History Anime / BurstAngel

* HeroesWantRedheads: Jo and (red-headed) Meg have elements of this, in the anime, and undeniably in the manga.

* BoobsOfSteel: Both Genocide Angel we meet are very buxom. Subverted with Jo, who is flat-chested despite being the team's muscle.

* VillainHasAPoint: The son of a mafia group rivaling Bai-Lan tries to steal the emblem of their clan to reunite the two factions, saying that it belongs to someone who acts by their own decisions and have adapts to the modern world rather than cling through obligations and old traditions. [[spoiler:It comes back later when most of Bai-Lan turns on Sei and teams up with RAPT to support their interests. Under her the guidance of her grandfather, and already disgusted by the jobs she did for RAPT, she decides to disband the organization and hunt both groups down.]]

* VillainHasAPoint: The son of a mafia group rivaling Bai-Alan tries to steal the emblem of their clan, saying that they should belong to someone who acts by their own decisions rather than through obligations and traditions. [[spoiler:Once the majority of Bai-Lan turns on Sei and teams up with RAPT, under her the guidance of her grandfather, she decides to disband the organization and hunt both enemy groups down.]]

* EvilTwin: [[spoiler: Maria to Jo. Maria's "evil" because she's still obeying R.A.P.T. and doesn't have free-will.]]

* BareYourMidriff: Jo and Takane usually wear outfits that bare their midriffs, Sei's outfit reveals so much it actually shows some {{Underboobs}}.

* FauxActionGirl: Meg. She gets a SmallGirlBigGun shot in the opening sequence, and another during the Osaka arc, but is otherwise firmly entrenched in the DistressedDamsel role. One of the trailers for the show actually showed her beating up mooks with the same skill she showed in the Bai-Lan party episode. Averted in a small segment of the OVA that takes place [[FlashForward five years after the end of the series]], showing a [[TookALevelInBadass more competent and more badass Meg]].

* DistressedDamsel: Meg ''all the damned time'', with Jo usually coming for her rescue. To the point that she [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this.

* BoobsOfSteel: Both Genocide Angel we meet are very [[BuxomIsBetter buxom]]. Subverted with Jo, who is flat-chested despite being the team's muscle.

* TheChick: Meg, both in the social interaction sense and the DistressedDamsel sense. Kyohei, in the NonActionGuy sense.

%%* {{Gainaxing}}

* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Jo is somewhat like this, though the illustrations gave her a more fair complexion.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
* GiantFlyer: Meg gets abducted by one.

* GratuitousEnglish: In the ThemeTuneRap. Still pretty catchy, though.
* GroinAttack: Threatened by Jo against Kyohei, with a ''Desert Eagle''.

* HackerCave: Amy has one on-board Sei's trailer.

* IdiotHair
** Meg, and to a lesser extent, Jo.
** Takane has three of them.

* AuthorTract: Starting at six minutes and thirty-one seconds into the first episode, the author gives an anti-gun message. It doesn't stop.

* BareYourMidriff: Jo and Takane usually wear outfits that bare their midriffs, Sei takes this UpToEleven with her outfit revealing so much it actually shows some {{Underboobs}}.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the BeachEpisode, there is an environmental group called the "Organization for the Nature Preservation of Tokyo". This gets the acronym "ONPOT".

* ZettaiRyouiki: Meg uses the skirt + long boots version.

* ConspicuousCG: For the mecha and vehicles.

''Burst Angel'', also known as ''Bakuretsu Tenshi'', takes place in Japan [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in a not-too-distant future]]. A rise in criminal activity after a devastating earthquake has forced the Japanese government to
legalize firearms for citizens to use in self-defense as well as establishing the [[LawEnforcementInc Recently Armed Police Taskforce]] (RAPT), to hunt down criminals with lethal force.

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(Summary based on the entry on Wiki/ThatOtherWiki)

''Burst Angel'', also known as ''Bakuretsu Tenshi'', takes place [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture in the near future]]. A rise in criminal activity after a devastating earthquake has forced the Japanese government to allow citizens to possess firearms, while establishing the Recently Armed Police Taskforce (RAPT), essentially LawEnforcementInc. The series follows an AmazonBrigade of mercenaries, who have recently hired OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kyohei Tachibana as their cook. The team's missions put them against [[BodyHorror mutated monsters with glowing brains]], HumongousMecha with glowing brains, and a corrupt RAPT (which is, naturally, involved with the whole "glowing brains" issue).

* AccentAdaptation
** In the English dub, Osaka is pretty much Texas. In the DVD commentary, this was explained as almost being out of necessity because of the strong Western influences of the story. And frankly the Osaka arc seems like it was actively written with Texas in mind.
** Also of note is the fact that up until this point Creator/FUNimation had tried as hard as possible to avoid doing this in any other shows.
* AmazonBrigade - You've got the main group with one male hanger-on, the biker gang that listens to Takane, and the [[spoiler: Genocide Angels themselves]].
* AmnesiacDissonance - [[spoiler:Jo suffers from this trope.]]
* ArtificialHuman - [[spoiler:Jo, Maria, the other Genocide Angels.]]
* ATeamFiring - In the first episode. Jo and her current mark (a very twitchy [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation purple man]]) engage in a full-on [[MoreDakka Dakka]] contest in an alley. Kyohei ends up cowering in the middle of this leadstorm until his scooter is shot to pieces and the purple guy runs out of ammo.
* AuthorTract - Starting at six minutes and thirty-one seconds into the first episode, the author gives an anti-gun message. It doesn't stop.
* BadassBiker
* BadassLongcoat - Jo is a Badass Longjacket; Takane's a Badass Long-seifuku.
* BaitAndSwitchLesbians - The manga that serves as a prequel to the series has Meg basically out-and-out in love with Jo and desperately wanting to consummate their relationship at any opportunity. Jo gives some hints that she at, the very least, appreciates Meg's company and support. This is ''very'' toned down to the point of disappearing by the time the series begins and [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Kyohei]] is added. And the same episode where we find out that Sei is a MafiaPrincess actually has Meg very interested in the handsome men that have shown up, which leaves her somewhere between this trope and AmbiguouslyBi.
* BarbieDollAnatomy - Averted right up to the point where this would have made the series AO. The artists did not shy from depicting how everyone wearing skintight clothing being coupled with no-one wearing a bra, reveals that you in fact have nipples. Shocking!
* BareYourMidriff - Sei, Jo, and Takane.
* BaseOnWheels - Sei's Cool Truck; it even doubles as a hangar for Django.
* BattleCouple - Theoretically, Meg and Jo. (It's more obvious in the manga.)
* BeachEpisode - Episode 15, set at a water park. Look out for Sei's totally insane swimsuit and Meg spilling out of her top.
* BigDamnHeroes - While Meg tends to be useless in fights, she pulls through for Jo where it counts. Their partnership started because Meg stopped her from being messily eaten in their younger days.
* BigEater - Meg. The habit stems from her earlier days.

** Poor Liang.
** And Jo in her fight with Maria.
* BloodKnight - Jo. She's extremely bored with everything that doesn't have to do with shooting at things.
* BodyHorror - The experimentation that turns several [[VictimOfTheWeek Victims Of The Week]] into [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]].
* BornWinner: Jo, as far as every other gunman in the story goes. She was hired by Sei because of her 100% success rate as a independent mercenary.
* BoundAndGagged - Kyohei once, but more to the point, ''Meg''.
* ButtMonkey - Kyohei and Meg. He's a meek cook who the girls refuse to let go, she gets kidnapped on a daily basis and seemingly can't fight at all.
* CampGay - The "Tour Guide" in episode 10.
* CaptainErsatz - Visually, Jo; Meg and Kyohei resemble Rei; Asuka and Shinji from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.
* ChainedHeat - Jo does this to herself and Kyohei when she takes him hostage to try to trade him for a yet-again-kidnapped Meg.
* TheChick - Meg, both in the social interaction sense and the DistressedDamsel sense. Kyohei, in the NonActionGuy sense.
* CloseCallHaircut - Meg gets a hole ''shot through her hair'' in one episode.
* TheComicallySerious - A good deal of humor in the series comes from Jo's deadpan reactions to the absurd stuff around her.
* ConspicuousCG - For the mecha and vehicles.
* CoolBigSis - Sei's role largely boils down to being this, and both her and Meg act this way for Amy.
* CoolOldGuy - Leo, who designed, built, and performs MrFixIt duties for Django.

* CreatureHunterOrganization - RAPT. When these glowy brain creatures start getting more public, RAPT officially step in to deal with them.
* {{Crossdresser}} - Kyohei has to in order to sneak food (and equipment) to Meg during a few episodes when the latter is infiltrating an all-girls' school.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - Subverted during an episode where Meg has her "hunger" switched around with her will to fight. She spends the rest of the episode mopping up gangsters with impossibly cool kung-fu moves... And then later claims to have no memory of what happened at all.
* CulturalCrossReference - Jo's [[HumongousMecha Cybot]] Film/{{Django}} is a ShoutOut to the SpaghettiWestern film of the same name.

* DarkSkinnedBlonde - Jo is somewhat like this, though the illustrations gave her a more fair complexion.
* {{Delinquents}} - Takane and her GirlPosse are all former female biker gang delinquents turned police officers.

