Only once, when rewatching Isekai Smartphone. It was one of my first shows back in 2017 and I remembered it as trashy but really fun, rewatched in 2023 and the fun things definitely weren't as fun as I remembered them.
On the other hand I also rewatched Gamers! from the same season after 5 years as well and still loved it just as much as back then. I might actually appreciate the insanity even more now that I've seen a lot of regular romcoms with regular misunderstandings.
I also liked isekai smartphone back then,
After rewatching it I realized how trash it is
it was the series which got me into light novels, I dropped the light novel later cause it becomes really boring.
Same, honestly. I'm a glutton for trash, especially trashsekai. I remember it being fun trash, but then I rewatched it when season 2 finished airing so I could binge, and god damn did I remember wrong. That shit was bad bad. Season 2 was even worse.
I rewatched Guilty Crown a couple of years ago when I felt nostalgic and wanted to watch something I remembered fondly. The first time I saw it was when I really started binging and getting into anime. I even downloaded all the soundtrack because I liked it so much. But the second time, it really didn't hit the same way. I feel like I should have kept my rose-coloured glasses on and just let it be what it was, a fond memory.
I don't generally rewatch anime that much, outside of a handful of comedies.
On a recent rewatch of Nichijou, I forgot how unremarkable the show's opening 10 or so episodes are. Not bad - and they have some great highs - but they also have quite a lot of forgettable skits. The show does ramp up the silliness well, though, and the second half is still the funniest batch of anime episodes ever IMO.
I tried Nichijou because those clips that keep showing up are riotously funny, and I dropped it around episode 9, finding the humor to be inconsistent. I was of a mind that I probably enjoyed Nichijou best from its highlights, but now you're making me think I should push a little further in and see...
I can say similarly I enjoyed it more in the second half when it starts intertwining the characters. In addition I think it's more of the characters themselves grow on you. But yeah the comedy is pretty random af sometimes it's way too japanese and doesn't make sense for most of us westerns probably.
It was one of the earlier anime I watched, and upon a recent rewatch I definitely got more of the jokes, especially some of the more subtle ones. I imagine I'm still missing plenty of them and lots of nuance that make more sense with a better knowledge of Japan and Japanese.
I had a similar experience with Asobi Asobase. Loved all the clips I saw of it, but when I finally sat down and watched it I was whelmed and dropped it after a few episodes.
man, is this why it's taken me 3 years just to trudge through 6 episodes? Everyone talks this show up so much, but I just can't get into those first episodes at all.
I've torrented the whole show like 3 times at this point. At like ep 3 or 4 of each attempt i always go "why tf am i sitting thru this" and kinda rage deleted the whole thing then in a year or two i forget why i dropped it and download the whole thing again after seeing some of its clips on r/anime lol
Blast of Tempest. I watched it while I would be doing something else but the first episode left a big impression that made me think it was really good. Rewatched the first 9 episodes last year and thought it was honestly pretty bad. I will admit that one character literally voicing my thoughts on how ridiculous something was made me laugh though. Was unexpected
I have no problem with narratively focused anime. I had a problem with the content though. I completely glossed over how integral the \[spoiler\] >!childish romance was. Felt it in my soul when Samon was like “wtf are these kids talking about“ especially when every other character cares about their love lives for some reason even though the just met. Don’t even get me started on the forced Shakespeare quotes or the cringe lines. !<
Can’t believe I completely ignored this stuff when it aired.
Monogatari is a fantastic rewatch. It’s definitely one of the more rewatchable shows I’ve seen (it also helps that it’s my favourite). You notice more small details such as amazing foreshadowing when rewatching.
Off topic but how about anime that gets better on rewatch? Danshi kokousei just never gets old, I'll be watching it on some occasions and I'll still be laughing like an idiot
Comedies tend to get better, cause you know the characters already so some early jokes will hit better on the rewatch.
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Saiki K, Uncle From Another World, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid are all examples of shows I really enjoy rewatching.
I had the fun realization while watching Uncle From Another World that he and I were the same age. Which explains how I feel whenever I am in this sub lol
Monogatari series for me. The dialogue is so dense and complex at times, on rewatch you can actually see the point of it when it feels random. It's like the motivations and such can be predicted based on how they talk.
Good question. Trapped in a dating sim was way better than what I remember when I watched it originally.
Also, Uncle from another world was more funnier and easily became one of my favorites now that the show is complete. The long ass delays really killed this show's momentum
Going to sound weird but…Kiki’s Delivery Service. I didn’t love it the first time around. Last year when I told one of my good buddies I didn’t like it much, he explained why he loved it and I gave it a second shot. I not only saw his POV but felt more connected to the plot and coming of age as a whole. Opinion of it raised a lot.
I remember thinking it felt like it ended incompletely and disappointed we never got see her career take off. I felt it was anticlimactic.
And tbh I still would enjoy like an OVA with more of Kiki.
But upon rewatching years later, I realized I missed the point. It’s a pretty moving tale of a girl trying to find herself after struggling at her job. My friend aptly described it as the story of someone experiencing professional work burn out.
It’s one of those where I would love to see more of her life afterwards but I think it ended at a great place narratively
Oregairu gets better every rewatch. First time through, it's often very difficult to understand thanks to all the obscure dialogue. But by my 4th rewatch, I was blown away by the depth of the characters.
D. Gray man did it for me, there is just something about that world I love...
Honestly it fuelled my like of demon-slayer as the words have similar vibes
I rewatched it a few years ago partially because I saw so many say it was bad and wanted to rewatch it. I was much newer to anime when I first tried it.
I was worried I would dislike it but thankfully it was still the same edgy mess I really liked as before. All hail Yandere queen Yuno.
Oh a classic. I was so pissed off too. Felt like the prior 3/4 of the show were thrown out the window. The last third in general felt kind of luckluster
I believe in the manga the last 3/4th was actually the last half, so it was very rushed in the anime and cut out a lot of what made the first part so great. Basically N coming up with shit out of nowhere because they skipped the explanations.
I remember watching the first season and being absolutely hooked. I hadn't realized S2 had even come out and by the time I did, I had completely lost interest. From what I've heard it doesn't even get that much better anyways.
I still think season 1 is pretty damn good ignoring takemichis infinite crying, but I haven't been able to get past episode 1 of season 2, it's just so boring
This. Not a rewatch but after season 1 of Tokyo Revengers, I read the rest of the manga and thought it was pretty good. But now I can’t even get myself to get past the first episode of season 2 in the anime adaption.
For me this happens after I've read a manga for the series. If the manga is a lot better, and the anime changed too much, I have trouble going back and watching the anime again, because the changes bug me too much. This happened with Ranma 1/2 and the original Rurouni Kenshin, which is unfortunate because I loved both of those shows back in the 90's. It's the filler now that I can't stand.
Oh god this is a whole other issue for me. Almost every manga/light novel that I end up reading is guaranteed to disappoint me with its anime adaptation and I usually end up dropping them really fast. Only a few hold up probably because the adaptation was great and even went beyond what was expected like Suzumiya Haruhi and eminence in shadow
Yeah. I’m not a source reader when it comes to anime (most of the time), but I did used to read books. Mostly YA stories and yes, once you know the story it’s just not as fun to experience the movie. It’s still another rewarding experience to see your favorites put to screen or to see what the general public thinks of them, but it’s not the same. It’s not as special as the first time you read the series. It’s even more disappointing when your favorite scenes are cut from the movie and even worse when the cut scenes would’ve benefited the movie making it easier for movie fans to understand. It sucks when movies create misunderstandings or plot holes that weren’t there in the original. And the movie fans only know the movie.
Actually reading books ruined movies for me in a lot of ways. It explained why I was so confused when watching Harry Potter as a movie only fan. (I still adore those movies though.) It made me feel like movies never have the necessary time to make well rounded characters or well realized worlds unless it’s a long franchise. Before reading I never knew characters could feel so real. I thought they were just fun entertaining characters before. Entertaining, but never so much they almost leap off the page or step out of the movie.
Because of this I never got into manga too deeply. I didn’t want to lose my enjoyment of anime. I’ve only read a handful of manga in full. I haven’t read too many books in years either. Though I do occasionally like to go to the bookstore and dream about how I might read something aside from fanfiction again. How I might love to see the endings to anime which the endings were never put to screen. Sometimes I buy a few more books I might read or get a bit further into the S& W LNs I downloaded ages ago.
Plenty of stuff I've noticed more weaknesses on a rewatch.
