The episode has to do with cruelty of bounty hunting and kidnappings in dystopian, third world countries and the dissolution of the nuclear family.

In this episode, Space Dandy attempts to survive in the world, by collecting a bounty on an alien, this time a child, much like that of a kidnapping by a bounty hunter in a third world country.

Her mother died of an illness, much like that of an area of the world where they cannot afford to pay for a cure for a simple disease. Heck, it is a topical future now that in the near future, the issue will be the ordinary man not being able to pay for a cure for cancer, whereas a rich man can after having funded it.

The third world country is further symbolized by the doll, a product created from the cheap labor of developing countries.

Later, the girl seeks to find the last remnants of her family before she was taken away from her home, the last remnants of what she perceives can be what can bring her to her next phase of her life an adulthood that she seeked earlier in the episode with Space Dandy.

I debate on the use of Boobies in this episode. On the one hand, Space Dandy does not give up the girl to the Alien Registration Office, which may have led to her having a licensed job like that of in Boobies. Then again, Space Dandy told the girl that he would like to see her grown up in the future, if you know what he means!

Then again is Space Dandy the good guy or bad guy in this show? I think this episode he is the good guy, albeit with uninformed education thanks to the lack of need one in this world or due to a dystopia due to a non-regulated government.

This episode was quite a change of pace from the rest of Space Dandy’s episodes and was done in a classic Cowboy Bebop/Wolf’s Rain style. It was a very immersive experience seeing the HD space scenery going along with the surround sound 80s music.

The interactions between Space Dandy and the little girl were like that of a classic moment between Spike Spiegel and the character of the day.

I think a lot of people will get a kick out of this episode. Classic Shinichiro Watanabe work. A LOT less campier, more serious. Very different from the previous four episodes.

Check it out.