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Infinite Ryvius (Japanese: 無限のリヴァイアス, Hepburn: Mugen no Rivaiasu) is a 26-episode science fiction drama series produced by Sunrise.
| Infinite Ryvius | |
Infinite Ryvius anime series logo | |
| 無限のリヴァイアス (Mugen no Ryvius) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction, psychodrama |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Gorō Taniguchi |
| Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
| Music by | Katsuhisa Hattori M.I.D. |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | October 6, 1999 – March 23, 2000 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Yōsuke Kuroda |
| Illustrated by | Shinsuke Kurihashi |
| Published by | MediaWorks |
| English publisher | ComicsOne (volume 1) DrMaster (volume 2) |
| Magazine | Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | December 18, 1999 – September 18, 2000 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Original net animation | |
| Infinite Ryvius: Illusion | |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Released | June 30, 2000 |
| Runtime | 5–7 minutes |
| Episodes | 6 |
The character and mecha designs in Ryvius were created by Hisashi Hirai, who later went on to act as the character designer for Gundam SEED.
The series is also noted for its music, which blends western R&B/hip-hop with J-pop vocals, including in its title song "dis–", performed by bilingual Japanese-American singer Mika Arisaka. Most of the songs were composed by M.I.D., while background instrumentals were created by Katsuhisa Hattori.
The anime was originally licensed by Bandai Entertainment in North America before it went out of print in 2012. Following the 2012 closure of Bandai Entertainment, Sunrise announced at Otakon 2013 that Sentai Filmworks had rescued Infinite Ryvius, along with a handful of other former BEI titles.[1]
A two-volume manga adaptation was released concurrently with the series in 1999–2000, which was then published in English in 2004. A parody spin-off original net animation (ONA) series Infinite Ryvius: Illusion, was released in 2000.[2]
In the year AD 2225, mankind has expanded from Earth to inhabit nearly all the planets and nearby moons in colonies and settlements. Space travel has advanced to the point of being commonplace. For the inhabitants of the solar system, becoming an astronaut is a realistic career path. One of the schools established to train future space voyagers is the Liebe Delta, a space station positioned in Earth's orbit. This progress exists despite the Geduld, a mysterious sea of plasma that erupted from the sun along Earth's orbital plane in AD 2137. Stretching from the sun to the edge of the solar system, this phenomenon of high temperatures and gravity pressures remains unexplained.
Kouji Aiba, a sixteen-year-old boy, leaves his home on Earth to attend the Liebe Delta and train for his Level 2 piloting license. He travels to the space station with his childhood friend, Aoi Housen, who surprises Kouji by revealing she has enrolled in the Liebe Delta's flight attendant program. Aoi also informs Kouji that his younger brother, Yuki, will be attending the Liebe Delta and joining the same flight class.
The students and teaching staff on the Liebe Delta lead normal lives, focused on their studies and daily routines. They even have a vacation period, called the Dive Break, during which the space station approaches the Geduld for system maintenance. Out of approximately 1,000 students, about 500 remain onboard during the break. Unknown to everyone, the space station is sabotaged during a routine dive, leaving most of the staff unconscious due to a gas attack. The Liebe Delta begins free-falling into the depths of the Geduld Sea, where the intense gravity pressures threaten to crush the station and kill everyone aboard. The remaining instructors sacrifice their lives in an attempt to save the students, but their efforts fail. Just as the station teeters on the edge of collapse, a hidden ship called RYVIUS activates and surfaces from the Geduld Sea, rescuing the surviving students aboard the Liebe Delta.
Now stranded in space and abandoned by humanity's governments, the students aboard the RYVIUS must navigate their new reality. As anger, fear, and tension grow among the crew, Kouji struggles to maintain order and unity. He faces personal challenges, including clashes with his brother Yuki, his complicated feelings for the Uranian aristocrat Fina S. Shinozaki, avoiding Aoi, and the mysterious appearance of a girl in pink wandering the halls. As the situation worsens, Kouji must determine whether he can guide the RYVIUS to safety or risk losing everything he holds dear.
The Vaia ships are said to be crucial to mankind's survival despite the effect it has on those who are exposed to it for long enough, which results in major mental breakdown, as seen with the Blue Impulse's captain after losing the battle with the Ryvius.
It was mentioned that there were six Vaia ships, which took several hundred thousand trained astronauts entering into the Geduld to capture, formulate, and secure Vaias[spelling?] for the ships. This was made known for the purpose of protecting humanity from another Geduld phenomenon, as the gravitational warping effects of the vital guarders could block the advancing Geduld phenomenon.
