Utawarerumono – ep 26

Hakuoro faces off with Dii, before asking Urutorii to seal him. Thus ends the series with an epilogue.

Actually there’s little to be said about the plot. While fighting, Hakuoro has another flashback. It is revealed that though Hakuoro and Mikoto had a child, but they are soon captured by the security forces of the lab. Hakuoro faces a evil scientist, who exclaims that Hakuoro’s mask will be the key to humans living on the surface again. He also reveals that Mikoto has been killed for analysis. In his anger, Hakuoro gives the eternal lives that the scientist desire by turning them all into red blobs.

However, Hakuoro recognises the anger in him, and screams to be killed if that’s the only way to be stopped. Mutsumi hears, and tries to seal him, but is only partially successful, and also ends up with the Good and Evil forms.

Back to the fight, Hakuoro ends it by fusing with Dii, and slicing Dii’s head off. After which, Hakuoro asks for Urutorii to seal him. Mutsumi arrives and says she’ll help, if that’s her father’s wish, and releases Kamyuu.

Even as he is sealed, Hakuoro bides farewell to everybody. When it comes to Eruruu’s turn, she exclaims that she loves him not because of the contract at all. Running forward, she hugs him and gives him a kiss. They will meet soon again.

Thoughts

I thought plot wise, the ending was a little disappointing. But the presentation of the last episode simply blew me away.

The final scene between eruruu and hakuoro, coupled with the music was just simply so emotional. Maybe the show ain’t so harem after all.

Even the epilogue was quite a nice wrap up to everybody. Although Yuzuha’s death was quite a surprise. In a sense, why show it. No idea what purpose Yuzuha plays in the show.

Did Hakuoro return? I guess the series purposely left it open ended, but I believe that it hinted strongly that it did. Doesn’t quite make sense if he didn’t.

I always thought that Eruruu was mikoto. WRONG! But it seems that eruruu possesed Mikoto’s spirit though.

Nice series over all, although it wasn’t anything outstanding. Some may like the science fiction twist, some may not. I felt that the beginning of the series was too much like a game, rather than an anime, but it did improve quite well midway through. At times, the suspense was pretty good too, thus you were inclined to keep watching. All in all, I had a fairly pleasant ride through the whole series.

Worth watching if you’re tired of all those shoujo shows. haha.

I vote aruruu to be my favorite character. I thought she gave a very good balance to the show at the critical moments. Who is to forget the way she reached out to kamyu too.