[Fish Sandwich]

It really started as good as any episode of Faiz ever was. It just got better from there.

Also, NemyPred, Missing Ace does not offer a better ending. A less depressing one perhaps, but not better. The whole movie just feels "wrong" to me, like the writer was trying to compress 20 episodes of story-arcs and plot-points into 90 minutes. Everything is just kind of glossed over.

So without further ado, Wall Of Text, engage!

I also kind of admire the series' ending to the series for how ballsy it was. Ryuki and (mostly) Faiz have a decent reputation for their non-endings, but with Blade, it works. The show sets up an epic confrontation between two friends, with the world at stake, and then Kenzaki says "no".

Blade, doesn't have any really apparent themes, but I'd wager one of them is that Humanity, on the whole, is nice. Hajime and the Tarantula Undead both grow to like the less savage traits of Humans. Garren's love for Sayoko is what allowed him to fight in the first place. Mutsuki's girlfriend was, on top of how much Leangle sucks, the only thing keeping him from being a straight villain.

So it's only natural that when the time comes for them to fight, Joker is implied to want to be sealed, so as to save the world, and Kenzaki is still trying to find a way to save the world that lets Hajime live. In the end, he does something truly selfless for the sake of helping his friend, and that's the end, barring one or two depressing shots of Hajime Hallucinating Kenzaki sitting on a bench.

That's why Blade's ending is great.