History Anime / LostUniverse

* CoolOldLady: Kain's grandmother was definitely this.

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** Two secondary characters, Rail Claymore and Nina Mercury, have a relationship and personality traits that parallel [[ShipTease Zelgadis and Amelia's]], and they even have the same voice actors in the anime (HikaruMidorikawa and Masami Suzuki respectively).

* CluckingFunny: The cast is a flight that gets hijacked by religious fanatics in chicken suits. * CoolOldLady: Kain's grandmother was definitely this.
* CutShort: The LightNovel series only lasted for four books, and the ending was abrupt (see [[spoiler:KillEmAll]] below).

* HeyItsThatVoice - MegumiHayashibara as [[LivingShip Canal]]; SoichiroHoshi as Kane; AkiraIshida plays a recurring government agent. Yasunori Matsumoto [[PlayingAgainstType is surprisingly cast]] as TheDragon. Incidentally, all three actors also have major roles in TheSlayers series, being Lina, Xelloss, and Gourry respectively.

* SoichiroHoshi

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Only several villains are alive at the end of the novel series; all of the protagonists are dead without justification. Fortunately, the anime doesn't take this route.]]
* ShoutOut - Kane's LaserBlade.

* AwesomeMcCoolname - Millennium Feria Nocturne [[spoiler: or Stargazer]], Kane Blueriver.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Deconstructed. Because Vorfeed can ignore things like 'inertia' clues Millie in to the fact that's it's a Lost Ship. Because it can do things that are impossible to normal ships, it therefore can't ''be'' a normal ship.
* BittersweetEnding: The anime version, arguably, if you take the depressing interpretation. The novel version is [[DownerEnding much nastier]].
* ClothingDamage - Kane shreds and/or loses his cape quite regularly; good thing he has a closet full of them...
* CluckingFunny: The cast once ends up on a flight that gets hijacked by religious fanatics in chicken suits. No, really.
* CoolOldLady: Kain's grandmother was definitely this.

* {{Expy}}: Millie looks like she could be [[TheSlayers Amelia's]] {{Elseworld}} counterpart, and Kane is more or less a male version of Lina. [[spoiler: Darkstar in human form is basically an evil looking Gourry, or his evil twin. See his picture [[http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Spreader_of_Darkness#Lost_Universe here]]. They're even voiced by the same seiyuu!]]
** Two secondary characters, Rail Claymore and Nina Mercury, both have a relationship and personality traits that parallel [[ShipTease Zelgadis and Amelia's]], and they even have the same voice actors in the anime (HikaruMidorikawa and Masami Suzuki respectively).
* FollowTheChaos - It's how you know dinner's ready.
* GenkiGirl - Canal.

* ImmortalImmaturity: Canal can be very child-like, despite the fact she's actually a centuries-old super-computer.
* ImprobableAimingSkills - Millie plans to be the [[RunningGag Best Shot In The Universe]] and she's well on her way there. She normally nails her target in space even if she has no targeting computer, or if she is on the ground, she can take out targets with a pistol that are [[OffhandBackhand behind her]] while looking in a mirror. While driving at high speed with her other hand. With a targeting computer online? ''She can wipe out entire fleets'' with nothing but a basic set of cannons and missiles.
* KarmaHoudini - Despite the demonstrated lack of competence and professional ethics in the medical students all that happens to them is that they voluntarily end up having to retake their last year of classes instead of the expulsion and/or criminal charges that should have resulted.
* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: The climax of the novels, leading to a DownerEnding.

* LethalChef - Subverted: Millie is actually a very ''good'' chef...she just [[StuffBlowingUp blows up the kitchen]] every time she uses it. Once by literal application of OvenLogic. This is one of the reasons why Canal doesn't like her very much.

* TheMole - [[spoiler:Rail.]]

* SchizoTech -Canal, a [[SpaceshipGirl Sentient Computer]], has to do some calculations in the second episode, so she forms a holographic human body which then pulls out a holographic ''slide rule'' to do the math.
** As if that wasn't enough, she gets the math ''wrong''. She calculates out a position to get ahead of another ship by five minutes and instead gets so close it appears before she can finish her sentence. She excuses herself by claiming that her math was off because Millie was too fat.
** Canal also generally seems to have no actual computer interface with her own systems. In order to fly around or fire her weapons she can't simply send a mental command, she has to form a holographic body that then manually controls the systems using joysticks. There's no explanation why the ship's computer has to type on the ship's keyboard to do basic tasks.

* SpaceshipGirl - Canal, who is also a CoolShip.
* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Only several villains are alive at the end of the novel series; all of the protagonists are dead without any real justification. Fortunately, the anime doesn't take this route.]]

* {{Tsundere}} - Millie.

** As if that wasn't enough, she gets the math ''wrong''. She calculates out a position to get ahead of another ship by five minutes and instead gets so close it appears before she can finish her sentence.

There's a widely-held {{Fanon}} belief that this series is set in the same universe as Slayers. To pull from the other Wiki:

{{Word of God}} (as you can read [[http://www.inverse.org/e/res/msgs/1933.shtml here]]) has explicitly stated that this is not true; the series are set in two totally different universes. He just liked the names, and reused them. Whether you feel this is an improvement or not [[BetterThanCanon varies]] among the community.

