Is it really necessary making another entry?

Don't understand it myself why. AnE hasn't really been good since the first season. Anything after that has been forgettable and boring.

so shameful that so many good shows can't get a follow up season, or get them like 8 years later, and this total crapolla of a show is they one they chose to give 3 cours in what, a year?

@AntiMidian have you seen the animation quality it's shit asf but not story isn't crap tottally more indepth that what you say aura leveling

They didn’t make seperate entries for JJK Hidden Inventory arc and Shibuya Incident arc

So no, they definitely should not be making two separate entries for this. Both arcs are part of the same 2-consecutive-cour season

Blue Exorcist is still huge and very profitable in Japan and it doesn't really matter what the international audience thinks.

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Wtf are you on about it being dead? It may not be as popular as JJK or DDD but it's still doing well in differents parts of asia and europe

Heck if anything I'm kind of glad it's more of a less discussed shonen title, because that way the powerscalers and NORMIES stay away from it

The manga is #75 in popularity on MAL, how is that "pretty much dead at this point?" Because the gap between seasons 2 and 3 was so long? Also the manga rating on MAL is quite high (higher than, for example, the Kaiju No.8 manga), so it's less people watching a good series. Yeah, it sounds like you think a show is only worth watching if it's popular. And if it's not popular or not popular anymore/declines in popularity even if the storytelling stays the same quality, then it's not worth watching. Animation might not be S-tier, but at least it's not fully 3D CGI or whatever.

Maybe it's good that it's less talked about. Sometimes I wish HxH was less popular (it used to be unpopular when I started it back in 2013), and that's my favourite series.

I'm glad they made more seasons of Blue Exorcist, and I hope they continue to make more seasons of it in the future. Manga readers have said that the story gets so much better after the crappy Kyoto saga, and I doubt they're lying about it.

The classic "I don't care about this show anymore, it must mean it's dead".

Anyone with even passing interest in the franchise knows that it's far from badly received and animation studios have always kept an eye on it. In fact we got the 2nd season soon after one of the manga volumes scored first place in sales that year/month (I don't remember but I sure miss when we were getting those regularly posted in MAL).

Of course most of the doomposters don't really like the story, but fans of other franchises would kill to get the amount of sequels that we do with AnE.

Don't understand it myself why. AnE hasn't really been good since the first season. Anything after that has been forgettable and boring.

so shameful that so many good shows can't get a follow up season, or get them like 8 years later, and this total crapolla of a show is they one they chose to give 3 cours in what, a year?

so shameful that so many good shows can't get a follow up season, or get them like 8 years later, and this total crapolla of a show is they one they chose to give 3 cours in what, a year?

@AntiMidian I advise you to go look at the seasonal lineups. out of all the crappy anime that get made, blue exorcist at least has some rep behind its name. the classic my favorite anime doesn't get sequel so i must shit on every other thing that is getting a sequel.

@RustyCookies "rep" lol.
first season (1.2M), 2nd Season (500k), 3rd Season (50K), 4th Season (22K), 5th Season (14K).
so in essence, between every season the number of viewers that remain is halved (except for one time when it dropped by 90% lol).

even if we compare it to shows like Shokugeki no Souma or Nanatsu no Taizai, whos later seasons were badly produced, it didn't lose anywhere as near the relevancy that this did.

I'd rather watch something new that might surprise me, than some washed up show riding on bygone glory "rep" that i already know is bad and i don't like.
I'd rather see some generic Isekai get 5 cours in a row over this.
I'm willing to bet a considerable amount of those 14K (probably 7k-8k by next season) still hanging on are doing it for the same reasons i did.

p.s. i know these are only the MAL numbers but i imagine they represent the trend decently enough.

@AntiMidian

know who MAL represents? English anime fans using MAL. know who has a higher gross population of anime fans? all of Asia. so no, MAL does NOT EVER rep anime "trends decently enough" EXCEPT for MAL users. go do some reading on JapTV and IPTV ratings and viewership of anime in Japan and the grand total SEVEN other IPTV services (not Crunchyroll) carrying AnE. also, read up on disk sales as well as merch sales.

the international market is influential with manga/LN/anime/merch sales. streaming rights are getting more and more expensive every year. more and more investments are coming in from overseas. so the international marketshare is gradually increasing over time. but the core demographics for the INITIAL CREATION of otaku industry products is still Japan domestic.

