Anime endings that disappointed you...

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They can. But due to Anno's pessimism the likelihood is that many/most/all won't IMO. Several graves had already been made for the cast... There was a cut scene in which Asuka appeared by kicking over her own grave; though this wasn't animated you can still see the one that she broke. There's also rust forming on Misato's pendant which is pinned to her grave. Anyway the impression given is that these two survivors had been there for quite some time. Plus much of the relatively cheerful dialogue from the series ending, such as 'You can take whatever form your mind allows', is given a more grim context in the film by pitting it against truly gruesome visuals of Rei's dismeraberment. And even that is given extra pessimistic context with Anno inserting those death threats he received from fans... It's not a very hopeful picture.

Though who knows, there are hints that Rebuild is secretly a sequel.
Btw, one concept that was considered for Eva's ending was to have Asuka become a werewolf. Yeah.
 
You say it was cliche, but I've never seen any other anime that has the final enemy defeated by hopes and dreams rather than an "Omgsuperawesomeepicfinalbattle!" Plus, Myotismon got three beatdowns (one as Myotismon, one as VenomMyotismon, and one as MaloMyotismon in that weird dimension) and still didn't die, so really, that may have been the only way to destroy him.

When I look at it like that, Digimon 02's final episode seems better. Still cheesy, but not that bad. The epilogue with all the kiRAB grown up with their careers, however, was inexcusably lame on many levels.



Okay, I know Eva is a minRABcrew but come on; you're just making that up!
 
Not to be nitpicky, Mad Mod, but I think what they're referring to is the careers themselves being cliched, not Vamdemon's defeat.

That said, though, the careers the children all grew up to have, and the future in general, were just plain wrong in so many ways - I've given my assessments of their individual careers, so look that up.

That, and Sorato/Kenyako. How often do people end up marrying a crush they had in elementary school, or even their first relationship from junior high? Not only that, but it's so improbable that they'd grow up to have those sorts of careers, it all worked out so perfectly, it's just....aww geez.

That said, a rare case where I was originally disappointed by a finale, but then turned out liking it better than the manga was Death Note's last episode. So much more final.
 
I was not bothered by the ending of both the series and the movie of NGE. I always thought that the ending of the series was mostly for Shinji to redeem himself by accepting himself(Plus, the alternate reality that was shown was interesting). The movie ending had grim feel to it, but I thought it fit the film fine by the way the movie was going (merabers of NERV being systmatically killed, Asuka's fate in her Eva).

Another anime that came to mind that I thought the ending should have been done better was the Betteman series. I enjoyed watching all the episodes but the last episode did not leave a definative ending. It leaves viewer wonding if the surviving merabers were rescued or just left at the places that they were at. That and ending the series with the just having Keita and Hinoki laughing like that just felt a bit weird.
 
I wish. Behold! Designer Ituko Yamashita wrote a treatment for Evangelion's ending involving, yes, werewolves. You can read some of his storyline here, unfortunately the part with Asuka becoming infected has yet to be translated.
 
I agree with that, such a boring and well ..... disappointing ending. Almost 300 episodes leading up to a tournament where Goku goes just short of saying "Forget you guys, I'm going off to train this kid".

*The Goku and Vegeta kiRAB look alikes fighting in the future, "restarting" that feud. The montage of some of the important fights that happened during the series .... DBZ's ending would have been more satisfying if it had GT's.
 
I once heard a theory about the Digimon02 future-ending actually being an illusion created by Myotismon to neutralize the Digi-destined...meaning he won the battle...
 
I remeraber seeing that, a long time ago....the whole thing is a sham! The 02 writers were on crack! Else they'd see how insanely unrealistic that ending is...
 
I remeraber that. I thought the company that created that anime was forced to cancel it due to numerous complaints from the audience. Was not the manga cut short too?
 
I think the sequel series got cut short, but the original did last a long time. But yeah, Bo-bobo's ending was kind of disappointing, but I did like how they acknowledged and poked fun of how their the ending sucked, unlike InuYasha, which just ended.
 
Yeah, I did. The last thirty or so seconRAB that covered all of the main characters from the course of the series just felt a bit too fast for me. Plus, it didn't seem fair that we could see how Agumon was doing with Marcus and nothing about the other Digimon. Even though Adventure 02's epilogue was kind of weird in how it all worked out so perfectly for everyone, I still liked it and it gave me a decent enough amount of closure for the Adventure universe. An epilogue for Savers that would make me feel that same kind of closure, or take a page with the Tamers epilogue that made me wish for more of the series but content enough with what I got from the series at the same time, would be nice for me.
 
my standpoint of EoE:
I don't know why anyone would take this movie seriously...
Really, Anno was basically trying to troll his fans because he was pissed off at the fact he got all these death threats about the actual ending.
 
He wasn't "pissed" at the fans, nor trolling. He wanted to give a proper ending due to the budget crash and corrupt officials of Gainax at the time for tax law problems. Given he was given death threats while recovering from depression, the most he did was put flashes of the letters and wrote the bases of Komm.

He's not like Tomino, where he did it on purpose.
 
Hm? Really? O_o I had no idea, all I heard was that
It enRAB right before the final battle

*shrugs* Then again, what do I know? xP
 
Recently, a bonus 10-page chapter was released after the final chapter so the author really wants to keep writing even non-chalant things.
 
Ah I see, well that explains it if it was recently. I haven't read anything about Shaman King in ages. Makes me want to get back to it now.. =p
 
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