It’s the 13th and final episode of Blue Drop. Will Hagino be able to thwart the alien invasion AND save the school play? Will we have a fantastically Yuri ending or a blubber-fest? And of course, nothing goes better with some nice hot Yuri action than a heavy dose of alien invasions of earth and human’s futile counter attacks against it.

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The highlights of this episode:

• Michiko makes some late-night final revisions to the play’s script when Hagino and Mari return from their pool fun time. Michiko sees that the two are holding hands and remarks that she’s happy that they’ve reconciled.
• Sugawara-sensei tries to contact her superiors, but the phones cut out. Meanwhile, all the TVs in the world go blank, showing a “this station is being readjusted” message. All earth radio communications and radars also black out. Meanwhile, the Master Commander increases her fleet’s attack on earth, and it’s sufficient to say that the earth is faring poorly against the alien attack. However, the Blue, being controlled by Tsubael, conducts quick “hit and run” teleportation attacks to quickly take out the 3 smaller ships of the invading fleet. However, the Blue is quickly running out of energy. The Master Commander decides to draw out the Blue by attacking Mari’s school.
• Back at the school, the school festival starts and Michiko’s play gets underway. However, mid-way through the play, the attack approaches the school and Sugawara runs into the theater telling everyone to evacuate. In the harbor, the Blue appears to defend the position. Also, with the other ships in the fleet destroyed, earth television stations regain control of their air and start broadcasting news of the alien invasion fleet.
• Over most of the world’s major cities, giant flying saucers appear, and alien girls start floating down. All the girls then start exploding, devastating the cities. At school, most everyone has fled, leaving Michiko’s play incomplete. Hagino reveals herself to everyone as an alien and leaves to join the fight. The others who didn’t know already all seem shocked and betrayed, but Mari gets mad at them, saying that Hagino will defend the earth for sure.
• Mari runs out after Hagino, but Hagino tearfully leaves in the Blue to attack the Novaal. The Blue is then subjected to kamikaze attacks by alien fighters sent out by the Novaal, but Azanael, who escaped the Novaal in her fighter is able to take control of the fighters and send them back against the Novaal. This prompts the Master Commander to order that the Novaal be put into “Genocide mode,” wiping out all the fighters but Azanael’s in one fell swoop. Meanwhile, Hagino suddenly ejects Tsubael out of the Blue in an escape pod and teleports away.
• The Novaal is about to fire on Azanael’s ship when the Blue suddenly teleports right in front of the Novaal and rams, it destroying both ships, along with the Master Commander and Hagino.
• Hagino’s sacrifice gave humans the hope to be able to win their war against remnants of the invading alien fleet, and after 30 years of fighting, they finally did. After winning, a diplomatic team, headed by the now middle-aged Mari Michiko and including both Tsubael and Azanael, head towards the main alien ship orbiting the earth.

If School Days was the Greek Tragedy of the summer anime season, then Blue Drop is definitely the Greek Tragedy of the fall season. While I thought the possibility was open for a bad ending, I didn’t really think it was the odds-on likely ending. Unfortunately we get the bad ending, and Mari and Hagino’s relationship ended up as a doomed one, which ended before it could really begin.

Of course, Hagino’s sacrifice gave humanity a hope which allowed it to overcome the remaining alien forces after a 30 year struggle, leading to the peace delegation being sent from earth that we first saw at the start of the first episode. And guess who is the main diplomat – Mari Michiko, who believes that there is hope to negotiate with the aliens.

Those looking for heavy Yuri action in this series may be disappointed, but I see much things as merely an added bonus to a series and not something that necessarily makes a series, and I’m not unhappy with the level of Yuriness in this series. Of course, I dig shows with aliens and big fights, so this last episode especially I was rocking during (well, until Hagino blew up).

I think this was an overall pretty good series. It’s better than most I think, though could have been better in some respects. Overall I’d still consider it pretty solid.