[DreamSword]

Episode 22: Eve of Legend

This episode was a major treat upon rewatch!

We get a huge showcasing of backstory on Samekh, Ayngott, Sarina, the Vice President, and even the Star Driver universe as a whole.

And it's all presented via the play that Sarina(the drama club president) has been writing over the course of the show. Combine this tale with both that of Sam(which Sanaka told), as well as that of the Demon King(which Mizuno told), and you have this really interesting tale on the Cybodies of old.

Pretty much the entire episode is just the play, by the way, with very little between. And yet I was totally engrossed thanks to the visuals and character pieces that accompanied it. And you know, the music.

While the entirety of the play does have an original score, sadly only the fifth and final movement has been uploaded to YouTube. Still, the entire thing is befitting a stage production; sounding very grandiose all throughout and like the sort of piece someone would just legit play in the background during something like this. Makes me wonder if the music is actually playing in universe.

Throughout this rewatch, Star Driver has really managed to impress with with just how well it's been able to handle feeding little bits of info that gradually build over time. And I feel like this episode is a shining example of how they manage to pull it off in such a satisfactory manner. Like, it's not even just big backstory stuff with this either, as it's revealed that the reason Sugata was able to recover after using his First Phase was because Keito kept feeding him her libido.

Few shows I've seen are better on rewatch, and honestly, I think that Star Driver is very much one of them.