Well I’ll be picking up this series.  True Tears has a really Beautiful OP.  The ED is also very fun.  So far the series has great potential.  I’m a little worried about how the creators will make Noe turn out.  Jumping out of a tree onto a complete stranger is pretty awkward.  I’ve got a good feeling about this series though.

First off, Nakagami Shin’ichiro lives with his parents and Hiromi Yuasa.  Apparently, he somewhat has a crush on Hiromi.  She seems really out of it through the entire episode for some reason.  She also seems very antisocial at home.  I’m going to guess it’s because her father is dead and she hates imposing on Shin’ichiro’s family.  I wonder what happened to her mother?

At school Shin’ichiro spots a girl named Isurugi Noe up in a tree.  She’s a very uniqe type of character in my opinion.  She seems to like the chicken named Raigomaru who can fly, rather than Jibeta, the one that cannot.

A racoon or some animal kills Raigomaru while they’re gone, and Noe seems mentally unstable after the shock.  It looks to me like Shin’ichiro became Raigomaru’s replacement at the end of the episode.  The next episode should be even better.  I’m looking forward to it! ^^

Finally, we get some long awaited action.  So many things happened this episode which made it a very good watch.  First off, It appears that Silver is being held by Bal Masque and can teleport at will.  This is most likely why they placed a powerful Keeper on the Reiji Maigo, to keep Silver from teleporting through it.  It also seems that this can happen to only certain people from what I understand.

Konoe turns out to be a faux body that was created in order to gather memories or something it turns out.  I’m still not sure what Konoe’s purpose was.  But, Hecate recovers her faux body and seals the Reiji Maigo.  Turbulent Ungula Fecor makes an appearance with Hecate.  His defensive spell Magnesia, was quite effective on Shana and Margery.  I did like how Margery stayed calm the entire time and didn’t let her revenge get the better of her.

After Hecate seals the Reiji Maigo, Johan somehow is released.  Even Hecate seemed surprised, which made it even more interesting.  Johan gives some of the Reiji Maigo’s energy to Pheles in order to save her.  He also tells her his plan in order to stop Bal Masque.  Johan then reverts back to Yuji after using up most of his energy.  Pheles asks the others to believe in her plan and gives Yoshida a strange Hogu.  The next episode will most likely focus on what the Hogu is that was given to Yoshida, and what Yuji and the group will do to uncover more hints about the mysterious Silver.

This was a very intereting episode.  There was a lot of info about Pheles shown.  Pheles’s actual body was somewhere else it seems.  From the looks of it, she’ll do anything to see Johan again and that even means turning on Wilhelmina.  I am somewhat worried about how how the creators will pull off the next episodem, since this one was building up for the next.

Yoshida suggests that Pheles come to the festival with everyone.  Pheles seems to enjoy it, and it looks as if she can be trusted.  We see a short glimpse of Pheles and Johan in the past at a festival.  We learn that Pheles found and raised Johan as a child.  He then fell in love with her and was willing to become a Mystes in order to stay by her side.  I’m guessing he needed to become a Mystes so that he wouldn’t grow old and die.  It’s ironic that Yuji was so scared of not living while Johan volunatrily become a Mystes.

After Pheles’s real body arrives she tries to awaken Johan again.  This time however,  she is piereced by a silver arm.  I pray this isn’t the end of Pheles.  She has made the show very interesting thus far.  I’m also hoping Margery doesn’t go berserk again next episode.  We do get antother hint about Konoe at the end though.  I just don’t understand what those bracelets are.  Who is the butler?  I guess we’ll see next episode.  Overall, very good building up!

Well I’m planning to add Shigofumi, True Tears, and Spice and Wolf pretty soon.  More Shakugan no Shana Season II updates coming.  So stay tuned!