History Anime / CrossAnge

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[[caption-width-right:350: Definitely '''not''' your typical mecha ''or'' harem anime. [[labelnote:Clockwise from right:]]Chris, Rosalie, Hilda, Ange, Salia, Vivian, Ersha, and Momoka.[[/labelnote]]]]

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: Ange's sister Sylvia injured herself in a horse-riding accident when she was young, and as a result is paraplegic. [[spoiler:In the final episodes, however, Ange guesses that the disability isn't physical and that Sylvia's used her injury as an excuse to rely on others, and gets her sister to start walking again to tie into AnAesop about standing on your own two feet. The thing is, she does this by threatening her sister's life, forcing her to walk out of sheer terror that she was about to be killed. Also, it's glossed over how her legs would be capable of supporting her if she hadn't used them in years.]]

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* ImprobablyFemaleCast: The story is about a military unit for which only females fulfill the criteria for getting drafted and which is isolated from the rest of the world, so there are mostly female characters around. The only male characters are Tusk, the main LoveInterest, and the first and second {{Big Bad}}s ([[WomenAreWiser naturally]]), Julio and Embryo.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** The subtitles spell out "Salia" but the English text on the apology letter that was typed up by Momoka in "Salia's Gloom" refer to her as "Thalia". The official spelling in the website is Salia regardless. It could also be inferred that Momoka has no idea Salia is supposed to be "S" rather than "Th", though out-of-universe, it could be inferred that Mitsuo Fukuda, who wrote the letter, didn't know what the spelling of her name was.
** Official spellings of the show's full title aren't sure whether it's supposed to be "Angel and Dragon" or "Angel'''s''' and Dragon'''s'''". Some such as the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games use the former spelling while the physical release by Creator/SentaiFilmworks uses the latter spelling.

* TakeThatAudience: Done subtly by Embryo. One of Embryo's most notorious traits is that he has a tendency to enarmour some girls that catches him fancy, lavishing them with praises and making them feel loved. But the moment they run out of use or he finds another girl that catches him fancy, he will abandon that previous girl like used toy without any care or respect. This would sound a lot like many {{Otaku}} that had their chosen waifu and abandoning them when a new, better girl was encountered. And then he is cast as one of the more heinous HateSink, while these kind of {{Otaku}} might be watching, baited with the show's ImprobablyFemaleCast, and thus making these {{Otaku}} look at something that looked like a mirror of their dark sides and get offended.

''Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons'' (''Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo'') is a Creator/{{Sunrise}} original anime produced and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and directed by former Creator/Studio4C alumn Yoshiharu Ashino (''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', ''Anime/TweenyWitches'') that aired starting in October 2014.

* MultiEthnicName: All members of the royal family of Misurugi have a Western first-name with Japanese-sounding second and last names, such as "Angelise Ikaruga Misurugi".

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] between Ange and Tusk. After she becomes a BrokenBird during the first episodes, he's one of the few people capable of bringing out her nicer side with his kindness, and this eventually leads her to fall in love with him.

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-inverted]] between Ange and Tusk. After she becomes a BrokenBird during the first episodes, he's one of the few people capable of bringing out her nicer side with his kindness, and this eventually leads her to fall in love with him.

** The subtitles spell out "Salia" but the SurprisinglyGoodEnglish text on the apology letter that was typed up by Momoka in "Salia's Gloom" refer to her as "Thalia". The official spelling in the website is Salia regardless. It could also be inferred that Momoka has no idea Salia is supposed to be "S" rather than "Th", though out-of-universe, it could be inferred that Mitsuo Fukuda, who wrote the letter, didn't know what the spelling of her name was.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Momoka's letter of apology. Most likely written by Fukuda himself, as he is highly fluent in reading and writing english.

** Many Humans state that all Normas are "violent, evil, anti-social monsters" and use it as their justification for their hatred, abuse, and murder of Normas. However through this series most Normas are shown to be decent, normal girls who just happened to not be able to use the Light of Mana. On the other hand most Humans are vicious and outright monstrous in their treatment of Normas, and gleefully feel like they're justified in their bigotry and abuse simply because they're Normas.
** Ange states this trope in "Goodbye From the Gallows" [[spoiler:during her execution, as many of her former friends, family and acquaintances happily call for her hanging, and giving no real reason for why she needed to be executed outside of "she's a Norma". Fully realizing the utter insanity and stupidity of their hatred of Normas, and wondering why Normas had to fight and die for these horrible people, she comments that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.]]

