Summary:

Kuu writes to her prince explaining the strange events that happened in the last episode. Events such as having her first kiss with Kyoshiro, the beauty of Setsuna, the battle of the mechs, and so forth.

At the medical center, Kyoshiro is patched up. Here we find out he has an older brother that he strives to be similar to. Jin comes in and he and Kyoshiro leave for other matters. In the
meantime, Kuu and Setsuna bathe together. Kuu finds out that Setsuna is not human (not a big surprise). Setsuna refers to herself as an Absolute Angel and the kiss she had with Kyoshiro
was just a method to transfer energy to her.

The two suddenly are attacked by one of the two girls that were at the shrine watching the battle in the previous episode. More specifically, the one who I identified earlier as Chikane
(unfortunately, this character goes by the name of Kaon in this series, so I’ll refer to her as Kaon from now on). Setsuna is no match for Kaon and Kuu is quickly abducted away. It turns out Kaon is also an Absolute Angel.

Kuu awakes on a bed where another girl is finishing up on dressing Kuu since Kuu was abducted in her underwear as she finished her bath with Setsuna. This other girl is Himiko (as predicted). Himiko takes her to see Kaon. Kuu is astonished by Kaon’s beauty. Kuu is shown a film where Kaon explains that a group of people in the past wanted to create super humans, which developed eventually to Absolute Angels; humans who cannot be destroyed. The film shows Kaon destroying a bunch of military war machines by just herself or with her mech. Kaon further explains that Absolute Energy is what powers all of the Absolute Angels’ abilities. This energy is known as Eternal Mana which is the life and knowledge found in humans. And the best way to transfer this energy is through kissing.

After explaining that, Kaon suddenly falls to her hands and knees in pain. Kaon tells Himiko that she’ll be fine, but Himiko won’t accept it and therefore holds up Kaon and kisses her. Kuu is surprised by what she sees while another woman atop a temple is mad at the sight of it. Kuu sees the kiss as both the forbidden type and beautiful at the same time. Setsuna suddenly flies in with an attack.

Elsewhere, we see the cat girl from before with the person who retrieved her in the woods. He kisses her to give her some energy back. As she awakens, she is surprised that he’s kissing her and goes on the attack, but quickly passes out as she doesn’t have enough energy to continue.

Back at the shrine Kuu is at, Kaon and Setsuna summon their mechs and begin to battle. Setsuna still appears undermatched, but she takes advantage that Kaon has to protect Himiko from danger and so opens enough space for Kyoshiro to pop in to grab Kuu and the three run off as quickly as they came in.

Over at the temple where the angered woman was, we find out she is Mika who controls Kaon and Himiko. Kaon is ready to take punishment for having lost Kuu, but Mika instead chooses to punish Himiko leaving Kaon in a very frustrated state.

Kyoshiro explains to Kuu that the two different Absolute Angels who she has encountered are two dangerous factions that are a threat to the world and Kyoshiro needs to defeat them. He asks for Kuu’s strength to help him. Kuu agrees, though she’s not sure about how she can contribute.

Review:

In comparison to the first episode, this episode is a little more down to earth. The first one was just an explosion of introductions to all the elements that we’ll see in the later episodes. As for this one, we’re introduced to the two characters who share a striking resemblance to the two main characters in Kannazuki no Miko. Himiko keeps the same name, and the two have their Yuri moment.

While on the kissing theme, I think it’s just an excuse to show a lot of kissing between characters and raise sexual appeal to the show. Not that I have anything against it though. Not only is there a lot of that going about, the whole bathroom scene was crazy enough. Setsuna battling with Kaon in her underwear is classic, though shortlived. I guess in the manga, she was probably naked.

Though I was hoping for a little more fighting between the characters, I was disappointed that the fights were barely there. However, this anime isn’t exactly about that, from what I’ve seen so far and from what I know about Kannazuki no Miko. The most likely path this series will take is for Kuu to end up with Kyoshiro while the other characters constantly attack Kuu. Setsuna might betray Kyoshiro, while Kaon and Himiko will betray Mika. Setsuna already looks quite evil with the way she squints her eyes when it comes to Kuu and Kyoshiro.

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?