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It keeps in suspense, but ideology of the ending is extremely naive.


I've just finished this series.
For me it's a bit like a mix of Death Note (the motive of a teenager gaining unnatural powers by accident and using it to fight evil and using his intelligence to play it all out perfectly, but then finding other one with the same purpose but an inverse method) and Hellsing (the motive of a war between one country trying to save itself from aggression of another great empire and a single hero helping the first country to survive due to his superior powers).
It's ability to keep your attention is surely one of it's biggest assets. Unfortunately the rest is not that great.
The weakest side of this anime are its holes in the plot, completely illogical twists of action and behaviour of some individuals and a completely misguided idea of peace at the end. The anime tries to convince us that by concentrating people's hate on a single target and then eliminating the target, this will lead to a world of hippie peace. But it's only within this anime and has nothing to do with reality. People do need some constant enemy, especially the ones who we call right-wingers and as fast as one of them disappears, they seek for another one to fill in the gap. Did the world's conflicts end with Hitler's death? With Bin Laden's death? With Ted Bundy's death? Everyone knows the right answer. So in the end the last part of this anime unfortunately makes absolutely no sense.

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Not really a lot of anime out there you could sum up as making perfect sense..Ultimately, this wasn't exactly Plan A it's really the only card they had left to play given everyone's path in the show.

I agree it certainly wouldn't bring world peace and happiness, but it's a "good enough" ending and I think it's fair to say it would have brought, at least temporarily, some sort of stand still given just how many people died by such devastating weaponry. I think every nation would take a step back and look for a way to avoid conflict.

Kallen did say at the end there was still plenty of issues to fix so it wasn't a perfect plan that's why I went with good enough.

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Well honestly there was a moment (the meeting of all factions), where the main character could play the good guy and just defeat the British Empire.
So I really don't think the way anime has ended is the only way that was possible. But in the end.. it's the creator's choice.

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