[Luppi-tan]

Okay, so this topic is somewhat self explanatory. What do you think were the worst anime endings in the history of anime endings? Personally, I thought that the ending of Fruits Basket SUCKED! I don't know about any of you, but the ending to the Fruits Basket anime made me wanna puke. Unfortunately, the anime itself wasn't much better, though the manga was amazing. One anime that I did like was Howl's Moving Castle. I hated the ending, though. It was way too cliche for my taste.

[scarmullet]

Kite

The guy gets randomly shot by a kid after all him and Sawa went through together get away from being Assassins.

on another note, Kite Liberator, IT ENDS JUST LIKE The SOPRANOS! (Just not in mid sentence).

[Luppi-tan]

Ah, you're a fan of A Clockwork Orange.
Personally, I despised the ending of the Elfen Lied anime, where he's walking out to the front yard to see who's at the gate, and then the clock starts working again (good symbolism) and then as the clock is ringing noon, it goes to a black screen that says "Das Ende"

[abyssion1337]

I disagree, Elfen Lied had a fantastic ending

and this doesn't seem like a very good thread idea

[Filleraol]

I've seen so many animes with bad endings Dx this brings back bad memories
The most recent one is D.gray-man ...It ended just as Inuyasha did..
Inuyasha seems to have been picked up again tho, now when the manga has finished (i think) and is gonna be continued starting this fall or winter...I hope the same thing happens to D.gray-man in the future
Don't care too much anymore tho...kinda hate the show after that bad "ending"

[abyssion1337]

but Inuyasha's ending wasn't actually an ending

[Luppi-tan]

Well, I'm sorry that you don't like this thread idea, but since it seems like you rarely have anything nice to say to me, I don't take it personally. However, I do appreciate your opinion on the Elfen Lied anime. Personally, though, I think the manga's ending really beat the crap out of the anime's ending. For the anime, it was like they were leaving you on a cliffhanger so that they could introduce a second season later. Since a second season obviously didn't come, it seems rather pointless to have left us at a cliffhanger. Of course, this is just my opinion.

[abyssion1337]

I thought it was ambiguous enough to work and I do enjoy ambiguity

[Luppi-tan]

Ambiguity can work if they plan to leave you hanging for sales purposes. Like Elfen Lied. If they wanted to make sure that everyone was going to buy the second season, had they decided to make one, I would have completely agreed that it was a good idea to leave a cliffhanger so that more people would buy the second season. As they had no intention to clear up the ambiguity, it seems, in my opinion to be ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity, and personally, I'm not a fan of that kind of thing. In fact, I'm not really much of a fan of anything for it's own sake.

[NodMan]

Great Teacher Onizuka.

[abyssion1337]

Ambiguity can work if they plan to leave you hanging for sales purposes. Like Elfen Lied. If they wanted to make sure that everyone was going to buy the second season, had they decided to make one, I would have completely agreed that it was a good idea to leave a cliffhanger so that more people would buy the second season. As they had no intention to clear up the ambiguity, it seems, in my opinion to be ambiguity for the sake of ambiguity, and personally, I'm not a fan of that kind of thing. In fact, I'm not really much of a fan of anything for it's own sake.

I disagree with that sentiment, from an art point of view ambiguity is phenomenal also it wasn't actually much of a cliffhanger really besides while I don't hat finality it can be pretty boring

[acutekat]

abyss i think you are an intelligent and reasonable human being

[abyssion1337]

that's kinda stupid

[acutekat]

well if you say so

[abyssion1337]

well aren't we a bit funny, not bad but next time don't join the discussion if you can't be bothered to be mature enough to take criticism

[acutekat]

hey man you set it up perfectly


absolutely perfectly it was fantastic


i got a screen shot




edit:

for those of you just joining us i had mentioned that all endings kind of sucked

to which abyss replied that, that was kinda stupid

in which my response was to edit my post to what you see know

hilarity ensueing

-to defend my point

almost always when something ends it doesn't do so in a fashion i like
it takes a fantastic writer to make me like the ending
usually it just ends up being mediocre