* BeyondTheImpossible: Deconstructed. Because Vorfeed can ignore things like 'inertia' clues Millie in to the fact that's it's a Lost Ship. Because it can do things that are impossible to normal ships, it therefore can't ''be'' a normal ship.

* HeyItsThatVoice - MegumiHayashibara as [[LivingShip Canal]]; SoichiroHoshi as Kane; AkiraIshida plays a recurring government agent. Yasunori Matsumoto [[PlayingAgainstType is surprisingly cast]] as TheDragon. Incidentally, all three actors also have major roles in TheSlayers series, being Lina, Xelloss, and Gourry respectively.

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: The climax of the novels.

* MagicFromTechnology - The Ships again, whose EnergyWeapons look a heck of a lot like magic. The commands used on Dark Star at the end that disrupts him is part of the Giga Slave...

* RecycledInSpace - Lost Universe is {{Slayers}}, IN SPACE.

* [[spoiler:ShootTheShaggyDog: Only several villains are alive at the end of the novel series; all of the protagonists are dead without any real justification.]]

* BerserkButton: Kane is very proud of his (self-considered) CoolCape, and is easily enraged by people calling it stupid-looking.

The series is very much a Kanzaka series; it's 60% humor and 40% {{Serious Business}}. It pokes fun at the genre and has various shout outs throughout. The anime's 26-episode run was supposed to have been followed by a 2nd series that would have given it a more conclusive ending, but the funding didn't appear.

** Two secondary characters, Raily Claymore and Nina Mercury, both have a relationship and personality traits that parallel [[ShipTease Zelgadis and Amelia's]], and they even have the same voice actors in the anime (HikaruMidorikawa and Masami Suzuki respectively).

* LethalChef - Subverted: Millie is actually a very ''good'' chef...she just [[StuffBlowingUp blows up the kitchen]] every time she uses it. Once by literal application of OvenLogic.

* {{Expy}}: Millie looks like she could be [[TheSlayers Amelia's]] {{Elseworld}} counterpart, and Kane is more or less a male version of Lina. [[spoiler: Darkstar in human form is basically an evil looking Gourry, or his evil twin. See his picture here[[http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Spreader_of_Darkness#Lost_Universe]]. They're even voiced by the same seiyuu!]]

* KarmaHoudini - Despite the demonstrated lack of competence and professional ethics in the medical students mentioned in the CompletelyMissingThePoint and InformedAbility examples, all that happens to them is that they voluntarily end up having to retake their last year of classes instead of the expulsion and/or criminal charges that should have resulted.

[[strike:Long , long ago, in a galaxy far, far away...]]

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: Students at a school for nurses plant bombs in their test area in an attempt to remove their rivals for top of the class, proving that they completely failed to grasp the concept of medical ethics.

* InformedAbility - Millie gets completely wrapped up in bandages by a group of medical students who are allegedly ready for their final exam because she ''sneezed'' - ''once''.

* RecycledInSpace - Lost Universe is {{Slayers}}, in...well, you know.

* EverythingsBetterWithChickens: The cast once ends up on a flight that gets hijacked by religious fanatics in chicken suits. No, really.

* HeyItsThatVoice - MegumiHayashibara as [[LivingShip Canal]]; SoichiroHoshi as Kane; AkiraIshida plays a recurring government agent. Yasunori Matsumoto [[PlayingAgainstType is surprisingly cast]] as TheDragon. Incidentally, all three actors also have major roles in [[TheSlayers]] series, being Lina, Xelloss, and Gourry Respectively.

* {{Expy}}: Millie looks like she could be [[TheSlayers Amelia's]] {{Elseworld}} counterpart, and Kane is more or less a male version of Lina. [[spoiler: Darkstar in human form is basically an evil looking Gourry, or his evil twin. See his picture here[[http://kanzaka.wikia.com/wiki/Spreader_of_Darkness#Lost_Universe]]]]

* HeyItsThatVoice - MegumiHayashibara as [[LivingShip Canal]]; SoichiroHoshi as Kane; AkiraIshida plays a recurring government agent. Yasunori Matsumoto, better known as the voice of Gourry Gabriev, [[PlayingAgainstType is surprisingly cast]] as TheDragon.

Often considered the sister series to {{The Slayers}}, Lost Universe is Hajime Kanzaka's take on the Sci-Fi genre. Following Kane Blueriver, Millie Feria Noturne and Canal Vorfeed, the anime (and novels) explore the trio's job ? Trouble Contractors, who anyone can hire to solve their problems. These problems range from getting a witness to a trial on time (and alive) to tracking down stolen tea sets.

ADVFilms licensed and dubbed the show before they went out of business, and it was recently rescued by Creator/NozomiEntertainment along with several other titles. The light novels were never released overseas.

* FridgeLogic - They talk about years, days, hours, etc... That sure makes sense on planet Earth yet, when we go to space, we cannot work with those units as those depends on the relation between the Sun and planet Earth.
** There's no reason they can't have a standard day as a universal time reference for space travellers. Otherwise nobody could schedule anything.
** Also when they go to a planet it always seems bright as day. Then comes to wonder... "Where's the star that lights all that?!?!"

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ADVFilms licensed and dubbed the show, and it was recently rescued by NozomiEntertainment along with several other titles. The light novels were never released overseas.