It's said that superior combat vessels must take on risks
that match the capabilities of the vessel.
People also say that the Nadesico is the greatest combat vessel
in the arsenal of the United Earth Armed Forces.
That's why we are here
in the midst of the fighting.
The Nadesico was placed at the forefront of the UEAF assault,
and the enemy singled us out as if we had killed their parents.
If that's how they're going to play,
then we're not going to hold anything back!
The prosperity of our nation always hinges on our gallantry!
Yeah...
Hup, hup! Yeah...
Hup, hup!
They won't get me!
Time to earn my pay.
All Aestivalis have taken off.
All units, start engaging the enemy!
All right, here we go!
What?!
What the...
What?
Damn lizard tailed bastards! All hands abandon ship!
All rounds were from the Nadesico!
What?! Those bastards!
What? What's happening?
Our Aestivalis are shooting at friendly ships.
Shooting at friendlies?
Attack guidance system shows no malfunctions.
The Nadesico's Aestivalis are attacking enemy units.
But our enemy is over there!
Nadesico's Aestivalis are attacking both enemy and UEAF units!
Why?!
Cease fire immediately!
The enemy is close at hand.
If we ease our fire now, we may be decimated.
Jeez, only Jovians! Attack only the Jovians!
We're trying to engage the enemy!
So, why does this keep on happening?
Hey, what are we going to do now?
We have to do what we have to do.
What the hell are you doing?!
I guess the bright side is that no one is attacking the Nadesico.
In any case, everyone watch your own back.
Send out more Aestivalis for reinforcements.
We have no more pilots.
I'll go.
This is my time to shine!
Aiding the Captain is the duty of the executive officer.
No, there's more to this!
Yurika! I want to protect you, Yurika!
Mr. Jun! Please come in, Mr. Jun!
The fighting that day was a terrible mess.
The Jovians became confused with an enemy that shot at both sides,
and they quickly ceased hostilities and withdrew.
The UEAF also pulled out having had enough
of indiscriminate attacks from the Nadesico.
Well in any case, I'm just glad everyone made it back safely.
Looks like the Aestivalis suffered only minor dents and scratches.
Oh man, this one sure is beat up good!
Jun, why were you piloting that one?
What is it? What do you want to say?
I think he's using baseball hand signals.
"With the Nadesico undermanned, it's the XO's job to fill in."
Well, that's fine, but make sure to wear the pilot suit when you do.
What is he saying?
He says "For service to Yurika..."
Doing this for Yurika is fine, but you have to put on your pilot suit.
"I don't want to start bickering with you at a time like this."
Yes, yes. I think that's enough of that.
What was that?
"Make sure to put on your seatbelt when you get in an Aestivalis."
I think he's fine besides the whiplash in his neck.
But he won't be able to speak normally for a while.
Fool.
Take care of yourself, Jun.
Thank God no one was fatally injured in all of this, but...
Do you have any idea how much these battleships costs?!
Hey, that's the one I sank.
That ship, the Foxglove, cost more to build than the Nadesico.
I shot down fifty.
That's pretty good, coming from you.
But...
But?
Everything I shot down had the United Earth insignia on it.
Please stop!
No simple "buts" will be enough for an excuse.
I'll say the number of units I shot down. It was seventy-eight.
Includes friendly and enemy.
Sixty-two were friendly!
Oh, really?
Akito, you've been awfully quiet.
Well...
I wasn't as bad as either of you.
I was aiming for the enemy's Chulip,
but I ended up destroying the UEAF's refueling depot.
Do you have any idea how much it cost to build that depot?
Aren't they all covered by insurance?
Of course, but we'll still have to make compensatory payments.
In any case, thank heavens there was no loss of life from this.
I shudder to think how much more we'd have had to pay.
We did have one suffer from whiplash.
So? How did this end up happening?
Why did we end up attacking the UEAF?
It wasn't like I was trying to attack them.
We all dearly love our blue mother Earth.
We would never betray the UEAF.
Then was it because of faulty maintenance?
I'm not going to sit here and listen to you blame us.
You're questioning our safe and accurate maintenance?
We've been fighting constantly. It could have been a careless error.
We can't just write off the fatigue the maintenance crew faces.
Rested or wasted, people die when maintenance screws up.
People's lives are at stake with maintenance. You hear me?!
