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Rurouni2025
"Rinne no Lagrange" (2012)
10/10(masterpiece)
"Rinne no Lagrange" is a robot SF animation that a highschool girl Madoka Kyono fights against aliens with her friends.
Madoka who loves Kamogawa and act as a JERSEY club meets Lan came from outer space. Lan asks Madoka to get into the robot Vox-Aura. Madoka fights to save the city of Kamogawa and Earth.
The main story of Lagrange follows Madoka, Lan, and Muginami as they deepen their friendship through various twists and turns. Each of the three girls has a distinct and unique personality.
For example, Madoka is very active and positive. She has a habit of saying "Maru!" and can be somewhat airheaded at times, but her cheerful and energetic nature often serves as the catalyst that drives the story forward.
As for the story, it revolves a…
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Note: This will be a review of both seasons.
Overview:
"Rinne no Lagrange", also called "Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne" looks like a rather unique take on the mecha genre at first glace, specifically the super robot sub-genre, and it certainly makes a good effort to be such. However, while it is true you won't find many mech shows like it, that isn't necessarily a good thing, with the execution of its premise and ideas being somewhat disappointing and the series ultimately failing to make the most out of its parts. It's still a very enjoyable series, particularly if you like this kind of show, but there's still no denying that it could have been a lot better than it ultimately turned out to be.
Story (6.5/10):
"Rinne no Lagrange" revolves around the members of the Jersey Club, a club in…
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Rinne no Lagrange was a very interesting anime. I watched it back in 2014 and got hooked. It was awesome and had a nice and interesting story that hooked me along all the way to the end. The main character were very memorable and enjoyed seeing there relationship grow throughout the show.
Madoka is one of my favorite characters in anime. I enjoyed her positive and uplifting personality in the anime. Lan was cute and Muginami was interesting. The villains were interesting too. I did not enjoy seeing the Vox Aura in 3D but the anime was too interesting to drop. I enjoyed the background characters. They were fun and the comedy moments were great.
This is an awesome anime. I enjoyed it a lot.
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This is a mecha show planned by Studio I.G. which is very good at sci-fi shows, but is otherwise animated by Xebec, a studio notorious for its bad anime. It is directed by Satou Tatsuo, who has made lots of mecha shows, most of which are unorthodox but otherwise slow and usually anti-climactic (Martian Successor Nadesico, Gekiganger 3, Shingu, Stellvia). He also has Suzuki Toshimasa as an assistant, who in the past directed Heroic Age and the second season of Polyphonica. So ok, he isn’t much of a talent. Thus we have a project based on antithesis, decent director and planner but also bad assistant and animator. So the overall feeling was expected to be mediocre. And yup, I was right.
It starts right away with establishing every character through sexual stereotypes, something which is sac…
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This review may contain spoilers.
"Alone, one cannot support oneself. Two would break apart. When it's three of them, the bond is stable. Madoka isn't alone. The three members of the Track Suit Club are one."
I'm not 100% sure why Lagrange grew on me. It could be that since I dropped Captain Earth in the same season and wanted a giant robot show I could watch without facepalming because it reminded me of childhood moments I wanted to forget. It could be that I thought the Nissan-designed mechs looked cool, even if they weren't Kawamori designs (Anime law of aerodynamics: Any shape, no matter how strange or convoluted, is automatically aerodynamic). Maybe it was the fantastic chemistry of the three heroines. Maybe it was the symbolism scattered throughout the show. Whatever the reasons, t…
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Ever seen a sheet of bubble wrap? Then you've seen something more solid and with less holes than this plot. Teen girls in ancient high tech robots pooping holographic flowers into space isn't going to work no matter how nicely you dress it up.
Depending on how sensitive your ears are you could end up having a difficult time with Madoka because the voice belongs to Ishihara Kaori and the sound is so extreme and intense that only one in a thousand characters is a good match. I want to punch someone for making it fit Madoka so perfectly that I can't imagine anyone better suited.
Now about that plot, or lack of it... if you like watching cheery schoolgirls goofing off it isn't all that bad, in fact the plot despite being important still feels unimportant in many moments where characters, eve…
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Nothing stood out, except the beautiful and detailed sky shots with their expressive and colorful clouds, nothing was too outstanding. The characters were clear and understandable, you knew their pasts and the reason for the things they did, but you didn't care. The story left us with questions at the end, I myself had 5 of them. The second season is likely going to answer these questions but I didn't find the story engaging enough to continue watching. The story couldn't decide if it wanted to lean more towards being a funny show or a serious one and because of this failed at both.
