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Clues:
Clock starting
Lucy losing all her horns (which explain the normal head on the silhouette)
Lucy saying, "this is the last time you'll ever see me"
Nana not feeling Lucy's presence (maybe she is was nyu's form)?

Sorry don't remember much from that Anime T_T.

NINJA TURTLE.

I'll come back to this thread when I actually finish the anime. Eventually.

Voted Lucy/Nyu, but almost wanted to say ninja turtle for comedy value. :D

it was lucy/nyuu i wont have it any other way V_V

I voted Lucy but just cause you would see the nunchucks in the silhouette if it WAS a ninja turtle xD

Wasn't it Lucy in the manga? There's really nobody else it could've been.

I haven't found enough translated manga to get that far in the story, haha.

CHUCK NORRIS was behind the door

ROFLOL i voted for A NINJA TURTLE!... its soo tempting..

It was Lucy behind the door!~

Well, I've always thought that she came back to Kouta :)

Even though I think it's Lucy, you can never trust those ninja turtles...

I kind of wanted to think it was Lucy/Nyuu behind the door too, but it was pretty clear that she let herself die (that last image of her arms up in the air rather than protecting her).A couple other hints were "This is the last time you'll ever see me", and "In 5 years' time most of the children born will be of my kind. When that happens, even you won't be able to live in this world." Now on to the metaphysical stuff.

The music box stopped playing, which was always something important to the two of them. It acted throughout the series as a symbol of their friendship, so when the song stopped playing it made me feel more certain that she was dead. The last death imagery I picked up was that the clock started working again. The clock served as an image of something in the world that she was trying to fix rather than destroy. When the clock's bell rang, it sent out two messages: one was the universal symbolism of the tolling of a bell (we know what that means, given the context).The second thing was the emphasis of a really depressing truth: the clock didn't start working until she was dead, signifying that the world really was better without her kind.

I'd love it if she was alive, but I just can't see that happening. Organizations are after her. If she was back, perhaps promising a sequel, it would never feel right after such a dark climax. I hate to say it, but I don't think, given the artistic choices that the writers made in the rest of the series, that they would have allowed Lucy to live.

EDIT: I thought of something. We're not supposed to know, possibly, because it's there to represent that Lucy became only a silhouette in his memory.

I think it was Lucy/nyuu behind the door. I have a perfectly reasonable reason too - after she lost her first horn she appeared dead but was alive, so maybe the horns are sorta like lives in a video game and after her second horn came off she got one last chance! (i know it sounds weird but that's the way my brain describes it)

if you actually paid an attention to the doggy Wanta, it reacted to the person, so it might have been lucy .

Wasn't it the mailman in the manga?

Anyway, I hope it's Lucy.

It was a Ninja Turtle... Leonardo or Michleangelo ;)

But since this is quite a realistic and grim anime, wouldn't it be quite against the grim theme they constructed if suddenly Lucy/Nyuu appears before them all alive and well, and they live happily ever after without so much of a sacrifice?

Just from the anime, I don't really think there's an answer to this question, and this lack-of-conclusiveness was probably their intention anyway.

There's only six more chapters left to be scanlated. How can you not find "enough"?

The silhouette looked like a woman.

Lucy's hands were indeed up in the air, at least two of them.

Previously the hero had seen his little sister in all girls.

The shadow may have meant that he now saw Lucy in all women.

However, I think the writers simply felt no need to give the audience any #*$% closure on the story! Now I know how all those viewers of "The Sopranos" felt when their series ended without a meaningful closure.

I think there's some artistic films -- Fellini or Truffaut or somebody -- that make a virtue out of this kind of lack-of-a-story, but I don't know the film theory or literary stuff to explain why they think it's good.