Creator Backlash: Difference between revisions

== Anime and Manga ==

* Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi have come to despise ''[[Candy Candy]]'', due to all the legal fights between each other caused by it.

* [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] is rumored to have despised working on ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]]''. In an interview, he outright said that people shouldn't watch it. This hasn't stopped several fans from naming it their favorite [[Gundam]] show.

** He later warmed back up to ''Gundam'' though. He loved working on ''[[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' and even wrote a memoir about it and how it cured him of depression. Just as well for the cast, as [[Kill'Em All|characters tend to die messily]] when Tomino gets depressed.

* In-universe on two occasions in ''[[Bakuman｡]]''. Mashiro and Takagi dislike Tanto, even though it has some degree of popularity among children and most of the other characters besides Eiji and Nanamine like it, as it's difficult for Takagi to write gags and not popular enough to get an anime. After some difficulty, they persude the editors to let them end it. {{spoiler|Eiji eventually wants Crow to end, so he invokes his right of ending one series he hates to end it at the height of its popularity}}.

** For the spoiler: {{spoiler|it's not so much that he hates Crow, as that he hates that he may loose the ability to end it on his terms. He's stated he could easily keep it going for some time, but wants to end the highest rated manga at it's highest point, instead of simply going [[Franchise Zombie|on and on]].}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* Many writers have written a [[Lemon]] story, and come to hate it, as it becomes more reviewed, written and popular than any of their other works.

* Greg X, one of the staff members of [http://tgs.gargoyles-fans.org The Gargoyles Saga] has, on several occasions, publicly disowned his TGS work. Many of his issues stem from story structure, to characterization (ask him how he feels about what TGS did to Demona some time), and too many fan-created characters who no one but their fan creator had an interest in. That, and he just prefers [[Greg Weisman]]'s plans and comics. A very diplomatically written blog post can be found [http://gregxb.blogspot.com/2011/09/tgs-regretful-retrospect.html here] detailing how he feels.

* With thousands of reviews and numerous people saving docs of Fierce Deity's ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' fanfic series, you'd think that he'd be heartened. Nope, he wants nobody to ever mention those "pieces of crap" ever again, despite the latter story, "Eternal Ark" being reasonably written with an engaging plot and interesting original characters.

* ''[[The Open Door]]'' by Academia Nut was [http://forums.spacebattles.com/showpost.php?p=4770806&postcount=256 abrupty declared dead] despite its large fanbase on Stardestroyer and FF.net, mostly due to the author losing interest his own own story.

* An [[In-Universe]] example: In Frank Stockton's short story "His Wife's Deceased Sister", the protagonist writes the eponymous novel, which is so wonderful that he instantly becomes famous. However, this work is a one-off, and it is so good that it sets an unrealistically high standard to which he is held, and every other novel he submits is rejected, with the editors being insulted, thinking he he is foisting his rejects upon them. Driven to financial ruin, he comes to regret ever writing his masterpiece, and must write under a pseudonym to make ends meet. Eventually, when he manages to write another masterpiece, he ends up destroying it, fearing that it will again ruin his career.

* [[L. Frank Baum]] resented writing sequels to the ''[[Wizard of Oz]]'', and repeatedly tried to end the Oz series altogether. Several books end with firm declarations that he has told the reader everything there is to know about Oz, or that Oz has cut itself off from the rest of the world, and he can no longer give the reader new stories as a result. Yet Baum's other books never sold well, and for strictly financial reasons he was forced to repeatedly return to the tired franchise.