Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~ Episode 26 Discussion

Zer0_TR said:
I knew they'll die in the end but not like that. :/
Oh btw have they ever kissed ? LoL.

kerobear said:

Nope.
Only 2 hugs.
And Elen leaning on Reiji's shoulder 3 times:P

Adamz08 said:
it would have been nice to actuly know if he dies or not but yea EPIC anime

jack604 said:
reiji got smoked behind by the carriage assasin and ein turns around to find him dead and finds nothing to live for eats the poisonous flower and kills herself the end

lnn8v6 said:
Okay, I just plowed thru this entire thread

cL0ud777 said:
WHAT?! REALLY?? The most annoying and boring character, with near-zero personality, who looks like a boy with an awful side-whiskers to boot, who looks like she needed a bath and her armpit surely stinks, whose sole purpose in the show is to educate the viewers regarding obedience lessons, - got to survive at the end?? (Well, since whether Ein is dead or alive at the end is purely based on viewers' -assumptions- and are not official facts.) That's BS!!

I've been seriously waiting since ep1 when she'd get to be eliminated permanently, since her "HAI MASTAH" is getting tiresome and very annoying. I was really really RELIEVED when Reiji accidentally shot her. I thought that was the last time I'm gonna see that annoying boy-looking girl with an extravagantly annoying side-whiskers. I was extremely horrified when she made her comeback and I was like WTF here we go again, good luck to me trying to endure watching the show with the girl that looks like a boy-with-annoying-whiskers. OMG. My brain's gonna get fried again with her obedience lessons. Remember the scene when Scythe put a lubricant on her? I totally cringed at the thought of 2 fagly characters going at it and SM putting his pinkie finger on Ein's @hole. UGH! They should make a follow-up harem OVA/Hentai with SM as the protagonist with the sisters and Ein.

And YES! Reiji got what he deserved, a lame ending that is. Anyway Claudia and Cal are the only ones that kept this anime going for me, but meh, Reiji only looked cool b/c of Claudia and Cal, otherwise he would be comparable to SM -a ghastly character with weird fetishes/lolicon. Actually I don't even know which is more satisfying, Reiji or Scythe's death? They're both scumbags.

Anyway, I'll go look and order for the VN, and I hope there that Ein's hard curly whiskers got trimmed, straightened out, or laid back. Coz that coupled with her dog-like obedience makes me rage and my brain dry. Well if you look at it, the 3 of them -Ein, Reiji, and Cal, were all manipulated by SM but Ein's stupidity is on another level, she probably doesn't even have a brain to begin with, they should've put on her a leash, collar, and a cage, or at least identified her with it. Instead they identified her with a lubricant and SM's pinkie finger =/

OK Rant over. Voting 1 now. Wait! Reiji got killed. Gonna hafta raise it tah a 1 1/2, yay!

ps. What if we got a Scythe-Ein ending? That'd be epic :P

DrHouse said:


Sorry but Elen is dead.

You forgot to mention that when Reiji fell over dead is also when Elen finally got up from doing whatever she was doing with the flower. She was starring at it for way to long to simply be admiring it. The only reason Elen wouldn't be upset at seeing Reiji dead is if she knew she were dying too. I really, really doubt that they would point out the missing petal if it weren't significant. Even more significant was that the missing petal was shown right after the close-up of her lifeless face and right before showing the shell of the bullet which killed Reiji. I don't know a whole lot about botany but that flower also looks suspicously like it could be in the nightshade family. I do know that they generally have five petals and are purple.

I think that even if it's not even referenced in the subs it's fairly obvious that Elen did indeed commit suicide by flower.

I actually really like this ending even though it's depressing because it fits the mood of the show.

Mawootad said:

After 26 episodes they drop a bridge on him he's killed by a random cart driver for no real reason whatsoever. Fantastic...

SoulAssassin said:
All I wanted was kissu.

Savage1 said:
fail endings are fail.

lnn8v6 said:
Okay, I just plowed thru this entire thread (if you believe me) and found that ending is an expired laffy taffy that none of you can chew thru.

You kids thought about it too much. If you all know the visual novel that this is based on, you know, the one I never played but am right now discussing, you play as the male character Reiji. So basically this is the ending: when the Random Shadowy Man In The Horse Drawn Wagon From Mongolia Who Was Really Hired By McGuire To Kill Reiji shot and killed Reiji, it is basically a Game Over for you. What ever happens to Ein you know nothing of, because your world is slowly fading into darkness and credits. Whether she died or not doesn't really matter that much, because Reiji died first, and from a VN perspective you don't get to see anything after you are dead (except the main menu.)

I understand you are still concerned about the two main symbolic scenes (the missing petal on the NOT SO POISONOUS flower and the bullet that was in the grass and NOT NEAR THE ROAD.) Your symbolic analyses may have worked out with elfen lied but here you can't do jack about it. MAIN POINT IS: Reiji (you) died first and jumped off the mortal coil. I find it credible that while the credits roll you are actually looking out of Reiji's eyes (you know, just like in the VN), you see Ein do her Mysterious True Smile and Longest Fade Ever. Did she die? Some say yes. Some say no. But I say you'd never know. Well, maybe unless you go learn some Japanese and mail to the writers and ask them. I know! One of you, go do that and come back and tell us what they said. Then we can all have a bloody consensus on this way-too-long thread. No more speculations pleeeease.

Endnote: If you are accommodating enough to believe that a person can grow 2 feet withing 2 years then I'm sure you can accommodate this (if you can call it that) an ending. Chill out.

SoulAssassin said:
All I wanted was kissu.

CraftingWar said:


obviously Mio was the one who killed reiji... i mean, she was stood up for two years and considering there was the same pattern over and over with the whole "reijis ex trying to seek revenge" theme, mio is the only viable person to assassinate reiji (of course after become a phantom herself within those two years)

lololololol

IZUMI64 said:
Cart driver shot him,,,~mostly,,he is an inferno people~

after knew Reiji death,,Ein/Elen committed suicide.

ova said:
i kinda expect a sad ending for this kind of series but still everyone die? that just too much. still it was an awesome series.



how do you know that she will committed suicide? well the manga is still ongoing so it maybe cuz of that