Star Force: Collaspe of Libra Ballance

Plot Synopsis
Libra's tv show gets canceled, and he gets canned by the studio. This starts an internal argument between his Flame side and his Aqua side. Because of this, he develops a split personality disorder, one side that is more sympathetic to humans, and the other side more hostile to them. His switches between the personalities seems to occur whenever he's injured or endures some kind of blunt force upon him. He loses large tracks of time and starts researching Split Personalities. Figuring he is too mentally ill to continue attempting to conquer Earth, Libra falls into a small depression trying to find his place in the world... er... galaxy.

He begins keeping a diary about his hardships, but then sees an advertisement for a book writing contest, that welcomes "dogs, cats, humans and even aliens!" Probably misinterpreting the advertisement, Libra decides to enter the contest with his diary.

Critique
By far Mega Man Star Force has always been a bit deeper than Mega Man Battle Network, but this time, I think they tried a bit too hard. It's not that this episode is particularly boring, but there isn't any action or real humor in it either. It's a drama episode, featuring real life diseases and conditions, and it really doesn't deal with Split Personality Disorder very humorously like some other cartoons have in the past. In the actual game, Pat was affected by this disease, and they took it pretty seriously, despite the whole, wanting to conquer the Earth thing going on.

In this episode, a great deal of attention is spent to developing Libra's character with this disease, but the real question is, why? He's not a particularly interesting character to begin with, and it's hard to feel sympathetic to an evil alien trying to destroy the world. A redeeming feature on a character like that could be their humor, but as I said, that's not particularly a part of this episode.

This would be like if the Ruby-Spears cartoon of Mega Man had an episode featuring Snake Man battling depression. It just doesn't seem like an avenue worth exploring to me, and the pay off for this episode isn't very interesting either. Couldn't the episode have been better spent focusing on characters that are more integral to the show? You know MegaMan is the star of the show right?

Rating: Thumbs down.