Disappointing ending with many open questions

Piromysl said:
Similarly to Cyberpunk Edgerunners, this is a story with a punk themes, where main characters are standing up to the corrupt system, but are powerless to change or fight it, so the system changes them.
In this story Ordinary Person, eventually descends into villainy and embraces it becoming the Swindler with an illusion that she is doing something good and noble by saving those kids, while in fact she has indirectly caused more death and destruction than any other character in this show by instigating violent riots.
There are no heroes nor victors in this story.

I wouldn't say it's a bad ending, because you are supposed to reflect upon it and underuthe message, not feel happy or anything like that.

ErogakiPatches said:
How awesome would it have been if it was a real heist that went on for the entirety of the show?

ErogakiPatches said:
Swindler could have been useful with an interesting backstory for not only her, but for the entire crew. But they didn't flesh out any of the crew or the plot, really. They just turned it into a dumb "human experimentation" for immortality plot and didn't give enough time to the characters, which would have made this show great.

Samuele said:
Hi, I just finished watching the last episode and I was a little disappointed with how it ended, especially because everyone dies especially the courier and SWINDLER who are the main characters who introduced us to the show.

Ok, the kids are saved (not that I cared much) and after? Absolutely nothing changes, the kansai is on fire because the protest is rampant, they have knocked down the tower of the execution squad, but many members are still alive and with the ability to regroup. Furthermore, the quantum computer of the Kantō is still functional able to exert pressure on the population of the kansai (which had lost the war previously), just remember the terror that the leader of the execution team felt when he spoke to the "yellow masks".

The story was good up to half, the peak was reached with the clash between Brawler and Execution Division Master. That they lost their lives could also be there but I expected an interaction between Hoodlum and the girl Division Apprentice.

I expected many more qualities from the boy, he seemed intelligent at the beginning, able to find classified information, come up with complex plans to attack the shinkansen, send mails to supervillains untraceable by the police and the ability to send 1 billion yen to every single member for assignment. In the second half, however, his "best plan" is to escape to the moon with his sister, without knowing that it was actually destroyed some time ago by the war (buy yourself some binoculars or find other information, no, right?), with an old rocket . Great.

It would have been much more interesting to build a new base, with the funds he had, and organize a coup to free the kansai and build a new order and give the akudama the possibility to erase all crimes. In particular, the child's "reison d'etre" must have been to dismantle the factory of immortal children, in fact we remember that the kansai had completed the technology to reproduce the immortal children in more units, precisely creating his sister. His goal therefore in my view was to stop this abuse towards other children, in fact remembering his friends that he had lost in school / factory. And from there the story would have taken a different turn with a much more satisfying ending, perhaps even defeating the kanto.

 Another disappointing scene in the final, when hacker sacrifices himself to save the two children from the computer, he tells them to go to those coordinates and get back on the train. ok, but the train goes back to the kansai station, where obviously the police are waiting for you.

The beauty is that the courier has a motorcycle. All 4 of you get on motorbikes, and reach the destination on motorbikes, right? By now they have survived the purification zone it's just a matter of getting out of the zone in fact the problem was to get in. Don't tell me otherwise they ran out of fuel because the journey was too long, as if a motorcycle that shoots plasma beams has refueling problems, cough coough :)

It was obvious that they were targeting the train.

 Nice introduction of the characters, but I wanted to see more, some backstory and how they became akudama. And instead zero characterization.

And finally their names. It would have been a touch of class at least for the courier and swindler to reveal their real names, perhaps in an ending in which both declared themselves as survivors. I expected the two children to give them a potion of their blood for the final battle to drink or use on wounds, to use the healing properties of their immortal cells, as a trump card. (apparently nothing beats the doctor's needle and thread skills, she really works wonders, I'm still amazed she didn't make it cough cough).

What a pity. What a regret. There was so much material that could be used for an interesting and epic story, and instead they threw almost everything out the window. Much more could have been done for the story and for each character.

 IT really had great potential and I was enjoying it as show.