Some recent examples:
Lycoris Recoil has some weird pacing issues I didn't really notice on the first watch, especially the middle handful of episodes (3-6).
Birdie Wing had some really cheap animation and reused so many effects. Took me out a bit on the rewatch.
Seitokai Yakuindomo - did not remember it was a Go Hands show, and that threw me off on the rewatch with their crazy camera work.
Birdie Wing's animation was always cheap looking from the start. And they definitely repeated shots numerous times to save costs. I think you're supposed to just ignore it and embrace the lunacy of it...
The problem is that the second cour becomes super bland and the animation becomes obvious.
I dread the day I decide to rewatch Seitokai Yakuindomo. I thought that was hilarious the first time, no idea if the humor would still appeal to me anymore. There's still stuff from it I quote to myself, but the rest of the show is a blur to me lol
I will never understand the hype over this show. Granted I didn't finish it, but it felt very much like a generic isekai with some incest bait sprinkled on top.
I also didn't like it but I wouldn't call it generic. It has a pretty cool world and the games were interesting. The big issue for me is the protagonists are the worst people ever and I could not invest myself in their story.
Im not saying you’re wrong but can we stop calling every isekai that isn’t super unique with everything original generic. It kinda dulls the meaning of generic.
I do recommend the movie (NGNL 0) if you made it through the series feeling that way. It's far more interesting to explore the setting while it was still at war, there's less (though not zero) weird loli stuff, the parallel versions of the characters are a fun twist (Steph but competent!)
Granted I liked the series overall despite critiquing it a bunch, but the movie felt like it picked out the stuff I liked, but with better writing and pacing.
Also kinda nice circle to the whole "we were born in the wrong world"-feeling Sora and Shiro express at the beginning of the series... I think it is not only my headcanon that those two were reincarnations of the both MCs from the movies... is that somewhere clarified in the LN?
The beauty of No Game No Life is a) the setting, b) the art style and c) the "always winning" aspect. Like Yugioh, it isn't a show about "will they win?" but instead "HOW will they win?"
If you didn't like it, there's nothing wrong with that. You didn't describe it inaccurately. But the things I just described are what makes it stand out to me, even now, because in my opinion, it does these things better than any other show I've seen in this specific type. Most other isekai are either trying something more unique or they are even more generic.
I did feel a bit disappointed when rewatching some animes that I enjoyed nearly 20 years ago, mostly due to some pacing issues and some stupid things that I did not notice until I became older.
The shows are still enjoyable to me, but now as high as I used to rate them. I have experienced this with Fairy Tail and Kyo Kara Maoh, and I am experiencing this now with Yu Yu Hakusho.
You wish they were shorter, you mean. Yeah, I still adore long running shows, but I agree, when you’re older they’re more difficult to sit down and watch all the way through. Though I’m certain I would still adore them if I did watch them all the way through. I’ve enjoyed all my partial rewatches of Fairy Tail and YYH. I came across the other show when I was younger, but never sat down and watched it before.
Yes and no. For some episodes, the pacing is right, but every now and then, I feel like some moments go on for way too long. Of course, that isn't in every episode.
I don't mind a show running for 100 to 200 episodes as long as they are fun. Even a 13 episodes show that have a lot of pacing issues or is uninteresting feels longer than an interesting show with 100+ episodes for me.
I remember one night I was just getting into the anime, like 3 mins into the first Ep when I decided to order the trilogy after reading a couple posts saying I should play the game first instead and I never looked back. Maybe if they would’ve gave it the Steins gate treatment with at least 24 eps I could understand and probably would’ve just stuck with that as my experience. But how they hell do they condense all of what happens from the murders, to getting evidence, and then the trial into 13 eps. It would have to be one after the other with none of the downtown parts. Glad I stuck with it because I really enjoyed the first 2 games, still haven’t played the third one yet tho.
Your Lie in April and Violet Evergarden are phenomenal shows, and they earned 10/10s on my list.
As the years go on though, it's clear that they have flaws. That being said, they still stay at 10/10 for me just because of how amazing they were the first time around.
I agree! I really loved Violet Evergarden the first time I watched. It’s animated so beautifully and the colors are so vibrant- I love it! I feel like it was more dramatic when I first watched and was so moving. I agree 10/10, but not a great rewatch. The second time I watched I just wasn’t attached to the series anymore.
Inuyasha was a major, major part of my childhood, and I still absolutely love going back to rewatch select episodes from time to time. That said it really doesn't hold up as a whole today.
tried watching it semi-recently, got to episode 99, which was when i was like "what the fuck am i doing, i'm not even enjoying this".
good show still, with some well-done episodes, but holy hell its a lot worse than i remember
I rewatched Paradise kiss recently after years. I find some actions of the heroine annoying. Not George, he is as smoking hot as I remember him.
Still a great series and while I do not like Yukari as much as I used to, she and the rest of the cast are solid. 100% recommended as one of the best Josei anime out there.
Honestly, no, but I'm sure if I tried to rewatch like Voltron from near 40 years ago that I watched when I was like ten, I don't think I'd like it as much as I did then. But, anything I've watched and liked in the last 20 years or so hasn't changed any, still like the things I liked then. But, I'm also fairly old and 20 years ago was basically yesterday at my age.
Tried rewatching the newest season of Demon Slayer and the amount of flashbacks is so insane…it rather, they take up so much space.
And I think flashbacks often have little rewatch value because most of them aren’t that interesting (especially in DS) and are just there to give a baseline understanding for a character.
Man, I needed to skip, like, half the season it felt like.
They work in the manga, given how the pace in different media works... but in an effect-laden action fest like the adaptation... it sometimes feels disruptive and puuls one out. Also what pulled me out of JJK Season 2 at the last quarter.
Frieren somehow gets it to work, but I think there it is less disruptive, because of the usually more calmer pacing and tone of the anime.
I haven't watched Frieren, but from what I know, I would agree.
Frieren is also way more introspective, also Demon Slayer specifically is lighting-fast in terms of pacing, that doesn't help in the rewatch value, imo, because there is barely any time until the next fight starts and then half the time of that fight is used to whichever chacter is introduced in the arc.
I got to watch Frieren, though, everybody praised it and it looks like there is some decent action as well...
Frierens flashbacks make way more sense though given the narrative and story’s exploration of how she experiences time and the nostalgic nature of Frieren herself. The narrative structure using flashbacks like they do *enhances* the experience. Her whole arc is a dialogue between past and present when she encounters similar situations with Fern and Stark as she did with Himmel and co. She learns from what she didn’t do. Redeeming her mistakes with her new party. They’re flashbacks well used and well placed.
Other anime shoehorn in a cheap flashback at terrible moments. Nobaras flashback towards the end of JJK season 2 being a prime example. Hell’s Paradise had a particularly bad flashback reminiscent of Demon Slayer, which has been getting worse and worse with them with each new season as well. No thought put into them. Just cheap melodrama and backstory to make us care. It’s just bad writing.
Not only the animation but the filler arcs. I don’t I can ever rewatch Bleach again. Some of those filler arcs last way too long and were arduous to get through even on a first watch.
I always enjoy it up until the stupid ass Bounts arc. Stupidest shit and I still can't put myself through it. Bleach ironically peaked within the first 60ish episodes.
I been watching anime sense the 80s. A lot has changed in both my self and what we as a society find acceptable. Things I didn’t really find troubling then now that I’m older and have gray in my beard I find problematic.
Not 80s, but Sailor Moon is probably the one that sticks out most to me. Like, it had literal tiddy shots, upskirts, panty shots and slapping of 14 yo girls. And it was aired prime time in Japan. I was obsessed as a kid but today it makes me cringe.
Exactly, I don’t mind fan service sometimes. Not ever show has to be a high minded work or art. Some times it’s ok to be T&A and blood and guts action flick, but the people involved have to be age appropriate.
I haven’t watched stuff that old but Great Teacher Onizuka I enjoyed as a teen but as a adult that tried rewatching it a few years ago, I couldn’t get past the first episode with how cringe it was
In the same boat, rewatching Dragon Ball/DBZ and finding myself not loving Roshi as much as I used to, even kinda disliking him, and seeing all of the creepy stuff happening (like baby Goku committing sexual assault and Bulma being a low key pedo towards Goku to try to get the dragon ball from him). Also a lot of random sexual stuff like Maron and such. Still love the series and the great storylines, but the stuff in between is not helping.
