Anime with actual conclusions that made you feel it was complete?

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^ As the title goes

Basically, has there ever been a anime that you watched that finished to it's end and you felt like it was finished and there was nothing left to be told?

Kiba for me, it ended fine and the ending actually made you smile and knew the story was over.

I was going to say Shaman King but I have not seen the anime in ages.
 
The first season of Pokemon. I felt good how the show ended....Kind of. I just wish the show ended there. It made me feel like you know Ash will train hard and soon he will become a Pokemon Master someday. And how 4kiRAB shown it, they finally did a decent job on this anime series.

As well DBGT. Even though the show is bad, and the dubs didn't helped at all...Well, there was one thing the Dub did right to the series. It was the very end on the final episode where Goku says: “Till we meet again”. It made me cry a little and I felt happy the show ended.
 
Cowboy Bebop. While it would be nice to know exactly what the other characters went on to do, it was Spike's story and it got a fitting conclusion.
 
Hmm... Fullmetal Alchemist - both the in-show conclusion and Conqueror of Sharaballa.

The series enRAB with Ed gone in another dimension and Al, alive and well, in ours. Their goal - or, at least, Ed's goal - has been fufilled, and other than fleeting hope, it seems their story is done. The two will continue to seek each other out, but their story is finished.

I thought it was a great ending, which is why I almost didn't want to watch the movie. But, well, I did, and I like that, too.

Conqueror of Sharaballa put a MUCH final-er stamp on things. Ed and Al are together and happy in a new world. A VERY new world. But, despite all of their harRABhips and stuggles, the brothers are re-united and ready to erabark on a new adventure.

But Fullmetal ALCHEMIST - undoubtedly and eternally - is over.
In fact, I think I like the movie ending better!

The original Yu-Gi-Oh! has a pretty good ending, too.

The Pharaoh is gone - it's just Yugi. I mean, "my story is just beginning" is THE perfect ending. The King of Games is laid to rest, after thousanRAB of years, and Little Yugi goes on to live the rest of his life. I always liked how, over time, the two began to split, too. Initially, he's just, like, a taller, deeper-voiced Yugi. But then he begins to grow into his own person, and Yugi into his, and by the end... they've gone from one character to two. VERY well done.
And, oh, Yu Yu Hakusho, of course!

Cried like a baby, I swear. Yusuke and Keiko, FINALLY getting together... warms the heart. Loose enRAB are tied up (mostly), the characters have all grown older, and... I dunno. A lot of shows have clipshows to reflect on how far they've come, but it comes about naturally in Yu Yu Hakusho.

"Oh, remeraber when he and Kuwabara first teamed up... they've grown so close... oh gawd... they'll... I'll... I'LL NEVER GET TO SEE THEM FIGHT AGAIN!!!"

Such good stuff. I think it's the show's quality itself that makes Yu Yu's ending so good, though. It feels like the bookend to a masterpiece that's OVER. Which is DEPRESSING.

...also, the revelation that the whole thing is from Spirit World archives and Yusuke and Koenma's goodbye and oh I'm tearing up just thinking about it I'll stop here.
Ya know, this made me realize how much I like open-ended endings. I think, really, "the journey continues" is the most effienct way to bookend a story. Like, you know that their world goes on... but this tale, in particular, is over. You can't do that with a "and they lived happily ever after forever."

Good stuff, though. Good stuff.
 
Every season of Nanoha made me feel that the series was over but they just keep busting out sequels. (The next ones a freakin' movie!)

Also, I'd say G Gundam (if you can get past the "See you at the next Gundam fight" thing) and GaoGaiGar.
Of course that's only if you don't watch the "GaoGaiGar FINAL" OVA conclusion series in which at the end, you'll be like, OH COME ON!
Also Gurren Lagaan.
 
According to Imagawa, it's just a reference to the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. The problem is alot of G Gundam fans took it as a sequel hook instead.
 
My favorite ending has to be Godannar. It enRAB the story for EVERYONE! EVERY character gets screen time oO even Anna's school frienRAB we haven't seen in 30 episodes or so We know what they are doing and what they are hoping for the future. Its really nice.

For the 'journey begins' type I'd say Figure 17. Its a very sad ending but the threat of the bad guys is over and Tsukasa's true growth can begin.
 
