My anime club doesn't show EDs

glennmagusharvey

So my anime club (and I think my previous anime club, too) will show single episodes of shows.  They'll start playing from the beginning, intro and OP and all.  But once the episode ends...the club prez goes and turns it off.  No respect for the ending theme at all.

(Not to mention there's no next episode preview...so what was the whole point of showing the eps again?  To get people interested in continuing the series?)

Why do people do this?

Crimson

My anime club does this because we have tight schedule and need to save time. So we usually skip OPs and EDs we've already seen.

saladofstones

EDs are generally the same and not everyone cares for them, being on a tight schedule is related to this but its also a matter that EDs get old pretty fast.

 

MadassAlex

Usually, the EDs do tend to suck in comparison to OPs, too. 

saladofstones

Toradora and kill me baby had great EDs

glennmagusharvey

EDs are not more same than OPs.

Stormtroper

DYRE

What if the show has a bit after the ED?

Also I don't see how your schedule can be so tight that you can't afford spending an extra minute and a half watching the ED.

Although I can understand skipping them if you've already seen them, though you should still probably do that by skipping to the next chapter (or just skipping forward 1:30 if there aren't chapters on whatever media you're watching it on) so you can see the preview or other stuff at the end of the episode.

Also:

EDs are not more same than OPs.

They pretty much are.

Musically they're usually about as generic as the OP, except worse-sounding.  And EDs tend to not actually be animated, or are just like, a walk cycle or 3-frame dance sequence or something silly.

All Nines

I've never liked next-episode previews, myself. If the first episode left a good impression, I would keep watching it, and I'd rather not have the events of the next episode spoiled for me in any capacity.

MadassAlex

Also, I often dislike EDs because of how they can ruin a show's tone. The OP sets the tone of the episode as it begins, but the ED is what the episode leaves you with at its conclusion -- so it's pretty strange and very dissatisfying to get bubbly J-pop after a highly dramatic and serious business incident. An OP doesn't follow from anything, though, so it's free to set a mood in its own right. If the episode violates that mood, that's fine because it's like a shift rather than an ultimatum. But the ED is often the last thing you experience from an episode, so if it conflicts with the tone of whatever you just watched, it can ruin an otherwise finely-crafted experience. 

One good thing about Evangelion, despite the Engrish, was Fly Me To The Moon at the end of each episode. It's not a sombre song in its original context, but it works extremely well to cap off any given episode of NGE. After all, it has a yearning quality that has great synchronicity with the general dourness of the later parts of the show. 

Saturn

FRRRRRRRRRRRRY ME TO DA MOON

DYRE

An OP doesn't follow from anything, though,

A lot of shows have a part before the OP.  Sometimes this can even be pretty long, and especially if the previous episode ended on a cliffhanger or something (and so the current episode is following from there) the OP can disrupt the mood just as much as the ED.

And of course plenty of EDs fit the tone of the show just fine anyway.  Though yes there are some that don't and it can be pretty jarring when that happens.

Noimporta

I remember watching Gankutsuou and thinking "Why are they using the OP as ED and the ED as OP?".

glennmagusharvey

I didn't like Fly Me to the Moon at the end of Evangelion episodes, actually.  It felt especially jarring as the show got darker.  After such episodes as, say, ep 18, they should have just cut to silence.

Also, relevant: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=159116

vandro

Some previews make funny in-jokes. Like the Haruhi one with spelling the broadcast order and the chronological order.