Personal Best Ending to an Anime/Manga

[Xpwn3ntial]

Holy fucking shit.

You mean it isn't 2 episodes of text splashes over a screen that hardly references the harrowing events from the episode just before them, and has the lamest, most pointless philosophic bullshit?

Might have to watch that.

It better be good enough to make up for that clusterfuck. Doesn't have to be perfect. But at least a lot of closure.

Yeah. It has a lot of closure. It may not answer every question you have, but damn it has closure.

 

[MrShadowzs]

Death Note, kinda expected but still very nice
Manga wise definitely Elfen Lied, I cried

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

School Days
End of Evangelion
Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance
Puella Magi Madoka Magica
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (I like troll endings, okay? There was something strangely funny about it.)

 

[kalt_13]

I agree with everyone that mentioned Cowboy bebop and Darker than black.

One of the best endings in my opinion was Tekkaman Blade (a.k.a. Technoman Blade). Its probably most talked about endings amoungst my mates, considering how old that anime is thats quite an achivement.

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Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (I like troll endings, okay? There was something strangely funny about it.)

yeah that was good. I'm hoping the next series come out soon.

 

[mireko]

Do anime movies count? If yes, Ghost in the Shell ("Ah, the net is vast.."). It does have roughly the same ending as the original manga, after all.

If no, Serial Experiments Lain:

Spoiler

Everything resets. It works in context.

Also Uzumaki:

Spoiler

Everybody dies, and the spiral will continue wrecking people's shit forever. Huh, sounds more depressing when written out. Hey, that's closure.

EDIT: Oh, and Blame!

I only watched the first Evangelion movie, but I didn't think it was much better than the anime. No, scratch that, it was better than the last episodes of the anime, but it still didn't make any sense. Don't plan on watching the rest of them, there's telling a story and then there's wasting my fucking time.

 

[Alanj95]

FLCL and Welcome to the NHK.

 

[Silverback91]

School Days.
seriously, go watch it.

oh, god... Oh, god... GET IT AWAY!!!!
(If you are crazy enough to do this, read the manga...The main character is less of an asshat, and it will take a lot less of your time to get to the ending... The end is slightly different though, so if you do go this route, watch the ending on youtube too.)

As for my choices, Gurren Lagann's ending is just about the most epic thing ever created, and Darker than Black came up pretty close too.

 

[teh_v]

Original Gundam, hands down. It just gets so epic way better then any other mobile suit ending.

 

[Casual Shinji]

]Evangelion 2.22: You Can (Not) Advance

I'm not really a fan of the new movies, but that ending...Holy fucking shit, it blew me out of my trousers!

 

[GodsPoisonSamael]

The Lucifer and Bisquit Hammer aka Hoshi no Samidare had me in tears all the way to the end and managed to have both an excellent final battle and wrap up all the loose ends of the story in one nice little package. Shame theres no anime for it (YET!) and id deffinately reccomend reading it. Its funny, sad, heartwarming and action packed with a sort of monster of the month thing going on.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Code Geass. The fulfilling of the Zero Requiem wan awesomely sad, yet joyful. The ending of a masterful and selfless plan. Very Machiavellian, yet utterly selfless.