Umineko ended with a cliffhanger as usual, under that series of course, and leaves many questions yet to be answered, Beatrice doesnt seem dead yet, although her body seems to be though, so the next season could be a blast with the deaths being explained in details and im hoping for the next season to hopefully follow the Umineko storyline till the very end, well << IF only there is a 2nd season... looking at higurashi, it is almost 100% that there will be a 2nd season. Umineko was however slightly different in the fact that the 1st season has at least explained SOME parts unlike higurashi where the 1st season makes no sense at all =.= for the last epi, Battler did strike back at Beatrice, after finding out that the person who was helping him was Ange but she had to disappear since she has revealed her identity. So with Battler's explanation on how the crimes could NOT have been done with magic (not details yet though) and caused Beatrice to be pierced with around 4 projectiles, reminding myself that she was a witch again, THAT amount of blood wouldve been impossible to be contained in a single human body, well, thats my POV O.o Umineko started out with a nice plot and it was more of a mystery investigation kind of story, violence wise : still OK but there are censors =.= quite a nice series i would say... higurashi / umineko BANZAI :D

Asura Cryin' S2 has ended as well with a rather happy ending which most animes have O.o so in the end, Hagane was defeated by Kurogane-Kai with them each having absorbed the powers of their fellow Akumas, so Kurogane-Kai had flaming wings which i thought made it look cooler this way, the fight was simple though, yet action packed... it seems to be that ex-handlers DO have more powers than Asura Cryins though, their normal gun bullet could already shoot through an Asura Machina... anyway, so Tokiya was defeated, Kurogane-Kai managed to remove Tooru from Hagane and made her human again instead of being a Burial Doll and the igniter responded to Tomo's wish of the future of the 2nd world which stopped the breakdown of the 2nd world. Which it later resulted in the things from the 1st world disappearing which included the Asura Machinas, which Ania made in the 1st world and Tomo had used the splitter from the 1st world to revert the burial dolls back into humans. Sadly, Ania returned to he child form, would prefer if she stayed in her grown-up form though... and the series also did not make a clear choice of who Tomo would go after now, Kanade or Misao since Kanade's Akuma powers will be disappearing soon, since the central vortex is now gone, travelling between worlds is now deemed impossible and Akuma powers would not have existed. Asura Cryin had a nice plot as well, but was still entertaining to watch, would loved it if they had spent more time in the 1st world and explaining MORE about the Asura Machinas, Tomo's brother and many many other things... anyways, good series :D

moving to EOY later in the afternoon... shld not be staying for long though, not going in also... =X just having the feel again after AFA and before 2009 ends :D