When Good Anime Ends Bad.

I love anime cartoons for two reasons. First, you just can't beat the art work and animations used by the Japanese. Second, the cartoons are a series, often more than twenty, rolled into one big story. Every single episode is connected in progression.
I recently saw the final episode of a cartoon called Full Metal Alchemist. Talk about a fantastic story. Not just a fantastic story, but fantastic characters.
Two brothers, one year apart, expierence an accident at a young age when they try to revive their passed mother. the elder looses his arm and leg, while the younger looses his entire body, though the elder was able to "bind" his younger brother's soul to a suit of armor. (I know, not exactly a cartoon a Christian would watch.) Through the entire 51 episode series, the brother's, with the aid of friends and allies along the way, work hard to help eachother gain what they'd lost. The elder, Eric, works to restore his brother's body while the younger, Alfonse, works to restore his brother's leg and arm.
In the end, Alfonse get's his body back and Eric winds up in another world seperate from Alfonse.
The end is what really upset me. I wanted the brothers to celebrate a happy ending. Instead, Eric get's his arm and leg back thanks to his brother's sacrafice. He is successful in returning Alfonse to their world in his original body, but disappears to another world himself with his original metalic arm and leg. Atleast all the bad guys got their just rewards. And after a day or two to think it over and re-watching the ending once or twice, I started thinking "those two boys are so determined to see eachother again that they'll do just that." Which is kinda pathetic because all I'm doin' is creating my own meaning to a disappointing ending in an effort to feel better about it. Even so, it would probably take them another four years to see eachother again.
The only other horrible ending to a successful run was Cowboy Bebop, when Spike dies in the very last show. Now, I've never seen the movie, so I don't know anything about that, but I was rather raw toward that show for a week or more. I'll probably be that way towards Full Metal Alchemist for just as long if not longer.

Any way, I'm working on a brand new short story, but I'm still trying to get the details straight in my head. Pray for me, will y'all?

The other day, I ran accross a web site that was quite humorus to me. I find that I share much of the same views as the author of the site. Check it out.
http://artihate.jinwicked.com

'Til next time.