if i remember correctly wep started Accidentally Good and then it was like 'surprise we don't empathize at all with the characters you thought we were obviously setting up to be sympathetic and the shady adults get no comeuppance at all'
honestly out of the three here, sotsu is probably the least shit. like don't get me wrong, from an outsider's perspective there's clearly a lot of problems but i also know at least a few people who did still enjoy it and see value in it while admitting there was also a lot wrong with it. People whose opinions I personally trust.
wep just gets malicious and you feel betrayed for believing in the original potential you saw. tpn takes a giant steaming shit all over its source material while also not even executing what it still left in well
like when even anime only fans are like "wait what? this fucking sucks" you know you fucked up. not even a matter of "not faithful to the manga" it just sucks
It's really clear that TPN2 is the production committe going to the studio and saying 'okay so you know how in the first season you got 20% of the way through this story'
yeah... lack of communication and the crew trying to put something good together while being massively overworked made WEP appear to be the exact opposite of the writer/creator's intent, so the sudden swerve goes in the direction only the bad-faith haters expected and stabbed fans in the heart
At least with Love Live Superstar, the only disappointment was they sank my ship, and only slightly, because you know this franchise's allergy to making anything official (and when they do they walk it back or ignore it).
like if the first season had happened as year or so sooner and a second season came before the manga ended it's possible we could have had another universe where tpn got two fantastic seasons and maybe a third, somewhat rushed but still fine season
the staff of wonder egg priority created a genuinely touching show about teen girls and trauma, while the writer wanted it to be teen girl misery porn going "they deserve this actually" and then made that intention explicit in the final script
the problem with The Promised Neverland is twofold: the manga is amazing (easily one of the top-10 in the last decade) and the first season of the anime was one of the best anime the year it was released. So there was a lot of hype and then we got absolute dogshit because they tried to cram 100+ chapters of the manga into 12 episodes
was the writer the same one who had a controversial past of basically exploiting women, queer relationships, abuse and trans issues or was that the director.
i remember at the time the show started airring someone made a long twitter thread about him and his past works but were trying to spin it to be like "hey that could mean this show could have some interesting stuff to say/he's had some missteps in the past but writers can grow!"
Yeah, the ending completely derailed everything, because even if the direction and animation and acting all pointed to the show being progressive, the writer/creator completely tanked it and did a full 180.
that was a mistakeand thenit was exploitative