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 celebrates 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 39 “Join the Future” and Episode 40 “Cosmic Trigger”

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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: A bunch of bad football jokes, with basketball and baseball catching some strays

03:45 – Episode 39 – “Join the Future”

• Aqua tells us a bit about the history of Tuff Little Unit and Warp Records
• It’s a football episode!
• What does Norb even want? Holland thinks he knows.
• Speculating about the general fitness level of the Gekkostate
• Is Renton a male model?
• This episode looks a little janky and that actually makes it funnier
• Return of the Renton/Moondoggie rivalry
• The Greek Chorus of dumbasses
• It’s nice to see these kids happy for once
• Dewey definitely didn’t do any murder
• This episode is one of those weirdly memorable ones

24:37 – Episode 40 – “Cosmic Trigger”

• Talking about our new OP ‘Sakura’, Eureka’s physical appearance, and comparisons to ‘A Cruel Angel’s Thesis’
• A little less love for new ED ‘Canvas’
• Another appearance for Harald Blüchel/Cosmic Baby and his non-ironic future music
• Diving deep into the secrets of the Vodarac
• Religious schisms and messianic figures
• How important is all this Vodarac lore actually going to be though?
• Talho’s secret Plamo collection and also character devlopment I guess
• We (Gee) continue to mourn the loss of problematic Talho
• Talking about the children feat. The Taliban

01:07:28 – Final thoughts, wrapup, shocking dunks on the standard of American leagues, and plugs

Programming Note – Blue Mondays will be taking a week off due to Gee being in Japan, which means there will be no episode on November 10th, and the next episode will debut on November 24th