Setsuna saves the falling Kuu and Kyoshiro. Even as Kyoshiro rambles on, Kuu says that she can save the world, which she does. Everyone is reunited with their partner. Cept for poor setsuna.

Even Kazuya has Meginjord. But as Kuu destroys Bastillus to save the world, there’s a price to pay… her own disappearance, since she’s linked to Bastillus. Long scene of farewell, including a pinky promise to meet each other again. (If this scene was done by Kyoani, you would be crying, but unfortunately as it’s in this series, you’ll just want to fast forward). Kuu tries not to cry out as pain over takes her, but finally does so in the last sec. This causes Kyoshiro to turn around, but ends up grabbing feathers only.

Thus everything is wrapped up. Kazuya is a vegetable, taken care of by Meginjord. Kyoshiro chooses to go seek out Kuu. Setsuna chooses to follow him, cutting off her own trademark hair. Sojiro is still tortured by the cat, while you can image what happens to Himeko and Kaon.

Thoughts

How did kazuya survive? I thought he got stamped on. At which point I thought he died. But he appeared again. Then he got whacked. But didn’t die again. Amazing.

The series concluded with Kyoshiro finding a 10 yr old Kuu. (10 years later, sufficient time for Setsuna’s hair to grow long again) Which I think is a scene the series could do without. There’s about 20 yrs difference between them! And what about poor Setsuna.

I think this series is one of those where you watch and forget. It’s interesting for it’s mix of very confusing and weird stuff. Not to mention a very cute but weird Kuu. But if you take the series too seriously, you wouldn’t enjoy the show at all. Just watch it and let if flash past you.

Character design is good though. Relations between the different character sufficiently built up in such a short series. Poor mecha implementation. Lots of plot holes. And it would be nice to know how the relationship between all the characters grew in the first place. (like how Mika met Kaon)

Favorite character remain as Setsuna. First her character design was just too pretty. Her role as a one having a one sided love added more brownie points. It’ll be nice to see what other series Kuu’s seiyuu will be involved in though.

 

So kyoshiro’s group reaches Kuu and the rest of the absolute angels. But they get totally pawned by Kazuya’s thorns and egoistical rants. They do not prevent the angels from merging, but suddenly with a split of light, they transform into Bastille instead, the destructive form of the absolute angels.

 Somewhere else… Meginjord is holding the angels captive. She goes to every of the angel, asking about the person they hold dear, and whether they seek the destruction of the world. (if you can’t be with the person you want, destroy everything else right?)

 

Bastille starts splitting up thanks to the 4 angels, but Kazuya tries to hold it together, still trying to reach out to his cielo. Meanwhile Kazuya’s group fights off more steel angels. One by one they stay back to hold of the hordes, one by one they are pawned and destroyed.

 Kuu finally remembers Kyoshiro. Somehow Kaon grabs Kuu from the womb that she is, while the rest of the angels combine to step (and i suppose kill off) kazuya. happy ending. Kyoshiro hugs Kuu as she falls.

Oh, and there was a recurring theme about how Kyoshiro is not like the kind of prince Kazuya is. And he’ll no longer blindly follow Kazuya bla bla…

Thoughts

sucks.

First thing for Kazuya, is to get the final piece, Tarurotte. Tarurotte and Soujiro puts up a good fight, wanting to protect one another, but Kazuya just overwhelms them all.

Back “home”, Kuu is working on a brand new letter invitation, without quite knowing what it was though. Setsuna herself cannot bare to answer Kuu, and soon Kazuya returns and Kuu simply throws the letter aside and rushes to Kazuya.

Meanwhile, Soujiro approaches Kyoshiro, to persuade him to fight and get back Kuu, but doesn’t quite succeed. Kyoshiro just can’t face the idea of fighting his beloved brother. Soujiro goes on to approach the morality enforcement squad though. Surprise! Soujiro was the ex commander, and they agree to help fight Kazuya, if Soujiro would come back to become their commander again.

