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[SSJVejita1 (#58379)]

 Thoughts on Saikano's ending *Spoilers*

[Caddberry (#27690)]

I threw in a spoiler tag in the subject of the thread that way people dont have to cover the spoilers.. If you dont know what I just said you can read the FAQ of the board and it should help you out.

Anyway, Welcome to the board!

It was a good series.. Well.. Decent series.. I cant really recall much about the end as i watched it long long ago.. Someone will probably be able to help you out though..

[Wil86 (#59561)]

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[SkyDragon (#96111)]

I got a question about the ending. Since everything was turned into ash and the only person left was shuuji, what's the point of that? Wouldn't you rather die instead? I mean, even though in his mind he sees chise with him, what about REALITY? No one is going to survive by themselves with no food, no water.

Oh, and near the end we see suuji with chise making love. I got nothing against this, but when I first saw that, I'm thinking to myself, what the hell is going on. Why are people having sex outside naked when it is cold, and snowing. LOL. But overall, I never seen such an unique anime before. I really enjoyed it, and it was worth my time. n

[nauXolo (#69311)]

well, for all you know Chise could have transferred her "ultimate weaponess" into him allowing him to live forever...
but logically, yeah... there's no point in him being the only one surviving with no food and no sexual partner to continue the human species. but i guess shu will just have to live with Chise in his mind until he dies of dehydration... fun eh

[Denis (#104859)]

you know...if you are christian or ortadox you could just say he went to heaven....over done...lol.....i think of it that way...that life with chise is heaven....this why i don't get confused

[Caddberry (#27690)]

[cranston (#84421)]

[leny (#121068)]

the end

[cranston (#84421)]

I would say that the ending is open-ended and that one could interpret it differently. However, as long as one can provide plausible reasons for ones opinion, it should be acceptable.

How long Shuji lives is up to you. Can he run out of food, water, and/or air? Possible. If he is awake, he could die within a couple of days.

However, I believe that he is asleep aboard the Chise weapons platform. Assuming that there is sufficient air and he is being fed intravenously, he could live decades.

Alternatively, he could be in cryo-sleep. In which case, he could last centuries.

[isaac (#124697)]

I was just trying to find someone to discuss about the ending of saikano, i love that serie is my favorite cause i think its very human putting someone through extreme circumstances well i think that in the end shuji is agonizing and he's having the dream of death that he is going to live with chise till the end so i think that both are going to stay together till he dies, still if you are as romantic as me , then youll think that theire souls will still be together no matter where they are =)

[cranston (#84421)]

I guess that interpretation is possible. However, I think most people would agree that there isn't any doubt that the world has ended, so Shuji is either already dead or at the instant of dying. That is, if you don't buy the cryo-sleep theory.

You also need to refer to the other thread
http://www.animenfo.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2693&start=40
as we discussed the ending in detail there as well. You'll find my interpretations there as well.

[Last Exile (#35342)]

This is one part the anime cocked up. You need to read the final volume of the manga, volume 7, to understand what is going in.

The proper ending is - Shuji does die in the physical sense. But...in some place neither defined as heaven, hell or Earth, Shuji awakens, protected by Chise's will. Not wanitng to face this weird, new eternity alone, Shuji uses all his will to bring Chise to where he is. It is a world based off of memories and what might have been. It's a world where only the two of them exist and that they ultimately fall in love. I think Shin Takashi, the creator, felt that after inflciting so much pain on his characters while they were alive, he decided that in a world that could be described as memories, perhaps even a higher plane of existence, the two of them find each other and they finally are able to love each other. I like to think that what Shin ultimately wanted to say to his readers is that despite the evils and cruelty in this world, that things honest and pure like love can live on beyond death.

Don't try to take too much out of the anime ending. It was too rushed and disregarded the message Shin was trying to send in this series. This isn't the first time Studio Gonzo went against what the author was trying to communicate to his/her readers. They have a tendency to warp a series too much.

My advice - read the manga. 7 beautiful volumes. It's much more detailed, more heartfelt, more painful, sexier, hotter, funnier, crueller, but most of all, definitely better.

Just remember - the alternate name for the series is The Last Love Song On This Little Planet. Shuji and Chise tried throughout life to fall in love. And in the end, even though it took death to achieve it, they did. Despite the horrors of what happened to their world, take their enduring love as the true message of Saikano. That was what Shin Takashi ultimately wanted to convey.

[Xhilaraxion (#127184)]

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[Stick (#5576)]

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[Xhilaraxion (#127184)]

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