[HattoriHanzoIII]

I'm on fourze now and the teacher getting banished and off the show seemed out of place. She seemed like she would be around for the whole season. I'm on episode 21 or so and waiting for it to really take off like gaim. I hated gaim for the first 15 eps then it got better, but I thought the ending was dumb. Couldn't Mai just give kouta the fruit? Or was it because she went back into time, she was locked out of giving the fruit to someone until there was only one left standing?