#Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon

[unicornblossom13]

Ange: Give your mom a hug!

Jack: Oh, yeah, okay. [gives her a half-hearted, one-arm hug]

Ange [looking at him with an intense stare]: I spent 37 hours squeezing you out of my body, and this is what I get?

Jack: Oh, I just, uh…

Ange [completely dead serious]: Give your mother a hug.

Jack: Okay! [immediately hugs her properly this time]

[hobbystationerytagimi]

グッドスマイルカンパニー　MODEROID ヴィルキス　クロスアンジュ 天使と竜の輪舞　入荷しました！

[shinkonamikan]

アニメ『クロスアンジュ』のエロとグロきつくない？ : あにまんch

[renisrandom]

Can you name some Animes or Make a List of Animes You Watched?

If It'll Help I Can Name Some Animes, I Watched:

Dragon Ball Z

Dragon Ball GT

Ranma 1/2 (2024 Remake)

Fairy Tail: 100 Year Quest

PaRappa the Rapper (yes, there is Anime like that, Look It Up)

Strike the Blood

Akame Ga Kill!

Infinite Stratos

InuYasha

Love Tyrant

To Love Ru

Date A Live

My Hero Academia

Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels & Dragons

The Seven Deadly Sins

Blood Lad

Yu Yu Hakusho

One Piece

Rin-ne

Demon Slayer

Maison Ikkoku

Urusei Yatsura (2024 Remake)

High School DxD

The Rising of the Shield Hero

Assassination Classroom

Attack on Titan

Gunsmith Cats

Riding Bean

Super HxEros

Shinobi no Ittoki

Boruto

Black Clover

Code Geass

Bleach

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Hunter x Hunter (2011 Remake)

Food Wars!

Noragami

Rurouni Kenshin (2024 Remake)

Dr. Stone

Reborn!

Re:Zero - Starting Life in Another World

KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!

Log Horizon

Sword Art Online

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

No Game No Life

Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious

Tokyo Revengers

Fushigi Yuugi

Kill la Kill!

Gurren Lagann

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Fire Force

Neo Yokio

Jujutsu Kaisen

Sailor Moon Crystal

Blue Exorcist

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Persona 5: The Animation

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Tokyo Ghoul

Seraph of the End

Darling in the Franxx

Danganronpa: The Animation

Mob Psycho 100

High-Rise Invasion

Triage X

SK8 the Infinity

Soul Eater

Powerpuff Girls Z

Cardcaptor Sakura

Little Witch Academia

RWBY (It was Bought by VizMedia so technically it is an Anime)

Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy

Eden's Zero

Yuki Yuna is a Hero

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off!

Spy X Family

Oshi no Ko

The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War

Rurouni Kenshin: Reflections

Shy

Lycoris Recoil

Fate (series)

The Apothecary Diaries

Tomo-chan Is a Girl!

Akiba Maid War

Twin Star Exorcists

Ninja Kamui

Solo Leveling

Mashle: Magic & Muscles

Blue Lock

Kuroko's Basketball

Love After World Domination

Go Go Loser Rangers

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

Undead Unluck

Delicious in Dungeon

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

My Dress-Up Darling

Classroom of the Elite

Garouden: The Way of the Lone Wolf

Mission: Yozakura Family

Chained Soldier

Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood

Nanbaka

Fena: Pirate Princess

Chainsaw Man

Kaiju No. 8

Suicide Squad Isekai

Hajime no Ippo

BAKI (2018 Remake)

Kengan Ashura

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Wanna Be the Strongest in the World!

The God of High School

Oh my! That's quite a long list! Let me see...

Spy X Family

Demon Slayer

Oshi No Ko

Yuki Yuna is a Hero

Madoka Magica

The 100 Girlfriends Who Really Really Really Really REALLY Love You

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood

Interviews With Monster Girls

Komi Can't Communicate

Romantic Killer

Kotaro Lives Alone

Delicious in Dungeon

Avatar the Last Airbender

Mob Psycho 100

Attack on Titan

Made in Abyss

School-Live (Gakko Gurashi)

Dr. Stone

[animebackgroundmusic]

"Catastrofe" by: Akiko Shikata from: Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons

[doyoulikethisanimesong-poll]

Song: Shinjitsu no Mokushiroku

Artist: Yoko Takahashi

Anime: Cross Ange: Rondo of Angel and Dragon

Type: Opening

Youtube:

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[maidoftheday]

Today’s Maid of the Day: Momoka Oginome from Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo

[fuckyeahanimebirthdays]

Hildegard Schlievogt (Cross Ange: Tenshi to Ryuu no Rondo)  » July 12

[fusilladerondo]

I love a girl and her name is Ange

[unicornblossom13]

[Jack’s Parents]

Since there is no information on who Jack’s parents were before they died during the Zero Reverse event, I have come up with my own idea for them.

The mother: Hilda

During her teenage years, Hilda was a duelist from the poorer sections of New Domino City. Before Jack, she was the owner of Red Dragon Archfiend and faced many opponents with the card in her hand.

Originally, she felt contempt for the upper class and how they looked down on her and those like her. When she crossed path with Ange, however, she began to believe there was hope for a better future.

As a girlfriend, and eventual wife, Hilda was completely devoted to Ange. She was quick to fall in love with the other and took on a very protective, almost possessive, attitude towards her.

