Episode 07 – Distant World – 遠い世界(tooi sekai)
This week’s episode continues off from where we left off last time, with Sugata in an unconscious state. Quite frankly, after how things changed up last week, I wasn’t sure if this show would be able to keep things interesting. It turns out that I was worrying for no reason, because this week’s episode was rather good as well (although not on par with last week’s ep). The episode delved into the emotions of both Wako and Takuto, and more specifically, Takuto’s uncertainty with his relationship regarding Sugata and Wako. The atmosphere this time around was quite tense, but at the same time, made everything very intriguing to watch how things would unfold. The character development was rather decent, and the plot twist at the end of the episode really has got me thinking about where this show will be going.
After Sugata is thrown unconscious, Wako is pretty much bawling her eyes out for him. The interesting thing here is that Takuto interprets this as a potential problem in their relationship, where after he sees Wako’s passionate reaction, wonders if he is the “unwanted extra” amongst the trio. His doubts dominated most of the first half of the episode, with Sarina finally knocking some sense into him with a nice little talk. Seeing Sarina help Takuto get over his doubts was rather interesting to watch, and definitely has convinced me that Sarina, although she might be a side character, is a rather crucial one with some deep influence on our main characters.
The mech fight was standard “Takuto pwns the enemy” type ordeal, but Sugata’s awakening was by far the most interesting event that occurred during the episode. The very fact that he awakened, although he was supposedly supposed to be dead, means that he now most likely has control over the all powerful Samekh king cybody. However, seeing how his mind was similar to the famous tabula rasa “blank slate” state of mind after his awakening, I never expected the twist where Shinada manages to get Sugata under her First Phase Kiss control.
Knowing that she pretty much has authority over Sugata now, and since considering how Sugata controls the supposedly most power Cybody, that could prove to be quite detrimental to both Takuto and Wako. Sugata’s sudden cold twist in personality reinforces just how much his approvoising has changed him, and will almost certainly tremendously impact what happens in the long run.
Now, my only question for now is, how is Sugata going to act while under the control of the Glittering Crux Brigade? From the looks of it, next week Takuto and Sugata will be brawling it out both in the real world, and in zero time. Sounds like it could turn out to be a pretty awesome episode.
Edit: Ah, I forgot to mention. Sakana-chan’s story continues to get more and more intriguing, and I’m starting to see a parallel between the story and the main plot right now. That being said, I wonder if “Sam” is referring to Sugata, or if there is a deeper meaning to the entire galactic ship, and the squid king. I’m still not quite sure what the story exactly means, but it certainly is getting more and more darker in tone. Perhaps the story is foreshadowing things to come.
Overall Enjoyment: 4.2/5
Screenshots are later in the post.
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Distant Paradise 
This is becoming seriously gay, and child cartoonish.
WTF?
remind you of anything?
There is, admittingly, a lot of silly stuff in this anime. However, if you could get past that, the plot is actually quite a bit more serious and open to interpretation than you might first think. The first few episodes, I’ll admit, were very slow, but this show is finally starting to go deeper into it’s plot, and definitely showing some potential.
The I will admit that the salute is very similar to the sailor moon one. If the creators intentionally did it to mimic Sailor moon, then I would consider it a blatent ripoff.
However, I’ve never actually seen it as an intentional ripoff though. Rather, it seems like it’s just a salute that’s customary to the Glittering Crux Brigade. There’s only so many ways to salute, so it’s not exactly surprising that the salute looks similar to something else (in this case, the sailor moon salute).
I guess we wouldn’t know for sure unless Bones officially announced it somehow.
oh! I always thought “sam” was referring to takuto :O
Well, as of now I’m speculating that Sam is referring to Sugata, but it could very well be that Sam is actually Takuto. It’s my guess as of now, but somehow I get the feeling that Sam fits the whole tragic aspect to Sugata’s tragic status as the Samekh approvoisee better than Takuto does.
I could be dead wrong though, so take my words with a grain of salt. x.x;
The parallel story has resemblances to the main story, but I don’t think there is a one to one analogue between the two. Sam is Sam, he just shares qualities with Takuto, Sugata and possibly also Head.
Here’s a little interesting rumor for those that are curious.
**WARNING** potential spoilers.
I’ve heard that Takuto is the reason why Sugata is stuck on the island. Apparently, it was originally Takuto that was supposed to be in Sugata’s position now, but Sugata kind of became his “replacement”. From what I heard, the sam squid story has a strong connection with their relationship. That’s why I’ve been trying to see if we could connect “sam” with a particular person.
** spoilers end**
Rumors are rumors though, so don’t take them as fact.