| What are some anime that you would normally like more but they were completely ruined by the way they were released? For me the worst offender is Attack on Titan. First they give us a suspense thriller and then let us wait 4 years for half a season where basically nothing happens. Well I guess something does happen but after 4 years I just don't remember enough to make the connections. Then they continue to troll their fanbase by splitting the third season into two parts without telling anyone beforehand and now they give us the absolute mess that season 4 is. Why not release it in a normal way? Attack on Titan season 4 the final season part 3 the final chapter part 1? Seriously? Fuck you Mappa and Wit Studio. Second thing that comes to mind is Isekai Ojisan, the anime is great but having to wait weeks if not months for the next episode just kills it. This kind of stuff is exactly why I normally wait for an anime to finish before watching it. Another one is Ayakashi Triangle which was completely censored in the TV version which wouldn't even be a big problem if they didn't also fuck up the Bluray release which is now delayed for half a year and possibly even more. Not to mention all the other releases Aniplex fucked up this year alone. Next time I see Aniplex on the producers list I will think twice about picking up that anime. |
ateksMar 4, 2023 5:21 AM
| all anime released in a single batch by netflix all anime with pt1 and pt2 but are still 1 season by its story |
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| JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Part 6 Stone Ocean came to mind it would have been so much more popular if it released weekly instead of batches of 12 episodes |
| As the folks above me said, jojo stone ocean suffered greatly from this method Not only the batch release created disinterest but the abrupt pauses it choose to take were also responsible |
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| Batch release is good. Getting the entire anime to watch in one sitting is the best thing ever. I hate waiting 12 weeks and dodging spoilers constantly just to be able to watch a stupid anime in peace. |
| for real, the only thing that came in my mind is jojo part 6. jeez, why did they even made it into netflix exclusive in the first place tho. |
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| Attack on Titan comes to mind. Not opposed to the premise itself as I seen the potential of the storytelling for it from seeing its first season years ago. But the glacial pacing of it had turned me off from wanting to dabble further into the franchise and my disappointment isn't further helped by the fact that they keep dragging out the conclusion to the anime adaptation of the series even though the manga ended almost 2 years ago. |
| aot for sure. im so tired of anime that release on schedules like that. it gets to the point where they keep putting it off for so long that u cant remember anything that happened before and the long wait sucked all the enjoyment out of u |
| I definitely don't say free! is ruined, but it was pretty clear there was supposed to be a fourth season. Then because of pandemic and perhaps because of what happend at KyoAni, it seems to have turned into two movies instead. Would have really enjoyed a fourth season in the way the other seasons were done. |
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| Huh, what's that? I thought pirate sites were gonna magically uncensor Ayakashi Triangle, so what happened....? ateks said: Gonna watch the uncensored version tomorrow while you are stuck with your censored garbage. So much for Crunchy superior video quality lol. |
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| Like mentioned above by everyone Attack on Titan is the most well known sticking point. The series is now being dragged out to the point of being milked to death. Manga is over so there is no reason to but the pacing is shot to hell (Like everything else in this anime...) Time to see how these finals "episodes" go. Another one with SAO. It's trashy but it's trashy stuff I kinda like/liked. I enjoy the LN's and the anime is average-ok. During the final part of Underworld they pulled in characters from the original movie Ordinal Scale which by no right should have been in it. I'm ok with slight changes from manga/LN to anime if the changes are good but this was plain fan pandering. They might as well had Asuna's nipples thrown in for good measure. Another one are series with alternate endings in OVA's or movies. In one case is Evangelion, watched it well before my time of caring fully about anime so probably not much credit here. TV series ending was bad but movie was depressing/weird but had some form of resolution (In Eva's own unique way). Should have been done from the start. Another one was Oreimo. I only really watched this series in a watch party with others but having the average ending for S2 then releasing the OVA's for the "true" ending for incest annoyed me to no end.I probably wouldn't have hated it AS much if it was just the actual ending to the anime but overall finish it right and not with movies/OVA's conclusions |