I may screw up with women, but I never botch up fixing equipment!
Don't blame your sorry ass shortcomings on us!
Please wait a moment.
There's no indication the pilots or the maintenance crew are at fault.
Then what's the cause?
A UEAF research ship is heading our way to investigate the cause.
They say the Nadesico's defensive computer is suspected.
No, please stop! That's not an enemy!
Don't look at me! I didn't do anything!
The escape pod from the research ship is requesting assistance.
Hey, an attack order's been issued again.
Who is issuing the command?
I have no idea.
Don't fire at that. That's not the enemy.
UEAF research vessel pod coming aboard.
The investigators fired upon were predictably not at all calm.
They started nit-picking at all the faults of the Nadesico.
Interesting how people revel in condemning others' shortcomings.
Computers have the capacity to learn, it goes without saying.
Computers accumulate knowledge from experience
and take the best possible option at any given time.
The Nadesico's computer...
It's Omoikane.
Oh, that's the name of the computer.
Attaching names to computers, which are mere tools,
is a bad practice from the late 20th century.
But Omoikane is Omoikane.
I don't care if it's Omoikane (heavy bell) or Karuikane (light bell).
Nadesico's computer remembers breaching Earth's defenses.
Through that it learned that, to the Nadesico,
the UEAF acts as an obstacle, making them its enemy.
This causes it to show negativity when working with the UEAF.
Put in human terms, it's as if a business acquired their rival,
then started overworking their former competitors.
That's a very well put analogy.
I can sympathize. I know how that feels!
If it were human, too much stress would make it go haywire.
In the case of computers, the system would freeze up.
If it were mere lock up,
we could simply remove the buggy data, and reset the system.
Omoikane has an automatic reset built-in.
The resentment it learned against the UEAF is too strong.
Each time it reboots, the stress increases.
It has culminated with the hostile action it took this time.
The solution lies with totally erasing what it has learned so far.
We'll have to install a new program.
Could I interject, please?
Yes?
How can such extreme measures be tolerated?
If we do that, the knowledge it's gained of how to fight the enemy
through the conflict on Mars will be lost.
The Nadesico is part of the UEAF.
The memories it gathered are far more trouble than they're worth.
Besides, humans are the ones who fight to protect the Earth.
Not machines.
It goes without saying that the Nadesico belongs to the UEAF.
It must forget all it learned when it was hostile to the UEAF.
It must forget everything to learn anew.
That's the rationale of adults, isn't it?
That we should just forget things that are inconvenient to remember.
Adults are deceitful.
Ruri...
What the hell?! Why are they all dressed the same?!
Hey you!
Switch control to auxiliary computer!
Start the installation!
Do we really have to erase all the data?
I'm afraid so!
Yes, yes!
We will rewrite Omoikane into an absolutely obedient program,
thus the Nadesico will be reborn!
That's right, from civilian ship to a true battleship.
It'll be turned into a ship for the military.
Akito!
What'd you do that for?!
Well, I have a favor to ask.
Could you PLEASE come with me for a while?
No thanks!
Why not?
I still haven't given up on my dream to become a cook.
I'm devoting myself to practicing cooking when I'm not fighting.
But we need the help of an Aestivalis pilot.
There are many others. There's Ryoko, Hikaru, lzumi, Akatsu...
That won't work.
It has to be you, Mr. Tenkawa.
Please help us.
You heard the girl.
This stinks!
You'll get used to it.
Are men's bedrooms all like this?
I don't like this room.
What can we do?
The control room is occupied,
and we can't do something this shady on the bridge.
Hey, watch out there! I'm working on that figurine!
This "debugging," you can do that from here?
It just so happens that I've accessed Omoikane several times.
The program is so well written just watching it at work is enough.
Here we go!
It's adorable!
An Aestivalis?
The graphic representation of one.
It dives into the Omoikane code, hunts breakdowns and fixes them.
Sort of like a superhero janitor of cyberspace.
But why...
What? You got a problem with my tastes?!
By controlling the simulator that's hooked up to my host system,
you'll become a righteous cyber warrior!
I'll be backing him up.
Much obliged.
Time to get cracking!
Tenkawa Aesti, online!
Sure...
This is the inside of a computer?
That's my graphical representation of the memory core.
I remember the library at MIT, where I failed to get in seven times.
