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Bablyon’s Ending: Pressing Questions Answered!

I’m just gonna dive right into it and make this short. If you haven’t watched Bablyon please do so!

First off, lets get on the same page: What literally happens in the ending? Well Seizaki shoots Wood and then himself. Magase was never actually in talking to him its just one of the disillusion he’d been having of her. He had to shoot Wood to make it look like a murder and not a suicide or everyone would think the president endorsed the suicide. Magase saying “bang” is a pretty good indication that she worked her Magase magic on Seizaki and finally got him to pull his own trigger on himself. 

What’s metaphorically going on? Magase is a pretty clear representation of temptation, the show even going so far as to directly say she’s the snake from Adam and Eve. This makes sense given the sexual nature of her mental attacks. For this reason it doesn’t make sense for Seizaki to actually kill her. When we see Magase meeting Seizaki’s son at the very end this is just an indication that temptation into evil is a constant force all generations are fighting against. 

They keep throwing around “good is to continue”, but what does that mean? Well for one its quite literally what Wood said when he was talking the girl down from suicide: you’ve got to continue to think about what is right and wrong. This is of course echoed earlier in the anime by Seizaki and his subordinates. Its also about continuing in the sense of raising the next generation. Its no coincidence both Wood and Seizaki have families and boys at that. Those boys are going to continue on the legacy of the father and the human race as a whole. This is eluded to when they flashback to Magase and Seizaki’s first conversation where she asked about contraceptives as well as several other parts where they showed pictures of the families and pictures of babies being born.

So ironically, even though my first impression was that it was a bad ending because Magase met the son, by the shows standards of good and evil its actually the closest to a good ending we could get because it shows the cycle is continuing past the point where the show ends. This type of ending is how they get around the fact that literally moments earlier they said “evil is to end”.

Was what Seizaki did good or bad? I think by mentioning the trolley problem earlier they making a direct comparison between that and Seizaki’s choice. In the end though whether the show agrees that you should kill the few to save the many is irrelevant because the only inherently “good” action you can take is to continue to think about what’s good and what’s bad so it very much is meant to be ambiguous. I think it is safe to say, though, that Seizaki killing himself in the end was bad because Magase, the representation of temptation, caused him to do it. The show definitely considers suicide bad based on the conclusion that “good is to continue” and you can’t continue if you’re dead.

I hope this lets you appreciate this amazing ending to this amazing show! It definitely easy to get bogged down in all the philosophical talk and all these details are purposefully vague, but that just makes it all the more fun to uncover the true meaning behind it all. This has been one of my favorite anime of the last decade so I’m happy to be able to write about it now that its finally finished!