History Anime / InfiniteRyvius

* TheGhost: The fifth and sixth Vaia ships are alluded to, but never seen on screen, partly because the ''Geshpenst'' (Vaia ship #4) is rushed out of drydock as a last-ditch effort to capture the ''Ryvius'' before it leaves the solar system.

* Creator/BradSwaile: Kouji Aiba

''Infinite Ryvius'' (''Mugen no Rivaiasu'') is an anime series set in the year 2225 AD. A NegativeSpaceWedgie called the "Geduld Phenomenon" has created a sea of plasma stretching across the solar system in-line with the orbital plane of the planets, leading to a rise in space travel and the colonization of many planets. The space station Liebe Delta is a training center for children who wish to become astronauts. However, the station harbors a dark secret, which leads terrorists to sabotage it and send it plunging into the Geduld. All of the instructors on board sacrifice their lives to save the students. In the aftermath, 486 children of varying ages find themselves aboard the Ryvius, a mysterious spaceship which was concealed within the core of Liebe Delta. With limited supplies, no adult supervision, and hostile forces still after them, they struggle to escape their pursuers and form a stable society. All they want is to be rescued - but a GovernmentConspiracy has convinced the media that the Ryvius has actually been commandeered by the same terrorists who destroyed Liebe Delta, so finding safe harbor will be no easy task.

* {{Transgender}}: [[spoiler:Criff]]. For all intents and purposes she's a woman but at one point Michelle calls her [[spoiler:"big brother."]]. Confirmed by the [[WordOfGod official]] character [[http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/ryvius/char/chara12.html profiles]][[note]]"性別:男" means "Sex: Male"[[/note]].

* RecycledINSPACE: ''Literature/LordOfTheFlies''... [[AC:in space]]!

** The last episode strongly suggests that even [[spoiler:Blue and Ikumi]] got a second chance.
** Don't forget that the epilogue takes place nine months after the end of the actual events. One can assume the process of forgiveness wasn't so easy. And it's shown that not everyone managed to forgive and forget.

* DolledUpInstallment: According to some sources, ''Ryvius'' is actually based on a rejected pilot version of ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' written before Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's involvement in its development.

* CameBackWrong: A rather loose case: [[spoiler:Neya based her humanoid form off the body of a dead soldier floating out in space near the ''Ryvius'' at the time of some [[NoodleIncident vaguely-alluded to incident]]. That s oldier was Anjay Viscuess, Conrad Viscuess's daughter. This leads to Conrad momentarily thinking his daughter had come back from the dead when Neya confronts him on the bridge of the ''Geshpenst'']].

* HelloNurse: Criff, who actually is a [[HospitalHottie nursing student]].

* DolledUpInstallment: According to some sources, ''Ryvius'' is actually based on a rejected pilot version of ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'' written before Creator/LeijiMatsumoto's involvement in its development.

** However, this doesn't apply to the next youngest characters, Nicks and Michelle, who are just as devious as their older classmates.

** Gender-flipped (Or not, see {{Transsexual}} below) with Charlie and Criff. While Charlie is an easily manipulated, but good at heart, boy, Criff is a manipulative juvenile delinquent, until [[spoiler:she realizes that Charlie genuinely loves her in Episode 16.]]

* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Criff]]. For all intents and purposes she's a woman but at one point Michelle calls her [[spoiler:"big brother."]]. Confirmed by the [[WordOfGod official]] character [[http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/ryvius/char/chara12.html profiles]][[note]]"性別:男" means "Sex: Male"[[/note]].

* BridgeBunnies: The Zweis

* CainAndAbel: Kouji and Yuki

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Kouji and Aoi

* {{Determinator}}: Conrad Viscuess

* EasilyForgiven: A lot of people do a lot of bad things over the course of series and every one of them, even [[spoiler:Faina, Heigar and Ikumi]] are forgiven for their crimes
** Last episode strongly suggest that even [[spoiler:Blue and Ikumi]] got a second chance.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: [[spoiler:Hyperion-shattering kaboom]]

* EmotionlessGirl: Neya begins the series as a blank slate; by episode 22 she's capable of talking and acting like a normal human, as being around the kids has helped her learn by osmosis what it's like to be human
* EngineeredPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Heigar]] records [[spoiler:Airs Blue]] talking about stealing the Vital Guarder and abandoning the crew of the ''Ryvius''. He later plays the recording via intercom. Break out the TorchesAndPitchforks

* EverybodyLives: Sort of; [[spoiler:All but two named children who survive the initial disaster survive to the end]])

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: For a time it looks like if the government didn't get them, they'd have killed themselves eventually anyway

* FailureKnight: Ikumi is motivated primarily by [[spoiler:the death of his sister]]
* GeneralRipper: Conrad Viscuess, captain of the Grey ''Geshpenst''

* GovernmentConspiracy: The reason why the children aren't rescued right away

** However, almost all of the English used in the series is gramatically correct.

* InfiniteSupplies: Averted: the limited supplies on the ''Ryvius'' are a major source of tension amongst the crew

* KidsAreCruel: Numerous examples throughout the series

* LoveRedeems: Criff Kei and "Charlie"

* OneWingedAngel: Grey ''Geshpenst''
* OnlyAFleshWound: Averted when [[spoiler:Kouji]] gets shot in the shoulder: he only survives because he is immediately taken to the medical center and undergoes surgery, and the [[AllThereInTheManual official timeline]] notes that he underwent three months of physical therapy and recuperation afterwards. In the final episode, he says that he can no longer raise his right arm above his shoulder

* PrisonRape: Implied when Criff and Michelle are imprisoned after the coup in episode 16. While nothing explicit is shown, there are a few lines of suggestive dialogue and it is seen that Michelle is shackled up with her legs spread
* PromotionToParent: Juli, and to some extent, Lucson, after [[spoiler:Pat Campbell's father, who was also one of their teachers, dies trying to save the children aboard the Liebe Delta.]]

* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The final episode
* RebelliousRebel After he's overthrown Blue abandons his band of delinquents

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:After she is assaulted, Kozue becomes a replacement for Ikumi's beloved older sister.]] Also, [[spoiler:Neya becomes this, unintentionally, for Conrad Viscuess's daughter, Anjay, and when he sees her for the first time he loses his mind]]

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averted; there is no FTL and the ''Ryvius'' spends months traveling between planets
* ScholarshipStudent: Juli Bahana
* ShadowDiscretionShot: Used when [[spoiler:Faina]] murders [[spoiler:Sandy and [=McBane=]]]
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Kouji and Aoi

* SpaceIsAnOcean: Literally; the "Geduld Phenomenon" has produced an ocean of plasma in the solar system

* SpaceWhale: The Vaia; more like space-squids, actually
* SpaceshipGirl: Neya
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fina/Faina, Neya/Neeya, Criff/Cliff, Kouji/Kouzi, Cullen/Karen
* StrawVulcan: Heigar - which makes it even more creepy when he cracks

* TeamPet: Rafra, the ferret mascot of the ''Ryvius''
* TechnoBabble: Most of the conversation occurring in the Vital Guarder control room

* ThemeNaming: Blue ''Impulse'', Crimson ''Dicastia'', Grey ''Geshpenst'', Black ''Ryvius''

* TheVamp: Michelle Kei

* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Heigar]] turns down the position of captain, preferring to be an advisor instead. He even goes so far as to engineer a coup to set himself up in this position. Naturally, he dreams of being TheManBehindTheMan

* WeaselMascot: Rafra

* {{Yandere}}: Actually more than it seems at first sing. Obvious one being weird guy obsessed with certain girl who often is seen stalking her, giving her points he earned or even [[spoiler:assaulting her boyfriend ]]. [[spoiler:Fina]], who was trying to kill her ex-boyfriend and girl he left her for and even [[spoiler:killed her previous ex and her friend who called his name]], is quite less obvious at the begining. [[spoiler:Ikumi]] showed some triats when he has [[spoiler:taken control over entire ship]] to make sure his girlfriend will be safe.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even Blue, who took over the ship at gunpoint in the earlier episodes, is disgusted by what [[spoiler:Ikumi]] degenerates into by the end of the series

* EngineeredPublicConfession:([[spoiler:Heigar]] records [[spoiler:Airs Blue]] talking about stealing the Vital Guarder and abandoning the crew of the ''Ryvius''. He later plays the recording via intercom. Break out the TorchesAndPitchforks

* CameBackWrong: A rather loose case: [[spoiler:Neya based her humanoid form off the body of a dead soldier floating out in space near the ''Ryvius'' at the time of some [[NoodleIncident vaguely-alluded to incident]]. That s oldier was Anjay Viscuess, Conrad Viscuess's daughter. This leads to Conrad momentarily thinking his daughter had come back from the dead when Neya confronts him on the bridge of the ''Geshpenst'']]

* {{Shotacon}}: Possibly Ran's feelings toward cute little boy Pat.

* NoodleIncident: The series never properly explains the events that [[spoiler:lead to the ''Ryvius'' being sealed away on the Liebe Delta, or how and why it was responsible for the death of Conrad's daughter]]
** [[spoiler:It's actually mentioned that the Ryvius went wild on its first flight and activated her gravitational field, which ended up killing his daughter.]]

* NorioWakamoto: Conrad

* AccidentalKiss: Happens between [[spoiler: Kouji and Aoi]] in Episode 13. [[spoiler: Aoi]] spends most of the next episode angsting about it.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Played straight from Episodes 16-25 with[[spoiler: Juli and Blue]]; averted with [[NonActionGuy Kouji]], whom both Aoi and Faina are in love with.
** Gender-flipped (Or not, see {{Transsexual}} below) with Charlie and Criff. While Charlie is an easily manipulated, but good at heart, boy, Criff is a manipulative juvenile delinquent, until [[spoiler: she realizes that Charlie genuinely loves her in Episode 16.]]