[abyssion1337]

not exactly, and making a generalized statement like that wasn't very smart; it just sounds stupid, make sure to elaborate otherwise people will think you're just an idiot

[acutekat]

generalized statements sum up greater arguements in smaller areas, granite mine wasn't the best generalization i could have made however i still say i don't like endings

its just the way people go about them that just turns me off

[abyssion1337]

I disagree, I think that if it's vast enough to be called generalized then it only leaves large holes in any argument

[acutekat]

you'll always leave holes in arguments no matter what

[abyssion1337]

not necessarily

[acutekat]

oh yes if an arguement is to have a point then it has information so vast that one cannot possibly cover in such an argument nor completely accurately

[abyssion1337]

no, I've had arguments of mere facts, where one person is clearly right and the other just mistaken or so clearly denying the truth to not be wrong

[acutekat]

true but when you go into deeper and mor philisohpical discussion it starts getting muddled


i've made my final point i suggest you do the same

im ending my arguement i have my opinion you have yours and thats the way it shall remain

[abyssion1337]

I wouldn't call this an argument, we've mostly only agreed on things

[acutekat]

an argument is a set of one or more meaningful declarative sentences (or "propositions") known as the premises along with another meaningful declarative sentence (or "proposition") known as the conclusion. A deductive argument asserts that the truth of the conclusion is a logical consequence of the premises; an inductive argument asserts that the truth of the conclusion is supported by the premises. Deductive arguments are valid or invalid, and sound or not sound. An argument is valid if and only if the truth of the conclusion is a logical consequence of the premises and (consequently) its corresponding conditional is a necessary truth. A sound argument is a valid argument with true premises.

and so we argue

[abyssion1337]

you're too technical with things, I don't call this an argument because of the connotation the word argument carries, it is however a debate

[acutekat]

ok ill give you that

in my rule book debate and arguement are about the samething

[abyssion1337]

again you subscribe to a technical world, things for me aren't based on external definitions

[acutekat]

well thats just what makes us different and unique now doesn't it?

[abyssion1337]

please don't say "different and unique"

[acutekat]

why bring back bad memories or something?

stupid post delay

[abyssion1337]

because 'different and unique' is completely redundant

[acutekat]

not entirely you can be different but not unique (like the goths or emos or valley girls or whatever) i might be convinced that different is superfluous

[abyssion1337]

yes you can be different without being unique however you cannot be unique without being different, that's why it's redundant to use them together, don't test me when it comes to language

[acutekat]

ill come up with a case in which you are unique and yet not different you'll see

*storms off

[Luppi-tan]

Unique and different have been known to be used interchangeably. However, they do not mean exactly the same thing. You can be different without being unique. However, uniqueness implies that it is one of a kind, so therefore Unique is always different from anything else out there.

[abyssion1337]

thanks professor cause that wasn't already explained in the last couple of posts

[acutekat]

i have it

if you and someone you know have the exact same nose you two are to be said to have a unique similarity (since no one else has the exact same nose as another) ;HOWEVER, in this case you are not different but in fact the same

point proven back on topic


I really did not like the ending to the full meatal alchemist series (the first one)

it left too many loose ends

[abyssion1337]

I wouldn't say too many holes and the few they did leave were covered in the movie

[acutekat]

but they left it so it looked like a sequal would follow when none did i was ticked off

[animefan900]

i think a lot of anime/manga companies try to leave their products with at least a slightly cliffhanger ending to make the fans come up with their own creative after-story. I absolutely HATE that idea but i suppose for some people its not so bad. I also hate endings that ruin the moment such as inukami. They were finaly happy together in the end and they just HAD to ruin the moment by making Youko angry and exploding Keita's cloths off once again *sigh* why can't more anime end like Full Metal Panic or Chobits that end with a good mood that you were hoping would come in the end?

[abyssion1337]

they had planned on the movie finishing it off, which it did