Anime ending that disappointed you

[darkstarangel]

[Because I havent been able to get the hang of this quoting system yet my reply is for my comment on the Blood: the last vampire]

I had no idea there was a series following Blood the last vampire. Where im from we dont too many varieties of anime unless you find one of those rare places that deals with anime specifically. But knowing now there is a series kind of makes more sense, & I was refering to the anime.

However, even for a prelude to a series it was still anticlamactic. The idea of selling a series is to promote it with a kick-arse lengthy film that makes you want to see more, not something resembling an over hyped half done episode. I guess had I known there was a series I wouldn't have bothered based on that issue alone.

 

[majes]

I think a more productive question would be "what anime HAS ended well". That list is far shorter. Many anime seem to fall into the idea that if they end conclusively, no one will want any more; thereby thwarting hopes of a second season. Whereas if the ending is open-ended, fans will be clamoring for more and they can get another season green-lit. Problem is, most don't just end "open-ended", they either don't conclude anything, or have some WTF ending. Even many of my favorites fall prey to this. IE Mizuki Kawashita. (author of Ichigo 100% among others) I love her series, but all save Ichigo was ruined by an absolutely terrible ending.

 

[personion]

Full Metal Alcehmist: Brotherhood, because if you're going to introduce THAT many characters, you'd better kill of at least a quarter of them by the end of the series. Instead, only a few characters died here and there. Many of the characters outlive their purpose and stop doing anything useful, and when they start doing that I believe there's only one thing left for them to do: GET KILLED AND ADD DRAMATIC TENSION!

Spoiler: TEH MASSIVE FMAB SPOILERZ

Seriously, Scar, Marcou, most of those chimera guys, Lan Fan or Ling; and either Roy or Hawkeye definitely should have bit the dust before the series ended. Sloth should have at least killed one of the Armstrong siblings and WHY DIDN'T FATHER GET TO MURDER AT LEAST ONE PERSON!?

 

[DeltaWolfson]

Death note comes to mind.
Although the ending wasn't exactly the worst part.

Highschool of the dead was pretty shit.

Did you just hack in to my mind? That is exactly my thought!

 

[deserteagleeye]

Persona 4 because it counts. Seriously though, it was waaaaay too rushed and they just skipped to the goodbyes after the big baddie was defeated. They didn't even celebrate Christmas! I had such high hopes for a Christmas episode and how they were going to do it because it was the "super-triumphant you've earned this peace for now" kind of thing.But nope! They just skipped it like no one even gave a shit! I know there's going to be a real ending episode but there is no way that it's going to clear everything up in just 25 minutes. It will be beyond rushed and just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Reaper195]

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.

 

[Dansen]

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

Ninja'd

 

[J-meMalone]

The Big O

Spoiler

A new mech suddenly appears and starts... deleting the city to reveal a weird grid network, it deletes the villain, and then the protagonist's mech walks into it, a flash of light and we're treated to the first scene of the first episode with a few characters swapped around. WHAT?! No explanation to what we saw or why.

I guess that's what happens when you have a plot built around amnesia and the ending's hastily put together after the third season's cancelled...

 

[EHKOS]

What the...WHAT?! No one mentions Big O? That ending was awful, you could tell they ran out of cash, it left so many questions unanswered, and it just...just...argh.

EDIT: Fucking ninja'd

 

[Avery]

Death Note.

Spoiler: Spoilers

It was really interesting. But they managed to ruin Light in that single last episode. Always making him very calm and deliberate with a slightly unnerving mental side. Then just letting him go apeshit with desperation and insanity and with that horribly bad laugh.

For shame.

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun

Off-topic rant/nitpick:

I hate it when people go half-measures with using Japanese titles...

Say either "A Certain Scientific Railgun" or "To Aru Kagaku no Choudenjibou" please...

Not half assing it, that's the name of the show. Just like it's to aru majutsu no index.
http://www.anime-planet.com/anime/to-aru-kagaku-no-railgun

 

[Dansen]

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.

 

[anthony87]

DOUBLE POST

 

[anthony87]

Dubbed....

*shudder*

OT: Outlaw Star and Big O are two that come to mind. Oh, and Bleach....why the fuck did they decide to end it LIKE THAT?

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Yu Yu Hakusho

The last saga was full of plot holes and inconsistencies. There was plenty of spectacle, and I enjoyed watching it at the time, but compared to the previous sagas it felt like a really messy way to end the story. It wasn't exactly bad, it just felt like a let down to what was otherwise a really well paced series.

Well they did miss a chance to do one more tournament send off before ending, but maybe that was for the best. I'd rather it end as a good series rather than a series I wish would end already. Code Geass is a good example in that (well in my case) Naruto,bleach, the simpsons things need some sort of closure, even when bad series end it ENDS.

 

[klaynexas3]

Others would say Death Note, but I found the ending to be the only good part of season two. I could at least deal with Light more so in season one, he felt a little more....human, I suppose you would say. But in the second season, he just became the biggest dick. Don't get me wrong, he was always a dick, but the second season he just lost all human traits, and the only redeeming moment was when he was dying at the end and was basically reduced to what he was, an immature child. Also, Mellow and Near were two dimensional characters and hardly anyone past season one was still a fully in depth character. I was fine with L dying. It felt climatic and emotionally satisfying and draining at the same time, but introducing Near and Mellow just felt like they were trying to deny my right to say goodbye to L, and didn't even do a good job of replacing him.

The last five minutes of Soul Eater might as well have been like the original Mass Effect 3 ending. It was so drenched in "Deus Ex Machinas" and preachy "never lose hope" messages. I could even deal with the Deus Ex Machinas, but the word courage is not powerful enough to beat someone who is basically a god and more powerful than Death. Not to mention how out of place it was. Even when they used love to beat the changelings in the MLP season finale, at least it was already shown that love could be used to power magic, and the entire show is basically based around that. Soul Eater just pulled it out of their asses at the last second.

And finally, the ending of the first FMA series was anti-climatic. It wasn't horrible, but it was disappointing, and I found the movie to be a little too out of place. They pulled a lot out of nowhere to power the plot of the movie, but I did find the total end to be actually pretty good and satisfying. It was a little sad, but it at least ended it there, and didn't totally botch it up in my opinion.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

I'm gonna say... Evangelion. Seriously what the hell? And End of Evangelion? *Shudder*

 

[Kpt._Rob]

Wolf's Rain not only set the bar for top tier shitty endings, it blew it off the scale and into orbit.

Don't get me wrong, it was interesting... but the same could be said of ME3's ending (lol). After seeing the end of Wolf's Rain, I wish I never watched it to begin with, because really what can you think afterwards beside, "...WHAT WAS THE POINT!?".

To save anyone from harm, I will Spoil it: Every character starts dropping dead in bizarre and pointless tragedies ala 'Final Destination' style, and then all the remaining characters just die. Whats even more jarring then the deaths was the fact that this all comes out of fu***** nowhere, like the people making this show just ran out of money or something. That or the entire anime was just an expensive exercise in trolling.

Well perhaps it's just me, but my feeling was that the ending of Wolf's Rain was meant to be taken as a metaphor. The characters spend the whole show looking for paradise, only for things to start all over again. The implication of course being, there is no such thing as paradise, all we have is the journey. I for one really like that sort of thing, but I guess it's not for everyone.

If I had to pick one, I'd probably go with the ending for Ghost in the Shell: Second GIG. Not that it was bad by any means, mind you, but honestly I just felt like the second season never lived up to the first anyways, so it's understandable that I'd find the ending underwhelming. The Laughing Man just made for a much more interesting season than the revolutionary. Then I suppose they did throw in a movie after that season anyways, so perhaps that doesn't count as an ending?

 

[NickKuroshi0]

Elfen Lied
Brave 10
Spiral

 

[DeltaEdge]

Dog Days had a disappointing ending. I shouldn't be disappointed, because it was a shamefully horrible series, shame on the creators for conceiving it, and shame 10-fold on me for watching it. It was a despicably putrid anime fanboy's wet dream of an anime series, and yet somehow, despite knowing this after the first episode, I managed to stomach watching the series, and then, that putrid abomination of an ending came. Seriously, the ending literally solved itself with literally no struggle. The worst case of everything just conveniently falling into place that I have ever seen. Nothing nor anybody had to sacrifice anything, the main character never had to make a romantic decision, and to top it off, they are currently airing a second season this season and the main character has the gall to bring his other love interest to their world and bring the two together and probably still won't have to choose between them and will probably just end up with two bitches. Shame on me for having an opinion about this wretched crap. If you see me on the streets, please slap me in the face.
Oh, and on a lighter note, GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class. That is unquestionably one of my favorite animes and I am still quite disappointed that it only got 1 season with just 12 episodes, and an OVA. It's not so much that it was bad, but more-so that it wasn't really an ending, more like a "Well, did you enjoy the latest episode of GA? Good, oh by the way the series is over, see ya" sort of thing.