Now that Kimimaro is now sure that he is willing to fight Mikuni, along with Jennifer Satou and the informant, they planned on their move in defeating Mikuni, by devaluating the yen via hyperinflation and they must grab a Darkness Card for them to have control of the rotary press. And so, the final battle begins.
To start things off, this is the only time the informant was this awesome. I mean, he created hyperinflation by playing with his connections and by sending a truckload of messages to warn everyone that the yen is “losing” its value thus, they need to convert their currency into dollars. Wise move I say and once yen loses its value, it will cause Mikuni to print more money, which will devaluate the yen more, and once yen ends up as just plain paper, the strength of his assets will weaken. Good move I say.
As for the battles in the finale, it was intense and awesome. What’s more is that the animation was well done and really jive well with the epic battles in the last two episodes. Also, I love the fight scenes during Mikuni and Kimimaro’s final battle. More on the final battle between those two, it is more like a fight of ideals about the future and the present. Mikuni keeps on thinking about the present and he doesn’t care what will happen to the future, while as for Kimimaro’s case, he thinks that the present exist for the future. Both ideals have their own good points and bad points, in short, if you look it in a neutral standpoint; they are both wrong and correct at the same time.
Now to Q, why I talk about Q? That is because we finally saw her skills and boy, I was amazed and get scared at the same time. I mean seriously, cannibalism?! It’s both awesome AND scary at the same time! Also creepy if you considered that Q looks like your average loli who happens to have large fangs once she uses her skills. As for Msyu’s Macroflation, it was amazing, ‘nuff said.
And as for the final scene, it was a bit satisfying. Why a bit? Because the world learns about the black Midas Money and it would be interesting if it would remain for a long period of time in the series and the humans tried to live with using the black money but what did I get? A happy ending that felt like one of the endings from Kamen Rider Ryuki in which at the end, everything came back to normal like it never happened. In [C]’s case, they still use the dollar instead of yen so yeah. To add more on the bit side, it seems that the Japanese Financial District finally collapse… until at the last minute in which Masakaki appeared out of nowhere and trolled Kimimaro by saying that the District still exist, I think I will kill someone right now.
Overall, animation wise, the ending was satisfying, same goes with the story until it went downhill with the bad use of the precious reset button. Also, the series felt like it ended up a bit “short” that you want to ask for more for you to have a proper grasp with the story.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
The series was a bit satisfying. Animation wise, the series was good less than the bad CGI in some frames, but hey, those bad CGI scenes only lasted for about 2-5 seconds and you can easily ignore it. On the art side, the art was mediocre with the humans since their eyes look like that they were taking crack or some other drug while as for the Asset designs, they all look good, and so far, Sennoza’s Asset is still my top fave Asset design in this series.
In the story side of things, they did quite a good job in incorporating economics with monster battles that if you took Economics classes, you are quite familiar with some concepts in Economics that were incorporated in the series. In short, while you see Assets beat the crap out of each other, you will learn bits of lessons from Economics. Now to the show’s both strong and weak points: the characters, to be honest, the series has a weak protagonist and had a rush character growth. Why rushed? Because he was able to realize why he is fighting for at the show’s 9th episode! Sure, they slowly tried to develop his character in some episodes, but he always ends up returning to Mikuni’s own ideals.
Now to the strong part with the characters, most of the human characters can keep you interested for quite a while, same goes with most of the humanoid Assets. What I can praise about the humanoid Assets is that they did quite good job in making Msyu more human. Also, I love that Mikuni’s character felt like he was neither the good guy nor the bad guy.
Last words: The series has so much potential, but due to the small amount of episodes (11 episodes), it forced them to rush things a bit such as proper characterization. Animation wise, it was good less the bad CGI in some scenes but fails with human character designs and shined with Asset designs.