For the love of justice
(This review contains
spoilers!)
Well, we’ve come to the end of our
wild and crazy ride with Luluco and the space patrol crew. What a show this has
been. I chose to watch it solely because of how different and creative the art
style looked, thinking it would be good for a few laughs and some mindless
entertainment, similar to shows like Nichijou and Umaru-chan. I certainly didn’t
expect the show to explore themes of middle-school romance and what it means to
have a first love. But, here we are.
We’ll get to talking about the show
overall in a bit. Firstly, how did the last episode fare?
Well, it wasn’t the best I’ve ever
seen Luluco, and it didn’t quite measure up to last week’s, but it was an
admirable finale overall. We picked up exactly where we left off, as Nova is
taken out by the Blackholian just after he confesses his love for Luluco.
Luluco suits up in an awesome new outfit (apparently she’s like this legendary
warrior? It wasn’t explained very well) as she fights him Shadow of the
Colossus-style, jumping around all over him while she shoots him with a
Judgement gun-morphed version of her and Nova’s shared crystal heart.
Unfortunately, this episode falls prey
to a lot of deus-ex-machinas, as everything kind of happens conveniently.
Despite it never being hinted to before, Nova had a black hole implanted in his
brain the whole time or something? But even so, he was able to come back and
sacrifice himself to stop the Blackholian and be launched into another
dimension. It wasn’t a super satisfying way to beat the villain, but as a
method of closing the relationship between Luluco and Nova, it worked.
I also didn’t quite get how Luluco
transformed into this new, ultra-powerful version of herself out of the blue.
She apparently harnessed all the power of her first love or something, but it
was explained away so briefly, it was sort of a “just don’t question it” thing.
To be completely fair, this is a show where in previous episodes, they’ve lit a
Kill la Kill inspired planet entirely on fire and one of the main characters is
basically a cardboard cutout. I don’t think that making sense is one of their
top priorities.
We ended off with an epilogue, showing
where all the major characters have ended up. While I’m hoping for a Season 2,
it was nice to see how everyone got their happy ending, and how Luluco is still
searching for Nova, trying to rekindle her first love. It was a satisfying way
to cap off the season.
As for the series overall, while it had
several ups and down points, overall was a complete joy to watch. It’s one of
the funniest, creative, and most heartfelt anime I’ve ever seen, and I’d
consider even putting it in my top 10 favourite anime ever. The talented folks
over at Studio Trigger really know how to tell an excellent story with
excellent characters and fantastic humour. If you haven’t checked it out yet,
it’s only about 2 hours to watch the whole thing, as each episode is only 8
minutes long. You won’t regret it, I promise.
Please do a Season 2, Trigger.
FINAL SCORE (Episode
13)
7/10
Good
FINAL SCORE
(Overall)
9/10
Amazing
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