Incidentally, none of these three returning characters are voiced by their old actors. It seems pretty clear, then, that everybody has been replaced, with Norio Wakamoto only returning as Radhabinod due to the impossibility of finding anyone else who sounds like him.Ĭomparing this episode with the first two episodes of Total Eclipse, what’s clear to me is that, by using two episodes instead of one, Total Eclipse was able to establish its new characters much more thoroughly, by devoting the entire first episode to characterization and world-building and then the entire second episode to battle. By having to do all of these things in a single episode, this story more or less gives up on trying to establish its characters to that extent. Komaki is our lead character, and everybody else gets the bare minimum needed to understand how they are related to her, and nothing more. Instead of characterization, this episode focuses on showcasing the actual battle.
A lot of that means simply enjoying the fight sequences as they unfold, of course. But the battle also helps establish the power balance between the TSFS and the BETA for new viewers. The reason humanity loses in this episode is not because a BETA is stronger than a TSF – we regularly see each individual TSF kill tens, even hundreds of BETA throughout the episode. It’s because there’s just so damn many of them, that even the ability of each individual TSF to kill hundreds of BETA seemingly makes no difference in the long run. This episode is more interested in setting that tone than telling a story about these characters. We also get little glimpses of the politics at play in this world. Komaki complains at one point that their government isn’t doing enough to take care of its people, when talking to Kusano about forced evacuations.
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