History Anime / Xabungle

* TransformingMecha: Sure, the combining Walker Machines have to shift a few parts around when assuming robot form, but when your BATTLESHIP does this, things start getting CrazyAwesome. See also ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' and its brethren.

[[https://www.hidive.com/tv/blue-gale-xabungle The show is available to watch on HIDIVE,]] with episodes being added every Tuesday.

* MadeOfIron: All the Civilians, like you wouldn't believe. Explicitly created that way by the Innocent, so they could survive in the harsh Zora landscape, which apparently includes extreme climates and ''radiation''.

In the hands of anybody else, this would be a particularly gritty tale of desert justice and class warfare, but with YoshiyukiTomino at the helm during his post-[[Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon Ideon]] emotional peak, the 50-episode series turns into an over-the-top HumongousMecha romp dripping with too much humor for a lesser (or darker) mecha anime to properly handle. Heck, even it can't handle the comedy lightly, often [[NoFourthWall breaking the Fourth Wall]] alongside the Three-Day Rule to poke fun at the cliches of its SuperRobot predecessors.

* Fanservice: On several occasions - for example, one scene in episode 2 has a good shot of Rag's rear end while she's trying to hotwire the Xabungle vehicles. And then there's Elchi's short dress. And the fact that Rag is shown to not wear a bra...

* HotBlooded: Jiron has this in ''freaking spades''. [[JustBugsMe/SuperRobotWars Some]] [[WMG/SuperRobotWars speculators]] believe the universe will implode if Jiron gets anywhere near ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. If he's this BadAss just running on ''gasoline'', imagine what he'd do with Spiral Power.

* TheBigGuy: Dike and Fatman Big. The former is a gentle giant, both kind enough to offer up his other hand when Jiron couldn't shake with his right, and [[GenreSavvy thoroughly aware of his status as a background character]]. The latter is a muscleman whose dedication to Elche is touching, to the point that he can sense her impending danger from 3 kilometers away.

* HotBlooded: Jiron has this in ''freaking spades''. [[JustBugsMe/SuperRobotWars Some]] [[WMG/SuperRobotWars speculators]] believe the universe will implode if Jiron gets anywhere near ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. If he's this BadAss just running on ''gasoline'', imagine what he'd do with Spiral Power.

In the hands of anybody else, this would be a particularly gritty tale of desert justice and class warfare, but with YoshiyukiTomino at the helm during his post-[[SpaceRunawayIdeon Ideon]] emotional peak, the 50-episode series turns into an over-the-top HumongousMecha romp dripping with too much humor for a lesser (or darker) mecha anime to properly handle. Heck, even it can't handle the comedy lightly, often [[NoFourthWall breaking the Fourth Wall]] alongside the Three-Day Rule to poke fun at the cliches of its SuperRobot predecessors.

Compare ''OvermanKingGainer''.

* ChickenWalker: The prevalent design amongst Walker Machines, in fact. (The reason being, a lot of the mecha designs were handled by SpaceRunawayIdeon alumni.)

* TransformingMecha: Sure, the combining Walker Machines have to shift a few parts around when assuming robot form, but when your BATTLESHIP does this, things start getting CrazyAwesome. See also ''{{Macross}}'' and its brethren.

* {{Omake}}: The filler in [[TheFilmOfTheSeries Xabungle Graffiti}} tends to work this way.

** "Boomerang ''{{Ideon}}''"?

** Manga/GetterRobo -> Getter G is about the only other clear prior example in mecha anime as a whole. GreatMazinger doesn't count because it AND its pilot are cases of SoLastSeason.

* ChickenWalker: The prevalent design amongst Walker Machines, in fact.
* [[ClarkesThirdLaw Clarke's Third Law]]:

** Walker Gallier plays this straight... but the pilot of the Gally Wheel (waist and below) can see the action, and switches from pilot to gunner.

** Hahaha! Because it's an ''[[MediumAwareness anime]]''!

* LimitedWardrobe: Almost all the main characters. Somewhat justified for Jiron and the Sand Rats, as they seem to have boarded the Iron Gear with only the clothes on their backs, and given the show's setting this is understandably the norm.

** As is the Walker Gallier, apparently - see Homage.
* LoveTriangle: Rag and Elchi both have a thing for Jiron. Jiron himself doesn't show a preference until about halfway though the show, when [[spoiler: Elchi gets brainwashed. THEN he starts trying to talk her out of it with love, eventually getting through to her for long enough to run a reversal procedure. When she loses her sight, he decides to live with her.]]

