We continue to ride the trapar waves as Zigg & Aqua watch the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discuss their thoughts and feelings on it as it approaches its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we work our way through the show.
This installment we cover Episode 11 “Into the Nature” and Episode 12 “Acperience 1”
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Opening Music: “GEKKO-GO” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Closing Music: “Kibou no Sora” – Eureka Seven Original Soundtrack vol.1
Title font by Daeres
Show Notes
Intro: Evil women and an introduction to the (as far as we know) not-evil Ami Koshimizu.
08:54 – Episode 11 – “Into the Nature”
- Talking about the full debut of Anemone, what she represents, and why she works as a dark counterpart to Eureka.
- Eureka’s struggles with the Nirvash and her mental state
- Eureka’s character development and (deliberate) regression
- Dominic has a new uniform and Anemone is causing problems on purpose
- The Gekko’s comically huge bath
- What exactly is a Coralian anyway?
- Anemone gets shot up with the bad person juice
- TheEND is very evil and very cool
1:01:21 – Episode 12 – “Acperience 1”
- This is definitely the most Evangelion episode thus far by a mile
- Is it really that deep though?
- The Gekko’s battle in the real world is cool too
- What exactly is happening here?
- Breaking down Renton’s strange dream
- Why is Eureka ‘chasing’ Renton’s brainwaves?
- More important scenes in toilets
- Multiple interpretations of women in fridges
- Straight talking skyfish gives us the lowdown
- Shark Anemone
- A moment of respite and a mysterious cameo
- Escaping the dream
- Talking about how this episode marks a change in the focus of the show
1:42:00 – Wrapup, final thoughts, and plugs.
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Memory flashback of the episode: When I was a child watching this on CN, I did not know that sea anemones were named after a flower, so I thought she was called anemone because her personality is like a sea anemone, aesthetically beautiful but hiding a poison sting.
I love Gee’s mecha commentary, always cool to get those insights! To me the oddest thing about The End is that its control interface is so different from the fighter pilot inspired interfaces of the other LFOs, even the Nirvash.
Honestly I don’t think your younger self was far off the mark – Anemone is almost certainly named after the sea anemone rather than the flower. I’m not going to say why here because it’s a spoiler, but if you think about it for a bit you can probably work it out!
It’s always a delight to have Gee on, we try and get him as much as possible but scheduling can be tricky given the time gaps.