Takashiro arrives on the battlefield as Luka and his brother start their fight. Reiga and Takashiro take to the air and start too. All the while, Yuki wonders what he can do, and not before long his true power is unleashed, God’s Light. All Duras retreat immediately, but Tweedledee is too slow and the light incinerates him.
Luka steps forward and reaches out for Yuki even though the light was still going. Luka survives the light due to the contract between him and Yuki. Their hands touch and sends out another ray of light.
Days later, Yuki lies in bed again. Luka goes to see him and Yuki tells him that he wants to end this, even if he has to face Reiga.
A time lapse later and all is calm. No one’s sure of the next fight, but Takashiro tells them to do whatever they want until then. Everything’s back to normal and we get a few funny scenes with all the characters.
Whilst Luka and Yuki are alone. Luka once again vows to protect Yuki with his life.
And there you have it, the end. Well not really, hardly an ending at all. I was very disappointed with his episode. For one thing, again I didn’t know it was the last episode, I wonder why I keep getting misinformed, but yeah, so I was thinking there were lots more fighting left, but then when I did realise it was the last episode I was very annoyed that there barely was anything. Luka vs Luze lasted two second, Reiga vs Takshiro was just two balls of light flying around in the air and the rest didn’t even get to their fighting. Tweedledee just got incinerated. Maybe I was expecting too much fighting from this series, even still, it was a very boring ending. Nothing was resolved, nothing finished. No big war in the end, no big fights, no dead/changed Reiga, no revenge against Cadenza, even after one thousand years nothing ended, etc. What did end? The series, that’s what. And not to mention no Yuki and Luka history given.
Alright maybe I’m being a bit too harsh, the series had an interesting enough story that got me wanting to watch more. They kept giving more and more mysteries and saying things that’d make you want to watch. That may be why I’m so annoyed, the series set everything up so nicely, and then failed to deliver. Now I’m not sure whether it’s because the manga isn’t past this point yet or the producers just didn’t bother to follow the manga’s plot, but they seriously left it on such a bland ending. I’m expecting a second season because of such a big cliff-hanger they left and I probably won’t blog that if it’s anything like this season.
It may be that they decided to air an anime prematurely without considering where the manga was up. That’s one logical explanation I can think of.
Another thing that irked me about this series was Sodom. You know what I mean, especially when he was being persuaded with sweets this episode. He’s a huge dragon, not a kid.
This series has been one that I wasn’t going to blog at first, but was convinced by a friend. And whilst I’ve had many problems with it, I have to say it was better than first expected.
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January 30, 2011 at 3:59 pm
mokomoko
Hello, I like your posts very much,
I think that the strange ending of this anime is due to the fact that the manga in still ongoing. Recently I watched some “not really ending” anime made out of ongoing manga and I found best endings but…this is not the worst. I’d also liked more developed fights, i.e. the “Fight” between Reiga and Takashiro e that between Luka and Luze ( a interesting character that apperars almost at the last episode, we don’t know anything of him except that he is the younger brother of Luka…). Except this ending I like very much this anime, both the history and the design. The only character that I can’t really bear is just Yuki, too much sweet, he make more troubles of those he manage to solve and sometime he acts in a very hasty way. This is my opinion of course 🙂
Until the last fight I never thought that Sodom, who have cat ears in his “humanoid” form, and the Salamander-Dragon were the same one…Was it so obvious?
I apologize for errors
January 30, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Lucretia
First of all, thanks for you kind words, a writer likes nothing better than appreciation for their hard efforts after all ^^.
Yeah, I realised it’s an ongoing manga so it can’t be a true ending, but still, there was so much that was left hanging. It probably would’ve been better if they left Luka’s brother out instead of suddenly spawning a new character on us. I’ll agree the character designs were very nice, but, about the history, well I was hoping to hear history of Yuki and Luka and got nothing except disjointed flashbacks that make no sense… I’ll be honest, I didn’t think of it as an ending, it’s probably left this way to entice people to read the manga maybe, I won’t be doing that, I haven’t got the time, but still, might’ve been interesting.
