History Anime / AkibaMaidWar

* KarmicDeath: With the notable exception of [[spoiler:General]], every major death in the series is ultimately the end result of the character's own actions and their consequences. [[spoiler:Nerula ratting out Manami's plan to go to war with Creatureland to Nagomi gets her killed by Manami in retaliation. Manami's open contempt and disrespect towards Maidalien's leadership and going behind their backs to pursue her own agenda ultimately gets her declared a liability that is summarily disposed of. The Debt Collector's repeated failures to keep Ton Tokoton in line ends up getting him executed by Nagi after his final failure costs her a major victory. Ranko's opening massacre of Muv-Luv Moonbeam ultimately earns her a knife in the back from the cafe's last surviving maid. Finally, Nagi's senseless sadism, casual cruelty to her underlings, and her tendency to respond to any inconvenience to her with violence becomes her undoing when one of her own minions finally has enough of her mistreatment and shoots her.]]

* Irony: [[spoiler: The SoleSurvivor of Wuv-Wuv Moonbeam's destruction is easily the only Creatureland thug with legitimate grievances against Ton Tokoton, is the also the one to save Ton Tokoton in the finale by killing Nagi.]]

* KarmicDeath: With the notable exception of [[spoiler:General]], every major character death is ultimately the end result of their own actions and their consequences. [[spoiler:Nerula ratting out Manami's plan to go to war with Creatureland to Nagomi gets her killed by Manami in retaliation. Manami's open comtempt and disrespect towards Maidalian's higher ups and going behind their backs to pursue her own agenda ultimately gets her declared a liability that is summarily disposed of. The Debt Collector's repeated failures to keep Ton Tokoton in line ends up getting him executed by Nagi after his final failure costs her a major victory. Ranko's opening massacre of Muv-Luv Moonbeam ultimately earns her a knife in the back from the cafe's last surviving maid. Finally, Nagi's senseless sadism, casual cruelty to her underlings, and her tendency to respond to any inconvenience to her with violence becomes her undoing when one of her own minions finally has enough of her mistreatment and shoots her.]]

** [[spoiler:The maid who kills Ranko in Episode 11 manages to slip away before anyone can apprehend her.]] [[spoiler:When she is captured by the maids working under Nagi immediately after, Nagi lets her go despite suggestions to drown her in the bay, which backfires when she is killed by that same maid in the end for shooting Nagomi. It is also played with in that she didn't kill Ranko for shits and giggles, but to avenge her ''own'' cafe, which Ranko it wiped out in the first episode. She also shot Nagi after witnessing her sensely shoot Nagomi, despite going there to kill Ton Toko Ton herself, suggesting that Nagomi's song made her have a HeelRealization.]]

** Nagi is ''furious'' at Oinky Doink [[spoiler:winning the Omae Maid Climb over her own Lions maid cafe, and kills the Debt Collector in her rage.]]

** [[spoiler:The maid who kills Ranko in Episode 11 manages to slip away before anyone can apprehend her.]] [[spoiler:When she is captured by the maids working under Nagi immediately after, Nagi lets her go despite suggestions to drown her in the bay, which backfires when she is killed by that same maid in the end for shooting Nagomi.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Nagomi struggles through bloody gang wars she never wanted to be part of, personally watches two of her closest friends die, and ends up a paraplegic, but all she ever wanted was to be a cute maid and gets to do exactly that in the epilogue, residing over a revitalized Ton Tokoton in the process.]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Who kills the most major characters in the series? [[spoiler: That one maid from Luv Luv Moonbeam who got one of her pigtails chopped off, who ends up stabbing Ranko out of vengeance for her fallen sisters and shooting Nagi in the head after Nagomi wins over her and the rest of the other maids with her climactic performance.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ending to the baseball episode proves to be a smaller scale version of [[spoiler: the ending of the show as a whole. Nagomi's commitment to peace wins over her rival maids, though several maids suffer brutal deaths in the process.]]

** [[spoiler:Played with in Okachimachi's backstory, outside of nearly being killed to cover up Lady Michiyo's murder, she's managed to escape all consequences for 14 years thanks to [[HidingInPlainSight hiding in an unsuspecting panda suit.]]]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Given the fact that the show is about maid cafe blended in the world mafia and gang wars, it's safe to say that any characters whether major or minor are welcome to die here.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The ending to the baseball episode proves to be a smaller scale version of [[spoiler: the ending of the show as a whole. Nagomi's commitment to peace wins over her rival maids, though several maids suffer brutal deaths in the process, including the one who killed an infamous killer maid who just got out of prison.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The maid wars in Akihabara and Nagi's reign of terror are over; but several characters both major and minor have died to get there, Ranko in particular dying [[ShootTheShaggyDog without ever having achieved her dream or making peace with her past]] and Nagomi is confined to a wheelchair after Nagi shoots her repeatedly. But despite that, she continues being a maid even in her thirties.]]

** [[spoiler:After shooting Nagomi repeatedly in the abdomen, Nagi goes out this way by the same maid that not only murdered Ranko, but Nagi had let live despite the other maids wanting to kill her as punishment.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: The [[spoiler:assassin who kills Ranko in Episode 11 appears to be the pink-haired maid who cut her pigtail off in the Wuv-Wuv Moonbeam in episode 1. She confirms this in the finale after being captured by Nagi's underlings, who want to execute her for the crime until Nagi talks them out of it.]]

