Episode of the Week:
Shakugan no Shana II - 24
This was a hard decision and I don’t expect everyone to agree with me, but for me this is what deserved it. I can’t bring myself to give this week’s awarded to True Tears. Even though it may have gotten me or others the most riled up I hated the conclusion. He should have ended up with Noe and since I personally dislike the ending and truly do thing the show would have been better with a different ending; I can’t then go on to say that the episode was great.
I gave this week’s award to Shana because I thought it really deserved it. Although looking at the grand big picture, this season didn’t end up having much of an impact at all on overall standings, all enemies are still alive, no one is dead, in the end the characters are just more developed, there is a further progression of the romance, and the threat is more known. However even with the conclusion no wrapping anything up I thought the final episode was extremely fun to watch. First off because of the romance. I am ecstatic they actually did something with the romance finally. I’m trying to not spoil anything in the Episode of the Week posts, so you can go to this episode’s post but the romance conclusion was just great. That paired with some interesting action and just the overall end to the current plan Bal Masque was working on was great.
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I think episode of the week is fair here. With the new seasons not quite subbed yet this was the best out there I felt.
No matter how I felt about the ending in particular was still well worth the award. Showed a great fight and really left one eager for another season.
I don’t think you should hate Ture tears so much. I’m a Noe fan as well but I think that that episode had some positive sides as well. Noe learned how to live on on herself, she got some new friends and she got her tears back, but must importantly, she showed maturity and strength, and truely capture our hearts. She will certainly find someone better than Shin, someone that will appreciate her magnificence, and she will be able to fly. Hopefully we will see it in an ova.
Regardless, this is an amazing show and Noe is truly an amazing character. Don’t let the last episode ruin that for you.
It wasn’t so much the episode, but the overall conclsuion that ruined the series for me. I hate the argument so and so will find someone better later on. Until they show that in another season or something, which in this case will never happen due to the source material, that possibility can’t be explored when judging this anime, you could list thousands of what ifs, if you HAVE to do that to find anything redeeming about the conclsuion, its not a good one.
A good dojin could be a solution…
It really saddening me to see you’re thinking this was a totally bad end for Noe…
BTW Shana was definitely ggod, hope next season will have more focus on romance
I think shakugan no shana was great and that it diserved it but I think the ending could have been better.yes they showd some romance at the end (witch i dont think was that great either)and the fighting was cool but I think during the season there was no plot develpment in the romance part of the anime.the hole time im thinking somthing going to happen between them in the next ep. but nothing ever came and when the last ep. came i thought for sure somthing great would happen with shana & yugi but what do you get? NOTHING.you dont even hear shana confess to yugi or see if yugi likes her.oh great he went to see her instead of the other girl big deal its not like he new what was going on!but anyways there better be somthing good in the next season oh and the anime in general is great just very slow.