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There is very little of this finale that stuck with me in the long term - which was kind of the whole Kabuto story, as I've mentioned before. I remembered Tendou destroying a meteor with a flower. I remembered Tendou in green screen Paris. I remembered Hiyori being heavily isolated from the actual plot and other characters. What I remembered most, though, was Kagami and Tendou. Not a specific moment with them, but I remembered this being an episode that really centered on their friendship. I still get that from the rewatch; I really love the scene after the fight where they're just hanging out on the rooftop.

I'm probably going to forget a lot of this again. The fight with Mishima is already fading, and I'm literally writing this immediately after I finished the episode. It's not an especially grand finale - Tendou's speech is great, but the villain is highly forgettable, the fight is really brief, and it all ends with an unnecessary self-sacrifice from Dark Kabuto to take out a Native mook. There are some good emotional beats, but they aren't even series high points. There's really not a lot here to hang onto walking away from the series. I'll definitely remember the show's real shining moments better now, but this isn't going to be one of them.