Merry Christmas!
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So, this is it, the end of the trek that started six months ago.
While I sincerely believed that this last episode needed more substance to build the tension on Yuuya forcing himself to stop the Scarlet Twins, nevertheless, the animation staff nailed it right with the pacing for neither rushing the content nor dragging the aftermath at the conclusion before the epilogue rolled in.
It's pathetic the way that maniac Christopher kicked the bucket, but the man addressed as the leader was right that the former guy became too greedy, thinking he got the control over the Scarlet Twins by releasing the hypnotic effect on them; Christopher, nonetheless, reaped what he sowed after voraciously looking for power and paid the price with his own demise.
Now, as for the other characters, to me it was a full circle achievement witnessing how much Yuuya grew up from when I first saw him in episode three; a late-teenager conflicted between his two heritages. Up to this last episode having matured into a full man honoring the legacy of lost comrades by being responsibles about his choices and looking on ahead for the path to bring all of his comrades together with him.
Yui follows close for a tie-in with Yuuya, since she as well matured into a woman opened around her feelings in order to become more attached to Yuuya and all of the staff from Argos1.
You know, the moment that Yuuya and Yui exchanged salutes from within a distances without each other confessing their feelings not only made me a bit sad but also left me with a feeling of vacancy, because my gut feeling tells me we won't be ever seeing more of those two of them again due that this is it for Total Eclipse anime in the franchise, though the novels are still on-going.
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