Horrible Horrible Anime Endings

[Doug Damage]

Gurren Laggan. A wonderful show and they waste it. Waste it.

Also, the Twelve Kingdom's ending sucked, because it wasn't an ending. It was simply canceled. *sigh*

 

[ampa451]

there was no ending kiss scene in cardcaptor sakura...
(i am ashamed of myself)

 

[Arionis]

I guess.........Devil May Cry's ending was kinda "Bleh" compared to the rest of the series.

My girlfriend is telling me that Vampire Knight's anime ending is horrible. *she also says that it is because they didn't wait for the manga to finish*

 

[Arionis]

Death Note's ending was a bit iffy to me. It wasnt bad but the show could have been at least 3 episodes longer. It just didnt thrill me, not like how xxxholic thrills me with some of its episodes.

At least it wasn't as bad as the live action movie's ending was. 8/

 

[amber sephiroth]

With Japanese animation you normally don't get answers, only more questions. So you cant really complain about programs not wrapping things up at the end.

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Gurren Laggan. A wonderful show and they waste it. Waste it.

Also, the Twelve Kingdom's ending sucked, because it wasn't an ending. It was simply canceled. *sigh*

Tengen Toppa had a great ending.Not exactly a happy ending ( Iconsider the last 3 episodes "the ending" as it is the las fight), but for fucks sake it fits and is more awesome for it.

Edit: Hot DAMN! I got over 100 posts.

 

[Spektre41]

*The following contains massive spoilers*


Gainax loves this.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The show was all about "going beyond the impossible", for God's sake, Simon and co. create a galaxy sized robot out of sheer willpower, so how do they end it? Why, have Nia completely dissapear on her wedding day, and let the main character wander the earth for the rest of his life, of course!

Neon Genesis Evangelion: What? Shinji is becoming well adjusted, friendly, and sociable? BOLLOCKS to that! Let's have him f*** everything up with a crappy movie!

I really wish they stuck with the TV ending, it was unexplainable, yeah, but then there's the fun of debating what happened.

*End massive spoilers*


Baccano! didn't really have a solid conclusion, but it was a good one.

Narutaru ended at a good, if not gore-tastic, moment. but the manga? Oh sweet God, the manga. HINT: Think End of EVA, only a lot more depressing.

Only complaint I have against FLCL is that it doesn't really explain much. But therein lies the fun.

 

[Evilbunny]

Onegai twins had an awful ending, but the anime in general was just terrible so I guess it wasn't really much of a let down. I think it was more anger that I sat through that entire thing waiting for something interesting to happen and then it didn't.

 

[EMO_of_LiGHT]

Black Cat... and the manga was pretty good to. Essentialy, all anime that has the entire cast team up at the end to fight a half naked sky demon that had nothing to do with th rest of the series fails.

 

[GloatingSwine]

You know what Penguin, I want yo congratulate you. You managed to get me to get off my ass (in the proverbial sense, you're actually keeping me on my ass in the physical sense), make a profile, hell even add an avatar just so I could call you an idiot.

??Congratulations on the completion of ?Code Geass?!! It was a shocking final episode; did you have a difficult time writing it, Mr. Okouchi?

Okouchi: ?No. The last episode wasn?t difficult at all; in fact, it was the middle parts of R2 that turned out to be rough going. For the final episode, [I'd/we'd] already decided on the ending when writing the script for the first episode of the previous series. Episode 1, Episode 25 (Episode 1 and the final episode of the previous series) and episode 25 of R2 ? these episodes did not deviate much from our original plans.?

???Some unresolved mysteries still remain.?

Okouchi: ?From the very beginning, [I/we] never planned on explaining everything. In fact, if you ask me, I think we might have overdone the explanations. While it?s undeniable that Lelouch?s story has ended with a full stop, the other characters? stories are still on-going, and it?s not like the world [of Code Geass] itself has come to an end either. [I/we] didn?t want to end it by closing it up for good.?

???Still, isn?t it possible that defeating the wise ruler Schneizel, the person who was supposed to have brought order to the world, might lead to some [viewers] interpreting it as a Bad End??

Okouchi: ?That?s true. There are probably a lot of people who think of it as a Bad End, a tragedy, considering the protagonist?s, Lelouch?s end as well. However, Lelouch says in the first episode: ?Only those prepared to be shot are allowed to pull the trigger themselves.? If you were to think of that as his pride, then I think his getting shot (killed) in the end was a logical end. Of course, I understand that not all of the viewers will accept this ending. There were people who wanted a happier ending, after all.?

???Was there a dispute among the staff members regarding the ending??

Okouchi: ?No. It was decided fairly naturally. During the ?Code Geass? script meetings, there are many cases in which there were a number of disputes, but there were barely any when it came to the scripts for (the previous series?s) episode 25 and the final episode. I think everyone felt the same when it came to the end of the character that is Lelouch.?

???Why were you so bold as to choose this ending when the viewers might see it as a Bad End??

Okouchi: ?Bold? yes, we were so bold as to chose this ending. Perhaps the show that is ?Code Geass? ending up this way was decided the moment Director Taniguchi and I teamed up. I suppose you can call it our sense of aesthetics, or perhaps a part of our psychological makeup.?

Interview from "Continue" magazine, issue 47, in which Ichiro Okouchi, writer of Code Geass, explains that Lelouch is irrevocably dead. 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the haycart 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-ZERO!!

 

[J.B]

Kenshin had the most unsatisfying bullshit ending as well. The last episode looks like it was done using paint.