** Normas can cancel Mana-based spells by simply touching them, complete with a glass-shattering visual and sound effect not unlike the [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Imagine Breaker]].

''Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons'' (''Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo'') is a Creator/{{Sunrise}} original anime produced and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and directed by former Creator/Studio4C alumn Yoshiharu Ashino that aired starting in October 2014.

* FallenPrincess: Ange becomes one once she is exiled to Arzenal, and the trope's name is also alluded to in the title of first episode. [[spoiler:Jill reveals herself to be one as well, and had the potential to pilot the Villkiss due to her royal ring, which she lost along with her arm.]]

** Ange usually receives this from her other teammates. She also fires one back to Salia for not telling the other members of the squad to stop firing at her countering Salia's accusation towards Ange not being a team player, as Salia is trying to shank her no less, and Momoka for leaving her out of the loop about being a Norma. She later compares Salia rather unflatteringly to Jill for underprioritizing the safety of the rest of the squad when ordered to the Aurora in "Arzenal Burns". In "Another Earth" she angrily questions Sala about why she had to kill all of the people in Arzenal if her goal was to just protect her kin and rescue Aura. Then "Dark Angel of Destruction" has her calling out on Salia on [[spoiler:why she sided with Embryo]], though Salia fired one back when [[spoiler:she asked why Ange sided with the [=DRAGONs=].]] In "Conclusive Ocean" and "Distorted World", she calls out Jill for [[spoiler:her irrational behavior towards everyone, such as Salia.]]

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: In the series finale, [[spoiler:Ange and Tusk manages to open up Café Ange with Perolina as a mascot and the BridgeBunnies are staffed there. Meanwhile, the mana world is in flames and Sylvia is now leading a group of survivors to survive the wasteland, wearing the same outfit Ange wore when she was attempting to rescue her.]]

** The events of the story between "Ange and Tusk" and "Dark Angel of Destruction" are only brought up in passing in most routes.

** The events of the story between "Ange and Tusk" and "Dark Angel of Destruction" are only brought up in passing.

* PragmaticAdaptation: The VisualNovel adaptation reworks a few events and removes some characters in order to accommodate AudienceSurrogate Naomi into the story's events. With some changes being more extensive than others.

** One notable change done to the events of "Conclusive Ocean" features Hilda rescuing the BoundAndgagged Momoka instead of Ange if both she and Naomi go with Embryo to Misurugi.

%%** This also happens a lot in the Vita game due to the low grade animation used for it. It's particularly obvious with Salia and Embryo.

** The [=DRAGONs=] want to liberate [[spoiler:Aura]] who is used as a power source for Mana. Norma, who are constantly in fear against [=DRAGONs=], have to fight and kill them for cash and livelihood. Unfortunately, they can't communicate with each other so both sides are at a constant war with each other with the other side not knowing what's going on. There's also the fact that [[spoiler:the Mana world leaders are keeping tabs with what's going on.]]

* ScrewYouElves: Ange doesn't take too kindly to Sala's audacity towards attempting to recruit her at first, and especially the latter's accusations of the Norma being violent, and killing dragons, when it was mainly in self defense as they were used as involuntary CannonFodder against said dragons, and Sala had very recently launched an attack that annihilated most of the Norma, which, given their ChildSoldier {{conscript|ion}} status, would count as a war crime in the real world. (And that's not even counting the dehumanization the Norma face from the Mana people.)

* BareYourMidriff: Standard pilot suit and everyday clothes for an Arzenal citizen is to always have their stomach showing.

* FallenPrincess: Ange becomes one once she is exiled to Arzenal. She also represents the trope image, and the trope's name itself also serves as the title for the first episode of the series. [[spoiler:Jill reveals herself to be one as well, and had the potential to pilot the Villkiss due to her royal ring, which she lost along with her arm.]]

