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->''Nenshin!''
->''Gattai!''
->'''''GO!''' Aquarion!''

Teenagers with PsychicPowers piloting an [[DeusSexMachina orgasm-powered]] SuperRobot fight evil Shadow Angels from [[{{Atlantis}} Atlandia]] who [[ToServeMan feed on human lifeforce]].

...What? You ''did'' ask me to [[DescribeTopicHere Describe]] GenesisOfAquarion [[DescribeTopicHere here]]. Ok, let's try again.

[[BackStory Twelve thousand years ago]] there was a great war between humans and Shadow Angels; the humans won, in no small part thanks to Apollonius, an Angel who turned against his own people [[CapuletCounterpart out of love for Celiane, a human woman]], and the Angels [[SealedEvilInACan became dormant under the South Pole]].

Flash forward to TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Eleven years after a catastrophe known as the Great Incident ravaged Earth and gifted a few young people with PsychicPowers, the Shadow Angels awaken, and start harvesting humans all around the world. Ordinary militaries are unable to stop them, and it's up to the aforementioned young people (referred to as "Element Users") to stop the Angels, using an ancient Atlandian weapon: the Aquarion, a SuperRobot which [[CombiningMecha is the combination]] of three different flying machines called Vectors (causing the three pilots to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything join their souls and spiritual bodies into one]], IfYouKnowWhatIMean).

As soon as the Aquarion pilots first engage the Shadow Angels, however, they promptly get their asses handed to them, and crash-land near the place where two Element Users were investigating rumors of a possible reincarnation of Apollonius. The supposed reincarnation, Apollo, [[FallingIntoTheCockpit climbs into the robot]] and pilots it to a first victory against the Shadow Angels, losing his {{Nakama}} to them in the process. He then joins Daeva, the organization which handles the Aquarion and Element Users, in the hopes of finding his friends and bringing them back.