Food Wars? seriously??? that MANGA tanked so bad in the final chapters the books were piled up and lit on fire on public streets in Japan because the fans were protesting about what happened. ya don't think the SOURCE story going 'glub glub glub round n round the toilet bowl' had a negative effect on the viewership? J.C. Staff was the studio though and through... and the quality dip between the 1st season and the final one? minimal.

Seven Deadly Sins????? oh my fukking god... are you serious??? you're SERIOUSLY comparing J.C. Staff AND A1 Pictures' work with Studio Deen's work? when a good to ok show is put out by a great studio like A1, but suddenly the show tanks due to Deen taking over.... that's like saying, 'oh i'm getting a nice meal at a 1 Michelin Star establishment... but next time i want to try making that same meal at a dingy greasy-spoon with minimum wage noob staff.' no. nuh-uh. that's flying like a lead balloon. three different studios in three different situations does NOT make a comparable situation.

"first season (1.2M), 2nd Season (500k), 3rd Season (50K), 4th Season (22K), 5th Season (14K)." where are you getting these numbers from? MAL Users Rating each title or something else? because from what i can see on each MAL listing... you're totally off. on. every. single. number. i can find anywhere on each title. accuracy matters, so maybe use the real numbers and say where you're getting them from. not whatever digits you decide to make up outta thin air.

ya know what, you want to pull 'viewer opinions' outta your butt? "I'm willing to bet a considerable amount of those 14K (probably 7k-8k by next season) still hanging on are doing it for the same reasons i did." that's moronic. how about this, publish a poll and introduce it to the viewers and get some REAL statistical data. not you bending over and pulling a brown rabbit outta your anus. it ain't Easter, and i'm not interested in your choco bunny.

@AntiMidian

know who MAL represents? English anime fans using MAL. know who has a higher gross population of anime fans? all of Asia. so no, MAL does NOT EVER rep anime "trends decently enough" EXCEPT for MAL users. go do some reading on JapTV and IPTV ratings and viewership of anime in Japan and the grand total SEVEN other IPTV services (not Crunchyroll) carrying AnE. also, read up on disk sales as well as merch sales.

the international market is influential with manga/LN/anime/merch sales. streaming rights are getting more and more expensive every year. more and more investments are coming in from overseas. so the international marketshare is gradually increasing over time. but the core demographics for the INITIAL CREATION of otaku industry products is still Japan domestic.

Food Wars? seriously??? that MANGA tanked so bad in the final chapters the books were piled up and lit on fire on public streets in Japan because the fans were protesting about what happened. ya don't think the SOURCE story going 'glub glub glub round n round the toilet bowl' had a negative effect on the viewership? J.C. Staff was the studio though and through... and the quality dip between the 1st season and the final one? minimal.

Seven Deadly Sins????? oh my fukking god... are you serious??? you're SERIOUSLY comparing J.C. Staff AND A1 Pictures' work with Studio Deen's work? when a good to ok show is put out by a great studio like A1, but suddenly the show tanks due to Deen taking over.... that's like saying, 'oh i'm getting a nice meal at a 1 Michelin Star establishment... but next time i want to try making that same meal at a dingy greasy-spoon with minimum wage noob staff.' no. nuh-uh. that's flying like a lead balloon. three different studios in three different situations does NOT make a comparable situation.

"first season (1.2M), 2nd Season (500k), 3rd Season (50K), 4th Season (22K), 5th Season (14K)." where are you getting these numbers from? MAL Users Rating each title or something else? because from what i can see on each MAL listing... you're totally off. on. every. single. number. i can find anywhere on each title. accuracy matters, so maybe use the real numbers and say where you're getting them from. not whatever digits you decide to make up outta thin air.

ya know what, you want to pull 'viewer opinions' outta your butt? "I'm willing to bet a considerable amount of those 14K (probably 7k-8k by next season) still hanging on are doing it for the same reasons i did." that's moronic. how about this, publish a poll and introduce it to the viewers and get some REAL statistical data. not you bending over and pulling a brown rabbit outta your anus. it ain't Easter, and i'm not interested in your choco bunny.

so your entire criticism has to do with a new entry in mal database. jeez, talk about being too deep. if you're not a fan of it i don't see how a database entry affects your fragile life. if you debated they shouldn't make new seasons and use the money elsewhere that would at least have some merit. and no. people don't watch anime from mal, they come here after they watch anime.