Ending withdrawal
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You finished Toradora? Man, I just skipped to the end to see them kiss, when I realized it was going to be filler for 10 episodes or so.
You know what I do wish there was more of? Space Dandy, baby. Especially with it's subtle references to Hugh Everett and quantum mechanics.
Stein's Gate, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, and Mushi-shi also give me those feels.
But I know they'd be terrible if they dragged on. Brevity is their strength. Well FMA isn't brief, it's actually long and tragic. Plus Mushi-shi got a second season, but you get that ending feeling almost every episode because the stories are so self-contained.
You know what I do wish there was more of? Space Dandy, baby. Especially with it's subtle references to Hugh Everett and quantum mechanics.
Stein's Gate, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bebop, and Mushi-shi also give me those feels.
But I know they'd be terrible if they dragged on. Brevity is their strength. Well FMA isn't brief, it's actually long and tragic. Plus Mushi-shi got a second season, but you get that ending feeling almost every episode because the stories are so self-contained.
Games:
The Mass Effect series. You "raised" your own character, made the friends, went joyriding in one the coolest ships in recent memory, starred at Tali's ass. Then it was all over.... I didn't play another game for a month once I finished them.
Shows:
No Game No Life - I just loved the wackiness of the whole thing. I know there will be more in the near future, and I do hope Stephanie Dola gets treated a bit better in the new episodes
Ripper Street: I'm so glad the Amazon picked up this series again. Fuck you BBC!, this series had a lot more potential to give and so many questions unanswered. Yet you dropped it, while shit like strictly come dancing still gets the funding to churn out the same overhyped nonsense each year...or less, I honestly can't tell if this vomit ever ends.
Code Geass - Even though its over, I still believe in Zero and his vision.
The Mass Effect series. You "raised" your own character, made the friends, went joyriding in one the coolest ships in recent memory, starred at Tali's ass. Then it was all over.... I didn't play another game for a month once I finished them.
Shows:
No Game No Life - I just loved the wackiness of the whole thing. I know there will be more in the near future, and I do hope Stephanie Dola gets treated a bit better in the new episodes
Ripper Street: I'm so glad the Amazon picked up this series again. Fuck you BBC!, this series had a lot more potential to give and so many questions unanswered. Yet you dropped it, while shit like strictly come dancing still gets the funding to churn out the same overhyped nonsense each year...or less, I honestly can't tell if this vomit ever ends.
Code Geass - Even though its over, I still believe in Zero and his vision.
Cowboy Bebop. After it ended, I tried everything to keep it going. I read the shitty manga. I played the shitty PS2 game. I downloaded every album by The Seatbelts. And I watches the series again.
But it was over.
But it was over.
Having just finished Star Wars the Clone Wars' fifth season, this just hit me really hard. It was something of a foregone conclusion, since
And so far, Season 6, the unaired episodes, have only been making it worse, taunting the viewer with, "You know they can't succeed and tell the Jedi what's going on here." And it hurts.
Poor Fives...
Ahsoka had to be out of the picture one way or another by the time Revenge of the Sith rolled around, but still.
And so far, Season 6, the unaired episodes, have only been making it worse, taunting the viewer with, "You know they can't succeed and tell the Jedi what's going on here." And it hurts.
Poor Fives...
I think this is the reason people went so nuttyZhukov said:
its the [I/]bad[/I] kind of ending withdrawal...like Red Lyrium to Blue
OT: this is actually why I procrastinate playing DA:I
(Disclaimer: and in the spirit of good faith no one tell me anything, weather it was good/bad/whatever NOTHING)
Well, I do know that after finishing The Last of Us it was stuck in my head for a long time, and that in the following month it was quite hard for me to get into any other story-based action game. And whenever I tried, within a half hour I'd be like 'Fuck it, I'm playing The Last of Us again.'
I love it. I love dark tones and dark plots. Not trying to sound edgy or anything, it's just my cup of tea in terms of fiction.Starbird said:
Is there a lot of rape on that show because if so I'm not interested. Also I do like dark but less 'bleak and depressing' and more 'people commit horrible acts and the plot finds ways to semi-justify it or sympathize with the bastards'.Starbird said:Haha, each to their own I guessWhiteNachos said:
Have you seen Oz by the way? If well acted, well storied hip deep depression and human darkness is your thing, definitely give it a look!
Kill La Kill
I couldn't take it being over, even after seeing the OVA. So I did what any sane person would do...and watch the entire series all over again.
Even when I finished doing that, I wanted to go for a third time.
Damn it was good *_*
Breaking Bad also had a similar sort of thing. Though that's probably due to the way that series ended, and the hype surrounding it. It wasn't just a TV show, it felt like a cultural monument. It being over was just...
