History TheArtifact / AnimeAndManga

* The ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Manga/CaseClosed'' anime adaptations are a remnant of a past era where other long-runners kept a weekly release schedule, which led to stalling the plot with {{Padding}} and {{Filler}} arcs so that they wouldn't [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]]. With more recent anime switching to 12 or 24 episode seasons, the {{Padding}} techniques that were once industry standard have now become extremely apparent with fans believing that the ''One Piece'' and ''Case Closed'' animes would be better off if it adapted to being seasonal series as well.

* The ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''Manga/CaseCloses'' anime adaptations are a remnant of a past era where other long-runners kept a weekly release schedule, which led to stalling the plot with {{Padding}} and {{Filler}} arcs so that they wouldn't [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]]. With more recent anime switching to 12 or 24 episode seasons, the {{Padding}} techniques that were once industry standard have now become extremely apparent with fans believing that the ''One Piece'' and ''Case Closed'' animes would be better off if it adapted to being seasonal series as well.

* Promotional material and extras from ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart'' would still have Ichikawa introducing himself as someone who possess "murderous impulses" despite the fact it was long ago that he dropped his {{Chuunibyou}} antics and some of the material referencing events that happened after he stopped "trying to kill Yamada", some material would also have Ichikawa still calling Moeko "a slut" even when they are pretty much VitriolicBestBuds at worst now and Ichikawa has a much higher opinion of her.

* The ''Manga/OnePiece'' anime adaptation is a remnant of a past era where other long-runners kept a weekly release schedule, which led to stalling the plot with {{Padding}} and {{Filler}} arcs so that they wouldn't [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]]. With more recent anime switching to 12 or 24 episode seasons, the {{Padding}} techniques that were once industry standard have now become extremely apparent with fans believing that the ''One Piece'' anime would be better off if it adapted to being a seasonal series as well.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket]] have been this since the organization they belong to have ceased to be the villains of the main games the anime is promoting after [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Generation II]]. The ''Best Wishes''/''Black and White'' series attempted to rectify this by [[ReimaginingTheArtifact giving them actual purpose in the plot]] and then [[PutOnABus attempting to write them out]], but it didn't stick and they returned to TheArtifact status in the ''Pokemon XY'' series. Their high popularity in Japan contributes to why they're series mainstays. That said, there has been in an increase in episodes where Team Rocket only make brief appearances or don't appear at all, so they aren't quite as bad a case of this as they used to be.

** Komiyama in particular suffered badly of this. While Tomoki was given some relevance thanks to becoming the central character of an UnwantedHarem involving other recurring characters, Yuu still ocassionally visits Tomoko often noticing [[LampshadeHanging how they are not as close as they used to be]] and Ogino became the default character every time they needed a chapter involving a teacher, Komiyama didn't have any reason to hang out with Tomoko and friends given she still merely tolerates Tomoko and isn't close to any of her friends ([[TheFriendThanNobodyLikes and not of them like her much]]). Yet most larger arcs find a convenient excuse to have her hanging around. Sort of lampshaded in the movie arc where she questioned why she was added into the movie and all Tomoko answer is [[BecauseISaidSo "I needed someone with glasses"]].

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' seemed to struggle with handling certain characters as the series drifted away from its episodic school-slice-of-life origin, generally having them serve as {{Combat Commentator}}s at best. Asuka's main hook (finding the fate of her brother) got resolved about two-thirds of the way into the first season, and consequently left her with very little to do in the rest of the series aside from chasing off suitors and getting brainwashed into a cult. Kenzan no longer had much purpose once the Society of Light arc ended, as his deal of being ImmuneToMindControl came up only once afterward. Misawa was meant as a rival but quickly got displaced by more important ones, and his later character arc was basically one long LampshadeHanging on how he had no real purpose anymore and had fallen OutOfFocus, before he was written out completely.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' somehow had this happen to its entire ''premise''. The original concept of the series, as seen in the title and created by Kazuki Takahashi, was that there were five individuals known as the Signers who used their mystic dragon powers to battle ancient threats. However, the main mystical threat of the series, the Earthbound Gods, was defeated less than halfway through the series, and most of Takahashi's concepts and characters were exhausted. From then on out, the main characters almost never used their Signer abilities (Aki, the most overtly powerful one, was even depowered without explanation for most of the show's last third), and most of their opponents had absolutely nothing to do with the Signers or mysticism in general. The show also largely jettisoned the concept of the Signers working as a team, with nearly everything from then on out being accomplished by Yusei, Jack, and Crow (the latter of whom wasn't even a Signer until it had stopped being relevant). Despite the clumsy ReTool, the series seemingly continued to advertise itself as being about the Signers. By the end of the series, [[ArtifactTitle there weren't even five Signers - there were six.]]

* ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'' underwent a heavy retool before the series was even made, which significantly altered its premise and main character, seemingly with the intent of distancing itself from the prior ''ARC-V'' after that show suffered [[SeasonalRot a major backlash]]. However, two major characters remain that seem to be orphaned from this concept: Go Onizuka and Aoi Zaizen, who are both entertainers with prideful, glitzy public personas and feel like they'd be right at home in ''ARC-V''. ''VRAINS'' in its final form lacks any other signs of those themes, and consequently, both Go and Aoi, despite being prominent early on, are fairly infamous for the show not knowing how to handle them once it got into its actual narrative.

* One of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'''s most famous running jokes is the otherwise overconfident Lina Inverse's [[ACupAngst sensitivity about her endowment]]. While it's reasonable in the novels and comic, it seemed a case of HollywoodHomely in animated form only rationalized by her bawdy and ridiculously curvy cohort Naga. As the show usually compensated by enlarging everyone ''else'', one suspects it was ExecutiveMeddling in order to make a heroine a bit more cute to the television audience.

* The final arc of ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' kicks off when Asuka Jr. makes the observation that Saint Tail is an "[[WorshippedForGreatDeeds ideal]]" that's dehumanizing the human BeneathTheMask, has an OhCrap moment because of how much he's ''really'' caught onto the resemblance between Meimi and Saint Tail, and eventually [[spoiler:has a LoveEpiphany]] based on a certain incident with a mirror that tipped him off to her identity. But if you're watching the anime adaptation and don't know anything about the original manga, good luck getting this reading out of it, because almost every single subplot that makes the scenario work is impossible to get out of the anime due to all of the completely unrelated {{Filler}} breaking up the storylines and the removal of all of the concrete references to ''what'' the mirror incident did. The result: while a key factor was Meimi's [[InsecureLoveInterest lack of self-worth]] having gotten so severe that she was [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misinterpreting]] what he'd said and assumed he was calling Saint Tail his "[[HasAType ideal type of girl]]" with some kind of freak coincidental resemblance to some other girl he likes, because anime viewers don't have the right context to know what the intended interpretation was, they're probably going to ''also'' read it the way Meimi does despite this not actually making sense within the story, and thus decide that [[AdaptationalDumbass Asuka Jr. must be a confused idiot]].

* The final arc of ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' kicks off when Asuka Jr. makes the observation that Saint Tail is an "[[WorshippedForGreatDeeds ideal]]" that's dehumanizing the human BeneathTheMask, has an OhCrap moment because of how much he's ''really'' caught onto the resemblance between Meimi and Saint Tail, and eventually [[spoiler:has a LoveEpiphany]] based on a certain incident with a mirror that tipped him off to her identity. But if you're watching the anime adaptation and don't know anything about the original manga, good luck getting this reading out of it, because almost every single subplot that makes the scenario work is impossible to get out of the anime due to all of the completely unrelated {{Filler}} breaking up the storylines and all of the concrete references to ''what'' the mirror incident did being removed. The result: while a key factor was Meimi's [[InsecureLoveInterest lack of self-worth]] having gotten so severe that she was [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misinterpreting]] what he'd said and assumed he was calling Saint Tail his "[[HasAType ideal type of girl]]" with some kind of freak coincidental resemblance to some other girl he likes, because anime viewers don't have the right context to know what the intended interpretation was, they're probably going to ''also'' read it the way Meimi does despite this not actually making sense within the story, and thus decide that [[AdaptationalDumbass Asuka Jr. must be a confused idiot]].

