Summary:

The show starts off with a distant memory of a little girl and a young man with long red hair telling the little “Let’s go, together.” Back to the present, a teenage girl by the name of Kuu is apparently that younger girl in the memory. While on the train to school, her friend strikes up a conversation about a last dance at the university festival taking place the next day. She also mentions a tradition of girls giving a card to a boy they have feelings/fancy for.

At the school, Kuu, who happens to be the narrator, briefly mentions that it’s been ten years since the “destruction” that involved seven days of “hot snow”. (Well, that’s what the fansub says /shrug) Sure, why not? After the brief introduction about her own feelings, we roll the credits. Lots of characters are shown, along with some mecha and a few appearances of Chikane from Kannazuki no Miko, which is what this anime makes references to.

In the hallway, Kuu’s friend Kozue talks about missing students and the Shield of Order whose job is to clear all of this up, with one of the divisions known as The Sevens led by Jin Oogami. While in class, the Shield of Order enters with none other than Jin leading the pack, introducing a transfer student to the room. This transfer student, introduced as Kyoshiro Ayanokoji. Kuu immediately identifies him as the person in her memories from the beginning. The two lock eyes and we’re returned to the setting at the start of the episode.

During lunch, the girls including Kuu flock to watch/listen to Kyoshiro play the violin. When he notices Kuu is there, he stops playing. He approaches her, puts his hands on her shoulders, and then pulls her school uniform apart exposing her chest. At that point, Kyoshiro notices a faint glow coming from her chest. Kuu, embarrassed, pulls away and starts to run for cover. Kyoshiro gives a small smile as if he found something and says to her “Let’s go, together” in the same voice heard at the beginning. Kuu recognizes the voice, but keeps running.

On one of the rooftops of the school, Kuu fixes her uniform, and questions to herself what’s going on. She hears a bell jingle above her. Looking above, there sits a blonde haired girl in a heavy cloak and she suddenly disappears with the wind. Further away, there is an explosion and the same blonde haired girl appears fatigued and injured, claiming to have lost her target.

Walking around campus, Kuu notices Kyoshiro in an old school building and goes to see him. There she finds him kissing the blonde haired girl, now identified as Setsuna. Kuu runs away in tears, not understanding really why she’s crying. While gathering her thoughts and feelings on a flight of stairs, she see her friend Kozue, who apparently has had her energy drained away by some cat-like girl. Kuu runs away, but this cat girl summons an attack and stops Kuu. She approaches Kuu to drain more energy, but backs off after she notices something about Kuu and demands to know who Kuu is. Setsuna, at that moment, busts through the window and flash kicks the cat girl in the face.

From there, a battle ensues between Setsuna and cat girl. Each person summons parts of a mech (arms and legs) and occasionally, the whole thing, to attack for them. Kyoshiro appears on a horse and pulls Kuu out of danger. While the battle continues, the scene changes to a couple standing on a shrine far away. They happen to be Chikane and Himeko. (It’s a lot easier to identify them now, then to consider them as mysterious figures) Back to the fight, the glow that came from Kuu reappears which somehow gives Setsuna the upper hand for a brief moment while Kuu loses consciousness. Kyoshiro and Setsuna combine powers to attack cat girl and defeats her. From another far off point, another girl watches the fight.

As Kuu regains consciousness, she appears disappointed as she sees Kyoshiro and Setsuna on their white horse looking like a perfect couple. Kyoshiro gives her the biggest surprise by holding her up and planting a kiss on her. And afterward, he requests to her again, “Let’s go. Together.”

Review:

All I know about this anime is that it is 12 episodes long and has references to three different anime shows. One of them being Kannazuki no Miko, which is one I’ve seen. Which is also why I keep referring to it. I apologize if it was annoying. Besides that, I have no idea what’s going on. So here I am to provide an unbiased review.

To start off, the animation quality is pretty top notch as the characters are drawn quite well. A slightly older style with the larger eyes as compared to some of the more recent anime shows out there, but I have nothing against it. I happen to like that style.

As for the story, I have a feeling this is going to become a series that squeezes in a whole lot of content, but lacks adequate series length to wrap it all up together; leaving more questions than answers. But we’ll see.

And as for this particular episode, there was a lot of characters introduced. Just thinking about it, I think there were about some nine main characters that had an appearance in the episode. It’s expected, really. The episode came out alright. Some fan service, some romanticism involved, some mysterious people missing, some far off distant memory, explosions, action, and even a cat fight. Well, sorta. It’s too early to tell. I’m going to stick with this one until either I start getting too lazy to download the episodes, or it has made a turn for the worse. If the ending sucks, it would be too late. I would’ve finished the series. Let’s see what happens in 3 months shall we?