Fractale: Difference between revisions

* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Clain [[Running Gag|gets this a lot]] when it comes to [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Phryne]] and [[Token Mini-Moe|Nessa]].

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Promotional posters show [http://www.animekon.com/gallery/2011/01/092348073364.jpg Phryne] and [http://img806.imageshack.us/img806/2481/1121z.jpg Nessa] as purple haired, but in the anime, Phryne is a brunette and Nessa is a redhead. Also, [http://www.animekon.com/gallery/2011/01/140722398182.jpg Enri and Sunda] originally had orange hair in their character designs. Clain is originally a blond in the promotional ads, but his hair was a paler shade of blond than his hair color in the anime.

* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Lost Millennium's airship Danan.

* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Clain uses this tactic to search for Phryne in Episode 8.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Phyne and Nessa becomes the "key," the temple is destroyed and can never produce the "key" again, and Sunda is implied to have died in the final battle. A year has passed. Lost Millennium live in peace growing their crops and living their natural way while Clain stays at home watching over Phryne, who's been asleep ever since. She finally awakens, only to have Nessa's personality mixed in. In spite of this, Phryne still contains her original memories as she tells Clain that she's always liked him too. Clain hugs her and cries as the series ends panning over the photo of the trio.}}

* [[Blatant Lies]]/[[From a Certain Point of View]]: Whenever Dias gives a helping hand, he'll always mask his true agenda--from giving civilians a cure that really removes their Fractale terminals, rendering them "cured" and unable to connect to the Fractale System to helping Clain rescue {{spoiler|Phryne}} in Episode 10 while secretly {{spoiler|planning on having Phryne killed once she is found.}}

* [[Blush Sticker]]: Sanko, the little girl from Granites Village.

* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|A seagull is shown flying to Clain's house in the beginning of the series and away from it in the end of the series.}}

* [[Call to Adventure]]

* [[Cannot Stand Them Cannot Live Without Them|Cannot Stand Them, Cannot Live Without Them]]: Clain initially thinks of Nessa as [[The Load]], but he eventually grows to appreciate her.

* [[Chase Scene]]

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:

** [[Green Eyes]]: Phryne and Nessa.

** [[Purple Eyes]]: Moeran.

* [[Conspicuous CGI]]: The airship in Episode 3.

* [[Cool Airship]]

* [[Ghibli Hills]]

* [[GIRL]]: Though not technically an online example, {{spoiler|Megan turns out to be the doppel of Gail.}}

* [[Gratuitous English]]:

** The ending song. Episode 5 onward averts it by having same ending theme in Japanese (with slightly different lyrics) instead.

** When Clain brings an injured Phryne to his home and gives her a first-aid kit, she immediately undresses (only revealing her under clothes) to take care of her wounds and tells him to leave. Soon after, Phryne approaches Claine topless (her long hair [[Godiva Hair|covering]] her breasts), as she can't reach the back of her shoulder to apply the medicine. Both times Phryne is [[Stoic]] while Clain [[Luminescent Blush|blushes]] heavily with uncertainty of what to make of the situation.

** In Episode 6, Phryne [[Naked People Are Funny|strips]] [[Skinny Dipping|down naked]] so she can have fun splashing water with Nessa and Sanko in the river.

* [[Jerkass]]: Dias. Other than removing innocent peoples' Terminals, {{spoiler|he attacks and bombs the temple's underground base knowing that Clain and Phryne are still inside, and planned to kill Phryne so the Fractale System cannot be restored.}}

** [[Jerk With a Heart of Jerk]]: Whenever it looks like Dias is helping out for a good cause, he'll always have ulterior motives. ''Always''.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Clain assumes that she is Phryne's doppel, but she has no recollection of Phryne. {{spoiler|In Episode 3, Nessa appears to be the doppel of an actual priestess at the Star Festival, who calls Phryne "[[Onee-Sama|nee-sama]]." However, Episode 8 reveals that the priestess "Nessa" is one of many clones of Phryne from her childhood. Episode 9 has Phryne tell Clain that Nessa and she are two halves of the "key"--Nessa as the mind and Phryne as the body to host it--and when they are one, they will be able to restore the Fractale System.}}

* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: Clain is left out of the loop by Phryne, who leaves him in Episode 1 without so much as a word or farewell. When she tries to pull this a second time in Episode 4, Clain has had enough of being a pushover and calls her out on it.

{{quote| ''If I am to offer a wish to the day star... I would ask it to shine a light here someday.''}}

** Phryne and Nessa both sing altered versions of the song at different points, Phryne towards the end of Episode 1 and Nessa sings it during {{spoiler|Butcher's funeral}} in Episode 4. It remains to be seen whether these lyrics are other verses from the "day star" song or whole other songs entirely.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]:

** Episode 3, surprisingly, takes a turn [[It Got Worse|for the worse]]. For an episode that starts off so light-hearted, it ends with {{spoiler|the Lost Millennium revealing the Star Festival is a branwashing scheme of the Fractale System... and the shooting of L.M.s, temple priestesses, and innocent people.}}

** Episode 7. An amusing discussion between Enri and Phryne over the latter's relationship with Clain is soon followed by {{spoiler|Gail attacking and almost ''[[Attempted Rape|raping]]'' Phryne when she innocently insults his sculpture.}} After Clain and Nessa are relieved that they escaped their pursuers, {{spoiler|Colin shoots Clain and Phryne arrives to witness this only for Barrot to find her.}}

** Episode 9. {{spoiler|A heartwarming discussion between Clain, Phryne, and Nessa leads to Lost Millennium getting called out on their actions by townspeople. The Lost Millennium preparing for battle against the temple cuts to Clain, Phryne, and Nessa having another heartwarming moment, only for Phryne to later leave the two in an attempt to stop the temple.}}

'''Enri:''' Wha... You don't have to say it that way. I won't tell you anyway! }}

* [[One-Woman Wail]]: Several of the background music.

