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

Yuji actually choosing someone? Seems way too good to be true. =P

HOW DARE YOU MAKE YUJI CHOOSE SHANA! HOW DARE YOU!

Thank gosh they didn't show anything past there. Honestly, if they had them kissing or something, I would have thrown up on the spot.

Sure, it was only "implied", so I am still keeping to my hope that the teary eyes Kazumi was for joy the Yuji picked her, and Shana was smiling to see the two of them happy, but that's just me trying to find ways to justify this ending. I have to assume what everyone else is, unfortunately, because there is a limit to farfetchedness.

This gets a 1. Absolutely painful in every way painful for the reasons mentioned.

actually the ending did't give any clear answer on shana or kazumi who won yuji. kazumi cried, shana laugh, that's all.
moreover, yuji's footprints disappeared. it may be a hint on yuji just disappeared (and turn into the snake of festival) as the origial novels, in my point of view.
the anime origial 'GOU NO RITSUZOU' may as a test for bal masque get ready to welcome their boss to come back, as the principle is quite alike.

no SoF till even the ending, hopefully he will appears on season 3 to make us all happy.
about shana to be chosen, that's quite expected isn't it? it is so obvious that yuji shud have done this from season 1 instead

They just had to animate her disappearing. :heh:

Actualy It was borring, monotonous, yoshida was stupid as ever, no kiss, no romance, borring fight, no death, unlogical end, very very fast, pointless....... it wasn't that old good shana:rolleyes:

It was satisfying to see how Konoes experiences tied into the end of this series, further progressing Hecates emotions and character as a whole. Without the Konoe arc this might not have been possible to do as effectively as they did (gradual, not rush, rush, rush all in 1-2 episodes). To see Hecate not wanting to kill Yuuji after removing the RM and then again while controlling the Silver really makes me wonder what's going to happen between them in season 3 between them. Maybe a new official point to the triangle? It's possible if they eventually have a common foe to fight together for perhaps.

While the ending does not say for sure who Yuuji chose, it clearly points towards Shana imo. Why? Not Kazumis reaction, but Shanas disappointed look that turns into an extremely happy open mouth smile with blushing. That isn't a laugh, and she clearly can't see Kazumi from where they are (North/South locations), so it wouldn't relate to Kazumi. So, that smile/reaction really does strongly support in favor of the Yuuji + Shana direction.
It also has to be taken into mind that he screamed he would protect Shana and all... But yea, that scene could be debatable. So I won't go into that.