All these while, Kazuya is preparing for the final ceremony. Tarurotte of course isn’t too happy, but Kazuya shows that his kiss absorbs mana instead, knocking Tarurotte unconscious and quiet very quickly.

Soujirou too is making his final preparations, and meets up with Himeko, and they soon combine forces, together with Mika’s cello.

Final attack! Soujiro leads the attack on Kazuya, who unleashes a full harem of steel angels on Soujiro’s group. The morality squad forms an outer ring of defence together with Soujiro, while Himeko uses the cello, their main weapon.

Kyoshiro arrives in the middle of the fight, full of purpose and vigour. However, soon all are defeated cept for Kyoshiro, Soujiro and Himeko. (duh)

Meanwhile Setsuna hears Kyoshiro’s pain and tries to fight back, and of course is quick knocked unconscious by Kazuya as well.

However, before being lead to the final position in the ceremony, Setsuna slips the horse pendant clip to Kuu, who finally remembers Kyoshiro, even as the trio charges into Kazuya’s castle.

Thoughts

Quite an interesting mix of plot, useless scenes involving an obnoxious Kazuya and plenty of cliches.

Of course, Kyoshiro plays the role of the redeemed son perfectly well, arriving at the best moment of all, although he continues to show how angsty and moody he can get.

The absolute angels were pretty much rendered totally useless by Kazuya. So I can’t see how the trio can fight him. Probably Kuu regains all her memories, somehow obtains super powers, and turn on Kazuya. Sounds random and cliche enough.

I’m just glad that Setsuna is still playing some important role. haha.

Setsuna intervenes when Kazuya asks Kuu to leave with him. Waruteishia then sends a stream of mana to Setsuna, which reminds her of how Kyoshiro still chose Kuu. She then launches an attack on Kazuya, but we find out that kazuya now has the powers of Absolute Angles as well, and is not harmed.

We find out that Kazuya gained his powers when he was flooded with the purest of mana during the explosion, and evolved. In fact, Kazuya was the one who awakened the absolute angels in the first place. He had accidentally saved Kyoshiro, when all he felt was that Kyoshiro was in his way.

Kuu is actually cielo, the body of Megingjord, the absolute angel that Waruteshia commands, and they were split during the awakening. They combine, and Setsuna is easily slashed and taken out of the picture by Waruteishia.

Kyoshiro is revealed to be the fool that he is, while Setsuna is taken away.Of course, Kuu leaves with Kazuya, already forgetting who Kyoshiro is.

 Next up, Mika. Mika blasts Kazuya with a device used to seal absolute angels. She recalls about how Kazuya used to steal her friends, her everything, and is determined not to let him take his Kaon.

Kaon jumps into the seal to attack Kazuya, causing pain to herself as well.  Waruteshia then releases Himeko who was actually bonded by Mika. Himeko jumps into the same seal and after some argument between Kaon and Himeko, Himeko ends up kissing her. Somehow, this causes Kaon to go unconscious, after which she’s taken by Waruteshia.

Mika shoots a gun at Kazuya to little effect, who pierces Mika with his power. After that, he proceeds to destroy the entire residence of Mika.

While dying, Mika reveals to Himeko why she hates her, that she too wanted Kaon’s love. While still hating Himeko, Mika passes the sealing device to Himeko, asking her to save Kaon.

Meanwhile, Kuu is seeing enjoying with Kazuya, while Kyoshiro is left alone clutching Kuu’s invitation letter.

Thoughts

I kinda thought this episode was a good mix of nonsense and plot advancement. Nonsense in terms of the powers that Kazuya had, things like that. The plot was quite good as well, revealing how things ended up in this state. You can’t take this series too seriously though.

I actually prefer Kazuya to Kyoshiro. I guess Kyoshiro is just too stupid and blind for my taste. Heck, even Mika knows Kazuya’s true colours. I would like to see what happens to Sojiro next. He is one of the more likeable normal characters.

 

As I kinda expected, Kyoshiro rejects Kuu, calls her an idiot, and riding on his horse, flees the house. Of course Kuu ends up leaving the house as well, mingling amongst the festival. Setsuna was smart enough not to stop any of them as she watched from the roof as well. At least Kuu’s classmates haven’t forgotten about her.

