| What are some anime you think that could have been interesting but ended up being a mess or didn't have a proper execution? I've just finished Black Bullet, and all I can think of is the exaggeratedly big amount of wasted potential it has. It had an interesting premise, an interesting villain and an interesting sitting, but all we were given was a cliché fest, disappointing deaths and plot twists, a MC with a plot armor that could endure the world exploding, a wasted villain and underdeveloped characters. |
| Bleach, until Soul Society arc everything was awesome, after that...well, let's just say it was not that cool. |
| I think mirai nikki.The show started off with a good concept but later became boring because of poor writing and poor characterization |
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| I'm re-reading Umineko right now, and everytime I do I'm sad it didn't get a good adaptation. Well, cramming 80 hours of VN into 24 episodes was going to be a challenge. |
Huntik said: Exactly my dude. I read the whole thing hoping its glory days come back. I don't even care to read the novels.ren_moon said: Bleach, until Soul Society arc everything was awesome, after that...well, let's just say it was not that cool. If you have read the manga you will say that became even shittier. There were no Quincy. There was no Yhwach. It was never explained their existence. At least from what i remember. |
| if mayoiga was a 3 cour show and developed each character and entered deeper in the philosophy of starting life from 0 in another world it would have been the greatest anime of our times |
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| Every Mari Okada original script feels like wasted potential. I mean she always has great ideas and drowns them in forced melodrama. |
| I recently finished Gankutsuou and I was left disappointed by how ham-fisted the whole "revenge suxxxx" thing in the end was, especially since every single one of the people that got fucked over by the Count were horrible people with no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Why did Albert even want to protect them? I have no idea. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
Huntik said: I could have liked Sword art online or at least not calling that Garbage but almost everything was messed up destroying everything. Dunno about LN but the anime was a bad execution with a good concept! Do yourself a favor and watch .hack, the show that Sword Art Online tried to be...15 years after .hack. On topic; new Berserk Sailor Moon Crystal Fate/Extra |
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| 99% anime i've seen so far because it's stupid and unrealistic escapism fantasy. Western Cinema and even Video Games makes better stories XD |
| Anime sucks, all of them are bad and that's a fact! |
| Violet Evegarden. The premise of a "robot" girl who only has known war becoming a human little by little is fascinating and deep, the show almost writes itself. However, production values aside, it is poorly executed, more melodramatic than interesting, boring characters... It's not a bad show, just a bit overrated. |
| beelzebub... if the ending wasnt rushed i think it could have been super climactic or whatever |
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| The most recent example could be Goblin Slayer. Violet Evergarden also makes the list |
| "We could make the world better, but it's easier to just shut our eyes." ~Blackwall |
| Trinity Blood. Author died before the anime could be finished. |
San-Diego said: 99% anime i've seen so far because it's stupid and unrealistic escapism fantasy. Western Cinema and even Video Games makes better stories XD Then why are you here then? Is the 1% of decent anime really worth to make a myanimelist account? |
alshu said: Every Mari Okada original script feels like wasted potential. I mean she always has great ideas and drowns them in forced melodrama. Gundam IBO had great writing, though I heard the director kept some of her crazier ideas in check. Mari Okada scripts definitely do seem hit or miss, but I think she’s a bit overhated. |
| Erased because the ending of the series could have been better. |
| darling in the franxx is an obvious one for me promising premise, miserable ending and it lacks mutual development as for characters (i can barely feel hiro's presence in the latter half of the series) the narrative structure is also underdeveloped the concept is somewhat innovative yet it is ramified in a really bad way and becomes decentralized |
TripleSRank said: alshu said: Every Mari Okada original script feels like wasted potential. I mean she always has great ideas and drowns them in forced melodrama. Gundam IBO had great writing, though I heard the director kept some of her crazier ideas in check. Mari Okada scripts definitely do seem hit or miss, but I think she’s a bit overhated. The second half of IBO season 2 was just....WHY? |
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| Guilty crown will forever be the biggest wasted potential anime. |
| Those that come to mind immediately are: Basilisk Guilty Crown His and Her Circumstances Jin Roh Jyu Oh Sei Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Season 2 Neon Genesis Evangelion Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom Terror in Resonance Umeneko no Naku Koroni Also any good novel/manga adaptation that only got a single season. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| The Danganronpa 3 anime. I haven't re-watched it, so maybe my feelings on it will change, but there was just so much wasted potential. It might've worked better as a visual novel so they would've had more time to flesh things out. |
| I really liked the premise of Ousama Game, but… well, we all saw how that turned out. Also, fancyjasper said: The Danganronpa 3 anime. I haven't re-watched it, so maybe my feelings on it will change, but there was just so much wasted potential. It might've worked better as a visual novel so they would've had more time to flesh things out. This! DR3 had such potential; I was particularly disappointed with Zetsubou-hen. I wanted to see how the DR2 cast individually fell to despair, not that brainwashing BS. Oh well, at least it gave us good Imposter/Mikan and Hajime/Natsumi scenes. |
To me, these are neither as great or as terrible as anyone says. They're just... meh. Which is a shame because they could've been so good.
