{"id":87453,"date":"2024-02-05T02:07:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T02:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/?p=249915"},"modified":"2024-02-10T03:07:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T03:07:59","slug":"lia-bespoke-project-hello-goodbye-animes-best-first-and-final-episodes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/lia-bespoke-project-hello-goodbye-animes-best-first-and-final-episodes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"LiA Bespoke Project: Hello, Goodbye \u2013 Anime\u2019s Best First and Final Episodes \u2013 #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First Episodes:<\/h2>\n

#1 – Cross Game<\/h2>\n

Cross Game<\/em> is another example of an anime which took some liberties in adaptation with its premiere, yet achieved spectacular results.\u00a0 Unlike Hourou Musuko<\/em>, which effectively skipped the first third of the story apart from flashbacks, Cross Game<\/em> condensed the first volume of the manga into a single episode.\u00a0 But oh, what an episode it was – a triumph which for me completely vindicated the decision.\u00a0 It works flawlessly as a stand-alone prequel, even as it sets up everything that happens in the rest of the series.\u00a0 This is character-driven storytelling at its absolute best – some of the finest writing Adachi Mitsuru (happy birthday Sensei, by the way) has ever done.<\/p>\n

#2 – Shin Sekai Yori<\/h2>\n

I freely admit that a lot happened in the premiere of Shin Sekai Yori<\/em> that I didn’t understand at the time.\u00a0 But it doesn’t matter, because even as I was watching it was clear I wasn’t supposed<\/em> to.\u00a0 This first episode was all about world-building, and you’d be hard-pressed to find any anime episode that did a better job of it.\u00a0 There would be occasional hiccups later – obvious budget lapses, ill-advised changes to the novels’ ending.\u00a0 But From the New World<\/em> still stands as a classic, one of the best anime of the 21st Century, and this premiere did a lot of the heavy lifting to set the stage for that.<\/p>\n

#3 – Fumetsu no Anata e<\/h2>\n

Fumetsu no Anata e<\/em> kicked off with basically a perfect first episode – a masterpiece of great subtlety and emotional depth that works basically as a stand-alone story.\u00a0 That it would be the high-water mark for the anime is a shame.\u00a0 This is certainly not the only case of a great premiere never being matched, but it’s one of the most dramatic.\u00a0 Any series that can move me to tears with the first episode has something special going on, and the quiet, slow-motion tragedy of this premiere is a a heartrending masterpiece.\u00a0 Fumetsu<\/em> was occasionally great after this (and too often downright mediocre, too) but never as elegiac as it was here.<\/p>\n

#4 – Hourou Musuko<\/h2>\n

As I said, choosing only 5 first episodes was both easier and harder.\u00a0 There are gazillions of them, but how do you narrow it down to such a tiny number?\u00a0 Thinking back on all the premieres I’ve loved, Hourou Musuko<\/em> really stood out.\u00a0 Manga readers were upset that the entire first arc of the manga was skipped, but I didn’t know that at the time.\u00a0 That arc (elementary school) is wonderful, but so is this premiere.\u00a0 A truly heartbreaking introduction to one of the most emotionally powerful stories in animanga, with one of my favorite scenes of all time (\u201cClair de lune\u201d\u00a0 on the bridge).<\/p>\n

#5 – Tsuritama<\/h2>\n

I had two premieres on the same day that could have appeared here.\u00a0 Spring 2012 was a truly staggering anime season, one of the best ever.\u00a0 It was also for my money the clear best season ever for NoitaminA (and that’s a pretty high bar).\u00a0 Tsuritama<\/em> is a series I truly love.\u00a0 I ranked it 7th on my 2010’s Top 20 list, and that feels too low if anything.\u00a0 What a first episode this was – an explosion of color, sound, comedy, and the raw emotion of adolescent neuroses.\u00a0 It was to be the start of a truly great ride, the best work Nakamura Kenji has done in his illustrious career.<\/p>\n

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Final Episodes:<\/h2>\n

#1 – Death Parade<\/h2>\n

The finale of Death Parade<\/em> is one of the longest episodic posts in the history of LiA to date (it might be<\/em> the longest, though I haven’t checked).\u00a0 And there’s a reason for that, above and beyond it simply being a great ending for a historically great series.\u00a0 There was so much to unpack here – Death Parade<\/em> is one of the most intellectually dense anime of the century, and not one that offers easy questions or easy answers to them.\u00a0 It remains the only full-length series director Tachikawa Yuzuru also wrote, which is astonishing given its brilliance.\u00a0 Perhaps this was\u00a0 the story burning to be told inside him, and once told he simply has no imperative to tell another one.<\/p>\n

