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[[caption-width-right:305:Left to right: Lan, Madoka, and Muginami.]]

Madoka Kyouno is the sole member of the Jersey Club and always ready to help others out. One day, she is approached by an alien from their home planet Le Graite named Lan who asks her to pilot a robotic aircraft (called a Vox Unit) to defend mankind against an evil force. Eventually, they meet a third girl, Muginami, who also joins the club. Together, they work with the organization of Nuvomundos to battle against the invaders known as Kiss, led by [[BigBad Lord Villagulio]] from the planet De Metrio, who aims to capture the Vox Units so that he can destroy the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]] and their planet Le Garite. Thus begins a [[GreyAndGreyMorality surprisingly morally ambiguous]] story despite having a highly idealistic protagonist and an overall lighthearted tone.

''Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne'' (輪廻のラグランジェ ''Flower declaration of your heart'', ''Rinne no Raguranje'') is an anime that started airing in January 2012. The Second season began airing in [[Summer2012Anime July 2012]]. The anime is being produced by Creator/{{Xebec}} and directed by Toshimasa Suzuki. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Creator/VizMedia.

In addition to a manga adaptation, there is also a {{Prequel}} manga entitled ''Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne ~Dawn of Memoria~''(''輪廻のラグランジェ 〜暁月のメモリア〜'', ''Rinne no Raguranje ~Akatsuki no Memoria~''). Oddly, it was released before the original anime premiered.

Not to be confused with ''(Kyoukai no) {{Manga/Rinne}}''.

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!!This series provides examples of:

* TenMinuteRetirement: The three heroines decide to never fight with the Vox again in the middle of Season 2. This lasts for roughly one BreatherEpisode. Madoka does this on her own a couple of times, as well.
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Due to Madoka's monologuing in the space capsule [[spoiler:while she is in the body of Yurikano]], the main characters learn everything about [[spoiler:Yurikano’s true feelings about her brother and fiancée fighting each other- she hates it]].
* AFriendInNeed: Madoka says she will always help friend in need; even if it's a friend she just met, she'll pilot a robot for her.
* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: All the aliens are actually descendants of humans who left before Earth's civilization collapsed 20,000 years ago. Now their home planet is essentially a galactic reserve for society.]]
* AirVentPassageway: Madoka and Asteria use this to get to Lan and Muginami, who are blocking the path to the Vox Aura to protest Asteria’s decision to decommission it.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Averted with Izo, who finds Earth television boring (and he seems to think a samurai drama is some sort of real-life ritual). On the other hand, [[BigBad Lord Vilagulio]] [[VillainsOutShopping enjoys playing a hula hoop game]] on what [[BlandNameProduct suspiciously looks like]] a UsefulNotes/NintendoWii.
* AlienAmongUs: Lan and Muginami mostly understand Earth culture, and Villagiulio is subject to VillainsBlendInBetter. Neither applies to [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo, or Array]], [[spoiler:though they seem to have adapted by Season 2]].
* AliensInCardiff: Alien HumongousMecha in Kamogawa.
* AmusingInjuries: Madoka takes some.
* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss TerribleTrio as anything but this. [[BigBad Their boss Villaguilio]] counts as well, since he [[spoiler:wants to save his planet from a collision with another one, and feels he must destroy that one to do so, and [[TheDragon Grania]] is loyal to his cause. Dizelmine, the ruler of the other planet, qualifies as well for the same reasons]]. The only villain that doesn’t qualify is [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Balance T. Moid]], since he only cares about [[ForScience satisfying his curiosity]]]].
* ApocalypseHow: The reason Kiss/De Metrio and Polyhedron/Le Garite are fighting is because [[spoiler:their planets are going to crash into each other]].
** [[spoiler: The Vox Units are also believed to be capable of destroying planets.]]
** In the end [[spoiler: the events of the series alter the orbits of De Metrio and La Garite, stopping the problem.]]
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the last episode, [[spoiler: Lan is crowned as the ruler of Le Garite. [[SubvertedTrope Then she puts on her jersey]]]].
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BadassAdorable: Madoka, for sure.
* BatmanGambit: Lan and Muginami pull this off in Episode 17. [[spoiler:Lan has Muginami thrown in prison, then distracts the guards with an overly long speech so Muginami can secretly escape and rescue Madoka without interference.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, because Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens twice. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works, [[spoiler:because Lan's robot does it that time.]]
** And then it becomes one heck of a BrickJoke in Episode 23.
* BatterUp: Madoka bats away a flying newspaper dispenser, using a ripped from the ground streetlight.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In Episode 17, Madoka and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] have a mental [[WimpFight slap fight]].
* {{BFG}}: Villagiulio's Ovid has one, and Lan receives a rifle as well.
* BigBad: Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the Jersey Club heroines, the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Lan's brother and his Le Garite Knights in Episode 12 drive off Kiss just in time.]]
** Earlier in Episode 11, [[spoiler: Izo, Array and Kirius use their shields to protect Kamogawa from a WaveMotionGun]].
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BishoujoSeries
* {{Bishounen}}: [[TerribleTrio The three attackers of the earth, Izo, Array, and Kirius.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami]] seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5, being a friend of [[spoiler:Madoka and Lan]] but actually [[spoiler:being TheMole and taking about war like it was nothing, [[SubvertedTrope but]] after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she snapped out of it]].
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] seems nicer than Villagiulio, but [[spoiler:of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option]].
** [[spoiler:Moid]] is the biggest example by far- [[spoiler:his politeness and care-taking of Lan was a facade hiding a depraved MadScientist]].
* BittersweetEnding: Everything's resolved nicely by the end of the first season, but [[spoiler:Madoka lost two close friends/[[ShipTease lovers]]. They do promise to see each other again, though, and they do in Season 2]].
* BookEnds: The first season begins and ends with Madoka stripping to a swimsuit she was wearing under her clothes to help someone at the beach.
** And again in the first episode of the second season.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Done to Muginami in episode 5, after Villagiulio tells her that she is just a parasite and that she never was a part of his team.]]
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BridgeBunnies
* ButtMonkey: Array constantly gets into various embarrassing situations, such as having to work for Asteria in a ''FrenchMaidOutfit''. [[WholesomeCrossdresser And he seems to like it, seeing that he never took it off]].
* CatchPhrase: Madoka always says "Maru", which means "Tick", "Circle" or "Perfect" in english. Which may be a Japanese pun on her name, since "Madoka" can also mean circle.
** Lan has "Wan", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for "Woof!"
** Muginami's "Roger that!" (''Kashikomari!'', short for ''[[http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%95%8F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F Kashikomarimashita]]'')
** They all do hand gestures to go with them; Madoka makes an air circle, Lan does a FauxPaw, and Muginami does a little salute.
** In Episode 24, [[spoiler:their Catch Phrases are the last spoken words in the series]].
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet arrives just in time as Vox Aura stops moving. It's still possible to win the battle with the other two Voxes, but considering what happened when Vox pilots are pushed to their emotional limit, it's probably not a wise thing for them to do.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city, [[SuperCellReception but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean]]. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.
* ChainmailBikini: Averted. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]], [[RuleOfSexy for no apparent reason]].
* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet]] in Season 1 [[spoiler:arrives to fend off Villagulio at the end]].
* ChekhovsGun: The shield materialization ability of the Ovids [[spoiler:saves most of Kamogawa from the falling debris of the big battle (with the exception of Yoko, but she gets better)]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Yurikano. If she was not on the same otherworldly shore as the one Madoka ended up in, things would have probably ended disastrously.]]
* CliffHanger: Episode 11. [[spoiler:Madoka's sister is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim mortally wounded by a fallen enemy bot]]; Madoka sees this and has a FreakOut that causes all three Voxes to lose control and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique blossom]] simultaneously. She gets better, and the season ends on a conclusive note.]]
* ColourCodedCharacters: The Ovid and their contrails.
* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: The only building Madoka lands on in episode 3, apparently shut down the previous week. She also manages to crash-land in an empty lot; the house that was there had recently been demolished. Although she didn't need to be that worried as an evacuation order was issued and the people were presumably heading to shelters.
** And then there's Madoka’s grandpa’s peanut farm, which gets destroyed by her falling Vox Unit. PlayedForLaughs.
* CrapsackWorld: U-Go, the planet Muginami hails from. It's described as essentially being the trash heap of the universe.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The Jersey Club Walks on Chairs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfT0E14bw0 SO MANY CHAIRS]].
* CrossCounter: Between Madoka and [[spoiler:Yurikano on the other side of Rin-ne]].
* CryCute: Madoka at the end of Season 1.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Multiple characters.
%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DeflectorShields
* DestructiveSaviour: Madoka consciously does her best to [[{{Defied}} avoid being one]]. It doesn't always work, [[spoiler: especially considering that her Vox has a kind of special ability that plays right into Villagiulio's hands. Asteria actually forbids her from using her Vox Unit for this reason.]]
* DistantFinale: Halfway through the final episode of the series, the plot skips to [[spoiler:some time after Madoka's graduation]].
* TheDragon: Grania, the dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1, and in season 2 is usually seen with Villagulio taking orders from him.
** In season 2, [[spoiler:Moid]] seems to be one for [[spoiler:Dizelmine]], carrying out his orders and always being by his side, [[spoiler:but he is actually TheManInFrontOfTheMan]].
* DramaticIrony:
** In Episode 9, Kirius runs into Madoka outside their mecha...and neither of them recognize each other. Kirius even says later that he should have asked the girl he met where Madoka was...not knowing said girl was Madoka.
** In Episode 18: "[[AccidentalPublicConfession If someday I meet Lan's brother again I want to tell him how you feel.]]" [[spoiler: He's listening]].
*** Later on, [[spoiler:Dizelmine basically ends up confessing to Yurikano, thinking that she was still [[FreakyFridayFlip Madoka in her body]], while the viewer knows perfectly well that they switched back]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good, closer than ever, and has expanded their Jersey Club across other planets, of which new members include Izo, Kirius, Array, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; De Metrio and La Garite finally bury the hatchet; Yurikano is back from the Rin-ne for good and has reunited with her loyal understudies Izo, Kirius and Array; Lan ascends the throne of Le Garite in lieu of Dizelmine, who now travels with the recently-abdicated Villagiulio; and Astela, finally free of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne. The only person not to get a good ending is Moid, and considering [[BigBad that he was responsible for much of the misery in the series]], it's a fitting fate for him to be apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor stuck in the Rin-ne]], forever doomed to [[SuckinessIsPainful listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems dreadful) over and over]].]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the backstory, [[spoiler: Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. The viewer finally gets to see it in Season 2. [[spoiler: Note that she didn't use the Vox to do it, but opened the Rin-ne with her own power.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Muginami is rather quickly forgiven for being a spy who was planning on giving the Vox to Villagiulio. Madoka apologized ''to her.'' She does make an effort to be a true friend and ally, to her credit.]]
* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire, respectively. More InformedAbility, as this is never demonstrated.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: All three of the main girls have 'Memoria' in...[[{{Fanservice}} unusual places]], to say the least. Madoka's appears to be [[PantyShot on her ass]], Lan's is somewhere near her breasts, and Muginami's is ''just'' above her crotch.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:Asteria's tattoo, that which she calls Rin-ne, is located right on her bossom]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Vox units only work if the pilot believes in themselves. Madoka seems to have "befriended" hers at some point in the past as well.
** Near the end of Season 1, Vox Aura begins glowing even when Madoka's not anywhere near it, and in Season 2, [[spoiler: all of them move on their own to rescue their pilots]].
** In Episode 23, [[spoiler:Aura actually sends Madoka an e-mail]].
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:According to Asteria, she's the Witch who cycles the world through war and peace, and she hopes to be freed from this role by Madoka.]]
* [[spoiler:EveryoneLives: Although [[BigBad Moid]] gets banished to the Rin-Ne, so he's ''effectively'' dead. Other than that, no character dies permanently.]]
* EvolvingCredits: Episode 12 replaces the OP with the ED, and Episodes 16-18 and 22-23 have a completely different ED than the one for the earlier episodes of Season 2.
* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.
* FacePalmOfDoom: Villagiulio makes one to [[spoiler:Muginami]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Quite a bit. The suits are rather skintight and show off the back, and the girls get jobs working at BWH [[FanserviceWithASmile wearing waitress outfits]].
** In the first episode, Yoko drops Madoka's pants, resulting in a PantyShot, and there's also a ShowerScene with Madoka, where Lan sneaks in undetected and unintentionally scares her.
** Episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels wriggling around and attacking girls in a manner clearly evoking NaughtyTentacles. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].
** Season 2 Episode 8 has [[CuteClumsyGirl Reiko]] trip and accidentally yank Muginami’s towel off during art class, [[NakedFreakOut exposing her body which she quickly covers up]].
* FanserviceWithASmile: When Lan and Muginami help Madoka out at the restaurant, damn near the entire town gathers there due being told about "a cute waitress AND a klutzy one?". And damn near everyone sits there gawking at Lan spilling everything and Muginami being [[BuxomIsBetter Muginami]]. Later, they all get waitress uniforms.
* FashionableAsymmetry: When wearing her jersey (i.e. pretty much all the time), Madoka has the right leg and left sleeve rolled up.
* ForcefulKiss: Oddly, done by a third party. When it seems like neither Lan nor Muginami can let go of their hostilities towards each other due to the war between their respective nations and each girl's opinion on involving Madoka into it, Madoka forces the two to kiss each other and gives a RousingSpeech to make them both re-join the Jersey Club. Afterwards, Muginami makes Madoka and Lan kiss each other for fun, then Lan tries it on the other two when they start heckling her but only succeeds in making them [[EpicFail headbutt]] each other.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In Season 2 [[spoiler: Madoka switches bodies with Yurikano. It abruptly and inexplicably ends when Madoka in Yurikano's body touched Dizelmine. Presumably it was ThePowerOfLove.]]
* FuroScene: Madoka and Muginami have one in Episode 7.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Muginami does this often.
%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* GilliganCut: In Episode 14, Madoka attempts to leave the island base Pharos. Tadokoro lets her go because there are no ships to take her to the mainland, and he thinks that she cannot possibly leave. Cue the next scene, where [[{{Determinator}} Madoka finishes swimming to shore]].
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Everyone's motives are very vague at best- the only thing we can be sure of is that Madoka wants to protect Kamogawa, and everybody else isn't making it clear why they're fighting. The villains are actively trying to avoid causing collateral damage to the Earth and in general aren't that bad of people, they simply want their weapons back when it's not really told why they're on Earth in the first place.
** Things get slightly less grey in the space war in season 2, where Prince Dizelmine intends to destroy De Metrio to save Le Garite while Villagiulio outright says he will not be like Dizelmine.
** By the end [[spoiler: everyone becomes a lighter shade of grey, except for the true BigBad.]]
* HumanAlien: All of the aliens that have appeared thus far. Justified because [[spoiler: [[TransplantedHumans they actually are descendants of Earthlings that voyaged to other planets before Earth's civilization collapsed]].]]
* HumongousMecha: The Vox and the Ovid. The Vox double as TransformingMecha ''and'' EmphatheticWeapon.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' has a good effect when it intrudes into the real world, much like TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}’s Perils of the Warp. [[spoiler: He turns out to be lying though.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "Kamogawa" is in every episode title of both seasons, as well as all [=OVAs=].
* ImprovisedWeapon: For the first couple of fights, the Vox units don't get any weaponry whatsoever, forcing Madoka and Lan to punch and throw random crap to victory. Later on they get actual weapons sent to them.
* IndirectKiss: Youko's apprentice was estatic in episode 6 at the prospect of sharing one with her when she took his instant noodles from him.... only to finish it and throw the cup in the bin, visibly dissapointing him.
* IntertwinedFingers: Madoka and Lan do this in episode 12.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Kamogawa is about the only part of Earth that's involved in the story. {{Lampshaded}} at the beginning of Season 2, where a couple of Madoka's classmates remark that Kamogawa has suddenly become more important than Tokyo.
* LaserBlade: [[TerribleTrio Izo, Kirius, and Array]]'s robots each have one. Vox Aura and Vox Ignis later gain them as well.
* LockedInARoom: In Episode 16, Asteria conspired to get Villagiulio and Dizelmine locked in an elevator to get them to make up and stop the war. Ultimately proves fruitless, as they continue fighting anyway.
* LoopholeAbuse: An amusing moment in Episode 4. Madoka's teacher announces there is no regulation that says students can pilot robots. Commander Tadokoro counters by indicating there's nothing that says students ''can't'' pilot robots either.
* MaleGaze: Female-on-female, but Madoka's first view of Lan is the full slide up with her slack-jawed.
** Quite a few shots have a female character's rear end covering half the screen.
* MechaExpansionPack: The Vox units get one about episode 10. It gifts Muginami with a double-blade sword, Lan with a [[MoreDakka machine gun]], and Madoka with a smaller LaserBlade.
* MentalWorld: [[spoiler: Rin-ne is more or less the collective unconscious.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Lan and Madoka successfully beat the bad guys with ThePowerOfFriendship. [[spoiler:Then Array recounts a legend that essentially amounts to "the Vox units will destroy the world".]]
** In season 2, after Madoka [[spoiler:in Yurikano's body]] is sent into Le Garite in a space capsule:
--> "Goodbye, Lan. Goodbye, Muginami. Goodbye, Earth."
--> ({{Beat}}) [[spoiler:(Vox Aura launching itself to pick up Madoka's capsule and fly back to the general direction of Earth)]]
--> "Everybody! I'M BACK!"
* MustMakeAmends: Lan feels very bad for making Madoka pilot the Vox Aura and for the destruction that Kamogawa suffers from battle. But Madoka doesn't think badly of her, since being a pilot is Madoka's own decision.
* NewTransferStudent: Both Muginami and Lan transfer into Madoka's school in episode 4.
* NGOSuperPower: As fitting of a [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion NERV]] {{Expy}}, Novumundos is ridiculously powerful. Asteria casually threatens to replace the American president during a phone call.
* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:The trio is together at the end, but seemingly still only as close friends.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] in season 2 is very secretive and often downright villainous to everyone he supposedly cares about, is AxCrazy half the time, and has genocide as option one for the season's conflict.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Possibly the prettiest one ever; making an explosion that resulted in green energy flowers falling everywhere looks harmless, but the resulting EvilLaugh from [[BigBad Moid]] and [[DiscOneFinalBoss Villagiulio]]'s relative approval of the event sure as hell doesn't mean good things.]]
* OnTheNext: Which are hilarious conversations between the cast, often completely unrelated to the actual preview.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In Episode 9, Izo re-enacts a samurai drama on TV in an attempt to indicate that he wants to fight Madoka... and the people listening thinks he wants to confess his love to her, or that he is her boyfriend.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Vox Units. This trope is called "Memoria" in-universe. Notably, Madoka seems to have been chosen by Aura when she nearly drowned, while Muginami was chosen when she touched Ignis while naked.
* OverlyLongName: Princess Lan's full name is Fin E Ld Si Laffinity. Madoka just thinks it [[ComicallyMissingThePoint sounds foreign]].
* PaperThinDisguise: In Episode 16, Madoka and Muginami do this to sneak onto the Le Graite ship. Madoka’s disguise consists of overalls, a pair of glasses, a different hairstyle, and (in the dub) an obviously fake southern accent, while Muginami simply wears a dress and headgear. Dizelmine and Moid see right through it, but let them on anyway.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Voxes triggered the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum Last Glacial Maximum]], [[spoiler:destroyed the human civilization of that era, and forced the survivors to flee to outer space, their descendants today being the "aliens" like Lan. [[VillainHasAPoint No wonder the Kiss organization is hellbent to destroy the Voxes]].]]
%% commented* PoorCommunicationKills: This is practically the main theme for the first six episodes of Season 2.
* PosthumousCharacter: Yurikano, Lord Villagulio’s bilogical brother who happens to look like Madoka. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she's NotQuiteDead thanks to her fiancée King Dizelmine keeping her alive, and plotting to [[FreakyFridayFlip switch her body with Madoka]].]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Vox seems to work better when using this. This and ThePowerOfLove are what Madoka intend to use to stop the war between De Metrio and Le Garite; [[spoiler:they've been used to successfully re-friend Lan and Muginami.]]
* {{Precursors}}: [[spoiler:''Earth itself'']] is actually the origin of the Polyhedron "alien" cultures, in fact being [[spoiler:the descendants of human colonies from a lost age gone twenty thousand years ago]].
* {{Prequel}}: The ''Dawn of Memoria'' manga deals with Izo, Kirius, Array and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] while they were still in the De Metrio military academy. Interestingly, the manga began serialization four months before the anime aired, giving some of the characters an EarlyBirdCameo.
* ProductPlacement: Drink [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rinne_no_Lagrange_drink_5995.jpg sweet energy drinks]] and you'll be able to save the earth!
** The credits do mention it's sponsored by Nissan to a degree, as well as the mechs being created by Nissan's vehicle designer.
** The real Kamogawa, as a RealPlaceBackground, to increase tourism.
* PseudoCrisis: Episode 12 [[spoiler:[[InMediasRes actually begins two weeks after the]] CliffHanger [[InMediasRes in Episode 11]], showing everything is fine. We only learn what happened later in the episode.]]
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Kirius, Izo, and Array. [[spoiler: They pull a HeelFaceTurn]].
* RealPlaceBackground: Kamogawa. As part of the show's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, "Kamogawa" is worked into every title in some fashion. Kamogawa is hoping this show will increase tourism for them.
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Essentially the ultimate power of the Voxes through entering Rin-ne.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Muginami calls Madoka out in episde 6, claiming that she doesn't truly think of others and that everything she does is for selfish reasons. It does nothing but piss Madoka off, and makes her enable the Rin-Ne.]]
** In episode 7, she realizes that Muginami was right and that she needs to learn to listen to people.
* RecapEpisode: Episode 0 of season 2 (first aired 1 July 2012), WholeEpisodeFlashback narrated by Madoka's elder cousin.
* RedHerring: Season 1 drops some implications that [[spoiler: Lan's brother is dead]] but it turns out he's been alive and well. A similar thing occurs with [[spoiler: Yurikano, who's NotQuiteDead.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Muginami and Lan.
** Also their "brothers", Villagiulio and Dizelmine.
* RelaxOVision: Happens in Episode 15 when Asteria says very ''naughty'' things to Madoka, simply to get a reaction. ForScience.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Madoka is very, very close to both Muginami and Lan. (Despite Lan's misgivings, she has no problem with having [[{{Polyamory}} two people be her Most Important People]].) [[spoiler: Madoka and Lan star in the blatantly romantic student film "The Spaceship and the Lily", and the [[ProsceniumReveal false declaration of love]] turns out to not have been so false.]] In season 2, episode 2, they start declaring their love for each other.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The three colored chairs that represent Madoka, Lan, and Muginami. At the end of episodes that mark important turning points in their characters, the chairs shift positions and placement. [[spoiler:In Episode 11 they go flying into the air, along with the three Vox Units going crazy. And at the end of the first season, Madoka's chair is all alone, as is Madoka herself since the other two [[ButNowIMustGo left back to their respective home planets]].
** Season 2 continues the colored chair symbolism, but this time they show up in odd places, [[spoiler:such as Madoka's chair appearing in the place where Yurikano performed her HeroicSacrifice]]. And then in episode 23, [[spoiler:Yurikano appears with the chairs]]. In Episode 24, [[spoiler: the last image of the series is of the three girls sitting in the chairs]].
* RunningGag: Madoka's inability to pronounce [[BigBad Villagiulio]]'s name.
--> Madoka: "Villagiuvio!"
--> Lan: "You almost got it right."
** She still can't get the hang of it in season 2, where she screws up Villagiulio's name in an unsecured broadcast to his ship, pissing off his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Grania (and Commander Tadakoro), [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but making him crack up]] and muse how she hasn't changed. She settled for Giuvi-nii by the end.
* SceneryGorn: Uncharacteristically, U-Go, Muginami's planet, is broken, gray, stark and an overall [[CrapsackWorld horrid place]]- that happens to posess the {{Animation Bump}}s within the show itself.
* SceneryPorn: Vibrant and lush surroundings, a break from the usual bleak flatlands and crumbling cities found in most mecha shows. [[spoiler: Even the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt metaphysical apocalyptic]] scene after Rin-ne fully blooms is astonishingly nice-looking, if depressing.]]
* SeizaSquirm: Asteria makes Izo, Kirius and Array do this in her office after they lose track of Madoka.
%% commented out as an Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * SequelHook: Season 1 ends with plenty of questions. Fortunately, a second season is there to answer them.
* ShipperOnDeck: The girls who produce the student film "''The Spaceship and the [[{{Yuri}} Lily]]''" (starring Madoka and Lan) are implied to be a bunch of [[YuriFan Madoka/Lan shippers]].
* ShoutOut:
** In episode 8 the Voxes buzz the command bridge and make Tadokoro spill coffee on his shirt, just like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSRngcYVoM0 this scene]] from ''Film/TopGun''.
** One of Madoka's Jersey Club odd jobs in episode 12 is serving as a poetry reader in a game of karuta. Probably not a coincidence that this series aired in the same season as ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}''.
*** Lan and Muginami’s seiyuus are the same as Chihaya and Kanade.
* SkinshipGrope: No groping, but naked bathing and hugging.
* SpaceElves: The Polyhedron people. Lan especially fits the naive elven princess archetype.
* StarshipLuxurious: Le Garite's flagship, which has enough room for an entire mall and a full-scale replica of Kamogawa.
* StrategySchmategy: Madoka has no idea what the hell she's doing at first. Her random flailing moves confuse Kirius, who begins thinking that [[MistakenForBadass they're immensely powerful Earthling combat techniques that he's never fought before]].
* SuperRobotGenre: Though it has RealRobot storytelling.
* TakeAThirdOption: Season 2, instead of [[spoiler:having to choose either Lan or Muginami's side of the war, Madoka uses ThePowerOfLove and ThePowerOfFriendship to make the two stop fighting each other. Afterwards, Asteria recommends that the two seek asylum on Earth.]]
** Vox Particles appear during times when the pilot is in a high emotional state (anger, sadness or hatred being the easiest to use), so when Novumundos wants to try out the Vox Particle Control experiment, it seems like they might have to either risk putting Madoka through the same trauma as Lan went through in the previous episode or stopping. Asteria notes that shame works as well as the other emotions and [[CovertPervert proceeds to tease the three heroines and let Madoka's imagination do the rest]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight What happens after nearly destroys the base]].
* {{Telepathy}}: The Voxes facilitate the transfer of thoughts. At the end of Season 1, [[spoiler: Madoka actually hears the thoughts of everyone in Kamogawa]].
* ThanksForTheMammary: Completely out of the blue, Asteria sneaks up on Madoka and grabs her breasts. Madoka actually seems pretty disturbed by the sudden groping, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse but this is quickly forgotten]].
* TransformingMecha: Which only adds to the very ''Anime/EurekaSeven''-ish design scheme of the mecha.
* TriangRelations: This is ''one'' interpretation of the relationship between Madoka, Lan and Muginami by the end of the series (especially Type 8), fueled by the huge amount of {{subtext}} between them.
* TrouserSpace: Madoka pulls a tennis ball out of her skirt. [[http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/02/10/72282/1966003828-praktisch-kann-minirock-sein-ballverstecke-welt-damentennis.9.jpg This is actually]] TruthInTelevision.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Happens in the end of Season 1, bordering on GainaxEnding if it weren't for the fact that not all of it is a MindScrew - and the parts that are get a MindScrewdriver in Season 2.
* TrueCompanions: According to Madoka's older cousin, TrueCompanions are people carrying the same beliefs and holding mutual love for each other. Madoka, Lan, and Muginami grow into this as the series goes on.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: Both of the seasons premiered as 1-cour.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Lan and Muginami's plan to [[spoiler:rescue Madoka from Dizelmine]] doesn't become apparent until Lan is [[spoiler:into her broadcasted speech]]. When Muginami [[spoiler:yanks the cell key from VictoriasSecretCompartment]], it becomes clear that Lan's [[spoiler:earlier supposed FaceHeelTurn was merely a [[FakeDefector distraction]]]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight:
** The kids at Madoka's school don't seem to notice Lan's blue hair, purple eyes, and her unusual outfit. They just wonder if Madoka finally recruited a new club member. Even Madoka herself doesn't take notice of it.
** In a mixture of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and CrazyPrepared, Madoka thinks Lan's costume is a swimsuit, and that she's prepared for a rescue -- just like herself in the beginning of the episode.
* VillainDecay: [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo, and Array]]. Though they make pretty poor villains to start with, they eventually become mere waiters at BWH, and [[spoiler:do a HeelFaceTurn]].
* VillainEpisode: Episode 9 is centered around Kirius, Izo, and Array, where they show their [[FishOutOfWater comical misunderstanding of Earth society]].
* VillainsOutShopping: Villagiulio is shown playing a dancing video game at one point, and at another gets in a fight with Madoka's uncle Hiroshi over a coat they both wanted to buy.
** GoKartingWithBowser: Then they have a drink to make up for their immaturity. Villagiulio gets the coat.
** Episode 9 is almost completely this, in which Kirius, Izo, and Array go about their business, get into hilarious misunderstandings, and bickering with each other.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Asteria's game of psyching Madoka up with prospects of future love life wouldn't have paid off so hard otherwise.
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Yoko and Asteria actually are walking the Earth, while Madoka, Lan and Muginami are continuing their Jersey Club activities throughout space.]]
* WarIsHell: It's all but stated that Lan lost her brother in a war sometimes in the past. [[spoiler:It's a RedHerring; Dizelmine is very much alive and the [[DiscOneFinalBoss Disc Two Final Boss]]]]. This is also the reason why [[spoiler:Villagiulio doesn't regard Muginami taking a Vox as a good thing, since (to him) she's just [[TheLoad a war-buddy-wannabe kid]]]].
* WasItAllALie: When Lan corners [[spoiler:Muginami]] about [[TheMole secretly working for the Kiss organization]] while maintaining a friendly facade, she asks her this.
** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go. [[spoiler:Then they make up later and Muginami becomes a permanent member]].
* WhamEpisode: Episode 11, in which [[spoiler:Madoka undergoes a HeroicBSOD and nearly opens the Rin-ne, while her friendship are forced to do so as well, and the apocalypse is incoming. All the while, Dizelmine, Moid, and the Polyhedron Federation start looking less benevolent. The world is saved by Episode 12, but the plot threads are further explored from there]].
* WhamLine: Episode 20:
-->'''Moid''': Yes. It is [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong the Memoria I was imprinted with]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 20,000 years ago]]]].
** A non-plot relevant one at the end of Episode 24: Madoka is called on her cellphone by someone apparently inviting her to an event to be held in three days, only for her to answer that she's busy. The end of the call is the following line:
--->'''Madoka:''' ''(on the phone)'' May I ask your name again? And you're [[spoiler:[[FamedInStory the Secretary-General of which United Nations]]]]?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted; In the last episode, once everything else has been resolved, Shozo suddenly realizes they forgot to deal with [[spoiler:Moid, the recently revealed BigBad. Cut to Moid, who has a VillainousBreakdown and calms down just in time to be [[DisappearsIntoLight spontaneously absorbed into the Rin-Ne]]]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kirius and Lan. Lan's hair is light blue while Kirius's hair is dark blue.
** Dizelmine, who's a regular [[spoiler:anatgonist]] in season 2 has the same hair color as Lan.
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Madoka Kyouno is the sole member of the Jersey Club and always ready to help others out. One day, she is approached by an alien from their home planet Le Graite named Lan who asks her to pilot a robotic aircraft (called a Vox Unit) to defend mankind against an evil force. Eventually, they meet a third girl, Muginami, who also joins the club. Together, they work with the organization of Nuvomundos to battle against the invaders known as Kiss, led by [[BigBad Lord Villagulio]] from the planet De Metrio, who aims to capture the Vox Units so that he can destroy the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]] and their planet Le Garite. Thus begins a [[GreyAndGreyMorality surprisingly morally ambiguous]] story despite having a highly idealistic protagonist and an overall lighthearted tone.

''Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne'' (輪廻のラグランジェ ''Flower declaration of your heart'', ''Rinne no Raguranje'') is an anime that started airing in January 2012. The Second season began airing in [[Summer2012Anime July 2012]]. The anime is being produced by Creator/{{Xebec}} and directed by Toshimasa Suzuki. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Creator/VizMedia.

In addition to a manga adaptation, there is also a {{Prequel}} manga entitled ''Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne ~Dawn of Memoria~''(''輪廻のラグランジェ 〜暁月のメモリア〜'', ''Rinne no Raguranje ~Akatsuki no Memoria~''). Oddly, it was released before the original anime premiered.

Not to be confused with ''(Kyoukai no) {{Manga/Rinne}}''.

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!!This series provides examples of:

* TenMinuteRetirement: The three heroines decide to never fight with the Vox again in the middle of Season 2. This lasts for roughly one BreatherEpisode. Madoka does this on her own a couple of times, as well.
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Due to Madoka's monologuing in the space capsule [[spoiler:while she is in the body of Yurikano]], the main characters learn everything about [[spoiler:Yurikano’s true feelings about her brother and fiancée fighting each other- she hates it]].
* AFriendInNeed: Madoka says she will always help friend in need; even if it's a friend she just met, she'll pilot a robot for her.
* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: All the aliens are actually descendants of humans who left before Earth's civilization collapsed 20,000 years ago. Now their home planet is essentially a galactic reserve for society.]]
* AirVentPassageway: Madoka and Asteria use this to get to Lan and Muginami, who are blocking the path to the Vox Aura to protest Asteria’s decision to decommission it.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Averted with Izo, who finds Earth television boring (and he seems to think a samurai drama is some sort of real-life ritual). On the other hand, [[BigBad Lord Vilagulio]] [[VillainsOutShopping enjoys playing a hula hoop game]] on what [[BlandNameProduct suspiciously looks like]] a UsefulNotes/NintendoWii.
* AlienAmongUs: Lan and Muginami mostly understand Earth culture, and Villagiulio is subject to VillainsBlendInBetter. Neither applies to [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo, or Array]], [[spoiler:though they seem to have adapted by Season 2]].
* AliensInCardiff: Alien HumongousMecha in Kamogawa.
* AmusingInjuries: Madoka takes some.
* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss TerribleTrio as anything but this. [[BigBad Their boss Villaguilio]] counts as well, since he [[spoiler:wants to save his planet from a collision with another one, and feels he must destroy that one to do so, and [[TheDragon Grania]] is loyal to his cause. Dizelmine, the ruler of the other planet, qualifies as well for the same reasons]]. The only villain that doesn’t qualify is [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Balance T. Moid]], since he only cares about [[ForScience satisfying his curiosity]]]].
* ApocalypseHow: The reason Kiss/De Metrio and Polyhedron/Le Garite are fighting is because [[spoiler:their planets are going to crash into each other]].
** [[spoiler: The Vox Units are also believed to be capable of destroying planets.]]
** In the end [[spoiler: the events of the series alter the orbits of De Metrio and La Garite, stopping the problem.]]
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the last episode, [[spoiler: Lan is crowned as the ruler of Le Garite. [[SubvertedTrope Then she puts on her jersey]]]].
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BadassAdorable: Madoka, for sure.
* BatmanGambit: Lan and Muginami pull this off in Episode 17. [[spoiler:Lan has Muginami thrown in prison, then distracts the guards with an overly long speech so Muginami can secretly escape and rescue Madoka without interference.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, because Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens twice. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works, [[spoiler:because Lan's robot does it that time.]]
** And then it becomes one heck of a BrickJoke in Episode 23.
* BatterUp: Madoka bats away a flying newspaper dispenser, using a ripped from the ground streetlight.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In Episode 17, Madoka and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] have a mental [[WimpFight slap fight]].
* {{BFG}}: Villagiulio's Ovid has one, and Lan receives a rifle as well.
* BigBad: Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the Jersey Club heroines, the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]].
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Lan's brother and his Le Garite Knights in Episode 12 drive off Kiss just in time.]]
** Earlier in Episode 11, [[spoiler: Izo, Array and Kirius use their shields to protect Kamogawa from a WaveMotionGun]].
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BishoujoSeries
* {{Bishounen}}: [[TerribleTrio The three attackers of the earth, Izo, Array, and Kirius.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami]] seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5, being a friend of [[spoiler:Madoka and Lan]] but actually [[spoiler:being TheMole and taking about war like it was nothing, [[SubvertedTrope but]] after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she snapped out of it]].
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] seems nicer than Villagiulio, but [[spoiler:of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option]].
** [[spoiler:Moid]] is the biggest example by far- [[spoiler:his politeness and care-taking of Lan was a facade hiding a depraved MadScientist]].
* BittersweetEnding: Everything's resolved nicely by the end of the first season, but [[spoiler:Madoka lost two close friends/[[ShipTease lovers]]. They do promise to see each other again, though, and they do in Season 2]].
* BookEnds: The first season begins and ends with Madoka stripping to a swimsuit she was wearing under her clothes to help someone at the beach.
** And again in the first episode of the second season.
* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Done to Muginami in episode 5, after Villagiulio tells her that she is just a parasite and that she never was a part of his team.]]
%% commented out as a Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BridgeBunnies
* ButtMonkey: Array constantly gets into various embarrassing situations, such as having to work for Asteria in a ''FrenchMaidOutfit''. [[WholesomeCrossdresser And he seems to like it, seeing that he never took it off]].
* CatchPhrase: Madoka always says "Maru", which means "Tick", "Circle" or "Perfect" in english. Which may be a Japanese pun on her name, since "Madoka" can also mean circle.
** Lan has "Wan", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for "Woof!"
** Muginami's "Roger that!" (''Kashikomari!'', short for ''[[http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%95%8F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F Kashikomarimashita]]'')
** They all do hand gestures to go with them; Madoka makes an air circle, Lan does a FauxPaw, and Muginami does a little salute.
** In Episode 24, [[spoiler:their Catch Phrases are the last spoken words in the series]].
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet arrives just in time as Vox Aura stops moving. It's still possible to win the battle with the other two Voxes, but considering what happened when Vox pilots are pushed to their emotional limit, it's probably not a wise thing for them to do.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city, [[SuperCellReception but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean]]. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.
* ChainmailBikini: Averted. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]], [[RuleOfSexy for no apparent reason]].
* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet]] in Season 1 [[spoiler:arrives to fend off Villagulio at the end]].
* ChekhovsGun: The shield materialization ability of the Ovids [[spoiler:saves most of Kamogawa from the falling debris of the big battle (with the exception of Yoko, but she gets better)]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Yurikano. If she was not on the same otherworldly shore as the one Madoka ended up in, things would have probably ended disastrously.]]
* CliffHanger: Episode 11. [[spoiler:Madoka's sister is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim mortally wounded by a fallen enemy bot]]; Madoka sees this and has a FreakOut that causes all three Voxes to lose control and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique blossom]] simultaneously. She gets better, and the season ends on a conclusive note.]]
* ColourCodedCharacters: The Ovid and their contrails.
* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: The only building Madoka lands on in episode 3, apparently shut down the previous week. She also manages to crash-land in an empty lot; the house that was there had recently been demolished. Although she didn't need to be that worried as an evacuation order was issued and the people were presumably heading to shelters.
** And then there's Madoka’s grandpa’s peanut farm, which gets destroyed by her falling Vox Unit. PlayedForLaughs.
* CrapsackWorld: U-Go, the planet Muginami hails from. It's described as essentially being the trash heap of the universe.
* CreativeClosingCredits: The Jersey Club Walks on Chairs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfT0E14bw0 SO MANY CHAIRS]].
* CrossCounter: Between Madoka and [[spoiler:Yurikano on the other side of Rin-ne]].
* CryCute: Madoka at the end of Season 1.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Multiple characters.
%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DeflectorShields
* DestructiveSaviour: Madoka consciously does her best to [[{{Defied}} avoid being one]]. It doesn't always work, [[spoiler: especially considering that her Vox has a kind of special ability that plays right into Villagiulio's hands. Asteria actually forbids her from using her Vox Unit for this reason.]]
* DistantFinale: Halfway through the final episode of the series, the plot skips to [[spoiler:some time after Madoka's graduation]].
* TheDragon: Grania, the dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1, and in season 2 is usually seen with Villagulio taking orders from him.
** In season 2, [[spoiler:Moid]] seems to be one for [[spoiler:Dizelmine]], carrying out his orders and always being by his side, [[spoiler:but he is actually TheManInFrontOfTheMan]].
* DramaticIrony:
** In Episode 9, Kirius runs into Madoka outside their mecha...and neither of them recognize each other. Kirius even says later that he should have asked the girl he met where Madoka was...not knowing said girl was Madoka.
** In Episode 18: "[[AccidentalPublicConfession If someday I meet Lan's brother again I want to tell him how you feel.]]" [[spoiler: He's listening]].
*** Later on, [[spoiler:Dizelmine basically ends up confessing to Yurikano, thinking that she was still [[FreakyFridayFlip Madoka in her body]], while the viewer knows perfectly well that they switched back]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good, closer than ever, and has expanded their Jersey Club across other planets, of which new members include Izo, Kirius, Array, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; De Metrio and La Garite finally bury the hatchet; Yurikano is back from the Rin-ne for good and has reunited with her loyal understudies Izo, Kirius and Array; Lan ascends the throne of Le Garite in lieu of Dizelmine, who now travels with the recently-abdicated Villagiulio; and Astela, finally free of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne. The only person not to get a good ending is Moid, and considering [[BigBad that he was responsible for much of the misery in the series]], it's a fitting fate for him to be apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor stuck in the Rin-ne]], forever doomed to [[SuckinessIsPainful listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems dreadful) over and over]].]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the backstory, [[spoiler: Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. The viewer finally gets to see it in Season 2. [[spoiler: Note that she didn't use the Vox to do it, but opened the Rin-ne with her own power.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Muginami is rather quickly forgiven for being a spy who was planning on giving the Vox to Villagiulio. Madoka apologized ''to her.'' She does make an effort to be a true friend and ally, to her credit.]]
* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire, respectively. More InformedAbility, as this is never demonstrated.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: All three of the main girls have 'Memoria' in...[[{{Fanservice}} unusual places]], to say the least. Madoka's appears to be [[PantyShot on her ass]], Lan's is somewhere near her breasts, and Muginami's is ''just'' above her crotch.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:Asteria's tattoo, that which she calls Rin-ne, is located right on her bossom]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Vox units only work if the pilot believes in themselves. Madoka seems to have "befriended" hers at some point in the past as well.
** Near the end of Season 1, Vox Aura begins glowing even when Madoka's not anywhere near it, and in Season 2, [[spoiler: all of them move on their own to rescue their pilots]].
** In Episode 23, [[spoiler:Aura actually sends Madoka an e-mail]].
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:According to Asteria, she's the Witch who cycles the world through war and peace, and she hopes to be freed from this role by Madoka.]]
* [[spoiler:EveryoneLives: Although [[BigBad Moid]] gets banished to the Rin-Ne, so he's ''effectively'' dead. Other than that, no character dies permanently.]]
* EvolvingCredits: Episode 12 replaces the OP with the ED, and Episodes 16-18 and 22-23 have a completely different ED than the one for the earlier episodes of Season 2.
* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.
* FacePalmOfDoom: Villagiulio makes one to [[spoiler:Muginami]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Quite a bit. The suits are rather skintight and show off the back, and the girls get jobs working at BWH [[FanserviceWithASmile wearing waitress outfits]].
** In the first episode, Yoko drops Madoka's pants, resulting in a PantyShot, and there's also a ShowerScene with Madoka, where Lan sneaks in undetected and unintentionally scares her.
** Episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels wriggling around and attacking girls in a manner clearly evoking NaughtyTentacles. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].
** Season 2 Episode 8 has [[CuteClumsyGirl Reiko]] trip and accidentally yank Muginami’s towel off during art class, [[NakedFreakOut exposing her body which she quickly covers up]].
* FanserviceWithASmile: When Lan and Muginami help Madoka out at the restaurant, damn near the entire town gathers there due being told about "a cute waitress AND a klutzy one?". And damn near everyone sits there gawking at Lan spilling everything and Muginami being [[BuxomIsBetter Muginami]]. Later, they all get waitress uniforms.
* FashionableAsymmetry: When wearing her jersey (i.e. pretty much all the time), Madoka has the right leg and left sleeve rolled up.
* ForcefulKiss: Oddly, done by a third party. When it seems like neither Lan nor Muginami can let go of their hostilities towards each other due to the war between their respective nations and each girl's opinion on involving Madoka into it, Madoka forces the two to kiss each other and gives a RousingSpeech to make them both re-join the Jersey Club. Afterwards, Muginami makes Madoka and Lan kiss each other for fun, then Lan tries it on the other two when they start heckling her but only succeeds in making them [[EpicFail headbutt]] each other.
* FreakyFridayFlip: In Season 2 [[spoiler: Madoka switches bodies with Yurikano. It abruptly and inexplicably ends when Madoka in Yurikano's body touched Dizelmine. Presumably it was ThePowerOfLove.]]
* FuroScene: Madoka and Muginami have one in Episode 7.
* {{Gainaxing}}: Muginami does this often.
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* GilliganCut: In Episode 14, Madoka attempts to leave the island base Pharos. Tadokoro lets her go because there are no ships to take her to the mainland, and he thinks that she cannot possibly leave. Cue the next scene, where [[{{Determinator}} Madoka finishes swimming to shore]].
* GreyAndGreyMorality: Everyone's motives are very vague at best- the only thing we can be sure of is that Madoka wants to protect Kamogawa, and everybody else isn't making it clear why they're fighting. The villains are actively trying to avoid causing collateral damage to the Earth and in general aren't that bad of people, they simply want their weapons back when it's not really told why they're on Earth in the first place.
** Things get slightly less grey in the space war in season 2, where Prince Dizelmine intends to destroy De Metrio to save Le Garite while Villagiulio outright says he will not be like Dizelmine.
** By the end [[spoiler: everyone becomes a lighter shade of grey, except for the true BigBad.]]
* HumanAlien: All of the aliens that have appeared thus far. Justified because [[spoiler: [[TransplantedHumans they actually are descendants of Earthlings that voyaged to other planets before Earth's civilization collapsed]].]]
* HumongousMecha: The Vox and the Ovid. The Vox double as TransformingMecha ''and'' EmphatheticWeapon.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' has a good effect when it intrudes into the real world, much like TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}’s Perils of the Warp. [[spoiler: He turns out to be lying though.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "Kamogawa" is in every episode title of both seasons, as well as all [=OVAs=].
* ImprovisedWeapon: For the first couple of fights, the Vox units don't get any weaponry whatsoever, forcing Madoka and Lan to punch and throw random crap to victory. Later on they get actual weapons sent to them.
* IndirectKiss: Youko's apprentice was estatic in episode 6 at the prospect of sharing one with her when she took his instant noodles from him.... only to finish it and throw the cup in the bin, visibly dissapointing him.
* IntertwinedFingers: Madoka and Lan do this in episode 12.
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Kamogawa is about the only part of Earth that's involved in the story. {{Lampshaded}} at the beginning of Season 2, where a couple of Madoka's classmates remark that Kamogawa has suddenly become more important than Tokyo.
* LaserBlade: [[TerribleTrio Izo, Kirius, and Array]]'s robots each have one. Vox Aura and Vox Ignis later gain them as well.
* LockedInARoom: In Episode 16, Asteria conspired to get Villagiulio and Dizelmine locked in an elevator to get them to make up and stop the war. Ultimately proves fruitless, as they continue fighting anyway.
* LoopholeAbuse: An amusing moment in Episode 4. Madoka's teacher announces there is no regulation that says students can pilot robots. Commander Tadokoro counters by indicating there's nothing that says students ''can't'' pilot robots either.
* MaleGaze: Female-on-female, but Madoka's first view of Lan is the full slide up with her slack-jawed.
** Quite a few shots have a female character's rear end covering half the screen.
* MechaExpansionPack: The Vox units get one about episode 10. It gifts Muginami with a double-blade sword, Lan with a [[MoreDakka machine gun]], and Madoka with a smaller LaserBlade.
* MentalWorld: [[spoiler: Rin-ne is more or less the collective unconscious.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Lan and Madoka successfully beat the bad guys with ThePowerOfFriendship. [[spoiler:Then Array recounts a legend that essentially amounts to "the Vox units will destroy the world".]]
** In season 2, after Madoka [[spoiler:in Yurikano's body]] is sent into Le Garite in a space capsule:
--> "Goodbye, Lan. Goodbye, Muginami. Goodbye, Earth."
--> ({{Beat}}) [[spoiler:(Vox Aura launching itself to pick up Madoka's capsule and fly back to the general direction of Earth)]]
--> "Everybody! I'M BACK!"
* MustMakeAmends: Lan feels very bad for making Madoka pilot the Vox Aura and for the destruction that Kamogawa suffers from battle. But Madoka doesn't think badly of her, since being a pilot is Madoka's own decision.
* NewTransferStudent: Both Muginami and Lan transfer into Madoka's school in episode 4.
* NGOSuperPower: As fitting of a [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion NERV]] {{Expy}}, Novumundos is ridiculously powerful. Asteria casually threatens to replace the American president during a phone call.
* NoRomanticResolution: [[spoiler:The trio is together at the end, but seemingly still only as close friends.]]
* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] in season 2 is very secretive and often downright villainous to everyone he supposedly cares about, is AxCrazy half the time, and has genocide as option one for the season's conflict.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Possibly the prettiest one ever; making an explosion that resulted in green energy flowers falling everywhere looks harmless, but the resulting EvilLaugh from [[BigBad Moid]] and [[DiscOneFinalBoss Villagiulio]]'s relative approval of the event sure as hell doesn't mean good things.]]
* OnTheNext: Which are hilarious conversations between the cast, often completely unrelated to the actual preview.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In Episode 9, Izo re-enacts a samurai drama on TV in an attempt to indicate that he wants to fight Madoka... and the people listening thinks he wants to confess his love to her, or that he is her boyfriend.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Vox Units. This trope is called "Memoria" in-universe. Notably, Madoka seems to have been chosen by Aura when she nearly drowned, while Muginami was chosen when she touched Ignis while naked.
* OverlyLongName: Princess Lan's full name is Fin E Ld Si Laffinity. Madoka just thinks it [[ComicallyMissingThePoint sounds foreign]].
* PaperThinDisguise: In Episode 16, Madoka and Muginami do this to sneak onto the Le Graite ship. Madoka’s disguise consists of overalls, a pair of glasses, a different hairstyle, and (in the dub) an obviously fake southern accent, while Muginami simply wears a dress and headgear. Dizelmine and Moid see right through it, but let them on anyway.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Voxes triggered the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum Last Glacial Maximum]], [[spoiler:destroyed the human civilization of that era, and forced the survivors to flee to outer space, their descendants today being the "aliens" like Lan. [[VillainHasAPoint No wonder the Kiss organization is hellbent to destroy the Voxes]].]]
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* PosthumousCharacter: Yurikano, Lord Villagulio’s bilogical brother who happens to look like Madoka. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she's NotQuiteDead thanks to her fiancée King Dizelmine keeping her alive, and plotting to [[FreakyFridayFlip switch her body with Madoka]].]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Vox seems to work better when using this. This and ThePowerOfLove are what Madoka intend to use to stop the war between De Metrio and Le Garite; [[spoiler:they've been used to successfully re-friend Lan and Muginami.]]
* {{Precursors}}: [[spoiler:''Earth itself'']] is actually the origin of the Polyhedron "alien" cultures, in fact being [[spoiler:the descendants of human colonies from a lost age gone twenty thousand years ago]].
* {{Prequel}}: The ''Dawn of Memoria'' manga deals with Izo, Kirius, Array and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] while they were still in the De Metrio military academy. Interestingly, the manga began serialization four months before the anime aired, giving some of the characters an EarlyBirdCameo.
* ProductPlacement: Drink [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rinne_no_Lagrange_drink_5995.jpg sweet energy drinks]] and you'll be able to save the earth!
** The credits do mention it's sponsored by Nissan to a degree, as well as the mechs being created by Nissan's vehicle designer.
** The real Kamogawa, as a RealPlaceBackground, to increase tourism.
* PseudoCrisis: Episode 12 [[spoiler:[[InMediasRes actually begins two weeks after the]] CliffHanger [[InMediasRes in Episode 11]], showing everything is fine. We only learn what happened later in the episode.]]
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: Kirius, Izo, and Array. [[spoiler: They pull a HeelFaceTurn]].
* RealPlaceBackground: Kamogawa. As part of the show's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming, "Kamogawa" is worked into every title in some fashion. Kamogawa is hoping this show will increase tourism for them.
* RealityWarper: [[spoiler: Essentially the ultimate power of the Voxes through entering Rin-ne.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: Muginami calls Madoka out in episde 6, claiming that she doesn't truly think of others and that everything she does is for selfish reasons. It does nothing but piss Madoka off, and makes her enable the Rin-Ne.]]
** In episode 7, she realizes that Muginami was right and that she needs to learn to listen to people.
* RecapEpisode: Episode 0 of season 2 (first aired 1 July 2012), WholeEpisodeFlashback narrated by Madoka's elder cousin.
* RedHerring: Season 1 drops some implications that [[spoiler: Lan's brother is dead]] but it turns out he's been alive and well. A similar thing occurs with [[spoiler: Yurikano, who's NotQuiteDead.]]
* RedOniBlueOni: Muginami and Lan.
** Also their "brothers", Villagiulio and Dizelmine.
* RelaxOVision: Happens in Episode 15 when Asteria says very ''naughty'' things to Madoka, simply to get a reaction. ForScience.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Madoka is very, very close to both Muginami and Lan. (Despite Lan's misgivings, she has no problem with having [[{{Polyamory}} two people be her Most Important People]].) [[spoiler: Madoka and Lan star in the blatantly romantic student film "The Spaceship and the Lily", and the [[ProsceniumReveal false declaration of love]] turns out to not have been so false.]] In season 2, episode 2, they start declaring their love for each other.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The three colored chairs that represent Madoka, Lan, and Muginami. At the end of episodes that mark important turning points in their characters, the chairs shift positions and placement. [[spoiler:In Episode 11 they go flying into the air, along with the three Vox Units going crazy. And at the end of the first season, Madoka's chair is all alone, as is Madoka herself since the other two [[ButNowIMustGo left back to their respective home planets]].
** Season 2 continues the colored chair symbolism, but this time they show up in odd places, [[spoiler:such as Madoka's chair appearing in the place where Yurikano performed her HeroicSacrifice]]. And then in episode 23, [[spoiler:Yurikano appears with the chairs]]. In Episode 24, [[spoiler: the last image of the series is of the three girls sitting in the chairs]].
* RunningGag: Madoka's inability to pronounce [[BigBad Villagiulio]]'s name.
--> Madoka: "Villagiuvio!"
--> Lan: "You almost got it right."
** She still can't get the hang of it in season 2, where she screws up Villagiulio's name in an unsecured broadcast to his ship, pissing off his [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Grania (and Commander Tadakoro), [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but making him crack up]] and muse how she hasn't changed. She settled for Giuvi-nii by the end.
* SceneryGorn: Uncharacteristically, U-Go, Muginami's planet, is broken, gray, stark and an overall [[CrapsackWorld horrid place]]- that happens to posess the {{Animation Bump}}s within the show itself.
* SceneryPorn: Vibrant and lush surroundings, a break from the usual bleak flatlands and crumbling cities found in most mecha shows. [[spoiler: Even the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt metaphysical apocalyptic]] scene after Rin-ne fully blooms is astonishingly nice-looking, if depressing.]]
* SeizaSquirm: Asteria makes Izo, Kirius and Array do this in her office after they lose track of Madoka.
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* ShipperOnDeck: The girls who produce the student film "''The Spaceship and the [[{{Yuri}} Lily]]''" (starring Madoka and Lan) are implied to be a bunch of [[YuriFan Madoka/Lan shippers]].
* ShoutOut:
** In episode 8 the Voxes buzz the command bridge and make Tadokoro spill coffee on his shirt, just like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSRngcYVoM0 this scene]] from ''Film/TopGun''.
** One of Madoka's Jersey Club odd jobs in episode 12 is serving as a poetry reader in a game of karuta. Probably not a coincidence that this series aired in the same season as ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}''.
*** Lan and Muginami’s seiyuus are the same as Chihaya and Kanade.
* SkinshipGrope: No groping, but naked bathing and hugging.
* SpaceElves: The Polyhedron people. Lan especially fits the naive elven princess archetype.
* StarshipLuxurious: Le Garite's flagship, which has enough room for an entire mall and a full-scale replica of Kamogawa.
* StrategySchmategy: Madoka has no idea what the hell she's doing at first. Her random flailing moves confuse Kirius, who begins thinking that [[MistakenForBadass they're immensely powerful Earthling combat techniques that he's never fought before]].
* SuperRobotGenre: Though it has RealRobot storytelling.
* TakeAThirdOption: Season 2, instead of [[spoiler:having to choose either Lan or Muginami's side of the war, Madoka uses ThePowerOfLove and ThePowerOfFriendship to make the two stop fighting each other. Afterwards, Asteria recommends that the two seek asylum on Earth.]]
** Vox Particles appear during times when the pilot is in a high emotional state (anger, sadness or hatred being the easiest to use), so when Novumundos wants to try out the Vox Particle Control experiment, it seems like they might have to either risk putting Madoka through the same trauma as Lan went through in the previous episode or stopping. Asteria notes that shame works as well as the other emotions and [[CovertPervert proceeds to tease the three heroines and let Madoka's imagination do the rest]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight What happens after nearly destroys the base]].
* {{Telepathy}}: The Voxes facilitate the transfer of thoughts. At the end of Season 1, [[spoiler: Madoka actually hears the thoughts of everyone in Kamogawa]].
* ThanksForTheMammary: Completely out of the blue, Asteria sneaks up on Madoka and grabs her breasts. Madoka actually seems pretty disturbed by the sudden groping, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse but this is quickly forgotten]].
* TransformingMecha: Which only adds to the very ''Anime/EurekaSeven''-ish design scheme of the mecha.
* TriangRelations: This is ''one'' interpretation of the relationship between Madoka, Lan and Muginami by the end of the series (especially Type 8), fueled by the huge amount of {{subtext}} between them.
* TrouserSpace: Madoka pulls a tennis ball out of her skirt. [[http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/02/10/72282/1966003828-praktisch-kann-minirock-sein-ballverstecke-welt-damentennis.9.jpg This is actually]] TruthInTelevision.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Happens in the end of Season 1, bordering on GainaxEnding if it weren't for the fact that not all of it is a MindScrew - and the parts that are get a MindScrewdriver in Season 2.
* TrueCompanions: According to Madoka's older cousin, TrueCompanions are people carrying the same beliefs and holding mutual love for each other. Madoka, Lan, and Muginami grow into this as the series goes on.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: Both of the seasons premiered as 1-cour.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Lan and Muginami's plan to [[spoiler:rescue Madoka from Dizelmine]] doesn't become apparent until Lan is [[spoiler:into her broadcasted speech]]. When Muginami [[spoiler:yanks the cell key from VictoriasSecretCompartment]], it becomes clear that Lan's [[spoiler:earlier supposed FaceHeelTurn was merely a [[FakeDefector distraction]]]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight:
** The kids at Madoka's school don't seem to notice Lan's blue hair, purple eyes, and her unusual outfit. They just wonder if Madoka finally recruited a new club member. Even Madoka herself doesn't take notice of it.
** In a mixture of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and CrazyPrepared, Madoka thinks Lan's costume is a swimsuit, and that she's prepared for a rescue -- just like herself in the beginning of the episode.
* VillainDecay: [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo, and Array]]. Though they make pretty poor villains to start with, they eventually become mere waiters at BWH, and [[spoiler:do a HeelFaceTurn]].
* VillainEpisode: Episode 9 is centered around Kirius, Izo, and Array, where they show their [[FishOutOfWater comical misunderstanding of Earth society]].
* VillainsOutShopping: Villagiulio is shown playing a dancing video game at one point, and at another gets in a fight with Madoka's uncle Hiroshi over a coat they both wanted to buy.
** GoKartingWithBowser: Then they have a drink to make up for their immaturity. Villagiulio gets the coat.
** Episode 9 is almost completely this, in which Kirius, Izo, and Array go about their business, get into hilarious misunderstandings, and bickering with each other.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Asteria's game of psyching Madoka up with prospects of future love life wouldn't have paid off so hard otherwise.
* WalkingTheEarth: [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Yoko and Asteria actually are walking the Earth, while Madoka, Lan and Muginami are continuing their Jersey Club activities throughout space.]]
* WarIsHell: It's all but stated that Lan lost her brother in a war sometimes in the past. [[spoiler:It's a RedHerring; Dizelmine is very much alive and the [[DiscOneFinalBoss Disc Two Final Boss]]]]. This is also the reason why [[spoiler:Villagiulio doesn't regard Muginami taking a Vox as a good thing, since (to him) she's just [[TheLoad a war-buddy-wannabe kid]]]].
* WasItAllALie: When Lan corners [[spoiler:Muginami]] about [[TheMole secretly working for the Kiss organization]] while maintaining a friendly facade, she asks her this.
** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go. [[spoiler:Then they make up later and Muginami becomes a permanent member]].
* WhamEpisode: Episode 11, in which [[spoiler:Madoka undergoes a HeroicBSOD and nearly opens the Rin-ne, while her friendship are forced to do so as well, and the apocalypse is incoming. All the while, Dizelmine, Moid, and the Polyhedron Federation start looking less benevolent. The world is saved by Episode 12, but the plot threads are further explored from there]].
* WhamLine: Episode 20:
-->'''Moid''': Yes. It is [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong the Memoria I was imprinted with]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 20,000 years ago]]]].
** A non-plot relevant one at the end of Episode 24: Madoka is called on her cellphone by someone apparently inviting her to an event to be held in three days, only for her to answer that she's busy. The end of the call is the following line:
--->'''Madoka:''' ''(on the phone)'' May I ask your name again? And you're [[spoiler:[[FamedInStory the Secretary-General of which United Nations]]]]?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted; In the last episode, once everything else has been resolved, Shozo suddenly realizes they forgot to deal with [[spoiler:Moid, the recently revealed BigBad. Cut to Moid, who has a VillainousBreakdown and calms down just in time to be [[DisappearsIntoLight spontaneously absorbed into the Rin-Ne]]]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kirius and Lan. Lan's hair is light blue while Kirius's hair is dark blue.
** Dizelmine, who's a regular [[spoiler:anatgonist]] in season 2 has the same hair color as Lan.
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* BigBad: Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the [[PowerTrio Jersey Club heroines]], the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]].

