Invincible
Loki also
In all honesty Loki s2 just makes no sense whatsoever. I’m ok with the show for the fun, but there’s no trying to understand it
If I stop playing a video game for even a couple weeks I forget everything in terms of the mechanics, crafting, and inventory etc and lose interest.
My least favorite is when you go back to watch season 1, enjoy it, then watch the new season and you can’t even finish it due to how different it is
Oof altered carbon got me that hard. The first season is so confusing and amazing. The second season… Well
Yeah, that was sad. The first season was so good
Loved the first volume of a new fantasy series. Wait eagerly for Volume II. Nope out halfway through because it stinks.
Firefly is coming back?!?
Babylon 5 had the right idea. Do an animated version; you can keep all the original actors and have much wilder special effects
That doesn’t work, because I rewatch it so often I remember everything.
This is presently happening with me for invincible. Season two just started and I have no idea what happened to get us where we are.
But Dr. Who is returning, so I’m rewatching the entire series. Just got to Matt Smith…
All 39 seasons? You are a madman!
Attack on Titan. I lost interest at some point in the few year gap.
I’d say you just saw the best of it
This is what came to my mind as well. I feel like its been the final season for a decade.
It’s so silly. I couldn’t have created a more fucked up way to release the final season if I tried.
FLCL
Changing the animation style so dramatically between seasons destroyed any continuity.
I mean the original is like 6 episodes, right? Thanks for putting that song into my brain btw. “With the kids sing of the future. Maybe kids don’t need the masters.”
I should watch Garth Merenghis Dark Place again…
Don’t get my fucking hopes up! If only they would bring this back.
At least Matthew Holness had cameos in Toast of London and Toast of Tinseltown.
They’re bringing back Sliders!?
The first one or two seasons were awesome.
I want to watch season 2 of Dark but I don’t have it in me to rewatch and get my brain organized for season 1.
worth it though.
also there are 10 min season-recaps on youtube, etc.
I am gonna disagree here and say Dark only gets worse over time. To be honest, I have not even finished it, because it became super silly.
Then you missed how the end ties everything perfectly together and makes it one of the most consistent time travel stories ever filmed.
LOL. You must’ve been watching a different Dark than the one I did.
Time travel is a difficult trope to do well, because there is so much potential for paradoxes and other confusion. I always find myself going “So, if they could travel through time, couldn’t they just do X?”
In Dark, it started with a good premise, but the last season was a total wreck. It felt slapped together, like they had to come up with an ending in a hurry.
I believe the writers actually wrote much of the story line for the entire show before filming the first season. As such, it’s probably one the most internally consistent time travel stories. That said, I do think season 3 gets bogged down by all of the exposition needed for the story to actually make any sense.
Lmao, that is a fun mind bender.
Futurama season 8 teaches us about the dangers of binging
[This guy] (https://youtube.com/@ManofRecaps?si=mXXkDvC4g7FO2VUH) does recaps and is actually good. Like, so good that he’s worth watching on his own
Thank you for sharing! My partner has this problem and these recaps could be perfect
Which guy?
Fixed it
Doesn’t happen if you only watch obscure >decade old single season animes
Never mind the fact that I’ll never find another person who watched and liked From the New World, or Canaan, or Flip Flappers
Except this literally happened to old single season anime FLCL which started getting new seasons fifteen years later.
From the new world is phenomenal.
Personally I see it as a selling feature knowing that an anime is only going to be one or two cour. I don’t like to watch series that never end so it’s nice knowing that the story has a conclusion.
Canaan was the shit! Try finding fans of Bubblegum Crisis, Noir, Eatman, or Bakumatsu Kikensetsu Irohanihoheto; 90s anime kids don’t get together and have rewatch parties lol
I wasn’t kidding about the one year thing, I’m back! All of these shows were great. You weren’t kidding about Bubblegum Crisis, I can’t believe I put off watching it for so long, it was rad as hell. Noir was my favorite of these suggestions, literally the only thing that keeps it from being a 10/10 is the distracting lack of any blood. Bakumatsu was super interesting—it’s cool seeing a show where half of the characters have Wikipedia pages. There’s a certain kind of person who both has a deep interest in the Boshin War and likes historical fantasy, for whom Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto is the best show ever made. I can’t bring myself to say that Eat-Man was good, but the concept is interesting, and I absolutely adore Bolt Crank as a character. '98 definitely improved on '97, but I’m fond of both series
I haven’t watched everything in your other comment yet, but I did watch Megalo Box, and it’s one of my favorite shows now—makes it to almost every list of recommendations because of the differences between the first and second seasons. It’s crazy how quickly it goes from shounen to seinen.
