Talk:Kyoko/@comment-99.58.200.88-20110331030155

As to the suggestion that she doesn't reappear, that is in fact correct. If one goes through each episode following episode 6, she doesn't appear whatsoever. She is only briefly mentioned by the King of the Night in episode 9, when he talks to Dai-Sensei/Ariel about the Masou weapon Manticore that had manifested from within Yuki/Tomonori.

He states that Kyoko had discussed it with him at some point in the past. Other than that, Kyoko makes no further appearance or has any influence in the series. For the time being at least, given that the series is over, her role, from her killing of Aikawa and the subsequent events involving her, are concluded, and she has no further role.

However, there is an OVA that will be released in June, and all signs point to there at least being an effort to produce a second season. Also, do not forget that the anime is simply one adaptation of a franchise.

There is at least one, probably more, manga adaptations, plus the fact that the anime and those iterations are alternate takes on the core version, being the light novel series itself, which has been ongoing since 2008. In that core continuity, there is a great deal of information that the anime has left out, and the events that have been depicted have changed and been notably reordered as well.

In the context of this particular character, there is a great deal that has been left out. Though my knowledge is limited, and the fact that I don't have access to the novels themselves along with not being able to read japanese, I nevertheless know that this character is very much like how I have deduced her to be.

In the core continuity, she is not corrupted involuntarily, if at all, for much of what she did was by her own volition, i.e. she deliberately chose to be an evil, bloodthirsty killer. Her goal was to gain immortality, and she killed people for those ends.

She also appears repeatedly in the novels, serving as a frequent antagonist until the King of the Night is defeated. Following this, it seems, Aikawa manages to convince her to give up her evil ways and turn herself in to Virie authorities, where she is sentenced to at least a few hundred years in "jail." She escapes using Ariel's magic in order to see Aikawa again, attends a meeting at his house to help deal with a later antagonist, and is ultimately convinced to return to Virie to live out her sentence.

Strangely, Aikawa and Haruna promise to wait for her after she completes her sentence. Also, the "prison" that she is confined to seems to be limited to her having no magic, and being unable to leave Virie.