Total Eclipse is finally heading for its climax.
In this episode, we'll review the story so far
and show you some things that will allow you to enjoy that climax 10 times as much!
I want to return what I was given, what I took.
Don't worry even if you've never seen the show before.
If you watch this you can still follow it.
You can fall in love with me.
And we'll also be introducing the new opening and ending that start next week!
Pre-Climax Special, blast off!
Finally, the Climax! Now you can enjoy it ten times as much!
Setting
Soviet Territory
Yukon River Yukon Base
American Territory
The story is set in the Yukon base, which lies at the border of Soviet and American territory.
Wow!
A Jain-10 from the Unified Front of China,
and an EU Tornado!
The next-generation TSF technology development project, AKA Project Prominence.
The UN provides this area for countries who lost their territory to the BETA
as a place to develop their TSFs.
Yukon Base
Its most important goal is to speed the development of TSFs
through information and technology sharing in a location
where test pilots and prototypes gather from all over the world.
It's been almost 20 years since the BETA invasion of Earth began,
and humanity has lost most of Eurasia to them as the war enters a stalemate.
The Soviet Union borrows back the territory of Alaska,
which it once sold to the US, and transfers its government there.
The Yukon base, which America had been building at the time, is given to the UN.
Let's go!
The next-generation TSF technology development project,
AKA Project Prominence is presently underway.
Yuuya and the Argos Test Flight are participating in the XFJ project,
a sub-project of Prominence.
Argos Test Flight
A Turkish captain.
Italy.
Sweden.
Nepal.
The members of Argos Flight are all top Eishi from their respective countries.
There's a reason they've been sent here to the rear lines.
I figured Chobi'd be coming.
Test pilots are tasked with pushing their prototypes to their limits,
and so only the best Eishi can become one.
Oh, I missed?
They never smiled.
They'd fought on the front lines, and being sent to the rear lines upset them.
You need to enjoy yourself when you can.
Like that.
Enjoying the peace that their comrades on the front lines couldn't,
and sending them the new TSFs they're developing.
The test pilots know that they're acting as an investment in the future of humanity.
That's something they shared with everyone else who came before them.
...repaying those who came before them.
They're giving me what they were given.
Meeting
I can't believe that.
It's true.
The Argos Flight was formed as part of the joint Japan-US XFJ project.
Two of its members are...
You're inexperienced.
XFJ Project Japanese Project Leader Japanese Royal Guard Lt. Yui Takamura
Lt. Yui Takamura heads the Japanese side of the project.
And...
Come on, Lieutenant!
I'll fight you!
XFJ Project Test Pilot American Army Ensign Yuuya Bridges
And Ensign Yuuya Bridges, a half-Japanese American from the American Army.
Yui is from an old and proper family who are personal servants of the Emperor.
You're too high!
Ruled by her past experiences and her position,
she's lived her whole life motivated by a desire to help others, to save Japan.
Anti-laser smoke!
Yuuya, however...
That's why I told you not to trust Japs!
No, father!
Because of his race and birth, both he and his mother suffered severe discrimination.
He believes becoming a Top Eishi
is the only way to get others to accept him and his mother,
and this desire to help himself has been his only motivation.
You had them protect you. You had them cover for you.
That little game where you were all friends in the same Flight.
Their different values stop them from accepting each other,
and the two clash repeatedly.
Growth
Yuuya's only interest had been in improving himself,
but as he meets and interacts with the rest of Yukon base, he begans to change his mind.
The railgun you worked on saved everyone.
I guess the Japanese aren't that bad.
When Argos visited Kamchatka to test their TSFs,
Yuuya met someone who would change his life.
...and I'm so close to the front lines.
Looks like you're taking it easy.
Is that how a hero gets to act?
Fikatsia Latrova, head of the USSR's ace Zhar Battalion.
Soviet Army Zhar Battalion Commander Commander Fikatsia Latrova
But that immaturity of yours is clouding your eyes from the bigger picture.
The bigger picture?
What are you fighting against?
When you blame something outside yourself for your own failure to do something,
the only thing you can convince is your own heart.
You can never convince anyone else.
What are you talking about?
If you can't take it all, decide what you're going to abandon.
That's what your fight is, kid.
At first, Yuuya couldn't understand what her words meant.
Tatiana!
So in the end we're just pawns to be sacrificed?
Watch over me, everyone.
I'll take revenge for you.
But when Latrova sacrifices herself and shows him how an Eishi lives,
he learns the meaning and weight of her words.
The Zhar Battalion was wiped out?
I was pretending not to see how so many other people were protecting me.
But watch me now.
I swear to all of you.
Someday, I'll fight to protect someone, like you did.
Yuuya begins to grow greatly as a person and an Eishi
after Latrova's words and his experiences at Yukon,
begins to accept the Japanese blood within him,
something he's never done before.
I'm Japanese-American.
And he sees himself reflected in the Japanese-American Shiranui Type 2.
It's amazing. A beautiful machine.
He finds a new goal for himself: seeing it completed.
When he finds a place for himself in Argos, his obsession with avenging his past ends,
and he swears that he'll pass on what his comrades gave him to someone else.
I want to return what I was given...
what I took.
Change
I refuse to allow any Eishi to die in a TSF I tested.
Even you Japanese.
At first she clashes with him, but as she learns more about Yuuya,
Yui's heart begins to change as well.
He never gave up, no matter how hard things got.
Yuuya Bridges.
Why am I remembering him at a time like this?
Yuuya...
What...?
As she sees Yuuya overcome even the most difficult situations
without ever thinking of his position or his family,
she finds himself gradually drawn to him.
Bridges, you...
You can call me Yuuya.
W-What are you talking about all of a sudden?
What? You were just calling me that.
H-H-How did you...
Rival
Can I have another?
There's still plenty left.
As she begins to get closer to Yuuya, new rivals appear.
Yuuya Bridges.
You can fall in love with me if you want.
Chinese United Front Bao Feng Test Flight Lt. Cui Yifei
Lt. Cui Yifei, of the Chinese Unified Front's Bao Feng Test Flight.
She goes after Yuuya hard, with the same strong personality
that's reflected in her TSF piloting.
What are you doing?
Your face is red.
Is that you, Yuuya?
Yuuya's former lover,
American Army 65th Combat Training Group "Infinities" Sharon Imes
Sharon Imes of the 65th Combat Training Battalion "Infinities" appears as well.
And the USSR Army's aces, the Scarlet Twins.
You and I won't, either.
Really?
Soviet Army Idar Test Flight Ensign Inia Sestina
Soviet Army Idar Test Flight Ensign Cryska Barchenowa
Ensign Inia Sestina and Ensign Cryska Barchenowa.
For some reason, Inia is very open with Yuuya from the very beginning,
That's...
You again?
This voice, it can't be...
but Cryska was cold and antagonistic.
Never hang out with a man like that again.
Yes.
We two are the only family we have.
As Inia becomes more involved with Yuuya, Cryska gradually starts to change.
I'd like you to tell me about Yuuya Bridges.
I'm interested in him.
Yuuya Bridges.
Cryska?
Are you looking for Inia?
How did you know?
Can you read my mind?
Think about it.
You never talk to me unless it's about Inia.
That's all.
Oh, that wasn't much fun at all.
Don't try to make it fun.
You didn't answer right away, so it made me wonder.
Cryska smiled?
Cryska sees Inia approaching Yuuya,
when she's never taken an interest in anyone else before.
No!
Cryska realizes that Inia is causing her own feelings to change.
Inia...
Do you want to be friends with Yuuya too?
Cryska has lived her whole life as a weapon,
is uncertain about how to handle these changes in her heart, and suffers.
Something's strange.
Whenever I think about you,
I can't concentrate.
Unsure of what her feelings are,
she finds herself drawn to Yuuya as if Inia is pulling her along.
I just want you to tell me.
I don't know what to do from now on...
Darling!
Lt. Cui?
What will be their fate as these women struggle for Yuuya?
And what about Yuuya's heart?
Look forward to seeing what happens!
What am I doing?
After this, Minami Kurabayashi sings the new opening, "Doubt the World!"
Don't miss this powerful number that's perfect for the climax!
Now we'll show you the new opening, with Minami Kurabayashi's "Doubt The World!"
New Opening from Next Episode: Minami Kuribayashi's Doubt The World.
Now we'll show you two major points that will help you get ten times as much enjoyment out of the climax!
Deploy and continue the trial using group D.
Soviet Military Idar Test Flight Commander Lt. Jerzy Sandek
Lt. Jerzy Sandek, head of the Soviets' Idar Test Flight.
What exactly do you intend to do, Comrade Rogofsky?
What?
You've lost a front-line base, attacked your own side,
and then wiped out our all-important bomber forces...
In Kamchatka, he took advantage of the failure of his superior officer,
Rogofsky, to take control of the secret project.
A man who's always working in the shadows and who will do anything for his goals.
This exercise is more than just a test of our respective capabilities.
It is a demonstration of my Polnoe Zatmeniya plan.
At the center of Sandek's Polnoe Zatmeniya plan are Cryska and Inia.
Roger.
Test flights, begin your mission.
The two of them met in a lab for the UN's Alternative-3 project, a secret anti-BETA project.
And several years later were conscripted by Sandek.
Sandek's plan was taking place, even back then.
That score is incredible...
The Terminator shows terrifying combat capability.
This must be what happiness feels like.
A mysterious phenomenon called Prafka gives them unmatched abilities.
Perhaps as a result, Cryska has memory problems and is emotionally unstable.
Are you planning something?
Does she not remember?
You were crying, weren't you Yuuya?
You were crying?
What are you talking about?
Inia almost seems like she can read minds.
...all important memories that made you who you are today.
I thought so.
It was worth letting him go after he infiltrated this facility.
Cryska and Inia are caught up in Sandek's plot.
Bridges.
What will their hidden powers bring to Yuuya, and the world?
I'll need to get another stage for him ready.
Two major points that will help you get ten times as much enjoyment out of the climax!
The battle for survival against the BETA
has destroyed the rules of equality, human rights, and freedom,
widening the gap between the haves and have-nots.
J-Jacob!
Some are forced into a horrific war of attrition on the front lines.
Stop it!
Can't you see the friendly markers?
Others command the battle from the safety of the rear lines.
We'll need to bring in more replacements.
Refugees swarm from the areas in Eurasia under BETA control,
while the countries behind the battle lines enjoy a wartime economic boom.
The tension brought by the BETA invasion
rips apart the bonds that unite humanity.
I am a test pilot with the 331st Special Experimental Development Squad of the Soviet Central Strategic Research Corps.
Ensign Cryska Barchenowa.
Right, right. An elite from the capital.
Shut up!
Most of the staff at Yukon base are from refugee camps from nations which lost their land to the BETA.
We're both soldiers in the Soviet-
No.
You're a Russian.
What the hell is a "Soviet" anyway?
It's not even the name of a country.
We're the ones dying out here,
while you guys are slacking off on the rear lines!
And this is from me.
I don't think there's anybody out there who doesn't have their own problems.
Everybody's doing their best to live right now.
Behind their smiles lie a sad past they never speak of.
I barely remember a thing about France.
The past is the past.
What's most important is that we're alive right now.
The number of refugees grow all over the world every day.
The unbridgeable gap between the rich and poor,
where the burden falls entirely on the have-nots,
will cast a giant shadow on the world.
The unfairness and dissatisfaction that it brings...
The day they reach their limit is near.
Did you enjoy the Total Eclipse Pre-Climax Special?
What fate will Yuuya and his friends win for themselves?
Witness a new dawn!
We'll end the show with ayami's "Revise the World."
The lyrics are filled with keywords that foreshadow future developments.
Watch both the opening and ending carefully!
The burning star falls through the sky
From far to near
There's no way I could feel the heat
but the cage around me seems to melt.
Burn it all, and show me a new place in the broken world
When two hearts are fated to overlap
you look at me with gentle eyes.
The light of judgment in a heart I want to protect
Will its smile disappear?
You said before you can understand the peace here but you can't accept it, right?
Impressive. His plan was perfect.
Do you really believe we can change the world like this?
The World Bares its Fangs
Next time on Total Eclipse:
The World Bares its Fangs