In this topic, name the worst anime ending(s) you have ever seen and explain why it is/they are the worst.
for example:
Soul Eater...
They had the most powerful demon god alive terrorizing the earth, and things were looking bad for the heroes. Finally the main characters Maka and Soul were totally defeated, it looked like Asura (the demon god) was going to win... but Maka stands up, building up tension for an epic finish... in my mind i think "OMG what could she possibly do to defeat him?!" the answer? punching him in the face... yeah.
apparently Maka had so much courage to stand up to the demon god, she gives him a "punch of courage" to the face... AND KILLS HIM! WHAT.THE.F***.
i would have been happy if she suddenly got some new scythe power of she went all super sayan on his ass... but a punch to the face?
absolutely ridiculous.
so yeah that's my story, any other bad anime endings out there?
Funny that I was going to say Soul Eater as well. :D
I guess another one is Dragon Ball GT. It shows Goku leaving with the dragon and then Pan being a old lady and Goku as a adult for a brief moment. Goku should of just stayed on earth and wish himself old again.Weird ending though.
Yes I'll have to agree to Soul Eater as well.
Though the rest of the Anime was still good.
i would have to say Berserk. If you didn't follow the manga, it totally left
you with blue balls at the end.
Apparently Studio 4c will be continuing the story and follow closely to the manga. So the quality will still be there.
Berserk didn't really have a bad ending, but just disappointing that they didn't follow the manga.
Ninja Resurrection, not exactly worst, but I do wish they continued it.
Gantz, now this anime has the worst ending I ever watched. What were they thinking?
End of Evangelion...
seconding berserk (anime ending)
sorry...that was just....so stupid I can't even put it into words.
im sorry i have to put some out there.
1. oav of record of lodoss war. i love the ser i really do but you all have to agrea and my friend keeps pointing this out ..... parn never wins a major fight. in the end he only wins when both evil doers kill each other kind of like heavy metal the movie story of den
2. gundam 0083 still once again one of my favorit ser but the hero is a loser he doesnt beat gato, he doesn't get the girl really (it like gatos dead but hey you made it i guess you'll do) the capt of the ship is executed by the Federation, the opposing sides acomplish there mission ect ect ... but still one of my favorit ser
3. 3x3 2nd oav - you find out the story is not about pai but the snake who took over her mind and i was so excited about it too when it came out =(
4. ranma 1/2 both tv ser and manga ahhhhh it doesn't end the last ep is he meets his mom then ranma and akane say thanks for watching its like something out of a 80's video game ending. but i will say this it is still one of my favorit ser and still got all the vhs tapes to it
5.soul eater been discused .... courage my ass
6. mahoromatic what happen to everyone
7. macross 2 so bad i blacked it out
8. big o ahhhhhhh its as bad as st. elsewhere ending it never happen cause it was all a tv show
9. school rumble they have a pie fight .... a pie fight
10. 90 percent of games to anime teken,battle arena toshiden,art of fighting, samurai showdown, everything final fantasy, street fight (except the animated movie), xenosaga, virtal fighter
Quote from: the otaku god on November 03, 2009, 09:51:39 PM
im sorry i have to put some out there.
1. oav of record of lodoss war. i love the ser i really do but you all have to agrea and my friend keeps pointing this out ..... parn never wins a major fight. in the end he only wins when both evil doers kill each other kind of like heavy metal the movie story of den
2. gundam 0083 still once again one of my favorit ser but the hero is a loser he doesnt beat gato, he doesn't get the girl really (it like gatos dead but hey you made it i guess you'll do) the capt of the ship is executed by the Federation, the opposing sides acomplish there mission ect ect ... but still one of my favorit ser
3. 3x3 2nd oav - you find out the story is not about pai but the snake who took over her mind and i was so excited about it too when it came out =(
4. ranma 1/2 both tv ser and manga ahhhhh it doesn't end the last ep is he meets his mom then ranma and akane say thanks for watching its like something out of a 80's video game ending. but i will say this it is still one of my favorit ser and still got all the vhs tapes to it
5.soul eater been discused .... courage my ass
6. mahoromatic what happen to everyone
7. macross 2 so bad i blacked it out
8. big o ahhhhhhh its as bad as st. elsewhere ending it never happen cause it was all a tv show
9. school rumble they have a pie fight .... a pie fight
10. 90 percent of games to anime teken,battle arena toshiden,art of fighting, samurai showdown, everything final fantasy, street fight (except the animated movie), xenosaga, virtal fighter
Your going to enrage the Fan Boys lulz.