** [[spoiler:Nagi letting the Chuki-Chuki Tsuki Chan maid live ultimately comes back to bite her after she shoots Nagomi, with the maid who killed Ranko doing the same to her boss. This is then followed up by Okachimachi throwing a bamboo spear [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through her chest]].]]

* PerpetualPoverty: No matter what happens, Ton Tokoton is always stuck owing more money to both Creatureland and any other debt collector they take money from than they had before. Not even a figurine they sell off in Episode 3 manages to make a dent, only pulling in enough so that neither The Manager or Shiipon get their organs removed. In episode 5, they manage to get enough money to pay off a good chunk, if not all, of the debt, but now have a new issue -- Having to explain to Creatureland why they killed off another affiliated cafe in order to get the money. [[spoiler:This all changes after the cafe wins the Lady Omoe, with Creatureland now hellbent on eliminating them completely.]]

** Anytime the Debt Collector is in the same room as the Manager, expect to see him subject her to a bizarre punishment in some darkly comedic fashion.

* SpoilerOpening: Averted. [[spoiler:Zoya]] is specifically, if crudely, censored out of the opening of the first three episodes to keep her SixthRanger status a secret.
* StatusQuoIsGod: The crew of Ton Tokoton often tries to gamble for money to repay a debt they owe. But it never works in their favor, and any money they make will inevitably be lost. Conversely, if they made a bad gamble, usually whoever they owed money or organs to ends up getting killed or paid off, thus conveniently erasing the debt they accrued for that episode. The ongoing debts to Creatureland still standing, only made worse now that they killed a fellow Creatureland's cafe and Nagi has effectively told the cafe to die as an "apology" to Maidalien.

* TimeSkip: The prologue takes place 14 years before the actual start of the show. [[spoiler:TheStinger epilogue takes place 18 years after the events of the series, showing that Nagomi survived her wounds from Nagi and is still working at Ton Tokoton.]]

* {{Yakuza}}: Maid cafes are simply fronts to entire Yakuza rings, and aren't afraid to do the dirty work against the opposition in order to keep up appearances.
* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: Implied in Episode 6 when Shiipon suggests taking the 5 million Yen they got from murdering Sheep Maid and running. Manager quickly shoots it down, saying that Creatureland would simply just find them regardless if they moved to another region or fled overseas. This also implies they caught up to Sano when she tried to pull this at the end of Episode 4.

** She later chews out Manager for Ton Tokoton's actions in Episode 5 and tells her to "apologize" to the rival organization Maidalien for Ranko's massacre of Wuv-Wuv Moonbeam, fully intending both her and the maids under her management to be killed in the process as punishment.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The maid wars in Akihabara and Nagi's reign of terror are over; but several characters both major and minor have died to get there, Ranko in particular dying [[ShootTheShaggyDog without ever having achieved her dream or making peace with her past]] and Nagomi is confined to a wheelchair after Nagi shoots her repeatedly.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The maid wars in Akihabara and Nagi's reign of terror are over; but several characters both major and minor have died to get there, Ranko in particular dying [[ShaggyDogStory without ever having achieved her dream or making peace with her past]] and Nagomi is confined to a wheelchair after Nagi shoots her repeatedly.]]

** The ending theme is performed by Creator/RinaSato in-character as Ranko.

* AssholeVictim: Typically every villain in each episode does or says things that clearly marks them as a bad guy, so no one really bats an eye when they inevitably get killed, whether by one of the main characters, or in some cases, a rival group they pissed off earlier in the episode. They also often have a mean look on their face that makes their comeuppance even more deserving, such as the Sheep Maid head who killed other maids for the crime of having the same birthday as her.

* ChekhovsGunman: The [[spoiler:assassin who kills Ranko in Episode 11 appears to be the pink-haired maid who cut her pigtail off in the Wuv-Wuv Moonbeam in episode 1.]]

** [[spoiler:This bites Nagi in the ass when she lets Ranko's assassin free despite the worriment of the other maids. With said assassin blowing Nagi's brains out after she cripples Nagomi.]]

* [[spoiler:After shooting Nagomi repeatedly in the abdomen, Nagi goes out this way by the same maid that not only murdered Ranko, but Nagi had let live despite the other maids wanting to kill her as punishment.]]

** [[spoiler:Nagi letting the Chuki-Chuki Tsuki Chan maid live ultimately comes back to bite her after she shoots Nagomi, with the maid who killed Ranko doing the same to her boss. This is then followed up by Okachimachi throwing a bamboo spear [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through her chest]].

* BerserkButton:
** The main characters in general do not take kindly to their cafe being insulted, or if any of them gets insulted by someone outside their group. The head maid for the Sheep Maid cafe insults Ranko in episode 5. She's immediately shot in the gut [[spoiler:by Yumechi]], who up till this point wasn't known for her violence.

** [[spoiler:Nagi letting the Chuki-Chuki Tsuki Chan maid live ultimately comes back to bite her after she shoots Nagomi, with the maid who killed Ranko doing the same to her boss. This is then followed up by Okachimachi throwing a bamboo spear [[ImpaledWithExtremePredujice through her chest]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The maid wars in Akihabara and Nagi's reign of terror are over; but several characters both major and minor have died to get there, and Nagomi is confined to a wheelchair after Nagi shoots her repeatedly.]]