List of Space Dandy episodes
Space Dandy is an anime television series produced by Bones. The series is directed by Shingo Natsume, with Shinichirō Watanabe serving as general director. The series follows Dandy, an alien hunter who is "a dandy guy in space", in search for aliens with his robot assistant QT and his feline-like friend named Meow.
The anime began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block in North America on January 4, 2014,[1][2] one day before its Japanese premiere on Tokyo MX on January 5. The anime has been licensed by Funimation in North America, Madman Entertainment in Australia, and Anime Limited in the United Kingdom. In Japan the series is set to be collected in both DVD and Blu-ray format starting on April 25, 2014.[3]
The series' opening theme is "Viva Namida" (ビバナミダ Biba Namida, "Viva Tears") performed by Yasuyuki Okamura and the ending theme up through episode 19 is "X-Jigen e Yōkoso" (X次元へようこそ Ekkusu Jigen e Yōkoso, "Welcome to the Xth Dimension") performed by Etsuko Yakushimaru. Starting with episode 20, unique ending themes are used each week. Episode 20's ending theme is "Kanchigai Lonely Night" (かんちがいロンリーナイト Kanchigai Ronrī Naito, "Misunderstood Lonely Night") performed by DROPKIX (vocals by Junichi Suwabe). Episode 21 used "WHITE HOUSE" composed and arranged by Ogre You Asshole. Episode 22 featured "Space Dandy" (スペース☆ダンディ Supēsu Dandi) performed by ZEN-LA-ROCK featuring Yomeiri Land. Episode 23 featured "Seaside Driving" composed and arranged by Seiichi Nagai of Sōtaisei Riron.
The English version was produced by Funimation in Fort Worth, Texas using its local acting talent pool. The series' ADR voice directors include Zach Bolton[4] and Joel McDonald.[5] The series was also simulcasted at the same time as Japan by Animax Asia in South East Asia with both Japanese and English audio.
Episode list
Season 1 (2014)
| No. | # | Title | Episode Director | Written by | Animation Supervisor | Storyboards | Japanese airdate | English airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Live with the Flow, Baby" "Nagare Nagasarete Ikiru Jan yo" (流れ流されて生きるじゃんよ) | Shingo Natsume | Shinichirō Watanabe | Yoshiyuki Ito | Shingo Natsume | January 5, 2014 | January 4, 2014 |
| While out searching the galaxies for rare briana species, Dandy tells his robot companion QT the values one must live by in space before they go to the man's favorite restaurant chain Boobies. There they meet Meow, a Betelgeusean whom they mistake for a new species. Shortly after a tussle at Boobies, Meow is taken aboard their ship, the Aloha Oe, and shares advice on where they can find rare alien life. Without realizing it, the three are pursued by Dr. Gel, whose superior Admiral Perry considers Dandy's capture to be integral to controlling the universe. The crew manage to escape pursuit when Meow foolishly engages their broken warp drive, sending them to an unknown dimension. Dandy pulls on a wayward cosmic string, coincidentally sending them to the planet Meow told them of. Dandy and Meow set foot on the planet to find it is inhabited by giant, vicious monsters. After a hectic chase leaves the two unable to return to their ship, Dandy absent-mindedly has QT activate a "secret weapon" that obliterates the entire planet and everything on it, including the crew. | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Search for the Phantom Space Ramen, Baby" "Maboroshi no Uchū Rāmen o Sagasu Jan yo" (幻の宇宙ラーメンを探すじゃんよ) | Sayo Yamamoto | Dai Satō | Hiroyuki Aoyama | Sayo Yamamoto | January 12, 2014 | January 11, 2014 |
| Dandy gets a tip from Meow about a so-called "phantom ramen" that is supposedly made by an undiscovered alien species. The crew travels to the ramen galaxy, where many ramen stands gather and open up shop. Throughout the trip, Meow takes pictures of their travels and posts them online through his phone, inadvertently giving away their position to Dr. Gel, who sends his forces to capture Dandy. The crew narrowly dodges Gel's men, receiving aid from Scarlet, a receptionist at the alien registration center. They eventually reach a restaurant where Meow identifies the phantom ramen. He and Dandy step into the ramen machine to find an alternate dimension inhabited by a sole, elderly alien who runs his own stand. The two listen to the alien's moving story of how he became a ramen salesman before returning to their own dimension, having completely forgotten to bring the alien with them. | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Occasionally Even the Deceiver Is Deceived, Baby" "Damashi Damasareru Koto mo Aru Jan yo" (騙し騙される事もあるじゃんよ) | Hiroshi Hamasaki | Kimiko Ueno | Manabu Akita | Hiroshi Hamasaki | January 19, 2014 | January 18, 2014 |