Quote from: TC_X0_Lt_0X on November 04, 2009, 12:42:07 PM
Quote from: the otaku god on November 03, 2009, 09:51:39 PM
everything final fantasy
Your going to enrage the Fan Boys lulz.
I am here and I am enraged. >:(
My list of endings I was not happy with:Evangelion is a given. Big O, yeah, I see that. What about Paranoia Agent? Hunter x Hunter. Bokurano. Death Note. Initial D.
Quote from: lyricaldanichan on October 24, 2009, 09:41:29 PM
i would have to say Berserk. If you didn't follow the manga, it totally left
you with blue balls at the end.
Apparently Studio 4c will be continuing the story and follow closely to the manga. So the quality will still be there.
Berserk.. the ending made me get into reading the manga. As for the rumor of Studio 4C picking up the anime... it's just that....a rumor. The four existing 'leaked' pics have been out for a long time from what I've heard (possibly over a year.) The studio nor the manga's author have confirmed the existance of a planned anime. The pictures may have originally been designed as a plan for a new Berserk anime, but I feel the idea was scrapped due to the current anime trend right now. I'd love to hear if you could prove me wrong and confirm this though, but from everything I just read, this has not been proven.
Posted by: Liquid
Evangelion = both were not to my liking i hope this new movie ser make up for every thing
Hunter x Hunter = all the ends were bad tv and 2 or 3 oav ser (i forget) unless the whole story is based on meeting his dad then........ it still was bad cause you never see him like charlie from charlie's angels
Death Note = no opinion
Initial D = well what ine i like both tv ser ending (stages 1 and 2) and the movie ending do you mean stage 4?
Mahoromatic!!! I've never seen a single final episode make me hate an entire series, but they did it!!!
Quote from: Liquid on November 04, 2009, 04:05:48 PM
What about Paranoia Agent?
I happened to like the ending. How else do you think it should have ended?
You know what anime actually needs an ending? Martian Successor Nadesico and Vandread, I want a new season that actually puts a close to everything dammit!
I still haven't finished City Hunter...
From what my friend tells me, the ending to Index was rather disappointing.
Still working on the series myself.
Quote from: JohnnyAR on November 05, 2009, 05:05:51 PM
Quote from: Liquid on November 04, 2009, 04:05:48 PM
What about Paranoia Agent?
I happened to like the ending. How else do you think it should have ended?
You know what anime actually needs an ending? Martian Successor Nadesico and Vandread, I want a new season that actually puts a close to everything dammit!
I still haven't finished City Hunter...
I didnt think Paranoia Agent's ending was bad either.
Though the entire series was a massive brain-fuck no matter how you look at it.
Some Anime do need to actually get ending though, I can agree with that. Vandread's did somewhat anger me...
Quote from: AnimeEmperor on November 05, 2009, 01:40:21 PM
Mahoromatic!!! I've never seen a single final episode make me hate an entire series, but they did it!!!
I hated how he automatically became a little kid again when he saw Mahoro again. Apparently they can suspend reality for the very ending.
Evangelion, I can agree with.
My least favorite ending of all time... Cowboy Bebop.
It's old. But did anyone watch the third OVA for Fushigi Yuugi. It may not be the worst (I'm on Evangelions side for that too), but it was TERRIBLE.
The Banner of the Stars\Crest of the Stars series.
