Shakugan no Shana Season Three episode 9

OKAY! Operation Christmas my spirits worked well today. I think anyway. Presents were wrapped and two Christmasy movies were watched. Christmas cards got written. I ate Christmas Oreos but I don’t think that counts. XD But the point is maybe it is starting to feel like Christmas. It is always nice to see wrapped presents under the tree and cards ready to be mailed.

But I don’t think the weather listened to me. :( High of 58 tomorrow? RUDE! Of course some people out there are like um that is pretty warm Tenchi. Well I live in Florida and we don’t like the cold. Wimps we are.

WEEEE! I am here to kick your butt!

I am going to try to get this posted before I get to bed. I was procrastinating a little doing other random things in the house. Silly Tenchi. Anyway time for Shana and her crew. Spoilers for the longest 22 minutes ever.

SHHHH!!! You don't see her!

Episode Summary: Khamsin and Rebecca are busy making a mess at Hideout de Bad Guys. This is shocking to all as one strong dude was left with all the rejects. It is mainly Khamsin piloting a rock monster destroying things and Rebecca doing a lot of smack talk. The old dude Fecor is apparently in charge of everyone but spends most of his time looking like he wants to cry. He has a spell though that protects the gate YujiSnake and the others traveled through. Fecor gets really pissed off because there is no way they should have been able to break into the fortress. After contacting the random fish Denizen it is confirmed that yeah there is no way in dude. Despite last episode Shana has decided this is NOT the moment and allows herself to be lead down hallways and such. Not really the best way to keep Shana alive as Khamsin and Rebecca are destroying EVERYTHING and leaving Wilhelmina to rescue Shana before they accidentally splat her. But then they sorta splat her and Shana falls to the ground. In a flashback it is shown that Wilhelmina came up with this amazing plan to break in. Apparently a long time ago some dude main both the place Shana and Wilhelmina used to live and Fortress de Monsters. They were considered treasures and contracts to each other. But if they ever became close to each other a bridge would form and allow the other group to break in. SUPER AMAZING!

Yeah...that was pretty stupid. And random.

Wilhelmina runs around the palace looking for Shana and goes undetected by monsters because of the cool spell around her body. Granny Panties and her group are flying to somewhere and she thinks that maybe this is a mistake, that they are following what the enemy wants them to do. The Captain Scar dude comes up with the AWESOME plan to see if they are being tricked. Rebecca and her awesome deducting skills realizes no one important is here and it must have to do with the portal in the sky. Before she and Khamsin can try and destroy it some more a Lion Creature thing attacks them. He is not from Narnia so he is a baddie. He does a great job smushing Khamsin and his rock monster. Shana and her halfway blowed up self struggle to even crawl down the hall. But when one of the lowly maids tries to grab her foot Shana goes to town on her head. Her excess energy summons her sword who takes its human form. He slices through things including Fecor’s chamber. This interrupts Fecor who managed to guess correctly (based on NOTHING) on how Wilhelmina broke in. Fecor has to protect himself and in that moment he can’t protect the gate. Khamsin takes that moment to destroy the area around the gate. KABOOM! The sword dude makes it to Shana and cuts off the spell binding bracelet. NOW Shana can kick some butt. THE END!
SNOOOZE! SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOZE!

Because we don't need anymore new characters?

Like seriously this episode could have been done in 5 minutes. It just dragged on and on forever. I need to take a nap or something. Well or go to bed seeing how late it is.

Ah yes. It all makes sense now. I see.

I don’t like how this show doesn’t really explain things as they are happening, just mention in flashbacks why this is possible. It is almost like Fate/Zero with the OH HI this is why it’s possible. I am referring to the fact that the crew broke into the fortress due to the fact that the two places (Shana’s old home and the Fortress) are connected. Not sure WHO made it even though everyone recognized the place. Not sure how either places were treasures or why the dude would connect them if that would be a BAD idea. So basically…it was a bunch of special for me.

That looks close to me. And magical. But what do I know right?

That and NO ONE saw it? In Wilhelmina’s little flashback the two places had to be sorta close for the connection to occur. Of course close is relative when you are a giant object in space. But TO ME it looked like it would visible from the Fortress or at least magical beings should have been able to sense it. Lame.
And then Fecor guessed correctly how Wilhelmina got in? In came out of nowhere!

I....how...what?!

There is no reasonable explanation on how he figured it out. He was like how did they get in, nothing was breached and none of our devices went off. OH YES Wilhelmina must have raised a piece of land from the bottom of the ocean and used it’s magical properties to transport into the castle. EXACTLY! I don’t understand how he came to that conclusion. Show the math people.

I am sure Shana will be fine. Commence with the explosions!

While I like the destruction of Casa de Baddies maybe next time Khamsin and Rebecca should be a little more careful. Part of this plan was a rescue mission and it is hard to rescue someone when they are dead. It might even make you fail the mission. Just saying.

I will ask you kindly to leave. Please and thank you.

The Lion dude made me laugh. Like he was trying to be all noble or something. Too much damage? Personally if I owned a castle ANY damage would be too much damage. I am glad that YujiSnake left someone strong at the Fortress because Fecor was not doing a great job.

I think I have heard this before....

Shana…X__X Is this show even about her anymore? She has been saying the same few lines for weeks now. WE GET IT! You can’t use your power because you have the bracelet on. You are waiting to make a move. Why are you repeating yourself? Why are you talking all cryptically? We know exactly what you are talking about silly.

WHY WON'T YOU DIE!!!!!

But her going to town on the maid was awesome. Like she was channeling Yuno from Mirai Nikki or something. Home girl was already missing half her face just do her all the way! Hardcore.

Shana reminds me of my cat getting for action.

I sorta forgot the sword had a human element to it. But I guess the reason why it didn’t rescue Shana before was because she was far away. Or maybe she needed to summon it and in her rage moment she generated enough energy to do so. In any event that was something X__X that I could accept.

Granny Panties hurrying to the battle scene.

I think I managed to say a lot about an episode that was pretty basic. Buildings got knocked around, Fecor sucked, and Shana managed to release the constrains on her. Now there is going to be more help on the way as Granny Panties and her crew are around the corner. Sounds like it is time for YukiSnake and his people to make it back for an ultimate showdown! How many more episodes are there…..?