Aquarion MoE Ep 7 Review: Where Is This Series Going?

February 23, 2025Episode Review,  Mecha Discussion,  ,  
Aquarion: Myth of Emotion has managed to be reasonably mysterious and action-y thus far, while revealing bits and bits of the Mythical era as well as the world’s current truth. However, the more we advance in the series, the more disjointed it feels. There are a lot of exposition each episode, but they don’t seem to be very connected to each other. Basically the only thing we can say for sure now is the info we got from before the show aired, which was the reincarnated identities of the characters. Otherwise, we’re looking at a 1000-piece puzzle while only having a few corner pieces.

This episode introduced us to a new concept – the Mana and the mana world. According to San, emotions are what kept the mana inside us, preventing it from becoming one with the universe. So it’s probably a sort of essence that is held down by humanity’s ability to feel itself. Once you let go of yourself and feel nothing, you will basically “return” to the universe – and that’s probably the egg thingy that we’ve been hearing about. So maybe with enough “mana”, the egg will hatch and bring about the new world? or something? Everyone in school and in town seems to be infatuated with the idea of the end of the world is coming, and that human must accept the universe’s calling. In other words, it’s basically a cult. But the way San say it, along with how the “world council” is acting, it seems this is the result they are heading towards. Is this world some form of imaginative world – born from the emotions of the Mythical Winged people in the past? And that they the Mythical Beasts are trying to “restore” the other world – considering they seems to be from the same place? There’s a lot of indications – both visually and figuratively, that San is not a good guy. He manipulated the students, Momohime’s emotion and in the end of the episode, even Sakko. However, this might be a red herring that they will “twist” later to create a “gotcha” moment. San might be the avatar – or at least, an extension of – the goddess of the Mythical people.

However, we also see one guy that is angry at San because he pulled the “manipulation” thing on his loved ones. This is kinda strange because everyone in town seems to be affected by the brainwashing, but this guy isn’t. This show that there might be people who aren’t getting swayed by the whole “mana” thing and has kept their normal sanity. They might be the “unchosen” for the egg.

This episode’s battle feature a brand new Mythical Beast, with a somewhat unique development. The head pilot is Hana. This is also the first time Sakko isn’t one of the pilot, which is cool since a rotation is nice once in a while because we have 5 pilots now. But during the fight, Hana recalled the words of the conspiracy guy on the street – telling her to stay true to herself and listen to her feelings. San also mentioned this to Sakko, that “how can you kill Mythical Beasts if you don’t even love them?”. Obviously there is some nuance in this sentence. It might be that it isn’t right to just fight an enemy that you know nothing about. And that the Mythical Beasts may have more behind them rather than just “mindless invaders”. And San didn’t say this to Hana – but she came to the same conclusion on her own as well. This might be the twist of the series: that the Mythical Beast might have another purpose that isn’t just pure destruction and domination. This is a subversion of the other series where the Dark Angels are all bad guys – minions of Touma to kidnap and destroy the world. In the end, Hana couldn’t finish the Mythical Beast and let it plant the stake – marking another point for domination.

Furthermore, the Mythical Beast this episode spoke again – with very human-like tone. So we can assume that they are being piloted by other people – or they are, in fact, the people themselves that have been changed to Mythical Beasts. This remind me of Bokurano where clashes between worlds happen, and each world has to destroy the other world’s giant robot. The robot can only be piloted by children, and they are initially unaware that the other side are also piloted by children of the other world. So if my intuition is right, the time of revelation will be they keypoint to make or break the series.
We also get another flashback to the mythical era. And we see the scene where Nanook and Sedona met. They make a pretty cute couple, but Nanook had some major confidence issue lol. Dude is built like a tank, dressed like an absolute drippy executor-class Zealot, but is introverted as hell. He accepted the nickname “Coward” and even advertised it to the girl he just met. Either he is a bit too aware of his own power, or he’s just…well, not confident. It’s clear that Sedona is the aggressor in this relationship, and I really like that dynamic, cause I think it’s pretty cute in its own way – which is a contrary to the previous Apollonius-Celine relationship. But still, we haven’t even see the twins that came from beyond the boundaries that might be the cause of the disaster that befall the winged people. And we’re supposed to get these tidbits like crumbs during an action JRPG where we have to collect “memory fragments” or something to unlock the story. I think it’s a neat way, but it’s not enough for a 12-episode series.

As I mentioned before, this series feels like we’re trying to put together a 1000-piece puzzle, while only being given like 10 corner pieces and some random pieces here and there. Either they are going for a grand plot reveal in the end, or just went for something totally unexpected but lame at the same time. Aquarion: MoE is having us on the edge of our seat – but not due to its gripping narratives, but rather its mediocrity. It just straddles the fence of interesting and boring thanks to the name “Aquarion”. If it isn’t Aquarion, many would have dropped the series for sure. Hopefully we get more interesting stuff soon.

=Aaron=
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