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After becoming human, Kyo heads out with Shizuno to try and destroy the Deutra Area from completely destroying the earth, and destroy the Gards-Orm once and for all.

Impressions: 

Now, at first the ending was extremely confusing. However, after I took some time and thought about it, it really made a lot of sense. First off, there are multiple possibilities about what happened. First, who Kyo picked. People say it’s obvious because Ryoko was there with a baby, however then they go and say how Kyo had to be like 40. Although, I disagree with that, who the hell said Kyo had to be that old? Second is that he picked Shizuno and Ryoko was just there at the beach with someone else’s baby and the scene was about how humanity hands really started over again and everything was fine. Ryoko was human which meant everyone else was.

Here’s my interpretation of the ending. First off, I think Kyo picked Ryoko. However I don’t think there was some pedo thing going on for Kyo to have impregnated Ryoko, as some have pondered. Who said the resurrection system had to take 40 years? Kyo even said to Ryoko, wait for me for two years, I’ll make it to graduation. Now, with the server still repeating itself, graduation would never come until everyone can become human, which means Kyo can be with everyone. Second, yeah sure the scene with Ryoko was way in the future. The lighthouse showed that that scene was easily several dozen years in the future. However, people’s logic confuses me. Ryoko wouldn’t get pregnant the instant she became human. She wouldn’t become pregnant at 16/17 or however old she was. Just because that scene was several years in the future doesn’t mean that that is how long the resurrection process took. I think it means that about two or three years passed by, everyone became human, Kyo got together with Ryoko and eventually had a child. There could easily be as little as a two to three year difference added because of Kyo’s humanity thing.

Whatever happened, people have to think a bit more. If that scene was 40 years in the future (lets just say that) that doesn’t mean that it took 40 years for the resurrection process. If it did, that means that Ryoko would have become instantly pregnant at a physical age and maturity (more or less) of how old she was as an apparition. First off, Ryoko did not look like she was still that age and second I don’t think Ryoko is that much of a slut that she would get pregnant that early.

As for Shizuno, I think that she will become human one day. They seemed to have a way to fix her. However, I believe Kyo ends up with Ryoko. One just because I always thought they’d be better. Another thing though is that Shizuno seems to have no memory of anything. I don’t know if her memory will come back or anything, but I think that she won’t recover her memory which is another thing that would stop her from being with Kyo. It is more of a think that she got a new life instead of being made human completely.

I have some mixed feelings about everyone coming back to life. At first, before the whole Gards-Orm being defeated thing there were a lot of people dead, seemingly. Lu Sheng, May Yu, Shima, Arque. Also Chris and May Yen could have easily been dead because of the damage they received. However at the end everyone except Shima and Arque came back to life. Ok, Chris and May Yen could have been back because they didn’t really show them dead, but it was a point of emotional struggle when the others died. I hate when someone comes back to life usually, because it means the sacrifice of their death meant nothing. At least Arque and Shima stayed dead though.

Some smaller things about this episode in particular. I liked the whole thing with Minato and everyone commenting on her legs. Although at first it seems like it is just some light humor about everyone fawning over Minato, but I think it means something more. Remember that Minato’s legs were heavily wet damaged. So previously her legs were crap. In that scene she was still an apparition, but her legs were fine. That’s what that scene was all about and I thought it was touching, as a kind of tribute to Shima as she thanked him for all his last efforts and everything.

Final Words: 

Zegapain is truly a great show. Although it was plagued with some major delays between episodes. It took nearly a year for it to be released, with sometimes more then a month break between episodes. Despite that, it has defiantly been one of the more enjoyable animes I have watched. I was constantly thinking about the aspects introduced in this show. All of the talk about reality and what is real or not, eternity versus reality, an everlasting life, and rebirth. All of those subjects were fascinating the way Zegapain put them together. It really had me caring about the plot. Not to mention the characters were amazing. Ryoko was constantly one of my favorite characters. I remember actually yelling out loud when I thought she died. I screamed at my computer and I must have looked very odd.

As I mentioned above, the characters were outstanding in this. Ryoko for one, but more then just her. I remember Arque, who when she died it was a hugely emotional part. Her and her relationship with Chris made the feeling of her death all the more important, and I’m glad they didn’t bring her back. Shima was an interesting character, very mysterious and at the same time although he seemed not to care, he did. Again I have to go back to the Arque episode. Everyone was grieving about her and Shima was all series looking out the window. The A.I. approached him and he said if tears could bring Arque back then he would cry as much as possible, and he twisted his arm so much so he felt pain and wouldn’t cry. Obviously, he had emotions and I think that scene was a great example of Shima’s character.

One point that I have to mention about Zegapain is its “genre” technically; I suppose Zegapain would fall under the mecha category. However it was almost nothing like any other mecha. Albeit, I haven’t watched THAT much mecha in my life but Zegapain really did seem to stand apart from others. It wasn’t’ really about the giant robots fighting each other, it was about the plot of reality and eternity. The mechas were just a means to execute the plot. They were just a convenient tool to describe how these apparitions interacted with the real world. Truly, it wasn’t’ about the robots, although it had them in there. It seems unfair to categorize it as mecha. That’s like categorizing other shows by the weapons a majority of people use.