History Anime / Geneshaft

* TheAce: Mir.
* AmazonBrigade: Thanks to 23rd Century's gender ratio favoring female over male.

* AnyoneCanDie
* {{Bishonen}}: Captain Hiroto, Mario, and Lord Sneak, anyone?

* BodySurf: In one episode, the aliens keep copying crew members.

* BridgeBunnies: Many of the crews, even "programmed" to operate it, work at the bridge.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: People are expected to put up with raving maniacs like Jean, loonies like Dolce, and haughty divas like Mir because they are literally ''born'' to be the best at their jobs, and that's the only thing that matters.

* ImportantHaircut: Mir cuts her hair after [[spoiler:learning of Lord Sneak's betrayal]].

* HumansAreFlawed: The point of the show.

* InformedAbility: Tiki is supposed to be a CuteBruiser, but she mostly plays the role of BridgeBunny. When she actually does something.
* InsufferableGenius: Dolce, who is unmatched at computer programming. And lets everybody know. Through her puppet. Loudly.
* LensFlare

** Lord Sneak.
** Also the last episode's title. [[Literature/ChildhoodsEnd Childhood's Beginning.]]

* MementoMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Remmy's glasses]].
* MildlyMilitary: Even [[spoiler: trying to shoot your own captain for personal issues like death of Ryoko in the past]] doesn't raise any eyebrows.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: The soundtrack covers everything from 3 to 8, and stays most of the time around 6.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Lord Sneak]].
* NietzscheWannabe: Lord Sneak.

* PathOfInspiration: Your society believes that it is logical to be hardcoded to die at 45 because you're no longer at 100% efficiency, justifies it as individuals being a mere expression of their genetic code and thus replaceable by brand new clones, and that the best male-female ratio is supposed to be 1:9 because of males being excessively HotBlooded, yet your rulers and founders of your way of life are a bunch of 200-year-old men. Who are not in a hurry to be replaced by their younger selves, of course. No f***ing ''wonder'' they have a [[LaResistance terrorist problem]]!

* PosthumousCharacter: Ryoko was one of the examples, whom Mika thought that Captain Hiroto was responsible for killing her to save himself when the escape pod lacks enough air for both of them. Unfortunately, Ryoko's death was considered "expendable" by the society because she had an identical "sister" and lower genetic strata than her captain--who Mika hate him for these reasons initially--or [[spoiler: it was the fact that Ryoko who jettisoned herself off the escape pod in a HeroicSacrifice for her superior Hiroto's survival]].

* PunnyName: Remmy Levistrauss. Levi Strauss is a jean company (gene/jean pun)
* PsychopathicManchild: Jean.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Mario and Sofia.]]
* TechnoBabble: To the point of becoming ridiculous.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Jean.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Humanity seems to have achieved something of a utopian society, but at a heavy cost to its...well, humanity. [[spoiler: In fact, Lord Sneak decided to push it UpToEleven with the support of the Rings by transforming entire humanity into a single consciousness.]]

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: NoSexAllowed, romantic love is apparently dead, and friendships are expected to be shallow. But ThePowerOfLove is stubborn. [[spoiler: Like Mika and Captain Hiroto in final episode.]]
* YouAreInCommandNow: [[spoiler:Beatrice, who's genetically engineered to be an eternal NumberTwo. She does fine.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Ryoko was one of the examples, whom Mika thought that Captain Hiroto was responsible for killing her to save himself when the escape pod lacks enough air for both of them. Unfortunately, Ryoko's death was considered "expendable" by the society because she had an identical twin sister and lower genetic strata than her captain--who Mika hate him for these reasons initially--or [[spoiler: it was the fact that Ryoko who jettisoned off the escape pod in a HeroicSacrifice for her superior Hiroto survive]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: NoSexAllowed, romantic love is apparently dead, and friendships are expected to be shallow. But ThePowerOfLove is stubborn.

* AmazonBrigade

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Humanity seems to have achieved something of a utopian society, but at a heavy cost to its...well, humanity. [[spoiler: In fact, Lord Sneak decided to push it UpToEleven with the support of the Rings by transforming into a single consciousness.]]

* {{Bishonen}}: The captain, Mario, and Lord Sneak, anyone?

* BridgeBunnies

* MildlyMilitary: Even [[spoiler:trying to shoot your own captain]] doesn't raise any eyebrows.

