Episode 12

Defense and Bonds is the final episode of the first season of the BOFURI anime series. of the BOFURI anime series.

Summary
Brought down to minimal health, Maple uses a risky counter move to deal Payne's damage back at him. Payne manages to withstand the attack, forcing Maple to bring out her Atrocity form to defeat him and the rest of Holy Sword. With all their trump cards out in the open, Maple makes use of her Atrocity form to help her team eliminate other guilds to prevent the bigger guilds from gaining more orbs, assisting the Flame Emperors to achieve that goal, prompting other guilds to do the same. As the event comes to an end with Maple Tree in third place (after the destruction of all the other guilds the event was closed 2 days early), the admins decide to leave Maple alone as she has drawn many new players into the game and many are going to try to be the first to beat her. Maple invites both Holy Sword and the Flame Emperors to join everyone for a celebration and watch the highlights of the event (most of which stars Maple and Maple Tree).

Mii and Payne reflect on almost beating Maple, promising to gets stronger to beat her. However, Chrome points out the she'll get another crazyy power up even if they do. Pouting, Maple tells them that she's just playing the game normally like them. Everyone, INCLUDING Maple Tree collectively shout in exhasperation "YEAH RIGHT!" Maple then blushes, unable to say anything.

Characters

 * Maple
 * Sally
 * Chrome
 * Kasumi
 * Kanade
 * Iz
 * Mai
 * Yui
 * Syrup
 * Oboro
 * Payne
 * Frederica
 * Dred
 * Drag
 * Mii
 * Marx
 * Misery
 * Shin

Trivia & Notes

 * Maple getting shadow cloned while in Atrocity to create seven monsters is THE craziest thing she's ever done.
 * The resulting battle looked like something you'd see during an apocalypse; something Holy Swords comment. "The more I look at this, the more my brain melts."
 * The event is pretty much over before the time limit is up. Maple Tree, Congregation of the Holy Swords, and Kingdom of the Flame Emperor all decide to just go all out and take out the weaker guilds; seeing no point in further playing out the idea of stealing each other's orbs.
 * So Maple invitee the top members of each guild to join Maple Tree for a party after the event.
 * Maple's vitality is now in quintuple digits, explaining why the suicide explosion attack last episode did not work against her; her defense was just too high.
 * The developers finally give up on stopping Maple from getting stronger; nerfing her abilities again will not do anything but temporarily hinder Maple until she finds ANOTHER crazy power up.
 * They also realize that her achievements out of sheer stupidity are drawing in more players, thus making them more profit as well; since they all want to fight the seemingly invincible Maple.
 * The ending title card shows Maple's shield splitting into two; signifying the next season.