Okay, so today wasn’t about Ayumi and Shion’s foster-father, but instead on Shion herself. And it really seems that this series is going to end at episode 12. Let’s hope that the creators aren’t going to rush the ending. This series deserves better.
In any case, this episode was as awesome as usual, and it confirmed yet again that this is my favourite series that came with the Fall-season. Ghost Hound and Mokke are going to have to try really hard with their second halves if they want to beat this series. In any case, this episode was mainly about Shion’s match against the boy-genius, and another example of a psychological battle. It seems that the boy only played Shougi on-line up till now, and the only reason he won against his previous opponent was because he used a strategy that was popular on te net, but not outside of it and his opponent turned out to be a salaryman.
As an added twist, the murderer gets back into action again. It seems he’s well aware of the ongoing tournament, and he actually makes a phone-call to Shion at the end of the episode! The scene where the guy went and stole the mobile-phone might have been a bit forced, though, but it can be explained as soon as we know his intentions. Let’s hope I can pick it up with the next episode without subtitles and all.
According to Anime Suki the show is 22 episodes. I know they are not always right on their figures but there is also no end date on Anime News Network. There is also 13 episode titles on ANN.
Oh and 10 was really good IMHO.
Yeah, all sorts of sources say different things about this series. For now, I’m just going to go with Moonphase and its twelve episodes, since that often is the most accurate source of information (still, Moonphase has been wrong at times.
I don’t see how they could possibly end it at episode 12. So far they’ve followed the manga very closely, and there’s nothing particularly noteworthy in the next couple of chapters that is noteworthy to end a series.