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Anemone
Eureka Seven character
First appearance	Eureka Seven episode 10
In-universe information
Nationality	United Federation of Predgio Towers

Anemone (アネモネ) is a character in the Eureka Seven series. She is a soldier of the United Federation of Predgio Towers.

Character

Anemone is the pilot of the Nirvash typeTheEND. She is regularly accompanied by her strange and overweight pet, Gulliver. He is an unknown species but seems to resemble a badger. Dewey Novak assigns Dominic Sorel to be her caretaker and monitor her condition as his plans develop.

Anemone was modified in some way by Dewey's scientists to make her more like a Coralian (this is why her eyes are similar to Eureka's), and conditioned to pilot TheEND. Anemone was the only person to survive the experiments that the doctors put her through, but she is damaged both mentally and physically as a result. She regularly suffers from painful headaches, nosebleeds, and emotional instability, most of which can be temporarily treated with a drug injected into a receptor in her neck.

In her drugged state, Anemone is almost unbeatable in the skies with TheEND. Renton and Eureka initially have trouble fighting with her even with the Nirvash typeZERO, but do much better after it is upgraded. Thanks in part to her more advanced LFO, Anemone can outfly most regular LFOs. Even Holland in his Terminus typeR909 is not able to stand against her for very long.

When not under the effects of the drugs, Anemone is often moody and reluctant to carry out a mission with TheEND. At such times, Dominic injects the drugs into her neck, which calms her mind and brings out her more focused, violent personality. After her multiple failures due to Gekkostate, she begins to feel depressed, as she fears that she is no longer of value in combat. When she attempts to follow Renton and Eureka into the Zone in episode 42, she has a small flashback of her happy life with her parents before she became an experiment subject.

Relationships

Dominic Sorel

At first Dominic merely serves as Anemone's caretaker. He eventually falls in love with Anemone, but she does not return his feelings until very late in the series. Anemone begins to reciprocate Dominic's feelings after he is sent to retrieve her replacement by Dewey. These feelings culminate when she is sent on a mission to enter the Scub realm.

During her final battle with Renton and Eureka, they try to convince her that Dominic will understand her feelings. She prepares to fire TheEND's "Vascud Crisis" believing that she scared Dominic away with her personality, but changes her mind when Dominic and Gulliver arrive via a transport shuttle. Dominic clings to a ref board, his shuttle having been destroyed through repeated impacts during the trip. In spite of Anemone's sudden change of heart, TheEND fires at the typeZERO. The typeZERO dodges the attack, and the subsequent shockwave knocks Dominic unconscious. An emotional cry from Anemone causes TheEND to eject Anemone from the cockpit so she can save Dominic. During the fall she calls him an idiot for following him here, but she's estatic he came anyway to save her. In those moments she tells him that this is the first time in her life she's been so happy. It is while in freefall that the two kiss.

In the aftermath of the second Summer of Love, Dominic and Anemone can be seen camping out under the stars and looking up at the moon.

Dewey Novak

Anemone initially adores Dewey, showing him both affection and respect. It is unclear whether she does not realize that Dewey is responsible for her current tortured existence, or simply doesn't care. Her feelings change later in the series, when she finds out that he has merely been using her to further his plans.

Manga

Anemone enjoys sweet food and she wants to eat something more. She first meets Eureka and offers some sweet food. During the Coralian invasion, Anemone was made as sacrifice, but Dominic took her place from The End and dies. Anemone's legs get injured in the process. Two years later, Anemone was seen on a wheelchair with Mischa visiting Dominic's grave where her pet, Gulliver is missing and she found him with a girl looking at a flower, and was curious to know what it is, and Anemone respond by telling her that it is called an anemone.

Movie

Anemone and her boyfriend, Dominic, helped the orphans escape from their destroyed village. Then a bright light flashes below them, which Anemone disappears in and Dominic dies. Anemone was discovered at the Vadorac Shrine as an old woman with a larva, The End. Eureka threatens the Gekkostate by shooting Anemone until an EIZO hand appear and attacks them which Anemone uses a barrier to freeze time around her. She went back as a young girl and tells Eureka that her choice to be with her love one is pure and that they must follow their own paths. Renton with an evolved Nirvash appear and destroyed the EIZO hand and Anemone told Renton and Eureka to follow their own happiness. Anemone appeared to Coda and tells her to watch the battle of the loved ones to fight for their future. When the battle was over, Anemone calls Coda a storyteller and asks her to write what has happened for others to know about the past. As soon as Coda looks back at Anemone, she disappears and then saw her inside larva The End with Dominic as the two of them were happy to be together again and with that they both disappear with larva The End.

Reception

In its review of the series' second DVD, Anime News Network criticized Anemone's character design, calling it "silly and too-angular", but "a good match for her personality." The site also said in its review of the third DVD that "Anemone is a great, though not likeable, addition as a character whose attitude is as sharp-edged as her appearance but far more troubled and rotten."