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 third of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss the reboot movie ‘Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 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

• The Hate threatens to spill over before we have even finished the introduction
• How even to introduce this movie?
• The AOlephant in the room
• The omnipresent shadow of Evangelion reappears
• Another attempt to clarify exactly what this movie is
• This movie is actually two movies
• Trying to break down the new opening segment and the stylistic changes from the TV show
• The Gee classic mecha appreciation power hour
• Shout outs to the incomparable Raul Julia
• A casting decision which is truly unfortunate in retrospect
• Having Adroc as an active character is a mistake
• “The Acid Jazz isn’t synching”
• Absolutely awful dialogue and the way it bulldozes any subtext or theme
• Crashing out over what the rest of this movie actually is
• Losing our collective minds over the Charles & Ray adoption retcon
• Why is this story told non-linearly?
• The movie is terrible for fans but even worse for new viewers
• Taking the Eureka out of Eureka Seven
• Without the context surrounding it even stuff that was good in the TV show is rendered banal
• The crew prove they do occasionally stay in touch with pop culture with an MCU reference
• Using the ‘Vodarac Girl’ subplot as an explainer for how the movie misses the point of even the good material it recycles
• Temprorary diversion into Gundam: Reconguista in G talk just so we can feel something again
• Zigg goes off on a full rant
• Monday mentioned!
• We cannot even agree on the ending theme
• Summing up time!
• BONES’s 20th anniversary PV for the show

Next Time – Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution