Tough Act to Follow - TV Tropes. The follow- up may have its own merits, but fans will dismiss it because it doesn't stand up to the original.

Compare with Glory Days. See also First Installment Wins, Sophomore Slump, Post- Script Season, and One- Hit Wonder.

If fans become split over this, it will lead to a Broken Base. This will often lead to sequelitis and/or contested sequels. Frustration over this trope may cause Creator Backlash. If the creator views any subsequent work(s) as superior to the overshadowing . As a result, he's ended up handling most of VOTOMS' prequel and sequel OVAs. Either you underperform, and the customer will never return, or you do your best, and your customer will come back, and expect you to do even better.

However, the overall reception of the franchise is mixed, coupled with the low BD/DVD sales of the TV series and the movie being bombed in the Japanese box office despite the latter being funded by the Japanese government. This also affected CLAMP's later works. It might be because they're almost all single- volume series, though.

He's never even attempted a long series since Dragon Ball ended, partially for fear of this trope. He does avert this trope in the video game realm, where he remains quite popular as the head artist for the cult classic games Chrono Trigger, Blue Dragon, and the Dragon Quest series. His earlier series, Dr.

Slump, was a huge success in its native Japan, and was considered the tough act there. Cyber Blue, the immediate follow- up, only lasted a year in serialization despite some initial hype. His fourth serial, Hana no Keiji (a samurai manga based on Keiichiro Ryu's period novel), fared a lot better, becoming his second most successful manga. After his next serial, Takeki Ryusei, also got cut short, Hara would adapt yet another Keiichiro Ryu novel for Jump (Kagemusha Tokugama Ieyasu, which ended up being retooled into Sakon mid- run and moved to Monthly Sh. He eventually formed the production company Coamix with his former editor- in- chief Nobuhiko Horie in 2.

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Hokuto no Ken prequel Fist of the Blue Sky, which enjoyed moderate success during its ten year run. Lava (2015) Theater Movie. This also applies within Fist of the North Star itself, as the conflict between the four Hokuto brothers is considered to be the high point of the manga and everything after Raoh's death (generally regarded to be Kenshiro's ultimate rival) is all downhill.

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In fact, the final chapters after the Land of Shura arc (which is the last big conflict in the manga) were not adapted for the anime series. The original Gunnm was a huge success; it was translated into English under the name Battle Angel Alita and became a must read manga classic for people getting into the genre. The sequel is no where near as successful and only survived mainly because of dedicated fans of the original giving it a cult following. The follow up Gunsmith Cats Crash, was rejected by most fans for it being just silly action with no focus on plot and character development like the original.

Striker. S, however, wasn't that popular with fans because it didn't live up to the complexity and awesomeness that was A's. The manga sequels and movies have suffered from this as well. He became very bitter over this, but has lightened up considerably since working on Turn A Gundam. It's not unknown for a series to suffer poor ratings during airing and then be Vindicated by History later, after everyone's gotten over the . Sometimes the creators deal with this by making their series such a departure that there's no way to compare it—such as the Darker and Edgier. Mobile Suit Gundam Victory being followed by the unabashedly Super Robot.

World of Ham that is Mobile Fighter G Gundam. He never managed to make anything as widely successful or influential as Eva, and eventually gave in and created the Rebuild of Evangelion series over a decade later. All the others have been seen as So Okay, It's Average at best, and have grossed less in Japanese theaters. Princess Pretty Cure is being considered the best thing since Heart. Catch, but its successor Maho Girls Precure also averted this trope. Gun Blaze West was cancelled after only three.

Kurumada's first runaway hit was Ring Ni Kakero, a boxing drama although with its share of Shonen elements. Saint Seiya was the closest he got, but it lost popularity and was forced to conclude with a Bittersweet Ending. A few of his works have tanked and the only series post- Kakero he was able to end on his terms was B't X. It's just as funny as Sazae- san, but never became quite as popular. His next project was Geneshaft, which was seen by few and hated by most who did. His next creation was Heat Guy J; most who know of it know only about how much Geneon paid for it (as much as FUNimation paid for Fullmetal Alchemist) and how poorly it sold. Next came Noein, which fared better in popularity and reception, but only modestly.

His latest work was Birdy the Mighty: Decode, which sold very poorly in Japan. And even then, his input has fallen from writing the manga (Yu- Gi- Oh!), to having major input and plot work on the anime (GX), to just doing character designs (5.

Ds and Zexal). Transformers Armada isn't exactly a masterpiece and has a very slow beginning, but partway in it found its footing and dramatically increased in quality. This created decently high hopes for its sequel Transformers Energon; hopes that Energon, having a very rushed Troubled Production, could never meet. The final installment, Transformers Cybertron, ended up inverting this trend; Energon's disastrous launch left a very low bar that Cybertron, with its strong Character Development and plotting, was easily able to jump over. He has been quite vocal about how he never expected the . I don't really regret it. But the aftershock is that no matter what else I do or even most other cartoonists might do, it's like, well, there.

Chuck Austen followed Johns' run, and was widely considered to be one of the worst writers in the franchise's history. Sales fell so sharply that Marvel cancelled the book with Avengers Disassembled and allowed Brian Bendis to reboot it as New Avengers, which was a much stronger seller.

Similarly, everything Chris Claremont himself has done since then has been inevitably been declared not as good as his original X- Men run. When he left the book, he was replaced with Judd Winick, whose run started to bleed readership. Following him was Ben Raab, whose run was so reviled that many Rayner fans blame him (in addition to Winick) for sinking the sales of the title and basically forcing DC to bring Hal Jordan back as Green Lantern to stop the bleeding.

De. Matteis inevitably have every series they launch compared to their classic Justice League International run, no matter how different their new projects are. They finally gave in and accepted this, as they started writing a new Justice League spin- off as part of the New 5. Same with Batman's creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger (who created most of Batman's traits and key characters though Kane got sole credit due to a contract stipulation until 2. Finger was finally given co- creator credit on Batman associated media).

While plenty of people liked his work on the title, it was almost universally viewed as a step down in quality and the book ended up being cancelled right in the middle of resolving its Myth Arc. He was followed by Reginald Hudlin, whose work was immediately hit by the this trope in full force. His run initially outsold Priest's by quite a bit, but as time went on, sales fell sharply. A relaunch stunt involving T'Challa's sister Shuri taking over as the lead didn't do much better, and the title was eventually cancelled under new writer Jonathan Maberry. While Bryan Lee O'Malley one- upping himself over Scott Pilgrim was going to be very difficult, the general consensus seems to be that he succeeded.

Both were massively successful mega hits and award winners, and the follow- up, Andy Diggle's run, is as a result not looked highly upon.

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