I find it easy to start anime but difficult to finish it. I’ve started several anime but they always seem to get boring a few episodes in. Is this a me problem or does seasonal anime have a massive drop in quality in the back end?
For example, Train to the End of the World is a pretty fun show but the last two episodes have been either boring or weird. Is this sort of falling off common in seasonal anime?
It comes from the manga industry, which heavily incentivizes creating a lot of interesting pilot-like starts, but when they get serialized the author does not know how to continue the story, and the advice they get from publishers drives the series to be generic and cheap.
It’s a shame that anime original series are so often underlooked; there is much less of an incentive to try to create the next one piece, these are often wrapped up on a season or so, and are actually able to complete their stories as a result