Mugen no Ryvius Episode 11: When the Party's Over
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Kikki of the Day Did you spot Radan?
Comments of the Day
Comment of the day is everybody who predicted that the robot would be OP, way back 5 or 6 episodes ago. Rewatchers could only smirk. Yes, it's stupidly OP.
/u/HowlingWolf13 gets a real comment of the day for noticing this:
/u/RadSuit unironically gets a comment of the day for ironically predicting the robot posing contest!
Maybe it too shall dance…
Character Sheets
Music
- BGM of the Day: kokoro no sukimo
- CD 3 of the Day: JUST(interlude) — U.M.E.D.Y
Questions
- What is a 90s space mecha show without a beauty contest?
- Have you been catching the other recurring side-side characters?
- Have you noticed anything slightly off about Ran (the Zwei in the Chinese dress)
- What do you think of Blue's behavior to Juli?
- Did you predict this propaganda attack, cutting Ryvius off from rescue, way back in the first arc?
Tomorrow's Questions, Today
- [Q1]How do you think Ryvius will get out of this situation?
- [Q2]Do you think the show is setting up a final confrontation between Yuki and Airs Blue?
- [Q3]Is Kouji just a crowd-pleaser? Was Ikumi's criticism justified?
End Tag: Review the Earth
Tomorrow has recap content.
by JustAnswerAQuestion
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**Rewatch Host**
The ~~beach~~ beauty contest episode.
And the party is **definitely** over.
* Demoted to janitor
* That guy is known as “Radan’s follower”
* LOL. That necklace is a necklace of communicators!!!
* DEFINITELY a furry population on the ship
* Affected Mars’s axis, that’s not good.
* “You suck” “Why” “Not telling” #volibearq
* Pink girl digs this music
* The Ontario Autonomous Region regrets to inform you…..
This is a really important episode and sets up the rest of the series. Why is this a two-cour show? Because they can’t go home. They apparently posses the most powerful ship in the solar system, and an invincible robot, and can sail the Geduld anywhere…except home. Even attempting to approach a planet will trigger a violent response. Do they force their way through, killing as they go, becoming the terrorist threat humanity believes them to be? I don’t see a path out of this.
And to say this is a sucker punch hit to the morale of the ship, how are these teens who thought they’d be going home in a few hours going to take this?
Oh, shoot, I left Sandy off the extra-characters chart. Well, she was back again, today. You have no idea who I’m talking about. She’s Fina’s ex-roommate. Interesting that they didn’t find each other after the evacuation.
There are other characters that I don’t have a names for, that I sometimes spot. Like a girl that has her hair up in a single dango with those chinese cloth ball wraps. And others that I do have names for, but they show up more in the second half, and aren’t very important, and I’m not sure who is who in a group of them….
It’s very interesting how they must have drawn up to 100 characters, like Hibike! Euphonium. When they want to draw a crowd scene, they take a selection from their standing gallery. There’s a good chance that the once in my character sheet appear in 3/4ths of the episodes, though.
I love how most of the ship *knows* about the weird girl in the pink cosplay, much like they must all know about the dinosaur girl. They just all assume she’s another, weird student. She walks around the ship freely.
Very traditional BGM track today, an instrumental rearrangement of the ED on piano and flute.
**First-Timer**
I really like Kouji’s bandolier of communicators. That strikes me as something someone in real life would actually do in his situation; vaguely reminiscent of the bikes full of smartphones from the hardcore Pokemon Go crowd.
Anyway, seems like the crew are Legally Terrorists now, that’s a bummer. What a way to end a party, huh? It’s all the panic of the cops raiding, with none of the adrenaline associated with running through the bushes and eating a tree branch for your trouble.
Who’re we thinking won the beauty contest? It was Juli, right? She killed it in that dress. I hope that one girl who inspired the whole thing got second at least.
Seems like more people are starting to see Miss Gimp Suit; I’m glad she got to join in the dancing too. I think seeing her is specific to the person; it didn’t seem like Elina could see her. And it can’t just be contact with the Vital Guarder; Kouji saw her before that and Music Disc Girl could see her.
There is something *deeply* GaoGaiGar about hearing Hisao Egawa shout “Switch on!”
Lucson definitely found his true calling in the janitorial department. He definitely shouldn’t be in charge of food prep.
