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[IronyOwl]

I find it fascinating how some series evolve. A lot are more or less the same all the way through, but some really display being kind of an author's pet project or not really being sure what they're about for a while.

JoJo's is an obvious example, spending the first two parts being about kung fu vampires and then suddenly gaining iconic kung fu snowflake ghosts.

Yu Yu Hakusho is pretty insane for this, though. It starts out as some kid following ghosts around solving their problems for them, turns into a brutal martial arts thing, realizes it was being racist to demons and tries to make up for that, then tries to lay off the grimdeath edge with its demonic martial arts tournaments in hell. I have no idea where it goes after that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it involves the author going "Wait a minute..." and changing a bunch of stuff again.

Batman is a HUGE one. In many ways "Owlman" feels lot more true to the original Batman then the current one does.

Does he use guns? Check... Murders people in fascinating ways? Check...

But that isn't an anime/manga... hmmm

Superhero comics are a little different (at least as a whole) because we're often talking about several different authors, series, overarching conditions, and so on over the course of several decades. It's still fascinating for a lot of the same reasons, but it was never as likely to be coherent as a single author on a single project.

[Neonivek]

Hitman Reborn kind of turned into an entirely different, albeit still action oriented, anime.

Other then some REALLY BAD writing parts (Two power up arcs in a row... and Chrome which was resolved in the Manga later but not the anime) it wasn't so bad.

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On the Fairytail side

Ohhh Freed I love you : 3

[ToonyMan]

JoJo's is an obvious example, spending the first two parts being about kung fu vampires and then suddenly gaining iconic kung fu snowflake ghosts.

Having read everything except Vento Aureo and JoJolion now I would agree for the most part.

Speaking of which, Steel Ball Run on its own evolves through the story. I think it's probably my favorite JoJo now. Because it ran for so long and it's when the manga switched to monthly, you get to see a notable increase in art quality around volume 3-4. Some people dislike Araki's new "glamour pose" art style that started developing around Stone Ocean or Vento Aureo possibly, but I think it's alright. Getting back on point, SBR's story feels a lot more dynamic throughout. It starts off very focused on the race, but after the monthly switch it becomes more about what each character is striving for in that race, and even though the main characters are Gyro and Johnny, you get to see a lot of cool interactions between other characters and even get their backstories too. It also probably has the best antagonist besides Kira in my opinion, and they go through a radical redesign in their appearance as the series progresses.

[Furtuka]

Macross Delta: Now featuring Idols flashing gangsigns while singing surprisingly funky songs.


Also oh look another Genius

[Flying Dice]

Macross Delta: Now featuring Idols flashing gangsigns while singing surprisingly funky songs.


Also oh look another Genius

Music's nice. Dated CGI less so. Give it a decade and we'll have a Macross feat. female Japanese Tupac,

[NullForceOmega]

Urge to kill Kawamori rising.

[Reelya]

Macross Delta is looking somewhere between Macross Frontier and Macross 7.

[Furtuka]

Spoiler: Super Dimension Century Orguss (click to show/hide)

So I just finished episode 17 and I just-

What. What just happened. Why did they bring Sley back after he had been assumed dead for the last two episodes, and then had him resolve the love triangle thanks to the fucked up reproductive biology of the Emarn species, but then-

HE JUST BLOWS HIMSELF UP IN A A KAMIKAZE RUN AT THE END OF THE EPISODE EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS HE'S HIS GIRLFRIEND'S LAST HOPE FOR LONG TERM HAPPINESS AND A FLEET HAD JUST ARRIVED TO SAVE THEM ALL AND THEY HAD JUST FINISHED UP THE LOVE TRIANGLE AND ARRANGED THEIR MARRIAGE AND WAS BEING BROS WITH THE PROTAGONIST AND THEY HAD EVEN HAD HIM SORTIE IN A NEW MECH THAT JUST

JUST


AND THEN HE EXPLODED

[Frumple]

Supposition: Your response is why what happened, happened. Sometimes a writer just wants to screw with the consumer :V

[Reelya]

A while back I started watching To Love Ru because a lot of people were raving about how To Love Ru: Darkness (season 3) is supposed to be really good with a better story than the earlier stuff. But I don't like to skip stuff so I started at the start. I'm on season 2 "Motto To Love Ru" now, and it should basically be called Boobie to Love Boobs. "To Love Boobs" is probably the most informative nickname for the show as a whole. I gotta say season 2 has way less story (each episode is three mini-stories instead of one story) and much more of a boob fixation than season 1, however that is possible, for a show that's basically like a way more ecchi version of Tenchi Muyo, so this mythical season 3 (Darkness) has gotta be absolutely amazing to make up for the shitty no-story season 2. For all that, To Love Ru is definitely nowhere near the worst harem show out there. It's definitely in the upper-echelons of pure fanservice comedies. It escapes being down the bottom by making all the main characters pretty likable, and consistently knowing to stay in the "dumb fun" category. Just be prepared for buckets of fanservice.

[Orange Wizard]

I tried to watch To Love Ru a while back. I remember only watching a couple of episodes, but they were terrible enough for me to drop it, which is at least a little bit impressive.

[Trapezohedron]

To Love Ru Darkness is definitely way better than its source material, which doesn't really amount to much, to be honest.

I mean, its source material is a fanservice harem show. Then again, if you're looking for plot instead of plots, maybe TLR isn't your cup of tea. It is fanservice played straight.

[Orange Wizard]

... I mean it must have been crappy fanservice for me to drop it, though maybe I was just being unusually picky at the time.

[Reelya]

I think it ramps up as it goes, although it always had more nudity than shows such as Rosario to Vampire right from the start.

[Flying Dice]

At least Rosario + Vampire grew up later in the manga/in the second season of the anime. Still had the T&A, but the plot and fighting got more serious without being too silly.