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What Space Patrol Luluco meant to me, as an aeromantic middle schooler

H hhiii everybody, this is an essay I wanted to write. I know this is an art account, but the last time I wrote a half assed paper about Osomatsu’s 24th season two episode you guys like it? So maybe, just maybe, you guys would be ok with reading another, this time something more personal, about what I beleive is a completely underrated show and how it changed my life! :D

WARNING!! THERE ARE HEAVY SPOILERS IN THIS ARTICLE FOR SPACE PATROL LULUCO

Space Patrol Luluco is a 13 episode shit post about a 13 year old girl name Luluco (fuckadoodle doo) who take her father’s place in the Okikubo division of the Space Patrol after he’s turned into a frozen brain splinter by her Space Pirate Mother. (more on that later)

What the series is most known for is being one huge fucking inside joke for fans of Studio Trigger. The 13 episodes are divided into 5 mini seasons, each ending on the third episode so that that there’s never a fourth episode, since Trigger is known for their infamously bad fourth episodes. The show even confirms that all Trigger properties belong in the same universe just on different planets, Luluco even meets some notable characters from other shows. It’s a really neat show for fans of the studio.

But for me, I’ve always seen the show as something much more personal than that, especially as an aeromantic middle schooler.

The show throughout seasons 1-3 carries this subplot of Luluco’s crush on this apathetic good looking boy name Nova; and to be honest when I was first watching it I found this subplot cringey and unappealing.

As a bit of a disclaimer, my aeromanticism was a coping mechanism due to some bad experiences involving being stalked and manipulated by a boy I knew for seven years. (i’m not joking, fourth grade to tenth grade) For most people aeromanticism isn’t a phase, and I’m not trying to imply in anyway that that’s what it is, but for me, it was a phase. Romance made me incredibly uncomfortable, because I was convinced that all love is shallow especially premature teen age love. I believed the standard of love we had created for ourselves was impossible to actually achieve. Especially impossible, and pointless, for middle school love.

And that’s how I felt about Luluco’s crush for Nova. It wasn’t special, it wasn’t deep, it wasn’t love. But it all changed in the series's climax, because my outlook on Luluco’s crush was the exact intention of the writer’s. The audience was meant to view her love as insignificant, because that was the exact view of the series's main antagonist too.

Another thing I’ve always loved about all of Trigger’s properties are their insane plot twists. (or at least the ones I've seen have plot twists) In episode one of season four of Space Patrol Luluco it’s revealed that the commanding chief of the entire space patrol force is a Blackholien, an alien species that only finds joy from stealing everything the universe has to offer; but because he’s so bored of stealing things of value, he sets about trying to steal the most worthless object in the entire universe- a middle school crush. Nova, the boy Luluco loves, is revealed to be a Nothingling, a being incapable of having a personality or feelings. The Blackholien humiliates Luluco by showing everyone that she only loves Nova for his looks, because that’s all he is. Then, Nova steals Luluco’s love from her body and the shock of this kills her.

Now, watching this for the first time, this really got my attention. In the next fucking episode, Luluco isn’t even in the opening anymore, because she’s dead. She spends the whole episode in hell, until she realizes something. It doesn’t matter to her that her love seems immature and shallow, because to her, it’s real.

Pulling back from the show for a moment, I’d like to say that we live in a society where we hate little girls. We do. If something is fucking stupid but is geared toward boys we withstand it. But if something is fucking stupid and geared toward little girls we hate on it, relentlessly. I felt that pressure alot as a child. Until I reached high school I was a tomboy, because I didn’t want to be seen as feminine. Subconsciously, I saw it as weak and something to outgrow. But it wasn’t until freshmen year that I realized that I’m ok with being girly. I can be feminine and powerful at the same time.

I got a little off topic there but what I’m trying to say is that these themes are very present all through out the show Space Patrol Luluco, except it focuses less on gender expression and more on age but still it’s kind of the same. There are arc words within the series, such as how instead of stealing people only use the term “shoplift.” And how the Blackholien at every chance he gets calls Luluco a worthless middleschooler, belittling her for her age and her optimism.

I rewatched the series recently, and seeing it from a different perspective, with a romantic partner in my life, I’ve really come to understand Nova and Luluco’s relationship. Back in season one, after spending sometime with Nova Luluco experiences this big bang, and it’s meant to be this metaphor for the emotions blooming within her. Later, after Luluco comes back to life and confesses her feelings to Nova he experiences a big bang too, and for the first time ever he can feel emotions, and he falls in love with Luluco, and to me, that is the most romantic beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

As someone who has personally experienced what it’s like to feel incapable of love to finding my soulmate, it’s incredibly empowering. And that’s the real purpose of Space Patrol Luluco. Good art shows people different perspectives of the world, and years ago that’s exactly what it did for me. And I don’t care if love is stupid anymore I just know what it is I feel, and that’s what Luluco is for. To teach little girls like me that it’s ok to have dumb middle school crushes.

Cocreated with Jacob Christiansen 2021

I ended up penning it and honestly it looks much better

I CANT BELIEVE EVERYONE THINKS RALSEI’S EVIL

God this boy, this cinnomon angel baby, I cried reading through his text at the begining, because he’s so kind.

I’ve been reading through theories and fan opinions the other day and I was shocked to beleive that anybody could beleive this boy could even fathom malicious intentions

(I mean- I don’t mean to be sounding so harsh about this I’m sorry it’s not meant to be an attack on these theories I’m just showing my passion for Ralsei’s character)

So I know his initial story is INCREDIBLY suspicious- there are lots of holes to his plan, the gysers are never really explained, and the whole thing about him living alone down here is a little fishy. I beleive that something is wrong and we are being mislead. HOWEVER, I do not beleive it is Ralsei that is lying to us. I beleive he is just as much as a victem in all of this as we are.

The idea of him being this evil mastermind doesn’t at all match with his character. Ralsei is dopey, naive, and most of all NON VIOLENT

Why would Ralsei go through all of this effort in the story to stop Susie’s violent tendencies and spare every villain you meet just to have the entire world destroyed* (as some people beleive) once you close the gyser* (does it actually close?)

A huge argument for fantheories doubting Ralsei’s motivations is that his name is an anagram for Asriel, and since Asriel is technically Flowey he could be tricking you

But personally I beleive that this actually disproves its own argument- it shows that Ralsei may be mislead by someone, just as Asriel was by Chara

SO IN CONCLUSION

It is my beleif that people may be jumping to conclusions about Ralsei’s guiltiness- because it just doesn’t make sense in his character arc for him to be evil, and that just because he’s suspicious doesn’t mean he’s pulling the strings

I'm finally releasing my thesis film Gnosis to the public. It was completed and aired May 2nd 2023 at the Central Michigan University Animation Showcase, but I've had the video unlisted for a while as it circulated through other film festivals. Please enjoy a year's worth of labor and love I endeavored on all on my own.

Gnosis is a reinterpretation of the seven days of creation through the lens of the metaphysical artist trying to reconnect with their art. It is a mixed medium film filled with experiments in stop motion and digital compositing. Each day presents a new dimension of creativity to explore, and to seek further understanding of the self.

To learn more about all the research that went into the project, please check out the page for the project on my website-

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Gnosis gno-sis no-ses intuitive awareness of spiritual truths, in relation to esoteric knowledgeIn my film Gnosis, there are two parallel tr

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