

Did the whole village get burned down? How about the girl? The whole thing
seems quite incomplete to me. Can someone explain the ending?


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Can someone please explain the ending of Shiki?


It's an open-ended finale. After the credits, there are still 30 seconds that
you might have missed. All this is conjecture: the village burned but as fire
pass away (purification) the survivors rebuilt it and the villagers' life goes
on. The only Shiki whose status we're not sure about (for romantic reasons)
are Sunako, the little girl of the mansion, and the head monk; either they
burnt in the church or survived.


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As others have said there were a few seconds after the ending credits and it
was more of an open ending I personally take solace in how it ended being that
I myself could not find a better way to end it that supported the themes and
messages it seemed to convey. The point is that nothing is truly good and
nothing is truly evil. Both the humans and vampires committed immoral acts
towards one another with self preservation in mind All that exists is
perspective there were a few other anime I enjoyed that made me feel the same
way over the years. Shiki being recently added to that list. But boy was that
a sad anime the truth is blunt and unyielding.


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Sunako and the monk got away. And probably began spreading their disease from
there. They will most likely stick to low level feeding rather than the full
village conversion. Since that turned out really bad.

The vampires were clearly aggressors as they preyed on the villagers. We start
out really hating the vampires. In addition to that, we also hate the
villagers too for being so docile and complacent. They had numerous warnings
that they were being attacked by vampires, but no one took it seriously.
Eventually the doctor and the monk figured it out but the doctor quickly
turned into a blood feud.

By the end of the season, we no longer feel sorry for the villagers as they
have now banded together and have turned the tide of the war. Instead, we feel
sorry for the vampires since only a small handful of them actually attempted
to fight back. The vampire faction were simply not prepared for a united
front. Ninety percent of the vampires were simply running away with white
flags over their heads. And the villagers pretty much demolished them.

The writers wants us to feel sorry for the vampires especially how sad music
kept playing whenever one of them died. The story was pretty tragic.

There was definitely a better way to settle this. But that would make an
uninteresting story. Like authorities could be called in. Police, soldiers,
and helicopters could gun the vampires down and then strap their immortal
bodies to a stretcher. And then send them to some underground military clinic
to run experiments on them. lol. Help find a cure and also produce new
vampires without the bloodsucking and daylight phobia drawbacks. lol

Anyways. Watching the villagers go vigilante was definitely an interesting
turn. Just bodies everywhere.


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It was interesting to say the least but as many people have said it seems
incomplete

The ending of shiki was an open ending where the viewer has to imagine for
him/her self what happened

In the end it does show that the monk survived and had a briefcase (with the
girl inside) driving down what we can only assume is the national road spoken
of in the anime

This kind of ending also allows a continuation of it Mabey a shiki2 or season
2 Mabey from the vampires perspective who knows

But since it was ended in 2010 8 years ago its unlikely of animators to make
another season (as sad as that may be)

One real question is how did the boy get back when he was tied up for the
vampire (Mabey it was explained and I missed it but if not I'd like to know)


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