History Anime / ActionHeroineCheerFruits

** In Episode 12, when Misaki reads the note the other girls wrote her for her birthday, her mental image of Ann is wearing a red scarf, one of the Franchise/{{Kamen Rider}}s' biggest trademarks.

'''''Action Heroine Cheer Fruits''''' is a Summer 2017 Anime set in a Japan whose main conceit is the "Action Heroine" system, where cities throughout Japan produce {{Tokusatsu}} stage shows in order to promote tourism and compete for a spot in the national popularity rankings.

* ActionGirl: Stage shows featuring such characters are very popular. And even disregarding her on-stage work, Ann is very good at Gymnastics and LeParkour.
* AffectionateParody: of {{Tokusatsu}} and MagicalGirl shows.

* BornUnlucky: Misaki feels this way about herself, trying to avoid getting too involved with anything since she seems to feel she'll jinx it; this is the reason she was so reluctant to go along with the script that had her playing the Hina-Nectars' SixthRanger. [[spoiler:In Episode 11, Misaki finds out that the Hinano convention hall is being torn down despite the Cheer Fruits' efforts and leaves town with barely a word to the others. Her aunt tells the girls that she's had this attitude ever since the birthday where she found her grandfather collapsed on the floor, which was the start of his decline and eventual death -- this is also the reason she's not too fond of her own birthday.]]

** Misaki '''Shiro'''gane is both an exception and a two-fer thanks to Japanese homophones. She's associated with the colors white and silver; "Shiro" on its own can mean white, while "shirogane" can mean silver (literally "white metal"), but the "shiro" kanji in her name actually means "castle", referring to her role as TheLeader. [[spoiler:In Episode 9 she joins the show as SixthRanger Platinum, which can be written with the same kanji as silver.]]

* EvilCounterpart: Implied with the Hina-Nectars' villains, Hina-Lemon, who likewise have color-themed names (Locomo Black and Deep Purple).

* HeelFaceTurn: Implied with Kanon and Roko's InUniverse characters, since the opening theme shows them being changed from villains to Hina-Nectars (purple and black respectively) and Episode 5 has them wearing those costumes and singing the theme song alongside the other girls.

** Roko is a major railfan; she actually ''lives'' in a train car and Episode 4 shows that she enjoys the smell of diesel. Her villain persona in the Hina-Nectar show has a train theme, too.

*** When Genki gets strict, Ann imagines her as "that super-famous Spartan commander", whose outfit strongly resembles the MAC uniforms from ''Series/UltramanLeo'', in reference to Commander Moroboshi.

** When Ann gets pumped up, she says that her "belt turbine" is fired up and imitates [[Series/KamenRider Takeshi Hongo]]'s original transformation pose, complete with unzipping her jacket.

* WorldOfActionGirls: Most shows feature female heroes. It's mentioned that male heroes exist, but so far none have been shown.

'''''Action Heroine Cheer Fruits''''' is a Summer 2017 Anime set in a Japan where Action Heroines (in the vein of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hero_(Japan) Local Heroes]]) are SeriousBusiness, complete with national popularity rankings.

The city of Hinano has a failing economy, dying tourist trade, and is facing the very real possibility of being absorbed by a nearby town. One day, high schooler Mikan Kise finds out that the Action Heroine show her little sister was looking forward to has been cancelled due to the sorry state of the city. In order to placate her sister, Mikan swears to bring the show back herself, and ends up enlisting the help of {{Tokusatsu}} fangirl Ann Akagi. Their two-person show draws the attention of StudentCouncilPresident Misaki Shirogane, who's also the granddaughter of the city's recently deceased mayor; wanting to help revitalize the town, she helps Ann and Mikan with their show. As more of their classmates and friends join, they end up becoming Hinano's official Action Heroines. HilarityEnsues.

** In Episode 9, Misaki throws on a "dress" (made from a piece of white cloth lying around) and jumps on stage as "Platinum", an AloofAlly-type SixthRanger, in order to buy time after the planned fireworks were delayed. In this case, Platinum was part of Mikan's original script, but Misaki said she couldn't do it so the girls were performing a modified version of the script without her.

