Was it the perfect final episode?
>>155192077
Why do people like that ending so much? It was good, yes, but I don't know why everybody makes such a big deal about it.
>>155192345
It was Shakespearean.
>>155192345
best ED
SHE EVEN CUT HER HAIR AS IF TO MOCK MY WAIFU
>>155192345
>over a dozen great fights in one episode
>all loose ends tied thoroughly and completely
>heel turned on the original objective and achieve the new (way more awesome) objective
>continued characterization after the end of the main plot without needlessly dangling a sequel at the end of a string for BD sales
It's hard to find endings that even achieve plot closure let along all the extra shit that mad it amazing.
>>155192077
Cowboy Bebop is garbage, but I have to admit the last episode was something else.
>>155192759
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t__VvDdnN8
>>155192759
The amazing part for me was how completely and totally the show got total closure, it just left you feeling completely satisfied. Isin bby
>>155192077
why did the shogun have to die? He had nothing to do with anything? Why does Japan hate fat old men?
>>155192936
You might want to rewatch it because apparently you slept through every major plot point.
>>155192077
Just imagine the people that actually watched it while it was airing
Just imagine what it felt like at the end of episode 11, knowing they had to wait a whole month
Just imagine how they felt when the last episode actually hit
>>155192077
It was a good episode, but a true perfect final episode elevates an already 9/10 series into greatest of all time status.
>>155193020
>tfw I don't have to imagine
>>155193175
I envy you.
>>155193175
you're a lucky fucker
I thought the last episode of samurai champloo was phenomenal, but that's probably just nostalgia and the final ED song being amazing.
>>155193315
Well it WAS pretty cool, if a bit predictable.
Ya'll niggas don't know pain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfT9XpCqwzM
Hime > shit > Game
>>155193953
Who the fuck refers to Togame as "game"
>>155194088
I forgot her name as soon as Shichika did.
>>155194122
Oh now you've done it
>>155194179
No, it was Emonzaemon who has done her in.
>>155194237
GOD DAMN IT
>>155192717
Your waifu is dead.
>>155194265
Just like god damned Togame to be forgotten by history?
https://youtu.be/MYISAAIcyDw?t=114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKNv8QKLJeE
>>155192077
Togame died so no.
It really was. I can't think of another final episode that really tied the show together like that. Not to mention /a/-triggering twists.
>>155194874
but it was better that way anon :^)
>>155195059
No it was not and there is nothing you can say to convince me;_;.
Aria's ending was pretty good too
>>155194512
Sounds like something from Ace Combat.
>>155193020
Fuck you it was excruciating waiting every fucking month for this animu.
>>155195403
But what about the payoff when it arrived?
>>155192077
Yes,it was perfect.Yes, I'm still mad.
>>155195576
Don't worry anon, the princess will take good care of Shichika.
Yes, about as perfect as this one.
>>155193020
I completed it in less than 24 hours. I had the same thought when marathoning it. I still remember that I wanted to sleep after watching 3 episodes but got hooked by the preview of the next one. That fucking preview. The fight with Imouto and the three Maniwa was cool, and the trio surprisingly likeable. But I could not help but peek from time to time at the time left on my player, expecting the fight. And this until the ED start.
>>155192077
>the perfect final episode
>>155192345
The tragedy of romance and the romance of tragedies.
>>155195691
I had the literal same experience, at like 4 in the morning.
Truly the greatest episode preview of all time.
>>155192717
That fucking short hair. Was about to drop the show when her glorious hair was replaced with this shit
>>155195274
What's with the hobo gloves?
>>155192077
CHEERIOOOOOOOOO
Never forget, truly a great anime
>Katanagatari: Great pairing with good chemistry but everything gets ruined near the end.
>Bakemonogatari and +: Great pairing with Cat gets ruined and MC stays with the shittiest girl, Crab while better and better girls appear.
Nsio is a very cruel man.
>>155196113
They're trainee gloves that the Undines wear when they practice. Christ it's a major fucking part of the story.
