So Peeps

[spiralmaiden]

Apparently there are a lot of feels out there about the anime ending. How does everyone here feel about it? What was your personal experience with it? Were you baffled? Angry? Sad? Satisfied? FICCING VIOLENTLY?

(I will answer in comments)

Comments

[stanza]

I was totally spoiled for the novel's ending so really I was mostly wondering if they were going to be able to fix any of the issues with said ending. (Answer: nope, just create new ones and lampshade certain existing ones!)

I can dig up my original commentary on the anime ending on no6city, but the gist was basically 'welp both endings have the same problems -- pacing, issues with plot resolution/exposition -- just executed differently'. While everyone was frothing about the derpy tornadoes and Shion's death&rebirth; the former of which I felt was thematically appropriate and the latter of which I remain ambivalent about. (Like I was totally AAAAAH while watching but ultimately I feel no need to ~discuss~ Shion's death, Nezumi's reaction, etc, really? And even less need to include it in Topics to Be Addressed in Post-Series Scenarios.)

re: ficcing violently. Before the final ep aired, I was in this holding pattern where I wanted to write post-series fic but didn't know if I should opt for the novel's conclusion or if the anime would present me with a better one haha.

[spiralmaiden]

People were mad about the wall coming down? Or just how it was done? I AM SO OUT OF PLACE HERE.

[stanza]

Some people (the majority, it seemed at the time) were super angry about the anime ending. Like there were some very distraught/upset people! Particularly over Shion's death/resurrection (because death is srs bsns in No.6-verse and shit, which is an argument I don't...really get...given that if you can stretch your credulity to encompass mind controlling, power-over-life-and-death bee gods, you got no right to complain about a character being brought back from death by said mind controlling, power-over-life-and-death bee god haha) and also the tornadoes. The tornadoes really didn't go over well, as I recall.