ITT: series that were supposed to be the next big thing but faded away

He made a chapter calling out annoying faggots who whine about fan service in his manga

An issue with long monthly series.

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Does this count? Got a ton of episodes for some reason

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Blue Exorcist's downfall was no one's fault but the mangaka's. Literally was on track to be the biggest long-running non-Big Three shounen of that middling era between the early 2000s and the 2010s since Fairy Tail was quickly turning to shit. Had great art and an aesthetic that was perfect for the era, people loved Rin as an MC, tracked extremely well with both normies and fujos and had a very active fanbase from the start during the golden era of things blowing up due to online fandom, sold well in Japan, etc., so of course it had to be a painfully slowly paced monthly with a tiny cast and now the mangaka is on indefinite hiatus because she's lost all passion for it.
I caught up with the series a few months ago since I had so many fond memories of the early issues as a kid and only late last year did they find out the truth about their mother, something that should've been resolved within the first 2 or 3 arcs. Legitimately feels like it's somehow been in its 2nd major arc for over 10 years. They're still the same age and in the same year of school they were in 2009. I've never actively been a fan of anything so lined up to succeed and fumbling the ball this hard.

Yes
It had cool aesthetic but not much else

Unlike other examples in this thread, this actually had the promotional campaign of seriously being the next big thing.

And it faaaaailed

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>indefinite hiatus
it ends next month

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new chapter in two days after nearly a years hitatus

I think I read she was collaborating with someone for a new manga or something.

Honestly feels like some of these are just publishers placing their bets on the wrong thing

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I feel the anime original version of the mothers backstory and satans whole deal is better than what the manga did

Oh damn, that someone was Fuyumi Ono.

Owari no Seraph

MC at least got with that fox shrine girl, right?

I still follow the manga, or I did before it went on hiatus. Forever mad that the Shima arc was never animated, he's the fun one.

This one never should have been hyped up to be a big thing. It should have stayed with it's medium tier fandom and it would be remembered like that. Instead, Shueisha and tried to do a huge push that made it look like it was Big 3 level which was a giant mistake. I actually sympathize for this one.

Lame. The Illuminati arc had potential but Rin and his brother's drama was gay as fuck.

That's 100% on the mangaka's inactivity. It's got a special place in my heart

Looks boring

I only ever see this posted as something that was killed by its own hype.

Oh shit it's almost may 2022, new blue exorcist chapter soon

The flashback was awfully long, but in retrospect I really like it. Also that part with older Rin meeting Fujimoto in the past was great.

Wasn't the anime, "The mother fell in love with and befriended Satan by showing him care, but that didn't make him actually good or kind to anyone other than her"?
It was an interesting take on the idea.

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lmao I remember how over hyped it was back in 2011 yet the anime was 90% filler after the first two episodes

Did it sail or not?

They should have just kept the same backstory for when they got there in the manga rather than the "underground devil clone training facility"

I too love DotHack

Not really. In the first place, nobody expected it to be as big a hit as it was.

At the beginning.
By the end of S1, people were saying it was going to become the next Touhou/Kancolle/FGO

I totally forgot about that. Isn't still running?

>Did it sail
Sort of, he even claimed to impregnate her it was half true

People hyped this up to high heaven and now they only want to talk about how terrible S2 and the manga are. It is a shame because it was a good concept and I liked it at first.

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Kamiki a cute. She's so much better than Shiemi it's ridiculous.

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It's been 5 years since I read this series and all I care about knowing at this point is if she will win or not. I know I'm retarded thinking it won't be the blonde cow, but damn it she's best girl.

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This makes me sad, as I really enjoyed it when I was younger. It should have ended either at the ark (which was kino) or the HQ Invasion, where the original anime stopped. Everything afterwards was utter shit and the Neah/Mana clusterfuck is unbearable. Its only redeeming quality was the introduction of Apocryphos

eyebrows is best

This one was so forced by Jump it's not even funny. It's funny how for a while they kept showing Toriko with Naruto/Luffy like trying really hard to make it surpass Ichigo in popularity. Nowdays people are still excited about Bleach and no one gives a fuck about Toriko. It was not even a bad series, but they tried TOO hard.
I agree with this one. The gimmick gets old fast. Plus, i don't like how can't even focus on Saitama and we're dealing with random heroes 90% of the time.

Didn't the author say that we're only at the 2/3 mark?

>better demon slayer

The anime original story is shit.

Same. I lost motivation to read the series years ago and the only thing I care about at this point is knowing if Kamiki wins the Rinbowl. Shiemi is better for Yukio anyway.

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Probably no better example than Toriko.
A shame because the manga itself is pretty decent

>Dedicating a chapter to antis
That's called seething, coping, and dilating

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Not helping matters was that awful 2010's Toei anime.

Stone Ocean only gets better, tho.

I still can't believe they pumped so much into a generic school battle harem while the generic Isekai was taking off.

>Making a chapter to whine through the characters
You'd think people would learn to stop doing this.

SO is my favorite part, I was referring too the shitflix disaster.

Who cares? Fire force final arc became increasingly more wacky and most of the major arcs dealt with perceptions around each character. The series had already broken the 4th wall by that point and one of the focal points was how the grim world of fire force was transitioning into the mad world of soul eater.

The Tamaki stuff didn't kill the series, it just triggered a few people. It immediately picked back up afterwards and most readers were happy with the ending. Fire force never fell off, it just didn't take off in the first place like a lot of these other series

I don't know about you but anime is still here so it seems like it worked

Most people that watched AoEX don't even know that the manga exists or that it's still going. The anime original ending didn't help that much either, together with being monthly and slow paced.

Tbf the timing issue is just a monthly manga problem. It feels like it's been ages because there's such a long interval between chapters. I dropped it for a few years and picked it back up in 2020, and it was still great. The mother flashback was put off for a long time but it was great, and it was in line with Rin's character. He had no interest in his past, he only cared about his adoptive father and twin brother. It took a sequence of failures for him to start caring and finally address his past.

I think the anime itself is a problem too. It went anime original at the end which kills all hype because for the anime-onlies, it's already finished - why bother reading the manga? Even when they did release a season 2 it didn't matter because a lot of the people who liked it back then aren't around anymore. The landscape changes and fans come and go, you can't just reboot a series and expect it to hit the same level of popularity unless it's a big as bleach or aot. Look at shaman king for example

This. Toriko was great but hyped up way too much and couldn't live up to it

That's another one but it was riding off the aot hype more than anything. The anime also got too close to the manga so they couldn't really continue it. And like with others on this thread, it's monthly which kills the hype

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Ace of flat chests.

Soul Eater was monthly series and is still remembered fondly unlike the others

Yeah but currently on hiatus. Though apparently coming back in May

>The gimmick gets old fast
This. Most of season 1 was just 'oh this again' and it was carried by the animation and designs in the first place. The premise was bad from the start, the focus shifting to something else was inevitable. Still it got ridiculously popular somehow but couldn't maintain it