History Anime / GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet

** And even on Earth, the concept of "land" is also a legend.

* HeroicAlbino: Ledo is close to this, due to spending his whole life in space. He gets more tanned the longer he stays on a planet with sunlight.

--->'''Ledo:''' [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments A- ...Arey- ...Arigaa- ...Arigatou!]]

* AbandonShip: Pinion gives the order while [[spoiler: putting up a JerkassFacade, ordering his crew to leave the Tower with the Pre-Ice Age weapons they had found when it becomes obvious that it couldn't be defended and Pinion decided [[HeroicSacrifice to make sure no one else could get control of it either]]. ]]

* AbandonShip: Pinion gives the order while [[spoiler: putting up a "jerkass mask", ordering his crew to leave the Tower with the Pre-Ice Age weapons they had found when it becomes obvious that it couldn't be defended and Pinion decided [[HeroicSacrifice to make sure no one else could get control of it either]]. ]]

* OverTheShoulderCarry: Ledo to Amy in the first episode. Having been apparently kidnapped/taken hostage kidnapped by an armed stranger with unknown motives, [[ClusterFBomb Amy strongly objects to this treatment.]]

* OverTheShoulderCarry: Ledo to Amy in the first episode. [[ClusterFBomb Amy strongly objects to this treatment.]]

** At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the cult is on the receiving end of one. Without Striker's leadership, as well as the rebellion, they are unable to respond to Lukkage's Pirate Fleet, or ''Gargantia'''s Escort Fleet's ambush, or Pinion's Rail Gun arsenal, or ''Gargantia'''s BFG.]] The curbstomp is so severe that [[spoiler:there are ''zero'' casualties and losses on the allied side, and nearly the entire fleet that the Cult has as well as Striker herself is defeated.]]

* AbandonShip: Pinion gives the order while [[spoiler: putting up a JerkassFacade, ordering his crew to leave the Tower with the Pre-Ice Age weapons they had found when it becomes obvious that it couldn't be defended and Pinion decided [[HeroicSacrifice to make sure no one else could get control of it either]]. ]]

** [[spoiler: Commander Fairlock]] has one in episode 8 after he passes away from a heart attack.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Amy and many others living on the ship, although they may simply be sun-tanned, given that Amy's younger brother, an IllBoy, has a pale complexion. There are a number of people who have a noticeably darker complexion than Amy and Bellows, such as one of Pinion's female coworkers, and a couple of the fleet captains are of a noticeably different race or ethnicity, with at least one who looks African.
** With Amy, it's almost certainly a tan. Look at her shoulders, it's constantly sunburnt red.

* IronicEcho: "Humans need each other." First said by everyone in ''Gargantia'' in order for Ledo to learn to rely on others. Later said by [[spoiler:Kugel in order to justify his faux-religious fascist order,]] citing that humans are weak and must be corralled into totalitarianism. Doubly ironic because [[spoiler:Kugel is actually dead all along and it's Striker who put his persona, and it's based on ''wrong'' conclusion she draw in regard to humanity]].

** The Alliance's relationship with this trope is particularly evident when Chamber expounds on the differences between Hideauze and humans when Ledo begins having second thoughts about his mission to destroy them. His description of the Hideauze as mindless creatures who exist only to eat and breed and must be destroyed before they consume all the resources that rightfully belong to intellectually superior humanity sound disturbingly similar to the way classic Nazis and modern "White Nationalists" and similar filth talk about the "lesser races".

* CatchAFallingStar: Amy catches a falling Ledo while piloting a powered glider.

On October 10, 2013, Creator/ProductionIG [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-10-10/gargantia-on-the-verduous-planet-gets-sequel-green-lit announced that a sequel has been green-lit.]] Unfortunately, it has become the victim of TroubledProduction. While there was originally planned to be a second season, the only new release has been a two-part [=OVA=] subtitled ''Meguru Kōro, Haruka'' set two years after the original series.

'''Please move any character tropes to the proper [[Characters/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet character page]] and move any specific episode tropes to [[Recap/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet Recap page]]'''.

Character tropes should go on the ''Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet'''s [[Characters/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet Character page]], and tropes from specific episodes go on the [[Recap/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet Recap page]].

!!Tropes:

* {{Expy}}:
** Between her natural talent to make friends, her pet squirrel, and her mastery of personal aviation device, Amy really looks like the main heroine of ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''. Just replace "Ohmu" with "Whale-squids". It gets better: [[spoiler:like the Ohmu, the Whale-squids (read: Hideauze) have or have had important role in restoring the Earth to a habitable state. This is according to Bevel and Dr. Oldham, who studied history]].
** Redheaded MsFanservice salvor Bellows reminds some viewers of [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yoko Littner]].
** Lady Lukkage is introduced with many of the same cues as fellow pirate empress [[Manga/OnePiece Boa Hancock]].

** Lady Lukkage is introduced with many of the same cues as fellow pirate empress [[OnePiece Boa Hancock]].

* TechnicalPacifist: The Gargantia will almost always prefer to negotiate or flee a possible conflict. Even when they are forced to fight they'll resort to the minimum amount of force, even though they carry a powerful mass driver.

* ShownTheirWork: Lightning (well, the ''much'' brighter part) flows from the ground to clouds in episode 2. It's generated by seafaring microorganisms, though, so this may be a case of AccidentallyAccurate.

** WordOfGod states that the story is intended to be one for young people (the Japanese especially) entering a society shaped by their parents' (i.e. the previous generation's) actions and choices.

** Another one pops up later, which Ledo mistakes for Grace. [[WordOfGod Ledo's voice actor]] says [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2013/07/02-1/feature-gargantia-last-episode-screening-event-in-japan it was named Rochet]].

Crunchyroll has also licensed this show on [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/gargantia-on-the-verdurous-planet their site]]. Viewers living in the following areas may watch it legally there: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Central & South America, and Portugal. In America, it is currently streaming on Creator/NetFlix.

Also, a LightNovel with a new cast was released in 2015. Finally, with dual partners with [[Creator/NamcoBandai Bandai Entertainment]] and DMM, an online game will be released on DMM's website as a playable BrowserGame with its own story in 2014.