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Funeral for a Fiend

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Funeral for a Fiend (魔神の葬式)

 

Super ElamenSTAR Episode 425

Aired 11th March 2000

 

Summary

Can the Four Underdogs possibly defeat Moo Maa Propagation? The cliffhanger ending in the previous episode depicted MooMaa taking on his most powerful, most hideous form yet. But these are not the children he once fought, not the blundering and blustering and ultimately forgiving young adults who used to drive him away and call it a day. These are the Four, the founders of the Cerulean Citadel, the Grand Elemenstors, and they have a school to protect.

 

Taking the "Sound of Ondori" to the ultimate level with the power of their Wands, the Four Underdogs decide to finish MooMaa once and for all. He manages to evade their attack with super speed, but ultimately it is to no avail; MooMaa is stripped, first of his Darkrift Fedora, then of his powers, and finally of his very name. The various infusions of Dark gifts are purified from his being by the mighty and fully realized "Sound of Ondori" until nothing is left but a man, a powerless man named Moothan Maanathis.

 

The frail, elderly, and powerless shell that once was MooMaa smiles an enigmatic smile and expires. Oddly, a funeral is arranged--a grand and glorious funeral which is, intiriguingly, mirrored toward the end of Season 5. The final scene depicts the Four standing in front of the Cerulean Citadel as a bittersweet score plays in the background.

 

"One by one, our enemies have fallen," says Lander gravely. "But one remains." The face of Char Reyarteb appears briefly in the clouds over the Citadel and the scene fades.

 

Notes

 

It is interesting that in all previous episodes, MooMaa is most often signified with 鬼, which roughly translates to "ogre" or "demon." However, the title of this episode refers to MooMaa as 魔神 (literally: bad god; roughly: fiend).

 

Note that the initial kanji, 魔 (pronounced "ma") does contain the kanji 鬼. Generically, 魔 is used to signify bad things, with modern usage leaning toward signifying some sort of bad addiction; it also appears in the kanji for "devil" (閻魔). However, it is also used in a very interesting word: 夢魔. It is important to realize that this particular kanji is read as "muma," the Japanese word for "nightmare."

 

Although MooMaa's name is always rendered as ムーマー in the titles and the scripts, it seems clear from the clues provided in this episode that the veritable "nightmare god" (夢魔神), the nightmare MooMaa himself, was intended from the very first to someday wake from his own personal nightmare. The implicit references to the dreaming Red King in Alice and Wonderland make for fascinating literary inquiry on the level of Tycho Brahe's Elemenstor Cycle.

 

Comments

wc Pretty sure that the vibrations from the full power sound of ondori in this episode broke my tv speaker.. it never quite did bass the same way again.
  Yeah, they really went all out on this episode, it was pretty sweet.

 

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