Quote from: Glitch on November 23, 2009, 03:10:51 PM
Quote from: AnimeEmperor on November 05, 2009, 01:40:21 PM
Mahoromatic!!! I've never seen a single final episode make me hate an entire series, but they did it!!!
I hated how he automatically became a little kid again when he saw Mahoro again. Apparently they can suspend reality for the very ending.
Actually, I think that was supposed to symbolize that seeing her again was like being young again, and it was like when they first met.
Now...I hate the ending to Tokyo Godfathers.
"Dad?" *END CREDITS* WTF??
SCHOOL DAYS....some of you may disagree, simply because it wasn't a horrible ending thematically...but WTF?! I'm STILL scarred from that ending!
I dunno about you guys but I liked the ending of Berserk alot. Maybe it's because I read the manga afterwards but the slight deviations made in the anime did nothing to take away from the story. If anything the lack of guts rape and goat head orgy (only 2 differences I can remember so far) let you focus more on what's important during the Golden Age Arc which would be the tale of the Band of the Hawks.
The ending was POWERFUL. If you're Guts there is no resolution. Your crippled best friend/idol trades your comrades souls in a selfish trade for power, turns into an Apostle, and rapes your girlfriend into amnesia. You lose an arm. You don't win. THE END. Were you expecting any better? You were born from a hung corpse and in the manga your dad sold your anus. If you're Guts LIFE IS NEVER GOOD. That is by far the darkest ending I'll probably ever see from any story.
Anyways. Yea Soul Eaters ending sucked. And if you consider this the ending to the original FMA anime I'd have to say Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shambala could've been better. I haven't watched it in a while but I remember being disappointed when I finished it. I'm sure there are some who would agree.
AIR, anyone? I still swear by the fact it was a horrible ending, because it DID. NOT. END. Although, having watched more of Key's works, I should watch it again and see if I feel any differently about it nowadays.
FMA did have a really bad ending... the movie's ending was still bad for Winry related reasons.
Fortunately, Brotherhood is out and is righting all sorts of wrongs.
(oh hey, it's TC of DnDog. *waves* 'tis Kuma.(' w ')ﾉｼ)
Quote from: questionette on January 21, 2010, 07:48:44 PM
SCHOOL DAYS....some of you may disagree, simply because it wasn't a horrible ending thematically...but WTF?! I'm STILL scarred from that ending!
Hahah!! I was waiting for someone to mention School Days, I thought the ending was fun, actually. But still, that anime got weirder and weirder as the episodes continued, and then BAM! Someone lost a head.
Needless's ending, made me wanna stop watching the anime but i didn't
Quote from: blackyggdrasil on February 28, 2010, 05:29:01 PM
Needless's ending, made me wanna stop watching the anime but i didn't
I've seen worse filler endings. But there's always the manga to read.
Oh man. Anime is full of bad endings. If it's not a filler series where they only advance the story in the first 2 and last 2 eps (see Onegai Twins, Ai Yori Aoshi, and a million other series), then it's probably a rushed ending that doesn't make any sense because the manga it was based on wasn't over when they made it (See Pandora Hearts, Hellsing TV, BECK - mongolian chop squad). Or maybe they don't even try to end it, because there's a chance for another season (Kaiji, Saki, Spice and Wolf).
Sometimes they don't even have a good excuse. Studio BONES is the master of this one. I like a lot of their work, but man, they make disappointing endings. Scrapped Princess's ending was almost acceptable, Darker Than Black's first season ending was pretty unsatisfying, Xam'd: Lost Memories was doing great and then it fell apart in the last few episodes... I have to say, though, Darker Than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini takes the cake. Not only does the ending not resolve any of the outstanding questions of the first season, nor most of the core questions of the second season, the last episode introduces even MORE questions that don't get answered. Although, contrary to a previous poster, I think Fullmetal Alchemist (disregarding the movie) had a really solid ending -- sort of enjoyably open-ended and hopeful.
A few bonus bad-ending cases, for the heck of it:
Tytania - The entire story feels like the prologue to a greater epic that doesn't exist. Apparently the source novels are like that, too.