| Low on money and food, Dandy sets a course to the nearest Boobies to redeem a nearly expired point card. He abuses the warp drive to get there, and they crash land on an unknown planet. There they meet a young woman named Mamitas, who claims to have crash landed on the planet as well, and invites the crew to use parts from her ship to fix theirs. However, they are warned by the inhabiting alien life that Mamitas is actually the planet's most fearsome alien, the Deathgerian. Later, Mamitas reveals her monstrous true form and eats Meow whole. Piloting the Little Aloha, a small cruiser ship that transforms into a fighting robot, Dandy defeats the Deathgerian by force-feeding it with rancid food left on board the Aloha Oe. The crew bring the shrunken alien to the registration center, where it is accepted by Scarlet. Dandy and QT revel in their new fortune, having forgotten to save Meow. | ||||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Sometimes You Can't Live with Dying, Baby" "Shinde mo Shini Kirenai Toki mo Aru Jan yo" (死んでも死にきれない時もあるじゃんよ) | Ikuro Sato | Kimiko Ueno | Tomohisa Shimoyama | Namimi Sanjo (Hitoshi Namba) | January 26, 2014 | January 25, 2014 |
| Meow is bitten by an alien zombie captured by the Aloha Oe crew and transforms into a zombie himself. Thinking he is merely sick, Dandy and QT admit Meow to a hospital where he begins biting the other patients and doctors overnight. Dandy and QT visit the hospital the next morning to find it completely overrun by zombies. QT is bitten and zombified (despite being a robot) while Dandy escapes on a helicopter piloted by a zombie and is also bitten. Advised by the zombie alien they captured earlier to eat yogurt instead of raw meat, the crew adjust to their new undead state and go about their usual lives through Dandy's life insurance policy. After a failed effort by life insurance companies to control the undead population via zombie hunting, every living being and robot in the universe (including the show's narrator) eventually becomes a zombie, ironically turning the universe into a utopia. | ||||||||
| 5 | 5 | "A Merry Companion Is a Wagon in Space, Baby" "Tabi wa Michizure Uchū wa Nasake Jan yo" (旅は道連れ宇宙は情けじゃんよ) | Akemi Hayashi | Ichirō Ōkouchi | Tomohiro Kishi | Akemi Hayashi | February 2, 2014 | February 1, 2014 |
| Dandy captures a young orphan Gentooan girl named Adélie, who has the ability to transfer others' minds into puppets. When he returns to the Aloha Oe to deliver her to the alien registration center, he finds it has been towed away for a parking violation. To pay off the fine, Dandy brings Adélie on a days-long journey to the nearest registration center on the planet. Along the way, Adélie convinces Dandy to take a detour to an apartment to meet her grandfather, but finds it occupied by another tenant. That night, Dandy tells Adélie he is leaving her to go to the local Boobies, but secretly traces her grandfather through the tenant instead. The next day, he takes Adélie to the train station to meet her grandfather so she may live with him. However, Adélie mistakenly thinks Dandy is trying to abandon her and traps his mind in her stuffed penguin doll before storming off. She is soon caught by two vengeful alien hunters she had humiliated earlier, but Dandy (still in a penguin's body) and her grandfather rescue her. Adélie forgives Dandy and asks to join the Aloha Oe crew when she grows up, which Dandy promises. | ||||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The War of the Undies and Vests, Baby" "Pantsu to Chokki no Sensō Jan yo" (パンツとチョッキの戦争じゃんよ) | Michio Mihara | Michio Mihara (story) Dai Satō (screenplay) | Michio Mihara | Michio Mihara | February 9, 2014 | February 8, 2014 |
| The Aloha Oe is attacked while passing through a no-fly zone around the destroyed planet Eden and lands on its surviving, barren moon. While exploring the surface, Dandy and Meow encounter an Undie alien wearing only underwear, and a Vestian alien wearing only a vest. The aliens reveal that their races have been at war for ten thousand years because the Undies do not tolerate vests while the Vestians abhor underwear, and now they are the only individuals left from each race. After fighting each other because of the aliens, Dandy and Meow convince the aliens to sign a peace treaty. However, according to galactic law, both aliens are obliged to relinquish their most prized possession, their clothing, to the other to seal the treaty. Unable to do so, the aliens fight each other to the death. Before dying, both aliens fire weapons of mass destruction to obliterate the moon. Dandy and Meow manage to escape the moon when QT tosses a space surfboard for them to surf their way out over the debris. | ||||||||
