History Anime / CyberCityOedo808

* ExplosiveDecompression: 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.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hasegawa, while officially a warden, is essentially a police chief assigning cases to the Cyber Police. However, he is often seen as cruel and uncaring to the protagonists, caring only about the case at hand, seeing them as means to an end, and expecting orders to be unquestioned, continually dangling the ExplosiveLeash stick in their faces. Given how he is dealing with hardened criminals handling extremely dangerous cases in a dystopian, crime-ridden city, these seem like very appropriate actions to take.

* SarcasmBlind: In the second episode, Sengoku tells Varsus a few joke lines ("get lost for a while!") as he's trying to infiltrate a secret facility where the cyborg villain of the week was made and Varsus doesn't gets it ("This unit is equipped with a GPS unit. It cannot get lost.")

* 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.]]

* AgentPeacock: Benten is a graceful, effeminate pretty boy who has a hairstyle that wouldn't look out of place on Music/TinaTurner and appears to be wearing lipstick. He's also an extremely dangerous man able to slice and dice his opponents with RazorFloss.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Benten, complete with the flowing white hair, long nails and red lipstick. WordOfGod says that Benten was actually a woman in the original draft for the story, but ExecutiveMeddling made them change it. Amusingly, his old friend and partner turned enemy, Kerry, is an inversion, a very masculine-looking woman who resembles David Bowie.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Benten, complete with the flowing white hair, long nails and red lipstick. WordOfGod says that Benten was actually a woman in the original draft for the story, but ExecutiveMeddling made them change it.

* 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. He's also considered so tough that the military considers setting their SuperSoldier project against him to be a sufficient test.

* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: All three episodes have at least one heartfelt moment amidst the bone-crunching cyberpunk action and occasional decapitation, although it's the most abbreviated in the first, where Sengoku interrogates the building's architect about his murdered partner. Episode 2 has Gogul and Sara sadly reminiscing about their lives of crime and the way the world can't go back to the way it was before both of them got arrested and turned into government pawns, and Episode 3 has Benten and the female test subject talking about life, death, and fate.

* ElectronicEyes: Gogul's visor can display computer information, but it can also be damaged and disabled, revealing more normal lens-like eyes underneath. Impressively, he finishes off Project Molcos after they're damaged so badly that he's effectively blind. Fortunately, they're still tough enough to deflect anti-personnel bullets when Gogul's shot in the head shortly before stabbing Molcos's creator to death with the severed claw sticking out of his torso.

* ExplosiveLeash: The collars. Gogol sees one in action when he tracks down a fellow con who went rogue and tried to disarm his collar himself.

* CartwrightCurse: The few females that happen to have been linked the three main characters usually don't last long.

* RuleOfCool: Why exactly does Project Molcos leave its drug and life-support injector rig completely exposed and unarmored on the ''outside'' of its nigh-indestructible body? Because watching them pumping away looks ''awesome'', that's why! Besides, Gogul doesn't even ''need'' to exploit the obvious weakpoint they represent to scrap it, dislodging them incidentally as part of an uppercut so powerful it smashes through its cranial armor.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Project Molcos trashes poor Gogul for a while... until he realizes that smashing girders together creates sonic frequencies that blow out the thing's eardrums and destabilizes it into a vulnerable state.

** The ghostly enemy in Episode 1 introduces itself by telling the hated enemy that murdered it in life with what was probably intended to be the English equivalent of the Japanese "しね," a rude and confrontational way of telling someone to die, with an undercurrent of . Unfortunately, this is rendered by having it instead plaster the phrase "KILL YOU" everywhere.

* AntiHero: The three protagonists are all anti-heroes by proxy, seeing as how they're all convicts and are mostly unrepentant about their criminal pasts. Honestly, however, none of them are actually ''evil'' people. Sengoku is kind of an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold when it comes down to it]] [[GoodIsNotNice he's a good guy]]. Gogol is a GentleGiant in prison for hacking offenses, with most of the crimes he reminisces about being of the PlayfulHacker kind. Benten is a WarriorPoet with a strong, if brutal sense of justice. They do all have at ''least'' one charge of murder on their lengthy rap sheets, so none of them were unjustly imprisoned, but in the CrapsackWorld they live in, the line between murder and justifiable homicide can be blurry.

* ElectronicEyes: Gogul's visor can display computer information, but it can also be damaged and disabled, revealing more normal lens-like eyes underneath. Impressively, he finishes off Project Molcos after they're damaged so badly that he's effectively blind.

* SuperStrength: Gogul is a towering goliath of a man (at least, compared to his Japanese coworkers), and at the climax of the second episode he swings around steel girders and literally smashes up a bulletproof armored cyborg super-soldier to death with his bare hands.

* SuperStrength: Gogul is a towering goliath of a man (at least, compared to his Japanese coworkers), and at the climax of the second episode he swings around steel girders and literally smashes up a bulletproof armored cyborg super-soldier to death with his bare hands before finishing it off with one of its own severed limbs.

