While this episode had a lot of crossover characters, all the characters had been seen in the series before. The story itself was cliched and just a bit unbelievable. The feather is Sakura's in the first place. Why didn't they just take it and jump to the next world? They risk their lives for some feathers but they refuse to steal one?
There was a funny crash with Sakura and Mokona though.
Next week (Episode 48: Feather King Chaos) is another anime only story which
might be a sequel to the movie (the rainbow coloured bird is back). This episode actually looks pretty interesting. Should be good.
After next week are 4 remaining episodes The Warped Wish, Friendship of Determination, The Frozen Soul and the last episode title hasn't been released yet. Will these four episode feature the X/1999 arc? Here's hoping but there has been no proof that that arc will be covered this season
and that arc is still running in the manga in Japan.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
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