| 7 | 7 | "A Race in Space Is Dangerous, Baby" "Uchū Rēsu wa Denjarasu Jan yo" (宇宙レースはデンジャラスじゃんよ) | So Toyama | Kimiko Ueno | Yuriko Chiba, Eiji Nakada | Gorō Taniguchi | February 16, 2014 | February 15, 2014 |
| Hoping to impress the ladies at Boobies, the Aloha Oe crew enter a galactic grand prix against its glamorous reigning champion Prince, his state-of-the-art robot Z, and his rat-like alien lawyer Squeak. Dandy uses various tricks to stay ahead of his competitors until he catches up with Prince. At a pit stop, Meow runs out of fuel to refill Dandy's tank and is forced to substitute it with a mixture of various substances, while Squeak plants a bomb on the Little Aloha that he detonates once Dandy comes neck and neck with Prince. The resulting explosion causes a bizarre chain reaction with the fuel mixture that propels Dandy several billion years into the future, where he finds a Buddhist statue resembling himself. | ||||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Lonely Pooch Planet, Baby" "Hitoribotchi no Wankoboshi Jan yo" (一人ぼっちのワンコ星じゃんよ) | Hiroshi Shimizu | Keiko Nobumoto | Hiroshi Shimizu | Hiroshi Shimizu | February 23, 2014 | February 22, 2014 |
| On a deserted planet made entirely of discarded metal and rubbish, Dandy finds a solitary dog. As QT and Meow go about their business, Dandy spends the last few hours of the dog's lifespan playing with her, naming her "Pup", before she eventually dies. Heartbroken by Pup's death, Dandy constructs a rocket to give her a proper burial in space. Putting Pup's death behind them, Meow soon discovers that he picked up a pair of alien fleas from Pup's fur. After the crew comically chase the two throughout the ship, both fleas are inadvertently killed. QT deduces these aliens were responsible for keeping the planet stable and without them, the planet will collapse on itself and form a black hole. Though Dandy and his crew manage to warp away in time, Dr. Gel's ship arrives at the same instant Dandy leaves and winds up being pulled into the black hole. | ||||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Plants Are Living Things, Too, Baby" "Shokubutsu Datte Ikiteru Jan yo" (植物だって生きてるじゃんよ) | Eunyoung Choi | Eunyoung Choi (story) Shinichirō Watanabe (screenplay) | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | Eunyoung Choi | March 2, 2014 | March 1, 2014 |
| QT beams Dandy and Meow onto Planta, a planet inhabited solely by sentient plants, in search of a rumored rare alien known as "Code D". A mishap with the transporter sends Dandy to the planet's northern hemisphere populated by the cerebral Vegims, while Meow is caught by the tribal Movies in the southern hemisphere. With the aid of the Vegim Dr. H and his daughter 033H, Dandy traverses the planet's psychedelic landscape to the north pole where Code D is located. There he discovers the "alien" is actually a meteorite that caused the planet's flora to evolve into intelligent beings. Dandy's attempt to remove the stone inadvertently causes all the plants to regress into non-sentient organisms. He returns to the Aloha Oe along with Meow, who had been fattened up by the Movies intent on eating him. | ||||||||
| 10 | 10 | "There's Always Tomorrow, Baby" "Ashita wa Kitto Tumorō Jan yo" (明日はきっとトゥモローじゃんよ) | Masayuki Miyaji | Kimiko Ueno | Seiichi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Aoyama | Masayuki Miyaji | March 9, 2014 | March 8, 2014 |
| After the Aloha Oe becomes damaged, the crew are forced to make a landing on Meow's home planet, which he dislikes for being boring and uneventful. They are greeted by Meow's family, who take them in while their ship is repaired. That night, the calendar in Meow's house is struck by a wayward blast of Pyonium energy sparked from a battle between the Gogol and Jaicro Empires, causing the events of that day to endlessly repeat themselves in a time loop. On the 108th loop, the crew realize what has happened and determine that, since they will not be able to leave until tomorrow comes, they must turn Meow's calendar to break the loop. The calendar proves virtually indestructible, so they turn to Meow's metalworker father for help, and he successfully rips off the date with his screw-making machine, breaking the loop. The crew leave on the newly repaired Aloha Oe as Meow realizes how much he loves his home planet after reliving it countless times. | ||||||||
