This series’ cliff-hangers reached a new level of frustration. Before, they already had me wanting more and more, and ended right at the exact moment I was the most into the series. This week’s episode was like that as well, but on top of that, it had something extra: WHAT ON EARTH was the meaning behind that cliff-hanger?
I mean, this was a wonderful episode. The build-up was just perfect, and I love how this show took its time to show everything leading up to Hibito’s launch. It’s all so detailed, and despite the slow pacing the characters all made it so enjoyable to watch. The humour was better than ever, and as an added bonus Mutta’s mother showed a completely different side of her this episode when she was so worried about Hibito’s fate. Oh, and we finally had a punk kid who behaved normal. I once met a guy who had mohawk hair, and he behaved totally normal, completely unlike the over the top punks you usually see. Of course this effect was mitigated by his father and little brother, but it’s at least something!
But here is the thing: this series also looked like the build-up of a big death scene. With this series taking so much time leading up to that, toying with the weather, showing everyone worried and putting so much focus on Hibito. I wouldn’t be surprised if something indeed did go wrong. And it will very likely be completely amazing if that does happen.
And then Apo disappeared. What? You’re going to kill the dog? What? Why did he get lost at such an important moment!? WHY!?
Rating: 5.5/8 (Excellent)
I also have a bad feeling. Also about the fact that there are so many astronaouts already there and now a lot of japanese people will come too. A little much of them.
Contrary to psgels I think this would be terrible. Of course this would have been great for the last 5-6 ep. of this series. But if I have to watch 20+ ep all dealing with such an event it would get depressing and I watched this show mainly for its fun atmosphere.
I highly doubt anything bad is gonna happen to Apo. If a real dog went missing like that, I would worry, but this is anime, and it’s Space Brothers, and it’s Apo of Space Brothers we’re talking about, I’d be more worried that he would start stalking.
You know, the series was doing a very good job of making it seem like everything will go well for Hibito and that his mission would bring great success to the people of Japan. I did not even think of the possibility that anything could go wrong with the mission until you explicitly brought it up. Now it bugs me like nothing else.
Oh, come on. The mission will go well, they’ll plan to send up resupplies, something will happen to make the Moon mission a survival situation, and the resupply mission will turn into a rescue mission. This is the whole thrust of having brothers in a show at different levels. I mean, yes, they can obviously just kill everybody, but that would go against the elaborate attention to building up everybody’s known skills.
I know only one series (which I’ll maintain unnamed) which had the gust to kill its main character about halfway to the end. If the rocket exploded and killed all the astronauts, that would be a great plot twist. Remember, it happened before with the Challenger…
That mohawk kid reminded me of the mohawk guy from the Curiosity landing. Coincidence? 😉