Verily Shanatan is the best part of this whole franchise.

Because we get, as Aroduc describes it so aptly, ‘cranky Yoshida’ – Kawasumi Ayako does sweet lovely so well but I’d love to see her do more lead roles like this version of Yoshida! And she did do brilliantly as Chikane in Kannazuki.

Add yandere psycho moé roles to that Kawasumi Ayako wish list too.

My only gripe is the lack of Pheles x Wirhelmina love love in this Shanatan installment. But maybe we’ll get something along those lines in another Banjo no Carmel-san? Oh please, we must getto!

OTL at Margery’s punny innuendo about Sabrac hiding ‘huge weapon’. And LOL for Shizuka Itou using a version of her voice that’s more like Hinagiku than Wirhelmina. Not a de arimasu in sight!

OMG Bel Peol as the Mama-san! I’d be a regular at this snack bar!! And nearly bust a gut LOLing hearing Sabrac addressed as ‘Sabu-chan’.

No Banjo no Carmel dansen?

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I want something else / To get me through this / Semi-charmed kind of life baby, baby… I’m not listening when you say / Good-bye! Actually I don’t think Bel Peol hates Third Eye Blind

No I can’t haz a nekomimi mode masque. T_T

Think twice before calling 911. Maybe it was a mistake to let Wirhelmina know that I have a ‘Pheles Booty Call’ hougu… Alas Kazumi does not use Giralda so she remains a normal human and does not become a flame haze or a Torch/Mystes…

Were you staring at my chest instead of my drill de arimasu ka?

Hecate’s lovely diary: Note to self. Must improve zeroing and grouping before firefight and not during or after.

I’m like a bird, I’ll only fly away / I don’t know where my soul is, I don’t know where my home is
First I don’t know how to aim / Then I can’t tell enemy from animal friendship…

Ornithology!?

So Kabitzin was remarkably prescient without the help of novel spoilers. A Konoe malformed registry entry. Hecate haz it.

Well, this means that my brilliant plan has succeeded. We shall have a third season!

Anne Robinson: Hecate, you are the Weakest Link. Goodby..
Hecate: ASTER.

Either Wirhelmina wears strapless (bandages!) or corset or that shred of meidofuku on the left shoulder is covering the strap. Is it too much to imagine… supportless?!

RONERY~~~ Wherefore art thou Pheles?

Well, at least *someone’s* happy.

Now the good stuff comes. Sorry, totali, but I’m actually a bigger fan of the Shana-tan parodies than of the series proper. Though I like to tease Aroduc for being mean, I agreed with his overall assessment. The pacing could have been better, the school love comedy and action didn’t quite gel together very well *but* we shouldn’t have expected otherwise as the first season was like that too. Though I’m still scratching my head why the Sabrac vs Wirhelmina fight seems to have gone down well generally… I enjoyed the pacing and backstory was good but the animation quality was a tad disappointing in comparison to the gorgeous OP sequence. Well, an anime where the OP animation is better than the overall series animation quality, this won’t be the first series that’s happened…

Likewise I agree with Omni that while this last episode was entertaining, it did feel rushed. But at least we had good, non-SUNRISE resolutions to two big questions: What was the Balle Masque plotting to do with the Reiji Maigo? And will Yuuji x Shana actually make some progress after the step back from the end of the first season?

Shana-tan must have a Banjo no Carmel-san special where our favourite meido is typing smutty Pheles x Wirhelmina fanfiction with Tiamat assistance!!! Wirhelmina x Pheles Love Love OVA would be nice too.

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The Balle Masque kicks off its Masked Dance Dance Revolution party with DJ ‘Master Throne’ Hecate ringing her bell, hooking up the Reiji Maigo disco ball and painting the town psychotropic blue.

:O

How do you make an emoticon for a triclops?

I had been wondering for ages why didn’t the Balle Masque do everything they did this season the last time they caught Yuuji. Other than the obvious reason that they need to have something to do in the second season, it’s now revealed that everything done in the first season was all part of the plan. Bel Peol paraphrases Palpatine: Everything is proceeding as I have forseen…

So Alastor in Final Boss mode didn’t clear up all that excess Power of Existence from the Hecate x Yuuji fountain, most of it had been sealed in Misaki City, right under the noses and feet of our heroes and cloaked by Bel Peol chain magic – all hail The Pretenders! And data cloaked by Konoe Fumina on walkabout.

A semi-orz moment for Wirhelmina everything she’s reminded that she’s Elliott to Pheles’ Rena. Even Yoshida Kazumi has been inducted into the Pheles harem de arimasu! Why not me!!!???

Maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki maki

At least I still have unleavened meron pan… only until she confesses to that Mystes though.

Kurogane jokes about Rodan’s Thinker. My own view is rather more risque: OMG Bel Peol is making her own personal Giant Gingerbeard Man!

Absolutely hilarous when Dantalion started to explain his brilliant experiment according to some Evil Mad Scientist Villian guild rule book. I’m sure Sydonay would have preferred Auric Goldfinger’s line.

Onward to the finale!

My guesses (some novel spoilers):

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