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Summary:
San has been taken by Yoshio and so Nagasumi heads to the underwater palace in Kai’s submarine to rescue her. However, as they approach the palace they notice that it is surrounded by mines. Luna’s mermaid voice quickly destroys the mines allowing them to pass through. The rest of the Seto Group is locked in a cell. They try to escape but the walls are reinforced with metal.

The submarine charges at full speed and smashes through the wall creating an entry into the palace. However, Nagasumi is greeted by an army of retainers. Luna sings a song that makes everyone around her go crazy in order to allow Nagasumi to proceed on. Nagasumi enters the room that Yoshio is lounging in and yells at him to give San back. Yoshio refuses and calls Shiranui over to deal with him. Shiranui pulls our her sword and points it towards Nagasumi, however he makes her realize that she should do what she feels is right, not what she is ordered to do and she turns her sword away from him. Yoshio is furious and calls on his gigantic pet eel to deal with the two of them. The eel knocks Shiranui to the floor and tries to eat Nagasumi. Just as the eel is about devour Nagasumi, Gozaburo arrives and holds the eel back. Yoshio then calls some of his buddies who have cell phones that turn into swords. They surround Nagasumi and Gozaburo and charge at them. But Maki, Shark and Masa are there to meet them and an epic battle begins. Gozaburo hands Nagasumi his jacket and everyone tells him to go and rescue San. Nagasumi runs up the back of the fallen eel, but two more eels pop out of the ground. San’s mother destroys one while Luna’s dad arrives and deals with the other leaving Nagasumi free to run.

Yoshio enters the room that San is in but Nagasumi is right behind him. He sees San sitting on the chair with a blank expression on her face. He is furious and asks what happened to her. Yoshio explains that she is under the effects of a poisonous gas that is emanating from a nearby pot on the ground. Nagasumi then proceeds to get owned hard. He throws a punch and gets caught by Yoshio. He yells to San telling her how sorry he is and accidentally drops the ring that he gave to San. When it hits the ground San’s face wells up with tears and when Nagasumi yells her name she finally breaks out of her trance.

Yoshio cannot believe what has happened and pulls out his gun. He aims it at San but Nagasumi steps in front of her. Yoshio fires the gun and it appears that Nagasumi was shot. However, he catches the bullet in between his teeth. With San’s power Nagasumi becomes super strong and proceeds to destroy Yoshio. He is punched out of the room and he reverts to his true form, a fat fish.

The sky clears and sunlight shines through the broken roof. Nagasumi and San stand on a balcony together and San begins to apologize with tear filled eyes. Nagasumi tells her not to cry and grabs her hand. He slips the ring onto her finger and tells her that he loves her. He asks her to stay by his side forever. San’s face lights up and they embrace.

Thoughts:
This weekend has been so completely amazing. First Gurren Lagann and now this. Seto no Hanayome’s very happy ending somewhat offsets my feelings of sadness and disappointment in Gurren Lagann’s ending. SNH is simply one of the best anime of the season. In my book it falls right under GL at #2.

The show had its ups and downs as most do. Some episodes were amazing while others were below my expectations. But in the end, AVEX and GONZO pulled through and created an actual conflict that spanned more then one episode! I think that it would have even been more powerful if they had committed one more episode to the fight between Nagasumi and San. It would have made the reunion all the more better.

All in all I am very glad that I chose to watch this anime. Each episode was packed with hilarious scenes while at the same time they developed the relationship between Nagasumi and San and also that of the other characters within the show. I’ll be missing seeing San on Sundays, but fall is right around the corner and I’ll once again have my hands full. Also I would like to add that from this post on we will be using our new thumbnail viewer. Enjoy! :)

-exo