Anime that could have been masterpieces

There are times that you start to see an anime and you think: “This is going to be incredible”, but then something happens – the story twists, the characters change meaningless or simply everything goes to the fret. That is what thousands of fans in Reddit are discussing, and the conversation became so intense that it ended up becoming a trend in R/Anime, one of the largest anime communities on the platform.

The question with which everything started was simple but direct: “What anime do you think it could have been a masterpiece, but was later ruined by history, characters or other factors?”And of course, people opted.

The curious thing about the debate is that it does not feel like a rain of free hatred, but rather as a group of friends venting because “this had everything to be incredible and wasted it.” Many mention things like bad plot turns, characters that changed for no reason, hurried ends or rare decisions by the study. In other words, those things that make one shout in front of the screen: “Why?!”

The conversation also became deep in some moments. Many people reflected on what makes an anime really a “masterpiece”, and how sometimes that line is so thin that any small error can make everything come down. Some even said that, years after having seen certain anime, they still make them angry how good everything began and how bad it ended.

In the end, this type of conversations show that the Internet anime community is still very alive, very passionate and very honest when it comes to talking about what he loves (or what disappointed it). And when the door opens to an issue as universal as “anime that had everything to be incredible, but something failed,” it is clear that we all have at least one in mind.

• «The mandatory case of Wonder Egg Priority. With this raisin through all stages of duel. At first you are in denial, because the first half of the anime impacts you so much that you cannot believe that both the characters and the story are spoiled later. Then you go through rage, and then you try to convince yourself that it was not so bad, that perhaps it was not a masterpiece, but “very good”, and in the end you tell yourself “well, it was fine, but Meh”».
• «I read the whole thread and I didn’t see anyone mentioned Guilty Crown».
• «Tokyo Ghoul. If the adaptation had been less confusing, it would easily be among the 20 best anime of all time, in my opinion».
• «Not that it was a masterpiece, but Food Wars It was hilarious … until it ceased to be».
• «The truth, One Punch Man It could have been much better if they had produced and launched it with normal times. I love it, but wait for years for a season takes away all the emotion and disconnect from the story».
• «Aldnoah.Zero».
• «The Promised Neverland It had potential».
• «For me there are two anime that won this award. Charlotte He ruined her with a hurried end. AND Accel world He had a very good season, but the brain was left for the strange in the second».
• «Metallic Rouge. I loved the first episodes: good action, worldbuilding interesting, good chemistry among the characters. But then they put too many plots and there was no time to develop them. The end felt hurried and without closing. I still like it, but the second half was hard to see».
• «Darling in the Franxx. The end was completely out of control, he felt rare».
• «Hai to Gensou no Grimgar It could have been incredible if the anime had continued».
• «Erased It was a 10 of 10 for me … until they revealed to the culprit. It was so obvious that I thought it was a false track. The end was so lazy that now I give him an 8 of 10».
• «Death Note It would have been much better if I had finished before (if you saw it, you know why)».
• «Legend of the Legendary Heroes… He never had an end and stayed with a huge cliffhanger».
• «Claymore».
• «Grind 100. All delays made people lose interest, and there is not even news of a second season».
• «Azame to Kill. If the anime had followed the end of the manga instead of inventing its own».
• «No Game No Life. He simply never had a second season».
• «86. It is already a jewel, but there is no second season to continue developing Shin and Lena».
• «Hunter x Hunter He barely touched the surface. It has a lot of waste wasted with all the uninjured stories».
• «Mainly Naruto. History collapse».
• «Record of Ragnarok. I loved the concept: human vs. Gods, with the best fighters in history trying to save humanity. But the slow rhythm and lazy animation took me completely. This could have been a series of 24-36 episodes with good animation, but no … they stretched too much».
• «Cop Craft He had a lot of style and charisma, but it was noted that the study ran out of budget. The animation quality jumped from one place to the other».
• «Dimension W It started great, like a cyber-noir story with samurais, interesting characters and a mysterious world … but in the second half he went to hell. Ridiculous hunters appeared as taken from One Pieceand the main plot simply disappeared».
• «I will give a slightly different answer: Love of Kill y Unnamed Memory. Both had stories with a lot of potential and a unique approach, but the rhythm was their greatest enemy. Unnamed Memory He literally tried to tell the whole story of light novels in two seasons, as if it were a Speedrun. AND Love of Kill He jumped from the scene on stage, omitting important things. I would have loved that both had more careful adaptations».
• «12 episodes were not enough for Vivy It will really shine. He lacked more missions, more development among the protagonists, more diva, more construction of the world … more of all».
• «Terror in Resonance He probably had the best first five episodes I’ve seen. Too bad six were a great disappointment».
• «The movie of Spriggan He was supposed to fly our heads with Studio 4 ° C and Katsuhiro Otomo involved. He was “the chosen one”! But he ended up feeling hurried and mediocre».
• «I also had many expectations with Steamboybut he stayed in “Meh.” They used too CGI, when with traditional machines, and under the direction of Otomo, it would have been a thousand times better. But well, at that time the CGI was fashion, and the movie paid him expensive».
• «Arifureta. It is not a masterpiece, but the novels were quite good, especially the part of the dungeon. Then he became a generic isekai. The anime jumped the entire interesting part and went straight to the cliché, on top with CGI ugly».
• «Cross Ange I had everything to be a cult jewel of cult: dystopian world, girls in wicks hunting dragons with songs, a spoiled princess who learns to be human and a setting with a lot of moral complexity. But no … Sunrise could not resist putting fakebice even by the elbows. Instead of betting on an intense and emotional narrative, he was filled with Panty Shots, uncomfortable scenes and all Ecchi clichés».
• «Seven Deadly Sins. The story ended rarely, but the worst was the animation disaster that we all remember».
• «One of my favorites is also Fairy Tail. The way to find Igneel and beat Zeref was epic, but then fell. A lot of fake, many nonsense when I had to get serious. They revived characters that had to stay dead, which would have given more weight to the story. Even so, I have love and it is still a “10” for me, but it could live up to the greats like The Big 3with which he used to compare».