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lulz @ Eskimo +reindeer outfits xD i love those three <3

anyways;
so the uniting of shizuma & nagisa was inevitable.
but i still dont like the fact amane&hikari are etoile -.-;
blehk.

poor tamao, she still accepts nagisa back each time she rejects tamao's love for shizuma's.

but overall i guess it was a good ending. kinda sad this series is over =T
would like to know what happens a little bit down the road, like what happens when shizuma leaves? yeahh. that may be a problem.. xD
also, was there a tsubomiXyaya-chan thing implied in this ep/in the credits? maybe. i liked yayachan =3

surprised they didnt sing that angel song. xD

i felt kinda bad when tamao took off nagisa's ribbon and nudged her toward shizuma. *sigh.
poor tamao.. =\

regardless. liked the ending, liked the anime. im debating between an 8 or a 9 (tho that may mean nothing to you stricter raters ><;)

so this is how it ends. i knew it would end like this, nevertheless i feel very bad for tamao-chan. no happy end for her -_- why are my favourite characters always left alone in the end :-(
i think i have to add tamao-chan to my favourite characters list (because i suffered with her during the whole anime ^.^). tamao-chan ftw!!!

overall a great anime imo (score 9). i think the end was i bit rushed. i would like to know what happens with tsubomi+yaya-chan, how nagisa reacts when shizuma finishes school and what happens to poor tamao-chan -_-

/cry i just finished this and it seemed like a really sad ending. Although i did like how Nagisa and Shizuma ended up together i feel sooo bad for Tamao-chan. Just thinking of how she felt when she took her ribbon back and pushed her forward makes me wonder if i would ever have the strength to let go of the one i love so much.

was totally unbelievable to me. it's like she's some kind of god or something.

Well, to be frank, I really loved the ending. I, and I'm sure many others, loved the dramatic moment where Shizuma whirls open the doors of the church, runs to the stage and say "Nagisa, I love you!". God, what a good ending! But of course, not everyone can be happy. I was really sorry for Tamao, but at the same time I was ecstatic for Nagisa. In the end I was rooting for Shizuma, and who knows? Tamao might be able to hook up with someone else. It left me feeling more than satisfied, and I would defiantly consider watching it once more.

i just got finisehd watching this and i loved the ending! and i went aoo squeeeellly when shizuma made the dramtic delcaration of love towards nagisa.

but i felt soooo sorry for tamao :( poor girl she was sooooo close to having nagisa only for her to go back to shizuma T__T buuut i think she knew it was going to happen anyways.. afterall if you love someone sometimes you gotta let them go ;)

but i wonder what happend afterwards? after the creds it showed nagisa back in the dorm right? i woulda thought her and shizuma woulda been together like the whole night in her mansion or something.. i guess not :(

and i was glad that amane and hikari were made etoile but i still wonder who woulda won if nagisa wasnt wisked away :P stil i think amane and hikari looked sooo cuuteee ~ ♥

I think so too he he ;) I always wanted to see what happens "after the story" in a lot of movies, animes or books... and that goes for Strawberry Panic! as well ;)

The ending was really cute... Somehow tensed, full of emotions. And I too felt sorry for Tamao-chan :( But sometimes you have to let go, as said in the post above :)

I loved when Shizuma yelled "I love you" XDDD That was the best scene in the show ;)

im all sniffley. i just finished this and wow, 9.

I feel really bad for Tamao-chan, but i am glad no one died. i was just waiting for the other shoe to drop till the very end post credits.

and yeah i want to know some after story, a short OVA would be nice, ya know kind of sum things up for us.

I've watched this series quite a few times now. Oddly, i never felt all too bad for tamao-chan. To me, she seemed sad yes, but she also seemed happy knowing that nagisa would be truely happy again. Otherwise I think she would have been a little bit reluctant to just push her away like that.

Amane and hikari becoming etoile... to me it just didn't seem to matter at all because they were already happy, lol.

About shizuma graduating, let's not forget she DOES have a cabin close to the school that she could stay at for a while, she's not like the poor president who has an arranged marriage the moment she's out.

If there was to be an afterstory, or OVA, I could picture like an alternate ending type thing. One in which shizuma, upon leaving school decides she can't keep nagisa tied down and tries to fix her up with tamao... that would either make a lot of people really happy or really angry lmao.

To be honest, after reading the manga i thought "Wow, this is really great, i can't wait for the anime. I'll get all of this goodness but with colors and sound this time!", and man.. i was in for a shock. Not only the creators of anime obviously went for the 'quantity over quality' approach, but they also inflated this story to ludicrous 26 episodes long, which obviously meant that it's going to be boring as hell.

Overall, i think they made an epic fail. I will never understand how it's even possible to make such a mediocre anime from one of the best manga I've ever read.