The other mother: Ange

Ange was a talented up and coming duelist from the Tops of New Domino City. Like most, she held prejudice towards those of the lower class and thought them as nothing more than crooks and troublemakers.

It wasn’t until she met Hilda in a small dueling tournament and faced against her did she begin to change her narrow minded views. After their battle, the pair soon developed a close friendship, which evolved into something deeper over time.

A strong-willed young woman, she abandoned her old life in the Tops and married Hilda. When she became pregnant, she sold her best card, Stardust Dragon, to help them get by. The woman who bought it was a researcher visiting from the Tops named Yuriko Fudo, Yusei’s mother.

The son: Jack

One night, Ange had a dream of a dragon made completely of crimson. It touched her stomach and its wings disappeared in a bright flash of light, the creature vanishing soon after. A few weeks later, she discovered she was with child. No one could understand how it was possible, but Ange and Hilda’s shock soon turned into excitement and joy.

Jack was very much loved by his mothers, often referred as their Little Prince. Even as an infant, he showed a strong interest in Red Dragon Archfiend and Hilda promised to give it to him when he was older.

On the day of Zero Reverse, Ange and Hilda put Jack into a small crawl space under the floorboards of their home. After making sure he was safe from the disaster happening around them, it wasn’t long before the couple met their end.

When things began to settle down, Jack was eventually discovered and taken to Martha’s orphanage. On his tenth birthday, she gave him a small box that was found with him. Inside was Hilda’s Red Dragon Archfiend card and Ange’s wedding ring, the only mementos he has of them.

In terms of personality, Jack takes the most after Hilda, having inherited her brash and confident attitude and devotion to one person (in his case, Yusei). Due to being very young when his mothers died, Jack does not have a lot of clear memories of them.

[itschoahyuna]

[ashivrel-art]

Day 5. Anime you're ashamed you've enjoyed. I don't know why but I've seen and I've enjoyed Cross Ange.

[harddoor]

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"Unmei no Todoroki" (The Roar of Fate) by: Akiko Shikata from: Cross Ange: Rondo of Angels and Dragons

[asuccessfulbusinessman]

Cross Ange (It’s a pun?!)

 So that was Cross Ange. I don’t know what I expected, but it wasn’t that.

Narratively, it was horrible. So many things don’t make sense when you start to think about them, especially the one fakeout, you know the one. Also, why did Hilda have a “I won’t be controlled by anyone” line in the finale when she was one of the very few characters that had nothing to do with Embyro herself? (Give her a line about Chris, or Ange!)

Probably the worst part was the villain who really gets around, Embryo. Now, I’m repelled by, but not completely against, horrible horrible villains. This is because often they aren’t relatable in the slightest; you can’t understand their motivations, and if they bluntly say their motivations, you can’t empathize with them. This leaves him to be a punching bag, you want him to suffer, which the show delivers (most notably with Tusk outplay-boy-ing him). The only way to make these characters somewhat human is to give them a moment of reflection before their end and, well... Embryo doesn’t reflect. Note that such a reflection would not have changed Embyro’s status as a punching bag when he needed to be a punching bag. Maybe he could have had a slow breakdown after Tusk’s “I fucked your wife shitlips” moment, resulting in a reflection that comes too late. Or maybe he could have just had a halfassed “Oh” as he was obliterated.

The worst part about Embyro is that using sexual violence to show a villain is horrible is, well, kinda lazy (and unappealing to the eye, to say the least). The best part about Embyro are the ways he asserts control over others that don’t involve any of that. He sees insecurities and exploits them, providing people with what they need (even if in reality they had it all along, but I digress), making him look marginally smarter (he’s an idiot half the time,) and the writers look a little less lazy. I just wish we could have actually seen him interact with the sister princess, like, once? So that we see a controlling mastermind instead of a failed harem protagonist, and maybe learn something about a character the show does nothing with. What are we even supposed to take away from her scene, the last scene on false earth? “Fight to survive, AKA war is good (by a stretch of logic)?”

The good news is that the show gets a lot better when you don’t try to think about it. The humor is there, there are some good characters with Tusk and Vivian, the Mail Suits look beautiful (though I wish there was more variety between them, at least in color scheme during the second half of the show), and not thinking allows you to ignore the fanservice, fandisservice, and half the cast flip-flopping every 5 episodes.

Ange herself is, well, not the best, but above the norm. Her strength and weakness is that she “does not want to be used,” or is strongwilled and independent to a fault. This allows her to resist everyone (Jill’s bad plan, Embyro in general) but keeps her from readily forming the bonds and alliances she needs to make to win in the end. So, narratively, she checks out. Well, except for the fact that Coco and friend still didn’t have to die and were never brought up again. But I digress. As a character, as a person, she’s enjoyable to watch (most of the time, fanservice, you know) and we both want to see her win (she’s been through crap) and grow as a person (at the start of the show, she definitely has some growing up to do).

I’ll end this with a loose end that the show barely ties. What about the dumb ex-mana using humans? Like, I mentioned this before, but all we see is the city in ruins and miss sister fighting to survive. Are we supposed to learn anything from them, or are they just narrative fodder like Coco? ...I’m thinking too much about this show again.

[spacetraum]