I had huge expectations for this sequel since I'm a fan of E7, however, this didn't even come close.
EUREKA SEVEN AO RENTON SERIES
First off, let me just say that this series was a mess. Initial Impressions: Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi.Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru - 2.Initial Impressions: Vividred Operation.Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru - 3.Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru - 4.It's a story about love, in a different sense than the original, but it's also a continuing story about growing up life is an endless cycle of mistakes and struggle, but at the end you can always reach a turning point where you can start anew.
EUREKA SEVEN AO RENTON FREE
Ao sacrifices his entire identity and all his human relationships to save his world the only way he knew how, and also to send his precious parents back to where they belong, finally free of the curse they'd brought upon themselves, though at the cost of their biological children. There isn't a real happy ending in Astral Ocean Eureka and Renton have lost a daughter and their idealism as they grow older, and they lose their son when their own lack of moral authority isn't able to stop him from making his decision to halt their plans against the Scub. If that's the case, then AO is a young adult who's realized that idealism can't solve everything, but that giving up those ideals is worse than struggling to the limit in order to try and make them happen. In metaphorical terms, Kōkyōshihen is a teenager at the cusp of maturity, someone who's learned about the beauty of idealism and sees the world at their fingertips. Eureka Seven ended so hopefully that it seemed Eureka and Renton had finally come to resolution, a happy ending to the tragic lives they led up to that point. Initially, it's easy to dismiss the series as having little to do with the themes of acceptance, love, growing up, and responsibility that the original so painstakingly integrated into Renton's story. If there's one area (other than the soundtrack, which is composed by Koji Nakamura, and amazing, end of story) I think that Astral Ocean excelled at, it's in the themes. Hoping to find clues to his mother's whereabouts, Ao voluntarily signs up, and he's wrapped up in an adult world so complex and dizzying that he all but loses himself and his values in it. Ten years after Eureka goes missing, the island is once again attacked by a Secret, and through a series of events in which he finds himself a Nirvash, Ao is invited to join the anti-Secret corporation, Generation Bleu. Left alone with his adoptive grandfather, Ao grows up lonely and angry, snubbed by the islanders, who blame him and his mother for the Burst because they are foreigners and rumored to be aliens. When Ao is two years old, his mother, Eureka (still the amazing Kaori Nazuka), mysteriously disappears during a Scub Burst on his home island of Iwato Jima in Okinawa.
Ao is born in 2012 without a father, on an Earth eerily similar to our own but for the mysterious phenomenons known as Scub Bursts, where Scub Coral mysteriously appears out of thin air, followed by huge black monsters known as Secrets which then destroy the Scub and everything around it. Dig a little deeper, and you realize that everything in Ao's world is the way it is as a direct result of the end of Kōkyōshihen, and that there was no happily ever after, after all.īefore I get to that though, here's a quick run down on what Astral Ocean is about. As it is, there doesn't seem to be much of a link to the original series at first, but then we learn that Ao is Eureka and Renton's biological son, and that his parents seem to have come from another world entirely (a separate dimension, to be precise, connected to the Land of Kanan by the Scub Coral's Quartz).
Everything is different, more political and down-to-Earth than the flowery Eureka Seven, and it can be difficult to tie them together instinctively. Instead, the head writer on the project, Aikawa Shou ( Fullmetal Alchemist, Un-Go), gave us a whole new world (literally), a new set of characters, a new plot, and a new protagonist in the fantastic Ao Fukai (newcomer Yuutaro Honjou, in a riveting performance). They wanted to see how the Land of Kanan (the planet in the original series) had changed since the Second Summer of Love, and they wanted to have another atmospherically and philosophically rich adventure. When people heard about a sequel to Eureka Seven, they expected Renton, Eureka, Holland, Anemone, and all the rest of the characters we came to know and love.
Even so, I do think the series suffered commercially from its risk-taking, and it also suffered artistically from the loss of Dai Sato as head writer of the Eureka Project.
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