History Anime / BloodPlus

* TheVietnamWar: Part of the BackStory.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Occurs to Saya when she's in her BerserkMode.

* BoomerangBigot: Saya has little more than disdain for most other Chiropterans despite being one herself. Shown even more prominently in the manga; she even explicitly tells Riku, her own little brother, that she's going to eventually kill him just for being a Chiropteran.

* BittersweetEnding: True, Diva is defeated and the Chiropteran threat has been ended, and Saya can finally live her life without fighting and killing. Unfortunately, she'll have to wait thirty years to do so.

* BloodIsTheNewBlack: Occurs to Saya when she's in her BerserkMode

* ShutUpHannibal: Saya and Hagi's response to Amshel trying to give her a BreakingSpeech and TomatoSurprise. They [[CurbStompBattle failed].

* NukeEm[=/=]TheOnlyWayToBeSure: [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo though actual nukes aren't used]], the US military's primary method of dealing with Chiropterans is "Option D", aka "turn the place into a smoking crater".

* AmbitionIsEvil: [[spoiler: Collins' entire reason for betraying the Red Shield for Diva's group was because he wanted to make his findings about chiropterans public, which the Red Shield refused to let him do.]]

* AffablyEvil: Solomon may be one of Diva's henchmen, but he's a pretty decent guy overall. He's a peace loving person, and actually cares for his chiropteran "brothers."

* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Subverted; it's not that difficult to tell Saya and Diva apart.

* DudeShesLikeInaComa: A gender averted example. Julia kisses David this way while he's injured at a hospital.

* FauxAffablyEvil: Diva

* [[HesBack He's Back]]: David, after he's finished [[DrowningMySorrows drowning his sorrows]]

* IntrepidReporter: Okamura

* NukeEm: [[NuclearWeaponsTaboo though actual nukes aren't used]], the US military's primary method of dealing with Chiropterans is "Option D", aka "turn the place into a smoking crater".

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* CloneArmy: The Corpse Corps.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Both Saya and [spoiler:Diva]], though the latter fits the trope better.

* BavarianFireDrill: How Okamura planned on infiltrating the Cinq Fleche dance, by abusing his press pass and looking like he was supposed to be there. It didn't work.

* BittersweetEnding

* EvilTwin: Diva. Justified because of her upbringing.
* ExoticWeaponSupremacy: The Schiff

* FeedTheMole: [[spoiler: Amshel tells [[TheMole Solomon]] Diva will be at Christina Island to shoot a video in a week. The latter told Red Shield, who arrived on the island. By that time, Diva left the island. James was waiting for them.]]

** SixthRangerTraitor: Solomon Goldsmith

* ForScience: Amshel's ultimate motivation behind being Diva's Chevalier and the Delta-67 project is because he wants to better study Chiropterans.

* HopeSpot: Saya, Kai, and Riku play a game of catch as the sun sets. They talk about going home to Okinawa together, when all is said and done. [[spoiler:Moments later, Diva shows up and...[[KillTheCutie oh God...]]]]

* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Saya and Diva stopped aging when they turned sixteen.

* PainfulTransformation: As seen when Saya turns Riku to save his life, the conversion from human to chevalier is not a pleasant experience.
* PeopleJars: How they make the Corpse Corps.

* PowerDegeneration: The Thorn for the Schiff, which slowly crystallizes their bodies. Saya goes through this when she [[spoiler: approaches her hibernation cycle]], suffering fainting spells and a weakened healing factor.

* RavenHairIvorySkin: Both Saya and Diva, though Diva fits the trope better.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Saya's eyes are a dull shade of red, but turn bright, glowing red when she uses her vampiric abilities. Diva, the main antagonist, has blue eyes which also glow brightly when she's serious
* RedOniBlueOni: Saya and Diva, highlighted by their [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience Color Coded]] eyes, as mentioned above

* SaltAndPepper: David and Lewis
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Saya sports one of these during her final confrontation with Diva
* SecretProjectRefugeeFamily: The Schiff

* ShapeshifterWeapon: Solomon's hand/blade

* StalkerWithACrush: Solomon and Karl both have this for Saya, although to different degrees. Solomon wants Saya to love him, while Karl wants to kill her while she kills him. Diva had also developed this kind of obsession with Riku after she met him.

