Nagate is temporarily knocked out of the fight. Most of the other pilots panic and don't know how to respond. The moment is interrupted by a couple of flashbacks. The first recaps the end of the previous episode. The second shows Izana trying to get Nagate and Yamano to link hands with her before they take off on their first mission. It is a bit of superstition and Yamano refuses to take part.
Nagate wakes up in time to rejoin the fight. He seemed to have suffered a heart attack and damage to his vertebrae but he recovers very quickly. He is unable to save to Yamano. She has already been ripped out of her Garde and consumed by the Gauna which changes shape to look like a giant version of her. Nagate attacks while the other retreat. He eventually joins them and together they head back to Sidonia.
One of the heavy mass cannons of Sidonia fires at the Gauna. The cannon can't destroy the Gauna, only a kabizashi can do that and they didn't bring any on this mission. The cannon breaks up the Gauna but it reforms and starts to come after Sidonia. There are just a matter of days before it will catch up to Sidonia.
Protestors keep protesting. They claim that there was no Gauna.
Hoshijiro explains why people stopped eating and started gaining nutrition through photosynthesis. It started a few hundred years ago when food supplies were severely depleted during the Fourth Gauna War. Humans only eat once a week now.
Nagate recovers very quickly once again. He receives a fair amount of teasing because he needs to eat. His classmates say he stinks. One of his instructors notice that he is not wearing his gravity belt. He is given a remedial assignment to help him learn the importance of the gravity belt. He absentmindedly wanders into the room where the women photosynthesize and gets a bloody nose from one of them.
Izana and Nagate place flowers at the memorial for Yamano. He passes out and has a nightmare about trying to kill a Gauna. Izana tells Nagate, after he wakes up, stories her grandmother told her about the Fourth Gauna War. She mentions that the Mark 18 are produced by Kunato Developments. The Mark 17 were made by Toha Heavy Industries.
Nagate collapses again and is taken to see a doctor. He wakes up to find himself tended to by a doctor whom he mistakes for Captain Kobayashi. The doctor calls for someone to help him get to class. Nagate reflects, while he waits, on why humanity left the solar system. Gauna destroyed it. Sidonia is a seed ship that was sent in search of a new home for humanity.
Hoshijiro escorts Nagate back to class. The doctor talks to Ochiai after Nagate leaves. Nagate's guess was correct, she is Captain Kobayashi.
Izana sees Nagate and Hoshijiro together and feels awkward about approaching them. She runs off in the other direction when they see her. There is a buzz of excitement in the school. The squad of the best garde pilots (Kashiwade Aoki, Mochikuni Akai, Ikumo Midorikawa, Hinata Momose) is on the grounds. Kunato assumes that it is him that they have come to see but they walk right past him and approach Nagate.
An instant later Nagate is approached by Yuhata Midorikawa. He doesn't know who she is but she has been trying to learn as much as she can about him and says that she wants to be his friend.
Thoughts
Yuhata looks a little like Yamano, but maybe that's just because her hair is done in a similar style.
So much information. It is hard to know where to focus one's attention. This show really demands at least a second viewing. I can't understand it all without slowing it down, pausing it and making notes. I wish the pace were a little slower but the animation is a beautiful and I like the complexity of it all.
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