Kyoshiro takes a dip in the river to think things through. Kuu meanwhile realizes how pretty the town looks with all the sparkles, and somehow manages to walk off the roof of the building trying to reach the sparkles.  Luckily for her, she’s in an anime, and Kyoshiro arrives just in time to grab hold of her.

 

Love confession from Kyoshiro for the longest time. Kuu’s not stupid either, and asks about the problem of her being an absolute angel. Kyoshiro then reveals that he has talked through with his older brother in his heart for the longest time, and his gentle brother wouldn’t mind.

Back at Mika’s residence, Mika seems to have entered a locked shrine, in preparations for big things. She also tells whatshername (sorry ) to give Kaon all her mana. Another sad confession by the girl, but Kaon grabs hold of her when she leaves, though Kaon was supposed to be sleeping. She ends up leaning and kissing Kaon, giving her lots of Mana anyway.

Back @ Kyoshiro’s. Kyoshiro sees Kuu’s “invitation”, and says that he will accept it. But not yet, for he has to break things off with Setsuna first. Setsuna of course arrives to hear all of this, and breaks out into the saddest Noooooooo.

At this moment in time, Kyoshiro’s brother suddenly appears, whom Kuu recognizes as her prince. Kyoshiro leaps into his arms, only for the brother to give him a super punch. Reaching out to Kuu, the older brother simply tells her “Let’s go, together.”

Thoughts

Obviously things click very slowly in my brain. Only now do I realise that the older brother is Kuu’s prince because He worked in the lab that created Kuu. Doh!

I’m a bad judge of the quality of animation quality. That said, while the animation was normal per se,  I really suffered from seeing too much panning of still shots in this episode. Never mind all the recap scenes.

As a Setsuna supporter, I must say Kyoshiro sucks. Setsuna seems destined to be an eternal loser. Losing all fights, and now for all the evil things that Kyoshiro has done for her, she’s going to lose Kyoshiro as well. (which actually is a good thing). Even the ring of her bell sounds sad now.

In terms of the whole series, new exciting things keep being introduced. Except. They don’t develop any of the these exciting things! I hope it’s the end with the introduction of the brother, and they can finally get down to developing the story line, which I was so eager for previously.

It’s more shopping again, this time with only Kuu and Setsuna. It’s near the festival again (what! it’s been a year??). After seeing a bunch fo students crowd around the letter stationary, Kuu remembers about sending a letter invitation to that special guy. Passing her stuff to Setsuna, she goes off to buy one for Kyoshiro as well.

Kyoshiro ain’t doing so well though. Meeting up with one of his student council members, he is advised about how the best way to use Kuu. A guy with two swords! Amazing! Though Kuu can’t fight, she’ll still be useful if merged with Setsuna, and would fulfill Kyoshiro’s dreams. All that remains is whether Kyoshiro wants to do it or not.

Back home, Kuu starts writing the letter. But the words don’t come out right. She decides to start designing the card instead, but a flashback of the dream of Kyoshiro stabbing her interrupts her thoughts, causing grief.

Perfect moment for Setsuna to make an entrance, and give Kuu a hug. Although that’s only on Kyoshiro’s orders. Kuu ends up landing on the bed together with Setsuna, wailing about why she’s an absolute angel. From Setsuna’s eyes, it’s obvious she shares the same feelings.

This leads to…. bath scene!

Kuu insists on bathing on her own this time, and continues to rant about being an empty shell fulfilling no purpose. Meanwhile, Setsuna sees Kuu’s letter outside, and on it is written Kuu x Kyoshiro. Setsuna materialises her mecha arm and nearly destroys the letter, but ends up closing it instead.

A tortured Kyoshiro meanwhile escapes to play the violin, trying to fix his resolve to kill all Absolute Angels. Instead, it breaks, and so does a violin string, when Kuu’s image pops into his mind.