Questions
1. It was the style of the time, I suppose.
2. Off and on. Most of them get memory-holed due to my brain not having anything to latch them onto.
3. She either has awful taste in men (and likes Lucson) or is a shotacon.
4. Those two are going to end up together by the end of the show if they both survive.
5. Not openly, but it’s a pretty typical way to take this sort of show so I’m not surprised.
**First timer, subs**
* Damn it, the references to the captain deciding Idol contest was supposed to be a joke.
* [](#spacetears)
* I mean, if they haven’t responded yet, you have to wonder…
* Bro, what are these wipe cuts?
* They did it, they made him useful!
* Work hard, play hard.
* Aw fuck, he *is* a nudist. And a Tetsuo fan boy?
* [Necklace](#neat)
* Is this just a cultural festival? I guess this is technically a high school anime.
* Dang, even Square respects Juli.
* [Multiple Mascots](#blankblink)
* Do you guys have a brig yet?
* You gotta respect cute outfits.
* That’s a weird power move, Airs.
* Maybe we’ve been too hard on Square, he pick up on Hirai face before anyone else.
* They’ve started talking to each other about Ribbons. Can’t be much longer until someone starts asking questions.
* The gesture contest is a quiz?
* [Dance! As if With **Your Very Soul!**](#grandhype)
* See? I told you to leave a message.
* Now that Orbital Group has effectively made their actions public, the question becomes how the opposing organization responds.
**QotD:**
1) Victory Gundam?
2) Well, I wouldn’t know if I missed them, would I?
3) [She’s a Shotacon](#lolipolice)
4) That it’s asked makes me think it isn’t the obvious answer.
5) No, but it’s not helping with Space CIA accusations.
*A Mecha Fan Watches Infinite Ryvius Episode 11:*
– Well, I suppose throwing a big party over defeating the Orbital Security Bureau fleet around Mars is one way to keep morale up. People were pretty much just languishing on the trip over and were panicking during the actual battle, so this is a pretty good way to blow off some steam and get the survivors on board with what Team Blue and the Zweis (as well as Kouji + Fina) have been up to. At the very least, it gets people off their asses and actually involved in what’s going on with the ship again.
– Huh, I wouldn’t have guessed Blue to be the kind of guy to listen to music by himself and cry during his free time. I guess he might be a bit miserable under his tough gang leader exterior. It does make me wonder what makes him tick under that bandana of his.
– Oh good, someone did the smart thing and assigned Lucson to the one job we can actually trust him with: cleaning the bathrooms. Whether you view it as a punishment or just getting him out of the way, we can all probably agree that we can’t actually trust Lucson to be anywhere near the bridge. His forte now is scrubbing the shit off of the insides of the bowls.
– Dude, just because the Ryvius’ gravity field means that there’s an atmosphere and some gravity on the hull, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t wear a spacesuit when you’re out there. Just being decked out in a cape and a towel is batshit insane. That guy probably has mega space radiation cancer now. Also wait, how and why does this ship have the ability to pump out a breathable atmosphere’s worth of air outside of the hull?
– I don’t trust Lucson with food preparations for the party. With his competency level, he’d probably end up giving everyone salmonella.
– Okay, when I heard about Son and Gram being in a special place as punishment for their attempted betrayal, I just figured they were locked up in a closet somewhere. I wasn’t expecting them to get space keelhauled. That whole “cutting their lifeline” line in regards to their punishment was more literal than I expected it to be, I thought that was just going to be a way to dance around them saying suicide. Team Blue really doesn’t fuck around with their punishments.
– Geez, that redirected meteor impact on Mars was probably enough to shift its axis a bit. I guess that just goes to show not only how much kinetic force was behind that rock, but also how powerful the Vital Guarder was in being able to redirect it at all. I doubt the Martian colonists are going to be too happy when they figure that little detail out though.
– I will say, every one of the Zwei wearing formal clothes is pulling off the look well. Juli’s look really is a complete makeover, with her glossy hair and new dress being a total 180-degrees from her baggy pink overalls and ponytail. Although Blue was being kinda creepy in directly ordering her to wear the dress, at least Juli looks good in it no matter what.
– Finally, someone is actually talking about the Mysterious Anime Girl with others! Granted, it’s just Nicks talking about hoping to see her in the beauty contest, but it’s at least something. It had started to feel a bit weird to me that nobody has even talked about her to someone else so far. You’d really think people would be abuzz about some lady dressed weirdly and just appearing out of nowhere at will.
