Go go Power Rangers?

So…kyousora’s ending is pretty much set now, it only has one option for a coherent ending, and unfortunately it doesn’t involve yfr. Although it didn’t train wreck as bad as YoakeNa, its current state is a far cry from its humble yet freaking hilarious beginnings.

Episode Rating: 6/10

Having fought through wave after wave of steel angels, Kyoshiro and his posse reach Kazuya’s castle just as Kuu enters the machine that will synthesize the angels into one being. Despite his calls to her, Kuu has had all of her memories of Kyoshiro wiped, and continues into the machine.

The next scene is a typical Kazuya scene. He sprouts thorns, tosses Kyoshiro around for a bit, and spends the rest of the time kissing his own ass and reciting crappy poetry.

Soon after, the merging process finishes and the completed absolute angel, Cielo, is reborn. She floats down to an ecstatic Kazuya, but when they make contact a shock wave blasts them apart and the individual absolute angels combine their respective limbs to form Bastille, the destructive form of the absolute angels (see power rangers parody above).

The scene shifts to a dimensional riff where the five parts of the absolute angel are being held captive by Megingjord. She goes to each individual absolute angel and asks them whether they desire the destruction of the world, and if not, tries to understand their reason for wanting to live on.

Back in the real world, Bastille has engulfed the sky in a burning red aura, the same as the first time the absolute angels were released, the day of the burning snow. Kazuya is holding down Bastille, who is being split apart by the individual wills of each angel, while trying to get through to his beloved Cielo.

Meanwhile, Kyoshiro battles through even more hordes of steel angels in order to get to the core of Bastille, where Kuu/Cielo is, apparently in hopes to snap her out of it. With some help from Sojiro and Himeko, he makes it to the top, at the same time Kuu’s conscious breaks through, returning her memories of Kyoshiro to her. She separates from Bastille as Kyoshiro leaps out and grabs her in embrace as they both free fall to the ground.

Thoughts

This episode was sooooo boring. To make things worse, I was punished twofold since I fell asleep twice during the episode and had to backtrack and watch what I missed again.

The first time I fell asleep was when Megingjord went around consoling each absolute angel, then putting them to sleep. The only reason I didn’t pass out sooner was because of the furry nekomimi’s incredibly annoying voice.

The second time I dozed off was during Kyoshiro’s run up the stairs to get to Bastille, I didn’t even bother rewatching this scene because it was probably filled with more Kyoshiro angsting about loving Kuu and being disappointed in Kazuya. If someone wants to tell me what really happened, that’d be great. Though…at this point there’s probably like…20 people still watching this show, so I won’t hold my breath.

As for where we go from now…there’s not much choice left, the only logical ending would be a KuuXKyoshiro ending. Although the preview suggests that the absolute angels are going to disappear, since we see Kuu and Kyoshiro saying, what seems to be, their teary goodbyes to each other. In either case, I’ll be disappointed, my hopes for an ending the likes of Kannaduki are all but gone. At the most, we’ll get a brief scene where Kaon and Himeko reunite and bid farewell, paralleling the scene where Chikane and Himeko say goodbye to each other in Kannaduki.

As I was hinging all my hopes on the ending, I’m going to go back and retroactively lower the ratings for all Kyousora’s episodes past 6, which were given mercy in hopes of an awesome finale.

I will admit though, done intentionally or not, I did like the power rangers-esque transformation scene. It made me laugh as I reminisced about good times long gone: an innocent and laid back childhood, sanity intact and untouched by the otaku community and eyes free from the torture that is kyousora. T_T

On the bright side, only one more episode remains until I can put the whole ordeal behind me. And for those of you wondering why I’m still watching this even though I don’t really like it anymore, it’s because I finish what I start, no matter how painfully bad it becomes. After I pass the 2/3 episode mark on an anime, I usually see it through to the end.

I can’t wait until this show ends and I can start blogging something remotely entertaining. Like Lucky Star! My KyoAni fandom knows no bounds.

~ Shirukii ~