There's nothing worse than seeing a really good anime unable to get a second season. In doing this, that anime often isn't able to live up to its full potential, leaving story threads untouched and cliffhangers that go unfulfilled. For a lot of single-season anime, that's a real shame.

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Often, anime shows that are not renewed past their first season feel tragically cut short and deserving to see the rest of their story play out. Though not all anime are equal in this regard, in fact, there's just as many anime that really don't deserve to see more episodes.

10 NEEDS ANOTHER SEASON: D-Frag!

This comedy starring a wild high school gaming club is off-the-wall insane. Board games about dirty magazines in space, dueling clubs, and a huge school-wide battle royale full of bizarre characters, this anime doesn't hold back and goes all-in on every crazy idea in it.

D-Frag! is as out there as it is hilarious, and yet it only received one season. It really does deserve another chance too, and with its manga still ongoing to this day, it's fair to say that Roka and the Game Creation Club have more crazy games in store for manga and anime fans alike.

9 NEVER AGAIN: High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even In Another World

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Isekai is a popular genre of anime that looks like it can be approached from a lot of different angles, but not all of those ideas are good.  High School Prodigies Have it Easy Even in Another World, tries to do something different by transporting a bunch of characters with their own unique set of skills to a fantasy world, but this ends up creating some problems.

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The anime uses the "overpowered Isekai protagonist" trope on seven different characters and it doesn't work any better for them than it does for others. Plus with such a large cast, characters fight for time to shine in the spotlight. At their best, they're bland and boring, and at their worst, the "heroes" of this Isekai can come across as being only slightly better than the villains. A boring Isekai like this that doesn't need another season.

8 NEEDS ANOTHER SEASON: The Ancient Magus' Bride

Ancient Magus Bride

The Ancient Magus' Bride is a dark fantasy starring a girl with little to lose and monstrous mage that changes her life forever. This anime definitely turned some heads upon its release, between its strong characters, its intriguing and sometimes terrifying world of magic, and its beautiful animation.

So far, The Ancient Magus' Bride has only one season under its belt, and a second season would be more than welcomed by fans. However, whether it will or won't get one is more dependent on the manga getting far enough so that the anime doesn't catch up to it too fast. Only time will tell if Chise and Elias' continued relationship will get more of the anime treatment.

7 NEVER AGAIN: Ladies Vs. Butlers!

Harem anime can be an acquired taste for some, and for others, it's a genre riddled with frustratingly played out cliches and  Ladies vs. Butlers! is a prime example of this. Starring a school full of maids, butlers, and upper-class students, this anime is nothing but cliches wrapped in unfunny comedy.

The characters only come in two flavors, either bland and boring or completely sadistic and unlikeable. Since the anime has nothing else going for it, it falls back on provocative qualities and tropes that have been seen a million times before. An overly mean spirited anime like Ladies vs. Butlers! that lacks laughs or anything that makes it stand out doesn't need another season.

6 NEEDS ANOTHER SEASON: Ouran High School Host Club

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With a cast of colorful characters and wild scenarios, Ouran High School Host Club is as funny and charming as the hosts themselves. The members of the Host Club themselves all have great chemistry with each other and the anime takes full advantage of its "school for rich kids" setting. Despite a massive fan following for it, there have been no plans to give Ouran another season.

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With the manga having been completed back in 2010, there's a lot of great material that goes far past where the anime left off. Haruhi, Tamaki, and the rest of the Host Club have the potential to make for another great season of this beloved anime.

5 NEVER AGAIN: God Eater

God Eater Anime

This isn't a spinoff of Soul Eater; God Eater is an anime adaptation of the Monster Hunter-like series of videogames of the same name. While the games of this brutal apocalypse with humanity fighting for survival against man-eating monsters were given praise and sequels, the anime was not.

Somehow being both too rushed and too slow in its pacing, God Eater's anime doesn't even make it halfway through the first game's story which resulted in characters not being allowed to fully develop and the anime coming across as a lackluster Attack on Titan ripoff (even though the God Eater game came first). It may have more stories to tell, but this weak adaptation would waste its potential.

4 NEEDS ANOTHER SEASON: Rave Master

Rave Master

Anime fans know of Hiro Mashima's popular fantasy shonen series, Fairy Tailbut some may not be as familiar with his other works. One of which is another fantasy series known as Rave Master, which features sword-wielding hero, Haru Glory, and his friends as they go on an epic quest to bring peace to the world. This manga that boasts 35 volumes and did get a 51-episode anime, but sadly it was cut short and left the story incomplete.

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With Fairy Tail also being completed, perhaps its time the rest of Haru's journey was told, or maybe it could receive the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood treatment and receive a full-on reboot. If not, at least they'll have that one Fairy Tail crossover episode.

3 NEVER AGAIN: Demon Lord, Retry!

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Demon Lord, Retry! is as lazy as lazy Isekai get. The story is basically a watered-down version of the more popular Isekai, Overlordsince it mimics the exact same premise but with fewer and less memorable characters. Hakuto is a bland and overpowered protagonist and the world he's stuck in is just another generic fantasy land with nothing that makes it interesting or unique.

This anime mostly just meanders around for its entire run, mostly just lazily running through the many Isekai tropes viewers are starting to get sick of. Even the character designs look like they were shamelessly ripped off from more successful anime. Demon Lord, Retry! doesn't even try at all and as such, it shouldn't get the chance to do more.

2 NEEDS ANOTHER SEASON: Baccano!

main cast from baccano

Made by the creative mind behind Durarara!!, Baccano! is another one of Ryogo Narita's appraised works that eventually got the anime treatment. Featuring immortal criminals in 1930s America, this series shifts through many perspectives and goes completely out of control in all the right ways.

The anime adaptation sports a fair run of 16 episodes, but that's small potatoes compared to the volumes of the ongoing Light Novel. Considering the anime ends with a lot that needs to be resolved and the Light Novels' story goes all the way up to the modern-day, Baccano! is truly in need of a new season to tell at least some of it.

1 NEVER AGAIN: Conception

Conception is what you get when you mix the worst aspects of Isekai, dating sims, ecchi comedies, and video game adaptations. This anime sees the protagonist, Itsuki, being transported to another world where he must clear dungeons in order to save the world. Itsuki does this by basically sleeping with every girl he meets, creating superpowered "Star Children" which can help him clear the dungeon.

Conception really has nothing going for it other than a bonkers premise. The characters are unappealing, the animation is stiff, and the story, when it's not disgustingly raunchy, is dull and uninspired. Conception doesn't deserve a second season, and to be honest it may not have deserved the first one either.

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