Ending

[ItchyDani3l]

The ending seemed like it ended too early (as far as the ending cutscene is concerned).

It kind of matters whether Junko was lying or not, but it was never revealed. From what I've read about the other entries in the series, she was not lying.

Also, the ending very much breaks the suspension of disbelief.

The idea that glamor model and her sister child soldier managed to cause a doomsday scenario by killing some of their fellow students or inspiring world-wide dispair is ludicrous.

We're expected to harshly scrutinize the details of individual crimes, but blindly accept that 2 japanese teenagers brought about the end of the world somehow. How? By publishing depressing magazine articles? By black magic? If it was Byakuya I might be able to understand his family posessing access to nukes or something, but this isn't anything like that.

The only reasonable scenario is that Junko was indeed lying, yet that also raises other questions. Why were the security upgrades installed? How did the amnesia work? Why did nobody come to investigate the missing students?

I really hate to say it, but this story is not very well put together.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

The point of the ending was to be open. Yes, they explain it later, but the primary point was to be a mystery, at least until later entries where thye explain it. And there are reasons for how they were able to ♥♥♥♥ over the world. It's very well put together.