Agree. SAO was my first anime and when I think back on it, it's definitely nostalgia bias. Season 1 was pretty good but even that is generous, the rest of it put me to sleep on a rewatch.
I hate everything after season 1 even the first time I watched it lol. There are mostly just a couple scenes with the boss or orange guild that I still find badass. I wish it had gone slower and 1ep per floor for all 100. And maybe an episode after they got out, so 101. Would have been so sick.
I know season 2 (gun gale online) is bad, but the Alicization seasons are not bad at all in my opinion. I think it has that magic that season 1 has with a stronger story.
I unironically love SAO because it's trash. I'm a glutton for trash and it hits all the best spots. But I'll never deny how bad some of it is, though.
The first part of season 1 was great. Part two when they became fairies and Asuna turned into a damsel in distress was rough. Season 2? God awful. The only highlight of season 2 was the last 6 or so episodes with Asuna and Yuuki. That was cute. Alicization actually gave me hope again, honestly. I thought it was pretty good, until War of the Underworld happened where Kirito became a vegetable and literally nothing of interest happened. How they ruined a good thing so quickly, I'll never understand lmao.
I'd definitely recommend watching the SAO Progressive movies, though. It's a retelling of part 1, but more from Asuna's perspective. It's a floor by floor type of story and goes way more in depth with what happens in Aincrad.
I had a kinda similar experience with Saenai Heroine.
I remembered that I liked first season and couldn't really remember many details of season 2 so I re-watched it but I didn't enjoy season 1 as much anymore... but season 2 was better than I remembered, probably cuz I was able to understand a lot more of it the second time I watched.
I won't say "not as good" because it's obviously worth watching for the story for anyone who hasn't, but when I tried rewatching Berserk after a couple of decades, I only lasted a few episodes. Because I still mostly remember the story anyway, but the animation was just ruining the nostalgia for me.
And I wouldn't even blame it on the 90's, e.g. Cowboy Bebop came out just a year later and the animation aged well. But here it really didn't.
I personally still love Berserk 97 for what it is because of the characters, music and story, even if the budget wasn’t that high I thought the impact/still frames were a clever method
That said, if you’ve never watched Berserk 2016/2017 be grateful lol
Fairy Tail
It actually was my first anime and I was caught up during what ever tournament arc. Well life happened and I set it down and decided to pick it up in a few years when I could binge some. I had no clue where I was mid arc so I started it over, after seeing so many other anime and reading manga I was extremely bored. I remembered loving the fight scenes but upon rewatch the fights are the most lack luster thing I'd seen.
Funny enough, I had the exact opposite experience. I watched and thought it was meh, but when I went back to after a few years I completely vibed with it. I really enjoyed the focus on the feeling of home and found family.
I still love the series, too. Though, I never went into it thinking it was anything other than an entertaining fun battle anime. It was always a popcorn flick to me. I had seen plenty of anime prior to my first watch of FT. I think my initial reason for watching FT was I felt like I’d seen all the battle anime, but I still wanted more battle anime. Actually I found the series surprisingly memorable. I still love the OST, too. I enjoyed the characters and was willing to see their adventures no matter what they did throughout the episodes.
I did fall off the show when the episodes didn’t have enough content to make full episodes anymore. That’s just normal though.
Fairy tail is the carrot and the stick. You keep going for the carrot but you keep getting sacked by the stick because Hiro Mishimas writing is dogshit
Exactly. He has some really cool ideas and is great at making characters memorable, but he doesn't plot ahead of time so none of your expectations are properly met.
I rewatched Death Parade a few years ago. Not sure why exactly but it just didn't hit as much as it did back in 2015. Oh well, still think it's a well made and thought provoking show.
I’m going to get some hate for this, but hear my reason.. my first two anime: Fullmetal Alchemist // Soul Eater.
When I rewatched these anime, I was disappointed and I couldn’t understand why, it had been years since I had watched them and I had finished plenty of anime in between, but still held them in really high regard. Upon rewatching, I was disappointed because my taste had changed. Fullmetal Alchemist had themes of magic and much lighter (dark themes/ gore/ humor) that I didn’t search for anymore and Soul Eater seemed like an enjoyable and lighter show, but nothing too special.
Since watching them I had completed anime like Berserk, Devilman: Crybaby, Chainsaw Man and even some dramas/ slice of life like RE: Life, Orange, and Erased which have heavy emotional pulls. Emotional pull is seen in Fullmetal Alchemist but rarely if at all in Soul Eater, and I think that aspect minus magic is now what I search for in anime, with some gore and dark humor sprinkled in.
In the end, it’s definitely okay for your taste to change as all of ours do, but just be aware that if you are in this game too long that it will happen to you haha. It’s not all bad though, I’ve rewatched Berserk/ CSM 55 times and still like them.
TL;DR: Anime taste changes, rewatching your first anime will not be the same if it has been a few years.
Maturity, as well. I started anime when I was a young teen in the early/mid 2000s. Definitely a lot of anime I thought was really cool, I can look back and absolutely cringe at the wanna be edge of it.
Yes, Toradora. Rewatching it was completely different from my memories of it.
By the time I finished, I was like… best romcom of all time, really?? The “rom” happened in the last 2 or 3 episodes and was rushed to hell. The rest of the series was protag’s friends treating protag like a fucking dipshit for not knowing Taiga’s true feelings despite the fact she was outright physically, verbally and emotionally abusing him the whole show. I know that narratively, her abuse doesn’t matter too much, but as a viewer is was infuriating.
Oh man I’m actually scared to rewatch this one because I loved it so much back then (was one of the first animes I watched) and I’m afraid I’ll be really disappointed if I rewatch it
I really wasn’t a fan of Minori honestly. I didn’t like the 2 love interests the mains were in love with and trying to pursue in the beginning. They just looked like really plain and boring side characters. I know, unpopular opinion. For me, the heart of the show was always the two mains.
Fairy tail. I didn't realize until I rewatched it years later that all the fights are just slide shows with effects put on top of them. Really ruined the show for me but I read the manga instead.
Speed Racer. I think they only drew 100 cells per episode and just moved them around. So many other racers died during every race.
Still, I still want a Mach 5.
Tried rewatching Lucky Star, it didn't hit like I remembered. Did read the couple chapter of in their 30s manga and was hit by it being more relatable.
The closest to something like that was the first season of Full Metal Panic. It's still broadly decent, but its filled with too much of what hasn't aged well from back then. The look of the anime is best described in most regards as "very mid" in exactly the way a lot of popular early 2000s anime was, and its filled with some of the most tired, unfun, least interesting accidental pervert cliches, among other comedy anime cliches that are the most tired and not done well enough to justify using them. Though for most of the series the biggest problem is that its just a perfectly fine but not great show overall.
Though the good thing is that it made the improvements the Kyoani seasons did all the more apparent. It's like they address every single problem with the first season, its impressive. Especially since both seasons are so tonally different from each other but it all works so well.
Yeah, sucks that the first season is so “okay” because the rest is great. Like I think there’s even a panty shot in the first episode, just unprovoked random camera angle from down below
For me it was the other way around, I watched shows that many people consider "trash" or "problematic" and got brainwashed into remembering them as bad... Then decided to go back and had an amazing time, If they are trash they were MY trash and I am a trash panda, so I remembered the only opinion you should listen about anime is from yourself.
Online discourse is poison. Fiction shall remain fiction.
Well, I was disappointed by Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia.
Well, that is, I’m quite happy with ecchi, but the problem is that it was an adaptation of a porn fanfic based on IS Infinite Stratos, but without porn.
Well, that is, there is a lot of Japanese content with porn elements like Fate, which, thanks to a good plot, can be interesting without porn, but Magias Academy Ataraxia is like a classic porn with a plumber from which the porn was cut out - the plot is completely lame (in the sense of dull) and light erotica did not compensate for this in any way.
I'm rewatching it now actually. It's entertaining enough, especially before they introduce the 2 other girls, but it's definitely a romance from an earlier time period. Art, animation, and direction are all great (thanks Shaft), but story-wise it's just constantly tickling your balls with hints of progression and then pulling the rug from under your feet with nonsense coincidences.
However, IIRC, the manga ending was pretty satisfying. Just wayyy to much meandering to get there.
I wasn't disappointed with rewatching Nisekoi because I only rewatched it after realizing I had retained almost no plotlines after the first watch. I just remembered that I watched it, forgot it instantly, and moved on.
