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Can You Ignore a Bad Second Season? [Video]

Added 2025-03-18 16:02:58 +0000 UTC

Here's another one that I forgot to upload to Patreon for a while, so I'm doing it now! Back when The Promised Neverland's second season came out, there was a lot of discussion about second seasons and continuations of stories that were obvious cash-grabs. Personally, I had just gotten done watching the second season of Love, Chunibyo, and Other Delusions, which was sparking many of the same feelings in me. So, I got to thinking. How much of a work can you ignore when doing a literary analysis? What does it take for a sequel to "not count?" Who has the authority to say that the worthwhile part of a story ends at such-and-such a place and anything after that is worthless? Let's see what I had to say!

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