Gantz 2nd Stage

Every once in a while, a much-awaited sequel to a popular anime comes out and baffles the audience with unwelcome anime-original story changes coming as a result of diverging from the original author's style and vision.

Or, in a similar vein, the IP holder decides it's time to resurrect a story that was by all means finished (or close enough to it) with a completely unnecessary sequel or side-story that fails to live up to the original and makes the whole franchise worse just by existing. Even worse if it retcons the original to invalidate a major dramatic plot point just so that the sequel could happen.

In either case we're left with something that many fans will plead you to pretend it doesn't exist, and honestly... you should probably listen to them.

This list doesn't include manga/LN adaptations that started diverging from the original storyline already in their respective first (or only existing) seasons.

This list also doesn't include sequels that people actually asked for but they ended up horribly made (i.e. Berserk 2016, One-Punch Man S2).

It obviously doesn't include sequels that adapt bad source material without changing it (e.g. Food Wars S4 onwards); while a caring adaptation team will sometimes try to remedy the faults of the source, it's not expected of them to do so.

Fate and Gundam franchises aren't included simply because I just can't pick anything in particular from their enormous(-ly bloated) universes as an example of something unnecessary. You aren't losing anything by ignoring most of them.

See also the counterpart to this list: Sequel f'n when? It's been years! https://myanimelist.net/stacks/2347

This list constitutes my personal views and stances. If something isn't on it, it likely means I haven't seen it or don't have an informed opinion on the matter. Feel free to shoot me suggestions via DMs, but make sure you have a convincing argument if it's not something that's already on my main manga/anime list. I don't promise it'll end up here, but I will consider all suggestions.

Every anime directed by Ichirou Itano. Also includes series he only partially directed (i.e. Patlabor ep. 6).

All manga that fit the "Death Game" criteria. You can also look for the manga version.

Animax was the Latin American affiliate of Sony Entertainment Television's youth channel.

Animax's headquarters are located in the Minato district of Tokyo, where it began broadcasting on June 1, 1998. The signal for Latin America was launched on July 31, 2005, replacing the avant-garde channel Locomotion. Its offices were located in Caracas, Venezuela, where those of its sister channels Sony Entertainment Television and AXN, belonging to Sony Pictures Television International, are also located.

Like the other subsidiaries around the world where it is available, it broadcast anime series, and since May 2008 it began broadcasting live-action series and movies distributed by Sony Pictures.

On May 3, 2010, the channel was renewed with a new logo and graphics. From May 1, 2011 it became the currently defunct Sony Spin, disappearing as a television channel.

A compilation of anime that began airing during the month of August.


The month is most notable for a number of successful films, such as Your Name, Summer Wars, Redline, Castle in the sky and the conclusion of the Fate/Stay Night Heaven's Feel movie trilogy.

See Also:

January: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15005
February: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15006
March: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15017
April: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15029
May: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15033
June: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15041
July: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15044
September: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15053
October: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15101
November: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15102
December: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/15104

For anime that really didn't need sequels.
Sometimes a show has a satisfying yet slightly open ending. Despite that, the powers that be choose to continue the story in a way that adds very little or even subtracts from the original.

This stack shows the recommended stopping point for each franchise featured.

Animax Latin America was the affiliate for that region of the youth channel of Sony Entertainment Television. The signal for Latin America was launched on July 31, 2005, replacing the adult animation channel Locomotion. Like the other subsidiaries around the world where it is available, it broadcast anime series, and since May 2008 it began with the broadcast of live action series and movies distributed by Sony Pictures.

On May 3, 2010, the channel is renewed by premiering a new logo and graphics. Since May 1, 2011, it was renamed Sony Spin, disappearing as a television channel.

Personally, a channel that brings back beautiful memories of my childhood and that, several series broadcast by Animax, give me a nostalgic feeling for an anime that currently no longer exists.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/22237

There's more to this than just horror! Fall in love with the misadventures of the characters! You'll definitely live into it while watching ♥

Buzz was a Spanish subscription television channel produced by AMC Networks International Iberia. Its programming focused on horror content, both in current series and movies.

Despite not being Spanish, I have managed to appreciate the content that this channel transmitted along with several of its dubbings into Castilian Spanish, which, from my point of view, are mostly worth it.

Part 2: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35193

Part 3: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/35194

This list contains all those anime that have been dubbed into Latin Spanish from each available decade.

- 2000: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39767
- 2001: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39768
- 2002: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39769
- 2003: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39771
- 2005: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39776
- 2006: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39777
- 2007: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39778
. 2008: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39781
- 2009: https://myanimelist.net/stacks/39782