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EPISODE 37 (PART 2)
In fact, Daisuke's words have a tremendous impact on Hikaru. Alone in her living room, she realises that her hopes for him to stay at her side forever are destined probably to remain only a wishful thinking, for two main reasons.
First, even if Daisuke is confident to not be killed by Vegans, the war is becoming clearly more and more tough (by the way, ep37 introduces the plot of the issue of the energy supply for Vega) and this situation could not allow him to take care of their relationship in the same way in the near future. Secondly, the poisoning injury will kill him anyway sooner or later: fighting could speed the process but in any case Daisuke's destiny is already written without possibly known escape.
Their love is in a certain way sentenced to death just as Daisuke’s life. How could she manage such a terrible situation? Is there anything she can do in order to help him? Is it possible for her to continue to stay home at her farm while the man she loves is fighting to save her planet?
She has already tried some weeks before (ep34) to help him, but somehow he refused her aid.
That was nice, he worried for her life because he loves her, his desire to protect her (ah, I know Attorney Agnes is smiling reading this statement, hihi  - Gerdha here refers to TTOTC1 who was then in progress) was surely a beautiful sign of love but... does she want really to be protected? Is it really her wish to be protected by Daisuke? Oh no, this is not her aim, she does not want to be protected, because she doesn’t need it. She is used to fight in her life, she is not scared by challenges. She is a girl from the countryside, some literature schemes would like her to stay quiet at home waiting for her prince to come back... so what? Who cares? She is Hikaru Makiba, dammit, this is the only thing that matters.
Whatever classical scriptwriters could like her to do, her life lays instead in the pen held by some revolutionary guys who clearly up to now does not wish to adhere to conventional female figure development rules. But... how to overcome Daisuke’s sure objections? One thing is for sure: they are both stubborn persons. A huge fight could be near to come between them... but it could worth anyway. Sometime a couple has to fight in order to find its right internal balance.
The plot of the rescue of Hikaru and Goro seems, at first, to be the usual story once again. But it’s a trick instead. A great wonderful trick. Following the usual Koji’s K.O. (oh, one day I will write a MM2 about this poor guy to give justice to him too : Gerdha's note), suddenly Hikaru finds herself driving Double Spacer.
And the girl from the countryside has finally the opportunity to show to the audience who she really is: a strong unscared confident woman, who takes her responsibilities when needed. The greatest and most unusual female figure ever appeared up to that moment in an anime. And, after having destroyed the monster, and having collapsed for the incredible emotion, she wakes up in Daisuke's arms on Grendizer's hand.
  
  
Sunset is shining and he is watching her with a loving expression designed on his face (by the way: this is someway Komatsubara’s testament in the anime, as this is the final scene of the last episode he took personally care in Grendizer, even if he continued to keep the role of Character Designer for other 11 episodes). But Daisuke’s own words are a beautiful gift for Hikaru too:
Daisuke: How are you now?
Hikaru: I...
Daisuke: You have saved me, thank you. I knew what happened from Dr. Umon. But you should promise me that you won’t risk your life in a battle anymore
Hikaru: But...
 
Daisuke: Look at sky, the sun is going down. I won’t let this beautiful Earth to fall in Vegan’s arms: I promise I will defend it. Please, Hikaru, if you are not in danger I feel stronger.
Hikaru: (sighs) Oh, Daisuke...
while the scene and the episode fade in the sunset light (and the stupid romantic girl I am cannot help herself but to imagine a tender scene to follow... well, nevermind, this way probably it’s even more romantic, which is good anyway After all, I have get the official confirmation of Daisuke’s love for Hikaru, which is nice.  I can switch off TV with a big smile on my face.
  
But I would like to underline another aspect of ep37 related to Hikaru. When she finds herself driving Double Spacer and she asks Koji to teach her how to use weapons in order to save Grendizer, she receives a refusal from both Koji and Umon.
 
So, Hikaru menaces to explode the Double Spacer against the monster, as they don’t allow her another solution.
Umon, at this point, agrees and orders to Koji to give the proper instructions to Hikaru.
Very interesting. And very strange. This is the first, but also the only, occasion where Hikaru menaces to kill herself in the whole anime. It could seem a situation similar to Naida’s in ep25 but it is in reality a complete different case. Double Spacer is transporting also Koji and Goro; how could Umon possibly believe that Hikaru intended to really launch the spacer against the monster? It’s a total nonsense.
In fact, I personally think that Umon does not believe her intentions, but, anyway, he agrees to let her fight with the Double Spacer for a different reason. He knows her, he has a high consideration of her personality, he is aware about her love for Daisuke and he understands that what is going on is a sort of “sign of destiny” (so to speak): this is what Hikaru can do to support Daisuke, this is what she can do to give help in saving her own planet from Vega forces; moreover, a further driver available for the Double Spacer could be anyway very helpful.
But... now a big problem raises up: how to handle the situation with Daisuke? He knows his son, and he is sure that he won’t accept the novelty with a smile. Hikaru will need some support for succeeding in changing his mind. A little “conspiration” is going to start...
JOE7'S NOTES
This, in fact, is the last episode that Komatsubara drew, and the final scene seems the last episode of the Grendizer series, with Hikaru in Daisuke's arms. A tribute of the master, as if it were the rwal final scene of the Grendizer series. Moreover , it is remarkable that, in this episode, Komatsubara has designed two uniforms for Hikaru: a blue and yellow one, and a red and yellow one. The same colors of the uniform of Duke Fleed: the second version, red and yellow, among other things, has a combination of colors near to those ones of the Duke Fleed costume. A final observation about Hikaru's dress at the end of the story: it is noteworthy that it has the same colors of the sunset, not only of Duke Fleed's costume. Another hidden signal of the authors on the bond that exists between them.
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1 TTOTC: The Trial Of The Century. It was a kind of role-playing game in which they made a trial about the characters. Gerdha had the role of Prosecutions, Agnès was the Lawyer Defender, the role of Judge was hired by Jerome, the Jury by Suzi and by all other forum members who wish to comment on the various posts.
2 MM: Monstrogoth Message. Gerdha and her colleagues' posts were often very long and complex, then many people called them jokingly as "Monstrogoth Messages", MM. "Monstrogoth" was the name given by the French dubbing to Vega Monsters. So , it could be translated as "monstrous message".
Edited by joe 7 - 11/11/2019, 20:58
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