#2 – Tokyo Ghoul \u221aA<\/h2>\n

I mentioned yesterday that Fumetsu no Anata e<\/em> might<\/em> be the worst series to make this compilation, but if it’s not, Tokyo Ghoul \u221aA<\/em> is.\u00a0 This is a troubled series – an anime clearly at odds with the production committee, a director intent on doing some things differently than they (and perhaps the mangaka) wanted.\u00a0 But here’s the thing: Morita Shuhei is an auteur, a true genius.\u00a0 And this anime-original final episode is one of the most brilliant pieces of direction I’ve ever seen in anime.\u00a0 This finale was hugely controversial, much-derided by many manga readers, and to our great loss the whole experience of this adaptation seems to have soured Morita so much that he’s abandoned anime altogether.<\/p>\n

Jimmy crack corn, and I don’t care – I think it’s an absolute masterpiece, without question the final episode which most exceeds the overall quality of the series it’s concluding.\u00a0 The visuals alone are staggering, but it also gives one the sense that after being straight-jacketed for 11 episodes Morita felt liberated knowing it was all over, and just creatively went his own way with glorious results.\u00a0 I like the story choices he made, and the end result is a testament to his unfettered brilliance.\u00a0 Anime is much diminished by having hounded him out of the medium.<\/p>\n

#3 – Seirei no Moribito<\/h2>\n

I’ll be honest – I could have ranked Seirei no Moribito<\/em> first in this category and not given it a second thought (no pun intended).\u00a0 And ranked it on the premiere list too, for that matter.\u00a0 But I’m trying not to be too predictable, and that would certainly have been the easy choice.\u00a0 I don’t think a series is going to rank as my all-time #1 without a great finale, and Moribito<\/em> avoids the crucial mistake so many epic series make – it brings the main\u00a0 plot to a conclusion in the penultimate episode, leaving the final one as a time for reflection.\u00a0 It’s not a happy ending, this, but it’s poetic and steeped in pathos.\u00a0 It’s also the right one for the story being told, as painful as that was.\u00a0 A tremendous, heartbreaking yet satisfying conclusion to anime’s greatest masterpiece.<\/p>\n

#4 – Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai<\/h2>\n

2011 is very much the theme of the day here.\u00a0 AnoHana<\/em> is a somewhat divisive series.\u00a0 At some point it become uncool to love this show, but screw that – unapologetic depiction of\u00a0 emotion in anime has become so rare that I always treasure it when done well.\u00a0 And this finale (there was a movie later and it was excellent, but not essential) provided just the right emotional catharsis after the roller coaster ride the series took us on.\u00a0 “Mada nai, yo!” still guts me, to this day – it’s one of the most gut-wrenching lines of dialogue in anime history.<\/p>\n

#5 – Undead Girl Murder Farce<\/h2>\n

Recency bias?\u00a0 I really don’t think so.\u00a0 Undead Girl Murder Farce<\/em> is not a series I consider an all-time classic, though it was really good.\u00a0 But its finale was a staggering display of directorial genius by Hatakeyama Mamoru.\u00a0 Auteur works are a theme on this list, I think, both for premieres and finales.\u00a0 This was truly a glorious experience, beautiful and surreal and breathlessly imaginative.\u00a0 An anime ending for an ongoing manga adaptation could hardly be executed better.<\/p>\n

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Premieres and finales. \u00a0Are they the most important episodes of a series? \u00a0Broadly speaking, I would say yes. \u00a0And I\u2019d add that final episodes are, generally, the hardest to get right (and that applies to more than just anime).\u00a0 And they’re challenging in another sense as well.\u00a0 As I wrote in my Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu<\/em> series review post:<\/p>\n

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Finales, for me, are at their best as vehicles for reflection by both the cast and the audience \u2013 a time for quiet rather than bombast.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Given all that, this makes an interesting topic for a retrospective. \u00a0Once more it\u2019s Nicc (the LiA MVP without a doubt) who commissioned this piece. \u00a0At his request, these are just the best (in my view) premieres and finales generally. \u00a0Not, that is to say, ones that are dramatically better than their series as a whole. \u00a0That said, if I had any ties, I went with the latter just for the sake of making a more interesting list that shines a greater spotlight on the episodes themselves.<\/p>\n

The hardest thing about this topic (and others like it) is trying to remember – in this case, all the first and last episodes I\u2019ve really loved. \u00a0I\u2019ve been watching anime for a very long time, having finished by my estimation a number of series in the high three digits. \u00a0Amongst those how the heck am I supposed to remember all the best premieres and finales, especially avoiding a recency bias in the process? \u00a0Not an easy ask, I can tell you.<\/p>\n

As Nicc\u2019s commission was for for both premieres and finales, I decided to do five of each. \u00a0As well, not to rank them against each other, as I think that would be basically impossible. \u00a0They each have a different job to do and those jobs are very different.\u00a0 Choosing five first episodes was a lot easier I can tell you – there are many more examples of great premieres than great finales in the annals of anime history.<\/p>\n

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