Have you watched the second OVA, "Reflection"?

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

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

Those are all epic shows though, and haven't been dragging at all, thre is just an arse load of things to wrap up, well in naruto and one piece at least.

Naruto for example has about a dozen different problems that need to be solved, and one piece I wouldn't be surprised if they aren't even halfway through their journey (honestly I can see that thing going for for another 10 years for gods sake). Bleach however I feel could end tomorrow if it wanted to (anime wise) because you only find out information whenever the hell Kubo wants you to know, and there is nothing left hanging in the distance story wise.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Oh man I completely forgot what I wanted to put on here.

GetBackers for Thor's sake. I like going for anime that have less notoriety so I went for it to see what it was like. I liked everything in it except for the ending (and the fact that they don't like killing people off in it). I mean

Spoiler

They go to the bloody Limitless fortress twice. They know someone is pulling the strings and making everyone's lives a misery, and they hint that there is a whole different level above (Babylon City) where there were people that were insanely strong. So they go up to the door where Babylon city is, talk shit to the guards and then leave. They don't even see the big boss, hell they don't even talk to him. They actually left nothing resolved in that anime. No back story on characters even though they hint it. Nothing. It was shocking.

It's just balls in blender retarded. It's one thing to cancel a show because it isn't getting many ratings, but they changed the mechanic of the show.

 

[GloatingSwine]

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

Those are all epic shows though, and haven't been dragging at all, thre is just an arse load of things to wrap up, well in naruto and one piece at least.

Naruto has over a hundred episodes of filler. That is not "an arse load of things to wrap up", that is "we have no fucking plot because we've overtaken the manga".

 

[Zephirius]

D.GRAY-MAN. They just ended it after

Spoiler

the very first level 4 showed up and got killed and Lenalee got her UltraBoots of Supreme Pwning.

. Pissed me off that that was the end. I know there's always the manga, but I don't like reading those.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

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

Those are all epic shows though, and haven't been dragging at all, thre is just an arse load of things to wrap up, well in naruto and one piece at least.

Naruto has over a hundred episodes of filler. That is not "an arse load of things to wrap up", that is "we have no fucking plot because we've overtaken the manga".

I meant naruto in general. Do you even know the plot of it? I didn't mean the fillers, you already explained why fillers are there. If you do know about the main plot of naruto then you know that there are at least 5 major plot points that need to be wrapped up, and they can span quite a few arcs themselves, and I believe no two arcs have been the same in terms of content, and I don't think there will be ones that are extremely similar.

I think when Nazulu talked about going over the same crap again and again, I think he meant in terms of the main actual story arcs, which is what I'm talking about also.

 

[Black_emperor]

Interview from "Continue" magazine, issue 47, in which Ichiro Okouchi, writer of Code Geass, explains that Lelouch is irrevocably dead. 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the haycart 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-ZERO!!

Nowhere in that interview does he say that Lelouche is dead. He says the character of the Lelouche is dead.

Lelouche Vi Britannia can never be anymore because his existence would tear apart the fabric of the new world that he's created. Whatever he is, whoever he is now has to be far away from the world, and he is as such. Also... why would the show be called "CODE Geass" if we never planned to bring in the Code part?!

Check it again, and tell me where he says that Lelouche is "irrevocably dead," because I see that nowhere.

And even as such, let's say Lelouche is dead. How the fuck is that a bad ending. The show is about the horrors of war, and the sacrifices made to get to peace. The show ends on a supposed ever lasting peace, and you people want more?! Whether Lelouche is dead or not, the ending still stands as a crowning achievement that shouldn't leave you wanting more (unless you're a brain dead sack), but should leave you pondering the least pondered ponderables.

 

[Rathy]

For some of these series, I just feel that they did have a good ending, but that they expanded them too much and shot them down.
Evangelion and FMA come to mind here.
As for Evangelion, I think episode 24 makes a good ending for the sake of what happens at the last bit there. Shinji does his last bit, and then just can't actually continue with anything, and thus can't continue with anything in the project, and there just isn't much left to put in. But then they added the last 2 episodes, and it all became kind of lost in that mess.
The same is kinda true for FMA for me. I felt the ending fit, but was a little drawn out, which killed a lot of it. At the same time, adding in the movie afterwards killed anything that may have mattered in what significance the ending of the actual series had.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Lelouche Vi Britannia can never be anymore because his existence would tear apart the fabric of the new world that he's created. Whatever he is, whoever he is now has to be far away from the world, and he is as such. Also... why would the show be called "CODE Geass" if we never planned to bring in the Code part?!

However, Lelouch says in the first episode: "Only those prepared to be shot are allowed to pull the trigger themselves." If you were to think of that as his pride, then I think his getting shot (killed) in the end was a logical end.

Lelouch is dead. And that was the only logical outcome of his personality.

The reason it's a "bad end" is because it's not dramatically satisfying, Lelouch fucks off and dies, and leaves a new world order which is as stable as an upturned pyramid. Made of jelly.

Anyone with a Zero costume can issue an order to Schneizel. Literally anyone can arrange a coup at any time, and for all of Suzaku's hax, he has to sleep sometime.

Never mind the fact that the last five or so episodes are rushed as hell, skipping massive chunks of time where interesting plot developments happen totally offscreen, the Instrumentality plan that Charlie has been cooking up for two seasons is dismissed in a slew of psychobabble and last minute superpowers "lol geass Jupiter", and it all goes downhill from there.