3:25 this part here just hits different because when i listen to that part I just start to remember all the stuff that happened in the show and ending off with Reiji and Eren holding each other like they did on the rooftop of the school then stops when they say transparent
ending actually sold Reiji way short..in my opinion his arc never got completed..he was still running and never truly faced up what he done..if you care to know what i mean..just ask
@@Spazzfrom.1989 Didn't he though? He fulfilled Elen's immediate wish and then finally monologued about his true desires, to take care of her and so forth (In contrast, Elen found it to be enough). The moment he speaks to living out his life's desires, Elen's completed, he dies. In a sense, he cut off the future of others and their dreams and so, just the same, his future was cut off and his dreams. In a poetic way, only allowed to fulfill Elen's dream for her, as it was not for himself. I guess what I'm saying his, he recognizes the weight of what he has done throughout the story and lives with it. That is why Scythe Master views him so highly. He is no doll, he chooses to kill and bears the weight of it. He also did pay the price for what he had done, as stated above, and he only ran for Elen's sake.
@@Ander0072originalv2 do you remember when chlo first gives him his identity? what was one of the first things he did? He picked up the phone and called home..but he didnt answer because he felt he had gone too far..everything after that was him running from the shame of him having to truly answer for what he has done..he needed to confront the things he done and be able to forgive himself of that..he needed to go home and be honest with his mom n dad and ask for forgiveness. I also believe Kal did not get fleshed out enough in the end as an adult..there wasnt enough dialogue there or explanation to explain her madness.. The one thing i would get is if the master guy told her that eren was the one who killed that night..and that Reiji knew all along and kept Kal in the dark to only run off with with..The master could then distance himself from eren since she is the puppet saying she broke orders which would match with the fact that she later runs away with reiji. Personally..i thought the ending was cheap in a way that they tried too hard to make it overly poetic..ill be honest..i found it confusing..granted i loved the show..but the 3rd act needed more fleshing..on kal in particular..i think infernos leader needed to be confronted as well as that was a barrier for reiji going home..i ehar in the VN that the black lady survives the duel and goes back to kill inferno..and then the 2 fantoms marry. I'm going to copy and paste a few older comments..its in response to a guy who posted one of the VN endings where they instead live marry and the black girl survives and kills infernos leader
@@Ander0072originalv2 i just found it odd that the anime ending was so ambiguous and unclear..that style was not used throughout the the entire show but they used it at the end..i feel like they were trying to be poetic..but i think the vagueness detracted..they shoulda just shown what happened..also a bit surprised reiji never confronted his family as his shame is what kept him from going back..kinda felt like that would been an important moment to accepting what he had done and yet having courage to move forward in a righteous and positive way..still enjoyed the show though..but i never much like those type of unclear endings.. like it woulda been better if they just did the number 1 ending as you said..but then the both of them go to reijis family where he goes to confess where he has been, his new wife..and what exactly it was that he done..to me..that coulda have been a strong ending..and it wouldnt need to be a scene or even show the family..but just the two of them at the door knocking with a little bit of heads up to the viewer of what exactly he is there to do..see his family and be %100 transparent with all he's done..too me thats not being overly happy ending nonsense..and still shows a hard road for reiji..as we would not get to see how his family would take it..would they understand and forgive it? or would his worst fears be realized and theyd think him a monster and banish him and he'd just have to work out his life with eren..which would basically be the same style as the actual ending but more concrete..and the same stakes of paying for your bad deeds/sins..via his families judgement on him..again not letting the viewer see but still giving us much to think about..could what he did be forgiven? I believe in Jesus so i do believe yes it can..but from a human to human aspect..the family..would it be forgiven..i also think by just showing up at the end that would be him accepting what he has done, and accepting what he has done by coming forth right as a son to his parents..which can be difficult in normal day to day things..so imagine a killer who even killed a child and mother..to which he would be admitting to.. imagine if that got writtin into the anime..i believe that woulda sent the show into the cosmos of being completely killer..thats the way i woulda written it at least. Overall was a joy to watch..my other gripe was i dont feel like he used enough words and effort for Cal..he seemed a little to quickly resigned to the fact that there needed to be a duel..not that there is anything wrong with that..but it doesnt seem like there was as much agony there as there could have been..not sure how justified her rage was either..unless inferno told them that it was Ein that was the shooter that night and Reiji kept that from her..yet the only thing about that is..that Cal seemed to harbor no resentment towards her..even though she woulda been one of the ones that Cal would have wanted Reiji to kill..so a little bit of clean up coulda been done there..maybe 2 or 3 more episodes to get that fleshed out.. and then scrap that way to ambiguous ending for..well really my ending lol..or something along the lines..where you dont just get a cookie cutter ending..but something with a lot more conclusion and yet will leave the viewer more honed in on will the family forgive his deeds? and making the viewer think..would i forgive those deeds? are they forgivable? To me that seems to leave a stronger impact as opposed to leading us scrambling in the forums about what exactly just happened. Yeah..the anime finishes with them knocking at his families door..and Erin asks.. "What will you tell them" He turns his head to look at her..She turns her head toward him And he simply replies "I'm going to tell them everything"
the bigg comment is a reply to a guy who brought up the ending where they end up married and the black girl kills infernos leader..basically what the show did but deviated from..i felt like i said it well enough that id just repost the old comment..reiji not going back home was a big miss on his arc ..it was piviotal for his redemptin..whether his family would forgive him or not
Loved this song for a long time. It reminds me hard of AICO Reincarnation and their opening theme. Both songs sound so similar yet one faster as the other's slower. Both are amazingly well toned and the performers just...WOW
After watching this anime I had a ton of mixed emotions and didn’t really know how to feel about it! I’m happy to say that it definitely added to the experience as it made me think about it a ton even after I had finished watching it!
@@edwardelric4975 yeah, that's probably the oddest thing that the show did. I could believe it if she was older or if the timeskip had been longer but it was definitely a bit odd.
@@edwardelric4975 even after the explanation, that it's the Scythe doing it still feels way too odd. From a precious child, reason to go through shit of life to a ridiculously hot chick.
She understood early on that she was being used. Though Scythe Master goes on about Drei being his piece about "hatred", her behavior at the end shows that, deep down, that hatred never was fully deep. It was more so grievance that she felt Reiji abandoned her. That's what the dream sequence is all about, had they just noticed each other after the explosion, taken just one step different, things wouldn't have had to turn out they way they did. It's also why she was so upset with Reiji being in Japan as well as with Elen, both just emphasize the feeling of abandonment.
The writer really made it seem like they would love eachother more than brother and sister but apparently not the ending seemed rushed and doesn't make sense he starts liking this random school girl and I just have no words after this masterpiece ends like that I'm truly at a loss for words and a lot of anime follow this theme it really hurts my appreciation for Japanese anime writers
I like to think of it as no matter who reiji meets up specifically each woman he associates with, he will always come back to elen as they were made for each other, to go through thick and thin and to be one. I think somewhere in reiji, he knows elen will always be there for him and so as him for elen. Recall the episode reiji betraying inferno bc he wanted to escape with elen after she was shot in the thigh and he nursed her back. Specifically talking about the scene elen asked reiji something along the lines “didn’t you think I would escape when you were gone that long” and reiji responded “I knew you wouldn’t” It’s never really explicit in the anime that they love each other (probably for the sake of story for reiji to be in different relationships) but reiji has a lot of deep conversations with elen which proves a lot
Also totally agree with you on the tragic ending but if you think about it this way esp you tie it back to the opening song Karma, the title karma is like a metaphor of the ending. The phantoms are mass murderers who killed countless criminal figures and in the end they don’t deserve to live in happiness together
He likes a random school girl? I know you're referencing the one in season two, but he likes her? I view it at most as him trying to fit back into the normal world. She definitely likes him, but I never perceived Reiji as liking her in a sincere fashion. Edit: Also want to say, I'm unsure if by "ends like that" if you're referring to girl thing or if you're referring to the actual ending. If you're criticizing the actual ending, I must say, it is the most fulfilling ending I have honestly seen. Reiji's internal monologue at the end, and then Elen's internal monologue makes the bittersweetness peak perfectly.
