NAIDA AND RUBINA: WHAT'S BEHIND THE MASK - 23
By Gerdha & Joe7
(first article: here; previous article: here)

ANALYSIS ABOUT RUBINA

ORIGINAL DIALOGUES OF EPISODE 72

DIALOGUE 5 - RUBINA AND DUKE FLEED ON EARTH

(Planet Earth, present time, at the flowered grass. A nanohana flower has fallen in Duke Fleed's right hand, and he fixes it.)

Duke Fleed: I remember it, in fact...

(Rubina makes a step towards him)
Rubina: Duke!

(Still fixing the flower in his hand, Duke Fleed answers her icily)
Duke Fleed: But that old Duke Fleed has already died.
Rubina: Eh?

Duke Fleed: (still without looking Rubina): Duke Fleed who is here now is an enemy for you.

Rubina: No, Duke, I don't think so, that you are an enemy.

Duke Fleed: (finally watching Rubina) But my father and my mother have been killed by Planet Vega Allied Forces.

(Rubina lowers her eyes and turns away)
Rubina: When you tell me so, I don't know what to say anymore. I can't do anything but ask for forgiveness.

(Duke Fleed's voìce gets angry)
Duke Fleed: Not only that, but Planet Fleed was polluted by Vegatron radioactivity too, and was turned into a planet of death!

Rubina: (turning to Duke Fleed) No, Duke, luckily Planet Fleed is not completely destroyed.

Duke Fleed: (astonished): What?

Rubina: (showing to Duke Fleed the picture she took from her spacer) I've seen it arriving from Planet Rubi. This is its picture.

(Duke Fleed watches the picture in total surprise and emotìon)
Duke Fleed: The suspicious aura of Vegatron radioactivity which covered Planet Fleed does not exist anymore!

Rubina: Vegatron radioactivity is becoming weaker, and Planet Fleed is going to regenerate itself.

Duke Fleed: (turning his eyesight to the sky in the opposite direction respect to Rubina's posìtion) Planet Fleed is going to regenerate itself?

(Rubina gets closer to Duke Fleed, who, anyway, does not move his eyesight from the sky, looking in the opposite direction respect to Rubina)
Rubina: Duke, let's not make war anymore, and let's go back together to Planet Fleed. No? (Duke Fleed does not answer a word, and continues to look at the sky). If we continue again the war, not only Vega Allied Forces, but the whole Earth would be destroyed by the fight. In order to let my father stop the war, there's nothing else to do for us than to take our hands together.

Duke Fleed: (still without moving his face) But...

Rubina: Please! For the peace on Earth, let's go back together to Planet Fleed. You agree, don't you?
(Rubina gets even closer to Duke Fleed, who finally turns to her and they hug)
Duke Fleed: Rubina!
Rubina: Duke!

(While she puts her face on his chest, he looks at her just a moment, then turns his eyesight again to the sky and a tear falls down his right eye)

FIRST COMMENTS

From this moment on, Duke Fleed talks to Rubina using only the formal phrasing, as he has recognised her as the princess of Vega. Previously, while they first meet at the flowered grass, he had talk to her using the informal phrasing, and this is interesting as it's an unusual attitude between adults, according to japanese social rules. My Japanese translator considers that a possible explanation can be that, in the beginning Duke Fleed considered himself as "superior" to Rubina, as he did not believe to be in front of the Princess of Vega. Now, in this scene, he has instead changed his mind recognising to be in front to his "equal" in the society. Rubina, from her side, talks in formal mode to Duke Fleed during the whole episode, as she always knows the identity of the man she is talking to.
According to my Japanese translator, considering the Japanese social rules and the literal meaning of the sentence, Rubina does not propose to Duke Fleed a wedding, but an "alliance" instead between her and him personally.
The literal words of Rubina seem to imply that Planet Fleed is self-healing. This idea was also expressed in the Roman Album, where an official statement by Toei explains that the Planet Fleed possesses an internal energy that has allowed it to defeat Vegatron radiation so much that it can come back to life quickly. Duke Fleed is however completely surprised that Planet Fleed is regenerating, so this capacity of his native planet was unknown to him: and this explains why on no occasion before he has never mentioned the possibility of being able to return one day on Fleed. This ability was also unknown to Rubina, who had surprised herself at the beginning of the episode, and also to King Vega, who likewise was surprised at the news. It is therefore possible that this feature was really unknown to everyone. But the fact should not surprise us: if indeed, as can be deduced from various episodes in the anime, Fleed was the first planet to experience a vegatron bomb, no one could have ever previously studied the phenomenon of the self-regeneration of a planet.

(to be continued here)

HERE ALL THE ENGLISH LINKS ABOUT GRENDIZER

Edited by joe 7 - 31/3/2020, 14:14