The story is interesting and when people invest a lot of their feelings in a show, they are bound to get emotional over it (some more than others). Honestly Katsura has been pushed to brink of a mental breakdown. Look at how much has happen in a short amount of time. Most of us have people we could talk to and get these feelings off our chest before they fester into suicidal or homicidal tendencies. Katsura has no one to talk she is all alone and the person who she thought she trust most in the world has betrayed her numerous times with every girl he can get his hands on.

Even if Katsura were to survive to the end without doing something drastic. How many years do you think it will take to reverse the damage that imposed on her? This is not a quick fix and I can say for sure that if this were real she would have a server distrust or hatered of men

She can learn how to make bombs from internet and bring a deadly package to them all. Suicide bomber way ftw. j/k

Well, surely if she goes in a rampage like many of us are saying, it's not really something she'd recover from...:heh:

A tragic ending is likely, but it's sure to include Kotonoha in the tragedy no matter what, in whatever way.

Or perhaps a bittersweet one. Use the "Bloody Ending" ending and combine it with "I'm the wife", and it becomes bittersweet.

Something tells me that Otome may get killed by the end. Taisuke in my opinion is not going to get what he deserves.

I really hope he does. He's easily the worst, in my opinion.

I can't say I'd feel any sympathy for any of them, in any case. I don't think I'm the wife is very likely, but who knows...

I hope he does too, but I just cannot see it happening. I see Sekai's death very likely, Otome's fairly likely, and Setsuna's as impossible. I do not think Makoto is going to die, unfortunately.

Something i noticed from the screen caps im not sure if it should be in a spoiler tag or not but just to be safe i will anyway.

I wasn't expecting Setsuna to make such an idiotic move like that... She's the one with the most common sense and yet all of it flew out the window in a split second. That doesn't make any sense, they just ruined a perfectly good character.

*cringes* firefox crashed during my summary...*sigh*

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okay okay... this episode is a complete mess.
the end was excellent in the execution, but that's IT.
they mixed too much things, and they dragged so much stuff that the look of it will be so ugly next week. actually they are like mergind 3-4 ends in the same time.... sillyness...

Makoto would probably feel terrible enough anyway. I don't care what Kotonoha does to the girls, but I do want Taisuke gone. :heh:

wow things are starting to fire up in this ep

Don't you see the irony in that? She wants him to stop but yet she's contributing... can you really make a promise with someone that unfaithful.

Actually i think Makoto's wake up call is coming i think if he knew how bad things were he would feel terrible. Everything is going to hit him all at once and hes going to realize that the world might be better if he just launched him self in Tokyo Bay attached to rock.

It's indeed ironic and doesn't make much sense, which is why I think it's just an excuse for her to sleep with Makoto. What's even worse is that she just leaves this whole mess behind and runs off to France after the deed is done.

I think people give Setsuna too much credit...

Yeah. And he might not realize that until things actually get -tragic- enough, I believe.

Agreed entirely. I did respect her before this episode, though...I thought she was far smarter/caring than this.

I agree with you in a way its sadistic. Look at this way she gets her bang with Makoto but she knows she cant keep him because she has to leave. So what does she do well since she cant have him well i'll make sure my bestfriend has him instead. In other words live through Sekai in a way. Sekai is the most important person in Setsuna's life and leaving the other most important person would make sense to her. It was like killing 2 birds with one stone she gets to sleep with Makoto making another memory for her self and she gets Otome out of Makotos life. I think it was planned plain and simple, she not as innocent as everyone thinks

i disagree a lot. Setsuna finds out that Makoto is obsessed with only one thing.
So that's why she offered herself, saying "if i must do that for this promise, i will dot it".
Setsuna is perfectly genuine to make him protect sekai. Even in the end, when she was in the airport, she clearly had many regrets for sekai, as she wanted to stay with her.

There is NO, ABOLUTELY NO PROOF they did it. NOPE
Makoto stops himself, saying "I...", demonstrating he doesn't know what he wants know. this is messed up, and she had to go through this to make him realize of the mess. she was about to do it for Sekai, not for herself. Otherwise, she would let him doing his stuff.

The Setsuna bashing is quite interesting :)

Obviously what she did is not the best course of action, but her reasons are quite far from being selfish. Basically she allowed Makoto to do what he wants with her, if he promises to break up with Otome. Whether she loves him or not, Setsuna is always putting Sekai before her, and i don't think this has anything to do with her having to go to France. No, i don't think she would actively gun for Makoto even if she could stay. Not saying she doesn't get anything out of the deal (because she obviously loves Makoto herself), but i highly doubt she ever thought of acting against Sekai's interests. That, and there is not a 100% indication they have actually done it.

That said, i would largely prefer Setsuna x Makoto over anything else - their history predates Sekai, and she actually has what it takes to keep Makoto on leash if she wants to :)

Oh, and one more thing - i would like to see people stop mentioning various game endings in this thread, before i get hostile ;)