NAIDA AND RUBINA: WHAT'S BEHIND THE MASK - 29
By Gerdha & Joe7
(first article: here; previous article: here)

ANALYSIS ABOUT RUBINA

RUBINA ON RUBI PLANET AND DUKE ON EARTH

A critical point for the correct interpretation of ep72 is to be able to understand Rubina's real personality. This episode clearly states that Rubina was on Rubi planet. Besides, there is no doubt that it is precisely Mineo's planet (ep9).

Rubi had actually been subdued without being destroyed by Vega in ep9, after the failure of Mineo's mission: Gandal had kept his promise. It must have been a very delicate political situation, yet King Vega decides to send his daughter to rule the planet. But why does he choose her? He himself explains this to Zuril at the beginning of ep72. In fact, he shows the maximum trust in Rubina; in fact, he is totally sure that she would have crushed the revolt.

King Vega can be a lot of things, but certainly he is not stupid. He sent Rubina to rule Rubi planet and he considers her capable of stopping a revolt in the blood: he must have very good reasons to think so. In fact, the dialogue (Original Version) of ep72 between father and daughter does not deny anything about this interpretation. Rubina does not support planet Rubi's cause: she makes only considerations of political convenience for Vega reign about the granting of independence. Evidently, his father knows her very well.

However, Duke Fleed knows well Rubina, too. In case Rubina had never been involved in planet Fleed's destruction, in case Rubina had been in good faith, in case Rubina had shared her peace feelings with Duke Fleed, in case Rubina was simply been forced by her father to adhere to a policy she did not share, in case Rubina simply fell in love with Duke Fleed and he was sure of her love and he reciprocated her feelings... then, why did Daisuke never think of somehow contacting her and asking her help during the war between Earth and Vega?

That way, Duke Fleed would have had a powerful ally in the highest rank of Vega Empire. We see Daisuke fight and suffer for 71 episodes because of the war and the fact that he is the only one that can drive Grendizer and so trying to defend planet Earth in order to avoid it to undergo a similar terrific experience as Fleed, while instead he could have simply and happily asked for his beloved King Vega’s daughter’s aid to overcome all problems??!! Pardon??? What an incredible plot hole would be this? And it would have lasted from the beginning, so in my opinion the whole anime story would result this way as totally fake (well, it could even be – we are talking about a cartoon after all – but personally I think it’s unlikely. We have discussed and agreed so many times about Grendizer internal coherency, so honestly discovering an invalidating point at the end it’s something that I would evaluate as an extreme ratio and only if no other explanation would be possible).

For more: Duke was a fugitive for 4 years before arriving on Earth: why he did not marry Rubina in the meantime if he loved her so much? Lack of time, lack of information about her location? Come on, she was the heir to Vega’s throne, i. e. the future queen of the largest empire of the universe; later she gets also an official role as Planet Ruby’s governor. If Duke wanted to marry her, for sure he would have found the way to track her down. By the way, it would have been also a good and peaceful way to have a revenge against King Vega who destroyed Fleed.

Again: if Rubina really could have been a good ally, Daisuke at least should have talked about this lucky advantage to someone during these 71 episodes. Still, he does not say anything like this. Not only that: Umon, Maria Grace and Hikaru clearly about know Rubina's existence, but none of them suggests to Daisuke to look for her to ask for help. In any case, he does not believe Rubina to be his possible ally: otherwise, Hikaru and Maria Grace would have behaved differently at the balcony scene in episode 72 (Hikaru is sad and Maria Grace is worried).

From these facts, we should suppose that:
a) Daisuke suffered of amnesia and did not recall of it up to ep72 (yeah, sure).
b) he talked to his friends about it “out of the screen” but nobody cared or thought about the possible consequences (yeah, right again).
c) he was the one who wanted nobody to know about this past engagement because he did not love her and that particular of his past life was one of the memories of his role in planet Fleed he desperately tried to overcome.

The fact that Duke has never talked about Rubina and he has never searched for her or sought her for help...let me believe that the authors had developed a plot that makes sense only if Duke never believed that Rubina would have helped him. The fact that Duke distrusts Rubina proves that he cannot believe her, something he repeates several times in the episode.
But, if this is true, then we must ask ourselves a question: why?

(to be continued here)

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Edited by joe 7 - 25/4/2020, 14:35