>>677
>Is this still the most soul crushing ending scene in anime?
The endings of Texhnolyze and Wolf's Rain will forever be the most soul crushing endings in anime.

>>678
I think texhnolyze takes the cake out of those two

>>677
Idk I remember the Zeta Gundam ending being too vague. Seeing Kamille as a vegetable in ZZ was worse in my opinion

>>680
It wasn't vague at all, if anything ZZ retroactively ruins the ending by having him recover from it in the end because "anime is supposed to be hapy :)"
-Yoshiyuki Tomino (probably)

>>679
When I first saw the ending of Texhnolyze (around 2005ish, I was still a young teenager), while the scene with Ran was unfolding I unconsciously dug my fingers into the skin of my other arm and drew blood. I was making the same facial expression of confusing and rage that Ichise was making and I started sweating and crying intensely. Then the scene that immediately followed afterwards with the insert song and I fucking bawled like a bitch.
I threw up later that evening too.

Not a single other anime or any other piece of media gave me such a visceral reaction, jesus christ. I haven't watched Texhnolyze since then and I don't want to watch it again.

>>682
Yeah I remember feeling this heavy hole that slowly drained everything. By then she really was the only part of that show left to hope for and when that was gone and the ending came I just felt empty. Powerful stuff, but it really gets the message of not putting your existence behind impermanent things across to the viewer.

Jinrou comes to mind for me ;_;

yeah this moment cemented Zeta gundam as one of my favourite anime.
listening to this is melancholic
https://youtu.be/oNYPryOqyGo

>>680
The problem with the endings mentioned here is that they all go rather abstract. Wolf's Rain has a sad last episode, but the last scene is that kind of open for interpretation, same thing with Zeta Gundam, at first it's "oh no", but then "wait, what?", and you only find out what happened in ZZ, and then there is Texhnolyze where you are made unsure about about what, or if anything, even happened, and I think the immediate intellectual demand breaks the emotional impact.

Now, this one had me upset for days.