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 fourth of our post-show bonus episodes as we discuss further adventures in reboots in ‘Anemone: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution’

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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

• Cart racing with Tupac
• Going over some quick production notes, with specific references to the CGI animation
• Quick introduction to our small additions to the voice cast
• Jumping straight to the salient points
• This movie is not even really a Eureka Seven movie at all
• Multiverse stories are extremely tiresome at this point
• The inherent cynicism of the movie
• Setting up the new world and the new version of Anemone we are following
• Exploring why Anemone is actually a pretty bad choice to base a movie around
• The dialogue in this movie is absolutely atrocious
• Tackling the Evangelion-shaped elephant in the room
• At 25:07 Gee says ‘Evangelion’ when he means to say ‘Eureka Seven’
• Aqua delivers his Patented Hot Take
• Humanity appears to have some pretty poor tacticians
• The movie’s weak attempts at sociopolitical commentary
•  ChatDOM
•  The astral-projection universe hopping is one of the better ideas on show
• Jet Li’s Eureka Seven
• What is even the point of all the AI stuff?
• Preorder now for Funko Pop Dr Bear
• PUNISHED VENOM DEWEY
• Dewey is much less interesting as a magical sage than as a common thug
• The shallowness and facileness of the imagery and themes
• Somehow the tabloid press still exists in this universe
• Zigg’s One Fear
• Anemone’s dad is a naive idiot
• “The Eureka 7 you all have been watching isn’t Eureka 7”
• The complicated interplay of nostalgia, meta-commentary, iconoclasm, and hubris that this story stirs up
• Another re-affirmation that we will never cover AO
• Once again, it’s not that deep bro
• The attempts at meta-commentary are deeply damaging to the fabric of the story
• Shin Gulliver as a metaphor for the whole creative endeavour
• An overly simplistic emotional climax
• What is The Silver Box?
• Super Gulliver 128
• Gay EoE???
• Who is Renton? Where is Renton? Why is Renton?
• Trying to wrap up this mess of a movie
• A quick preview of some stuff from the third movie

Next Time – Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution