"Anime that went downhill after season 1" Attack on titan ranked #3 on this topic on crunchyroll

Nim0174 said:
Usually children tend to say that season 1 was the best part because they do not know any better, also people with lower comprehensional abilities tend to think the same. On the other hand more mature people capable of rational logical and analytical thought will realize the importance and structure of each season and why this means that it gets progressively better through building the fundamental aspects of this story.

JUUSEE said:
I think it's a recurring thing where the 1st season of any anime is usually rated higher than subsequent seasons. The way I see it, people are brought into the show by its initial premise, and continue to expect the same things throughout the whole show.

AOT was initially a sort of cyberpunk survival horror show, where people fly around slashing titans or getting eaten. Then the story develops. Titan shifters are introduced. People will go, "convenient plot device", "bs development". This was introduced pretty early on, so it's a lot more tolerable for viewers.

Season 2 comes. More titan shifters. More "bs development", and "convenient plot device". We focus more on the titan shifter conflict than the survival horror aspect of the show. The story is slowly deviating from that viewers initially came for.

Season 3 will ruin these viewers. This is probably the biggest tonal shift the series had up to that point. The OP song got so much shit by the anime only community when it came out, plus a few manga readers. The politics really turned quite a people off, claiming that it wasn't what AOT is supposed to be.

TL:DR, people came for the initial premise and expects seasons 2 and onwards to reuse season 1's formula.

crybabynes said:


But the thing is Season 1 was only a simple way to let Isayama introduce his story, Season 1 was a zoomed picture, whenever the story develops the picture gets zoomed out more and more, it's not like he changed his story from season 2 onwards, that was supposed to happen from the very beginning, I read somewhere that Isayama already planned the end and the ins and outs of the story from the beginning, that's why he drops so many hints throughout the entire seasons, it's like he just wanted us to believe in S1 that it was only about humans Vs Titans, and they're trying to survive, he focused on that more than the characters moments, even though he did it with Jean, but I think he did it on purpose.

Now S3 part 1 is much much much better than season 1, everything gets better whenever the story goes on.

CondemneDio said:
@Gon_x_freecs
When the reveal totally changes the tone of the series for worse, it's a bad twist.


Not that this is a good enough of a reason to the hivemind lol

Gon_x_freecs said:

Then what would YOU have liked to see from the reveal ? I am curious.

CondemneDio said:

As the story went on, I thought it would go for a village of basically anarchists, that somehow got titan shifting powers. I think a war between them and the people inside the walls would've been infinitely better than what we got.

Gon_x_freecs said:


So the banal battle of black and white ? A village where people are evil for the sake of being evil ? Thank god the author didn't choose this beaten path of actions and went for something else.