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* BigBad: Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the [[PowerTrio Jersey Club heroines]], heroines, the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]].
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* ThoseTwoGirls: For a brief moment, Michi of the Astronomy Club and Sachi of the Surfing Club get this role.
* ThoseTwoGuys: [[spoiler: Izo, Array, and Kirius end up falling into this.]]
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the concert-goers in Episode 10 wears a shirt that reads "[[ForeignCussWord FUCK]] KEIN". Whoever Kein is is never explained, either that or it's just a GratuitousEnglish misspelling of "fucking".

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* ZettaiRyouiki: Lan in her normal outfit, and Madoka's pilot suit.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The kids at Madoka's school don't seem to notice Lan's blue hair, purple eyes, and her unusual outfit. They just wonder if Madoka finally recruited a new club member. Even Madoka herself doesn't take notice of it.

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** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go. [[spoiler:Then they make up later and Muginami becomes a permanent member.

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** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go. [[spoiler:Then they make up later and Muginami becomes a permanent member.member]].
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** Episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels wriggling around and attacking girls in a manner clearly evoking NaughtyTenctacles. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].

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** Episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels wriggling around and attacking girls in a manner clearly evoking NaughtyTenctacles.NaughtyTentacles. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].
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* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss TerribleTrio as anything but this. [[BigBad Their boss Villaguilio]] counts as well, since he [[spoiler:wants to save his planet from a collision with another one, and feels he must destroy that one to do so]], and [[TheDragon Grania]] is loyal to his cause. Dizelmine, the ruler of the other planet, qualifies as well for the same reasons]]. Really, the only villain that doesn’t qualify is [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Balance T. Moid]], since he only cares about [[ForScience satisfying his curiosity]]]].

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* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss TerribleTrio as anything but this. [[BigBad Their boss Villaguilio]] counts as well, since he [[spoiler:wants to save his planet from a collision with another one, and feels he must destroy that one to do so]], so, and [[TheDragon Grania]] is loyal to his cause. Dizelmine, the ruler of the other planet, qualifies as well for the same reasons]]. Really, the The only villain that doesn’t qualify is [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Balance T. Moid]], since he only cares about [[ForScience satisfying his curiosity]]]].

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* BigBad: Lord Villagulio De Metrio Lu, brother of [[spoiler:Muginami (adopted)]] and leader of the enemy organization Kiss that rules the planet De Metrio and rebels against the [[PowerTrio Jersey Club heroines]], the Novumundos agency, and the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]]. In Season 1, his goal is to steal all the [[HumongousMecha Vox Units]] and destroy the Polyhedron planet of Le Garite, [[spoiler:[[AntiVillain but only because]] he believes the Vox Units can destroy the world, and the two planets are on a crash course with each other- he would really rather not destroy any planets]]. As of Season 2, he [[spoiler:[[BigBadEnsemble fights against]] and eventually [[EvilerThanThou gets overshadowed by]] King Dizelmine Fin E Ld Si, Princess Lan’s brother and Polyhedron’s leader who wants to destroy the other planet. Both of them are in turn pawns of Balance T. Moid, Lan’s MadScientist TreahcerousAdvisor who wants to open the Rin-ne and [[ForScience admire its beauty]], even if he causes the apocalypse in the process]].



* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5, seemingly being a friend of Madoka and Alan but actually being TheMole and about war like it was nothing, [[SubvertedTrope but]] after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she snapped out of it.]]
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine seems nicer than Villagiulio, but of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option.]]
** [[spoiler:Moid is the biggest example by far- his politeness and care-taking of Lan was a facade hiding a depraved MadScientist.]]

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami [[spoiler:Muginami]] seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5, seemingly being a friend of Madoka [[spoiler:Madoka and Alan Lan]] but actually being [[spoiler:being TheMole and taking about war like it was nothing, [[SubvertedTrope but]] after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she snapped out of it.]]
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** [[spoiler:Dizelmine [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] seems nicer than Villagiulio, but of [[spoiler:of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option.]]
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** [[spoiler:Moid [[spoiler:Moid]] is the biggest example by far- his [[spoiler:his politeness and care-taking of Lan was a facade hiding a depraved MadScientist.]]MadScientist]].

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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Madoka is very, very close to both Muginami and Lan. (Despite Lan's misgivings, she has no problem with having [[OneTrueThreesome two people be her Most Important People]].) [[spoiler: Madoka and Lan star in the blatantly romantic student film "The Spaceship and the Lily", and the false declaration of love turns out to not have been so false...]]
** Then comes season 2, episode 2. They start outright declaring love for each other and stuff.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The three colored chairs that represent Madoka, Lan, and Muginami. At the end of episodes that mark important turning points in their characters, the chairs shift positions and placement. [[spoiler: In Episode 11 they go flying into the air. And at the end of the first season, Madoka's chair is all alone...]]
** Season 2 continues the colored chair symbolism, but this time they show up in odd places [[spoiler: such as Madoka's chair appearing in the place where Yurikano performed her HeroicSacrifice]] And then in episode 23 [[spoiler: Yurikano appears with the chairs.]]
** In Episode 24, [[spoiler: the last image of the series is of the three girls sitting in the chairs]].
* RunningGag: Madoka's inability to pronounce Villagiulio's name.

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* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Madoka is very, very close to both Muginami and Lan. (Despite Lan's misgivings, she has no problem with having [[OneTrueThreesome [[{{Polyamory}} two people be her Most Important People]].) [[spoiler: Madoka and Lan star in the blatantly romantic student film "The Spaceship and the Lily", and the [[ProsceniumReveal false declaration of love love]] turns out to not have been so false...]]
** Then comes
false.]] In season 2, episode 2. They 2, they start outright declaring their love for each other and stuff.
other.
* RuleOfSymbolism: The three colored chairs that represent Madoka, Lan, and Muginami. At the end of episodes that mark important turning points in their characters, the chairs shift positions and placement. [[spoiler: In [[spoiler:In Episode 11 they go flying into the air. air, along with the three Vox Units going crazy. And at the end of the first season, Madoka's chair is all alone...]]
alone, as is Madoka herself since the other two [[ButNowIMustGo left back to their respective home planets]].
** Season 2 continues the colored chair symbolism, but this time they show up in odd places [[spoiler: such places, [[spoiler:such as Madoka's chair appearing in the place where Yurikano performed her HeroicSacrifice]] HeroicSacrifice]]. And then in episode 23 [[spoiler: Yurikano 23, [[spoiler:Yurikano appears with the chairs.]]
**
chairs]]. In Episode 24, [[spoiler: the last image of the series is of the three girls sitting in the chairs]].
* RunningGag: Madoka's inability to pronounce Villagiulio's [[BigBad Villagiulio]]'s name.



** She still can't get the hang of it in season 2, where she screws up Villagiulio's name in an unsecured broadcast to his ship, pissing off his second-in-command (and Commander Tadakoro) but making him crack up and muse how she hasn't changed.
*** She settled for Giuvi-nii still wrong though.
* SceneryGorn: Uncharacteristically, U-Go, Muginami's planet, is broken and gray and stark and overall horrid place. A horrid place that happens to posess the {{Animation Bump}}s within the show itself.
* SceneryPorn: Vibrant and lush surroundings, a nice break from the usual bleak flatlands and crumbling cities found in most mecha shows. [[spoiler: Even the metaphysical apocalyptic scene after Rinne fully blooms is astonishingly nice-looking, if depressing.]]

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** She still can't get the hang of it in season 2, where she screws up Villagiulio's name in an unsecured broadcast to his ship, pissing off his second-in-command [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Grania (and Commander Tadakoro) Tadakoro), [[ActuallyPrettyFunny but making him crack up up]] and muse how she hasn't changed.
***
changed. She settled for Giuvi-nii still wrong though.
by the end.
* SceneryGorn: Uncharacteristically, U-Go, Muginami's planet, is broken and gray and broken, gray, stark and an overall [[CrapsackWorld horrid place. A horrid place place]]- that happens to posess the {{Animation Bump}}s within the show itself.
* SceneryPorn: Vibrant and lush surroundings, a nice break from the usual bleak flatlands and crumbling cities found in most mecha shows. [[spoiler: Even the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt metaphysical apocalyptic apocalyptic]] scene after Rinne Rin-ne fully blooms is astonishingly nice-looking, if depressing.]]



* SequelHook: Season 1 ends with plenty of questions. Fortunately, a second season is there to answer them.
* ShipperOnDeck: The girls who produce the student film "''The Spaceship and the [[{{Yuri}} Lily]]''" (starring Madoka and Lan) are implied to be a bunch of [[LesYay Madoka/Lan]] [[YuriFan shippers]].

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%% commented out as an Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * SequelHook: Season 1 ends with plenty of questions. Fortunately, a second season is there to answer them.
* ShipperOnDeck: The girls who produce the student film "''The Spaceship and the [[{{Yuri}} Lily]]''" (starring Madoka and Lan) are implied to be a bunch of [[LesYay Madoka/Lan]] [[YuriFan Madoka/Lan shippers]].



