| let's talk about some of the best made shows that had rather a relatively mediocre or lackluster begining... ill go first JJBA ...pretty sure it's not an unpopular opinion Bungou Stray Dogs picks it up by Season 3 - in television too, The Office and Parks & Recreations have such boring S1 only to be the best shows out there. |
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| Usually it's the other way around. Gotta think about this for a while. |
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| Gintama is definitely on the list, it's so hard to stick of it on the first season cuz it's a more mediocre scene. After that is getting better every season. |
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Dungeon Meshi. It starts out like one of those isekai cooking shows, but it's neither isekai nor does it 100% focus on cooking only. It takes a while to get to know the characters, but after the first eight to twelve episodes it really picks up and goes beyond cooking the monster of the day. It helps that the animation is outstanding (done by Trigger). |
| I'd say Gintama doesn't have the best start, but it does pick up. |
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| Your title describes Patema Inverted to the T |
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| Can’t believe dungeon meshi is already mentioned two times. It’s definitely a masterclass of fantasy anime. Season 2 will be so peak. |
| Darling in the Franxx. Weak beginning (mecha don't look too good, the conflict seems pretty boring) but it gets better and better until the end. Can’t believe dungeon meshi is already mentioned two times. It’s definitely a masterclass of fantasy anime. What a coincidence, today the bluray encode dropped on meow website. Gonna binge watch the show. |
| Odd Taxi to me. It starts like a generic furry show and ends one of the most compelling mystery psychological drama story. |
| Clannad is mediocre until After Story kicks in. |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Feel the first two parts are fairly boring and it starts kicking in around part 3 and onwards. |
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| From the New World. The first three or so episodes were a drag but then it picked up. While Glasslip isn't outstanding by any means, the first episode was so bad and a mess that I thought, did they lose the script and just improvised really badly? Episode 2 got back on track and I ended up enjoying it. |
| You're a louse, Roger Smith. - R. Dorothy Wayneright This is my fight! No Senpai, this is our fight! - Kojou Akatsuki & Yukina Himeragi  |
| Madoka Magica, a series I adore. The first couple eps are mostly mundane, slice-of-lifey the girls hanging out sort of stuff. The dark undertones are there, but it takes a moment for **** to really hit the fan. I've seen multiple people drop it after the first couple episodes and imo 2 episodes is really quick to drop something but well what can ya do it happens, hopefully they pick it up again someday. Also you guys are so right about JJBA... I feel that so much. I've tried to start the series twice, gotten around 7-10ish eps in...dropped/got sidetracked. It's not terrible or anything but the beginning is a bit slow I'm sorry. I really do want to get into it at some point though and am not gonna rate it until it's gotten a fair chance/full watch. There's an anime club in my town I kinda wanted to attend but I feel like such an outcast because everyone there is caught up on Jojo lol. I need to watch it. |
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Clannad is mediocre until After Story kicks in.
| @Zarutaku I second that. Heck, Clannad: After Story is worth going through the first Clannad, even if it doesn't feel that much fun to watch for most of the time. It didn't feel like that for me, so I dropped the show, but I gave it a second chance after my friend mentioned how good After Story is and how he also struggled to go through the first season of Clannad, but ended up loving After Story. I enjoyed the second season, indeed. And I'm saying it as someone who, in general, is not a fan of anime created by KyoAni. |
| I agree on JJBA there is also Natsume Yuujinchou. The first few episodes weren't anything interesting, but when you get connected to the characters and format, it really picks up. |
| Yu yu hakusho has an awful first like 10 episodes but gets better and better with like every episode after that same with hajime no ippo |
| https://combosmooth.itch.io/ - I make free-to-play browser games for PC and I sell pixel art animation here |
| Konosuba beginning is pretty slow and not incredibly funny, at least compared to the rest of the show imo. |
| I don't know exactly what the anime community considers below average considering a lot of ppl's tastes that I've seen but I'd say Gungrave's beginning is definetely a bit hard,the story doesn't really pick up until like 10 eps in but by the end it more than pays off. |
| Can I Still Go To Heaven If I Kill Myself? |
| HxH ig the beginning was really boring.. i almost dropped it..but after the 2nd arc bruh. its one of the best anime ive ever watched |
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| Shoukoku no Altair (first few eps are slow going, but it picks up by the end of episode 5) Mushishi (due to the slow pace it took several episodes to hook me) Gintama (literally took over 30 episodes to pull me in. The first 20-ish were like slow torture and I almost dropped it multiple times) Shinsekai yori (I struggled through the first 3 episodes. It gets good once you make it past the terrible 3) xxxHOLiC (took 9 episodes to hook me) These are just from my own experience. Everyone is different so their experience could be quite different from mine. |
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| Huyao Xiao Hongniang - it starts as a chaotic mess, and future seasons have much better animation |
| BokuYaba's (The Dangers in My Heart) initial premise scared many viewers away. What they were missing was one of the greatest romances ever (coming from someone who generally doesn't like traditional boy-girl romances). |
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| There's a lot but I think of Made in Abyss actually, I thought the island was a bit cliche and the whole classroom thing with their desks and chairs nailed to the wall for NO APPARENT REASON was really dumb. I was wrong about all this though. Possibly every idol anime... if one turns out to be good that's nice but they all begin exactly the same way. |
| Any show with a bad beginning is not worth watching to the end. |
| Rurouni kenshin starts off with a good amount of average and mediocre episodes, mostly the filler ones, but then by episode 28, it gets insanely good Then it goes back to being average and mediocre after the Kyoto arc |
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