So… after last week’s big climax… we get here an anti-climax. Mutta never really made a foolout of himself, and instead this series goes on to introduce a very important question: are the astronauts prepared to die? The annoying thing is that it’s still impossible to figure out what Azuma is thinking, and this episode then proceeded to skillfully ignore the entire third exam in favor of building up for Hibito’s take off.
So with the build-up, this wasn’t one of the standout episodes of Space Brothers, but still had plenty of great moments, most notably Mutta asking Hibito to take the disc he made as a kid with him, which contained the footage he shot of that UFO (the first time since the first episode that that thing has been mentioned by the way). Also, Apo turned out to be an interesting way to get Mutta and Serika closer together again.
Also, this episode showed the new OP and ED for this season. The first quarter of this series had an awesome OP and an unremarkable ED, the second quarter had an unremarkable OP and a wonderful ED instead. Here, they’re both really good. Not as good as the best ones, but it’s still great to watch them, and they’re based on great ideas.
Rating: 5/8 (Great)
I’m actually kinda shocked you liked the ending. Don’t get me wrong, DOES is a great band and I love their songs, but I thought you won’t like the animation because not a lot is going on.
I don’t know why but I laughed my ass of when they showed the footage with Zidane’s headbutt in the middle of the episode. I don’t even know if it was supposed to be a joke or not, but he looked like a goddamn gorilla and the sound “effects” they added just made it hilarious…
oh man
the zidane headbutt
brings back memories