At least the sad mood was slightly helped by the death of dung beetle! he sure got what he deserved!

BUT! I think three other characters that deserve our praise is the one who donated his heart and the one tried to become a stripper to make uniforms and Daichi.

All of the pilots were kind and potential role models with a few exceptions. Such as the girl and her sister who slept with the same teacher, the spoiled brat and (not really a pilot) the one who tried to rape the girl before he died. HAHA.

@Peter S: Well, thanks for reading and posting comments for all this time! It’s a shame so few bloggers have followed this show after the issue with the director because it’s been a thought-provoking and very unusual series. Sure, certain things could have been done better but at the same time they could have been done worse instead! The fact that the subbers said that the final episode wasn’t very good lowered my expectations, which probably made me enjoy it more. And yeah, Uninstall is absolutely fantastic!

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

Mwahahahahaha!

Okay, that’s out of my system. Though I was thinking: “We can shoot it?”

Machi was magnificent in ep 23, and if she died alone in the snow, well, she had killed a lot of innocent people. She knew it in the end and so wasn’t sorry for herself. Jun isn’t the only one to be redeemed in these two eps.

The fansubbers on their blog said the show should have ended at ep 23. But we needed to see Jun’s marathon victory. He was all alone during the battle, which I thought fascinating. With no one around to comment, it set the battle on the state of his own mind, remembering the other kids’ strengths, munching bread, thinking some more, and being caught by surprise (I was nearly shouting at my computer: “Jun, wake up, moron! They’re coming!). Credit to this show that it had me worried to the end of the final battle.

But it means Jun’s story almost overrides the rest of the series. By making him the last fighter, though his story was no more important than any of the other kids, he becomes the most important one.

Maybe the fansubbers thought the post-battle denouenment was boring, but the show needed it. Daichi’s little brother strikes me as the type of angry kid that Machi would have recruited in the past. Fortunately for him there’s Kana, telling the story, recounting the sacrifices. Nice touch!

Bokunaro could have been a lot better. It started so well!

When the soccer kid fell off the Zearth and we all went “Huh?”

When the asshole kid watched his father get squashed and then died himself, and Dung Beetle said “Oh, yeah! Didn’t I tell you ..?”

When that one kid died in the rubble and his corpse was transported up. “We need a new pilot!” and the chairs began to spin again, and the ep ended …

When we saw the faces of the people on the other Earths, not wanting to die, and their own pilots …

So much could have been done.

Finally, a thank you! This is the only blog I know of which followed the fansubs through to the end. It’s been a pleasure to come here and comment!