Hime reaches Enjin's location near the Nana-gou and starts wailing into him. Enjin and just about everyone is town notices that Hime's staff is a little bit more powerful than usual due to the awesome Dragon Lance tip. Akina and the rest of the car gang make it to the fight location as Hime is pretty much winning or doing a better job of holding her own this time. Enjin starts taunting Hime, telling her this battle is useless if Akina does not tune him away. Enjin decides to prove his point as he flies down to Akina and tells him to blast him to pieces. Akina powers up but it distracted as he sees Gin's spirit. Enjin tries to blast Akina away but Hime jumps out of the sky to save him just in time. Before everyone can get pissed at Akina for not tuning Enjin, Akina and Ao say they both saw Gin. Hime tries to be understanding but she has to protect the town. Ao tells her to leave and finish Enjin off. Elsewhere Kotoha is fighting Inozuka still and is getting rather tired. She loses to him and after he fails to convince Kotoha to join him, Inozuka tries to strangle her. Kyosuke saves her just in time and Inozuka goes on and on about Enjin's world will come to pass and they should just join the dark side. Inozuka and Kyosuke start to fight as Hime flies off to Enjin's location. Enjin is at the elder's place where everyone is in bad shape. Enjin claims it is Akina's descendants fault for even making this town. Before Enjin can make short work of all the old people, the nun god lady sends a battle message to him. He hops to the roof to fight her, but Yuhi appears and tells her this is Hime's battle.
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Inozuka is looking pretty beat up from the fight but is happy the trees are blooming and soon all the humans will be gone. He tells Kotoha she should allow herself to be covered by the slime stuff so she can become a full youkai. Then the gang bands together and attacking at the same time, they are able to beat Inozuka. Inozuka decides to let himself be eaten by the slime thing and explains he did this all because Enjin saved him once. Kotoha deems him a weak person. While they are fighting Enjin pulls out a scythe and cuts off Hime's scarf of longness. This seems to make something snap in her and she taps into the lance's full power and it gets all sparkly. The power starts attacking the Nana-gou's and the petals are blown away. Ao and Akina arrive on the scene to witness the sparklyness. Enjin is not pleased with what Hime is doing and goes to attack her but she is powered up too much. She sends him flying in Akina's direction and he finally is able to tune him. While Akina is tunning him, Ao, Hime, and Akina all say goodbye to Gin in their own way. During the tunning, Gin wakes up and tells Akina thank you for protecting the town and smiles. Then his soul is zapped away. Morning comes and the trees look dead like...aka back to normal. The mood is somber but Akina manages to smile. The town song plays the next day (?) and announcements are made to help get rid of all the petals. Kotoha is upset since her part of the office has no roof and the petals are sinking on the tarp. She tries to fix the situation but they end flooding the office. Oh and Inozuka wakes up in the hospital totally fine. Kyosuke is telling Hime and his sister to stop being pigs at the ramen shop but they don't listen and they ignore Rin when she walks in too. Hime starts to patrol the town but slips and falls to the ground. Akina walks up and gives her back her scarf all sewn up. He puts it on her and comments that it is too long. Hime smiles and says it is just right. Hime then leaves to start patrolling the town. THE END!
She's glad it is all over too.
Well, this is the end of the series…and it was very anticlimactic. X_X I just hope I come up with enough to talk about!!!!
How much did that scarf weigh?!
Enjin/Gin are dead. I actually saw that one coming. It would have been more surprising had they found a way to keep Gin alive. This entire season was about not having Gin, Gin is going to die, and accept that Gin is gone. So….it might have been more surprising had he lived. But nope, he is dead and told everyone to take care of the town…..like they have been. The sad part about him being dead for real (besides the actual being dead part) is NO ONE cried for him when he was tuned away. X_X If that had been my brother or bestest best friend there would have been some tears. But no, just Ao and Hime looking slightly sad and Akina smiling in a bitter sweet way. :(
Because I have to resurface and make you feel bad about killing me!
How many more times do I have to say goodbye to you!
Perhaps they all felt that way because he had died to them 2 years ago. He had already left him and they associated his body with Enjin’s for so long it was more like setting him free. Either way I would have cried…..But nope, life just went back to normal like nothing ever happened. Even his seat at the ramen house was taken (well Akina was not there…so maybe not taken).
It's about time!
This entire series feels like…nothing happened. Okay, they got rid of Enjin…but no one is different from episode 1. Ao and Kotoha are still messing around in the office. Akina and Hime are still…whatever and appear to not want to talk about their little disagreement regarding Enjin/s tunning. I guess the only thing that has changed is now the town as Rin…and that makes me pretty sad inside. Enjin wasn’t some scary enemy that left the town in utter chaos and numerous people dead. Actually…the death count is just him and SILVER?! WTF!! No one else died but the dog?! That makes me even sadder. :(
Although we did learn that Enjin was running around naked under that coat!
