{"id":127493,"date":"2024-05-31T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=39653"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T14:41:57","slug":"star-driver-episode-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/star-driver-episode-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Driver \u2013 Episode 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today we return to Star Driver on the eve of apocalypse, as Sugata embraces his fated role standing atop Kiraboshi\u2019s nefarious organization. Though to be honest, he\u2019s been trending in this direction for at least half the show so far; though he denied Benio and the others in the wake of the first King\u2019s Pillar activation, he was clearly not willing to go so far as to actively reject his birthright. And since then, Tokio has become a close confidant of our would-be king, all while his alleged fianc\u00e9 grows closer to that interloper Takuto.<\/span><\/p>\n

So yes, I was frankly expecting this from Sugata, and can only hope his bond with Takuto is strong enough to save him from his dark destiny. On a pure plot level, releasing the Cybodies from Southern Cross would at best instigate an era of forever-adolescent robotic terror, and at worst instantly kill every single person who\u2019s not similarly apprivoised. On a thematic level, this act would represent the victory of stasis over embracing maturity, the latent awareness of self as an active participant in the world gestured towards by the fusion of adolescent and Cybody. Cybodies are essentially masks our characters use to play-act adulthood, but if true maturation is to be achieved, our heroes must set aside their armor and, like all of the hopeful maidens trapped in Tokio\u2019s gallery, at last set sail for the real world. Let\u2019s get to it!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Episode 24<\/b><\/p>\n

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We open on an ostentatious reaffirmation of normalcy, beginning with that familiar pink school facility and cutting in to the gang sleepily shuffling to their seats. Such a mundane intro at this point in the series only heightens the sense of anticipation, practically begging the other shoe to drop<\/span><\/p>\n

In spite of this performance, Takuto immediately asks Kate what\u2019s going on, clued in by both her lack of a book and her unusually high spirits. He has forged a mutual understanding with Kate that easily sees through her – like his relationship with Wako, Takuto\u2019s friendship with Kate embodies the honest give-and-take of genuinely getting to know one another, rather than the arbitrary dynamics dictated from on high that define Sugata\u2019s relationships with the women around him<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kanako wonders whether what happened is genuinely good for Kate. Kanako, who has more or less been freed from the Cybody circus through her defeat by Takuto, can see that Kate is another caged maiden. Even if Sugata is beside and flattering her now, her destiny will always be an arbitrary and unhappy one so long as she remains within the Order of Kiraboshi<\/span><\/p>\n

And that tension informs our episode title, \u201cEastern Shrine Maiden.\u201d Will Kate be defined by that title, or at last surpass it?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Headmaster stops by our group\u2019s lunch table, with the young teacher Ms. Ishino beside him<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cRemember the performance isn\u2019t over until you\u2019ve finished clearing up afterwards.\u201d A line that clearly refers to more than tidying up their performance posters<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve always been so mature\u2026 or should I say, wise for your age?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m good at playing whatever role I\u2019m given.\u201d A pointed exchange between this classmate and Sugata. As the cornerstone of Kiraboshi\u2019s perpetual adolescence project, Sugata is in fact an avatar of near-adult constancy – someone destined to become the perpetual older sibling who never actually graduates, like Tokio or Akio. And so he deflects this misguided compliment with a casual admission that there isn\u2019t necessarily a \u201creal Sugata\u201d anymore, just a procession of masks<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd besides\u2026 whether or not I\u2019m going to play the role I\u2019ve been given\u2026 that\u2019s for me to decide, anyway.\u201d He\u2019s definitely savoring his current position on the fulcrum. Sugata\u2019s an odd one within this cast – maintaining the ambiguity of his relationship towards his destined role has required keeping him at a distance, preventing us from ever truly getting to know him. It works, more or less, but it makes for a somewhat underdeveloped lead, one whose alleged bond with Takuto never actually feels all that meaningful<\/span><\/p>\n

While Sugata savors his agency, Wako can only envy Ruri\u2019s lovey-dovey stories of the far side of adolescence<\/span><\/p>\n

