History Anime / GalaxyAngel

* StopHelpingMe: After associating with Millefeuille leads to her getting run over by a train, flushed out of an airlock, and being fried during an alien invasion, Chitose becomes terrified of Millefeuille's particular brand of "friendship".

** '''X''' has a [[Film/TheMatrix familar zoom into green numbers]] that are part of an EpiphanicPrison; as well as one episode with [[Film/{{Alien}} Aliens]], [[{{Innerspace}} a tiny medical experiment]], and [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} a giant monster battle]].

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Galaxy_Angel_anime_image.jpg BROCCOLI had a problem. The first game in the VideoGame/GalaxyAngel gameverse was announced as an epic DatingSim [[MixAndMatch meets]] RealTimeStrategy game, to much applause and speculation. But as video games often are, ''Galaxy Angel: Project G.A.'' was delayed... and they still had an anime deal. A lesser franchise would have cut their losses and gone for the AdaptationDecay that was sure to follow; after all, they had little to no information, just the basic designs and personalities of the five beautiful, powerful and quirky Angels.

!!''Galaxy Angel'' provides examples of:

** '''X''' has a [[Film/TheMatrix familar zoom into green numbers]] that are part of an EpiphanicPrison; as well as one episode with [[Film/{{Alien}} Aliens]], [[{{Innerspace}} a tiny medical experiment]], and [[{{Godzilla}} a giant monster battle]].

** '''AA''' had Lt. Kensit "[[EscapeFromNewYork The Rattlesnake]]" complete with [[EyepatchOfPower eye-patch]] and a never before seen dilapidated slum; plus a defensive sattelite ThatsNoMoon.

* TheMultiverse: Can be accessed by Lost Technology, including realities where the Angel Wing is completely serious about their jobs, a pop band, a pirate gang, a basketball team and humanoid lizards.

''Galaxy Angel'' followed an evolution much like many of Creator/CartoonNetwork's [[AdultSwim Williams Street]] productions, [[strike:gradually]] almost instantly abandoning continuity and going into more surreal episodic tangents. Although "LostTechnology" is commonly used as a comedic plot device, it is very difficult to predict any given episode, which can range from whole parodies to violent alternate realities. Ironically, this setup makes the show surprisingly accessible to the causal viewer.

''Galaxy Angel'' followed an evolution much like many of CartoonNetwork's [[AdultSwim Williams Street]] productions, [[strike:gradually]] almost instantly abandoning continuity and going into more surreal episodic tangents. Although "LostTechnology" is commonly used as a comedic plot device, it is very difficult to predict any given episode, which can range from whole parodies to violent alternate realities. Ironically, this setup makes the show surprisingly accessible to the causal viewer.

* [[FiveManBand Five Girl Band]]: There are two [[TheSmartGuy Smart Girls]] on the team.[[hottip:*:Mint reading other people's minds and Vanilla being the CombatMedic.]]

* [[FiveManBand Five Girl Band]]

** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: [[color:skyblue:Mint]]

** TheHeart: [[color:green:Vanilla]]

Just about ''every single trope'' in this wiki gets spoofed at one time or another (Yes, ''all of them.''), but these are the tropes present in every episode or series to some degree or another.

!!This series provides examples of:

* [[spoiler:AnimatedActors: The final episode of ''X'' reveals the cast to be these...[[MindScrew or]] [[GainaxEnding not]].]]

* PornStache: Volcott ...and [[PaperThinDisguise Vanilla.]]

* WikiRule: [[http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Yep.]]
* BluRay:

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Galaxy_Angel_anime_image.jpg BROCCOLI had a problem. The first game in the [[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel]] gameverse was announced as an epic DatingSim [[MixAndMatch meets]] RealTimeStrategy game, to much applause and speculation. But as video games often are, ''Galaxy Angel: Project G.A.'' was delayed... and they still had an anime deal. A lesser franchise would have cut their losses and gone for the AdaptationDecay that was sure to follow; after all, they had little to no information, just the basic designs and personalities of the five beautiful, powerful and quirky Angels.

The ''Galaxy Angel'' anime became a strange little GagSeries, featuring a gang of cute but unusual women with jobs as a peacekeeping force in the galaxy. In place of honest AdaptationDecay, they outright parodied the concept, taking out all the characters but the Angels and fitting in new ones, exaggerating the Angels' personalities for comedic effect, and using the premise as an excuse to send them on strange 12-minute excursions.

''Galaxy Angel'' followed an evolution much like many of {{Cartoon Network}}'s [[AdultSwim Williams Street]] productions, [[strike:gradually]] almost instantly abandoning continuity and going into more surreal episodic tangents. Although "LostTechnology" is commonly used as a comedic plot device, it is very difficult to predict any given episode, which can range from whole parodies to violent alternate realities. Ironically, this setup makes the show surprisingly accessible to the causal viewer.

* [[{{AliensSpeakingEnglish}} Aliens Speaking Japanese]]
* {{AerithAndBob}}: Takuto Mayers has a Japanese first name and a surname that came from a brand of Jamaican rum. The main heroine, Millefeuille Sakuraba, has a first name taken from a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millefeuille type of French pastry]] and a Japanese surname. Everyone else, for the most part, have weird full names. Though, since this page seems to only refer to the gag anime Takuto may not count.

* CipherScything: The anime tossed out several aspects of the games it's based on, including the male lead.

** '''AA''' had Lt. Kensit "[[EscapeFromNewYork The Rattlesnake]]" complete with [[EyepatchOfPower eye-patch]] and a never before seen dilapidated slum; plus a defensive sattelite [[ThatsNoMoon that's no moon.]]
** '''X''' has a [[TheMatrix familar zoom into green numbers]] that are part of an EpiphanicPrison; as well as one episode with [[{{Film/Alien}} Aliens]], [[{{Innerspace}} a tiny medical experiment]], and [[{{Godzilla}} a giant monster battle]].

* MagicalGirl: The team can't resist [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVjz6Ziteg0 dressing up to use a lost technology magical girl wand,]] [[spoiler:including [[MultipleDemographicAppeal Volcott.]]]]

* WeHaventLearnedAnythingYet: The events of the "serious" episodes are never mentioned during the rest of the series.

** {{The Hero}}ine: Mifeulle
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]]: Ranpha
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Mint
** TheLancer: Forte
** TheHeart: Vanilla

** '''X''' has a [[TheMatrix familar zoom into green numbers]] that are part of an EpiphanicPrison; as well as one episode with [[Movie/Alien Aliens]], [[Innerspace a tiny medical experiment]], and [[Godzilla a giant monster battle]].

* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Happens several times throughout the series for various reasons. Mostly Lost Technology.

** '''AA''' episode 30 had a Lt. Kensit "[[EscapeFromNewYork The Rattlesnake]]" complete with [[EyepatchOfPower eye-patch]] and a never before seen dilapidated slum.
** '''AA''' episode 51 has a defensive sattelite [[ThatsNoMoon that's no moon.]]

The ''Galaxy Angel'' anime became a strange [[strike:little]] big GagSeries, featuring a gang of cute but unusual women with jobs as a peacekeeping force in the galaxy. In place of honest AdaptationDecay, they outright parodied the concept, taking out all the characters but the Angels and fitting in new ones, exaggerating the Angels' personalities for comedic effect, and using the premise as an excuse to send them on strange 12-minute excursions.

* {{AerithAndBob}}: Takuto Mayers have Japanese first name and a surname that came from a brand of Jamaican rum. The main heroine, Millefeuille Sakuraba, has a first name taken from a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millefeuille type of French pastry]] and a Japanese surname. Everyone else, for the most part, have weird full names. Though, since this page seems to only refer to the gag anime Takuto may not count.

* {{AerithAndBob}}: Takuto Mayers have Japanese first name and a surname that came from a brand of Jamaican rum. The main heroine, Milfeulle Sakuraba, has a weird first name and a Japanese surname. Everyone else, for the most part, have weird full names. Though, since this page seems to only refer to the gag anime Takuto may not count.

* BalloonBelly: The inevitable result of visiting Milfeulle while she is baking.

-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.

-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.
* CallBack: Believe it or not, there are numerous callbacks in the later seasons to gags made in the earlier ones, such as Milfeulle singing the theme song for a CombiningMecha or Chitose, Kokomo and Malibu growing larger due to eating sweet broiled chestnuts.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In one episode the angels are on a space ship trying to defuse a time bomb. Meanwhile, Milfeulle is standing in the corner with Vanilla repeating [[SurvivalMantra "teleport, teleport, teleport"]]. She not only teleports out of the room but subsequently removes the entire invading army by teleporting them away.

* FlashbackEcho: Played for laughs when the Angels come under attack by guerrillas. It turns out each one of them has some kind of traumatic memory from their past...except Milfeulle. [[spoiler:Then Forte starts waving her finger in a circle...]]

* PaperThinDisguise: Oh no, Milfeulle is late to a meeting that could decide the fate of the Angel Wing's funding! What do? Volcott promptly excuses himself from the room...

* StopHelpingMe: After associating with Milfeulle leads to her getting run over by a train, flushed out of an airlock, and being fried during an alien invasion, Chitose becomes terrified of Milfie's particular brand of "friendship".

* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The Angels are playing the King Game and Vanilla orders Milfeulle to awaken Mint's true power...which takes the form of flying and reciting tongue-twisters perfectly.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Galaxy_Angel_anime_image.jpg BROCCOLI had a problem. The first game in the [[Game/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel]] gameverse was announced as an epic DatingSim [[MixAndMatch meets]] RealTimeStrategy game, to much applause and speculation. But as video games often are, ''Galaxy Angel: Project G.A.'' was delayed... and they still had an anime deal. A lesser franchise would have cut their losses and gone for the AdaptationDecay that was sure to follow; after all, they had little to no information, just the basic designs and personalities of the five beautiful, powerful and quirky Angels.

[[redirect:VideoGame/GalaxyAngel]]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Galaxy_Angel_anime_image.jpg BROCCOLI had a problem. The first game in the [[Game/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel]] gameverse was announced as an epic DatingSim [[MixAndMatch meets]] RealTimeStrategy game, to much applause and speculation. But as video games often are, ''Galaxy Angel: Project G.A.'' was delayed... and they still had an anime deal. A lesser franchise would have cut their losses and gone for the AdaptationDecay that was sure to follow; after all, they had little to no information, just the basic designs and personalities of the five beautiful, powerful and quirky Angels.

The anime producers, however, had another idea.

The ''Galaxy Angel'' anime became a strange [[strike:little]] big GagSeries, featuring a gang of cute but unusual women with jobs as a peacekeeping force in the galaxy. In place of honest AdaptationDecay, they outright parodied the concept, taking out all the characters but the Angels and fitting in new ones, exaggerating the Angels' personalities for comedic effect, and using the premise as an excuse to send them on strange 12-minute excursions.

''Galaxy Angel'' followed an evolution much like many of {{Cartoon Network}}'s [[AdultSwim Williams Street]] productions, [[strike:gradually]] almost instantly abandoning continuity and going into more surreal episodic tangents. Although "LostTechnology" is commonly used as a comedic plot device, it is very difficult to predict any given episode, which can range from whole parodies to violent alternate realities. Ironically, this setup makes the show surprisingly accessible to the causal viewer.

The original show lasted four seasons:

* ''Galaxy Angel'' (26 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel Z'' (19 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel A'', ''Galaxy Angel AA'' and ''Galaxy Angel S'' (56 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel X'' (26 episodes)

A SequelSeries, ''GalaxyAngelRune'', aired for thirteen half-hour episodes.

Just about ''every single trope'' in this wiki gets spoofed at one time or another (Yes, ''all of them.''), but these are the tropes present in every episode or series to some degree or another.

See the [[Characters/GalaxyAngel character sheet]], and would you mind editing it? It desperately needs fans of the series to give it some love.
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!!This series provides examples of:

* AdaptationDecay: The entire show is a parody of this, throwing out ''everything'' in the game besides the Angels, their ships and the notion of Lost Technology, and highly exaggerating the rest.
* [[{{AliensSpeakingEnglish}} Aliens Speaking Japanese]]
* {{AerithAndBob}}: Takuto Mayers have Japanese first name and a surname that came from a brand of Jamaican rum. The main heroine, Milfeulle Sakuraba, has a weird first name and a Japanese surname. Everyone else, for the most part, have weird full names. Though, since this page seems to only refer to the gag anime Takuto may not count.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations
* [[spoiler:AnimatedActors: The final episode of ''X'' reveals the cast to be these...[[MindScrew or]] [[GainaxEnding not]].]]
* AnyoneCanDie: For comedic effect.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Happens several times throughout the series for various reasons. Mostly Lost Technology.
* BalloonBelly: The inevitable result of visiting Milfeulle while she is baking.
* BakersDozen: One DVD-exclusive episode per season.
* BlatantLies:
-->'''Forte:''' You ate [the forbidden Lost Technology sweetened chestnuts], didn't you?
-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.
-->'''Forte:''' You ate them, didn't you?
-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.
* CallBack: Believe it or not, there are numerous callbacks in the later seasons to gags made in the earlier ones, such as Milfeulle singing the theme song for a CombiningMecha or Chitose, Kokomo and Malibu growing larger due to eating sweet broiled chestnuts.
* CipherScything: The anime tossed out several aspects of the games it's based on, including the male lead.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In one episode the angels are on a space ship trying to defuse a time bomb. Meanwhile, Milfeulle is standing in the corner with Vanilla repeating [[SurvivalMantra "teleport, teleport, teleport"]]. She not only teleports out of the room but subsequently removes the entire invading army by teleporting them away.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In one episode, Mint is told that she has the ''kigurumi'' disease and that if she wears another mascot costume she will die. This conveniently coincides with the Angel Wing's trip to a planet that is in the midst of an animal costume celebration.
* ColourFailure
* ConspicuousCG: Any sequence involving the Angel or Twin Star Troupes' [[CoolStarship Emblem Frames]].
* CorruptHick: Parodied. Forte meets a CorruptHick owning a hospital full of completely incompetent staff and blaming his bad patient turnout on the existence of a kindly town doctor across the street.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: When Forte gets transformed into a man, Ranpha starts gushing over her.
* FlashbackEcho: Played for laughs when the Angels come under attack by guerrillas. It turns out each one of them has some kind of traumatic memory from their past...except Milfeulle. [[spoiler:Then Forte starts waving her finger in a circle...]]
* ForSCIENCE: Malibu builds a machine to predict the future.
* GagSeries
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted in one episode where Normad has to load himself back into his missile in order to destroy a threat to the universe. What he neglected to mention was that they only needed to upload the guidance program.
* HonestAxe: Mint is offered a gold animal costume and a silver animal costume at a time when she believes that wearing an animal costume will kill her. She's not very happy when the water sprite tries to give her both.
* HurricaneOfPuns
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode has the name of a food inserted.
* JAMProject: Performed the ending theme for ''AA'''s final episode.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Region 1 collection of ''A'' is long out of print and impossible to find at non-CrackIsCheaper prices. (The original series and ''Z'''s R1 collections suffered the same fate, but those seasons also had individual volume releases that aren't too hard to find yet.)
* KewpieDollSurprise
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: By the main characters of DiGiCharat and MazingerZ itself.
* LeftHanging: Almost every episode ends [[AntiClimax abruptly with no resolution]]. This is even {{lampshaded}} in a FourthWallMailSlot segment where Normad explains that it's because the writers are lazy.
* LivingProp: You can actually see Chitose in the background throughout the first episode of X, before her first actual speaking episode.
* MildlyMilitary: More like ''Barely'' Military.
* TheMultiverse: Can be accessed by Lost Technology, including realities where the Angel Wing is completely serious about their jobs, a pop band, a pirate gang, a basketball team and humanoid lizards.
* NegativeContinuity
* OutOfGenreExperience: Westerns, Soap Operas, High School Romance Comedies, Super Robot Anime, you name it.
* PaperThinDisguise: Oh no, Milfeulle is late to a meeting that could decide the fate of the Angel Wing's funding! What do? Volcott promptly excuses himself from the room...
* PlantAliens: One notable instance has the Angel Base taken over by a sentient mass of Kelp. It demands that the girls apologize for earlier Kelp-related insults and wait on it hand and foot.
* ResetButton: Sometimes blatantly invoked with [[AWizardDidIt no explanation whatsoever]] for comic effect. In one episode, all the characters were hanging off a cliff edge, developed various ways to fly, then suddenly lost their methods of flight for no explained reason and were hanging off the cliff again. [[MetaGuy Normad]] was [[LampshadeHanging terribly confused]].
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Bandai Entertainment only dubbed 8 episodes of X, the final season, due to poor sales of AA and S, although most fans of the dub take it as a "fuck you" due to paying full price for an incomplete dub. This happened after the trainwreck company Bandai Visual USA released Rune with no dub and Region 2 format, and volume 1 had a grand total of ''one episode''. It's not even worth it.
* ShoutOut: There's an episode where Ranpha and Col. Volcott are contestants on [[strike:TakeshisCastle]] ''Charge! The Fearsome Castle''.
** Later episodes pay tribute to CombattlerV and MazingerZ.
* {{Snapback}}: In many episodes the majority of the cast is killed off, the universe is destroyed, or someone is altered permanently in some drastic way.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A dramatic episode "played straight" once every season.
* StockVisualMetaphors: A common one is the tree in autumn outside the hospital window, with the patient's life being as short as the last leaves. Then the tree gets destroyed or the leaves blow off in a sudden wind.
* StopHelpingMe: After associating with Milfeulle leads to her getting run over by a train, flushed out of an airlock, and being fried during an alien invasion, Chitose becomes terrified of Milfie's particular brand of "friendship".
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Occasionally, Mint's family will all have rabbit ears (even their butler, maid, and pet), Vanilla's family will all wear the same helmet, and Ranpha's family will all wear the same hair ornaments.
* SurrealThemeTune: ''Five'' of them.
* ThemeNaming: The five girls are named after foods and spices.
* ThirteenEpisodeAnime: Although the writers "cheat" in later seasons by sticking two 15-minute episodes together to fill a half-hour time slot.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The Angels are playing the King Game and Vanilla orders Milfeulle to awaken Mint's true power...which takes the form of flying and reciting tongue-twisters perfectly.
* WeHaventLearnedAnythingYet: The events of the "serious" episodes are never mentioned during the rest of the series.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Or, in this case, a ''chikuwa''.
* WidgetSeries: The show is loaded with obscure puns, tongue-twisters, Buddhist proverbs and references to Japanese culture that don't translate particularly well.
* WikiRule: [[http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Yep.]]
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