 Meanwhile, Taturotte is fishing, while her minder contemplates the scenarior of how the balance of power is disrupted with the emergence of a new Absolute Angel.

Elsewhere, Kaon continues to be tortured by Mika. We see flashes of the past, where Kaon was once a nurse to Mika.

 At night, while the school festivals go on. Kuu is trying to activate her mecha. Setsuna told her in the afternoon that activation method is different for everybody. For setsuna, it is done through her determination, which she focuses using the the bells she wear. Kaon does it using earings, while Taturotte does it through her feet.

 Aimless swings by Kuu do not work. So she ends up focusing on her love for Kyoshiro. Which… does not work either.

 

 Kyoshiro returns to his room at night, telling Setsuna he wants to be alone. He looks utterly exhausted. Must be the violin playing.

But to his surprise, Kuu enters his room and starts stripping and offering herself to him. The episode ends with Kyoshiro calling her an idiot, but not quite showing what Kyoshiro did.

Setsuna is seen on the roof in mecha form

Thoughts

Kuu’s action surprised me. I can never understand why any girl would do such a thing. Which was why I never understood Kaede in Shuffle, (and kinda hated it)

Suddenly massive growth in development between Kyoshiro and Kuu. It should make for an interesting play in terms of plot when everyone else is considered. What would Kyoshiro do to Kuu. THat’s the most important part. Will kuu’s power really upset the balance of power.

 Once again…. poor Setsuna. Many shots of her looking lonely just makes it worse.

 

Mika uses a katana and cuts open Kuu’s uniform, and reveals her Absolute Angel (AA) symbol on her chest. This awakens some memories from the past, and also causes her to go into shock and faint. While unconscious, she starts to imagine that everything was a dream to begin with. But suddenly the images of Setsuna and Kyoshiro coming after her surface.

 Mika’s plan is for Kuu to fuse with Kaon to provide her “sword” with more powers. With Kuu’s weak mind, fusing would not be a problem.  At the same time, we see Mika struggling with actually providing Kaon with Mana, and in fact has to take medication for it. She rants on about wanting to get Kaon’s love, for Kaon is her sword. (disillusioned about Kaon’s love).

Meanwhile, just as the process to start the fusing starts, setsuna arrives with Tarurotte. All these while, Setsuna had been executing the plan to lure Tarurotte there. As the fight begins, we find out that Kyoshiro had said that normally, Kaon would have used up all her Mana fighting at such a high level. Hence Setsuna should just need to fight until an abnormality happens to Kaon.

Kyoshiro soon arrive on his horse and takes hold of Kuu. Mika points a gun at Kyoshiro, and a rant about Kyoshiro’s brother being evil and hated begins. It ends with a shot fired at Kyoshiro, which he blocks with his swords’ sabre.

At this point, Kaon reaches a dangerous level of Mana. Setsuna escapes with Kyoshiro and Kuu, so does Taturotte. However, Kaon actually “shut down”. Mika isn’t happy about it, as she feels that Kaon did it to protect Himiko, while Himiko argues that Kaon did it to protect Mika. Mika is unhappy about where Kaon’s love is directed.

Elsewhere, Kyoshiro ignores Setsuna’s pleas for Mana. The episode ends with Kuu letting Kyoshiro know about all her feelings, about how happy she was when Kyoshiro said “let’s go together” and how her tears can’t stop now.

Thoughts.

Ok. Kyoshiro is now a total jerk. How can he ignore Setsuna like that at the end. And knowing that Kuu was an AA, what did he plan to do. Kill her in the end?

Anyway, the “type” of series this series is seems to have changed. Initally, the attraction was how it was a whole jumble of junk. But now, the plot seems really really strong. I’m hooked that’s for sure on the plot now.

Oh, and I was wrong about Kuu being the 4th AA. She’s the 5th. The 4th just hasn’t made her appearance yet.

 Lots of relationship subplots are forming now. Kuu and everybody. Himiko and Kaon. Kaon and Mika. Mika and Kyoshiro (and the whole family). This series is definitely developing very strongly.