Ruri plans to head to Tokyo after graduating. The liminal stage is ending, and Wako must make her choice<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wako gently pokes Kate about Takuto later, and of course Kate immediately responds with \u201cdoes it bother you?\u201d As the forever also-ran, she\u2019s accustomed to always fighting to defend whatever space she\u2019s claimed. Desperate and lonely, prideful and acidic, grounded into cynicism yet still longing for a childhood dream – Kate is a total mess of contradictions, all of which collectively make her one of the best characters in the show<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, I\u2019d rather go on loving the one man I gave my heart to.\u201d Pure venom from Kate, essentially \u201cwhy are you complaining about me getting chummy with your new boytoy when you\u2019ve already claimed the man I love\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m different from you, and from my aunt as well.\u201d God, she\u2019s so tragic! This island\u2019s traditions have stolen her possibility of happiness, but they\u2019re also all she has left, and so she clings to the very guidelines that have denied her everything<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Kanako challenges her on how she recruited Sugata, but she deflects with an \u201cask him yourself\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Over in Tokio\u2019s palace, Shingo awakes. \u201cI realized that this world wasn\u2019t a place where I could become the adult I wanted to be. That\u2019s why I stopped myself from growing up. But then it got more and more agonizing\u2026 like I was the only one being left behind. Are you okay with that, Tokio?\u201d \u201cAll I know is that I want yours.\u201d Tokio is incapable of heeding Shingo\u2019s warning, cannot recognize the dead end of perpetual adolescence<\/span><\/p>\n

And thus Tokio at last claims his emblem, and the final act begins<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wish we could go on looking up at the sky forever.\u201d Wako is also desperate for this moment to continue, for her fated choice to never pass her lips<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re sure to see other skies, different from this one, but even more beautiful.\u201d On the other hand, Takuto is eager to see what the future holds<\/span><\/p>\n

A flashback brings us back to Kate, Sugata, and Wako\u2019s childhood, back when that storm threatened the pillar they\u2019d built together. I\u2019d almost forgotten this totem, and it makes for an interesting contrast with the \u201cKing\u2019s Pillar\u201d as defined by Kiraboshi<\/span><\/p>\n

With Sugata in danger, Wako\u2019s powers as a shrine maiden activated to protect him while Kate looked on in horror. That was the moment they separated, the moment she lost Sugata forever<\/span><\/p>\n

That night Sugata meets Kate at the Eastern Shrine, or as she\u2019s quick to correct, the <\/span>ruins<\/span><\/i> of the Eastern Shrine<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a Shrine Maiden who was born for your sake\u2026\u201d Kate has only come to peace with her identity as a Shrine Maiden by leaning all the more on her hopeless love for Sugata. If she was born to be sacrificed for Sugata\u2019s sake, she can accept the unfairness of her destiny<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMake sure that you survive, too.\u201d \u201cWhatever happens to me now, I\u2019ll be fine.\u201d Kate has accepted her role as an instrument in this ritual, even if Sugata has not. Conflating romantic love and sacrifice with ancestral duty, if only because she cannot imagine the sort of better future Wako still holds out for. An unhappy but faithful instrument of the machine<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sugata\u2019s caretakers have grown too attached to him to <\/span>fulfill<\/span><\/i> their duties, and destroy the driver of Samekh<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Watching the fluctuations in the market, Kanako deduces that the zero-time seal may break tonight<\/span><\/p>\n

Kanako reveals the only reason she brought this massive ship to the island was so she could evacuate the islanders if things go wrong. I always believed in you, Kanako!<\/span><\/p>\n

Takuto tells Wako he\u2019s planning on moving back to the dorms. She asks why, to which he responds by musing on visiting Wako and Sugata when they\u2019re married. He\u2019s already accepted they can no longer play house as a trio, can no longer delay Wako\u2019s choice<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

In zero-time, Kate removes her mask to reveal her identity as a Shrine Maiden<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve obtained eternity.\u201d Seeing no happy future beyond this island and this moment, Kate has accepted that a static eternity is all she can hope for – the same eternity of the women in Tokio\u2019s paintings, as a caged accessory to the king<\/span><\/p>\n

Fitting, then, that Tokio is the one to break her seal<\/span><\/p>\n

Oof, phenomenal sense of scale in this animation as the great shadow Samekh rises<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And Done<\/b><\/p>\n

Ah shit, we\u2019re really in for it now! With Kate\u2019s seal nullified, only Wako stands between Tokio, Sugata, and the total expansion of zero-time into a world-spanning crisis. Not content merely lording over his island of adolescence, Tokio is determined to make all the world his cage, while Sugata\u2019s true feelings remain concealed even as he stands atop the throne of Kiraboshi. All of that is plenty exciting, but personally, I\u2019m most anxious about the destiny of poor Kate, who has been so mistreated by this whole ritual system that she can only dream of a kiss suspended in amber, a single moment when she was important to her chosen love. You deserve better than this bullshit system, Kate!<\/span><\/p>\n

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