* AssKicksYou: In Episode 9, Genki instructs Mikan and Hatsuri to use more "hip attacks" during the stage shows since their characters aren't power fighters like Ann or Mana.

** Misaki '''Shiro'''gane is both an exception and a two-fer thanks to Japanese homophones. As seen in the page image and in the opening sequence, she's associated with the color white. "Shiro" on its own can mean white while "shirogane" can mean silver (literally "white metal"), but the "shiro" kanji in her name actually means "castle", referring to her role as TheLeader.

* EdibleThemeNaming: The Cheer Fruits. These include Apple, Lemon and Kiwi.

* [[FiveManBand Five Girl Band]]: The Hina-Nectars, as seen on the credits, though they have yet to debut in those identities.

* [[AHeroToHisHometown Heroes to their Hometown:]] The Cheer Fruits. Yuki was this even before joining the team, but she doesn't think she deserves it.

** Roko is a major railfan; she actually ''lives'' in a train car and Episode 4 shows that she enjoys the smell of diesel.

** Akagi An's name is a reference to ''Akage no Anne'', the Japanese title of ''AnneOfGreenGables''. It may also be a double reference to [[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Nobuo Akagi]], another Arakawa-penned tokusatsu fan.

* ParentService: In Episode 8, Genki encourages Roko to act sexier for the fathers in the audience; however, her [[FemininityFailure utter inability to do so]] leads to Genki instead suggesting that she play a shy villainess, something fairly novel.

*** The girls watch a segment from another Local Heroine show that's a pastiche of the legend of Momotaro and ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': the red heroine's sword attack looks identical to Den-O's Extreme Slash (and is [[CallingYourAttacks called]] with "My finishing move!"), while the blue and yellow heroines wield a rod and ax respectively[[note]]the purple heroine doesn't wield a gun, but that's because she has wings for arms[[/note]]. What really cements it is the fact that the blue heroine's staff is almost identical to Urataros' personal weapon.

* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode 7, though there's a few problems with the train getting there.

* {{Otaku}}: A rare girl variant, Ann is obsessed with Tokusatsu heroines.

*** Genki's description of [[TheVamp sexy Toku villainesses]] is accompanied by images of characters resembling [[Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger Mele]] and [[Series/GogoSentaiBoukenger Shizuka of the Wind]].

* TheSixthRanger: Yuki joins as the "Fourth Hina-Nectar" Sein Blue so she can sing the show's theme.
* SnubByOmission: In Episode 8, Genki takes over directorial duties and ends up giving all kinds of unreasonable direction to the girls...except Kanon, whom she tells just to keep doing what she's doing. Kanon is actually kind of put out by this.

* {{Nepotism}}: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and defied in Episode 6, since the Shirogane and Momoi families have a pre-existing relationship, it might look seedy if Misaki just let Hatsuri into Cheer Fruits no questions asked; several characters, including Misaki herself, remark on this. After Hatsuri fails the test due to going overboard with explosives, her father offers to pull some strings to get her into the group but she refuses, insisting that she needs to ''earn'' her place on the team.

*** When Genki gets strict, Ann imagines her as "that super-famous Spartan commander", whose outfit looks like a ''Series/TomicaHeroRescueForce'' costume topped with a ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon''-style helmet; the combination of themes is probably meant to be a nod to ''Rescue Force''[='s=] Reiji Osakabe[=/R0=], who was played by ''Series/KamenRider'' star Creator/HiroshiFujioka.

* ParentService: In Episode 10, Genki encourages Roko to act sexier for the fathers in the audience; however, her [[FemininityFailure utter inability to do so]] leads to Genki instead suggesting that she play a shy villainess, something fairly novel.

* SnubByOmission: In Episode 10, Genki takes over directorial duties and ends up giving all kinds of unreasonable direction to the girls...except Kanon, whom she tells just to keep doing what she's doing. Kanon is actually kind of put out by this.

* TeruTeruBozu: In Episode 10 Yuki and Genki make some of these in order to ensure that it doesn't rain on their next performance; however, they get distracted with their conversation and end up making several dozen without realizing it. And then the next day when the girls meet up, it turns out that they all had the same idea.