* PosthumousCharacter

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Humanity seems to have achieved something of a utopian society, but at a heavy cost to its...well, humanity.
* ViewerFriendlyInterface

* {{Shout Out}}s: The titles of all episodes are variations on the titles of famous SF stories or straight references. [[Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress "The Moon is a Hard Master"]], [[Creator/ArthurCClarke "The Sentinel"]], [[Literature/ChildhoodsEnd "Childhood's Beginning"]], [[Literature/TheShipWho "The Ship Who Sang"]]...

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: The American space shuttle crew in one episode, whose appearance are connected to the rings. To contrast them with the Bilkis' crew, they are depicted as older and more realistic-looking but also brash and unrefined.

* TakingYouWithMe

* {{Shout Out}}s: The titles of all episodes are variations on the titles of famous SF stories or straight references. [[Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress "The Moon is a Hard Master"]], [[ArthurCClarke "The Sentinel"]], [[ChildhoodsEnd "Childhood's Beginning"]], [[Literature/TheShipWho "The Ship Who Sang"]]...

** Also the last episode's title. [[ChildhoodsEnd Childhood's Beginning.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: Mika Seido is voiced by Kumiko Higa. Yes, [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork that Kumiko Higa]].

* BigBrotherMentor: Mario, who manages to ''actually'' be someone's brother, something rare in a world of DesignerBabies, and comes across as a [[GurrenLagann proto-Kamina]].

It's the 23rd century, humanity has had a series of devastating wars behind it, putting it on the brink of extinction. In an attempt to deal with this problem, human population has been put under control through genetic engineering. Everyone has a set destiny from birth and the ratio between woman and men has been brought to 9:1, since most of the problems seem to stem from male aggression. People are categorized according to their genetic profile, which leads to certain Skills. Love and passion are largely eliminated--but not fully.

It's the 23rd century and humanity has had a series of devastating wars behind it, putting it on the brink of extinction. In an attempt to deal with this problem, human population has been put under control through genetic engineering. Everyone has a set destiny from birth and the ratio between woman and men has been brought to 9:1, since most of the problems seem to stem from male aggression. People are categorized according to their genetic profile, which leads to certain Skills. Love and passion are largely eliminated--but not fully.

* {{Shout Out}}s: The titles of all episodes are variations on the titles of famous SF stories or straight references. [[Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress "The Moon is a Hard Master"]], [[ArthurCClarke "The Sentinel"]], [[ChildhoodsEnd "Childhood's Beginning"]], [[TheShipWho "The Ship Who Sang"]]...

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* MeaningfulName: Lord Sneak.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Mika Seido is voiced by Kumiko Higa. Yes, [[{{RockmanExe}} that Kumiko Higa]].

* {{Dystopia}}

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''{{Geneshaft}}'' was released in 2001 and by Bandai Entertainment. It is an interesting take on the "humongous mecha in space" theme in that it maintains a curious and intense dynamic between the characters. The men still appear to be very macho, despite having grown up in a society ruled by women. People who are very sensitive to the abuse of scientific themes might best steer clear off this series. For all the other viewers, ''{{Geneshaft}}'' can be a nice ride along all of the tropes that come with the genre--and they can enjoy the wonderful animation and the heart-warming ending.

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Boy, where to start... The science in this show is ''seriously'' skewed.
** Includes massive doses of YouFailBiologyForever.

Tropes:

* {{Shout Out}}s: The titles of all episodes are variations on the titles of famous SF stories or straight references. [[TheMoonIsAHarshMistress "The Moon is a Hard Master"]], [[ArthurCClarke "The Sentinel"]], [[ChildhoodsEnd "Childhood's Beginning"]], [[TheShipWho "The Ship Who Sang"]]...

* AccidentalInnuendo: numerous scenes focus on women arguing over the right to [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "pilot the Shaft."]]

-->[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Have faith in others, and they'll have faith in you!]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Loud, frosty ''metal''.

* FoeYay: [[spoiler:Jean & Marco]].

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Remmy's death]].
** [[spoiler:Sofia]]'s death. She wanted to be a mother, you know...
** Also Mika's response to her mother's death, which is quite a bit more intense than seen as customary in that society.

* GattacaBabies

* GattacaBabies

* BigBrotherMentor: Mario, who manages to ''actually'' be someone's brother, something rare in a world of GattacaBabies, and comes across as a [[GurrenLagann proto-Kamina]].