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The Taraak and Megere forces have surrounded the Nirvana. Megere takes the women prisoner. Duero drugs Hibiki and hides him in the Paksis. Taraak “liberates” the men and takes the Nirvana.
The women are put on trial and labeled as “witches”. The judge is deeply offended by the baby book and wants it burned. The women are sentenced to life imprisonment. Dita tries to speak up about the harvest, but is ignored.
On Taraak, BC receives a medal. Funny scene of his superior looking at his breasts and saying “couldn’t you have done something about it?” BC responds that he was awaiting orders and “don’t you like this look”. Love his superior’s reaction!
Duero and Bart are ordered to be “re-educated” because of their ridiculous notions of wanting to live with women.
When the women enter the prison, it seems that the Captain is pretty famous. The prisoners want to join her pirate crew and Dita thinks it’s great.
Hibiki is in the Paksis and it flashes red, meaning that the enemy is coming soon.
So, “re-educating” the men means torturing them until they swear allegiance to Grand Pa. Bart is being whipped while Duero is forced to watch. They refuse to swear allegiance. Duero says that women are wonderful and I like the line he says – “it’s only through women that I found any interest in life at all”. BC interrupts the “re-education” and says he will take over the whipping. Bart confesses that he fell in love with him when he was a woman. Instead of whipping him, BC attacks the guards and releases the men. He throws the medal on the floor and says a funny line – “it’s annoying and I’ve got more than enough bouncing around on my chest already”. Also love Duero’s response – “how interesting”. LOL
Back at the prison, the women are rescued by fellow pirates that stayed behind. One named Rebecca turns out to be the oma to Ezra’s baby. They end up freeing all the other prisoners and taking them on as crew.
Paksis takes control of the ship and breaks away from the men. The women make it back to the Nirvana and board to find Hibiki eating Dita’s ruined meal. He says that even cold, it is pretty good. Dita is pleased and promises to cook for him. Pyoro is all excited to be reunited with Pyoro II and tells Rebecca that he is the father and Pyoro II is his baby.
The men also make it back to the ship and the Captain is pleased. She forgives BC on the condition that he change his voice back to a female’s. BC is still the Commander and she dramatically pulls off the Taraak uniform to reveal her old clothing underneath. Funny!
Great line from the Captain – “there’s a bright and somewhat cruel future ahead for all of you.” And Hibiki saying – “she’s still an old lady with a big mouth.”
Hibiki thanks BC at this point for helping him. And Paiway says she will stop spying on people. They have all grown up a lot at this point.
There is a meeting of the first generation Elders and it turns out that Hibiki’s grandfather is Grand Ma’s brother as well as being the Captain’s uncle. They are all surprised that Hibiki woke up and are told to entrust the future to Hibiki.
Hibiki makes a speech and it is broadcast to everyone, including Taraak and Megere. He says that they must all fight for their future and then he combines with Dita. Love the reactions here – there is a male comment – “has he no shame?” – and the women with Grand Ma cover their eyes. So funny!
A harvest flagship shows up from out of nowhere and they all wonder how it got so close without any warning. It’s Gascogne!! Yay!! Everyone is so happy to see her back from the dead. Me too! She takes over for Barnette and sends her out to fight. Barnette thanks her for staying alive.
Rabat shows up with some support forces. Another anti-earth forces shows up to show friendship to Hibiki. They are from the people that helped Hibiki a while back and were all killed. Then some Taraak and Megere forces join them as well. There’s that “working together” theme again!
The harvest fleet shows up with all the copies of the ships too. The fight is broadcast to everyone. Then the planet destroyer shows up. Hibiki and the girls join to form the Super Vandread, and they manage to destroy most of the enemy ship.
It turns out that the Red Paksis is in the embodiment of a young boy, and is described as a “closed heart that doesn’t accept others”. It attacks the Super Vandread and separates them. Very funny scene of Pyoro trapped under Jura’s chest and her telling him to get away from her, but he so obviously can’t.
The Red Paksis puts up a shield and the dreads are caught inside. Hibiki attacks and ends up on the ship. The boy tells him that Hibiki is incomplete and that it is their destiny to die for earth. Dita contradicts this and Jura and Meia join in and talk about the future. Hibiki says they must conquer their fear and that friends make the difference. Even if they die, they will live on in each other’s hearts. The Red Paksis injures Hibiki and throws them all out.
Dita finally tells Hibiki she loves him and uses his real name for the first time. She ties their hands together and says that they are stronger together. She then asks him to say her name. Hibiki is all flustered and since they are still broadcasting, they are told to get back to the fight. They form the Super Vandread again and promise to never give up and fight to defend the future.
The Blue Paksis realizes that “friends are things to be cherished – we must protect our friends” and attacks the Red Paksis, shielding its friends in the process, and they win!! I love the music right here. It is really wonderful and so dramatically perfect!!
The Captain meets with Grand Ma and Grand Pa. She returns to the Nirvana to tell everyone that the planets will open communications with each other. BC tells them that there will be an experimental study of men and women living together. The men are to return to Taraak as soon as possible to find suitable male candidates for the experiment. Dita is upset by this because Hibiki still hasn’t kept his promise to visit her room.
The men get ready to leave and the women come to see them off. Parfet tells Duero to hurry back to his selfish patients. Paiway interrupts because something has always bugged her. She moves the hair away from Duero’s face and both she and Parfet sigh at his beauty. But we don’t get to see!!
Jura makes some demands and ends up getting weepy. She goes to hug Hibiki, but he ducks and she gets Duero instead. Both Parfet and Paiway are upset by this. They get even more flustered when Duero puts an arm around Jura to move her out of the way and leaves it there. Meia shakes Hibiki’s hand.
Misty pulls Dita forward. Dita has one wish - she’d like Hibiki to say her name. Hibiki says he won’t without a reason and calls her the “biggest fool in the universe”. Dita cries as the men board the transport. As the boarding platform moves away, Hibiki holds out his hand and calls Dita by name. He smiles and says “let’s go”. Dita jumps off the end of the platform and grabs his hand. Aww!!! An extremely satisfying and happy ending!
I also like all the flashbacks during the end credits and how it finally finishes with the words “never end”. I just love this series so much!! It is such a great mix of drama and comedy and also teaches a couple of really good lessons. 
