Armored Trooper VOTOMS - Season 1 Episode 52 Shooting Star
Having lost all contact with the Scopedogs chasing Chirico, the combined fleet consider their final option; that of destroying Quent itself.
Chirico smashes the last of his pursuers and nearly collapses from the effort. Finally, Fyana appears in her Berserga and asks him one last time to turn back. He refuses, firing on her and throwing her backward into a teleport field. She is gone. Wiseman congratulates him, and beckons him on by foot.
Chirico struggles to reach the final goal, the central core of the Wiseman bio-computer, the collective consciousness of the Overmen. Chirico lies unable to move, and Wiseman lowers a large machine toward him, one that will complete the bond between God and successor. All Chirico has to do now is stand up...but instead he plays his final gambit, firing a bulled directly into the machine!
At last, Chirico's subterfuge is revealed - having come this far and lead all of his enemies into their own death, he now sets about the work of destroying Wiseman itself. Wiseman pleads with him to stop, explaining that it was he who brought Chirico together with Fyana, and provided her name. This gave Chirico something further to live for, and with life came the desire for strength and power. Wiseman also explains that Chirico need not regret the death and violence he has dealt in the battlefield, saying that "God does not sin when he kills."
Chirico ignores every word, continuing to disable the computer core. As Wiseman's consciousness begins to disintegrate, it lashes out one last time, throwing Chirico to the ground with an electric shock. He rises to see Rochina standing over him. Rochina tries to stop Chirico's sabotage, but Fyana leaps in to overpower him. She recognized his true intentions when he fired only to damage her AT. Together, the two complete the work of killing God and flee to safety as Rochina screams in anger and dispair and what he has lost.
The combined fleets of the Gilgamesh and the Balarant stand witness as Quent explodes with the fury of a sun.
Epilogue: One Year Later
A stolen shuttlecraft soars away from a Gilgamesh planet as a new war dawns on the horizon. Sometime later, a tiny capsule is released into space. Inside this capsule, preparing to disappear into history, Chirico holds Fyana dnd bids farewell to his Friends as they drift off in search of a world untouched by war.
"Coconna. Gotho. Vanilla. Shako. I'm glad I was able to meet all of you. And you, Fyana..."
Year: 1984
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Country: Japan
Studio: TV Tokyo
Director:
Cast: Hozumi Goda, Kazuko Yanaga
Crew: Norio Shioyama (Character Designer), Norio Shioyama (Supervising Animation Director), Toshifumi Takizawa (Series Director), Ryosuke Takahashi (Series Director), Tohru Hasegawa (Producer), Ryosuke Takahashi (Original Story)
First Air Date: Apr 01, 1983
Last Air date: Mar 23, 1984
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 52 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 7.50/10 by 14.00 users
Popularity: 112.86
Language: Japanese
Episode
War's End
Uoodo
Encounter
Battling
The Trap
Prototype
The Raid
The Deal
The Rescue
Red Shoulder
Counterattack
Bonds
Escape
Assemble EX-10
Doubts
Clean Sweep
Reunion
Tournabout
Intentions
Fyana
Upriver
Contact Blast
Complications
Intersection
Infiltration
Closing In
Dark Change
Destiny
Two People
Phantasm
Nonaggression Zone
Ypsilon
Showdown
Planet Sunsa
Deadline
Love and Hate
Captives
Darkness
Perfect Soldier
Friends
Quent
The Desert
Legacy
The Forbidden
Encounter
Premonition
Disaster
Successor
Overman
Storm Clouds
Carnage
Shooting Star