The show had potential, the first episode was one of the best first episodes I have ever seen. The beautiful background art with the catchy music, adding to that funny and mysterious characters, it got my atte…
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I remember watching a bit at "bad anime night" at my friend's house. I thought it was good at the time, but I just finished it today, 2 years later. The positive feelings I had towards the show were probably contextual.
It was really painful to watch. It might have been because I stick to dubs, but the English translation was really irritating. The lines sounded like they had been run through a translation program, nothing like what an actual person might say. Soundtrack was good though; I think the singer also sang as Ranka from Macross F.
The story sucked, there's no other way to phrase it. They'd hint at something important then make it seem inconsequential the minute after, but part of that could be attributed to how badly the characters, especially main character was written. There'…
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I was severely disappointed by this show. Mind you, I am paying a lot of attention to the creation of the world itself as well as plot and characters. I found myself rolling eyes a lot when watching the series - the tropes are a plenty here - and what makes it worse is the mediocre execution
What I liked:
* The "stick to what you decided" theme
* The older cousin character
* Art was good
What I disliked:
* Holes in the plot
* Incomplete world (examples: mecha get damaged, how do they become functional again? What really happened in the past between the main character and the mecha? Staff conveniently out of the way when they would be restraining main characters.)
* The Loli, even if she is older than she looks, or maybe that's what makes it worse
* "PEEERFECT" and "ROOOGER THAT!" - signi…
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Oddly enough, while it appears to be a typical show about mecha, it has much less to do with the mecha themselves than you would think. It actually focuses more on the characters and their interactions with each other. This is not necessarily a bad thing even if you were looking into this series for the mecha, because they do have some visually stunning battle scenes. Lagrange did a steller job keeping a good balance between the sci-fi mecha, high school life, and character drama.
The pacing is back and forth. A few episodes seemed a bit sluggish at times, while others felt flew by like nothing. At least those instances were few and far between. The main character, Madoka, is probably the most likeable character in the entire show. Her companions, Lan and Muginami, are also incredible and…
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I didn't really know what to expect from Rinne. Considering that, during the Winter 2012 season there were two other 'scifi-girls' shows, I wondered how this particular anime would stand out. And how did it? By being as much of a character piece as it was a mecha show.
Story (7/10): With our lead heroine Madoka and the two friends that she acquires in aliens Lan and Muginami, you get a sense that the story wouldn't have worked nearly as well without the dynamic that they build up over the course of 12 episodes. We have an alien war going after the Vox mechs and the town of Kamogawa is stuck right in the middle. It's interesting in how much of the first half of this series is built just around the back stories of everything, and when you see a good chunk of the plot just there, it means t…
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Rinne no Lagrange is a sci-fi series written by Suga Shotaro, known for working on several really strong titles such as Stand Alone Complex, Le Chevalier D'Eon, Brotherhood and some others. It sounds promising so let's take a look.
Kyouno Madoka is a young high school student and the only member of the Jersey Club, a group that aids other student organisations. One day she's approached by a strange girl and taken to a battleship to pilot a giant robot called a Vox that everyone seems to want to possess or destroy. To make things more complicated, there's a disturbing legend about the Vox. That's the basic story, it seems like there's a lot of material, especially for a relatively short anime, but all the material gets covered really well. There's a lot of intrigue and the mixture of occas…
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Most people did not enjoy this show. However, I did. Maybe my opinions are highly flawed. I doubt I'm the pinnacle of good taste, so you shouldn't take my review as the word of God. But the fact remains that I liked Rinne no Lagrange while many others did not, so here's me telling you why.
Story: 7/10
The plot of Rinne no Lagrange is not very complicated to begin with, at least not to me. A lot of people found it a bit confusing and the back stories not fleshed out enough, but keep in mind that this is a two-season anime. I expect, with the ending presented in season 1, the reasons behind what happened in these 12 episodes will be further explained. But overall, I found the story to be quite interesting. Basically, a girl named Madoka is chosen to pilot a mecha along with two other young…
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If you are looking for hardcore mecha action along the lines of NGE, this show won't deliver. If you are looking for an intriguing story, this show won't deliver. This show has more appeal to those who enjoy slice-of-life, as what really carries this show is the art and characters.
We have 3 main heroines in this story; Kyouno Madoka - the lead, an energetic, cheerful girl with natural leadership talent; Lan - the mysterious klutz, with tsundere elements; and Muginami, a mischevious, carefree girl, though the most perceptive of the others' emotions.
The story of is simple. In short, waves of mechas attack earth, and only defense is 3 teenage girls. Some basic politics takes place internally, and bilaterally, but no grandiose strategies, atleast, none that are cared to be explained. There…
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