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"

  • Sushi_Desires
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      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!"

      • Sushi_Desires
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        3 years ago

        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:

        • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's why shows are always better when they're constantly under threat of cancellation.