Originally Posted by
TaigaUC
But the fact is people will stop or continue watching based on the first episode.
I'm sure that's one of the reasons why a lot of animes have amazing quality in the first episode, and then it just drops to rubbish.
It's like games with a shitty start. Most people are going to say "f this" and stop playing.
As a creator, you want the start to interest people and draw them in, not bore them to death or drive them away.
You shouldn't expect people to want to endure crapness to get to goodness much later on.
On a similar note, I recently glanced at a new manga where the most interesting and likable character died immediately in the worst way imaginable.
That manga certainly cemented itself as something I will never re-read, let alone continue to read.
If you're telling yourself "it's just the start, it might get better later" it probably means you have a personal reason to give it a chance.
For example, you're bored with nothing else to do, or you're hoping it gets better because you have some kind of personal investment (eg. it's your favorite franchise or something).
It doesn't mean that it's done well.
And of course, there's also personal opinion and expectations.
I think most people have had extremely low expectations of the anime from day one.
After watching it, if they're still finding it terrible even beyond their expectations, then... well, it's probably not very good.
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