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EUREKA SEVEN
Eureka Seven tells the story of Renton Thurston and his adventures with a renegade group, the Gekko State, as they travel across an alien world searching for trapar waves, his relationship with Eureka, the enigmatic female pilot of the LFO Nirvash typeZERO, and the mystery of the Coralians.
Bandai, creators of the show, first conceived the idea for a new mecha anime series and proposed it to studio BONES. BONES initially rejected it, but reversed its position because it had already planned to create an anime using mecha designs by Shoji Kawamori. With the appointment of director Tomoki Kyoda and writer Dai Sato, Bandai's proposal was more or less scrapped and the current incarnation of Eureka Seven was brought to life. The series is Kyoda's first as chief director for a TV series. He was first enlisted as assistant director on the BONES TV anime RahXephon, and was then given the task of directing the TV movie adaptation of the series. RahXephon creator and director Yutaka Izubuchi provided additional design works for Eureka Seven as well.
BASIC PLOT
Renton Thurston is the fourteen-year-old son of Adrock Thurston, a military researcher who died saving the world. He lives what he considers a boring life with his mechanic grandfather in a boring town. He loves lifting, the sport of riding atmospheric trapar particles with a board, and dreams of joining the crew of the renegade Gekko State and its leader, the legendary lifter Holland.
Such an opportunity literally falls into his lap when a special LFO, called Nirvash, and a member of Gekko State crash into Renton's room, which is right next to his grandpa's garage. Thanks in part to his use of his father's Amita Drive to power up the Nirvash in a crucial fight, Renton is invited to join Gekko State, where he quickly discovers that the behind-the-scenes life of Gekko State is hardly as glamorous or as interesting as he imagined. Only one thing makes it all worthwhile for him: the presence of Eureka, the mysterious and rather cute girl who pilots Nirvash.
The story revolves around Renton's budding relationship with Eureka, the female pilot of the LFO Nirvash typeZERO, and the mystery of the Coralians.
MAJOR POINTS
Trapar waves and Reffing
In Eureka Seven, the atmosphere is permeated by Transparence Light Particles, or trapar waves. Norbu, the Vodarek leader, describes these particles as the Planet's thoughts made into energy. It is possible to use these particles to create floating devices and airships. "Reffing" (or "lifting" according to the official English adaptation) is the popular sport of riding trapar waves using special boards designed for that purpose.
LFO, compac drives, and the Amita drive
The mecha in the anime series Eureka Seven are called LFOs, which stands for Light Finding Operation. LFOs are, in fact, humanoid alien skeletons excavated from the Scab Coral that are installed with armor and control systems by humans. Just a few years after their inception, the military began to use combat LFOs on a large scale; such LFOs are known as KLFs (for Kraft Light Fighter). LFOs fly exploiting the same principles of reffing—by using trapar particles. An LFO is composed of a giant organic base (the Archetype), armor, a ref board, and a Compac Drive.
Scab Coral
The Scab Coral is a sentient being that landed on Earth millennia ago. Its only form of communication is merging, so it merged with all the creatures of the sea. Eventually it came in contact with humans and attempted to merge with them as well, but the humans saw it as a threat. Because of this, humanity abandoned Earth 10,000 years prior to the start of the series. The Coral continued to merge with everything left on the planet until the planet became a single being. The Coral then became lonely without anyone to communicate with. Eventually the humans returned about 7,000 years after having left. The Coral knew it was thought to be a threat, so it became discreet. Because of this, the humans thought they were on an entirely different planet, not Earth. The Coral's desire to communicate, though, convinced it to send out messengers: human-form Coralians. These messengers, such as Eureka and Sakuya, were sent out to learn more about humans and find a way to communicate with them in some other way.
Limit of Life
After remaining dormant for years after the humans returned, there was a time when the Coral began to awaken suddenly. If all the Coral had awoken, the "Limit of Life" (or Limit of Matter) would have been reached. Crossing this Limit would have caused a tear in space somewhat like a black hole. All physical space would have been sucked in. Back then the Coral was able to force itself into a dormant state, but a scar was left on the Earth. Military attacks authorized by Dewey would have destroyed the Coral's "Command Cluster," which is what was among the only things keeping it in its dormant state.
