[Eleutheria]

Alright, episode seen.

As one who hasn't read sound novels past Watanagashi-hen (starting Tatari now), this was actually pretty good.

Spoiler:

1) Even with all the major characters alive at the end, they still couldn't break the pattern, and the whole damn thing is reset again. I disagree that it was vague, since it was pretty obvious to me that the final epilogue scene was yet another permutation of the "eternal June".

2) The fight was meh. Didn't Studio DEEN animate Fate/Stay Night? However, I haven't heard any of the hype about it ("Heaven and Hell"?), so I didn't really look forward to it. Where were the police sharpshooters? [EDIT: I see, ayyo mentions this in his blog post. Dang, I really can't push Ryukishi-san into a plot hole]
Anyway, I liked the rooftop banter a lot. It sounded like a frickin' meido-con marriage proposal--if they both survived.

3) Who let poor injured Rika/Oyashiro go off into the night alone to be watanagashi'ed again? She's in the middle of her NAKAMA, for chrissakes.

4) Rena's repentance scene was very nice. Almost cried. Then I remembered I had to do laundry. I agree with one of the above posters that the bomb disarming scene was cliche, although it could've been worse. If any of you saw the movie Goldfinger, Bond stops the bomb right at 0:07.

5) I went ahead and splurged, ordering Matsuribayashi-hen from an online vendor. As such I will be ignoring the inevitable Minagoroshi/Matsuribayashi thread (the M&M thread) that will appear in this forum.

6) Dammit, it was a nice ending, but still the culprit is out there somewhere. Unforgivable. Cicadas are crying.