Yes indeed. I too think that it was all spoiled with that last "tie-up- the-knot" episode.
It would've been much dramatic and great if the pen-ultimate episode were actaully to be the final episode.
I actually thought that it was the last episode because there were the credits afterwards. Then I thought, hang on... there's another episode? Then watching that last episode made it all go weird. The environment and feeling didn't go look the normal Mahoromatic style at all.

But I still love the series. :)
It's my 4th all time favorite anime.

Huge Spoiler for Mahoromatic

Well, if you think about the last episode in a certain way, it isn't so bad... let me give you my theory.

At the heart of Mahoromatic is the theme "Enjoy the time you have with the people you love, because someday it will end." No matter how cheerful and lighthearted the episode, there is always that reminder at the end: "Mahoro stops functioning in X days."

In the next to last episode, she loses her life.

However, there is another theme to Mahoromatic, "Everyone deserves a second chance.

Mahoro, who was created to be a combat android, gets a second chance at a peaceful life.
Suguru, who has lived most of his life alone, gets a second chance to have a family.
Minawa gets a second chance at being a human being and having a soul.
Ryuga gets a second chance at being someone's friend.

They establish in the last episode that Mahoro was actually a part of Mashu, mother of Saint. When Saint decides to leave, Mashu decides to leave part of herself behind, that part that was Mahoro. Now, she reappears to the older, dying Suguru, but then we are immediately shown a "dream sequence" of them back together when he was still a child. It has been established that Mashu has immense power, and time travel capabilities may be part of that. If that is the case, Mashu could have returned both Suguru and Mahoro to their past, where they can grow up together.

Ah, but you say the very end shows the old Suguru walking away with Mahoro. Yes, this is true, but that doesn't mean it is literal. You can view that scene as the final episode's version of "Mahoro stops functioning in X days."

It is a way of saying "Cherish the moments, because this is what could have been."

A stretch, I know, but it at least makes the last episode palatable for me.

Larry

SHE LOST HER LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!! what!!!!!!!!!!!.....sniffle sniffles!!!!!!!!!! hmmmmm maybe I should watch it and see what really happens...;_; ;_; ;_;

That's why I warned about the spoilers... This post has them too... ye have been warned.

She died to defeat Feldrance and protect Suguru. Ranks near the top of the saddest scenes ever in my humble opinion.

Maybe it would be better to make "Huge spoiler for Mahoromatic" in bold and in upper-case.

Like.... WARNING: HUGE SPOILER FOR MAHOROMATIC. READ ONLY ON YOUR DISCRETION

^_^

I agree totally with KeiichiK1 on his theory on Mahoromatic and second chances. That is the only way that worked for me too.

Saddest scene for me?
All I'll say is, ( to prevent spoilers); Akemi from Saikano

:mope:

Hmm, from all of the Onegai Teacher wallpapers I have seen, it doesn't look like all that sad of a series to me. :P

Saddest part of an Anime I ever saw had to be Episode 19 in Naruto (spoiler only if you havent made it past 19, which means you have over a 100 episodes left to watch), when Haku dies. Haku was sad, then Zabuza died too, which made it even worse. Saddest thing ever.

Misato's death in EoE comes close.

Please Teacher really isn't sad at all. Sure, there are part of it that are tear jerkers, but on a whole, it is a light-hearted, feel-good anime. *shrugs* Sometimes people want their favorite anime to be the best of everything, and Please Teacher lends itself well to this opinion since it has a lot of elements from various genres. I've heard people call it their favorite romance, comedy, sci-fi, action, and sad anime... blah! It is a romantic-comedy, like a lot of other animes. Tenchi Muyo is the same way... it can fit all those genres and more, but at heart, it is a romantic-comedy (with a lot of action thrown in).

Larry

I'd have to say that their are several scenes in X that made tear up & in Samurai X's Reflection & in Banner of the Stars.Sad to say I'm pretty easy to tear up sighs.Theres too many scenes for to list that makes me tear up & cry.

Saddest anime scene ever...

Well...I cried like hell with the end of Chobits. It's a happy ending in the end, but all the stuff before that... heart-breaking.

And of course, the saddes moment to me is when Trowa gets blown to pieces in Gundam Wing thanks to a crazy Quatre. Didn't like Q-chan after that, I'll tell you that. Poor, darling Tro-kun.

Also, Chikyuu shoujo Arjuna or Earthgirl Arjuna of which I have only seen the first two or three episodes it also very sad.
SPOILER of CHIKYUU SHOUJO ARJUNA
In the beginning of the show...she dies! o.o It's afwul to hear her boyfriend call her name, to see her mom break down in tears and stuff like that. The entire thing is also very confusing.
CS Arjuna deals with the destruction of the earth and stuff like that; a lot of parts are about pollution and chemicals and stuff. The part that never fails to make me cry is when a huge amount of insects die because of chemicals that are sprayed over the fields. I have never killed an insect after watching that.
Really something to look out for; it's a great show, although very heavy too.

saddest anime episode ever? The last episode of AIR is the saddest

yeah thats true Holybell.....I agree...the last ep of AiR is sooooo sad!!!...a

And I dont think I've seen Arjuna yet...but it's really not too much of a spoiler because..there are some reviews that tell the story...of how she dies in the begining.......

yes i agree, the last episode of Air is really sad, poor Mizusu!

another sad one is the ending of the Rurouni Kenshin OVA when Tomoe died, and also the end of the OVA Reflections when we see Kenshin died and how his X scar finally disappears and he is free from all his guilt of the past.

oh!!! yeah.....hmmmm

When tomoe dies.....*sniffles*

that part is sooooooooo sad!!!!

Oh...didn't know that about Arjuna, Kei-kun, thanks for telling me. I figured the bright red warning would be noticeable enough. ^-^

And yeah, the OVA's of Rurouni Kenshin are extremely sad. I hate it when Tomoe leaves Kenshin...