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Look what you’ve made me do!
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I’ve been tempted
There are lots of anime that are great in the first season but really dropped the ball in the second.
And you all have an example in your heads right now.
there is no second season of Psycho-Pass :)
Yeah, I really didn’t like No Game No Life’s second season, damn
This.
It almost never gets better later, in anime. It goes the other way around.
When live-action TV shows get better in second seasons, it’s often because the acting cast find their groove and learn how to play their character, and the writers learn how to produce scripts that work for them.
Anime largely doesn’t have this.
In anime it often starts strong because you have the excitement of new characters to meet, a cool new world to learn about, a great premise, some looming mystery. But once all that’s done with it fizzles out.
Sometimes it doesn’t even last a season before it takes a dive. And it’s because all the writer really had was a grab bag of cool ideas, and not really a story. And once that initial excitement is over there’s nothing left.
Anime largely doesn’t have this.
There are a few. Kaguya-sama: Love is War is arguably best in its third season and imho the first several episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are its weakest part. Eureka Seven, Umamusume, and Gintama also come to mind. I really had to wrack my brain for those examples though; they really are the exception.
Promis…
Durarara… Granted x2 isn’t THAT bad it’s just disappointing.
The first season is only 92 episodes with 80 episodes of filler.
I would say Black Clover gets better after season 1. They really toned down the annoying parts of it. That said, I haven’t seen it in English to know if the same things annoy me. It was Asta’s voice.
The discussion threads on Reddit when it aired had people dropping it due to Asta constantly screaming. Once he joins the Black Bulls he gets less dialogue and starts to cut back on the screams.
Now, you might think, “This isn’t an anime meme!”
Yes. Yes it is.
One Piece gets better after “season one”
The person I heard about One Piece from actively told me not to start watching it. They told me it was their favorite show, but they wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
One Piece is now my favorite show, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone.
This is my experience with One Piece fans personally; I ain’t seeing OP fans going around pressuring people to watch.
One Piece gets better after “season one hundred”
Babylon 5. You don’t fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.
Watching season 1: “I can totally believe they shot this whole show in an old hot tub factory”
Watching season 4: “I can’t believe they shot this whole show in an old hot tub factory!”
There are plenty of anime that are good in season 1. Frieren and The Apothecary Diaries are two recent examples.
Even if you like shonen usually they have a downward trend in quality if anything. Everything else is usually sink or swim and has to be good from season 1 or season 2 never happens.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
I’ve never once had an anime fan force a show on me.
I’ve had countless people try to force Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, whatever the current “omg you HAVE to be watching this!” show of the moment is.
abfarid@startrek.website 21 hours ago
Who would need to force Breaking Bad on anyone? The show goes hard from minute 1.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Wouldn’t know. Never looked interesting to me, and the high pressure sales pitch from all the fans only made me less interested.
vodka@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Never met a Full Metal Alchemist fan before then I guess.
tyler@programming.dev 21 hours ago
lol yeah. I agree with that too.
mellloyellow@ani.social 18 hours ago
I’ve seen it happen a decent amount of people do it with manga. Kagurabachi was a big one when the manga was coming out with it’s first chapters.