r/City

Is anyone else super annoyed by the ending? The entire show was So, SO creative, fun and charming. Upon learning in advance that the ending was a musical, I was SUPER excited to see what it had to offer. I mean, the opening for CITY is literally a song that can make you cry of happiness. But NO, they literally just took a random chapter, and turned it into a musical number, like, nothing remotely interesting went on at all. I guess it does assemble most of the CITY’s expansive cast? But that’s about it. I love this show to death, dont get me wrong. It is genuinely one of my favorite shows of all time, but the ending just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. Why did they go for something so uncreative and generic?? This is literally what the ENTIRE series had succeeded in avoiding for its entire duration, but apparently not the ending.

AND THE WORST PART IS, THE MUSICAL ISN’T EVEN DUBBED!! They had the lyrics translated and all, but the thing is literally just in Japanese. It genuinely felt like the team ran out of juice towards the end of production and had to settle for something passable instead.

The whole ending sequence would’ve been so much better if the one-star party was made like a normal chapter and put before ecchan/matsuri’s farewell. Heck, they could’ve ended it after the goodbye with the OP playing over a montage or something, and it’d be 100000000 times better than what we had.

In short, I dont like the fact that this gorgeous, creative, masterful show had THAT generic of an ending for no reason. The ending goes against the entire point of CITY the animation, and would take away literally nothing from it if left out.