History Anime / OriginSpiritsOfThePast

Agito (voiced by Ryo Katsuji) awakens Toola (Aoi Miyazaki) from cryogenic sleep. Toola has some adjusting to do, as a science experiment GoneHorriblyWrong has left the moon a bit less intact than it used to be, has turned plants into destructive forces of nature, and has made water a bit scarce. As she's attempting to adjust to her new life, Shunack (Kenichi Endō), another former cryogenic sleeper, arrives.

* BareYourMidriff: Agito's outfit after becoming enhanced shows off the abs he got from being enhanced.

* UncannyValley: The twin forest spirits intentionally fall into this. They are basically FairFolk, after all. Their attempts at mimicking human appearance and behavior is going to be spotty.

* ShesGotLegs: Toola has long and slender legs thanks to her uniforms.

* HeelFaceTurn: Towards the end of the film, [[spoiler:the Ragna Army]] turns on Shunack en masse and helps Agito rescue [[spoiler:Toola]].

* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: [[spoiler:Shunack's impatience in trying to speed up the plant experiment doomed Earth]].

* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:Shunack's impatience in trying to grow trees in hostile conditions on the Moon led to said trees growing out of control and driving Earth's civilizations to near-extinction]].

** Had [[spoiler:Shunack]] not sped up the experiment for the genetically modified plants, it wouldn't have killed off most of its humanity or split off the moon in half and Japan wouldn't have become a dystopia.

** Shunack felt this trope too when awoke and saw what had become of the world [[spoiler: because it was his impatience in the plant experiment that caused it go wrong]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: [[spoiler:Shunack's abandonment of Jessica as well as the Ragna Army end up being his undoing because Jessica promptly becomes Agito's ally. She provides him with intel and military support]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once [[spoiler:Jessica and the Ragna Army realize Shunack's true intentions, they decide to bail on him and help Agito rescue Toola]].

* UnwittingPawn: Shunack sees the [[spoiler:Ragna Army]] as nothing more than pawns in his plans

** Had [[spoiler:Shunack]] not sped up the experiment for the genetically modified plants, it wouldn't have killed off most of its humanity, split off the moon in half and Japan wouldn't have become a dystopia.

* GoombaSpringboard: Agito is the victim of a rather humiliating one when he [[spoiler: fights Shunack. Shunack sends him tumbling and relieves him of his love interest in one easy movement, with a smug look on his face.]]

* HeroOfAnotherStory: Agito's dad, Agashi, is revered by the people of Neutral City for both the hard work he put into founding it (ahead of its other two founders) and the wisdom that he still dispenses. However, his story is already over [[spoiler: and he becomes one with the forest after his first scene.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Agito transforms into a tree to allow Toola to destroy E.S.T.O.C. and help save the world. He gets better]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the film, [[spoiler:Agito uses his powers from the forest and transforms into a tree to trap Shunack, who also has powers from the forest. This leads to him forcibly AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence]].

** When Toola realizes [[spoiler:Shunack plans to commit mass murder with E.S.T.O.C. and she helped him do it, she is horrified and immediately tries to stop him.]]

* OfficialCouple: It's more implied than anything and certainly unspoken but [[spoiler: Agito and Toola get together by the end of the film. In any case, Toola considers her home to be with Agito.]]

* ArtMajorBiology: Everything involving The Forest is a sight to be behold: beautiful, mobile and dangerous.

* BoringInvincibleHero: Subverted. After his enhancement, Agito finds that Ragna's tanks with their huge and explosive ordinance can't hurt him. Then [[spoiler: he is nonchalantly tranquilized by a random and nameless soldier]]. Also, despite overcoming that obstacle, [[spoiler: Shunack effortlessly defeats him in combat.]]

''Origin: Spirits of the Past'' is a 2006 anime film. It is directed by Keiichi Sugiyama and written by Nana Shiina and Naoko Kakimoto from a story by Umanosuke Iida.

Agito awakens Toola from cryogenic sleep. Toola has some adjusting to do, as a science experiment GoneHorriblyWrong has left the moon a bit less intact than it used to be, has turned plants into destructive forces of nature, and has made water a bit scarce. As she's attempting to adjust to her new life, Shunack, another former cryogenic sleeper, arrives.

* OhCrap: Jessica has a small panic when she realizes [[spoiler:Shunack's true motives involve destroying her homeland]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once [[spoiler:Jessica and the Ragna Army realize Shunack's true intentions, they decide to bail on him]].

* FastballSpecial: A comical variation -- after Agito gets enhanced, his inaugural battle on behalf of the forest begins with a Druid unceremoniously kicking him off a mile-high cliff and into the midst of Ragna soldiers siphoning water. He immediately recovers with his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: The conflict between Ragna and the Forest ultimately turns out to be this. Ragna is a seemingly anti-environmental ruthless empire, but they first-and-foremost only want to live independantly from the Forest and avert the AlwaysChaoticEvil trope. On the other hand, the altered "eco-system" of the Earth looks like a sentient, animalistic, mass-murdering, force of literal nature that demands that its protectors be turned into trees. However, it's still capable to coexist with humans. It is explained by Yolda to Toola that Neutral City is meant to be both a "bridge and a barrier" between the two extremes.

* TheEmpire: Everything about Ragna ''screams'' this trope, from their blood red armor to their HumongousMecha to their heavily industrialized, military society. [[spoiler:However, they're far from AlwaysChaoticEvil, and some of its citizens trade with Neutral City. For the most part, they're generally decent people trying to live independently from the Forest, which they see as a monstrous, tyrannical entity (even though it is not portrayed as such).]]

* TheEmpire: Everything about Ragna ''screams'' this trope, from their blood red armor to their HumongousMecha to their heavily industrialized, military society. [[spoiler:However, they're far from AlwaysChaoticEvil. For the most part, they're generally decent people trying to live independently from the Forest, which is easy to see as a monstrous, tyrannical entity (even though it is not portrayed as such).]]

** If Agito didn't go to the water hole at the bottom of the city and awaken Toola, she would've never learned about what became of Japan after the genetically modified plants killed off most of humanity, and the conspiracy with [[spoiler:E.S.T.O.C.]] would've never been discovered.

** If Agito didn't go to the water hole at the bottom of the city, Toola wouldn't have been awakened and the conspiracy with [[spoiler: Shunack and E.S.T.O.C.]] would've never been discovered.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Toola and Shunack are humans who were put into stasis around the time of the cataclysm. Both of them were unsettled and confused by what they saw when they woke up. [[[spoiler: Shunack wants to destroy it but Toola decides to embrace it.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Towards the end of the series, the Ragna Army turn on Shunack and helps Agito rescue Toola]].

* BigNo: Toola screams this after Agito inadvertently wakes her up. Apparently, she was screaming it when she was first put under.

* BadassGrandpa: Towards the end of the film, Hajan punches a falling boulder in mid-air and ''destroys'' it before it can hit Neutral City.

* OhCrap: Jessica when she realizes [[spoiler:Shunack's true motives]].