Its the end of the world as we know, and I feel fine:
Our characters finally come face to face with Yagyu himself!
A tragic battle where an actual named character dies! Maybe.
The return of the Drag Queens and Secondary Characters!
The fruitation of the Medical Examiner's Plot!
Shocking plot twists!
Etc!
This episode is about "Truth"
Lots of revelations here. Lots and lots.
This episode is pretty bloody. Collectively, I think its worse than the rest of the series combined. The Zombies in the first episode didn't count, really.
Hiyuu is no longer EH!Hiyuu.
Basically, the gist of the episode is that Hiyuu is pushing Ryuuji around to show him all sorts of things about being human and having friends and all that. Kyouichi is tagging along. Among their stops are the Drag Queen House, the Clinic, the Medical Examiner's Office, the Ramen House (which has been renamed Tatsuma <3 Crea; Marie wants to make sure that Hiyuu is enjoying his strawberry ramen. Yuck, that sounds about as bad as the Red Lantern's Banana Ramen), and so forth and so on. Aoi, Komaki and Daigo are all kinda pissy that Hiyuu's being so nice to Ryuuji.
Our other storyline is about the Medical Examiner, his brother, and The Detective. The Detective and The Brother were partners a long time ago. They were chasing a suspect with The Brother is attacked. The Brother was bitten on the neck and screams that it was a monster. He manages to survive, but was taken to the hospital where he bit a nurse and transformed into a strangely plant-like monster in front of the Medical Examiner, who was but a child then. The Detective and the !ChildMedicalExaminer escape to the roof of the hospital, but are pursued by the ever growing army of vampires. The Detective puts his gun to !ChildMedicalExaminer's head, to save him from such a fate, but the sun comes up and destroys all the vampires. Except for the foot of The Brother.
So, that's why the Medical Examiner had the Foot he called "Brother" in previous episodes.
Basically, the Medical Examiner and The Detective have been plotting their revenge, hunting down the vampire that bit The Brother. They even made a special gun with special bullets.
So who is this vampire? Maria Alucard, of course! One night at Magami, Maria is walking through the hall when The Detective starts talking to her. She turns into Vampire mode, which looks really lame (her eyes turn red and she gets veiny things on her face). He's about to shoot her when BAM her arm is blown off by the Medical Examiner. V!Maria flies at the ME to attack him, but misses and jumps out the window and into the courtyard.
Outside, they take several shots at her, blowing off her leg, putting several holes in her torso, and so forth. This segment would have been more fun if it weren't so pathetic on her part. Like, if we had seen her actually do something really dangerous, or turn into a monster or something. Instead, we see a woman running away and getting blown to pieces.
Marie collapses, and the Hunters close in. Just as the ME is about to take the final shot, a mysterious image flies in and knocks him over, destroying the gun. WHO COULD THIS MYSTERIOUS PERSON BE? We see a be-shadowed Inugami holding blown!Maria. Inugami's eyes are red. The ME is determined to kill Maria and Inugami, but Inugami is like, so much stronger than him, so he goes in for the kill. Inugami's magical claw of weirdly multiplying claws goes straight through the ME's body, coming out his back. Then we see blood splatter all over the ME's face. HEY WAIT A MINUTE BLOOD PHYSICS DON'T WORK THAT WAY! The Detective had jumped in front of him at the last second, taking the possibly fatal blow instead.
Because the elderly detective is somehow quicker than Inugami. Right.
Iwayama and Maiko are watching things from the top of a building. Characters do that a lot in this show, don't they? Because of this, it is unknown whether or not the Detective and Maria are actually going to die, or if Maiko is just going to heal the mind of the ME.
Hiyuu is bringing Ryuuji something out in the country. This... this seems like the place that Sayo lived, right? I can't remember. Anyway, Hiyuu gives Ryuuji some Strawberry Juice. Ryuuji gets pissed, and Hiyuu is happy that Ryuuji can have such emotions. By the way, the sky is filled with comets. SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS MUST BE ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
The Yellow Dragon symbol flashes, then the comets start spinning around in the sky, like a wheel. Everyone starts grabbing their heads in pain. Everyone's lines go off, including, surprisingly, Ryuuji's, Alan's, Marie's and the Ramen Guy's. We haven't seen any of their lines before, so this is new. Sera's also goes off, and it seems that only those with power are effected because the guys around Sera seem puzzled.
The eyes of the statues at Magami start glowing red.
Hiyuu announces his coming: Yagyuu... Munetake! Yagyuu is floating in the air in front of Hiyuu and Ryuuji.
What else? Oh yeah, Kisaragi isn't dead. But you knew that.