‘Tokyo Ghoul was so disappointing:’ Anime Fans Confess Which Anime and Manga They Wish They Could Delete From Their Memory

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Ely Bulnes • Writer and Editor
Dec 3, 2024 1:00 PM EST

Welcome, anime fans and stans. We've all been in the following situation: one of your friends will simply not shut up about a new manga he's reading or a new anime he's watching. After enough pestering, you follow suit and give it a try. Honestly, it's entertaining at first, and you can see how it hooked to many people. But eventually, the plot starts going in a direction that you did not expect — and not in a good way. Characters stop developing, plot lines are abandoned, and all those cool theories you and your buddy cooked up dissipate before your very eyes in favor of some half-baked narrative. Maybe you hold out until the very end, clinging to the hope that the series will redeem itself, but in the end, it's more disappointing than you could have ever imagined. The experience leaves you wishing you had never laid eyes on the series at all. Scroll down to find out which anime and manga had fans feeling this way.

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    r/animequestions u/Striking-Bass-6554.12d Anime/Manga you regret watching/reading Discussion
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    Evening-Plankton-197 • 12d Rent a girlfriend definitely Reply 448
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    EverythingSunny • 12d I see this show as the punchline a lot. What makes it so bad? ... 111
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    KiddBwe 12d . A main character that's completely pitiful with zero redeeming qualities paired with a story that simply refuses to actually ever go anywhere or progress in any meaningful fashion. 228
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    Fictional Leader • 11d The MC makes shinji from Evangelion look like a competent man compared to him. ← 18
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    nesshinx 11d • The main male character is the most intensely unlikeable and irredeemable character I've ever seen. He's your generic NEET with no redeeming qualities, who blames the world for his problems. In top of that, he consistently learns exactly no lessons and continues to lie and shame several women into feeling bad for
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    him or pretending they are involved with him, and when one girl genuinely seems to want to be with him he tosses her aside. Everytime this sh blows up in his face, he learns nothing and goes back to being a sniveling the next episode.
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    The female characters are basically generic waifu archetypes. They have little personality and range from psychotic to painfully needy. The characters the writing s ks, the art isn't very good, and the premise itself is pretty garbage or has been done way better elsewhere. The series just s ks, badly. ' D 8 8 3
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    East-Try-519 • 12d The last season of Tokyo Ghoul ← Reply 96
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    adultfemalefetish. 11d Is it actually? I enjoyed the first season of Tokyo ghoul well enough but thought it was kind of a mess and then the second season was, well... I don't even know how to describe it. Didn't finish it though but if the manga is actually good I may give it a read cause the world was interesting
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    Greentoaststone 11d • It is. The second season has nothing in common with the manga
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    SuperPinhead00 • 11d Like a marathon of wondering what the f is even happening as it skips through 80 plot points at once. ← D B 8 3
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    albionstrike • 11d I was so disappointed in this anime Season 1 was amazing on track to be a favorite anime Then it just fell apart 23
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    danyoja • 12d Usagi Drop Anime sold me on a slice of life version of SpyxFamily or non cooking sweetness and lightning. Manga told me I wasted my time. Reply 126
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    EverythingSunny. 12d This was one of the first shows where I followed up with the Manga to finish the story. I wish I had not ... D 13
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    Tackyuser 11d I'm manga only, and I don't regret reading it because I can now use it as rage fuel when I have nothing else to ramble about lol. ← & Ŷ 6 B
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    Nikosch13 12d I regret watching your name because it was one of the best experiences of my life and i hate that i can't rewatch it. ← Reply 36
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    Rowanthesoviet • 11d Me with a silent voice. I still rewatch a silent voice all the time but dosent hut as hard the first time I did. I still definitely cry watching it just not as impactful as first watch ← & Ŵ 11 ↓
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    Silly Movie13 12d Platinum End. I don't have enough time to explain why it's so bad, it's not worth anyone's time. Also Bucchigiri, it's just bad Reply 51 ♡
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    Logical-Chaos-154. 12d In Another World With My Smartphone. Great idea! How would things change if someone had a modern smartphone with all its functions magically adapted to the fantasy world? Yeah, no. Bland, bog-standard isekai with one of the most boring harems of all time. Barely uses the Iphone, relying on his OP powers instead. Dropped it after volume one of the light novel. Reply û 13 ♡
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    Kingg_Bob 12d Seven deadly sins. Manga was nice, animation is top notch pile of 1. Don't even start, season one had a fine animation to lure you in and then Netflix attacked Reply D ↑ 39 ↓
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    trexwalters • 11d Ending of jjk made me want to punch a baby, I enjoyed it so much and gege completely failed as a writer. More than like 15 countable abandoned plot lines, literal gaps in the plot (time skips that come out of nowhere seemingly because writing what happened inbetween would've taken too much
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    time), abandoning fan favorite characters, an ending that failed to wrap the story up nor appreciate any of its own universe. I mean seriously, this guy said he hated both itadori and gojo and showed. Worst ending to a major series I've read, I got less after the kiss x sis ending (don't ask, not proud of that one). Reply 37
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    Advanced-Ad-4462.11d Yeah I felt the same way. It started with so much promise, but by the end it was just an insufferable slog. ...
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    HammieOrHami • 11d Was talking about it to a store clerk at my lical manga shop and they said they probably just got "shounen jumped" and forced to end it in 5 chapters. But I agree, its so a 1
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    AlternateSatan • 10d I kinda stopped watching and lost all faith in the series the moment I heard him say he disliked such a major character in his series as Gojo. How can you trust someone who hates what they make to make something good? ← 13
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    Pongoyoh 12d Fairy Tail. I like the characters but it seems that nothing really happens and there's no progress at all Reply û 67 ♡ Д
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    Wernershnitzl • 12d "My power of friendship is far greater than yours!" the anime ... 63
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    BillzSkill 12d Re:Zero, on the basis I really enjoyed it and I am going to have to wait years to get more of the story. Claymore, on the grounds that I feel the anime didn't really go as far as I was hoping, and I was not enthused enough to check out the manga. The Rick & Morty anime, on the basis I had hoped it would be more than what it was. Reply Q ↑ 30 ↓
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    MueslilnVegas • 12d Future Diary was a disaster from start to finish Reply 15
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    beautifulredcrewmate • 12d Mob psycho, not cause it was bad but because i wish i never watched it so i could experience it for the first time again Reply 11 Q
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    Church Of Dimple • 11d Slowly raises pitchfork, reads the rest of the comment, slowly lowers pitchfork
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    Neuro_Kuro • 11d tokyo revengers had an incredible start and somehow has an even worse downfall than seven deadly sins imo, I would even say it has one of the worst endings of the entire manga / anime sphere ← Reply Ŵ 4 ♡
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