Of course, Kazuya’s next target would be Sojiro and catgirl. He easily defeats the two. Back at the chapel garden, Kuu makes a letter, but doesn’t understand why. Kazuya shows up and she discards the letter away as they walk away together. Back at Kyoshiro’s place, Sojiro tells him that he’s going to fight Kazuya and bring back Tarurotte. Kyoshiro is still not ready to commit to fight Kazuya. Inside the chapel, Kazuya explains that once Kuu combines with the other Angels, another explosive event will occur killing everything in sight.

At least now we know what’s going to happen. It’s a matter of whether or not the good guys will win out. I predict that Kyoshiro and Kuu are going to make a connection which acts as the deus ex machina and ends the series on a good note. I’m sure it’ll happen at the end of the next episode.

At the campus, Sojiro consults the help of Jin and his troops. Sojiro agrees to help as long as Sojiro returns to the squad as the squad captain. Back with Kyoshiro, he seems to have decided to go get back Kuu. On the path to the chapel, Himiko drags the weapon Mika gave her. She is saved from falling off the mountain by Sojiro who grabs her in time. While helping Kuu get dressed, Kazuya notices the white horse that Kyoshiro attached to her uniform. Kazuya detaches it and throws it away. Sojiro tells Himiko it’s too dangerous for her to go, but she’s determined to get back Kaon.

It’s just a lot of dialogue going around as all the different factions are in preparation. Kazuya is preparing for his reunion with his Cielo while Kyoshiro, Sojiro, and Himiko zone in for a final confrontation. Just get on with the fighting, I say.

The two open the gate doors. At that time, Jin and company provides him a weapon wrapped in cloth. Kazuya unleashes an army of incomplete Angels, known as Steel Angels, to keep them at bay. Battle ensues as Sojiro reveals his weapon as a large 2×4 and Himiko takes out the instrument. Everyone surrounds Himiko to protect the instrument. Kyoshiro shows up to help fight.

I was hoping Sojiro had a weapon of mass destruction, but it was just a big stick. Somehow, the previous sounded very political.. Anyway, the fighting scenes were pretty mundane here. Lots of still shots and not a lot of action. However, this anime is more of a love story than it is an action story, so whatever.

Back inside the chapel, Setsuna hands Kuu the white horse that Kazuya threw away. After a while, Jin’s forces dwindle down and Jin himself is injured. All that are left are Kyoshiro, Sojiro, and Himiko. Setsuna tries to make a break for it, but is unsuccessful. Kazuya incapacitates her and places her along with the other Angels into his assimilation machine/contraption. Kyoshiro and company enter the chapel, but it may be too late. Kyoshiro calls out to Kuu one last time. This time she turns around.

Setsuna should’ve made a break for it earlier on. Plus, she and the others should’ve rebelled and destroyed that machine that was going to encapsulate them. If they’re going to die anyway, might as well go down fighting. And we also see some signs from Kuu that she notices something in her feelings as she keeps looking back at the white horse. It’s probably going to be the key item that brings her back to her old self.

With the brief intro of this episode, Kuu is shown in the research facility’s test tube with Kazuya telling her to go with him. She reaches out to him and the facility explodes. Back in the present, Kazuya refers to Kuu as Cielo, which shocks Kuu. Setsuna tries to protect Kuu. She identifies the other Absolute Angel as Megingjord. Megingjord goes on a psychological attack on Setsuna by using Kyoshiro’s affection towards Kuu against her. Kazuya tries to bring Setsuna to his side, but she refuses. Setsuna attacks Kazuya, but he takes the hit as if it was nothing.

Finally the story is starting to move. Half of the previous episodes were pretty useless in my opinion. At least now we see Waruteishia in action and obviously Setsuna’s no match for her. Then with the egotistical Kazuya, who’s probably even stronger than Waruteishia, Setsuna’s attack against him is pretty futile.

Kazuya goes on to explain that Kuu filled him with her Absolute Angel mana. Megingjord uses here power on Kuu this time and exlains to her that the two of them make up the complete Megingjord. Kuu is the body while the other, calling herself Waruteishia was the spirit placed in a host body. Waruteishia talks Kuu into combining with her and becoming whole again. The combination manifests out the mech known as Megingjord. Setsuna summons out her mech, but is easily defeated.

Here we find out why Kuu’s personality is so weak. She’s an empty shell with pretty much no soul in her leading to her passive nature. I guess it also explains why she gave in so easily to Waruteishia to merge with her lost spirit. I don’t want to be mean, but what chance did Setsuna stand against the summoned Megingjord?

Kyoshiro gets up by then, but is hammered to the floor by Kazuya. Surprisingly, Kyoshiro lives even after the stone floor is broken by his head. Kazuya reveals to Kyoshiro that he never thought about saving the world. He goes on to explain that he never intended to save Kyoshiro at the lab. He just happened to be in the way and it just so happened he got shoved into an escape pod. After that, he knocks Kyoshiro into the wall and leaves with a memory-erased Kuu. Waruteishia leaves while carrying away Setsuna.

Alright, if I my head was slammed on to a stone ground hard enough to create an impact crater, I’m pretty sure I would be dead on impact. However, this is a fictional, fantasy story and therefore must be accepted as is. Anyway, I found Kazuya’s explanations for the events that happened at the research facility entertaining. The story from Kyoshiro is completely twisted. Kazuya created the havok that occurred and Kyoshiro just happened to be in the right place at the right time to survive the event.