.hack//Roots - Not only does it not resolve anything (at least .hack//SIGN's ending wrapped up one of the series' central conflicts), the last episode of Roots is confusing, spends a lot of time an awkward and out-of-place cameo, is poorly-directed (the ragtime-ish music over the serious scenes doesn't fit in the least), and it makes you feel like the undid all the progress made in the series. (I actually think that watching Roots does provide some good context for playing .hack//G.U. but even that is debatable.)
Akagi - One of the worst offenders I know in the abrupt manga-isn't-over non-ending category. Right after potentially the most crucial turning point in a mahjong game where lives are on the line... the narrator goes, "Their battle is not over!" and then it shows a brief clip from 34 years later with someone who might be Akagi walking down the street (implying that he survived but not explaining how).
Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~ - The main character spends several episodes deliberating and learning that s/he can't have both and needs to pick a girl, finally decides, and then AFTER THE CREDITS in an unvoiced sequence they hint that s/he changed his/her mind. The series tries to have it both ways, so viewers can interpret it whichever way they want it to be. Talk about hypocritical!
Simoun - The ending to this series was just all over the place. It felt sort of open-ended but sort of composed, it almost answered some major questions but didn't really... some characters got depressing endings, some got hopeful ones... There was no decipherable message, feel, or theme to the ending as a whole.
Mnemosyne - I would've been satisfied with this series if the last episode did one, single, obvious thing: "Mimi... omizu choudai." It didn't. Instead we got some convoluted, cheesy, mood-killer ending. Good grief.
Tsubasa Chronicle TV Season 2 - As if the manga weren't dragging on enough, the TV had to make up a brainless filler arc where they obtained more feathers than in the rest of the series-thus-far combined, and then it had the gall to say that everything up to this point was only a fraction of the feathers out there. The show was thereafter canceled and rightly so.
Shangri-La - The entire series was awful from start to finish. 'nuff said.
I could go on forever at this stuff but I'll call it a day there. *phew* Ranting like that felt kinda good.
Quote from: DentyneIce408 on October 24, 2009, 11:40:46 PM
Berserk didn't really have a bad ending, but just disappointing that they didn't follow the manga.
Ninja Resurrection, not exactly worst, but I do wish they continued it.
Gantz, now this anime has the worst ending I ever watched. What were they thinking?
Holy Snap! D: I wanted more of that anime too ;_; it only lasted two ep on the DVD Dx
I was like "OMG what is going to happen next..I wonder what Shiro is going to do next now that he is reborn." Then nothing happenened...and all he did was just killed a but load of people and that was it... -__-;
Worst endings to me are just plain ol' bad endings and animes that discontinue and end like halfway of the manga series!!!
- Claymore- I loved this manga so I watched the anime...Just to only see some episodes about the first half of Claymore! Why not CONTINUE the Anime!?
- Escaflowne- I only say it's bad because Hitomi and Van did not get to be together. Period. :(
- Ouran High School Host Club- The ending was fine...if that was the REAL ENDING! This manga/anime is popular, that it puzzles me why a 2nd season is not made yet. Sigh. The manga is so much more deeper.
- Princess Lover- He finds out who killed his parents and he just forgives the killer like he's some saint? So fake! And he doesn't officially end up with anyo of the girls. 12 episodes wasted :(
- The Twelve Kingdoms/Saiunkoku Monogatari- I only listed these two because they were so great! But the ending of 12 Kingdoms just stopped at a random story discontinuing the main character's journey. Saiunkoku's ending was fine, but I wanted to see more of what the main girl would do and if she'd end up with the emperor. Good ending, sad to see it stop.
