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Originally Posted by EpsilonX

Yeah, I don't understand why Ghost gets as much hate as it does. I mean, it wasn't the best but I still enjoyed it.

A lot of it comes from fandom intertia, I think - Ghost is a punchline because it continually gets treated like a punchline, and so if you want an easy joke, that's what you go for. Couple that with fandoms (not just KR) treating something imperfect as the worst thing ever and irredeemable trash, and you have a fanbase that constantly makes the same jokes about Ghost's being unable to eat dinner or whatever. I'm not sure how Western-exclusive this one is, Takeru made a lot of appearances after his show and Saber vs Ghost was a thing (although that's as much because the writer for Saber also did Ghost...)

I think it gets it less now because Zi-O and Saber (and in some places Zero-One) have replaced it by being the easy go-to joke. At the time, Ghost was the worst regarded series of about 5 years (Gaim to Build), so it got it the worst.

EDIT - I think a lot of it also has to do with watching a show weekly making it come of as much worse than someone watching it as a legacy show, and time does heal a lot of bitterness people have. If you're putting all your expectations on the weekly to be the best thing ever, and it's not, you're going to be disappointed and rage, but if it's just another episode in an arc you can watch in a day and appreciate as a whole, both good and bad, it's a different experience.