The Holy Day celebrations start in No. 6, but the parasite bees start attacking everyone in sight. Meanwhile, Safu explains to Nezumi and Shion that No. 6 used her as a medium to access Elyurias. However, this was a trap by Elyurias, who has Nezumi destroy the main computer. However, Safu decides to stay behind. Nezumi and Shion try to escape, but Nezumi gets shot. Shion tries to drag him out, but gets shot in the chest and is killed, with Nezumi somehow getting them back to where Inukashi and Rikiga are waiting for them. However, devastated by Shion’s death, Nezumi refuses to leave, so Inukashi and Rikiga leave without him.

Meanwhile, all the bees that appeared from No. 6 citizens form into giant tornadoes when Elyurias, now fully freed, flies over and start destroying No. 6′s walls. Safu-Elyurias then returns to the facility, transforms into her true form (a giant glittering bee) and resurrects Shion.

Elyurias' true form: a giant bee. ZOMG RUN!

I guess that was an OK ending. Safu “lived” but only in the sense that she’s now Elyurias and is essentially immortal. Meanwhile, we never really learned what Elyurias was other than some sort of powerful being. Clearly the rulers of No. 6 were in way over their heads in trying to harness Elyurias’ power.

We also never got a complete description of what the bees were or what their purpose was, but as far as I could tell they were the doing of Elyurias. No. 6 was obviously aware of them, and perhaps even controlling them to some extent in their experiments to unleash Elyurias, but clearly the bees were used as a trap by Elyurias to punish No. 6 and pretty much wipe it out (though clearly, many people in the city still survived). Why the bees decided to attack some people and not others…I don’t really know.

In a sense, at the end, both Nezumi and Shion got their wishes. Elyurias brought the walls down, much like what Shion wanted, but No. 6 took a beating like what Nezumi wanted, and most likely most of the people in charge of it were wiped out by the bees, and even if they weren’t, they’re not going to be able to pull off the “we’re a great utopia!” thing anymore.

In the end, I suppose this was a decent ending to the series. I think it could have been better – I would have loved if Safu had survived as herself – but it certainly could have been worse too. I think the series as a whole was overall pretty good. I never necessarily like major plot points not entirely explained, like the bees, but I guess I can live with it. The series is probably good enough that I would recommend it to someone who is looking for something to watch, but I don’t know if I’d tell them to put down everything they’re currently watching to go watch this.

Nezumi and Shion are taken to the correctional facility where they, along with a dozen truckfull of other people, are dumped into a giant pit, where most of the people die from the fall. However, expecting what was coming, Nezumi is able to make sure he and Shion survive. Along the way, Shion seems to suddenly know where to go and what security measures are in place. However, this change has also caused him to go berserk, willing to shoot, and even kill, security guards at will. They finally get to the top of the facility, where they find Safu…

Shion's gone berserk!

This show seems to have gotten a lot better and more interesting as we’ve gotten through the later episodes, which is nice, though I’m wondering how we’ll end up tying everything up in the final episode. They’ve found Safu, which is a start, but will it be the Safu Shion knows? For that matter, will Shion by the Shion Safu knows? We still have the matter of the bees and bringing down No. 6 as well.

I’m guessing Safu’s wish for Shion to come to her led Elyurias. who promised to make Safu’s wishes come true, to either feed information to Shion, if not take over his consciousness altogether. That’s my best guess for how he knew where to go, and the change in his behavior. Who or what Elyurias is, and what happens to she/it is also hanging out there as well.

In any case, I’m really looking forward to the final episode in this series, and I’m interested how it’ll turn out.

Inukashi, Rikiga, Nezumi, and Shion capture a top health department official in order to get the layout of the correctional facility, but find that it’s pretty much impenetrable. The day before a major celebration in No. 6, know as the Holy Day, No. 6 forces attack the West City, arresting all the residents and taking them to the correctional facility. Meanwhile, Elyurias finally makes contact with Safu…

No. 6 wiping out more inconvenient poor people

So the shit really starts to hit the fan in this episode. No. 6 comes in and pretty much kills or clears out most of the people in the West City outside of No. 6 and takes them all to the correctional facility. Luckily, this ends up being part of Nezumi’s plan to get inside.

Meanwhile, we learn that Safu’s grandmother was killed by No. 6 merely for being old, and No. 6 has been doing experiments on those who they take to the correctional facilities.  One of those people have been Safu, who finally “awakens” like what the scientists studying her were hoping, though something has obviously gone wrong there. Meanwhile, Yoming wants his supporters within No. 6 to rise up against the city, so we have a lot of things kind of converging together all at once here at the end.

Just to recap what I remember from this series: you have Shion, who is a genius, who was tossed out of No. 6, a supposedly utopian city, which turns out to be pretty much a despotic authoritarian city-state with no tolerance for dissent, because he helped a criminal named Nezumi escape. Nezumi wants to destroy No. 6, but Shion wants to save it from a potential invasion of odd bees. Meanwhile, Shion’s childhood friend and would-be girlfriend, Safu, is in trouble for questioning how her grandmother died.

Nezume brings Shion to see an old man who was a founder of No. 6, though regrets it. The man then tells Shion about Elyurias, a powerful being who looked over the forest folk. No. 6. burned down the forest and captured Elyurias in order to use her power for themselves. Nezumi is the last remaining member of the forest folk alive. The man tells Nezumi that the song he hears is Elyurias calling for him. He finally gives Shion a data chip with information about the parasite bees, Elyurias, and the forest folk on it. Meanwhile, Inukashi and Rikiga plan to gather information about No. 6′s correctional facility to help Nezumi and Shion infiltrate it to save Safu.

No. 6 - Not in the business of creating utopias for others

We finally get some background information about No. 6. We don’t really get a lot of information about the parasite bees, other than they’re not really knew, and this old man apparently knows a lot about them. However, when it comes to No. 6, the creators of it appear to have had noble intentions of creating a utopia. However, once they realized that was impossible, they disappeared or arrested anyone who dare suggest or reveal that the city was not the utopia that they claimed it to be. Of course, the ironic part of this is the idea that a utopia would need a prison in the first place, but…

We also learn about this Elyurias, who is apparently the one singing the song that Nezumi and Safu have heard twice now. Why Nezumi hears it seems clear: he’s one of the forest folk. The question is why Safu also hears it. Also, why does No. 6 want to user her as a “sample,” and what for?

Nezumi asks InuKashi for information about the new wing of the correctional facility, which she does after initially refusing. Meanwhile, a man named Yoming saves Karan from a probable city agent looking for dissenters. In the correctional facility, they are experimenting on Safu, where they find her to be the “perfect sample.” In a clothing store, Shion finds one of Safu’s coats and confronts InuKashi over it, who then confronts Nezumi over the situation. Nezumi and Shion fight the next morning over each hiding things from the other, and then they agree not to hide anything from each other anymore.

Safu: Sorry, you lose

Well, it finally seems like Nezumi and Shion have come to some understanding to where they won’t hide things from each other anymore, which hopefully means we’ll soon learn why Nezumi is so intent on destroying No. 6 (though he seems to be less intent to, in deference to Shion).

Also, despite their claims of being independent and not trusting, both Nezumi and InuKashi seem much more worried about each other than either of them are willing to admit, and of course the whole situation with Shion is what has ultimately pushed some of this to the surface. Meanwhile, Shion and Nezumi finally share a kiss. Sorry Safu! Shion looks like he may have decided to share his sperm with someone else, heh.