That scientist chick --- yes it's a woman, don't know why everyone thinks it's a guy except for maybe because the one person said he one time in reference to her which was probably one of the many typo's in the manga--- I don't think she actually died, it was probably just drawn that way to make it look like she had been killed --- as they've done many times before throughout the manga --- so you would think that she died and be "surprised" when she's alive, as for Bandou, I have no idea how the hell he was still alive, he should've been dead, I mean, Lucy cut his body in half, cutting off his organs from the body systems, anyway, this ending was unsatisfyingly satisfying, it was a great way to end it, but I wish Kaede/Lucy could've been with Kouta instead of Yuka, would've been much better more pages showing the reincarnated Kaede & Nyu more clearly and what Kouta did after he turned around and saw them probably giving them a huge hug, aye, so nice and happy, yet so sad, makes me so sad, wish I was Kouta, always liked Kaede/Lucy, wish she was real but without having killed so many people or the whole Nyu personality, don't like Nyu in the beginning at all and Lucy is so much more "emotional" especially in the anime ending, felt so bad for her, it was so heart warming how Lucy kissed Kouta in the anime ending, but her face & pose when Kouta hugged her was kinda weird, I watched the anime first and read the manga afterward to see what happened afterward, must say the manga ending was sad in a "sorry-for-you" kind of way how Lucy died and then was sad in a happy way with the twins, where as the anime ended in sad heart-warming way, makes me wanna cry when I think about it, all in all, both the manga and the anime were great, 10/10 for both