Board Thread:Anime/@comment-25730832-20150324161612/@comment-103.3.83.159-20150325173353

I bet the production team was so eager to cash in on a second season (which they announced at the end of the final episode), they rushed the entire finale altogether... I mean come on... Lots of fans + Huge fanbase = It's-fine-even-if-we-don't-do-the-anime-well mode... (Sorry, I really feel disappointed for the most part)

It was somewhat pretty obvious who was going to Akagi's rescue (MC vibes), and the previous episode already hinted a lot on what's to come. Kudos to those who guessed Taihou, although her outline was also a tad obvious then... Maybe the only thing that I surprised me a lot was Airfield Hime "evolving" into Midway Hime with a son-of-a-bitch god mode where even almost the combined might of almost every ship's (including Yamato, Nagato, and company) firepower is rendered useless, and that it took the MC's "quick thinking" to figure out why the enemy carriers must be wiped out. Turns out they're the Hime's source of infinite lives... And again, we didn't even see much on how Black Rock Wo Carrier was wiped out of the map...

What creeped me out (and what I liked) was the voices coming out of the place where that Wo-class sanked (was something like "return it, return it..."), and a few scenes later, boom! Kisaragi's hair ornament... Then came the announcement that a next season is already worked on... And so the plot thickens, hopefully... Gonna get dark, it seems...

By the way, since Taihou is voiced by Noto Mamiko, we should have seen that coming given that some of the characters she voices appear in the last episode, mostly being the best eyecatch or involved in some deus ex scene...