I couldn't take it being over, even after seeing the OVA. So I did what any sane person would do...and watch the entire series all over again.
Even when I finished doing that, I wanted to go for a third time.
Damn it was good *_*
Breaking Bad also had a similar sort of thing. Though that's probably due to the way that series ended, and the hype surrounding it. It wasn't just a TV show, it felt like a cultural monument. It being over was just...
Oh jeez I know how you feel man. Usually when I feel sad about something ending, I just start it again. Seen Firefly through 5 times, Death Note 6. Lucky star was another anime I fell in love with. That one made me really value friendship in a way my formerly-loner self didn't quite realise before. I don't think there are many shows that genuinely impact a person's outlook on life, but this was one.
There was another anime nicknamed Oreimo, and that one stuck with me in a very odd way. I don't like romance things, I don't like harem, and incest isn't my thing either, but something about this one made me love it. There was a certain humanity to each of the characters, even if they were cliché. Watched it through 3 times without breaks. I did the same thing with the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. Seen that 4-5 times now; something loveable about the humanity of the characters. The music in that was amazing as well though to be fair.
I was also super sad when I finished playing Okami. I fell in love with that game, even if the gameplay itself wasn't perfect (Zelda without the puzzles). Went on to buy the sequel to that, but sadly it didn't contain the same love the first game did. Infamous 2 is another game I mourned the end of. The only game I've got a Platinum trophy on, actually! I haven't been that completionist since I was like 6 playing Spyro.
I'm looking for a new hook now. Sucker for punishement.
There was another anime nicknamed Oreimo, and that one stuck with me in a very odd way. I don't like romance things, I don't like harem, and incest isn't my thing either, but something about this one made me love it. There was a certain humanity to each of the characters, even if they were cliché. Watched it through 3 times without breaks. I did the same thing with the first How To Train Your Dragon movie. Seen that 4-5 times now; something loveable about the humanity of the characters. The music in that was amazing as well though to be fair.
I was also super sad when I finished playing Okami. I fell in love with that game, even if the gameplay itself wasn't perfect (Zelda without the puzzles). Went on to buy the sequel to that, but sadly it didn't contain the same love the first game did. Infamous 2 is another game I mourned the end of. The only game I've got a Platinum trophy on, actually! I haven't been that completionist since I was like 6 playing Spyro.
I'm looking for a new hook now. Sucker for punishement.
The first fucking thing that comes to mind is Rosario + Vampire. I don't know if there was a third series or if there's going to be one...the end of S1 was a bit lame but everything that wasn't the ending just gripped me and kept me hooked. Then the second series ended and it just felt like the biggest bag-over-the-head, punch-in-the-face, 'go fuck yourself' ending I can remember ever seeing in any anime. The ending of School Rumble was similar in that there wasn't much when it came to actual closure but at least the ending was kind of cute. The ending of Suzuka (the anime) was sweet and I enjoyed it up until I read up about the manga and how that story continues and I really wish I never checked up on it. Rosario + Vampire though was just the biggest freaking non-ending I've ever seen...it still pisses me off and it's been well over 2 years since I've watched that series.
TV:
Gurren Lagann managed to please yet sadden me with it's ending. You just had to go against the norm in terms of endings... ;^;
Futurama. Good run since I watched it from the beginning, good series form the beginning, didn't realize how much was lost until a few weeks after it ended.
Games:
Persona 4. The only game to ever fully immerse me in it's world and characters, and then when it was ripped away from me, boy was there a struggle to get out of bed afterwards.
Books... ugh Manga:
Steel Ball Run (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7).
Gurren Lagann managed to please yet sadden me with it's ending. You just had to go against the norm in terms of endings... ;^;
Futurama. Good run since I watched it from the beginning, good series form the beginning, didn't realize how much was lost until a few weeks after it ended.
Games:
Persona 4. The only game to ever fully immerse me in it's world and characters, and then when it was ripped away from me, boy was there a struggle to get out of bed afterwards.
Books... ugh Manga:
Steel Ball Run (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7).
"It's been truly, truly, a very long roundabout path. Thank you, Gyro."
Same, though I think it might be more due to a lack of an actual ending with that series than anything else. Until Mass Effect 3 came along I thought the Animorphs was the worst ending I'd ever seen specifically because it didn't actually have one.Zhukov said:
OT: I think the first time I've ever experienced what the OP is describing is when I finally beat Tales of Symphonia. After spending days immersed in a game in a way I don't think I ever had before and having it end that empty feeling hit me hard. It didn't help either that during the ending I kept expecting something to explode and "the adventure continues" the entire time because of the fact that the game pulled like a half dozen false endings. The Tales series never fails to immerse me like that and give me that sort of Ending Withdrawal.