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| 11 pages of people saying the same damn thing and 0 explanations. This is dumb. |
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| I thought this anime was going in an okay direction but that ending was an absolute train-wreck. How is everyone alive? |
KumoKyu said: 11 pages of people saying the same damn thing and 0 explanations. This is dumb. Can't explain things that had no reason to happen. Do you really think anyone could actually explain why everyone was alive in the end, or why Haru's titanium ribs miraculously diverted Tokaku's knife? |
| ^ Yeah like Tokaku would not feel a titanium rib xD. Eh? I was about to give it a 9.. but everyone alive? I'll keep it on 8 like this... And only because I really like Nio, Haru and Tokaku. The story itself was awesome until almost the very end... which ruined it. |
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| Whoa was that bad! Seriously, you can't pull such a bs ending, you just can't. T_T |
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KumoKyu said: 11 pages of people saying the same damn thing and 0 explanations. This is dumb. You want explanations of why they're alive? It might be far fetched but probably goes like this: Tokaku didn't notice she stabbed the titanium bone of Haru because it was her first kill, and of a loved one at that. Her mind was too clouded with various feelings and thoughts so her perception was momentarily weakened. Nio was in her Tokaku form when stabbed, so what seemed like her heart would be something else in reality. Hitsugi is alive because the knife didn't cause any lethal wounds. Considering there was no real aiming and she pushed herself onto the knife it does make some sense. Chitaru drank poison, but we don't know anything about it. The poison was found inside Hitsugis bear, and as Hitsugi only kills when necessary it's reasonable to assume the bear was loaded with non-lethal poison (like going around with tear gas for self-defense). The lethal stuff was probably located elsewhere. I like happy endings, but in all honesty I would probably have preferred if they just ended the episode when Tokaku said she had a wish, but that it was too late now. This just felt too out of place. |
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| ...What the hell, lol.Seriously, this 1 episode ruined everything that was build up in previous episodes.Im going to give it 6/10, only for nice characters (Nio♥ especially), great OP and EDs + not bad OST, and quite interesting fight scenes.I do not want second season tho. |
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| man, such a WTF ending... |
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| That ending... ? I suppose it was a happy ending for those two. I kinda wish it was tragic ending instead eh but yeah wow. |
The higher I get , The lower I'll sink. |
| Shit ending for a shitty show. 5/10. |
| My random theory to explain the ending is the wish. They did say that one wish can be granted no matter what didn't they? So maybe Tokaku used the wish to get everyone back alive.. that's really my only explanation at how half of them survived getting stabbed or drinking posion. |
| Everyone is alive, yay. |
| Wait... Nobody died..? ._. |
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| Oh my god -.- and the episode actually started somewhat promising. Tokaku goes nuts and then even kills Haru and Nio. "Wow", I thought, "this is great, sad but as a story great and...... wait why is Haru alive... and Nio.............. AND EVERYONE ELSE??!!" Seriously what a pathetic fake out, very disappointing. |
AllsissJun 21, 2014 10:11 PM
KumoKyu said: 11 pages of people saying the same damn thing and 0 explanations. This is dumb. I think I did explain it earlier... It makes more sense if you interpret everything after the fadeout at 14:45 to be Haru's hallucination/dream as she lay dying in the ambulance. Everything her dying wish is somewhat unrealistic but is what Haru desired; Her surviving the black class and graduating, her remaining friends with Tokaku, and her classmates still alive and well. The fade to black/fade to white of the two endings helped with the difference ;p. But then again, we can be overthinking this like the indoctrination theory in Mass Effect and it may just be a crappy ending even with the explaination OVA afterwards. XD p.s. "Therefore, the world is full of ___", "bull" |
zephiris said: KumoKyu said: 11 pages of people saying the same damn thing and 0 explanations. This is dumb. I think I did explain it earlier... It makes more sense if you interpret everything after the fadeout at 14:45 to be Haru's hallucination/dream as she lay dying in the ambulance. Everything her dying wish is somewhat unrealistic but is what Haru desired; Her surviving the black class and graduating, her remaining friends with Tokaku, and her classmates still alive and well. The fade to black/fade to white of the two endings helped with the difference ;p. But then again, we can be overthinking this like the indoctrination theory in Mass Effect and it may just be a crappy ending even with the explaination OVA afterwards. XD p.s. "Therefore, the world is full of ___", "bull" That is the only way any of that makes sense. I mean a couple of those people could have survived but the tall girl and the loli were most definitely dead. Cyborg girl got dropped off a skyscraper.Those three should have definitely been dead. |
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| Well, everyone surviving is a bit anticlimactic 7/10 overall |
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| So a assassin show has no dead victims and a happy ending? Not something I expected, but it was a decent show. The thing that bothered me the most was that the show was about assassins, but that there wasn't a mysterious aura to it. Felt a bit to predictable at times. All in all, still a good show. 7/10 |
| Okay.... mind officially = fucked..... What the hell was that?!?! That was the worst cop-out I have ever seen in the history of anime! The Romeo and Juliette couple shouldn't be there. Neither should Queen Bee candidate, unless she's now 99.5% cyborg..... Yeah, there were some that didn't seem to deserve to die, but when you kill them off in the show, they're suppose to stay dead! There is no room for a season 2, but you know what I think they should do to further troll the fans? They should make a "Hunger Games" Parody where all the assassins are sitting in a studio being interviewed by Nio or something, because hell given that sort of ending, that's EXACTLY what they should do! Bleh... I'm keeping my score for the overall bad-ass-ness of this show, but this show really doesn't deserve this ending.... |
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| I just realized Tokaku didn't kill Haru so she didn't get her wish :O lol so much for that |