| Anything with delays or hiatuses such as Attack on Titan, Isekai Ojisan, and Wolf's Rain. Haruhi Suzumiya and Peach Boy Riverside were aired in weird orders, with the former made even worse by 8 episodes of filler. 2003 Astro Boy ruined the franchise for younger generations of English speakers. This was their chance to revitalize a decades old franchise, as MAPPA did with Dororo in 2019. They rose to the challenge by reordering episodes, replacing the music, and even cropping the image. This English dub was such a failure that the TV broadcast was cancelled in most countries before half the series could air. 20 years later, it remains unavailable to watch with the original audio and aspect ratio except for fansubs. Thank god for fansubs. |
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| Jojo part 6 coming in one batch kills the hype because we know hype only lasts for the time that a series is airing. |
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MadanielFL said: Huh, what's that? I thought pirate sites were gonna magically uncensor Ayakashi Triangle, so what happened....? ateks said: Gonna watch the uncensored version tomorrow while you are stuck with your censored garbage. So much for Crunchy superior video quality lol. Imagine getting that mad because I insulted you employer Aniplex/Crinchy from which you get paid money to regularly shill on this forum. |
| Peach Boy Riverside. On top of other issues it has, they didn't even bother releasing the episodes in the correct order. If only they paid that 1% extra care it would have been a decent show. |
| Katanagatari. For those that don't know, the show is an adaptation of a Nisioisin LN with episodes that are double length, and someone either in the studio or maybe even Nisioisin himself had the brilliant idea to air the episodes monthly. It actually fits with the show, but holy fuck people aren't going to stay interested in something when they have to wait a month between each episode, so yeah it obviously didn't go over well with audiences, it did not do as well as it should have. They had to rebroadcast it years later in a weekly format, and a new OP that sounds really good but also spoils all the future sword wielders. God, what an absolute mess, which is a shame as the show itself was pretty well made. |
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| AoT is what came to mind, they've been dragging their feet for years, relying on hype alone to keep people interested. By the time it finishes it's going to lose a lot of it's casual fanbase, people will have moved onto the next popular thing, like whatever the next Chainsaw Man is lol. |
Lucifrost said: Haruhi Suzumiya and Peach Boy Riverside were aired in weird orders, with the former made even worse by 8 episodes of filler. haruhi airing order was trash agreed agreed |
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| Almost everything that gets locked behind Netflix and Disney Plus jail and are released in batches. |
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tchitchouan said: JoJo's Bizarre Adventures Part 6 Stone Ocean came to mind it would have been so much more popular if it released weekly instead of batches of 12 episodes Yes.. That's a fact.. Netflix release the all the episodes or 12/6 at the same time.. they also ruined tiger and bunny.. The original was much popular than the Netflix version |
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MadanielFL said: Huh, what's that? I thought pirate sites were gonna magically uncensor Ayakashi Triangle, so what happened....? Those Bozos stopped airing the anime.. Ayakashi triangle was one of the anime I was looking forward to.. ateks said: [/quote]Gonna watch the uncensored version tomorrow while you are stuck with your censored garbage. So much for Crunchy superior video quality lol. OH no not another attack titan thread... Fuck censorship and crunchy roll is now basically a scam.. there's nothing superior.. It's slow and it's servers are from 90s as well.. |
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ateks said: lmao yeah, that's actually a pretty good sum up of the second season, and AoT in general. yeah, something did happen, but...it's the season that's really the most blurred in my head. It wasn't even inconsequential, just...boring. The pacing and especially the tone is really all over the place. The first few episodes of season 4 did give me hope that the story would actually take a interesting turn...but nope, after a while we are back to the same bullshit of the last 3 seasons.and then let us wait 4 years for half a season where basically nothing happens. Well I guess something does happen but after 4 years I just don't remember enough to make the connections. Then they continue to troll their fanbase by splitting the third season into two parts without telling anyone beforehand and now they give us the absolute mess that season 4 is. Why not release it in a normal way? Attack on Titan season 4 the final season part 3 the final chapter part 1? Seriously? Fuck you Mappa and Wit Studio. |
Satyr_iconMar 6, 2023 10:46 AM