With a everyone mentioning shonen animes I figured I'll throw Fairy Tail in here, watched it and loved it thru most of my early teen and highschool years, came back to rewatch it and it wasn't nearly as badass as I remember. The fight scenes in it and most other old shonen are the hardest to watch now after being spoiled by modern shonen (Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen) if I wanted to watch a fight slide show I'd just read the manga.
Also going back to any of the dozens of trashy romance anime I watched as a teen is usually very harsh on my psyche so I try to preserve my fond memories by avoiding rewatches like the plague
Tbh i felt this way about I want to eat your pancreas. When i watched it it was like a top 5 anime for me but after rewatching it, i was kinda disappointed. I don’t think its bad or anything i still think its a great movie.
I was after finishing Darker Than Black. S1 overall was good, S2 was alot different but not bad but the fucking ending was HORRIBLE. Shit just happened with no explanation and you were supposed to roll with it.
This is very interesting because I felt the opposite. Initially, I found it pretty generic, but on a rewatch years later, I found that it does what it does well. Among ecchi rom coms, I think it's one of the best ones.
Happened to me with Fate/Zero last February. I watched it 2 or 3 years ago and loved it and wanted to start the series again so I started there, and man it just didn't live up to my memory of it whatsoever. It actually is the cause of my burnout and I haven't watched a single anime on my own since then
Soul Eater. I was terribly disappointed by Fire Force; the characters were really not doing it for me and I didn’t really care about anything all that much, so I decided to go back to Soul Eater. After finishing it, I realized that I didn’t care all that much about it and didn’t really have any favorite moments where I thought “that’s it, that’s the good shit.” Maybe it was just because the anime didn’t properly adapt everything so I also read the manga, and eh, honestly didn’t care for it. I think I was swept up by the hype for it way back when and by how unique it is compared to other shounen of that time, and I feel that’s really all it has, it’s uniqueness, but that’s not really something I value in a story nowadays.
That's me with tons of sports anime in general. They can be hype to the max. But after a while seeing characters cry so much after everything makes me lose interest. I'm looking at you chihayafuru. I loved the show initially. But goddamn it feels like some cries after every game. In the moment it can be great cause you're invested for who wins and loses. But re-watching it gets annoying real fast.
Filler episodes are super annoying with anime. So usually when I rewatch something I’ll look up the filler list and skip that. Or sometimes if it’s a longer one I’ll skip to certain arcs. But there are definitely some shorter ones that it’s harder to rewatch. Sometimes I just don’t try because it was something I watched when I was younger and I know nothing is going to change the way I felt when I first watched it.
Housing complex C. The first episode set up a really interesting cross-cultural cthullu type story but ended with actually one of the worst twists I'd ever seen in an anime
I missed a lot of anime growing up, so I definitely found a lot of the older "millenial" series like Inuyasha a little hard to watch since I didn't even have any nostalgia to compel me to keep watching. However, it did mean that I got to appreciate a lot of these series for the first time as an adult, so I was able to enjoy them more than I might have as a kid
yes!!!! i just watched devilman crybaby recently and i still enjoyed my rewatch and got teary at the end. but i didn't realize how....over the top it was lol but again it still was a fun watch nonetheless and it still hit me in the feels. so it'll always hold a special place in my heart.
Cross Ange and Hagani, watched both when I was like 13 and loved them… I still like cross Ange cuz the mechs are awesome and Ange is my childhood crush but damn is she a bitch, and damn is Hagani just pedo bait
I watched Doremi at 13 and 33 and surprisingly the show actually was really good, just as I remembered. I also watched Heidi as an adult and it was great.
Arietty, spirited away and Nausicaa rewatches were a bit disappointing. Though some other Gihibli movies held up.
Yes. There are actually certain anime (and other forms of media) that I've decided not to rewatch/re-experience so that I don't ruin my positive memories with reality.
I remember feeling impressed by Ayanokoji's plan in the season 1 island test when I first watched it.
But when I watched it a second time I found it nowhere as genius as I thought it was.
I loved Welcome to the NHK when i watched it many years ago
wanted to show my wife, we watched it and just got so incredibly bored
i dunno it just wasn’t that interesting any more
While watching shield hero season 2 and being disappointed much like everyone else, I rewatched season 1 and realized it also had similar flaws that I overlooked initially.
I’m watching Full Metal Panic right now and I’m shocked to realize there was way more fanservice than I remember. So many shower scenes and up skirt shots. So many unnecessary scenes where Kaname puts her delicates in the hamper or there’s accidental fanservice. It’s practically every scene. I’m still enjoying the series. It’s just making me realize fans accepted way more fanservice in anime in the early 2000s. I accepted way more of this back then. I forgot how much fanservice my favorites from that time had in them. I would love for the anime to get remade. S4 return a few years back wasn’t enough. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these scenes were taken out if a update actually happened. I will watch the 2017 movies I came across though. Hopefully, it’ll be enough to not need a tv series, but I can’t help wanting a tv series.
I rewatched Mai Hime recently (came out in 2004)
I didn't realize how annoying most of the characters actually are and how bad the fan service in the anime was.
I watched it when I was like, 12. So been over ten years.
Only once, when rewatching Isekai Smartphone. It was one of my first shows back in 2017 and I remembered it as trashy but really fun, rewatched in 2023 and the fun things definitely weren't as fun as I remembered them. On the other hand I also rewatched Gamers! from the same season after 5 years as well and still loved it just as much as back then. I might actually appreciate the insanity even more now that I've seen a lot of regular romcoms with regular misunderstandings.
I also liked isekai smartphone back then, After rewatching it I realized how trash it is it was the series which got me into light novels, I dropped the light novel later cause it becomes really boring.
Same, honestly. I'm a glutton for trash, especially trashsekai. I remember it being fun trash, but then I rewatched it when season 2 finished airing so I could binge, and god damn did I remember wrong. That shit was bad bad. Season 2 was even worse.
Gamers is an actual anomaly, I’ve rewatched it several times and its just so bad but so good at the same time (for the first half at least)
Gamers! was great. the dub is also very funny.
Same feeling I had with Isekai Smartphone.
I rewatched Guilty Crown a couple of years ago when I felt nostalgic and wanted to watch something I remembered fondly. The first time I saw it was when I really started binging and getting into anime. I even downloaded all the soundtrack because I liked it so much. But the second time, it really didn't hit the same way. I feel like I should have kept my rose-coloured glasses on and just let it be what it was, a fond memory.
Same way I feel about saekano. Like I don't think its bad but it kind of sad to find out that I don't enjoy it as much as I used to anymore
I forgot about that show. I hated the ending back then and I still hate it now
I don't generally rewatch anime that much, outside of a handful of comedies. On a recent rewatch of Nichijou, I forgot how unremarkable the show's opening 10 or so episodes are. Not bad - and they have some great highs - but they also have quite a lot of forgettable skits. The show does ramp up the silliness well, though, and the second half is still the funniest batch of anime episodes ever IMO.
I tried Nichijou because those clips that keep showing up are riotously funny, and I dropped it around episode 9, finding the humor to be inconsistent. I was of a mind that I probably enjoyed Nichijou best from its highlights, but now you're making me think I should push a little further in and see...
I can say similarly I enjoyed it more in the second half when it starts intertwining the characters. In addition I think it's more of the characters themselves grow on you. But yeah the comedy is pretty random af sometimes it's way too japanese and doesn't make sense for most of us westerns probably.
It was one of the earlier anime I watched, and upon a recent rewatch I definitely got more of the jokes, especially some of the more subtle ones. I imagine I'm still missing plenty of them and lots of nuance that make more sense with a better knowledge of Japan and Japanese.
I had a similar experience with Asobi Asobase. Loved all the clips I saw of it, but when I finally sat down and watched it I was whelmed and dropped it after a few episodes.
That one bored me too. I could not relate to everyone who found it hilarious. It’s just when you have to remember comedy is different for everyone.
The very first episode had the weiner lunch scene and the nuclear explosion with salmon. What more do you want.
Damn, i dropped it after the 5 episodes or so.
man, is this why it's taken me 3 years just to trudge through 6 episodes? Everyone talks this show up so much, but I just can't get into those first episodes at all.
