[Xander]

Spoiler for final arc, speculation:

The series is too dark already for any completely happy ending to happen at this point and we also have to consider that BeeTrain is not shy about bittersweet endings...whatever happens, someone will probably have to pay some sort of price in exchange for someone else's happiness.

I just can't see everyone going home to a life of peace and quiet or leaving the personal conflicts unresolved for another time. That's hard to imagine.

Not likely to happen in most of the game's endings and not in any reasonable anime original ending.

Not that I don't want all the main characters to be happy, including Ein who never was my favorite character to begin with although the anime made me like her a little more, but it's hard to see that happening without an artificial compromise.

I don't think the argument about DVD sales is something that can be trusted without more information about how endings affect those sales. Also, promotional posters and covers don't really mean much.

Still...there's always the game, after all, if I want to see something different from whatever the studio chooses to do, so here's hoping the result is at least well executed.

Hoping for an ending worth watching even if it's not the one I personally prefer.