If you think that this anime is half-good or you didn't like it at all - good news for you, just go get the manga, because it's just so much better.

[EDIT]: Oh and P.S.: having temporary memory loss in an anime is just.. pathetic. If i wanted an soap opera - i would've watched TV.

i really liked the ending, but i couldnt love it as in my opinion the tamao&nagisa couple would be the better one. i just think they better support each other then shizuma&nagisa does but in the end i can live with that one...

as well as every1 i would love to see what happens next!

i hope that nagisa & tamao could stay friends forever and that some day tamao could get as happy as shizuma and nagisa were, right after the etoile election!

but when someone choses someone to love there will alway be someone behind that, getting lost but tamao-chan is strong and my fav char in that show, so i believe in her!

strawberry panic is a wonderfull show, i will rewatch it definitly as it got so much emotions in it besides some flaws...

i thought this ending was alright but the overall series was not one of my favs either. it was just kinda predictable and really slow and i felt like some eps repeated each other. (like they could have cut out the whole 'amane memory loss'. that was annoying) anyways, i would have like nagisa and tamao together at the end because overall shizuma annoyed me towards the end of the series. well in the beginning too. she just had this 'i'm better than love' attitude that just irked me.

every1 has there liked and not liked =] about the ending but yes i do feel sry for tamao-chan great series may not be the best but one of the good few Yuri animes out there =] i like the way it ended ^^ too bad we didn't get to see more of Chikaru-sama <3

Okay, this was a surprisingly good ending, I thought. The entire series until the second half was pretty much boring to me. The throw off of Amane and Hikari becoming the Etoile was also a good play by the producers. And Tamao's life pretty much sucks as no one "loves her back," so to speak.

My ending thoughts for this series are that sexual harassment is totally normal in all-girl schools and everyone eventually turns into a lesbian when trapped with other women for your whole school life.

Overall: 6/10. I'm not even sure if it had more potential, but whatever. I honestly thought the series was boring. Might pick up the manga, but I doubt it. I don't think I like shoujo-ai after watching this series (as it's my first shoujo-ai). Might as well stick to shounen-ai.

after the ending credits in the last 5seconds of the episode it shows that nagisa standing back 2 back with tomoya with a door inbetween them.
Tomoya says "Welcome back Nagisa" but looks reallly sad.
Can someone explain to me what this scene means??

When practically no one says that they do not want to see an OVA depicting what happens "the day after", that says something about a series.

If you've watched the entire series, the "Welcome back, Nagisa-chan" scene (followed by the cut to black) gives you the feeling of a pay telescope blocking your lenses after your quarters are all gone. You're left with questions and there is no one left to answer them. They call it an ending for a reason. All good things come to one and Strawberry Panic, although not the greatest thing, was a good thing and in this cynical world, we can't ask for too much more.

If viewers want to see more, that means that someone was doing something right. There's next to no chance that enough people will spearhead a movement to get a second season of SP approved. But hey, that's what fanfics are for.

The entire series was basically about the relationship between Nagisa and Shizuma, so obviously it was no surprise that they ended up together. Tamao, being Nagisa's best friend knew whom she really loved, which is why she gave up in the end, rather than have Nagisa possibly stay with her out of pity/obligation (which would make nobody happy). When Tamao welcomed Nagisa back at the end, the message I got was that Nagisa wasn't sure how to face Tamao after she admitted her true feelings, but Tamao went ahead and showed her desire to still be closer to her anyway.

It annoyed me to no end how similar the two major pairings were. Their general situation is basically identical love triangles. Both friends whom are secretly in love with their friend act as supporters and helpers to their friend, even helping them out with the people they really love. Annoyingly similar. Would have been better if they just used one and had a different ordeal for the other, but oh well.

1)Nagisa X Shizuma
Tamao - The best friend that always secretly loved Nagisa, tries to get Nagisa to love her back for a little while and then settles back in to being "just best friends" when she realizes she can't change her friend's heart.

2)Amane X Hikari
Yaya- The best friend that always secretly loved Hikari, tries to get Hikari to love her back for a little while and then settles back in to being "just best friends" when she realizes she can't change her friend's heart.

oh and while we don't know anything about Nagisa's family, Shizuma has stated her family is on the same level as Miyuki's so we know that Shizuma is VERY wealthy. They also go to an ultra elite looking private religious school, another indicator that most of the people there are probably wealthy. This means that even after Shizuma graduates, she can still keep in contact with Nagisa with ease most likely. As mentioned she has a mansion cabin less than half a days drive from the school campus and she also appears to have a private car with driver there as well.

I cried at the ending T_T I wish they made a second season *sniff* I love strawberry panic! <3