* [[Opposites Attract]]: Clain and Phryne.

* [[Panty Shot]]: A blink-and-you'll-miss it shot of ''Clain's'' underwear during his [[crossdressing]] scene.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: {{spoiler|Suspicious of how intimate Phryne is with her "precious friend" Clain, Barrot makes Phryne choose between having Barrot check to see if she's still a virgin or letting Clain die without having his wounds treated. Phryne is forced to choose the former, but Nessa interrupts the procedure before it happens.}}

* [[Scenery Porn]]

* [[Ship Tease]]:

** Clain/[[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo|Phryne]] and Clain/[[Token Mini-Moe|Nessa]].

** Even ''[[Third Option Love Interest|Enri]]'' seems [[Tsundere|interested]] in him. She questions Phryne on her relationship with Clain in Episode 7, {{spoiler|is worried for the "naughty jerk" when Phryne and he are captured in Episode 8, and screams out Clain's name when the underground base Clain and Phryne were taken to explodes. She even tries to confess to him in Episode 9.}}

** A tiny bit in Episode 10. {{spoiler|Sunda punches Dias after Dias reveals that he was planning on having Phryne killed so the Fractale System cannot be restarted. Dias asks Sunda if he's fallen for Phryne, and Sunda walks away without answering. Subverted in that [[Jerkass|Dias]] was probably just being a [[Troll]] and Sunda couldn't stand the guy.}}

** Clain appears to listening to an iPod-like music device in Episode 1.

** The ending theme's lyrics are from a William Butler Yeats poem.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Butcher and Takamii.

* [[Thwarted Escape]]: Clain attempts to rescue Phryne from Lost Millennium in Episode 4, but [[Unwanted Rescue|she's not fairly cooperative]] and Sunda catches Clain in the act.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|To protect Clain in Episode 7, Nessa unleashes a power that "destroys" the virtual city Xanadu.}}

* [[Took a Third Option]]: Barrot gives Phryne ''three'' options when he corners Clain and her in Episode 4:

** Lost Millennium and the temple. See [[Grey and Gray Morality]].

** Alabaster, another section of L.M., removed refugees' Fractale terminals without warning so that they cannot return to Fractale and are forced to follow them or get killed. {{spoiler|All the while Dias--the leader of Alabaster--still has his own terminal intact.}}

** [[Mood Whiplash|Episode 3]].

** {{spoiler|Episode 7}}. Not only is Phryne almost raped by Gail, the episode ends with Nessa unleashing a devastating power that reveals Xanadu's true nature to protect Clain, Clain getting shot by Colin, and Phryne arriving to Clain only for Barrot to find her.]]

** {{spoiler|And the whams continue in Episode 8. Barrot is revealed to be the person who raised Phryne to be the "key" and attempts to see if she's still a virgin. Clain learns that there are dozens of clones that resemble Nessa (but are really clones of Phryne from her childhood) sealed away because Phryne is the "key" and [[Expendable Clone|the useless replicas are destroyed]]. The Phryne clone who helps Clain rescue Phryne is nearly killed herself and points Clain and Phryne to the direction of the underground base's shelter, but the underground base explodes with Enri screaming out Clain's name.}}

{{quote| '''Clain:''' ''She came as she pleased and left as she pleased. People always do as they please. Everyone is like that in the current world. But... why am I this angry?''}}

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: It's quite easy to forget that Clain actually stole a data clip from the junk market in Episode 1, and this small action has little to do with the plot than briefly explain the Fractale System.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Clain and Phryne. {{spoiler|They do end up together, but Phryne becomes the "key" with Nessa--she has Phryne's body but Nessa's personality mixed in. Nevertheless, Phryne still has her original memories, as she confesses to Clain that she has always liked him too.}}

* [[Wild Card]]: Dias. His motives are to ensure the Fractale System will not be restored, but his way of accomplishing said goal is morally ambiguous, and he leans more on being an [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|extremist than well-intentioned]]. His schemes include removing civilians' Fractale terminals, {{spoiler|bombing a temple underground base knowing that Clain and Phryne were still inside}}, and {{spoiler|planning on having Phryne killed so the Fractale System cannot be restarted.}}

* [[Woman in White]]: Nessa {{spoiler|and Phryne's clones.}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|You Gotta Have Purple Hair]]: In the manga and promotional images, Phryne and Nessa have purple hair. Played straight with Moeran, whose purple hair is maintained into the anime adaptation.