History Anime / BTheBeginning

%%** The first character to appear on-screen is one of the Crouse Brothers' recent victims. She is introduced [[FeetFirstIntroduction feet first]] running away from them while BoundAndGagged.
%%** Occurs frequently with Kaela whenever she's at her workstation with regular closeups of the foot pedals, alternating between episodes as to whether she's wearing her heels or not.
%%** When Lily is stripped naked on Gilbert's operation table in Episode 10, a shot of her feet can be glimpsed at one point.
%%** The PedalToTheMetalShot instance of this gets invoked in ''Succession'''s third episode by Koku when he tells Lily to speed up when being chased by Asagiri at a dockyard. Cut to Lily's foot as she tells him she's already got it floored. Straighter examples of her stepping on the gas can be seen in later episodes of the season.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Season 2 ends with a fight between Koku and Kirisame that stops during the middle.]]

%%* FootFocus: Happens a fair bit during the series.

* AnimationBump: The fight between Koku and Izanami in Episode 3 is notably higher in quality than the rest of the show.

* AxCrazy: The Reggies. They're prone to becoming increasingly violent and unpredictable after age 20 due to SanitySlippage setting in.

* SuperiorSuccessor: [[spoiler:Minatsuki to the rest of the Reggies, having all of the enhanced strength and reflexes but none of the madness that comes with age.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: PlayedForLaughs when the negative side of MaleGaze occurs in Episode 2, as when Keith tries to stalk some women because of their butts, [[MadeofIron he gets thrown into a fountain by an oncoming taxi]]. Boris [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight simply reports this as "Keith being weird".]]

%%* VagueAge: None of the characters' ages have been revealed. This gets confusing as Lily, Bran and Mario are all mentioned as recent graduates of the royal police academy, and Bran is revealed having a one-sided OfficeRomance with Kaela, who is significantly older than him as revealed in side materials.

%%* OffModel: Kaela's feet during her RapidFireTyping sequence in Episode 3 are not only drawn and animated as if she was completely barefoot instead of wearing tights, but her right foot is depicted with only four toes instead of five. Her facial features also vary from being soft and rounded, sharp and pointy, or somewhere in between depending on the episode.
%%* Season 2 as a whole takes a step down in visual quality, with some episodes looking rushed in places as a result of the animation being done during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic. In Episode 6; in addition to some instances of RecycledAnimation from Season 1 being used, the chase against the Reggie is incredibly sloppy looking with Boris and Mario's faces becoming deformed in several shots, and the characters developing dead-eyed stares in several shots during the episode's second half.
%%** Episode 1 of the same season has a shot where Kaela's skirt is the same lime green as her shirt.

** [[spoiler: Deliberately pulled on the RIS themselves once their investigation into finding the identity of Killer B gets stalled at the end of ''Succession'' by Kirisame. With the battle between Koku and Kirisame playing this straight one episode later.]]

** [[spoiler: Deliberately pulled on the RIS themselves once their investigation into finding the identity of Killer B gets stalled at the end of ''Succession'' by Kirisame.]]

** The DuelingHackers battle between Kaela and the hired thug over the Hotel's security system in Episode 3 ultimately ends up one-sided in the former's favor. Due in part to Kaela being professionally trained in dealing with such situations, the overly complex setup of her workstation as opposed to the "Three laptops in a hotel room" layout of her opponent, and said opponent's terrible coding skills. Upon realizing how badly the plan is going south after being told to move ahead sooner than expected, Kamui just simply [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness saws off the guy's head]], [[NiceJobFixingItVillain unintentionally allowing Kaela and the RIS full access into the systems to divert the gas being pumped into the building into empty rooms]].

** In the second season, Koku encounters Kirisame, one of his old friends when they were at the institute. Meanwhile, Keith checks on cases that involve more Reggies ever since Minatsuki was taken out, only to be kidnapped by Kirisame and having to escape the room he was taken to before dying from starvation. All while Lily tries to find Keith and gets wrapped up in a kidnapping plot [[spoiler:orchestrated by the King using himself as the victim]], and the RIS trying fruitlessly to find out the identity of Killer B like in the previous season.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Some characters are killed off before they have the chance to do much, such as Quinn or [[spoiler:Kukuri]].

* {{Expy}}: With FictionalCounterpart in the mix. Cremona's geography in the map resembles Cuba and Italy to a certain degree.
** The markings used by the Cremonan Royal Police resemble those used by the Japanese National Police Agency.

* AdultFear: Being a police force, members of the RIS have to deal with the possibility of their teammates or themselves not making it back from a mission or even being attacked while off-duty. This is particularly true for Keith, as he becomes aware that someone is out to curse him to lose everyone he ever cared about, in a repeat of how he lost his sister, Erika.

* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Cremona is not specifically mentioned on which continent it's located. This isn't helped by the population consisting largely of Italian and Japanese citizens. The opening text in Episode 1 states it's located somewhere near the Northeast of Italy.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Season 2's first half ends with a fight between Koku and Kirisame that stops during the middle.]]

''B: The Beginning'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original anime released on March 2, 2018. It was directed by Kazuto Nakazawa and Yoshiki Yamakawa, and was produced by Creator/ProductionIG.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Various characters have hair ranging from teal to lavender and pink, and it's never pointed out or questioned.

* FacialMarkings: All the members of Market Maker have these as part of their overall MonsterClown asthetic. In ''Succession'', only Izunami retains these, with Yuna's teardrop being removed between seasons.

* TankGoodness: Subverted twice. Firstly because it's actually a IFV, and secondly because it's being controlled AxCrazy murder on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge though the city.

%* VagueAge: None of the characters' ages have been revealed. This gets confusing as Lily, Bran and Mario are all mentioned as recent graduates of the royal police academy, and Bran is revealed having a one-sided OfficeRomance with Kaela, who is significantly older than him as revealed in side materials.

%%** The first character to appear on-screen is one of the Crouse Brothers' recent victims. She is introduced [[FeetFirstIntroduction feet first]] running away from them.

%* VagueAge: None of the characters' ages have been revealed. This gets confusing as Lily, Ban and Mario are all mentioned as recent graduates of the royal police academy, and Bran is revealed having a one-sided OfficeRomance with Kaela, who is significantly older than him as revealed in side materials.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Cremona is not specifically mentioned on which continent it's located. This isn't helped by the population consisting largely of Italian and Japanese citizens.