The next day, Mika’s temple is under attack by Kazuya. While trying to persuade Kaon to go away with him, Mika attacks Kazuya with that guitar, though it’s not a guitar, just looks like one to me. Apparently it’s an instrument to seal an Absolute Angel’s mana. Mika describes that she has always seen through his mask revealing that Kazuya went as far as stealing her girl friends away from her. Kaon is summoned to attack Kazuya, but she is unsuccessful. Himiko tries to save Kaon, but Kaon won’t let her. Himiko won’t hear of it and gives Kaon all her energy anyway. Unfortunately, Kaon is still unsuccessful. Kazuya mortally wounds Mika and destroys her temple. Despite hating Himiko, Mika gives her the key to the instrument and tells her to save Kaon. Out in a garden, Kazuya is enjoying the company of his Angels.

Now that all but one of the Angels have been gathered, I can predict that the next target will be cat girl. And after that, the remaining characters will join forces to reclaim their Angels. Seeing as how Kazuya owned two of his siblings, it’s going to be quite the Deus Ex Machina that saves the day. Most likely Kyoshiro pulling out Kuu’s letter to him and some kind of act of love to get Kuu’s memories back and then Kuu, in a fit of rage and passion, will power up and save the day. Maybe.

One day, a thought came to me that it would be entertaining to attempt to make a crossover between Melancholy of.. and Ouran considering the two main characters share the same name. Ironically, both shows aired on TV at the same time, making a very entertaining quarter of a year.

Originally, I only had in mind to just rotate between scenes back and forth between the two without much coherency. But that went out the window as I started. Instead I went with scenes that loosely transitioned from one scene to the next. At first I didn’t think I had enough clips to make this project worthwhile, but some how I ended up with 8 minutes worth of content.

Despite the effort, the first half of the video is somewhat slow, but the entertainment value picks up in the second half. I’m just glad the dialogue and the context of the scenes match up well. If they didn’t, I would’ve given up.

Anyway, a summary of the video would be along these lines:
It starts out with Kyon describing how he meets Haruhi, but there’s no real identification to which one is being referred to. Kyon continues to describe her, with more scene rotations. The rest of the video picks up from there and continues the same.

I had a hard time figuring out how to end the video. I had a lot of content that I wanted to add, but as I neared the 8 minute mark, I knew I had to put an end to this. Anymore would be overkill, plus leaving room for more means room for a sequel..

Kyoshiro shoves a naked Kuu away from him onto her bed and tells her to get out. Setsuna watches Kuu leave the house as Kuu takes a walk in the festivities taking place around the academy. Kyoshiro takes a dip in a pond still trying to figure out what he should do with Kuu. When he returns home, he finds out that Kuu is gone and is mad at Setsuna for letting Kuu leave. Kuu ends up at an old stone castle overlooking the city.

Well I was wrong about Kuu getting covered up by Kyoshiro from my prediction about the end of the previous episode. I guess it would be more dramatic to be thrown aside then to have a shirt/blanket thrown over. Then we have another scene of Kyoshiro treating Setsuna like shit again.

She is mesmerized by the colors as she walks towards them and steps over the edge. Kyoshiro grabs Kuu before she falls to her death. Kuu comes to terms with the fact that she’s not human and is even willing to fuse with Setsuna for the sake of not being a burden. Kyoshiro tells Kuu that it’s fine if she doesn’t do anything. He doesn’t want to involve her in the battle. After all the internal debate Kyoshiro has gone through, he has decided not to destroy Kuu, but protect her intead and then pronounces his love for Kuu.

Despite Kuu being practically useless, she’s at least trying her best to make life better for everyone else around her. She’s either somewhat masochistic or self-pitying. It’s the thought that counts for her I guess. Also, I just find it hard to swallow that Kyoshiro has feelings towards Kuu to the point that he confesses his love for her. There’s just not enough character development to convince me, the viewer, that that’s true.

Over at Mika’s temple, Himiko enters Kaon’s room while Kaon is sleeping. Mika on the other hand is headed deep towards a well-locked room. Himiko explains that Mika plans to have Himiko give Kaon all of her Mana. Himiko doesn’t mind doing the task and only regrets finishing her painting of Kaon. As Himiko is about to leave, Kaon grabs her arm while still asleep. Himiko gives Kaon a kiss and Mika’s symbol on Kaon’s arm returns to the previous symbol. In the secured room, Mika stands before a guitar.

Well, at least these two characters remain true. They’re pretty much the reason why I’m watching this show. Unfortunately, they don’t get enough airtime. What a shame. As for that room protected by a bunch of security doors, it’s a guitar on display. That doesn’t make any sense at all. And was that item offered to Mika a golden guitar pick?? I guess I’ll find out next episode.

Kyoshiro notices a letter in Kuu’s pocket. He knows what the letter is and tells Kuu that he’ll take the letter in its tattered form, but cannot accept it just yet until he breaks off his ties with Setsuna. He admits he has mistreated Setsuna and must settle things with her first. He pinky swears with Kuu that he’ll return to accept the letter. On their way out, Setsuna stands in their way. Setsuna powers up, but is distracted when a large glow radiates from the castle on the hill. Feathers start raining down and then we see Kyoshiro’s brother Kazuya descending from the sky along with the girl with the angel wings. Both Kyoshiro and Kuu have different recognitions for Kazuya. Kyoshiro runs towards Kazuya, but is knocked away into a wall. Then Kazuya tells Kuu to come with him.

I knew this Kazuya guy was going to make an appearance somewhere down the line. And from the look of his egotistic descent towards Kyoshiro and Kuu, it was pretty obvious he wasn’t exactly a good guy. I’m not saying he’s a bad guy either (it’s too early to say that), but he sure has elements that make up a bad guy. It was also pretty obvious that Kyoshiro was going to get striked away by Kazuya. I’ve seen enough anime shows to warrant that.