It’s a new podcast series! Zigg & Aqua will be watching the classic 2005 mecha anime Psalms of Planets Eureka Seven, and discussing their thoughts and feelings on it as it approaches its 20th birthday. Keep an eye out for this podcast between main installments of The GLORIO Chat – every two weeks or so – as we surf the trapar waves. This installment, we cover Episode 5: “Vivid Bit” and Episode 6: “Childhood”
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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
Intro: Podcast beef and work experience
1:33 – Episode 5: “Vivid Bit”
- Renton continues to struggle with finding his place among the Gekkostate
- “Who do you like, guys who puke or guys who don’t?”
- Talho and her romantic(?) rivalry with Eureka
- Establishing a few things about ‘normal’ society in this world
- Speculating on Eureka’s weird nature
- Some disappointing elements of Talho’s arc in this episode
- Fighting in restaurant parking lots
40:16 – Music quiz time
44:48 – Episode 6: “Childhood”
- Renton vs The Kids begins in earnest
- First major appearance for Woz
- Holland and Huey Lewis
- Security on the Gekko is nonexistant
- How does one pilot a giant robot anyway?
- There’s a pretty high bodycount in this episode
- Parental figures and parental substitutes
1:10:28 – Final thoughts, wrapup, and plugs.
