Cabbage Corp

I don’t know what’s more annoying, Tarrlok always getting his way or the other spineless council members who can never make up their damn minds and always vote in his favor. Poor Tenzin, democracy must suck during times like this.

This was some shoddy security. I suppose the guards thought everything was good to go after a one time inspection of the arena and simply stopped doing their jobs the moment the doors were open. For crying out loud they are human metal detectors. Those power gloves should have never gotten in. Also, so much for Lin boasting about the police chi blocking resistant amour, she couldn’t have predicted Amon switch to electricity to combat them. Amon has this being prepared down, this city is so screwed.

Now there are two possibilities where Amon is manufacturing these crazy gloves. The more boring theory is from Hiroshi Sato and his Future Industries. That’s a bit too boring. So let’s go with Cabbage Corp instead. You know Republic City’s most trusted name in technology for well over 50 years? You know the little blurb at the beginning of the episode from the radio? This cabbage merchant in the The Last Airbender had the worst of luck, and Aang and crew were always around when it happened. Having grown his business into what it is now, he’s out for revenge by supplying Amon and his goons these stun gloves. Okay, probably not as he would be dead by now, so that means Amon is his son! That’s equally dumb if that was the case. Still no real hints on who Amon is though, but the manufacturing portion of the gloves can be traced to these two giants of Republic City if you keep things local. With that, Asami can’t be trusted just yet.

“Spiderlin”

Well that’s as much as a silly name I’ve seen thrown around, I like it. It goes without saying while Korra’s fighting segment was cool and all, it was overshadowed by the beast that was Lin Beifong. How Pema ever managed to break Lin and Tenzin’s past love fling must have been a scary sight considering Pema is a nonbender after all. Who am I kidding, without Pema the grandchildren wouldn’t be around to bring some humor into this super serious show. Poor Lin though, she’s still alone.

Anyway, that was some mighty fine metal bending displayed there. Now only if she could pair it with some electricity and she would be laying waste to all these fools faster. She is a woman of justice so I guess it’s against her code to kill anyone outright. As impressive as her metal bending is, I can’t wait to see her general earth bending skills mixed in with her metal bending.

I hope this isn’t the established norm of slowly revealing what happened 42 years ago by having five second flashbacks every time Korra is knocked out. Whatever happened, seems like Yokane forced Aang to go into the Avatar State to deal with his nonsense.

The Legend of Korra – Episode 6 is a post from Typenights.

Alphas to the Rescue

Kouga acts all high and mighty under the name of Alphas, but he’s still finicky when truly carrying out the Alphas persona. He’s not yet the badass he really wishes to carry himself as, wavering on that who to save scenario he came across this episode. No offense it wasn’t that big a deal. What’s the point in spending millions in research and development only to play a taxi service to high school girls. Get in there and save someone. The life and death choices Kouga is going to encounter are going to test his character more so than the simple one he made today. I do suppose a man screaming into your ears questioning your decisions could get annoying, so we can give him some slack this time.

I was happy to see Kouga intervene for the homeless men who rallied to fight for the injured Jin. I really didn’t want to see a bunch of nice guys get slaughtered by killer shrimps out of all things.

The Truth Almost Out

With Konoha knowing her family created the Players, I’m wondering whether she is going to tell Kouga, if she happens to remember at all after her recovery. Eventually Kouga will find out, and that’s going to develop into a major turning point of the series about his decision whether to take action against his family or not. Jin knows, and he particularly doesn’t care, so let’s see if Mr. Justice lives up to his name.

I hope with Jin pumping ZET steroids into his chest he can finally transform into ZET easily now. That whole chewing bubble gum, while humorous, was taking a bit too long to see the results. I hope the action next week could pick up to the levels of the initial episodes because it’s been awhile since ZETMAN has entertained with its action sequences, and that’s primarily why I wanted to watch it in the first place.

Zetman – Episode 6 is a post from Typenights.

Thrill of the Fight

I was rather impressed with Gon’s first match. Of course I’ve seen this before, but the animation quality was really drawing me in this time around. I suppose animating a bunch of spinning tops that actually entertained me was a success. The dodging animation was well done, and those shots of Gon getting knocked out really helped to create a better sense of a grand arena than in previous matches. The ending wasn’t as great as I had expected. Come on where is the sound of bones getting crushed?

