Anime is known to be strange, a little out there- ok, maybe a lot out there.
So why is it considered one of the best endings?
Simple- it was completely unexpected.
How was he to know that Seiko was a knife-wielding possessed lunatic?
Or that someone would be walking around with his head after he died?
(Perhaps had he known, he would have made a bigger effort to be faithful.)
The shock value of the lunacy alone earns this ending a spot as one of the best.
Clannad Series Ending
Remember this one?
Nagisa passes right after childbirth, leaving Tomoya with alone with their daughter.
Heart broken and distraught, Tomoya does not take to being a parent.
In fact, he would rather drive himself into a drunken stupor.
Eventually, he feels love towards his daughter, who promptly dies.
How much loss can one man take?
With no prior explanation, Tomoya is suddenly back in time with his wife before she passed.
Maybe he went back to drinking?
Regardless, this time she lived, so he got another chance with his family- well, we assume.
This one actually ended with viewers feeling lost and confused.
Though some would consider this a bad ending, but people still talk about it over a decade later.
Good or bad, it is one of the best because it is quite a memorable and intriguing ending.
Edward dies trying to set his brother free.
His brother then gives himself as an exchange for Eds life.
Ed wakes up with a whole working body, and realizes what his brother has done.
Ed then offers his life for his brothers life.
The constant back and forth like a ping pong ball was definitely an ending worth mentioning.
Code Geass R2 Ending
Another epic cliffhanger that had all the fans talking is the Code Geass R2 ending.
Did Lelouch die to save the world?
Or did he survive?
Was it him driving the cart at the end?
The questions and the debate went back and forth constantly.
Fans had different theories and entire explanations about how their theory was correct.
Assassination Classroom Series Ending
This ending makes it to the bittersweet section of best endings.
From the beginning, Koro Sensei said that he would destroy the earth if he was not assassinated.
And up until the last episode, it can go either way.
Everyone who really paid attention noticed little things that could have changed the course, and everyone became hopeful.
Though many fans thought and hoped Koro Sensei would survive, that was just not to be.
It was bittersweet because the world would survive, but they had to assassinate Koro Sensei.
It was an emotional ending that had many in tears.
After everything settles, Nia and Simon are getting married.
Literally, they are at their wedding.
Why can none of these characters have real happy endings?
Emotional endings are great endings.
The leaders of the show generally end up together.
This ending is one of the best because it has a happy ending.
After the confusion of discovering feelings for one another, Taiga and Ryuji took the plunge and got together.
Gunbuster Series Ending
This emotionally gripping series ending was a completely different look at sacrifice.
In many series, movies, and so on, we see characters sacrificing their lives for others.
And this is in no way meant to diminish any of those sacrifices.
However, the Gunbusters ending was a more tortuous jot down of sacrifice.
When one gives up their life, the suffering will not last long.
It is the people they leave behind that suffer the most.
They accept having to live at a separate time from the others.
This results in them living 12,000 years after they left.
They then must spend the rest of their lives separate from their loved ones- a very tormenting sacrifice.
In the ending, LalC discovers and admits that glory was not what she was searching for.
The Kill la Kill series ending was wonderful enough without that.
While Senketsu did die, and it was heartbreaking, the creators did not overdo the death scenes.
And they ended it on a very positive note by reuniting sisters Ryuuko and Satsuki.
