Rinne no Lagrange Season 2

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English: Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne Season 2

Synonyms: Flower declaration of your heart 2, Lag-Rin 2

Japanese: 輪廻のラグランジェ season 2

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jul 8, 2012 to Sep 23, 2012

Premiered: Summer 2012

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Production I.G, Bandai Visual, Yomiuri Telecasting, flying DOG

Licensors: Viz Media

Studios: Xebec

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-Fi

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Ranked: #3581²

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Popularity: #3016

Members: 23,610

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Several months have passed since Lan and Muginami left Earth. Now in her final year of high school, Madoka spends most of her days thinking about her friends, when Lan suddenly returns to Kamogawa City.

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Adaptation:	Rinne no Lagrange
Prequel:	Rinne no Lagrange: Kamogawa Days
Side story:	Rinne no Lagrange Season 2 Specials

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kyouno, Madoka

Main

Ishihara, Kaori
Japanese

Fin E Ld Si, Laffinty

Main

Seto, Asami
Japanese

Muginami

Main

Kayano, Ai
Japanese

De Metrio Lu, Yurikano

Supporting

Ise, Mariya
Japanese

Lizamarie de Rochefort, Astelia

Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako
Japanese

Rakus Lestrine Ha, Kirius

Supporting

Nojima, Kenji
Japanese

Danon Ci, Array

Supporting

Matsuoka, Yoshitsugu
Japanese

Fin E Ld Si, Dizelmine

Supporting

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Grania

Supporting

Nakajima, Megumi
Japanese

Watabe, Eri

Supporting

Tanaka, Rie
Japanese

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Satou, Tatsuo

Director

Suzuki, Toshimasa

Director

Aketagawa, Jin

Sound Director

Kitagawa, Masato

Episode Director

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"Marble (マーブル)" by Megumi Nakajima

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#1: "Jersey-Bu Tamashi! (ジャージ部魂!)" by Kaori Ishihara, Asami Seto and Ai Kayano (eps 1-3, 7-9)
#2: "Wasurenai yo. (忘れないよ。)" by Megumi Nakajima (eps 4-6, 10-12)

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Sep 23, 2012

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 7

Stark700 (All reviews)

65 people found this review helpful

Watching Rinne no Lagrange II is like taking a walk on the beach but with a breeze of fresh air where you feel and experience the fun as well as the joy of being young. But somehow, some way, this series at times seems like one of those titles where you can watch through but feel bored of the somewhat repetitive moments. Those moments are heartwarming, filled with joy, but occasionally also has emotions that can be connected to each of our own young lives. At any rate, this series seems be one of the most underrated titles of this summer. But that's ok because read more

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Oct 1, 2012

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

SNchan (All reviews)

13 people found this review helpful

Rinne no Lagrange Season 2 is one of the more enjoyable series I've watched recently, although it's a little hard to explain why. To put it bluntly, this is a horribly written series, and there isn't much to like from an objective standpoint. And yet I still liked it.

Taking place several months after the conclusion of the first season, it follows Madoka and her two alien best friends, Lan and Muginami who with the power of their magical mechas--the Vox--they try to persuade Lan and Muginami's older brothers Dizelmine and Villagilio (respectively) to stop warring with each other, and prevent an apocalypse that's somehow connected to the Vox.

And that's pretty much half of what I could give as a summary to the plot. The story of Rinne no Lagrange is a confusing one, in that it's a fantasy series where none of the fantasy elements are ever given explanation. What exactly are the Vox? Are they bad or good, and how are they related to the apocalypse? Why are the nations of De Metrio and Le Garite warring with each other? What is with those huge flower things in the sky? None of this is given a clear answer, and since these are the things which the main story revolves around, it causes the whole thing to fall apart.

And yet it's all tolerable to the point where it's actually rather enjoyable in a non-ironic way. Most of the characters themselves are well-written; I wouldn't exactly call them deep or anything, but they have likable personalities, and they're dramatic needs were believable and clearly expressed--even if the plot surrounding these dramatic needs was not. You may not understand why Madoka and the others are battling against the powers of darkness (or something), you still enjoy watching them do so because of how likable they are.

This in part is due to the slice-of-life qaulities of the first season, which allowed you to feel more attached to the characters. The first season also had the problem of infusing these qualities with the more dramatic parts of the story, which consequently made it hard to take certain scenes seriously. Although the straight-up slice-of-life scenes are toned down in Season 2, it still has the problem of having a light-hearted atmosphere when it would probably have done better if it could have taken itself more seriously.

It seems as if the writers put so much focus into the characters and slice-of-life elements, that they never bothered to put much thought into the actual plot. Nothing was really even presented as "questions"--all of the characters just went along with the flow of events as if they already knew the nature of the Vox, or why De Metro and Le Garite were warring.

Despite this, Season 2 still manages to have its share of emotional moments, which only get better as the series progresses. However, sometimes you'll be enchanted by one of these wonderfully presented scenes, only for some other aspect of the plot to ruin it--canceling out what could be seen as a redeeming quality. In fact, the plot pretty much cancels all of the good qualities that the show has to offer, no matter how enjoyable they might have on their own.

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Jul 28, 2018

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 8

earl_of_sandvich (All reviews)

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This review contains spoilers.

