Man, this was pretty lame ending, just an ok ending. The long rants here pretty much says what I think, so there’s no point in re-saying that stuff.
I will say that I’m fine with this ending, because I realized that they never really went into much characters in the stories, and the only character that I actually cared about was the old man, but other than that, no one really mattered. When they introduced the love interest, I remembered the first girl, but then they never meet up again. Even if they decided to scrap her, just feels lame like they should have done something. But the love interest was barely even there too.
Look, we all knew that he was gonna win, but it’s the in between that makes it worth it to read. That’s why people re-read stuff, it’s the journey that makes us excited to see the ending, even if we know how it will end. I will always be able to re-read the beginning, but end doesn’t seem worth it to me.
I can’t really blame anyone who worked on this, since this was originally a novel, the ending already pre-determined, it just mattered on how they adapted that. Sadly it’s kinda hard to make dirt seem like gold. So I don’t blame them, the art was fantastic.
So I’m fine with this ending. Not much was lost since not much was made.
I came from the anime, and came out a little disappointed. But this brings me with hope, hope that the anime adapts this better like they did with the Cerberus fight. Cause I’d say that is when the story became a little dull, when he first started to have no stakes.