* Creator/BradSwaile: Kouji Aiba

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: In Episode 24, after [[spoiler: Kouji is shot and wounded by Ikumi, then treated by Criff]], [[spoiler: a heartbroken Aoi]] spends a good amount of her remaining screentime in the episode begging for him to regain consciousness.

* DeclarationOfProtection: [[spoiler: Ikumi]]'s overriding motivation for the later half of the series, after [[spoiler: Kozue]] is assaulted in his absence. This leads to several murders and a few more attempted. But hey, UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans, right?

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an episode of Ryvius Illusion, where Kozue sends "fanmail" asking whether they "did it." Needless to say, [[spoiler: Aoi]] is not pleased...

** Last episode strongly suggest that even [[spoiler: Blue and Ikumi]] got a second chance.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Both [[spoiler:Ikumi and Faina's]] [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]] are partially driven by this, though the latter was possibly insane to begin with.

** [[spoiler: It's actually mentioned that the Ryvius went wild on its first flight and activated her gravitational field, which ended up killing his daughter.]]

* PromotionToParent: Juli, and to some extent, Lucson, after [[spoiler: Pat Campbell's father, who was also one of their teachers, dies trying to save the children aboard the Liebe Delta.]]

* ShutUpKiss: [[spoiler:Fiana]] does this to [[spoiler:Koji]] to keep him from [[spoiler: breaking up with her.]] It doesn't work.

* {{Transsexual}}: [[spoiler:Criff]]. For all intents and purposes she's a woman but at one point Michelle calls her [[spoiler:"big brother."]]
** Confirmed by the [[WordofGod official]] character [[http://www.sunrise-inc.co.jp/ryvius/char/chara12.html profiles]].

* {{Yandere}}: Actually more than it seems at first sing. Obvious one being weird guy obsessed with certain girl who often is seen stalking her, giving her points he earned or even [[spoiler: assaulting her boyfriend ]]. [[spoiler: Fina]], who was trying to kill her ex-boyfriend and girl he left her for and even [[spoiler: killed her previous ex and her friend who called his name]], is quite less obvious at the begining. [[spoiler: Ikumi]] showed some triats when he has [[spoiler: taken control over entire ship]] to make sure his girlfriend will be safe.

* BreakTheCutie: Too many examples to name.

* DolledUpInstallment: According to some sources, ''Ryvius'' is actually based on a rejected pilot version of ''SpaceBattleshipYamato'' written before LeijiMatsumoto's involvement in its development.

* AnimeFirst: The manga is a {{POV Sequel}} from Aoi's point of view.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: [[spoiler: Kouji and Aoi at the end of Episode 21. Nothing explicit is shown, but the two are seen embracing, then falling onto a bed. The manga makes this scene much more obvious that they had sex.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub Koji is [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]], Yuki is [[{{Inuyasha}} Miroku]], Kozue is [[Manga/BlackLagoon Gretel]], Neya is [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Lacus Clyne]], Airs Blue is [[MegaManNTWarrior MegaMan]], Juli is {{Franchise/Barbie}}, Ikumi is [[WesternAnimation/{{Silverwing}} Shade]], Faina is [[WesternAnimation/StormHawks Piper]], Criff is [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], Lucson is [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Edd]], and Cullen is [[XMenEvolution ShadowCat]].

* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Both [[spoiler: Ikumi and Faina's]] [[FaceHeelTurn face heel turns]] are partially driven by this, though the latter was possibly insane to begin with.

* LoveTriangle: Aoi likes Kouji and Yuki; Kouji likes Aoi and Faina

* ParentalAbandonment: Justified; all of the adults on Liebe Delta die while saving the children

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: After she is assaulted, Kozue becomes a replacement for Ikumi's beloved older sister.]] Also, [[spoiler:Neya becomes this, unintentionally, for Conrad Viscuess's daughter, Anjay, and when he sees her for the first time he loses his mind]]

* TalkingToHimself: Due to the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters large cast]], most of the Japanese voice actors took on at least two roles. As a result, there are quite a few scenes where two characters voiced by the same VA interact with each other.

* TookALevelInBadass: Koji towars the end.

* TookAlevelInBadass: Koji towars the end.

* AnimeFirst: The manga is a {{POV Sequel}} from Aoi's point of view.

* HeyItsThatVoice: In the English dub Koji is [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]], Yuki is [[{{Inuyasha}} Miroku]], Kozue is [[Manga/BlackLagoon Gretel]], Neya is [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Lacus Clyne]], Airs Blue is [[MegaManNTWarrior MegaMan]], Juli is {{Barbie}}, Ikumi is [[WesternAnimation/{{Silverwing}} Shade]], Faina is [[WesternAnimation/StormHawks Piper]], Criff is [[ShakuganNoShana Shana]], Lucson is [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Edd]], and Cullen is [[XMenEvolution ShadowCat]].