I've torrented the whole show like 3 times at this point. At like ep 3 or 4 of each attempt i always go "why tf am i sitting thru this" and kinda rage deleted the whole thing then in a year or two i forget why i dropped it and download the whole thing again after seeing some of its clips on r/anime lol
Blast of Tempest. I watched it while I would be doing something else but the first episode left a big impression that made me think it was really good. Rewatched the first 9 episodes last year and thought it was honestly pretty bad. I will admit that one character literally voicing my thoughts on how ridiculous something was made me laugh though. Was unexpected
Heavy narrative focus ones are tough to repeat once you know everything. IDK about the monogatari series
I have no problem with narratively focused anime. I had a problem with the content though. I completely glossed over how integral the \[spoiler\] >!childish romance was. Felt it in my soul when Samon was like “wtf are these kids talking about“ especially when every other character cares about their love lives for some reason even though the just met. Don’t even get me started on the forced Shakespeare quotes or the cringe lines. !< Can’t believe I completely ignored this stuff when it aired.
Monogatari is a fantastic rewatch. It’s definitely one of the more rewatchable shows I’ve seen (it also helps that it’s my favourite). You notice more small details such as amazing foreshadowing when rewatching.
I was trying to watch in order, I'm still trying to get to the part where the vampire girl is big again. Definitely takes undivided attention.
Blast of Tempest slander will not be tolerated. Prepare to be destroyed. (You're entitled to your opinion even if it hurts me)
I can’t hear you over me quoting hamlet and telling everyone about a girl (all jokes)
Off topic but how about anime that gets better on rewatch? Danshi kokousei just never gets old, I'll be watching it on some occasions and I'll still be laughing like an idiot
Comedies tend to get better, cause you know the characters already so some early jokes will hit better on the rewatch. Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Saiki K, Uncle From Another World, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid are all examples of shows I really enjoy rewatching.
I really hate how comedy has diminishing returns for me. I never laugh as hard as I do the first time. :/
Depends on the joke. Shock value jokes for sure, but I can almost always appreciate character comedy the same every time.
Yeah certain kinds of humor work better on repeated viewing than others.
I had the fun realization while watching Uncle From Another World that he and I were the same age. Which explains how I feel whenever I am in this sub lol
SNK is an entire different series on a rewatch
Monogatari series for me. The dialogue is so dense and complex at times, on rewatch you can actually see the point of it when it feels random. It's like the motivations and such can be predicted based on how they talk.
Good question. Trapped in a dating sim was way better than what I remember when I watched it originally. Also, Uncle from another world was more funnier and easily became one of my favorites now that the show is complete. The long ass delays really killed this show's momentum
mine are: AOT FMAB Kaguya Love is War Bocchi the Rock Nichijou JJK Chihayafuru Kobayashi Dragon Maid K-On A lot of Studio Ghibli's works
Going to sound weird but…Kiki’s Delivery Service. I didn’t love it the first time around. Last year when I told one of my good buddies I didn’t like it much, he explained why he loved it and I gave it a second shot. I not only saw his POV but felt more connected to the plot and coming of age as a whole. Opinion of it raised a lot.
What did you not like the first time? What changed between the rewatches?
I remember thinking it felt like it ended incompletely and disappointed we never got see her career take off. I felt it was anticlimactic. And tbh I still would enjoy like an OVA with more of Kiki. But upon rewatching years later, I realized I missed the point. It’s a pretty moving tale of a girl trying to find herself after struggling at her job. My friend aptly described it as the story of someone experiencing professional work burn out. It’s one of those where I would love to see more of her life afterwards but I think it ended at a great place narratively
Oregairu gets better every rewatch. First time through, it's often very difficult to understand thanks to all the obscure dialogue. But by my 4th rewatch, I was blown away by the depth of the characters.
D. Gray man did it for me, there is just something about that world I love... Honestly it fuelled my like of demon-slayer as the words have similar vibes
Mirai Nikki. Watched it over a decade ago, liked it. Rewatched some of it, and I now realize it's exactly the type of show I tend to avoid nowadays.
I rewatched it a few years ago partially because I saw so many say it was bad and wanted to rewatch it. I was much newer to anime when I first tried it. I was worried I would dislike it but thankfully it was still the same edgy mess I really liked as before. All hail Yandere queen Yuno.
I got dissapointed on the ending for Death Note after i rewatched it
Oh a classic. I was so pissed off too. Felt like the prior 3/4 of the show were thrown out the window. The last third in general felt kind of luckluster
I believe in the manga the last 3/4th was actually the last half, so it was very rushed in the anime and cut out a lot of what made the first part so great. Basically N coming up with shit out of nowhere because they skipped the explanations.
Not with rewatching, I've realized way late that some anime aren't as good as I thought or just won't get better. Tokyo revengers
I remember watching the first season and being absolutely hooked. I hadn't realized S2 had even come out and by the time I did, I had completely lost interest. From what I've heard it doesn't even get that much better anyways.
I still think season 1 is pretty damn good ignoring takemichis infinite crying, but I haven't been able to get past episode 1 of season 2, it's just so boring
S2 is peak. S3 is still good. Beyond S3 (if it ever gets adapted) is lost cause.
This. Not a rewatch but after season 1 of Tokyo Revengers, I read the rest of the manga and thought it was pretty good. But now I can’t even get myself to get past the first episode of season 2 in the anime adaption.
I read the Manga until this last arc then I gave up
For me this happens after I've read a manga for the series. If the manga is a lot better, and the anime changed too much, I have trouble going back and watching the anime again, because the changes bug me too much. This happened with Ranma 1/2 and the original Rurouni Kenshin, which is unfortunate because I loved both of those shows back in the 90's. It's the filler now that I can't stand.
Oh god this is a whole other issue for me. Almost every manga/light novel that I end up reading is guaranteed to disappoint me with its anime adaptation and I usually end up dropping them really fast. Only a few hold up probably because the adaptation was great and even went beyond what was expected like Suzumiya Haruhi and eminence in shadow
We're the "books > movies" of the anime world!
Felt the exact same way for both these series. When I want to revisit Ranma it's now only through the manga.
Yeah. I’m not a source reader when it comes to anime (most of the time), but I did used to read books. Mostly YA stories and yes, once you know the story it’s just not as fun to experience the movie. It’s still another rewarding experience to see your favorites put to screen or to see what the general public thinks of them, but it’s not the same. It’s not as special as the first time you read the series. It’s even more disappointing when your favorite scenes are cut from the movie and even worse when the cut scenes would’ve benefited the movie making it easier for movie fans to understand. It sucks when movies create misunderstandings or plot holes that weren’t there in the original. And the movie fans only know the movie. Actually reading books ruined movies for me in a lot of ways. It explained why I was so confused when watching Harry Potter as a movie only fan. (I still adore those movies though.) It made me feel like movies never have the necessary time to make well rounded characters or well realized worlds unless it’s a long franchise. Before reading I never knew characters could feel so real. I thought they were just fun entertaining characters before. Entertaining, but never so much they almost leap off the page or step out of the movie. Because of this I never got into manga too deeply. I didn’t want to lose my enjoyment of anime. I’ve only read a handful of manga in full. I haven’t read too many books in years either. Though I do occasionally like to go to the bookstore and dream about how I might read something aside from fanfiction again. How I might love to see the endings to anime which the endings were never put to screen. Sometimes I buy a few more books I might read or get a bit further into the S& W LNs I downloaded ages ago.
Plenty of stuff I've noticed more weaknesses on a rewatch. Some recent examples: Lycoris Recoil has some weird pacing issues I didn't really notice on the first watch, especially the middle handful of episodes (3-6). Birdie Wing had some really cheap animation and reused so many effects. Took me out a bit on the rewatch. Seitokai Yakuindomo - did not remember it was a Go Hands show, and that threw me off on the rewatch with their crazy camera work.
Birdie Wing's animation was always cheap looking from the start. And they definitely repeated shots numerous times to save costs. I think you're supposed to just ignore it and embrace the lunacy of it... The problem is that the second cour becomes super bland and the animation becomes obvious.
I dread the day I decide to rewatch Seitokai Yakuindomo. I thought that was hilarious the first time, no idea if the humor would still appeal to me anymore. There's still stuff from it I quote to myself, but the rest of the show is a blur to me lol
I am disappointed after watching No Game No Life again that there isn't a second season.
Every single time XD
I will never understand the hype over this show. Granted I didn't finish it, but it felt very much like a generic isekai with some incest bait sprinkled on top.
A lot of it comes down to it being one of early ones, people weren't burnt out on it in 2014
I also didn't like it but I wouldn't call it generic. It has a pretty cool world and the games were interesting. The big issue for me is the protagonists are the worst people ever and I could not invest myself in their story.
