Anime ending that disappointed you
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FUCKING ALL OF THEM! Except one. Funny you use FMA as an example because that one was the only ending that actually gave me a little satisfaction.
I just really wish HXH and Beserk didn't end where they did. Just as things were about to step up another level of awesome.
I just really wish HXH and Beserk didn't end where they did. Just as things were about to step up another level of awesome.
Apart from Shinji's yelling, Evangelion became a religion because of its ending. Without that, it would've been just another mecha anime. If you want rosy petals, you stop at the TV series. If you want the full psychedelic horror, you watch the movie too. Choice is always goodafrojason said:
For me, Chobits departed from the ending in the manga just enough to make the whole story irrelevant. Yeah, Chobits, problem?
Death Note became silly in the last episodes, putting too much emphasis on demonizing the main protagonist.
But I reserve my top spot for Full Metal Alchemist. About 6-7 episodes from the end you get a superb climactic encounter which absolutely ROCKS and would've worked great as an ending by it's own. But then they continue with "that thing we never actually cared about" and mess it up completely by the end. Too bad.
The exact reverse for me happened in Cowboy Beebop. You get a boring anime, turn it into an even more boring anime, then finish it in style and turn it into a classic. TV is weird.
Claymore - so crap it turned me off the manga... *strangled noise*
Yomigaeru Sora - the series just ended with... well nothing, just nothing... and it was a fucking awesome series, too...
Can't think of anything else atm...
Yomigaeru Sora - the series just ended with... well nothing, just nothing... and it was a fucking awesome series, too...
Can't think of anything else atm...
Well, it was supposed to lead into Blood+ (as a flashback) and it served that purpose quite well... however, Blood+ rather sucked so... *shrug*darkstarangel said:
A lot of people ***** about how a certain character from the first season is gone by the ending. I'm actually okay with season 2. The problem for me was.Scrustle said:
They changed it from the manga. In the manga, Light begs for the shenigami to save his life, and cries like a pathetic child when he says his name is going to be written in the death note.
In the anime, they changed it to Light getting up and running away first, with no one trying to stop him. His name still gets written but the emotional impact is gone.
In the anime, they changed it to Light getting up and running away first, with no one trying to stop him. His name still gets written but the emotional impact is gone.
The ending I hate the most in anime is Elfen Lied. Reason being, there's still a villian walking about who can unleash more monsters against the hero. And they pull a plot twist at the end as if it was going to get more episodes.
Pretty much every anime I've watched. It's like the japanese are completely unable to write endings to my taste. I'm not saying they are all BAD, I just more often than not want different endings than what I am served.
This anime is one of my all-time favorites, but the ending.... Oh fucking Batman, why would you do this to me. ;_;
Oh fucking hell, I didn't think anyone would point this out before me.neoontime said:
This anime is one of my all-time favorites, but the ending.... Oh fucking Batman, why would you do this to me. ;_;
Jonluw said:
Lotta spoilers.
I see what you're saying about Near and Mello being crap compared to L, and the story telling being worse compared to the first half, but that's not necessarily about the ending. I thought it was quite powerful.
It didn't matter how clever anyone was or how much anyone thought they could control the Death Note, or the reasons they were using it. In the end everything ended up how Ryuk warned it would us right at the beginning. Being faced with the utter futility of defeat reduced Light to a pathetic jibbering madman. Someone who was originally a genius and had everything thought out far better than any of us ever could was still utterly destroyed by it.
Even though you can kind of see it coming towards the end, as you see Light becoming more and more insane, and making minor slip ups, we still expect him to win or be redeemed somehow at the end. We expect a good ending because we're rooting for him. And let's be honest, he was mostly the only reason anyone watched the show at that point. To have it end the way it did, with the hero of the story running away and cowering, and eventually succumbing to the very tool he had used through the whole story because of his failure made a huge impact. It's not a happy ending, but it's damn powerful. Or at least to me it was. Although I see your point about Near pulling that shit out of his arse at the last second. That should have been handled much better.
It didn't matter how clever anyone was or how much anyone thought they could control the Death Note, or the reasons they were using it. In the end everything ended up how Ryuk warned it would us right at the beginning. Being faced with the utter futility of defeat reduced Light to a pathetic jibbering madman. Someone who was originally a genius and had everything thought out far better than any of us ever could was still utterly destroyed by it.
Even though you can kind of see it coming towards the end, as you see Light becoming more and more insane, and making minor slip ups, we still expect him to win or be redeemed somehow at the end. We expect a good ending because we're rooting for him. And let's be honest, he was mostly the only reason anyone watched the show at that point. To have it end the way it did, with the hero of the story running away and cowering, and eventually succumbing to the very tool he had used through the whole story because of his failure made a huge impact. It's not a happy ending, but it's damn powerful. Or at least to me it was. Although I see your point about Near pulling that shit out of his arse at the last second. That should have been handled much better.
R Fucking 2.
R2 was flatlining by its third episode, but the ending was still one of the stupidest, most moronic things I have watched. So, Lelouch dies for world peace, eh? Right, so the leader of the world dies, and his death will apparently cause all fighting to stop.
He told the world to obey him. He's dead now. You know what would realistically happen in that situation, rather than the saccharine shit we got left with? A power vacuum. Without his leadership, tyrannical and despotic as it was, the entire world is going to erupt into civil war. The Britannians Darwinist philosophy was not dissolved. The nobility is going to start tearing each other apart vying for the throne.
China and the EU are going to secede and start the war up all over again, and the arms race that resulted in mechs moving from ground based to gigantic fucking air fleets in two years time is going to end up with WMDs being fired into space before long.
That happy "everybody lives in a peaceful world now" ending makes no sense. If anything, his death would cause more chaos than any other event in recent history.
