Gainax Ending: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga - Gainax Studios ==

** This one ''is'' a bit more contested, though, as quite a few people have pointed out that, given the [[Lensman Arms Race|awesome scope]] of the posited final battle, that the still pictures are still remarkably effective and that their effect is greater than what could have been with "actual" animation.

* ''[[He Is My Master]]'', another show animated by Gainax, is a light, funny, gag series about a guy with a maid fetish. How else to end the series than with a sudden [[Mood Whiplash]] into angst and philosophizing?

** It's not so much that the ending is weird or incomprehensible as that it flies directly in the face of what ''looked'' like it was the moral for the entire second half of the series and the ending it led you to expect.

** Also, it's intended to be ambiguous: whether {{spoiler|Sasshi has successfully managed to "fix" reality}} or has simply {{spoiler|created yet another, even more elaborate fantasy dimension that is ultimately doomed to collapse just like all the others}} is left for the viewer to decide.

* Creative differences caused a Gainax Ending in ''[[Kare Kano]]'', abruptly ending the story just as a new arc was starting up.

** In fact, it's so big of a Gainax Ending that the characters who didn't see it coming react to it in much the same way the viewers do.

** And that only covers the last three minutes of it. In more or less chronological order... {{spoiler|Panty spends an undefined amount of time as a farm girl (the setting of which is otherwise staged), Panty and Brief finally do it, Brief accidentally unlocks Hellsmonkey, which is a ''[[Gag Penis|giant penis ghost]]'', Corset turns Scanty and Kneesocks into weapons and kills Garterbelt before fusing with said giant penis ghost, Chuck and Fastener turn into awesome monster things, Panty and Stocking use Garterbelt's credit card to buy enough weapons to attempt to deliver an [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|awesome finishing blow.]] They miss and hit Heaven, which summons a pair of [[Medium Blending|lifelike legs]] to close the gate that Hellsmonkey is coming out of. This pair of legs turns out to be Panty and Stocking's mom. Oh, and Garterbelt dies again. [[Death Is Cheap|And comes back again.]]}} Among all this, the heavens are actually [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|pierced]] with a [[This Is a Drill|drill.]] Even the tropes Gainax are most closely identified with are up for parody.