Which anime has the most divisive ending?

Finales that split their own fandoms down the middle, from cryptic to catastrophic. Nobody agrees which one hurt most.

1. 1
   Attack on Titan

   The 2023 finale turned its protagonist into the atrocity he was fighting, and split the fandom on whether that was the plan all along.
2. 2
   Neon Genesis Evangelion

   Two closing episodes replaced the war with an interior monologue, and people have argued about it since 1996.
3. 3
   The Promised Neverland Season 2

   The second season skipped most of the manga's remaining arcs and compressed the rest into a montage.
4. 4
   School Days

   A slow romance drama that ends in sudden, notorious violence.
5. 5
   Devilman Crybaby

   Everyone dies. The question is whether that lands as tragedy or nihilism.
6. 6
   Tokyo Ghoul:re

   The final season compressed a long manga into a conclusion many readers did not recognise.
7. 7
   Code Geass

   The Zero Requiem ending is either the perfect close to Lelouch's arc or a cheat, depending on who you ask.
8. 8
   Death Note

   The back half after L's death, and the warehouse finale, remain the show's biggest argument.
9. 9
   Naruto

   The epilogue paired off nearly the whole cast and skipped ahead, to a decidedly mixed reception.
10. 10
    Berserk (1997)

    The series stops at the Eclipse with no resolution, sending viewers to the manga mid-catastrophe.
11. 11
    Darling in the Franxx

    A grounded mecha romance that relocated its finale to outer space.
12. 12
    Soul Eater

    The anime overtook the manga and invented its own ending, which readers largely disowned.
13. 13
    Akame ga Kill!

    The adaptation diverged from the manga and killed off characters the source kept alive.
14. 14
    Erased

    The final episodes resolved the mystery quickly and left a romance thread deliberately unpaid.

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