Hakuouki, did Hijikata san die? My thoughts on the matter. And about the deaths of the others.

I finished watching the anime in the summer 2012, and i absolutely LOVED IT! It was so good, the drama was good, it was funny, the romance was cute, and the deaths hit me so hard. At the end of almost every death i looked the the japanese crying emoticon (T_T). It was a beautiful anime. I normally don't watch animes like these, like the historical shinsengumi animes, or about samurais, historical japan, or i guess gore animes. But this one was so good, it's a must see. The deaths that hit me all began in the end of the first season with inoue san dying. Then like 5 minutes later yamazaki jun dies (i think thats his name, the ninja, "doctor" guy). His death had me bawling. And then they bury him at sea?!!!?!?! Yup, i started crying all over again from there haha. Even though i say bury, they actually placed him into  a water with the use of a pulley thing.

I cried during Harada san's death as well, it was just so sad. Especially when he says that he's not gonna die because he has to go to Anzu (?) and meet up with [Nagakura san]. Oh friendship :'(. Then okita san's death. Surprisingly i didn't cry all that much but it was still sad. He died trying to protect Chizuru and Hijikata san. Presumably he turns to ashes after and he elves his sword behind in the ground which are the only things that show that okita san was there to chizuru and hijikarta san.

I cried every time someone said this :'(

And then the death that i think i cried the most from, aside from yamazaki san's, is heisuke's and sannan san's deaths. Not necessarily sannan san i cried over, more of the scene. They fought along hijikata san until the end and then they turned to ashes. I grew a liking to heisuke so i think that's why i felt so emotional T_T

No, stop saying that >.<

Heisuke kun~~!!! T_T

Okay, now finally, do i think Hijikata san died? Yes. He was my favorite character and i loved him, but i honestly think he died. I wrote this around in a bunch of places but i'm going to say it here. He died. So everyone keeps saying ohh he didn't turn into ash and he wiped away chizuru's tears at the end so he must be alive lalalala~. I don't see it that way. It was left ambiguous whether or not he died, but I'm going to share my opinion. So about the ash thing, the reason he didn't turn to ash was because he died as a human. Heisuke and Sannan san turned to ash while hey were still in they rasetsu form. Hijikata san changed back to his human form and died so he obviously wasn't going to turn to ash. That's what I think. If he didn't die from his fight with kazama then he could've died from the bullet from right before his fight with kazama. Then the thing about how he wiped away her tears, i think that was just in chizuru's head or it was his spirit or something, cus in animes spirits are capable of doing things like that. Besides the fact that after they show him wipe away her tear and he wasn't lying down, he was sitting just made me think hmm, i don't think he's alive and maybe it's his spirit watching over chizuru or something. If that made sense. I believe he died, i don't want it like that because then it seems like chizuru's gonna be all alone, unless she meets up with saitou san or something. I will always love you, Hijikata san <3

Hijikata san <3

That's all i really have to say. Later today I think I'm gonna put up a post about Kippei's route from In Your Arms Tonight. I finished it 2 days ago, but i didn't want to post about it yesterday cus i already posted about Riki's route from Love Letter From Thief X.

Amazing anime :')