History GrandFinale / AnimeAndManga

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' is the GrandFinale to the original ''Adventure'' canon as a whole.. The original [=DigiDestined=] are now college-aged protagonists, having already started to take strides in what they want to do in life. Confronted with all this, the group must face one last adventure.

** While we're on the subject, ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack'' is basically the Grand Finale for original series main character Amuro Ray and TheRival [[CharClone Char Aznable]]. Some also consider it to be the finale for the original Universal Century continuity, although it had works set and released afterward.

* The final episode of ''Anime/AkazukinChacha'' saw a near marriage between Seravi and Dorothy that didn’t go to plan, but still proved to be a fitting send off for the show. The episode also had cameos by every previous MonsterOfTheWeek- except the BigBad, Daimou, but since he was the main villain, it’s understandable that he wouldn’t be around.

** Long before that, the series was originally to have its grand finale with the 1966 Underground Empire arc, which ended in the defeat of Black Ghost and[[spoiler: the deaths of 002 and 009, who burnt up in the atmosphere and became a shooting star seen by two children.]] Fan revolt quickly turned this into a SeriesFauxnale.

** However, this [[SeriesFauxnale wasn't quite final enough]] for Creator/ToeiAnimation - who created the follow-up series ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', which ended with Goku and the Dragon Balls [[spoiler:[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence leaving our plane of existence]], leaving humanity to solve their problems without having to rely on the [[ResetButton power of the Dragon Balls]]]]. This was then followed with a ''100 year'' DistantFinale by which time everyone except Pan [[spoiler:and Goku arguably]] had died. For all intents and purposes, though, this appears to have been {{retcon}}ned out via the interquel series ''Anime/DragonBallSuper''.
* In ''Anime/ExcelSaga'', ACROSS and Daitenzin confront each other head on (with no result whatsoever), and Pedro and Nabeshin finally defeat That Man. This, however, was the ''second''-to-last episode, followed by the intentionally unairable, appropriately-titled "Going Too Far," essentially a parody of the series.

* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' has a low-key, straightforward finale - Fran is hired to work as the doctor for a cruise ship, the ship sinks, and as Fran waits at the bottom of the ocean, she dreams that every single character over the course of the series throws her a big party. Veronica and Okita are shown coming to rescue her, and it then immediately cuts back to [[AndTheAdventureContinues Fran working at the lab yet again.]] The collected volume adds a meta, bonus chapter where it's stated that the series was a dramatized documentary that depicted events as being DarkerAndEdgier than they really were (though it's lampshaded that Fran's got a pretty warped view of what that actually entails), and the comic ends there after some meta banter. With the SequelSeries ''Franken Fran Fanatic'' having come out some years after, this arguably counts as a SeriesFauxnale.

** ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' had a bittersweet and satisfying conclusion in its final episode: [[spoiler:Ed, knowing that it takes a life to bring back a life due to EquivalentExchange, sacrifices himself to bring Al back - he ends up on the other side of The Gate without the arm and leg he had regained because of Al's sacrifice, and Al is found alive and human again, but at the age he was when he and Ed tried to bring their mother back, and with no memory of the adventures he and Ed underwent.]] The movie ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror of Shamballa]]'' came along and followed up on that ([[FanonDiscontinuity some fans would much rather ignore it, though]]): [[spoiler:after a madman on the other side of The Gate breaks through to Amestris, Ed follows and is reunited with Al, and the two save Amestris; Ed eventually returns to the other side of The Gate to seal it, but Al follows him while Mustang seals The Gate from Amestris' side, ensuring that the Elrics remained reunited.]]

