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Originally Posted by Kazu-kun

EDIT: I just learned the last episode of the anime will cover the climax of volume 5, which unfortunately means volume 6 of the novel won't be animated. We're going to miss out on the real ending of the story, including the final battle. This sucks.

Where have you read this? Anyway, if it's true then I think there will be an OVA.

Originally Posted by ChainLegacy

By the way, what's up with Izumiko dropping this big hint to Mayura that she's an 'enemy of mankind'... and then no further elaboration?

Editor's scissors? At this point it's clear that there are huge amounts of material cut especially where the Soudas are concerned... (There's no way there isn't any conclusion to the whole Togakushi incident, also there's no way the scenes with Mayura & Miyuki in episode 11 weren't at least twice as long in the book, etc.).

Originally Posted by Johnny

Don't really care about the romance between Izumiko and Sagara since it's been done half-heartedly. All I want to see is Sagara get one over on his bastard of a father just once...

Yeah, same here. I've looked around and the Miyuki x Izumiko pairing seems to have many fans so it's probably done better in the book, but in the show their relationship is part really cliché, and part really choppy... to me they still don't have any real chemistry, they're just destined to fall in love because the plot says so.

Anyway, ep 11...

Spoiler for ep 11:

So the gloves are off on all sides, I guess. I didn't think Takayanagi would try to do something directly to Izumiko. For all the good it did for him. At least we've got some light on Takayanagi's goals and motivations, which are nothing surprising (him being an onmyouji and all), but make sense. I kind of expected Izumiko snapping out from under the spell by remembering Miyuki, I guess if their relationship had been done better the scene would've been stronger, too... anyway, Izumiko going all "himegami" (as her own self) on Takayanagi was pretty cool.

Again, the most interesting part for me concerned the Souda triplets, who really, really need their own show. So basically, Mayura wants Miyuki to play the role of her future husband, so her family would finally get off her back and she wouldn't have to separate from Manatsu. But her equating her position with that of Miyuki's wrt Izumiko... what with the whole "as she's the most important to you, he's the most important to me" and "I can't ever marry", it comes across as there being more to the issue than simply "I can't be separated from him because he may die anytime, also the whole Masumi thing." Then again, the triplets' relationship is so involved (to the degree of being a bit unhealthy) and further complicated by Masumi being what he is, that I think there's a little bit of everything here.

I really wonder what Manatsu and Masumi think. Especially with Masumi mentioning a "crack" in their relationship in the previous episode.