DAISUKE AND HIKARU: AN UNTOLD STORY - ANALYSIS BY GERDHA - PART 26
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HIKARU MAKIBA: THE "FINAL ARC" INTRODUCTION" (EPS 62-69)

EPISODE 66

In fact, ep66 represents in a way the “old Hikaru” ’s revenge. Just as the other episode (ep14, "Boss Robot Arrived!!"), the ratings are a total disaster but this is not an issue, because at that particular day (2 January 1977, Joe7's note) most of families don’t watch TV, so low ratings are predictable. Who knows, maybe it was exactly this foreseen situation which lead the Authors to let Hikaru be the star of the show once again, LOL! Anyway, the main scene of the episode is, for me, what happens in the control room of the Research Centre, where Hikaru confronts Maria Grace, who would like to drive Marine Spacer in a difficult operation.

Daisuke accepts promptly her intervention. After all, he would have accepted his sister as Marine Spacer driver only because he would have liked – just as Maria Grace – Hikaru staying at the farm with her family, at least on that important day (a traditional family festivity in Japan). But, as she is ready to fight together with him, he honestly cannot really ask for more. Once Hikaru and Daisuke are trapped by the monster under the deep sea, and Marine Spacer starts to suffer of a serious damage which for sure would kill her in a short time, Daisuke gets extremely worried and tries to solicit Hikaru to not give up hope and to save energies in order to let the oxygen to last the longest time possible (by the way, Hikaru does not say a thing while she hardly breathes in the Italian edition – no goodbye thoughts to her charming prince or similar…Note: I'm referring here to VF, French Version).

But this scene could have nothing special, after all. Instead, what it’s interesting is Maria Grace’s reaction at the news about what is happening under the sea: she falls on her knees crying…not for her brother, but for Hikaru! Yes, strangely she is worried more for Hikaru than for Daisuke, and she sobs between tears “No, no, this cannot happen, Hikaru should not die!!!”

Well, it’s true that Maria Grace could have found herself in Hikaru’s shoes, as originally she was intended to drive Marine Spacer in that battle, but honestly I don’t find her reaction linked only to this reasoning. For me, Maria Grace seems worried for Hikaru not only because of the “sister-like” relationship they have been slowly developing in the story (especially in the latest episodes), but, particularly, because she knows how important is Hikaru in her brother’s life and what tragedy could be for him losing her. Honestly, I would find hard to explain Maria Grace’s attitude in that scene in a different way. (Joe7's note: it is noteworthy that, in this episode, Maria's hairs behind are much like those Sayaka's...)

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Edited by joe 7 - 22/11/2019, 22:54