We all believed that there was only one continuum.
That time and history is the same for all of us.
Time never repeats itself.
We'd never have considered the possibility
that some might be living out a different history from our own.
Hey, Megumi, you're soft for those who come to depend on you.
The maternal type, right?
What? What's that about?
Mr. Shiratori, why don't you sit down?
Oh, how could I?!
It's priority that women come first.
Don't be so rigid! Come sit!
Please! It's not proper for a woman to come in contact with a man so causally!
You're adorable!
Please, you must cease this!
Minato!
Why don't the three of us sit comfortably together?
Please, you mustn't!
Minato!
Wow!
Look at it bob about like that.
I bet those two are fighting back inside.
Can't we establish a comm link?
All right!
Hey, answer me! I said answer me, damn it!
How bizarre! A vulgar man's face has appeared in midair!
Well, that's a...
Mark my words, you jerk!
After I'm done rescuing those two, I'll thrash you into pieces, bastard!
Easy...
Megumi, we'll be right over soon, so...
What was that?
The enemy, the enemy.
From here on out, it's Jovian territory.
Guess we're in bit of a bind.
But we can't just abandon them!
All right!
Here we go!
You were saying?
Shut up!
Say, I was thinking. Does that person look somewhat familiar?
He said he liked Gekigangar.
Yeah, he's got the same aura that Jiro Yamada gave off.
I thought so too.
Pretending that he was dead,
but then reappearing as a rival after signing up with the enemy.
Sounds like a plot twist he'd be really into.
I can't see, you bastards!
The bullet was stopped by a silver dollar, perhaps?
The Bible and metal lighters are also valid scenarios for this.
Enough of that!
Gai would never do something like that.
Yeah, he liked Gekigangar and he liked to be a real showoff,
but he wouldn't get innocent people involved.
So, we've been fighting people all this time?
It appears that life-forms are no longer barred from going though the Chulips.
From lizards to humans...
Confirming signal!
Following descent, landing at the Nergal underground docking bay.
Wow, that was fast!
Landing in progress.
It couldn't be Gai.
So, this is the Shakuyaku?
The enemy seem to have gotten wind of our intentions.
Clearly they're focusing their targets
on our phase transition engine and boson jumping research facilities.
Well, let's see.
If they were human beings, they would surmise as much.
This is no time to sulk!
Our current worry is to launch the Shakuyaku successfully.
The Third Reclamation of Mars...
Since cooperation between the military and Nergal has yielded dramatic results,
the chairman wishes that our original objectives be put back into focus.
In any case, boson jump experimentation requires massive amounts of CCs,
which only can be found on Mars.
The company, the company, the company!
Of course, I'm not one to talk like that.
All of humanity is hoping for the successful retaking of Mars!
It's proof enough that even a goofy crew like them
went this far for the sake of Mars!
But will they follow our lead even after they've learned the truth?
The Shakuyaku will be launched in total secrecy with a handpicked crew on board.
The Nadesico will act as a decoy to draw the enemy's attention.
The operation will begin in twelve hours.
Please, Ms. Won, do something with him!
He won't let me go unless he can talk to you.
Hey, what sort of evil scheme are you brewing up this time?
I sure would love to hear about it too, you know? What do you say?!
Admiral, please!
Fine, I'll let you in on our evil scheme.
All right, lock in the pit, and close the breast plate panel!
So all the basics are the same, except it's a lot bigger!
Bigger means it takes more time, so get yourselves together!
Right!
Once you figure it out, it isn't that special.
Think we'll handle them all right once we figure out their pattern?
A broken textile machine?
One pattern.
What's going on?! They knew about all this?!
Both Nergal and the military knew we were fighting people?
But why?!
Why do you know something that I didn't even know?!
Why you little...
I don't know, Admiral.
People may not take well to you dragging a female officer to your quarters.
Pilots don't have anything to do with this!
My, my, aren't we shameless.
Shameless?!
This person is actually...
You're...
Yes, I'm afraid so.
Oh, my!
Modern protection mechanisms are such a pain for this old man.
There is a way to bypass the privacy lockout.
I say, modern girls are really something!
We can't have a secret on this ship, can we?
Dirty, aren't you?
You certainly are something!
What are you doing, Ruri?
All done.
I'll get right to the point.
The Jovian Lizards are actually those who were banished.
Banished?
From Earth, one hundred years ago.
Gekigan Net!
Gantan...
It's hopeless! It's too flexible.
Stretching out and shrinking back, it's like it was made of rice cake.
