Episode 12 Final - HS







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I was afraid it would end like this just for the sake of the main characters, and not in a way that would make more sense. While it was a good call in my opinion to make the main antagonist a Gorgon witch to make the high power more plausible and also make her feel less like out of nowhere, it also means far too cheap to have her defeated by these NOT amateurs. Considering how much trouble witches, let alone Gorgon ones, were in the original story, with the super genius Stein and Shinigami's own scythe barely able to seemingly defeat Medusa, this feels like nothing but stupid. Since it was clear and established from the beginning these girls belong to the NOT class, I don't see a single reason why the story had to insist on making them alone defeat the witch. It would have been far better to have some experienced fighters there (plenty of them around in Death City) and perhaps have the girls perform a distraction at a crucial moment in the fight, creating an opening.

Since half the reason I watched this show were the cameos by the original characters, it's a pity they got nothing cool to do in this last battle. As far as I can judge, Maka and Black Star never moved anywhere, for example, and didn't really get anything done either. Why where they even shown at all?

This show didn't turn out too remarkable. It had some jolly good comedy, mainly by Stein, but that's it.