Excuse me if I'm stretching and going a little overboard because I haven't watched a ton of Anime yet, I think I've finished 10 or 11 or so series. But my goodness, is it just me or does the second half of many anime just horrible? It seems like after the main story idea ends, they just sit in a room and say "okay, we gathered a nice fan base, how about we throw in all of the things that we originally thought were horrible in order to milk these characters for even more money.
The reason why I say this, I just recently finished watching Sword Art Online, because when I read the description I thought, okay, anime, video games, virtual reality, swords, and death game? Sounds like a win! Then I started watching it, and although it wasn't the best thing I've ever seen (I had just finished watching AoT so my mind was somewhat bias) it had enough good for me to get into it although it was the nerdiest nerdfest I'd ever seen. I watched the entire SAO scenario and although I thought it was very rushed, it was pretty good. The main story ended. And then it happened.
The show turned into something completely different. It turned into fairies, rape scenes, tentacle monsters, sorta-incest, dansel in distress, toilet worthy crap. Everything people stereotype Japanese animation to be. It upset me incredibly. I struggled through it just because I was hoping that Asuna would turn back into that badass heroin that she used to be. Nope, it only got worse.
Example number 2, Death note, probably my absolute favorite Anime that I've ever seen, started off amazing! Everything about it was beautiful, the art style, the characters, the story, the concept, the mind games, EVERYTHING.
Then, the main story ended, with Light winning, and then, once again, it happened.
It turned into complete crap, changing the very nature and mental makeup of it's own characters, and turned into a crap story with unrecognizable characters outside of their names, voice and visuals. Once again, making me, and apparently a ton of other people, highly upset.
There's tons more that has fell into that mold, too many to mention in detail, and I wonder why? Is it just me, or does it seem like they seem to take dumps on anime after the main story ends? Hopefully AoT doesn't do that.... but I'm starting to worry.
I've brought this up numerous times. The creators get high off of success and simply jack off on a blank piece of paper to create the script for the second part. :/
DatBlaqGuy said: Hopefully AoT doesn't do that.... but I'm starting to worry.
heh, about that...
i haven't read the manga but i am not holding my breath :") @OP: some anime have a very good start to the point that they can survive on hype alone afterwords , so no need to further make good stuff , the fans will watch anything related to said anime even if it's utter shit!!!
examples: naruto, bleach, FT ....
KingYoshi said: Did you seriously watch Death Note thinking Light was going to win? That is your own fault, lol.
They killed off L one of the animes best characters midway through. The rest was ok but without the interaction between Light and L the series just wasn't as good at least in my and the OP's opinion.
I think most either stay the same or get better. There's also certain genres that are more likely to do that. For example most episodic SoLs never do that to me and instead usually get better.
I didn't say second season, I said second half. And I'm also not saying that there isn't some that get better, because I'm sure there is. I just know a lot of the ones I've seen have went downhill, extremely fast at that.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty that get better as it goes on and the story develops more. It just seems like some of them are written on toilet paper.
And this Jojo that some are speaking of, I think I'll check that out next. Hopefully it doesn't have hundreds of episodes.