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May 26, 2010 5:26 AM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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Tough men in a tough place :)
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Jul 20, 2010 8:28 AM
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Melfina wakes up naked with Gene & some random guy laughing. Nothing suss.
Oct 23, 2010 2:06 PM
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And that just kicked this show up from an eight to a nine. It's up to the next four episodes if it want's a ten.
Feb 26, 2012 12:44 PM
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've never ever though i would hear of monopole in connection to gravitation forces haha
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Jan 11, 2013 8:08 AM
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Thats some nasty prison they have there. Also that escape was pretty awesome.

Sep 7, 2013 2:14 PM
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Pretty good escape plan there. Naked Melfina under a sheet was completely random there at the end.
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Apr 3, 2014 11:55 AM
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The planet Hecatoncheir is surely based on planet Mesklin from the novel Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement.

Compared to Hecatoncheir's gravity of 10 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator, Mesklin has an astonishing 665 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator, where the sole human explorer/diplomat resides with considerable difficulty, spending much time in a vat of a jelly-like material to help support his body, much like the warden's liquid tank in this episode. This is a much more realistic depiction of the rigors of high gravity on the human body, but anyone watching this show knows by now how breezy it is.

This episode never explains Hecatoncheir's strange shape, but Mesklin is highly oblate because of an incredible rotational speed with results in a day which is only 17.75 minutes long, and so the day functions as the basic unit of time measurement among the native species of centipede-like creatures.

It's quite a good book.
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May 13, 2015 4:38 PM
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Next episode is a random fanservice episode unfortunately.
Jul 8, 2015 9:03 AM
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what the fuck lol
Nov 5, 2015 12:39 AM
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not a bad break out episode and for a brilliant scientist this guy sure is dumb about his surroundings. Of course they were going to knock you out after you fixed this cyborg. Looks like next episode is fanservice central which isint bad at all.
May 9, 2016 12:43 AM

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The only thing this episode had missing was someone playing a harmonica forlornly.

5/5
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Apr 27, 2017 9:17 PM

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22 of full series

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Aug 28, 2017 5:53 AM

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Finally some movement on the layline, but that damn professor again.
Mar 27, 2020 12:20 AM

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Great episode! I thought they would pull the typical plot where the person that Gene was supposed to take with him dies, but not before he gives you what you want and you all end up escaping by yourself.

Glad this was a happy ending :)

Hmm Melfina :)

They probably removed her from that tank, but doesn't she magically get clothes on.

Next episode is gonna be good! Land of the Babes baby!!! WOOOHOO!
Aug 14, 2020 4:14 AM

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Strategy said:
Melfina wakes up naked with Gene & some random guy laughing. Nothing suss.


Yeah, my thoughts too.
Jun 1, 2022 2:35 PM

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They managed to get the coordinates to the leyline, finally.

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Apr 7, 2023 6:35 AM
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We're visiting the Galactic Leyline... or so it seems. Nice Egyptian (?) ruins, BTW. Too bad the earthquake collapsed it all. Melfina singing ending song was nice.

That shady professor turns Melfina off at the end... Things are getting complicated.
May 1, 2023 1:52 AM
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It was a interesting plan. It would have failed though if the robot caught on to them quicker.
May 1, 2023 1:54 AM
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Fronzel said:
The planet Hecatoncheir is surely based on planet Mesklin from the novel Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement.

Compared to Hecatoncheir's gravity of 10 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator, Mesklin has an astonishing 665 g at the poles and 3 g at the equator, where the sole human explorer/diplomat resides with considerable difficulty, spending much time in a vat of a jelly-like material to help support his body, much like the warden's liquid tank in this episode. This is a much more realistic depiction of the rigors of high gravity on the human body, but anyone watching this show knows by now how breezy it is.

This episode never explains Hecatoncheir's strange shape, but Mesklin is highly oblate because of an incredible rotational speed with results in a day which is only 17.75 minutes long, and so the day functions as the basic unit of time measurement among the native species of centipede-like creatures.

It's quite a good book.
This was a smart reference they used here. 
Oct 5, 2023 9:43 PM

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Nah nah nah THE ESCAPE PLAN WAS TOO SICK, THE MOMENT WHEN "FLYYYYYYY, FLYYYYYYY, I DIRNK 'TIL I'M DRUNK, SMOKE TIL I'M HIGH, CASTLE ON THE HILL, WAKE UP IN THE SKY, YOU CAN'T TELL ME AIN'T FLY" PART WAS SUPER UNEXPECTED
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Sep 29, 9:59 AM
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Curse Hawking ah. A great episode, the way of escape was really unexpected but so awesome and original. I thought they were going to kill the director or something and the proffessor didnt thought the plan very well. But I wonder, a planet with the shape and gravitational characteristics of the one described is possible? Or something like that?
Sep 29, 10:00 AM
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Curse Hawking ah. A great episode, the way of escape was really unexpected but so awesome and original. I thought they were going to kill the director or something and the proffessor didnt thought the plan very well. But I wonder, a planet with the shape and gravitational characteristics of the one described is possible? Or something like that?

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