History Anime / LastExileFamTheSilverWing

** ''Kartoffel'' is German for potato, just as "Spargel" is German for asparagus, "Kürbis" is pumpkin, "Zwiebel" is onion, "Pilze" is mushrooms and "Karotten" is carrots. Judging by the diet of Fam, Gisey, and their family, [[IncrediblyLamePun there are a lot of kartoffels in Kartoffel]][[note]]the correct plural would be "Kartoffeln"![[/note]].

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* BiggerIsBetter: The Grand Exile is ''[[http://images.plurk.com/3abcbd3ee233e24ea29097d2bf975aa0.jpg huge]]'', and is on an altogether different scale than the Turanian Exile and the Last Exile ( in the linked image, shown beside it for comparison). It is obviously imposing and very intimidating.

* [[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish Surprisingly Good Russian]]: The people of Glacies speak very good (if somewhat Japanese-accented) Russian. Indeed one of the voice actors is a native speaker.
** In-series, even if Milia can understand Glacian/Russian, it seems rather unlikely that she would be able to properly translate all of the names of parts that Fam and Giselle needed from Dian.
** The only one speaking good Russian is Viola, whose voice actress is natively Russian. The rest deliver a rough phonetic approximation of their lines in that way you get when they're not sure which words to stress and end up stressing none at all and sounding like a damaged robot that's trying to speak.

* OffModel: While much of the animation is good, you can tell where the animation budget did and didn't go and characters go off-model often enough. [[http://imgur.com/EMvoa An example]] from episode 5.

A [[Fall2011Anime 2011]] anime series from Creator/{{GONZO}}, sequel to the 2003 series ''Anime/LastExile''.

* NiceHat: In a surprising departure from the previous series (where only Delphine wore anything of note), many characters sport impressive headwear this time around, such as the princesses of Turan and the generals of Ades.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Orang and Sorush.

** Episode 11: [[spoiler:Liliana first met Luscinia, then a BattleButler to Augusta Farahnāz, and apparently develops an immediate crush on him. And then universally respected and loved Farahnāz was assassinated by the very same Exiles whom she tried so valiantly to integrate with the Natives, due to some ([[GrayAndGreyMorality entirely justified]]) grievances, turning Luscinia into the KnightTemplar that he is now.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Princess Liliana was reasonable enough to accept the Sky Pirates help to escape the Ades Federation fleet despite Millia's disgust that they had to surrender their ship to them later.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Represented by Fam (The Idealist) and Luscinia (The Cynic) over their idea of peace. Fam believes that peace can be achieve by both sides talking and understanding each other, but she naively doesn't realize that talking won't help when the sides in question are too blinded by hatred and revenge to even try. Luscinia on the other hand sees that peace can only be achieved by uniting people by force since he believes people are too unreasonable in general, so much so that he doesn't realize that there are still people who are willing to talk and settle things peacefully.

* AwesomeButImpractical: The Grand Exile's WaveMotionGun. Each shot can vaporize entire fleets of warships, or even decimate a country's capital. However the pylons the beams are fired from are destroyed after each shot, meaning they can each only be used ''once''. And there are only ''eight'' of them.

* BiggerIsBetter: The Grand Exile is ''[[http://images.plurk.com/3abcbd3ee233e24ea29097d2bf975aa0.jpg huge]]'', and is on an altogether different scale than the Turanian Exile and the Last Exile ( in the linked image, shown beside it for comparison). It is obviously imposing and very ''very'' intimidating.

* EasilyForgiven: Although it makes sense that they let Dian walk free after her heroism during the final battle, the fact ''still'' remains that [[spoiler:she shot Liliana]], so it's still odd that Fam would act as friendly toward her as she does.

* TheFederation: The Ades Federation, which interestingly is ruled by an Empress. Federated monarchies aren't all that rare even in RealLife. And Ades Federation really ''is'' a federation of various nations, both Exiles' and Natives', united under a single monarch. Which exist in an [[WeAreStrugglingTogether uneasy peace]] due to the aforementioned FantasticRacism and lot of hardly forgotten mutual grievances. The infamous purge instigated by Luscinia was apparently caused mainly by these tensions.

* GogglesDoNothing: Slightly averted. Fam and her friends ''do'' wear goggles while flying their vanships, but they also spend an equal amount of time with the things off.

* LighterAndSofter: The brighter color scheme used for the show, as well as the happy-go-lucky titular character Fam make the series ''seem'' this way at first, but in many ways Earth is just as bad as how it was in [[Anime/LastExile Prester]], especially with a continent-wide war that's been raging on and off for ''at least'' a decade. The only difference is that the Guild doesn't have a direct hand in the trouble, but even then their legacy and influence can still be felt in the technology they leave behind.
* LostTechnology: Anything Exile-related can be seen as this way, as the tech can no longer be replicated since the world has a ''much'' lower technological level than how it was six hundred years prior.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Sky Pirates are essentially a collection of refugees and survivors of nations conquered by Ades. Incidentally this is used word-for-word to ''also'' describe [[spoiler:the alliance between nations that formed to take down Luscinia.]]

