What the fuck was that ending? The whole series was a troll...

i read that almost every week but i have no interest in watching 12 hours of this shit, can someone green text the ending and why it's so controversial?

Main girl dies

And she was manipulating the MC the whole time and planned on eventually killing him.

>not like my superior manga writers Hackayama and horikoshi

>best girl won

What is wrong with people? Recently there's been an influx of mongrels who whine about how anime ended despite said ending being nowhere near bad. They never even clash with the themes addressed. First Bokurano, then Kumamiko, now Katangatari. What show will you mongrels pick next?

That's what you get for treating syorytelling art as nothing but wish fulfilment through surrogate romantic relationships. Knowing you'll die miserable, alone and filled with regrets fills my heart with joy. Fuck otaku.

>They never even clash with the themes addressed
Otaku don't care about themes, they only care about jerking off to the hair colour coded girls. To them the only good ending would have been them finishing their adventure, getting married, having kids, and having a final frame of the whole family together with a giant arrow saying (you) pointing at the MC.

I think the ending was okay thematically but the anime suffers from other issues that kept me from liking it, everything in there was pretty fucking unsatisfying in a bad way.
>that troll fucking preview of the Sabi fight that never actually happened
>O MY SWORD KNOWLEDGE last episode
Also the MCs imouto was written like ass and everything about her was ridiculously tedious. Same with the ninjas that feel like they could pretty much have been written out of the story.
Maybe the novel is better, but with characters that unenjoyable I can't bring myself to go through it again to try picking up the more interesting shit Nisio certainly wrote into it. When you compare it to Monogatari, the dialog here is absolutely soulless and boring, it's crazy.

Fuck off you pretentious faggot. Some people like a little escapism in their lives.

And there are plenty of shows that pander to that. Most of them, in fact. I'm sorry it's not every single fucking one? Give me a break.

Main girl's last words at the end are way more self-ambitious or self-serving than many would think. To me it seemed like she tried to convince herself and MC that it seemed more like a mind-fart fueled by strong cognitive dissonance than stating the simple truth. And no, it didn't suddenly make the anime better or worse. It was a weird ending, though.

>This is par for the course for Nisio Isin
But it's the same as ending Monogatari with crab dying or cucking Araragi. Unless that actually happens in later novels.

It's such a mad coincidence that I've been thinking about this exact same thing all day today. About how so many people desire satisfying conclusions to everything and how a lot of stories fall flat because of it.
Sometimes I'd rather be satisfied with a story that makes me feel unsatisfied. It can be way more interesting and not enough writers do it, because no one's asking for it.
Like said. People want stories that are easily accessible, with conclusions that wrap up in a neat tidy bow. It's too fucking boring.

She was in her tactician mode when she was saying that. So she was probably lying.

Cheerio!

You can have stories with a conclusion that are both open/less accessible AND satisfying though. You make it sound like it's either one or the other.

>They never even clash with the themes addressed.
Except Katanagatari's literally does. We have Shichika learn lessons like him being stronger when he has something to protect and then in the ending he gets a vengeful anger powerup Hunter x Hunter style.

I wouldn't really put it the way you do. The only reason non conclusive stories might be good, is because the story is so simplistic that an ambiguous ending actually adds a little bit of spice. If a show is thoroughly constructed, then I want the writers to create a flawless conclusion that ties up all the relevant narrative subplots. Albeit I can maybe think of a dozen anime it total that are complex enough to deserve such a conclusion. Only other time I'd expect a conclusive ending is for romance anime because, lets be honest, nobody likes blueballing if the primary focus happens to be the romantic relationship between the main cast members.

She was lying, brainlet. She was like that at the beginning but really fell in love with him midway through. She was lying so that MC wouldn’t mourn her too much.

But he still has something to protect. Togame's memory and goals. He simply chooses to stop protecting himself and the swords, two things that have always been stated to make him weaker but he was asked to do so anyway. There was no powerup, retard. During the first episode you already had him complain that he could simply crush the sword and win the instant he does.

It's not a good tragedy because the reasons for everyone's failure was extremely contrived to the point where it was explained as history refusing to change.

just because the ending makes you cry doesn't mean it's a troll user

>But he still has something to protect. Togame's memory and goals.
When does it even remotely suggest that?

You think he's carrying her hair because he jerks off to it? Or that he goes to the castle to D E S T R O Y? Or that he advertises cereal because he likes it so much?

It was a stunt series, written for the sake of one volume released each month, and it was poorly received even before the adaptation.

Got a source on that?

>You make it sound like it's either one or the other.
Not my intention.

>If a show is thoroughly constructed, then I want the writers to create a flawless conclusion that ties up all the relevant narrative subplots.
To an extent, yes, I want the conclusion to be thoroughly constructed and thought out, just like the rest of the show before it, however I definitely don't want it to be so flawless that it becomes expected, flat and boring.
I want to be satisfied with some things and unsatisfied with others. I want some subplots resolved but others go completely ignored, forgotten or just fail to work out for no real reason at all.
I don't want to be entirely satisfied, and I want my feelings to left ambiguous. Authors tend to write conclusions that will satisfy the reader. I just feel like sometimes an unsatisfying conclusion can be satisfying but rarely do people think that way.

>Not my intention.
My bad, I got you with what you wrote below.
I do love it when some thing are left up to the imagination, too. Leaves you more to think and speculate about.
One of the worst things is to see a franchise get a sequel/prequel that fucks with whatever they left vague in a bad way.

fucking farthuffers, do everyone a favor and just kill yourselves already if you have to puff yourself up over watching children's fucking cartoons

Who are you even talking to?

About? If you felt the need to ask, you're probably included.

no u

Because it’s kino

This. How low brain do you have to be to not even be able to understand this?