#52 - To The Place Where Everyone Is
Minna no Tokoro e (みんなのところへ)
EditDuration: 00:25:00 Aired: Oct 28, 2004(JST)
Synopsis
Shingo realizes that it is no longer possible to detach the gravity control unit from the ship - to stop the storm, they'll have to take the whole ship into the storm. Kaoru and Bell each volunteer to do it alone while the others escape, but the rest remind them they agreed to do it together. However, Luna, still with Survive, activates their seatbelts and ejects the entire bridge from the ship. She farewells each of them individually, then takes the ship into the gravity storm.
In the storm, Survive matches the storm's gravity field, and struggles to produce an inverse field as a blue aura spreads from the ship. The storm starts to overwhelm the ship, but as Luna pours more of her will and determination into it, the aura turns gold, then rainbow. However, it's too much for the ship, and it explodes, unable to destroy the gravity storm. However, on the planet, Tako realizes they were able to change the storm’s course by enough to avoid the planet. As the other children grieve for Luna, she finds herself floating in a strange space. Her father appears and congratulates her for a job well done. Promising her they'll meet again, he sends her back to the real world.
She awakens with a start inside a nanomachine shield projected by Survive, floating in space. With his mission complete and his support equipment gone, Survive charges Luna to continue his work and dissipates. Suddenly, the ships of the evacuation fleet that left the planet a thousand years ago appear, having received the message sent by Adam's parents and their colleagues. They give the children a spaceship which they can use to fly through the gravity storm before it disappears in order to return home, while Adam and Tako remain with his people to look after the planet. Menori gives Adam her violin, promising to return someday. As they fly away, they realize they never gave a name to the planet, and without hesitation Sharla names it Planet Survive. The ship enters the gravity storm.
A number of years later, Kaoru has become a shuttle pilot, Bell has become a planetary settlement worker, Sharla has become a writer and has written the story of their adventures, Shingo has become a ship's mechanic, Menori has become her father's secretary and is working to open trade with Planet Survive, and Howard has become a famous actor. Luna and Chako, however, are in the ruins of Paris on Earth, using what they learnt on Planet Survive to revitalize and terraform the planet. Today, for the first time, Luna can take her helmet off and breathe the outside air, but they still have a lot of work to do.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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