User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Chapter 354: Ephialtes, Predictions./@comment-33019320-20131002141223/@comment-7418318-20131002144521

Most "sad endings" are like that anyway like the world is saved, but the main heroin is dead and her friends are terribly sad about it (e.g. Elfenlied) or the other way round (e.g. Final Fantasy 10 - though "dead" doesn't exactly fit Titus' end).

Even in Romeo and Juliet the feuding families bury their grievances together with their dead children, so even the classic example for a sad ending has a ray of hope in it.

But then there's also Jin-Roh. While the manage to avert the conspiracy, that's neither a good nor a bad thing really. The country is still fucked up, no matter who controls the special forces and the reasons for the crisis aren't adressed either way.