
At the end of the second season, he's last seen being stabbed and falling unconscious in the middle of the street.
The anime for Durarara!! leaves Izaya's fate up in the air. The end result of this conflict is not seen, but it's more optimistic than the Devilman series' usual blatant Downer Endings. Devilman Lady: The manga ends with Akira and Ryou remembering their former lives and teaming up to prevent God and his angels from destroying the world.
Dangaioh ends with Gil Berg being defeated but not killed, the war still going on, and Team Dangaioh unconscious and adrift in space inside their mecha compartments. Whether Spike died or not is unknown to this day. Cowboy Bebop ends with Spike, being wounded, staggering down the stairs and reaching his hand out to the remaining Red Dragon members like a gun, says "Bang", and collapses. However, she gets put in the same prison where most of her surviving experiments ended up, and the last we see of her is her cowering in the corner of her cell as they start to beat down the door. The Big Bad, Ax-Crazy Mad Scientist Nero, has turned herself into the police to escape the hero's vengeance. Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw ends with one of these for the villain. In Captain Earth, it is unknown if Daichi and Hana escaped the destruction of the Blume or both died in it. It's more hopeful than most examples, because what matters isn't who won the match, but that Tamaki and Sakaki finally have proper rivals to test their skills against. The story ends right in the middle of the match, without revealing who won. The manga ending to Bamboo Blade has Tamaki finally having her first match with fated rival Ura Sakaki. The 1985 Area 88 OVA ends with Shin about to engage against the mercenary planes that have already annihilated the rest of the Area 88 pilots. In Aldnoah.Zero's Grand Finale, the last that is seen of Sir Harklight, Count Barouhcruz and the remainder of the Stygis Squadron is them flying their damaged Kataphrakts in a final assault against the Deucalion. The Trope Namer, for example, doesn't show the viewer the outcome of the two main characters confronting the Bolivian Army, but it is framed in such a way that the audience is left in little doubt what it will be regardless. The Bolivian Army Ending, however, is an intentional ending, and needs to work satisfactorily as such while the exact details of what happened might be slightly ambiguous, it is often heavily implied what the outcome will be, and either way the audience is left under no illusions that the character's story is now over. An unresolved cliffhanger, therefore, is an unintentionally suspenseful ending the producers intended for the cliffhanger to be resolved, but outside events prevented this.
A cliffhanger is designed to create suspense and maintain the audience's attention so that they come back to continue the story. Arguably scarier is an Offscreen Inertia ending.Īs some shows / films have ended on an unresolved Cliffhanger, it's worth noting the difference between the two. When the camera cuts to a different scene unrelated to the battle right before the work ends, this overlaps with Charge-into-Combat Cut. Can be considered a variation of a Downer Ending, although it's ambiguous enough to give the viewer/reader some hope.