@iceprince_x: Takeru was killing demons left and right in the Manga and Masane, by the end of the anime, had enough power building inside her body to destroy a city. When the Witchblade first awakened and bonded to Masane it created a massive quake that decimated part of Tokyo and sunk a section of the city into the bay.
Takeru was growing more powerful the more the Witchblade took control, and Masane actually had a 2nd stage to the Witchblade that made her stronger and faster than she had initially been. In the anime Masane also had to face CloneBlade users, basically women who had been created to wield the Witchblade and were given scientifically created copies of it to try and create a perfect female that could wield the true Witchblade.
Ultimately they all failed and it was revealed the only Perfect one that could be its host was in fact Masane's daughter, Rihoko, who wasn't her real daughter. And the Witchblade was waiting until Rihoko had matured into an adult body and was only using Masane was a surrogate host until then. However, even discovering that Rihoko wasn't her blood-related child changed nothing of how she felt. She'd raised that girl, she was the only mother Rihoko had ever known, and Masane was gonna be damned if some ugly fashion accessory was going to turn her kid into a monster.
Masane did what had perhaps never happened before. The Witchblade had only ever known violence its entire existence. Masane allowed it to experience a mother's love as she took it and the souls of all the EX-Weapons (essentially living man-made machines created from the corpses of dead people brought back to life) with her in the final moments and brought them to heaven.
The Anime was great and it had such a lovely, bitter-sweet ending. You just had to love it.
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