Chase the Mysterious Capsule
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| "Chase the Mysterious Capsule" (Nazo no Capsule o Oe) | ||||||
| Production code | BWN-02 | |||||
| Production company | TV Tokyo, NAS, Ashi Productions | |||||
| Airdate | 10 February 1999 | |||||
| Writer | Junki Takegami | |||||
| Director | Yukio Okazaki | |||||
| Animation studio | Ashi Productions, Park Young | |||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity | |||||
The Maximals head to the planet Godbless where they meet up with the Predacons and a strange floating mountain that holds the secret to the first Angolmois Capsule.
Synopsis
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On the planet Godbless, the local cat-people watch in horror as a nearby mountain rises off the planet's surface and straight up into the stratosphere...
Some time later, the Gung Ho comes out of warp-space and approaches Godbless. NAVI informs the Maximals that the planet has no moon, yet there is a large mountain orbiting the planet. Longrack advocates investigating this, citing their duty as Maximals, and he and Colada begin arguing when the snake makes a crack about him always "sticking his neck out". Big Convoy approves checking it out, and the Gung Ho heads in for a closer look when suddenly the enormous, ghost-like image of a robed Transformer appears in front of the ship. The specter claims to be the "god of the Maximals" and warns them that they are not welcome on the planet, as it is a holy place. Big Convoy and his recruits suddenly suffer a mild case of electric shock and fall to the floor immobilized as the entity vanishes. Recovered, they choose to press on.
Close by, the Dinosaur monitors all the action. Saberback radios Magmatron and informs him that "his" "magic" illusion of the god of the Maximals successfully spooked their enemies, confusing his fellow Predacons who have never heard of him having magical powers. Magmatron dismisses this claim by revealing that before his disappearance, Galvatron informed him that the Angolmois Energy had mysterious capabilities, forcing Saberback to give up the ruse and explain that it was the Angolmois that created the illusion. He continues by explaining that the Angolmois caused the mountain to float into the sky, as well as create illusions of whatever god people believed in. While the Maximals saw a Maximal Elder, the inhabitants of Godbless saw their own god. The inhabitants were apparently spurred to bring a special oil they made from oranges to the base of the floating mountain as an offering. Saberback suggests they steal that, too.
On the planet's surface, Colada and Longrack scope things out, not able to get close enough to the floating mountain. There they find the stack of oil sitting out in the open. Colada attempts to help himself but instead gets a bite on the tail from one of the locals. The cat-kid explains that their race is called the Mikesu and their cat god suddenly appeared the other day demanding oil. Longrack and Colada realize it's a Predacon trick and report back to Big Convoy, who's busy repairing the Gung Ho with the rest of the Maximals. Suddenly, a tractor beam shines down from the mountain and begins to pull up all the cases of oil. Seeing an opening, Longrack rushes into the tractor beam and heads toward the mountain. Colada reluctantly follows.
Saberback watches them ride the beam from a monitor and decides to scare them a second time. Upon reaching the mountain, Colada notes nothing out of the ordinary. Then, suddenly, the giant god of the Maximals returns and begins marching in their direction, crushing everything beneath him. Colada doesn't understand how the hallucination can be real enough to crush boulders. Longrack deduces that it's their belief in the god which grants it physical force. Longrack orders Colada to clear his head and not think of anything. Easier said than done; the god continues to advance. Eventually they stop fearing it and the spirit vanishes. Immediately, Saberback makes haste back to the Dinosaur with the Angolmois Capsule in hand, but with Colada and Longrack in pursuit. DNAVI teleports the rest of the Predacons as back-up just as Big Convoy and the Maximals arrive to give their teammates a hand. After a quick game of football with the capsule, the Maximals leave with the prize and the Predacons are left in a smoking crater. Without the Angolmois Energy, the mountain's orbit destabilizes and it safely touches back down on the planet. The Maximals return the oil to the Mikesu, and Vector Sigma again speaks through Big Convoy and gives a speech about doing all that you can under the power of your own strength before relying on fate and the gods. As Colada and Longrack continue to argue, the Maximals return to their ship and head off on the trail on the next capsule.
Capsule score
[edit]- Maximals: 1
- Predacons: 0
Featured characters
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Notes
[edit]Continuity errors
[edit]- At the climax of Beast Wars II, the "capsules" in which the Angolmois Energy was sealed were small energy fields created by the combined power of Lio Convoy and Lio Junior's Energon Matrices, resembling tiny pinpricks of light. In this series, however, they are depicted completely differently, appearing as large mechanical pods as big as an individual Transformer.
Trivia
[edit]- The "God of the Maximals" is a reuse of the main Great Convoy's character model.
- Due to there being no official translation of the episode and no decent fan-translation of the series until 2019, a false misconception made by the few Western fans who had been able to see the episode and understand spoken Japanese, took Saberback's claims of being able to use magic literally and believed he was an actual sorcerer who can create illusions. After decent quality fan-translations came out, it was revealed that it was a lie, which Magmatron could see through, forcing Saberback to reveal that it was actually the Angolmois Energy behind the illusions the entire time. Because of this misconception being the only real known characteristic of Saberback for the longest time, the intro paragraph of his character article on this very wiki was heavily influenced by it for many years, leading many (including many of us here at TFWiki.net) to also believe this was true. Whoops.
Home video releases
[edit]- VHS
1999 — Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo — ACT. 1 (Pioneer LDC)
- DVD
2012 — Super Lifeform Transformers: Beast Wars Neo — DVD-BOX (Video Maker)