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TripleSRank said: Gundam IBO had great writing, though I heard the director kept some of her crazier ideas in check. If you liked that show for me it's an example how Gundam shouldn't be. Another messed up mecha by Okada - M3: Sono Kuroki Hagane. TripleSRank said: but I think she’s a bit overhated. Isn't this about taste and personal preferences? For example I don't like melodrama and she writes mainly that...fresh ideas or not. |
alshuNov 27, 2018 2:40 PM
| Probably no one will agree with me but I think that Full Metal Alchemist was one of the most disjointed shows ever. |
| Life Is Short But Intense. |
| Hah, potential? There are way too many shows that look promising coming out every season, but it ultimately means nothing as only a few of those show end up even being good in any capacity. Most shows have at least some vaguely interesting concepts to it, and frankly it probably doesn't take many minutes to add lots of depth in world building. Problem is always that the interesting concepts are filtered through crappy characters. Saying "if xxx was just slightly different, then the show would've been great" makes no sense at all, because it's clear the main character is a reflection of the author and the main heroine is a fantasy born out of a shallow interpretation of a character trope in anime of the years past. The crappy characters are probably more central to the author in his work than the concept you find interesting, so it's less than the show was wasted potential but more like it was destined to be bad. |
| If your favourite character is Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, you are my soul mate. Been a long time since I've been here, I'll continue expressing myself freely and believe everyone should too. My MAL Interview |
| The obvious answer is Darling in the FranXX. |
| First off the top of my head: Sword Art Online Gangsta Dimension W Nanatsu no Taizai D.Gray Man Sankarea Tokyo Ghoul Overlord Black Butler Berserk Drifters Little Witch Academia |
| Tokyo Ghoul, Bleach, Deadman Wonderland, and Mirai Nikki came into my mind. Started out well, but it came to crap later on. |
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| Incoming Tokyo Ghoul comments, probably gonna be the majority or Bleach. |
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| Darling in the Franxx is the first one that comes to my mind. |
| FATE that garbage shiro ruins evrything. also arthur was female is retarded HXH, bcz togashit wont finish it. re:life if only it'd carry one as it did for the 1st 3 eps |
| Boku dake ga Inai Machi, Charlotte, Zankyou no Terror |
| I have two cases: -Sket Dance: Had a good start with the first half of the episodes: a good mix between comedy, drama, touching stories, parodies, etc. Had a good character development, even when telling every main characters' backstory (actually the most complex was Switch story...), but in the second half, everything went not just down, It fell into rock bottom... Senseless arcs, forgetting about the near realism of the series, to the point of being so absurd (one of the rival group members, Unyuu Mimori, if I'm not wrong... built an Macross-like kind of city beneath her mansion, and yes, she is more rich than anyone in the world),characters that ranged from ridiculous to annoying, with no personality, no chance to have anything positive or having a convincing backstory (For me, in the second half of the series, everything was rushing so fast to conclude every single plot point without a proper sequence time) -Gamers: What it was supposed to be an anime about people who loves videogames, it started, continued and ended like something entirely different. I know it had a more romantic focus, but, for series like Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii, it had a balance between its elements like the characters' development (i.e, backstory, current events, personality), each couples' development, their interests, outlooks and themes for videogames, manga, anime, cosplay, etc. Each character had their own tastes on each category. So many things that every one had their own time, its own pace... But for Gamers was so simple, it was talking (again...) about characters who had an interest or had some relation, to videogames. At first, they presented characters from a club that, it was supposed to have a more competitive focus on videogames, something that the wimpy and lonely (and also, the typical school outcast) MC wasn't interested. For him, videogames had a more relaxing and entertaining way than the popular blondie from the club had. Then, the guy who had a sad past being a game nerd, but now, he's a regular high school normie, with a bubblehead girlfriend that was there only to create a romantic tension between the characters, turning from love triangles to squares or something else... It was something that began with a confusing relation between a beta male lead character, a "perfect" girl who "secretly" had a competitive interest for videogames, another girl that had more in common with the male MC than the perfect girl, but she has to complicate everything (and also the male MC also does...) she hates him first, but later she wants him only for her... The series practically erased the other characters from the club, and, in a way that seemed to be a compensation for the rest of the characters that were totally forgotten, they rescued a character that was also recruited to be part of the games' club, a character that had some kind of "amnesia", but he's totally good at every videogame he plays. Idon't remember so well, but he won some kind of tournament at the last episodes of the series... |
| We are EVERYWHERE... |
| Glasslip had good art but everything else was pretty much a mess |
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| highschool dxd another gakusen toshi asterisk musaigen no phantom world prince of stride: alternative gyo killing bites mahou shoujo site big order |
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SinisterTwister said: I think mirai nikki.The show started off with a good concept but later became boring because of poor writing and poor characterization Mirai Nikki has terrible writing and characters that don't make load of sense since episode 1... It's never good. Probably so bad it's good in some people's standard.. |
KuroudoAkabane said: FATE that garbage shiro ruins evrything. also arthur was female is retarded HXH, bcz togashit wont finish it. re:life if only it'd carry one as it did for the 1st 3 eps I can't agree more with Fate Stay Night. In all 3 routes, the story is very interesting / good, until Shirou ruined everything with all the bullshit power-up. It has such good power system between servants until Shirou breaks all the rules. Even in Heaven's Feel, I think Shirou is meh at best... Rin is a much better character even in Heaven's Feel. |
| hhmmmm there are a lot but these kinda piss me off the most. Koutetsujou no Kabaneri - turned into a trainwreck Kaze no Stigma - incomplete Inu x Boku SS - incomplete Gangsta - studio went out of business Tokyo Ghoul re 1-2 - turned into a trainwreck Deadman Wonderland - incomplete |
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