Hey peeps ! Before I begin any further, I’m really sorry for the VERY LATE episode review of this series. Yeah, I know the series ended last year, but my PC’s motherboard went ‘KABOOM’ near the end of the series, and took one bloody month to replace it. Yes, I’m not kidding, ONE BLOODY MONTH. I was thinking to not finish reviewing this series, but then again that would be very irresponsible of me so I decided I’m going to finish this. For those who have been waiting for this post, I can’t thank you enough.
Enough with the pointless chatter, let’s get down and review the final 3 episodes of this series !
Episode 10 summary
As from last episode, Suou’s mother claims that she is dead, which truly shocks her. Suou tries to suggest to her mother going to the aquarium to relive the happy memories, but her mother doesn’t know what she’s talking about. This cause Suou to run out of the car along with July, but they forgot about Mao and leaving him behind in the process.
Lost and confuse, Suou wonders around, until she feels asleep with July near a vending machine where Misaki finds them. Misaki then feeds them and brings them to the aquarium, but it turns out it was closed down for the last 13 years. Misaki then decides to take them to Suou’s mother’s apartment.
Mao, who have been hiding notice that he meet with Suou’s mother years ago by identifying her ankles. Who, her mum must have a special ankles that even Mao could remember. Lucky for Mao he meet up back with Suou and July when Misaki decided to visit Suou’s mother.
Well, it turns out that Mao when Mao was working for the Syndicate, he had a mission to go to a Moscow university to look into Suou’s father’s secret research, and to do so he had transferred himself into the body of a cat. Unfortunately for Mao, there was an explosion, destroying Mao’s human body and killing Suou who had been there with her mother and brother. Suou’s mother and Shion survived. When her mother tried to look for her, she found that her husband had Suou’s corpse on the ME. Suou’s father want to make Suou live for all eternity, but Suou’s mother snatch Suou’s corpse and run away. Shion had stayed behind with their father, so Suou’s mother had cremated Suou’s remains and returned to Japan with the ashes. Suou’s mother now believes that the current Suou is an impostor and a copy created by Shion’s special ability. This shocks Suou, who decides to run away again, but not that far where Misaki was able to catch up with her.
As for our Dark Knight Hei, he was busy interrogating Youko and learns of the supposed disaster that will happen if both Izanami and Izanagi meets. He also learns about Izanami killing Contractors and the 18th Research Building. After learning all those from Youke, Hei sedates her and departs. Hei meets up with Madame Oreille outside, who then tells Hei that Suou’s been captured.
Hei then finds Suou with Misaki in front of Suou’s mother’s apartment, and attacks Misaki, thinking that Misaki is the capture. As he was about to deliver the final blow, Suou’s stops him and they leave. Suou stops him from killing Misaki though, and they leave her.
Back in the place where Hei interrogated Youko, Hazuki arrives only to find Youko tortured to death. Believing it to be Hei’s work, she vowed to kill BK-201.
As Hei and gang makes their way to another safe house, and Suou feels lost and confused upon hearing the truth about her existence, so she asks him to call out to her like he did when he didn’t want her to shoot previously. Hei tells her that he only knows Suou as she is. This causes Suou to cry, and she tells him her conflicted feelings about him, including how lonely she was away from him. Later that night, Mao and Hei looks upon the sky to see a orange moon in the sky, and high above the sky is who seems to be Yin, smiling and ready to kick some ass.
Episode 11 summary
In the morning, Hei cooks up breakfast for the gang, with Suou helping him out. After that, Hei decides to leave to settle some business. Before he left, Suou made him promise her that he’ll come back. Mao then explains to Suou that Hei actually wants to find Yin, because he felt responsible for changing Yin into something different that she was before.
Suou and July then decide to go to the aquarium, because she felt she had to do something as well. When they got there, they meet with Dr. Pavlichenko who decides to tell her the truth; about how did Shion’s power brought her back to life. He also explains that the Dr. Pavlichenko back in Russia was a copy.
