History YMMV / BlueGender

* CommonKnowledge: It used to be very common for fans to assume that the English ending theme was sung by Creator/LauraBailey, the voice of Marlene. It was later revealed to actually be Daphne Gere, who also sang the English ''Anime/DragonBall'' ending.

* EsotericHappyEnding The ending could only be considered happy if [[spoiler:[[ScienceIsBad you're a severe technophobe]]. A few humans have survived GaiasVengeance, and they can all live in harmony with mother nature, [[LuddWasRight free at last of technology]]! Then the FridgeLogic sets in - the only survivors will be physically strong people. If you're a person who is crippled, blind, deaf, has a curable terminal disease, etc. then you're hosed. MotherNature hates you and you have no right to live. And those [[DesignatedVillain well-meaning humans]], who [[StrawmanHasAPoint were trying to save the planet by living in a space station (to ease the strain placed on Earth) and eliminating the hostile creatures that had infested Earth?]] [[KillEmAll Screw them]]]].

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is ruining the planet due to [[LuddWasRight technological excess]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}}, [[GaiasVengeance and so nature sends]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]] to forcibly knock humanity back to the Stone/Bronze Age. Many of the humans in [[SpaceStation Second Earth]] are supposed to be seen as cold and heartless, and Chairman Victor of the High Council in particular is supposed to be the BigBad, for fighting against Gaia and the Blue instead of learning to live InHarmonyWithNature. The problem is that at the time of the show's events, humanity ''knows'' it's ruining the planet and is trying to fix things... an effort the ''[[DesignatedHero supposed]]'' BigGood [[MotherNature Gaia]] is ''actively sabotaging'' with the Blue. At the end of the series, Seno Miyagi decides he and the rest of the humans should remain on the colony and seek out other planets to live on, which is a perfectly reasonable argument at this point and would leave the planet alone, spearing it from further harm. Instead, the humans go insane, Seno is shot dead, and Second Earth (which was built to ease the overpopulation) is destroyed, with the GreenAesop being that humans can live in harmony with nature, as long as they're not abusing tech. Sadly, "tech" here is defined as ''[[ScienceIsBad anything more advanced than the wheel]]''.]]

* DesignatedHero: [[spoiler:[[MotherNature Gaia]] is supposed to be the BigGood who wants to protect the planet from the destruction that {{humans|AreTheRealMonsters}} have brought... except Gaia decides to do this by creating a race of BigCreepyCrawlies to destroy modern civilization and kill scores of people, out of the belief that [[ScienceIsBad technology]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}} are what is ruining the environment. The humans are basically supposed to be seen as the villains for ''[[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming defending themselves]]''. Not only that, but when humans actually try to make things better by building a SpaceColony to ease the strain on the planet, Gaia responds by corrupting two of their best soldiers and having them massacre nearly everyone inside, then afterwards drives the rest of them insane and blows up the colony.]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is ruining the planet due to [[LuddWasRight technological excess]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}}, [[GaiasVengeance and so nature sends]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]] to forcibly knock humanity back to the Stone/Bronze Age. Many of the humans in [[SpaceColony Second Earth]] are supposed to be seen as cold and heartless, and Chairman Victor of the High Council in particular is supposed to be the BigBad, for fighting against Gaia and the Blue instead of learning to live InHarmonyWithNature. The problem is that at the time of the show's events, humanity ''knows'' it's ruining the planet and is trying to fix things... an effort the ''[[DesignatedHero supposed]]'' BigGood [[MotherNature Gaia]] is ''actively sabotaging'' with the Blue. At the end of the series, Seno Miyagi decides he and the rest of the humans should remain on the colony and seek out other planets to live on, which is a perfectly reasonable argument at this point and would leave the planet alone, spearing it from further harm. Instead, the humans go insane, Seno is shot dead, and Second Earth (which was built to ease the overpopulation) is destroyed, with the GreenAesop being that humans can live in harmony with nature, as long as they're not abusing tech. Sadly, "tech" here is defined as ''[[ScienceIsBad anything more advanced than the wheel]]''.]]