Well... i stopped watching it. Because i hate Main Protagonists Dying In My own two eyes... Hell No! All i want is to watch them suffer and Kill everyone.. i gotta say im really a sadist.. Just like Death Note F*ck I didnt even finished the episodes And manga Because I found out. that Light will die in the end just hell no! I know Light didnt suffer.. but i hate Them if they die.. and i hate lovey dovey’s so i got irratated a little bit while watching this anime... To My opinion, It was kinda worth it But still i dont like the ending much.. and Reiji or zwei Protecting one little girl and died but Is alive. But hell no i aint gonna watch more of this..
There were alternative endings in the original novel, game, manga. One ending was when reiji and eren lived in Japan and visited Bulgaria evey now and then, it wasn’t clear but I think they were a couple. Another was when cal and Reiji survived together and Eren died, while protecting Reiji from scythe master. The third was when all three died together in the Church but that’s the worst one.
Hopefully, after 6 years, you've come to appreciate tragedy, at least when it's well-written. They accomplished what they set out to do by the end, that is the sweetness. Reiji hoped to aspire to do more, but they can't escape their past wrong-doings, even if they were forced upon them, that is the bitterness.
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this ending and the first opening are a masterpiece and the original sounf track of phantom requiem for the phantom is fantastic
Kokia just serving the goods as usual with the first OP and this ED
Literally my thoughts like i love kokia's voice so much
3:25 this part here just hits different because when i listen to that part I just start to remember all the stuff that happened in the show and ending off with Reiji and Eren holding each other like they did on the rooftop of the school then stops when they say transparent
I really liked this song when I heard it from the anime
Thanks for uploading it
Such a heartbreaking ending, but that ending is what perfected it all.
ending actually sold Reiji way short..in my opinion his arc never got completed..he was still running and never truly faced up what he done..if you care to know what i mean..just ask
@@Spazzfrom.1989 Didn't he though? He fulfilled Elen's immediate wish and then finally monologued about his true desires, to take care of her and so forth (In contrast, Elen found it to be enough). The moment he speaks to living out his life's desires, Elen's completed, he dies.
In a sense, he cut off the future of others and their dreams and so, just the same, his future was cut off and his dreams. In a poetic way, only allowed to fulfill Elen's dream for her, as it was not for himself.
I guess what I'm saying his, he recognizes the weight of what he has done throughout the story and lives with it. That is why Scythe Master views him so highly. He is no doll, he chooses to kill and bears the weight of it. He also did pay the price for what he had done, as stated above, and he only ran for Elen's sake.
@@Ander0072originalv2 do you remember when chlo first gives him his identity? what was one of the first things he did? He picked up the phone and called home..but he didnt answer because he felt he had gone too far..everything after that was him running from the shame of him having to truly answer for what he has done..he needed to confront the things he done and be able to forgive himself of that..he needed to go home and be honest with his mom n dad and ask for forgiveness.
I also believe Kal did not get fleshed out enough in the end as an adult..there wasnt enough dialogue there or explanation to explain her madness..
The one thing i would get is if the master guy told her that eren was the one who killed that night..and that Reiji knew all along and kept Kal in the dark to only run off with with..The master could then distance himself from eren since she is the puppet saying she broke orders which would match with the fact that she later runs away with reiji.
Personally..i thought the ending was cheap in a way that they tried too hard to make it overly poetic..ill be honest..i found it confusing..granted i loved the show..but the 3rd act needed more fleshing..on kal in particular..i think infernos leader needed to be confronted as well as that was a barrier for reiji going home..i ehar in the VN that the black lady survives the duel and goes back to kill inferno..and then the 2 fantoms marry.
