History Anime / GatchamanCrowds

* CloningBlues: Utsutsu, though in a variation she's also generally gloomy in addition to having self duplication as one of her powers.

* SenpaiKohai: Sugane to Hajime. In Insight, Hajime becomes this to Tsubasa.

* SenpaiKouhai: Sugane to Hajime. In Insight, Hajime becomes this to Tsubasa.

A second season was released in [[Summer2015Anime Summer 2015]], titled ''Gatchaman Crowds insight''.

** GALAX itself is something of an amalgamation of popular social media sites, though taken UpToEleven.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Utsutsu has green hair, Joe's hair has a deep layer atop a pinkish lower layer, O.D's hair is a greyish purple, and Berg Katze has magenta hair.

* MulticolouredHair: Several characters have two tone hair in wide horizontal stripes, downplayed slightly as it's always shades of the same basic colour. A more traditional example of this is Joe, but he has it colored in layers so the top of his hair is dark green while the underside is red, and managed it in such a way he can completely hide the red inside the green when he puts his hair in a ponytail.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In Episode 7, Berg Katze says his "Bird, Go!" to the beat of the opening theme.

* GratuitousEnglish: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yriIA5k38 opening theme]] is chock-full of it.

* GratuitousEnglish: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7yriIA5k38 opening theme]] is chock-full of it. [[{{Mondegreen}} Good luck actually understanding it, though...]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Young people are much quicker to trust messages from GALAX--the elderly, not so much. Older people's distrust of the network often slows down civilian rescues, et cetera called for by GALAX.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Young people are much quicker to trust messages from GALAX--the elderly, not so much. Older people's distrust of the network often slows down civilian rescues, et cetera called for by GALAX.

* RealityEnsues: Young people are much quicker to trust messages from GALAX--the elderly, not so much. Older people's distrust of the network often slows down civilian rescues, et cetera called for by GALAX.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Why hold a press conference at a preschool? So the press could be asked if their behavior was ''more immature'' than the young children near them.

* AdaptationalHeroism: Galactor has been re-imagined as GALAX, a social network that's dedicated to helping people. The show's version of Leader X is an artificial intelligence that manages the network and provides information to GALAX users. [[spoiler: Subverted when certain elements of GALAX turn into a terrorist group, even wearing mask that resemble Galactor soldiers from the original series.]]
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Almost as if to apologize for the sexism of the original and its [[ValuesDissonance shockingly frequent]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHSUYTH11UA abuse of women]], Hajime is the ''polar opposite'' of practically every DamselInDistress Anime Heroine of the 1970's in terms of intelligence, competence, courage and strength.

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** [[spoiler:[[FourIsDeath Episode 4]], which is full of revelations and is far darker than the previous ones.]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 7, where Rui's carefully-constructed world crumbles around him.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: The final episode gives a date of Summer 2016.]]

%%* ActionGirl: Hajime.

%%* AgentPeacock: O.D., full stop.

%%* CloningBlues: Utsutsu.

%%* GenkiGirl: Hajime.

%%* HenshinHero

* ImplausibleDeniability: He claims to hate pandas, yet his room is packed with stuffed pandas.

%%* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Hajime.

%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Rui.

* MulticolouredHair: Several characters have two tone hair in wide horizontal stripes, downplayed slightly as it's always shades of the same basic colour.

* TheWorfEffect: Poor [[spoiler Joe]]. Comes across as a total badass but is effortlessly defeated first by [[spoiler Berg Katze]], then later by [[spoiler: Gelsadra]].

** This is also part of the central conflict of Season 2, particularly between Jou and [[spoiler: Rui]].

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: The G-Crew receive different powers when inside their armor. Hajime has the ability to generate whatever objects she can imagine, Joe utilizes fire, and Sugane has infinite reach, a power that sort of teleports his sword's attacks.

* BefriendingTheEnemy: This is Hajime's solution to a lot of problems.[[spoiler: At the beginning of the show after Hajime became a Gatchaman she befriends one of the "MESS". An alien, enemy the Gatchamen are fighting who absorb humans and cause them to disappear. Immediately after Hajime befriends one of them the ''entire species'' of MESS stop acting antagonistic towards the Gatchamen and they return all the humans they absorbed safe and unharmed. The other Gatchamen are utterly shocked after seeing how well it worked.]]