Dragonaut - 13 December 26
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Summary:
Ten years ago, representatives met with Sakaki and Kiril about the Girouard Military’s new, Type-X warhead. All they needed was a new type of shuttle to use this weapon against Thanatos, and it was the ISDA’s responsibility to develop the shuttle. Kiril, however, had reported that the development of the new shuttle had been a failure. To everyone’s surprise, Sakaki had suggested dragons instead and had revealed that the D-Project was to use dragons to directly attack Thanatos. Back in the present, the members of the Lindworm Unit are picking themselves up after getting defeated, and they see another dragon battling Ostolm in the sky. Yuuri arrives on the scene to explain that it’s Atolm, the third original dragon, and that Atolm is actually Nozaki. After crashing into the ground together, both dragons return to their Communicator forms, and Nozaki has figured out by now that Ostolm is here to eliminate the dragons born on this planet. Ostolm responds by saying that Nozaki has gotten too involved with the living beings of this planet and that “Mother” doesn’t want humans raising dragons. Nozaki, however, refuses to let Ostolm lay a finger on what he refers to as his children, and he believes that if Ostolm went through a Resonance, then Ostolm would understand why he changed.
Meanwhile, on Mars, Toa thinks about how it’s because of Jin that she remains as a Communicator and doesn’t want to return to her original form. She then gets brought up in front to Asim again, right as he’s getting another report about what’s going on from Earth. Feeling that she has to do something, Toa offers to show Asim her true form, but Asim knows that she can run away if he lets her out. Asim wants her to beg for it, but even after she does, he still refuses her because he sees her defiant eyes and knows that she’s not under his control yet. Back on Earth, Ostolm fights a heated battle with Nozaki, and Nozaki ultimately gets knocked out when he lowers his guard because Yuuri was in danger. Ostolm then senses that there’s another dragon left - Gio - so he changes back into his dragon form and attacks. Seeing the subsequent destruction as Ostolm chases Gio, Howlingstar and the other members of the Lindworm Unit decide to return to the fight, and they help get Ostolm off Gio. During all this, Kiril is demanding assistance from the Girouard military, but Asim decides to wait until the ISDA is destroyed first. Hearing this causes Nanami to think about Yuuri, and she ends up excusing herself from the throne room.
Nanami secretly heads to Toa’s holding cell and asks what Toa intends to do once she’s free. Toa admits that her mission is to bring back the Dragons born on Earth, but since Mother was unable to communicate with her, a new dragon was sent. In other words, Toa knows that Mother has abandoned the Earth-born dragons. Nanami doesn’t care about all this though since she just wants to know if Toa will save Earth or not. Toa’s answer is that she doesn’t know, but she specifically says that she wants to protect the person she loves. Hearing this leads Nanami to decide to free Toa, but moments after she does this, she get shot in the back by Garnet. This in turn causes Toa to cry out, and, back on Earth, Jin is suddenly able to hear her song. He figures out that it’s coming from Mars, but just as quickly as the singing started up, it ends again because Garnet reactivates the field confining Toa. Still, now that they know Toa is on Mars, Akira wants Jin to leave things on Earth to the Lindworm Unit so that he can go get Toa. Jin and Gio thus take off towards space while the other dragons try to hold Ostolm back, but Ostolm is able to break free.
Fortunately, Itsuki and Otohime then join in the battle, and Otohime is armed with a Type-X warhead. To avenge Yuuya, Itsuki intends to force Ostolm to space before using the warhead on him. This plan almost succeeds except that Ostolm fires several fireballs in the air above them, and the explosions causes the warhead to fall out of Otohime’s reach. To Itsuki’s surprise though, Jin and Gio suddenly swoop in to grab the warhead, and they force Ostolm upwards into space right as the warhead goes off. This appears to take out Ostolm, and though Gio is injured, both he and Jin manage to survive the explosion and return back to Earth. With Ostolm now taken care of, Sakaki immediately orders the D-Project to go into its next phase.