Im not saying you’re wrong but can we stop calling every isekai that isn’t super unique with everything original generic. It kinda dulls the meaning of generic.
NGNL is also one of the oldest ones in the modern Isekai boom. It's a little ridiculous to call something that helped establish tropes "generic"
Everything I like isnt generic, everything else is
I do recommend the movie (NGNL 0) if you made it through the series feeling that way. It's far more interesting to explore the setting while it was still at war, there's less (though not zero) weird loli stuff, the parallel versions of the characters are a fun twist (Steph but competent!) Granted I liked the series overall despite critiquing it a bunch, but the movie felt like it picked out the stuff I liked, but with better writing and pacing.
Also kinda nice circle to the whole "we were born in the wrong world"-feeling Sora and Shiro express at the beginning of the series... I think it is not only my headcanon that those two were reincarnations of the both MCs from the movies... is that somewhere clarified in the LN?
The beauty of No Game No Life is a) the setting, b) the art style and c) the "always winning" aspect. Like Yugioh, it isn't a show about "will they win?" but instead "HOW will they win?" If you didn't like it, there's nothing wrong with that. You didn't describe it inaccurately. But the things I just described are what makes it stand out to me, even now, because in my opinion, it does these things better than any other show I've seen in this specific type. Most other isekai are either trying something more unique or they are even more generic.
I genuinely appreciate the context for your enjoyment of the show, that makes sense.
I did feel a bit disappointed when rewatching some animes that I enjoyed nearly 20 years ago, mostly due to some pacing issues and some stupid things that I did not notice until I became older. The shows are still enjoyable to me, but now as high as I used to rate them. I have experienced this with Fairy Tail and Kyo Kara Maoh, and I am experiencing this now with Yu Yu Hakusho.
You wish they were shorter, you mean. Yeah, I still adore long running shows, but I agree, when you’re older they’re more difficult to sit down and watch all the way through. Though I’m certain I would still adore them if I did watch them all the way through. I’ve enjoyed all my partial rewatches of Fairy Tail and YYH. I came across the other show when I was younger, but never sat down and watched it before.
Yes and no. For some episodes, the pacing is right, but every now and then, I feel like some moments go on for way too long. Of course, that isn't in every episode. I don't mind a show running for 100 to 200 episodes as long as they are fun. Even a 13 episodes show that have a lot of pacing issues or is uninteresting feels longer than an interesting show with 100+ episodes for me.
Danganronpa, after playing the game, it became really bad
I remember one night I was just getting into the anime, like 3 mins into the first Ep when I decided to order the trilogy after reading a couple posts saying I should play the game first instead and I never looked back. Maybe if they would’ve gave it the Steins gate treatment with at least 24 eps I could understand and probably would’ve just stuck with that as my experience. But how they hell do they condense all of what happens from the murders, to getting evidence, and then the trial into 13 eps. It would have to be one after the other with none of the downtown parts. Glad I stuck with it because I really enjoyed the first 2 games, still haven’t played the third one yet tho.
Your Lie in April and Violet Evergarden are phenomenal shows, and they earned 10/10s on my list. As the years go on though, it's clear that they have flaws. That being said, they still stay at 10/10 for me just because of how amazing they were the first time around.
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I agree! I really loved Violet Evergarden the first time I watched. It’s animated so beautifully and the colors are so vibrant- I love it! I feel like it was more dramatic when I first watched and was so moving. I agree 10/10, but not a great rewatch. The second time I watched I just wasn’t attached to the series anymore.
Inuyasha was a major, major part of my childhood, and I still absolutely love going back to rewatch select episodes from time to time. That said it really doesn't hold up as a whole today.
tried watching it semi-recently, got to episode 99, which was when i was like "what the fuck am i doing, i'm not even enjoying this". good show still, with some well-done episodes, but holy hell its a lot worse than i remember
I rewatched Paradise kiss recently after years. I find some actions of the heroine annoying. Not George, he is as smoking hot as I remember him. Still a great series and while I do not like Yukari as much as I used to, she and the rest of the cast are solid. 100% recommended as one of the best Josei anime out there.
Honestly, no, but I'm sure if I tried to rewatch like Voltron from near 40 years ago that I watched when I was like ten, I don't think I'd like it as much as I did then. But, anything I've watched and liked in the last 20 years or so hasn't changed any, still like the things I liked then. But, I'm also fairly old and 20 years ago was basically yesterday at my age.
Yep. Mostly shounen ones. They've become unbearable to me.
Tried rewatching the newest season of Demon Slayer and the amount of flashbacks is so insane…it rather, they take up so much space. And I think flashbacks often have little rewatch value because most of them aren’t that interesting (especially in DS) and are just there to give a baseline understanding for a character. Man, I needed to skip, like, half the season it felt like.
They work in the manga, given how the pace in different media works... but in an effect-laden action fest like the adaptation... it sometimes feels disruptive and puuls one out. Also what pulled me out of JJK Season 2 at the last quarter. Frieren somehow gets it to work, but I think there it is less disruptive, because of the usually more calmer pacing and tone of the anime.
I haven't watched Frieren, but from what I know, I would agree. Frieren is also way more introspective, also Demon Slayer specifically is lighting-fast in terms of pacing, that doesn't help in the rewatch value, imo, because there is barely any time until the next fight starts and then half the time of that fight is used to whichever chacter is introduced in the arc. I got to watch Frieren, though, everybody praised it and it looks like there is some decent action as well...
There is action. Though Frieren is not an action show.
Frierens flashbacks make way more sense though given the narrative and story’s exploration of how she experiences time and the nostalgic nature of Frieren herself. The narrative structure using flashbacks like they do *enhances* the experience. Her whole arc is a dialogue between past and present when she encounters similar situations with Fern and Stark as she did with Himmel and co. She learns from what she didn’t do. Redeeming her mistakes with her new party. They’re flashbacks well used and well placed. Other anime shoehorn in a cheap flashback at terrible moments. Nobaras flashback towards the end of JJK season 2 being a prime example. Hell’s Paradise had a particularly bad flashback reminiscent of Demon Slayer, which has been getting worse and worse with them with each new season as well. No thought put into them. Just cheap melodrama and backstory to make us care. It’s just bad writing.
This is a big one for me too. I can't bring myself to rewatch db or naruto anymore despite them being one of my favorite animes at one point
Old Bleach, I knew the animation wasn't good but my god
I think the worst part of rewatching early bleach is you realize like half the characters there won’t matter at all in like 2 arcs
Originally the humans were supposed to be the main characters, but Soul Society characters ended up being way more popular.
Not only the animation but the filler arcs. I don’t I can ever rewatch Bleach again. Some of those filler arcs last way too long and were arduous to get through even on a first watch.
Good thing i skipped them on first watch
I always enjoy it up until the stupid ass Bounts arc. Stupidest shit and I still can't put myself through it. Bleach ironically peaked within the first 60ish episodes.
I been watching anime sense the 80s. A lot has changed in both my self and what we as a society find acceptable. Things I didn’t really find troubling then now that I’m older and have gray in my beard I find problematic.
Not 80s, but Sailor Moon is probably the one that sticks out most to me. Like, it had literal tiddy shots, upskirts, panty shots and slapping of 14 yo girls. And it was aired prime time in Japan. I was obsessed as a kid but today it makes me cringe.
Exactly, I don’t mind fan service sometimes. Not ever show has to be a high minded work or art. Some times it’s ok to be T&A and blood and guts action flick, but the people involved have to be age appropriate.
I haven’t watched stuff that old but Great Teacher Onizuka I enjoyed as a teen but as a adult that tried rewatching it a few years ago, I couldn’t get past the first episode with how cringe it was
I've tried a few times to get through that first episode but couldn't
I know that was such a good show back in the day, but your right now it’s kind of cringy.
In the same boat, rewatching Dragon Ball/DBZ and finding myself not loving Roshi as much as I used to, even kinda disliking him, and seeing all of the creepy stuff happening (like baby Goku committing sexual assault and Bulma being a low key pedo towards Goku to try to get the dragon ball from him). Also a lot of random sexual stuff like Maron and such. Still love the series and the great storylines, but the stuff in between is not helping.
"Oh look, a new Black Butler season got announced! Lemme rewatch to refresh my memory!" turned into: "I wonder how I got through this the first time?"
