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It’s episode 10 of Blue Drop, and Michiko finally finishes the play and assigns the roles. You’ll never guess who gets the two lead roles! Meanwhile, Hagino takes Mari to see the Blue, but much to Hagino’s horror, Azanael is finally able to tell Mari exactly what happened during the island incident 5 years ago.

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The highlights of this episode:

• Michiko brings the finish script for her play, The Girl of Orleans, to class. Sugawara-sensei decides that Michiko should also direct the play, since she wrote it.
• Meanwhile, Sugawara also starts having suspicions about Hagino after she had been unable to look at Hagino’s entire file in the last episode.
• While Hagino and Mari and working on costumes in their room, Mari tells Hagino that even though she wouldn’t have met her if it wasn’t for the incident, and she doesn’t really remember what happened, she’s still glad to have met her. Hagino tries to tell Mari that she’s the one responsible for her parent’s death (or I’m guessing that’s what she tries to say), but ends up not being able to say it.
• Michiko decides to assign the roles, and in a huge shock, Mari gets the role of the girl while Hagino is assigned the role of Jeanne.
• The following weekend, Hagino finally takes Mari to Blue, flying her in the fighter to get there. As the pair arrive, Azanael secretly activates a program on her fighter, which is still in Blue’s hanger. Once on the bridge, Mari meets Azanael for the first time (in person). Hagino also takes Mari outside, where, conveniently, a bubble exists which protects them when the Blue submerges.
• After having fun all day, Hagino once again tries to tell Mari about what happened to her parents, but this time is interrupted by Blue’s power failing. Hagino asks if Mari can stay in the resting area until she can straighten things out on the ship, and Azanael volunteers to take her there.
• Azanael takes Mari to her room, but when Blue starts to list because of it’s system failures, Mari accidentally tips over the hologram player and the recording of Azanael and Onomil starts playing. On the bridge, Hagino is finally able to get a display up to see where Mari is, and once she sees the situation, realizes that Azanael is up to no good and rushes to Azanael’s room.
• Azanael then tells Mari that Hagino, in her incompetence - Commander Ekaril - not only killed Onomil, and the alien landing party, but hundreds of humans - including Mari’s parents. The Emul force drive, which is able to use telepathy to read the mind of humans to learn about them, went berzerk, causing all the humans on the island to be overrun by fear. As a result all the humans on the island turned on each other, and killed each other.
• While Hagino beats on the door, pleading wit Azanael to open it, Tsubael arrives with a blowtorch, but isn’t able to force the door open until it is too late and Azanael has finished her story. Azanael then pushes Mari towards Hagino, and pushes her way past Tsubael to escape. On her way out in her ship, she then detonates a bomb that was left behind, causing Blue to start sinking…

So, we finally learn the truth. The evidence of killing on the island wasn’t a result of the humans fighting the aliens - they were a result of the humans fighting each other after their brains got scrambled by the Emul Force drive malfunction. Now, the next question: did Mari’s latent telepathy power save her from the incident, or was it caused by the incident?

Hagino is clearly tormented by what happened during the incident, and I’m sure she would have preferred to be the one to tell Mari the bad news - and she did try twice - but now she’ facing a no-life-in-the-eyes Mari after Azanael did the job for her. (So, is Mari going to start carrying around a saw now or something?)

This is also another lesson of “Why the heck would you trust someone who only a couple episodes was trying to blow you up?” Azanael really played things smartly, getting on Tsubael and Hagino’s good side to gain their trust until she found the right time to execute her plan.

I’m assuming the Blue will be relatively fine, since it seems like it got worse damage before, though I’m sure it has to be pretty beat up by now. I’m also not sure how Michiko’s play will go now that Mari doesn’t exactly seem to be on good terms with Hagino again…