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Fafner is a 26-episode long anime about a lone island, Tatsumiyajima, in a world where aliens called Festum have invaded and subsequently wrecked much of the human population. Major cities and/or countries are gone (naturally, Japan is included), but Tatsumiyajima is left alone... that is, until the Festums come back once more. There're no worries, however; the show's gigantic machine(s), the Fafner(s), are more than adequate to kick some golden butt.
Throughout the series, the Fafner(s)' pilots, which are revealed to be specific children on the island, are introduced to aid the protanogist in combat; some blow up, get scrapped, or become inducted into the team. Then the island accidently makes contact with the U.N., who more or less blackmails them into joining the big war against the Festums (and mainly because the U.N.'s own machines suck to the ninth degree).
Fans of [[Gundam Seed]] might note the similar character designs; after all, they share the same designer in that aspect. The [[Humongous Mecha]] of the series, however, are anything but Gundam-like, and are more akin to ''Evangelion''. Indeed, the storyline and all material contained in the series itself can be called as such, although their usage, looks, and overall plot point differ by varying degrees.
It also had a 50-minute TV special made for it. Fafner: Right of Left tells the story of how Tatsumiyajima narrowly avoided all-out war with the Festums even before the series begin, by splitting off a section of the island as a decoy (with people left behind to steer it around, no less), arming them with cool-looking prototypes and the prototypes of the kids in the main series (all the widdle children around are like that), and generally telling them that their mission, more or less, is one of duty-bound suicide. Expect less of the main series' bittersweet ending than flat-out slaughter... regrettably, not all of the Festum's fault alone.
A theatrical film, ''Heaven And Earth'', premiered on December 25, 2010 and a second season was confirmed to be in the making under the name ''Soukyuu no Fafner: Exodus'' taking place two years after "Heaven and Earth".
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** [[The Sixth Ranger]]: {{spoiler|Michio and Canon}}
* [[Genius Loci]]: Tatsumiya Island has a {{spoiler|highly evolved Mir that regulates environment inside the Welle Shields. It causes all the flowers and trees on the island to bloom when it learns about life, and would have killed everyone when it learned about death, if not for Tsubaki.}}
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Soushi has a scar on his left eye. Which is actually plot relevant {{spoiler|when they were both children his best friend Kazuki had to claw at said eye to keep Soushi from being assimilated by the Festum. As a result there is a lot of bad blood between the two since Soushi cannot pilot Fafner due to the injury and Kazuki is in a state of self denial mixed with guilt over the whole issue.}}
* [[Gratuitous German]]: Perhaps not completely gratuitous given that "Fafner" is a concept taken from Germanic mythology but it is somewhat odd that the units themselves should have German numerals (Elf, Zwei, etc. Not to mention "Mark Sein").
** The way "Mark Sein" is spelled can even lead to a small translation joke since it sounds a lot like the german phrase "mag sein" which means "could be".
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* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: Tatsumiyajima
* [[Hive Mind]]: The Festum. {{spoiler|A single unit which absorbed Akane Makabe develops a distinct personality and rebels near the end of the series, bringing a host of information.}}
* [[Ho Yay]]: Kazuki and Soushi, arguably. Could be more of a [[Relationship Writing Fumble]], since Kazuki is also quite clearly shown to have a thing for Maya...
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The Fafner, naturally.
* [[I Am Spartacus]]: Most of the main cast confessing to {{spoiler|tampering with Maya's data}}
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Kazuki has three such relationships in the series. With Soushi, he is the Red Oni. With Koyo and later Kenji, however, he's the Blue Oni.
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|While Mamoru dies in the story, his Fafner, repeatedly stated to be quite potent, is left unused afterwards. However, in [[The Movie]], Hiroto (the kid he gave the Gobain mask to) ends up piloting it, even going so far as to constantly wear the mask as well.}}
* [[Speak Ill of the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Shouko's}} death resulted in some of the islanders desecrating the grave to the horror of friends who saw {{spoiler|her}} make a Heroic Sacrifice for them.
* [[Sphere of Destruction]]: The Festum spontaneously generate these by using black holes as weapons, as well setting off a larger one when they are destroyed. The [[Self-Destruct Mechanism|Fenrir system]] also uses one of these to destroy the Fafner it is equipped on.
* [[Sterility Plague]]: The Festum did this to Japan, prompting the Alvis project which gave rise to artificial reproduction, and, by the same token, genetically engineered supersoldiers (i.e. our heroes) born to fight the Festum.
* [[Super Prototype]]: The Mark Sein, as well as the Zero Fafner. The Titan models are a subversion: their weaponry is FAR outclassed, and worst of all they cause the pilots to assimilate VERY quickly.
* [[Super Robot Wars]]: Appears in [[Super Robot Wars K|SRW K]]. One of the more complex secrets in this game is making sure everyone in this series lives.
* [[Synchronization]]: Taken to the extreme, not only do the pilots synchronize with their Fafner units, but they are also linked with Soushi via the Siegfried system, which allows him to guide them while forcing him to feel all the pain they feel. Furthermore, in the final episode all pilots enter a state of synchronization in which the death of one would result in the destruction of all.
** That is a bit misleading. The system's two drawbacks are that any pain is felt is shared and the ''system'' itself can't work with less than the four pilots all alive.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: The Fenrir is a last-resort self-destruction that more often than not is used to take down a Festum when there's no other way.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Played straight, but surprising considering [[Cosmic Horror Story|the nature of the plot]] most of the characters are in good mental health and have only minor mental problems, if any at all. Kazuki's the only one that has it bad here, as he is shown to be very dependent on Soushi, but even then that only leads to him being a little bit unhinged if something happens to him.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|No, Shouko, don't go into the light! ;_;}}
* [[Took a Level
** This is possibly deconstructed. {{spoiler|Maya was already a top-level pilot whose data was flubbed by her mom and sister so she wouldn't have to fight. For that, Maya's mother and sister get into a ''lot'' of hot water.}}
*** [[Karma Houdini|Avoided.]] And [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for the series as a whole.
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