* ''Anime/GunXSword'' ends with a climactic battle that spans at least three episodes. By the middle of the last episode, [[spoiler: Van killed the Claw; Joshua gave meaning to his brother's death by stopping the Claw's Instrumentality plot; Carmen defeated Fasalina; and Wendy said a definitive (and maybe deadly) farewell to her brother.]] The series ends on a few minutes of DistantFinale which suggest that a few years down the road, [[spoiler: Van and Wendy have a shot at HappilyEverAfter.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a big finale for its in its sixth story arc, ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': Enrico Pucci is moments away from completing his grand scheme to create a universe in the late DIO's image, and almost all of the heroes, including Jotaro and Jolyne, are dead. Emporio manages to defeat him, however, and when the universe is rebooted, he finds himself in an alternate universe where the Jolyne and Jotaro are alive and history overall took a much better route (implying that many-- if not all-- of the show's various protagonists who died over the course of the series survived in this universe). This gives way to a new timeline and continuity, starting with ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]''; this alternate universe is completely unrelated to the one seen in ''Stone Ocean''.

** The initial ending climaxes in a final clash against Ragyo, both as a group effort at the academy and later a one on one confrontation between Ryuko and Ragyo in space to stop her and the Life Fibers from taking over Earth. Ryuko succeeds [[spoiler: but Senketsu sacrifices himself to save Ryuko in the re-entry as they fall back to Earth]]. The threat of the Life Fibers is averted and people are free from their influence.
** The last, ''last'' episode wraps up loose ends with Honnouji Academy's graduation, Satsuki trying to decide what to do now since Ragyo's defeat, since most of her life was dedicated to stopping her and Ryuko trying to carry on after the above's events. Ragyo's former assistant, Rei, soon arrives to avenge her with the last of the Life Fibers she manages to get a hold of and waging a final battle against the heroes. [[spoiler: It ends with Rei defeated when the spirit of Senketsu returns the Scissor Blades to Ryuko for one final attack. Afterward Satsuki convinces Rei the world doesn't have to be a crappy place and that they should work together to make it better. The island destabilizes due to the battle and sinks into Tokyo Bay. Everyone manages to evacuate, giving one final salute to the school and Mako convinces Ryuko that Senketsu will always be with her, in heart and spirit.]]

* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' had one for the ''Dokkan'' season. In this, we learn that [[spoiler: Hana-chan (who turns back into a baby), Majo Rika and the fairies go back to the witch world, Momoko moves back to New York, Onpu moves away and we see that she wrote a new book that is popular, Hazuki is going to a different middle school than Doremi, and Doremi herself confesses her love to an unknown boy who is later revealed to be Kotake.]]

* The 1999 movie, ''Tenchi Forever!'' (AKA ''Tenchi Muyo! in Love 2: Distant Memories'' in Japan), served as the conclusion to 1995's ''Anime/TenchiUniverse'' saga. Among other things, it resolved the Tenchi/Ryoko/Ayeka LoveTriangle [[spoiler: by having Tenchi choose Ryoko.]] Hiroshi Negishi, the director of ''Tenchi Universe'' and the two movies, ''Tenchi Muyo! in Love'' and ''Tenchi Forever!'', would return to the Tenchi Muyo! franchise in 2016 with ''Ai Tenchi Muyo!'', which isn't set in the ''Tenchi Universe'' continuity.
* ''Anime/GoLion'' is an interesting example. it followed the 52 episode season of a regular kid's anime and had a eventful finale. (almost a 2 part in the way it was set up.) Sinclair is told [[spoiler: that his mother is Altea by Honerva.]] and then [[spoiler: stabs her]] and over the course of the episode people die. Including a character that Voltron merged into one character (in the original he is more a minor but impactful character.) to avoid death. all in all it was a really dramatic finale but this became a problem after export. when the show is export it as Voltron they made multiple extra episodes to fit the American syndication amount and they have to figure out a way to make the final episode no longer a final episode after they killed off important characters. obviously this involves a lot of editing and sound effect. (apparently putting a water sound effect saves a character.)

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has an [[AntiClimax abrupt]] DistantFinale which provides happy endings for some characters but leaves ''myriad'' of unanswered questions. Apparently, [[Creator/TiteKubo the author]] was suffering from a debilitating sickness and had to CutShort the manga. Rather ironic for a series infamous for its ArcFatigue.

* The final episode of ''Manga/DeathNote'', in which [[spoiler:Light is finally cornered, revealed to be Kira, and eventually dies due to Ryuk writing his name in his Death Note.]] Now a scene iconic and famous enough to have spawned half of the series' MemeticMutation.

