Horrible Horrible Anime Endings

[cainx10a]

Berserk's ending pissed me off. I mean, what the hell, the series was basically just getting started and then it's over? That was a rip.

Berserk was just fine. It only covered a few chapters in a particular volume about Gatz's meeting with Griffith. And if I remember correctly, was pretty faithful to the manga, except Gatz's little pocket elf wasn't around during the first episodes, and was the sex-scene with the succubus missing as well?

I'm pretty sure it was, or at least it was only implied, not shown. And I dunno, it was kind of depressing that they ended it right there, with Gutz collapsing in the void, and Casca getting "surprise sexed" by Griffith, it just left a really bad taste in my mouth. Granted at the time, I hadn't read the manga, so I didn't even really know what happened after that, so that didn't help much either.

That's pretty much what the ending was aiming at; showing how corrupt Griffith became as he transcended to the rank of a demon god.

Gats since the beginning of the story is trying to protect both Casca who has lost her memories. became like a vegetable and gave birth to a demon child (Who could actually be "teh chosen one!!!11") and hunt down the demon spawns and lords hiding among the populace upper hierarchy, as well as forming his own band of super heroes (one little rogue, another foxy swordmaster, a powerful little witch, an apprentice witch who actually babysit Casca and is pretty much useless (+ she is aroused by witch burning =D)) as they fight their way through the story. Griffith on his side is reborn as a Knight leading the warband of the Hawk again with his own crew of super human.)

Oh, and the reason the story is actually called berserk? Gatz get access to the one and only, Berserk armor which is bundled with a Fox demon power kit. =D

 

[Dasvaun]

Kotetsushin Jeeg. The anime goes through doing the standard one episode one new monster in the middle, nothing exciting but entertaining which is all you can ask. In the last episode it just pulls out multiple deus ex machinas out of its ass. They didn't even have the hero try to actually fight and/or lose first, they just made the evil leader disappear from existance.

I WISH I could make that up. I remember feeling that the ending was such a copout afterwards.

 

[Elim Garak]

Code Geass did this too, (dont read the spoiler if you havent finished the series, I want you to be as pissed as I was)

Spoiler

Lelough dies to "attone" for his sins, and yes the writer did say the anime was over, its done, fin, there is no bringing it back.

the ending left me screeming at my computer. The writer completely sacrificed the story for artistic vision.

Dude, watch the last episode again. Lelouch plays his last trick on the entire world. He had months as the undisputed ruler of the planet - you think he couldn't figure a way out with all those resources?

Spoiler

I am pretty sure that the guy driving the cart with CC on it at the very end is Lelouch. That's why CC asks him a question. That is also why he is wearing those robes in warm weather, etc. My guess is that he made the deal with CC, and became immortal - and thus didn't die. Not permanently at least. CC became mortal but chose not to kill herself, and is now hanging out with Orange, knight of six, etc.

 

[Elim Garak]

I'm not a fan of anime at all

Ghost in the Shell (which was uniformly terrible, not just the ending)

I just don't like anime, I guess. Except Akira, it's pretty decent.

Yea, like we can't tell that you don't like anime. Just don't comment if you hate them all. Ghost in the shell is one of the most awesome anime's out there. And it has a great ending. Plus which GitS? The first movie? The second movie? Stand Alone Complex? Stand Alone Complex 2? Solid State Society?

Or are you just trolling?

 

[Elim Garak]

Berserk was just fine. It only covered a few chapters in a particular volume about Gatz's meeting with Griffith. And if I remember correctly, was pretty faithful to the manga, except Gatz's little pocket elf wasn't around during the first episodes, and was the sex-scene with the succubus missing as well?

Crap, now I got to get the manga. Used to hate the ending.

 

[Elim Garak]

I am going to commit blasphemy now. Brace yourselves. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hated the ending. Didn't like most of the show - seemed very meandering basically. They had the nuclear powered super robot - just build some more and use them! So it had a few bugs in it - if at first you don't succeed, try again! Plus mecha that can run around for only a few minutes? Are you kidding?

I just went back to look at the description of the anime - they had such horrible mecha and reactor design in 1997?!?!? Not to mention computers??? I thought it was done in the 60's or 70's! I designed better mecha when I was in kindergarten!

Plus the whole religious angle made me very uncomfortable. And it made no sense. And most people in the show were idiots. Most of the sci-fi world worked the whole final evolution of the species out of its system in the 60's. I guess the author is just backward or nostalgic or something.

God? Which god? Who said that the humans had to die? Where did the enemy mecha come from? Where did they go? Bleh. And at the end everybody dies.

As far as I am concerned, the only good thing that came out of Evangelion is the hentai stuff.

