At this point, I think I’m pretty sure of the big difference between Eureka Seven and Eureka Seven Ao in terms of series structure: consistency. Based on the past fourteen episodes, I can say that Eureka Seven’s stand-out moments were much more shocking and much better delivered than Eureka Seven Ao’s. On the other hand, Eureka Seven Ao just had a streak of awesome episodes that doesn’t seem to end anytime soon. Compare that to Eureka Seven’s season of build-up. Which one’s the best? I’d say that Eureka Seven still edges it for its world development and these mind-blowing standout moments. But seriously: I love its sequel as well.
This episode also had an awesome plot twist to add to this show’s vast array. And really, these are the kinds of plot twists that make me wtf out loud. They toy with your expectations, and strike when you’d least expect it (I really thought that Eureka immediately knew that Ao was her son, but holy crap Ao has a sister!), and yet they feel part of the plot, instead of just shoved in for the sake of having plot twists.
The rest of the small plot twists were also very fun and interesting to watch, but there is one in particular that caught my attention: Ao hating his father. I originally thought that there was some deep reason behind that. I mean, this series likes to withhold certain pieces of information from the viewer, even when it’s about the main character (which is great, by the way: it shows that said main character had a life before the start of the series), but in the end, he just blamed him for being there with his mother. Which, you know, is pretty reasonable for a kid his age.
This episode also made me realize what the creators were trying to do with him. I mean, the one thing that makes Ao stand out: he acts mature for his age. Why? Because he had a bad childhood. He never really got to be a child because of all that island and discrimination stuff going on. This is the biggest reason why he is so fundamentally different from Renton, who despite losing his parents (he did, right? My memory si fuzzy about that one), did grow up happily and he even had an idol to look up to. And that brings us back again to the main theme of this series: kids don’t belong in war. You could see that again when that one smirky officer was about to shoot Ao, and how many people jumped on him.
Rating: (Awesome)
I was blown away from this episode, honestly this is the best thing of the current season in my opinion. Eureka really has a quality that many if not most anime lack, as of now I’m completely amazed, and dying to know what happens next.
OMG. What’s going to happen now? So Eureka had an elder daughter. It looks like that doctor guardian of Ao knows something about that. Could that elder sister be Elena?! But she doesn’t look like Eureka or Naru. It’s a little strange. Maybe Elena is a clone of the original daughter of Eureka….but how’d she come over to Ao’s Earth anyway. And Naru is really going to be one of the antagonists? đ The 1st part opening was a massive troll?! And the new creepy guy in the shadows standing behind a distressed Eureka. Who is it? That can’t be Renton. I don’t see why’d she’d be creeped out by him.
Sigh. Kinda sad about Naru. She got connected to the Coralian network so I thought she’d become something like e7’s Sakuya backing up Ao and everyone else from the background but it looks like she really hates humans now. I’m really surprised original Nirvash is working with her. Having gone through all the conflict in E7, I thought he’d be more conciliatory. Is he pissed off at the humans for attacking the pregnant Eureka? Hm…the sh*t’s hit the fan, again. And…man, did they have to scuttle the Gekko? đ The Goldilocks team was missing a ship anyway…*snap*
Kinda hard to follow this story. ^^; A whole lot happening all at once.
I think Naru somehow chased/locked away Eureka. Her demeanor toward Eureka is “Don’t get in my way”, the question is does Nirvash reacts to Eureka or toward strong feelings of wanting to protect something? I agree it is a bit unclear yet.
All this make me really wonder about what happened with Eureka between her first and second appearance.
I think she’s become something like a pro-Corallian militant. Can’t say I blame her since the japanese military are represented by that wily military guy who tried to gun down Ao and set up Eureka to be shot down. I wonder if she knows he’s working with Truth. It’s not clear yet if she’s still allied with Truth since she may now know more about him than he may know about himself. But yeah, it’s a little disturbing how cold she was towards Ao. Completely different from how she was in the beginning. She seems to have her own goals now and isn’t really close to him anymore. I’m not even sure if she still cares about her own family. The Corallian presence in her body may be affecting her personality. *shrug* I just hope she doesn’t turn into something like Katejina Loos. >.>;; That will really be in bad taste.
Hmm… I don’t think it’s the Corallian as much as what she learned. I’m not familiar with Katejina Loos, but Naru did transformed from timid sickly girl who did what she was told into a girl who does what she deems needed to be done.
Katejina Loos is a character from Victory Gundam. Once a friend and associate of the kid protagonist, she winds up twisted into a deranged and powerful antagonist.
but Naru did transformed from timid sickly girl who did what she was told into a girl who does what she deems needed to be done.
I’m not sure. Even when she was sick, she wasn’t the obedient type but she seemed kind and cared about Ao. This new Naru seems cold and distant, unwilling or unable to acknowledge old friends or family, even Ao. She’s doing what she deems needs to be done but she may be up to no good – her waving off Eureka’s presence as a nuisance is a pretty strong sign that whatever she’s up to is something off. And was shooting up the aircraft carrier and killing the people there really necessary? Pretty ruthless.
I see… i don’t think that the creators will make Naru “evil”. Notice how things got blown up yet we really don’t get to see any actual casualties (but maybe we will see them next episode because this incident was at the very end of this episode)
Thing is, I think Naru is just very disappointed that Ao doesn’t see nor understands the things she does, she clearly states that when she rejects him. And she clearly has made up her mind about what she needs to do.
Oh and btw I think you are right about her relationship with Truth, it’s not completely friendly one, maybe not even close, she compliments him, but doesn’t go doe-eye over him as she did when he “rescued” her and when she says “I understand you” she almost implies “I understand what you are scheming”. I’m not sure though if she will go along with it or what she does is completely her plan, i think it’s the latter.