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Despite being shot in the back by Garnet and bleeding all over the place (dark colored), I have my doubts about Nanami’s really being dead. It’d be rather unsatisfying if she died like that without getting a chance to fully redeem herself to Yuuri (whom Nanami is apparently quite infatuated with). Speaking of dying, I thought for a few seconds during the episode that they might have the balls to kill off Jin and really screw things up in the story, but he ended up surviving the explosion after all.
I have to say though, after watching the first episode of Macross Frontier, the CG in Dragonaut is like looking at cave drawings. I’m exaggerating (a little), but Macross F really spoiled me for CG and animation quality. I’m not sure I’d trust Gonzo to do that good a job with that big of a budget though. Maybe they’d just spend it on drawing more detailed cleavage. 
Anyway, the focus of the story appears to be shifting towards the ISDA’s plans to destroy Thanatos, and I get the feeling that Jin might join the Lindworm Unit since they’re all now getting along so well together. There’s no episode next week though - episode 14 airs on January 9th, 2008.
zalem at 7:42 pm on December 26th, 2007
I agree with you about Macross F. Now THAT is the way you integrate CG into anime. It’s absolutely wonderful. Dragonaut’s CG is really bad in comparison.
Latino hot at 8:08 pm on December 26th, 2007
FUck u bitches
Dragonaut > Macross
Angel at 8:09 pm on December 26th, 2007
FUCK U BITCHES
DRAGONAUT > MACROSS
Alex at 8:17 pm on December 26th, 2007
Lol you guys are funny.
Why did Garnet kill Nanami?
lol at 8:25 pm on December 26th, 2007
lol. its always the same guy but he always changed the name lol, he really doesnt have a life at all. anyway.
lol at 8:25 pm on December 26th, 2007
lol. its always the same guy but he always changed the name lol, he really doesnt have a life at all. anyway.
Kegagalan Epik at 8:37 pm on December 26th, 2007
FUck u bitches
Dragonaut > Macross
karasu at 8:49 pm on December 26th, 2007
whoever is posting that stupid meme, stop being an idiot.
he said that the CG in Macross F are better than Dragonaut’s, not saying the show is (since that’s basically up to opinion). Stop being a faggot.
Gravmech at 9:03 pm on December 26th, 2007
Ok my opinion now is
1 Ep Macross F > 13 Dragonaut Eps
I guessing the person is male and just reached puberty, yeah I know coz’ at that age Shounen and Harem anime’s were all I wanted to watch. And here’s wishing that Nanami isn’t dead, she is probably the only attractive character in the series (for me that is).
Big boobs are overrated….
Gloranor at 10:36 pm on December 26th, 2007
Comparing Dragonaut and Macross F overall is stupid (matters of taste, blabla)… as for CG quality, yeah, Dragonaut doesn’t have a chance. Nothing short of a movie (or maybe Gurren Lagann last arc) does. The big question is wether they can keep the quality on somewhat the same level through the entire run.
golthin at 12:38 am on December 27th, 2007
I am in denial, gio and Jin can survive the explosion from the X-bomb but Astrum can’t?
HE must have disappeared before the explosion!
Rix at 3:38 am on December 27th, 2007
http://randomc.animeblogger.net/image/Dragonaut/Dragonaut%20-%2013%20-%20Large%2017.jpg
AAAAAANEEEEEEEMOOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
divine at 3:46 am on December 27th, 2007
golthin:
I agree. The only thing I can think of is at the last moment, Gio shoved the Type-X warhead into Austrum and then kicked him away (meaning he wasn’t right at the core of the explosion). *shrug*
When I was watching that last scene, I also thought, “OMG did they just kill off Jin and Gio?” I thought maybe Gio would die and Jin would be alive somehow at the very least. One minute later, they’re both miraculously alive! *rolls eyes*
C at 4:30 am on December 27th, 2007
I am glad things are getting wrapped up from now. I do not care about whatever CG or whatever quality of the show. For me what matters to me most is I love to watch Dragonaut. Liking to watch Dragonaut matters to me the most. Because of faith, things did turn out fine. Was glad Toa took the advantage to shout and that her cry -> song reaches Jin. Although for now she is yet to reunite with him, it’s the least he knows where she gets confined. I was right that Asim was a real jerkheaded psycho to know every single aspect of Toa’s ways of doing things. Ah well, he’s able to figure any of her trick to escape. Well, not surprisingly to see why he keeps her contained in a ‘glass container’ with strong forcefield barrier. Although it was revealed that Jin may not be able to hear Toa for being contained by the stupid forcefield barrier when probably Asim knew all along that Toa could easily call for reinforcements to escape.
