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EPISODE 72: THE SCENE AT THE BALCONY
Later, the Research Centre balcony hosts a scene which I consider one of the best scene of the whole anime, and one of the greatest example of the tricky use of visual aspects. If you would like to follow my advice and you switch off the TV volume, you will see the following scene happening. Daisuke is alone at the balcony looking at the sunset with a serious expression.
 
He is so concentrated in his reflections that he does not realise the arrival of Koji, Maria Grace and Hikaru.
They are all worried, but Hikaru, in particular, is extremely serious.
 
Koji puts a thumb on his mouth, asking for, silence and he approaches Daisuke, exchanging some words with him.
 
Maria Grace turns, looking at Hikaru, then she reaches her brother - while Hikaru remains standing few steps behind - and she adds some words.
  
Without moving his sight from the sky, Daisuke replies something that makes his sister turning again to Hikaru with a worried expression, then she replies to Daisuke for a moment.
 
 
Koji is shown angry, and Daisuke lowers his eyes and he turns back to return to the Centre, keeping his eyesight to the floor;
 
he nearly runs into Hikaru and he stops for a fraction of second beside her (it’s really a very short moment), so she is surprised.
  
When Daisuke has nearly reached the balcony door, Koji runs ahead of him and, holding his shoulders, he tells something to his friend, who, anyway, continues to look at the floor.
 
Then, something happens that makes everybody turning and rushing soon in the control room, where Rubina’s Spacer is shown in a monitor.
 
After some moments, Daisuke looks at left and right, with a worried expression, then he rushes out of the control room.
 
 
This is what happens at the balcony scene, whatever dialogue – but, particularly, intonations – could have been added in the various editions (anyway, they are all more or less consistent here). (Gerdha note: at that time, in the French forum, we were referring only to FV, IVHD and VA 1; in fact, the translation of OV 2 was not yet available) I think that the “silent game” can prove two basic things. First, Daisuke is all but happy after his meeting with Rubina (Joe7's note: you can even see this watching how he plods, looking down, after speaking to Maria Grace), and he has so many issues floating in his mind, so that he does not realise the arrival of the other members of the Team. Secondly, Koji, but mostly Maria Grace, are clearly worried for Hikaru: the visual hints are not disputable on this point. The big question is: did Hikaru know about Daisuke’s past engagement with Rubina? Maria Grace should have known about it, as her reaction (looking at Hikaru) when her brother confesses the identity (“She was Rubina”) of the enemy he met at the flowered grass is clearly designed (“What? – she turns to Hikaru, then she looks again to Daisuke – the Vega princess?”).
It is an important question, because the balcony scene is crucial to understand ep72. Well, I believe that yes, Hikaru knew about Daisuke’s past engagement, otherwise there would have been no reason for her to worry in anticipation. Okay, Koji saw Daisuke talking with a red-haired girl at the grass, so what? If Hikaru did not know anything about the past engagement, why should she has to be worried when she arrives at the balcony? Koji and Maria Grace act during the whole scene as they are protecting Hikaru; to be more precise, I have the main impression that they approach Daisuke on her behalf. Looking at the visual aspects, we see Koji first stopping Hikaru and Maria Grace, then approaching Daisuke,
then Maria Grace looking at Hikaru, then reaching her brother.
Probably I have a lack of fantasy, but I cannot find an alternative valid explanation to this scene, taking into consideration all those visual evidences. It is Hikaru who would like to know who was that girl at the grass, but she has not the courage to ask him directly. Considering her personality throughout the previous 71 episodes, I believe that only a terrible doubt about the possible comeback in Duke Fleed’s life of his official girlfriend in Fleed could have let her act in that unusual way. She had no fear in meeting Naida, but the possible comeback of Rubina is a complete different story for her. Why? Because Hikaru knows that only his high sense of duty could be able to tear Daisuke apart from her. Nothing else could succeed. And that something strange and really serious is going on is proved by Daisuke’ unusual attitude: he is clearly in trouble, but this time he does not want to share his reflections with Hikaru and he prefers to stay alone. A real bad sign for Hikaru, who, for the first time in the whole anime, is scared.
If that girl (Koji could see her briefly without the helmet at the grass, and those long red hairs were for sure a visible particular even from his Spacer)
 
was really Rubina, what did she want? These are the questions (the identity of the enemy and the topic of the discussion) Hikaru would like to pose to Daisuke, lacking the courage, so Koji and Maria Grace offer to question him on her behalf (it is clear, from the balcony scene, that the trio has discussed the situation previously, as they act as they have agreed a sort of “action plan”).
I find Koji and Maria Grace's attitude amusing; and it is another indirect confirmation that Hikaru had a special deep role in Daisuke’ life: otherwise, Maria Grace’s behaviour at the balcony would be inexplicable.
By the way, Koji knows nothing about the engagement (otherwise, his speeches (“You had to capture her!”), both at the balcony and in the bedroom, would have no sense), but both Maria Grace and Hikaru were aware of it.
Probably, the Fleedian princess did not know details, though I think Daisuke told her something about it - but asking her to keep the information as a secret - between ep70 and ep71, while he was fearing to die very soon for the worsening of the poisoning injury, in order to try to relieve his sister, who was desperate for lacking memories about Fleed. Instead, in my opinion, Hikaru knew very well the background story of the engagement. Analysing the visual aspects of the scene, it seems to me that she is not surprised at all – like Alcor instead - from the news that Daisuke met the Princess of Vega, which is really strange.
If she ignored the engagement, her reaction should have been similar to Koji’s, while, instead, Hikaru is only surprised for Daisuke’s behaviour, when he nearly runs into her and he has not the courage to look at her.
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1 FV: French Version; IVHD: Italian Version Historical Dubbing; AV: Arab Version
2 OV: Original Version
Edited by joe 7 - 24/11/2019, 19:29
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