Quote from: TheMaKaKi on March 19, 2010, 02:55:29 AM
- Escaflowne- I only say it's bad because Hitomi and Van did not get to be together. Period. :(
As much as I LOVE Escaflowne and would never say anything negative about it..........I sadly agree.>.> Hitomi and Van could of at least kissed and have a kid and probably have Hitomi raise that kid on earth at least.>.>
Quote from: DarkShinigamiX3 on March 19, 2010, 01:38:49 PM
Quote from: TheMaKaKi on March 19, 2010, 02:55:29 AM
- Escaflowne- I only say it's bad because Hitomi and Van did not get to be together. Period. :(
As much as I LOVE Escaflowne and would never say anything negative about it..........I sadly agree.>.> Hitomi and Van could of at least kissed and have a kid and probably have Hitomi raise that kid on earth at least.>.>
I love Escaflowne too. I have the whole series on VHS o_o That's how old my love is, haha. Yeah, they didn't even kiss :(! If I was her, I would've stayed on Gaia and become Queen of Fanelia. Why would any reasonable girl go back to Earth?! T_T...*Lurks into Escaflowne fanfiction for comfort*
death note .... weak, i thought it would be more epic
tenjou tenge : i saw this a long time ago but i remembered the ending was disappointing
I agree with Soul Eater..rofl..It was seriously a wtfux moment. Everything was all climactic and awesome, but the courage stuffs was the only thing that defeated the main evil dude? It became kinda cheesy..and I was sooo expecting more! D:<
Same with Full Metal Alchemist, the movie one that was gonna be it's conclusion. But farks it made me want so much more too x_x
Aaaand yesh! I have to agree with Ouran High too D:< More OURAN plox~
Death Note and Soul Eater, absolutely...Fullmetal Alchemist anime ( not brotherhood) was kinda lame.
The Soul Eater and Fullmetal Alchemist were definitely a couple of the worst for me...
I mean, I was expecting the movie to make the ending epic, but instead after watching it I just had an overflowing pity for Winry and a question as to what the hell the two brothers would do once WW11 came along.
But anyway.
The other anime ending that I totally agree was bad was Ouran High, though my main reason is the entire sequence when Tamaki and Haruhi were falling from the bridge.
They built it up, made it super climatic, Tamaki's looking at Haruhi, he gets close to her face, and.....
They hug.
I was waiting for them to kiss, to seal the deal, but no. No, they hug. For some reason this bothered me immensely, particularly since they haven't made a second season, which would make the hug forgivable due to the developing relationships and drama about to come. But they haven't, so the hug was totally irrelevant.
Code Geass, when I watched that I couldn't help but think, "wow that's alot of bullsh-" :| ha ha
Hmmm, I guess I'd say Witch Hunter Robin for the inconclusiveness of it. It was frustrating. And OMG, yes, as much as I love Escaflowne, the ending really tore at me.
I totally agree about WHR. Leaving you wondering is one thing, but I hated the suggested introduction of the "new" hunter (WHO LOOKS EXACTLY LIKE ROBIN AND JUST RECYCLED ANIMATION). Wtf?
The ending of Blood+ bummed me out. You know the story continues, but without a new threat (and any "new threat" would probably feel like rehash), there's no reason for the series to continue, so a lot of storylines are left untouched. It's a little dissatisfying.
Quote from: JohnnyAR on October 25, 2009, 01:44:16 PM
End of Evangelion...
WHAT?! End of Eva was EPIC! Ayanami turned into a crazy angel and turned everyone on Earth into orange goo! There is no better ending to a series! I feel sick!
claymore, death note, school days, kaigi (ANDUUUUUUUUUUUUUU), and probably clannad -after story-
The ending episode of Kampfer (and the two terrible specials that followed after it) were just full of fail...I won't ruin the ending or the specials for those who have not watched the anime, but for those who read the manga, they will understand what I mean.
Only those who can appreciate a overdose of Fanservice and Ecchi/Harem moments with some action and minor suspense moments should attempt watching this show. ;D
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Kampfer was probably the most disappointing ending in an anime for me... actually the whole last 4 episodes got progressively worse... mostly because 2 of the characters had a sudden personality change.