And no it wasn’t obvious that Sodom was the dragon, although they did imply it heavily. And I hated that, a little cat boy is a dragon? I will not have it, it’s not right…
January 31, 2011 at 6:24 pm
mokomoko
Thank you for your answer,
Yes maybe introducing a potential interesting character like Luze just at the very end of the serie, wasn’t the best thing to do, maybe there will be a new season?
I’m reading the manga but here in Italy we are just at the first volume ( chapter 1-5) and every new volume will come out every two months so I don’t know when I will be able to rejoing the events of the serie… I saw also that the manga is at chapter 15 (tokombon/volume 3 or so) in english translation.
By the way, there are many things hard to comprehend: why, a this stage, don’t simply tell Yuki that in a former life he was a female and the girlfriend of Luka? what about the duras(demon) inside Takashiro? is it a “simple” or a more powerfull opast?, how he puts it inside himself and why it causes all that pain? what about the two magic books? And the beasts they can summon? What about the “duras society”?.
Yes there are more quests then answers. The serie is very fresh ( this automn ) so I think that many answer are far to come ( in other words they already aren’ t neither in the manga). Apart of this, I liked it and I hope in a new serie with a lot of answers, Yuki doing more then get desperate to be able to use his energy,. (by the way: why Luka wasn’t purifyed to death by the Yuki’s energy burst??) Some interesting fight between the new and main characters.
Sure is quite hard to believe that the sweet, childish “cat eared” Sodom is the giant black beast who was able to defeat Reiga Vueivre with just a bite…. 🙂
February 2, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Lucretia
If the manga is so fresh without much answered then that begs the question why did they make an anime straight away. They could’ve waited for a more complete anime, I really don’t like it when they make the anime prematurely leaves me frustrated most of the time.
Ah well, maybe a new season will come out, if so then I’ll be more satisfied, as long as it gives some answers.
I still don’t want to believe that Sodom is the dragon… goes against how I see dragons…
February 2, 2011 at 6:49 pm
mokomoko
I totally agree with you about the fact to make out a so well promising, well designed anime from a still ongoing manga ( and at a so early stage of the development of the plot , as it’s seems) is very frustrating. Something like, or possibly worst happened with “Inuyasha ” : watching six non-ending seasons was very frustrating… and “The End” , at the end, was not so good at all..
According with wikipedia, Uragiri is a its 7th volume ( japanese edition, the 3 volumes I mentioned before were the english scan translation) and there isn’t any clue about how much volumes it will be..so I think I have to wait a non-specified amout of time to have the answers of a lot of questions this anime arouse…and this fact really bother me. I’ve barely grasped that there would be interesting things and development way so I really hope for a new season ^_^
I’ve just started to read “Bleach” that, I see, is commented on this blog and I’ m scared for the great amount of volume/anime episodes..and no clue of an end… It’seems… 🙂
Maybe we ‘ll discover that Sodom is not exactly Salamander but…..He started as little fluffly thing with bat wings, turned in a cat eared childish boy and after in a black wolfish beast and at the end in a giant black dragon…to much trasformations there wolud be something I’don’t get… è_é
February 4, 2011 at 9:25 pm
Lucretia
Well, I probably won’t be reading Uragiri, I’ve got enough on my plate at the moment so I’ll leave it. But when it finishes I think I’ll read up on it and find my answers, though who knows how long that’ll be. Don’t worry too much about Sodom, apparently he isn’t even that important in the manga, they made him more prominent in the anime it seems. I dunno, this is just what I heard.
So you’ve started reading Bleach? There is a lot… but I think it’s interetsing, though I love sword fighting so my view is biased haha, but it’s definitely worth a look at seeing as it is one of the three main shounen out there at the moment.