>>155196239
Hobo gloves as a plot point? I'm sold.
Please tell me they actually are homeless. Otherwise I will be disappointed
He kicked way more ass than Spike did in his last episode, that's for sure.
>>155196220
>great pairing with cat gets ruined
I'm glad it happened.
>>155192077
Im no powerlevel fag but i alwasy wondered who would win in a fight between these two.
Personally i would go with edgelord Shichika
>>155196220
>Great pairing with Cat gets ruined
You catfags never fail to amuse
>>155195691
This was my most satisfying realization that I have been had ever.
>>155195691
>the 10 minutes of them talking about how it was the most legendary fight ever
>>155196220
>everything gets ruined near the end
Togamefags, will they ever learn
>>155196882
Togame was my favorite character and I was still satisfied with the ending.
>>155196418
I am not a Catfag in particular. It's just hat Crab is undeniably the worst girl.
School Days just has too perfect an ending
>>155192345
Because this was an ending that actually wrapped up every single plot point in a satisfying way. The number of anime that manage this is startlingly small.
>>155197069
How is Cat not the worst girl by far you mong
>>155192077
Would have been better if he died too.
>>155197582
kizu
>>155197582
snake exists
>>155195274
I will never not be mad that these weren't the first and last episodes respectively instead of just being in the same episode.
Missed fucking opportunity.
>>155192850
> Mfw when he wrecks biyorigou and the claw bitch and says it was literally only because she got in biyorigou's way so it couldn't attack properly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wzXxTQeq58
this thread needs more penguindrum,
>>155192077
Name a better pro tag theme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNtzmOliIos
>>155202044
But show was SHIT
>>155201897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yCyxjRESg
It has Korean(?) subs, but the quality's good.
>>155192077
why is that last episode so overrated? it felt kinda boring when he fought against the 12 swordmans
>>155202906
because you find more enjoyment in gargling cocks
What other anime have done a boss rush ending?
>>155196049
Plebian taste.
I really didn't like Togame's long hair.
>>155192077
>spends entire show holding back
>lets loose in the final episode and shows that he could've obliterated every past opponent if he had been ordered do
Felt like an orgasm, mane
>there are people that didn't watch this ongoing
>there are people that didn't get trolled by the preview
Sad really.
>>155195670
Good taste
>>155203200
It would've been bloody good fun, I'm sure of that; this year marks the novel's tenth anniversary as well. I'm hoping that the recent publications by Vertical has sparked enough interest in this being translated.
>>155203200
>>155203535
Your face when the Katanagatari translator went MIA in 2011 for no reason at all.
http://daniel0987.livejournal.com/
because best girl won
>Remember liking this.
>Decide I might buy the blu ray, because it's 2017 of course there's a blu ray.
>Turns out the series was licensed by NIS who stopped selling it a few years ago.
>Only copy I could see for sale online is a used one on ebay priced at over $500.00
>Amazon doesn't even have any used copies of volume 2
>As far as I can tell there is literally no legal way to watch this unless you buy a Japanese copy.
It's almost like they want me to pirate it.
This was actually the best ending I've seen.
>>155203535
Vertical are being very slow and cautious with their translations. Waiting a year between releasing Kizu and Bake, only publishing Zaregoto book 1 for now (even though a translation for book 2 already exists).
I'm on episode 5 and am not really enjoying it
Should I drop?
>>155205649
You've watched the equivalent of 10 normal length episodes and you're still not enjoying it. What do you think?
>>155205806
I mean idk maybe it gets better
Also I know what happens (generally)
>>155195691
You're taking it pretty well at least, I've seen plenty other anons that are still mad TO THIS DAY
>>155196401
But couldn't GARcher summon Shichika, since he's a sword?
>>155202881
>picture
Exactly, Katangatari is a story of failure. It's not even about plans, EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER fails at their goal, Emonzaemon fails serving his mistress because he felt it necessary to kill Togame, then berserk Shichika ruins the plans in their final stage, and he dies.
Shichika of course fails in his one goal of protecting Togame's life.