*** Even more that Lan and Muginami seiyuu are Chihaya and Kanade from said series.

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*** Even more that Lan and Muginami seiyuu Muginami’s seiyuus are the same as Chihaya and Kanade from said series.Kanade.



* SpaceElves: The Polyhedron people. Lan especially fit the naive elven princess archetype.
* StarshipLuxurious: Le Garite's flagship
* StrategySchmategy: Madoka has no idea what the hell she's doing at first. Her random flailing moves confuse Kirius, who begins thinking that they're immensely powerful Earthling combat techniques that he's never fought before.

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* SpaceElves: The Polyhedron people. Lan especially fit fits the naive elven princess archetype.
* StarshipLuxurious: Le Garite's flagship
flagship, which has enough room for an entire mall and a full-scale replica of Kamogawa.
* StrategySchmategy: Madoka has no idea what the hell she's doing at first. Her random flailing moves confuse Kirius, who begins thinking that [[MistakenForBadass they're immensely powerful Earthling combat techniques that he's never fought before.before]].



** Vox Particles appear during times when the pilot is in a high emotional state (anger, sadness or hatred being the easiest to use), so when Novumundos wants to try out the Vox Particle Control experiment, it seems like they might have to either risk putting Madoka through the same trauma as Lan went through in the previous episode or stopping. Asteria notes that shame works as well as the other emotions and proceeds to tease the three heroines and let Madoka's imagination do the rest. [[GoneHorriblyRight What happens after though...]]
* {{Telepathy}}: The Voxes facilitate the transfer of thoughts. At the end of Season 1 [[spoiler: Madoka actually hears the thoughts of everyone in Kamogawa.]]
* ThanksForTheMammary: Completely out of the blue, Asteria sneaks up on Madoka and grabs her breasts. Madoka actually seems pretty disturbed by the sudden groping, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse but this is quickly forgotten.]]

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** Vox Particles appear during times when the pilot is in a high emotional state (anger, sadness or hatred being the easiest to use), so when Novumundos wants to try out the Vox Particle Control experiment, it seems like they might have to either risk putting Madoka through the same trauma as Lan went through in the previous episode or stopping. Asteria notes that shame works as well as the other emotions and [[CovertPervert proceeds to tease the three heroines and let Madoka's imagination do the rest. rest]]. [[GoneHorriblyRight What happens after though...]]
nearly destroys the base]].
* {{Telepathy}}: The Voxes facilitate the transfer of thoughts. At the end of Season 1 1, [[spoiler: Madoka actually hears the thoughts of everyone in Kamogawa.]]
Kamogawa]].
* ThanksForTheMammary: Completely out of the blue, Asteria sneaks up on Madoka and grabs her breasts. Madoka actually seems pretty disturbed by the sudden groping, [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse but this is quickly forgotten.]]forgotten]].



* TrouserSpace: Madoka pulls a tennis ball out of her skirt. [[http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/02/10/72282/1966003828-praktisch-kann-minirock-sein-ballverstecke-welt-damentennis.9.jpg It is actually]] TruthInTelevision.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Happens in the end of Season 1, bordering on GainaxEnding if it weren't for the fact not all of it is a MindScrew - and the parts that are get a MindScrewdriver in Season 2.
* TrueCompanions: According to Madoka's older cousin, TrueCompanions are people carrying the same beliefs and holding mutual love for each other. Madoka, Lan, and Muginami will probably grow into this as the series goes on.

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* TrouserSpace: Madoka pulls a tennis ball out of her skirt. [[http://www.merkur-online.de/bilder/2009/02/10/72282/1966003828-praktisch-kann-minirock-sein-ballverstecke-welt-damentennis.9.jpg It This is actually]] TruthInTelevision.
* TrippyFinaleSyndrome: Happens in the end of Season 1, bordering on GainaxEnding if it weren't for the fact that not all of it is a MindScrew - and the parts that are get a MindScrewdriver in Season 2.
* TrueCompanions: According to Madoka's older cousin, TrueCompanions are people carrying the same beliefs and holding mutual love for each other. Madoka, Lan, and Muginami will probably grow into this as the series goes on.



* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Lan and Muginami's plan to [[spoiler:rescue Madoka from Dizelmine doesn't become apparent until Lan is into her broadcasted speech. When Muginami yanks the cell key from VictoriasSecretCompartment, it becomes clear that Lan's earlier FaceHeelTurn was merely a distraction.]]
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The kids at Madoka's school don't seem to notice Lan's blue hair, purple eyes, and her unusual outfit. They just wonder if Madoka finally recruited a new club member. Even Madoka doesn't take notice of it.
** In a mixture of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and CrazyPrepared: Madoka thinks Lan's costume is a swimsuit, and that she's prepared for a rescue -- just like herself in the beginning of the episode.
* VillainDecay: Kirius, Izo, and Array. Though they make pretty poor villains to start with.

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* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Lan and Muginami's plan to [[spoiler:rescue Madoka from Dizelmine Dizelmine]] doesn't become apparent until Lan is into [[spoiler:into her broadcasted speech. speech]]. When Muginami yanks [[spoiler:yanks the cell key from VictoriasSecretCompartment, VictoriasSecretCompartment]], it becomes clear that Lan's earlier [[spoiler:earlier supposed FaceHeelTurn was merely a distraction.]]
[[FakeDefector distraction]]]].
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The kids at Madoka's school don't seem to notice Lan's blue hair, purple eyes, and her unusual outfit. They just wonder if Madoka finally recruited a new club member. Even Madoka herself doesn't take notice of it.
** In a mixture of {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and CrazyPrepared: CrazyPrepared, Madoka thinks Lan's costume is a swimsuit, and that she's prepared for a rescue -- just like herself in the beginning of the episode.
* VillainDecay: [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo, and Array. Array]]. Though they make pretty poor villains to start with.with, they eventually become mere waiters at BWH, and [[spoiler:do a HeelFaceTurn]].



* VillainsOutShopping: Villagiulio gets in a fight with Madoka's uncle over a coat they both wanted to buy.

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* VillainsOutShopping: Villagiulio is shown playing a dancing video game at one point, and at another gets in a fight with Madoka's uncle Hiroshi over a coat they both wanted to buy.



** Episode 9 is almost completely this.

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** Episode 9 is almost completely this.this, in which Kirius, Izo, and Array go about their business, get into hilarious misunderstandings, and bickering with each other.



* WarIsHell: It's all but stated that Lan lost her brother in a war sometimes in the past. [[spoiler:It's a RedHerring; he's very much alive. However, this is probably the reason Villagiulio doesn't regard Muginami taking a Vox as a good thing, since to him she's just a war-buddy-wannabe kid.]]
* WasItAllALie: When Lan corners [[spoiler:Muginami]] about secretly working for the Kiss while maintaining friendly facade.
** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 11 looked like this to many. Gratefully it all ends fairly peacefully.]]

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* WarIsHell: It's all but stated that Lan lost her brother in a war sometimes in the past. [[spoiler:It's a RedHerring; he's Dizelmine is very much alive. However, this alive and the [[DiscOneFinalBoss Disc Two Final Boss]]]]. This is probably also the reason Villagiulio why [[spoiler:Villagiulio doesn't regard Muginami taking a Vox as a good thing, since to him (to him) she's just [[TheLoad a war-buddy-wannabe kid.]]
kid]]]].
* WasItAllALie: When Lan corners [[spoiler:Muginami]] about [[TheMole secretly working for the Kiss organization]] while maintaining a friendly facade.
facade, she asks her this.
** ItMeantSomethingToMe: [[spoiler:Muginami]]'s reply is that it was a good time, but the good time must go.
go. [[spoiler:Then they make up later and Muginami becomes a permanent member.
* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler:Episode 11 looked like this Episode 11, in which [[spoiler:Madoka undergoes a HeroicBSOD and nearly opens the Rin-ne, while her friendship are forced to many. Gratefully it all ends fairly peacefully.]]do so as well, and the apocalypse is incoming. All the while, Dizelmine, Moid, and the Polyhedron Federation start looking less benevolent. The world is saved by Episode 12, but the plot threads are further explored from there]].



-->'''Moid''': Yes. It is the [[spoiler: Memoria I was imprinted with 20,000 years ago.]]

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-->'''Moid''': Yes. It is [[spoiler:[[EvilAllAlong the [[spoiler: Memoria I was imprinted with with]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 20,000 years ago.]]ago]]]].



--->'''Madoka:''' ''(on the phone)'' May I ask your name again? And you're [[spoiler:the Secretary-General of which United Nations]]?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted hilariously. In the last episode, once everything else has been resolved, Shozo suddenly realizes they forgot to deal with [[spoiler:Moid, the recently revealed BigBad. Cut to Moid, who has a VillainousBreakdown and calms down just in time to be [[DisappearsIntoLight spontaneously absorbed into the Rin-Ne]]]].

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--->'''Madoka:''' ''(on the phone)'' May I ask your name again? And you're [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:[[FamedInStory the Secretary-General of which United Nations]]?
Nations]]]]?
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted hilariously. Averted; In the last episode, once everything else has been resolved, Shozo suddenly realizes they forgot to deal with [[spoiler:Moid, the recently revealed BigBad. Cut to Moid, who has a VillainousBreakdown and calms down just in time to be [[DisappearsIntoLight spontaneously absorbed into the Rin-Ne]]]].



** Dizelmine who's a regular in season 2 has the same hair color as Lan.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Lan in her normal outfit and Madoka's pilot suit.

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** Dizelmine Dizelmine, who's a regular [[spoiler:anatgonist]] in season 2 has the same hair color as Lan.
* ZettaiRyouiki: Lan in her normal outfit outfit, and Madoka's pilot suit.

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* PosthumousCharacter: Yurikano. Who just happen to look like Madoka. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she's NotQuiteDead...]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Vox seems to work better when using this. More than likely this will surface between the three pilots as well.
** This and ThePowerOfLove are what Madoka intend to use to stop the war between De Metrio and Le Garite. [[spoiler:They've been used to successfully re-friend Lan and Muginami.]]
* {{Precursors}}: [[spoiler: ''Earth'' is actually the origin of the Polyhedron "alien" cultures, in fact being the descendants of human colonies from a lost age gone twenty thousand years ago.]]

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* PosthumousCharacter: Yurikano. Who just happen Yurikano, Lord Villagulio’s bilogical brother who happens to look like Madoka. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she's NotQuiteDead...NotQuiteDead thanks to her fiancée King Dizelmine keeping her alive, and plotting to [[FreakyFridayFlip switch her body with Madoka]].]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: The Vox seems to work better when using this. More than likely this will surface between the three pilots as well.
**
This and ThePowerOfLove are what Madoka intend to use to stop the war between De Metrio and Le Garite. [[spoiler:They've Garite; [[spoiler:they've been used to successfully re-friend Lan and Muginami.]]
* {{Precursors}}: [[spoiler: ''Earth'' [[spoiler:''Earth itself'']] is actually the origin of the Polyhedron "alien" cultures, in fact being the [[spoiler:the descendants of human colonies from a lost age gone twenty thousand years ago.]]ago]].



* ProductPlacement: Drink [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rinne_no_Lagrange_drink_5995.jpg sweet energy drinks]] and you'll be able to save the earth! Also, the credits do mention it's sponsored by Nissan to a degree, as well as the mechs being created by Nissan's vehicle designer.
** See RealPlaceBackground, right below.
* PseudoCrisis: Episode 12 [[spoiler: [[InMediasRes actually begins two weeks after the]] CliffHanger [[InMediasRes in Episode 11]], showing everything is fine. We only learn what happened later in the episode.]]

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* ProductPlacement: Drink [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rinne_no_Lagrange_drink_5995.jpg sweet energy drinks]] and you'll be able to save the earth! Also, the earth!
** The
credits do mention it's sponsored by Nissan to a degree, as well as the mechs being created by Nissan's vehicle designer.
** See The real Kamogawa, as a RealPlaceBackground, right below.
to increase tourism.
* PseudoCrisis: Episode 12 [[spoiler: [[InMediasRes [[spoiler:[[InMediasRes actually begins two weeks after the]] CliffHanger [[InMediasRes in Episode 11]], showing everything is fine. We only learn what happened later in the episode.]]

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* ChainmailBikini: Averted. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]] for no apparent reason.
* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Le Garite fleet.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The shield materialization ability of the Ovids [[spoiler:saves most of Kamogawa from the falling debris of the big battle. ''Most''.]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Yurikano. If she's not on the same otherworldly shore as the one Madoka ended up in, things would probably went disastrous.]]
* CliffHanger: Episode 11. [[spoiler:Madoka's sister is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim mortally wounded by a fallen enemy bot]]; Madoka sees this and has a FreakOut that causes all three Voxes to lose control and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique blossom]] simultaneously. Gratefully, she gets better - but see PseudoCrisis.]]
** [[spoiler: And even more gratefully, the season finale DOESN'T end on this, even when it was known well before airing it would be two seasons. It ends fairly conclusively, yet still open to more afterwards.]]

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* ChainmailBikini: Averted. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]] back]], [[RuleOfSexy for no apparent reason.
reason]].
* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler:Le [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet.]]
fleet]] in Season 1 [[spoiler:arrives to fend off Villagulio at the end]].
* ChekhovsGun: The shield materialization ability of the Ovids [[spoiler:saves most of Kamogawa from the falling debris of the big battle. ''Most''.]].
battle (with the exception of Yoko, but she gets better)]].
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Yurikano. If she's she was not on the same otherworldly shore as the one Madoka ended up in, things would have probably went disastrous.ended disastrously.]]
* CliffHanger: Episode 11. [[spoiler:Madoka's sister is [[DroppedABridgeOnHim mortally wounded by a fallen enemy bot]]; Madoka sees this and has a FreakOut that causes all three Voxes to lose control and [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique blossom]] simultaneously. Gratefully, she She gets better - but see PseudoCrisis.]]
** [[spoiler: And even more gratefully,
better, and the season finale DOESN'T end on this, even when it was known well before airing it would be two seasons. It ends fairly conclusively, yet still open to more afterwards.on a conclusive note.]]



* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: The only building Madoka lands on in episode 3, apparently shut down the previous week. She also manages to crash-land in an empty lot; the house that was there had recently been demolished.
** Although she didn't need to be that worried as an evacuation order was issued and the people were presumably heading to shelters.
** And then there's the peanut farm. Really, Episode 3 is a parody of this trope.