* ColorfulThemeNaming: As expected of a show that homages ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', each of the girls' surnames contains their respective hero color: Ann '''Aka'''gi (red), Mikan '''Ki'''se (yellow), Mana '''Midori'''kawa (green), Genki and Yuki '''Ao'''yama (blue), Hatsuri '''Momo'''i (pink), Kanon '''Shi'''mura (purple), and Roko '''Kuro'''ki (black). Misaki '''Shiro'''gane is associated with white (as seen in the page image and in the opening where she appears as a WomanInWhite), but the "Shiro" in her name is written with the Kanji for "castle".

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: Misaki explicitly refers to Roko as her prince, which makes Roko blush and the other girls {{Squee}}

* EdibleThemeNaming: The Cheer Fruits. These include Apple, Lemon and Kiwi.

* {{Nepotism}}: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] and defied in Episode 6, since the and Momoi families have a pre-existing relationship, it might look seedy if Misaki just let Hatsuri into Cheer Fruits no questions asked; several characters, including Misaki herself, remark on this. After Hatsuri fails the test due to going overboard with explosives, her father offers to pull some strings to get her into the group but she refuses, insisting that she needs to ''earn'' her place on the team.

** Hatsuri refers to Misaki as "[[Series/NinpuSentaiHurricaneger Lady Gozen]]".
** During her second "test" show, her transformation pose resembles the original Series/KamenRider's.
** During the show at the end of the episode, the full five-member Hina-Nectars team does the Franchise/SuperSentai-standard pose with colored smoke explosions.
** Misaki thinks to herself that now that there are nine of them, they can be the city's saviors. Nine saviors? [[Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger Sounds familiar...]]

* TheSixthRanger: Yuki joins as the "Fourth Cheer Fruit" Sein Blue so she can sing the show's theme.

The city of Hinano has a failing economy, dying tourist trade, and is facing the very real possibility of being absorbed by a nearby town. One day, high schooler Mikan Kise finds out that the Action Heroine show her little sister was looking forward to has been cancelled due to the sorry state of the city. In order to placate her sister, Mikan swears to bring the show back herself, and ends up enlisting the help of {{Tokusatsu}} fangirl Ann Akagi. Their two-person show draws the attention of StudentCouncilPresident Misaki Shirogane, who's also the granddaughter of the city's recently deceased mayor; wanting to help revitalize the town, she asks Ann and Mikan to turn their show into full-fledged Action Heroines. HilarityEnsues.

* FakeNationality (InUniverse): In the Cheer Fruits' show, Yuki/Sein Blue is Mexican, specifically from Hinano's sister city of Cuernavaca.
* HandWave: The girls' original shows are supposed to be Kamidaio shows with the same characters, but obviously they look nothing like the actors involved with that production. Their explanations range from Kamidaio gaining a new form dubbed "Kajidaio" to [[BigBad Lottiking]] being replaced by his daughter Jolottiking because he's getting old and can't make the trip out to Hinano personally.

* {{Irony}}: Ann beat Kanon only because [[spoiler: the latter accidentally used a speech from a Tokusatsu show on her. This happens ''twice''.]]

The city of Hinano has a failing economy, dying tourist trade, and is facing the very real possibility of being absorbed by a nearby town. One day, high schooler Mikan Kise finds out that the Action Heroine show her little sister was looking forward to has been cancelled due to the sorry state of the city. In order to placate her sister, Mikan swears to bring the show back herself, and ends up enlisting the help of {{Tokusatsu}} fangirl Ann Akagi. Their two-person show draws the attention of StudentCouncilPresident Misaki Shirogane, who's also the granddaughter of the city's recently deceased mayor; wanting to help revitalize the town, she asks Ann and Mikan to help turn their show into full-fledged Action Heroines. HilarityEnsues.

* ActionGirl: Stage shows featuring such characters are very popular. And even disregarding her on-stage work, An is very good at Gymnastics and LeParkour.

