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* DropTheHammer: The big redheaded mook has a final showdown with Komada right before the climax and gets in a few good hits on him with a big ass sledgehammer! [[CurbStompBattle Then Komada goes full demon on him and... well, it's a pretty short fight after that...]]

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* DemonicPossession: It's heavily implied by Bokudo that the final stage for anyone who contracts the demon virus but is unable to cure or overcome it is this. He calls the state "Devil-Possessed" and claims that it's basically possession by an evil spirit in an undead human host. [[spoiler:This is the ultimate fate of the second demon virus monster, the villainous politician Seijuro Tabe.]]



* SuperpoweredEvilSide: After being infected by the demon virus during the first ten minutes of the OVA Komada gains the ability to temporarily transform into a giant bestial state that gives him extreme power and agility but is also threatening to slowly take over his mind and body. [[spoiler:By the end it's implied that he and the demon virus have undergone some sort fusion or synchronization, making him no longer fully human but allowing him to retain his personality and humanity.]]

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* SuperpoweredEvilSide: After being infected by the demon virus during the first ten minutes of the OVA Komada gains the ability to temporarily transform into a giant bestial beastial state that gives him extreme power and agility but is also threatening to slowly take over his mind and body. [[spoiler:By the end it's implied that he and the demon virus have undergone some sort of fusion or synchronization, making him no longer fully human but allowing him to retain his personality and humanity.]]

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* MonsterMisogyny: While the very first onscreen demon virus fatality was a man all of the other victims are shown to be female. [[spoiler:This is because the second demon virus monster has already fallen to such a state that the only thing that can keep him together is the live livers of young women.]]



-->'''Bokudo:''' You are no longer Seijuro Tabe, no longer a human being... but a grotesque monster feeding on the innocent!

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-->'''Bokudo:''' You are no longer Seijuro Tabe, [[spoiler:Seijuro Tabe]], no longer a human being... but ''but a grotesque monster feeding on the innocent!innocent!''


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* SuperpoweredEvilSide: After being infected by the demon virus during the first ten minutes of the OVA Komada gains the ability to temporarily transform into a giant bestial state that gives him extreme power and agility but is also threatening to slowly take over his mind and body. [[spoiler:By the end it's implied that he and the demon virus have undergone some sort fusion or synchronization, making him no longer fully human but allowing him to retain his personality and humanity.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Bokudo gives a pretty scathing one to BigBad [[spoiler:Seijuro Tabe]] right before the climax, telling him exactly how he ended up suffering the fate that he did:
-->'''Bokudo:''' The medicine was powerful, it could have dried up the seeds of evil that had found a home in you. But you love power! You love authority! You never gave the medicine a chance! Yes, the truth hurts, doesn't it?
-->[[spoiler:'''Tabe:''']] Shut up! This is nonsense, I won't listen!
-->'''Bokudo:''' If you had let it work you could've become human... but now it's too late, you're just another ''victim!''
-->[[spoiler:'''Tabe:''']] You stupid old man!
-->'''Bokudo:''' You are no longer Seijuro Tabe, no longer a human being... but a grotesque monster feeding on the innocent!
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* ParkingGarage: One of the many demon virus monster victims is a woman who was ambushed inside an empty parking garage and murdered. The scene in question cuts to the aftermath of the attack with blood pouring out of her car and the demon virus monster chewing on her liver.
* ProductPlacement: Done a bit more subtly than most other examples of this trope but still present. A bucket of what is clearly KFC can be seen among the food Komada is chowing down on fter being infected with the demon virus and he can later be seen handing Sayaka a can of Coca Cola while the gang is chilling at a rest stop.

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* ParkingGarage: One of the many demon virus monster victims is a woman who was ambushed inside an empty parking garage and murdered.made into a human happy meal. The scene in question cuts to the aftermath of the attack with blood pouring out of her car and the demon virus monster chewing on her liver.
* ProductPlacement: Done a bit more subtly than most other examples of this trope but still present. A bucket of what is clearly KFC can be seen among the food Komada is chowing down on fter after being infected with the demon virus and he can later be seen handing Sayaka a can of Coca Cola while the gang is chilling at a rest stop.
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* BadassBookworm: Both of the main protagonists are highly skilled scientists that just so happen to spend most of their free time hunting down and neutralizing demonic mutants created by a mysterious supernatural virus. Koshigaya is even introduced giving a lecture to a classroom of bored college students.


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* ParkingGarage: One of the many demon virus monster victims is a woman who was ambushed inside an empty parking garage and murdered. The scene in question cuts to the aftermath of the attack with blood pouring out of her car and the demon virus monster chewing on her liver.
* ProductPlacement: Done a bit more subtly than most other examples of this trope but still present. A bucket of what is clearly KFC can be seen among the food Komada is chowing down on fter being infected with the demon virus and he can later be seen handing Sayaka a can of Coca Cola while the gang is chilling at a rest stop.

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* CorruptPolitician: Seijuro Tabe. [[spoiler:It's even stated by Bokudo that his greed and lust for power is what allowed the demon virus to fully take over and control his actions, leaving him little more than a dead man in a monster's body. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be the final threat that the heroes have to bring down at the end of the story.]]



* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: Bokudo claims that he does this as a way to "purify and cleanse" his spirit. He's later seen having a discussion with Koshigaya while sitting under a waterfall right before the temple is attacked by a helicopter.



* RedEyesTakeWarning: Komada's deadly monster form has very menacing red eyes.




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* TeacherStudentRomance: Koshigaya has no problem getting intimately involved with his students, though it's implied that Komada is much more reserved in this regard and looks down on him for it.
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Bio-Hunter is a mid-90s anime OVA set in a world where humans are plagued by a strange virus that turns those who are infected by it into vicious inhuman monsters. That's where our two main protagonists, scientists Komada and Koshigaya, come in. The duo are a pair of expert Bio-Hunters, individuals who specialize in hunting and neutralizing the threat of the demon virus and it's victims. Of course, things become a bit more intense when one of them ends up getting bitten by a demon virus infectee during a routine job and then runs across a strange young woman being pursued by thugs, with the story only getting crazier from there...

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''Bio-Hunter''
is a mid-90s anime OVA {{anime}} {{OVA}} set in a world where humans are plagued by a strange virus that turns those who are infected by it into vicious inhuman monsters. That's where our two main protagonists, scientists Komada and Koshigaya, come in. The duo are a pair of expert Bio-Hunters, individuals who specialize in hunting and neutralizing the threat of the demon virus and it's victims. Of course, things become a bit more intense when one of them ends up getting bitten by a demon virus infectee during a routine job and then runs across a strange young woman being pursued by thugs, with the story only getting crazier from there...



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* RRatedOpening: The OVA opens up with a nude couple having sex which quickly takes a turn for the nasty when the woman morphs into a horrible monster and ''tears the guys arm clean off.'' Boobs, blood and BodyHorror all well before the 5 minute mark!

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* RRatedOpening: The OVA opens up with a nude couple having sex which quickly takes a turn for the nasty when the woman morphs into a horrible monster and ''tears the guys arm clean off.'' Boobs, blood and BodyHorror all well before the 5 minute mark!''

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* DetectEvil: Komada gets involuntarily teary-eyed whenever a carrier of the demon virus is nearby.
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* AbandonedWarehouse: The main villain is eventually tracked to an abandoned warehouse somewhere in the harbor district of the city and the final confrontation between the heroes and the bad guys takes place there during the last quarter of the OVA.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After sixty gore-filled minutes of mystery and gruesome violence the good guys finally triumph and walk off into the sunset. Oh, but the virus is still posing a major threat to humanity and Komada has a powerful new demon form to hunt monsters with! Looks like the heroes jobs aren't quite done just yet... thus continues the saga of the Bio-Hunters!]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The good guys ultimately win, though Sayaka's grandfather is killed and it's implied that Komada may have permanently lost a part of his humanity to finish off the virus possessing the main villain. Also the disease itself isn't completely eradicated yet, so Komada and Koshigaya still have a lot of hard work ahead of them.]]
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* FanDisservice: There's ''a lot'' of nudity in this one... and pretty much '''none''' of it is actually erotic. Boobs growing mouths and eating some guy's hand, tentacles being used to bind the nude female lead, women being stalked, attacked and eaten alive in the middle of the night...


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* OneWingedAngel: Both the hero and the villain go full beast mode for their big final battle at the end.
* OrganAutonomy: One of the weirdest examples ever. Komada's right hand gets blown off in an explosion, flies through the air to grab onto a helicopter's landing gear and is later seen crawling to and "possessing" the female lead so that it can take down the BigBad at the end of the final showdown... yeah.
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* BodyHorror: It's an anime OVA from the middle of the 90s about a demonic disease that turns people into monsters, what on earth else ''would'' it have? Special mention goes to the first victim, a woman who grows giant fanged mouths on her tits and gnaws her unlucky guy friend's hand off with them!
* CombatTentacles: Utilized extensively by the BigBad [[spoiler:even after being completely decapitated...!]]
* DropTheHammer: The big redheaded mook has a final showdown with Komada right before the climax and gets in a few good hits on him with a big ass sledgehammer! [[CurbStompBattle Then Komada goes full demon on him and... well, it's a pretty short fight after that...]]
* HorrorHunger: This is one of the main symptoms of those who have been afflicted by the virus.
* RRatedOpening: The OVA opens up with a nude couple having sex which quickly takes a turn for the nasty when the woman morphs into a horrible monster and ''tears the guys arm clean off.'' Boobs, blood and BodyHorror all well before the 5 minute mark!
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Bio-Hunter is a mid-90s anime OVA set in a world where humans are plagued by a strange virus that turns those who are infected by it into vicious inhuman monsters. That's where our two main protagonists, scientists Komada and Koshigaya, come in. The duo are a pair of expert Bio-Hunters, individuals who specialize in hunting and neutralizing the threat of the demon virus and it's victims. Of course, things become a bit more intense when one of them ends up getting bitten by a demon virus infectee during a routine job and then runs across a strange young woman being pursued by thugs, with the story only getting crazier from there...

This work was originally based on a Japanese manga by Fujihiko Hosono from the late eighties and runs for about an hour total, about the same amount as a short theatrical film. Has no relation to Manga/CityHunter.

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