This is it folks, the final episodes of IS and now, the prologue to the events that happened in the early minutes of the first episode has finally happened when Silvario Gospel decided to run amok. At first I thought that all the girls will attack Gospel but, we have Ichika and Houki attacking this machine first.
The first part of the 11th episode was more on the plan that Tabane created in the previous episode now on execution. Like the previous episodes, the aerial fights are really good and finally, we now actually see Houki's fighting style. To sum her fighting style, it is like Ichika's style, with two swords plus she being drunk with the power of her personal machine. She was over confident about the skills of her machine that she was not herself which led to her character development at the second half of this episode.
Ichika was injured thanks to him protecting Houki. Asides from the fights, the flashback scene in which we saw how Houki started wearing the ribbon on her head and her realization on why she acted like that in the first half of the episode makes the half interesting. Now that she realized her mistakes, along with the other girls, they will now face Gospel.
This is it, the climax and it was one heck of a final episode! Seriously, all the girls are at their best in this episode and Ichika being on a trance before unlocking Byakushiki's other mode makes it really fun to watch. Also, the fights in the last episode are fantastic. The only thing that I hate about the final episode is that they throwed a lot of upgrades just for the sake of the final battle. As for how the fight ended, I liked that they actually used a different scene unlike in the opening we had from the first episode, but how Ichika delivered the final blow on Gospel? It was disappointing. But hey, the entire fight was fantastic.
Asides from the final fight, the revelation at the end of the episode on how Ichika ended up in the academy was a big surprise. Oh Tabane, you are my second favorite anime mad scientist. First is Lloyd from Code Geass. The last scene in the series was something expected and same goes for the chase! Overall, the last two episodes of the series was good, animation-wise the studio did a good job with the aerial fights and the fact that they didn't recycle much scenes from the opening from the show's first episode. Full review for this series later once I will review the last two episodes of Level E, Bakuman, Wolverine and surprisingly, Star Driver.
Images from Random Curiosity, too lazy to get screencaps.
Images from Random Curiosity, too lazy to get screencaps.