Episode 167: Shining Bishounen, Dark Prince
Takuto and Zero team up to flush out Usurper. The A. Advent organizes a surprise Walkure concert, and like a moth to a flame, Usurper shows up to crash the party. However, Takuto arrives as the Ginga Bishounen to upstage Usurper, and once he flees, Zero predicts where he will go and intercepts him there…
Episode 168: Joined Hearts
Back to Idolmaster. This time, Haruka is worried that her actions are what led to the meteors falling on our Earth. She’s placed in charge of the defense against the meteors, but her doubts affect her.
Usurper shows up and tried to recruit her, and is even able to stop her finishing move. But instead of giving up, she develops another finishing move.
Episode 169: Bride of a New World
Ange gets her time in the spotlight. She bonds a little with Eureka, but then doesn’t deploy against Anti-A. She stays in the A. Advent and intercepts Embryo before he can cause too many problems.
Unfortunately, when he leaves the ship, he launches autonomous anti-personnel weapons to eliminate the population of the A. Advent, unless Echika surrenders.
Episode 170: IDE’s Trial
The citizens of the A. Advent are upset because of the danger they’re in. They’re seeking new representation. However, the Ideon crew is annoyed at how easy and peaceful their lives are, and they don’t appreciate it.
Along the way, they’re called back to the hangar. A gun has appeared in space in front of the A. Advent and it’s none other than the Ideon Gun. Cosmo immediately volunteers to go on patrol to not have to test fire the gun. It should come as no surprise that they get intercepted by enemy forces.
Episode 171: Humanity’s Path
We head back to Anaheim Electronics because Char and Amuro have received some new units. Char receives the Nightengale, and Amuro gets his Hi-Nu Gundam. It takes a while for the configurations and combat data to be copied over, and sure enough, we get attacked by Anti-A while we wait. Kamille, Gyunei, and Quess are responsible for defending AE until reinforcements arrive, and until Char and Amuro can launch to join the fight.
Episode 172: The Usurper
One more stage of DLC 3 before we switch out. Zappa’s doing the same stages as me, because these are all linear. As such, we’re going to do different things. Zappa will continue playing DLC stages, and I’ll take care of the memory stages before coming back for the rest of DLC 3.
The citizens of the A. Advent are at the brink of rioting. Echika negotiates with them, and things appear to work well, until they get a second wind and begin to riot again. The Usurper reveals himself and launches another attack.
Episode 173: Revolutionary War: The King’s War
So that I’m not putting out the same releases as Zappa, I’m switching away from the DLC stages, and I’m working on the flashback stages that were unlocked with the update from DLC 3.
This time, we flash back to just after the end of the Gundam Wing TV finale. The Wing Boys, Dunbine Team, and Kallen face off against Drake and his army, and Lelouch and his closest allies.
Episode 174: Revolutionary War: Burning in Darkness
This time, we flash back to the end of the Gundam Fight. However, since it’s talking about the Revolutionary war that was the backstory of to Y, the Japanese Super Robot Army join up, as well as the forces of the Infernal Alliance.
Episode 175: Revolutionary War: Comet’s Counterattack
This time, we flash back to the end of the war in space. Dullindal has been defeated, and we’re moving on to fight Char’s Neo Zeon. However, Char has not yet fully committed, and retreats when defeated.
Episode 176: NOAH Brand’s Battles: Sortie
Having completed the end of the Revolutionary War flashback, we now flashback to the worst mission the former members of NOAHS experienced in their time with NOAHS. The intro is just a character introduction as they fight the Infernal Empire.
Episode 176: NOAH Brand’s Battles: Pursuit
We continue the story of NOAHS worst battle. Re Seivas has gotten his meal, and continues the story of pursuit against the deserters.
Episode 178: NOAH Brand’s Battles: Demise
In order to finish it off, Seivas needs a drink. So, we move to the Ale and Vent and learn the rest of the story, of Seivas and the rest of NOAH Brand defeating Seivas’s former subordinates. Since they stole a pair of Stellas, they get named after Bonnie and Clyde.
Episode 179: Eureka Seven: Falling Objects
Our little sojourn to flashbackland complete, it’s time to get back to DLC 3. In fact, we’re starting off the closing trilogy of missions. Surprisingly nice, the story mentions how we’re exhausted from shooting down meteors. I’m imagining us having spent the past six missions shooting down meteors while listening to the flashbacks.
Dewey and Embryo invade the A. Advent and kidnap Iris and Ange, taking her to a place between dimensions. Dewey plans to use Iris’s powers to destroy the Earth, and he nearly does so. Fortunately, Ange escapes from Embryo, and triggers a series of events to give us a fighting chance.
Episode 180: Beyond the Event Horizon
Time for our final showdown against Embryo. We take down him and his army, but he escapes and causes the Ideon to go berserk. Cosmo is stuck, unable to control the Ideon and it’s up to us to beat t down until it stops.
With Ideon under control, Embryo returns and tries to cause it to go on a rampage again, but we turn the tables on Embryo.
Episode 181: Blessings for the World
The finale of DLC 3 has arrived! Usurper has kidnapped Echika and has attempts to convince everyone that he will turn back time to fix what they want and bring them happiness. But everyone rejects him and we begin to fight!
