Why are so many outros for anime sad.

Does anyone know why so many anime outros seem to have melancholic, if not outright sad, music? Or am I just reading too much into it?

For example

https://x.com/panda__joey/status/1857695590446150100

Samurai Champloo - Ending | Shiki No Uta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQAfG3DgG7M&ab_channel=Crunchyroll

I heard once that the goal of an intro is to hype you up for the coming episode. But the outro is meant to make you contemplate what you just saw and so it tends to be more of a downer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rapewtS7bcE

Hajime no ippo ending 1 is my all time sad ending lol. Its just a montage of the boxers in the series working their side jobs because boxing money doesnt actually pay for their life

I was expecting something more along the lines of FMA's downer endings, that wasn't really what I consider downer compared to this:

https://youtu.be/2bhPhqLMmbc

Ah to be 15 again... loved this show. Some good times.

Zikten posted...

I heard once that the goal of an intro is to hype you up for the coming episode. But the outro is meant to make you contemplate what you just saw and so it tends to be more of a downer

Ooh that's a nice analysis.

Zikten posted...

I heard once that the goal of an intro is to hype you up for the coming episode. But the outro is meant to make you contemplate what you just saw and so it tends to be more of a downer

I like this answer