The Sequel Series of Galaxy Angel. It features a new cast of Angels in the Rune Angel Wing that are related in some way to the previous members of the Angel Wing.
Four years have passed since the events of Eternal Lovers. The Transbaal Empire and the EDEN civilization had overthrown Gern's tyrannical rule over the Val-Fasq and peace had finally come after the Chrono Quake Bomb was stopped. Noa's diligent analysis of the Another Space to save Tact and his chosen Angel revealed another piece of Lost Technology close to Juno and the ensuing investigation revealed the mechanism to be a gateway into another dimension. This dimension came to be known as ABSOLUTE and the technology that led to it were called Chrono Gates. Within ABSOLUTE were countless other Chrono Gates all leading to other parallel universes and at the center of ABSOLUTE was a moon-like facility, the Central Globe, that could activate the Chrono Gates outside. The Transbaal Empire's home universe is dubbed EDEN and Milfeulle was found to be able to activate these technologies from the Master Unit control room deep within the Central Globe and thus a new campaign to explore other parallel universes was undertaken.
The EDEN universe eventually comes into contact with the NEUE universe and began an exchange of technologies starting from its capital planet of Seldar. Tact leads a new survey mission across NEUE on board a brand new carrier, the Luxiole, and the discovery of Emblem Frames on the different worlds of the NEUE universe calls for suitable pilots to be found. With the disbanding of the Moon Angel Wing, the initial founding of the successors, the Rune Angel Wing, establishes four members and the most recent discovery of a fifth and unique Emblem Frame calls for an unprecedented inclusion of a male member to the unit. Kazuya Shiranami, a talented young pâtissière finds himself whisked away from his job and undergoes six-months of grueling under Forte. Kazuya finds himself before the precipice of his new life before things go awry almost a day after he arrives.
A distress call from Milfeulle from ABSOLUTE alerts Tact that something has gone wrong and a decision to return to the planet of Seldar to assist in the matter has him learn that a coup has overtaken the capital with none other than Forte leading it. Tact is beaten back against the rebel fleet and he leads the new Angel Wing to fight back, while also appointing Kazuya to become the acting squad-leader of the Rune Angel Wing.
The games in this series are Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobiranote , Galaxy Angel II: Mugen Kairou no Kaginote , and Galaxy Angel II: Eigou Kaiki no Tokinote .
It has a manga series based on Galaxy Angel II: Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira and an anime series named Galaxy Angel Rune.
Provides examples of the following tropes:
- 11th-Hour Superpower: Occurs in the final battle of the franchise where the Rune Angel Wing achieve Angel Feathers.
- 100% Completion: Like the predecessor series, clearing the routes alone will not yield all of the CG for a given character as free roam segments still reward players with certain CGs.
- Zettai Ryoiki has it so that the Moon Angel Wing reuniting with Tact scenes could be missed if the player loads the game at the route selection point for Kazuya in Chapter 5 without loading back the save from Chapter 1 to select who Tact ended up with.
- While not counting for completing the Gallery Mode of CGs, there's a lot of missable dialogue in general given how the game has voiced lines for even when characters aren't selectable in the free roam segments.
- Abusive Precursors: The full weight of the Val-Fasq's deeds get more context in Mugen Kairo. The Will also count as they are the oldest living entities that the series has introduced.
- Accidental Kiss: Occurs in Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira between Kazuya and Nano. Learning the romantic significance of a kiss, Nano yearns to share one with Kazuya, but is unable to find the time for both of them to be together. Nano gets fed up with the idea during one occasion in the Hangar and she hastily runs off while Kazuya tries to calm her down. Nano falls from a ladder, but Kazuya catches her and while accidental, Nano receives the kiss she wanted so much.
- Ace Pilot: The Rune Angel who ends up with Kazuya will become an even stronger asset than she was before.
- Aerith and Bob: Besides the returning cast from the previous trilogy, there are new characters to add to the equation. Milfie's specific naming structure (weird first name, normal last name) is active on three female Angels in the straight way (specifically Anise Azeat, Natsume Izayoi, and Milfie's little sister Apricot, or "Rico" for short) and a fourth in a reversed set-up (Lily C. Sherbet, with Lily being the normal name)
- Alas, Poor Villain: Genievres of Mugen Kairo no Kagi is possibly the most compelling villain introduced in the second trilogy due to his prior connection to Natsume. His death is the only villain death that is played with a sympathetic tone in the sequel trilogy. Coco offers a fair trial for all three of the marquis if they could make it to the Luxiole but Genievres states he has already accepted his demise. Despite all that he had done, especially his intent to kill civilians, Natsume was saddened by his decision.
- Aliens Are Bastards: The Will are almost unapologetically evil in their supposed enlightened way of thinking that justifies wiping out other civlizations if they refuse to assimilate or don't meet their standards.
- Anime Theme Song: Each of the three Galaxy Angel II games begin and end every chapter with one of the two selected opening songs and an ending specific to a chapter. Heck, Mugen Kairo even has voiced previews for the next chapter like a next episode preview.
- Asteroid Thicket: In Chapter 4 of Mugen Kairo no Kagi, Kazuya, Anise and Roselle have to navigate through a hazardous asteroid field in order to set up a surprise attack on Calvados. As it's close to her homeworld, Anise has flown through it in the past and knows the route, and is impressed when Roselle is able to keep up.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: Mission variety almost regresses with the Galaxy Angel II combat sections where some unique parameters exist but Eigou Kaiki has them come back with a lot more varied fights.
- Attack Drone: Kahlua/Tequila's ship, the Spell Caster, is also assisted by three orbs of magic that assist in providing additional firepower.
- Balance of Power: Prior to the Chrono Quake, the triad of the planets of Seldar, Magiic and Pico maintained a military balance by each one having a different weapon to rely on, having a Rock–Paper–Scissors-like deadlock among each other. Seldar's Anti-Magic swords could nullify any spell, but were useless against nanotechnology, while Magiic's spells greatly affected Pico's nanomachines.
- The Battlestar: The Luxiole was built by Noa from the ground up as a superior Elsior that not only houses the NEUE universe's Emblem Frames but also comes with a lot of civilian comfort features.
- BFG:
- The Luxiole, as successor to the Elsior, now carries the Dual Chrono Break Cannon.
- Rico's Cross Caliber has two small cannons that function together as her Hyper Weapon, akin to how her sister's Lucky Star had one with the same purpose. Even the names are similar; while Lucky Star had the Hyper Cannon, Cross Caliber has the Hyper Blaster.
- Parfait and Sorbet's vessels have cannons in their boss fight have barrels as large as the Luxiole itself.
- In the final mission of Eigou Kaiki no Toki, the six Ripsior ships commanded by the Moon Angels are each equipped with the Chrono Break Cluster (essentially a smaller version of the Elsior's Chrono Break Cannon).
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Lester in Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira arriving with the Elsior with the reunited Moon Angel Wing in tow.
- Tact coming to save the Luxiole before the Three Marquis fire upon Seldar.
- After two whole games of being useless, the advanced Seldar fleet arrives to back the Luxiole up in their fight against a resurrected Roselle.
- Kazuya himself gets his moment to shine as the hero near the end of Eigou Kaiki no Toki when his chosen Angel is rendered unable to fight after being kidnapped by a resurrected and posessed Roselle. He personally takes to the field on the updated model of the Holy Blood Kai to fight alongside the other Angels.
- Big Eater: Anise takes after Ranpha and eats a lot. Nano also eats a lot despite being comprised of nanomachines.
- Big First Choice: Like the previous trilogy, the games lack any kind of Old Save Bonus feature, so Mugen Kairou no Kagi and Eigou Kaiki no Toki start out with the player choosing who is Kazuya's love interest among the Rune Angels. To a lesser extent, there's also the choice of who is Tact's wife among the original Moon Angels, although this one doesn't affect story events as much except for a few specific instances.
- Boss Battle: Occurs frequently, particularly in the second game where boss fights against the Three Marquis make up half of the game.
- Calling Your Attacks: Makes a full return from Hyper Weapon shouting and Chrono Break cannon firing.
- A Child Shall Lead Them: Natsume is the princess of the Arms Alliance and she's only eleven. After she's exiled, her younger sister Yuzu takes her place.
- Child Soldiers: If you combine the twelve female members of both Angel teams, there's still four who qualify for this trope. Milfie (now 21), Mint (now 20), and Chitose (now 21) have grown out of this trope during the four-year timeskip between the end of Eternal Lovers and this trilogy's first game, with their respective slots now occupied by Rico (14), Anise (16), and Natsume (11); despite acting like she's a qualifier, Nano is actually far older to account for Vanilla, now 17, still qualifying.
- Continuity Nod: Most, if not all, the named characters, and some of the unnamed characters, that showed up as part of the Transbaal Empire in the first trilogy show up again, or are at least mentioned, in the sequel trilogy.
- Cool Gate: The Chrono Gates are devices that allow inter-dimensional travel as it connects universes through to the hub-dimension of ABSOLUTE.
- The Cover Changes the Gender: How much of a cultural phenomena Galaxy Angel used to be when JAM PROJECT's Hironobu Kageyama sings Eternal Love for GAII.
- Cue the Sun: The intro to Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira and main theme of the Rune Angel Wing, Wing of Destiny, brings us back to the universe of GA with a rising sun visual.
- Custom Uniform: The Rune Angels wear similarly customized outfits on underneath of their uniforms. Anise notably wears a crop top, pants and sandals instead of the other Angels' skirts and either pumps (Ranpha and Forte) or boots (Kahlua's being high-heeled) as part of her uniform.
- Danger in the Galactic Core: Eigou Kaiki sees the Will attempt to use the Central Globe in ABSOLUTE to trigger a Big Crunch, destroying every universe in the process. They are eventually defeated by the Rune Angel Wing, with the Hyper Weapon of player-controlled Kazuya Shiranami's chosen Angel dealing the final blow.
- Dating Sim: Wouldn't be Galaxy Angel if the power of love didn't enhance spaceship performance.
- "Do It Yourself" Theme Tune:
- The theme of Galaxy Angel II, Wing of Destiny, gets sung by the six members of the Rune Angel Wing as the final credits song for the final game in the franchise.
- Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira's final stage also features an 11-member rendition of Eternal Love with only Natsume missing.
- Edible Theme Naming: Makes a return in full swing, especially when you learn the last names of the Luxiole's regular staff.
- Empathic Weapon: The H.A.L.O. System present in Emblem Frames from 1 still fully apply to the ones in II. The Holy Blood doesn't have one, instead having the on-board AI take its place.
- Enemy-Detecting Radar: Like in the first trilogy, Coco handles the Luxiole's radar, often warning of incoming enemies. From Mugen Kairo onwards, Tapio takes Coco's position when the latter becomes commander of the Luxiole.
- Escort Mission: Two Escort mission in the entirety of Galaxy Angel II and both are in the final game. One involves saving the shuttle with Anise's acquaintances inside and the other is escorting the fairies from Sprite away from Will invaders. The Magiic stage in the final game can also count as the third as you need to protect them as they travel to fixed positions on the map.
- Expansion Pack: Mugen Kairou no Kagi features a bonus disc for Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira, which opens up the extra scenario to set up Natsume's route.
- Extra-Dimensional Shortcut: The Will utilize the Infinite Corridor, a means of interdimensional travel that does not require ABSOLUTE or the Chrono Gates.
- First Girl Wins: If Kazuya picks Rico, echoing the original trilogy where Tact could have picked her sister Milfeulle.
- First Kiss: Pretty much a big deal across all five routes in Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira. Rico is apologetic towards taking Kazuya's when she gave him mouth-to-mouth resucitation. Lily and Kazuya reconciling after the former makes the faux pax in the budding relationship. Nano trying to get Kazuya to kiss her after their particular route conflict. Kazuya going on the offensive and giving Tequila a kiss after a drunken Kahlua already made a move on him. Finally, Anise, who has no idea how to stop her feelings for Kazuya, gets advice from Dr. Mordent, assaults Kazuya, and kisses him before running away in embarassment.
- Fun with Acronyms: The extremist faction who seeks to exterminate the Red-Eye tribe in Seldar call themselves "Purge of Scarlet Eyes". Or "POSE" for short. Natsume comments how dull it sounds.
- Get a Room!: If Milfie is married to Tact, Ranpha says the trope word-for-word during the reunion scene in the final chapter of Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira.
- Gratuitous English: Most prominent with Lily and Tequila.
- Great Offscreen War: The setting mentions in multiple points how the planet of Seldar and Magiic waged war with each other before Seldar came out victorious and established itself as the capital planet of its known galactic civilization.
- Heel–Face Turn:
- Tapio Ca is a Val-Fasq who becomes second in command of the Luxiole. A bit of a hard-ass but genuinely interested in learning of the power that defeated his people. His ability and integrity is great enough for Tact to have personally selected him for the position.
- Natsume begins as an enemy before joining the Rune Angel Wing. She even has a conversation with Tapio about how they both started out as enemies before joining with the "good guys".
- Heroic Mime: Subverted. Unlike Tact on the first trilogy, Kazuya gets the full voice treatment down to his interior monologues, although you can turn him off.
- Heroic Sacrifice:
- Mugen Kairo no Kagi's newly introduced male member Roselle Mateus pulls one off in order to save the rest of the Luxiole by ramming the hull of his Emblem Frame onto the enemy's flagship and detonating the chrono strings.
- Eigou Kaiki no Toki delivers a punch straight into the gut and tear ducts when the Elsior and its six Emblem Frames are sacrificed in order to counteract a blackhole from forming near the Val-Fasq homeworld. The sacrifice was made willingly by Tact and the Moon Angel Wing. The ending credits for the chapter plays the credits song from Eternal Lovers as well as showing background shots of the rooms and halls for the Elsior before ending off on Tact's chosen Angel's room.
- Human Popsicle: The entire population of the Arms Alliance planets is submitted to this in Chapter 7 of Eigou Kaiki, getting trapped in a crystal-like polymer made of nanomachines. Only Natsume's younger sister Yuzu was able to escape and was found by the Rune Angel Wing when they visited the palace.
- In Medias Res: Eigou Kaiki no Toki starts out with Kazuya entering the Bridge, where he finds Tapio and the Bridge hands busy at work. Coco explains that the ship has sensed a large energy signature being detected near them. An explosion is felt around the ship and one of the operators receives damage reports from the Third Floor. Kazuya runs off immediately as the third floor are the Living quarters. Kazuya will run to his chosen Angel’s room (at the player's choice), finding it in complete ruin and his Angel nowhere in sight. The game catches up to this point at the end of Chapter 9.
- Insert Song:
- Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira goes for two vocal tracks across two fights. The original Eternal Love and then the version featuring 11 of the combined Angel Wing.
- Mugen Kairo fully allows the Rune Angel Wing to shine as their own with the 2007 rendition of Wing of Destiny.
- Eigou Kaiki starts off strong with Angelic Symphony playing during the game's first fight and then featuring either of the two openings for the finale, Gessei no Canon or Taiyo no Aria.
- Instant-Win Condition: Similar to the previous games, only this time Kazuya's survival is also paramount.
- Jack of All Stats: Rico's "Cross Caliber", just like her sister Milfeulle's "Lucky Star" before her, is the most balanced ship of the squadron.
- Last Girl Wins: Much like Tact with Chitose in the first trilogy, Kazuya can achieve this with Natsume.
- Leitmotif: Every single Angel has her own general character theme, arranged theme, piano theme, and vocal. Even Roselle, the second male team member gets his assortment of themes.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Only because Tact fully understands what sort of position Kazuya is in given the former's experience with the Moon Angel Wing.
- Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: At the end of Kahlua/Tequila's route in Zettai Ryouiki no Tobira, Tequila forces herself on top of Kazuya, right before Mimolette and Ranpha enter the room for a visit. They see the awkward position the couple is in, and quickly apologize for interrupting them before leaving, while Kazuya screams in terror begging them not to leave him alone at Tequila's mercy.
- Level-Up at Intimacy 5: Used with the Rune Angels, although the relationship being strained only reaches its most tangible point during the final game.
- Mecha-Mooks: Like in the first trilogy, the villains' fleets use entirely automatized ships. This becomes a plot point during Zettai Ryouiki, when Forte convinces the rebels to not to force the Seldar military to fight for them, allowing Tact's forces to fight their way through without killing innocents.
