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| Tohka awakening with her soul intact whereas everyone has their Sephirahs stolen, of which their memories are part of it, which contradicts the entire reason why she is still clearly alive. Her Inverted self clearing things up for the real one, and at least Tohka has a reason to continue to fight back. Mio wanting to redo her life with Shido (as Shin), even by taking his memories apart, and thankfully Tohka came to the rescue before it could be done, because she doesn't have a name, unlike Kotori and the other Spirits who already had theirs, including Mio for the fact. Still, to defeat the Spirit of Origin is a huge task for the first Pure Spirit, and being able to have a portion of everyone's power is a huge power boost together with Halhanhelv, especially against the Mother. But within a split second, Mio trapping Tohka within Ein, the Angel of Nothingness, she's close to defeating Mio, but too far when it comes to skill and intellect, leaving Shido to fend for himself. Of course, Kurumi came in at just the right time with her 11th bullet Yod Aleph to send one of her clones to the future, as long as the Spirit Power resides within the bullet is enough to mimic the original...and even that wasn't enough. If anything, both Tohka and Kurumi gave enough morale and power for Shido to finally use Zaphkiel to send himself back to the past and rewrite history. Excellent episode, it's time to rewrite history with a date with Mio/Reine. |
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| Bang Bang Bang! Pull my devil trigger... Embrace the darkness that's withiiin meeeee, no hiding in the shadows any-more, when this wickedness consumes me, nothing can save you and there's no way ouuuuut!!!! "Guitar solo" Anyway this episode was peak date a live. 10/10, I could not be happier about my guilty pleasure becoming a show that I can genuinely call great over s4 and s5. |
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| Wow, that was definitely one of the best episode, so many revelations and turns out Tohka is a pure spirit and wasn't human like the others before, and the situation was absolutely desperate but Kurumi managed to send a clone in the future before dying, it just gave Shido the idea to go back in time before it happens and seems like he'll try to seal Mio using the good old date way? |
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| The deaths continue to be sad, it's too much of a tragedy. And of all the ones to not get obliterated by getting donuted, it had to be Tohka. I'm sad that I don't get to hear more Kurumi speaking to herself, but tis the fate of humans with the power. F Mio. Don't even dare talk about undoing everything from the beginning with your murdering spree. I don't even love Tohka like that like that, but at least she's knocking some sense into Shido. She even gets to deal some damage to Mio. Props to getting a slash in there I guess, along with the fancy transformation. Mio'a power is BS. F Mio. All hope was lost, I was in the pits of despair from Kurumi deprivation, and now she comes in to save the day. Thank you Kurumi, for bringing a ray of hope to this otherwise impossible situation. Why do you do this to me, anime.. you tease me and then you play the no u take back card. Bring home the W Shido. Please. |
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Tohka and Kurumi really carried this episode getting Shido to realize that the fight was not over and to not just give in to Mio to become Shin. We see the reappearance of Tenka, Tohka's alter personality as the push Tohka needed to come back as her own spirit (she's the only non-Mio spirit that was born a spirit).  Tenka and Tohka Mod Edit: Removed Spam |
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| Tenka making her reappearance for the first time since season 4, but this time it is because Tohka is in dire straits and needs her other half to push her to fight back against Mio. Tohka's efforts push Mio harder than any of the other spirits and her reward is getting erased by Mio's Ein... |
| Kurumi's 11th bullet, Yod Aleph, allows her to send herself (a clone) an hour into the future, so that Shido can finally use Zafkiel's Vav to go back in time to save all the spirits. It's a huge relief for him to see Tohka once again after losing her in the alternative timeline. |
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I actually praise them for dedicating an entire episode to the events that transpired here. A lot of old OSTs have been used from beginning to end, and there's the new Tohka Ratelibish theme that just dropped.
Have good luck guessing what are the actual ages of the spirits with wiped memories.
It's almost impossible for Shido to hate Mio, so he needed lots of emotional drive. Rational emotional drive, not just trauma and despair. I remember once Tachibana remarking DAL to be a story of Mio - but things never really goes as she wishes for, which is amusing. Especially because she's "Deus".
This was my favorite moment of Kurumi in the series, as she actually ditched "I'll do it on my own" for "I'll make a proper sacrifice to help beat an enemy that's leagues above me".
Also yeah, my favorite b/w novel illustration.
Onto the next volume!
Have good luck guessing what are the actual ages of the spirits with wiped memories.
It's almost impossible for Shido to hate Mio, so he needed lots of emotional drive. Rational emotional drive, not just trauma and despair. I remember once Tachibana remarking DAL to be a story of Mio - but things never really goes as she wishes for, which is amusing. Especially because she's "Deus".
This was my favorite moment of Kurumi in the series, as she actually ditched "I'll do it on my own" for "I'll make a proper sacrifice to help beat an enemy that's leagues above me".
Also yeah, my favorite b/w novel illustration.
Onto the next volume!
| @Laplace_kun Tsunako's LN illustration of Shido using Vav definitely a better shot than what we had in the anime. Especially from the uniform's messiness you can tell he's been through a lot. Meanwhile the anime frame does not hit as hard, albeit the voice actor doing his best.  |
| Ugh, of course he has to restort to time travel... cool that all those last few episodes never happened lol |
| Tenka coming back to save the day, as Tohka is able to stall for Kurumi who then stalls for Shido to finally use Zafkiel! |
| Bruh it was a snooze fest this ep I predicted that Shido was gonna go back in time bc thats the only option he rlly had left And also WAHT WUS TOHKA GONNA DO AFTER SHE CAME BACK TO LIFE? DEFEAT MIO OR SOMETHING? I literally had 0% hope for her |
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| when i saw tohka came back i just immediatly skipped her fight scene, no way she was going to win. Boring ep |
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| I almost forgot the main strategy: date them. What a nice twist. Time to conquer Mio. |
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
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