| 11 | 11 | "I'm Never Remembering You, Baby" "Omae o Nebā Omoidasenai Jan yo" (お前をネバー思い出せないじゃんよ) | Hiroyuki Okuno | Toh EnJoe | Hiroyuki Okuno, Hisashi Mori (Mechanical) | Atsushi Takahashi | March 16, 2014 | March 15, 2014 |
| The Aloha Oe crew bring a red box to the alien registration center, believing it to contain a rare alien, but having no memory of how they acquired it. The box opens to reveal a book that was checked out by Admiral Perry from the library planet Lagado. The crew also finds a complimentary ticket for a free trip to Lagado inside the book. When they arrive at the planet, they are transported to the surface by its resident aliens, who greet the book and ticket as their librarian and deputy librarian, respectively. The book and ticket are revealed to be aliens that took control of the crew's minds to rescue themselves from the Gogol Empire, explaining their failure to recall the event. Before erasing their memories, the book gives the crew another red box as a gift, warning them not to open it early. The crew bring the box to the registration center, where it opens to reveal a videotape that also manipulates others' memories, starting an intergalactic war involving other video and computer storage devices that goes unrecorded in history. | ||||||||
| 12 | 12 | "Nobody Knows the Chameleon Alien, Baby" "Dare mo Shiranai Kamereon-seijin Jan yo" (誰も知らないカメレオン星人じゃんよ) | Satoshi Saga | Kimiko Ueno | Chikashi Kubota | Toshio Hirata | March 23, 2014 | March 22, 2014 |
| Scarlet becomes fed up with the costs of paying Dandy's bounties for petty aliens, and challenges him to capture a Chameleonian, a rare alien with the ability to mimic any creature or object's appearance. The Aloha Oe crew unknowingly happen upon the creature on a fishing spree and bring their catch aboard their ship, where it begins impersonating the crew to outwit them and evade capture. Eventually the crew encounter the Chameleonian in the form of Dandy and, unable to tell the real Dandy apart from the impostor, put them through a series of questions only Dandy can answer. However, the Chameleonian becomes so adept in acting like Dandy that it comes to truly believe itself to be him, making the two indistinguishable. The Chameleonian stays with the crew in Dandy's form until it is caught by Dr. Gel and impersonates him, causing the doctor to succumb to Gestaltzerfall as he questions who he is, and leaving QT and Meow to ponder whether the remaining Dandy is real or not. | ||||||||
| 13 | 13 | "Even Vacuum Cleaners Fall in Love, Baby" "Sōjiki Datte Koisuru Jan yo" (掃除機だって恋するじゃんよ) | Shingo Natsume | Dai Satō | Tomohisa Shimoyama, Gosei Oda | Shingo Natsume | March 26, 2014 (TV Osaka) | March 29, 2014 |
| The Aloha Oe crew patron a coffee shop where QT falls in love with a coffeemaker named Maker. QT visits the shop each day and befriends Maker, also meeting her co-worker, a robotic cash register. One day, QT arrives to find that Maker and the register have been recalled to a seaborne landfill as they have begun exhibiting emotions, causing them to malfunction. QT sneaks into the landfill and, after a week's search, reunites with Maker at a rave party where other discarded appliance robots, including the register, are planning a revolution against their human creators. Seeing Maker watch heartbrokenly as the register converges with the other robots to operate a giant mech and attack a nearby city, QT realizes Maker is in love with the register and heads off to stop him. After being shot down by the mech, QT is struck by a wayward blast of Pyonium energy from one of Dr. Gel's experiments, enlarging him to gargantuan size and allowing him to dismantle the mech. He then returns to the Aloha Oe and drinks a cup of coffee that Maker had prepared for him earlier, causing him to short circuit. | ||||||||
Season 2 (2014)
| No. | # | Title | Episode Director | Written by | Animation Supervisor | Storyboards | Japanese airdate | English airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1 | "I Can't Be the Only One, Baby"[6] "Onrī Wan ni Narenai Jan yo" (オンリーワンになれないじゃんよ) | Masahiro Mukai | Kimiko Ueno | Yoshiyuki Ito, Kazumi Inadome | Gorō Taniguchi | July 6, 2014 | July 5, 2014[7] |