* The ''Manga/ShamanKing'' anime had a Grand Finale, one that remains controversial among fans. However, the manga ''never'' had an ending, since it was canceled before Hiroyuki Takei could write it. The only thing ''close'' to an ending in the manga is [[spoiler:a four-part story depicting the future focusing on Yoh and Anna's son, Hana, ten years after the Shaman Fight.]] It wasn't until 2009 that Takei was finally able to provide a proper conclusion to the manga....which was ''also'' controversial among fans.

* ''Anime/golion is a interesting example. it followed the 52 episode season of a regular kid's anime and had a eventful finale. (almost a 2 part in the way it was set up.) Sinclair is told [[spoiler: that his mother is Altea by Honerva.]] and then [[spoiler: stabs her]] and over the course of the episode people die. Including a character that Voltron merged into one character (in the original he is more a minor but impactful character.) to avoid death. all in all it was a really dramatic finale but this became a problem after export. when the show is export it as Voltron they made multiple extra episodes to fit the American syndication amount and they have to figure out a way to make the final episode no longer a final episode after they killed off important characters. obviously this involves a lot of editing and sound effect. (apparently putting a water sound effect saves a character.)

* After [[LongRunners nearly 26 years]], ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ended Ash Ketchum's saga with the 11-episode miniseries ''Anime/PokemonToBeAPokemonMaster'' under the ''Anime/PokemonJourneyTheSeries'' saga after he finally became the WorldsBestWarrior.

* After [[LongRunners nearly 26 years]], ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ended Ash Ketchum's saga with the 11-episode miniseries ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesAimToBeAPokemonMaster Aim to Be a Pokémon Master]]'' after he finally became the WorldsBestWarrior.

* While it isn't the final ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie, ''Singing With Everyone Miraculous Magic'' is the last of the annual crossover movies to have every team in it (not counting ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure''’s standalone movie celebrating the [[MilestoneCelebration 15th anniversary]]), as all the movies afterwards include the three most recent teams with the others being reduced to cameos if they appear at all. Not only is the movie a musical, it also features the revival of every BigBad up to [[Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure Dyspear]]. Granted, they don’t have any personality here, but it is still cool to see all of the major villains one last time.

* After [[LongRunners nearly 26 years]], ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ended Ash Ketchum's saga with the 11-episode miniseries ''[[Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries Aim to Be a Pokémon Master]]'' after he finally became the WorldsBestWarrior.

* After [[LongRunners 26 years]], ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ended Ash Ketchum's saga with the 11-episode miniseries ''[[Anime/PokemonJourneysTheSeries Aim to Be a Pokémon Master]]'' after he finally became the WorldsBestWarrior.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' ends definitively with the gripping two-part finale "The Real Folk Blues". [[spoiler:Vicious attempts a coup of the Red Dragon syndicate, only to fail; this gets everyone associated with him, including Spike, targeted for termination. Jet is injured in a gunfight with syndicate goons, and Spike finally reunites with his lost love Julia, thanks to Faye delivering some timely information. Vicious' takeover of the syndicate eventually happens, and he keeps the hit on Spike and Julia alive; Julia dies at the hands of the Red Dragon's hit squad, and Spike storms the syndicate's headquarters to get his revenge. Once he reaches the top of the building, Spike faces off with Vicious in the show's climactic battle; Vicious dies from a gunshot straight through his heart, and Spike (supposedly) dies soon afterwards due to Vicious's katana and the injuries sustained during his assault on the syndicate. "Bang."]]

** The [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime version]] had a bittersweet and satisfying conclusion in its final episode: [[spoiler:Ed, knowing that it takes a life to bring back a life due to EquivalentExchange, sacrifices himself to bring Al back - he ends up on the other side of The Gate without the arm and leg he had regained because of Al's sacrifice, and Al is found alive and human again, but at the age he was when he and Ed tried to bring their mother back, and with no memory of the adventures he and Ed underwent.]] The movie ''[[Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa The Conqueror of Shamballa]]'' came along and followed up on that ([[FanonDiscontinuity some fans would much rather ignore it, though]]): [[spoiler:after a madman on the other side of The Gate breaks through to Amestris, Ed follows and is reunited with Al, and the two save Amestris; Ed eventually returns to the other side of The Gate to seal it, but Al follows him while Mustang seals The Gate from Amestris' side, ensuring that the Elrics remained reunited.]]

