Series with the steepest/largest drop in quality
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@Windsagio Yeah, I was shocked at the end of V2. But... I kept reading, and V3 was really good. And while it does work as a bow to the series, I also wouldn't mind if it kept going.
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@Dawnaxis Worth trying again, the payoff is pretty good.
@TheGrimLich I also wouldn't mind that author getting back to "Vending Machine" (which is what made me think of this), how can Arifureta have 1.4 billion volumes, but people like that have like 3 per series?
Logic is out, Unreasonableness is in!
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@Windsagio ...holy schnike, he is the same author! Man, now I'm torn. On the one hand, Vending Machine V4 please, but on the other, Village is a really intriguing story and I'm interested in seeing where it goes...
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Another vote for both Seirei Gensouki and Abilities Average. Their issues have already been explained.
Realist Hero, anything after the coronation has been downhill for me. It felt like the author wrote in circles for a while before building up their favorite character Fuuga into the real main character. Every so often I'll check in on the latest volume, but it always ends in disappointment.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Trapped in a Dating Sim not drop off. To be honest, it's not improving, but a big scenery change didn't go poorly for once.
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Potion loli... Definitely dropped.off badly
Abilities Average... The same
80'000 gold... Seeing a pattern yet lol?By the Grace Of The Gods went from.fun times to volumes of literal nothing...
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In defense of Abilities Average, I found the entire series to be just as the title implied. Average. Even when I got to the later volumes, its just... Average. It never changes much quality wise, but it also doesn't really do much plot wise or difference wise to shake things up. Ended up dropping it around volume 10? But been maybe thinking of picking it back up as I do have a soft spot for the characters. Even if it is just an average series.
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Hozuki-san Chi no Aneki + Imouto is yhe biggest example I can think of. First chapters have an actual plot and I was looking forward to see if the protagonist and his aneki would end up as a couple. Then the series just become a collection of nonsense and surreal gags without in-story continuity and the main plot was never resolved.
The Twin Star Exorcist anime, in the second half the two protagonists are reduced to newbies who can't win a fight on their own. I later learned that after the first half it was anime original content and, I deed, the ma ga is much better.
I stopped reading Horimiya after the series started focusing more and more on side characters and the only times we saw Hori and Miyamura was to make jokes about her jealousy.
Master of Ragnarock...it may have not declined from an objective point of view but I feel the current arc is lasting too long and is making me lose interest in the series. -
I actually like Average Abilities but was losing interest until I slowed down to reading just one volume a year. At that pace I always have a good time checking in with the gang, but when I was reading 4/year the issues with plotting and pacing and the overall repetitive nature wore at me. I keep meaning to finish the last volume I bought of I’ve Been Killing Slimes again as I feel that’s another that benefits from big reading gaps.
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@the-green-death said in Series with the steepest/largest drop in quality:
I keep meaning to finish the last volume I bought of I’ve Been Killing Slimes again
That one hasn't gotten bad, just for me a bit bland. It's a one-volume-a-year for me too.
