Good animes with bad endings

[Valiard]

personally for me Deathnote should have ended with L's Death because up until the end it was like watching Sherlock Holmes and his arch-rival duel and the finale was excellent and then it continued and i was like tha fck?

 

[Jezzy54]

Gurren Lagann. The final battle was insanely climactic, and everything was going fine up until a couple of minutes afterward.

Spoiler

So Nia dissolves at her and Simon's wedding, pretty sad, though the explanation seems a little questionable: She's a part of the Anti-Spiral, and can't survive without it; but she's the daughter of the Spiral King, so shouldn't she just be completely in control of herself? I don't really understand the situation in the first place though, so whatever.

It really gets bad when Simon gives up all responsibility because "the younger generation needs to take his place" Why? He saved the entire population of Earth from death and the entire friggin' universe from tyranny, and he's only like, 21. Why can't he have something to do? Instead he walks off and never sees his friends again. They're mostly as old as or older than he is, but they get to be intergalactic ambassadors and such. Meanwhile, our hero just sort of wanders around aimlessly. It's bullshit.

Spoiler

Being born of the spiral king was only a coincedence, the Anti-spirals have there genes inplanted in one person of each generation (I think) so it was very unlikely that such a history with the spirals would occure, but it did.

And Simon was never meant for any of that political crap, he was a digger and a warrior so it makes sense once all the fighting and digging comes to an end that he would quit.

Get it now?

Gurren Lagann.
It really gets bad when Simon gives up all responsibility because "the younger generation needs to take his place" Why? He saved the entire population of Earth from death and the entire friggin' universe from tyranny, and he's only like, 21. Why can't he have something to do? Instead he walks off and never sees his friends again. They're mostly as old as or older than he is, but they get to be intergalactic ambassadors and such. Meanwhile, our hero just sort of wanders around aimlessly. It's bullshit.

The ending was way bittersweet, but made sense, I think. Simon wasn't anything else but a warrior/hero at the end of the anime, and there's something heroic about riding into the sunset. The thing was, there wasn't much else for him to do. After the ultimate peace, what do you do with the soldier?

I think if the Spiral Nemesis could be defeated in giant robot combat, Simon would come out of retirement. It's really all he's good for.

(edit) Shite, beat to the punch by a sharper fist. >.>

Viral was a warrior too, but he still had a life at the end of it. Even disregarding that, Simon can't just keep in contact with his old allies? Even if he doesn't have anything else to do, can't he at least socialize? While I'm at it, why does Leeron look the same age in the future? I'm not so much making a fuss over that one, but it's weird.

 

[Yureina]

NGE's original ending. Thankfully the EoE movie largely clears it up.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Akira. What a mindfuck.

I think Akira is probably the only thing I've seen which I declare the entire thing non-canon.
Best forget about that one...

 

[Yureina]

NGE's original ending. Thankfully the EoE movie largely clears it up.

Really? I actually prefer the original. EoE just upped the 'lolwut' past the level I could take but for some reason I actually enjoyed the original ending. I think I was just happy Shinji got closure though.

Well... I think of it at the same ending, jsut with two different faces. Thinking of it in that regard, I prefer EoE because it is more comprehensible to me.

 

[Terminate421]

Its not good but pokemon the first movie had the worst ending ever. (Seriously? TEARS BRING BACK PEOPLE FROM THE DEAD? Why didn't they do that to Shepard in Mass Effect 2, make my crew who did cry, cry on my corpse, would have worked faster.)

 

[Romidude]

It's funny because you used "good" and "anime" in the same sentence.

 

[LoFr3Eq]

berserk!

dammit just when the fantasy arc was gonna begin!

This, I was watching it with friends and they all told me what's meant to happen in the missing part at the end, the stuff that happens in the Manga.

 

[Yureina]

NGE's original ending. Thankfully the EoE movie largely clears it up.

Really? I actually prefer the original. EoE just upped the 'lolwut' past the level I could take but for some reason I actually enjoyed the original ending. I think I was just happy Shinji got closure though.

Well... I think of it at the same ending, jsut with two different faces. Thinking of it in that regard, I prefer EoE because it is more comprehensible to me.

I just didn't like Shinji being such a wreck at the end, I legitimately felt sorry for the poor sod by the end of the series. He's what every kid from Gundam, every power ranger and every other child hero would actually be and I liked that he got his applause.

Also I got to the bit when they said "the Evangelion is now God" and I had to backtrack through the film to find out their logic on that one. I get it now but it's funny that for me the explanation film made things worse.

Maybe I just like it because it is not the "ultra happy ending" typical of other shows, though this is also the case for my other personal favorite anime: Cowboy Bebop.

 

[Mikeyfell]

yeah, Elfin Lied
god damn that ending

 

[Darla-Evans]

If it hasn't been said then D. Gray Man.

Pandora Hearts.

Tsubasa Chronicles.

Umineko no naku koro ni. I'm still hoping that they will make a second season.

 

[Yureina]

Maybe I just like it because it is not the "ultra happy ending" typical of other shows, though this is also the case for my other personal favorite anime: Cowboy Bebop.

Lalalala! Haven't finished that one yet!

To be honest I've noticed a lot of anime bottles the ending badly. Just the last episode loses it's shit a bit and everything gets tied up with a pretty little bow on top. I think my favourite ending is Trigun, you can kind of tell it's not a final ending, people aren't going to be terribly happy with what he's done but the story's over.

Gundam Seed was good too actually, it ended logically without doing that anime thing of trying to tie everything up at once.

My taste in anime is rather limited. It basically only includes Eva, Bebop, and Ghost in the Shell. I like those enough, and I have never been too interested in looking around for new things.

 

[Casual Shinji]

NGE's original ending. Thankfully the EoE movie largely clears it up.

Well, I guess you couldn't really blame Gainax for running out of budget.

But...

Spoiler

...those quick shots of Misato's and Ritsuko's dead bodies left me baffled. Most of all because they never mentioned how or why they died. You had to wait untill End of Evangelion to find out.

That really sucked!

 

[LightspeedJack]

Death Note. After L died it turned to shit resulting in a wildly unimaginative and contrived ending.

Actually if you think about it there was a point to the ending. If L had won the fanboys wouldve had a rave at anyone who likes Kira, but since they both lose and by mostly eachother's causes, you never really end up with a problem of bias of who is right.

Regarding Death Note

Spoiler

I always got the feeling that L won in the end because he had set things up so that after his death Kira could still be brought to justice. I felt Kira had to lose because the whole moral of the show is that man should not wield that kind of power or it will corrupt them to the point of madness. I found the ending perfectly satisfying although it didn't have the kind of build-up I expected.

So yah.