Episode One: The End of Everything, A Beginning

    Now because I never took a look at the main series of Shakugan no Shana and watched the movie first. The movie is based off of the beginning of the main series just shortened, but the main series does give more insight on details to what things are and it makes it more clear for others.

    So the first episode starts off when Sakai Yuuji was attacked by the Rinne. He was grabbed by the big baby looking Rinne and then the Flame-Headed Red-Eyed Girl showed up and sliced off the Rinne's arm. Then the episode went to what happened before that, where Sakai Yuuji would just living his normal life going to school and such.




    This is where the introduction of a few of the characters begin. First is Sakai Yuuji, the main character who goes to the high school with his friend Ike Hayato. Both were described as honor students by two other characters, Satou and Tanaka. Satou was described as a delinquent in middle school and Tanaka was an athletic jock person until he started hanging out with Satou. Later on, Yuuji goes to class where he is caught by the teacher not paying attention and is asked to read from where they left off. Yuuji was confused and didn't know where they had left off from, until a girl next to him, Hirai, helped him figure out where they were.

                           


    After school Yuuji goes to a CD store where he meets up with Hirai. Both of them talk for a while then Hirai leaves. This is the part where the Fuzetsu is created and two Rinne appear. One big baby looking one, and one with dozens of heads attached together. They do not realize that Yuuji is unaffected to the Fuzetsu until he makes himself noticeable by screaming out Hirai's name when she is disappearing. Then the baby looking Rinne grabs Yuuji and is about to eat him until the Flame-Haired Red-Eyed girl appears and cuts the Rinne's arm off. The two Rinne and the girl begin to fight it out until the baby looking Rinne is gone. The Flame-Headed girl said that the baby Rinne was only a container and the main body is somewhere else. The girl turns around and then chops the arm off of something or someone. The Flame-Headed girl is then called Arastall, the Flame Haze of the Holy Flames, a tool of hunting, by the person who's arm was chopped off. The Flame Haze was about to destroy the person and then Yuuji stood in the way. The person about to be destroyed then stuck her hand inside Yuuji until the Flame Haze cut Yuuji and the person at the same time. A doll then popped out of the person and then it disappeared.





    The Flame Haze then put Yuuji back together and then used some weird light to repair all the damage done to the ground, buildings, and replaced all the people who were eaten with torches. Then the Fuzetsu was dispersed and everything went back to normal except for the torches the Yuuji began seeing everywhere around him including in Hirai. Yuuji then began asking a lot of questions to the Flame Haze and she tells him that he is not human, but an object. She said that all those with the lights inside of them are replacements that got their power of existence eaten by Guze no Tomogara and that they are torches now. She says that if an existence disappears all of a sudden the world's balance collapses, so that is why they place a replacement (torch) as a shock absorber temporarily. Everyone who was eaten or has a light inside of them look as though they don't have a soul now and they are just walking towards nothing with no emotions.





Rating: 6.5/10

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