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Why Does Anime Constantly End at Cliffhangers?

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What's that one anime where a samurai dude loses an arm and it was dark as shit? Yeah that one ended on nothing and annoyed me to shit, apparently it has a manga though.

Google thank you, it's Shigurui, I don't remember it being that violent jeez it's like a Samurai Ichi the Killer.
 
Akahige said:
What's that one anime where a samurai dude loses an arm and it was dark as shit? Yeah that one ended on nothing and annoyed me to shit, apparently it has a manga though.

Google thank you, it's Shigurui, I don't remember it being that violent jeez it's like a Samurai Ichi the Killer.
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The Manga ending is no better.

It doesn't end so much as, stop. Think ME3.
 
I looked at the pictures and decided I wouldn't bother looking into it anyways, I don't have much interest in violence like that like I did as a teenager when I saw the anime but thanks for the heads up.
 
For the record, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood has the most satisfying ending of all time.

Such a great way to end a series.
 
ShemhazaiX said:
I just want to take this time to say "Screw you, Hunter X Hunter anime".

They knew they couldn't finish the series due to catching up with the manga, and yet they STILL decide to introduce the other world stuff AND tease Kurapika stuff in the very last episode.

I hate whoever wrote the last episode so damn much. ._.
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For a while the manga stopped at the same spot if that makes you feel any better.



The most bizarre cliffhanger/resolution for a series I've seen is Tenjou Tenge. The main character gets this out of nowhere power up and kinda pushes around the main antagonist. I read the manga from when the anime ends and that shit gets bonkers.
 
Because the biggest point of anime is to get you to buy manga/light novels that continue the story or at least shell out for OAV.
 
As has been said, a lot of anime are adaptions of manga, light novels, and so on that have not yet been concluded by the time the anime is made. So, a lot of anime series have to either stop on an incomplete note or invent and ending out of whole cloth. For example, the Blue Exorcist anime was made based on just the first four volumes of the manga, and goes off the rails to create an anime original ending when the manga is still just getting started.
 
Nestled_Grizzly said:
Spice and Wolf

Yep, I'm still bitter from that ending!
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Almost all the novels are out in english now :)

I actually always enjoyed it in anime. In western tv when a show gets canceled they usually leave plots dangling. I like how in anime I can just go read the manga/novels to see how the story continues.
 
I usually just read the manga if an anime does that. Only time I was legitimately upset was when it happened with Panty and Stocking. It still hurts.
 
a lot of anime has an ending, like Steins;Gate for example.
Full Moon O Sagashite is 52 episodes long and has an amazing ending. Stuff like that. Lots do.
 
because anime often is adapted from ongoing manga and they get too close to the current point of the manga.

Trust me, you do not want them to continue on. That way lies one piece enis lobby crawl, naruto tea party garbage or the last season of kenshin
 
Now I think about it, its not like people adoring "solution" for this anyway.

Most people would trashing original ending or only borrowing concept adaptation.
 
PsychoSoldier said:
Even though I like the movies I had to stop watching Ranma because the first season appeared to have something of a cohesive story where relationships were moving forward but it got off the rails by the second season for sure---some of this is just because the manga though, I believe.
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Though, from what I remember(its been a long time) there are some differences and all between the Ranma anime and manga, don't expect relationships to really go anywhere.
The series is pretty much just comedy and crazy martial arts.
 
John Kowalski said:
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fuck you gainax
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excuse my ignorance, but what show are you referring to?
 
Adapted ongoing mangas are that way.
There's both stuff based on finished mangas (JoJo, FMA:BH, Monster), on finished light novels (Shin Sekai Yori), on finished games (Steins;Gate), and mainly, anime originals (Shirobako, Psycho-Pass, Code Geass), which traditionally end.

It's pretty easy to know if what you're watching will end properly or not.
And, actually, i find that anime are pretty good at giving good, definite endings - something TV series sorely lack, since the modus operandi there is "Produce it until it's so bad no one wants to watch it anymore".
 
Usually one of these below

- Show canceled
- Watch Movie for actual ending
- Praying for fans to bother studio enough get the next season approved
- Manga not finished yet
- Production costs too high can only afford to do twelve episodes for a 300 chapter Manga
- Toyline failing to meet sells expectations
- Keep you waiting for the next season currently in production
 
There's actually a very important and fascinating reason that they do this. You won't believe your eyes when I tell you. Very few people know about this, so it's kind of an industry secret. You see, the reason that anime always end in cliffhangers is that th- whoops, I'm gonna be late for work. Tune in next time for Ventara's enigmatic posts!
 
Azuran said:
But that's just the beginning of the real story. Unless they were planning on doing more, it ended the way it should had ended. Anything else would have been insulting to that masterpiece.
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I don't know if you've seen it, but it literally ends in the middle of the Eclipse arc. No conclusion whatsoever. I was ready to watch the next episode before I realized that it was the end. The fact that I had to go on Wikipedia to find out what happens afterwards shows how bad of an ending it is.
 
Team Alucard said:
Trigun had an ending, it was just a horrible one. Vash refusing to kill that genocidal maniac proved that he learned absolutely nothing throughout the entire show.
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If you didn't like the ending to the Trigun anime, part of that is that the Trigun anime is also an anime based on a manga that wasn't even a quarter done when the anime premiered. The Trigun anime (which aired in 1998) was mostly based on the original 20 chapters of Trigun, as well as perhaps a bit of the first ten chapters or so of Trigun Maximum. Trigun Maximum ended up having 97 chapters, finally concluding in 2008. An absolute ton of critical backstory and character development hadn't even been shown in the manga by the time the anime was made.

Veritigo_X said:
I don't know if you've seen it, but it literally ends in the middle of the Eclipse arc. No conclusion whatsoever. I was ready to watch the next episode before I realized that it was the end. The fact that I had to go on Wikipedia to find out what happens afterwards shows how bad of an ending it is.
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In the case of the Berserk ending, part of it is that for some reason they wrote themselves into a dead end with that anime adaptation. Despite adding in a lot of filler content, the anime also cut out several incidents and characters entirely, one of whom was critical to resolving the Eclipse. Though if the intention of that non-ending as o get people to read the manga, it worked in my case. Fair warning though: the anime was an extremely censored version of Berserk.
 
Dark Ninja said:
Usually one of these below

- Show canceled
- Watch Movie for actual ending
- Praying for fans to bother studio enough get the next season approved
- Manga not finished yet
- Production costs too high can only afford to do twelve episodes for a 300 chapter Manga
- Toyline failing to meet sells expectations
- Keep you waiting for the next season currently in production
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Same reason western cartoons get cancelled after one season really.
 
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