Black Cat: was just downright horrible....i wont go into detail but the director thought he was being different by ending it the way he did and instead it left everyone who watched it angry...i mean you never got to see any of the final enemy fight scenes....and this is an anime which the fight scenes were pure awesomeness to my.
Claymore.....just wow, for those of you who have seen this, you know what i mean. the ending it completely rediculous. at the end of the anime you realize nothing what so ever is accomplished and they leave so many open ends. but NOOOOOO, they just have all the main characters say: were going to go live peacefully with no more fighting...even though all the bad guys are still out there....
10cm per second: for an anime which built up my hopes so much, the 3rd chapter sucked. the guy basically says he never met the girl, he hates his life, the end. such a great way to end it. OH i forgot, he MIGHT of seen that girl again for a split second, but thats all they give us.
Gundam seed destiny: i loved this anime so much, especially since i never saw the first series. but i mean, i wish they would of spent a little time and given us 5-10 min of telling us what happens after they blow up the bad guys and crap. but instead 2 of the main chars are just sitting on the moon, and nothing is told if the world falls back into peace or not :/
Zombie Loan hands down.
Gundam Seed Destiny, in general, was a dissatisfying conclusion to the story begun in Gundam Seed. I felt like all the character development from the first season disappeared, and everyone had to start from square one again.
I have to agree with mDuo13 and say that Darker Than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini had one of the worst endings. Maybe of all time for me.
Well, sad to say, but most anime don't have good endings unless they are originals. But, for some reason adaptations tend to have poor endings.
Berserk comes to mind. I love that anime to death, one of my favorites, but the ending is just damn depressing that it's hard to like it. I did read the manga after, but I still can't help but think that that was one of the worst possible places to end it simply because there is no bright light at the end of the tunnel.
GTO is another of my favorites, but it just had such a terrible ending. After some pretty bad final episodes, it ends on kind of a sour note. Never read the manga, but I hear it ends differently AND better. But that just bugged me.
Chrome Shelled Regios. I realize that this is a pretty midiocre anime to begin with, but even so, the ending was just a huge bummer. It was so uneventful and kind of came out of left field. Not the ending I expected at all.
Air Gear/Tenjho Tenge: I put these in the same brackets because they both are Oh Great!'s and they both have pretty much the same kind of terrible ending. I don't understand why they did what they did but it was a huge let down. First, the least worse of the two. Air Gear was a pretty entertaining show, as entertaining as Oh Great's work can get. And just when things are ramping up, we get one of those "He still has a lot of work to do, but he's gonna be the best" kind of endings. They could easily produce a second season to get to the major plotlines of the series, but instead we're left watching Ikki climb the mountain. The ending isn't even on some kind of peak. At the end of the series he's still just a kid with a lot of potential, but not a lot achieved.
Tenjho Tenge is even worse. Halfway through the series, we get into this horrible, terrible, boring flashback about how all these characters came about and how things became the way they were. But what the creators failed to realize is that no one cares about the flashback. The most interesting character, Souichiro, is forgotten about throughout the entire flashback, and when we finally get back to him, there's like two or three episodes left in the series. Nothing happens with all the build up they had going with this guy. All that talent he was supposed to have goes nowhere, and is lost on a boring and unnecessarily long flashback. This was a series that, no matter how bad, needed a second season....badly.
Quote from: Freeden on June 10, 2010, 11:05:16 PM
Tenjho Tenge is even worse. Halfway through the series, we get into this horrible, terrible, boring flashback about how all these characters came about and how things became the way they were. But what the creators failed to realize is that no one cares about the flashback. The most interesting character, Souichiro, is forgotten about throughout the entire flashback, and when we finally get back to him, there's like two or three episodes left in the series. Nothing happens with all the build up they had going with this guy. All that talent he was supposed to have goes nowhere, and is lost on a boring and unnecessarily long flashback. This was a series that, no matter how bad, needed a second season....badly.
Copy / Paste.
The Never Ending Flashback pretty much killed my interest in Tenjho Tenge as well.