Franchise killers & revivers

[ChrisIII]

Kind of like Nemesis and Enterprise kind of killed Star Trek until the new film came along, what manga/anime set in franchises have been so terrible, or sold so poorly, that the franchises were put on hiatus for a while, or at least drastically retooled?

[AllisterH]

Kind of like Nemesis and Enterprise kind of killed Star Trek until the new film came along, what manga/anime set in franchises have been so terrible, or sold so poorly, that the franchises were put on hiatus for a while, or at least drastically retooled?

Doesn't really make sense in anime/manga since there really isn't the same sort of thing as a "franchise" like Batman or Trek.

Closest would be DBGT I guess.

[Totoro Man]

Kind of like Nemesis and Enterprise kind of killed Star Trek until the new film came along, what manga/anime set in franchises have been so terrible, or sold so poorly, that the franchises were put on hiatus for a while, or at least drastically retooled?

nah, "Nemisis" didn't kill it for me. nope-- I never bothered watching that film because I had ALREADY seen Star Trek saves the planet of the fucking hippies! "Insurrection" is what killed Star Trek for me. I never even gave "Nemesis" the time of day. I figured as long as Rick Berman was in charge--and Jonathon Frakes was directing, there was no way in hell they were getting more of my money for Star Trek. it was under Berman's tutelage that ST transformed from something I loved as a kid into a mind-numbingly dull and pretentious morality play of the week.

of course, I got lost with "Deep Space Nine" which felt almost like "Days of Our Lives" in space... "Voyager" lost me in less than a month so by the time "Enterprise" rolled around I just didn't care. so... I'm gonna say that "Insurrection" and "Voyager" were the REAL franchise killers in my book.

[OverMaster]

The first Negima anime (although it luckily didn't affect the manga at all).

Tenchi in Tokyo put the franchise on ice for nearly a decade.

El Hazard: Alternative World (the second TV series) seemed to kill that franchise for real.

[RubberLotus]

The first Negima anime (although it luckily didn't affect the manga at all).

Tenchi in Tokyo put the franchise on ice for nearly a decade.

El Hazard: Alternative World (the second TV series) seemed to kill that franchise for real.

Nah, if anything, it was the live-action series that really did the job.

I mean, who the hell thought a live-action Negima would work? Those guys must've had Harry Potter on the brain...

[yeoman]

The first Negima anime (although it luckily didn't affect the manga at all).

Tenchi in Tokyo put the franchise on ice for nearly a decade.

El Hazard: Alternative World (the second TV series) seemed to kill that franchise for real.


To be fair, I think it was more a continuing drop in quality. After the original, only Wanderers is not sub par.

[Hazard]

Any franchise that goes on long enough will likely have something horrible in it. Anime/Manga generally avoid this because they rarely have franchises.

[OverMaster]

To be fair, I think it was more a continuing drop in quality. After the original, only Wanderers is not sub par.

Yeah, but Alternative World was the notable fat final nail on the coffin.

[MegamiMiko]

Endless Eight might count as a killer for Haruhi at least in terms of fan interest, and they're probably hoping for the new movie coming out to be a reviver.