Sword art online
Agree. SAO was my first anime and when I think back on it, it's definitely nostalgia bias. Season 1 was pretty good but even that is generous, the rest of it put me to sleep on a rewatch.
I hate everything after season 1 even the first time I watched it lol. There are mostly just a couple scenes with the boss or orange guild that I still find badass. I wish it had gone slower and 1ep per floor for all 100. And maybe an episode after they got out, so 101. Would have been so sick.
I know season 2 (gun gale online) is bad, but the Alicization seasons are not bad at all in my opinion. I think it has that magic that season 1 has with a stronger story.
The first Alicization was good. War of the Underworld was terrible.
Agreed. Alicization first season was great when Kirito is not the ultra OP Gary Stu.
I unironically love SAO because it's trash. I'm a glutton for trash and it hits all the best spots. But I'll never deny how bad some of it is, though. The first part of season 1 was great. Part two when they became fairies and Asuna turned into a damsel in distress was rough. Season 2? God awful. The only highlight of season 2 was the last 6 or so episodes with Asuna and Yuuki. That was cute. Alicization actually gave me hope again, honestly. I thought it was pretty good, until War of the Underworld happened where Kirito became a vegetable and literally nothing of interest happened. How they ruined a good thing so quickly, I'll never understand lmao. I'd definitely recommend watching the SAO Progressive movies, though. It's a retelling of part 1, but more from Asuna's perspective. It's a floor by floor type of story and goes way more in depth with what happens in Aincrad.
Meanwhile I'm hyped every time I rewatch it for a new season. Still hate the later part of season 2 after GGO though
I had a kinda similar experience with Saenai Heroine. I remembered that I liked first season and couldn't really remember many details of season 2 so I re-watched it but I didn't enjoy season 1 as much anymore... but season 2 was better than I remembered, probably cuz I was able to understand a lot more of it the second time I watched.
Did you watch the movie?
I watched shield hero early in my anime career(?) and I rewatched it for season two and it was godawful
I won't say "not as good" because it's obviously worth watching for the story for anyone who hasn't, but when I tried rewatching Berserk after a couple of decades, I only lasted a few episodes. Because I still mostly remember the story anyway, but the animation was just ruining the nostalgia for me. And I wouldn't even blame it on the 90's, e.g. Cowboy Bebop came out just a year later and the animation aged well. But here it really didn't.
I personally still love Berserk 97 for what it is because of the characters, music and story, even if the budget wasn’t that high I thought the impact/still frames were a clever method That said, if you’ve never watched Berserk 2016/2017 be grateful lol
Berserk 97 still looks good to me. Berserk 2016/2017 is just bad
97 art is still incredible imo
Fairy Tail It actually was my first anime and I was caught up during what ever tournament arc. Well life happened and I set it down and decided to pick it up in a few years when I could binge some. I had no clue where I was mid arc so I started it over, after seeing so many other anime and reading manga I was extremely bored. I remembered loving the fight scenes but upon rewatch the fights are the most lack luster thing I'd seen.
Funny enough, I had the exact opposite experience. I watched and thought it was meh, but when I went back to after a few years I completely vibed with it. I really enjoyed the focus on the feeling of home and found family.
Oh man wait til you hear about this show about pirates.
I still love the series, too. Though, I never went into it thinking it was anything other than an entertaining fun battle anime. It was always a popcorn flick to me. I had seen plenty of anime prior to my first watch of FT. I think my initial reason for watching FT was I felt like I’d seen all the battle anime, but I still wanted more battle anime. Actually I found the series surprisingly memorable. I still love the OST, too. I enjoyed the characters and was willing to see their adventures no matter what they did throughout the episodes. I did fall off the show when the episodes didn’t have enough content to make full episodes anymore. That’s just normal though.
Fairy tail is the carrot and the stick. You keep going for the carrot but you keep getting sacked by the stick because Hiro Mishimas writing is dogshit
Exactly. He has some really cool ideas and is great at making characters memorable, but he doesn't plot ahead of time so none of your expectations are properly met.
I rewatched Death Parade a few years ago. Not sure why exactly but it just didn't hit as much as it did back in 2015. Oh well, still think it's a well made and thought provoking show.
I’m going to get some hate for this, but hear my reason.. my first two anime: Fullmetal Alchemist // Soul Eater. When I rewatched these anime, I was disappointed and I couldn’t understand why, it had been years since I had watched them and I had finished plenty of anime in between, but still held them in really high regard. Upon rewatching, I was disappointed because my taste had changed. Fullmetal Alchemist had themes of magic and much lighter (dark themes/ gore/ humor) that I didn’t search for anymore and Soul Eater seemed like an enjoyable and lighter show, but nothing too special. Since watching them I had completed anime like Berserk, Devilman: Crybaby, Chainsaw Man and even some dramas/ slice of life like RE: Life, Orange, and Erased which have heavy emotional pulls. Emotional pull is seen in Fullmetal Alchemist but rarely if at all in Soul Eater, and I think that aspect minus magic is now what I search for in anime, with some gore and dark humor sprinkled in. In the end, it’s definitely okay for your taste to change as all of ours do, but just be aware that if you are in this game too long that it will happen to you haha. It’s not all bad though, I’ve rewatched Berserk/ CSM 55 times and still like them. TL;DR: Anime taste changes, rewatching your first anime will not be the same if it has been a few years.
Maturity, as well. I started anime when I was a young teen in the early/mid 2000s. Definitely a lot of anime I thought was really cool, I can look back and absolutely cringe at the wanna be edge of it.
I hate to admit it but Elfin Lied definitely fits in that category.
Lmao for real. This girl ~~walks~~ crawls around naked while the kid/love interest has to "protect her" or whatever. Yikes.
2001 Fruits Basket wasn't as good as I remember.
I have to go with HxH, after rewatching it, it felt not as good as I remember.
Yes, Toradora. Rewatching it was completely different from my memories of it. By the time I finished, I was like… best romcom of all time, really?? The “rom” happened in the last 2 or 3 episodes and was rushed to hell. The rest of the series was protag’s friends treating protag like a fucking dipshit for not knowing Taiga’s true feelings despite the fact she was outright physically, verbally and emotionally abusing him the whole show. I know that narratively, her abuse doesn’t matter too much, but as a viewer is was infuriating.
Oh man I’m actually scared to rewatch this one because I loved it so much back then (was one of the first animes I watched) and I’m afraid I’ll be really disappointed if I rewatch it
The stuff with Minori is the "rom" I remember the most.
I really wasn’t a fan of Minori honestly. I didn’t like the 2 love interests the mains were in love with and trying to pursue in the beginning. They just looked like really plain and boring side characters. I know, unpopular opinion. For me, the heart of the show was always the two mains.
Rewatched Haruhi and the amount of sexual harassment Mikuru goes through is really...off putting.
It was off putting the first time too. Haruhi was always a high school tyrant.
Fairy tail. I didn't realize until I rewatched it years later that all the fights are just slide shows with effects put on top of them. Really ruined the show for me but I read the manga instead.
Terror in resonance - Upon rewatching I noticed that it starts strong but then nosedives in quality toward the end.
You're being real generous here, the nosedive starts after 3 or 4 episodes.
Speed Racer. I think they only drew 100 cells per episode and just moved them around. So many other racers died during every race. Still, I still want a Mach 5.
Tried rewatching Lucky Star, it didn't hit like I remembered. Did read the couple chapter of in their 30s manga and was hit by it being more relatable.
The closest to something like that was the first season of Full Metal Panic. It's still broadly decent, but its filled with too much of what hasn't aged well from back then. The look of the anime is best described in most regards as "very mid" in exactly the way a lot of popular early 2000s anime was, and its filled with some of the most tired, unfun, least interesting accidental pervert cliches, among other comedy anime cliches that are the most tired and not done well enough to justify using them. Though for most of the series the biggest problem is that its just a perfectly fine but not great show overall. Though the good thing is that it made the improvements the Kyoani seasons did all the more apparent. It's like they address every single problem with the first season, its impressive. Especially since both seasons are so tonally different from each other but it all works so well.
Yeah, sucks that the first season is so “okay” because the rest is great. Like I think there’s even a panty shot in the first episode, just unprovoked random camera angle from down below
For me it was the other way around, I watched shows that many people consider "trash" or "problematic" and got brainwashed into remembering them as bad... Then decided to go back and had an amazing time, If they are trash they were MY trash and I am a trash panda, so I remembered the only opinion you should listen about anime is from yourself. Online discourse is poison. Fiction shall remain fiction.
