Posts with the “eureka” tag

Listen to the voices of the children of the stars

Eureka Seven AO was never going to be as good as its progenitor, Eureka Seven. Very little since has been as unyieldingly brilliant as that 2005 masterpiece and few could hope to match its expansive, multifarious characters and story. That AO makes a good stab is, paradoxically, to be commended as well as lamented.

The story of Ao, a pariah on his own home island, joining up with a clandestine organisation to pilot a giant robot and battle similarly sized enemies is not new. The details of course are different and the background of political turmoil between Okinawa and Japan rumbles on while trapar - the nebulous green energy which allowed E7's robots to surf - is now mined as an energy source. For anyone with any familiarity with the original series then it's all a bit discombobulating; is this a prequel, sequel or alternate universe? Is it just another telling of the same story like the tonally wonky Pocket Full of Rainbows movie was?

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She's A Rainbow

Correlations and theories on Eureka Seven AO

As a way of organising my thoughts and pontifications on Eureka Seven AO before the airing of the final episodes, a semi-coherent brain dump (with subheadings!):

  1. Terminology and background
  2. Timeline
    1. Past
    2. Present
    3. Future
  3. Map
  4. Factions and organisations
    1. Scub Coral
    2. Secrets
    3. Allied forces
    4. United Okinawan and Rykyu Archipelago
    5. Generation Bleu
    6. Gekko State
  5. Characters and groups
    1. Ao and Noah
    2. Naru
    3. Truth
    4. Eureka
    5. Elena Peoples
    6. Ivica Tanovic
    7. Team Harlequin
    8. Team Goldilocks
    9. Nirvash
  6. Miscellaneous
    1. Quartz and Quartz Gun
    2. Third Engine
  7. Theory
  8. References
    1. Callbacks to Eureka Seven
  9. Notes and versions
    1. Version 1.0 - 2012-11-02

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