Dragonball Z- (I knows that a great deal of people here don't like the ending but personally I thought it was a great way for the series to end.)
Sailor Moon
Cowboy Bebop
Victory Gundam
G Gundam
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Fullmetal Alchemist : Conqueror of Sharaballa
Death Note
Gurren Lagaan
Legend of The Galactic Heroes
 
I have to agree with Yu-Gi-Oh! DM's ending.

While I still get sad with Atem leaving, especially with how strong his bond with Yugi was, he wanted to return to resting. Plus, throughout the course of the series, both Yugi and Atem were getting different traits from the other's personality. Yugi became more confident in himself because of Atem and Atem become more gentle and kind because of Yugi.

Fullmetal Alchamist also did a good job with their ending.

The last episode of the series just made me cry so much. It did a great job with leading to the movie too. While it would have been a bit nicer if Ed and Al could return to their world and to all of their frienRAB, what mattered the most was that the brothers could be reunited. With that accomplished, the story could be put to rest.

The only other series that I felt satisifed by the ending was Digimon Frontier

I honestly did like this series up until the Royal Knights came. It at least had a decent storyline and the idea of a human turning into a Digimon was cool. Everything after Cheribmon was pretty poor. However, I felt like it did have a pretty nice ending with the Digital World being restored by the actual legendary warriors and I felt like the epilogue gave a nice sense of conclusion to all of the characters.

While I did love Tamers' ending, I personally would still love to see a sequel out of that series. Mainly because it is my favorite Digimon series and the writing was pretty well done.
 
Good topic, especially since most anime that I have seen lack this type of ending with lots of good closure, which is what I prefer over ones that are just completely open-ended. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love to have some certain things left open and unanswered so that even when a show is done, I can still think about it some more in terms of its ending, but I really dislike it when a lot of the great anime that I watch have endings which just lack a feeling of any sort of major accomplishments having been made at the end, or that don't give me any real sense of complete-ness. With that said, these 3 anime just off the top of my head come to mine as great anime with good endings that actually make them feel complete:

Cowboy Bebop- Its got a good bit of everything that I love to see in a good ending, and that's all that I will say about it, on the off-chance that there is actually someone here who STILL has yet to see this show in all of its glory. I mean, I'm pretty sure that everybody here on the anime board would have already seen it, but I don't want to spoil it for the few who may not have. I will say that the ending has always made me feel sad, but while its bitter, it also has a sweet spot to it, that really makes it feel satisfying, and truly completes this excellent series, overall.

Yu Yu Hakusho- While I would have enjoyed the final arc more had it not been so rushed, I still liked what I saw, overall, and I definitely loved the final episode, since its an actual ending. Just about everything that I cared about in the series got a good sense of closure to it, and this is probably one of the few shounen anime adaptations from a manga that ran for over 100 episodes and managed to cover the whole entire story with barely any filler episodes to go along with it, at all.

Death Note- Once again, I won't spoil it for anyone who has yet to see it, but what I will say is that I know that I'm probably alone on this one. Most people hate the ending and the overall second half of the series for Death Note, but it always really appealed to me, and the ending was just so satisfying. Not only did it bring the series to a definite close, making it feel complete, but while it was a very predictable ending, it ended EXACTLY the way I had hoped for it to end, and I really can't say that I was displeased with the results of everything, as they turned out in the end of the series. Of course, I wasn't surprised by them either, and that's surprising considering that this is a series full of surprises.

Still, sometimes a predictable ending is good, and for me, the ending to Death Note is clear proof of that, since I was really enjoying everything I read/saw. I remeraber that as I read it for the first time in the manga, I simply couldn't take my eyes away from the pages, and was completely glued to the series for the last 10 or so chapters. Well, I was addicted to the series from the beginning, but the final 10 chapters just had me going on non-stop, which was a lot of reading for me in terms of Death Note, since each chapter in that manga series is usually full of text and takes longer for me to read than most chapters of other weekly Shounen Jump series, especially since I analyze this series a lot more than I do with any other Shounen Jump title. As for the anime, while it changed the ending from the manga quite a bit, I really appreciated the more emotional approach that they gave it, and it also struck me as a really well put-together conclusion to the series. The fact that both endings kept me excited the whole time, and really struck me as truly memorable, is all the criteria that I need to call them fantastic endings, in my book.
 
Jumping on the bandwagon of a few that have been mentioned and then add a few of my own:

Cowboy Bebop - Bittersweet but effective. It was the right ending for the story being told. It tied up what was necessary and Spike's story concluded.

