Kita ze Inbou! - キタぜ陰謀!

[ Episode 25: Nakiami and Sannova ]

FFFFFFUCK YYYEAH BONES

Ahh I waited so long for an episode like this. And I have to say BONES really delivered in the animation department. It was just gorgeous. And the fight was on such an epic scale too which made it even sweeter. I came buckets during one of the last scenes when Akiyuki was working his way up on the Emperor then lands his blade through his heart. Then all of sudden it went all LOL DEEP with the Emperor being “BAWW I have no name.”

When I saw this episode, I didn’t know wtf Sannova was talking about. So after it was done, I went back to see that scene again. She does after all explain the whole fucking point of all this shit that’s happening. And this is what I got:
Sannova bloodline is full of midwives. Current Sannova helped birth the Hiruken Emperor when he was an infant. They planted a Hiruko in him for the Great Pilgrimage to fill the void on the Earth or some shit. Sannova wants to stop the Great Pilgrimage (lol mass suicide), so she sends out the albino brigade to plant Hiruko on random people all over the continent. Then hopefully they will “blossom” in time in order to stop the big cheese. But lol @ Akiyuki ending up being the only one.

Don’t ask me what the purification ritual is or what the hell Nakiami is doing. I just hope this isn’t it for her. That farewell scene was bittersweet.

I have to say after trying to figure that all out, I realized that there are still a lot of gaps on purposes and roles in this show. Like I still don’t know wtf a Tenjo is. Is that like Sannova’s successor or something? Or why the North and the South are fighting in the first place. And what exactly is a main soul? It’s stuff like that they don’t explain at all and just leave it to the audience to guess and assume. Or maybe I’m just really dense and this show is way over my head.