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 it’s the second of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the alternate continuity movie ‘Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers’

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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

• Everything you know is wrong
• What is this movie even called?
• Elvis has entered the podcast

• The history of non-canon anime movie adaptations and why even among that oeuvre this movie stands out
• Talking about the (mostly returning) cast and crew lineup
• The decently atmospheric opening scene
• ‘Childhood friend Eureka’ is a way less interesting relationship with Renton
• Baby Nirvash is simply an error
• Aqua is a defender of Baby Nirvash
• Comiserations to Gee
• The weird repeated use of recycled animation
• Problems with reusing imagery that no longer fits in its new context
• Why do you need to blow up the Earth?
• Sorry South Dakota
• We gotta have the homing lasers
• Is the world of Eureka Seven communist now?
• Dewey Sorenstam named in the Epstein Files
• Coda is weirdly important to the structure of this movie
• Further Dewey discourse
• beep boop i am a robot
• Eureka’s relationship with Renton is much less interesting in this movie, and she has no agency
• Trying to untangle the complex series of twists that forms the core narrative of the film
• The aternate universe chickens come home to roost
• Extended ranting on how creatively bankrupt multiversal meta-commentaries are
• There are some good ideas surrounding the Gekkostate plot but the characters are not well written enough to make them flourish
• Maybe this movie should have been written by a writer
• At least we get a toilet scene
• Renton the hypocrite
• Tonal whiplash is one of this film’s major problems
• Tsundere Eureka is terrible
• The amazingly awful Hap & Stoner scene
• Baby Nirvash is here to make everything hilarious
• Coda is the most likable and mature character in the movie
• Trying to unpack the multiple dream metaphors we’re running into
• Ambiguity is a powerful tool but you need to provide a lead-in to an ambiguous ending
• Aquagaze comes out against the coffee shop AU
• Two Heroman shoutouts in one podcast season?
• Mixed feelings about the new super NIrvash
•  Holland went out and got himself a Gundam GP03 ‘Dendrobium’
  
• It’s a very cool fight but why?
• I know writers who use subtext etc etc
• Anemone as a wise, sage-like figure really does not work
• We Need to Talk About Eureka
• UMBO (Unindentified Metal Bird Object)
• Trying to sum up this amazingly messy movie
• Zigg drops a bombshell
• Bad title drop alert!
• Some notes on scheduling for the near future and our next steps
• Someone should do an Evangelion recap podcast 
• Final thoughts, wrapup, and plugs

Next Time – Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1