Just found it, here’s a few other niche “older” anime:
Real Drive - one of my favorite shows that really shows how far technology could go in the future.
HeatGuy J - another sci-fi futuristic one that premiered on Toonami in 2002; the premise is similar to Blade Runner
Dennou-Coil - this one deals with augmented reality, and it is what I think we’re getting closer to the more companies invest in AR. It’s also well animated and family friendly.
The Big O - another one that premiered on Toonami 20 or so years ago, I used to make the joke that The Big O was if Batman was an anime with mechs.
Desert Punk - I won’t spoil much; post apocalyptic dark comedy.
Aaaaand one of my favorites with one of my favorite anime openings ever:
Kyouran Kazoku Nikki - regular dude gets thrown into a marriage with one of the most powerful beings to exist
See you in a year!
A lot of those are already on my list, so I’ll make sure they make it onto my screen this year
I forgot to talk about the many other shows I’ve watched in the last year! Unfortunately I didn’t grow up watching anime so I don’t have the nostalgia for it that most 90’s kids do, but the turn of the century is my favorite era of the medium. I’ve seen a lot from around then in the last year: Witch Hunter Robin, Wolf’s Rain, Ghost in the Shell, NieA_7, Serial Experiments Lain, Key the Metal Idol, Ergo Proxy, Read or Die
I really missed out on this stuff when I was a kid. Ghost In The Shell (the films and Standalone complex) would have been a formative experience for me as a teen
Try finding me in one year when I’ve watched all of those shows
Thanks for the recommendations!
Did you delete your reply? I was going to read it again but can’t find it. I have more recommendations if you want, let me know!
That’s the fun of it, you rewatch season 1 and used that knowledge to criticise how bad season 2 become.
Bonus point is you rewatch the original series and use that knowledge to criticise how bad the sequel is. Hello Legend of Korra.
Korra had so much promise, but you should absolutely be blaming Nickelodeon for constant interference. Nickelodeon alone ruined the potential of that show.
They have so many writer for such a short story.
And how fucked Korra made the LITERAL EMBODIMENTS OF NATURE!
She just did.
How did toddler Korra learn 3 element without being taught? She just did.
How did everyone suddenly able to use air bending so effectively without being taught, where Katara and Toph barely even know how to control their element when they first discover they are a bender? They just did.
The show moved the plot with “just happened to be” with nonsensical exposition. It’s a mess.
Supposedly the show had the same writers, either they sold out or were paid so little they didn’t care.
A lot of bending ability comes down to personality. Being adaptable, forceful, consuming, or evasive makes you good at bending. Being rigid, timid, pacifist, or stubborn makes you bad at bending. Katara sucked at waterbending when the show started because she was a stickler for the rules. She always had a nurturing element, but she also had to learn to go with the flow. Toph was a child prodigy at earthbending because she has an incredibly forceful personality. But it’s not something her parents taught her, she had to cultivate it within herself.
It is the duty of the Avatar to embody the wisdom of each element and to undergo the personal growth to be able to see things from everyone’s perspective. Korra’s situation is basically normal. Aang is the weirdo for being a timid pacifist who struggled with earth and fire.
If you rewatch Last Airbender, all the previous Avatar have to went through training to learn how to bend other element. Roku took 12 year to learn and fully master all the element. Aang, with intense pressure, master it within a year. Korra, without being taught by anyone how to channel the element, know how to do it by herself. Korra’s situation isn’t normal lol.
And what element is hard to learn for the Avatar is supposed to be dictated by the opposite element, not personality. Roku struggle with Water because his element is Fire, Aang struggle with Earth because his element is Wind. Aang didn’t actually struggle with fire, not at all, he learn how to do it immediately after being taugh how to channel it, but doing it so carelessly and without discipline, even after being warned by Jeong Jeong, his Firebending Master at the time. He accidentally burned Katara and since then he did not use firebending, until he learn from Zuko. Legend of Korra changed that.
Go Team Venture!
The cancellation of that show broke my heart.
