History Anime / GirlsBravo

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'''''Girls Bravo''''' is a {{Shonen}} {{Manga}} series written and illustrated by Mario Kaneda and serialized from 2000 to 2005 in Shōnen Ace by Kadokawa Shoten. The series was made into an anime in 2004, with a second season made in 2005. There are 24 episodes total. It also inspired a VisualNovel.

Yukinari Sasaki fears girls, having been teased and bullied by them to the point that he breaks in hives upon mere contact with them. One day, having come home from school, his {{Tsundere}} neighbor Kirie Kojima kicks him into his bathtub and is transported to "Seiren", a mysterious world with a mostly female population. [[HilarityEnsues Much hilarity follows.]]
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!!''Girls Bravo'' provides examples of:

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Kirie constantly brutally beats up Yukinari (In Episode 1 she knees him in the face, and he bleeds profusely) and it's (supposed to be) PlayedForLaughs. If the genders were reversed, this would not be seen as funny.
** She also regularly abuses Fukuyama which at first seems reasonable because he is a giant pervert but she later meets even more perverted [[PsychoLesbian psycho lesbians]] that she prefers to run away from instead of fight unless they hurt either Fukuyama or Yukinari.
* AccidentalPervert: Yukinari
* AscendedExtra: Kosame makes far more appearances in the anime then in the manga.
* AllergicToLove: Yukinari gets rashes whenever he is touched by a girl, as a result of bullying. Miharu apparently doesn't trigger this.
** Inverted with Fukuyama, who's allergic to men, as is Yukina which is the reason she wants to KillThemAll.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Yukinari's been bullied by girls since he was a child.
* AttractiveBentGender: Yukinari is forced to dress up as a girl in order to host a gaming tournament. His disguise is so convincing even the local pervert Fukuyama mistakes him for a pretty girl, [[DroppedABridgetOnHim which makes the metaphorical bridge all too heavy for Fukuyama]].
* BareYourMidriff: [[StupidSexyFlanders Dammit Fukuyama]].
* BerserkButton: Kirie is apparently a really nice person unless one of two things happen: 1) somebody hurts one of the boys she likes; and 2) seeing said boy in question.
* BigBrotherComplex: Tomoka and Fukuyama develop this sort of relationship and she by the end she is the only character to refer to him by his given name Kazuharu.
* BigEater: Miharu.
* {{Bishonen}}: Fukuyama and Yukinari.
* BizarroUniverse: The world on the other side of the magic mirror in Chapter 16 of the manga.
* BlandNameProduct
* BrattyHalfPint: Tomoka
* ButtMonkey: Yukinari, and Fukuyama are constantly beat up and abused by Kirie and to a lesser extent the other girls beside Miharu, and they both have allergic reactions to members of a certain genderand
** Kirie herself sometimes becomes one when she is around a PsychoLesbian
* CasanovaWannabe: Kazuharu Fukuyama. He has a habit of feeling up women whenever he so much as talks to them, and he has the resources to have a mansion with such features as central air in the flooring to blow up skirts, and an elevator that takes women's measurements.
* CelebrityParadox: The game expo episode, featuring ChiwaSaitou, MamikoNoto, and AyakoKawasumi, who voice Kirie, Yukinari, and Miharu, respectively. [[TalkingToHimself Talking To Herself]] ensues in the case of Noto.
* CensorSteam: In copious amounts. Quasi-TropeNamer.
** [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Removed in the DVD release.]]
* ChekhovsGun: Remember Yukinari's being dressed as a girl early on? [[spoiler: Not only does he accidentally knock the big bad down, his costume even down to the hair color and fake name he uses is foreshadowing her.]]
* ChewToy: Yukinari on levels that rival [[TheSimpsons Homer]].
** Other contenders for this title are [[TooKinkyToTorture Fukuyama]] and Kirie, who does not get tortured enough to qualify (even though considering her actions she is most enjoyable to watch squirm).
* ChickMagnet: Yukinari. By the end of the series he has four girls after him.
* ChivalrousPervert: Fukuyama not that Kirie cares about the chivalrous part.
* ClingyJealousGirl: Lisa and Yukina over Yukinari. Kirie and Miharu are more subtle about their affections towards Yukinari.
** Kirie also acts this way to Fukuyama, even attacking him one time after some of his female admirers rescued him from drowning.
* CharacterDevelopment: By the time the second season rolls around Kirie becomes considerable more nicer to Yukinari and actually uses her fist on [[ChivalrousPervert Fukuyama]], someone who really deserves a beating.
* ClothingDamage
* CryCute: Kirie already done this in the first episode
* DarkMagicalGirl: Yukina, Lisa to an extent.
* DoesNotLikeMen: Fukuyama; Koyomi; Yukina
* DistaffCounterpart: [[spoiler: Yukina]]
* DoesNotLikeWomen: Yukinari himself.
* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Occurs between Fukuyama and Yukinari, when Fukuyama grabs Yukinari by the groin when he was dressed as a girl.
* EffortlessAmazonianLift: Carrying around Yukinari doesn't seem to be a problem for Kosame. Must be because she's a hitwoman.
* EroticEating: Miharu did this in the anime.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Kirie
* {{Fanservice}}: And ''how''. The first piece of it is shown within the first 10 ''seconds'' of the first episode.
** Hell, the opening of the second season of the anime is a nude roll call of the female cast.
* FriendlyEnemy: the Fukuyama siblings to the rest of the cast, how many other shows are there where the main antagonists are also DropInCharacter. Of course sometimes they get a little too friendly.
* FuroScene
* GagBoobs: Kirie, again.
* GenderBender: In one episode Lisa uses her magic to switch various people's bodies, although the body-switching gets out of hand (she didn't actually intend for gender-bending to occur).
* {{Gendercide}}: despite the fact that Seiren is already 9/10th female Yukina wants to kill all the remaining men to turn it into, in her words, a "women's only paradise."
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Subverted as both Kirie and Fukuyama attempt this on Yukinari after Miharu is kidnapped only to discover that when you have spent years beating up a man for fun, slapping him when he is severely depressed and crying will not do much. He is eventually snapped out of it by a speech on ManlyTears by The Boss.
* GirlWatching
* TheGlomp
* GlowingEyesOfDoom
* GuiltyPleasure: Nonetheless, it still has its fans.
* HandsomeLech: Fukuyama
* {{Hypocrite}}: In the first episode, Kirie once again prepares to pound Yukinari for walking in on her while she was in the shower. Yukinari points out that since he's so afraid of women, he has no reason to want to peep on her. Kirei then turns this around and accuses him of not liking her body, which only make her want to beat him up even MORE.
* {{ILLKILLYOU}}
** Adding to the surrealism of this scene is the fact that this... um, character? says all of its lines in English, even in the original Japanese version.
*** Which qualifies it as [[GratuitousEnglish Gratuitous English]].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Other than Hayate, Kosame, and Lilica, most of Fukuyama's BodyguardBabes [[NinjaMaid Ninja Maids]] seems to be only trained to be as good as stormtroopers, that the only good thing about them is that they give you some PantyShot.
* IncompatibleOrientation: Kirie is straight, not that Kosame and Hijiri care.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Miharu has no qualms about showing up naked in front of Yukinari and once tried forcing him to bathe with her. At one point in the anime she even walks around [[NakedApron only wearing an apron]] because she thought Yukinari seeing her in something from his porn stash would make him happy.
** Also, the banana scene from the second episode. Good lord.
* InstantCosplaySurprise: Fukuyama is a master at this, with Kirie as his favorite victim.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Tomoka the youngest cast member, who clams to be the most mature person on the show, and Lisa's henchman Hayate who actually is the most mature strike up a strange friendship.
* KarmaHoudini: Kirie. She never gets called out on her behavior towards Yukinari, and nobody ever stops her when she's beating him up.
** However, she does get a few humiliation moments here and there, getting close to ButtMonkey status when Kosame is around.
* LethalChef: Kirie
* LivingWithTheVillain: It turns out that the kids homeroom teacher Hijiri was actually a spy for the series BigBad Yukina
* {{Lolicon}}
* LordErrorProne: Mamoru Machida, wanna-be superhero and self-proclaimed savior of the neighborhood; since he's oblivious to what's really going on, he's easily the most destructive of the minor characters.
* LovableSexManiac: Fukuyama
** Kirie would disagree
*** Most of the women of Seiren wouldn't. Oddly enough, he's quite popular there, but YMMV.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Both Kosame and Hijiri fall in madly love with Kirie after she attacks them, and by mad I mean in a PsychoLesbian RapeAsComedy kind of way.
* LoveDodecahedron: It's a harem anime, after all.
* LoverTugOfWar
* MaidCorps: They serve Fukuyama.
* MaleGaze
* MarshmallowHell: Maharu does this to Yukinari, which she insists he likes even though she punched him out.
* MegatonPunch: Frequently executed by Kirie against Fukuyama and Yukinari on occasion.
* NamesToKnowInAnime
** MamikoNoto: Yukinari Sasaki (another [[CrossdressingVoices Crossdressing Voice]])
** AyakoKawasumi: Miharu Sena Kanaka (one of the [[RelationshipVoiceActor many times]] she and Noto worked together)
** ChiwaSaitou: Kirie Kojima
** RyotarouOkiayu: Kazuharu Fukuyama
** YukiMatsuoka: Lisa Fukuyama
** MasayoKurata: Koyomi Hare Kanaka
* NaughtyNurseOutfit: Season 1, episode 4; Fukuyama pretends to be sick and asks Kirie to wear a nurse outfit.
* NaughtyTentacles: Season 2, episode 1.
* NeverLiveItDown: [[{{in-universe}} Kirie]], most people tend to overlook the fact that she outgrows her abusive tendencies by the second season, behaves more like an actual friend to Yukinari and even has a heartwarming moment with Yukinari near the end of the series.
* NinjaMaid: Fukuyama has some at home, most notably one that was a former mercenary which he states is a trained killer (Lilica), and he doesn't appear to be exaggerating.
* {{Nosebleed}}: at times also the result of getting punched (and kneed) so hard in the face
** One episode used this to show that the guys were excited about what the girls were doing...
* PantyShot: Pretty much a given in every episode.
* ParentalAbandonment: Despite almost all the major characters being school age the only parent talked about is Koyomi's DisappearedDad.
* PlayboyBunny: Subverted by Fukuyama.
* PreMortemOneLiner: Nonlethal variant; Kirie almost always yells "(Verb) IN HELL!!!" before unleashing a MegatonPunch on Fukuyama or (occasionally) Yukinari. Tomoka also starts doing this as well (much to Kirie's approval).
* ProductPlacement: Honda motorcycles among others.
* PsychoLesbian: Hijiri and Kosame for Kirie.
* RapeAsComedy: Kosame sexually assualting Kirie in the anime.
** Also the reason why Fukuyama never gets arrested.
* SeriousBusiness: Mamoru asks a maid with military training for advice on cleaning.
* ShallowLoveInterest: Miharu, but she's still the one he's displays the most signs of romance with she's always nice to him.
* {{Shotacon}}: Miharu's older sister Maharu openly gropes and flirts with Yukinari.
* ShrinkingViolet: Koyomi
** Yukinari is something of a male variation, especially around girls.
* SkinshipGrope
* StalkerWithACrush: Lots. Lisa for Yukinari; Fukuyama for any pretty girl but mostly goes after Kirie or Koyomi; Kosame for Kirie, Hijiri was obsessed with Miharu since they were children but later switches over to Kirie, and by the end of the series Yukina for Yukinari.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kirie to Yukinari in the first episode:
** "You've ''always'' been a midget, a klutz and a blockhead. Not to mention slow in the head and snow on the uptake... I mean, I knew you were a hopelessly lame and worthless shell of a man, but to ''peep'' at me just because you can't get a girl..."
* TheStoic: Hayate (except when someone asks him to marry him), Kosame (when she isn't around Kirie), and Lilica (unless told that Fukuyama has friends).
* StupidSexyFlanders: Fukuyama, when he was baring his midriff in one episode. Yukinari, when he was [[AttractiveBentGender dressed as a pretty girl]].
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: When Yukinari confronts Yukina in TheGrandFinale instead of fighting they have a heart to heart talk and he convinces her to not commit {{Gendercide}}. Unfortunately for him it also turned her into a StalkerWithACrush.
* TooKinkyToTorture: Lisa, Kosame, and Fukuyama -- unfortunately for Yukinari, Kirie, and Koyomi.
** Fukuyama has actually been bothered by pain on three accessions, one, Kirie tied him out left him in an oil drum full of boiling water, two, he was hit by truck, and three, when Maharu KOed him with a kick to the face.
* TooHotForTV
* {{Tsundere}}: Kirie, for instance she shows concern for Yukinari and gives him her handkerchief to help him clean up after he was badly beaten, however she was the one who beat him because she walked in on Miharu changing in the living room.
** It is also heavily implied that she secretly likes Fukuyama.
** The first episode pretty much served as the best example. [[AccidentalPervert Yukinari accidentally walks in on Kirie in the bathroom when she's naked]] which results in her kneeing him in the face. He then goes through the process on how it was an accident and how, because of his symptom, wouldn't even want to see her naked. She attacks him regardless for ''not'' wanting to see her naked.
*** The worst part? It's his own FREAKING BATHROOM. IN HIS OWN HOUSE. WHICH SHE DID NOT ASK TO USE.
* UnwantedHarem: Three girls have feelings for Yukinari, one is a bully who has beaten him up almost every day for years, another is an insane {{Yandere}} DarkMagicalGirl who tries to abduct and rape him, the final one is a kind and sweet girl who does not set off his woman allergy, guess which one he returns his feelings for.
** Actually, four if you include the ''BigBad'', another {{Yandere}} DarkMagicalGirl.
** In most other harem comedies, it'd have been the bully.
** Plus, we never get to know why there are so few males in Seiren...
* WaterfallPuke: Fukuyama after eating Kirie's cooking.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Kirie
* ZettaiRyouiki: Miharu in the manga as does in the anime.
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!!''Girls Bravo'' examples of:

* BoobsOfSteel: the obvious answer at first would be [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Kirie]] but by the end of the series over half the female cast prove that they're no slouch in this department either.
** In the anime, Kirie is actually shown to weaker than the other girls in this area. Kosame overpowered her easily, and [[RapeAsComedy fondled her breasts]], Lilica flat out kicked her ass, and Maharu actually KOed Kazaharu when she saw, something Kirie could never do (he always gets back up no matter how what she does to him). The time she beat someone that could fight back was Hiriji, would still nearly curb stomped her.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Other than Hayate, Kosame, and Lilica, most of Fukuyama's BodyguardBabes [[NinjaMaid Ninja Maids]] seems to be only trained to be as good as stormtroopers, that the only good thing about them is that they give you some PantyShot,kind of reminds me of AgentAika.

* BoobsOfSteel: the obvious answer at first would be [[WrestlerInAllOfUs Kirie]] but by the end of the series over half the female cast prove that they're no slouch in this department either

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Miharu has no qualms about showing up naked in front of Yukinari and once tried forcing him to bathe with her.

* NaughtyTentacles: Season 2, episode 1
* NinjaMaid: Fukuyama has some at home, most notably one that was a former mercenary which he states is a trained killer (Lilica), and he doesn't appear to be exaggerating.
* NeverLiveItDown: [[{{in-universe}} Kirie]], most people tend to overlook the fact that she outgrows her abusive tendencies by the second season, behaves more like an actual friend to Yukinari and even has a heartwarming moment with Yukinari near the end of the series.

* ButtMonkey: Yukinari, and Fukuyama are constantly beat up and abused by Kerie and to a lesser extent the other girls beside Miharu, and they both have allergic reactions to members of a certain genderand

* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Subverted as both Kirei and Fukuyama attempt this on Yukinari after Maharu is kidnapped only to discover that when you have spent years beating up a man for fun slapping him when he is severely depressed and crying will not do much. He is eventually snapped out of it by a speech on ManlyTears by The Boss.

* {{Hypocrite}}: In the first episode, Kirei once again prepares to pound Yukinari for walking in on her while she was in the shower. Yukinari points out that since he's so afraid of women, he has no reason to want to peep on her. Kirei then turns this around and accuses him of not liking her body, which only make her want to beat him up even MORE.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Miharu have no qualms about showing up naked in front of Yukinari and once tried forcing him to bathe with her.

* MaidCorps: They serve Fukunaga.

* MarshmallowHell: Maharu does this Yukinari, which she insists he likes even though she punched him out

* NinjaMaid: Fukuyama have some at home, most notably one that was a former mercenary that he states is a trained killer, and he doesn't appear to be exaggerating.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Nonlethal variant; Kirche almost always yells "(Verb) IN HELL!!!" before unleashing a MegatonPunch on Fukuyama or (occasionally) Yukinari. Tomoka also starts doing this as well (much to Kirche's approval).

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: When Yukinari confronts Yukina in TheGrandFinale instead of fighting they have a heart to heart talk and he convinces her to not committee {{Gendercide}}. Unfortunately for him it also turned her into a StalkerWithACrush.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Miharu have no qualms about showing up naked in front of Yukinari

* NinjaMaid: Fukuyama have some at home

* ShallowLoveInterest: Miharu.
* {{Shotacon}}: Miharu's older sister openly gropes and flirts with Yukinari.