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I had already seen AIR, but my boyfriend hadn’t, so I watched it a second time together with him.  It’s a good thing I did though, because the second half of the story gets rather difficult and i didn’t completely understand the story the first time.  Now, for all people who are like me and who don’t really understand what happens, I will explain it here ^_^ If you haven’t seen AIR yet, shame on you! Go watch it NOW! Then read the rest of this article :p

Now, my explanation starts at the ending of episode 7: Yukito returns to Misuzu, he managed to put his feelings into his puppeteering, but Misuzu doesn’t respond.  Then the doll starts to glow and he sees a scene from the past, his mother tells him that he has to decide what he wants to do.  This happens because the power of his mother and Yukito ancestors are captured inside the doll.  Yukito then decides he wants to be with Misuzu, he wants to relive everything from the moment they met (now this is very important!)  We get more explanations through Kanna’s story, in episode 9.  The only thing Kanna wanted was to meet her mother.  Her mother dies before they can really be together though.  Furthermore, she is cursed, and Kanna, by touching her mother, is now also cursed.  Later, Uraha explains more: Kanna’s soul is not able to get to rest, first of all because of her mother’s curse, and also because the monks put another curse on her.  Now her soul will try to find another host on earth, but a human isn’t big enough to contain Kanna’s soul.  This is why, one: Misuzu is ill, two: not only Misuzu carries a part of Kanna’s soul, but other people as well (the children we see in the end).  Now Kanna wanted to meet her mother, Misuzu also wants to be with her mother, but she kept sticking to Yukito in stead.  Therefore, Yukito had to go in order to make Misuzu get along with her mother, BUT he wanted to relive everything, so he returns as the crow Sora.  The real Yukito is also still walking around, because that happened and cannot be undone.  Now, when Misuzu feels so lonely, suddenly Sora remembers who he was and Yukito appears very shortly to tell Misuzu not to give up.  Misuzu then decides she wants to be with her mother (Haruko) but unfortunately she later gets into the stage of forgetting everything.  Now, the final goad Misuzu reaches in the end is her mother.  She dies BUT everything is now solved, Kanna’s soul can rest, she got to be with her mother.  The crow Sora also flies up to the sky and the two children, they are like Yukito and Misuzu were, but because Kanna’s soul has come to rest, they will be able to live normal lives.

I hope my explanation was somehow clear.  If you didn’t understand whole of the series, even after reading my explanation it might be good to rewatch it.

For more info on the series and the movie in general see Satoshi’s Corner

When the humans fire their canon, Laharl activates his bracelet and repels the attack, destroying the canon.  Meanwhile, Jennifer tells Flonne about what happened in the past: the Defenders of Earth were created, because earth became over-populated, causing criminality to grow.  The original idea was to populate the universe, but suddenly the general had decided to take over the Netherworld instead: everything would be ok once the demons were all dead.  Then Thursday comes in, the General wants to see Jennifer.  Jennifer decides to go and talk to her father.  While the door is still open, Etna and Flonne manage to escape.  Flonne wants to find out what Heaven has got to do with all of this, and she soon finds a clue when she sees the canon.  But when they reach it, there are soldiers who capture them again.  In the meantime, Jennifer is with her father, trying to convince him that what he’s doing is wrong.  The General makes it seem as if he’ll listen to her at first, but then he knocks her unconscious.  Flonne and Etna are still in trouble, surrounded by soldiers, but Etna calls the Prinnies, who take the soldiers away.  Then Etna orders them to destroy the spaceship.  When Flonne goes to check out the canon, it gets activated again.  The next moment, we see Jennifer waking up: she is tied to an operation table and her father is about to do something to her to make her cooperate with him again.  It was Curtis who was firing the canon again, but when he wants to shoot,the Prinnies arrive and start to destroy everyting.  Then Laharl and Gordon arrive at the ship, but when Gordon asks where Jennifer is, Curtis only tells him that the General is transforming her.  Flonne imagines some kind of giant robot when she hears "transforming" and is very eager to see the transformation ^_^; Then Curtis shows that his arms are made of metal and he tells his story: Laharl and Etna aren’t interested in hearing it, so they leave to find Jennifer ^_^; Five years ago, Curtis’ wife and daughter died in a terrorrist bombing.  He survived, but had to have 70% of his body replaced by artificial parts.  Curtis is angry with Gordon because saving humans should be the purpose of being a defender of Earth.  Gordon says that by invading the Netherworld, the will probably save the humans, but it is still wrong if it costs the life of so many demons.  Curtis only thinks about his family that’s lost and doesn’t want to listen to any arguments.  He wants to destroy the defenders of Earth and become one himself to save humans.  when he wants to shoot Gordon, Flonne interferes.  She tells Curtis that demons also have families they love, and Gordon says thathis family in heaven won’t be happy seeing him killing others.  Then the ship explodes, and Curtis is trapped in flames.  When Gordon and Flonne want to help him, he tells them where they can find Jennifer, and asks them to leave him.  When Flonne and Gordon arrive, Laharl and Etna are already there, and the General shows them Jennifer.  She still looks the same, she’s just wearing a device that controls her mind.  He tells her to destroy the others and Jennifer starts attacking Gordon.  Just when Gordon is about to lose, Kurtis appears.  The General feels trapped, so he wants to let the device explode, but Kurtis manages to free Jennifer of it and jumps out of the window taking the device with him.  Gordon is shocked to see him sacrifice himself like that, and no one notices that the General is trying to escape.  They manage to stop him outside, but then the angel soldiers from heaven appear, and they help him!  Flonne repels their attack, but ends up killing some of them.  After killing the angel soldiers, Laharl demands an explanation from the General. He tells them that indeed heaven helped them invade the netherworld.  When they aren’t looking, the General managed to escape though, but Mid-boss is on his ship as well, telling him that it’s impossible for him to save earth, if he would even sacrifice his own daughter.  When everything’s over, Gordon makes a treaty with Laharl not to bother each other anymore, then he and his team return home, but they leave the big battleship behind.  Laharl is happy with the treaty, now he also has control over the humanworld ^_^;  Flonne then also says goodbye, she has to go to heaven to see what’s wrong.Laharl decides to go with her: he wants to conquer heaven too.  So they leave with the battleship, but the ship stops on some weird planet with a red moon.  Meanwhile, the dark angel, Vulcanus has seen everything and is getting worried.  The Seraph, Lamington-sama, tells him he’s done a good job.

Two more episodes to go.  I’ll get them up as soon as possible ^_^

  
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