I'm less interested in the themes of maturity and growing up (which are certainly there) and more interested in the nuts and bolts of exactly what the plot is all about, who Haruko is, what Atmosk is, why stuff comes out of Naota's head, what the deal is with Medical Mechanica, Amarao, etc.
SPOILERS AHEAD
Haruko (real name Raharu) is a corrupt officer in the Galaxy Space Police Brotherhood, who was assigned to transport a prisoner, Atmosk, to a containment facility. Unbeknownst to her superiors, Haruko has become obsessed with possessing Atmosk's massive N.O. power. During transport, Haruko was intercepted by agents of Medical Mechanica, who abducted Atmosk from her custody. Medical Mechanica seeks to harness Atmosk's N.O. to power their massive world-flattening steam irons. Ever since Atmosk's capture, Haruko has been attempting to track him down using half of a handcuff still attached to her wrist. The link reacts to the other half of the cuffs, which are still attached to Atmosk. The Space Police think Haruko is searching for Atomsk as part of her official duties, but really she only seeks to find him in order to harness his power for herself.
Haruko has been looking for Atmosk for a long time. Part of her plan is to find people gifted with N.O. power and use them to aid her, as Haruko as no natural N.O. ability herself (she sometimes uses a pull-cord-operated device in her guitar to artificially generate N.O. effects). During her search she initially encountered Amarao as a boy. Her relationship with Amarao was similar to that of Naota, and Amarao fell in love with her. She eventually abandoned Amarao when she decided his N.O. power was too weak to be of much help. Amarao misinterpreted Haruko's feelings and mistakenly believed Haruko left him because she was in love with Atomsk, whom Amarao imagined as being a humanoid. Haruko left, Amarao grew up and became a government agent. He wore special "eyebrows" which were designed to prevent an N.O. channel being opened in his head. In other words, designed to protect him from being used by Haruko.
Years later, Haruko's search brings her back to Earth, where she recruits Naota. Naota's N.O. is much more powerful that Amarao's. Haruko's plan is actually fairly simple: Atmosk travels via N.O. channels. Haruko plans to repeatedly open N.O. channels until Atmosk eventually escapes from Medical Mechanica through one of them, at which time Haruko would recapture him and somehow gain his power for herself. She nearly succeeds the very first time she tries this with Naota: Part of Atmosk escapes from Medical Mechanica inside the medical robot Kanti, and part becomes lodged within Naota. Haruko does not immediately realise this, and disables Kanti by wacking him on the back of the head. As the series progresses, Atmosk is able to manifest whenever Noata fuses with Kanti and Kanti turns red. Haruko, however, still doesn't realize red Kanti is Atmosk until Amarao reveals this to her during a fight. Afterwards, she absconds with red Kanti... only to eventually return once she realizes that only part of Atmosk resides in Kanti, and that she needs the part within Noata to make Atmosk whole and recapture him. During this process, Medical Mechanica is also moving forward on its plans to use Atmosk's N.O. power to flatten Earth.
Haruko finally succeeds in truly freeing Atmosk from Medical Mechanica, but finds she has lost control of Noata, who becomes infused with the power of Atmosk. She fights him, but is easily overpowered. Noata/Atmosk could destroy Haruko, but hesitates because he/they are in love with her. N.O. channels are triggered by strong feelings, and when Noata kisses Haruko, this finally causes feelings strong enough to open a big enough N.O. channel for all of Atmosk to fit through in his true form: That of a gigantic red dragon/bird. Haruko finds herself powerless to capture Atomsk in this form, and Atmosk escapes both Medical Mechanica and Haruko. In the end, Haruko gives chase, renewing her pursuit.
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roomail
9 years ago
This is a great literal interpretation, however I believe OP interpretation is also valid for the figurative, inner meanings of the story.
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