Ending decision that pissed you off the most (not MHA or AoT)

Quintessential quintuplets- I’m sorry, but any critical reader would see that this ending made no sense at all. You don’t toss aside character and relationship development for shock value, that just butchers your characters and ruins your series. Like, it’s so obvious that it was only done for shock value judging by the fact that after the girl was picked it feels like nothing happened and the series just randomly stops without anybody getting a satisfying ending, INCLUDING the girl who “won”. Like, you can’t make the character with the most unresolved problems the winning girl and then end the series without resolving any of those problems. Character assassination I tell you.

Btw, you rly should pick back up unnamed memory, I also hated the decision, but dw, new tinasha and new Oscar are even cuter and they get together very quickly compared to the ogs. The series also gets crazy. Def recommend picking it back up.

Shounen no Abyss

i actually love pretty much everything about the manga. characters were explored thoroughly, art is immaculate, and the plot were uhhh... quite a bit unique to say the least. everything was going great, up until the very last chapter.
you see, in pretty much every other manga and/or anime, you at least could see where everything starts to go downhill. like several chapters before the ending, you notice some dips in quality, whether it's the art or overall writing.
Shounen no Abyss tho, just sends you to a state of shock. everything ruined in a matter of a single chapter. and the very last one at that. i mean, i get which way they're going for, but at least give us some clues damn it.

i dont know man, im just.. mad at it. cant get the right words to explain the dissapointment i have of it (still love it tho).

I love the ending of Nadia and the secret of blue water, but if they just removed the last 5 seconds it would be so much better

Little Busters! (do not watch the last two episodes of the second season)

As someone who love the ending, knew about the end girl before getting into the series, I loved every moments that they get to spend together in the series, Fuutarou is the happiest when he's with her and she is the best pick for Fuutarou. The swing scene where he had the most genuine laugh we've seen is my favorite moment in the entire manga, and guess who's by his side? :)

Yakusoku no Neverland, everybody knows why.

@ShinyLotus
Or drop it halfway through season 2. The entire Refrain arc sucks.

@Lucifrost
I, for one, will not be giving the same advice. Unlike the last two episodes, the rest of the arc actually tells something (new) and builds on already established elements that would lose some of their meaning without it. I can understand not liking the refrain arc because of the change in tone in the context of preferred aesthetics, but in contrast to the last two episodes everything else doesn't cause instability to the narrative (actually the opposite) and it doesn't make prior events obsolete (at least I think going from A to B to A is dumb ... just stay with A or keep on going with B but I am not able to overlay two conflicting emotional states and therefore one of them will be discarded).

Conclusion: make your decision based on how well your tastes align with mine or his (or other people who throw their hat in the ring). Just don't trust people who tell you the last two episodes are good, or I'll be forced to fight side by side with Lucifrost.
And keep in mind cutting EP07+ instead of 12+ will result in situations where parts of the story prior to that will be stripped of their meaning/understanding especially since this anime tells things only to be understood or reinterpreted later on.

@ToG25thBaam Um I am sorry, but no. As much as I love the series, the ending was nothing more than a shock factor. She was not even in the conversation for most part but Haruba, in order to differentiate his story as something else, went for that decision just making all he had built crumble down just like that. Liking an ending is different, and that ending being genuinely good from a writing perspective is different.

@Lucifrost

> To be clear: Saying "it makes previous events obsolete" was kind of silly ... because it's not actually the problem; I got caught between ~it's obsolete itself~ and ~it's not needed to complete other, meaningless elements of previous events~. That's why I don't care that you're copying my stupid argument (apart from the realisation that I'm stupid).
> I actually meant: the last two episodes themselves are oboslete because they fail to: (1) establish anything new [they simply jump back to a past state], (2) tell anything new [they don't use the current state, they just throw it at you], and therefore (3) have no bearing on the understanding of previous events. It would be different if it was shown that the characters have actually changed because

"But I though of a good reason to watch Refrain despite that: To follow it with Kud Wafter!"
I will do it like everytime: I just believe in that the original was butchered by the anime adaption.