Before that, Duke Tougou Golgo 13 Kobayashi informs Misaki and Genma about BK-201 and Youko’s death, but then he keeps them on the mission of looking for Shion. As Misaki recites what she read from the Mitaka documents, Kobayashi seems familiar about it. He then reveals that they’re in the final stage of the prophecy, and since they can’t stop the awakening of Izanami, their only option is to take care of Izanagi before he meets Izanami.
Back at Suou, Dr. Pavlichenko explains that the memory that Suou have is actually a false memory, implanted to her by Shion. The real truth is Shion is actually a contractor since birth, and Suou wasn’t with him or their father during the meteor incident two years ago. After that incident, Shion made a copy of himself, but because his copies were always different in some way from the original, this one had been female – Suou. The aquarium memory was a present from Shion. Upon hearing this, Suou decides that she wants Shion. As they were leaving, July receive a message from Madame Oreille 2 twin dolls that Genma and company are coming, so July takes Suou’s hand and run.
Misaki, Genma and their forces arrived at the scene. Genma pursue Suou and gang and finds them trying to escape down a stairwell. Dr. Pavlichenko shots Genma to distract him to escape with the gang to a different direction, but was attacked by energy-spear-wielding Contractor standing on a nearby building. Dr. Pavlichenko gets hit in the leg while protecting Suou, so Suou tries to patch him up with her shirt.
Somewhere else in the plaza, Misaki runs into Madame Oreille, who is dressed up in a…plugsuit. I’m not particular sure why the hell she’s dress up like that. As a Contractor came to take her down, she fires an anti-Contractor shots; similar to what trapped Hei in Russia. Madame Oreille then leads Misaki away from the place.
Meanwhile, Suou and company can’t move proceed further because of her father’s injury, as well with Genma pursuing them. Suou decides to face battle Genma. After a fierce battle, she finally manages to knock him out with a headshot. Then funny part for me is that her shot wasn’t able to kill Genma, and she was quite close to him when she fired the shot.
By the time she returns to her father however, he was nearly dead. In his last moments, he tells her that she will always be his Suou. Despite feeling despair and sad, she had to move on and leave her father behind. Later Genma came to find Dr. Pavlichenko corpse. As he was about to destroy his corpse, John Smith stopped him, saying that Dr. Pavlichenko’s brain still can be used.
Meanwhile, Hei ( FINALLY ! ) has located Izanami inside the Hell’s Gate complex, but only to find the box is empty. Turns out that Hazuki has been waiting for him, and she attacks him. As for July, Mao, and Suou, they are heading towards the Hell’s Gate now via the secret tunnel, and they run into Madame Oreille, her twin Dolls, and Misaki. Madame Oreille recognizes Mao as Ricardo, but Mao isn’t too happy to hear that name since they’re not lovers anymore. They soon realize though that Suou has disappeared, and it turns out that Suou has gone to where Shion is.
Are you ready ? Let’s go for the FINAL ROUND EPISODE !
Episode 12 summary
From last episode, Suou meets up with Shion, only to find him collapsed. Shion explains that is part of his remuneration. He then tell Suou’s to take him outside to see the moon. By the time Misaki and company arrives, they were gone.
Meanwhile, Hei and Hazuki are lock in a very fierce battle, but in the end it’s Hazuki who prevails by tie him up with her grappling gun wire. Since she used much of her powers during the battle, she decides to kiss him as part of remuneration. I wasn’t particularly happy seeing Hei lose, but oh well. Anyway, as she was about to deliver the final blow, Kobayashi stops her, revelaing that it wasn’t Hei who killed Youko, but Genma who has betrayed them for the CIA. It appears that the CIA also have taken over the organization inside and outside Japan. Hearing all this, Hazuki decide to let Kobayashi and Hei go on ahead, while she takes on the CIA troops who are invading Hell’s gate, and of course eventually finding and taking care of Genma.