Not Quite There Just Yet

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen Kurapika hasn’t it? His appearance reminded me it won’t be much longer until this version reaches what is considered the pinnacle of the original Hunter X Hunter 1999 series. Well at least it was my favorite arc of what was ever animated of the manga. I can’t wait to see the differences between the two versions. There’s definitely a lot of expectations to live up to.

Anyway, either I’m totally developing dementia or I don’t recall that little encounter between Kurapika and his Nen Master. Either way, I thought it was pretty good. The little confrontation gave a short glimpse into the desperate state of Kurapika’s search for power to fight the Genei Ryodan. Kurapika’s training was rather short in the original, and knowing exactly the extent he’s going to grow when it comes to using Nen, I wouldn’t mind if they delved a bit deeper into his training even more this time around.

Hunter X Hunter – Episode 30 is a post from Typenights.

The Theory

It’s mentioned in this episode that Eureka with the original Nirvash flew into the Scub Burst and was never seen again. So that would explain a World A and World B thinking as you would have to assume that bursts, especially as large as the one Eureka flown into, serves as some sort of gateway device between the two worlds. Whatever the medium, there’s “something” that connects both the Eureka Seven and Astral Ocean worlds. If there’s a time difference between them, that’s still up in the air as far as I’m concerned though that too would explain a lot.

Of Two Worlds

Very little connects the original setting in Eureka Seven to that of Astral Ocean. For starters, there’s little to zero history of the Scub Coral ever inhabiting the planet Earth of Astral Ocean. The population refers to them as “gods” to what they are already known as. Eureka is unknown among the populace, she and Renton saved the freaking world for crying out loud. Nirvash’s appearance should have clued them in, but the islanders referred to it as nothing more than a giant. Either world history is not important to these people or it never happened to begin with in this world.

Secondly the population advancements from the end of Eureka Seven to that of Astral Ocean seem highly suspicious. I just don’t believe given a 20 year time difference (that’s being generous assuming Eureka and Renton didn’t get it on when they were like 14) is enough time for the advancements of the human race to where Astral Ocean presents them.

America amazingly enough is a superpower again? How did that happen? The word “America” didn’t exist outside the original map Renton and Eureka had in the first series. So in a span of 20 years, America just happened to come to power again? It also happens to use the same flag with 50 stars? I highly doubt they bothered to replicate original cultures exactly after the coral disappeared in Eureka Seven.

Back on topic, so Eureka went back to the original Eureka Seven Earth 10 years ago with Ao eventually to follow. Would it work if a human stepped into the burst? Maybe, maybe not, but because Eureka is a Corellian, things become a bit more plausible. If a G-Monster can warp its ass out of nowhere, a non-human like Eureka could probably hitch a ride in a sense. Why didn’t Eureka take Ao? Too dangerous for a three-year old to come along for the initial battle I guess.

Putting It All Together

With some of the general thinking out-of-the-way, let’s put things together from the moment Eureka appeared. First just assume somehow a Scub Burst appeared in E7 World and Eureka along with Nirvash ended in Astral Ocean’s Earth. Forget about Renton for the moment, he just didn’t happen to get transported along for whatever reason or another, that’s all. Anyway, Eureka and Nirvash separated during the descent and some nation got their hands on Nirvash. Eureka was already pregnant at this point with the Americans looking for her, but failing to do so as she hid in Fukai’s home.

With the Nirvash in the hands of whatever nation of your choosing, Americans or Japanese, they replicated the design and general mechanics of the Nirvash. The Mark I is the original model that resulted from their initial studies and trials, with future models based off the Mark I’s design, which explains the sharing of parts in episode 4.

So Eureka soon gave birth to Ao. They lived for three years relatively peacefully asides from a little persecution here and there. It was at the end of the third year the Americans finally found Eureka and the great Scub Burst incident happened all at the same time. In a means to save them all, she reunited with Nirvash and sailed into the Scub Burst to make it all go away.

I told you it was far-reaching. If you want to go with the time explanation, I’d just go with AO is like 100 years or whatever before E7 and is based on “our” modern-day Earth before Corellians appeared. That’s the safe bet and seriously super lame I even thought of it.

Yes, I’m fully aware of the Gekkostate looking logo behind the DJ.

Eureka Seven AO – Episode 4 is a post from Typenights.