Haha! Now I know for sure that the second season is only a matter of time. There is NO way that the creators planned this to be the final episodes. There were TONS of hints for a continuation.
The fox-story could have just been resolved and everyone could have just happily returned home. Instead, the fox-thing was resolved within five minutes, and in the rest of the episode we saw Princess Summoning Teiten, challenging it and getting killed by it, causing Amatsuki to go haywire. The ending credits showed a bunch of characters who haven’t even been introduced yet. If I had to guess, then the second season will arrive around spring 2009, just like the continuation of Druaga no Tou, I suppose.
On top of that, this episode also was as good as ever: it was both hilarious at one time and tense at the next. It really seems like Bonten isn’t the main villain here, and I still like how, despite his tough-look, he was trying to get his subordinate back all this time. I love how he just laughed at Tsuyukusa’s actions as if they were some kind of usual antics of the guy. There were lots of different nuances in this episode that are hard to describe, but make this series stand above most other anime.
This episode also showed how easily enemies can turn into friends and especially the other way around: Tokidoki is still affiliated with the princess, and the princess has a lot of enemies, as shown in this episode. A lot of allies may have been formed when trying to stop the fox, but now that she’s gone, I really wonder what will happen?
In any case, I am really looking forward to that second season. Especially since Gon is going to play a bigger role again. He’s been awfully absent here, being unconscious for three entire episodes and all…
i wish kuchiha did more…. i really like the inugami 🙂
This series is a bit hard to understand, especially with the subs. So, in the end the princess turned from her role of keeping the balance to trying to free herself from it? I can’t wait for the second season but I’ve got to rewatch the whole thing before I can write anything about it. xD
Yea I can’t wait for the second season….I can’t wait to see what Bon will do when he finds out that the princess (his lover….did anyone else notice that?) is dead.
I bet he will try to get revenge agains Teiten for killing (or setting free) the princess and not him too.
1) the princess is not his lover
2) seriously read the manga, its fuxxing awesome
Exactly 2 years had passed and no second season at sight…:(
Yeah, basically it all come down to reading the manga if you don’t want to miss out on a masterpiece. Complex story, amazingly done character developments and gorgeous art.
Another thing is the anime completely ignore the sci-fi plot points that the manga delve into which is extremely important.