Sui Ishida gave Pierrot a story draft for an alternative ending to Tokyo Ghoul. Pierrot barely looked into it as it had come either too late into production or something along those lines.
That’s the biggest problem with re-the directing and animation. Whilst TG and Root A have their issues they’re chock full of great moments and a superb score, with re there were individual episodes that impressed me but the overall series just left me wishing for better.
I really dislike everything post episode 15 that much. I don't see the point in buying something where I hate 75% of the content.What! your only getting half a series. Thats like rubbing salt in a wound.
I get the impression here that many people have a "love/hate" relationship with anime
I get your reasoning, I just couldn't see myself doing that.
Because despite it going downhill I still love the first 15 episodes and I'd be happy enough with just the first 12 episodes in my collection (episodes 13-15 I can watch through Crunchyroll anyway).
Fruits Basket and Kare Kano's authors hated their anime adaptations. TG's author reportedly has been working pretty closely with Pierrot on Root A, to create some alternative that's not excactly the same as the manga. Apparantly a lot went wrong about that season and the director said he did the best he could under the circumstances. (Which must have been very messy. But then, a lot was messy for Pierrot, Black Clover was really messy too.)[Still can't help but kind of feel that they're channeling all their main resources on Boruto.]
Re at least was good preparation for me watching S;G 0 later on. That one also has a directional change and quite the downfall in directional quality. It's not even 10% as bad as re's anime though. (But the fall sure looks more steep on first sight, because S;G's directing is consistently great and otherwise the anime also doesn't have much memorable flaws, unlike TG's first two seasons.)
Well, I mean when you know the extra parts exist and will be released shortly, I don't really see it as an issue. Plus there's the fact that when there are multiple series/seasons of a show you're watching while they're airing on TV/streaming you need to wait until the next one is released to see the continuation/ending anyway... I mean OG Twin Peaks fans waited 25 years on a cliffhanger. Deadwood fans have been waiting for 13 years for that to be finished... So waiting six months for part 2 of a show that's already been produced doesn't seem so bad. Plus if I want to marathon something all at once, there's no harm in part 1 sitting on my shelf unwatched for a while.
Licensing requirements and reverse importation pretty much. The sooner a distributor wants to release a series, the more part releases there will be (which is how I saw the Aniplex model tbh).
