History Anime / SuperDimensionCenturyOrguss

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The opening and endings themes, though that should be obvious when remembering that the singer Casey Rankin, while he lived from Japan from 1971 until he day he died, lived in America until he was 25.

A six-episode sequel OVA, ''Orguss 02'' done by Creator/JCStaff (of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' fame), was released in 1993. The story is set in a completely different world; at first, the only ties to the original series are the Orguss and Nikick mecha buried around the world, along with the ruins of the orbital elevator where everything started. The kingdoms of Rivilia and Zafrin have both learned how to rebuild the ruined "[[AMechByAnyOtherName armors]]" (or "Decimators" in the English dub) using their UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-level SchizoTech, and the cold war between them is on the verge of igniting. But more of the original story resurfaces as young Rivilian mechanic Lean is sucked into the conflict between the nations, and meets Nataruma, an [[PhlebotinumRebel escaped Zafrin agent]] with strange powers, a [[BrokenBird chip on her shoulder]], and an unusual heritage...

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Any Emaan with a child is this, as the species suffers from a condition where females are rendered sterile unless they have their first child before they turn ''[[ChristmasCake eighteen years old]].''

* ChristmasCake: It's even ''worse'' for Emaan women. Their bodies start undergoing a change when seventeen years old and develop a painful fever. Then anywhere from half a year to one year later, they become barren and aren't even viewed as ''women'' anymore. Captain Shaya is already past that age, and Mimsy's pretty damn close.

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Every faction wants Kei and Olson to go into the singularity and change things so that only their universe exists. Kei, being who he is, never asks how he's supposed to do this, and everyone just assumes he knows. When they finally get into the singularity, they realize what they are supposed to do: the singularity is the Superdimesional bomb right before Kei reprogrammed it. The various powers wanted Kei and Olson to reprogram it so that it would destroy all the other universes and leave theirs intact. But Kei and Olson have gone back to before the bomb went off, which gives them the option of killing their previous selves and allowing the bomb to self-destruct, which returns the multiverse to its original state.]]

* TheJuggernaut: The enormous "Verifier" mecha that Zafrin excavates in the second episode is able to decimate anything in its path, and withstand any attacks against it; its only weakness is how quickly psychic monks burn out operating the sensors (justifying Nataruma's importance). [[spoiler:Even Perion's plan to destroy it by using nuclear weapons only destroys its legs -- and [[{{Determinator}} it still drags itself onward with its arms]] until Perion reveals his SuperweaponSurprise.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: Every faction wants Kei and Olson to go into the singularity and change things so that only their universe exists. Kei being who he is, he never asks how he's supposed to do this, and everyone just assumes he knows. When they finally get into the singularity they realize what they were supposed to do: the singularity is the Superdimesional bomb right before Kei reprogrammed it. The various powers wanted Kei and Olson to reprogram it so that it would destroy all the other universe and leave their's intact. The thing is that Kei and Olson have gone back to before the bomb went off, which gives them the option of killing their previous selves and allowing the bomb to self-destruct, which returns to the multiverse to its original state.]]

* DieselPunk: Outside of the robots, the technology of the two factions fits squarely here.

* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: Episode 18. Mimsey begins entering her biological phase of sterility and her desire for intimacy intensifies.

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Prince Parion's half-brother, aged 6 years old or so, gets poisoned and chokes to death on-screen.]]

* BlueIsHeroic: Kei's uniform is blue and white.

* SpoilerOpening: The opening reveals that the [[spoiler: orbital tower]] still exists.

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Averted with prince Parion's half-brother. The audience gets the [[SarcasmMode pleasure]] of seeing this 6-year-old or so get poisoned and then choked to death on-screen.]]

* ConservationOfNinjitsu: Mu attack robots seem easier to kill the more of them are present.

* EnigmaticMinion: Manning.

* LoveableSexManiac: Kei is one and the series introduces him to the viewers with him making out with a woman.

* AnotherCenturysEpisode: ''R'' (coincidentally alongside about 5 other shows that were in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'').

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The first episode has a memorable sequence where they ''alphabetize'' WMDs.

* SphereOfDestruction: Played with near the end. [[spoiler: After Parion defeats the giant Zafrin Decimator, he launches a missile at their capital that explodes into one of these... except we see everyone and everything inside the sphere, untouched. That is, [[DepopulationBomb until all the people vomit up blood, collapse, and die]]. Parion muses that the corpses will make good fertilzer for the gardens he hopes will grow from the ruins.]]

* {{Lolicon}}: Mome ''wants'' Kei to love her in this way. Tragically for her, Kei flat-out states he's not a pedophile.

* AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Any Emaan with a child is this, as the species suffers from a condition where females are rendered sterile by ''[[ChristmasCake eighteen years old]].''

* GainaxEnding: The natural result of the setting. By the last story arc, everyone knows that the Mu robots are resisting any and all efforts to fix the world, believing that the artificial greenhouse effect will spare inorganic lifeforms. The Chilam still have some scheme to control Kei and Olson when they repair space-time, and it's heavily implied the Emaan have something up their sleeves too. Kei and Olson reach the Great Singularity Point just before it is about to be destroyed by a meteor... [[spoiler:only to find that the [=GSP=] is actually the Space/Time Oscillation Bomb ''[[TimeStandsStill locked in the moment]] before its activation'' '''along with the Kei and Olson from the prologue.''' The older Kei and Olson realize the implications immediately and draw their weapons, resulting in their past selves drawing their own, followed by four gunshots. With everyone capable of activating it dead, the [[CuttingTheKnot bomb self-destructs]], ending an otherwise StableTimeLoop. Thus, every timeline began flowing separately, making [[TheMultiverse all possible endings true]].]]

* LatexSpaceSuit (The pilot suits)

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The first episode has a memorable sequence where they ''alphabetize'' WMDs.
** A: [[NukeEm Atomic Weapons]]. "A nuclear weapon, in other words."
** B: [[ThePlague Biological Weapons]]. "Organic or germ weapons, in other words."
** C: [[DeadlyGas Chemical Weapons]]. "Includes poison gas, and other weapons using chemicals."
** D: [[RealityBreakingParadox Dimensional Weapons]]. "A temporal-spatial weapon, in other words."