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Often tied to the dislike of a specific arc, but can also befall episodic shows. In some cases, a new director takes over and pulls the series in a different direction; this can give the impression of Seasonal Rot to those who liked the old way, but may also bring in new viewers who prefer it like this (in other words, a change in tastes or audience).

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Sometimes it's a temporary dip from which the series recovers (perhaps by bringing in new writers, changing the premise, or in severe cases simply ignoring the events of the rotted season). Other times, it proves to be irreversible and grows worse with each new season, at which point the series has Jumped The Shark.

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Compare Sequelitis, Sophomore Slump and Later Installment Weirdness; and if the whole network is undergoing this, Network Decay. Contrast with Growing the Beard (though it is possible for a show that has entered Seasonal Rot to re- Grow the Beard). A Retool may also be in order should the writers feel that the work needs it. The Love Letter Blaqk Audio Download. This is mostly due to the fact that there is usually a gap of 3 years between the release of new games and the games themselves have maybe 6 to 9 months worth of content without fillers or additional storylines invented for the anime. Though Johto and Unova take more flak than most. The result was a very long and tiresome series with loads of Characters of the Day and generally uneventful/boring episodes that contributed nothing to the larger plot. It started with decent pacing and subdivisions for story arcs, which actually continued on to the Tournament Arc.

Unfortunately, things began slipping once the 2. Tohoku- Fukushima disaster hit, and a two- parter was pulled to avoid encountering criticism, though it was still well- received for the remainder of the next year. Then Black 2 & White 2 created an executive- mandated revamp of the arc, and it officially all fell apart. There were good spots, like when What Could Have Been Johto's Celebi Arc (but with Meloetta instead) was made, the decision to not have Team Rocket shoehorned into every episode and the Battle Club Tournament arcs where a number of reoccurring characters battled and interacted with each other, but the big League Tournament itself was almost universally reviled for making the the poor decision of having The Scrappy, an excruciatingly dopey boy named Cameron, knock out not just fan- favorite Bianca but Ash himself as well, making this his fifth tournament loss and thus ruining all momentum built up yet again. The Plasma arc afterward distilled a lot of the moral debates and ideals of the games and has massive amounts of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot, and the arc after that, featuring Ash and co. Needless to say, people were quite relieved when the Black and White saga ended.

Fans believe that the second season ended on a perfect note with the Big Bad slain and Genki's friends bidding him a very heart- felt goodbye. With nothing else to do, you'd think that would be it. Instead, the third season retcons the core five monsters' Heroic Sacrifice, gives us much weaker villains that are more interested in goofing off than world domination, a main plot so weak that it constantly relies on filler, and a rushed climax. It doesn't help that popular characters are reduced to one- episode appearances, Holly becomes useless, and the Tournament story suffers Arc Fatigue. The transition started with the previous season, but at least that mixed those segments in with segments that actually focused on Rockman.

That still doesn't excuse them for throwing out the entire purpose of the series, however. So it was more like half- seasonal rot. A condition which continued into the second season, with the addition of discarding almost every aspect of the game it was purportedly based on, up to and including The Rival becoming the polar opposite of his game self. First it threw in a ridiculous amount of filler before remembering it had a plot, then it wrapped up the plot before the season was even over, and then it filled out the rest of the season with more filler because they had literally run out of plot. The last episode had the most insulting thing of all the anime - the last boss of the first game randomly pops up and it's defeated in less than a minute with barely any introduction. While the first series, Axess, Stream, and Beast adapt the main series games, Beast+ attempts to adapt all of the spinoff material, such as Network Transmission and the cell phone games, but it is sloppily done, thanks to poor writing and pacing. The length of each episode was also reduced to ten minutes and the time slot was changed to give it a shared spot with another anime.

Worst off, while each of the previous series had endings to their arcs, Beast+ just ends. As the Shooting Star Rockman anime was announced that it was going to be released before the game version, obviously they needed to wrap up EXE, but it really couldn't have been done worse. GX, after a Mind Screw of a third season (which still proved to be entertaining regardless), had the abysmal fourth season, which tried (and failed) to top the Mandatory Twist Endings of the previous season, and supposedly explain away the loose ends from the first season without actually doing so. The fact that they made the main villain a secondary character's Superpowered Evil Side with a ridiculous agenda didn't help matters any.

It is quite telling that when 4. Kids Entertainment chose not to touch this season in their dub, many fans weren't upset because that made it even easier to pretend it doesn't exist. Some may even call it one of the dub's saving graces. It managed to wrap up things quite nicely in regards to what would happen to the main characters (by making them search for their own paths and identities, without having to rely on Judai at every turn) and the Big Bad's ploy was not all that different to the conclusion reached by a well- known show who got nowhere near the amount of flak that GX did for the very same plot- point. Its characterization of Judai as a considerably more mature and responsible person after his third- season Character Development (complete with a more attractive redesign) was also widely acclaimed, to the point of people watching the season just to see where all that art of Judai looking badass comes from. Transitioning from a (mostly) light- hearted first season into the very dark next two, this season is a weird in- between, poorly balancing a serious overarching plot of an evil destructive cult and silly filler duels between kabuki fans and curry lovers. D's get this kind of flak, with the Road to Destiny arc being composed of almost nothing but Filler and the WRGP arc containing numerous examples of Plot- Induced Stupidity, as well as Product Placement almost at Pyramid of Light's level.

The concluding arc, Arc Cradle, was with the exception of one specific plot twist much better- received. This may in part be because the first season's Fortune Cup and Dark Signers arcs, widely regarded as high points not just of this series but also of the entire franchise, being tough acts to follow, though. Promptly lampshaded in Yu- Gi- Oh Abridged. Bakura: ? However, the ending is almost universally praised for delivering proper closure to both the series and its title character. While the Jakoh, Shura, and Bolge arcs weren't terrible, they're seen as mediocre compared to what came before it as a result of it being a Post- Script Season, and the arcs between the Shura & Bolge arcs are heavily considered the nadir of the storyline in terms of quality.