R2 was flatlining by its third episode, but the ending was still one of the stupidest, most moronic things I have watched. So, Lelouch dies for world peace, eh? Right, so the leader of the world dies, and his death will apparently cause all fighting to stop.
He told the world to obey him. He's dead now. You know what would realistically happen in that situation, rather than the saccharine shit we got left with? A power vacuum. Without his leadership, tyrannical and despotic as it was, the entire world is going to erupt into civil war. The Britannians Darwinist philosophy was not dissolved. The nobility is going to start tearing each other apart vying for the throne.
China and the EU are going to secede and start the war up all over again, and the arms race that resulted in mechs moving from ground based to gigantic fucking air fleets in two years time is going to end up with WMDs being fired into space before long.
That happy "everybody lives in a peaceful world now" ending makes no sense. If anything, his death would cause more chaos than any other event in recent history.
Demon King Daimo: A HaRomCom which plays out like Harry Potter and GTO only it isn't as good as either of those. I liked all of the set-up but the last five episodes were just stupid. It's on Netflix if you're interested in watching it and it's good up until the end but the ending is just kind of lame.
Shuffle also had a stupid ending but that entire anime was stupid and made me want to write a scathing review.
Shuffle also had a stupid ending but that entire anime was stupid and made me want to write a scathing review.
Scrustle said:Jonluw said:But more seriously...Lotta spoilers.
I see what you're saying about Near and Mello being crap compared to L, and the story telling being worse compared to the first half, but that's not necessarily about the ending. I thought it was quite powerful.
It didn't matter how clever anyone was or how much anyone thought they could control the Death Note, or the reasons they were using it. In the end everything ended up how Ryuk warned it would us right at the beginning. Being faced with the utter futility of defeat reduced Light to a pathetic jibbering madman. Someone who was originally a genius and had everything thought out far better than any of us ever could was still utterly destroyed by it.
Even though you can kind of see it coming towards the end, as you see Light becoming more and more insane, and making minor slip ups, we still expect him to win or be redeemed somehow at the end. We expect a good ending because we're rooting for him. And let's be honest, he was mostly the only reason anyone watched the show at that point. To have it end the way it did, with the hero of the story running away and cowering, and eventually succumbing to the very tool he had used through the whole story because of his failure made a huge impact. It's not a happy ending, but it's damn powerful. Or at least to me it was. Although I see your point about Near pulling that shit out of his arse at the last second. That should have been handled much better.
In regards to the whole "Light going mad and Ryuk finally writing Light's name in the Death note" and all that stuff, yes that was actually pretty good from a dramatic perspective. Were it the ending to something like a slice of life or ordinary drama series, I'd have liked it very much (well, except for the deus/diabolus ex machina bit).
However, Death note was a suspense/thriller series.
The suspense is what defines the series. The premise could potentially have been used to create an interesting, more serious, dramatic story, but that wasn't what Death note was trying to be.
The reason I was watching it was that "Holy fuck, this is awesome! I wonder how they're going to circumvent this and that, and how in the world will this unfold?"
It has you asking questions, and it gives you answers you never suspected. It's brilliant, and it's surprising, but it never feels like it's not playing by the rules, e.g., solving mysteries with information you don't know of.
The second half of the series just shat all over that.
In fact, the ending was pretty much the best part of the second half (if we ignore the moment when Light gets his powers back), but it still completely missed what made the beginning of the series so damn good.
I can bear it when they aren't doing so good at suspense at some moment in the middle of the series, but when they just crap all over the series' genre's defining aspect in the finale it just settles it.
They just decided to not care about the 'mystery/crime' aspect of it and instead focus on the drama, and that's just not what Death note was originally trying to be.
However, Death note was a suspense/thriller series.
The suspense is what defines the series. The premise could potentially have been used to create an interesting, more serious, dramatic story, but that wasn't what Death note was trying to be.
The reason I was watching it was that "Holy fuck, this is awesome! I wonder how they're going to circumvent this and that, and how in the world will this unfold?"
It has you asking questions, and it gives you answers you never suspected. It's brilliant, and it's surprising, but it never feels like it's not playing by the rules, e.g., solving mysteries with information you don't know of.
The second half of the series just shat all over that.
In fact, the ending was pretty much the best part of the second half (if we ignore the moment when Light gets his powers back), but it still completely missed what made the beginning of the series so damn good.
I can bear it when they aren't doing so good at suspense at some moment in the middle of the series, but when they just crap all over the series' genre's defining aspect in the finale it just settles it.
They just decided to not care about the 'mystery/crime' aspect of it and instead focus on the drama, and that's just not what Death note was originally trying to be.
.hack//ROOTS
There was no real ending, just "go play the game now!".
....Which I can't, because I don't own a PS2, so i'll never find out what happens.
There was no real ending, just "go play the game now!
".....Which I can't, because I don't own a PS2, so i'll never find out what happens.
Berserk's ending, I know the manga is still going and it's a read the manga ending, but still it pissed me off
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
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
Nouw said:
They show near the very end, Dallas and his buddies getting pulled out of the water and Eve's face lighting up as she she's her brother is still alive. Yeah it's not all tearful reunion but she still finds her brother which was her goal all along. Personally I was just more pissed that Baccano! had to end at all.
OT:The ending to the second season to Hell Girl,
Ai dieing part but more the idiot sequel hook. I'd be ok with it if the 3rd season didn't suck.
Also Kampfer,the master of ending blue balls.
You should watch the movie for FMA. As well as watch FMA: Brotherhood.Gorog2 said:
As for anime endings that have disappointed me:
Every one. I'm always sad to see these characters I've grown to love go away. Whether it's a happy ending or not.