Only one thing was certain about these last two eps of Eureka Seven AO – they were going to be controversial. It’s a real shame that the idiocy of TV scheduling caused these final two episodes to be delayed for close to two months, because irrespective of how you feel […] Read more
Any way you look at it the lead story in the Astral Ocean OVA is Ao in a dress, but there are actually a couple of semi-serious moments along the way. Safe to say that Jungfrau no Hanabana-tachi falls squarely in the class of OVAs that place humor as the […] Read more
I hardly know where to start, but “Damn!” is as good a place as any. I know it’s been a long wait for Renton to appear, but I’ll be honest – I don’t think anyone could have asked for a better introduction than that. The fact that it came as […] Read more
If I really thought this was the penultimate episode of Astral Ocean, I’d be very worried. As long as that’s not the case I think it served its purpose quite admirably. AO has followed what’s actually a pretty common pattern for sci-fi anime, despite all the criticism it’s received. It […] Read more
I’m not sure which was more epic, the episode or the preview. I’m at peace with Astral Ocean – or rather, with the fan reaction it. I’ve been a fan of the series since the premiere, and I admit I let the persistent negativity that pervades every discussion of the series […] Read more
Whenever and however the last two episodes of this series arrive, they’re going to have their hands full wrapping up this story. After a string of character and intrigue-driven episodes, we were due for one that just ratcheted the action up to eleven and blew the doors off, and that’s […] Read more
That’s all of Team Goldilocks present and accounted for, then. It was an interesting call for Astral Ocean to go with a character-driven episode with a very narrow focus this close to the end. Perhaps it shouldn’t be, given that those were the signals the series was sending with episode 17 – […] Read more
When we write the book on Eureka Seven AO, I suspect we’ll look back on this episode as the one where all the pieces started to come together. There have certainly been flashier episodes of AO – episode 2 (for the sheer “wow” factor) and 14 (the brilliant re-introduction of […] Read more
If I could have picked any series to go on a two-week hiatus, AO definitely wouldn’t have been it. But it’s surprising how quickly everything came flooding back once the episode started. I still have no idea what’s happening, but at least I know what I have no idea about. […] Read more
It’s never a good idea to get too comfortable with what you believe is happening in Astral Ocean, because this is not a seismically stable landscape. In some ways this episode was downright relaxed compared to the frenetic pace of the last couple, where the revelations were flying fast and […] Read more