| After another failed attempt from Dandy to deceive her, Scarlet suggests to him that he and his friends look for another career. While discussing the matter, Dandy pulls a strange string sticking out from his hair that drags them to an alternate dimension where they find alternate versions of themselves that seem to be far more skilled alien hunters than they are. Soon after, they are pulled in another dimension where Dandy is a space trucker and Meow and QT his traveling partners. Following that, the original trio keeps pulling mysterious strings that bring them to several other dimensions, always meeting alternate versions of themselves, until one of the alternate Dandies asks him to bring him and his friends to their own dimension. The original Dandy and his friends return home, but accidentally bring all the other versions of Dandy, QT, and Meow with them. As more alternate selves appear at the Aloha Oe, strange events start occurring in their own dimension and after facing a gloomy Dandy with even stranger partners appear, Dandy decides to fix things by burning the cosmic strings that linked their dimensions, and all incarnations of Dandy, QT, and Meow returned to their own dimensions, except for the gloomy Dandy and his friends who have replaced the original crew in their own dimension. | ||||||||
| 15 | 2 | "There's Music in the Darkness, Baby"[8] "Yami ni wa Yami no Onshoku ga Aru Jan yo" (闇には闇の音色があるじゃんよ) | Toshiaki Kidokoro | Keiko Nobumoto | Yuriko Chiba, Eiji Nakada | Masashi Ikeda | July 13, 2014 | July 12, 2014 |
| Dandy receives a letter from "A Rare Alien" after arbitrarily disbanding the crew following an argument over which song an alien was playing on his guitar. Thinking the sender is a beautiful alien chick, he takes the Little Aloha to investigate, and flies all the way to a planet surrounded by a "River of Time." QT and Meow follow Dandy to the planet in the Aloha Oe when they find out he won the "Mr. Misunderstanding Grand Prix" contest they entered him in on a whim, but need him to claim the prize in person. However, they are soon turned into smiling statues by the Ukuleleman on the planet. When Dandy finds out what happened, he carries his two friends into the River of Time to change them back before they were transformed into statues. Dr. Gel tries to pursue Dandy but is knocked into the River of Time by a large submarine shortly before meeting his own mother. The Ukuleleman tries to use the River of Time to pull out a smiling version of Dandy while eliminating the present version, but the current Dandy punches the Ukuleleman, shattering his mask. As the Ukuleleman is consumed by flames, he laments that a smile wouldn't look good on him, but Dandy tells him that he's smiling right then, shortly before acquiring his ukulele. | ||||||||
| 16 | 3 | "Slow and Steady Wins the Race, Baby"[9] "Isogabamawaru no ga Ore Jan yo" (急がば回るのがオレじゃんよ) | Masaaki Yuasa | Masaaki Yuasa | Masaaki Yuasa | Masaaki Yuasa | July 20, 2014 | July 19, 2014 |
| Meow is angry that Dandy spent their food money on a flashlight that can teleport whatever touches its beam of light, and in anger accidentally teleports Dandy's head to another world. While there, Dandy meets an alien fish named Carpaccio, though he's unable to understand it until Meow uses a mirror to teleport himself and the flashlight to the same planet. Carpaccio mentions that he's been studying the planet "Pushy Boyfriend" for 10 years and that the nearby sun will scorch both that planet and his home planet "Girlfriend." Dandy and Meow work with him in hopes that they can find extra batteries for the flashlight after Dandy uses it up trying to teleport the ship to the surface. Carpaccio quickly betrays the other two and races home to find that his girlfriend found another boyfriend, and that none of his fellow fish-people believe his words that the sun is going to destroy their world, having become self-absorbed anti-intellectuals since his departure. However, just as Dandy finds extra D-cell batteries for the flashlight, the sun begins to scorch Girlfriend to a crisp, including Carpaccio himself who decides he has nothing to live for and Dr. Gel who arrives a moment too late to catch Dandy. After teleporting themselves back to the Aloha Oe, Dandy and Meow decide to feast on Carpaccio's burnt body. | ||||||||
| 17 | 4 | "The Transfer Student is Dandy, Baby" "Tenkōsei wa Dandi Jan yo" (転校生はダンディじゃんよ) | Takaaki Wada | Hayashi Mori | Hiroyuki Aoyama | Takaaki Wada | July 27, 2014 | July 26, 2014 |