"If I tell her that I want to see results from her, no matter how grueling the task or how high the wall, she always steeled herself and exceeded my wildest expectations."

The Lagrange series is about a trio of girls riding giant robots, but it's much more about their friendship and the warm home town of Kamogawa. Season 1 ended on a bittersweet, unfulfilling note, and the aim of season 2 is to finish the story and finish the journeys of many characters.

Season 2 begins several months after the end of season 1, and whatever warm feelings there were between Lan and Muginami are now swallowed up by conflict. De Metrio claims that Le Garite is trying to use the Vox (Madoka's Vox Aura in particular) to destroy the De Metrio star system to avoid a collision expected to happen in 1000 years. To that end, Muginami is ordered to eliminate Madoka if she is ever involved in such a plot, and naturally Lan won't stand for such a threat to her best friend. The trio's journey starts at an impasse, but seeing them grow into girls who could support one another, even when the exact same situation arose in the final arc, was a fulfilling moment. There's a similar evolution in Villagulio's character going into and through the final arc.

While season 1 did involve extraterrestrial humans to some extent, nearly all of the key scenes are at Kamogawa or in the skies above it. Season 2 added one combat scene at a research facility in another star system, and extensive scenes aboard the Le Garite flagship, but the vast majority of the story is still told at Kamogawa. So while the show is far from leaving Kamogawa behind, we do get more background on Lan and Muginami, as well as their brothers, the leaders of the star systems in conflict.

Between the two major arcs in the show, are 2 "fun filler" episodes. They're all right, in that we get to see the chemistry among not only the 3 heroines, but also their counterparts, the 3 Orbit pilots who settled in Kamogawa as employees of the BWH seaside shack. We see hints of what's to come in the final arc, but I feel that there could've been more in the lead-up, like actually showing the manipulation of Dizelmine rather than Moid casually chatting about it.

As in season 1, the prime weakness of season 2 is the story, whether in the planning or the execution thereof. The reason why Villagulio is "exiled" to what appears to be a prison planet is not very clear, even when it's spoken of in dialogue, yet another example of why telling the story in dialogue is far less effective than showing it in a flashback scene. This is the primary weakness of season 2's plot, because this is closely tied into the Vox incident involving Yurikano (and hence, the first major conflict in this season), and the final conflict of the series. When a bloodthirsty Dizelmine showed up in a Vox 3 episodes after he signed a ceasefire, I was like, "Wut? Did Moid give you a lobotomy?" Similarly, Moid's so-called "voice from beyond" motivation is likewise either poorly planned, or merely tossed in as part of the rantings of a madman. Because his backstory is conveyed entirely through dialogue (mostly from a maniacal rant in the style of 1980s American cartoon villains), it's impossible to tell whether he's delusional or lying. I would've pushed for another episode just to show his story-- this is an anime, right? It's almost as though 50 different "cool" ideas were brainstormed during the planning stages, and lacking a coherent way to tie them together, they just threw them in and made them decorations. Well, all right, it's not quite that haphazard, but it really feels like there wasn't enough time to express everything.

I will admit that the climax made for a really funny Moid scene where he got exactly what he deserved. I suppose that some viewers will have a problem with all the galaxy's problems being solved by giant magical flowers popping miraculously out of a planet-darkening cloud of doom because Madoka (more than likely) flew donuts in the "afterlife", but I thought that was a decent way to bail out of the story and say "they all lived happily ever after" (at least the epilogue was written such that everyone's stories went on from there). It's a fictional (emphasis: fictional) giant robot show, and the Memoria aspect already borders on magical girl territory, so I can forgive this. Kinda like Sailor Moon without the outfits.

It's good to see Yurikano's character developed beyond "second Yoko in the afterlife", but one thing really nags at me, and that's the fact that she refuses to say how she feels about her fiance Dizelmine, but she's less hesitant to remind Izo of a embarrassing event in their past. Now, I don't mind tsunderes, but it's a bit of a stretch from the straight shooter in the season 1 finale. The way she thought she could get Dizelmine to behave is a rather ludicrous stereotype that Japanese writers often fall back on: the idea that "if I sacrifice my happiness, he will be safe or be a better person". Rarely does it ever work out that way, and suggesting that to viewers as a valid path forward is, in my opinion, continuing a tragic cycle. Fortunately, there are roughly 3 female characters in the show who don't think this way.

The soundtrack didn't sound like there were any major additions to it, and Mamegu's opening and ending are fantastic; the ED in particular feels, again, like an echo of Stellvia's second ED by Angela compared to the ED in season 1. Unlike the doomsday minor key love song "The end of the world", however, the warm orchestration with what sounds like Okinawan instruments brings to mind an ocean sunset, perhaps at Kamogawa. "Track Suit Spirit" (USAF "flight suit attitude"?) is a silly number that probably would've been better used in the filler episodes; but then, "Wasurenaiyo" was meant to be used when Yurikano's character became more prominent.

Lagrange is, through and through, a character show, so plot elements that are great in isolation, serve to further development and drama in this production rather than tell an epic story. There are a number of flaws in the storytelling as a result, but this doesn't really compromise the core themes of the show; rather, again, telling fresh stories with good characters is Hard. To the credit of the production staff and cast, this is about the only glaring flaw of the show-- the characters are well written and directed in general, the visuals range from good to amazing, and the soundtrack is solid.

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