Kobayashi then brings Hei to Yin, however she’s now an empty doll as her spirit has awakened and has gone to the center of the Gate. Meanwhile, Madam Oreille has brought Misaki and Mao to building, where inside the building contains a super-computer created by Dr. Pavlichenko. In addition, there were rows of bodies that look like Shion. Madam Oreille then explains to Misaki and Mao that the computer has all records of the world, observed by the Doll Network and all memories of mankind gathered by the ME Network, which was all Shion’s plan. Madam Oreille also revealed that the moon isn’t really a moon, its actually another earth created by Shion’s ability.
Meanwhile, Suou is pushing Shion in his wheelchair somewhere inside the Gate. While discussing about Suou’s memories, Shion reveals that he only imagined human-like memories and put them into Suou, and that his dream isn’t a reflection of those memories. As they came across a dead Contractor, Shion explains that he committed suicide because the power of Izanami. As Suou recalls the same incident that happened with Michiru ( the water Contractor in episode 5 – 6 ) , Shion disappears in that instant.
As Suou searches for Shion, she came across one of July’s observer spirits. While she’s following it to him, July meets up with August 7 ( WTH ? I thought he’s dead ), who tells him that their operation is over and he can come home. To August 7 surprise, July refuse to go with him and choose to stay with Suou instead. August 7 decides to let him do what July wants and disappears. Moments later, Suou arrives at July location. After hugging her, July leads to where Shion and Yin is. Suou however finds Shion almost dead.
With his last strength, he tell Suou that that the deal is done, and he wants to see the world that he created. His spirit then goes to Yin, who is floating above them. This angers Suou, as she demands to know what did Yin do with Shion. Yin explains that Suou that she granted Shion’s wish. At this point, July also dies as well. Suou, who doesn’t really understand what is going on, decides to take on Yin, but suddenly Yin raise both of her arms, and the meteor core than Suou’s was carrying broke.
Madame Oreille explains that when they copy a person and implant memories, they can’t establish it for long without the meteor core. Thus Suou and her journey was as an experiment to make sure that Suou’s memories had set. However, since the meory core is destoryed, her memories are leaving her and loses her strength. Realizing what’s happening, Suou tries to resist the loss of memories by aiming her gun at Yin again, however Hei shows up and stops her from shooting.
He tells her that she won’t be needing her gun where she’s going next, and he promises that he’ll always be with her as he holds her.
Hei then lay Suou beside July after she dies. Another Yin, who appears to be white this time, touches Hei’s shoulder and tells him that its still not to late to kill her.
By the time Misaki arrives on the scene, she sees BK-201’s star lighting up in the sky, and a bright light envelops Yin as she’s raped touched by Hei.
In the copied world, Suou lives a normal life with her parents and friends. However, she sense that something is missing and lacking. However, she doesn’t feel lonley, as she feels she knows a certain person very well, and believes that she will meet with him someday.
Back on the real Earth, Kobayashi believes that it’s all over, but Misaki objects by believing that things are just beginning. Madame Oreille picks them both up and they leave the Gate. They then start to operate independently, America and other countries now control Tokyo. They become known as the Syndicate. Misaki notes that she never heard about Hei again, but believes that he’s still alive.
Final Thoughts
Okay, I’m not really sure what can I about the ending, because its the same feeling I got during the first season ending; unsatisfying, like so many things they tried to put it in but it felt rushed. The series started out nicely, then slow, then suddenly near the end it tosses so many things for us. The ending is like Evangelion ending, leading still many questions unanswered. The battle scenes were too short, and they left out Genma and Hazuki’s battle scene ! Although it appears that her kendo stick pierce through Genma’s head, its still unconfirmed whether she still lives or not. Also, I thought August 7 died, so how he was there ? I don’t really get what’s with Shion creating a whole new world purpose is for. So that all Contractors who died can live there ? If its a gift merely for Suou, than I think its ridiculous. How did Yin transform to her current was not explain, which means we’re gonna have to check the OVA. Hei attacking Misaki totally destroy my hope for MisakiXHei, but I guess it was never going to happen to begin with.