I'm going to copy and paste a few older comments..its in response to a guy who posted one of the VN endings where they instead live marry and the black girl survives and kills infernos leader
@@Ander0072originalv2 i just found it odd that the anime ending was so ambiguous and unclear..that style was not used throughout the the entire show but they used it at the end..i feel like they were trying to be poetic..but i think the vagueness detracted..they shoulda just shown what happened..also a bit surprised reiji never confronted his family as his shame is what kept him from going back..kinda felt like that would been an important moment to accepting what he had done and yet having courage to move forward in a righteous and positive way..still enjoyed the show though..but i never much like those type of unclear endings..
like it woulda been better if they just did the number 1 ending as you said..but then the both of them go to reijis family where he goes to confess where he has been, his new wife..and what exactly it was that he done..to me..that coulda have been a strong ending..and it wouldnt need to be a scene or even show the family..but just the two of them at the door knocking with a little bit of heads up to the viewer of what exactly he is there to do..see his family and be %100 transparent with all he's done..too me thats not being overly happy ending nonsense..and still shows a hard road for reiji..as we would not get to see how his family would take it..would they understand and forgive it? or would his worst fears be realized and theyd think him a monster and banish him and he'd just have to work out his life with eren..which would basically be the same style as the actual ending but more concrete..and the same stakes of paying for your bad deeds/sins..via his families judgement on him..again not letting the viewer see but still giving us much to think about..could what he did be forgiven? I believe in Jesus so i do believe yes it can..but from a human to human aspect..the family..would it be forgiven..i also think by just showing up at the end that would be him accepting what he has done, and accepting what he has done by coming forth right as a son to his parents..which can be difficult in normal day to day things..so imagine a killer who even killed a child and mother..to which he would be admitting to..
imagine if that got writtin into the anime..i believe that woulda sent the show into the cosmos of being completely killer..thats the way i woulda written it at least. Overall was a joy to watch..my other gripe was i dont feel like he used enough words and effort for Cal..he seemed a little to quickly resigned to the fact that there needed to be a duel..not that there is anything wrong with that..but it doesnt seem like there was as much agony there as there could have been..not sure how justified her rage was either..unless inferno told them that it was Ein that was the shooter that night and Reiji kept that from her..yet the only thing about that is..that Cal seemed to harbor no resentment towards her..even though she woulda been one of the ones that Cal would have wanted Reiji to kill..so a little bit of clean up coulda been done there..maybe 2 or 3 more episodes to get that fleshed out.. and then scrap that way to ambiguous ending for..well really my ending lol..or something along the lines..where you dont just get a cookie cutter ending..but something with a lot more conclusion and yet will leave the viewer more honed in on will the family forgive his deeds? and making the viewer think..would i forgive those deeds? are they forgivable? To me that seems to leave a stronger impact as opposed to leading us scrambling in the forums about what exactly just happened.
Yeah..the anime finishes with them knocking at his families door..and Erin asks..
"What will you tell them"
He turns his head to look at her..She turns her head toward him
And he simply replies "I'm going to tell them everything"
the bigg comment is a reply to a guy who brought up the ending where they end up married and the black girl kills infernos leader..basically what the show did but deviated from..i felt like i said it well enough that id just repost the old comment..reiji not going back home was a big miss on his arc ..it was piviotal for his redemptin..whether his family would forgive him or not
Loved this song for a long time. It reminds me hard of AICO Reincarnation and their opening theme. Both songs sound so similar yet one faster as the other's slower. Both are amazingly well toned and the performers just...WOW
After watching this anime I had a ton of mixed emotions and didn’t really know how to feel about it! I’m happy to say that it definitely added to the experience as it made me think about it a ton even after I had finished watching it!
I last watched it in 2014, but I remember how weird it was that Cal went from like looking 8 to 18 in a 2 year time skip.
@@edwardelric4975 yeah, that's probably the oddest thing that the show did. I could believe it if she was older or if the timeskip had been longer but it was definitely a bit odd.
@@edwardelric4975 even after the explanation, that it's the Scythe doing it still feels way too odd. From a precious child, reason to go through shit of life to a ridiculously hot chick.
