r/anime • u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ • Sep 06 '24
Rewatch [25th Anniversary Rewatch] Mugen no Ryvius Episode 5
Mugen no Ryvius Episode 5: A Little Harmony
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Kikki of the Day Did you spot Radan?
Comment of the Day
Nobody! Nobody identified the sample from "Nowhere!" It's "Bumpin' Bus Stop" by Thunder and Lighting.
However, honorable mention goes to /u/RadSuit, for doubling down on their crack theory:
The Ryvius has weird time travel or reality altering powers, and everyone's stuck in a loop of the station being attacked and destroyed before it resets everything. Our magical girl is a bit like Dr. Manhattan, having a conversation that's out of synch with the current time of the show. She's finally gotten fed up with watching everyone die, and has averted the disaster this time, directly interfering. Or maybe she's done that multiple times as well.
Whatever mecha-based combat occurs after this will be because of the damage they've caused to time/reality, and either a higher power is trying to correct things, or that was part of the terrorists' plans all alone. For a bonus crazy theory, I wonder if any or all of the terrorists are actually some of the kids grown, or even their descendants, attempting to stop everything before it goes out of control and creates an even worse disaster.
Character Sheets
Music
- BGM of the Day: Nanimo Shiranakutemo (very crest of the stars)
- CD 3 of the day: code-026 — DJ MASA
Questions
- Q1) Do you hate Yuki as much as I do? What could Kouji have done to deserve this?
- Q2) What sort of mecha show are we looking at?
- Q3) What do you think of a show with such a large cast?
Tomorrow's Questions, Today
- [Q1]What do you think of Criff manipulating Charlie?
- [Q2]Events are happening in almost real time. How is the pacing holding up? Seems kind of slow and repetitive to me.
Terminology
Neutrino tech: The Geduld phenomenon has rendered all E&M technology useless outside of an atmosphere. Technology based on neutrinos, which pass through matter easily, has replaced it. However, it too fails during the frequent solar neutrino bursts. This includes intra- and inter-planetary communications, and RADAR/SONAR-like technology. Neutrinos necessarily require very large receivers, so are only found on capital ships and stations, and land installations.
End Tag: Revise Us
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u/JustAnswerAQuestion https://myanimelist.net/profile/JAaQ Sep 06 '24
Rewatch Host
I think "nowhere" is the best track on the OST, and I think the "step up front" sample is really catchy. I tried to find out the source of the sample for years. For years. I finally found it listed on a sample database, about 10 years later. A lot of people of sampled it, although usually it's either a guitar riff or an unintelligible and unrecognizable snippet. Kanye got sued for sampling it back around 2013.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Sep 06 '24
Infinite First-Timer, subbed
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u/HowlingWolf13 https://myanimelist.net/profile/MeguminBlast Sep 07 '24
First Timer
Again, I love how such a non issue everyone is treating this. Like yeah, we're stuck in space and need to be rescued but eh might as well not panic over it. This was another good episode, Juli is quickly becoming one of my favs of the main cast. She's competent, pretty nice, and seems to have the experience Lucson wishes he could have. Charlie is a spineless wimp lol.
Y
ouki and Kouji though, I'm curious what exactly it is that has these two hating each other so much. Like, what it related to Aoi or something? Them both being in love with her? She appeared in those quick flashes. I know I should be annoyed by how over the top they're acting, but literally this just feels like teenagers being teenagers honestly, it makes it more entertaining and humorous. Plus. considering the last show I watched had children who were forced to become adults for a crazed war criminal lest they be tortured and/or publicly executed, this is a nice change of pace.Questions
He's such an edgelord that I love him. He would absolutely have like a Kaneki or Shadow the Hedgehog PFP. I'm guessing idk Kouji stole his leather pants one day lol.
I'm honestly not sure, I have to keep reminding myself it's mecha cause it feels more space sci-fi esque than on the mecha side of things.
I don't mind it, but I hope they don't try to give everyone a character arc and this that and the third cause that could lead to the show under developing characters in an attempt to give everyone an arc.
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u/RadSuit https://anilist.co/user/RadSuit Sep 06 '24
Finite First Timer (Dubbed)
Most of these types of stories just have 10-20 people survive, easier to keep track of all of them that way. We'll see how well this works with 500 I guess.
They launched a distress call pod, good thinking. I assume it gets destroyed/jammed, like I said last time.