So, where am I supposed to go?
I'll be your guide.
You're in charge then.
Oh, go up here.
Go right. Now straight.
Our destination is Omoikane's self-consciousness.
That's the military's new program installing itself.
Guess it's time to send it home.
Not yet.
If we attack the new program now,
the installation will stop, and the Nadesico will still defy the UEAF.
Then what do we do?
We'll move on ahead.
Please head to where Omoikane's self-consciousness is located.
Roger!
This isn't right.
You're kind, aren't you, Mr. Tenkawa?
Quit it.
That's...
That's where Omoikane's self-consciousness resides.
It's a testament to what makes the Nadesico, the Nadesico.
It's a testament of one's longing to be one's own self.
A testament of longing to be yourself?
Memories that are important to you.
Precious memories you can't sweep aside even if you want to.
Remembrance. Memories you can't sweep aside even if you want to.
Testament to what makes you yourself?
Let Omoikane forget for a short while.
Forget?
Look carefully.
See that branch that extends out?
Please cut those flowers off.
It's heart-wrenching, but the branches will grow again.
Then Omoikane will remember once again,
and the Nadesico can continue to be the Nadesico.
I understand.
Omoikane, let yourself forget,
and please become an adult.
If you can pretend to be obedient to the UEAF,
then the Nadesico will be able to continue to be the Nadesico.
Is this really working?
Akito!
What's wrong, Akito?!
There it is.
What was that?
That's the xenophobic consciousness of the computer.
Omoikane's reflex for self-preservation!
It's the energy within that wants to remember what it holds dear.
Damn! What's going on here?
What?!
Gekigangar Three! What?!
Gekigangar Three!
It can't be.
Omoikane thinks of this as the most powerful and righteous entity
it has encountered, making it the vanguard of justice and its ally.
Omoikane's been watching the Gekigangar videos along with you.
That's no reason why it has to be Gekigangar!
Akito, you know Gekigangar like no one else does. Please...
You're asking me to fight Gekigangar?!
Please, I beg you.
Do it, Akito! You can easily cut down an oaf like Gekigangar!
What was that?!
Please, you must defeat it!
That's easy to say, but...
Well, it doesn't look like it's going to let you off the hook.
Gekigan Beam!
Damn!
Gekigan Cutter!
This is nuts! I can't defeat Gekigangar!
You can! Mr. Tenkawa, I'm sure you can.
Your attachment to that robot is stronger than Omoikane's.
My attachment?
My
Gekigangar!
We're evenly matched for power.
Gekigan Beam!
Gekigan Kick!
This is going nowhere.
Actually, the odds are against us because a human is piloting!
No, they aren't!
Mr. Tenkawa has known the robot for so long,
and loved it so much more than Omoikane.
Akito's strong affection can't be defeated!
I like how you put that.
For so long ago, I have loved it so much.
Yes!
Did you know?
In episode 28, Gekigangar becomes Gekigangar V.
Do you know the legendary transformation sequence, Dragon Gangar?!
Dragon Blast!
Self-preservation reflex is gone. Memory correction complete.
Now all that's left is the new program, Mr. Tenkawa.
At this rate, everything will be erased.
But is this a good idea?
We don't want them to find out we're doing this, right?
Don't worry about it!
I'm feeding the investigators' computers cooked up data.
It's all yours to blast away, Akito!
Roger that!
Dragon Gangar was only on paper, and was never featured on TV.
I only found out about it going through Gai's Roman albums.
Thank you.
I'm taken aback at how strongly attached you are to what you love.
That was pretty interesting.
Thank you.
After that, it appeared no abnormalities manifested
from either Omoikane, nor from the Nadesico itself.
Beautiful, beautiful! Earth will win this war!
Right, Captain?
Yes, of course!
Well, let's take off.
Yes, Sir!
Slow speed ahead, right full rudder!
Yes, that's right.
Breath-taking speed! Exciting adventures!
When Akito says his farewell to Yurika,
the barrier between illusion and reality comes crashing down.
A heartwarming classic fit to be the mid-series climax is born.
A deluxe flashy epic with a rainbow assortment of action.
A momentous saga aimed at all good children and their mothers.
The series that's the talk of the workplace, the school, the home.
Next Martian Successor Nadesico: "There is No Single Truth"
Everyone, be sure to watch!