Anime endings

beau kang · Post by **beau kang** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:36 pm

I've heard a lot of people talk about the endings for animes and how they really didn't like them, or it that it didn't make any sense, **cough***Evangelion***cough***.

I was just wondering if there were any animes out there that people actually considered to be good or proper endings. I can only think of one of the top of my head, Gundam Wing. Is there anything else out there that completes itself?

R-A-N-M-A · Post by **R-A-N-M-A** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:50 pm

In advance SPOILERS!

I have found few thus far that I really really like and understood. My personal top 3 are:

1. Trigun
2. FLCL
3. Hellsing

Cowboy Bebop has an understandable ending but Spike dying can't be construed as good. Love Hina Again had a pretty good ending but not top 3 worthy.

pink_hedgehog · Post by **pink_hedgehog** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:16 pm

R-A-N-M-A wrote:2. FLCL

you understood FLCL?!?!?! haha your silly

As for me I havent ended any of my animes yet, I was a late bloomer so Im working on Inuyasha, Trigun, Bleach, Battle royal (mangas), Neon Gen. Angelic layer... blah blah blah... yea I have a lot to finish

Valder · Post by **Valder** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:41 pm

Remember Val that when it says spoilers....Stop reading!

R-A-N-M-A wrote:In advance SPOILERS!
Cowboy Bebop has an understandable ending but Spike dying can't be construed as good.

Doh! I planned on buying this series as could never catch it...Oh well. HA!

Val

Aliana · Post by **Aliana** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 9:54 pm

I dont know, something about the way Wolf's Rain ended gave me and bit of a love/hate relationship.

prettysoldiersailormoon · Post by **prettysoldiersailormoon** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:36 pm

Good ending: Sailor Stars. It didn't entirely complete itself because it seems there could have been more but it did feel like closure. Also Cardcaptor Sakura seemed to end on a good note.

KingSchwill · Post by **KingSchwill** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:44 pm

s-CRY-ed

It Was Friken brilliant. The Final Scene Was Perfect with the one hand being raised.

DBZ

Great ending because...
... Well it finally ended.

Comic Party

It showed all the hardships and sacrafice of self publishing (and there are a LOT) but it also showed that commitment and passion make it all worthwhile.

Malificus · Post by **Malificus** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:46 pm

My top three are:

Abenobashi
Fooly Cooly (like the manga's end a little more actually)
.hack//SIGN

But there are alot of close runner-ups.

R-A-N-M-A · Post by **R-A-N-M-A** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:16 am

Malificus wrote:My top three are:

Abenobashi
Fooly Cooly (like the manga's end a little more actually)
.hack//SIGN

But there are alot of close runner-ups.

Thanks for the support on FLCL. I honestly don't see how it it that hard to get. My cousin who is generally slow on the up take on most things didn't get it and it took me all of 2 minutes to explain it too him and now he gets it perfectly.

LenWidleheyt · Post by **LenWidleheyt** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 2:19 am

R-A-N-M-A wrote:1. Trigun
2. FLCL
3. Hellsing

I totally agree on 2 and 3; FLCL and Hellsing have great endings (I'd probably put Hellsing at the very top of my list, though). As for Trigun, I didn't really like it that much. This is extrememly subjective, and I might get it on the next go, but my problem with it is that it doesn't seem like Vash's conflict gets a proper resolution.

Trigun spoiler wrote:In the final battle between him and his brother, he is forced to fight an enemy who wants to kill him, yet Vash can't kill him without denying everything he believes in. This is an awesome setup for a final battle, yet in the end it seems a decision is never actually made. The tension just dissolves into nothing.

The above (spoiler) is also true for Evangelion; the tension builds up to enormous heights, yet in the end, nothing is resolved; or rather (in this case), the resolution is too hard to understand and not very satisfying. For the same reason, I didn't like Lain very much.

I've actually started judging animes by their endings. Too many animes build up the tension and then fall flat on the ground in the end because they couldn't think up a proper resolution. I'm not referring to endings like in Hellsing; it's good to be left with some questions as to what actually happened (like in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels). I love that kind of ending. What I don't like is when animes end without even facing the main issue; the "final battle" (or some equivalent to it) is avoided or "explained away" somehow, which is worse than leaving the decision up to the viewer.

I like the endings in Maze TV and Scrapped Princess, though in the latter case, it comes dangerously close to the kind of ending described above. Still, it's a pretty good one (though nothing beats Hellsing ^_^).