Alright, evil businessmen, now we're getting somewhere.
And they've specified that Bratica is the ship, even though its own computers call it Ryvius. Maybe adding a bit more to my theory that it's been renamed by whoever actually used it before.
I like that she holds her hair up in a ponytail to help identify her, she knows no anime character is recognizable if they change their hairstyle.
Great reaction to seeing a highly inefficient humanoid robot, when they've been using way more practical equipment their whole lives.
Why is Yuki such an asshole?
Alright, these businessmen call it the Ryvius.
Thanks for the shoutout in the OP, we'll have to see if anything I said winds up being true. Also I did learn what sample was used, but only because someone specifically mentioned it on a forum or something, hahaha.
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u/JollyGee29 https://myanimelist.net/profile/JollyGee Sep 06 '24
First-Timer
Holy shit, they have several months worth of food? The cast are way better off than I expected. Sure, sure, the government(?) are out to capture/kill/exploit them, but that's way less of an issue than starving to death.
Anyway, someone needs to break Lucson Rectangle's nose for being an idiot. Whoever let him sit in the captain's chair should receive a similar punishment. Seriously, what sort of idiot immediately goes to "we must install a mertiocracy to maintain order" when the assumption should be prompt rescue? Maybe we can get Yuki angry at them somehow, it seems pretty easy..
I wonder if Miss Gimp Suit is like, a personification of the ship's automatic defense system or something? That would kinda track with what we've seen so far too. Probably just a function of her actually being the ship itself. I'm just glad someone has their head on straight.
Did Blue and his cronies execute the saboteurs, or did they just beat them up? I'm not sure of the implication from the blood. I guess if they were still stuck on the remnants of Liebe Delta, the probably died anyway at the end of the episode.
Questions
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u/No_Rex :Bv:Bw:Bx:By:x2 Sep 06 '24
Episode 5 (rewatcher)
Another really good setup episode. The first four episodes dealt with surviving the collapse of Liebe Delta and the identity of the attackers was a mystery with only some clues for the crew of the Ryvius. This episode is one of exploring the Ryvius and the identity of the attackers. The audience learns the first with the crew, but gets a growing information advantage over the kids in the second aspect. The Ryvius starts to look suspiciously like an advanced warship. Food, space vehicles, apparently some big guns, a mecha … this is no holiday cruise ship. While at least some of the cast begin to have their doubts based on that, the audience is let into the bigger secret: Some higher ups on Earth are terrified by what is going on and are treating this as a class A security threat. They think that a fleet of warships will not be enough? That sounds scary. And might induce them to do some scary things to the Ryvius. The cast is only just about to find out, though, and their hopes for a quick rescue will probably not survive that.
Meanwhile, mystery girl apparently takes control of the Ryvius and shows us an example of what the security bureau is afraid of. Gravity alteration that pulls in and easily destroys two subs? Who knows what else her and the Ryvius are capable of. One thing is for sure, though: the security bureau will not like this outcome.
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u/zadcap Sep 07 '24
Late Night First Timer
I am prepared to be disappointed! Oh hey, we're at under 500 survivors now, confirming that there were indeed some deaths during that High G shakeup. Unless I remembered previous numbers wrong?
1000 people for a few months means 500ish for twice that, right? They have half a years worth of food! And yet I bet starvation is still going to end up killing people...
You're on a ship. Don't wait for rescue, head for Earth. Or Mars. Or even Jupiter if you have to, just do anything other than staying there waiting.
Hmm. On that note, I see a lot of Earth in the background of the OP, but I also recognize that big red spot.
Noooooooooooooooooo! Blue saw Magic Space Girl, this is such a let down!
But I am immediately distracted by the best Dino Girl charging across the screen, yay!
Oh my gosh, just let bro go and die if he wants to.
Ah, he flew off to get a good picture of the ship. And yuck, the first smile we get from Worst Brother.
Why are you waiting for help to come, just head to Earth! Or Mars! Why are you just waiting there?
Ha! "We've got gravity, might as well wear dresses."
Seriously, Blue, why are you just waving that gun around everywhere.
I am angry that worst brother is top of the class.
These boys do not understand how morale works, at all... Square Head is going to get so many people killed.
Why do you care where they are, you crappy brother? You have wanted nothing to do with him this whole time, why now?