@DinoNo1 I don't see it as shock factor, it was obvious from the very beginning looking back. She is the only girl that hasn't had her own character arc and there had to be something reserved for her. Development aside, best girl does not equate best for the MC. You can claim whoever you want as the best girl, but there is only one for Fuutarou, and she's the right girl. If you knew who the end girl was right from the very beginning, you can see the hints dropped throughout the series. Remember when Fuutarou was resting on her lap when he was sick, and she confessed to him, and caught him by surprised? That's also one of my favorite moment in the series, and the breadcrumbs were always there from the beginning, it was just so lowkey that most fans didn't realize it. Fuutarou always had his attention on her, unlike the other girls where he's the center of attention for them.

Are you saying the Kud Wafter game is better than the anime? I hope to play it if it is ever translated.

I love the ending of Nadia and the secret of blue water, but if they just removed the last 5 seconds it would be so much better

@Guilmon1 you said because of

@rodmanii yes... It's sad because it was one of the cutest parts of the show before that...

@Guilmon1 true, it was so strange and unnecesary, but otherwise the ending was perfect.

@ToG25thBaam if you need prior knowledge about a series in order for it to be enjoyable, that’s bad writing. And no, it’s not obvious at all from the very beginning. All of the girls besides Itsuki have many hints and moments that could show that they’re the endgame girl. Reread Scrambled Eggs and tell me that’s not a “hint” that Miku is endgame. There are many other hints that I could get into, but if you’re main point is “with knowledge of the ending it’s actually a good manga”, then it should be pretty obvious that the ending is terribly written. As somebody who was reading the manga back while it was airing, everyone believed that Yotsuba was a side character, because she never plays a real role in ANY arc of the series until the very end. People claim that she “helped fuutarou the most”, which is also false since Miku and Itsuki do way more for him throughout the series. Like, if one scene on the swings is all you’ve got, then wtf r we doing here man. It made so little sense to the readers of the manga and the analysts that Yotsuba was chosen that there was a 100 page theory trying to prove that Negi was trying to bait us which was made AFTER she was already chosen. If your readers think that the final decision your MC made in a romance manga was a bait, then you’ve failed as a romance writer, simple as that.

Btw here’s the theory of your interested. Reading it makes you realize just how dogs hit the ending truly was and the wasted potential negi gave up for shock value.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJEfaBMdNVsHgYsuWJ7yBOHQwgn6VWNecv6KT47xc-0/edit

Everyone was upset about the last two episodes of the TV series «Neon Genesis Evangelion».

But I was really thrilled by that introspection and verbalized contemplation. Those two episodes that dismantled the fourth wall were by far what made that work a different level of existence. The movie version and the new movie version were also efforts, but they went back to a conservative approach.

Immediately afterward, a number of follower works appeared. It is inevitable that none of them have caught up with their predecessor, but I would like to thank «Eva» for providing the special pleasure of appreciation by discriminating which ones were "comprehended" and which ones were "failed in a know-it-all attitude."

@Eliman613 I never said you needed prior knowledge, I just said that was my experience. I said that there are hints dropped throughout the series that make a lot of sense looking back that give the end pair a lot of legitimacy.

Yeah she just happened to be the one left out, not like it was intentional to make the final arc about her or anything. Every other sisters had their own story arc, makes a lot of sense for Yotsuba to not have any, right? Come on, man. Also her not taking the main role of any of the arc is literally the purpose of her story arc.

I tried reading this, and I stopped before "Miku vs Everyone", realizing I don't remember much details from the series at all. However, I did some digging and found out that this google doc was shared on r/MikuNakano by clearly a Miku supporter, and found another google doc that is longer, but arguing a case for Yotsuba instead.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o8JbWk5SalcNZqAPXQdIfwfG7G3pgzQS/view

At the end of the day, you could find inconsistency or intentional diversion to keep the mystery going until the end, but fans of the girls are going to make their own case, and they wouldn't be wrong. It is also very obvious that Yotsuba is reserved for the last arc, as you said, she's the only girl that hasn't got much spotlight, what are the chances that the mangaka had no plan for her character when all the other girls had one?