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* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: The only building Madoka lands on in episode 3, apparently shut down the previous week. She also manages to crash-land in an empty lot; the house that was there had recently been demolished.
**
demolished. Although she didn't need to be that worried as an evacuation order was issued and the people were presumably heading to shelters.
** And then there's the Madoka’s grandpa’s peanut farm. Really, Episode 3 is a parody of this trope.farm, which gets destroyed by her falling Vox Unit. PlayedForLaughs.



* CreativeClosingCredits: People Walk on Chairs? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfT0E14bw0 SO MANY CHAIRS]].
* CrossCounter: Between Madoka and [[spoiler:Yurikano on the other side of Rin-ne.]]

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* CreativeClosingCredits: People Walk The Jersey Club Walks on Chairs? Chairs. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGfT0E14bw0 SO MANY CHAIRS]].
* CrossCounter: Between Madoka and [[spoiler:Yurikano on the other side of Rin-ne.]]Rin-ne]].



* DestructiveSaviour: Madoka consciously does her best to [[{{Defied}} avoid being one]]. It doesn't always work...[[spoiler: especially considering that her Vox has some kind of special ability that plays right into Villagiulio's hands...]]
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: Halfway through the final episode of the series, the plot skips to some time after Madoka's graduation.]]
* TheDragon: Grania, the dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1.
%% commented out as Administrivia/ZeroContextExample ** In season 2, Moid seems to be one for Dizelmine.

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* DestructiveSaviour: Madoka consciously does her best to [[{{Defied}} avoid being one]]. It doesn't always work...work, [[spoiler: especially considering that her Vox has some a kind of special ability that plays right into Villagiulio's hands...hands. Asteria actually forbids her from using her Vox Unit for this reason.]]
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler: Halfway through the final episode of the series, the plot skips to some [[spoiler:some time after Madoka's graduation.]]
graduation]].
* TheDragon: Grania, the dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1.
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1, and in season 2 is usually seen with Villagulio taking orders from him.
** In season 2, Moid [[spoiler:Moid]] seems to be one for Dizelmine.[[spoiler:Dizelmine]], carrying out his orders and always being by his side, [[spoiler:but he is actually TheManInFrontOfTheMan]].



*** Later on[[spoiler: Dizelmine basically ends up confessing to Yurikano, thinking that she was still [[FreakyFridayFlip Madoka in her body]] The viewer knows perfectly well they switched back]].
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In backstory, [[spoiler: Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. We get to see it in Season 2. [[spoiler: Note that she didn't use the Vox to do it.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Muginami is rather quickly forgiven for being a bad guy, who was planning on giving the Vox to Villagiulio. Hell, Madoka apologized ''to her.'']]
* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire respectively. More InformedAbility than anything that ever comes into play.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: All three of the main girls have 'Memoria' in...unusual places, to say the least. [[spoiler: Madoka's appears to be on her ass, Lan's is somewhere near her breasts, and Muginami's is ''just'' above her crotch.]]
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:Asteria's tattoo, that which she calls Rin-Ne, is located right on her bossom.]]

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*** Later on[[spoiler: Dizelmine on, [[spoiler:Dizelmine basically ends up confessing to Yurikano, thinking that she was still [[FreakyFridayFlip Madoka in her body]] The body]], while the viewer knows perfectly well that they switched back]].
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In backstory, [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good, closer than ever, and has expanded their Jersey Club across other planets, of which new members include Izo, Kirius, Array, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; De Metrio and La Garite finally bury the hatchet; Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. We is back from the Rin-ne for good and has reunited with her loyal understudies Izo, Kirius and Array; Lan ascends the throne of Le Garite in lieu of Dizelmine, who now travels with the recently-abdicated Villagiulio; and Astela, finally free of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne. The only person not to get to see it in Season 2. [[spoiler: Note a good ending is Moid, and considering [[BigBad that she didn't use he was responsible for much of the Vox misery in the series]], it's a fitting fate for him to do it.be apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor stuck in the Rin-ne]], forever doomed to [[SuckinessIsPainful listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems dreadful) over and over]].]]
* EarthShatteringKaboom: In the backstory, [[spoiler: Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. The viewer finally gets to see it in Season 2. [[spoiler: Note that she didn't use the Vox to do it, but opened the Rin-ne with her own power.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: Muginami [[spoiler:Muginami is rather quickly forgiven for being a bad guy, spy who was planning on giving the Vox to Villagiulio. Hell, Madoka apologized ''to her.'']]
'' She does make an effort to be a true friend and ally, to her credit.]]
* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire fire, respectively. More InformedAbility than anything that ever comes into play.
InformedAbility, as this is never demonstrated.
* EmbarrassingTattoo: All three of the main girls have 'Memoria' in...[[{{Fanservice}} unusual places, places]], to say the least. [[spoiler: Madoka's appears to be [[PantyShot on her ass, ass]], Lan's is somewhere near her breasts, and Muginami's is ''just'' above her crotch.]]
crotch.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:Asteria's tattoo, that which she calls Rin-Ne, Rin-ne, is located right on her bossom.]]bossom]].



** Near the end of Season 1, Vox Aura begins glowing even when Madoka's not anywhere near it, and in Season 2 [[spoiler: all of them move on their own to rescue their pilots.]]
** In Episode 23 [[spoiler: Aura actually sends Madoka an e-mail.]]
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:According to Asteria, she's the Witch who cycles the world through war and peace, and she hopes to be freed from this role by Madoka. Whatever that means.]]
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Although Moid gets banished to the Rin-Ne, so he's ''effectively'' dead.]]

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** Near the end of Season 1, Vox Aura begins glowing even when Madoka's not anywhere near it, and in Season 2 2, [[spoiler: all of them move on their own to rescue their pilots.]]
pilots]].
** In Episode 23 [[spoiler: Aura 23, [[spoiler:Aura actually sends Madoka an e-mail.]]
e-mail]].
* EternalRecurrence: [[spoiler:According to Asteria, she's the Witch who cycles the world through war and peace, and she hopes to be freed from this role by Madoka. Whatever that means.]]
* EveryoneLives: [[spoiler:Although Moid [[spoiler:EveryoneLives: Although [[BigBad Moid]] gets banished to the Rin-Ne, so he's ''effectively'' dead.dead. Other than that, no character dies permanently.]]



* FacePalmOfDoom: Villagiulio makes one to [[spoiler:Muginami]]. Squishy.
* {{Fanservice}}: Normally mild, but episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels doing... things. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].

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* FacePalmOfDoom: Villagiulio makes one to [[spoiler:Muginami]]. Squishy.
[[spoiler:Muginami]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Normally mild, but episode 7 has Quite a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, bit. The suits are rather skintight and a bunch of eels doing... things. Probably meant to counterbalance show off the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in back, and the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].girls get jobs working at BWH [[FanserviceWithASmile wearing waitress outfits]].



* FanserviceWithASmile: When Lan and Muginami help Madoka out at the restaurant, damn near the entire town gathers there due being told about "a cute waitress AND a klutzy one?". And damn near everyone sits there gawking at Lan spilling everything and Muginami being Muginami. Later they all get waitress uniforms anyway.

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** Episode 7 has a BathtubBonding scene, spontaneous SkinnyDipping, and a bunch of eels wriggling around and attacking girls in a manner clearly evoking NaughtyTenctacles. Probably meant to counterbalance the flashbacks to Muginami's DarkAndTroubledPast in the same episode, but mainly it's just [[MoodWhiplash jarring]].
** Season 2 Episode 8 has [[CuteClumsyGirl Reiko]] trip and accidentally yank Muginami’s towel off during art class, [[NakedFreakOut exposing her body which she quickly covers up]].
* FanserviceWithASmile: When Lan and Muginami help Madoka out at the restaurant, damn near the entire town gathers there due being told about "a cute waitress AND a klutzy one?". And damn near everyone sits there gawking at Lan spilling everything and Muginami being Muginami. Later [[BuxomIsBetter Muginami]]. Later, they all get waitress uniforms anyway.uniforms.



* {{Gainaxing}}: Muginami
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the concert-goers in Episode 10 wears a shirt that reads "[[ForeignCussWord FUCK]] KEIN". Whoever Kein is is never explained, either that or it's just a GratuitousEnglish for "fucking".
* GilliganCut: In Episode 14, Madoka attempts to leave the island base Pharos. Tadokoro let's her go because there are no ships to take her to the mainland. Cue the next scene, where [[{{Determinator}} Madoka finishes swimming to shore.]]
* HappyEnding: [[spoiler:For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good, closer than ever, and has expanded their Jersey Club across other planets, of which new members include Izo, Kirius, Array, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; De Metrio and La Garite finally bury the hatchet; Yurikano is back from the Rin-ne for good and has reunited with her loyal understudies Izo, Kirius and Array; Lan ascends the throne of Le Garite in lieu of Dizelmine, who now travels with the recently-abdicated Villagiulio; and Astela, finally free of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne. The only person not to get a good ending is Moid, and considering [[BigBad that he was responsible for much of the misery in the series]], it's a fitting fate for him to be apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor stuck in the Rin-ne, forever doomed to listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems dreadful) over and over]].]]

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* {{Gainaxing}}: Muginami
Muginami does this often.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the concert-goers in Episode 10 wears a shirt that reads "[[ForeignCussWord FUCK]] KEIN". Whoever Kein is is never explained, either that or it's just a GratuitousEnglish for misspelling of "fucking".
* GilliganCut: In Episode 14, Madoka attempts to leave the island base Pharos. Tadokoro let's lets her go because there are no ships to take her to the mainland. mainland, and he thinks that she cannot possibly leave. Cue the next scene, where [[{{Determinator}} Madoka finishes swimming to shore.]]
* HappyEnding: [[spoiler:For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good, closer than ever, and has expanded their Jersey Club across other planets, of which new members include Izo, Kirius, Array, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; De Metrio and La Garite finally bury the hatchet; Yurikano is back from the Rin-ne for good and has reunited with her loyal understudies Izo, Kirius and Array; Lan ascends the throne of Le Garite in lieu of Dizelmine, who now travels with the recently-abdicated Villagiulio; and Astela, finally free of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne. The only person not to get a good ending is Moid, and considering [[BigBad that he was responsible for much of the misery in the series]], it's a fitting fate for him to be apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor stuck in the Rin-ne, forever doomed to listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems dreadful) over and over]].]]
shore]].



* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' have a good effect when it intrudes into the real world. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Perils of the Warp]], much? [[spoiler: He turns out to be lying though.]]

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* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' have has a good effect when it intrudes into the real world. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} world, much like TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}’s Perils of the Warp]], much? Warp. [[spoiler: He turns out to be lying though.]]



* IndirectKiss: Youko's apprentice was estatic in episode 6 at the prospect of sharing one with her when she took his instant noodles from him.... only to finish it and thow the cup in the bin, visibly dissapointing him.

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* IndirectKiss: Youko's apprentice was estatic in episode 6 at the prospect of sharing one with her when she took his instant noodles from him.... only to finish it and thow throw the cup in the bin, visibly dissapointing him.



* LaserBlade: Array's robot has one.
** Also Kirius and Izo
** And later Vox Aura and Vox Ignis.
* LockedInARoom: In Episode 16, Asteria conspired to get Villagiulio and Dizelmine locked in an elevator. Ultimately proves fruitless.

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* LaserBlade: Array's robot has one.
** Also Kirius
[[TerribleTrio Izo, Kirius, and Izo
** And later
Array]]'s robots each have one. Vox Aura and Vox Ignis.
Ignis later gain them as well.
* LockedInARoom: In Episode 16, Asteria conspired to get Villagiulio and Dizelmine locked in an elevator. elevator to get them to make up and stop the war. Ultimately proves fruitless.fruitless, as they continue fighting anyway.



* MaleGaze: Well, female. Madoka's first view of Lan is the full slide up with her slackjawed.
** Quite a few shots have a female character's rear end covering half the screen...

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* MaleGaze: Well, female. Female-on-female, but Madoka's first view of Lan is the full slide up with her slackjawed.
slack-jawed.
** Quite a few shots have a female character's rear end covering half the screen...screen.



* MoodWhiplash: Good job, Lan and Madoka, you beat the bad guys with ThePowerOfFriendship! [[spoiler:Then Array recounts a legend that essentially amounts to "the Vox units will destroy the world".]]

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* MoodWhiplash: Good job, Lan and Madoka, you Madoka successfully beat the bad guys with ThePowerOfFriendship! ThePowerOfFriendship. [[spoiler:Then Array recounts a legend that essentially amounts to "the Vox units will destroy the world".]]



* MustMakeAmends: Lan feels ''very bad'' for making Madoka pilot the Vox Aura and for the destruction that Kamogawa suffers from battle. But Madoka doesn't think badly of her, since being a pilot is Madoka's own decision.

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* MustMakeAmends: Lan feels ''very bad'' very bad for making Madoka pilot the Vox Aura and for the destruction that Kamogawa suffers from battle. But Madoka doesn't think badly of her, since being a pilot is Madoka's own decision.



* ObviouslyEvil: Dizelmine is very secretive and often downright villainous to everyone he supposedly cares about, is crazy half the time and has genocide as option one for the season's conflict.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Quite possibly the PRETTIEST OhCrap ever. Sure making an explosion that resulted in green energy flowers falling everywhere looks harmless, but the resulting EvilLaugh from Moid and Villagiulio's relative approval of the event sure as hell doesn't mean good things.]]

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* ObviouslyEvil: Dizelmine [[spoiler:Dizelmine]] in season 2 is very secretive and often downright villainous to everyone he supposedly cares about, is crazy AxCrazy half the time time, and has genocide as option one for the season's conflict.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: Quite possibly [[spoiler:Possibly the PRETTIEST OhCrap ever. Sure prettiest one ever; making an explosion that resulted in green energy flowers falling everywhere looks harmless, but the resulting EvilLaugh from Moid [[BigBad Moid]] and Villagiulio's [[DiscOneFinalBoss Villagiulio]]'s relative approval of the event sure as hell doesn't mean good things.]]



* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In Episode 9 Izo re-enacts a samurai drama on TV in an attempt to indicate that he wants to fight Madoka...and the people listening thinks he wants to confess to her.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Voxes. This trope is called "Memoria" in-universe. Notably, Madoka seems to have been chosen by Aura when she nearly drowned, while Muginami was chosen when she touched Ignis while naked.
* OverlyLongName: Lan's full name is Fin E Ld Si Laffinity. Madoka just thinks it [[ComicallyMissingThePoint sounds foreign]].
* PaperThinDisguise: In Episode 16, Madoka and Muginami do this to sneak onto the Le Graite ship. Dizelmine and Moid see right through it, but let them on anyway.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Voxes triggered [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum Last Glacial Maximum]] [[spoiler:collapsed the human civilization of that era and forced the survivor to flee to outer space, their descendants today being the "aliens" like Lan]]. No wonder Kirius and co are hellbent to destroy the Voxes.
* PoorCommunicationKills: This is practically the main theme for the first six episode of Season 2.