*** [[spoiler:The first half of the movie features [[NebulousEvilOrganisation SEELE]] finally losing it with [[TheStoic Gendo Ikari]] going against them and trying to hack into the MAGI computers to take over (and possibly self-destruct) the NERV base. When he gets the resident MadScientist Ritsuko Akagi to block them out, SEELE instead convinces the Japanese government that NERV plans to end the world in Third Impact, and they send in the military to murder everyone at NERV. And that means ''[[KillEmAll everyone]]''. The first half of the film generally documents the systematic attacks on the Geofront and Central Dogma. Asuka comes out of her coma and gets into a massive fight with the military and some auto-piloted Mass Production Evangelions, culminating in her being utterly mangled to death. Meanwhile, Shinji undergoes a mental breakdown and ends up entering his Evangelion, who is also his mother, and in the process witnesses Asuka's mangled Evangelion, at which point he screams in terror. But wait! It gets better!]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a big finale for its in its sixth story arc, "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]": Enrico Pucci is moments away from completing his grand scheme to create a universe in the late DIO's image, and almost all of the heroes, including Jotaro and Jolyne, are dead. Emporio manages to defeat him, however, and when the universe is rebooted, he finds himself in an alternate universe where the Jolyne and Jotaro are alive and history overall took a much better route (implying that many-- if not all-- of the show's various protagonists who died over the course of the series survived in this universe). This gives way to a new timeline and continuity, starting with "[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Steel Ball Run]]"; this alternate universe is completely unrelated to the one seen in "Stone Ocean".

** The manga of the series ends things on a slightly happier note: [[spoiler:Like in ''End of Evangelion'', Instrumentality is underway. However, Shinji comes to realizes that if people were unable to hurt each other, there would be no capacity to love each other. He tells Rei as much, rejects Instrumentality, and Rei pulls a HeroicSacrifice to undo Instrumentality and give humanity a chance at a better future.]]

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' is the GrandFinale to the original ''Adventure'' canon as a whole.. The original [=DigiDestined=] are are now college-aged protagonists, having already started to take strides in what they want to do in life. Confronted with all this, the group must face one last adventure.

* ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'' finally wrapped up in 2014, with "Conclusion: God's War", although [[AuthorExistenceFailure as Shotaro Ishinomori had passed away back in 1998]], it was his son at the helm, having used his father's drafts and story notes for the arc. The story puts the cyborgs and Dr. Gilmore through one last great battle that seems impossible to survive, with the darkness and violence in the story escalating. [[EarnYourHappyEnding There's a bit of light at the end of the tunnel]], but it takes the team a lot of hell to get there.

* ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'': "The Big Comet Caper". Even though there is one more episode after it ("The Cats Cop Cartoon Careers"), The Big Comet Caper acts as more of a grand finale.

* While it isn't the final ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie, ''Singing With Everyone Miraclous Magic'' is the last to have every team in it, as all the movies afterwards include the three most recent teams with the others being reduced to cameos. Not only is the movie a musical, it also features the revival of every BigBad up to Dyspear. Granted, they don’t have any personality here, but it is still cool to see all of the major villains one last time.

* ''Manga/KannazukiNoMiko'' ends with [[spoiler:Orochi being destroyed permanently, meaning that Chikane and Himeko's future incarnations will not have to perform the human sacrifice ritual.]]

* While it isn't the final ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' movie, the movie which includes every team up to ''Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure'' is the last to have every team in it, as all the movies afterwards include the three most recent teams with the others being reduced to cameos. Not only is the movie a musical, it also features the revival of every BigBad up to Dyspear. Granted, they don’t have any personality here, but it is still cool to see all of the major villains one last time.

* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'' ends just as you'd expect a show about The French Revolution to end. Short Version: Everyone [[spoiler: except Rosalie]] dies.