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| SERIES - WTF FINAL EPISODE - WTF ^ 2 |
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| I KNEW IT WAS NIO DISGUISED AS TOKAKU MUAHAHA! The ending was basically the upset of the build up from this dark series of death and killing - which is why everyone seems to be flabbergasted. That IS if the ending was true, there could be some theories explaining otherwise. I don't think it was a horrible ending, it was for the sake of having a happy ending to have that feel good moment in a series, albeit not having good results. I enjoyed it for more the art, animation, sound, while the plot had an interesting premise, it was ultimately ruined by the ending - but I did like it I won't lie. The ED scene was so pretty. :3 |
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| Some who are supposedly sure to be dead are alive all along? O-kay... |
| ok we must admit it was an enjoyable anime, however... it was way too repetitive with the hole "assassin of the week" and "i will protect you" thing didn't like that everyone misteriously survived, and that is one of the main reasons for people not "buying it" 7/10 |
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| I HATE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WHO THINK THIS IS A GOOD ANIME. This is a the greatest example of how to ruin a series in 5 minutes. I don't even have the words to describe how shitty this is I have lost my beautiful time watching this MAJESTIC PIECE OF S H I T Fuck your happy ending BULLSHIT! IMA kill my parrot right after this |
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| This. Was. Awful. I don't even- what did I just watch?! Maybe I'm just stupid, but this made no sense!!!! I just didn't get it- so Tokaku killed Haru? But she, as well as everyone else are alive? Like, I'm pretty sure we all saw Chitaru and Hitsugi die...did time reverse, or did they just miraculously survive? 0_o Man, I'm so bummed! I was so looking forward to this series, it looked awesome! But the pacing was all wrong, the characters got near to no development and it just seemed all over the place... -_- Music was awesome tho!! Oh yeh, and not to mention why was there that random kiss, was the show trying to go with a Tokaku x Haru pairing? I found it a little odd that it wasn't even mentioned afterwards...the whole pool thing was kinda like the pool kiss in Strawberry panic tho lol XD |
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| ^ As for Haru, it is said in the episode she had titanium in her ribs which let her survive the stab. Chitatu/Hitsugi being alive felt too anti-climatic in my opinion, but we don't know more about that. why was there that random kiss To let Tokaku breath, it didn't feel random at all to me, unless you mean something else. |
| A nice series with an ending too "happy" to my taste. Some of them surviving was kind of BS to me. |
| Tokaku just wished for everyone to be alive so meh That series was somehow expected like that, even though the real part of it was only episode 11, story development .. meh tension .. just a little in the late series characters .. somehow weak, too predictable ending .. somehow predictable too, considering the characters and directing ==> I guess it's like all about battle scenes, which were animated well and the art/music, I somewhat like it |
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kawaii-despair said: doesn't make it any better.Sourire said: yeah this was as bad as Danganronpa, maybe even worse.. The difference is,AnR had everyone to survive in the end,in DR there were only 6 survivors and everyone else really died. |
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| Although the ending is "happy" but it is still outof my thought.How..... just HOW can Hitsugi and Chitaru and Hanabusa survive, also Nio? I really wonder. I am dissapointed about the ending. Yes, the ending is awaste of the character setting, it could be better if the staff deleted those needless scenes, since it can spare more time to detail the plot and characters. Also, if the staff has enough budget to make one ED per episode they should really make 24 episodes. I hope the manga can give a different ending. |
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| Yep, I call bullshit on that ending Really, I would need a Nio focused spin-off to forgive this trainwreck... Ah heck, an OVA would probably do the trick ~osuu |
| Well that was a disappointing ending. |
 All that, and that's the ending they go with? I was hoping for a yoshimitsu type ending. Tokaku using the sword to stab herself and haru with one blow. In the beginning, I said this anime had a dangan ronpa feel to it. I must apologize to the writers of dangan ronpa. I disgraced their work. |
| great anime ending was strange i didn't "hate" it but it wasm't what i was expecting >.> 8/10 |
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| Well... that ultimate happy ending was just disgusting... After all that this is how it ends? :/ Everyone survives and pretty much becomes a better person. Of course. I mean it's not like I expected much from this anime, but this was even worse. Underdeveloped characters, plot that doesn't actually goes anywhere, not even the action scenes were anything above average... I would have given it a 5-6/10, but with such a lame ending it gets a 4/10 :( |
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| Wasn't the OVA confirmed to be pure fanservice with no depth whatsoever? I wouldn't go and expect a explanation to any of this, apart from the Q&A (which I'm unsure whether it already happened or not) in which they usually like to subtly dodge the answers they know they can't answer to. |
| wtf is this bullshit? you can't just kill haru and throw in titanium ribs like that. seriously, i feel so trolled. |
| Ending was unexpected and kinda crappy imo. I'll give it a 7/10. That's being generous if anyone's wondering. |
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| Why didn't anyone actually die? Le sigh. -__- *deleted* |
| Final episode was messed up, it didnt really feel satisfying. Decent series. There wasnt anything great about the series though. The anime was kinda flat throughout. Only thing that was good about the show was probably the numerous ED. 5/10 |
| Tokaku vs Haru! I thought that Tokaku using a katana was weird lol, since all she used were knives and pistols O.o I guess that's Nio using a power to look like Tokaku. Guess I was right lol, that's Nio using her black arts. Hmm, did Haru and Nio really die? So both are alive and kicking in the end lol. Once again... poor sensei T.T It's nice to see that all of girls are alive and well but... Isuke's mother is the that guy and her father another guy lol? Well it's great that Tokaku and Haru are together. |
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