Actually me too, the last chapters built too much of an incoming good ending for that : Shinji's promise to protect everyone, Yui's speech that he remembered and fulfilled said promise, that "everything will be alright now", the fact that even Gendo got his happy ending and reunited with Yui, and that somehow NERV's HQ is still mostly intact, even the pyramid is still standing and mostly intact!(by the way how is that even possible if the Black Moon was extracted from the Geofront? Did it became intangible like GNR when she emerged from Lilith's Chamber?)
A kind of bitter-sweet ending would be that like in EoE and the Last A ending, Shinji came back way ahead of everyone else and ends up alone during some weeks, making him a little unhinged when the others start to come back.
As for a proper surprise bad-end, the only way I could see that is if Sadamoto is plotting something with Anno and that the manga!Instrumentality had unpredicted catastrophic consequences(ecosystem even more fucked up, people unable to come back even if they want to...) and serves as a stepping stone for a sequel/time loop theory confirmation that lead to NGE or Rebuild. And that's a really crazy theory.
Maybe it's a coping mechanism after 3.0 : since then I expect anything!
distopia wrote:it's official. nge manga will end on the july issue of young ace
But that's what the manga's been since day one . . .
