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 47 “Acperience 4” and Episode 48 “Ballet Mechanique”

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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: Aqua’s bold new proposal for a robot show

02:35 – Episode 47 – “Acperience 4”

• What exactly is happening in this episode?
• Some talk about the nature of Diane and Adroc as seen in this episode
• Maybe the Scub Coral is not so innocent after all
• How the revelations of this episode affect the greater themes of the show
• Legend of the GLORIO Heroes plug!
• The hive mind of the Scub Coral vs the individuality of humans
• It’s that old chestnut, human instrumentality
• Who are the other people in this vision?
• The final fate of Diane and Adroc
• Casually confirming the existence of parallel universes and the problems this will cause going forward
• Renton learns the merit of a quiet life
• The right way to dump exposition on us

46:10 – Episode 48 – “Ballet Mechanique”

• For all you film students out there here’s the film the song is named after
• A little talk about the scenes we see during the firing of Oratorio #8
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• A little back and forth on whether this portrayal of Anemone’s plight falls into the trap of gender essentialism
• Is the Anemone/Dominic relationship underdeveloped?
• Anemone’s ability to self-reflect in what she thinks are her last moments
• Did this need to be a romance?
• Hollow Earth Theory
• Holland the masochist
• The sadder you are the cooler your battles become
• The ultimate attack is holding hands in front of people
• Dominic’s extremely ill-thought out rescue attempt
• TheEND alternate colour version
• Turns out you CAN fix her
• Looks like Kenichi Yoshida put in a little more work on these final episodes
• Why does the evil superlaser have a self-destroying mode?
• Dewey is victorious

01:31:05 – Final thoughts, wrapup, and plugs