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In an effort to learn more about [[Attack of the
"Mr. X" visits the scarred (emotionally and [[Good Scars, Evil Scars|physically]]) Takuto in the hospital and offers him a chance to get his vengeance on the monster he blames for killing Maki and destroying his life. Months later, Lt. Ryu Soma is born from the ashes of Takuto's soul; he re-enters life as a military pilot for the organization known as FUNERAL, which deals with the attacking aliens (and has also recaptured Frank, who escaped after the explosion at MORGUE). It quickly becomes clear that Frank has become the best weapon FUNERAL has to defend against the aliens, which leaves Ryu torn between getting revenge for the woman he loved and protecting his newfound comrades.
Further complicating the picture is a young girl named Hattie; besides being the only person who can communicate with Frank, she also bears a striking resemblance to Maki. As it becomes apparent that Frank is more than a simple monster, Ryu and his FUNERAL comrades have to come to terms with questions of [[Contemplate Our Navels|human identity, grief, and loss]].
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[[Argento Soma]] origially aired with 25 episodes, and was followed by the OVA "Alone and By Myself".
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* [[Badass Grandpa]]
* [[Beard of Evil]]: Mr. X, whose epic red goatee fits the part spot on. {{spoiler|He's not in the least evil, though, just a [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulative asshole]].}}
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* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: "ROCK ON".
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Frank punches an alien so hard its head ''flies into space'', leaving a hole in some clouds on the way.
* [[Dark
* [[Deal
** Down to the [[How Do You Like Them Apples?|apple motif]] ({{spoiler|Which Soma later adopts himself}}).
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Frank, the giant alien<ref>Not really.</ref> robot.
* [[Four
* [[Fun
* [[Gambit Roulette]]: <s>Mr. X</s>{{spoiler|Gen. Lawrence}} danced through the [[Gambit Pileup]] in the finale with the nothing worse to wear than a limp and a walking stick, but everything ended ''his'' way -- and, to the everyone's surprise, that way was the ''best''.
* [["Get Out of Jail Free" Card]]: Refreshingly averted, when all the charade went up in smoke, Soma was court-martialed and got a six years sentence. Though, for all his troubles, he ''wasn't'' stripped of his rank and was even ''promoted'' while behind bars.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Half of Soma's face was scarred in the accident. Which side is in focus is usually indicative of how heartless he's being at the time. Worth noting that he refused plastic surgery to have the scars removed.
* [[Heroic Sociopath]] / [[Villain Protagonist]]: Soma is definitely the former, and sometimes borders on the latter at the peak of his obsession.
* [[Hey,
** Mr. X is voiced by [[Rurouni Kenshin|Kenshin]].
** Captain Heartland is [[Cowboy Bebop|Jet Black.]]
** [[Crispin Freeman
** [[Lara Jill Miller|Sue Harris]] is [[
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: Mr. X likes to toss an apple when he tries to make an impression. {{spoiler|Later Soma adopts the same habit, though [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|his apple is green, not red]].}}
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Each episode name is of the form [[The Noun and
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Takuto.
* [[
* [[Jerkass]]: (Soma, certainly - but even before his [[Start of Darkness]], Takuto hardly treated his girlfriend well.
** Well, from all the snark that was tossed between them, they were definitely in the [[Masochism Tango]].
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* [[Oracular Urchin]]: Harriet 'Hattie' Bartholomew.
* [[Our Elves Are Better]] / [[Our Fairies Are Different]]: Hattie refers to Frank as "Yôsei-kun," translated in Bandai's R1 release as "Mr. Elf," although "yôsei" can also be translated as "fairy." Hattie's grandfather also makes wood carvings of elves and fairies he claims to have seen.
* [[Recycled in Space]]: A reinterpretation of the story of [[
** [[Lampshaded]] by Ryu Soma himself in the Bandai dub when he commented on how the experiment reminded him of Dr. Frankenstein and the monster itself.
** It's also basically a remake of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva]], but with ''normal people'' instead of those neurotic wrecks.
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* [[Stealth Mentor]]: Mr. X to Soma, who definitely hates the guy's guts, but could do nothing but learn from him.
* [[Take That]]: See above.
* [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]]: Ooh, booy, where to start...
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: An interesting subversion: There ''are'' no therapists in the show, but instead it's chock full of ''[[Warrior Therapist|Warrior Therapists]]'', and nobody's mental problems are all that severe to begin with.
* [[That Man Is Dead]]: How Soma feels about Takuto, who he refers to as "some jerk I used to know."
* [[Team Mom]]: Major Lana Ines, the CO of FUNERAL.
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: From a calm and peaceful scientific type to a brash and confrontational [[Ace Pilot]]. Also notable for ''not'' explaining it ''at all''.
** There is a short scene in episode 1 when we learn Takuto once applied to be an astronaut/pilot. Presumably he had some training.
* [[Transforming Mecha]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]; part of the reason why the SARGs can do this is so that the public won't be alarmed by their humanoid forms and mistake them for, say, the aliens that FUNERAL is fighting.
* [[Twist Ending]]: The aliens are...not what one might expect.
* [[Two
* [[UST]]: [[Beta Couple|Captain Hartland and Major Ines]]. Notable for still remaining unresolved in the [[Distant Finale]], though {{spoiler|Madame President}} ''does'' look a bit too disturbed {{spoiler|when ''Ulysses'' departs}}.
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