Saturday, November 10, 2007

Gundam 00: Episode 6

Now lets start with this week's episode. We're shown Ali at the mine field where the Gundams has attacked in Episode 2, he commented that Celestial Being are ignorant of others welfare when it comes to their goal of ending all wars, the country would not be able to survive without the mines. Then he get a call for him to get back to HQ, the scene switch to a meeting of AEU, and they decided that they will send their army to Moralia.



Moralia is a fictional country in this anime founded just 23 years ago in AD 2284. It’s located at modern day France’s Mediterranean coast (around Marseille) and surprisingly it is not part of the Advanced European Union(AEU). Although it has just 180 thousand citizens, over four million foreign workers live in the country. This is because the country’s economy is highly dependent on the private military industrial complex. It attracts foreign investments by giving tax breaks to private military companies.

Of the 4000 plus companies in Moralia, a giant conglomerate called PMC Trust owns over 20 percent of them. PMC Trust is a private military contractor which has its own mercenary army and weapons development programmes. Although they are not part of AEU, Moralia and PMC appear to be heavily involved in AEU’s weapons and space elevator development.



After the OP we found out that Allelujah got himself into jail(ok, lock up) inside a paddled cell of the ship due to his heroic deed in the last episode, wondering who is it that he feel in his head, Tieria comes in and declared Allelujah unworthy of becoming a Gundam Meister, Allelujah ask whether he is no longer allowed to pilot Gundam Kyrios, She...err...., he! says he wish to answer "yes" when Sumeragi comes in and she needs the Gundam Meisters for the next mission.


Meanwhile, in the lab of Human Reform League(HRL), Soma was being check but the scientist find that her body is completely normal, but they know that there is a second person of the same kind with Soma that caused her to go mad, and modification will be done to her MS so that she could be combat ready again, Sergei isn't happy with the fact that they disregard the sense of moral completely.



Back to AEU, Queen Marina was turned down very politely her request of technical support for Solar Power, but AEU promised food aid for Azadistan. Back at Setsuna's apartment, Kinue make some extra food and Saji brought it to Setsuna, but Setsuna is about to start his mission so he just move out, but stop at halfway to say "It's a tragedy", Saji answered that he can't believed Celestial Being save them and Setsuna goes "Me too" which make Saji pops a lot of question marks.

Then we got a chat between Billy and Graham about AEU and Moralia, Billy commented that it is just a trap to lure in the Gundams. Far far away in Moralia, the AEU's military have arrived and we get to see Patrick the-super-bragging ace for the first time since episode one. The Celestial Being crew finally arrives on Earth where our young chicks goes on shopping(Although Grace wanted another check on the mission plan), and Sumeragi decided to have a drink. Back on the deserted island the Gundam Meisters meet Ian and he introduces the new equipments for Exia and Dynames.


Inside some sort of bar Billy and Sumeragi meets, they seems to be old friends, Billy mentioned the Anti-Gundam Squad and the special particle the Gundam emitted in their chat, and Sumeragi is aware that the Gundam's secret might no longer be. Billy asked about "that" incident and Sumeragi anwered that she forgets it. Back in Moralia, Ali is given his new custom mobile suit and is promised "wealth for the whole life time" to capture a Gundam.


So the mission is starting and the Celestial Being's crew arrived at LiuMei's place, the Gundam Meisters approaches the mission area and is spotted by Moralia's military, battle commences. All the Gundams spread out and attacks different squadron, and Virtue shoots at Patrick's Enact to make him goes down in a funniest way possible. While all the Gundam easily finishes off all their enemies and goes on to phase 2, Exia is attacked by Ali's unit, Ali comment that the Gundam are a good unit with a lousy pilot, Setsuna recalls that Ali's voice was of someone he knows. And the episodes ends with this cliffhanger.


Well this is finally getting better and better after all the background building of the first four episodes, quite some revealing here. First, we found out that more equipment for the Gundams are developed while Celestial Being carries on with their plan, and Sumeragi and Billy have possibly romantic past, she might just work with Professor Aifman before. Also we get to meet someone from Setsuna's past and he seems like a mercenary to be hired, disregard whether he was a friend or foe with Setsuna in the past because the flashback of Setsuna reveals too little, but for sure he is someone senior to Setsuna, can Setsuna beat this guy? Or more importantly, can Setsuna conquer his fear?

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