History Anime / CyberCityOedo808

* GeniusBruiser: Gogol is very strong and physically tough, but also seems to be an avid reader and a very talented hacker. On several points he's seen reading classic Russian literature. In the original language.

The catch: they have an explosive collar on their neck at all times, which will explode when:

# Whenever Warden Hasegawa damn well feels like it.

-->'''Sengoku:''' Fine, I never liked you that much. ''[raises gun]''

-->'''Sengoku:''' All right, I never liked you anyway. ''[raises gun]''

--> Get lost. You wouldn't recognize a goddamn vampire if one jumped up and bit you on the end of your fucking dick. So just get off my back.

* ContemplateOurNavels: a brief philosophical discussion about starlight in episode 3 and how it continues on forever. Appropriate, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent considering the]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever themes of]] [[WeAllDieSomeday the episode.]]

-->'''Sengoku:''' Varsus, mission accomplished. Tell the puppetmaster--
-->'''Varsus:''' "Puppet Master"... [[{{DoesNotCompute}} does not compute.]] I have no such recollection of such an individual or organization. Please clarify--
-->'''Sengoko:''' ''Hasegawa'', you fucking idiot!

* LoveHurts: StarCrossedLovers ([[spoiler:Benten and Remy]])

* ThrownOutTheAirlock: Tried against the BigBad of Benten's focus episode. It doesn't work. It aggressively doesn't work.

* ExplosiveDecompression: [[spoiler:What Benten tries when fighting the newly-vampiric Saionji. It works, but because Saionji's new abilities include a ridiculous HealingFactor, it doesn't take.]]

* ExplosiveDecompression: [[spoiler:What Benten tries when fighting newly-vampiric Saionji. It works, but because Saionji's new abilities include a ridiculous HealingFactor, it doesn't take.]]

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Science-created, psychic, and CompletelyImmortal people with an inability to create their own blood. Benten has to deal with this weird version in his focus episode, having to kill the "vampire" by driving a stake full of the antidote into the heart.

** Sengoku is guilty of this a lot!

* {{Blooper}}: In the dub for episode 2, Hasegawa gets a video call from an acquaintance in the military, but his voice actor screws up the line by saying, "This is a pleasant, this is a surprise." Seeing as how most people consider the dub to be of decent quality for the early 1990s (despite its occasional hilarity), it is very surprising that such a mistake was not caught in post-production, or that another voice take was not done.

* CreepyCrossdresser: Benten, sort of. While not an outright villain and wearing female clothing, he's a pretty bad guy. Certainly not a WholesomeCrossdresser, because there is nothing wholesome on this show.

* HeroicAlbino: Benten, for [[AntiHero a given value of "Heroic"]].

* LiteralMinded: Varsus DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm and often tries to parse through the syntax of what he thinks is Sengoku feeding him instructions. One such exchange:

-->'''Varsus:''' "Puppet Master"... [[{{DpesNotCompute does not compute}}. I have no such recollection of such an individual or organization. Please clarify--

1. Tampered with.

2. A mission time limit (fully arbitrary) is reached.

3. Whenever the warden damn well feels like it.

* AgeWithoutYouth: Unusual example, as it is played straight, and then averted. Shuzo Saionji, the CEO of Saionji Medical Research Institute, is driven by a crippling fear of death, and has lived for over 300 years using a large array of scientific and cybernetic technology. However, the aging itself is not paused, so Saionji is extremely decrepit and sickly, confined to a futuristic wheelchair. As nobody (that we know of) in RealLife has ever lived to that age, we have no idea that someone of that age would look like naturally. However, after fulfilling his objective of inventing immortality, the created virus averts this trope and makes him lose 2.5 centuries of aging in just a few seconds.

Three such lucky men: Shunsuke Sengoku, the foulmouthed anti-hero; Merrill "Benten" Yanagawa, the effeminate razor-wire wielding assassin-type; and Gabimaru "Gogol" Rikiya, the imposing, gruff hacker with the cool visor, are put under the watch of Juzo Hasegawa, the warden. Hasegawa assigns these men to various incredibly dangerous cases throughout the dystopian city of Oedo (while never stated explicitly, it is assumed that this city is Tokyo in the distant future, given the Japanese names and that Oedo is a variation of "Edo", the name of Tokyo until 1868).

''Cyber City Oedo 808'': In the year 2808, convicts with LongerThanLifeSentence are imprisoned in penal satellites orbiting around the Earth. Some convicts with 'skills' considered profitable to the general public are offered jobs as special police officers known as the Cyber Police, allowing them to deduct some time off their sentences, as well as a small degree of freedom while they're working. The catch: they have an explosive collar on their neck at all times, which will explode when: 1. Tampered with. 2. A mission time limit is reached. 3. Whenever the warden damn well feels like it. Three such lucky men: Sengoku, the foulmouthed anti-hero; Merrill "Benten" Yanagawa, the effeminate razor-wire wielding assassin-type; and Gabimaru "Gogul" Rikiya, the imposing, gruff hacker with the cool visor, are put under the watch of Hasegawa, the warden.

* BareYourMidriff: A male example: Gogul wears a crop-top. However, with the exception of Kyouko and Remy, the few remaining female characters also do so.

* BigBadassRig: Golgo owns one that has a smoke machine that can blind chasers and a library for his reading. Unfortunately it gets trashed in his episode.
* Blooper: In the dub for episode 2, Hasagawa gets a video call from Staff Officer Yoshida, but his voice actor screws up the line by saying, "This is a pleasant, this is a surprise." Seeing as how most people consider the dub to be of decent quality for the early 1990s, it is very surprising that such a mistake was not caught in post-production, or that another voice take was not done.

