Anime ending that disappointed you

[Truth Cake]

The ending to Okami-san and her Seven Companions. Great anime, but the ending... was really disappointing and felt like it was just crammed in to take up another episode.

Seriously, you have a thrilling and climactic battle in THE EPISODE BEFORE THE LAST, and then..? Something random they probably could've put in anywhere else to pad out for length... nice, just how I want to remember this otherwise awesome anime going out, with random nonsense instead of a thrilling climactic battle.

 

[Guffe]

Spoiler: More semi spoilery discussion :P

Yeah I liked that part about the captain commanders lieutenant too xD
Yeah, the quincys seem to be just these 10 people left.
But then again their major concern seems to be to stop people from activating their bankais...
I again like the fact that people are dying <.<
I mean the bad guys never get to kill of enough people but let's say 8 out of the 12 captains will die it would be pretty cool to see how the Vice-Captains would do against an opponent like that, we'd get to see some of them excel over their normal level and some awesome battles would take place
But yeah, we'll see what happens.
But what about the sword that appeared at Urahara at the end? Ichigos dad? We'll see in a few days

Spoiler: So many spoilers!

I don't mind deaths, but I'm not sure I like the fact that people are dying LIKE THIS. You can sort of tell that this will be Kubo's version of Countdown or Ultimatum from the American comic book universe: a string of meaningless deaths meant to "raise the stakes" by starting a body count, rather than raising the stakes by simply having a good story with tension and drama.

To be fair, we already know how the Vice-Captains will do against these opponents. See: Kira. OHKO'd without so much as a fight. The only way they'll succeed is if, by some miracle, they turn out to be more powerful than their captain counterparts, which I would definitely be one of many to call "bullshit" on that. What bugs me is that this has basically turned the entire cast into a bunch of weaklings who have no choice but to beg Ichigo for help. Keep in mind these are guys who defeated Espada (creatures with the powers of Hollow and Shinigami combined) in drawn out battles, yet a bunch of Quincy whom they easily exterminated to near-extinction in the past are easily overpowering them. It doesn't make a wit of sense, and it's pretty much doomed several of the main characters. You think any of Ichigo's friends will have any use in these fights? Ha, I wouldn't count on it, not unless Kubo really wants to screw with my suspension of disbelief.

And yeah, I'm betting it's Ichigo's dad. It pretty much has to be. Think about it: the shinigami are all busy in Soul Society, so there's only one person (besides Urahara's shopkeeper helper, who is the former Kido Corps captain) who wields a zanpakuto in these stories. If it's a new character I'm shoving a fresh army boot firmly down Kubo's throat.

Spoiler: One more conspiracy I'll throw in :P

How about Ishida and his dad?
What if they get wit of the situation and think what these "leftover" quincys are doing is wrong and go and help the Shinigami out?
Then you said something about being defeated in the past. Well that is sort of true but look at the means they are figthing now, the only reason they have achance now is because of their bankai stealing thing so it isn't really a "fair fight".
But yeah, let's see what this whole mess leads up to
Not too much more and then Bleach'll end...

 

[Asus Quickclaw]

Spice and Wolf... Sure, there is (hopefully) more coming, but still... It ended in the middle of a lot of action. I don't even.

 

[That Annoying Guy]

.hack//SIGN had a pretty shit ending, in an unexplained flash suddenly everything is back to normal? Really?! The show itself was kinda dissapointing, why base it in a game when the story mostly just uses it as a setting and nothing more (aside from a few instances where they actually play the damn game), that was just stupid they should've used the story from .hack//INFECTION. It's also hard to enjoy a show when half of it centers around a whiny, anti-social, self-righteous, little ***** of a character.

 

[Vhite]

I was just more pissed that Baccano! had to end at all.

Only flaw it ever had. If there were any others they got drowned in awesomeness.

 

[JomBob]

Big O. Not just for the obvious reasons like the failure to build on established themes or make any sort of sense, but because I had just about persuaded my university housemates that animation as a medium could be just to tell interesting, adult stories. They went from open mockery to choosing to watch it. And now they will never watch anime again.

 

[Garrett]

Princess Tutu. Now don't get me wrong. This is fantastic anime but

Spoiler

where is my perfect tragedy ending?!

