Ending music possibilites

I cannot for the life of me figure out how this anime should end. I'm trying to write the music for the end credits and it's blowin my mind a little bit. I have three very different options i'm looking at right, each is pretty different.

Ending music possibilites

I'd go with the third one, it sounds really dreamy and airy.

That one is my favorite too, but she liked the second one the most :( That's how it goes I guess. But I'm def. gonna keep working on these, i like all of them more than i thought i would

Erm, I actually favor the first one, though it has a little bit more energy than may be fitting for end credits. I suppose it mainly depends on the type of show and what's going on during the credits. They're all pretty nice.

I would not choose this second one: it does not have a nice flowing melody and harmony at times, something I feel is almost mandatory for anime. The melody (rhythm-wise) that I didn't like was around 0:04-0:06, 0:23-0:25, 0:33-0:37 and the harmonies at 0:09-0:10, 0:29-0:31, 0:39-0:41, 0:42-0:44. It's actually just one motif in the melody, and 2 harmonic things that I didnt like. If you were to smoothen these up, I think the second version is as suitable for ending credits as the first version. For now I would pick the first one. I also listened to the winner, and that one already is much better imo. But I would still give it the same critique as here. Maybe you could use the lower registers just for long stretched chord notes instead of giving it runs (talking about the winner version). Helps with the overall sense of ending/closure I think: stability in the low, closing-movement in the high. The third version was more of an opening imo

I think the next step for the winning piece is to put the instruments in a different instrument. That way I could really fix the balance and bring the melody out, as well as keeping the texture a little lighter

If you're going to youse the second one, you'll have to work on the mix a bit. The volume needs to be put down a bit, there's clipping everywhere.

And is there only one synth patch or do you use different for the high and the low pitches? If you don't, I'd defenetly change that to get a bit more variation in the instrumentation.

I also prefer the third one, but maybe the second's just better fitting for the pictures, I can't tell of course...