Witch Hunter Robin *MAJOR SPOILER WARNING*

[Lightstream]

I was enjoying this show quite a lot because of the suspense and the fact that it seemed to be building up to something big. However, I just watched episode 26 (Time to tell) and, to my surprise, it seems to have been the final episode!

So are there more episodes or was that the final one? If it was the final episode, then I must say this series is a huge disappointment. Not only have things ended too abruptly, but in a very anticlimactic fashion.

[FadedOne]

lol...I have a love/hate relationship with that last episode(which I assume IS the last, unless somehow they're going to continue the series?).

So yeah...the end was typical 'you dont really find out what happens' style...but it was cool anyway.

[Lightstream]

I agree that it's a cool show with interesting characters, but up until the last second of episode 26, I could have sworn that there were atleast another 50 episodes ahead.

[Shino-kun]

I enjoyed the end of Witch Hunter Robin. Though I'd love to see another season of it made, it was still awesome in my opinion. It kinda leaves the feel that Robin and Amon have disappeared somewhere together and now will live their own quiet lives, while the agency continues on.
::shrugs:: I thought it was good.

[Roy Mustang]

Yeah, its only 26 eps long. Some people talk that there will be WHR 2 down the road. But then again, some people still think their is going to be Outlaw Star 2 and we know that is not going to happen.


Wingzero22

[mitsuki lover]

The rumor is there is supposed to be a live action version in the works that Sci Fi Channel is supposed to air.But when it's coming out or not...

[CDLviking]

26 eps is the general running length of most anime. I also thought it was rather abrupt.

[battletech]

I had the impression that Robin might go mad with power, and that was why Amon went with her to stop her if she did.

[eva-boy7985]

Here's something to think about guys regarding anime, and really any artform (music, cinema, visual art, etc.). It's the idea of personability, in other words the ability to make something your own or have it mean something significant or "special" to yourself. You'll find that alot of anime series that end as you would say "abruptly" or without "closure" do that somewhat intentionally. When the creators do this, it enables the viewer to make their own "judgment call" as to what the potential possibilities are regarding the ending. In WHR for example, the viewer is given the freedom to decide, "Hey Robin and Amon perished together in order to symbolize both their finally realized feelings for one another also to exemplify Robin's ultimate sacrifice of herself for her kindred that had been persecuted for so many years." This conclusion or "theory" is one possible one that the viewer could come away with, melancholy as it may be, in order to give themselves a form of closure or finality on the story. Another possible theory is "Hey you know what? Dojima implied when talking to Kurasam at the end that something miraculous had happened that she couldn't explain, but she felt more comfortable just "fooling" herself into thinking they were gone so the incredulousness of what she had experienced wouldn't burden her mind; maybe it was something that would entail their return to the "world above" at a later time. This theory also could have possible footing in that at the very very end after the credits, you see the gatekeeper reading the same horoscope that he was reading the day Robin entered everone's lives. Maybe this is another hint that they're really ok. Michael also metions that Dojima's opinion on things can't always be trusted or fully believed, thus possibly implying that when she had perhaps told everyone else that they didn't make it, she was in essence lying." The point I'm making is is that stuff, especially anime, that is somewhat abstract in nature or ends like I said without a defined closure to it is actually what often makes it something of good quality. Let's take the Lord of the Rings films for example: while there are really obvious messages of courage, loyaly, self-sacrifice, etc. in those films, people can still get stuff out of them, and the books, that's unique for them. I cried at parts in those films that you could say weren't meant to instill that kind of emotion, but I did it becuase those particular scenes connected with something personal to me about my own life. Basically, when an artform has certain elements about it that are "open to interpretation" that is sometimes its strength; when the viewer/listener/reader can make certain things special to themselves, thus possibly impacting them on a much deeper level, I believe it could be said that that piece of art has a high quality to it and strength. Without getting into details (as it's a "blacklist" title), Evangelion has many things in it that are confusing or "open-ended"; thus people have all kinds of interpretation and meanings to different elements in that series, but that's what makes it special to them; it hit them in a way that perhaps was unique to only them or to a limited crowd. If I were to narrow it down, in terms of certain pieces of art/entertainment, the ability for an artform to be relativisitic is at times its greatest or one of its greatest strengths because then each person partaking in it can have somewhat of a unique experience! I'm sorry this is so long, and i'm not trying to come across as condescending at all. WHR just happens to be one of my faves, but due to the subject of this thread, I felt that this particular issue was one worth sharing my opinion about and "digging into". Let me know what you think! Have an awesome day all!

[lj1958]

I think it was a fairly typical ambivilent anime ending; open-ended enough that if someone did want to make a season two, there would be a premise to start with. As far as it being abrupt, I didn't think so; I thought it fit the story well.

I would suspect that 90% or more of WHR fans would say that Robin and Amon weren't dead. Doujima's and Karasuma's conversation at the end is a big hint.