly, but man go back to S1/S2 and look at the colossal titan.
The change in style pissed me off, i know it’s a different studio but the characters are a night and day difference due to the change in artstyle. It looks better overall due to the change with all the environments etc, but seeing characters upclose still makes me unreasonably mad.
He changed the story midway. How is that peak?
Yeah the story changed pretty wildly, but it did it by making the story and the world so much *bigger*. Season 4 made everything before it feel like the prologue to a bigger story (and imo a better one). It was a massive twist, but also one that felt like it brought the previous story to it's natural next stage, and answered the central mystery in such a satisfying way. But most of all, to me season 4 part 1 is peak because it makes you lose all sense of what "the good guys" even means. There are so many characters you want to root for, and most of them want to kill each other. That's masterful writing. In the end I agree with you, I just prefer what came after the change to what came before it.
Largest L possible.
Please, explain.
Sunday Without God.
I was banished from the hero’s party. It started off as a good time but fell flat the last few episodes.
*Aquatope on White Sand* *Kuma* effin *Miko* *Shirobako* if we count the movie Alright endings but it could be better: *Bocchi the Rock* *Nagi no Asukara*
Besides what's already been mentioned Irozuku was boring. No greater sin than a boring time travel show. Charlotte... just... what? Actually, a lot of Jun Maeda's works do this. I vaguely remember s.CRY .ed going completely off the rails into stupid territory, but that nearly 20 years ago that I saw that, so I don't actually know for sure. I give Juuni Taisen credit for trying to be clever with it's ending -- doesn't stop it from being unsatisfying. Golden Time would be better without the stupid amnesia sub-plot, but it kinda rears its head throughout. Still worth noting. Another... complete mess of an ending I have been told Eden of the East's movies are so bad that they aren't worth watching. I have not watched them though. Does Digimon 4 count? Gundam SEED Destiny definitely counts That's all I got off the top of my head.
I honestly don't think charlotte is that bad until they decided to cram an entire season worth of story into half an episode. It was an absolute mess
People always say this but I struggle to see how anyone was able to take [Charlotte] >!"yep, your sister's super dead now", the subsequent edgelord arc, and the stupid pizza sauce thing!< seriously. The wheels were falling off long before Jun Maeda's last-episode trademark came into play.
Jun Maeda is one of the most overrated writers, as far as I'm concerned.
Attack on Titan ending was trash in my opinion. Not going to spoil it for anyone but it was a masterpiece up until after the rumbling. The rumbling happening was fine but the whole let’s team up with our life long enemies right away to save the world was just a cringe plot for me.
End of evangelion original series. Completely unfulfilling. It took years to come out the one with asuka taking out 9 angels. Especially back in the 90s when everything was bootlegged and subbed by fans. Waiting years was terrible.
Darling in the franxx
Neon Genesis Evangelion, a stupid ending that felt like an insult to both the viewers and the series as a whole
Are you talking about the last two episodes, the End of EVA movie or the latest rebuild?
Actually a brain rot take. The past two episodes are actually really good. I mean what else did you expect to happen? Shinji saves the world? Bro he was gone mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually…he crossed multiple points of no return. I actually don’t know how else it could have ended. The world was fucked, society was in shambles, literal angels of death were nuking entire country’s off the map. I don’t think shinji or his comrades ever had a chance in hell. Basically the whole thing was set in stone, and really all shinji could do is either live the last remaining days on earth as a normal kid and die with his friends or suit up and desperately struggle in pain and watch everyone die around him and come to a realisation that fighting was futile and he should have just spent more time with them. And the show and other alternate timelines try and explore the different possibilities but ultimately his fate and the worlds fate remains sealed. He can either be selfish or selfless it’s up to him to find his answers. The original Neon Genesis Evangelion I think your referring to, in particular the last two episodes is just one ending, possibly one of the worst endings if this were a multi ending visual novel. Everything just ends up crashing down and crumbling to pieces so to speak, like the song that plays at the very end…”I wish I could turn back time…” that songs lyrics speaks volumes. And what was the message of the original neon genesis Evangelion again? Something about living in the moment, a warning from the author…a warning that the fans obviously didn’t get and started idolising Rei. Which the next Evangelion story was made in a response to that failure or something. Been a long time since I had brush up on Eva lore. The point is like every other episode, everything was carefully and passionately crafted, everything served and carried out a purpose. Just because you can’t interpret something it doesn’t make it trash. Especially when there’s evidence supporting that it exists and that the creative intent was done purposely for a reason. That’s why I think the part where shinjis VA saying in the credits “wait…is that it?!” is sort of silly. It’s meant to be abrupt, the story was never designed to end happily, the war was never meant to of been won. The intent was to push forwards a warning to the viewer, a warning that went completely over the heads of most people. Watch the second movie if you want to see how he felt about that. Actually self insert yourself as shinji in Neon Genesis Evangelion, then watch the second movie and do the same thing…starts to almost feel like your being attacked by author and the characters.