– Huh, I guess Fina already has, or at least had, a boyfriend. Wonder how that’ll stack up with the Kouji x Fina vibes the show has been giving out so far. It could end up being like Mobile Suit Gundam’s Bright x Mirai situation.
– I suppose I should at least applaud Yuki and Kouji managing to have a conversation that didn’t end in a fist fight for once, even if the both of them still didn’t get the answers they wanted out of each other and just ended up yelling again. Small steps, I guess. Also, I didn’t expect the music chip girl to just walk up to Yuki and start flirting with him after all that, I just figured she’d be one of the reoccurring background characters.
– Oh hey, now they’re noticing the Mysterious Anime Girl too. I wonder why she’s making herself known to more people now, even if they’re not really recognizing that there’s something strange about her other than her fashion sense. At this point, I’m just waiting to have more people connect the dots about her.
– Well, that was some heavy life advice that Fina dropped on Kouji out of nowhere. She’s acting strange again, as if she’s being possessed. To repeat my earlier guess, the Mysterious Anime Girl is somehow either possessing Fina or otherwise interfacing through her to talk to Kouji. And given how a lot of her dialogue seems to be reading the surface level thoughts of people, it would make sense for her to understand what Kouji’s behavior is like. Being too nice and being a people pleaser does have issues at times, after all. Maybe he really does need to hear that.
– There’s something funny to both Aoi and Yuki watching from the sidelines and getting concerned over seeing Kouji and Fina on the dance floor. Same issues, different ways of expressing it. Although I still feel a bit worse for Aoi than for Yuki here. Then again, she actually needs to say something about how she feels instead of just kind of sending out vibes. Such is the issue with the romantically-doomed childhood friend character type, in the end.
– Good news everyone! You’re all terrorists! That’s a Hell of a story that the Orbital Security Bureau cooked up though, saying not only that the Ryvius is crewed by anti-Earth government terrorists, but they’ve received messages that the terrorist activities will continue in accordance with their beliefs. I guess the battle in Mars’ orbit does serve to make it more believable though. Those poor survivors though, they’re being framed due to a situation that was wildly out of their control in the first place. We’re on that Ideon grind now, where the plucky heroes are getting attacked just out of sheer momentum by the aggressors by now.
First timer
Sub
So we have a party episode, because Sunrise. We learn the grim fate of the two traitors and again, Team Blue did take Leadership 101. The party is actually accurate to what sober teens could manage and beauty contests were a thing a mere quarter century ago. Faina’s past is finally coming up but doesn’t look to be revealed today. We end with the ship being delcared terrorists so…that certainly won’t bit the government in the ass.
QotD: 1 Good
2 No but towel man needs to die
3 Not really and what you’ve pointed me at is concerning
4 Forceful, as she said
5 Not quite because it is incredibly stupid
**Infinite First-Timer, subbed**
– [Of course they turned this into some festival.](https://i.imgur.com/hgZTy4O.png)
– […so?](https://i.imgur.com/AskQFqj.png)
– [*Same*.](https://i.imgur.com/t7RFqrq.png)
– [Wow…](https://i.imgur.com/D3j4kgG.png)
– [Bruh.](https://i.imgur.com/rwijjeC.png) [](#bruh)
– […what, are they going to do their own Miss ~~Macross~~ Ryvius?](https://i.imgur.com/PLlpC4t.png) [](#kukuku)
– [Doodling on his eye mask is pretty funny.](https://i.imgur.com/9RMyAeT.png) [](#kukuku2)
– [Oh that’s *definitely* not good.](https://i.imgur.com/77jhj4W.png) [](#emiliaohdear)
– [Did someone really do that, or were they lying and Juli fell for it?](https://i.imgur.com/oAKHemw.png)
– [But *why* though?](https://i.imgur.com/faEzbBl.png) [](#harukathonk)
– [They can *both* see her?](https://i.imgur.com/ORzaHP8.png) [](#suddenshock)
– [Ah fun, of course a legit broadcast had to interrupt their fun vote](https://i.imgur.com/09a2Yov.png), and the broadcast announces them as *fucking terrorists*. [](#crazedlaugh)
**Episode 11 (rewatcher)**
* A victory party on the Ryvius – do you remember what happened the one time they had a party in Lord of the Flies?
* “What good will increasing everyone’s fighting spirit do?” – reasonable question. If it leads to people doing their everyday tasks more diligently, it would be great. If all it does is trap them into overconfidence, not so much.
