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Original Air Date: February 2nd, 2010

The final boss for this game, Shichi Tou Ja. Ordinarily a rather tough foe, he has lots of health, is exceptionally fast, and can make his weakspots appear and disappear (so you have to move to a new spot to hit him), and do some seriously deadly attacks. With the exception of his blazing body technique (which does almost minimal damage), everything he does can deal between 150-750 points of damage. He is level 40, so he'll likely have a significantly higher level than any of your characters by the game's end. We just trained them a little more so we could fit the battle in eleven minutes.

Put someone with decent speed and health in front of the boss' head immediately and have them guard for the duration of the battle, healing them if they get badly wounded. He will bite down on them most of the time, mistaking them for a threat. It is one of his weakest attacks in its self, but can critical hit very often. Guarding it can take in the neighborhood of ~200 damage. If you don't put someone there, he will do widespread spells that can take ~200-~500 damage or worse, breathe widespread fire, which takes ~400-~750 damage, heavily beating or killing most in the area.

Position at least one moderately strong character to the East, West and South, and have at least one character act as support (casting beserk on fighters or healing them). If you're lucky, You/ヨウ, the slow but powerful blonde-haired brute, will do a "cutscene critical" (an extra powerful critical hit). If he does one while beserk and he's equipped good, he can take over 1000 points of damage in a hit. Depending on your level, the boss may kill one or two of your characters, but just keep hitting him and he'll eventually go down.

You can read the game samples for details.