Thursday, September 4, 2014

Case Study No. 1553: Grand Librarian Alethia and Deputy Librarian Idea

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[various clips from the episode are shown]
NARRATOR: Someone forgot to return a book to the library. Unfortunately, that single act triggered an unthinkable chain of events that would ultimately drag the entire galaxy into war! Next time, "I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" ... Be sure to return your books on time!

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From wikipedia.org:

Space Dandy is an anime television series produced by Bones. The series is directed by Shingo Natsume, with Shinichiro Watanabe serving as general director. The series follows Dandy, an alien hunter who is "a dandy guy in space", in search for aliens with his robot assistant QT and a space cat named Meow.

The anime began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in North America on January 4, 2014, one day before its Japanese premiere on Tokyo MX on January 5. The anime has been licensed by Funimation in North America, Madman Entertainment in Australia, and Anime Limited in the United Kingdom. In Japan the series is set to be collected in both DVD and Blu-ray format starting on April 25, 2014.

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Episode 11
"I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" ("Omae o Neba Omoidasenai jan yo")
Directed by Hiroyuki Okuno
Written by Toh EnJoe
Japanese Airdate: March 16, 2014
English Airdate: March 15, 2014

The Aloha Oe crew bring a red box to the alien registration center, believing it to contain a rare alien. They have no memory of how they acquired the box, only knowing that they will not remember what is inside once it is opened. The box accidentally opens to reveal a book that was checked out by Admiral Perry from the library planet Lagado. The crew also finds a complimentary ticket for a free trip to Lagado inside the book. When they arrive at the planet, they are transported to the surface by its resident aliens, who greet the book and ticket as their librarian and deputy librarian, respectively. The book and ticket are revealed to be aliens that record information on their bodies and take control of others' minds, having used the crew to rescue themselves from the Gogol Empire, explaining their failure to recall the event. Before erasing their memories, the book gives the crew another red box as a gift for their help, warning them not to open it early. The crew bring the box to the registration center, where it opens to reveal a videotape that also manipulates others' memories, starting an intergalactic war involving other video and computer storage devices that goes unrecorded in history.

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From adultswim.com:

I'm Never Remembering You, Baby
TV-14 DLSV | 23:49

An encounter with a book-like alien lures Dandy to the great library planet with the promise of endless free food and booze, but the journey is interrupted by a space ambush!

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From bubbleblabber.com:

We get our glimpse of Dr. Gel and his flying Statue Of Liberty cross, still on the hunt for Dandy. He is charting space-time distortions and their energy increases. (Did they just cleverly have two episodes come together? You sly dogs.) After Bean spills coffee on him, Admiral Perry calls, just to get ignored by Gel. So, Perry puts Bean in charge on this operation. They are going to take over Planet Legado, just because they called him about an overdue library book. So, you're going to take over a library planet, because of a library book. That seems legit. Anyway, Gel is still wrapped up in his formula, so he's oblivious to everything.Meanwhile, Dandy is at the Alien Registration office, and he doesn't want Scarlet opening the box. If she does, everyone forgets what's inside it. Scarlet takes the box, and goes to open it, but Dandy makes her drop the box, causing it to open. Everyone forgets, and we restart all over again. Dandy takes out a book from the box, and then we go back to Dr. Gel. He is still obsessing over the formula, while Bean and Perry talk over the Legado Invasion, when we get a really well drawn security feed of Dandy in a paper bag, Meow, and QT stealing what turns out to be the overdue book, "Secrets of the Cosmos, for Dummies."

At Boobies, Dandy is trying to understand the book, but it's written in an ancient language that not even QT knows. Meow picks up the book, and a slip falls out. After Dandy draws a pair of boobs on the slip, Honey takes the slip, and says it's for a tour of Planet Legado. It's a complementary ticket for 3 to spend 3 days and 4 nights. As they leave, Honey feels like she hasn't seen Dandy in a while. Bean has an occupation fleet outside Legado, when the Aloha-Oe warps in. Bean tries to get Gel, but he's spacing out worse than Reed Richards at this point. Bean tries to capture Dandy, but he uses his Aloha Beam to break free. Of course, this escalates things, and Bean shoots every missile at Dandy. Fortunately, Dandy escapes using an unknown transport.