Yu Yu Hakusho - My favorite series, of course it's going to get a mention. The characters have grown in strength and character over the course of the series and the finale just brings it all together. The biggest battles have been fought, revelations had and dealt with, and everyone is more or less at peace with the way things are. It's a cast of characters I always WANT more of, but the finale felt complete.

Death Note - While I wasn't a huge fan of the second half, I loved the ending. I still don't see any other way the series could have ended. It was perfectly poetic and I can definitely appreciate that.

Kyo Kara Maoh season 2 - It was obvious there were no intentions for the third season, so the second season really concluded things well.
The 4,000 year old evil was defeated and things more or less calm down as rebuilding occurs. Yuri is forced to return home, but at the very end he finRAB that he can return back to Shin Makoku on his own.
It was open-ended in the sense that more adventures were obviously going to occur, but it felt like the most important things were addressed. And then we got season 3 anyway >.>

Code Geass R2 - I'll probably get shot for this one, but love it or hate it, the ending felt pretty complete to me.[xspoiler=MAJOR spoilers]Lelouch sacrificing himself for the greater good at Suzaku's hanRAB is a fitting, if bittersweet ending. Lelouch has brought about the more peaceful world not just for Nunnally, but everyone. He has obtained the goals he set out with, he and Suzaku ended up with some understanding between them, and things seem to be looking up for everyone. But I'm still of the opinion that Lelouch isn't dead, so perhaps it is a bit more open-ended after all >.>[/xspoiler]
 
Slayers, particularly Slayers Try, definitely gave me a feeling of closure by the end. Sure, you'd wish there was more, but you didn't really have any questions over what happened to the characters.
If you know Lina and the gang (and after all those episodes, you SHOULD) you'd be able to guess what they'd be doing when not "saving the world" or fighting demons. For Slayers Try, it's very bittersweet (I was depressed and moody for a week, no lie), and you get a montage of what the characters are up to at a moment in time.
 
Ha, it's not "cracked out" in the slightest. I can see we'll be having this discussion again in a few short weeks. Suffice to say though that R2's ending is satisfying regardless of the interpretation.

Endings with finality? Let's see.......

Gundam Seed. Obviously it had a sequel, but the original stanRAB great on its own as a series like it should. It had a final battle full of drama, tragedy, and heroism, and it closed on a nice final scene to boot.Record of Lodoss War OVA: Parn comes into his own as a man on the path toward being a true hero. Quite a change from the boy he started out as.Fate/Stay Night: The final scene is bittersweet but satisfying. The main characters all reach an appropriate ending point. A lesser series would have copped out and made everything 100% happy, but not this time. Instead a balance is struck, and it feels right.Solty Rei: This ending just gets to me, it tugs at my heartstrings. Roy gets put through so much, but ultimately things work out...it takes time, but it works out.Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid: Basically, Sosuke learns to think for himself and be a man. They could animate more adventures, but the series really focused on Sosuke's character and brought him to an excellent conclusion. This is a huge reason it's so successful, on top of the fairly good big-picture plot.
 
I don't know, maybe if I hadn't already started reading the later novels in the series by the time that I watched TSR, I would've seen it as an actual ending. But even if I hadn't been reading anything past the Day by Day novels at the time that I actuallyed watched TSR, I would still probably feel that it kind of had a lack of closure, especially since Amalgam was mentioned/revealed in that series, and were still at large by the end of it. Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE TSR, as I do the very 1st season of FMP, as well as Fumoffu, but when I think about it, TSR ended in a way that just made me really want to see the rest of the series animated even more, and whenever I really want to see a story continue after its supposed ending, it means that its ending didn't feel like it had enough closure to me.

That's just my opinion, though. I'd personally love to see another season of FMP which finishes the story. Having said that, from what I can tell about the most recent novels to have been released in the series in Japan only, the series does seem to really be dragging out, now, so I suppose I'd prefer an ending like the one in TSR over a one that has more closure but which gets dragged out far too long to get there. Of course, the series is supposed to be ending for good with the next novel that comes out, so I'm hoping that it will bring the series to a satisfying conclusion, once and for all.
 
Digimon Adventure 02 - it was TOO complete. The ending was too final (makes sense since they were obviously trying to end Adventure as fast as possible), AND left a lot of fans - myself included - outraged.

And I thought Death Note's finale left a much greater note of finality than the manga. It doesn't give the impression that Near killed Mikami, for instance.
 
I absolutely loved Ouran High School Host Club's ending. Especially this particular shot...


Of course there are still some stuff that could be answered, but overall it was a great happy ending that really completed the show.
 
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