~flower declaration of your heart~ Rinne no Lagrange 05:
MARU! MARU! MARU! MARU! MARU!
After the disappointing absence of MARU! in the episode proper before, they made up for it by giving us lots of MARU! I'm not really interested in Lan but there was also a Wan.
So this episode was mainly about the main story of the show, such as it is, getting started. Seeing Young Laffinty at the beginning was to establish her relationship with Young Orangejulius or whatever his name is. The real Princess Laffinty is the younger sister of the man who would become the king of La Garite, and from a young age she was acquainted with Prince Orangejulius who is the younger brother of the future king of Demetria. At that time it seems that La Garite and Demetria were not at war with each other, though whatever greater galactic conflict which has been going had already started by that time. We see Laffinty's older brother leaving with a La Garite fleet for the war.
Much later on, the war seems to have been going on for some time without a resolution. Laffinty is with a La Garite expedition who are looking for the legendary mechas called Vox to win this war for them. Roughly 10 years ago, a human archaeology team led by Madoka's cousin found Vox Aura in the seabed off the coast of Japan. Madoka was evidently with them at the time and fell overboard or something and nearly drowned, she encountered Vox Aura and was branded with the Memoria. It seems the Voxes aren't real picky about who they brand, since Mugi was able to get the same thing to happen to her by simply touching Vox Ignis.
Whatever faction Demetria is now with apparently has more than one group vying for power in their leadership, as the first 3 guys who arrive at Earth (Kirius, Array, and Izo) are quickly defeated by Prince Orangejulius and forced to work with his faction, Kiss. It's not clear at this time if Kiss are in rebellion against Demetria or allied with them, or what is actually going on in the war that Demetria and La Garite are involved in.
Anyways, it looks like Mugi's with Madoka and Lan now whether she likes it not, because she seems to have pissed off Orangejulius for the last time. Whoever Mugi really is, we know at this point that she's not actually related to Orangejulius but he took her in some time ago and has been caring for her even though he's the leader of a faction involved in an intergalactic war which has apparently been going on for at least a decade or more. I'm sure this will be much more interesting later on, or not.
Orangejulius got a pretty cool coat out of his visit to Earth, though.
Oh, right, this art at the end was awesome:
For those who don't know, it's a reference to
Ichiro. That's what he always does before he gets into his batting stance. Ichiro usually holds the bat right side up, though.
This video shows it pretty clearly.
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