They make it onto Legado, and they are getting tracked by a book that looks like the Necronomicon from Army of Darkness. This planet is drawn like a pencil sketch. I don't say this often, but it is fucking beautiful. Dandy and QT are on the hunt for food and booze, when they see QT eating, I mean downloading, data like a fiend. As Dandy is about to rip the voucher in half, the Legado security come, and welcome back Grand Librarian Alethia and Deputy Librarian Idea. Dandy and crew have no idea who they are, and the Necronomicon book is still doing surveillance on Dandy. Back on the ship, Bean hasn't heard back from Legado, Bean looks at the surveillance the Necronomicon book sent back, and Gel has started to write on that screen. He finally realizes the missing piece of the formula, but doesn't say it. On Legado, the book is Alethia, and the slip is Idea. The alien is actually a parasite alien who manipulated Dandy, QT and Meow to rescue him, and bring him back. The alien actually collects data, and stores it in physical form, that being "Secrets of the Cosmos, for Dummies." The Great Librarian actually erased their memories, and did it again. The Librarian just wanted to see the universe. Book aliens are like unfinished books, and their drive is to finish themselves. Dandy was of no help, but the Librarian's aid goes to fix that.

Gel is still going on about the formula, when Legado opens fire on the fleet. Bea insists on evacuating, but Gel is infatuated with the formula. Apparently, Dandy is the Cosmos, the ever-changing truth. That is the energy that Dandy possesses. Gel got it, but it's so powerful, anyone who attains it dies. Aleitha has to erase the memories of Dandy's crew one last time, and we go right back to the Alien Registration station. The box falls again, but this time, it's a tape. The tape manipulates the viewer's memory, that started a world turn towards chaos, which no one remembers.

This episode was something else. Legado, like I said before, looked phenomenal. You know that you have a talented staff when they can go from so many bright, vibrant colors to almost black and white with very pale colors, and make it look even better. The mind manipulating parasite aliens were pretty cool, especially since they are book aliens. I would have never guessed that a book could be an alien.

I like that the Golgol are finally being used for more than a 30 second spot in the beginning. This entire episode revolved around them, even though the catalyst was an overdue library book. I hope that we get more of them. I touched on this before, but did we really have the last two episodes have an arch of sorts? Things from the pyonium explosion last episode came into this episode. I am digging this series a lot, which is good. This series is hitting its stride.

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From wikia.com:

Alethia (Jap. "Areteia") is a character appearing in episode 11 as the Great Librarian of the library planet Lagado (Jap. "Ragado-sei"). She is a book-like parasitic alien that feeds on information gleaned from the memories of other living beings.

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From imdb.com:

Admiral Perry: We are launching a full scale assault to conquer planet Lagado!
Bea: For what reason? That planet is nothing more than one giant library, sir!
Admiral Perry: To teach them a lesson! No one harasses the great Admiral Perry about an overdue book and gets away with it! I'm going to make them pay!