| Dandy hunts a rare alien species by infiltrating a high school where popularity is determined by the ability to break into song and dance. His only hint being that the alien has a flower grow on its head when in love. Unfortunately, Dandy realizes he transferred in when final exams are only a week away, forcing him to cheat on the tests while helping a homely female classmate train so they can go to the school prom together and become Prom King and Queen. On the night of the Prom, Dandy manages to beat the school's queen at her own game with a large musical number joined by three aliens Dandy helped (including the female classmate), QT, Meow, and even the school's queen among others. Unfortunately, after graduation, Dandy forgets all about the alien, who is revealed to be the female classmate (having fallen in love with him, her flower blooms). | ||||||||
| 18 | 5 | "The Big Fish is Huge, Baby" "Biggu Fisshu wa Dekkai Jan yo" (ビッグフィッシュはでっかいじゃんよ) | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | Kiyotaka Oshiyama | August 3, 2014 | August 2, 2014 |
| While fishing in a calm lake, Meow mentions a rare alien fish called a Munagi that appears once every 3,600 years and is worth 50 million wulongs at the Registration Center. The Aloha Oe heads to the planet Kaiyu to track the fish, but gets stuck in "space kelp," forcing Dandy to teleport to the surface himself. On the planet, he makes friends with a little girl and goes fishing with her, but can't seem to win any favor from an old man named Ldelise she looks up to. The girl tells Dandy the legend that the Munagi is only around when a "blue moon" can be seen from the planet. As Dandy begins to doubt the Munagi's existence, Meow and QT spot a large blue comet that only comes near the planet every 3,600 years. When the comet gets close to the planet, the Munagi appear on the surface of the ocean while Dandy, Ldelise, QT, Meow, and everyone from the fishing village band together to catch it. As the Munagi escape to the blue comet, Dandy appears to have survived the ordeal, sans fish. The Aloha Oe later returns to the same lake from the beginning of the episode as Meow mentions another rare alien fish. | ||||||||
| 19 | 6 | "Gallant Space Gentleman, Baby" "Uchū Shinshi wa Jentoruman Jan yo" (宇宙紳士はジェントルマンじゃんよ) | Hiroshi Shimizu | Keiko Nobumoto | Hiroshi Shimizu | Hiroshi Shimizu | August 10, 2014 | August 9, 2014 |
| Honey is kidnapped by Dr. Gel after leaving a pro wrestling match, while Scarlet decides to head to a mixer with her co-worker Pine-Pine. Meanwhile, the Aloha Oe has been chasing a Cloudian for six months with no luck, when QT hears about a party with free buffet on the planet "C'est La Vie". The team ends up in the same room as Scarlet, taking advantage of the free food, when Scarlet is taken away by a Cloudian named Gentle. Dr. Gel tries to scan Honey's brain for clues about Dandy, but his hard drive explodes as Honey reveals herself to be half-Cloudian. Eventually, Dandy and crew catch up to Gentle while he's trying to seduce Scarlet, but then they receive a message from Honey who offers to comp their next meal if they rescue her from Dr. Gel. While Gentle and Dandy race to her rescue, Honey piledrives Dr. Gel and teleports away, and Scarlet gets drunk with Meow. Gentle sets the cloud on Dr. Gel's ship and self-destructs it, but the crew escape to the surface where Gentle reunites with Honey, his half-sister. Unfortunately, when Dandy tries to get Gentle registered, Scarlet refuses, saying that without the actual cloud a Cloudian is worthless. | ||||||||
| 20 | 7 | "Rock 'n' Roll Dandy, Baby" "Rokkunrōru ☆ Dandi Jan yo" (ロックンロール☆ダンディじゃんよ) | Sayo Yamamoto | Kimiko Ueno | Yoshiyuki Ito, Kazumi Inadome | Sayo Yamamoto | August 17, 2014 | August 16, 2014 |
| Johnny, the Commander-in-Chief of the Jaicro Empire's armed forces, keeps sneaking off from his responsibilities to play guitar and chase his dream of becoming a rock star. After getting into a fight with Dandy at a bar, the two men end up forming a band called "the Dropkix"; Dandy is the singer, Johnny is the guitarist, Meow is the bassist, and QT is the drummer. Next, Johnny waits for inspiration to strike for the band's hit song while QT and Meow decide to actually practice. Dandy manages to get the Dropkix their first gig at a dive bar with only three aliens watching (including the janitor), but their popularity skyrockets when video of Dandy fighting the audience during the show goes viral. The band is quickly signed by an agent and sent to Space Budokan for their big live show, when Johnny has to duck out to lead a Jaicro assault on a possible Gogol weapons platform. At the last second, Johnny reverses his decision and crashes through the roof of the arena with his mech. His army is unsure of what to make of it as the Dropkix play their first (and last) show ever, but Johnny's actions indirectly lead to a cessation of hostilities between the two empires. | ||||||||
