As Margery is out of the picture, Shana and Wilhelmina fight 2-on-2 with Hecate and Sydonay. The two Bal-Masque Lords proved to be formidable opponents, even Hecate can hold her own against Shana and Wilhelmina.

Soon, the Flame Hazes are in a disadvantage, though they quickly realize that the two Lords hesitated when their backs were faced towards the clock tower/statue, so they used that as an advantage to buy time and make an opening.

Inside, Yuji retrieves the Blutsauger, declaring his intent to protect Shana. (Lame and cliched as his proclamation sounds though, Yuji at least sounds like a decent male protagonist once again. :cool: )

though his PoE is running out fast, and he becomes semi-transparent. Wilhelmina creates a diversion for Shana to enter the statue, and she meets up with Yuji. Though this means Wilhelmina has to fight two.

As Shana and Yuji head towards the "heart" of the statue, it is activated by the Professor and breaks out of its blue egg shell. Before it can cause widespread panic, Margery manages to open up her Fuuzetsu while still badly wounded. But time is running short, as the statue begins to grow wings in an attempt to fly out of the Fuuzetsu.

Yuji and Shana finally reach the inner chamber of the statue, where they come face to face with "Silver". A fight ensues, Yuji realizes the Reiji Maigo is inside Silver's "heart", though neither he nor Shana are able to overpower Silver, who seems to be "remote controlled" by Hecate outside.

As Hecate/Silver is about to deal a finishing blow to Yuji, for some reason, the shot missed completely, causing Hecate to look confused. Yuji is able to take advantage of the lapse to retrieve the Reiji Maigo, allowing Shana to finish Silver off, for now at least.

Without the Reiji Maigo and Silver to power it, the statue collapses. Watching from afar, Bel-Peol, typical of the villain mastermind, sort of expected something like this could happen (concerning Hecate's hesitation). Bal-Masque decides to retreat for now. Before leaving, Hecate is further surprised that she is crying.

All this time Yoshida never really used the Hougu Pheles gave her, since she decides to place her trust in Yuji being able to survive this. Thus this plot device is completely wasted and legions of Yoshida-haters are disappointed she survived till the end.

As the credits roll, a special ED "sense" by Kawada Mami plays, showing the various characters and what they're doing. It shows Shana and Yoshida once again waiting for Yuji to make his choice.

From Yoshida standing and on the verge of tears and Shana turning around and looking delighted, it's highly implied that Yuji chose Shana, thus hopefully making some of the more moderate Yoshida-haters more or less satisfied.

Man, where to start! First of all, the fight scenes where so freaking amazing; nicely animated, too. Also, as soon as I saw Kazumi "using" the Hougu, I was yelling, "Nooooooooooooooooo!" only to find that she didn't end up using it. Geez, they almost gave me a heart attack. Also, it was good to see that Hecate didn't forgot about the times "she" spent with Yuji and company. It was touching, when she cried and pondered about her feelings. Lastly, the ending song freaking rocks. I'm definitely buying the song when it's out. The ending was replaced with a sequence, like last season. I think Yuji ends up choosing Shana, as Shana smiles and Kazumi begins to cry. Of course, I'm not 100% sure.

havent seen it yet, but from what i saw from the spoiler is it a conventionnal ending and nothing mindblowing (not like S2 was anything else than 90%filler but anyway).
i would have like to see something a bit different, a few deaths : margery dying giving her sidekick the final chara-devellopemt and the 2 main protagonist not ending as a couple. it s so cliche to always have the 2 mains characters ending up happy ever after. An anime ending where both characters would end up as "partner/cooworker" yet having both their own private life would be refreshing for once.

I haven't watched the episode yet as I perfer to wait for the English subs - so I don't know how spectacular/well-rendered the action scenes were - but from reading the spoilers here on anime suki... the plot ending aspect of things sounds really lame and uninspired to me.

Kazumi loses to Shana, and she doesn't summon Pheles?

Man... where's the twist? The surprise? Some event other than cool action scenes that makes the last episode stand out in a good way?

All of the build-up over Kazumi/Pheles/the houga was wasted, especially since Kazumi lost.

Well, at least the love triangle has been resolved, but in a predictable fashion, and with out any shocking last minute surprises in the way of character deaths or anything of the sort.

Is seriously doubt that Shana actually won, when they make a season 3 they'll make up an excuse for Kazumi being slightly weepy