* The final arc of ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' kicks off when Asuka Jr. makes the observation that Saint Tail is an "[[WorshippedForGreatDeeds ideal]]" that's dehumanizing the human BeneathTheMask, has an OhCrap moment because of how much he's ''really'' caught onto the resemblance between Meimi and Saint Tail, and eventually [[spoiler:has a LoveEpiphany]] based on a certain incident with a mirror that tipped him off to her identity. But if you're watching the anime adaptation and don't know anything about the original manga, good luck getting this reading out of it, because almost every single subplot that makes the scenario work is impossible to get out of the anime due to all the completely unrelated {{Filler}} breaking up the storylines and all of the concrete references to ''what'' the mirror incident did being removed. The result: while a key factor was Meimi's [[InsecureLoveInterest lack of self-worth]] having gotten so severe that she was [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misinterpreting]] what he'd said and assumed he was calling Saint Tail his "[[HasAType ideal type of girl]]" with some kind of freak coincidental resemblance to some other girl he likes, because anime viewers don't have the right context to know what the intended interpretation was, they're probably going to ''also'' read it the way Meimi does despite this not actually making sense within the story, and thus decide that [[AdaptationalDumbass Asuka Jr. must be a confused idiot]].

* The final arc of ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' kicks off when Asuka Jr. makes the observation that Saint Tail is an "[[WorshippedForGreatDeeds ideal]]" that's dehumanizing the human BeneathTheMask, has an OhCrap moment because of how much he's ''really'' caught onto the resemblance between Meimi and Saint Tail, and eventually [[spoiler:has a LoveEpiphany]] based on a certain incident with a mirror that tipped him off to her identity. But if you're watching the anime adaptation and don't know anything about the original manga, good luck getting this reading out of it, because almost every single subplot that makes the scenario work is impossible to get out of the anime due to all the completely unrelated {{Filler}} breaking up the storylines and all of the concrete references to ''what'' the mirror incident did being removed. The result: while a key factor was Meimi's [[InsecureLoveInterest lack of self-worth]] having gotten so severe that she was [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misinterpreting]] what he'd said and assumed he was calling Saint Tail his "[[HasAType ideal type of girl]]" and that she has some kind of freak coincidental resemblance to some other girl he likes, because anime viewers don't have the right context to know what the intended interpretation was, they're probably going to ''also'' read it the way Meimi does despite this not actually making sense within the story, and thus decide that [[AdaptationalDumbass Asuka Jr. must be a confused idiot]].

* The final arc of ''Manga/KaitouSaintTail'' kicks off when Asuka Jr. makes the observation that Saint Tail is an "[[WorshippedForGreatDeeds ideal]]" that's dehumanizing the human BeneathTheMask, has an OhCrap moment because of how much he's ''really'' caught onto the resemblance between Meimi and Saint Tail, and eventually [[spoiler:has a LoveEpiphany]] based on a certain incident that tipped him off to her identity. But if you're watching the anime adaptation and don't know anything about the original manga, good luck getting this reading out of it, because almost every single subplot that makes the scenario work is impossible to get out of the anime due to all the completely unrelated {{Filler}} breaking up the storylines and all of the concrete references to ''what'' the mirror incident did being removed. The result: while a key factor was Meimi's [[InsecureLoveInterest lack of self-worth]] having gotten so severe that she was [[OneDialogueTwoConversations completely misinterpreting]] what he'd said and assumed he was calling Saint Tail his "[[HasAType ideal type of girl]]" and that she has some kind of freak coincidental resemblance to some other girl he likes, because anime viewers don't have the right context to know what the intended interpretation was, they're probably going to ''also'' read it the way Meimi does despite this not actually making sense within the story, and thus decide that [[AdaptationalDumbass Asuka Jr. must be a confused idiot]].