* ColorfulThemeNaming: As expected of a show that homages ''Franchise/SuperSentai'', each of the girls' surnames contains their respective hero color: Ann '''Aka'''gi (red), Mikan '''Ki'''se (yellow), Mana '''Midori'''kawa (green), Genki and Yuki '''Ao'''yama (blue), Hatsuri '''Momo'''i (pink), Kanon '''Shi'''mura (purple), and Roko '''Kuro'''ki (black). Misaki's name plays with the theme, containing '''Shiro''' ("castle"), which is a homophone for the Japanese word for "white"; presumably this refers to her role as the team's {{Mentor}} WomanInWhite, as seen in the opening sequence..
* DopeSlap: Genki brings her sister Yuki out of her "paranoid delusions" with one of these...administered via ExtendoBoxingGlove.
* DreadfulMusician: An can't hold a note. [[spoiler: Kanon finally beats her at something when she is forced to sing karaoke.]]
* [[FiveManBand Five Girl Band]]: The Cheer Fruits, as seen on the credits, though they have yet to debut in those identities.

* [[AHeroToHisHometown Heroes to their Hometown:]] The Cheer Fruits.

** Roko is a major railfan (she actually ''lives'' in a train car!)
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: between Misaki and Roko.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers (InUniverse): For the first couple of episodes the girls just do their own amateur Kamidaio shows, but once they draw enough attention and actually start selling merchandise, Kamidaio's lawyers serve them with a Cease and Desist order. Misaki doesn't seem too surprised (she's mostly just glad it didn't progress to a full-fledged lawsuit), and this serves as the impetus for them to invent their own IP, Hina-Nectar.

** Akagi An's name is a reference to ''Akage no Anne'', the Japanese title of ''AnneOfGreenGables''. It may also be a double reference to [[Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Akagi Nobuo]], another Arakawa-penned tokusatsu fan.

*** Episode 1 has An paraphrase Series/KamenRiderStronger's InTheNameOfTheMoon speech.

*** The "Galactic Policewoman Kappy" sequence begins with a parody of Creator/ToeiCompany's famous "waves and rocks" title card. The show itself is a pastiche of the ''[[MetalHeroes Space Sheriff]]'' franchise and ''Series/TokkyuuShireiSolbrain'', complete with music that sounds a lot like ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan''[='s=] theme song. Kappy's civilian form resembles [[Series/GogoSentaiBoukenger Natsuki Mamiya/Bouken Yellow]].
*** There's also a sequence that spoofs ''Series/DoubutsuSentaiZyuohger''[='s=] OpeningNarration and TransformationSequence, except that instead of a Ranger, the main character transforms into [[Anime/KemonoFriends Serval]]. She also uses Yamato Kazakiri[=/=]Zyuoh Eagle's CatchPhrase "You better not underestimate this planet!"
*** An used another ''Zyuohger'' CatchPhrase ("Instincts Awakened!") during episode 2's hero show.
*** The potential {{Mook}} costume designs include Shocker Combatmen from ''Series/KamenRider'', Dogma Fighters from ''Series/KamenRiderSuper1'', and Combatroids from ''Film/KamenRiderZX''; they eventually choose a design that resembles the rarely-seen female Shocker Combatmen.
*** During the sequence where Kanon looks Kajidaio up on Twitter, one of the users' avatars is an anime version of ''Film/Terminator2''[='s=] poster.

** Ann's horrendous singing might be a nod to Jimmy Nakata, the DreadfulMusician from ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'', since both of them seemingly cause physical pain and earthquakes with their off-key caterwauling. The main difference is that Ann fully realizes she's terrible.

* ShowWithinAShow: Kamidaio and others, plus the Cheer Fruits themselves.
* ShrinkingViolet: Yuki has a "world of paranoia" (as her sister calls it) where she imagines that people are insulting her regardless of what they're actually saying, whether they're just making civil conversation or even if they're praising her.

* StudentCouncilPresident: Misaki. She organizes the Cheer Fruits project. The others call her "captain."
* UpUpAndAway: An does this pose in the OP.

'''''Action Heroine Cheer Fruits''''' is a Summer 2017 Anime set in a Japan where Action Heroines (in the vein of [[Local_hero_(Japan) Local Heroes]]) are SeriousBusiness, complete with national popularity rankings.