Episode
Eureka Seven: Don't Look Down (Third Engine)
Overview
To protect his comrades, Ao surrenders himself, the Nirvash, and the Quartz Gun to the U.S. army. As the whole world questions about Generation Bleu's actions, Fleur and Elena decide to launch an attack on the carrier where Ao is being held to bring him back.
Details
- Series
- Eureka Seven
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 2012-08-31
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Don't Look Down (Third Engine) is Episode 18 in Astral Ocean of Eureka Seven. It aired on 2012-08-31. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 17: La Vie en Rose (Johansson's Book)
Ao confirms that the members of Team Goldilocks are leaving ordinary lives as if they were never assembled at all. However, the public opinion starts turning against Generation Bleu and during an operation in the middle of the ocean, the Quartz Gun starts moving by itself. Truth snatches the gun from Ao who falls into the sea and has a brief encounter with Eureka who revels to him the reasons for her disappearance.
Episode 19: Maybe Tomorrow (The Day)
Furious upon hearing that he is actually a Secret who lost his memory, Truth destroys Generation Bleu's space station among thousands of satellites around the globe. The Allied Forces blame Generation Bleu for the incident and launch an attack against them. Truth takes the opportunity to infiltrate the base and attempts to steal the Quartz Gun, but is stopped by Cristophe who sacrifices himself to allow Ao and Fleur to escape.
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Episode 16: Guardian's Hammer (Next Phase)
Several countries join Generation Bleu's special operation to lure all Secrets that have appeared arround the world to a deserted area in the Arctic and destroy them. The plan goes well until Truth interferes and Ao takes the initiative to ensure that the operation ends with no civilian casualties.
Episode 20: Better Days Ahead (Last Message)
After learning that both Elena and the members of Team Harlequin switched sides to join the Allied Forces, Ao and his friends manage to escape taking the Quartz Gun with them. With nowhere to run, the remaining members of Team Pied Piper are contacted by the Japanese government offering them shelter and support according to a deal Cristophe made with the Secrets before his death.
Episode 15: War Head (Humanoid Secret)
Wondering about Eureka's claim that the Secrets are not enemies, a sleep-deprived Ao is sortied along his team to confront a Secret which has appeared beside a Scub Coral that was mysteriously reactivated. Ao is shot down by the enemy and after waking up, he learns that the other Scub Corals arround the world are being reactivated, too, putting Generation Bleu in a state of maximum alert to confront the multiple Secrets emerging near them.
Episode 21: World to World (Rising Sun)
Team Pied Piper, the Japanese Government and the Secrets join forces to prevent the Allied Forces from claiming the Scub Corals' Quartz. While Naru rallies supporters for her cause of having the Plant Corals shut down. Elena joins the Allied IFO squad along Maggie Kwan, but Eureka appears before them and makes Elena remember the truth about her origins that she wants so much to deny. Soon after, both are dispatched to fight Ao, and when he manages to finally dissuade Elena, Truth appears before them.
Episode 14: Starfire (Another Truth)
Despite Truth's intervention, Ao manages to return Eureka to her proper time, but hears from her that the baby she is carrying is not a boy, but a girl. After returning home to find more about it, he learns from his grandfather that Naru reappeared, but upon reuniting with her, the Japanese government declares claim of Iwato Jima and blames Ao for the death of one of its officers.
Episode 22: Galaxy to Galaxy (Coral Carriers)
Truth attacks Ao who is rescued by Naru when he teleports him and the Nirvash to her side at Okinawa. Reunited once more, Ao and Naru discuss the situation when Team Harlequin appears and reveals that Truth's current form is affecting all people infected by the Scub Corals and for being the son of a Coralian, Ao should stay away from him. Regardless, Ao decides to join his companions against Truth. Meanwhile, back at Eureka's timeline, her husband Renton boards the original Nirvash in an attempt to rescue her.
Episode 13: She's a Rainbow (Moonlight Ship)
On board the Gekko, Ao discovers that the Eureka before him is a past incarnation of her, from the time she was still pregnant. Soon the ship is surrounded by the Japanese and Okinawan armed forces, all desperate to take possession of both the past Eureka and her Nirvash. While trying to figure out how to send Eureka back to her own time, Ao and the others are attacked by Truth.
Episode 23: The Final Frontier
Truth and Ao fight for the Quartz Gun until it fires once more, erasing Truth and converting Ao's Nirvash into the "Nirvash Neo". It also rewrites history once more to render it like Generation Bleu defeated the Allied forces including Naru. As Naru is being hospitalized, Ao witness the Nirvash Spec V3 coming from the pillar and comes at its encounter, meeting his father Renton for the first time.
Episode 12: Step Into a World (Heaven and Earth)
Team Pied Piper goes to a Generation Blue Space Station to deposit the collected Quartz. While there a Secret attacks a Scub Coral that materialized in low orbit, and Pied Piper is sent out to intervene. Meanwhile, Truth begins to set his plan in motion, and Gazelle and his friends investigate the area beneath Generation Blue HQ, discovering the Coral Relic. When Ao manages to destroy the Scub Coral in orbit, it turns out to have the Gekko inside of it with the Nirvash Type0 piloted by Ao's mother Eureka.
Episode 24: Gates of Summer
After having a brief encounter with the phased-out Eureka, Renton sets with Ao to Iwato-Jima where he thanks Toshio for taking care of his family and then decides to make use of the Quartz Gun to destroy the original Scub Coral at his timeline and prevent it from spreading itself throughout the dimensions. As Ao confronts him to stop it, he learns that surprisingly, Truth has not fully disappeared, but has become the Nirvash Neo's archtype instead. Ao then decides to make use of the Gun's last shot to change Eureka's fate and have her reunited with Renton. Because of it, Ao is transported to the year 2027 where he bids farewell to Truth and returns to Iwato-Jima to resume with his life, despite the fact that there's a chance that no one in the world remembers about him anymore.