The story is about how failure is okay, and life is really about the journey on the way to your goals, whether or not the end goal is realised or not. The characters that live and get happy endings are the ones that realise that and accept it, maturing and coming to peace with it.
That's why it ends with Shichika and Hitei going on a journey around Japan making maps or whatever, it's really just an aimless journey for the sake of journeying, and the narrator suggests they might even have an inglorious death at the roadside due to bandits. But it doesn't matter, because they enjoyed and appreciated the journey.
>>155205850
You've seen nearly half the show.
What exactly do you think will "get better", because I can definitely tell you the show doesn't suddenly take a huge heel turn in tone or action or whatever. If you're not enjoying it until episode 2 I wouldn't say you're going to enjoy it any more after that, but even at that point the formula gets shaken up later like with the Maniwas making not one-per-episode appearances as it implied they would.
>>155192077
>>155207183
sort of.
One of the main themes DEFINITELY was about enjoying the journey of life. However this show had a separate theme of fate vs free will.
This theme is embodied by EVERY SINGLE character in some way. Most characters were slaves to fate. Almost every single character who was a slave to fate died. Shichika's story starts out with him a SLAVE to FATE.
Togame offers him a seemingly contradictory thing, both a CHANGE of fate, AND to remain a slave to his fate, and Shichika's choice in ep1 to "fall in love" with her and "follow her" plant the seeds in him breaking free from the shackles of fate because he CHOSE to follow her. He embarks on the journey as Togame's SWORD. An item with no agency. He's wielded as exactly that, Togame's sword.
Whats interesting is everyone plays out their part in the story as a slave to fate while Shichika starts to wonder about the point. Togame didn't have to go toe to toe with the princess or shogun, but she couldn't give up her revenge. The princess was looking for a way to escape the chains of fate, yet she couldn't see a way out.
We get to the final episode, the princess has done her job to finish forging a sword out of Shichika, but it failed. It fails because Shichika decided he was NOT a sword. He ignored Togame's last order. He decided to destroy the source of all of this (the Shogun). He was going to get revenge for HIMSELF.
He kills the shogun, seemingly satisfying the prophecy, yet ruining it at the same time, because he did it not as a weapon, a sword, but as a man. The princess sees that Shichika has broken free from the chains of fate, and at the same time frees her from her fate. So she makes her first choice of her free will and follows him JUST LIKE he followed Togame in ep 1.
Two people free from the chains of fate on the road looking for and apparently finding something to enjoy in life. It's a romantic ending (not in the love-love sense, more like riding into the sunset is).
>>155202881
>try throwing it
>I'll just kill you until you die to death
>You just got in biyourigou's way
>What's the point of a heavy sword if you take away the weight?
Every single floor had about 20 pic related moments.
>>155193175
Mazui actually did pretty solid work with the subs. Perhaps a bit overly verbose, but the the Isin dialogue was already verbose to begin with. I still have that original batch archived alongside the BD release.
>>155193110
Al is shit. Makes 0080 almost unwatchable
>>155192077
Kemono Friends
>>155195274
>the entire last three episode of run of The Natural
>>155213368
>The Natural
woops, meant Origination, of course
>>155192345
It was absolute Kino.
Mai Hime final ep.
>>155192077
I dropped this show at ep2. I thought it was pretentious as fuck, and the 2006-tier humour gets old really fast. I bet the author thinks he's the quirkiest special snowflake on the planet.
I hear everyone chanting the praise of this show. Does it get better?
JIN was good
>>155192077
why do people say this is the worst of nisio's fanbase? granted its usually said by the bakeretards but still .
>>155207010
bringing that up.
this is too deep for me
>>155202044
Except it was shit.
>>155192077
Open end that makes room for another season or let the character go on with their lives.
>>155210163
>Imouto
>IMOUTO
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
What
>>155204364
That's good. I'd rather they take their time translating Nisio's writing as opposed to YP's three/four monthly releases.
>>155192077
Do you think he died on the roadside or lived a long fruitful life?