Originally posted by: Ryllharu
Berserk is another 'bad ending' series. That by no means makes it a 'bad
series.' Anyone who's read the manga will tell you that that is barely half the story, and that it is perhaps the greatest series that's still running. Other than Jojo's Bizzare Adventure, Berserk is probably the
only "Epic" (in the true sense of the word) anime/manga.
The same goes for Fruits Basket. It is a rushed chop shop ending. The series ends at volume 6 of the manga, barely a third of the way through the story at present. They also took the boring parts of the series for the most of the last half of the anime. It is a bad series, but the story is a lot better than the anime gives off.
Take Neon Genesis, liberally cross with RahXephon, kill people off more often, and you've got Fafner. The series is garbage. It tries to be profound like the other two (arguably RahXephon isn't that great either) and just comes off as another clone of them.
Gungrave is bad series. Take an awesome mobster arc, and then switch aburptly back to the retarded monster-undead genetic zombie killing cliche-fest. They should've just kept it to the mob arc and called it something else. Why bother to cross it with a game that was decent, but nothing spectacular?