* DisposableWoman - Meg, except that she doesn't expire.
* DistressedDamsel - Meg ''all the damned time''. To the point that she [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this.
* EasterEgg - The hidden DVDCommentary (for the infamous BeachEpisode) in the English version.
* EveryoneIsArmed - In this setting, the Japanese gun laws were insanely relaxed in response to ever-increasing levels of crime. This means everyone can legally own and carry firearms at all times.
* EvilTwin - [[spoiler: Maria to Jo. Maria's "evil" because she's still obeying R.A.P.T. and doesn't have free-will.]]

* FanServicePack - Sei and Meg go up several cup sizes about halfway through the series; the BeachEpisode actually uses both character designs in different parts of the episode.
* FauxActionGirl - Meg. She gets a SmallGirlBigGun shot in the opening sequence, and another during the Osaka arc, but is otherwise firmly entrenched in the DistressedDamsel role. One of the trailers for the show actually showed her beating up mooks with the same skill she showed in the Bai-Lan party episode. Averted in a small segment of the OVA that takes place [[FlashForward five years after the end of the series]], showing a [[TookALevelInBadass more competent and more badass Meg]].

* FourTemperamentEnsemble - Jo is Choleric, Meg is Sanguine, Sei is Melancholic, Amy is Phlegmatic.

* {{Gainaxing}}
* GangstaStyle - Jo, both when aiming her actual guns and those of her HumongousMecha. She really ought to know better.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar - In the BeachEpisode, there is an environmental group called the "Organization for the Nature Preservation of Tokyo". This gets the acronym "ONPOT".
* GiantFlyer - Meg gets abducted by one.
* GovernmentConspiracy
* GratuitousEnglish - In the ThemeTuneRap. Still pretty catchy, though.
* GroinAttack - Threatened by Jo against Kyohei, with a ''Desert Eagle''.
* GunsAkimbo - Jo ''and'' Django. Maria's Cybot uses [[MultiArmedAndDangerous hidden arms]] to fire ''four'' "guns" at once.
* HackerCave - Amy has one on-board Sei's trailer.

* HeroesWantRedheads - Jo and (red-headed) Meg have elements of this, in the anime, and undeniably in the manga.
* HumongousMecha - All Cybots, including Django.
* IceQueen: Jo. Anyone who is not Meg will get a chilly reception worthy of the Antartic.
* TheIdiotFromOsaka - Takane, when she visits Tokyo. All the Osakan characters use the "southern accent" version of the accent trope in the dub.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes - Just about everyone. For instance, Jo's chaps alone should cost several thousand dollars if they're made of real suede, not to mention Amy's chest... ball... thing.
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* LawEnforcementInc - RAPT. Also Hanshin Police Department, Inc., owned by the same company as the second oldest baseball team in Japan, the Hanshin Tigers (thus explaining why tigers are emblazoned on their ''everything'').
* MafiaPrincess - Sei, though we learn this later. She's also much more benevolent than most other examples.
* MagicSkirt - Meg's doesn't do the obvious even when she's hanging upside down from a moving train.
* MindRape - The brain creature that disguised itself as [[OneeSama Nadeshiko]] (in "Wash This Courtyard With Blood") was doing this to Jo when Meg ventilated it with Jo's [[{{BFG}} BFPistol]].
* MoreDakka - Jo lives by this, as does Meg to a lesser extent. Jo considers this to be a good approach to get ''a cat out of a tree''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast - ''Genocide'' Angels.

* OneWingedAngel - The later monsters that show up usually pull this off to make things complicated.
* ParentalAbandonment - The main four have this. Meg never talks about where her parents are, beyond a melodramatic aside that someone with her genes shouldn't be in poverty. Amy's aren't mentioned either and she seems to be self-reliant. Jo doesn't remember if she has any, and Sei's got her grandfather without her father and mother showing up.

* PhlebotinumRebel - [[spoiler: Jo. This was a accidental rebellion at first; Jo was blown off the ship where the final Genocide Angel tests were taking place. By the time she woke up in the river in New York, she didn't remember how she got there or what she was. Thanks to the time she spent away from her creators, she then fully embraced the rebel part of the trope.]]
* PlayfulHacker - Amy
* ProfessionalWrestling - "Mega Rider" from the Dai-Osaka arc combined this with a ''Franchise/KamenRider'' parody. And bore an odd resemblance to ''Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel''. Notably, Jo is very surprised to discover that it isn't real.
* PowerTattoo - Appears when Jo is in combat, triggering when she's pushed close to death or getting angry. Purple with lighter "shimmering".
* PsychoLesbian - [[spoiler:Maria becomes strangely attracted to Meg, and starts to think that she'll be spoils of war if she defeats Jo.]]

* RedEyesTakeWarning - Jo.
* RefusalOfTheCall - After the double-kidnapping fiasco in the first two episodes, Kyohei tries to quit the job he accepted as the cook for Sei's group; unfortunately for him, they ''really'' liked the meal he cooked as an apology...

