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May 30, 2009 1:30 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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During an assault on a glowing tower, Apollo, Sylvia, and Reika find themselves transported into a bizarro dream world. Sirius also lands in it after a failed teleport change. They meet a young child, who resembles someone Apollo once knew, that asks who they are. Apollo responds, then turns around to find that he is alone. Many wierd things proceed to happen to him, including a talk with various DEAVA members about Seria and Apollonius and the dream world that he is in.

Somewhere else in the city, Silvia is approached by a cloaked figure who turns out to be her brother. They eventually find Reika and decide to head for their original objective, the glowing tower. Apollo has the same idea, arriving there and climbing the steps. He is confronted by the child who again asks who he is. Reika, Sirius, and Silvia form Aquarion Mars and try to attack the tower, but are blocked by a shadow angel. Toma appears and challenges Sirius’ humanity, while the red feathers reappear on his bracelet. While Sirius fights to affirm who he is, Apollo is confronted by the fact that he couldn’t save Baron. Apollo eventually disbelieves the child away as not the person he once knew. With that, the entire illusion is broken and our heroes return to the real world. They then destroy the shadow angel and dice the tower.
Oct 31, 2009 9:00 PM
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Do the artists change from this episode onwards?
Jul 17, 2011 7:17 AM
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What's with the massive loss in art quality? If this show had one thing going for it, it was that its art was consistently decent. Now it looks off. (And I'm not talking about when they were inside the world, I'm talking about the parts before and after that. Ew.)
Sep 21, 2011 6:37 PM
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they let a superstar animator take over for the weird visuals in this episode and he decided to appropriate the 'normal' scenes to his style too, just to a lesser extent. I'm not sure how you can think the bits at the beginning and end were a "loss in quality" but think the middle part was good, maybe out of place but not bad. they were drawn weirdly but it looked technically competent.
Mar 2, 2012 10:43 PM
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omg what the f**k HAHAHAH worst animation i have seen in a long time
Mar 2, 2012 11:15 PM
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the animation even befor/after disorted world sucked, AND WHERE DID THE SWORDS COME FROM!?,suprisinl;y ,this was the first episode i ever watched of aquarion about 2 years and what actualy got me kinda into the series after that,but now that im watching it for the first time in order....it sucks
Mar 11, 2012 5:27 PM
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Is it just me or is their (ahem) reaction to merging getting more intense each time (even as the distorted figures)?
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Aug 6, 2012 4:38 PM
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this show should've been 6 ep OVA I swear...

brb 5-6 ep of story and 20+ ep of fillers
Aug 17, 2013 5:25 AM
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oh god please let the other ep's quality be better cuz this was just horrible
Jan 20, 2014 5:26 AM

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ugliest animation ever, this looks like aku no hana.
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May 23, 2014 11:04 PM

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The art totally died. I'm laughing so hard right now.
Jun 22, 2014 10:34 AM
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The art got really shitty
Dec 14, 2014 6:14 PM

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Can this anime get any worse. Even they got lazy on the art on me and I feel like this wholes eries was literally just all filler and no story or development.


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Jan 29, 2015 8:19 AM

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TheAfroNinja said:
Can this anime get any worse. Even they got lazy on the art on me and I feel like this wholes eries was literally just all filler and no story or development.


No story and development ? I see you can't understand this anime.
This time the art is bad because this art fit to this story.



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Jul 2, 2015 12:54 AM

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It would've been fine if the parts before and after the "transformation" was the usual animation while the middle part was Satoru Utsunomiya's animation.


Haou-Judai said:

This time the art is bad because this art fit to this story.




No, the "art" is bad because the producers wanted to make this episode interesting so they let Satoru Utsunomiya do the animation but they were lazy so they let him do the animation for the WHOLE episode instead of just the transformation part in the middle.
Aug 28, 2016 9:32 PM
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I thought it was worse then ep 4 of Gurren Lagann lol
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Oct 15, 2016 6:33 AM

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That animation was so ugly, I can't believe they purposefully hired someone to make it look that bad, that style is horrible, why would anyone pay anyone to draw that? It honestly looked like a 5 year old drew it or some junior who only just started out.

It was worse than the "who are you?" NGE type episodes with cheap animation.

Storywise it was a bit Eva crossed with Clash of the Titans because a God (sort of) was messing with them.

I'm glad the rest won't be like that.

It's usually so pretty, no wonder Sirius didn't want to be seen in his ugly form when he's usually so pretty.

Touma didn't look too bad, made me laugh hearing Sebastian from Black Butler say "still pretending to be human?" lol. Ironic as in this and that he isn't lol.
Jan 29, 2018 6:29 PM

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Animation wise this episode was better, but the art-style, it just doesn't fit.
Oct 18, 2019 12:44 PM

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I had to check if I was watching the right anime, it really was aquarion. Wow, the art style out of the dream was ugly and bad, my eyes hurt. I don't know what went off at the meeting table, this episode was a disaster. The concept was nice but still weaker than all the other. "You are who you are?" Awful.
Jun 12, 2020 10:59 PM
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TheAfroNinja said:
no story or development.


There was development and story, a lot of it independent of the execution of it. Using 'development' as a clutch word without knowing what it means is the typical mal wannabe fake reviewer thing to do: of not knowing anything about narratives or animation, watching almost no anime, yet thinking its some youtube reviewer wannabe who can just say something obscure is "bad" if the animation looks different or something, with a variety of buzzwords to fake understanding to match because you think imitating the avgn but without any wit makes you a reviewer, also the reason why 100% of the reviews on the site are unreadable and considered as a joke by the entire anime community as a whole and why most people ignore them to use just the lists and data and even forums etc.
Sep 14, 2020 3:38 PM
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Haha I thought they ran out of animation budget at first.

Humans were cultivated to "feed" the shadow angels. But Apollonius fell in love with a human and betrayed his brethren. The humans destroyed the shadow angel home (Atlanta something or other) and stole their ability to reproduce, resulting in humans populations the earth?

Wow. Alright. Some big time backstory going on here.

The fake Apollo friend was a nice scene.
Dec 24, 2021 9:40 AM

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I don't what they tried to do for this episode... but I can at least say that they failed. The style, the animation, the colors were all horrible.
Nov 19, 2022 1:22 PM
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People not understanding the difference between art style and animation is hilarious.

Also there are no filler episodes in Aquarion. It’s just episodic.

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