Sirius dies before the opening ends. This isn't the TV series anymore, it's a grief film pretending to be mecha action. The recut focuses everything inward, on a love story so old it predates the people living it, on Apollonius and Reika across twelve thousand years of separation. A flower-studying segment sits in the middle of this tragedy like a memorial. The movie knows you came for robots. It gives you mythology instead. By the end, you understand why the past matters more than anything happening now.

Apollo and his companions return in a feature-length retelling of the Sousei no Aquarion TV series, a mecha drama with fantasy elements from creator Kawamori Shouji and studio Satelight. The film joins the two 2007 OVAs, recut so the plot moves more smoothly, and adds a bonus segment in the style of a TV episode in which the cast is assigned to study flowers. The story departs from the TV version in several ways. Sirius dies near the start, Apollo grows up differently, and much more attention goes to what happened 12000 years ago, especially the death of Apollonius and the part played by Reika's past incarnation.