[Fish Sandwich]

There was a point where watching that last episode of Hibiki started to get me a little emotional, and, funnily enough, it wasn't even during the episode itself. No, it was just in the preview, where they made it a point to include Hibiki telling Asumu to run, and this huge wave of... nostalgia, I guess, suddenly hit me before I even realized why – it's the same dialogue Hibiki had in episode 2 the last time he fought a giant spider.

I went into the back half of the two-parter now understanding the gravity of it all. Why the monster is a Tsuchigumo again, and why Hibiki is on a quest to make a new drumstick, exactly as he was at the start of the show. They knew. They straight up knew this would be their final set of episodes to tell the version of Hibiki they wanted to, and that's why, like any good finale, there are loads of callbacks to the beginning of the series. This is, without a doubt in my mind, the final episode of Hibiki. It was such an obvious and conscious decision to have the entire cast in one room at the very end, especially, like everyone walking on-stage at the end of a play or something, that makes it all the more apparent.

So yeah, like Die says, there are lots of fun things to talk about with the action, too. To sum it up, you can really tell Osamu Kaneda was the director, but man that is just not what's going to stick with anybody about these ones.