Darius' English Journal

There’s nothing in this world more disappointing than not finishing something you’ve started, it leaves you devastated, waiting for the final piece of the puzzle. A baker does not cook a half-baked cake, and as far as I am concerned an anime shouldn’t be half written; but yet again I find myself watching series after series with huge plot holes and unexplained endings. This leaves viewers, including myself, confused and lost, and feeling as though the creator has led you on and sold you a fake dream. A prime example of this was InuYasha. The reason it came to an end was because the anime got over taken by new companies that the majority of people were interested in. Due to this happening, the company concluded that they didn’t have the funding to broadcast their shows on television or online as the viewings were decreasing which meant the money didn’t come in. This left the people who still took interest in the old company unable to continue to watch the show; meaning that the interested consumers of this show was left with a cliffhanger that would never continue. Although it is not always about popularity of the show, other anime’s such as Guilty Crown was a program that had an ending that disappointed every fan. It is like reading an unfinished story.

In the second season of Guilty Crown’s anime, the viewers felt like it was rushed, and when something is rushed it’s never good because they miss a lot of small things. Consequently, they did not take the time they could have done to make a quality story for the second season of the anime. To put it in a way everyone could understand, it is like reading the first chapter of a book that you felt like you could connect to then turn the page for the second chapter a find nothing more than blank pages. This is what it feels like in when they rushed the second season, it lacked the action to keep the viewers on their toes yet the main fight at the end, between the two main characters, lasts no more the four minutes when the majority of Anime last over 2 episodes. It’s like when you pay for a toy with an amazing review then when you finally get it it’s only for display; there’s no enjoyment in something like that. Just like the fight in anime between the two main characters, all that build up to be let down at the end. In my opinion when you make an anime do not rush the ending, as a baker never rushes a cake.

In Guilty Crown, we know that Shu (the main character) goes to fight Gai because he took something that Shu thought was valuable and someone he loved. We also knew that Shu was working for Gai as a weapon because he held a power that only he possessed. Us, as fans, were led to believe that Gai died but he knew Shu from his past which we knew very little about. This made the ending disappointing for a lot of people. This is yet another example of plot holes within an anime.

However, anime’s such as the Naruto are known to have too many fillers. Fillers are background information on characters that can be found annoying when it happens too frequently. This is because Naruto is over 700 episodes long and over a third of the episodes are fillers. Viewers find this really irritating because they want to watch the anime’s original story and do not want anything pointless involved that isn’t classed as important enough to watch. This is like being told a story by a child when they try not to get into trouble and miss out key pieces of information about what really happened. This is exactly what happened in the second season of Guilty Crown, giving the viewer information that is not needed instead of giving the viewer information they wanted and needed.

How is it that anime’s such as InuYasha, which doesn’t have fillers, have such a disappointing ending to it and can be cancelled? and Guilty Crown, which also doesn’t have fillers and is only 22 episodes long, have a disappointing ending when they could have stretched it out and made it more appealing to the consumers. Yet! anime’s such as Naruto run over 700 episodes with over a third of it being fillers and is still broadcasted on television and online with more fans complaining about it being too informative and pointless.