2012-08-17, 02:41 | Link #42 |
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It made perfect sense!
See, if everyone's dead, you don't have to worry about unresolved plots, character developments, epilogue, or any of that nonsense mess. All clean!
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2012-08-19, 05:43 | Link #45 |
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it's the anime by which I judge all bad endings Chrno Crusade: Though the ending itself was very fitting and memorable, the final fight was one of the biggest letdowns I've ever seen
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2012-08-19, 13:12 | Link #46 | ||
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Spoiler for Clannad AS:
Virtually everyone I've pointed the show to has failed to understand the ending on their own. I love the show but even I can understand that the ending is a major black spot on an otherwise brilliant track record. Spoiler for Clannad AS again:
/end rant Contributing something more to the thread than just ranting over Clannad let me add the End of the East finale. The original show was great and kept me on the edge of my seat but the final movies just felt like they rushed through not just the story but also the writing itself. It felt like they just gave up and winged something to end the show. I can't contribute much more because an ending is such an important thing that unless the show is very recent I tend to forget the details of the one's that disappointed me the most. A memorable ending it half of what it takes to get me to remember a show so I'm a bit at a disadvantage here.
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2012-09-26, 15:22 | Link #48 |
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I guess you could say WTF to both of these entire shows but my votes for WTF ending go to:
Noein Ergo Proxy (really, WTF to this weird, weird show. After it was over, I had to read a concise synopsis to eve undertand what the hell I had just seen. Also I saw this series new, week by week, not all at once, so it was doubly confusing.) Also, surprised nobody has mentioned Serial Experiments Lain. This show set an incredibly high benchmark for confusing 90's techno-babble. Probably the reason that shows like the above were made. |
2012-09-26, 16:39 | Link #49 |
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Serial Experiments Lain had a pretty wacky way of presenting itself, but I felt the ending was rather straightforward.
Proxy is much, much more confusing, especially near the end, but I don't really think it was incomprehensible. I still don't get many of the exact details, but I do get the message. A lot of what I listed above simply fail in both delivery and message.
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2012-09-26, 17:23 | Link #52 | |
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But if the criterion is just, endings that failed, then I guess my vote goes to Soul Taker. I guess i a literal way, I understood what happened at the end but... Spoiler for Soul Taker's end:
It was a neat anime, but it really didn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense. This is a common theme with 90's and early 2000's mecha mystery shows. Betterman is another example of this. Arguably, so is Big O Last edited by CrowKenobi; 2012-09-26 at 21:09. Reason: fixed spoiler tag |
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2012-09-28, 08:07 | Link #54 | |
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2012-09-28, 15:11 | Link #56 | |
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Baffling in my mind is like making me think "Why the fuck did you do this?". That would be a complete failure of communication between me and the show, thus baffling me. Anyhow, as for Serial Experiments Lain Spoiler:
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2012-09-28, 16:00 | Link #58 |
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My favorite is the incredibly random bad end to a super robot show from the 80's called Blue Fixer Baldios. After it wad cancelled they decided the best way to end it would be too have the bad guy launch these probes that melt the polar ice caps and destroy the earth while the main characters look on in stunned silence doing nothing. No final showdown, just bad guy presses the i win button and end credits.
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2012-09-29, 17:50 | Link #60 |
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Ergo Proxy was one of those anime where I was like "wtf is going on" the first time through. Watching it a second time, it all mostly made sense, however.
Anime that has me going "wtf" regardless of how many times I've seen them? Well, honestly, none. Google tends to answer any questions I have if I still have no idea what's going on after the fifth time watching something. I will say that it is an incredibly rare anime ending that I actually really liked. While I get that in real life, things don't just conveniantly end, I don't think it's that much to ask for real conclusions in a work of fiction.
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