I thought the whole spear thing was awesome and stupid at the same time. I mean if the old man had something this powerful the while time…WHY NOT GIVE IT TO HIME WHEN ENJIN FRIST APPEARED! I don’t leave my secret weapon for last…even though most shows do. A little back story about why this weapon is so awesome would have been nice too. Like did Hime have to have a certain amount of power or was it powerful already? I also enjoyed Enjin’s random scythe that appeared out of nowhere.
Look at the sparklies!
Serious Hime is serious!
I actually enjoyed Inozuka in this episode…and the entire series. I guess I thought he was a little hottie. Really his reasoning for following Enjin makes sense (but not Rin’s because I hate her). I mean, isn’t Kyosuke serving Hime because she saved him? It is the same thing and while he is a “bad guy” for making innocent people suffer, he was trying to make the world a better place for his fellow demons? And part of me thinks he really did care for Kotoha or felt connected to her. That or he felt lonely and needed a partner in crime. Of course he did not die and he will probably not be held accountable for his actions. Because this anime makes tons of sense.
What do you mean this is not the best way to convince someone to come to my side?
QUICK! Explain why he is evil before he dies!
Oh now it is time to die peacefully...
WTF?! I am still alive?!
I really did like the whole scarf thing. It is pretty amazing how different Hime looks without her scarf and I think Enjin cutting it really….upset her. Yeah, let’s go with upset. He dared to destroy something Gin (and Akina) gave to her and she was not going to let him live after that. I thought it was really cute that Akina fixed her scarf in the end and they had a moment. I am not sure what kind of moment but there was a feeling. She had such a peaceful look on her face. I wonder if she was thinking about Gin and how cute he was when he gave her the scarf or how nice Akina was by sewing it back up for her. Akina is a typical guy with some random stuff he does but he is sweet when you get down to it.
Does the scarf count as a casualty?
MMM almost too cute!
I thought I was going to like Ao when I first saw her character…but she really was boring this entire series. Again with the whole big brother thing. She didn’t act very bothered by him being gone or having to be killed again. She really did not explain her powers well and she was nearly useless for every battle. Her one episode focused on how she NOW gets reading people’s mind is a rude thing to do. That and her skirt was too short! The credits were misleading as Gin and Ao never had any interaction AT ALL! Almost like they forced the relationship on us. Sorry Ao I really didn’t think you had a lot to offer this series.
No more cat molesting for you.. :(
Kotoha’s power was interesting enough but I really didn’t think she was using it to her advantage. If I could say anything and have it materialize I would probably go a little more out of the box than a machine gun each and every time. I am still in the dark on why she is only a half demon and not a full one. It was never explained…and I guess it won’t be now. She just is and we have to accept it. Just like we have to accept this town is run by a bunch of teenagers.
Clearly she is broken up at the lose of Gin.
Hime was my favorite character at the end of the day (series). She was actually acting like a teenager with her tantrums and attitude problems. She made up the most ridiculous song and made it the anthem for her town just because she could! She cracked under the pressure and actually let it show. Most of these awesome super hero teenagers in Japan just never stop! They aren’t human. But Hime actually got to experience a low point..even if it only lasted for a day. That and I love her for her cute scarf!
Plus she could fly XD
Akina was…okay I guess. Way too easy going for my taste but it makes sense to have that kind of personality among the people he was around. I think he took a lot of crap with the whole not wanting to tune Enjin thing which pissed me off. No one else had to shoulder the responsibility of killing their friend. Hime just had to beat him up; the blood would not have been on her hands. I really thought the anime was going to focus more on him being weak after tunning which was going to lead to some awesome plot of him dying in order to save the town.
Poor sad Akina.
I say this ending was anticlimactic because…well because it was! The major fight already happened. Enjin messed up the Nana-gou episodes ago. That battle felt more climatic than this one did by 12894 percent. The urgency was also lost as…the sakura blossoms were everywhere and there was not chaos in the streets. Well, there were but those were because of the sperm babies. I kept waiting for the great danger but it never came. How much more did they have to bloom before things got really bad? Just seemed so dumb it is hard to explain. They kept saying different things would happen if the tree bloomed..and then it did and besides from some slime it was okay. Not to mention the whole show was special for having a tree guard the city as long as it didn’t bloom.
What?! Enjin is being evil again? I AM SHOCKED AND AMAZED!
So needless to say this show will not be on my favorite fall anime of 2008 list. It is okay…if I had to be kind about it. The premise was slightly different than normal as was the art work. There was just not enough going on to draw me in. It just got boring and pointless at times. It is defiantly not something I would waste money on or recommend someone watches first. Perhaps just if someone is really bored and needs something to watch on the computer. But thanks for reading each week my little thoughts on this series. :)
Yes...it is over. :( Goodbye Hime.
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