* RidiculouslyAverageGuy - Kyohei is really only there because apparently someone felt that normal everyday Japanese young men wouldn't watch the series if [[ThisLoserIsYou one of them]] wasn't in it. He's billed as the central character and protagonist, but could be written out completely without even trying.
* RollerbladeGood - Django has motorized wheels in its feet for highway travel. When not in use, they look like spurs.
* RuleOfCool
* ScarfOfAsskicking:Jo wears a yellow one. It keeps veering between yellow and red for promotional artwork. For the finale, she gets a red one.
* SequelHook - While unlikely to ever get fulfilled, the ending left a surprisingly subtle one. [[spoiler: When Meg found Jo's scarf in the ruins of R.A.P.T. H.Q., that scarf was ''tied'' to the pole]].
* SixthRanger - Leo, Takane.
* SmartMark - Parodied in the first episode of the Dai-Osaka arc, during the "Mega-Rider" show.
* SociopathicHero - Jo would be classified as dangerously violent in pretty much any society on Earth, though she avoids InsaneEqualsViolent.
* TheSpartanWay - [[spoiler: The Genocide Angels were trained this way, culminating in a ThereCanBeOnlyOne "final exam".]]
* SpiritualSuccessor - The plot has certain similarities to ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis''.
* StreetUrchin - [[spoiler: Meg, during her younger years]].
* StormingTheCastle
* TheStoic - Jo is emotionally dead when not engaged in extreme violence. Sei is, to some degree, the permanently chill version of this.
* {{Stripperiffic}} - How do they not get arrested? Sei's getup in particular is a [[TheissTitillationTheory wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen]].
* SuperSoldier - [[spoiler:Jo, Maria, and the other "Genocide Angels".]]
* [[TakeUpMySword Take Up My Desert Eagles]] - [[spoiler:Strongly implied to be Meg's eventual destiny after Jo's apparent death and the destruction of RAPT.]]
* TalkativeLoon - Wong is affected this way by the Hanode drug.

* ThemeNaming - The three younger characters [[ShoutOutThemeNaming share names with characters from]] ''Literature/LittleWomen''. Sei is the OddNameOut.
* TokenMiniMoe - Amy
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl - Jo and Meg.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs - Bai-Lan. They act as a sort of mission control for the main characters, giving them jobs and requests to hopefully fulfill.
* {{Tsundere}} - Meg. Very quick to distrust absolute strangers, and only really cools off with people she's known after awhile.
* UncertainDoom - [[spoiler: Jo's body wasn't found by Meg in the rubble at the end of the anime]].
* {{Underboobs}} - Sei, nearly all the time.

* TheVoice - Bai-Lan (offscreen, relayed through Sei).
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection - Sei and Amy.

* WholeEpisodeFlashback - Episode 14 and the ''Infinity'' OVA, both of which revolve around Meg first meeting Jo before they both started working for Sei.
* {{Wooden Katanas Are Even Better}} - Takane kills Hideki with one in ep 13. Complete with GlowingEyesOfDoom.
* WretchedHive - The "anarchy district" which is the ruins of Shibuya after a massive earthquake wrecked the area. The government abandoned the area, and the police refuse to go there unless something huge happens. It's only populated by cyborg criminals and black market dealings.
* YeahShot
* ZettaiRyouiki - Meg uses the skirt + long boots version.

* HeroicAlbino - Jo is the HeroicSociopath version of this.

* HeroicAlbino - Jo is the Heroic Sociopath version of this.

* AccentAdaptation - In the English dub, Osaka is pretty much Texas. In the DVD commentary, this was explained as almost being out of necessity because of the strong Western influences of the story. And frankly the Osaka arc seems like it was actively written with Texas in mind.

* BloodFromTheMouth - Poor Liang.

* ADayInTheLimelight - Even though he's the first character we're introduced to, Kyohei only really has a single episode where he's the focus character. And even then, he's the ButtMonkey.

* DecoyProtagonist: At first it ''looks'' like Kyohei's the lead, but then it very quickly shifts away to the point where he barely appears at all in later episodes.

* IdiotHair - Meg, and to a lesser extent, Jo.

* MoreDakka - Jo lives by this, as does Meg to a lesser extent.
** Jo considers this to be a good approach to get ''a cat out of a tree''.

* NonActionGuy - Kyohei, while talented in the kitchen, is a serious coward. {{Justified}} in that he's a civilian that never experienced violence before getting roped in as the girls' cook.

* ScarfOfAsskicking - Jo wears a yellow one. It keeps veering between yellow and red for promotional artwork.
** For the finale, she gets a red one.

** TheSpartanWay - [[spoiler: The Genocide Angels were trained this way, culminating in a ThereCanBeOnlyOne "final exam".]]

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(Summary based on the entry on ThatOtherWiki)