Keroro's last episode just aired. Well, last episode for now anyway, considering how the staff hopes to return and the anime is still airing on Tv Tokyo with reruns, like Gintama last year.
The staff seemed kind of bitter here about Bandai dropping the show's support. Even though they probably still could show Gunpla and such, they erased all the Gunpla from the background of Keroro's room, leaving a bunch of white walls there in some scenes. Gunpla still was mentioned by the script though.
These last few episodes were kind of weird. The series had like three "final scenes" in 3 episodes, each one by a different writer.
There was a bombastic action movie-like ending... Keroro platoon become dragons to face a fleet of billions that want to consume the universe! But it was done in 15 minutes which left everything really rushed. There were a lot of references in the script though, in spite of it being, on the surface, a completely serious story.
Then there was the (kind of) official ending, with the credits playing during the episode itself and the return of the first opening theme... The episode itself also focused on the show's main premise, with a ridiculously large alien army surrounding Earth... Although there wasn't actually any action involved in the conclusion. It was amusing to see the thinly disguised Street Fighter cast from an earlier episode included in the credits like they were main characters or something.
And there was a third ending... which focused on a random slice of life event + some romance thrown in with the human cast. It also brought back the 5th season's ending theme, which seems to be a fan favorite. It was kind of funny to see the narrator interrupting the broadcast of an angst of a 13/14 years old girl to go back to Keroro himself.
Anyway, I'll miss this show if it doesn't actually return. I got into it quite late, when the 4th season was already airing, then returned to watch everything else... but... its humor style clicked with me pretty fast and I really liked the usage of references and homages here, which was generally better than cheap shout outs to current series seen in other shows (although those were here too). I also got quite lucky that by the time I watched all the fansubbed episodes available my Japanese was good enough to follow this series raw, with some help here and there.
I really only felt them hitting the mono no aware cues during the later parts in season 2. Isn't the second scene you're referring to played near the end of the series? I'm sure you'd agree that season 1 entirely lacks such emotional notes, though not necessarily the attempts at comedy.
