[Arkard]

Spoiler for Ep. 26:

Well I guess that explains why the marriage proposal everyone who played the VN was talking about was omitted and why they carelessly leaked Cal's death.

As much as I hate the way this series ends, the fact that I hate it means it was successful in what it was trying to accomplish. After the initial "wtf" shock I do have to admit it was pretty spectacular how they threw in a twist that almost nobody was anticipating. As others have mentioned, this has been a dark story from the beginning, and it kept true to its form.

I had some misgivings about the way Reiji died so easily from a presumably no name killer, but that just goes to show that anybody can be caught off guard and killed as easily as that. Although I can speculate whether or not Elen was killed as well, ether way, she's as good as dead. Even if she survived, she lost her only reason to live and would probably only keep living to avenge Reiji before burning out like Cal planned.

I guess CalxReiji did happen in a perverse sort of way