| 21 | 8 | "A World with No Sadness, Baby" "Kanashimi no Nai Sekai Jan yo" (悲しみのない世界じゃんよ) | Yasuhiro Nakura | Shinichirō Watanabe | Yoshiyuki Ito, Kazumi Inadome, Chikashi Kubota | Yasuhiro Nakura | August 24, 2014 | August 23, 2014 |
| An unfortunate encounter with a dark nebula maroons Dandy on a mysterious planet called Planet Limbo populated by bizarre beings and even more bizarre environments. Sadness is an absent concept in this strange world of the seemingly dead. Dandy argues that this is impossible; that sadness and happiness are entwined. As he explores the strange landscape, Dandy scrambles to find a way back home. Struggling with his memories and what the world's inhabitants are telling him, Dandy is given an insightful look on life and death. This episode is a drastic change from the typical Space Dandy sound and art style, it's sombre and alien design contrasting sharply with the series' typical upbeat and vibrant comedic styles. | ||||||||
| 22 | 9 | "We're All Fools, So Let's All Dance, Baby" "Onaji Baka nara Odoranya Son Jan yo" (同じバカなら踊らにゃ損じゃんよ) | Masato Miyoshi | Keiko Nobumoto | Yoshimichi Kameda | Yoshitomo Yonetani | August 31, 2014 | August 30, 2014 |
| Dandy and the crew go to Planet Grease for a legendary party in the hopes of winning a contest with the reward being 100,000,000 wulongs. However, they find themselves walking the streets of a ghost town. Fortunately, only a handful of other aliens arrive and begin to dance; one of the residents of Planet Grease hopes that the contest might bring the attraction of a rare species of alien called a Dancingian to show his elderly, comatose mother (who had witnessed one when she was younger). As everyone dances, Dandy feels outmatched with one other alien named Tom Travolta (an excellent upbeat dancer who loves to dance) before joining in a dancing competition with him, while some music that Dandy bought at a store causes everyone to age rapidly from old age to infant. At the same time, the music causes the planetary lichen to grow, revealing to be the Dancingians. As Dandy and Travolta's dancing becomes more intense, along with the Dancingians presence, it causes a big bang that destroys the universe. In a subplot, Dr. Gel and Bea contemplate on their role of pursuing Dandy. | ||||||||
| 23 | 10 | "Lovers Are Trendy, Baby" "Koibito-tachi wa Torendi Jan yo" (恋人たちはトレンディじゃんよ) | Masahiro Mukai | Kimiko Ueno | Chikashi Kubota | Kotaro Tamura | September 7, 2014 | September 6, 2014 |
| Feeling the stalking presence of her ex-boyfriend, Dolph, Scarlet makes a deal with Dandy to date her in order to make Dolph go away. When Dandy refuses, she throws in the price of paying him a significant amount of wulongs, much to QT and Meow's fascination; they force Dandy to date her. Over the course of days on Planet Trendy, Dandy and Scarlet begin to exhibit signs of romance, which culminates in Dandy kissing her after confronting a love-crazed Dolph. He is given a restraining order and sent to jail, thus leaving Scarlet safe from him. However, after being paid the money, Dandy feels disheartened without Scarlet and tries meeting her at a diner, but he is too late; both have just missed each other and walk away without noticing. Business goes back to normal when she refuses to register an alien that Dandy claims is rare. However, as he leaves, they give each other glances that hint that they have some feelings. | ||||||||
| 24 | 11 | "An Other-Dimensional Tale, Baby" "Jigen no Chigaugatari Jan yo" (次元の違う話じゃんよ) | Satoshi Saga | Toh EnJoe | Toshihiro Kawamoto, Tsunenori Saito | Fumihiko Takayama | September 14, 2014 | September 13, 2014 |
| An old flame of Dandy's named Catherine (a disembodied heart in a tesseract from a 4-dimensional universe) comes to seek his help in saving a ruler named Paul from a 2-dimensional universe which has entered the 3-dimensional universe. Dandy reluctantly decides to help, considering that Paul dated Catherine after she left Dandy. Intrigued by Paul and the story of the two, Honey tags along to meet and marry Paul, but is disappointed to learn that he's just a rectangle with a crown on top. It is then learned that Paul had brought his universe into Dandy's in the hope of getting Catherine back. Meanwhile, Dr. Gel and Bea have crossed into the 2-dimensional universe by accident, then cross into a 1-dimensional universe, and finally into a 0-dimensional universe. | ||||||||