* ExplosiveLeash: The collars. Gogul sees one in action when he tracks down a fellow con who went rogue and tried to disarm his collar himself.
* GeniusBruiser: Gogul is very strong and physically tough, but also seems to be an avid reader and a very talented hacker. On several points he's seen reading classic Russian literature. In the original language.

* LongerThanLifeSentence: All three protagonists are serving such sentences, to the tune of 300 years or more. For duty served, they get a few years of that sentence taken off, though if they fuck up a job or piss off Hasegawa, the warden, time gets ''added'' to their sentences -- if he doesn't just [[ExplosiveLeash pop their collars, that is]].

* MeaningfulName: Gogul/Gogol can be seen reading Russian literature which hints to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol Nikolai Gogol]], a Russian writer.
* NoImmortalInertia: Benten, despite having a very brutal stab wound when fighting Saionji, is still able to make one final attack, shooting the antidote to the immortality virus into Saionji's heart, continuing the allusion to killing a vampire with a stake through the heart, before collapsing in pain. Saionji is originally unfazed and is about to finish off Benten with a shotgun, but almost immediately, the antidote ages him back to his science-assisted 300-year lifespan and beyond, painfully and dramatically turning him into a smoking, emaciated, decayed husk of a corpse in less than 20 seconds.

* TheSlowWalk: Sengoku at the end of the first episode. He figures out his computerized enemy is predicting where he would be if he tried to dodge, and counters that by a calm walk directly towards it. He still takes a few glancing hits, but [[{{Determinator}} shrugs them off]] with sheer badassery.

** Also the trio have their own favorite weapons, excluding Gogul due to his preference for hacking and being strong enough to take on a cyborg in power armor bare handed. Sengoku carries a HandCannon with a scope and a fingerprint lock and Benten's Jitte has RazorFloss hidden inside it.
* YourHeadASplode: The end result of the collars. Seen in episode 2 when Gogul visits a fellow member of the Cyber Police in the same arrangement. Gogul watches him use a series of complicated tools to defuse the many explosive fuses and remove the collar...but he screws up near the end and Gogul witnesses his demise.

* NoImmortalInertia: Benten, despite having a very brutal stab wound when fighting Sionji, is still able to make one final attack, shooting the antidote to the immortality virus into Saionji's heart, continuing the allusion to killing a vampire with a stake through the heart, before collapsing in pain. Saionji is originally unfazed and is about to finish off Benten with a shotgun, but almost immediately, the antidote ages him back to his science-assisted 300-year lifespan and beyond, painfully and dramatically turning him into a smoking, emaciated, decayed husk of a corpse in less than 20 seconds.

''Cyber City Oedo 808'': In a [[NextSundayAD not-too-distant future]], convicts with LongerThanLifeSentence are imprisoned in penal satellites orbiting around the Earth. Some convicts with 'skills' considered profitable to the general public are offered jobs as special police officers, allowing them to deduct some time off their sentences, as well as a small degree of freedom while they're working. The catch: they have an explosive collar on their neck at all times, which will explode when: 1. Tampered with. 2. A mission time limit is reached. 3. Whenever the warden damn well feels like it. Three such lucky men: Sengoku, the foulmouthed anti-hero; Merrill "Benten" Yanagawa, the effeminate razor-wire wielding assassin-type; and Gabimaru "Gogul" Rikiya, the imposing, gruff hacker with the cool visor, are put under the watch of Hasegawa, the warden.

* BareYourMidriff: A male example: Golgol wears a crop-top.

* HiddenDisdainReveal: In the dub of the third OVA, Sengoku bluntly invokes this trope when he is ordered to kill a rogue Benten if he doesn't stand down (which he won't). [[spoiler:Luckily Gogol (who hadn't been given any orders) shows up and knocks Sengoku out]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Science-created, psychic people with an inability to create their own blood. Benten has to deal with this weird version in his focus episode.

* CrapsackWorld: Considering this is a world where crime is so bad that elite convicts are allowed to be police officers, the military is willing to do blatantly illegal things to create cyborg super soldiers just to help police the city, and sick people put into cryostasis can be experimented on without anybody knowing, it's pretty obvious Oedo is anything but a utopia.

* DelinquentHair: Sengoku has the usual japanese pompadour whil Gogol has a mowhawk.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Benten, complete with the flowing white hair, long nails and red lipstick.

* BareYourMidriff: Golgol wears a crop-top.

* ManInTheMachine: It turns out the villain of [[spoiler: episode one,]] is an undead version of this, who somehow fused with the building upon his death.

* PetTheDog: Sengoku seems to have a slight soft spot for Kyouko the cute police girl.

* {{Starscraper}}: The highrise that Sengoku and company must save in the first episode is tall enough to reach low Earth orbit.

* WeaponOfChoice: In the intro, we can see that our heroes receive a special weapon after they accept the deal and join the Cyber Police. It is a futuristic, multifunctional version of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitte jitte]], a weapon which was typically used by policemen during the Edo Period in Japan.

* YourHeadASplode: The end result of the collars.

''Cyber City Oedo 808'': In a [[NextSundayAD not-too-distant future]], convicts with Larger Than Life Sentences
are imprisoned in penal satellites orbiting around the Earth. Some convicts with 'skills' considered profitable to the general public are offered jobs as special police officers, allowing them to deduct some time off their sentences, as well as a small degree of freedom while they're working. The catch: they have an explosive collar on their neck at all times, which will explode when: 1. Tampered with. 2. A mission time limit is reached. 3. Whenever the warden damn well feels like it. Three such lucky men: Sengoku, the foulmouthed anti-hero; Merrill "Benten" Yanagawa, the effeminate razor-wire wielding assassin-type; and Gabimaru "Gogul" Rikiya, the imposing, gruff hacker with the cool visor, are put under the watch of Hasegawa, the warden.