Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324161612/@comment-25096087-20150326171752

Sturmritter wrote: The end part where Kisaragi's bow floats seemed to confuse a lot of people. I took it as a sign that she hadn't completely sunk, or perhaps she will be the lead in for the subs to enter 2nd season, as they conduct a recovery and repair operation with Akashi (I hope!!)

Some thought her bow was coming from the sunken Wo-carrier, but I think it just happened to be in the same area as where she was lost before, and the fact that fate had changed perhaps brought hope to her that she could be recovered. If you link the whole anime to find why Kisaragi's hair ornament float, I can give you something: Everyone knows that Kisaragi is sunk by a damaged abyssal bomber, and that bomber happens to belongs to the Wo kai who is hiding(you see her ambush in ep7) because the abyssals already code breaking their operation. On ep7 itself that Wo finally got taiha by Fubuki and got stronger as per abyssal rule(look similar to the damaged bomber). She is totally the main antagonist in the series, Wo that survive, that raid the base, that lead the ambush fleet, that stand in front of Fubuki. In this episode Wo kai just watch Fubuki because

1. Her planes is 0

2. "What can a destroyer do?"

3. She consumed Kisaragi's soul

If nobody believe in sinking, then fine: Kisaragi went down to the abyss, captive by abyssals. Midway hime summons all her escort to strenghten her barrier. While the surface is chaotic, Kisaragi manage to send her S.O.S hairpin and hope it reach the naval base.