Rice cake? That's it, rice cake!
What is it, Joe?
Remember how Junpei and Ms. Nanako were eating rice cakes?
Rice cakes are soft while hot,
but they harden when cooled!
I got it, Joe! If we can only cool off that sucker!
He'll be a cinch to beat!
All right, leave it to me!
Let's Gekiga In!
Riku Gangar!
How are you doing, Ladies?
If you have any requests, please feel free to make yourself heard.
Oh, no.
But I thought we were prisoners.
But you are women before you are prisoners.
Thou shalt treasure women!
I see.
We are not like the barbaric, ignorant masses of the Earth.
The youth of the Jovian Federation
are taught to conduct themselves properly when around women.
Here I go!
Watch me, Mom! Musashino Hell Tour Attack!
Well, yes, it's our bible.
Say, you're the captain of this ship, but why did you go into battle yourself?
Riding that robot?
What, the Tetsujin?
Only a righteous warrior adept at many things is entrusted with command.
Which means we must also be ready as ace pilots.
That's just a loyal pet.
Please, come this way.
As you can see, they also double as computational units inside the ship.
We are short on manpower.
So only a small number of people can go through the Chulip.
Yes.
We're the glorious culmination
that came about through organic leap experimentation!
The Superior Male Forces!
Megumi, are you all right?
Yes...
How inconsiderate of me! I will have a medic rush to your side at once!
Oh, I'm fine.
Guess there really are Jovian Lizards.
How could such people as you commit such horrendous...
Far more horrendous acts were committed by your people!
Gen-lchiro, you're all right?
Well, it was getting a little hairy
when I suddenly found myself transported to the Moon of two weeks ago.
But you're the ones who dropped Chulips onto Mars first.
Chulips?
They're talking about the dimensional leap gates.
Then say so! Don't use such strange words, you simpleton!
You're the one around here who's strange.
The reason we moved into Mars two years ago,
was because you were after Jupiter.
We were?
A certain incident that's been wiped clean from our history textbooks
happened one hundred years ago.
After getting burned by the independence movement
that sprung up in the autonomous districts of the Moon,
the UE infiltrated the movement,
orchestrating a breakup into two camps, the separatists and the moderates,
then manipulating a vicious purge between the two.
I know about the War of the Lunar Autonomous Districts!
Couldn't it be that they just taught you what to know?
In fact, the Federation was deeply involved in the civil war,
finally forcefully banishing those who refused to accept a Federation presence.
So they disappeared to Mars, the asteroid belt, and Jupiter.
The End.
The UE Government eliminated all records of their existence.
They never even existed.
Why did they have to erase all records about them?
The UE probably wanted to cover up their covert operations.
But I think there were other reasons as well.
Dirty Earthlings justified their robbery of the Moon from us under the guise
of the pacification of an unstable Moon.
We headed to Mars, where colonization had already begun!
But then the UE fired nuclear warheads at us!
We were forced off Mars as well!
It was all part of a cover-up. All to keep Earth prosperous and safe.
Only Jupiter and its satellites were left for us.
That was where we found it.
It?
A factory plant?
You could say it's a phase transition engine factory.
The phase transition engine,
unmanned weapons such as the grasshoppers and jiros, the Chulips...
When they found those plants on Jupiter,
they built their own nation-state.
That's why they are attacking us.
For revenge.
I can't disclose something like this.
There is no need to disclose it.
Yes, there is!
You were listening in?!
And you're a captain?
I am a captain!
That's why I have a right to know!
To know who we are fighting.
To know why we are fighting.
Nothing will change now that you do know! We're at war!
Those who are on the front lines, those who might lose their lives,
I cannot tell them, "you don't need to know!"
Starting excavation for the Infinity Cannon!
Beginning the fabrication of mass projectiles.
Extend Infinity Cannon!
Daimajin ready for operations.
Break a leg, Gen-lchiro.
Right, I'll destroy their contortion buffer from the inside.
Wait!
Inside is the Nadesico...
How utterly shameless I've been, but...
Forgive us, but we must...
Excuse me. Here you are!
You could have thrown those away.
Oh, we wouldn't dare.
Have you completed duplication of the long-lost episode?
Yes, and the condition was superb!
What?!
Tsukumo, are you talking about the legendary episode 13?
Not only that, but the great episodes 9 and 33 as well.
What? Are you serious?!
Too freaking cool!
No matter how powerful our foe may be,
the Superior Male Force is the last vanguard!
Our fist of steel shall strike and shatter our enemy!