Ah well, now Nanami feels the conviction to change due to her friendship with Professor Kitajima and all sudden Toa’s urgency to do something important. Well now that she feels the need to change, I believe not to see any reason why she would die just like that. Screw you Asim, still want to think of getting full control of Toa when u urself havent even kill Jin off first. Screw you Asim jerkheaded horse brained slimehead.
On the other hand, I think I could understand why Jin and Gio could survive it was because of their deep bond of friendship and their true hearts to do right -> to protect Toa. Probably these reasons may explain the survival. I dunno. We still have yet to know about other “somethings” of the show that remained unexplained/unanswered.
Jin himself even won the recognition of Laina and then now perhaps Sakaki. Well, he already won the respects of both Akira and Siegliende. He is a true Dragonaut and is the only one who makes the biggest differences throughout the show. Well, on the other Toa is already doing something in return to make up for the ‘murder’ she caused (reason behind that we are yet to know). Ah well, loving Jin and being with him is what she could do. Gio is keeping Jin standing up as always. ^^
In my opinion for now, the villains -> Asim and Girouard as usual, Ostrum the 4th dragon…..
To know about from now: (they maybe could be Show Spoiler ▼
C at 4:43 am on December 27th, 2007
Please don’t compare Dragonaut with Macross Frontier. Base ur opinions on the shows themselves alone respectively. Some of u guys always complain about graphic quality or here and there so on….. For me I am already impressed and content with the graphic quality of Dragonaut.
Jin is handsome and genuine. Toa is beautiful and unique. Gio is different and only greatest earth-born dragon.
Asim the hot hunky typical villain that female action fans would always expect. Kazuki the jerkheaded psycho where fans have something to grr….. about. Machina, Garnet and Professor Kitajima the big-chested lasses that some male anime fans have something to lol or exaggerate about…… And how some of our friends that posts here referring to some female characters as ’sluts’….. o_o….. Whoa~~~~
Jin X Toa, Laina X Itsuki, Nozaki X Yuri, or journalist X Yuri where some fans like lolling around typical anime pairings….. pls ah no yaoi/yuri ah (some of u guys tend to exaggerate in this thingy like how some of u other guys did with some characters of Gundam Seed/Gundam Seed Destiny)….. I am sharing this post out of love for the show.
Pls forgive me for any rudenesses/offensive words caused/aroused. >.
Hoho.. at 4:43 am on December 27th, 2007
ahh..
this is so irritating.. no dragonaut until next year..
although Macross Frontier is better.. i’m still waitng for this series..
GP at 11:34 am on December 27th, 2007
More Akira-chan!!! I just know she wants to get in Jins pants bad. Walking naked infront of him was just the start.
nyo! at 12:07 pm on December 27th, 2007
why is am forcing myself to see this crap??!!
Boob o nauts sucks!!!
Unknown Voice at 2:42 pm on December 27th, 2007
Am I the only one feeling that “Dragonaut” blog category is becoming like “Negima!” I mean….dozens of trolls constantly whining about how they hate this show and stuff…
If you hate it - don’t watch it. One comment with arguments on why you hate it is enough…
Som1 at 3:14 pm on December 27th, 2007
Well, on the internet, everyone is allowed to insert thier thoughts as long as the webmaster allows it. Even if everyone else wants him to either grow up pasts the age of 8 or something horrible happen to this computer or internet so he wont ever go on again -_-