The main setting of the rest of the series after the destruction of the Liebe Delta, and the target of the Orbital Security Bureau, so much so that they've justified destroying Hyperion with the Blue Impulse's Vital Guarder to try and destroy them. The Ryvius is one of two Vaia ships whose Sphixs have been manifested, but is also the only one with a humanized one, Neya. The other ship is basically stripped of any humanity but the desire to kill Neya. Vital Guarder - Einvalt, A large humanoid like mecha deployed from the lift ship housed in the front of the Ryvius, has the power to control gravitational forces in much the same way as the others, but has a much stronger localized control of gravity waves it creates (especially from its hands.)
BLUE Impulse The first Vaia ship to be a technical casualty to the Ryvius, after using its vital guarder to destroy Hyperion. The Ryvius detached its barge cannon and with the vital guarder in hand, turned the tides of the battle in favour of Ryvius. Impulse is no longer known after this battle, possibly decommissioned due to the loss of its vital guarder. Vital Guarder - Vertical Drill, A powerful vital guarder capable of plowing through large masses using a strong gravitational field projected around the main drill arm, which spins with tremendous force. Was used to destroy Hyperion, which established another of its attacks, by using any sized chunks surrounding it the Vertical Drill could capture these objects in its field and fire them.
CRIMSON Dicastia Piloted exclusively by aged women. The Dicastia boasts the greatest output of gravitational force, using smaller pods wired together. Dicastia was the first ship to score casualties on the Ryvius by firing on it while trapped in the entrapment field. Vital Guarder - Eysfina, the pod chain system used to generate an entrapping gravity field. Used as a means to detain their target in order to safely enter firing range.
GREY Gespenst Conrad Vicuss's Vaia ship most akin to the Ryvius, also possessing a comparable and somewhat humanoid vital guarder, but fused to a large fixture system at its arms and legs. It is only upon seeing Neya and recognizing her form as that of his deceased daughter that he realizes what grave wrongs he has committed. The Gespenst is capable of forming blades from gravitational forces to cut through the targets that it closes in on. It also has the ability to merge with existing 'vaia squids' to amplify its mass and gravity control and power, much to Stein's dismay, as he cannot stand to see anything that defies scientific logic. Vital Guarder - Geist, a humanoid body fixed vital guarder with tremendous gravitational force power, estimated by Stein's numbers of being at least twice as powerful as the Ryvius. These observations were more or less proven when the Geist merged with a number of Vaia squids around it, significantly boosting its attack power. Geist continued to destroy parts of the Ryvius's vital guarder, until it separated from the large ball of mass it created around itself, and began a powerful supercharge of energy. In one final ramming attack, the Geist was annihilated, along with the Einvalt, while everyone in the lift ship is safe.
After a maddeningly fierce battle, and the loss of his vital guarder, his final words after once again being face to face with Neya, were: "Attention all hands. The Ryvius is piloted by children, I want them rescued!" before killing himself with a gun, proof that he had understood the situation on board the Ryvius during most of his pursuit of it. (He had earlier stated that the student's pleas for rescue must be a trick). This marks the end of the war between the Orbital Security Bureau and the crew of the Ryvius.
Infinite Ryvius is a complex series with many underlying themes and symbolism.
A companion manga was released in Japan in 1999-2000. Created by Shinsuke Kurihashi, and released by MediaWorks Publishing, the manga details the voyage of the Ryvius from the character viewpoints of Aoi Housen, and to a lesser extent, her roommates Kozue Izumi and Reiko Ichikawa. This is in contrast to the anime, which had been seen through the eyes of the Aiba brothers, Ikumi Oze, and other mostly male characters. As such, the manga does not follow the anime "to the letter", but provides episodes and plotlines previously unseen.
The English-language rights to the Ryvius manga were acquired by ComicsOne, and the first volume of the English version, covering the anime episodes 1-13, was released in October 2004. The second and final volume, covering the remainder of the series, was expected to be released in January 2005. After ComicsOne was taken over by DrMaster, Volume 2 of the Infinite Ryvius manga was delayed. It was finally released under the new DrMaster label in May 2005.
Infinite Ryvius Original Soundtrack 1
Infinite RYVIUS Original Soundtrack 2
Infinite RYVIUS Original Soundtrack 3
In 2000, Infinite Ryvius won an award for Best TV Animation at the fifth animation Kobe.[3]
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