* MemeticMutation: The Blues looking like an "Angry Woman's Crotch." An Creator/AdultSwim card referenced this during the first airing of the series, and while people had brought up allusions to VaginaDentata with the Blue previously, this really exploded.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is ruining the planet due to [[LuddWasRight technological excess]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}}, [[GaiasVengeance and so nature sends]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]] to forcibly knock humanity back to the Stone/Bronze Age. Many of the humans in [[SpaceColony Second Earth]] are supposed to be seen as cold and heartless, and Chairman Victor of the High Council in particular is supposed to be the BigBad, for fighting against Gaia and the Blue instead of learning to live InHarmonyWithNature. The problem is that at the time of the show's events, humanity ''knows'' it's ruining the planet and is trying to fix things... an effort the ''[[DesignatedHero supposed]]'' BigGood [[MotherNature Gaia]] is ''actively sabotaging'' with the Blue. At the end of the series, Seno Miyagi decides he and the rest of the humans should remain on the colony and seek out other planets to live on, which is a perfectly reasonable argument at this point and would leave the planet alone, spearing it from further harm. Instead, the humans go insane, Seno is shot dead, and Second Earth (which was built to ease the overpopulation) is destroyed, with the GreenAesop being that humans can live in harmony with nature, as long as they're not abusing tech. Sadly, "tech" here is defined as ''[[ScienceIsBad anything more advanced than the wheel]]''.]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Man]] is ruining the planet due to [[LuddWasRight technological excess]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}}, [[GaiasVengeance and so nature sends]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]] to forcibly knock humanity back to the Stone/Bronze Age. Many of the humans in [[SpaceColony Second Earth]] are supposed to be seen as cold and heartless, and Chairman Victor of the High Council in particular is supposed to be the BigBad, for fighting against Gaia and the Blue instead of learning to live InHarmonyWithNature. The problem is that at the time of the show's events, humanity ''knows'' it's ruining the planet and is trying to fix things... an effort the ''[[DesignatedHero supposed]]'' BigGood [[MotherNature Gaia]] is ''actively sabotaging'' with the Blue. At the end of the series, Seno Miyagi decides he and the rest of the humans should remain on the colony and seek out other planets to live on, which is a perfectly reasonable argument at this point and would leave the planet alone, spearing it from further harm. Instead, the humans go insane, Seno is shot dead, and Second Earth (which was built to ease the overpopulation) is destroyed, with the the GreenAesop being that humans can live in harmony with nature, as long as they're not abusing tech. Sadly, "tech" here is defined as ''[[ScienceIsBad anything more advanced than the wheel]]''.]]

* EsotericHappyEnding The ending could only be considered happy if [[spoiler:[[ScienceIsBad you're a severe technophobe]]. A few humans have survived GaiasVengeance, and they can all live in harmony with mother nature, [[LuddWasRight free at last of technology]]! Then the FridgeLogic sets in - the only survivors will be physically strong people. If you're a person who is crippled, blind, deaf, has a curable terminal disease, etc. then you're hosed. MotherNature hates you and you have no right to live]]. [[DesignatedVillain And those well-meaning humans]], who [[StrawmanHasAPoint were trying to save the planet by living in a space station (to ease the strain placed on Earth) and eliminating the hostile creatures that had infested Earth?]] [[KillEmAll Screw them]].]]

* MagnificentBastard: Seno Miyagi, a rare mostly benevolent example.

* DesignatedVillain: [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humanity itself]] is eventually portrayed this way, where [[spoiler:[[GaiasVengeance the Earth itself]] is spawning [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]], horrific monsters, for the sole purpose of [[KillAllHumans killing all humanity]] for [[ScienceIsBad daring to develop technology that elevated humans above the natural order]] (and also overpopulating). In particular, the leaders of the space colonies, Chairman Victor and the [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness High Council]], are demonized and portrayed as the BigBad for the grave crime of wanting to leave the bug-infested Earth (which had apparently decided to kill them all itself) behind for good and wanting to keep technology around, while Seno Miyagi and his group of humans who try and flee Earth to settle on more hospitable planets elsewhere in the galaxy [[StrawmanHasAPoint are portrayed as]] [[DirtyCoward the worst of the worst]], and all of them wind up going insane and “karmically” dying]].
* EsotericHappyEnding The ending could only be considered happy if [[spoiler: [[ScienceIsBad you're a severe technophobe]]. A few humans have survived GaiasVengeance, and they can all live in harmony with mother nature, [[LuddWasRight free at last of technology]]! Then the FridgeLogic sets in - the only survivors will be physically strong people. If you're a person who is crippled, blind, deaf, has a curable terminal disease, etc. then you're hosed. MotherNature hates you and you have no right to live]].
** [[spoiler:[[DesignatedVillain And those well-meaning humans]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint who were trying to save the planet by living in a space station (to ease the strain placed on Earth) and eliminating the hostile creatures that had infested Earth?]] [[KillEmAll Screw them]].]]

* InternetBackdraft: Don't ask about the [[GainaxEnding ending]]. Really, just don't.
** The series itself seems to be a source of great {{Troll}}ing on most {{anime}} sites because of its [[{{Anvilicious}} heavy-handed]] GreenAesop and prominent use of ScienceIsBad, LuddWasRight, HumansAreTheRealMonsters, {{Designated Villain}}s, and the EsotericHappyEnding.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Man is ruining the planet due to [[LuddWasRight technological excess]] and {{overpopulation|Crisis}}, [[GaiasVengeance and so nature sends]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the Blue]] to forcibly knock humanity back to the Stone/Bronze Age. Many of the humans in [[SpaceColony Second Earth]] are supposed to be seen as cold and heartless, and Chairman Victor of the High Council iThe problem is that at the time of the show's events, humanity knows it's ruining the planet and is trying to fix things... an effort Gaia is ''actively sabotaging'' with The Blues. A colony ship (to ease the overpopulation) is destroyed. The Aesop being that Humans can live in harmony with nature, as long as they're not abusing tech. Sadly, "tech" here is defined as ''anything more advanced than the wheel''.]]