| I wouldn't say "ruined," but it took nearly 7 years for 10 episodes of Hellsing Ultimate to be released. Every time a new episode came out, I would hardly remember what had happened in the one before it. And the release schedule was really irregular, so you'd never know when to expect the next one. I know these are kind of common OVA problems, but it was frustrating. This was only an issue for people watching it as it came out, but I guess that's true for the majority of the anime people are mentioning in this thread. People watching things like Attack on Titan or Isekai Ojisan 5 years from now won't know or care how they were released. |
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| As many before me have said, Jojo Part 6 was definitely ruined by the batch releases. |
| One Piece is the worst one. The amount of looping animation and generally dragging things on is ridiculous. Would be better seasonal. I'm sure they'll end up doing a truncated release like DB Kai. Also Naruto I guess, although the filler is quite easy to skip since it's mostly like 100 eps in a row. |
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| Like everyone, I'll say Jojo part 6, Netflix killed the hype. Attack on Titan final season, the airing killed the hype and pace. And Isekai Ojisan. I don't get how a single episode can take so long to air and I'm now merely interested in watching it. Also choosing to make fillers instead of waiting and release season by season |
| attack on titan for being the skyrim of anime and screw netflix and everyone who uses it for turning stone ocean into the following JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (part) 6: Stone Ocean Part 1 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (part) 6: Stone Ocean Part 2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (part) 6: Stone Ocean Part 3 bruh not even gintama managed to pull this clustershitfuck also i manually wrote all the jojos out because only manlets copy and paste |
Pen_Island said: attack on titan for being the skyrim of anime I've never heard that before but that's a pretty good one lmao |
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Mucharetsu said: I agree. I don't mind the batch release though as I can binge through them whenever I want, but the months of waiting between them can be tedious and may make you forget about what happens before the next episode/batch come out eventually.Like everyone, I'll say Jojo part 6, Netflix killed the hype. Attack on Titan final season, the airing killed the hype and pace. And Isekai Ojisan. I don't get how a single episode can take so long to air and I'm now merely interested in watching it. Also choosing to make fillers instead of waiting and release season by season |
| The worst I can think of is anything that aired out of order. Which I know has happened, I just don't know how many anime it applies to. I can think of Rental Magica off the top of my head, but that didn't ruin the series for me personally. |
DarkShame2 said: Happened to me recently with a few shows I had no one to talk about.Mucharetsu said: I agree. I don't mind the batch release though as I can binge through them whenever I want, but the months of waiting between them can be tedious and may make you forget about what happens before the next episode/batch come out eventually.Like everyone, I'll say Jojo part 6, Netflix killed the hype. Attack on Titan final season, the airing killed the hype and pace. And Isekai Ojisan. I don't get how a single episode can take so long to air and I'm now merely interested in watching it. Also choosing to make fillers instead of waiting and release season by season I watched a recap on YouTube and was ready for the new episodes, if that can help ! |
| Most of these recent production issues, like with Ayakashi Triangle and Uncle in another world, boil down to Covid-19 hitting Chinese outsourcing studios after the CCP decided to end their "Zero Covid" policy and let the virus run loose on a population with limited prior exposure and lackluster vaccines -- they didn't want to "lose face" by importing or distributing the Western-made vaccines by Pfizer/Moderna/etc. The rest of it is just the standard modern-day practice of splitting shows up into 1-cour blocks because of scheduling/budget reasons instead of going for 24-26 episodes at a time. It may be annoying, but it's better than not getting sequels at all, or getting 2-cour anime with massive production problems in the latter half. OnionKnightRises said: Katanagatari. For those that don't know, the show is an adaptation of a Nisioisin LN with episodes that are double length, and someone either in the studio or maybe even Nisioisin himself had the brilliant idea to air the episodes monthly. It actually fits with the show, but holy fuck people aren't going to stay interested in something when they have to wait a month between each episode, so yeah it obviously didn't go over well with audiences, it did not do as well as it should have. They had to rebroadcast it years later in a weekly format, and a new OP that sounds really good but also spoils all the future sword