@23feanor ugh, sounds like an ordeal. Hope a down day will do you some good.
@inim happy to do it. Honestly, part of the fun of the show has been puzzling these things out. I'm still loving it this far in, so something's working.
Onto the finale!
Episode 24
Turns out that the sphere they ran into at the end of the last episode was just producing reflections of Kukuri's power. The Demon King himself is inside the shadow below the sphere, which is well guarded, but somehow Adberg keeps the monsters at bay with his crazy dance moves. All their old villains are back for payback. Our heroes are stronger now, but there's too many of them. Hilariously, our heroes have actually leveled up very little (just level 4 for Nike and level 5 for Kukuri), while Toma and Juju are overleveled like crazy (29 and 38, respectively).
At last, Giri arrives on the scene, looking... kind of like the Spiral King from TTGL, but with more edgy black fire. Surprisingly, our heroes make short work of most of the monsters despite their numbers, leaving a mountain of corpses in their wake, though the boss monsters are a handful. G-Fantasy, Sly with his band of thieves, Kuruji, Planano, Derida, Adamski, Clemente and Schavel, and Goedicke all show up to even the odds (because yes, it's that kind of episode), and though they're still outnumbered, this motley crew quickly dispatches with the remaining monsters. They even bring back the bracelets, summoning the giant guardian spirit. Nike needs to combine the swords of the four kings to fight Giri, but his memories of those kings' ridiculous faces (and the loin cloth of the Wind King) put him off. Still, Razzle Dazzle happens, as he creates the ultimate Hero's Sword, which is too heavy for him to carry alone. He wields it together with Kukuri, and they cut into Giri's shadow, getting sucked in.
In Giri's shadow, they find his final form (I guess this is evoking Dormamu, though the meme "this isn't even my final form" definitely springs to mind). The fight is brutal. Nike wields Kukuri's tears as his water blade, and Kukuri resolves to seal Giri, even if it costs them as well. Surprisingly, Nike's power is now overwhelming Giri somehow because he needs to defecate, which is just the best - so much better than that power of friendship or love BS. Kukuri crafts a special circle, which resembles what we've been seeing at the end of every episode (nice touch), which forms a sphere around them, protecting them from Giri before sealing him with... what looks like a bandage over his shadow. Oh, and the angel shows up to write this all down in her book, proclaiming that the North North dance was responsible for sealing Giri. "The birth of the worst legend ever" indeed! Flower petals fall all over the world and we see all the people in places they've been enjoying them.
And yes, we get our magic confession moment... which is interrupted by Nike's impending need to dump. Giri's incomplete sealing resembles Nike's own struggles. Prince Nothing shows up because absolutely no one knows what to do, which seems appropriate, and somehow clears up Nike's poop chute. At last, we get the confession, which is basically reciprocated in a surprisingly cute moment after Nike asks her to call him by his name rather than "Hero." They head to the Heavenly Realm, and run into the real Barckweener, who looks like a normal-ish dude, despite all the weird spirits he left around. They find Kukuri's parents there. Turns out the President, who has been a dog this whole time, is pretty normal too (though they just sort of say that off-screen). Also turns out that the Migu Migu tribe didn't disappear, they just dressed as monsters in Alahabica and no one noticed. Guess the Heavenly Realm is a revolving door and... Kukuri's parents left her for no reason... huh...
After the credits, the world is once again threatened by a new Demon King and Nike is called into service by his parents again, who slingshot him over to Kukuri once again. Yay for sequel baiting! Kukuri can't use Guru Guru anymore, but he still invites her to travel with him, in a pretty sweet sendoff.
Overall, a fun watch. I'm with @inim on the fast paced jokes really working for me in this series. Not everything landed, but you hardly had the time to be frustrated by any that fell short because there was always one coming up shortly thereafter. There's a lot of parody in here and I enjoy that. Just the process of tracking as much of it as I could was a lot of fun. It's a pretty basic story made interesting by how it was told, and that's something I can get behind. I think organized chaos is right - it's the kind of show that keeps you guessing because little to nothing turned out as I expected. Solid 7.7/10 for me. |