- Mighty Glacier: Natsume's Papillon Chaser is Forte's successor in having a ton of explosives on board but with little mobility. Again, great at dealing with heavily armored opponents, not good when pursuing fleeing ones (that's Anise's job).
- Mission Control: At the start of the first game, Tact is now on board the flagship holding the fort while giving Kazuya free reign of combat orders during sortie. In the successive games, Tact's role is replaced by Coco and Tapio.
- Morality Dial: A variation is used with Nano-Nano and her fellow nanomachine colonies. Basically they have two specific modes for times of war and peace: repair and heal. This is so during war times they could be used to repair machinery and weapons, while during peace time they can be used to heal wounds. At the end of Eigou Kaiki, they're permanently set to heal mode so they'll never be used for war again.
- More Friends, More Benefits: In Kahlua's route in Eigou Kaiki no Toki, Tequila manages to manifest in a separate body (thanks to an accident involving nanomachine organism Cookie) and the latter informs Kazuya that he has to take care of both of them now. This also manages to cause a problem however.
- Nanomachines: Nano-Nano Pudding is actually a nanomachine colony given human (or rather, humanoid) form. This allows Nano to be far more expressive normally than Vanilla.
- Nostalgia Level: In musical terms at least. Certain fights in the final game of the franchise, Eigou Kaiki, feature remixed renditions of songs from the first trilogy.
- Number of the Beast: In the final battle of Eigou Kaiki, the Will bring out a fleet composed of 66 ships, with the flagship having 6 capital ships escorting it.
- Passing the Torch:
- Symbolically occurs in Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira as the disbanded Moon Angel Wing are replaced by the Rune Angel Wing as the new fighting force.
- Happens more literally in Eigou Kaiki no Toki. When the Will send a singularity to consume Val Rundal, the Val-Fasq homeworld that was demilitarized since the end of Eternal Lovers, Noa determines that a significant force was required to counteract it and it demanded either the Luxiole and the Emblem Frames it held or the Elsior's. Tact and the Moon Angel Wing make the conscious decision to sacrifice their flagship and their Emblem Frames to save the homeworld of their former enemy, with Kazuya voicing his opposition. With their signature crafts gone, the Rune Angel Wing officially succeed them.
- Pocket Protector: In the climax of Eigou Kaiki no Toki, Roselle's pendant saves Kazuya when he's impaled by Herea's light spike in the torso. The spike also cuts off the chain, causing the pendant to fall off Kazuya's jacket, allowing Roselle to see it and regain control of his body.
- The Power of Friendship: Invoked during Kazuya's scenario setting-up for Natsume route in the bonus Mugen Kairo Disc where instead of Kazuya and his chosen Angel's love powering the Chrono Gate to ABSOLUTE, it is the combined comradery of the Rune Angels that power it instead.
- The Power of Love: Invoked by Tact in the first videogame. Tact gives Kazuya and Kazuya's chosen date a free pass to a normally-pricey luxury health resort/beach spa precisely because he's learned from firsthand experience how powerful an Angel in love is, so he has an ulterior motive (as well as the caring motive) to give Kazuya a pass that can help him and his chosen Angel become closer. Kazuya can also employ the Chitose strategy (he ends up in a Cross Dresser storyline for a bit if he does) to enable it for Natsume.
- Recoil Boost: In Chapter 8 of Eigou Kaiki, after being defeated, Sorbet uses his ship's main cannon to try and ram the Luxiole's lower half backwards before self-destructing.
- Relationship Upgrade: Kazuya's choice on who to bring along his vacation on the resort planet seals his decision going forward with no chance of messing up like Tact could. Kazuya does have his own scenario to set up for Natsume in future but unlike Chitose, Kazuya and Natsume end up together by the end of the second game.
- Running Gag:
- Rico's pathological reflex for throwing men over her shoulder. Tact invokes this the most. This aspect of her character however becomes more useful as the series progresses and it functionally allows Rico to not only protect herself but also do some literal heavy lifting when required.
- Lily's eccentrism has a lot of points to be brought up but one that occurs the most is her tendency to cry a lot during emotional moments. On two occasions her tears obscure her vision and she bumps into a wall.