wielders. God, what an absolute mess, which is a shame as the show itself was pretty well made. For whatever reason, it's not really feasible to do 45-minute episodes on a standard weekly broadcast, and maybe not even biweekly either. Perhaps airing the eps triweekly would've been feasible, but that would've been even more confusing and harder to remember for viewers than a monthly airing schedule. We already saw the same format and airing schedule a decade before Katanagatari, with Figure 17 from Spring 2001. And having episodes several months or even years apart is nothing new, as seen with Hellsing Ultimate and various other OVAs. (It's also worth noting that the latenight 1-cour TV anime is the modern evolution of the old OVA format, starting with Those Who Hunt Elves back in 1996.) Airing episodes out of order is just an artistic decision, and I can't think of any series where that decision "ruined" anything for me. Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006), Rental Magica, and Touka Gettan stand out as some noteworthy examples of that structure. Just a sidenote @ateks: censorship and video quality are two completely different issues. |
Zalis said: Just a sidenote @ateks: censorship and video quality are two completely different issues. Where did I say the opposite and why are you tagging me?? |
| One of the most recent examples that pop first to mind would be JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean, which I still have to contineu watching. No JoJo Fridays and the engagement within watchers talking in between episodes weekly really got killed off the hype. Let's hope we won't have to deal with this utter bullshit anymore when Part 7 gets animated, but then again, the cynical part within me already fears this won't be the case. Also Isekai Ojisan is another one unfortunely. OIjisan didn't deserve this kind of treatment. I really want to like this silly story. |
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| AOT is the prime example of shitty release but yeah the length bugs me and many great anime is gonna be affected in the future by this: cours shouldn't take so long to air, seasons mustn't be shorter than 36 eps. And I hate how mal now divides the cours into separate entries (!), but the older anime weren't c'mon... I would like to rate every season of the first pokemon show but you merged the 278 episodes together (!), not to mention that separate entries for every cour makes my anime list unnecessarily long... Anyway, end of rant for today. 😭 |
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QPR said: And I thought Re-main had it bad when 3 separate episodes were delayed a week for the sake of sports broadcasts.Isekai Ojisan , we got 3 episodes, then a 3 week wait, then another 2 weeks, another episode, then a month wait. Berry-Vodka said: I have that problem too. I'm surprised hardly anyone else seems to care.separate entries for every cour makes my anime list unnecessarily long... |
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ateks said: I agree with all of these. I don't even bother to check if isekai ojisan or ayakashi triangle are still airing anymore. While attack on titan doesn't "ruin" the anime for me necessarily, I often find myself wondering how experiencing the series for the first time would be like now, without having to wait YEARS for the anime to catchup to the manga, even though, of course, the anime is still technically YEARS BEHIND. What are some anime that you would normally like more but they were completely ruined by the way they were released? For me the worst offender is Attack on Titan. First they give us a suspense thriller and then let us wait 4 years for half a season where basically nothing happens. Well I guess something does happen but after 4 years I just don't remember enough to make the connections. Then they continue to troll their fanbase by splitting the third season into two parts without telling anyone beforehand and now they give us the absolute mess that season 4 is. Why not release it in a normal way? Attack on Titan season 4 the final season part 3 the final chapter part 1? Seriously? Fuck you Mappa and Wit Studio. Second thing that comes to mind is Isekai Ojisan, the anime is great but having to wait weeks if not months for the next episode just kills it. This kind of stuff is exactly why I normally wait for an anime to finish before watching it. Another one is Ayakashi Triangle which was completely censored in the TV version which wouldn't even be a big problem if they didn't also fuck up the Bluray release which is now delayed for half a year and possibly even more. Not to mention all the other releases Aniplex fucked up this year alone. Next time I see Aniplex on the producers list I will think twice about picking up that anime. |
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| Peach Boy Riverside (out of order) SNK s3 (split in to parts) There are plenty of delayed anime, which started with "Shuumatsu no Harem" all the way back in 2020. |
| Peach Boy Riverside I have no idea what they were thinking. |
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