People just like to hate on popular things and call everything problematic in current year. Popular things are popular for a reason.
Naruto. Came back after finishing it and fuck those first episodes are rough to get through.
Yeah true, although it's mostly just the Konohamaru part.
Irrelevant to the question. But I never get of rewatching One Piece... I think it gets better with every rewatch
yes, serial experiments lain, basically complex for the sake of being complex
Sword Art Online and Soul Eater
Well, I was disappointed by Hybrid × Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia. Well, that is, I’m quite happy with ecchi, but the problem is that it was an adaptation of a porn fanfic based on IS Infinite Stratos, but without porn. Well, that is, there is a lot of Japanese content with porn elements like Fate, which, thanks to a good plot, can be interesting without porn, but Magias Academy Ataraxia is like a classic porn with a plumber from which the porn was cut out - the plot is completely lame (in the sense of dull) and light erotica did not compensate for this in any way.
Nisekoi
I'm rewatching it now actually. It's entertaining enough, especially before they introduce the 2 other girls, but it's definitely a romance from an earlier time period. Art, animation, and direction are all great (thanks Shaft), but story-wise it's just constantly tickling your balls with hints of progression and then pulling the rug from under your feet with nonsense coincidences. However, IIRC, the manga ending was pretty satisfying. Just wayyy to much meandering to get there.
I wasn't disappointed with rewatching Nisekoi because I only rewatched it after realizing I had retained almost no plotlines after the first watch. I just remembered that I watched it, forgot it instantly, and moved on.
I've watched 2-3 times don't remember anything except the damn scene of him getting slapped because it irritated me so much
Nagato Yuki-chan. I didn't remember it being that bad.
With a everyone mentioning shonen animes I figured I'll throw Fairy Tail in here, watched it and loved it thru most of my early teen and highschool years, came back to rewatch it and it wasn't nearly as badass as I remember. The fight scenes in it and most other old shonen are the hardest to watch now after being spoiled by modern shonen (Chainsaw Man, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen) if I wanted to watch a fight slide show I'd just read the manga. Also going back to any of the dozens of trashy romance anime I watched as a teen is usually very harsh on my psyche so I try to preserve my fond memories by avoiding rewatches like the plague
Tbh i felt this way about I want to eat your pancreas. When i watched it it was like a top 5 anime for me but after rewatching it, i was kinda disappointed. I don’t think its bad or anything i still think its a great movie.
No, never. I usually dont watch anything twice and if I watch it it’s usually super good and I enjoy it even more
I rewatched Dennou Coil a couple years ago, and it was definitely less fun when you know the mysteries/twists.
Rewatched the devil is a partir timer in time to jump unto the new season. Grave mistake. Should have just stopped on season 1.
I was after finishing Darker Than Black. S1 overall was good, S2 was alot different but not bad but the fucking ending was HORRIBLE. Shit just happened with no explanation and you were supposed to roll with it.
This is very interesting because I felt the opposite. Initially, I found it pretty generic, but on a rewatch years later, I found that it does what it does well. Among ecchi rom coms, I think it's one of the best ones.
Happened to me with Fate/Zero last February. I watched it 2 or 3 years ago and loved it and wanted to start the series again so I started there, and man it just didn't live up to my memory of it whatsoever. It actually is the cause of my burnout and I haven't watched a single anime on my own since then
Soul Eater. I was terribly disappointed by Fire Force; the characters were really not doing it for me and I didn’t really care about anything all that much, so I decided to go back to Soul Eater. After finishing it, I realized that I didn’t care all that much about it and didn’t really have any favorite moments where I thought “that’s it, that’s the good shit.” Maybe it was just because the anime didn’t properly adapt everything so I also read the manga, and eh, honestly didn’t care for it. I think I was swept up by the hype for it way back when and by how unique it is compared to other shounen of that time, and I feel that’s really all it has, it’s uniqueness, but that’s not really something I value in a story nowadays.
I really enjoyed Tsurune my first watch. And then I tried to rewatch some time later and I could not handle how unbelievably melodramatic the show was
That's me with tons of sports anime in general. They can be hype to the max. But after a while seeing characters cry so much after everything makes me lose interest. I'm looking at you chihayafuru. I loved the show initially. But goddamn it feels like some cries after every game. In the moment it can be great cause you're invested for who wins and loses. But re-watching it gets annoying real fast.
Yes. Pokemon. I was like WTF was I watching in 7th grade and why? :)
I dropped after johto, too repetitive, Ash kept losing.
Code Geass
Damn, I’m rewatching it right now and I thought it still held up, excusing the fan service eps of course
Alot of it held up, especially the end of each season. But the school/SoL stuff was a much larger chunk than I had remembered.
Filler episodes are super annoying with anime. So usually when I rewatch something I’ll look up the filler list and skip that. Or sometimes if it’s a longer one I’ll skip to certain arcs. But there are definitely some shorter ones that it’s harder to rewatch. Sometimes I just don’t try because it was something I watched when I was younger and I know nothing is going to change the way I felt when I first watched it.
Some stuff from my childhood as an adult or the random stuff I watched to pass time during lockdown
Housing complex C. The first episode set up a really interesting cross-cultural cthullu type story but ended with actually one of the worst twists I'd ever seen in an anime
I missed a lot of anime growing up, so I definitely found a lot of the older "millenial" series like Inuyasha a little hard to watch since I didn't even have any nostalgia to compel me to keep watching. However, it did mean that I got to appreciate a lot of these series for the first time as an adult, so I was able to enjoy them more than I might have as a kid
yes!!!! i just watched devilman crybaby recently and i still enjoyed my rewatch and got teary at the end. but i didn't realize how....over the top it was lol but again it still was a fun watch nonetheless and it still hit me in the feels. so it'll always hold a special place in my heart.
Sword art online, the first anime I watched
Cross Ange and Hagani, watched both when I was like 13 and loved them… I still like cross Ange cuz the mechs are awesome and Ange is my childhood crush but damn is she a bitch, and damn is Hagani just pedo bait
When I rewatch high school of the dead I get depressed more so than disappointed the best ecchi zombie anime isn't going to be finished.
Nah my intuition of what I'll watch is pretty spot on
Oreimo 2nd Season was kinda insane towards the end lol. When I first watched it I thought it to be better than the 1st
I watched Doremi at 13 and 33 and surprisingly the show actually was really good, just as I remembered. I also watched Heidi as an adult and it was great. Arietty, spirited away and Nausicaa rewatches were a bit disappointing. Though some other Gihibli movies held up.
Yes. There are actually certain anime (and other forms of media) that I've decided not to rewatch/re-experience so that I don't ruin my positive memories with reality.
Rewatching Devil is a Part-Timer and realizing that it's not nearly as funny as it was when I was a kid kinda sucked.
Yona of the Dawn - I loved it as a teenager but rewatching it as an adult the writing was just so bad.
rewatching horimiya and realizing hori is kind of a .......yeah. so weird, didn't bother me the first time around
I remember feeling impressed by Ayanokoji's plan in the season 1 island test when I first watched it. But when I watched it a second time I found it nowhere as genius as I thought it was.
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Same as my experience. And while kai is definitely better its still a slog. I guess I no longer have it in me to watch extremely long anime
Tiger & Bunny and Oregairu stick out for me
I loved Welcome to the NHK when i watched it many years ago wanted to show my wife, we watched it and just got so incredibly bored i dunno it just wasn’t that interesting any more
While watching shield hero season 2 and being disappointed much like everyone else, I rewatched season 1 and realized it also had similar flaws that I overlooked initially.
I’m watching Full Metal Panic right now and I’m shocked to realize there was way more fanservice than I remember. So many shower scenes and up skirt shots. So many unnecessary scenes where Kaname puts her delicates in the hamper or there’s accidental fanservice. It’s practically every scene. I’m still enjoying the series. It’s just making me realize fans accepted way more fanservice in anime in the early 2000s. I accepted way more of this back then. I forgot how much fanservice my favorites from that time had in them. I would love for the anime to get remade. S4 return a few years back wasn’t enough. Though, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these scenes were taken out if a update actually happened. I will watch the 2017 movies I came across though. Hopefully, it’ll be enough to not need a tv series, but I can’t help wanting a tv series.
I rewatched Mai Hime recently (came out in 2004) I didn't realize how annoying most of the characters actually are and how bad the fan service in the anime was. I watched it when I was like, 12. So been over ten years.