The two-part OVA (entitled ''Wings of Betrayal'' and ''Wings of Glory'', respectively), takes place in an alternate timeline, where the full team (except for Apollo) had already been assembled, Glen didn't fall into a coma, Sirius [[spoiler:died in battle against the Shadow Angels]], and a new player in the Apollonius/Celiane backstory, a human named Scorpius, is introduced.
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!!This show provides examples of:
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Tsugumi was constantly shunned by friends and family [[BlessedWithSuck because of her powers]] before coming to Daeva.
* AloofBigBrother: Sirius.
* AnAesop: Every single one of Fudou's lessons. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs They're all on crack as well]].
* AnimeAnatomy: Most notably in the Gattai sequences and when an incapacitated Element User is teleported out.
* AnimeThemeSong: Some of Yoko Kanno's finest work.
* {{BFG}}: PSG Cannon.
* BifurcatedWeapon: Moroha's [[HumongousMecha mech]]. Literally. As in, his mech literally splits into two (not evenly down the center but close).
* BigBad: Touma.
*BigBrotherComplex: Sirius and Silvia. While the most basic case of the trope is evident and perfectly justifiable (given that [[ParentalAbandonment their parents are dead]]), there is also strong subtext of the more [[BrotherSisterIncest sexual]] interpretation, mostly from Silvia's end. Silvia seems to justify her feelings by [[ReincarnationRomance insisting that Sirius is the reincarnation of Apollonius]], but in fact it is revealed that [[spoiler:they are in fact split halves of the reincarnated soul of Celiane, and thus long to be reunited on a fundamental level.]]
* BlessedWithSuck: Tsugumi can create explosions when her pulse reaches its peak, and has probably the strongest raw power of all the Element Users; unfortunately, she's really bad at controlling her emotions, so whenever she gets excited or anxious things around her tend to go KABOOM. It's heavily implied that because of this she was [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer shunned by her family and friends]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Touma, Apollonius and Sirius.
** Kind of-sort of "justified" in Sirius' case, what with being [[spoiler:one half of a two-person reincarnation of a woman.]]
* BrownNote: The MonsterOfTheWeek for episode 7 is so beautiful it causes the Aquarion pilots to experience supreme jealousy and start fighting amongst themselves.
**It is also a case of AlienGeometries, because it appears as an "impossible" polyhedron.
* CallingYourAttacks: "''MUGEN PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCH!''" (and this is one of the ''less silly'' attacks).
* CapuletCounterpart: Apollonius.
* CatchPhrase: Sirius' "How disgraceful..." Gen's "Special training!" and Reika's "How unfortunate...".
* Really good CharacterDevelopment.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Not only do the Element Users each have uniquely-colored [[LatexSpaceSuits pilot suits]], but when a teleport change is done the replacement Element actually leaves their clothing behind and materializes in the empty suit of the last pilot, said suit then magically changing color to match the new wearer.
** Yes, this does mean that the pilot being replaced comes out at mission control completely naked. Invariably results in AnimeAnatomy.
* CombiningMecha.
* CosmicPlaything: Reika, who is really, ''really'' unlucky, and tends to avoid human contact whenever possible to prevent her bad luck from "rubbing off" on those close to her.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The revealing of the Mugen Punch, which literally punches a mech to the moon.
** A second (Pierre's) can be summarized as: dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble dribble!!!
** Silvia gets one in the penultimate episode, when she [[spoiler:kills TheDragon with a single blow]].
*CrowningMusicOfAwesome: YokoKanno worked on the soundtrack. Enough said.
* CuteBruiser: Silvia.
* DoesntLikeGuns: Sirius, as evidenced by this quote from episode 23:
---> "I'm disappointed in you [[spoiler: Glenn]]...attacking with such a crude gun."
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In the first half of episode 8, many characters discuss with each other what it's like to [[CombiningMecha unite]] with one's partners.
** FreudWasRight: One episode has Pierre show "addiction" to combining (yes, really). To cope, he takes a cup and a cup holder and ''repeatedly'' inserts the cup into the cup holder. He is also seen in that episode doing similar motions with a pen and its cap.
*** And to add to the double entendre, he spends his entire class staring at his female classmates (never the males). Granted, he is the HandsomeLech, but it is strongly suggested that this extreme is due to the addiction.
* TheDragon: Otoha.
* DrillSergeantNasty: Gen Fudou on occasions during his [[CatchPhrase "Special Training!"]]
* ElegantGothicLolita: Rena, who always wear such an outfit, and who is also [[spoiler:a vampire]].
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Silvia
* TheEvilArmy: [[spoiler:Aww, poor Futaba. Oh, and Glen, too.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Sirius]] near the end of the anime.
* FanService: Plenty of shower scenes, ShirtlessScenes, {{Gainaxing}}, and MaleGaze. Pretty much every major Element User plays Fan Servicer at some point in the series.
** Touma being a WhiteHairedPrettyBoy ''and'' an out-an-out member of the Yaoi club falls straight under this.
* FridgeLogic: [[spoiler:How come that Sirius and Silvia's wings represent Celiane's soul when she wasn't even an Angel? Also, how is everything Celiane's fault? It's not like she forced Apollonius to turn against his people...]]
** [[spoiler: It was mentioned that they are descendants of Apollonius and Celiane. Which brings another Fridge Logic moment: if the humans and Shadow Angels were so engrossed in the war, how did Celiane manage to give birth to children? She ''was'' on the front lines.]]
*** [[spoiler: She could easily have been in just the early stages of pregnancy when the war ended.]]
**How is it that Silvia keeps her clothes when she teleport swaps with [[spoiler: the automated control unit of the Assault Type Vector]] in episode 23 despite every other teleport change resulting in the replacement losing their clothes and materializing in the vacated suit of the old pilot?
* HalfHumanHybrids: [[spoiler:Sirius and Silvia]].
