Forced Departure
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| Creator: | Takehiko Ito |
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| Starring: | see below |
| Country: | Japan, US |
| Network: |  TV Tokyo Cartoon Network CNX GMA Network |
| Director: | Mitsuru Hongo |
| Number of episodes: | 26 |
| Episode Length: | 25 min |
| Episode Airdate: | 1998 (Japan), January 15, 2001 (US) |
Forced Departure is the eighth episode of the Japanese anime Outlaw Star.
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[edit] Prologue
Gene has a dream exhorting him to take the Outlaw Star and Melfina and pursue the Galactic Leyline.
[edit] Plot
Gene is poisoned from his previous battle with a Kei pirate. Aboard the Outlaw Star, the crew is gathered around his unconscious form when the Kei pirate contacts them. He offers an antidote in exhange for their ship. Gene wakes up and declines the offer. Suzuka wants to steal the antidote but Melfina purges the poison by taking Gene into the ship's navigator's booth. The Kei pirate and his robots then attack the Outlaw Star. and Gene and Suzuka defeat them. The battle draws the attention of the authorities but Gene blasts off as they ask him to halt. In space they are confronted by three Kei pirate grappler ships, which are defeated when Gene takes the safety off of his grappler arms. They then set a course for Heifong, the Ban pirate's world, in search of work. Intermixed flashbacks detail Gene's childhood ambition to pilot a spaceship.
[edit] Voice actors
- Gene Starwind: Shigeru Shibuya (Japanese), Robert Buchholz (English)
- James "Jim" Hawkings: Rika Matsumoto (Japanese), Brianne Siddall (English)
- Melfina: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese), Emily Brown (English)
- "Twilight" Suzuka: Sayuri Yamauchi (Japanese), Wendee Lee (English)
[edit] Trivia
- The first appearance of grappler combat.
