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"Enemy with Regeneration"
Lamest super power ever, right beside superspeed. Only plot armor can defeat those.

This reminds me of Dragon Ball. If you think about it, Kuririn is the strongest character of the entire series: his energy-discs that can cut anything forced the author to make every single enemie afterwards have regeneration. The guy was so powerful the author had to make plot armor for the bad guys!
 
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This reminds me of Dragon Ball. If you think about it, Kuririn is the strongest character of the entire series: his energy-discs that can cut anything forced the author to make every single enemie afterwards have regeneration. The guy was so powerful the author had to make plot armor for the bad guys!
I feel like this is a trope you could name more examples off, cause I instantly think of Miroku from Inuyasha who had a black hole in his hand that could instant win against basically everything, so every single fight of any consequence had to have a bunch of those poisonous demon bugs floating around that hard counters him by harming him when he sucks them up so he's prevented from ever really doing anything.
 
What's worse:
1. a series going on for so long it turns to shit and you lose all interest?
2. a series put on hiatus for so long you lose all hope of ever seeing a proper conclusion?
That's a really tough one. Personally, I have found that usually I didn't really care for anything that fell under 1 out of Japan (I never really like MhA, for example), but if I broaden it to the West, then there's quite a few that apply. Meanwhile 2 has some of the better series in Japan included in it. Pretty sure Black Lagoon's mangaka will die before he ever finishes it.
I wasn't hoping for anything from Netflix (and it was animated and a Japanese production for Japanese tastes even if it wasn't good) I was hoping the mangaka would finish his story, which, if memory serves, left Dark Schneider recently deceased and sent to hell.
That doesn't change that it's Netflix and shitsmearing characters is basically a requirement for them to produce anything. Have they actually made a single good anime? The handful I gave a shot were atrocious.
 
1 for sure. MHA is a prime example of how stretching too much turns things braindead. Option 2 at leats gives you hope.

You forgot option 3: sudden cancelation. They done dirt on my Gundam X.
At least they were given a few episodes and enough advance notice to wrap up the story instead of having it just end abruptly, but yeah. If I had vast sums of money, I'd throw it at Sunrise to get the team back together and give Gundam X the final cour it deserved.

For me, I don't really watch or read a lot of long-runners to have that be an issue, but I think from my personal experience, 1 is worse for me. The only one that really comes to mind is Jojolion, which ended up dragging on and on and on with barely anything of interest happening, such that my interest in keeping up with it monthly started to flag. It didn't help that Araki seemed to have forgotten most of the initial hooks along the way (the Wall Eyes and what happened to Johnny, for instance), so it really felt like it was meandering a lot. Then it just ended with a pretty lame villain and I was just done with it. That lack of interest extended to part 9 when it finally came out (Jojolands? is that what it's called? I honestly forgot), such that I haven't even bothered to read it beyond the first chapter.

I dunno, maybe reading it again all in one go without having to wait a month between chapters might make it flow better, but I doubt it. It was the longest-running part by far and it had nothing to show for it, made all the worse by following my absolute favorite in SBR.
 
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Defiinitely 1 is worse. MHA isn't even the worst offender.

Do you remember when Bleach was good? Remember that kickass opening with the band Orange Range?

This is Bleach now. Feel old yet?
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While I do have issues with the series at certain points I still like it. I know this may be shocking to you as you are one of the individuals who have a weird autistic hatred towards the series.
Nah, I just hate its fans. It receives my hate via proxy. Bleach starts okay and then quickly spirals out of control before plummiting into a never ending abyss.

Somehow, a new series years after it ended with modern animation means le peak and Bleach was always good and people just shat on it for no reason. Only thing peak about that is the cringe. Bad enough I tried to read the manga and saw the same exact story fanboys swear it wasn't. Ichigo's internal monologue really doesn't make him special or change his character. He just stopped being Ichigo after the first arc and became a generic shounen protagonist.

At least I finally understood this classic.
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I have a controversial opinion which is I don't hate Bleach.
Bleach is a guilty pleasure of mine and was the first serialized manga that I kept up with. Over the last year and a half or so I've been rewatching the series and also watching for the first time a couple of the filler arcs, OVAs and films that I missed out on, and it's been a mixed experience. It was certainly painful at times dealing with the QUALITY of early 2000s Studio Pierrot, the five minute recaps, plot conveniences, Hueco Mundo being interrupted three times, and the Captain Shitsuke arc took me months to finish. But man, there are few long-running Shounen series that can reach that level of excitement and emotional resonance as Bleach to me. I was shitfaced one night and decided to view Hell Verse on a whim, and I was blown away from the theatrical version of Ulquiorra versus Ichigo, and was reminded of why I decided to do this in the first place. I love that Kubo traded every ounce of talent he had for backgrounds for character design and fashion. I'm thankful for being introduced to so many wonderful artists and bands in my youth due to the insane amount of great openings and endings. I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend reading or watching Bleach to people, but despite its flaws, it's incredibly endearing to me.
 
Bleach had good concepts, if poor execution, and the last arc is terrible and rushed. At least it's so batshit insane it's funny, and it's not Naruto, that got much worse. Bleach at least has that.
 
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