I find it easy to start anime but difficult to finish it. I've started several anime but they always seem to get boring a few episodes in. Is this a me problem or does seasonal anime have a massive drop in quality in the back end?
For example, Train to the End of the World is a pretty fun show but the last two episodes have been either boring or weird. Is this sort of falling off common in seasonal anime?
Anime endings are so rarely good.
Gainax had some crazy magic that made them create amazing endings running out of budget (Gunbuster b/w, Eva).
This is the exception though, most anime endings are at best mids.
Back in the day this was because mangas were ongoing so you'd get a thrown together anime ending.
Nowadays though, I couldn't tell you why.
Afaik the black/white in Gunbuster's episode 6 wasn't a budget thing but a stylistic choice
It comes from the manga industry, which heavily incentivizes creating a lot of interesting pilot-like starts, but when they get serialized the author does not know how to continue the story, and the advice they get from publishers drives the series to be generic and cheap.
It's a shame that anime original series are so often underlooked; there is much less of an incentive to try to create the next one piece, these are often wrapped up on a season or so, and are actually able to complete their stories as a result
I think it's mostly due to issues in production (largely thanks to ridiculous schedules) stacking as a series goes on. Slight delays on 10 episodes in a row becomes overwhelming delays on episodes 11 and 12. A director of an anime original might have a great idea for a concept but not have thought through to the ending until well into production. If contractors fail to meet the standard necessary, budget goes to hiring more people to redo their work meaning there's less available in the future.
In summary, watch Shirobako.
There's a few exceptions, but there is a real issue with writing good endings in anime/manga