- By the third game, Nano has become as snarky and conniving as Anise has. Given Anise saved her life early in the first game, along with Nano calling Anise "Boss" as a result...
- Kahlua's lackadaisical and carefree reaction that usually flow in the opposite direction compared to the rest of the team.
- Anise and her hasty attitude getting her into trouble, particularly with Mint who is quick to remind her of her debt. Also applies to her tendency to misremember names.
- Kazuya's own gag involves his utter fear of Steline, the engineer.
- Save-Game Limits: There's only six save slots in each of the games, but with the added benefit of a quasi-chapter selector built into its system where you can load up a chapter among its four parts.
- Sequel Escalation: There's several escalations from the first trilogy.
- Bumping up the total Angel Wing member count from 6 to 8.
- Having the two successive sequels of the trilogy's first game be just as long, maybe even longer, than the original.
- Not one but two opening theme songs per game.
- Multiple special ending songs.
- Even more cast member interaction.
- Compared to what Eigou Kaiki's stakes are, the climactic battle of Eternal Lovers to stop a bomb that could spell the doom of the technology that powers what we know of civilization looks like a walk in the park.
- By Natsume's addition, the first chapter of Eigou Kaiki one ups the final fights in Zettai Ryoiki with 11 Angels to 12.
- Sickeningly Sweethearts: Tact and Ranpha's reunion scene have them exclaiming "Darling" and "Honey" at the top of their lungs on the bridge of the Luxiole. If Kazuya visits the bridge again in the chapter's free roam segment, Ranpha is seen sitting on Tact's lap exchanging cheesy romance dialogue that makes Kazuya gag while Coco just laughs it off, having gotten used to this scene.
- Sidekick Graduations Stick: Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira's timeline continuity had Tact and Coco move to the newly commissioned Luxiole while Lester and Almo stayed on the Elsior. When Tact is promoted to a higher position as a desk job, command of the Luxiole is given to Coco and she remains the commander of the Luxiole hence. While it takes a bit of development time, Coco eventually becomes a respectable leader in her own right, proving Tact's hunch right that she had the potential all along. She even has her own Lester equivalent as her second in command/radar technician and budding romantic interest in Tapio Ca.
- Superior Successor: The Luxiole was built specifically to be more powerful than the Elsior while still keeping the commodities for the crew (and then some). This becomes a plot point in the final game as the heroes decide that the Luxiole, as the superior ship, would be more beneficial in the long run, resulting in the Elsior being sacrificed to save Val-Rundal from the singularity.
- Super Mode: In the final battle of the final game, all 12 Angels are shouting their super move names at the top of their lungs as they punch through an entire armada to finish off the final threat to the universe.
- Taking You with Me:
- The Three Marquis are defeated but Genievres is content to die knowing that he can at least bombard the planet of Seldar and take a couple people down with him.
- A heroic example occurs in the end of Mugen Kairou, when Roselle crashes the Holy Blood against Parfait's ship and detonates his Chrono String engines. He ends up surviving, though.
- Occurs one last time after the battle with Sorbet in Eigou Kaiki when he tries to take Tapio's half of the Luxiole with him.
- Time Skip: The series takes place four years after the end of Eternal Lovers from the first game trilogy. Much has changed where Noa's technological inquiry leads to the discovery of parallel universes. More than half of the original Angel Wing retire from combat duties, leaving only Forte and Chitose as active duty military officers. The rest have gone on to perform either civilian or political duties.
- Title Drop:
- Zettai Ryoiki no Tobira in a translated naming convention sense as the hub-dimension of ABSOLUTE is what zettai ryoiki roughty translates to. The Chrono Gates that lead to ABSOLUTE also are mentioned a lot and are key plot points.
- Mugen Kairo no Kagi gets dropped frequently as it is the mcguffin of the game.
- Eigou Kaiki no Toki only once at the very end.
- The War Has Just Begun: A larger faction of enemies are introduced at the end of Mugen Kairo no Kagi and the war against them takes place in Eigou Kaiki.
- World of Technicolor Hair: The Rune team members' hair colors are orange (Rico), dark blue (Lily), sky blue (Nano), blonde (Kahlua), purple (Tequila), red (Anise) and pink (Natsume).
