Episode 19

Matta nyashi dashi~

Notes

• Kazune's dye job isn't quite the same shade as Himeka/Kazuto's hair, actually... It's a bit blue-er.
• Once again Kazune says he suspects Micchi's ring reacted to the Zeus ring. (compare this to the manga)
• Kirio now senses Micchi's ring right as Micchi puts it on. This marks a clear difference from the manga, where what he's actually sensing is Yuuki wearing Karin's ring, which doesn't happen until a few scenes later.
• The girl from Pita-ten doesn't make a cameo anymore, for whatever that's worth.
• Karin wears the extra hair dec frills after changing out of the Princess Apple outfit, and keeps them on as the evil princess. Yuuki's hairdecs seem to be feathers and a rose on each side, completely different.
• Despite Micchi's ring being all distracting and shiny here, you can clearly see that Yuuki's wearing Karin's ring already.
• Karin's lines in the play already mirror what's going on: Her cry of "don't fight!" stops Kirio and Kazune's fight for a moment, and "please give me the power!" goes with her trying to wrest her ring back from Yuuki so she can join the battle.
• Karin's attack cry is prefaced with "kami no hikari" (god's light)- might be a reference to the line Micchi just bsed about her vanishing by transformation being "she shined heaven's light upon us!" or something, but her attack seems to have a different effect this time as well- the background is replaced by a pink/white glow, and only Kirio, Kazune and Karin are seen. No one is shown actually leaving the stage- everyone leaves by teleporting, and Kazune and Karin seem to show up next backstage. What happened?
• During Karin's reminiscencing during the last scene, one of the flashbacks is to her first Suzuka flashback- "We'll definitely meet again". It's not made clear whether this is a spontaneous flashback or her remembering it (which would mean she was aware of it despite her lack of reaction, as in ep 7). With the shot of the photo of their "parents" right before it, Kazune's current look takes on a new meaning, what with Karin looking quite like the man's wife...

Speculah

It's hard to tell what's going on with the "god's light" thing, but it seems to be Karin creating a phantom zone-like effect, likely to bring the battle off the stage where it would cause less destruction. (Kazune and Kirio hadn't been slinging exploding energy attacks before she popped in, so they were okay as they were.) No idea why she'd be able to do this, or why she'd know she could do this.

The "____ no hikari" name seems to put it in the same field as the good old Light of Love. As such, we might have been seeing this move again come Chu's adaptation.

I wonder if it isn't a generic power useable by any ring like teleportation, with some tie to the other strange alternate dimension in this show, the Labyrinth (or the white time tunnel). If the Light of Love is the same, this woud explain why it was activated by the Apollo and Athena rings, though the specific tie to "love" makes that seem unlikely.