* FallenPrincess: Ange becomes one once she is exiled to Arzenal. It's also the title for the first episode of the series. [[spoiler:Jill reveals herself to be one as well, and had the potential to pilot the Villkiss due to her royal ring, which she lost along with her arm.]]

* OffModel:
** Somewhat expected considering it's Sunrise[[note]]and this series airing at the same time as '''''two''''' [[Anime/GundamReconguistaInG Gundam]] series, as well as ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'''s third season and ''Anime/TribeCoolCrew'' didn't help[[/note]], but special note goes to Embryo in the end of "Arzenal Burns", where ''he has no face''. While in his introductory scene in "The Right Arm's Past", he has longer than normal fingers.
*** As a whole, the animators seem to have trouble with keeping Embryo consistent like they do the rest of the cast. This becomes evident from "The Tuner of Time" onward, where his face will constantly become wall-eyed and contorted. Even in scenes where the other characters would be drawn normally. This could be intended to make him seem creepily unnatural, seeing as he is the god-like BigBad, but it could just be an animation error.
** Also in "The Right Arm's Past", the revelation of [[spoiler:the [=DRAGONs=] being human all along]] is ruined by how odd everyone looks (at one point, everyone develops solid colored pupils of their eye colors, which is most noticeable with Ersha).
** In "Ange and Tusk", Ange develops an extremely pointy chin in one shot. Though given its angle, it ''was'' kind of unavoidable. The ring around Tusk's neck also disappears for a few frames during a later scene.
** Taken up a notch in "Conclusive Ocean", where there appears to have been no quality control for half the episode. And at one point, it even looks like Momoka's pupils were drawn just a smidgen bigger than her eyes. This might have to do with the other episodes having a head animation director[[note]]all odd-numbered episodes had Tatsuya Suzuki, while the even-numbered ones (save for "Conclusive Ocean") had Hiroki Harada[[/note]], whereas this one didn't. It's also not helped by the epsiode's animators, Creator/StudioFantasia, more or less dropping off the face of the Earth after the episode aired until their bankruptcy in 2016.
*** The preview of "Conclusive Ocean" also had a few shots of Ange missing her ring. Cue WildMassGuessing from fans that Jill at some point tried to take away the ring, only for the fans to note that this trope occurred.
** For another example, you need look no further than the picture above, in which Vivian's mouth is larger than normal and the heels on Hilda's boots are longer then they are in the show.
** Aside from "Defiant Soul" and "Villkiss Awakens", the CG model of Ange has short hair. Even in the later episodes where her hair is supposed to be shoulder length.
** Chris's freckles vary in both thickness and amount, depending of the shot.
** Some of the promotional illustrations that appeared in Newtype Magazine were outsourced to other companies (namely Creator/StudioLive and Creator/SynergySP, neither of whom were otherwise involved with the show) and are drawn in the styles of the animator of each studio used for the illustrations.
** The VisualNovel is also not immune to this -- It's blatantly obvious when a screenshot from the series and when a newly drawn one by Creator/{{Graphinica}} is used by how thicker the characters' outlines become when depicted by the latter, along with a much grainier composite style. It also gets jarring whenever the backgrounds switch from ones recycled from the series[[labelnote:*]]by Creator/{{Kusanagi}}[[/labelnote]] and the ones that were created for the game[[labelnote:*]]by an uncredited art team, but is presumed to be Creator/StudioBihou based on the artstyle[[/labelnote]] as the latter are rendered with a different style for the rocks, trees and clouds.

''Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons'' (''Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo'') is a Creator/{{Sunrise}} original anime produced and written by Mitsuo Fukuda and directed by former Creator/Studio4C alumn Yoshiharu Ashino that aired as part of the Fall2014Anime season.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Absolutely averted, which is a bit strange when you think about it. The Norma are treated (and treat themselves) as a race separate from humans in every way, with no Norma shown even considering trying to [[BecomeARealBoy become a "real" human]] or envying their peers who can use magic. [[spoiler:Considering that you're a puppet of Embryo if you can use mana as Momoka and the Misurugi Empire found out, it probably was a good thing that they don't have any mana.]]