Daimajin, go!
The green Earth!
The blue Earth!
We will protect it!
Gekigan Punch!
Strength of the distortion field around the colony has decreased.
Hostiles?
Raise field to full power!
What about the Shakuyaku?
It doesn't look promising.
They're still in the process of attaching the last module.
Fire!
The Shakuyaku!
My heart sinks...
If only the Earthlings appreciated love and life as we do.
What?!
Got him.
Anti-ship missiles can't be replaced easily. Make them count!
I understand!
You're no threat with your pattern cracked!
All right. Now hurry it up!
There's no reason why something
that's meant for the fourth vessel can't fit the first vessel.
Yes, Boss!
But are you sure about this?
Nadesico and Shakuyaku have a very different electrical setup.
At worst, we might explode.
It's okay, it's okay!
I believe in you!
We'll work something out. Wait three minutes!
Are you sure we can attach the Y Unit?
The Nadesico's power grid is set up differently from the Shakuyaku.
Nevertheless, the Shakuyaku has been crushed, and it's such a waste.
A was...
You're suppose to eat every last grain of rice at a meal.
Ruri, please have the factory people evacuated to the Nadesico.
Aye.
Damn it, we'd be able to take off if we could only use the catapult.
But Akito's fighting another person, right?
Justice will always prevail!
Shut up already, damn it!
Wait!
Listen to what we have to say!
You dirty rotten Jovians!
You're mistaken, Akito. Please stop attacking!
I want to make this clear so this man's honor is not questioned.
We are not hostages.
We've all been tricked! These people are...
Human beings, descendents of those expelled from the Moon.
Please move out of the way!
Our only target is the phase transition power plant- equipped battleship.
Shut up! I will protect the Nadesico!
Why are you stuck fighting such an old war?
You don't understand!
This has become our war now!
Get out of that robot now!
Akito!
I've been trapped inside?!
That's the Nadesico?
Enemy robot is trapped within the field.
Two against one isn't a fair fight. This makes it even.
No, it doesn't. The enemy can boson jump.
No, he won't.
How can you say something like that?
Because Megumi and Minato are on board that robot.
Yes, normal people can't withstand the stresses of boson jumping.
He'll jump. He'll sacrifice those two. He's our enemy!
This is the only way I know how to fight.
Organic leap now, Tsukumo!
I can't do that.
How dastardly! Just what do you think a fight between men...
Well, I'm a woman!
What's wrong?!
This is for all the people you killed on Mars!
Stop! Akito, please stop this!
Wait! The Daimajin no longer has the capacity to engage in combat.
I'll let these two out!
After that, fight me one on one!
Stop! Please stop this!
What's the sense in doing something like this, Akito?!
I'm doing to this to protect the Earth!
Are those who protect the Earth,
those who fight in the war better than regular people?
This is wrong!
This isn't at all like you, Akito! Why can't we get by without fighting a war?!
What's wrong with staying at home and watching Gekigangar?!
That's so much more like you, Akito!
More like you... Be more like you, Akito.
Yeah, that would be more like me.
But...
That's not who I wanted to be.
You see, I was not a grownup watching Gekigangar,
but a kid who thought I could become Gekigangar.
UEAF descending from lunar orbit.
Feels like they were watching to see the outcome first.
It was only blind luck that saved us, Captain.
Just tell me, what do you actually believe in?
Go.
Thank you.
Could you tell me your name? My name is...
I don't want to learn the name of the man I'm trying to kill.
I see. Farewell.
I did what I had to do.
It's all right.
Before, when you rescued both the Captain and me,
you were more worried about the Captain than me.
But you couldn't forgive yourself for thinking like that,
so you said "Then, Yurika!"
You're reading in too much.
If you weren't that kind of a person, then I wouldn't have fallen for you.
But...
I'm sorry!
Megumi!
Let it go, let it go. Let it all go!
What the hell are you talking about?!
What? What?
Permission has been granted for the transfer of the evacuated personnel.
Changing heading to specified colony.
What fools we are.
Hello, Munetake here!
My head is about to explode with everything happening.
It's all because the military top brass is blaming me
for the Nadesico crew finding out the secret of the Jovian Lizards.
I may look like this, but I really throw myself into my job, so this is a shock!
In a time like this, what I need is a new robot!
What? How about making 1 / 48th scale dioramas?
I have no time for that! Jeez!
Next Martian Successor Nadesico:
"It Was a Reunion That Came Too Late". Everyone, be sure to watch it!
Will you able to survive?
I'm seriously worried!