@@H0elessRomantic1man it's either Scythe gave her something or puberty is just a bi*ch
@@H0elessRomantic1I think this was some sort of experiments to increase her growth or some shit
Poor Reiji !!! RIP 😭😓😵☹
I’m still mad they brainwashed the blond girl
She understood early on that she was being used. Though Scythe Master goes on about Drei being his piece about "hatred", her behavior at the end shows that, deep down, that hatred never was fully deep. It was more so grievance that she felt Reiji abandoned her. That's what the dream sequence is all about, had they just noticed each other after the explosion, taken just one step different, things wouldn't have had to turn out they way they did. It's also why she was so upset with Reiji being in Japan as well as with Elen, both just emphasize the feeling of abandonment.
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The writer really made it seem like they would love eachother more than brother and sister but apparently not the ending seemed rushed and doesn't make sense he starts liking this random school girl and I just have no words after this masterpiece ends like that I'm truly at a loss for words and a lot of anime follow this theme it really hurts my appreciation for Japanese anime writers
I like to think of it as no matter who reiji meets up specifically each woman he associates with, he will always come back to elen as they were made for each other, to go through thick and thin and to be one. I think somewhere in reiji, he knows elen will always be there for him and so as him for elen.
Recall the episode reiji betraying inferno bc he wanted to escape with elen after she was shot in the thigh and he nursed her back. Specifically talking about the scene elen asked reiji something along the lines “didn’t you think I would escape when you were gone that long” and reiji responded “I knew you wouldn’t”
It’s never really explicit in the anime that they love each other (probably for the sake of story for reiji to be in different relationships) but reiji has a lot of deep conversations with elen which proves a lot
Also totally agree with you on the tragic ending but if you think about it this way esp you tie it back to the opening song Karma, the title karma is like a metaphor of the ending. The phantoms are mass murderers who killed countless criminal figures and in the end they don’t deserve to live in happiness together
He likes a random school girl? I know you're referencing the one in season two, but he likes her?
I view it at most as him trying to fit back into the normal world. She definitely likes him, but I never perceived Reiji as liking her in a sincere fashion.
Edit: Also want to say, I'm unsure if by "ends like that" if you're referring to girl thing or if you're referring to the actual ending. If you're criticizing the actual ending, I must say, it is the most fulfilling ending I have honestly seen. Reiji's internal monologue at the end, and then Elen's internal monologue makes the bittersweetness peak perfectly.
I miss this anime 😢
If you miss you can watch it again. I feel sorry for elan reiji and cal. Why they have to live such a life.
@@buybuy7581 I feel sorry for the master
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@@vuhnill here as well, Requiem for the Phsntom is my 2nd favorite anime, great anime.
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Literally hahaha
Name of song?
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DanPQuarx transparent by kokia
Well... i stopped watching it. Because i hate Main Protagonists Dying In My own two eyes... Hell No! All i want is to watch them suffer and Kill everyone.. i gotta say im really a sadist.. Just like Death Note F*ck I didnt even finished the episodes And manga Because I found out. that Light will die in the end just hell no! I know Light didnt suffer.. but i hate Them if they die.. and i hate lovey dovey’s so i got irratated a little bit while watching this anime... To My opinion, It was kinda worth it But still i dont like the ending much.. and Reiji or zwei Protecting one little girl and died but Is alive. But hell no i aint gonna watch more of this..
There were alternative endings in the original novel, game, manga.
One ending was when reiji and eren lived in Japan and visited Bulgaria evey now and then, it wasn’t clear but I think they were a couple.
Another was when cal and Reiji survived together and Eren died, while protecting Reiji from scythe master.
The third was when all three died together in the Church but that’s the worst one.
Hopefully, after 6 years, you've come to appreciate tragedy, at least when it's well-written. They accomplished what they set out to do by the end, that is the sweetness. Reiji hoped to aspire to do more, but they can't escape their past wrong-doings, even if they were forced upon them, that is the bitterness.
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