Xebek’s Blog

Xebek:

I have to say, that even though ef has won the previous weeks and I on some level want to give this award to other series so it’s not so much of a blow out, I can’t help it. This episode was huge. The style of the episode was interesting, all black and white, but obviously the big thing about it was Yuuko’s death. What really struck me was I knew this was coming, yet I still felt somehow shocked and just screamed for it not to happen. All throughout the series they had been hinting at her being dead in the present but even so when it happened it didn’t make it any less important of an event.

What struck me about this episode and what it meant for the rest of the series was that now we have pretty much the whole picture of Himura’s story. It’s not over, but a majority of his story has been about explaining what happened. Now, we pretty much know. There may be some quick scenes or something but Yuuko dying is pretty big by itself. Now they just really have Kuze’s story left and then some predictable Himura talking to Yuuko’s spirit and forgiving himself about what happened

FlareKnight:

This one definitely had to win for being the most emotional episode of the week. Most of it was a nice time seeing developments with the trio of Himura, Yuuko, and Mizuki. It was kind of funny to see how they interacted in the past and how Himura and Mizuki didn’t recognize each other in the present. Naturally the biggest part of this episode was at the very end. Really was a tragic sight even if you believed that Yuuko wasn’t going to survive. But even still when it happens you can’t help but be hit hard by the thing. Perhaps though, getting hit by a car like that actually makes sense. Since that death links Yuuko to Chihiro in a way. It’s already revealed she had met the sisters, but a similar incident creates a strange link. Really when you have such an event in an episode it’s hard to give any other series the win for the week.

Now it’s a series starting to move near the end. The death of Yuuko really just was part of that. Still have to reach the end of the Kuze saga and see if there are any happy endings to be found. Sure you got a reuniting of the twins, but you’d hope the other major players at least got something out of this. Think it will be hard to see anything bigger than that accident coming in the next episodes. But still expect they will finish this off just fine.