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Short Summary:
After abandoning Kazumi-chan at the gallery, Yuuji runs into Shana on the way out. The two go home together and meet up with Yuuji’s mother. Yuuji introduces Shana as only a classmate, which irks Shana so much that she pulls out her sword and almost strikes Yuuji with it after his mother leaves. She can’t go through with the swing though, and her anger is interrupted when she feels Friagne’s power in the center of the city – she has no choice but to go and stop him. Returning home, Yuuji remembers Raime asking him if it’s ok like this, Yuuji as he is now. Realizing that he’d like to do something, he rushes to the fight, but gets captured by Friagne. With Yuuji as a shield, Friagne returns to his own base, but Shana follows him there and the two fight again. Seeing Shana faring poorly against Friagne, Yuuji decides to help and warns Shana of oncoming attacks; Shana gets quite irritated by this. Although her sword gets stronger, she still gets knocked down by several blasts. Friagne becomes obsessed with consuming everything in the city, and Marianne faces Shana alone while her master loses his mind. Marianne disappears in a giant explosion that sends Shana flying, but doesn’t kill her. As Yuuji approaches where Shana and Friagne are, Friagne pulls out a gun and points it at Shana. Shana is exhausted at this point, and Yuuji’s power of existence is being taken by Friagne. With one last bit of strength thanks to Yuuji’s urging, Shana throws a piece of glass that hits Friagne’s hand and cuts off his fingers, including the one that bears the ring. Friagne tries to use his other hand to shoot them, but Margery interferes at this point and stops him. Shana then charges Friagne and stabs him with her sword, ending the fight. In the aftermath, Yuuji prepares to disappear, as his power of existence is totally gone. But then the clock strikes midnight, and his torch flares up again. Shana tells him that his power of existence is completely renewed at midnight.
I wish all the episodes could be like this. Seriously, all this episode is missing is a touch of fanservice, though I did spot a panty shot during the fight. The animation is good, the battle doesn’t seem too repetitive, and Yuuji isn’t a complete wimp. I was hating him for abandoning Kazumi-chan, but he manages to redeem himself a bit by the end of the episode, even with the corny thumbs up in the middle of the fight. And so while there was very little of Kazumi-chan, there certainly was plenty of Shana in a range of emotions from confused to angry to happy. She even holds Yuuji’s hand as he prepares to disappear at the end, AND she says that he’s not just a torch, but actually Sakai Yuuji. But Yuuji doesn’t disappear because the clock strikes midnight, and his Misutesu power, called 「零時迷子」 (Reiji Maigo), allows him to live on. 零時 means midnight and 迷子 means lost (stray) child, which I guess could be translated to something like Midnight Stray (ok, I just wanted to say that cause it sounds cool in english).
The preview for next episode features Margery getting drunk and Shana in the bath. It’s winning points with me already 🙂
Oh yeah! The MV for the Opening is out! I suppose you’re gonna do a review on it too ya? There’s actually a limited edition Shana version for those who got the cd but it’s also avaliable for download too. =)
I already saw it and considered blogging it, but ended up deciding not to because I didn’t have enough to say about it.
Yeah, Hishoku no Sora VP is bunch of same scenes over and over -.-‘
And it looks like Shana and Yuuji are going to start improving their relationship now. Sweet.
yay!!! majore vs shana round 2???
Nah not really cyw1988, it’s more like Shana versus Friagne final showdown. We also learn what’s so special about Yuuji 😉
… though I still can’t forgive him for leaving Kazumi alone… even if it was to save the city!
By Omni: I already saw it and considered blogging it, but ended up deciding not to because I didn’t have enough to say about it.
Aww… I’m sure there is something? I mean, at least we wanna see the screencaps. xD
If you wanna see the screencaps, just watch it yourself 😛
So what’s his power? To continuously regenerate even though he’s a torch?
Yuuji is able to recover all his “existance” that were exhausted during the day at midnight.
BTW, is this it for Friagne? I hope he makes a come back…He’s a kick ass villain 😀
Dude, a Shana kick-ass episode followed by a Shana bath episode…..what more oculd you want?! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
shana is awesome!!!! see told u guys she wld change for the better… she has more feelings now hahaha!!!
As for Friagne, I don’t think he’s gone for good. In one of the postcards for the Premiere DVD, the one of the cast in swimsuits, he’s shown with Marianne and the two blonde characters (the girl and guy dancing) from the opening. So I think we may have just seen his shadow defeated or something, this was just too easy for a powerful Tomogara with a huge master plan.
Woot tihs is looking great can’t wait XD
Looks like Shana’s relationship’s going to improve with Yuuji indeed. She hesitated to kill him and strike at Friagne when he was used as a shield, while she could do so before: chop him almost into half to get the Rinne in episode 1.Also, Shana smiled at him and spoke nicely to him for the first time so far in the series. ^^ Sign of things to come? With the Opening as a hint, I’m sure it is.
I feel sad for Kazumi…Took so much trouble to invite the guy she likes, and she’s ‘ditched’ by him because he had something more important to do, thanks to that old dude Rammy. ^^ I just hope there will be character and relationship development, as well as greater enemies in the next few episodes. This series is really firing up! =D
hm~
nc little rough gurl~
cute but very dangerous i think~