It's the filler episodes, man. They took up like four of the season's runtime? I wouldn't mind just the maximum of two fillers but man, those eps felt like they should be in bigger titles only.
@Batora07 Raccoons are known to be trash pandas because 1) they look like pandas, and 2) they often scavenge through people's trash. Thus, trash pandas.
Well I think the first few chapters were rough on the edge and spoke out TYPICAL SHOUNEN vibes. That's probably what turned down most of the potential readers. Then again, they were story setting chapters that were meant to explain to us whats the world setting is about and what Seth was like...