This happens a lot with anime for some reason but the same thing occurs with soap operas, webcomics now and even some game stories. Like just conclude your story! Give the plot twist and be done! I don't need to see "Oh no our crew is up against the 700'th bad guy DingDong Samurai Man who looks like a squid mixed with a lemur wearing sunglasses because the good designs ran out after the third arc". I know why they don't do it, keeping an existence audience is easier and makes more money than having to bring them from series to series but still wtf
And then there's always armies of fans who are like "what are you talking about, when Gerp went Hyper Power 5 and beat up Bratwurst that was the best arc. And remember when Naco got pregnant and he had to birth a baby? Pinnacle of emotions there"
I set a rule for myself that I'll never watch an anime with more than 26 episodes and I've never regretted it.
It's also pretty easily avoidable when all the games you play are indie trash with <10 hour play times.
I don't know what a webcomic is if it's not a long running story where nothing still manages to ever happen. I mean, gag-a-day comics I guess.
It’s also pretty easily avoidable when all the games you play are indie trash with <10 hour play times.
hell yeah. the only way to find tolerable games these days
I just make sure the series is complete, but pretty much same. I don't watch anything with more than a hundred episodes (except my guilty pleasure MHA)
Another way capitalism ruins art. Creators aren't able to freely make something and end it on their terms without fear of losing stable income.
This is a fundamental limitation of forms of media that are ruled by profit. Think of the writer's room for whatever TV show. They have to write something that is compelling enough to get people to watch, but can't satisfactorily conclude the story because the studio must maximize the amount of money they squeeze out of every "property." Unfortunately even films are like this now, and they are even willing to shock old ones back to life to squeeze out even more money while most likely defiling the art or legacy or whatever of the original.
It's what made the MCU so laughable.
"What's that? The main characters from a billion dollar franchise died? Oh no! They're gone forever!"
I thought my brain was dying when they remade the Hulk movie. I didn't even know it happened, but then it was on tv one day and I was like "What the fuck?? This is not the guy that was in this movie." When I checked the info panel it just said 'hulk' or something even though the plot seemed to be the same and I ????? :hillary-disgust:
Yeah. They wanted to recoup the loss from the Ang Lee version and include the character in the MCU canon. Gotta scrape for the money where you can.
That's why shows are always better when they're constantly under threat of cancellation.
Here’s a tip: stop watching anime and playing video games.
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I've never gotten the appeal of that kind of anime. It's just a Jrpg that you watch. I saw Pokemon already when I was six and essentially they're all the exact same but with a different setting (Digimon is the exception, each season is it's own thing and shit fucking ends at the end)
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't know people liked incredibly popular animes.
JoJo parts might actually be an example of it doing okay. Since each part is actually its own story for the most part.