* RuleOfCool: Why exactly does Project Molcos leave its drug and life-support injector rig completely exposed and unarmored on the ''outside'' of its nigh-indestructible body? Because watching them pumping away looks ''awesome'', that's why! Besides, Gogul doesn't even ''need'' to exploit the obvious weakpoint they represent to scrap it.

* SuperStrength: Gogul is a towering goliath of a man (at least, compared to his Japanese coworkers), and at the climax of the second episode he swings around steel girders and literally stabs an armored cyborg super-soldier to death with one of its own severed limbs.

** The acronym for Project Molcos is the impressively incoherent '''M'''aintain '''O'''f '''L'''aw '''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord C]]'''[[PerfectlyCromulentWord ivanetic]] '''O'''rganism '''[[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped S]]'''[[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped uath]].

* SuperStrength: Gogul is a towering goliath of a man (at least, compared to his Japanese coworkers), and at the climax of the second episode he literally stabs an armored cyborg super-soldier to death with one of its own severed arms.

* YourHeadASplode: The end result of the collars. Seen in episode 2 when Gogol visits a fellow member of the Cyber Police in the same arrangement. Gogol 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 Gogol witnesses his demise.
* {{Zeerust}}: Averted. Despite showing that clear late 80's/early 90's aesthetics, the show aged surprisingly well with its portrayal of high-tech gear and cyborgs. Although some of the monitors are bulky CRTs with screen blinks, others are sleek holographic or flatscreen displays.

* AntiHero: The three protagonists are all anti-heroes by proxy, seeing as how they're all convicts. Honestly, however, none of them are actually ''evil'' people. Sengoku is kind of an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold when it comes down to it]] [[GoodIsNotNice he's a good guy]]. Gogol is a GentleGiant in prison for hacking offenses, and Benten is a WarriorPoet. They do all have at ''least'' one charge of murder on their lengthy rap sheets, so none of them were unjustly imprisoned, but in the CrapsackWorld they live in, the line between murder and justifiable homicide can be blurry.

* BigBadassRig: Gogol owns one that has a smoke machine that can blind chasers and a library for his reading. Unfortunately it gets trashed in his episode.

** The acronym for Project Molcos is the impressively incoherent '''M'''aintain '''O'''f '''L'''aw [[PerfectlyCromulentWord '''C'''ivanetic]] '''O'''rganism [[EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped '''S'''uath]].

* {{Zeerust}}: Averted. Despite showing that clear late 80's/early 90's aesthetics, the show aged surprisingly well with its portrayal of high-tech gear and cyborgs.

* {{Gorn}}: [[BloodlessCarnage Actively]] [[PrettyLittleHeadshots averted]] through most of the series. The age rating appears to be mainly based on profanity and one scene in episode 2 where a man literally explodes from a railgun shot.

* {{Zeerust}}: Averted. Despite showing that clear late 80's/early 90's asthetics, the show aged surprisingly well with its portrayal of high-tech gear and cyborgs.

* AntiHero: The three protagonists are all anti-heroes by proxy, seeing as how they're all convicts. Honestly, however, none of them are actually ''evil'' people. Sengoku is kind of an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold when it comes down to it]] [[GoodIsNotNice he's a good guy]]. Gogol is a GentleGiant in prison for hacking offenses, and Benten is a WarriorPoet. They do all have at ''least'' one charge of murder on their lengthy rap sheets, though, so none of them were unjustly imprisoned.

* DependingOnTheWriter: The Japanese script is nowhere near as crass as the infamous English dubbing would suggest. [[SirSwearsALot Sengoku]] is surprisingly mild mannered in the Japanese dubbing.

* 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. It is implied that he landed in the building's computer circuitry when thrown from the balcony, but it is never confirmed.

* {{Bishonen}}: Benten is the only one of the three to wear lipstick and paint his nails while not being some kind of crossdresser.

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

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

* AntiHero: The three protagonists are all anti-heroes by proxy, seeing as how they're all convicts. Honestly, however, none of them are actually ''evil'' people. Sengoku is kind of an [[{{Jerkass}} asshole]], but [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold when it comes down to it]] [[GoodIsNotNice he's a good guy.]] Gogol is a GentleGiant in prison for hacking offenses, and Benten is a WarriorPoet. They do all have at ''least'' one charge of murder on their lengthy rap sheets, though, so none of them were unjustly imprisoned.

* CoolCar: Each of the characters have their own one. Although Golgol has a [[BigBadassRig truck.]]

* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm: In the second episode, Sengoku tells Varsus a few joke lines ("get lost for a while!") as he's trying to infiltrate a secret facility where the cyborg villain of the week was made and Varsus doesn't gets it ("This unit is equipped with a GPS unit. It cannot get lost.")

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

* MeaningfulName: Gogol can be seen reading Russian literature, which hints to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol Nikolai Gogol]], a Russian writer.

** 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. The dub erroneously calls it a katana in episode 3.

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

* 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. The dub erroneously calls it a katana in episode 3.

* LoveHurts: StarCrossedLovers ([[spoiler:Benten and Remy]]). Also it is implied to be the case with Gogol and his former partner Sarah.

* 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. The dub erroneously calls it a katana in episode 3.