Ooedo Rocket – 15

Today’s focus was rather difficult to really pinpoint, as there isn’t really a character who asks up most of the attention. Central in the episode, though, was a new experiment by Seikichi and Shunpei: what happens when the rocket is launched from a great height? Shunpei also tweaked the rocket-designs a bit, so that the exhausts would move when unbalanced, to keep the rocket in a straight line. Of course, things go wrong when Akai shows up. ^^; Also, I finally noticed something. Notice the jackets that people wear in the Op, among other places? The ones with the random characters on it? These are actually the first hiragana-characters of the individual names of the characters! Okay, it’s an unimportant detail, but it’s nice to see that the creators spent so much time on this. One thing I loved is how Santa, Shinza and Rokubei used a steam powered engine that Gennai invented to make Leonardo Davinchi’s flying machine take off into the air. Take that, brothers Wright! ^^; Don’t you also love that Seikichi’s reaction when the finds out that there is no air in space merely comes down to “I don’t care”? Still, the major appeal of Ooedo Rocket remains the support that everyone’s giving to Seikichi and Shunpei. They definitely are not alone, and everyone around them helps them as much as possible, which all makes for a very fun series. In this episode, Santa, Shinza and Rokubei also try to prove themselves with that flying machine of theirs. We also see Ginjiro and his friends help to the best of their ability, in order to get a kite with Seikichi, Shunpei and Akai on it back to the ground, after it went out of control. There wasn’t much of the blue monster of the sky in this episode. She spends most of her time in bed (ripping it apart in the process). I do wonder how she’s going to be for the rest of the anime, especially now that matters have become personal for Akai with the inclusion of Seikichi. Ooedo rocket is just one of these anime that is fun to watch, when it comes with a great combination of characters, music, story, detail and creativity. Okay, it’s not the best series of the spring-season, but definitely one of the better ones. :)]]>