A little hypocritical

Dec 19, 2024 11:15 PM

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Calling it “Season 2” is just a a marketing tactic. Promoting a Season 1 Part 1 and Season 1 Part 2 just adds extra confusion for casual fans.

I also think it may be a psychological thing as well. Dandadan season 1 has adapted over 30 chapters so far. That’s a lot of content.

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Dec 19, 2024 11:34 PM

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WestOnAndrewAve

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Netflix also gets a lot of criticism for batch releases which happens even with single season releases.

Dec 19, 2024 11:46 PM

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Imacd24 said:
The response to the season 2 announcement has been met with pretty unanimous praise which is great, I myself am very excited for it aswell. However, I can't help but wonder what the reaction would've been had they called it part 2 or cour 2 rather then season 2.

It seems like so many people get angry nowadays when a season is split into two parts even though that's nothing new. The most recent case I think I saw was when they announced Beastars Final Season part 1 for December and Part 2 for 2025 and a lot of people got upset.

If they had announced Dandadan season 1 part 2 instead of Dandadan season 2 do you think some people would've actually reacted differently to it? While it may sound silly I genuinely think some people would somehow see that as being something different.

Seasons make people feel good about the show running long while parts don't, parts also make people feel like they could've given us all the eps at once then have us wait this long while seasons make it feel more justified for the wait

Dec 20, 2024 2:33 AM

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where is this unanimous praise ur talking about. what you see doesn't show anything about the actual big picture, theres just as many people annoyed that got annoyed at other shows for dandadan, including me

Dec 20, 2024 3:05 AM

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I think you're misunderstanding the issue there. People express their distaste when a season is first branded as "the final", and then ends up NOT being the final.
Several other shows like 86 also did the 2 part split and no hate was expressed. The audience isn't stupid. Don't call a season the 'final season', when it isn't.
It's that simple.

Dec 20, 2024 1:01 PM

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I think that seasons originally held a different meaning management-wise by needing a different contract for each season, while parts are agreed upon in a single contract. Meaning that getting a new season implies that there is a new contract and interest in adapting more of the story, while splitting a single season into parts means that they've not even finished the original contract, implying less interest or troubles in the adaptation. (Of course there are many types of contracts that sometimes originally include many seasons or a full adaptation and I don't know much about them, but this is how I think most adaptations work)
Though, in the case of Dandadan, a new season was more or less expected or agreed upon from the beginning, considering the dumb cliffhanger we were left on at ep12, making it more of a marketing matter to call it a season instead of a part.

Dec 20, 2024 1:52 PM

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To be fair I think this wouldve been one of the best times to actually call it a part 2, taking into account that the first season ended so abruptly

Dec 20, 2024 2:08 PM

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I feel like calling something a "part 2" feels like it diminishes its scale by saying (it is not another season we just cut the season in 2 because fu).
in reality it doesn't really matter but it still annoys me a bit

Dec 20, 2024 3:59 PM

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I actually do just find it extremely annoying when they don't just number the seasons sequentially. Like what is going on with AoT. That is just so tedious to discuss whenever you have to make references.

Dec 20, 2024 5:36 PM

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Bro who TF cares - we're getting more Dan Da Dan, why're you trying to make this into a big thing?

Dec 20, 2024 8:09 PM

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ImTheTrollBRO

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Cuz when people see part 2 in newer anime they think everything is already completed and we're only waiting because the marketing team wanted to "build hype" When people see Season 2 they think its still being made and theres a reason we're waiting. But true tho

Dec 20, 2024 8:25 PM

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Bro who TF cares - we're getting more Dan Da Dan, why're you trying to make this into a big thing?

@xXTensaZenXx What exactly am I trying to make it into a big thing? I was just curious what other people's opinions on split cour seasons are since Dandadan has every making of a 2 part season despite being called season 1 and season 2. All I did was pose a harmless hypothetical, nothing more.

Dec 21, 2024 8:55 AM

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Imacd24 said:
A little hypocritical

What does this have to do with hypocrisy?

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Dec 21, 2024 10:56 AM

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Imacd24 said:
A little hypocritical

What does this have to do with hypocrisy?

@Zarutaku Because I'm sure some of the same people that usually get annoyed when a season gets split into two parts are happy Dandadan is getting a second season only 6-7 months after the first one finished despite the fact that they quite literally did just split a single season in half and call it season 1 and 2. And I'm not saying either or is a good or bad thing, it doesn't make a difference to me how a show releases as long as it's ultimately a good show. However it does seem a bit hypocritical to shoot off about a show airing a 24 episode season in 2 parts, but look the other way when a show does exactly the same thing and just doesn't call it part 1 and part 2.

Dec 21, 2024 12:26 PM

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@Zarutaku Because I'm sure some of the same people that usually get annoyed when a season gets split into two parts are happy Dandadan is getting a second season only 6-7 months after the first one finished despite the fact that they quite literally did just split a single season in half and call it season 1 and 2. And I'm not saying either or is a good or bad thing, it doesn't make a difference to me how a show releases as long as it's ultimately a good show. However it does seem a bit hypocritical to shoot off about a show airing a 24 episode season in 2 parts, but look the other way when a show does exactly the same thing and just doesn't call it part 1 and part 2.

@Imacd24 it's just a split cour, lots of anime do that bruh, it's not that deep

Dec 21, 2024 1:19 PM

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@Imacd24 it's just a split cour, lots of anime do that bruh, it's not that deep

@Zanar0ne you didn't even get his point smh, he's saying the show ended in a way that looked exactly like half a season and the 2nd season is definitely it's second cour, and the hypocrisy is not calling it as it is! a single season split into two freaking cours!.

Dec 22, 2024 11:47 AM

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To be fair I think this wouldve been one of the best times to actually call it a part 2, taking into account that the first season ended so abruptly

@Shidoteki I agree, this would have been a good time to utilize the cour 2 marketing instead of season 2. It didn't feel like an authentic planned season cliffhanger, it felt more like an arc being artificially cut in half.

Dec 22, 2024 1:52 PM

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@Shidoteki I agree, this would have been a good time to utilize the cour 2 marketing instead of season 2. It didn't feel like an authentic planned season cliffhanger, it felt more like an arc being artificially cut in half.

@the_great_prince Yeah i've never seen such an ending! I couldn't believe it had really ended hahaha

Dec 23, 2024 6:17 AM

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Dandadan is doing what well-known animes have already done, which is called split cour, which is dividing the anime into two parts, and calling it a second season, the most famous cases are Fate/Zero which released its first part in 2011 and the second in 2012, and 86 which released the first part in 2021 and the second aired in 2022.

Dec 30, 2024 8:33 AM

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Imacd24 said:
The response to the season 2 announcement has been met with pretty unanimous praise which is great, I myself am very excited for it aswell. However, I can't help but wonder what the reaction would've been had they called it part 2 or cour 2 rather then season 2.

It seems like so many people get angry nowadays when a season is split into two parts even though that's nothing new. The most recent case I think I saw was when they announced Beastars Final Season part 1 for December and Part 2 for 2025 and a lot of people got upset.

If they had announced Dandadan season 1 part 2 instead of Dandadan season 2 do you think some people would've actually reacted differently to it? While it may sound silly I genuinely think some people would somehow see that as being something different.

Seasons make people feel good about the show running long while parts don't, parts also make people feel like they could've given us all the eps at once then have us wait this long while seasons make it feel more justified for the wait

@Blindsilo94 This is what i feel.

Dec 31, 2024 7:13 AM

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certifiedbinger said:
I think you're misunderstanding the issue there. People express their distaste when a season is first branded as "the final", and then ends up NOT being the final.
Several other shows like 86 also did the 2 part split and no hate was expressed. The audience isn't stupid. Don't call a season the 'final season', when it isn't.
It's that simple.

This is targeted towards AOT 😭😭😭

Dec 31, 2024 3:53 PM

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theanimeviber said:

certifiedbinger said:
I think you're misunderstanding the issue there. People express their distaste when a season is first branded as "the final", and then ends up NOT being the final.
Several other shows like 86 also did the 2 part split and no hate was expressed. The audience isn't stupid. Don't call a season the 'final season', when it isn't.
It's that simple.

This is targeted towards AOT 😭😭😭

Mostly, yeah. But the OP also pointed out that Beastars is doing the same thing and got hate for it. It is a stupid and false marketing tactic that only hurts a show's goodwill among the audience.

Dec 31, 2024 5:12 PM

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Tbh for me it is basically the same thing, just with different wording. I kinda feel a lilttle bit dissapointed when it only has 12 eps lol but anyway, in the end it will continue so it doesnt matter. About the casual anime fan/another people point of view, if it was called Season 2, some ppl might could accepted it but some might be not as well, because the way the anime ends with peculiar ending. So far that I know, if an anime is going to have season 2, it is usually the 1st season ended with some kind of temporary resolution/solution I would call it, with the add of some kind of "uncertain feeling/or hope or looking forward into" what will happen in the future after what has happened in the 1st season end and some people might call it a problem as well. In the end tho, I never really know what had happened in the studio or anything that is related as the cause of the 1st season being split into 2 parts, as if anything, Im glad it will continue, just love this anime, never really find an anime that as fun as Durarara!!! for me in my whole life and it made me happy to see another fun anime with the similarly unique tittle Dandadan.

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To be fair I think this wouldve been one of the best times to actually call it a part 2, taking into account that the first season ended so abruptly

@Shidoteki
No one creating it had any idea the release would be cut in two parts because otherwise it wouldn't end in a moment like this and this is the real crime, Mushoku Tensei season 1 at least felt like a good place to end narratively where it did, this thing just... stops

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