 

[the doom cannon]

Hmmm all of mine have been said....
Death note(Even though the series was awesome, highly recommend)
guilty crown
Bleach: Possible big spoiler:

Spoiler

because I wanted it to end with the aizen arch not that weird get powers back thing

Rurouni Kenshin: I just sorta felt disappointed by the entire second story arch
Beelzebub: Dumbest ending ever, quite honestly.

Spoiler

they basically made it like there will be a sequel but there probably wont....

Gurren Lagann... you know what I'm talking about...

Except that's why I thought the ending was amazing....It was unexpected to say the least.

 

[ZLAY]

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica comes to mind. The ending wasn't that bad I guess, but it just felt bleak compared to overall quality of the anime...

 

[Infernai]

Berserk's ending, I know the manga is still going and it's a read the manga ending, but still it pissed me off

Spoiler

Griffith sacrifices all members of the Band of the Hawk except Casca and Guts, in order to become the demon, Femto. After Guts cuts off his right arm in order to attack Griffith, but is held down by demons and has his left eye gouged out while he is forced to watch Griffith rape Casca while Guts screams at him and then it just ends.

I mean what the hell kinda ending is that? It's made even worse by the fact they're making a new Berserk anime that's not going to continue on with the story, but is going to retell the Golden Age arc all over, is there really any point making something that's already been done since I want to find out what happens next

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.

I don't know how others feel about it, but I thought the new movie kinda sucked. It could've been a whole lot better if 90% of it wasn't poorly made CGI, making the whole thing come across as a Valkyria Chronicles cutscene.

Also, major parts primarily involving building character relationships are cut out, which couldn't have been because of time constraints since the movie is only an hour and ten minutes long.

Plus, the soundtrack is so bland it might as well not even be there, and Casca's voice actress is terrible.

I admit movie number 1 is a bit....empty compared to the anime series, primarily for the reasons mentioned. I didn't mind the CGI as much as i thought i might have but it was still a bit glaring. That said, i think alot of the problem resides in how long they made the first film: It was only 70 minutes. If they had actually added say, 40 minutes, i think they could have done a bit more and likely made it better as well as added more characterisation before the end.
I think they're cutting back because, well we already have the anime and they might be just rushing ahead to get to the Eclipse.

Apparently, reviews say that the second films better and does take it's time more as well as slightly clean up the CGI. Apparently it's also longer. But, we won't know till we see it i suppose

 

[ZehMadScientist]

Soul Eater, oh Soul Eater...

You and your fist of courage, oh my...

I mean, the buildup towards the ending was monkey doo already, but the climax was, to steal a quote of a certain aniblogger: "A streaming pile of aborted kangeroo fetus."

Fuck you, Soul Eater production staff, fuck you!

 

[Pharsalus]

The Crest/Banner of the Stars series.

 

[TheOneBearded]

I recently just finished watching "fullmetal alchemist", and felt let down by the ending...
I know that not every story has a happy ending, or sad bitter sweet ending. But after watching all of the plot twists come to the conclusions that it did, and knowing it was over.... I felt disappointed...

I have felt this way about other Anime's but was wondering.
What Anime's have you ever felt let down by, or saddened at the ending?

The first FMA or Brotherhood? I can understand it for the first FMA in particular.

Yeah, that entire first series basically built up to a woman dancing, a few alchemy performances and then pretty much all the characters being worse for it. I then watched the movie in hopes it could maybe make things a bit better? Oh man, I felt even worse after that... Thank god for Brotherhood!

Exactly my feelings on it. The hopes I had on that movie... -__-


The only kind of sadness I get from Brotherhood is the sadness you get when something you really enjoyed ended and you know you won't see anymore of it.

Didn't a new movie come out not that long ago?

 

[anthony87]

Spoiler: More semi spoilery discussion :P

Yeah I liked that part about the captain commanders lieutenant too xD
Yeah, the quincys seem to be just these 10 people left.
But then again their major concern seems to be to stop people from activating their bankais...
I again like the fact that people are dying <.<
I mean the bad guys never get to kill of enough people but let's say 8 out of the 12 captains will die it would be pretty cool to see how the Vice-Captains would do against an opponent like that, we'd get to see some of them excel over their normal level and some awesome battles would take place
But yeah, we'll see what happens.
But what about the sword that appeared at Urahara at the end? Ichigos dad? We'll see in a few days

Spoiler: So many spoilers!

