I just finished watch Ghost Hound and maaaan was the ending terrible.
It really started out brilliantly and I felt like it would be like the next Higurashi, but nope, nope, nope. It's where Higurashi could have gone, but didn't.
This explains why I didn't hear anything about it...at all...Maybe a little bit when it first came out, but it's just disappointingly bland...>3>
I don't like mixing my pschological/mystery/thrillers with magical fantasy religious magic magic...It just makes it into a scooby-doo show.
Let me explain why the ending was bad. It was overly rushed. There were so many things that were happening that could probably be explained, but fell too neatly into place and just made it seem so ridiculous. Mud slide on the bad guy's house? Seriously. I understand there was just a typhoon a moment ago, but suddenly a mudslide? And then suddenly the parents all show up and they have a nice time laughing and then we get the credits with them all smiling and it's a happy ending.
What?! So many times during that finale I was holding my head in shock because I couldn't believe, with how the rest of the anime was going, that they would just finish off everything so suddenly. What was the point of watching the show if they're going to do that?
I have a feeling that they were cancelled or stopped short somehow.
Enough about bad endings. This show made me ponder what a good anime finale is. I'd like to make a few recommendations based on that! :D
These are some anime that I have seen that you should definitely watch until the end:
Revolutionary Girl Utena : The fact that the end was kind of left open for more is not a problem here (I usually find a problem with that) mainly because the actual anime they stay in the school and the whole focus is on the school. Leaving it open saying that they would go on away from the school was very hopeful for me. Not only that but it was satisfying because it finished whatever story it was trying to tell, but let it up to you for interpretation. It was also a very beautiful ending.
Shin Sekai Yori: I remember thinking 'How in the world are they going to end this without just rushing it all?' while watching the second to last episode. It was sort of rushed, but the greatness of this ending is that it finally told you what the whole story was and answered the question that was constantly asked throughout the show. This is definitely an anime you should watch all the way through (I think there's one episode you can skip mainly because it just feels like fan service and it's never explained and it made my brain hurt so much 'cause everyone was suddenly homosexual...'orz)
Rozen Maiden Ouverture: It's only 2 episodes! But those episodes were sooooo great!! I think the second and last episode of that season was one of the most beautiful episodes I've ever seen in anime.
Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori: The first season had a pretty good ending, but it felt too personal for the characters? Like ya, that's happening to you guys, but if I didn't care about you then it's pretty much a pointless ending. The third season's ending was...well the whole season was pretty silly and it didn't resolve anything because everything that was resolved was resolved much earlier...O.o;
Futakomori was amazing because of the final episode which I've seen billions of times because it is so great. It is touching and the perfect example of how an anime should end.
Death Note: An example of an anime that ends like it should. I'm very tired of watching anime of manga that is still going on because the end is never satisfying. Why make an anime of the manga if you're not going to end it properly? Well, Death Note was ended properly. On top of that it took out some parts that were in the manga which I thought was wise because that's the different between visual media and written media. Endings you read in books are longer and sum up everything, talk about the future, whatever. Endings in anime shouldn't do that because there's nothing to connect it to, it just seems redundant and the meaning is lost. They didn't do that in Death Note and it all ended perfectly.
Wow, they're all rather depressing series...'orz Most of the anime I can think of with decent endings were happy shows...or just good shows that didn't know how to end.
I would like to list Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, but since we're talking about the last episode...I didn't really like the last episode...I mean, it kept me crying for a really really long time, but if I wasn't upset that much then the next episode would just feel redundant because it was just a in memoriam episode...O.o; Why would I want to watch the next episode if nothing happens?
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I've been trying to tackle my anime list while still working on stuffs! :D Idolling chap 2 is almost done! :D HUZZAH! Only problem, which is kinda big...'cause it requires a lot of work...is that I CAN'T DRAW GUYS! TT^TT Specifically I can't draw their arms...and I have to draw a lot of their arms in this chap.
The only thing left for me to do is draw the pages with a lot of people in them (which is several pages...guhh), ink, screen tone/speech bubbles, done~! :D The lineart part shouldn't take me long at all. Well, it should, but it's tedious and I don't need to use my head so it shouldn't be a bother to me...But the screen toning, I probably will use really basic tones or not much at all mainly because I really want to post it already and because I don't have a good way of toning the pages and if I too the time to make them how I'd like them that would probably take me leik a year...>3>
ADIOS MI AMGIOS! Here's a really catchy H!P song and dance for joo:
