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'''''GO!''' Aquarion!'' }}

 

 

'''Please note that if you have not seen the preceding series, ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', then huge spoilers follow.'''

 

 

[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|Fast forward to 12,000 years later]]: Vega is once more at the mercy of unknown enemies, this time the "Abductors" from the enigmatic world of Altair. DEAVA, the organization which fought Touma and his Shadow Angels twelve millennia ago, has since evolved into Neo DEAVA, hosting Holy Angel Academy, an [[Academy of Adventure]] with a strict policy of separate education for Element Users, teenagers with special powers -- a [[Military School]] for males, and a [[Church Militant]] for females. With a new threat to humanity looming on the horizon, Neo DEAVA sends its best boys and girls to fight them using the Aquaria, a pair of [[Humongous Mecha]], [[Combining Mecha|each formed from three Vectors]] -- Type-M for males, Type-F for Females. Into the scene comes Amata Sora, a boy working at a movie theater, and Mikono Suzushiro, a girl he meets there. When an Abductor attack puts Mikono in danger, Amata is forced to unleash his Element power -- flight induced by emotion -- and, unwittingly [[Falling Into the Cockpit|levitating into the cockpit]] of a Vector-Z, breaks the long-standing taboo between male-female Unions and revives the legend of Aquarion. As Vega braces itself for a showdown with Altair, more secrets regarding both worlds, its denizens, and even the Aquarion itself slowly unfold...

 

 

* [[Academy of Adventure]]: Holy Angel Academy, Neo DEAVA's official front.

** Andy and Amata dig their way through the barrier and into the female side of the Academy, only to get an upskirt of Mikono. Amata's powers go haywire and starts flying around with Mikono's ass on his face. Andy [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] on the implausibility of the situation.

** {{spoiler|Jin}} somehow wound up in the girls' locker room in Episode 10.

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Avoiding a major case of this is a reason Amata keeps his levitation powers secret by wearing boots inlaid with pockets with which he can place weights.

* [[Art Evolution]]: This show ''clearly'' has a different character designer than its predecessor.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Sazanka and Malloy.

* [[Beach Episode]]: Episode 17, though of the lakeside variety.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Andy and Mix in Episode 9.

* [[Birds of a Feather]]:

** Amata and Mikono. They both share [[All of the Other Reindeer|similar]] [[Muggle Born of Mages|backgrounds]], causing them both to become shy and withdrawn. They even bond over their self-proclaimed uselessness. Though they are both [[Nice Guy|nice]] [[Nice Girl|people]] and genuinely want to change for the better.

** {{spoiler|Jin}} reminds Yunoha how she was when she first transfers and tries to befriend him.

* [[Bishonen]]:

* [[Brown Note]]: Shrade's element power allows him to manipulate people's emotions or physically disable them with his music.

* [[Buried Alive]]: {{spoiler|Zen actually uses this AS TRAINING!!!!!}}

* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Hits HARD in episode 14.

** Vector-'''{{color|yellow|Y}}''': Mikono, Cayenne, Zessica, Yunoha, Shrade

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Episode 16 has the main characters looking through a window the past, where they see {{spoiler|the events from the first series, such as Apollo and Silvia's love, and the original Aquarion sacrificing itself to save the world.}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]:

** There's a reason Donar Dantes, the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] instructor of the male side of Neo DEAVA, is initially reluctant to allow mixed Unions for fear of a repeat of the "Aquarion Disaster" nine years ago. {{spoiler|He ''was'' the main pilot of the Aquarion on that day (with two females, one of which is his lover, in tow) during its first sortie against the Abductors, when Donar and his lover's feelings went so high [[Love Makes You Crazy|Aquarion went berserk]] and Mykage appeared to take his lover away, costing Donar both his arms (now replaced with metal prosthetics) in the process.}}

* [[Double Entendre]]: The Anime.

*** {{spoiler|Andy's speech to Mix about... big bangs... and holes.... in Episode 9 is strangely reminiscent to one spoken by another [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|digger]].}}

*** [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Andy and his love of [[Lovable Sex Maniac|girls]] and ''holes''. They're not trying to be subtle here.

* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: In episode 21 Zessica grabs Amata and kisses him to activate his powers, letting him escape right as Mikage seemingly kills her with a Cherubim Soldier.

* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Neo DEAVA pretty much became this after Amata punches a hole through the Berlin, allowing boys and girls to mingle. This is lampshaded by Suomi in Episode 10, complaining that student discipline has been tanking.

** {{spoiler|Not so much as channeling GEN Fudou as he [[Really 700 Years Old|IS GEN Fudou. Who as of ep 20 has been confirmed to be alive for at 24000 years.]]}}

* [[Empathy Pet]]: Mikono has Shu-Shu, her [[Head Pet]]. She talks to it like she would to another human, and it even makes heart shapes with its wings in Episode 3, showing that Mikono has indeed accepted Amata's apology.

* [[Endangered Species]]: {{spoiler|Turns out Altair has ''zero'' population growth rate--with Jin as the [[Last of His Kind]]--and is thus scrambling to find suitable humans to repopulate the entire race.}}

* [[Enemy Civil War]]:

** {{spoiler|While Mykage and Izumo appear to be allied on the surface, the truth is that Mykage could care less about what happens to Altair, as the only thing he wants is to reawaken the original Aquarion. As a result, he and Izumo constantly clash over what to do.}}

* [[Evil Redhead]]: Kagura

** Kagura, the first major enemy, looks and acts a lot like Apollo.

** Sazanka is a tanned [[Macross Frontier|Ranka Lee]] (straight off another Kawamori anime) with braids and dark hair, down to sharing [[Megumi Nakajima|the same voice actress]]. She even makes Ranka's famous hand gesture at the end of the opening.

** Alicia resembles [[Gundam Seed|Lacus]] [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Clyne]] and has the [[Rie Tanaka|same voice actress]].

* [[First Church of Mecha]]: Within the next 12,000 years since the original Aquarion saved the world, this godlike [[Humongous Mecha]] has since apparently inspired a religion devoted to its veneration as [[The Messiah]], as evidenced by Neo DEAVA's training regimen for its female cadets.

* {{spoiler|[[Gender Bender]]: Whatever it is that caused "The Curse of Eve" not only killed all the women of Altair, but any women from Vega that don't die when brought to Altair will transform in mind and body into men. We see evidence of this with Mix in episode 19, and it's confirmed in 20, and was also starting to affect Zessica and Yunoha.}}

* [[Gendercide]]: {{spoiler|Altair's female population was wiped out by a mysterious disease. Before that the female birth rate took a sudden nosedive.}}

** Mikono is ''not'' pleased about how Zessica can also make Amata float.

** Later in the series, Zessica starts to show shades of this when Amata gives Mikono a lot more attention, particularly when she {{spoiler|bends a large metal structure well out of shape with her powers.}}

* [[Head Pet]]: See that thing in Mikono's hair that looks like a [[Hair Decorations|cute hair accessory?]] It is actually Mikono's "cat," Shu-Shu. When it's not too busy being a cute hair accessory, it usually resides on her [[Parrot Pet Position|shoulder]].

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Jin in Episode 13. Unfortunately, Mykage saw to it that [[Redemption Equals Death|he will have to pay for his defection with his life]].}}

* [[Heroic BSOD]]

** ''Everybody'' suffers this in Episode 14 after {{spoiler|a number of Neo DEAVA students, including Jin, are killed during Kagura's rampage.}}

** [[Played for Drama]] in Episode 18 by Andy, after {{spoiler|MIX gets captured by Izumo and his men whilst saving Zessica.}}

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Amata and Andy, as well as Cayenne and Shrade.

* [[Love Makes You Crazy|Love Makes the Aquarion Go Berserk]]: The "Aquarion Disaster" nine years ago supposedly happened due to {{spoiler|Donar's affections for a female copilot. For whatever reason this caused Aquarion to run wild and Mykage taking the girl away. She held onto him so tight ''both Donar's arms were ripped off''.}}

** {{spoiler|Episode 16 has Aquarion going berserk after Zessica confesses to Amata her unrequited love for him, causing it to go berserk and do a dimensional mugen punch. }}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Mykage, who pulls the strings behind friends and foes alike for the sake of his true objective {{spoiler|locate and seize the original Aquarion}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Manipulative Bastard]]? He's been [[Troll|Trolling]] everything and everyone ever since Episode 5.}}

* [[Mars Needs Women]]: {{spoiler|Altair's true purpose for the "abductions." Altair itself is even a red planet like Mars.}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The massive wall that separates the male and female sections of the Academy is called the "[[Berlin Wall|Berlin]]."

* [[Meteor Move]]: The "Flying Love Attack" is a variation of Type B, with the Aquarion ramming Kagura's Mithra Gnis into an asteroid.

* [[Military School]]: Neo DEAVA's approach towards training males is basically this, complete with a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] instructor.

* [[Moment Killer]]:

* [[Muggle Born of Mages]]: Mikono hails from a family of Element Users, yet has no apparent Element powers as of present.

* [[Multiform Balance]]:

* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]:

** Amata apologizing to Mikono using the Aquarion to pull off an "[[Pose of Supplication|orz]]."

* [[Nice Guy]]: Amata, although he is the main character.

* [[Nice Girl]]: Mikono.

** Neo DEAVA itself has a design that resembles cultures from Middle East. Some character designs are even influenced by this.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Kagura can and ''will'' walk up to any woman just to stiff her.

** The moment that end of Episode 14 where {{spoiler|Kagura suddenly bursts out of the ground next to the protagonists.}}

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: Fudo, being a badass {{spoiler|reincarnated member of the original cast who's fully aware of his past life}}, always seems to know how to lead his men to victory with a calm smile on his face. He even responds to Mykage's threats with a [[Troll|teasing]] smirk. So when he frowns, you ''know'' that shit's hit the fan. Case-in-point, the first time he frowns is when {{spoiler|Mikage kills Jin.}}

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Andy is a [[Lovable Sex Maniac]] who can find weak spots in structures. MIX is a [[Straw Feminist]] who can cover weak spots in structures. Clearly these two have nothing in common, but for some reason they make an oddly effective pair.

* [[Personality Powers]]:

** Yunoha [[Shrinking Violet|very shy]]: [[Invisibility]]

** Sazanka: Decay

* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Amata.

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]: For refusing to go along with Mykage's schemes, Jin is [[Killed Off for Real]] at the end of Episode 13.}}

* [[Running Gag]]

** Zessica teasing Amata to the point when he floats, and Shu-Shu biting Amata if he gets too close to Mikono.

* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Kagura.

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]:

** Amata and Andy. The former is a shy, reasonable boy who can show courage when fighting or protecting Mikono. The latter is an energetic young man who takes his digging career seriously.

** There's even a shoutout to ''[[Macross]]'' with the {{spoiler|1=[http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?p=4073721 pineapple pizza] appearing the episode before the one where Jin is [[Killed Off for Real]]}}

*** Considering the fact that the series is directed by the same man responsible for ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', the ''Macross'' references shouldn't be surprising.

* [[Super Robot]]

* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Once you get past the incredibly distorted font used, most of the text on written materials is in English, and not half bad at that. See [http://i.imgur.com/3b79A.png here] for an example.

* [[Telescoping Robot]]: {{spoiler|The ''Mugen Punch'' returns as the ''Mugen Attack''.}}

* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: {{spoiler|a very [[Incredibly Lame Pun|literal]] example. All Rare Iguras (WOMEN) abducted to Altair suffers this. Those that are powerful enough to ACTUALLY survive get mentally and physically transformed into MEN. Yunoha's turning was particularly funny. Due to the testosterone flooding her system, she couldn't stop talking in a stereotypical macho way.}}

* [[Twice Shy]]: Amata and Mikono.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: Amata and Mikono. They obviously like each other. But repeated [[Moment Killer|Moment Killers]], and Neo Deava's ban on love keeps them from having a [[Relationship Upgrade]]. Even when Amata tries to evade this in Episode 11 by asking her if they could go out ''after'' the Abductors are defeated, he is interrupted by {{spoiler|Mikono seeing Kagura in Amata's reflection.}}

** Also, {{spoiler|when Jin infiltrates the academy, he picks up a crush on Yunoha. It [[Love Redeems|redeems]] [[Heel Face Turn|him]]... [[Redemption Equals Death|and proves to be his undoing]].}}

* [[Visual Pun]]: On Neo-DEAVA's very first first co-ed class ({{spoiler|after Amata punches a hole through the "Berlin" with a "Mugen Attack"}}), nascent sexual tension between several males and females were so steamy, so to speak, Mix's glasses got mist.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: Literally everything Zen says, such as equating donuts to the shape of the universe and the meaning of life.

* [[Wild Child]]: Kagura

 

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