* AbnormalAmmo: The ignition rounds Kai uses latter in the series. Shoot the explosive rounds into a Chiropteran followed by the primer shot and suddenly guns become slightly less useless.

* ActionDressRip: Saya and Diva during their final confrontation.

* BigAppleSauce: The final ten or so episodes, as well as Saya and Diva's final showdown, are set in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: Diva and her Chevalier, in contrast Saya's family and the Schiff.

* BodyHorror: Humans transforming into Chiroptera and/or Chevaliers, and the effects of the Thorn. Also, the Vietnamese test subjects.

* BrokenPedestal: Collins for Julia.

* BreakTheCutie: Saya gets broken ''twice'' thanks to her amnesia

* CainAndAbel: A gender and age inverted example.

* CreepyChild: Err, well creepy Vietnamese children who were exposed to Delta 67. The end result was mini chiropterans.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Nathan
* CryForTheDevil: Diva. As Nathan puts it when she dies: "Poor girl...she just wanted to have a family..." Also Karl, possibly.

* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Saya's final defeat of Karl.
* DeliverUsFromEvil: Thoroughly averted.

* DramaPreservingHandicap: For her final confrontation with Diva Saya was being gradually weakened since she [[spoiler: was starting to enter her hibernation cycle]]. If not for that her superior fighting skills would have ended the fight in seconds.

* EarnYourHappyEnding

* EvilKnockoff: The Corps Corpse are mass produced clones of Moses.

* LastOfHerKind: [[spoiler: Lulu]], the last survivor of the Schiff
* LeaveYourQuestTest: In 1900's Russia, with the chevalier girl tempting Saya.

* MadScientist: Amshel is a combination of this and CorruptCorporateExecutive.

* OutWithABang: [[spoiler: Riku]]

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Saya and Kaori act more like lovers than friends.

* SuperSoldier: The Delta-series and the Schiff were failed experiments in creating artificial Chevaliers to serve as super soldiers. Ultimately, they succeeded with the Corpse Corps.

* WhatHaveIBecome: Saya's reaction to discovering she's a Chiropteran.

* YouShallNotPass: Hagi does his damnedest to perform one of these in episode 21, "Sour Grapes," against the Schiff. And again, more successfully, in the finale.

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'''If you are even remotely interested in watching the series for yourself without any spoilers, stop reading NOW. Most spoilers are covered,''' '''''but a decent amount aren't.''''' '''Seriously,''' '''''don't''''' '''scroll down the page. And don't even think about Googling the series name or checking out the subpages until you are finished watching the series. YouHaveBeenWarned'''

'''If you are even remotely interested in watching the series for yourself without any spoilers, stop reading NOW. Most spoilers are covered,''' '''''but a decent amount aren't.''''' ''Seriously,''' '''''don't''''' '''scroll down the page. Don't even Google the series name or check out the subpages until you've finished the series. YouHaveBeenWarned'''

'''If you want to enjoy the series without spoilers, stop reading NOW. Most spoilers are covered,''' '''''but a decent amount aren't.''''' '''If you are even remotely interested in watching the series for yourself without any spoilers,''' '''''don't''''' '''scroll down the page. Don't even Google the series name or check out the subpages until you've finished the series. YouHaveBeenWarned'''

* MasterSwordsman: Early in the series, [[MadScientist Van]] and other Cinq Fleches referred to Saya as the "Samurai-man" because of her remarkable skill with swordplay and the fact her blood [[TakenForGranite petrifies]] Chiropterans.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Even after everything Diva has done, Saya still holds her and cries over her body as she dies.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Julia, hands down. Hell, she even wears a chest-bearing dress at a formal ball.

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Definitely one of the better uses of this trope and one that shows some real creativity. It's really a complete reinvention of the vampire archetype; they are a completely different species (rather than merely former humans[[hottip:* :Ok, the Chevaliers are, but they can't exist without the queens.]]), with a [[BeePeople hive-like]] social hierarchy and reproductive method.