Dragon Head Chapter 89 Discussion *spoilers beware*

This series ending was just disappointing even though its real aim was to give out a clear message.



Well it was made in 1995 xD



7/10

The ending was fine.And by ending I mean the final pages.



The problem is that this "fear is an inner monster" thing was redundant as hell.The first "dragon head" made it look like there is something VERY important behind it but in the end it was nothing.THen we got all the crazies killing people for some reason even they dont know.Literally.They dont even know themselves.



This fear shit should have ended when they left the old woman and just be a survival story after that, without saying the same thing over and over again.

Great series with huge potential, the art of ruined Tokyo was top-notch, the plot was amazing and the ideology it portrayed was great, yet the ending was absolutely terrible, it seemed like the author had run out of ideas and ended it randomly.



6/10, would be a solid 8+ if it has an actual ending.

What a bullshit ending. Other people in the thread have said it more eloquently than I, but it's so disappointing that the back half of the story is the way it is. It just became completely directionless after they left Izu (and even the Izu arc has problems, but at least it *seems* like it's setting up something cool). I don't want to come across as a baby who needs everything spoonfed to me, but the way the author tries to deliberately leave everything open-ended isn't thought-provoking, it's just frustrating. And it feels like there's no reason for it to end where it does, it feels like it should have another 15 chapters or so. Like something to tie up the stuff with the medical experimentation & have a definite end for the protagonists, happy or tragic, just some kind of closure (speaking personally, I think it would've been great if they escaped Japan).

wow, the ending was bad. The author didn't explain what even happened to Japan, and I know now, but what if I wasn't using MAL and I would have never found this thread? Also, the nuclear bombs were just abandoned all of a sudden. I'm fine with the ending pages because there's no way they would have survived a volcano erupting right in front of them.

It would've been a solid 8, but because of this ending, I'll change it to a solid 7

AironicallyHuman said:
"The slowest, most filler-filled manga I've ever encountered. The focus was so much on aimless wandering, insane people and monster metaphors that what mattered got ignored. And it ended at a random point, with NOTHING explained or resolved." - from my tags.



Dragon Head's ending has to rank as the worst ending ever. After countless filler chapters, involving running from random nutjobs, wandering around ruined areas and, at the end, some fear cult bullshit, it just ended.



I don't see how running from nutcases who can't handle the whole destruction of Japanese civilization is to be considered filler chapters, really. It was all part of their struggle for survival that blended nicely into the story.



I must say though, that the end came rather unexpected and left me with some unsatisfied feelings, even though it was probably one of the best endings that the author could give it. That's mostly the problem with a great story, making an end to it is really hard for it not feel fake or forced.

I belive that none.

There's are rivers of lava running deep undergroud the whole planet. In Dragon Head, the lava rivers surfaced.

I believe it's simply nature's work.

It has happened before ... if I'm not mistaken ... a vulcano surfacing where there didn't use to be one before.

Uhmmm......okay. KillthisAccount said:
Beatnik said:
Scynt_Skunk said:
But all that crap about nukes and stuff at the end was just confusion for confusion's sake...



And what was the military saying about electromagnetic waves?  It's like the author decided to change his mind on what happened in the last volume or something...



The military nuke stuff was just further exploring the idea that humans create things to fear all the time.  The manga didn't really get sidetracked by it enough for it to become a problem for me though.  It was just providing some worldwide context to the Japanese disaster, I was glad for it really.  Plus we got some nice zombie v soldier action.



The entire last couple chapters were just plain ridiculous and just added in a bunch of loose ends that weren't tied up at the finish.



Really, I'm really pissed I wasted about a week and a half of my like on this manga now...



Eh?  What loose ends?  Either the kids die or they somehow survive.  What other loose ends are there in that scenario?  I'd rather just leave them there under that concrete cover happy to be together in the face of death and misery, than the author wrapping everything with a nice fake bow.



The ending, and those last panels, was actually pretty good, I thought.  At the end of the day, humans will not give up hope and cave in to fear.  They'll rebuild and plough on as always, just...with a gigantic volcano where Tokyo used to be.



I totally agree. I felt the ending had little to no loose ends and can be interpreted as either a bright and hopeful future or a bleak and bitter sweet end to Ako and Teru's journey.  



I forgot most posts in this topic are opinions of complete weaboos, that want a moe happily ever after ending where everything is perfect wrapped up without any sense of mystery and the guy gets the girl... /rant.



That's what I think, too.....but still, something feels kinda off. Well, maybe it's just me.

Started out good, but in my opinion kinda went downhill. I think, I would have liked this better if it was just about them surviving and finally escaping in that tunnel.



FireEmblemIke24 said:
This series ending was just disappointing even though its real aim was to give out a clear message.



Well it was made in 1995 xD



7/10



So what if it was made in 1995??