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Dandy: What's the deal with this world?
QT: Lagado is more commonly known as The Great Library Planet. It holds the largest collection of literature in the universe. Visitors are allowed to check out books just like any other library.
Meow: Seems weird we haven't seen a single lifeform... So where's all the free food and booze that we were promised?
Dandy: Yeah, no kidding. I ain't interested in the "all you can read" part of the deal.
[he sees QT chewing on something]
Dandy: Huh? If you found food, you better share it with us, QT! Come on!
QT: Hands off!
[QT stuff spools of punched tape into his mouth]
QT: This data is yummy! It has such a delicate yet bold flavor! It's so delicious and easily digitized that my operating system is in overdrive! I've never downloaded such organized and tasty data!
Meow: Hey QT, are you sure you're not being hacked?
QT: Pathetic living being!
[he tackles Meow]
QT: Wadda you know? You meat puppets could never understand the beauty of this experience!
Dandy: I don't see how that paper could be tasty.
QT: Of course you don't! Your sense of taste is totally different! Inputting well-organized data gives me the same sensation as eating something incredible!
Dandy: This sucks! Gah, isn't there anything real on this crappy planet? I don't wanna see pictures of food in books, I wanna eat it! I don't wanna see boobs in centerfolds, I wanna grab 'em! Man cannot live by data alone! This is gonna drive me nuts! And it's all this damn ticket's fault!
[he starts to rip the ticket in the library book they've brought with them, when they're suddenly surrounded by hundreds of library guards]
Library Guard: Insolence!
Dandy: ...That's a lotta spears.
Library Guard: We're so glad to have you back! Welcome home, Great Librarian Alethia and Deputy Librarian Idea!
Dandy: You don't happen to go by one of those names, do ya?
Meow: Nuh uh!

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Library Guard: I have been asked to inform you that the great librarian thoroughly enjoyed sharing this adventure with you! Our Excellency is thankful for everything you've done!
Dandy: Look, I don't mean to be rude, but I got no idea what you're talking about.
Library Guard: Hmm, it was foolish of me to expect such commoners to grasp the situation. The book that you see before you is actually the librarian of Lagado, the Great Library Planet! The greatest of all banned literature, also known as "Secrets of the Cosmos for Dummies!"
Dandy: Huh? I'm not following you, buddy.
Library Guard: The great librarian Alethia is what you would call a book-type alien. Our Excellency travels the galaxy, studying the truths of the universe and taking in vast amounts of knowledge. The great librarian then takes all the information gathered, and stores it away within the pages of this physical form. And beside Alethia is...
Idea: The deputy librarian, Idea. I was the one who was put in charge of the recovery operation. Excellent work, thank you for your help.
Dandy: Huh?
QT: Oh, I see. So Alethia's a Bantam alien, a parasite type?
Meow: No wonder my brain's been foggy. You're telling me we were being manipulated this whole time?
Library Guard: Yes, that's correct. As a parasite-type alien, Our Excellency is able to use other beings' brains to think. Doing so is much easier than thinking for oneself, after all. The great librarian tells me that your rescue mission to free Our Excellency from the Gogol Empire was nothing short of amazing!
Dandy: But I don't remember any rescue mission.
Library Guard: It happened. Whether or not you remember is irrelevant.
Dandy: Okay, if that's true then how come I have no memory of it?
Library Guard: Erasing and rewriting the memories of others is a simple task for the great librarian. The only shortcoming Our Excellency has is the inability to move around unassisted. Other beings must be manipulated in order to facilitate movement.
Dandy: Okay, lemmee get this straight. You're saying we kicked ass on a rescue mission and we can't remember?
Idea: Yes, that's precisely what we're saying.
Library Guard: I have to be honest with you, great librarian, I was terribly disappointed to learn you had been checked out without informing us.
Idea: Yes, we all were. In the future, please be sure to let us know ahead of time, Your Excellency.
Alethia: I will, I'm really sorry!
Meow: Whoa, you're just a little girl!
Alethia: I know I shouldn't go off on my own, but I wanna see the universe! When the checkout request came in, I went for it, because I thought it might be my only chance! I know it was wrong of me to manipulate others, but I couldn't help myself!
Meow: The poor thing, I know how she feels.
Dandy: You don't know nothing.
Meow: This little lady's a dreamer, just like me, Dandy!
Alethia: I wanted to see all of the things I had only ever read about in books! The Fire Bandits, the Smash and Grab Thieves, the Demons of Hell, incantation dancing, the heads of the crucified on the prison gates!
QT: What kind of creepy books have you been reading?

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