Cazm of Cazmheim said:
Endings are depressing. My advice? Never finish anything.
That's what I should have done with 'Berserk' anime. First episode showed the actual course of events and the whole series was just retrospective. It gave me false sense of security (in addition to always skipping the ending-revealing intro) that the world is a place with no deus ex machina magic, where strength and determination rules the world. The ending just made me scream in pain, for it was all just an illusion.
Of course, the manga moves the plot further towards something closer to justified happy ending, but I didn't know it at the time, and watching it was just painful.