Have you ever been deceived or misled by an anime?

I used to think Eminence in Shadow was edgy because of the cover and the characters.

@Autumni So, when the show first came out, no one could have ever expected it to be an over-the-top satire of this type of story?

The most recent example I can think of is Kaijuu No.8.

The synopsis and the trailers seemed to emphasize how old the protagonist was (I think he was 30-something, which is basically a walking corpse in a shounen I guess), so I was interested in what a kaiju-fighting action shounen would feel like with someone a little more well-adjusted and even world-weary than a teenager.

It turns out he's basically just a teenager. I can see that most people found him endearing or just didn't care, but I felt misled and pretty disappointed.

I have been mislead by the JJK hidden inventory OP lol.

@perseii Would you like him to be more ojisan-ish than just a shonen MC in a grown man's body?

@RobertBobert It would definitely make things more interesting. But I'm not sure if that would improve the show as a whole that much.

I just felt a little duped by the marketing. Or maybe I just put ideas into my own head and have no one else to blame but myself.

@WaterMage Not just you. Some people seem to have fooled themselves about the ending of Oshi no Ko due to the ED's interpretations.

@RobertBobert is it about Maphisto?

Well I always thought that was metaphorical until

@WaterMage This show was actually one of my main motivators for creating this topic, as many expected it to be a typical edgy show about characters conquering darkness, and not a literal ancient Greek tragedy without a hint of irony.

@RobertBobert maybe cause I am pessimistic

@WaterMage Well, as you can see, people were very angry about this, including disproving theories that it could have been predicted or even speculating that the author was deliberately giving people false hope to provoke controversy and reactions. For example, one theory says that the hype over Ai's death had gone to his head so much that he was desperately hoping that something similar in the finale could provide an even greater wow factor. One way or another, it looks like the resulting feedback shocked him so much that he now barely appears on Twitter.

@RobertBobert idk man it's true he has lost lot respect point with me not just how it ended but mainly how fast it ended. Leaving almost everything unresolved except one big goal. And more if this theory I hear I feel more disappointed.
I have stopped thinking about it it's still is my favourite anime so I don't want to berate it too much. I have made my peace just like my goat Aqua✌️

@WaterMage Not only you, my friend, not only you. Many people are angry not so much because of the badly created ending, but because of how much it disappointed them without any particular warning.

@RobertBobert what saddens me I see people also taking pot shots at Kaguya ending. Which is for the record hundred times better. I have my slight hopes because of Kaguya ending. It was perfect. Bit unrealistic sure but every plot was resolved and a great ending. I expected somthing like this for OnK too. Which ig was even bigger comercial success. Huh..

Also manga sales are impacted negativly I heard with Onk no longer being in top 10. I just want S3 . After that if they don't improve ending then whatever.

I tend to watch anime movies on airplanes since they might have ones I can't access otherwise. Last time I flew, there was one called Seven Days War where the provided synopsis said something to the effect of all the boys in this girl's class going missing.

I assumed there'd be some supernatural elements explaining why they all disappeared and was hoping for a mystery; turns out the actual plot was about three girls and three boys running away together in a coming-of-age story.

I still don't know whether the movie was any good since it wasn't even the one I intended to watch!

I thought Komi-san Can''t Communicate was just a slice of life comedy with quirky characters about making friends, I mean almost like a iyashikei; that's why I enjoyed it even if it's one of the most hated anime here on AD. However, something like that could only work in a seinen magazine: this is a shounen, so it turned out that the whole premise was just an excuse to have yet another romance between an average guy and the most beautiful girl in the school.

@Nirinbo Hateful? I thought a lot of people learned about manga through the anime.

@WaterMage Kaguya's ending was just meh, but from what I see now a lot of people have become more skeptical about it, since many of the manga's problems were previously ignored due to the author's reputation and general love for his work. But now the attitude has changed a lot.

Have sales dropped? Could you be more detailed? After all, I heard that by the end of the series, it was in the top 20 most successful manga.

Multiple times: Haruchika, Gonna Be The Twin-Tail, Nourin, Monster Musume, Megami no Cafe Terrace, Lv1 Maou to One Room Yuusha, Handa-kun, Sakurada Reset, Bang Dream: It's MyGo, D-Frag, Spy x Family, Infinite Stratos, Bibilophile Princess, Zankyou No Terror, Welcome to the Ballroom, Gunjou no Fanfare.

To name a few

@RobertBobert idk why will anyone have anything bad to say about Kaguya end. I can get OnK but Kaguya ended the way it needed no complaints.

I don't really have details but I always see OnK in top,10 selling in random posts but yesterday I saw one where it wasn't.

After an epic first season, the second season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya was like a slap in the face. Biggest disappointment in 60 years of anime.

@joemaamah Ahh, just rewatching it right now (after 12 years). But yeah, Endless Eight arc was rather an unwise adaptation. Three episodes should suffice, but eight episodes of the same thing just drives you mad. Luckily I wasn't fully into anime yet back in 2009, so I didn't suffer the two months waiting for the arc to end. I watched two episodes each day so finished the arc in four days. The other 2009 episodes just made me hate Haruhi even more xD At least Disappearance made up for that.

@joemaamah Ahh, just rewatching it right now (after 12 years). But yeah, Endless Eight arc was rather an unwise adaptation. Three episodes should suffice, but eight episodes of the same thing just drives you mad. Luckily I wasn't fully into anime yet back in 2009, so I didn't suffer the two months waiting for the arc to end. I watched two episodes each day so finished the arc in four days. The other 2009 episodes just made me hate Haruhi even more xD At least Disappearance made up for that.

So true. The artistic decision might sound good, but very badly executed.

Tbh, you can just watch the first two, then the 7th one (Kyon had a funny way of answering Mikuru's phone call and you can see Yuki looked very bored than staying in neutral expression from earlier episodes). Then watch the ending part of the 8th episode of the arc where Kyon broke free of the loop and the epilogue. Ooor...just watch them this way! x'D Epilogue is near the end of the video.

@chaosflame5 ARRRGGGGGHHHHH! Do you WANT me to poke out my eyes with red hot iron spikes?!?! 😂

Then just watch the epilogue and you are done! 😂