What!? What? What!? I don’t even at the start of this episode! Shintaro what? His power? What’s with the scissors? It strikes me suddenly as I screen shot this that Shaft has this thing with scissors. I haven’t seen the Monogari series but from the amv’s I’ve seen I seem to remember something about scissors. Anyway this has all happened before, what the hell is going on in this first scene!? I get everyone’s powers except his.
Picking up where episode 9 left off we pick up with Kido and Momo chasing after Hibiya. They try to recruit him, all of these people suddenly come towards them. It’s rather lazy to just animate them as white blobs, but at least in this case. Seeing as I sort of see them as pawns in a grand scheme it doesn’t bother me all that much.
Kano flashbacks to a talk with Ayano, how to return people from the other side of the void…all of the people with snakes would need to die.
She knew that Takane and Haruka were going to become possessed by snakes. She wanted to talk to the snake. Who claimed he was doing his best to fulfill his greatest wish to bring back his wife. At the cost of his students and his own family.
Kano, oh god…poor Kano. He had to see his sister die. He had to watch her throw herself off the roof to prevent the snakes plan from coming true. She died so they could live, despite her promise to stay with them. He had to watch her die! He loved her the most of all of them, he was such a sisters boy.
At least the snakes plan is a bust now, at least she didn’t die for no reason. He threatened Kano, made him pose as her corpse. threatening him and his entire family. I hate it when bad things happen to my favorite character, it’s okay Kano! I love you!
Kano had they all call themselves by their last names, called Kido commander. He pretty much created the Mekakushi-dan. Seto comes to find Kano at the grave, he snaps at Seto. Kano starts crying…
Seto uses his powers.
We cut back to Kido, Hibiya and Momo who have been capture. Momo has an idea on how to get out. They are going to use their powers, Momo is going to use her power to make people notice her and Kido is going to use hers to conceal what’s going on from the people in the building.
Seto and Kano notice it and head to help, Takane in her own body for the first time in the series runs there as well. Haruka and Marry as well. It ends with Momo turning to Hibiya with the group and welcoming him to the Mekakushi-dan!
I have a bad feeling about the fact they’re all together before the last episode knowing the plan of the snake inside of the professor. What happened to Shintaro? Where is this going to go? With the last episode coming up, I can’t say I’m not interested.
We cut to where the void world after the credits,with Ayano. Shintaro walks up to her and begins talking to her, apologizing for taking so long. He says she doesn’t have to fight alone anymore, everyone is waiting. Wait to be talking to her doesn’t he have to be dead? Is that what the opening scene was about? Can he move between the worlds with ease?
Summertime Record. Alright, now can I skip a week into the future? I want to go, now please. Excuse me while I go watch all the PV’s but Summertime Record now.
Ps. More pictures of Kano, because yes, I do have a problem. -spams Yobanashi Deceieve-
Ah, I guess the thing with Shintaro’s power would seem kind of confusing, let me explain! ^_^ (er, Spoilers…kind of but not really at this point in the anime’s story)
Okay, Shintaro’s power is memory. Remember the flash of memory that Shintaro has in the first scene, of the Mekakushi Dan being killed? And do you remember the Lost Time Memory song sequence from episode 8, which showed scenes from the novels, manga and songs? Well, here’s the truth: those were previous timelines. What most of the characters don’t realise is that to prevent a terrible ending for them, a certain character (I’m sure you can guess who) kept resetting time in order to find a way for the Mekakushi Dan to reach a happy ending. Some of the songs, plus the novels and the manga were some of the many timelines that had previously occurred. The anime is actually the newest timeline to occur in the series. In a previous timeline, Shintaro gained an eye power which allows him to remember (and also most likely repress) memories, and was able to keep this power with him, even after time was reset once more. Thus, in episode 8, when he saw the picture of Ayano and her family, this triggered his eye power and caused him to remember all the previous timelines, shown by him seeing scenes from the novels, manga and songs.
To explain how he met Ayano at the end of this episode – in the beginning of the episode, he decided that in light of these new (old) memories, he should bring Ayano back from the Heat Haze world. Since the requirement to enter the Heat Haze World involves dying on August 15th and it just happened to be August 15th on that day, he committed suicide with a pair of scissors, and managed to meet up with Ayano.
I hope my explanation isn’t too confusing. XD If I missed out any details or if anything I said wasn’t right, anyone can feel free to correct me! ^^
Oh wow, thank you! That actually clears a lot of things up! I started to understand the time loop thing but the memory part escaped me. That makes a lot more sense!