I'm looking forward to the end of the series. Not because I want the journey to end, but because I look forward to seeing how things end. The completion of a story is arguably its best part.



A few examples:

Samurai Jack

Digimon Adventure

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Red vs Blue Season 13

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Inuyasha: The Final Act

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Inheritance Cycle

And I know this can be controversial: Dragon Ball GT. It's ending is the only truly satisfactory one the franchise ever got.



Just to name a few.



There is a beauty in seeing how a story ends. It's the release of feeling catharsis by proxy. Very infrequently do people actually get to experience any true certainty in release while we yet live. Life is unpredictable for the most part. Getting to witness the closing of a book or story is comforting.



A shelf full of novels, anime, stories of any kind is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It's more than just a collection of art. It's a shrine of sorts for the memories we made with the stories we followed. Humans can't distinguish on the emotional level the relationships we form with real people from those we form with the characters in a book. It's why they're so real to us. It's why we care if a character lives or dies even though they're just figments of someone else's imagination. Those shared subjective relationships we have with our heroes and our villains is part of what makes the thrill of belonging to a club or group centered around these stories so fulfilling. It's the exponential growth of our connections to those relationships forged in electricity and data, ink and paper, or blood and fire that makes those stories and friends fictitious and physical so important to our lives. They surround and overwhelm us in a wave of shared experiences.