We ended last episode with Ichika being comatose from trying to block bullets with his face. The girls decide to band together, steal their own IS, and engage Gospel against orders from their teachers.
As we all know, being in a coma in an anime is like sitting around in a picturesque lake where you have time to think about all your friends. For contrast with American comas, watch Monkeybone (I do not condone or recommend watching Monkeybone.)
After wasting a good chunk of their final episode doing nothing, a strange lady, who looks like the White Knight IS that saved Japan years ago, shows up in Ichika's coma and asks if he desires power.
("If this lesson is about laying off the insanity-peppers, I'm way ahead of you")
Ichika says he wants power, and she asks him what for. He tells her he wants power to protect anyone who needs to be protected. Then the scene cuts back to the girls fighting Gospel. Of course, since we all know that the top IS pilots in the world are useless without Ichika around (Perhaps distracted by female trouble?) they get their asses thoroughly kicked. To solidify their failure, Gospel goes... Berserker? More berserk than before?
It grows wings made of light, and the ability to only be seen in silhouette or shaky-camera, like Bigfoot. As the team sits back and watches in despair, preparing for the end, Ichika returns! And his IS got better, or something. Somehow being in a coma unlocked its hidden potential, and made it look cooler. Well, I assume it looks cooler. The production value on this episode is so cheap that the only shot we get of his new and improved IS is this:
Mecha series make most of their money on selling merchandise of their mechs. But, this is a harem show first, so they're probably planning on going the Neon Genesis Evangelion path and just making figurines of their female characters in progressively more humiliating or revealing clothing each year.
Empowered by Ichika's show of Balls (Figuratively) and Competence (Comparatively), Houki's IS also unlocked a hidden power. She can now recharge the shields of friendly IS. How the hell does that work? There is only so much power in a machine! You can't just hold hands and magically create power to give to another airplane, or submarine. Did her IS suddenly develop a nuclear reactor or something? Augh. The point is that now Houki has a role befitting a female cast member in anime: the healer.
With their new found strength, they repeat the fight footage that they showed us in the beginning of episode one that they had used to lure us into this show. Then it's over. Gospel is destroyed.
("Well, that was anti-climactic.")
They all fly back to the building they were vacationing at for a well deserved rest. Chifuyu is supposed to yell at them for stealing military property to preform an unauthorized seek and destroy mission, but instead gives them the Japanese language equivalent of "That'll do, pig," and dismisses them.
("Having to look at my assistant's horrifically misshapen boob is punishment enough")
We then cut to the harbinger of darkness overlooking the world and plotting her evil once more. Or humming cheerfully. Chifuyu confronts her and poses a hypothetical way that explains why Ichika can pilot an IS. Tabane says that, despite her genius, even she does not understand it. Chifuyu then asks another hypothetical question along the lines of "What if some genius inventor made an amazing new machine, and wanted to show it to the world, so she hacked into the military computers to make a crisis to make a stage to unveil it." Tabane laughs and says "That would take a genius, indeed." They share a moment that seems to confirm it. Now, that hypothetical fits both this Gospel incident, and the missile attack from before. I'm just saying, man, she is probably Satan. And, I totally called that she was behind it in my previous review! Score!
All this wraps up, and Ichika is sitting on the beach, feeling great about himself. Houki comes up from behind, wearing the worlds tiniest swimsuit. They share some feelings about hope, the future, and love. It's boring. But at least by the end of it they both get what they have wanted since episode one: Ichika's hand on Houki's boob.
Fin
IN CONCLUSION!
This was not a very good show. It was not the worst show I've sat through, not by a long shot. But it is bad, even by harem standards. I just sat here wondering "Why am I not watching Ranma½?" Sometime, I should make a long post on how, scientifically, Ranma½ was the best anime harem series to this day. It will be great. I will line up two or three other harem series to compare to it, analyzing their similar characters and relationships. I'll have charts and everything.
Well, it was fun doing this blog. Hopefully I'll find another terrible show this season to rant about.
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