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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In Episode 9 9, Izo re-enacts a samurai drama on TV in an attempt to indicate that he wants to fight Madoka...Madoka... and the people listening thinks he wants to confess his love to her.
her, or that he is her boyfriend.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: The Voxes.Vox Units. This trope is called "Memoria" in-universe. Notably, Madoka seems to have been chosen by Aura when she nearly drowned, while Muginami was chosen when she touched Ignis while naked.
* OverlyLongName: Princess Lan's full name is Fin E Ld Si Laffinity. Madoka just thinks it [[ComicallyMissingThePoint sounds foreign]].
* PaperThinDisguise: In Episode 16, Madoka and Muginami do this to sneak onto the Le Graite ship. Madoka’s disguise consists of overalls, a pair of glasses, a different hairstyle, and (in the dub) an obviously fake southern accent, while Muginami simply wears a dress and headgear. Dizelmine and Moid see right through it, but let them on anyway.
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: The Voxes triggered the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Glacial_Maximum Last Glacial Maximum]] [[spoiler:collapsed Maximum]], [[spoiler:destroyed the human civilization of that era era, and forced the survivor survivors to flee to outer space, their descendants today being the "aliens" like Lan]]. Lan. [[VillainHasAPoint No wonder Kirius and co are the Kiss organization is hellbent to destroy the Voxes.
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Madoka Kyouno is the sole member of the Jersey Club and always ready to help others out. One day, she is approached by an alien from their home planet Le Graite named Lan who asks her to pilot a robotic aircraft to defend mankind against an evil force. Thus begins a [[GreyAndGreyMorality surprisingly morally ambiguous]] story despite having a highly idealistic protagonist and an overall lighthearted tone.

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Madoka Kyouno is the sole member of the Jersey Club and always ready to help others out. One day, she is approached by an alien from their home planet Le Graite named Lan who asks her to pilot a robotic aircraft (called a Vox Unit) to defend mankind against an evil force.force. Eventually, they meet a third girl, Muginami, who also joins the club. Together, they work with the organization of Nuvomundos to battle against the invaders known as Kiss, led by [[BigBad Lord Villagulio]] from the planet De Metrio, who aims to capture the Vox Units so that he can destroy the [[TheFederation Polyhedron Federation]] and their planet Le Garite. Thus begins a [[GreyAndGreyMorality surprisingly morally ambiguous]] story despite having a highly idealistic protagonist and an overall lighthearted tone.



* TenMinuteRetirement: The three heroines decide to never fight with the Vox again in the middle of Season 2. This lasts for roughly one BreatherEpisode. Madoka does this on her own a couple of times, as well (see [[Characters/RinneNoLagrange character page]]).
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Due to Madoka's monologuing in the space capsule. Well, the first part of it wasn't engineered, the second part wasn't public.

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* TenMinuteRetirement: The three heroines decide to never fight with the Vox again in the middle of Season 2. This lasts for roughly one BreatherEpisode. Madoka does this on her own a couple of times, as well (see [[Characters/RinneNoLagrange character page]]).
well.
* AccidentalPublicConfession: Due to Madoka's monologuing in the space capsule. Well, capsule [[spoiler:while she is in the first part body of it wasn't engineered, Yurikano]], the second part wasn't public.main characters learn everything about [[spoiler:Yurikano’s true feelings about her brother and fiancée fighting each other- she hates it]].



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* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Averted with Izo, who finds Earth television boring (and he seems to think a samurai drama is some sort of real-life ritual). On the other hand, Vilagulio enjoys playing a hula hoop game on a what [[BlandNameProduct suspiciously looks like]] a UsefulNotes/NintendoWii.
* AlienAmongUs: Lan and Muginami mostly understand Earth culture, and Villagiulio is subject to VillainsBlendInBetter. Neither applies to Kirius, Izo and Array [[spoiler: though they seem to have adapted by Season 2]].

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AirVentPassageway: Madoka and Asteria use this to get to Lan and Muginami, who are blocking the path to the Vox Aura to protest Asteria’s decision to decommission it.
* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Averted with Izo, who finds Earth television boring (and he seems to think a samurai drama is some sort of real-life ritual). On the other hand, Vilagulio [[BigBad Lord Vilagulio]] [[VillainsOutShopping enjoys playing a hula hoop game game]] on a what [[BlandNameProduct suspiciously looks like]] a UsefulNotes/NintendoWii.
* AlienAmongUs: Lan and Muginami mostly understand Earth culture, and Villagiulio is subject to VillainsBlendInBetter. Neither applies to [[TerribleTrio Kirius, Izo and Array [[spoiler: though Izo, or Array]], [[spoiler:though they seem to have adapted by Season 2]].



* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss trio as anything but this. Their boss Villaguilio probably counts as well.
* ApocalypseHow: The reason De Metrio and Le Garite are fighting? [[spoiler: Their planets are going to crash into each other.]]

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* AntiVillain: Between their many humanizing scenes, lack of inclination to perform any actually villainous acts, and the show's GrayAndGreyMorality; it is ''really'' hard to see the Kiss trio TerribleTrio as anything but this. [[BigBad Their boss Villaguilio probably Villaguilio]] counts as well.
well, since he [[spoiler:wants to save his planet from a collision with another one, and feels he must destroy that one to do so]], and [[TheDragon Grania]] is loyal to his cause. Dizelmine, the ruler of the other planet, qualifies as well for the same reasons]]. Really, the only villain that doesn’t qualify is [[spoiler:[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Balance T. Moid]], since he only cares about [[ForScience satisfying his curiosity]]]].
* ApocalypseHow: The reason De Kiss/De Metrio and Le Polyhedron/Le Garite are fighting? [[spoiler: Their fighting is because [[spoiler:their planets are going to crash into each other.]]other]].



* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the last episode [[spoiler: Lan is crowned as the ruler of Le Garite. [[SubvertedTrope Then she puts on her jersey...]]]]

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* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: In the last episode episode, [[spoiler: Lan is crowned as the ruler of Le Garite. [[SubvertedTrope Then she puts on her jersey...]]]]jersey]]]].



* BatmanGambit: Lan and Muginami pull this off in Episode 17. [[spoiler: Lan has Muginami thrown in prison, then distracts the guards with an overly long speech so Muginami can secretly escape and rescue Madoka without interference.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens twice. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works. [[spoiler:Because Lan's robot does it that time.]]

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* BatmanGambit: Lan and Muginami pull this off in Episode 17. [[spoiler: Lan [[spoiler:Lan has Muginami thrown in prison, then distracts the guards with an overly long speech so Muginami can secretly escape and rescue Madoka without interference.]]
* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, because Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens twice. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works. [[spoiler:Because works, [[spoiler:because Lan's robot does it that time.]]



** Earlier in Episode 11 [[spoiler: Izo, Array and Kirius use their shields to protect Kamogawa from a WaveMotionGun]].

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** Earlier in Episode 11 11, [[spoiler: Izo, Array and Kirius use their shields to protect Kamogawa from a WaveMotionGun]].



* {{Bishounen}}: The three attackers of the earth, Izo, Array, and Kirius.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5. Talking about war like it was nothing kinda rubbed people the wrong way. But after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she'll probably snap out of it.]]
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine seems nicer than Villagiulio, but let's not forget that, of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everything's resolved nicely by the end of the first season, but... Madoka lost two close friends (and quite likely more than just friends). They do promise to see each other again, though...and they do in Season 2.]]

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* {{Bishounen}}: [[TerribleTrio The three attackers of the earth, Izo, Array, and Kirius.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5. Talking about war like it was nothing kinda rubbed people the wrong way. But after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she'll probably snap out of it.
Kirius.]]
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine seems nicer than Villagiulio, * BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Muginami seemed to be leaning towards this at the end of episode 5, seemingly being a friend of Madoka and Alan but let's not forget that, actually being TheMole and about war like it was nothing, [[SubvertedTrope but]] after Villagiulio's ReasonYouSuckSpeech, she snapped out of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option.it.]]
** [[spoiler:Dizelmine seems nicer than Villagiulio, but of the two, he's the one with the genocidal plans lined up as the first option.]]
** [[spoiler:Moid is the biggest example by far- his politeness and care-taking of Lan was a facade hiding a depraved MadScientist.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Everything's Everything's resolved nicely by the end of the first season, but... Madoka but [[spoiler:Madoka lost two close friends (and quite likely more than just friends). friends/[[ShipTease lovers]]. They do promise to see each other again, though...though, and they do in Season 2.]]2]].



* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Done to Muginami in episode 5 after Villagiulio tells her that she is just a parasite and that she never was a part of his team.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Done to Muginami in episode 5 5, after Villagiulio tells her that she is just a parasite and that she never was a part of his team.]]



* ButtMonkey: Array, who constantly gets into various embarrassing situations, such as having to spend latest episodes [[WholesomeCrossdresser in a]] ''FrenchMaidOutfit''.
** And he seems to like it seeing that he never took it off.
* CatchPhrase: Madoka always says "Maru", which means "Tick", "Circle" or "Perfect" in english.
** Which may be a Japanese pun on her name, since "Madoka" can also mean circle.
** And Lan has "Wan", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for "Woof!"
** There's also Muginami's "Roger that!" (''Kashikomari!'', short for ''[[http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%95%8F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F Kashikomarimashita]]'')
** They all also do hand gestures, Madoka makes an air circle and Lan does a FauxPaw, and Muginami does a little salute.
** In Episode 24 [[spoiler: their Catch Phrases are the last spoken words in the series.]]
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet arrives just in time as Vox Aura... runs out of fuel, or whatever causes it to stop moving. It's still possible to win the battle with the other two Voxes, but considering what happen when you push Vox pilots to their emotional limit, it's probably not a wise thing to do.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city [[SuperCellReception ...but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean]]. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.
* ChainmailBikini: Averted, sort of. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]] for no apparent reason.

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* ButtMonkey: Array, who Array constantly gets into various embarrassing situations, such as having to spend latest episodes work for Asteria in a ''FrenchMaidOutfit''. [[WholesomeCrossdresser in a]] ''FrenchMaidOutfit''.
**
And he seems to like it it, seeing that he never took it off.
off]].
* CatchPhrase: Madoka always says "Maru", which means "Tick", "Circle" or "Perfect" in english.
**
english. Which may be a Japanese pun on her name, since "Madoka" can also mean circle.
** And Lan has "Wan", which is the Japanese onomatopoeia for "Woof!"
** There's also Muginami's "Roger that!" (''Kashikomari!'', short for ''[[http://jisho.org/words?jap=%E7%95%8F%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8A%E3%81%BE%E3%81%97%E3%81%9F Kashikomarimashita]]'')
** They all also do hand gestures, gestures to go with them; Madoka makes an air circle and circle, Lan does a FauxPaw, and Muginami does a little salute.
** In Episode 24 [[spoiler: their 24, [[spoiler:their Catch Phrases are the last spoken words in the series.series]].
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet arrives just in time as Vox Aura stops moving. It's still possible to win the battle with the other two Voxes, but considering what happened when Vox pilots are pushed to their emotional limit, it's probably not a wise thing for them to do.
]]
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:The Le Garite fleet arrives just in time as Vox Aura... runs out of fuel, or whatever causes it to stop moving. It's still possible to win the battle with the other two Voxes, but considering what happen when you push Vox pilots to their emotional limit, it's probably not a wise thing to do.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city [[SuperCellReception ...city, [[SuperCellReception but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean]]. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.
* ChainmailBikini: Averted, sort of.Averted. The pilot suits cover everything, but they usually make themselves transparent on the arms, legs and [[SexyBacklessOutfit upper back]] for no apparent reason.



* TheDragon: The dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1, [[AllThereInTheManual her name is Grania]].

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* TheDragon: The Grania, the dark-skinned lady who nearly leveled Kamogawa with a WaveMotionGun in season 1, [[AllThereInTheManual her name is Grania]].1.
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* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Anime/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.

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* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Anime/SentouYouseiYukikaze''.''Literature/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.
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* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny twice]]''. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works. [[spoiler:Because Lan's robot does it that time.]]

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* BarehandedBladeBlock: Vox Aura handily catches Kirius' blade... [[{{Subverted}} and fails]]. Doesn't matter, Vox Aura has ''thick'' plating (Kirius claims [[IMeantToDoThat it was supposed to be nonlethal]]). In fact, this happens ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny twice]]''.twice. [[RuleOfThree The third time]], it works. [[spoiler:Because Lan's robot does it that time.]]



* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In Episode 17, Madoka and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] have a mental slap fight.

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* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: In Episode 17, Madoka and [[spoiler: Yurikano]] have a mental [[WimpFight slap fight.fight]].



* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Franchise/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.

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* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''Franchise/SentouYouseiYukikaze''.''Anime/SentouYouseiYukikaze''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 02.
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* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Kamogawa is about the only part of Earth that's involved in the story.

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* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse: Kamogawa is about the only part of Earth that's involved in the story. {{Lampshaded}} at the beginning of Season 2, where a couple of Madoka's classmates remark that Kamogawa has suddenly become more important than Tokyo.
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* XMeetsY: It's basically a considerably LighterAndSofter reworking of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', with a side of SpaceOpera and [[YuriGenre yuri]].
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Not to be confused with ''(Kyoukai no) {{Manga/Rinne}}''.
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* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire respectively.

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* ElementalPowers: Vox Aura, Lympha, and Ignis are stated to have the powers of wind, water, and fire respectively. More InformedAbility than anything that ever comes into play.
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%% commented out as ZeroContextExample * HumongousMecha
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' have a good effect when it intrudes into the real world. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Perils of the Warp]], much?

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%% commented out * HumongousMecha: The Vox and the Ovid. The Vox double as ZeroContextExample * HumongousMecha
TransformingMecha ''and'' EmphatheticWeapon.
* HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace: [[spoiler:Moid]] says that the Rinne connects people's minds (or something to that effect), but it ''rarely'' have a good effect when it intrudes into the real world. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Perils of the Warp]], much?much? [[spoiler: He turns out to be lying though.]]

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