* MadeOfIron: All the Civilians, like you wouldn't believe. Explicitly created that way by the Innocent, so they could survive in the harsh Zora landscape.

* NoWaterProofingInTheFuture: Played straight, as Zora is mostly desert and everyone uses ''Walker'' Machines (which are barely more waterproofed than a modern car).

** {{Getter Robo}} -> Getter G is about the only other clear prior example in mecha anime as a whole. GreatMazinger doesn't count because it AND its pilot are cases of SoLastSeason.

* ShoutOut: In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', one of the mobile suits at Hayato Kobayashi's museum appears to be the Walker Gallier. ''[[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Crossbone Gundam]]'' is even better about it, reusing a Gallop-type as a worker MS. ''Anime/TurnAGundam'' makes mention of Gallia, the continent most of the action takes place on.

** Kashim King's possession of Elchi is highly reminiscent of [[{{Dune}} Baron Harkonnen and St. Alia of the Knife]].

** So seriousness of a series is influenced by its women being tough or not? I sense UnfortunateImplications here.
** ...and there would be if they didn't [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] it so damn often (example: Chiru notes once or twice on the seriousness of the situation). The point is more that, oddly for a mecha anime, there really isn't a gender gap amongst the Civilians.

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[[caption-width-right:308:More like a [[RealIsBrown Brown Gale]], apparently.]]

!!We got away with writing this Trope list for three days!

* ShoutOut: In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', one of the mobile suits at Hayato Kobayashi's museum appears to be the Walker Gallier. ''[[Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam Crossbone Gundam]]'' is even better about it, reusing a Gallop-type as a worker MS. ''TurnAGundam'' makes mention of Gallia, the continent most of the action takes place on.

** There's another possibility for what they are, too. It's said that the Innocent can survive in places that have been cleared of Blue Stones, which implies that they're some kind of pollutant. The Innocent just told the Civilians that they were valuable so that they'd collect them so the Innocent could dispose of them (at least some of the "Ascension of Light" rocket launches from the payment point domes may be them shooting the stuff into space). This leads to some Major FridgeHorror when you think about it. What's a dangerous pollutant that's blue? Radioactive cobalt. The reason the world is in ruins could be due to the effects of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Bomb Cobalt Bomb]], a hypothetical type of nuclear weapon that was never built because the fallout would kill nearly everything on Earth.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Most of the fansub attempts use spellings of characters' names that run counter to the ones used in ''Alpha Gaiden'' (Chiru -> Chill, Dike -> Daiku and so forth). Since they all seem to fall victim to [[{{NINJA}} subninjas]] (people or other inconveniences that wantonly destroy fansub groups in the place of the series actually being licensed for localization), though, this article will use the ''Alpha Gaiden'' Romanizations at least until AXSUS manages to sub the entire series.
** And then you have the Civilian's Democracy group Solt(Jap. pron.)/Salt(what it sounds like)/Sault(short for Assault, which makes the most sense).

* AnimeFirst

* ColbertBump: Its appearance in the extremely popular ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsAlpha Gaiden'', and later ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'', significantly boosted its popularity.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Before [[YoshiyukiTomino Tomino]] joined up as director, the Iron Gear and Xabungle were supposed to have been the CoolShip and CombiningMecha of a serious, outer space show called "Exploiter" (which helps to explain why they look so out of place on Zora, [[ChickenWalker mechanically]]). Amazingly, the character designs apparently weren't changed much from that period and the finished show.

* NoExportForYou: This article brought to you by the Aeon Genesis FanTranslation of ''Alpha Gaiden'' and the efforts of several fansub groups.
** Many people have actually found this rather surprising in retrospect, as one would think that the Old West-inspired setting and characters would've made this a shoo-in for export in the 80s. For whatever reason, though, the show never made the jump across the pond.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the fansubs and translation of Alpha Gaiden, Timp's overly personal and casual speech is changed to make him sound like a Cowboy. Specifically his frequent use of refering to people with sarcastic Japanese sibling terminology is changed to "Pardner" and "Missy".

* Woolseyism: In the fansubs and translation of Alpha Gaiden, Timp's overly personal and casual speech is changed to make him sound like a Cowboy. Specifically his frequent use of refering to people with sarcastic Japanese sibling terminology is changed to "Pardner" and "Missy".