I've never once had an anime fan force a show on me.
I've had countless people try to force Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, whatever the current "omg you HAVE to be watching this!" show of the moment is.
I've never once had an anime fan force a show on me.
I've had countless people try to force Game of Thrones, Stranger Things, Breaking Bad, whatever the current "omg you HAVE to be watching this!" show of the moment is.
There are lots of anime that are great in the first season but really dropped the ball in the second.
And you all have an example in your heads right now.
This.
It almost never gets better later, in anime. It goes the other way around.
When live-action TV shows get better in second seasons, it's often because the acting cast find their groove and learn how to play their character, and the writers learn how to produce scripts that work for them.
Anime largely doesn't have this.
In anime it often starts strong because you have the excitement of new characters to meet, a cool new world to learn about, a great premise, some looming mystery. But once all that's done with it fizzles out.
Sometimes it doesn't even last a season before it takes a dive. And it's because all the writer really had was a grab bag of cool ideas, and not really a story. And once that initial excitement is over there's nothing left.
Anime largely doesn’t have this.
There are a few. Kaguya-sama: Love is War is arguably best in its third season and imho the first several episodes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood are its weakest part. Eureka Seven, Umamusume, and Gintama also come to mind. I had to wrack my brain for those examples though; they really are the exception.
The first season is only 92 episodes with 80 episodes of filler.
Babylon 5. You don't fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.
I would say Black Clover gets better after season 1. They really toned down the annoying parts of it. That said, I haven't seen it in English to know if the same things annoy me. It was Asta's voice.
There are plenty of anime that are good in the first season. Frieren and The Apothecary Diaries are two recent examples.
Now, you might think, “This isn’t an anime meme!”
Yes. Yes it is.
One Piece gets better after "season one"
The person I heard about One Piece from actively told me not to start watching it. They told me it was their favorite show, but they wouldn't wish it on anyone.
One Piece is now my favorite show, and I wouldn't wish it upon anyone.
This is my experience with One Piece fans personally; I ain't seeing OP fans going around pressuring people to watch.
There's definitely a contingent of Oda's angels, and their proselytizing has been growing louder and louder. I think part of it has to do with the Live-Action making the series more popular in the West.
That being said, I heavily agree with your take. It's the kinda thing that's pretty easy to get sucked into watching, and then you're cursed into watching more than a thousand episodes.
One Piece has aired 1000+ episodes over 26 years without a break. So technically it just ended the first season.
There are whole seasons of the anime that are a break, and im not even talking about the "catch up" ones that are 8 episodes long.
I know this is just headcanon and people will rightfully disagree, but as far as I'm concerned anytime the opening changes, that's a new season.
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