Phantom- Requiem for the Phantom Episode 26

.....Sigh another sad anime ending, Requiem of the phantom was a awesome drama, psychological thriller romance and a nice watch and break from all of these shojo and shonen anime titles out here.
Basically what i think happened was that, Elen finally became happy finding her homeland and liked her situation being with Reiji while Reiji was just glad with keeping Elen happy. But then the old dude in the carriage had to come and shot him dead which sounded like silencer.
so you know Elen will probably kill herself once she finds out he's dead......in the end a requiem for all the phantoms

Hi uh i usually dont comment on animes but i decided to make an account to say, wow this is one of the best anime ive ever seen, and i didnt expect the two of them to have an happy ending because of all that killing they had done but damn that was cold you could have at least given then time to settle down lmao

duh...get a grip guys....don't think to hard...you might end up using a little bit of the 90 % brain power we don't normally use....and listen to Sabre27...its the most logical answer......joining the mafia is a profession that no one leaves cleanly.......hint...think....about what members who try leaving an criminal organization...and what usually happens....work for the mob for life or....fill in the blank......

i love this ending and i guess that how it should be and eye for and eye.. but what i really wanted to knoe is who is good enuff to kill the phantom i thought they were the best... ??????

WTF happened? Who the hell shot reiji. This anime was too great to have a horrible ending like this.

Firsy-to all those who are saying this was a horrible ending: exactly what kind of ending were you expecting for 2 people who lives were so consumed by death in the first place? People who think all series should end with happy endings are just so, well, BORING. In all honesty, I think they actually WERE pretty happy AND as content

Well we don't know if they died but one can assume so and I am sure that is exactly how they planned to end it with the "well they could still be alive" thing where people will argue both sides yes they are dead or no they are alive and all we can say is we hope this or that but its never gonna get answered in all likelyhood so lets just reflect on how great the anime was and how we all took HOURS out of our lives to enjoy it.

My opinion is that there is no way in hell he died from that xD I mean he can live from Scythes 3 bullets, 1 is nothing xD it didn't seem like a bullet to head so there's a good chance he lived. She didn't look dead there either.

Really unexpected ending, Never would have guessed that after ein regained her memory she would kill reiji. Maybe cause he made him kill scyte master, her father, who adopted her.

i loved that ending, i welcome phantom to the hall of greats such as death note and code geas

That was an extremely nice and overwhelming anime series. To be honest I didn't cry in the end because I was expecting it since I witnessed the depth of the drama element in the series. Overall, it was a nice series that I consider to be one of the best that I've ever seen. It was different from the usual series we see every day and I liked that. About the ending: Reiji should be dead cuz no professional assassin would make a mistake such as not to make sure the target dies (meaning it was a shot to the head). Elen wasn't the one who shot due to the facts that Sabre27 explained. It was just a random assassin (at least that's what it seems).

Its a great ending. Anything else would have trashed the series. Now was it me or did Elen show her true smile after renji died? The scene right after he falls to the ground.

damn!! who killed rejie?! huhuhu..... :(

WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! why did it have to end that way?????? thats realy messed up.......... god poor Reji Great show with a twistid ending thanks for the upload. : )

It's an open ending, it's what you want it to be xD

Ok having watched this from the start and being a huge fan I've read everything and worked out the most likely ending (IMO). First lets look at the facts:

Reiji only had one thing left to live for as he said in his own words, to see Elen's real smile.

Elen was done with her search for her past and more or less was satisfied with how things had ended.

If you look at the very end you'll see a bullet shell laying in the grass, it appears to be in the same area Elen and Reiji were.

The flower Elen had been looking at was missing a peddle.

My first thoughts were an outside attack, which would've made this one of the worst endings ever. Then I really looked through things and while IT'S NOT obvious it makes more sense that it was Elen.

"2 Elen shoots Reiji..while giving her real smile... she eats the poisonous flower and dies..."

On top of the fact it makes the most sense this turns the ending from an epically horrible ending to a great one. Reiji got what he had been looking for and they both met their end in one of the happiest moments possible with their hate filled sorrowful lives. Neither of them was murdered they both accepted their end with a smiling face and a happy heart.

So in the end I think they really should have mad their cause of death a bit more apparent, but if you really look at it it adds up just fine and ends well.

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Well then because nobody even takes this into accaunt and I think that this is more original aswell as more fitting to the story I'm goint to tell you people my theory.
HE KILLED HIMSELF!
Ellen wouldn't ever kill him. Inferno would no way be able to find them in 6 months with a new assasin if they couldn't do it in 2 years before. And most importantly one of the main points of this anime was Reji being forced to kill in order to live but NOT being able to forgive himself for it. In the end the only one left hating him was himself. And also something that nobody seems to have kept attention to was the preview of this ep at the end of the previous one, he said he had only one task left to finish, and during this ep he made Elen smile and forfilled it. He had nothing left to do. Now don't start nagging about him not seeing Elens smile because even if he hadn't seen it before he was shot he would've seen it just before dieing while laying there on the ground.
Now seriously somebody replie to this and tell me why you didn't even think of the possibility of suicide?

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