Eureka Seven/Headscratchers

• In episode 40, where did they get the material to put that turtle float around The Nirvash?
• Was that Charles' gun that Holland left in the Nirvash, as seen in episode 44? If so, why would Holland leave them that specific gun?
  • That was Charles' gun. It seemed to be very powerful (able to shoot through LFO armor on its first appearance), so perhaps Holland knew that and left it just in case. Plus, he knew that Charles and Ray meant a lot to Renton, so that could've been a factor as well.
• I always wondered... everyone in this show all have mostly non-japanese names, so it makes me wonder why the natural language in the show is Japanese? You'd think they'd read english everywhere. Did Japan defeat the US or something?
  • Short answer: It was made for the Japanese, so the language spoken and read in the show would be Japanese. Long answer? I'm not really sure; on one hand there is no US or Japan. After the Scub took over the world and the humans came back from space to live on Earth, nothing would've been the same. I'm thinking that they kept their language and when they came back to Earth, they separated like they used to be, with certain places using certain languages, but due to spending so much time close together in space, language conventions were shared - hence, the characters' English names even though they still speak Japanese.
    • Another possible explanation is that it's set far enough in the future that any existing languages would have changed enough to be unrecognizable (or to have died out entirely and replaced with new ones) so for the sake of convenience writing and speech is represented by Japanese rather than whatever the lingua franca actually is. The names could simply be traditional or a translation intended to give the sense of how the names might sound to native speakers.