** Dio is now alive, even after he was assumed to be dead in the original series, strange considering he is ''shown dying'' in the recap episode.

** The only one speaking good Russian is Viola, whose voice actress ''is'' natively Russian. The rest deliver a rough phonetic approximation of their lines in that way you get when they're not sure which words to stress and end up stressing none at all and sounding like a damaged robot that's trying to speak.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: According to Liliana, Luscinia used to be a nice person. We see just ''why'' he changes in Episode 11.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Fam and Giselle, Tatiana and Alister, Sorush and Orang, even Luschinia and Alauda in the past. Last Exile loves its best friends.
** Dian and Viola ''might'' be this, although it is hinted that their relationship might have [[LesYay a different dynamic]].

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Oh boy, let's just say once you know more about all of the factions, you'll be hard to support or despise any of them.
** The Ades Federation at first looks like evil fascists wanting to rule the world. But then we learn the war's true purpose is: Ades seeks to reclaim and return the lands stolen by the Exile nations to its original Native inhabitants and unite the nations in peace. Furthermore, Ades' generals are good people who care about their subordinates and are like a family to Empress Sara, and their Premier Luscinia is a great leader and statesmen to the Ades people. He also allows the nations the Federation conquers to still be (mostly) ruled by its own selected leaders. He cares about Sara like her surrogate big brother and wants to fulfill her late mother's dream of united world peace. However, Luscinia's war against the Exile nations [[spoiler:is also in part driven by revenge since it was Exile terrorists who killed Sara's mother after the Grand Race, which led Luscinia to believe it was impossible to unite people by peace and the only way to unite them was by force, even if it means assassinating dissidents, conquering nations, sacrificing hundreds of soldiers lives and using an Exile and Guild technology.]] Furthermore, the Natives are racist to the Exiles due to fact their ancestors stayed on Earth during its crisis while the Exiles left, with the latter only returning centuries later to resettle. As such they believe that the Exiles have no right to the lands they currently hold.
** Then there's the Exile nations of Earth who at first look like peaceful nations trying defend themselves against the conquering Ades, but as the series progress their good guy image is shattered after their histories are revealed. First we have the Turan Kingdom ruled by reasonable and kind leaders like the King and Princess Liliana but their nation's founding isn't so rosy when it is revealed that [[spoiler:the kingdom's founders forcefully drove out and stole the land from its native inhabitants. Even now, the Turanians don't like the idea of the natives returning to their homeland, which Millia learns after seeing her officers showing disgust at seeing Ades sending the original natives back to Turan. In fact, almost all of the Earth Exile nations (with the possible exception of frigid Glacies) exist now because they drove out the natives from their homeland, which forced most of them go to Ades, whose land is a poor place to grow crops. With that kind of suffering, it's no wonder the Natives hate the Exiles and started the war between them. Even when there was a chance for peace between both sides, it was destroyed by Exile terrorists when they killed Sara's mother, the one who started the peace talks, all because they wanted to avenge their comrades. Their actions made things worse and ''that'' led to Luscinia's StartOfDarkness and his ambition to forcefully unite the world. When the anti-Luscinia coalition is finally formed, most of the Exile nations aren't interested in peace and only want to kill Luscinia and his men as revenge.]]

* GloriousMotherRussia: Glacies seems to be vaguely Cold War-era Russia in theme. This is most clearly visible in the fact that its citizens speak Russian; but its location in the frozen north, its isolationism and militarism, and its use of rockets that look very much like those used by real-world space programs all contribute to the effect.

* FantasticRacism: The Exiles and the Natives do not get along. ''At all''.

** For the latter they need a Key (and their Mysteriums); as of the start of the series they knew of only one, Liliana, although their enemies do not necessarily know this.

* HairDecorations: Inevitable with Murata as character designer, but Millia in particular - she doesn't even take them out to sleep.

* TranslationStyleChoices: A rather bizarre one over the Glacias Rocket fighters nickname. The fansubs and NicoNico subs translate and calls them "The Winged Priestesses" but the Animax Asia subs translate and calls them "The Winged Witches". The thing is the former translated from the Japanese subs when the characters spoke Russian but latter's broadcast didn't have the Japanese subs as they translated from the Russian dub.

* BadassPrincess: Millia eventually grows into this and by the climax she's commanding the Turanian fleet in the midst of battle.