History Anime / RinneNoLagrange

** 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.

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 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.

** 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 ''{{Chihayafuru}}''.

* 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. [[{{Warhammer40000}} Peril of the warp]], much?

* TransformingMecha: Which only adds to the very EurekaSeven-ish design scheme of the mecha.

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 Ragurenje ~Akatsuki no Memoria~''). Oddly, it was released before the original anime premiered.

* AirVentPassageway

* BadassAdorable: Madoka, for sure.

* BishoujoSeries

* [[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...and they do in Season 2.]]

* BridgeBunnies

* CatchPhrase[=/=]VerbalTic: Madoka always says "Maru", which means "Tick", "Circle" or "Perfect" in english.

*** 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.]]
* [[spoiler:TheCavalry: 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.

* ChristmasEpisode: Previews indicate Episode 21 will be one.

* DeflectorShields

** In season 2, Moid seems to be one for Dizelmine.

* [[spoiler:EternalRecurrence: 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.]]
* [[spoiler:EveryoneLives: Although Moid gets banished to the Rin-Ne, so he's ''effectively'' dead.]]

* [[spoiler:HappyEnding: 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]].]]

* HumongousMecha

* [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse Kamogawa Is the Center of the Universe]]

* TheLoad: [[spoiler:Muginami apparently. Villagiulio said that the only thing she did back at their Alien base, Kiss, was eat and sleep.]]
** Not really. TheLoad gets in the way. [[spoiler: Also, its heavily implied that he was twisting the reality as part of a scheme to piss Madoka off and get Muginami to stay behind.]]

* [[spoiler: NoRomanticResolution: The trio is together at the end, but seemingly still only as close friends.]]

* [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Romantic]] [[OneTrueThreesome Three Girl]] [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Friendship]]: Madoka is very, very close to both Muginami and Lan. (Despite Lan's misgivings, she has no problem with having 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...]]

* SceneryPorn: It can be said without a doubt that the show takes place in 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.]]
** SceneryGorn: However, 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.

* [[ShipperOnDeck Shippers on Deck]]: 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]].

* 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]]).

** [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Guys]]: [[spoiler: Izo, Array, and Kirius also end up falling into this.]]

* [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld Wake Up, Go to School, Save Kamogawa]]

* [[spoiler: WhamEpisode: Episode 11 looked like this to many. Gratefully it all ends fairly peacefully.]]

* 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 NintendoWii.

* {{Expy}}: Fighter-mode Vox's design is very close to the [[CoolPlane FFR-41 Mave]] from ''{{Yukikaze}}''. It's reinforced by the takeoff in Episode 1, which is almost identical to the Mave's first takeoff in Operation 2.

* CellPhonesAreUseless: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city, but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.

* [[spoiler: EveryoneLives]]

* [[spoiler: NoRomanticResolution]]

* 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: 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]].

[[caption-width-right:305: (From left to right: Lan, Madoka, and Muginami)]]

''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 {{Xebec}} and directed by Toshimasa Suzuki. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Viz Media.

* CanYouHearMeNow: Madoka's cellphone gets almost no reception in the floating city, but it somehow works just fine inside her robot and under hundreds of feet of ocean. The latter oddity is lampshaded by the commander.

* NGOSuperPower: As fitting of a [[NeonGenesisEvangelion NERV]] {{Expy}}, Novumundos is ridiculously powerful. Asteria casually threatens to replace the American president during a phone call.

** 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 as the following line:

* [[spoiler:HappyEnding: For all their struggles, heartbreaks and a BittersweetEnding for Season 1, the entire series ends on a happy, positive and hopeful note. Yurikano has come back from the Rin-ne for good and is reunited with Izo, Kirius and Array; Astelia, finally freed of her burden, travels together with Yoko around the world searching for more traces of the Rin-ne; the Jersey Club expands onto other planets, with members including the Kiss trio, Villagiulio, Grania and Dizelmine; and Madoka, Lan and Muginami are reunited for good and are now traveling the universe. 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 sendoff for him to apparently [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor get trapped into the Rin-ne, forever doomed to listen to Madoka's heartfelt marching song (which he deems contrary to his epic delusions)]].]]

''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 {{Xebec}} and directed by Toshimasa Suzuki. The anime has been licensed for streaming in North America by Viz Media. The respective opening and ending themes are "TRY UNITE!" and "Hello!", both performed by Megumi Nakajima. She reprised her role for the second season's opening.

A Character page is currently under construction, so please move all character tropes there.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: One of the concert-goers in Episode 10 wears a shirt that reads "[[ForeignCussWord FUCK]] KEIN". [[WildMassGuessing Whoever Kein is]] is never explained.

* [[spoiler: HappyEnding]]

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The Ovid and their contrails.