Star Driver 10
SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS I LOVE THIS SHOW
Okay, so I am in love with our new twins. Mizuno and Marino are THE CUTEST THINGS TO EVER CUTE IN THE HISTORY OF CUTE, each for different reasons. Also, Marino being the sexy and confident (but only to mask her insecurities and secret!) leader of her section is A+. Also, I love that the guys in her section are these three derp idiots who hang around in their man-cave and think they're hot shit while they play darts in their absurd harlequin uniforms. SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
I am convinced the guy with the goatee is Takuto's dad. Or is otherwise connected to him. The glance he gave the painting in the last episode, and then when he moved it so the MENFOLK wouldn't hit it with their darts - I am positive this is meaningful. MEANINGFUL AS WELL - THE BLACK-HAIRED MEGANE SCIENTIST GIRL USED TO BE THE THIRD MEMBER OF SUGATA AND WAKO'S POWER TRIO???? SCANDAL!
I love that Mizuno has replaced Sakana-chan (idek if that's her real name but whatever) on the bus in the ending sequence, too.
ALSO THE FACT THAT THIS EPISODE CONSISTED MOSTLY OF AN ACTUALLY ACCURATELY-DEPICTED BASEBALL GAME FILLED ME WITH EXTREME HAPPINESS AND DELIGHT.
A theme I have spotted: isolation and the island itself. In the twins' backstory, we see that their father (stepfather? it was a bit unclear) packed up and left the island, and their mom went running after him and left them there (because Mizuno can't leave, being the West Maiden). A few episodes ago, we just found out that Sugata's primary source of negative feelings stemmed towards his perceived inability to leave the island. Wako, of course, feels this even more acutely, being the first to tell us so. Takuto's new motivation is to destroy all the Cybodies so that Wako can leave the island and pursue her dream of becoming a singer. All of this together paints the island, which seemed to the viewer (and Takuto, initially) as your stereotypical Magic Island full of magic and mechas and secrets, in a much more sobering light. I almost feel as though it's deconstructing the idea of the excitement of the Magic Island. Imprisonment and isolation appear to be, if not themes, at least recurring ideas that just keep coming up in this series.
I just love that it manages to balance that kind of subtlety with the INSANE GAY RAINBOWS AND EXPLOSIONS AND ABSURDITY of its surface content. Star Driver, I love you. ♥forever
Okay, so I am in love with our new twins. Mizuno and Marino are THE CUTEST THINGS TO EVER CUTE IN THE HISTORY OF CUTE, each for different reasons. Also, Marino being the sexy and confident (but only to mask her insecurities and secret!) leader of her section is A+. Also, I love that the guys in her section are these three derp idiots who hang around in their man-cave and think they're hot shit while they play darts in their absurd harlequin uniforms. SERIOUSLY, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?
I am convinced the guy with the goatee is Takuto's dad. Or is otherwise connected to him. The glance he gave the painting in the last episode, and then when he moved it so the MENFOLK wouldn't hit it with their darts - I am positive this is meaningful. MEANINGFUL AS WELL - THE BLACK-HAIRED MEGANE SCIENTIST GIRL USED TO BE THE THIRD MEMBER OF SUGATA AND WAKO'S POWER TRIO???? SCANDAL!
I love that Mizuno has replaced Sakana-chan (idek if that's her real name but whatever) on the bus in the ending sequence, too.
ALSO THE FACT THAT THIS EPISODE CONSISTED MOSTLY OF AN ACTUALLY ACCURATELY-DEPICTED BASEBALL GAME FILLED ME WITH EXTREME HAPPINESS AND DELIGHT.
A theme I have spotted: isolation and the island itself. In the twins' backstory, we see that their father (stepfather? it was a bit unclear) packed up and left the island, and their mom went running after him and left them there (because Mizuno can't leave, being the West Maiden). A few episodes ago, we just found out that Sugata's primary source of negative feelings stemmed towards his perceived inability to leave the island. Wako, of course, feels this even more acutely, being the first to tell us so. Takuto's new motivation is to destroy all the Cybodies so that Wako can leave the island and pursue her dream of becoming a singer. All of this together paints the island, which seemed to the viewer (and Takuto, initially) as your stereotypical Magic Island full of magic and mechas and secrets, in a much more sobering light. I almost feel as though it's deconstructing the idea of the excitement of the Magic Island. Imprisonment and isolation appear to be, if not themes, at least recurring ideas that just keep coming up in this series.
I just love that it manages to balance that kind of subtlety with the INSANE GAY RAINBOWS AND EXPLOSIONS AND ABSURDITY of its surface content. Star Driver, I love you. ♥forever