[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for last episode:

Ehhhhhhhh! That's it?! Damn, talk about not tying things up and giving viewers this feeling... of needing more, I guess?
Anyways, the end of the episode just felt so... open. Too open.
For one thing, it would have been good if they showed what the characters were doing afterwards. You know, like Sunako and the monk, Toshio, etc? But no, the two Undead drive off, the end. Toshio talks about losing, the end. And there was an "epilogue" in the ED, but WHAT kind of epilogue is that?! It doesn't tell anything. Especially the Dad! When did you become sane again?!

Natsuno and Tatsumi was done well though. Then again, they both supposedly died, after all.

And more personally, three more things I didn't like:
1. Damn, that *beep* monk is still alive.
2. Damn, that *beep* Shiki is still alive. KILL HER! KILL HER! Let her go and they'll spread like cockroaches again!
3. OOOOOOOOKAWA-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! I loved his little speech towards that brat. He is so right. If he really killed her and made it out alive, it would have been perfect. But he got killed! That monster of a man... got... killed?!


But, it was nice they showed all of the Shiki that died. Like Nao or Masao, whose death were never shown.
Seishirou................. Kind of pitiful.

PS: The Tanaka siblings lived. Best thing this episode, indeed. Yay~

Spoiler for final thoughts:

The end was... kind of unfortunate, but it didn't completely ruin the series.
The anime was very, very, very interesting. To be honest, the most interesting anime these two seasons. Every episode made me want more and more.
Then again, this was partially due to the fact the Shiki were winning for most of the anime, which isn't that good... You know, it isn't fun watching a one-way match?

The characters were all great and colorful. Wonderful.
Of course, there were ones that were really annoying though.
Sunako and that monk made it out alive. Shame.
At least Megumi died. IT IS just so hilarious watching her try to earn pity, after being such a b**** throughout her Shiki life(?).

But anyways, it was fun watching the Shiki all die. Well, they are already dead, sorry.
After all, absolutely no pity for them.
Putting aside the facts that they are all dead or the other stuff that makes the villagers attitudes towards them reasonable, there is one major thing...
That is...
BECAUSE THEY ATTACKED FIRST!
*spits*
Self-defense, you may say.
We're all living our peaceful lives and one day, you come and start killing off the village?! You think that isn't enough to take revenge?! You do all you want towards us, and when we attack back, you are all "Oh~ Save me~", eh?! You think we'd just sit there and let you kill us off?!
EVERYTHING JUST DESERTS
Now die, Sunako and Muroi.
There will be a happy end only then.


Anyways, 11/10.
I hope the manga does something about this open end.