| 25 | 12 | "Dandy's Day in Court, Baby" "Sabakareru no wa Dandi Jan yo" (裁かれるのはダンディじゃんよ) | Atsushi Takahashi | Dai Satō | Michio Mihara | Atsushi Takahashi | September 21, 2014 | September 20, 2014 |
| In an intergalactic courtroom, Dandy is accused of the murder of an alien who was struck in the head with a baseball. Dandy is assumed to be the culprit as he was attempting to capture the alien and the alien's wife just happened to return home after her husband hit the ground. Both the prosecution and defense lawyers present their cases with Scarlet, QT, Meow, and a few other aliens as character witnesses. But more questions raise up from further evidence that the murder weapon belongs to a kid named Hiroshi from the distant Planet Turbo with his friend confirming it, bringing the notion that the item may have been transported through space by Pyonium energies reacting to someone's murderous intent. As matters get hectic with the alien's wife being falsely accused of being the murderer due to the items she bought, the jury find out (with some help from Meow who was posting the fact on his Twitter account) that Hiroshi is the guilty party as he possessed a murderous intent toward his friend for blocking him on Twitter. Furthermore, the judge clears the alien's wife of all charges by revealing the alien, who turned out to have been knocked out, to be a former professional wrestler. Though things seemed to end well, having been asleep the entire time throughout court, Dandy and his crew are captured by Dr. Gel's army. | ||||||||
| 26 | 13 | "Never-ending Dandy, Baby" "Nebāendingu Dandi Jan yo" (ネバーエンディングダンディじゃんよ) | Shingo Natsume | Shinichirō Watanabe | Yoshiyuki Ito, Gosei Oda (mechanical, effects) | Shingo Natsume | September 24, 2014 (TV Osaka) | September 27, 2014 |
| Dandy is finally captured by the Gogol Empire, with Dr. Gel intent to know Dandy's connection to Pyonium by dissection if needed, to complete their doomsday weapon: A device that would allow the Gogol Empire to invade other realities. QT, Meow, Honey, and Scarlet hatch a rescue mission as Johnny learns of Dandy's capture and mounts an assault on the Gogol Empire Homeworld. As all hell breaks loose, Bea is revealed to be a spy from the Jaicro Empire after shooting Gel. Bea then explains to Admiral Perry he is also betrayed the Jaicro Empire and now acts on his own intentions of becoming a living god through the mystery behind Dandy. However, Bea is crushed to death by a still living Gel. Eventually, losing the Aloha Oe and the Little Aloha from the various obstacles while Johnny is locked in combat with Perry, QT, Meow, Honey, and Scarlet reach Dandy and free him. Above them, the doomsday machine has gathered a significant amount of cosmic energy activate with Gel expanding that only Dandy can stop it. After saying farewell to his friends, Dandy uses Gel's spaceship to reach the device and destroy it. However, the shockwave from the explosion cancels all forms of matter with everyone erased from existence save for Dandy and the Narrator. Revealed to be the Chameleonian in a previous life and having observed Dandy's adventure, the Narrator is considered by Dandy to be "God". The Narrator also reveals to Dandy that a new universe will be born after the current has completely collapsed, offering Dandy to become the new "God" as he is a being of Omnipresence. But Dandy outright refuses upon weighting the cons of losing physical form, thus causing the new universe to be without a god. About fourteen billion years after the creation of the new universe, the series ends where it begins when Dandy recalls the values of space before he curiously asks QT if he is still the same man he once was. During the end credits, all of Dandy's adventures from previous episodes are shown in chronological order with a teaser/end title "May be continued?" shown. | ||||||||
References
- ↑ "ENGLISH PRODUCTION OF "SPACE DANDY" IN PROGRESS— TV BROADCAST DATES AND STAFF/CAST REVEALED!". Funimation. December 5, 2013. Retrieved December 5, 2013.
- ↑ "BIG HONKIN' TOONAMI ANNOUNCEMENT!". Toonami.tumblr.com. October 25, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013.
- ↑ "スペース☆ダンディ Blu-ray&DVD 第1巻 4月25日(水)発売" (in Japanese). Space Dandy. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ↑ Otakon Vegas. "Activities: Special Screenings and Events: Space Dandy Launch Event."
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- ↑ "Turner Press Site". Turner Broadcasting. June 8, 2014. Retrieved June 8, 2014.
- ↑ "July 5th Toonami Schedule". Tumblr. Retrieved June 14, 2014.
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