*HalfIdenticalTwins: Kurt and Chloe.
* HandsomeLech: Pierre, though [[YourMileageMayVary one could argue]] he's really more of a ChivalrousPervert.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Again, Sirius]].
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Apollo and Baron in the BackStory.
* HumongousMecha
* ItsAllMyFault: Reika blames herself for Glenn falling into a coma.
** Not to mention when anything bad happens when she's around.
* LimitedWardrobe
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Touma]] killing [[spoiler:Baron]] in episode 13 and [[spoiler:the army scientists killing Futaba then using his feathers to create superhuman killing machines]].
* MultinationalTeam: The Element Users.
* {{Nakama}}: The Element Users, and especially important for Apollo, who puts friendship before everything else. Rena [[spoiler:is a ReallySevenHundredYearsOld vampire?]] Who cares, she's my friend. Sirius and Silvia [[spoiler:are [[HalfHumanHybrids part-Shadow Angel]]?]] Who cares, they're my friends. And so on and so forth.
** This is also important to Fudou, who gets mightily pissed [[spoiler:when Apollo destroys the shield protecting Daeva from the Datenshi in an effort to save Baron. He gets pissed at everyone criticizing Apollo for doing this, going so far as to say anyone who abandons his/her friends has no place in Daeva.]]
* OldMaster: [[spoiler:Gen Fudou, if only [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld on a technicality]]]].
* OminousLatinChanting: A staple of the soundtrack, especially in scenes focusing on the Shadow Angels in their headquarters.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Sort've. If you get technical, the ''datenshi'' are only angels in that they apply a pun. Their kanji doesn't actually use "angel."
* ParentalAbandonment: We don't get to see the parents of any of the Element Users, and it's implied that they all either died in the Great Incident or were harvested by the Shadow Angels.
* PsychicPowers
* RaisedByWolves: Apollo
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: [[spoiler:Gen Fudou]] and [[spoiler:Rena]]; all Shadow Angels, being technically ageless, also qualify.
* RedOniBlueOni: Apollo and Sirius
* RedShirt: Glen, whose entire purpose in the series boils down to 1. piloting Vector Sol to the battlefield so Apollo can [[FallingIntoTheCockpit fall into its cockpit]] and 2. getting put in a coma so Reika can have someone to angst over.
** [[spoiler: Well, that and being the first successful guinea pig for the military's super-soldier program...]]
* RedShirtArmy: The United Nations army, who last all of five seconds against the Shadow Angels.
* {{Reincarnation}}: An important theme of the Anime. At first it seems that Silvia is the reincarnation of Celiane and Apollo is Apollonius', but the reality is much, ''much'' more complicated and a spoiler of gigantic proportions.
* ReincarnationRomance
* {{Roboteching}}: Aquarion Sol's Mugen Punch.
* RocketPunch: Again, the Mugen Punch.
* [[SchoolgirlLesbians Schoolgirl Lesbian]]: Tsugumi has a clear-as-day (if unreciprocated) crush on Reika.
* SpiderTank: In the second to last episode of ''GenesisOfAquarion'' we find out that [[spoiler: the Assault Type Aquarion can assume an "Armageddon Formation" where all three vectors combine into a six-legged mech with the PSG cannon mounted on the top.]]
* StarCrossedLovers: Apollonius and Celiane.
* SuperRobot
* SuperRobotWars: Currently only appear in SuperRobotWarsZ
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The Gospel version of the main theme played in the last episode. In fact, it's so good and there's so much English in it that it's more like GratuitousJapanese.
* TearJerker: You ''will'' cry at least once during the final episode. Oh yes. You will.
**[[YourMileageMayVary Your Mileage May Vary]]. The final episode is one big Narm-fueled CrowningMomentofAwesome, even if it does lead to something of a BittersweetEnding.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: The Teleport Change, which can exchange the pilots of the Vectors with someone who's back at the base.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Whenever AKINO starts singing, you can be sure the next couple of minutes are going to be ''awesome''.
** Sometimes causes SoundtrackDissonance, especially in the earlier episodes where "Sousei No Aquarion" was the main theme. Something just seems a little off about playing a heartfelt song proclaiming undying love while ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome dribbling a Humongous Mecha into orbit like a soccer ball!]]''
* TheNoseKnows: Apollo has an inhumanly keen sense of smell, capable of detecting...well, pretty much anything the plot calls for, really. Implicitly {{Handwaved}} as being the result of his [[RaisedByWolves harsh upbringing]], but the scope of his ability is so truly ludicrous that it might be more plausible to attribute it to his Element Powers.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Usually how the protagonists win their battles, until later in the series it's superseded by...
* ThePowerOfLove, though they have also won battles with the power of jealousy, the power of bad luck and the power of hunger.
* ThisAndThat: In episode 8 Tsugumi and Jun ask Reika and Pierre respectively for advice on their first [[CombiningMecha union]], and the other two naturally assume they're asking for advice on ThisAndThat (although, seeing how the "union" works, they might as well have...).
* TwinTelepathy: Kurt and Chloe.
* WarriorPoet: Sirius, whenever he's not in battle or training, spends his time picking roses in his garden and spouting poetry.
* WaxOnWaxOff: Every single training regimen Gen Fudou puts the Element Users through.
* WeaponOfChoice: Sirius wields a rapier, adding to his composed and foppish air, while Apollo (on the few occasions he is seen with a sword) uses a broad-bladed scimitar more appropriate to his wild, feral personality.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The entire show, especially the finale.
* WhiteHairedPrettyboy: Touma.
* WomanScorned: Touma, despite being male, is precisely this after being dumped by Apollonius in favour of Celiane.
* YaoiGuys: Touma and Apollonius in the BackStory.
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