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 45 “Don’t You Want Me?” and Episode 46 “Planet Rock”

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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: Zigg & Aqua wax lyrical for a bit, and Gee is confused

02:51 – Episode 45 – “Don’t You Want Me?”

• If you don’t know the musical reference for this one you are probably not too plugged into pop culture in general
• A few notes on our conspicuously elaborately designed intro characters
• The most suspicious man in the world
• Patreon vs OnlyFans
• Jurgens gets the Ken-goh seal of approval
• Dr Bear’s weirdly dramatic entrance
• Eureka’s melodrama and why it works here
• Renton is maybe taking empathy a little too far
• NOT NOW MAURICE
• Our characters are so much emotionally mature and intelligent than they used to be
• Talking about this moment as the culmination of character arcs for Maurice and Eureka
• The emotional honesty of anime as a medium
• What is the reference to Charles here meant to be about?
• #welcometotheresistance
• Speculating on the Gekko crew’s various musical tastes

40:28 – Episode 46 – “Planet Rock”

• A little history on ‘Planet Rock’ and the early days of the hip-hop movement
• Is ‘Nenocantus’ a real world?
• Holland is way too far into his messiah complex
• The Maeter flashback is maybe one melodrama too many
• Three times as fast!
• Holland has upgraded from nihilistic to merely deeply depressed
• Discussing the fortunes of war while mostly naked
• Renton’s bizarre biology
• Butterfly babe
• Dewey continues to check off the marks on the evil conqueror list
• Sometimes sappy is OK
• More mysterious amber
• Pulling together the plots for an epic conclusion
• Should we have been expecting Diane?
• A quick debate about English words in anime

01:10:13 – Final thoughts, wrapup, and plugs