History Anime / RinneNoLagrange

** 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.]]

* EvolvingCredits: Episode 12 replaces the OP with the ED, and Episodes 16-18 have a completely different ED than the one for the earlier episodes of Season 2.

** 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]]

* ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding: AThe 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.

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

** [[spoiler: The Vox Units are believed to be capable of destroying planets.]]

* EarthShatteringKaboom: In backstory, [[spoiler: Yurikano blew up half a planet]]. We get to see it in Season 2.

* PaperThinDisguise: In Episode 16, Madoka and Muginami do this to sneak onto the Le Graite ship. Dizelmine and Moid see right through it, but them on anyway.

* 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.

* WarIsHell: It's all but stated that Lan lost her brother in a war sometimes in the past. [[spoiler:This must be 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.]]

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: 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: And at the end of the first season, Madoka's chair is all alone...]]

* SuperRobotGenre

* AliensAmongUs: 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]].

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: All the aliens are actually descendants of humans who left before Earth's civilization collapsed. Now their home planet is essentially a galactic reserve for society.]]

** In Episode 18: "[[AccidentialPublicConfession If someday I meet Lan's brother again I want to tell him how you feel.]]" [[spoiler: He's listening]].

* EngineeredPublicConfession: Due to Madoka's monologuing in the space capsule. Well, the first part of it wasn't engineered, the second part wasn't public.

* TheLoad: [[spoiler:Muginami apparently. Viliagilio said that the only thing she did back at their Alien base, Kiss, was eat and sleep.]]

* 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 Villaguillio probably counts as well.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: 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.]]

* 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.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Yurikano. Who just happen to look like Madoka. [[spoiler:She's probably not dead, only stuck in a pocket dimension.]]

* {{BFG}}: Villagiulio's Vox has one, and Lan receives a rifle as well.

* {{Gainaxing}}

* RecapEpisode: Episode 0 of season 2 (first aired 1 July 2012), WholeEpisodeFlashback narrated by Madoka's big sister.

* 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.

* ChekhovsArmy: [[spoiler: Le Garite fleet.]]

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: 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.]]

* 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 succeed in making them [[EpicFail headbutt]] each other.