 

[cainx10a]

I am going to commit blasphemy now. Brace yourselves. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hated the ending. Didn't like most of the show - seemed very meandering basically. They had the nuclear powered super robot - just build some more and use them! So it had a few bugs in it - if at first you don't succeed, try again! Plus mecha that can run around for only a few minutes? Are you kidding?

I just went back to look at the description of the anime - they had such horrible mecha and reactor design in 1997?!?!? Not to mention computers??? I thought it was done in the 60's or 70's! I designed better mecha when I was in kindergarten!

Plus the whole religious angle made me very uncomfortable. And it made no sense. And most people in the show were idiots. Most of the sci-fi world worked the whole final evolution of the species out of its system in the 60's. I guess the author is just backward or nostalgic or something.

God? Which god? Who said that the humans had to die? Where did the enemy mecha come from? Where did they go? Bleh. And at the end everybody dies.

As far as I am concerned, the only good thing that came out of Evangelion is the hentai stuff.

It was mostly based on the Genesis? And, the upper echelon of the government themselves were aiming for the death and rebirth of mankind (Seele), and Nerv was just the tool to make it happen, hence the reason other form of weaponry capable to destroying the angels were not created.

Except for the 9-12 clones of the Evas that were used in End of Evangelion, mainly as a catalyst for the coming rebirth of mankind (-cough- Shin as Adam and Asuka as Eve).

And the Enemy mecha, or angels, oh dear, rewatch the anime, it was explained that mankind was the Number XXth Angels, and those Mechas all had a certain number assigned to them, hence why they keep coming back, mainly to free Lilith or was it Adam, who was imprisoned in the Nerv base.

Yes, Adam/Lilith was the bait. Meh, going to bed. Hmm, Rei X Asuka hentai, hmmm -collapse-

 

[sanzo]

I am going to commit blasphemy now. Brace yourselves. Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hated the ending. Didn't like most of the show - seemed very meandering basically. They had the nuclear powered super robot - just build some more and use them! So it had a few bugs in it - if at first you don't succeed, try again! Plus mecha that can run around for only a few minutes? Are you kidding?

I just went back to look at the description of the anime - they had such horrible mecha and reactor design in 1997?!?!? Not to mention computers??? I thought it was done in the 60's or 70's! I designed better mecha when I was in kindergarten!

Plus the whole religious angle made me very uncomfortable. And it made no sense. And most people in the show were idiots. Most of the sci-fi world worked the whole final evolution of the species out of its system in the 60's. I guess the author is just backward or nostalgic or something.

God? Which god? Who said that the humans had to die? Where did the enemy mecha come from? Where did they go? Bleh. And at the end everybody dies.

As far as I am concerned, the only good thing that came out of Evangelion is the hentai stuff.

NGE sucks... RahXephon was better

As for bad endings, I'm gonna have to go with Elfen Lied. I just don't understand why they just decided to leave it with such a cliffhanger, especially since the manga carries on further

I've got more, but most of them have been mentioned

 

[Elim Garak]

It was mostly based on the Genesis? And, the upper echelon of the government themselves were aiming for the death and rebirth of mankind (Seele), and Nerv was just the tool to make it happen, hence the reason other form of weaponry capable to destroying the angels were not created.

Except for the 9-12 clones of the Evas that were used in End of Evangelion, mainly as a catalyst for the coming rebirth of mankind (-cough- Shin as Adam and Asuka as Eve).

And the Enemy mecha, or angels, oh dear, rewatch the anime, it was explained that mankind was the Number XXth Angels, and those Mechas all had a certain number assigned to them, hence why they keep coming back, mainly to free Lilith or was it Adam, who was imprisoned in the Nerv base.

Yes, Adam/Lilith was the bait. Meh, going to bed. Hmm, Rei X Asuka hentai, hmmm -collapse-

I watched it once - it was enough. I know it is all "explained". I read the summaries and explanations after watching it, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. But it makes less sense than normal religion! Less sense than all that creationism crap!

So the conclusion of the story from what I understand is that angels are giant androids, god hates humans, and retarded religious fanatics are in charge of the government. Yea, that makes sense.

 

[Lord Harrab]

Ghost in the Shell (which was uniformly terrible, not just the ending

I demand you retract that statement. Immediately.

In truth, i don't watch much anime. But i know gold when i see it and will suffer no unfounded slight against it.

agreed. Ghost in the shell is excellent, (if a little hard to follow sometimes.)

 

[Elim Garak]

I prefer an ending than no ending! Inuyasha and others like it should have finished instead of dragging on with the same crap over and over again.

I guess I understand. But I want an ending to The Big O! Who is running that giant holodeck?

I really hope that at the end (if somebody ever writes one) Picard comes out and says "Sorry about that - it is all Moriarty's fault."

