Summary:
Toru arrives to take Mio home, and Mio chats with her mother about Kaiten and Daisuke. Fujieda-okasan mentions that Kaiten lives vicariously through her, and that just being together is not real love. Mio then calls up Reiji to tell him that she’ll wait for him and that she’ll always be available for booty calls. Thanks to Mio’s clues, Reiji is able to get to Ellen before 3 AM and convince her that he should be the one to stop Cal. Meanwhile, Cal spends the evening getting sloppy drunk and crying to ghosts about how destruction is all she’s good at.
Cal finally arrives at the church/dorm and is surprised (but pleased) that Reiji is the one there to greet her. Tossing away her rifle, Cal lays out the standard terms, and we get a fake dream sequence of a happy Cal and Reiji driving together and wondering what would have happened if Reiji hadn’t ditched Cal after the apartment blew up. Cal probably shoulda laid off the sauce, and with her reaction time slowed, Reiji is able to win the duel and avoid paying Cal her maid wages. Outside, Ellen annihilates Toru’s incompetent forces before they can interfere, and Scythe Master shows up with his Zahlenschwestern.
Reaction:
Between Cal’s drunken ranting and her taunting of Mio last episode, can you imagine if Cal had ended up opening one of those shady repair shops for electronic devices? I could totally see her taunting her customers, “Don’t you feel helpless as I hold your VCR in my hands?!” and then ordering them to pay in cash before the song on the stopwatch finished playing. As much as I rag on Cal, I was moved by her fate, and I felt sorry for her in the end. She really seemed happy to finally be in Reiji’s arms, and from the way she torched her bike it was clear she never planned to leave the church/dorm alive. I still laughed when Reiji stole her rifle, though.
Speaking of stealing automatic weapons, that Ellen is such a cheapskate! She showed up with just a revolver and a knife, and then used the Godoh Groups weapons against them. I guess Ellen was low on cash after spending all her money on Mio’s clothes, and if Cal had lived to see how Mio didn’t even bother wearing that new set of clothes (and used her landline instead of the new cell phone that Ellen gave her), I am sure Cal would have punched Mio in the face. As for Toru, that guy is just as dumb and hot-tempered as Daisuke. I was really glad that Mio’s mom reminded Toru that he was the one who killed Daisuke after Toru’s retarded bluster.
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Kabitzin – who has written 1971 posts on Sea Slugs! Anime Blog.
One of the founders of Sea Slugs, I handle most of the blog admin tasks while wearing my I AM BOSS shirt. I like my action series well choreographed, and my romance series extra trashy. I also have a soft spot for puns.
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Haaah… I still mourn that they didn’t use the much more enjoyable Cal ending template and went for maximum bitterness instead. Then again, they handled Cal’s death fairly well.
Leave it to Reiji to gun Cal down without ever ONCE in the entire anime trying to properly explain to Cal what happened. Heck, even Mio grasped what was eating Cal, and she even clued Reiji in. Buuut, he remains completely clueless in this path. Ah well >_<
On to the final. Oh, and – do NOT tune out when the credits roll.
Epi: Can’t wait for the Gundam 00 movie!
Kabitzin: What movie?!?
Epi: You didn’t wait till the end of the credits did you?
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Cal’s using my favorite gun in counterstrike… or at least it looks like it. The Stery Aug.
I really liked Cal, the voice acting for her was superb. Would have liked her to live, oh well
After seeing so many movies where people never pick up guns from dead people it was a refreshing change to see our assassins making do with whatever.
I thought it looked like a Steyr Aug also, but I didn’t want to say anything in case I was wrong (and I was too lazy to look it up). Plus, she didn’t really use it…
I agree that Miyuki did a fine job with Cal, but I’ve liked Miyuki in pretty much all of her roles.
Ellen reminds me of your typical FPS where you start with only a knife and a pistol (that sometimes has unlimited ammo), but end up with all the ammo and rifles/SMGs you need by looting enemies.
CAL!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!! There goes my dream of seeing the Phantom family!!
Actually besides setting her bike on fire, I felt that Cal was going to get the Bad End after shooting Lizzie who had been, more or less, her biggest supporter and friend in Inferno after Reiji. A bit like how I got the idea that Don Michael had really gone too far when he ordered the killing of Fredo.
Wow.. Reiji really did shoot her… And rejij was meant to be a Genius and a nice guy lol. It really felt more like they just decided to dumb down Reiji’s character and get to this Dramatic end, though the production of the episode (and the show) was just so awesome that its able to hid the flaws. Just like Elen didn’t think she could be Save so did Cal in this episode.. So if Reiji had of Tried to help Cal so she could live it could of worked out, we did see a desperate Cal call out reiji name last ep. and also this episode say she doesn’t want to feel pain anymore.. and with the way she change in the way she talked to reiji after she was shot.. I think its highly possiable that Reiji could of gotten through to Cal.
Great episode But its a shame that Reiji’s character went downhill from the 3rd arc.