the ending honestly seemed perfect to me for the simple fact that the philosophy of the anime was interpreted perfectly, I have never seen an ending that was so perfect. The main philosophy/theme of the anime is the monster that is inside all of us, the monster that can fully control us...but what if we are actually the monster? What if in fact no one controls us, what if in fact the real answer is that each person has 2 sides of the same coin that he controls?This is one of the many philosophies of the anime, the fact that we all have pure control over the monster, but people don't want to accept that... if you kill a person and feel sorry/guilty, you start to become paranoid and say that it's not you who pulled the trigger, that's just pure denial, just like everyone denies the horrible actions that they carried out. Why? Probably because they believe that only the moral half exists, and the other dark half is just an illusion, but no, the illusion is their perception towards themselves, towards their true self. that's what I liked the most about the anime, the interpretation of the philosophy and the ending interpreted the philosophy perfectly. That's why I love the ending more than the anime itself. the message sent by the author is that there will always be shadows as long as there is light, that there will always be a well-balanced balance between good and evil, and Tenma and Johan are the human manifestations of these philosophies, they are 2 sides of the same coin, they are very different but also very similar, that's why it's also my favorite dynamic (in all of fiction) and the ending proves the author's message because at the end Johan's soul was saved, he realized that human nature can be disgusting, ugly but at the same time also beautiful, he realised this because of the fact that tenma saved him even though his goal was to kill him...why did he do it? Because he is a doctor, he saves lives, not extinguish them. But Johan didn't believe that, he thought that the monster could eat the man, but the monster didn't eat Tenma, Tenma ate the monster. Since Johan realizes that his perception towards human nature is not the embodied truth he changes. Johan always perceived himself as the "unwanted child" of the world, and Tenma saving him had a huge impact on him and my interpretation is that this impact shattered his nihilistic view upon life. That's why i think that now Johan is a different person, at least my theory is that the monster became human and now the story starts from 0 Johan wants to go on a different path from now on...not on the path of light, not on the path of darkness, on the path between them, the balanced one. And this is how Naoki Urasawa made a perfect ending, interpreting the purpose of the anime in a perfect way. |