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Oh, HELL no.

Summary:

Jin gets assistance from one of the school’s professors to learn where he can find the Kannagi shrine’s managers. Daitetsu meets him afterwards, presenting him with Nagi’s magic stick. Daitetsu had found it on the school rooftop earlier, though Nagi was nowhere to be found. Jin finds the shrine managers’ home later, and after listening to idle talk about the couple’s family, he finally asks for information about the shrine itself. The only information he gains, however, is that a fire had once destroyed evidence of what the goddess’s name was. It is suggested that the grandmother of the house may know more information, but she only hints that the shrine’s goddess had saved people from hangings in the past.

Jin meets Zange after she finishes a street fight, then realizing that she is actually so strong that he probably didn’t need to save her when they originally met. Jin gets to the point by asking about Nagi though, by inquiring if she is really a goddess. After a short pause, Zange refuses to answer by crediting this as a girl’s secret. Zange soon shows Jin a container full of impurities, then describing her duty to take care of them. When Jin sees that Zange does not know the reason for this either, he questions if she is not curious about the reason why she must. Zange claims that the reason doesn’t matter, however, as she only wishes to be herself. After Zange questions why Jin has become so curious about things such as proof about her and Nagi’s being a goddess, she becomes quite annoyed with his reply about Suzushiro’s theory that the two may be spirits. But with this, she assures Jin that he is mistaken.

When Jin returns home, all he finds is a note from Nagi and signs suggesting that she does not plan on returning. With not much at all to do at home, Jin simply continues to wait for Nagi’s return. On the way to school the next day, a strong gust of wind blows by Jin when he looks in the direction of the Kannagi shrine. Jin finds that no one at school has seen Nagi either, then ignoring Tsugumi’s concern for him. Jin continues to feel quite depressed when returning home that day, and after falling asleep, he has a dream about her earlier collapsing. Nagi is still nowhere to be found despite Jin’s expectations, and after seeing Tsugumi the next day, he finally guesses that Nagi may not return.

Impression:

Kujira, please leave. Wakamoto Norio, please leave. Get out of my Kannagi. Now.

In all honesty, today’s Kannagi ended up being very boring. Sure, they did a fairly good job of representing how Jin felt about Nagi’s separation from him, but a full episode of it was just overkill. It is notable that Zange was obviously hiding a lot from Jin though, just as Nagi seemed to do before, and there were also a lot of hints that something drastic had happened at the Kannagi shrine in the past. Watching Zange kick a lot of ass was pretty fun too, and Jin’s “There’s not even a reason to run away” line was quite good towards the end, but I feel for the most part that this episode suffered from the typical case of a comedy going dramatic before the finale. I’m going to assume that the series will end with Nagi’s return, but it still seems like we’ll just be waiting ever so long for a sequel after that.

Also, poor Tsugumi getting ignored.