[Shin Densetsu]

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

It's basically Shiro & Yui who purge Mirror World from existence by going back in time to help their younger self’s overcome the depression. Which results in the disappearance of Mirror World form the time line, so yes: Nothing Rider-related ever happened.

Ren basically just fulfilled his wish to be reunited with Eri.

And the Megumi thing.. well I just take it that some things are destined to happen. Like Megumi will still be fired by Kitaoka and end up at Ore Journal.

I wouldn’t say all the development for the characters vanished... they just learned it another way.

It wasn’t my ending of choice either. I thought the best way to handle this was that Ryuki won the war and his wish would've been to go back in time so he can rescue Shiro & Yui before their parents go completely crazy. He could also make subtle changes to the time line, like bring Kitaoka to a doctor so his sickness can be cured before it gets serious.

But that's just me, I can live with the ending as is.

There's an alternative ending also, maybe you should check that out.

Wasn't the alternate ending, the movie("Episode Final")?

From what I remember, Yui convinced Shiro to end the war, thus enabling Ren to get the killing blow on Odin. Ren's wish was for Eri to fully recover from the injuries sustained by Darkwing(from when he first merged into the "real(not Mirror)" world). However Ren died from injuries sustained while fighting Odin.

I found the ending to be incredibly sad and I found it hard to predict. Shinji dying was not expected at all. I usually expect the bad ass anti-hero rider to die with a compelling death. That happened later but that usually happens INSTEAD of the main rider dying.

In some way I thought the ending was fitting because time was reset. Mainly because the war itself happened in an altered timeline of Shiro's making. So while Yui convinced him to end the war, technically the war still did happen but the timeline was "fixed", if that makes sense.

What I thought was cool too was that towards the end, we find that Ren does really care about Shinji and that he actually wanted Shinji to live, ultimately. I think it's an indirect admission that he actually wanted Shinji to win the war, as much as he wanted to save Eri.