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So much potential was wasted on that ending.
The whole story just degenerates at the end to a disappointingly anticlimactic ending, since it turns out the whole time the main character knew what the audience wasn't allowed to know until the end. This is the most annoying kind of storytelling, which only serves to mock the audience rather than create any tension. Then again, by the end the director of Blood-C had abandoned all pretense of giving a fuck and just served up a bunch of random gratuitous bloodshed for no apparent reason. If this sounds at all familiar, it should. This director seems to like mocking the audience, the son of a bitch.
Another is an example of a series which was less than the sum of it's parts. Combining equal parts Stephen King, John Saul, Corpse Party, Higurashi, Final Destination, and eyepatch moe should have resulted in something glorious. Instead, it ended up being kind of flat, and I'm not talking about Mei's DFC here. It was certainly well-animated and the art design was top-notch, and the show really took pains with it's nicely crafted soundscape. It's too bad the story ended up trainwrecking at the end after most of the series was spent setting up something that should have been quite awesome but decidedly wasn't.
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