I was just getting goosebumps through the whole episodes, in addition to having my mouth gaped wide open through the entire second half. Excellent. I’ve always liked Anaemone, from the moment she was introduced, but she always seemed to have such a tortured soul. She practically stole this whole episode away. WOW

The episode starts off with preparations by Dewey.His plan is to fire the Oratorio Number 8, which will drill a hole into the crust, allowing theEND to fly in to planet earth. All the while, you have a haunting voice over by Anaemone, who is reflecting about life and regrets and basically having an “oh well” feeling. (it’s hard to describe in words, you’ve really got to hear it)

Meanwhile, Dominic decides that he should be the one to stop Anaemone, and takes off in a mini vessel. All the while, he is begging to be allowed to go after Anaemone. Well, the hole made by Oratorio No. 8 is closing fast, and the military is closing in too. Dominic does make a passionate plea to Holland. “What’s wrong with having personal feelings”. Holland relents, and lets Dominic go ahead, while he turns around to handle the military.

On earth, Eureka and Renton are disturbed by Nirvash, and looking up, they see theEND. Nirvash ends up taking off on it’s own and attacking theEND. However, theEND ends up simply firing a projectile at the command cluster. The projectile successfully attaches though Nirvash tries to stop it. It succeeds in preventing theEND from firing off a signal though, and a heated battle begins.

Suddenly, Eureka indicates that Nirvash wants them to listen to the voice of the theEND pilot. After much persuasion, Renton finally relents, instead of just fighting.

And Anaemone’s sad voice comes through, “maybe after this ends, someone will tell me that it’s ok to live”. It moves the heart of everyone, and they agree to talk to Anaemone. They try to get Anaemone to listen to them, to know that it’s okay to live, but it doesn’t get through to Anaemone.

“It’s so painful, for that person is gone” Opening their cockpit, and holding hands, Eureka tries to convince Anaemone that she is sure the person will hear her feelings. Just as Anaemone believes it’s impossible, and initiates the firing sequence for the signal, Dominic falls from the sky. But theEND fires anyway.

This causes Dominic to get blown away, and the anguish of Anaemone, transformed the END into white. (Something like Nirvash). It then takes on a mind of it’s own, and launches Anaemone towards Dominic, and they barely succeed in catching one another. Where Dominic procceeded to confess.”I want to live. together with you dominic forever”

However, theEND had already fired the signal, pinpointing the location of the command cluster. Dewey fires the Oratorio No 8. at full power this time. Though it destroys the Oratorio No. 8, it also penetrates all teh way to the command cluster, causing an explosion.

theEND ( we never found out the name of it unfortunately) ends up trying to protect Anaemone and Dominic from the force of the explosion, and ends up dying in the process. The Nirvash barely gets away (being an aircraft), but looks damaged.

Thoughts

I thought the imagery was really good to see Anaemone’s pet cling onto Dominic at the start of his mission. And that it’s also the one that brings them together at the end. It started off being such a hateful thing. Especially to Dominic, but in the end, Dominic loved it too.

Anaemone’s Seiyuu really did a great job conveying all the feelings through the voice I felt. I loved it. I really did.

And it was really sweet seeing Eureka reaching out to Anaemone, Dominic acting just like the youth Renton is.

And of course, the focus being the transformation of Anaemone. It wasn’t what Dominic did, it wasn’t what Eureka said, it came entirely out of her inner self. We’ve been seeing sparks of who Anaemone can be all these while, and the conclusion was really well done.

Perfect story telling.

I wonder how Dewey planned to overcome the problem of the Limit of Life, or did he mean for everyone to die, being just plain demented. Two more eps!