Anime ending that disappointed you
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I guess that's what happens when you have a plot built around amnesia and the ending's hastily put together after the third season's cancelled...
A new mech suddenly appears and starts... deleting the city to reveal a weird grid network, it deletes the villain, and then the protagonist's mech walks into it, a flash of light and we're treated to the first scene of the first episode with a few characters swapped around. WHAT?! No explanation to what we saw or why.
Death Note.
It was really interesting. But they managed to ruin Light in that single last episode. Always making him very calm and deliberate with a slightly unnerving mental side. Then just letting him go apeshit with desperation and insanity and with that horribly bad laugh.
For shame.
For shame.
Not half assing it, that's the name of the show. Just like it's to aru majutsu no index.Buretsu said:
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/to-aru-kagaku-no-railgun
Well the Anti-Spirals were boring as shit. Part of what made the series so fun was the beastmen because they were so over the top. The enemies in the second half don't even interact with the humans until the last couple of episodes. There are also a ton of interesting questions raised about human society, the relevance of team gurren in the modern world, and the unintended consequences of Simon's actions. Then they are all brushed aside for the fight with the anti-spirals.Reaper195 said:
Then when Simon finally achieves victory, Nia dies because she was "a construct of the anti-spirals". What the fuck does that even mean? Then we get to see our hero walk into the sunset, with out the girl. Then twenty years later he is completely forgotten by society and lives as a fucking hermit. I thought the under dog was supposed to get ahead in life not go backwards?
Its definitely not a bad ending and some will argue that its good, but it still really disappointed me.
I also really wanted to see Simon act more like a badass, like what we saw at the very beginning.
jake557 said:
Well they did miss a chance to do one more tournament send off before ending, but maybe that was for the best. I'd rather it end as a good series rather than a series I wish would end already. Code Geass is a good example in that (well in my case) Naruto,bleach, the simpsons things need some sort of closure, even when bad series end it ENDS.
Others would say Death Note, but I found the ending to be the only good part of season two. I could at least deal with Light more so in season one, he felt a little more....human, I suppose you would say. But in the second season, he just became the biggest dick. Don't get me wrong, he was always a dick, but the second season he just lost all human traits, and the only redeeming moment was when he was dying at the end and was basically reduced to what he was, an immature child. Also, Mellow and Near were two dimensional characters and hardly anyone past season one was still a fully in depth character. I was fine with L dying. It felt climatic and emotionally satisfying and draining at the same time, but introducing Near and Mellow just felt like they were trying to deny my right to say goodbye to L, and didn't even do a good job of replacing him.
The last five minutes of Soul Eater might as well have been like the original Mass Effect 3 ending. It was so drenched in "Deus Ex Machinas" and preachy "never lose hope" messages. I could even deal with the Deus Ex Machinas, but the word courage is not powerful enough to beat someone who is basically a god and more powerful than Death. Not to mention how out of place it was. Even when they used love to beat the changelings in the MLP season finale, at least it was already shown that love could be used to power magic, and the entire show is basically based around that. Soul Eater just pulled it out of their asses at the last second.
And finally, the ending of the first FMA series was anti-climatic. It wasn't horrible, but it was disappointing, and I found the movie to be a little too out of place. They pulled a lot out of nowhere to power the plot of the movie, but I did find the total end to be actually pretty good and satisfying. It was a little sad, but it at least ended it there, and didn't totally botch it up in my opinion.
The last five minutes of Soul Eater might as well have been like the original Mass Effect 3 ending. It was so drenched in "Deus Ex Machinas" and preachy "never lose hope" messages. I could even deal with the Deus Ex Machinas, but the word courage is not powerful enough to beat someone who is basically a god and more powerful than Death. Not to mention how out of place it was. Even when they used love to beat the changelings in the MLP season finale, at least it was already shown that love could be used to power magic, and the entire show is basically based around that. Soul Eater just pulled it out of their asses at the last second.
And finally, the ending of the first FMA series was anti-climatic. It wasn't horrible, but it was disappointing, and I found the movie to be a little too out of place. They pulled a lot out of nowhere to power the plot of the movie, but I did find the total end to be actually pretty good and satisfying. It was a little sad, but it at least ended it there, and didn't totally botch it up in my opinion.
Well perhaps it's just me, but my feeling was that the ending of Wolf's Rain was meant to be taken as a metaphor. The characters spend the whole show looking for paradise, only for things to start all over again. The implication of course being, there is no such thing as paradise, all we have is the journey. I for one really like that sort of thing, but I guess it's not for everyone.xPixelatedx said:
If I had to pick one, I'd probably go with the ending for Ghost in the Shell: Second GIG. Not that it was bad by any means, mind you, but honestly I just felt like the second season never lived up to the first anyways, so it's understandable that I'd find the ending underwhelming. The Laughing Man just made for a much more interesting season than the revolutionary. Then I suppose they did throw in a movie after that season anyways, so perhaps that doesn't count as an ending?
Dog Days had a disappointing ending. I shouldn't be disappointed, because it was a shamefully horrible series, shame on the creators for conceiving it, and shame 10-fold on me for watching it. It was a despicably putrid anime fanboy's wet dream of an anime series, and yet somehow, despite knowing this after the first episode, I managed to stomach watching the series, and then, that putrid abomination of an ending came. Seriously, the ending literally solved itself with literally no struggle. The worst case of everything just conveniently falling into place that I have ever seen. Nothing nor anybody had to sacrifice anything, the main character never had to make a romantic decision, and to top it off, they are currently airing a second season this season and the main character has the gall to bring his other love interest to their world and bring the two together and probably still won't have to choose between them and will probably just end up with two bitches. Shame on me for having an opinion about this wretched crap. If you see me on the streets, please slap me in the face.
Oh, and on a lighter note, GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class. That is unquestionably one of my favorite animes and I am still quite disappointed that it only got 1 season with just 12 episodes, and an OVA. It's not so much that it was bad, but more-so that it wasn't really an ending, more like a "Well, did you enjoy the latest episode of GA? Good, oh by the way the series is over, see ya" sort of thing.
Oh, and on a lighter note, GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class. That is unquestionably one of my favorite animes and I am still quite disappointed that it only got 1 season with just 12 episodes, and an OVA. It's not so much that it was bad, but more-so that it wasn't really an ending, more like a "Well, did you enjoy the latest episode of GA? Good, oh by the way the series is over, see ya" sort of thing.
The anime ending that most disappointed me was Amon: Apocalypse of Devil-Man on account of actually having expectations that were not met based upon foreknowledge of the manga's conclusion and the quality of the other two entries in the anime movie series based upon said manga rather than merely having a negative opinion of a particular ending.
After all of the build up to the climax, all of the grueling battles with the worst demons that Hell had to offer including Akira's own literal inner demon(the titular Amon), after all of the sacrifices made by Akira Fudo and his allies,when he finally confronts his nemesis, this happens.
As far as disappointments go, it scarcely gets any better than this.
After all of the build up to the climax, all of the grueling battles with the worst demons that Hell had to offer including Akira's own literal inner demon(the titular Amon), after all of the sacrifices made by Akira Fudo and his allies,when he finally confronts his nemesis, this happens.
The original berserk ended badly due to the company making it effectively running out of money. The new movies have basically been doing a retelling of the original to try and get interest in Berserk back again: If it goes well, and they make enough they said they'd continue from where movie 3 leaves off via OVA's.Kitsune Hunter said: