Episode 218 – Second Helping

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Did you ever love something so much that you can’t get enough?  You just fiend for more, looking for any way to get it.  You’re not alone.  We talk about some of the best shows that didn’t get a second season but that we think really deserve one.  We also discuss what we think should happen in that second season.

  • Mitsugi

    • The Twelve Kingdoms!

      • Such an open ended world that could have endless adventures with rich atmosphere and abundant cultural mythology

    • Attack on Titan

      • Obviously we gotta strike while the iron is hot and get this sequel made

    • Berserk

      • Very unfinished ending that left viewers confused.  We don’t want BS movies, we want a true animated sequel.  There is PLENTY of manga to adapt.

    • Black Lagoon

      • Badass action never gets old.  This is an anime that can be sectioned off into arcs and could have endless content

    • Golden Boy

      • 6 episodes just wasn’t enough hilarious comedy for me from this series

    • Big Windup

      • A really good baseball anime that felt unfinished.  I’d like to see them accomplish something as a team in this anime

    • Spice and Wolf

      • Cute romance that never really blossomed.  Would like to see more of these two traveling together.

    • Outlaw Star

      • Gene Starwind never gets old.  Bring on more space adventures.  The ending was totally open ended and could be easily made into something more.

  • Chiaki

    • Yumekui Merry (Dream Eater Merry)

      • When I reviewed this I talked about how it was an interesting story that never got time to develop because they did a patch ending and ran out of time.  I think giving this anime another 12 episodes would help make it something great.

    • Ouran High Host Club

      • Oh snap, Mitsugi, I said it.  This anime really doesn’t get old (for those of us who like it).  I think having a continuation perhaps after the host club when they were in college could be cool.  Joining fraternities or sororities maybe?

    • Kimi ni Todoke

      • Yeah, it had two seasons already.  But really, this romance is so good that it could go for a third.  Again, perhaps a college development?  I think it would be interesting if they tackled perhaps them breaking up when they get to college, very realistic.

    • Attack on Titan

      • Very new, but still very necessary for another season.  The material is there.  The hype is there.  The source material is there.  Why hasn’t this happened yet?

    • Aku no Hana

      • Again, another new one.  This anime will likely never get a second season but if it did it could take it from just okay to being something really special.  The source material they have to draw from for the second season is worth the buildup the first season would be.

    • Death Note

      • Let me clarify this one.  I do not want it to be a true ‘second season’ perse, but an alternate re-telling which has Light being victorious over L and then none of the other two.  A ‘what would happen if he got his new world order’ retelling.

  • Kram

    • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind: With only a small portion of Miyazaki’s original manga masterpiece adapted, sequel films (or even a TV series) feel like a perfect fit for the remaining unadapted material.

    • Akira: Similarly to the case with Nausicaä, only a bit of Katsuhiro Otomo’s seminal cyberpunk manga was exploited for the film adaptation.

    • Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise: We’ve been hearing about Blue Uru for 22 years now, and with last year’s announcement by Gainax at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, it finally looks like we might get the long-awaited sequel to the studio’s premier piece.

    • Princess Jellyfish: As I haven’t read the manga, I don’t know how much (or how little) of this story was adapted into the 2010 series. All I know is that scant 11 episodes left me wanting more of Tsukimi and her (mostly indoor) adventures with the girls of Amamizukan.

    • Cowboy Bebop: I would love to see a prequel series about Spike, Vicious, and Julia’s adventures in the Red Dragon Society. The love triangle and the eventual betrayal that sets the three of them on different paths is ripe for great drama. Even Jet could be introduced as a hardened ISSP cop trying to bring down organized crime in the solar system, pitting him against Spike in a cat-and-mouse chase that further expounds on the already present not-so-subtle allusions to Lupin III.

    • Dragon Ball Z: It must be the nostalgic in me that wants a true sequel to Dragon Ball Z and not whatever the hell GT was. Mr. Toriyama’s heart was in the right place when he ignored the disappointing second sequel to his wildly popular manga series to make Battle of Gods, but this time let’s rethink the whole “Super Saiyan God” thing, shall we? And no more inciting events involving pudding.

  • Redline: More, please?