It looks like when she got connected to the Scub Coral, she accessed the history of Eureka 7’s timeline. That’s apparently what changes her personality but I’m not sure how. There are other examples of humans melding with the Scub Coral network but they all mostly went comatose until the final Summer of Love event. This Naru is behaving very strangely. I wonder if things are going according to plan or if the creators decided to change the story midway based on viewer feedback. Off the top of my head, it seems like she’s meant to represent a new more aggressive Coralian faction. Truth…doesn’t actually represent the Coralians I think. He’s just an element of chaos without a real side. It looks like his Dad was researching coralians. Not sure what happened to him. Maybe he got killed by one of the human factions and that’s why he’s out creating big messes everywhere for fun. And he’s obsessed with Eureka for some reason. Maybe he really is a human-form Secret that was sent to hunt down Eureka but got mutated by the Scub Coral into what he is now?
I’m just glad the sequel is absolutely terrible, after what’s been done to Last exile.
It wont be a great series from what’s happened so far, but I think it’ll end up being a good series overall
*is not absolutely terrible
OH COME ON! When they changed the opening to Uchuu Kyoudai you comment on it but when they bring FLOW to Eureka Seven back, NOTHING?
Yes. Yes. Great band. Great song. Really.
It kind of goes without saying, you know?
It’s just that feelings towards the story are just a bit messed up. Things are moving at light speed from all directions and I can’t tell if it’s going well or badly. It’s an exciting roller coaster ride but I’m pretty disorientated. It’s a little worrying.
Well psgels doesn’t like FLOW as much as the average folk.
What I think is that the Scrub Coral reproduced human forms of secret (Truth) and human (Naru) when Eureka caused the pillar of light to happen.
I believe that ao’s older sister is still with renton in the future, because she was pregnant with ao when she came back to the past the second time. I also cant wait for the nirvash to evolve into the form in the opening credits. The thing that’s really bugging me though is waiting for them to tell what actually happened to eureka after she officially disappeared the second time around, and i bet it has something to do with elena.
opening also have Renton, foreshadowing…we only saw his back
Psgels:
but in the end, he just blamed him for being there with his mother. Which, you know, is pretty reasonable for a kid his age.
I think you are missing a “not” there, however i thought that this was obvious from the beginning?
I agree that it was great how they handle the “kids donât belong in war” message here. I also like what happened between Ao and Naru, it was slowly heading there, but i don’t think I’ve ever encounter an anime heroine to be so unperturbed in her rejection. That was awesome.
Random observation, Naru’s presence in the op and ed has greatly diminished. I wonder if they’ve chose to change directions with her character
Yeah. It’s too strange considering how prominent she was in the first OP. In that, she looked like she was meant to join Generation Bleu and be Ao’s safety net over the scub coral network somehow but that’s all been abandoned. I wonder if Naru lost some popularity poll or something.
Hmm… i don’t think she lost a popularity poll, her design is more close to Anemone (the “evil-not-so-evil” counterpart of Eureka), so i think this was decided from the beginning. There are some parallels with the original Eureka 7 and frankly I’m not so sure whenever Ao is a more mature Renton or a Dominic so to speak. I really want to see what thy will do with Elena, because I think it will decide many things in the plot and character development.
I don’t know. There’s this weird jarring inconsistency, like the anime production just took a hard turn from what they planned to do in the beginning. I have a bad feeling that she’s going to either go completely Katejina or get killed off somehow. I mean, I don’t mind if Ao gets fixed up with Fleur. But making the kind, sickly osanajimi get NTR-ed and twisted into a monster is a bit much.
Btw, I’m pretty sure Elena is somehow related to Ao’s elder sister. Either she is her or is a clone of her. Now she reminds me of Anemone. I thought she might be Anemone’s kid that somehow wound up in Ao’s world but now that we know Eureka had a daughter too… Plus it explains her (subconscious?) anger at Eureka trying to leave her again. What might have happened if Elena had caught up with Eureka?
Anemone or one of her descendants needs to make an appearance. I could care less if Renton comes back into the picture cause he was hard to stomach during the first series. Oh Lordy that soccer filler was too much for me.
I always thought that the soccer episode was literally a filler to buy the producers time to extend the script. I felt Eureka 7 was meant to finish sooner but got an unexpected time extension around the Charles and Ray Beams arc. I mean, Charles and Ray Beams going ballistic on Holland just game right out of nowhere. I’m not sure if it was intentional.
Definitely agree with this, would be very surprised (and disappointed) if we don’t learn that someone cool/important’s related to Anemone or we don’t see her if no one is.
Also the Elena, Eureka angle is very interesting.
Crazy theory after watching the episode so many times: Naru will turn into the Nirvash archetype in the distant future due to her scub contamination. The scene of her flying away in the beginning of the OP and the scene of Ao flying away with the Nirvash at the end of the OP is too similar for it to not having any meaning! She’s one of the few people who stayed behind after humanity abandoned earth, got buried under the the Generation Bleu’s HQ and after thousand of years turned into the Nirvash we all know and love.
Please don’t take me too seriously đ I just hope that this series doesn’t perverse original series like what EVOL did.
It’s an interesting idea. The way Naru danced on trapar in the OP kinda reminds me of an LFO…
Having not seen the original Aquarion, I think what EVOL did to is awesome! Cant say i saw that plot twist coming
I thought for a minute there that I missed some kind of part since Ao didn’t seem to be too surprised that Naru showed up. Watching this show for someone who hasn’t watched Eureka Seven is hell! XD I mean it’s super enjoyable but I’m just sooooo confused all the time.