By a long shot this series wasn’t bad, but the ending could have make more sense, and they should have spent more time in the plot rather than slowing it down during previous episode. Although its sad that the series is over, overall, I would say I still enjoyed the series, and I recommend anyone to give it a try.
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Oh, welcome back. With a new mobo that is.
Nah actually that is not Hei’s first kiss at all. If you look back in the FIRST episode of the FIRST season, you can already see Hei kissing the FIRST girl shown when he tried to hide her from the cops, by acting like they were making out as a distraction. Plus there’s also Amber.
What surprised me wasn’t Hazuki’s kiss, since it all could be explained cuz of her remuneration, BUT the real mystery is WHY she stopped from delivering the final blow to Hei? If you look carefully, she didn’t stop because Kobayashi stopped her, she stopped and hesitated long before. I mean she was gonna stop Hei in the head but she stopped and looked at him, she didn’t even kill him after Hei told her about Youko and that he didnt give a dam about their plans. Note that this made Hazuki mad, after all she swore to kill Hei, YET she still didnt just stab him right there. She even said that Izanami is waiting for him. What does this all mean I wonder?
I really want a Third Season where Hazuki would become Hei’s partner! They would be unstoppable! That team up would be one sight to see, especially not just the action scenes but the comedy hijinks that will come with it, after all Hazuki’s renumeration is a kiss.
I had to watch this a couple of times before understanding BEWARE!!!!READ ONLY AFTER WATCHING ***SPOILERS*** my theory/ thoughts is that Hei’s powers somehow transferred to Yin and that’s why she evolved so fast and has powers, while Hei lost his powers. At the end we can see that Bk-201 star returning “his getting his powers back” as he pulls something from Yin’s body, killing her.
i was really disappointed with the ending.
but the most disappointing thing is, the show’s really OVER.
darn it.
no more really hot Chinese Batman after this.
This series was great. I agree with your review completely, this ending is very unsatisfying. They really should have explained how Yin became that way and i think the replication of the world is just ridiculous. My thoughts on this is that the first season was so much better, the second season ruined it a little bit…. But overall, definetly worth a watch. Just wish that they decided to show a better conclusion to the story. -.-
I was VERY disappointed with DtB2. They brought in too many new characters. Although, I’d have to say, I liked Hazuki A LOT, what with all her comments to Misaki about saving her virginity for Hei(which he probably isn’t going to take from her anyways, since he has some things to settle with Yin,sorry HeixMisaki fans), not to mention, she’s like a female version of Kanda from D Gray Man, except for his ponytail. Anyways, enough of that. I was pretty damn confused with how they ended season 2; especially with Hei and Yin at the end. In my personal opinion, Hei did not kill Yin. As far as I know, the Mitaka files said that Izanami had to die in order for the prophecy to be screwed over, hence her telling Hei it wasn’t too later to kill her. However, at the end, with all the credits, you see the coffin with the Yin look-alike, which was supposedly what the Mitaka files were talking about would happen if Izanami wasn’t killed, and such would lead to the beginning of a disaster on earth. I have also heard that perhaps that was a copy of Yin that Shion made, and since every time he copies something, it’s different than the original, perhaps the same thing happened with Yin that happened to Suou. The copy he made of Yin had the gender switch, but I am not exactly leaning towards that explanation. Getting to know Hei’s character throughout DtB, I have the feeling that he might have thought of something clever to save Yin at the last moment, since it’s very obvious they did have feelings of love for each other. He wouldn’t have let her go that easily if he could have helped it. In my opinion, maybe he took a piece of the meteor core that Suou had and touched it to Yin? Either way, with all the unanswered, and very confusing questions, I believe this is definitely enough for a season 3, or at least I’m hoping it is. I would like to see more happen between Hei and Yin, and a GOOD explanation of what exactly happened. I would also like to find out what happened with the battle between Hazuki and Genma, as well as what’s happening with Mao and Misaki, since it seems Mao has now taken up a spot by her side since he’s basically been ditched by Hei and Yin. Hopefully we will all hear something soon.
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