 

[Quaidis]

So, I just finished watching Samurai 7 and I have to say it was a terrible ending,

Spoiler

4 of them die and they were all my favorite characters

A good ending should wrap everything up not leave more questions.

There's nothing wrong with Samurai 7 ending that way. They were trying to keep the basic plot similar to the 1954 Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai), which was a masterpiece. It would not have been good with a happy ending where everyone lives and parties. If you bypass the fact that giant robots were added, you can truly appreciate the anime and everything in it if you watch the black and white Japanese movie.




I am going to have to agree with everyone. Evangelion had by far one of the worst, if not the worst, ending. It was so bad that viewers complained when it first came out. As a result the creators made an 'alternative ending' to much better fit the story before it. Though the alternative ending was extremely violent and a little depressing.

The Hellsing TV series had a terrible ending as well, but that was only because they diverted from the manga. An OVA is being created at the moment that more directly humps said graphic novels.

 

[Dmatix]

The thing about Samurai 7, is that it follows the story of the original Akira Kurosawa movie of the same name, only changing the setting from classic japan to sci-fi/fantasy. it couldn't really end any other way (watch the movie, its awsome).

 

[Nazulu]

I prefer an ending than no ending! Inuyasha and others like it should have finished instead of dragging on with the same crap over and over again.

One Piece, Naruto, and Bleach also come to mind. I mean, damn, One Piece is almost at 400 episodes

Well they are still making One Piece, Naruto and Bleach episodes but I would like to see an ending to these types of never ending animes. They throw so many villains in that appear to be immortal that you think they are going to lose, I want to see Naraku obliterated!

 

[Atak Cat]

One ending that has not been mentioned yet is the first series of Outlaw Star.
Before anyone mentions it I have heard that there where a further two series aired in japan but the first series was brilliant up and till the bullshit entering the lay line magical fight, in some sort of inter dimensional PC for weird historians, that and the magic giant space ship battle that lasted all of a few minutes.
It seemed a little pointless in having the Outlaw star transform in to a larger but slightly different version of itself for no apparent reason however I will say it was a nice touch having Gene return home just to end up serving his jail time for something he did in the first half of the series (had almost forgotten they damaged a space port and ran from the police).
But then after saying goodbye to two of the ship's crew (2 out of 5 so a relatively big loss) for relatively weak reasons they then turn up waiting in the cockpit so we could all think "hurray there back for another adventure isn't that nice" no it was just annoying and easy to spot as soon as Aiasha said she would "see how things worked out here"(things had been terrible and a hot dog stall was at once her worst job and the one least likely to go anywhere).
I love Outlaw Star (especially Gilliam) and can never bring myself to like the ending.

 

[zombiekitten]

The biggest problem when comparing Anime to their Manga cannon:
Animes often use filler as not to trample Manga sales, thus extending the Anime well outside of the Manga Storyline.

So series like Naruto (which has evolved into Naruto: Shippuden) and Bleach have extended non-linear Animes. One Peice has just been on air forever, and it doeasnt seem like it ever took a break.

Furthermore for the main topic in this thread. Japanese culture is incredibly diff from American and European cultures. When reading any JApanese literature, one has to think about the how the peice ended more than what ended it.

read between the lines, Damn americans want all the plot points serve to you on a fkin platter. Its why 24 is borishly popular, the veiwer is aware of everything going on.
complete lack of imagination.

 

[Grampy_bone]

I'll add another vote to Evangelion's wall banger ending, as well as the Author Fuck You End of Evangelion ending.

One anime I have never liked the ending to was Full Metal Alchemist:
Edward and his dad get transported to the real world making superweapons for the the Nazis? WTF?

Berserk's non-ending sucked until I read the manga, which is awesome. Also, Simoun. There's another wall banger. When people say shit like "well it's supposed to be open to interpretation" blah blah blah that's BS. I think some authors just don't know how to write endings.

 

[elricik]

Death Note...............as long as you were a Kira Supporter. If you supported Near then I guess it was a pretty good ending.

 

[Beowulf DW]

The biggest problem when comparing Anime to their Manga cannon:
Animes often use filler as not to trample Manga sales, thus extending the Anime well outside of the Manga Storyline.

So series like Naruto (which has evolved into Naruto: Shippuden) and Bleach have extended non-linear Animes. One Peice has just been on air forever, and it doeasnt seem like it ever took a break.

Furthermore for the main topic in this thread. Japanese culture is incredibly diff from American and European cultures. When reading any JApanese literature, one has to think about the how the peice ended more than what ended it.

read between the lines, Damn americans want all the plot points serve to you on a fkin platter. Its why 24 is borishly popular, the veiwer is aware of everything going on.
complete lack of imagination.

I take offense at your comments, sir. I appreciate a little subtly as much as the next man, and I'm American.