I don't mind deaths, but I'm not sure I like the fact that people are dying LIKE THIS. You can sort of tell that this will be Kubo's version of Countdown or Ultimatum from the American comic book universe: a string of meaningless deaths meant to "raise the stakes" by starting a body count, rather than raising the stakes by simply having a good story with tension and drama.

To be fair, we already know how the Vice-Captains will do against these opponents. See: Kira. OHKO'd without so much as a fight. The only way they'll succeed is if, by some miracle, they turn out to be more powerful than their captain counterparts, which I would definitely be one of many to call "bullshit" on that. What bugs me is that this has basically turned the entire cast into a bunch of weaklings who have no choice but to beg Ichigo for help. Keep in mind these are guys who defeated Espada (creatures with the powers of Hollow and Shinigami combined) in drawn out battles, yet a bunch of Quincy whom they easily exterminated to near-extinction in the past are easily overpowering them. It doesn't make a wit of sense, and it's pretty much doomed several of the main characters. You think any of Ichigo's friends will have any use in these fights? Ha, I wouldn't count on it, not unless Kubo really wants to screw with my suspension of disbelief.

And yeah, I'm betting it's Ichigo's dad. It pretty much has to be. Think about it: the shinigami are all busy in Soul Society, so there's only one person (besides Urahara's shopkeeper helper, who is the former Kido Corps captain) who wields a zanpakuto in these stories. If it's a new character I'm shoving a fresh army boot firmly down Kubo's throat.

Spoiler: One more conspiracy I'll throw in :P

How about Ishida and his dad?
What if they get wit of the situation and think what these "leftover" quincys are doing is wrong and go and help the Shinigami out?
Then you said something about being defeated in the past. Well that is sort of true but look at the means they are figthing now, the only reason they have achance now is because of their bankai stealing thing so it isn't really a "fair fight".
But yeah, let's see what this whole mess leads up to
Not too much more and then Bleach'll end...

Spoiler: About those two though...

Didn't the guy that Ichigo fought in Hueco Mundo mention something about being less powerful than Ishida? That says to me that these "new" Quincy and Ishida are already aware of each other, if not outright working together.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

Hated the Green Green ending. Also School Days apparently gave everyone nightmares.

 

[Misterian]

I haven't finished much animes I've watched, but Ninja Nonsense's ending somewhat got to me.

I don't remember much now, but felt it ended in a somewhat bittersweet tone, which I felt was out-of-place, given what kind of show it was.

 

[Negatempest]

I wasn't a fan of the ending Gantz got (I have no problem with the original stuff they put in, since the anime ended up taking over the manga storyline). Namely the last ten or so minutes. It seemed very...un...ending. Kind of reminded me of the end of Halo 2 in a way.

Gurren Lagann... you know what I'm talking about...

We may need more details. Aside from the hamster thing turning into a dude (Srsly...wtf?), I liked the ending. Unless you just didn't like the whole anti-spiral thing, which I'll admit, seemed rather odd.

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.

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.

Okay, I can understand the confusion and I will help out as much as I can.

The "idea" of anti-spiral was actually added in more or less at the end of the 1st season. With the whole, "don't let world population reach a certain level. We did not know that they WERE going to be anti-spiral, just that something we would not like was going to happen. Also the whole "human society" thing was actually well explained in the second season and pushed further, just that maybe you could of been hurt and/or confused from your own perspective and did not want to really listen to what was happening. With the removal of the anti-spiral meant more or less the removal of there "existence" in a way. Nia being a part of anti-spiral itself meant she would fade once they did. But she wanted to get married first before that happened, touching really.

Simon in the end realized that others should not look to him to rule a government since that is not what he does really. So he left it to his friend who has far more experience running a government than Simon does. He decides to view the world change in-front of him from an outside perspective since his "job" of a hero is essentially complete at that time.

EDIT: Nearly forgot to explain the anti-spirals. They are, in short, people who believe that for humanity to stay alive for all time is to stay static. To advance themselves forward is to believe in conflicts like what we see in Gundam all the time. So they want humans to stay in a specific way. Which is actually how some people live there lives or try to force others to live like it. You know the type, the ones that believe a certain period of time was the only good part in human society, for americans that would be the 1950's I think?...or whatever time period Fallout is based on.