Our daily reminder that Dandy does, in fact, love boobs
- Last week on Space Dandy, the crew had to find a way to get out of a continuous time loop.
Summary of Space Dandy Episode 11
- Dandy and his crew appear at the alien registration center to present an undiscovered alien that’s supposedly trapped in a box. However, the box cannot be opened or those around it will lose their memories. The box gets opened, and nobody remember what happened. The only content of the box turns out to be a book, and Dandy thinks that discovering where the book belongs will jog his memory about the alien. He eventually finds the planet to go to in order to return the book, a planet called Lagado which is a giant library. When he warps to the planet, unfortunately the Gogol Empire is waiting outside and ready to conquer the planet. the Aloha Oe is then transported down to Lagado where the crew discovers that the book he was carrying was actually an alien who was trying to coax Dandy into bringing her back to her home planet.
My Take
- When Space Dandy isn’t making me laugh or cry, it’s doing a good job at confusing the hell out of me. This week’s episode is a prime example of just how confusing this anime can be. I’ve defended the show in the past when it made questionable deviations, but I’m not going to be so kind this time around.
It must be a real pain in the ass looking for a book only to discover it’s in a different hemisphere
- Don’t get the wrong idea. I didn’t hate this episode; it was just way off. First off, the plot was actually pretty neat. Basically, in search for an undiscovered alien, Dandy and his crew go to a planet on a hunch that something is calling them there from a book they find. At the same time, The Gogol Empire is trying to attack the same planet because of an overdue book (which just happens to be the same book Dandy now possesses). All throughout this, there’s a plot about people getting their memories erased and aliens controlling people. Seems simple enough, so how in the world did they mess this one up?
- Well, start off, this episode looked so…well, ugly. I guess the change in the art style was to signify Dandy losing his memory, and I can really get into a concept like that, but did they have to make it look so distracting? Most of the time, I couldn’t tell what was happening, especially when Dandy warps to the middle of the Gogol fleet and attacks them. They could have just flashed the screen with seizure-inducing patterns and it would have looked the same. The art style was so minimalistic that the definition on objects (such as ships) was limited to just a bunch of lines. It was hard to watch and even harder to understand.
- Second; the plot was extremely confusing. At the end, I had to look up what happened because it was so crazy, and I’m still not completely sure. So Dandy was being manipulated the whole time by the book and the ticket? Or was he acting in free will? And what was Dr. Gel doing with his equations? Ugh. Too much weird stuff. I can stomach rips in the space time continuum, but this is too abstract for me to digest in 20 minutes.
- But the biggest offense of this episode was how they prominently displayed the Gogol Empire, yet didn’t explain why they are after Dandy. I mean, come on! They can only dodge this for so long before it starts to piss me off!
- Positively speaking, though, the episode had some good scenes. The whole concept of Dandy having to return the book to Lagado and figure out things (almost like a mystery) was actually something I liked. It felt as if we were having to learn about what was going on along with Dandy. One aspect I loved was how the book itself was an alien whose only function is to record things that happen. It’s so abstract and neat that I couldn’t help but smile at the last five minutes of the episode where they do their best to explain what happened. We’ve seen interesting looking aliens in Space Dandy, but we haven’t really seen inanimate objects being given the gift of life. At least I found that to be pretty cool.
- You know, this is the first episode in a while that Dandy and the crew went to Boobies. I almost forgot about that place…
I hope Dandy takes this seriously. “Next week on Space Dandy, Dandy steals some dreaming girl’s shoes!”
- “I’m Never Remembering You, Baby” wasn’t necessarily bad, but it was heavily misguided. The monochrome look was annoying, the downgrade in the art style looked cheap and distracting, and the story was just too confusing. If this episode looked better and the story got more polished over, then I’d say this episode could have been so much better. But these aspects just ruin what had the potential to be a great episode.
