Anime With Crappy Endings (Rant)

Anybody who's watched a decent amount of anime has probably come across this fact that a lot of endings really suck...a lot. And some are just really damn frustrating. I know this is probably a dangerous topic to cover considering the possible spoilers, but I'll do my best to avoid em or warn for them or something. And if you're really that paranoid, skip over the section on any given anime you may be still watching or planning to watch. If you fail to do so, don't cry to me.

But anyway, my dissapointment with anime endings started pretty early in my anime-watching craze seeing as how the first anime I finished was FullMetal Alchemist and to put it bluntly, without the movie, the first series ending sucked...a lot. In fact it sucked dirty monkey dick, it was terrible -.- Thank god it had the movie to redeem it.

Not only did it leave off at a semi random spot, but who the hell thought it was a good idea to end the series with (SPOILER!!!) Al freaking losing any memory of everything that went on the past 50 episodes making it all worthless as far as his character goes! Then Ed becoming all angsty and getting stuck in an alternate dimention with seemingly no hope of getting back. But even that didn't bother me as much as Al becoming an amnesiac, that just takes the cake as far as suckish ways to end go. Well, it would if it wasn't for the movie anyway. (END SPOILER!!!)

The movie did redeem the suck-ass ending quite a lot by fixing the two aforementioned issues. That and unlike most anime movies it was in fact pretty entertaining, though I still say the series as a whole could've seriously benefited from a better ending...and not making Al so damn angsty then even MORE so in the movie -.-

Probably even worse of an ending than FMA is that of Spiral. Every single episode apart from the last few minutes of the last episode when the show was supposedly "wrapping up" (not really) was amazing!

However when it sadly came time for this great mystery/psychological thriller jewel of an anime to come to an end...it was rushed and there were so many lose ends left hanging it would be endless fun for the worlds entire population of cats!

Pretty much all the questions established at the beginning of the series and constantly asked over and over throughout the series...are left unanswered at the end. Now I don't pretend to be an expert, but aren't endings supposed to resolve the questions?

The questions of who are the Blade Children? What's so special about them? Why are they hunted? Whats the deal with Kiyotaka? Where is he? How did the Blade Children come to be? None of this is ever answered in the anime, as far as I know the manga explores it, but the anime cuts off far too early and abruptly.

Not to say this isn't a great anime and if you're into mystery it's totally worth the watch, it's an awesome anime, but the ending is toxic crap on a skewer.

While we're on the topic of ending abruptly without much closure we have Air Gear which did this in not a "What just happened?" way, not a "Ok...I still don't get this" way as in Spiral, but a sort of "That's it? I wanted more" kind of way, which is a little annoying if you're aware that the manga takes the story much deeper and it's still ongoing.

Despite the ecchi (not to the level where its particularly obnoxious though) this is actually a really great anime, its fun, its original, its action-packed, its funny and most of the characters are likeable...most of them XD And all are believable.

However, the ending was simply too abrupt and they left out soooooooooo much. I mean I really wanted to see (SPOILER!!!) Spitfire die and Kazu become Flame King...as cool as Spitfire is. I wanted to see more of Emily and Yayoi, I wanted to see what happened with Simca (or Pinky as I called her) since she more or less dissapeared. Among a bunch of other things (END SPOILER!!!) they just left out a ton of good stuff.

Personally I think this needs a second season...a LONG second season that goes right up till the manga ends. I know I'd definately watch it, even if they kicked up the ecchi a teeny bit, it was so great a show that I'd still watch it.

Lastly because I don't feel like ranting anymore and I actually feel like going to watch some anime, I'll mention Death Note because that ending bothered me a lot too.

In my-not-so-humble-opinion, Death Note is one of the greatest, most genius anime works of all time and still to this day one of my favorites (I have a hard time choosing absolute favorites) and it would be absolutely perfect if it weren't for the, yep, you guessed it, drumroll please:....Shitty-ass ending!

It's not even so much that the ending was particularly bad like the others, it's that I personally wasn't happy with it so I suppose this one could be argued a lot both ways.

However I'm personally on the side of Kira, and I like Light better as a character and he's much more of a genius than L, Mello or Near will ever be. (SPOILER!!!) The only reason he lost (which is what pissed me off and made me hate the ending) was because Mikami messed up Light's otherwise perfect plan! It's not that Light made any mistake and it's not as if he was outsmarted; that little bitch Near simply got a lucky break. (END SPOILER!!!)

I personally was just extremely dissatisfied with the ending, especially in the manga because then Light turns into a freaking whiney little pansy-puss! At least in the anime he has a fighting chance, but NOOOO, heaven forbid that, Ryuk had to go and mess it up for him again!

To top that all off I really cant stand Near and everybody in the SPK, L was cool, but Near...oh God Near needs to be shot -.- (SPOILER!!!) I mean Kira wound up forming a religion for heavens sake!...Or well a religion formed around him. The global crime rate had dropped 70% by the end of the series because of him and wars had stopped, people turned good and there was essentially world peace! And you still call Light evil?! How?! If anything Near and the SPK are the evil ones because once they had Light killed, it's their fault the world went back to the crappy crime-ridden place it had been. (END SPOILER!!) IMO Near and the SPK are the real criminals! Pfft, upholding justice my ass! I think they were just afraid of being out of a job soon if Light continued. ...God I sound like a crazed lunatic XD

Either way, can't change how it turned out, all I can do is simply rant about how angry the turn-out made me, that goes for all the anime here and all the others with crap endings.