Phantom- Requiem for the Phantom Episode 26

the ending was expected but still depress :3

something to add...the song made the ending even sadder..what the hell people. X(

Wow this show has definitely earned a spot on my top 10 all time favorite Animes.. Where on that list i am not quite sure at least 5 or above.. I really needed this show! I haven't seen a good crime drama since Gun Grave... It seems like a rare genre in Anime and is even rarer to find one of this caliber! This show kept me interested all the way to the end. It ended perfectly also! I knew they were gonna die in the end it was just watching them spiral down then spiral to the top again then fade away! The ending felt so natural unlike most Animes where the ending feels rather forced.. This show is very classy but at the same time very raw! Truly a great show i would recommend it to anyone who likes intense story lines!

Elen killed herself and Renji took his own life because they were both finally content and neither could kill the other.. All questions were answered the promise fulfilled neither had any regrets, they weren't phantoms anymore.. For Elen it was finding her Identity for Renji it was helping her find it.. There was nothing left to do after that but die with their lives finally having meaning, To continue to live would have tainted that, as you seen Inferno would have still tried to eliminate them forcing them to have to lie and kill the very thing that they were escaping... Renji couldn't live with that obviously, and Elen couldn't live without Renji..

ok....I don't give a **** on who killed who at the end... all I can say is: - this was an awesome anime, ..depressing :| (-.-) but awesome at the same time!! 2 bad there wasn't more reiji "zombie mode" fights

The best assasin in the anime just get killed so easy... and Elen kill her self. i think they just dont wanted to do a second season so much run so much sadness so much sorrow so much pain so much love so much search and so much KILL TO LIVE !!!! and in the end they just give up so easy for something they WANTED SO MUCH ( and when they start to feel it just last 5 seconds) DAMN I am just shock
so much good and one episode just dont feel it right. why?...

Didn't like this ending, (not because I wanted it to end happily). If they were going to kill them off, should've done it in episode 25, at least they would've wend out with a bang.

How do you people know elen IS dead? And if she ate the aleged poisonous flower (LOL) and both undergone suicide, would it be better if they both eat them instead of one killing the other. So i think that thoery of yours is stupid.

I really don't see how hard it is to figure out what happened if you actually look at the facts and thing about it.

Anyway whoever said it's totally ridiculous that they could have killed each other but not that messed up that he got shot by someone else obviously didn't actually watch this anime. Reiji wouldn't have let that happen in a million years. Please remember this are the best of the best, there are no better killers in that anime's world. Also Elen would have done something about it afterwords, and if that was an assassin he would have shot Elen too.
Also I think the same person said where would Elen hide a gun with that outfit. Again did you even watch this Anime? She always had a gun with her no matter what she was wearing. And assuming it was more or less the same outfit as always yes she could easily hide a gun there.

Also did everyone forget about that bullet shell? The cart driver was on a dirt path, the shell was in the middle of the grass and from the camera angle it appeared to be right around where they had been.

Then last, come on people, drop the whole flower deal. The peddle is gone, Elen is dead, no more bullets were shot, thus it's the most obvious part of this ending.

It's impossible that Elen kill Reiji.
She said she can continue living thanks to the memories with Reiji.
Reiji said that one day he will mak her smile.
So he doesnt know that he was about to die.
If Elen decided to die I don't think that she will kill him with a silencor without telling him.
They would have die together.
And for those who said that it was impossible that Inferno found them in 6 month.
When they was in japan they lived hiden, but this time they was asking people everywhere to know elen's past so it's possible that a man of inferno noticed them.
Sorry for the english i'm french.

this series made me want more....man.....stupid production team with no season 2 and no straight answer to what happened in the last bit of the episode. i see them like scythe master, they did this purposely so people would discuss and be intrigued by the fact that everyone wants to know what was their side to what happened in the end and how did it happened.

i guess reijis wish came true and he kept his promise and now he's going to the depths of hell this my friends was a true anime and i believe that it was a great ending but sad.

Ok... 1 question here . y didnt anyone think that the assasin that shot reiji shot elen as well. i mean wat kind of stupid assasin would so that . and seriously that sounds more logic to me than the poisoness flower =P

Ack I actually created an account for this anime to comment since the ending was so ambiguous.

Here is my take on it...

Elen didn't shoot Reiji...Elen's typical handgun is a six shooter...they push that through out the anime...she doesn't have a weapon that discharges shells and in the end there is one lying on the floor. Also the only reason to use a silencer is to be silent! Why would Elen use one in that situation, in the middle of nowhere. Reiji did not commit suicide...he's sitting there thinking to himself "One day, I will..." right before he gets shot. One hand in his pocket...the other in plain sight...even when he falls down. Either Shiga came back and killed him for the whole mess with Mio and to secure him from trying again. Or the unlikely situation the only next gen assassin dressed in white from the showdown that did not get killed came back (Remember Elen just beat one up...never shot or knifed her...and the camera shows another scene of her on the floor right after Reiji catches Elen). Either way...since a silencer was used...most likely a person from the cart shot him. And yes even though the shell is in the grass...it doesn't mean it wasn't right by the road. As for Elen...they do end her scene with her looking back and smiling...but they don't quite finish it...they kind of pause it on her initial reaction...so she might have seen him dead...and then eaten a poisonous plant petal and died since everything is complete...like she said after remembering while looking up at the sky..."I don't think we need to go on anymore", that can be interpreted as in life as well as travelling. Sounds weak...but seems weird for her to just lay down and chill after Reiji is shot down. I suppose she might have just taken one petal to play the 'he loves me/he loves me not' game...lol...but...ya...no. Overall the end of the anime talks about who Scythe was...a brainwashing assassin maker. They were both brainwashed...lost their memories. The overall feeling from them was that they lost their normal lives and memories. So once they BOTH found them by visiting their homeland...they were happy to die. I suppose for Reiji it was a bit more...he wanted to see Elen smile as a fulfilled promise.

I almost like guessing...fun anime...since its completely open for interpretation...like decent art.

Anyways...now that I've completely over analyzed this anime...go outside and don't worry about it! =0)

loved the ending to the anime though i wish it had gone longer as many people have already commented. i think that the ending went like this even though there was only one shot it could have easily went through Zwei and into Elen. But the ending was a definite top 10 anime ending.

Awww, come on, i liked this anime.
And yeah
i don't think Elen/Ein killed him.
She uses, as posted above, a six shooter, or some kind of powerful revolver.
to the best of my memory - which isnt much - she doesnt use a silenced weapon through the entire series in place of her revolver.
So i would think it was the guy in the cart that passed.

lol when i was watching this epi, and i heard the silencer spit out the bullet at the ending
i was like.. "Damn... i hope that wasn't a silenced gun..."
And sadly it was. =[
Oh well, this anime had a good run <3

Zomg, that ending ruined the entire anime for me... i guess i will just pretend it didnt happen ^_^

Masaka!! I can't believe that happened. completely unexpected ending...way sad. it was a good ending though(as agreeing with many others) great series.

wierd ending but........................................................... a really good anime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! one of the best in a long while, 9/10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*claps*

If what some of you are saying is true and that they kill eachother/ themselves, then why does Elen go through all the trouble killing herself with a flower when in fact they have a gun?...