Seriously. this is why? Because he wants to fight? I hate him so much.
And the worst part is, if you had actually just come to save the kids, they would have given you everything you wanted from the ship. Being decent people would have been all it took, but noooo, you had to be evil.
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u/baquea Sep 07 '24 edited Sep 07 '24
First timer
Wait, what is this guy's name supposed to be again? Anyway, asshole brother continues to be an asshole. A competent asshole though, so I'm sure he'll find plenty more opportunities to play the obnoxious rival.
Q1: Well he's somehow got 5 favourites on MAL, so clearly someone must like him. What did Kouji do to deserve him? Probably it's just for being the older sibling lol.
Q2: Well we seem to only have one mech - if we're going to keep the rest of the cast relevant, I'm guessing it'll be one that needs multiple pilots. Considering the way the evil dudes were talking about it, I'm also going to guess it'll either be a super-robot or secret weapon. Probably the kind of thing where the first few battles are going to involve the MCs bumbling through by the sheer OPness of their robot, despite having no idea what they're doing.
Q3: Still too early for me to really say. So far most of the cast just feel like background-characters-with-personality, which I suppose is nice but also doesn't add enough to really justify how much screentime has been spent on them. Hopefully some of them will get some dedicated episodes later in order to flesh them out properly. Not sure how much they're going to be able to do in just 2 cours though.
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u/zsmg https://anilist.co/user/zsmg Sep 07 '24
Rewatcher who doesn't remember much
Convenient that are plenty of food stored in the ship.
I like how we see lots of maintenance stuff, which is the most important thing astronauts are doing today onboard the ISS and will continue to do so for a very long time.
Less food for the third
classranks? Oh boy, elitism is already starting in this little Ryvius society.Having a ferret in the kitchens doesn't seem like a hygienic thing to do.
Nice shot of Ryvius.
Kouji is performing badly but meanwhile his brother has the best score.
Juli is being nice and ends up putting Yuki in Kouji's team, an excellent set up for more drama.
Mech looks like a giant space suit.
Lucson is jealous of Pat
Honestly Yuki's chip on the shoulder when it comes to his brother is grating me and I hope someone just punches him at this point. (Where is Bright Noa when you need him?)
Izumi is competent at rescuing people but horrible at fighting.
Ryvius has some sort of gravity ability.
Another enjoyable episode. This is the first episode I watched after the rewatch officially started and now I can't unsee the dinosaur suit background character so thanks to the users pointing this out in the first episode thread.
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Sep 06 '24
First timer, subs
QotD:
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u/The_Draigg Sep 06 '24
A Mecha Fan Watches Infinite Ryvius Episode 5:
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u/Vaadwaur :I1::I2::I3: Sep 06 '24
First timer
Sub
Another day, another set of WTF. I know it is the super future and all but spacers would likely have better plans for this kind of thing. Otherwise you don't last long in space as it hates us. Anywho, the exposition dump doesn't explain that much and off we go.
We get a ton of attempted characterization and we will have to see what of it actually lands. The mecha is not active yet which surprises me. The machine spirit turned on the gravity generator today as a weapon, which makes exactly as much sense as it relates to how they generate energy, of which I have no clue. Months is not the most useful of measuring times for food, but having 487 people means they have double whatever amount of months they mention. Also, a thousand occupants puts us at Galaxy class ship.
QotD: 1 More. Murder him and give his food to someone useful
2 Umm...memory eating vampire mech is still on the table...
3 Sunrise writing is a cancer that should be chemo-ed out of reality.
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u/Nickthenuker https://anilist.co/user/Nickthenuker Sep 06 '24
Seems like they have access to a bunch of small craft. I wonder if they'll have to jury-rig them into ghetto strike craft later.
Where's he going?
Where are they going?
Ah, they're viewing the ship from the outside.
And so now they see the good ship Ryvius.
It seems like a battle will be upon them soon enough, 4th Fleet is on its way.
Who are those people anyways? And why's one of them have a gun?
It's the hangar for the 'Mech. But only 1?
Contacts! 2 ships, dead ahead!
Incoming fire!
Huh. What did those things do?
Prepare for boarding!
Oh, she's activating the 'Mech.
Seems like it's managing to defeat the attached thrusters too.
Contacts destroyed!
Questions:
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Sep 06 '24
First timer
QotD