* Lucson found a new job – given the zero-g incident, he might be of actual use here.
* At least one person places 100% trust in the special powers of Ryvius/Vital Guarder – let’s just say that my personal risk preference is different.
* Splashing Pat with soup – Lucson should stay with his toilets.
* Dino girl has a cosplay partner!
* Letting the traitors float alongside the ship in spacesuits – not as conventional as a brig, but the psychological impact will surely be huge.
* Kouji wants his party to dissolve the anxiety around – worthy goal, but will it work?
* Juli wants to point out the obvious, yet Blue tells her to attend the party.
* *Juli is not recognized without her hairdo* scene redo. Pat is not fooled.
* People are finally talking about mystery girl … and they want her to participate in the beauty contest.
[](#yuishrug)
* Yuki gets another girl calling and mystery girl enjoys the party.
* “I want to go with you” + *handholding* – what is this, actual romantic progress?
* *And as if to mock my disbelief, the next scene is Charlie with Criff.*
* Surprising end to the party and Blue seems to lose his sanity – admit it, you all thought Juli would win, didn’t you?
After a very good run until now, this episode is the first serious misstep for me. While it might seem that a victory party fits after last episode’s battle, I don’t think it does. The won battle still left the Ryvius in need of some serious decision making: Would they land on Mars? Continue orbiting Mars? Retreat back into Geduld? In either case, *just doing nothing* is not really an option for the bridge. And, given that they still hope for rescue, they should be trying hard to contact someone. Juli has figured out what is really going on (as likely has Blue, thus him sending her to the party), but everybody else should *either* also have figured this, or be proactive about organizing rescue. The party is clearly modeled after the cultural festival we know from so many high school anime, and it could have fit into this series (e.g. during their 3-week transit to Mars), but not at this specific time.
That said, not everything is bad. I really like the cold shower ending of everybody realizing how the outside world sees them. It is also great to see mystery girl join in on the party and people not really noticing too much about her yet (dino girl and diapers man help sell that the other students would accept her costume). The episode also uses the downtime to progress several character arcs. Kouji’s love rectangle starts to dissolve into one pair (the other pair is not yet getting anywhere), all of the side characters get their moment in the spotlight and [spoiler]>!we really start to set up Juli and Blue. This has been hinted at already, but now the first timers should definitely notice.!<
“The moral is to the material as three is to one”. It’s that or, again, get blasted into space dust.
Seems like they’re embarking on a new construction project.
What’s that guy doing in his skivvies?
And so onwards to the party.
They turned the Vital Guarder’s hangar into a banquet hall? I’m surprised they didn’t just use one of the mess halls.
_Someone_ needs to hold the fort on the bridge while the victory celebrations are going on.
Huh. It’s moving. That’s a nice party trick, literally.
Well, there’s the news.
Questions:
1. Yeah.
2. Uh in addition to the officers and the gang there’s also what I’m tentatively calling the engineers?
3. Why do you say that?
4. He’s being forceful, but he also did lead a mutiny so that’s kinda to be expected.
5. The moment it was obvious _someone_ official didn’t want them getting home, it became an inevitability.
**First Timer**
Bit short here since I was busy at work all day, but fun episode! It was nice to have some downtime after everything, too bad for the ending though. I wonder how this will take the plot now considering the solar system is marking them as terrorists. I’m also pretty curious as to what happened in Faina’s past and why Yuki is so distrustful of her, clearly something is going on esp. the way she seemed nervous when her old roommate found her.
**Questions**
> What is a 90s space mecha show without a beauty contest?
Evangelion is *technically* in space! In the movie!
> Have you been catching the other recurring side-side characters?
Yeah like dinosaur girl, that weird stalker dude, the couple that comes up with the idea for the beauty contest.
> Have you noticed anything slightly off about Ran (the Zwei in the Chinese dress)
She seems to really want to be around Pat, I’m hoping she doesn’t turn out to be a groomer or something cause I feel the show is about to go in a dark direction.
> What do you think of Blue’s behavior to Juli?
I won’t even lie ever since the Kabedon, it’s obvious these two got an enemies to lovers thing going on. Like if this was a Shojo manga we would be in the romance genre right now.
> Did you predict this propaganda attack, cutting Ryvius off from rescue, way back in the first arc?
Actually, no! I thought maybe something like they couldn’t manage to land or something, but for them to just get full on solar system wise framed, not at all.