Comments on: Eureka 7 – Audio flashback

By: maehara

maehara — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000

Fairly standard fare for the first half of the series, but as you get towards the end some real suprises are thrown in that make the time you have to invest to get there well worth it. I ended up marathoning the final 10 episodes, I just couldn’t let it go. Good stuff.

As for the music references, I confess they’d passed me by – so one again the Twitterverse has provided me with an unexpected education..!

By: Rory Doona

Rory Doona — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:59:20 +0000

Hang in their with Eureka7, Just like Evangelion it start off normal enough but gets progressively less cliche, and its a nicer ending than Evangelion aswell, everyone doesnt end up killing/having sex with each other or talking to themselves for 10 minutes

By: ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:38:15 +0000

Good work! Wow. Thank you for this.

By: OGT

OGT — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:31:59 +0000

Eureka 7 is littered from start to end with references to odd things of all kinds, not only limiting itself to the counterculture/60s-70s and/or the trance/house era--"Summer Of Love", Dewey and Holland spend a lot of time reading The Golden Bough, Charles and Ray Beams, Maurice Maeterlinck, and God only knows what else. I've never heard most of the songs that lent their names to the episode titles and other in-series references. Let's not even talk about the Shoji Kawamori-designed LFOs. The soundtrack itself is fantastic--the original compositions are good, but E7 takes a lot from electro-culture (I never know the most right form to address the electronic music genre) in Japan, too: Supercar's STORYWRITER is played to great effect, other electronic tracks from established trance artists in Japan litter the BGM, and Denki Groove's Niji (which is still one of their most amazing songs) makes a cameo by the end. The actual series itself is amazing; I still consider it my favorite mecha series of the decade (and it's up against stiff competition for me with Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann and Gundam 00) and one of my overall favorites. The whole series is very well paced and put-together, and I cried three times before all was said and done. I could continue with my superlative-laced fanboy talk but I shan't; Eureka 7 should be experienced first and gushed about later.

By: ArjyP

ArjyP — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:48:29 +0000

I really shouldn’t listen to Pacific State, I lose an evening there and then listening to that.

The episode titles are quite intruiging, as is the whole referencing to the “second summer of love” and the music and culture at the time. Might well try and watch this if your review is suitably positive.