History Anime / KiddyGrade

** There's also "Ta-daaa!", courtesy of Éclair.
%%* CoolStarship: La Muse; Every other ES team has their own.

%%* CatchPhrase: See the opening quotations.%%Don't refer to other parts of the page.

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Alv and Dvergr create copies of Éclair and Lumière as their servants.]]

* BoobsOfSteel: The most powerful female ES-members tend to be rather well-endowed, Éclair included. Viola and Lumière are the notable exceptions.

Does the above sound like a bit like ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'' to you? No surprise, seeing how '''''Kiddy Grade''''' was probably intended as its SpiritualSuccessor of sorts. However, despite its lighthearted, LovelyAngels-themed start, this show gets progressively darker and moodier, dipping into such difficult themes as [[WhoWantsToLiveForever problems faced by an immortal]] and person vs. society and socioeconomic conflict. ''Kiddy Grade'' is a true production tour-de-force, starting with the design, directorial and dictational talent of production team Creator/{{Gimik}}, throttled by the {{Creator/GONZO}} animation prowess and impressive voice acting (yay for Creator/AyaHirano and Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard), rounded off by an impressive musical score by Shiro Hamaguchi. This will make the series worth taking a look at even if you stay indifferent to the questions raised in it.

** Éclair and Lumière for Kei and Yuri, the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''.

%%* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''.

* CatchPhrase: See the opening quotations.

* CoolStarship: La Muse; Every other ES team has their own.

* EnergyAbsorption: Alv and Dvergr.

* TheGovernment: GOTT.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Cesario and Viola.
* HumongousMecha / TransformingMecha: [[spoiler: The starship]] ''[[spoiler: Deucalion]]''.

* ImmortalLifeIsCheap

* KillAllHumans: [[spoiler: Alv]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Chevalier D'Autriche]]
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:Éclair, self-inflicted]]
* LogicBomb: The Hashish virus.
* LovelyAngels: Éclair and Lumière.

* {{Nanomachines}}: That's what's behind many ES "superpowers".

* OlderSidekick: At least, Éclair looks that way.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Well, almost.

* {{Roboteching}} BeamSpam: The ''Deucalion''.
* RobotGirl: Actually, they are cyborgs.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney:
-->Lumière: "They're the Nouvlesse. They're arrogant because they can ''afford'' to be."
* ShooOutTheClowns: Right around episode 8.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''LightNovel/DirtyPair''.
* SternChase: Ocurring after [[spoiler:Éclair and Lumière have been expelled from GOTT.]]
* StormingTheCastle: Episode 15.

* SuperSpeed: Foxy Fox. Éclair as well.
* SuperStrength: Éclair.
* SwissArmyWeapon: Éclair's lipstick can turn into a whip, crack electronic locks, & more.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The robot Lumiere's robotic servants are based off.
* TokenMiniMoe:
** Viola.
** Lumière could fit this description as well.

* TronLines: [[spoiler:Donnerschlag]] when under the influence of Hashish.

* WhamEpisode: Episodes 11 and 15.
* WhipItGood: Éclair's [[ImprobableWeaponUser lipstick attack]].

* OffModel: In distance shots, characters often have weirdly glowing eyes, which disappear again at close range--especially Éclair.

* {{Gainaxing}}: Éclair.

** Éclair and Lumière for Kei and Yuri, the ''LightNovel/Dirty Pair''.

* {{Expy}}: Side-character Mad Bad Bull oddly resembles [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Nosferatu Zodd]].

* PantyShot:
** Éclair, ''several times per episode''.
** One of the post-body switch EyeCatch images has a heavily blushing Lumiére doing this trope, even though she's not the usual provider of {{Fanservice}} in the show.

* {{Qipao}}: Éclair in episode 3, and Lumière also in an [[http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IIvxbxB-n31T87OJUApOBA?feat=directlink omake]] from the first movie.

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: A bunch of them.

* {{Meganekko}}: Mercredi and Vendredi. We don't know much about Vendredi, but Mercredi [[spoiler:actually doesn't need them, as she spends the last third of the show in her true form as Pfeilspitze not wearing glasses (or that wig either).]]

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Several characters, but particularly Lumière, in both her purple- and teal-haired iterations. Crosses over with HairColors.

* ExtremeSpeculativeStratification: The "Nobles" literally treat those humans who are not as rich as a sub-species; going to such measures as wearing environmental suits so they won't breathe the same air as the poor (an issue which is mentioned in the series has led to the Nobles to have weaker immune systems); [[OneNationUnderCopyright make indentured servitude to the Nobles' companies a standard of life on many planets]] and [[spoiler:try to fund a terrorist conspiracy which will destroy the hyperspace lanes, making all of the planets of the poor (who cannot afford FasterThanLight drives of their own) to be cut off from the rest of the galaxy and quite possibly die off.]]

* PlanetBaron: The Royals are a number of super-rich corporate executives that own planets around the galaxy and the lead over the commoners living there as indentured slaves. They regard said commoners like subhumans to the point they walk around in pressure suits so they won't breathe the same air [[spoiler:and their grand plan once they step up to the BigBad plate in the series' third act is to wreck the galaxy's hyperspace lanes so [[KillThePoor all the commoner planets will die off from lack of trading resources and terraforming tech maintenance]].]]

* PlanetBaron: The Royals are a number of super-rich corporate executives that own planets around the galaxy and the lead over the commoners living there as indentured slaves. They regard said commoners like subhumans to the point they walk around in pressure suits so they won't breathe the same air [[spoiler:and their grand plan once they step up to the BigBad plate in the series' third act is to wreck the galaxy's hyperspace lanes so [[KillThePoor all the commoner planets will die off from lack of trading resources and terraforming tech maintenance]].]]

* ConspicuousCG: '''Averted'''. By '''''{{Creator/GONZO}}'''''!

** Perhaps justified, as it seems to function as [[spoiler:an auto-hypnotic suggestion.]]

* NotWhatItLooksLike: Lumière at one time wakes up to find [[spoiler:Éclair kissing her--but it was done to feed Lumière her favorite wine, so she'd recover from her coma.]]
** It's telling though that Lumière is not at all upset [[spoiler:about the kiss, but about the waste of her beloved wine.]]

* PantyShot: Éclair, ''several times per episode''.

* TokenMiniMoe: Viola.

%%* AIIsACrapshoot

* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Chevalier D'Autriche.]]

In the Star Century year 0165, humanity has long spread across the galaxy and brought all its old problems with it. Crime rates in the future are still as high as ever. An agency of [[TheGovernment the Galactic Union]] called "Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs" ([[FunWithAcronyms G]][[GratuitousGerman O]][[http://www.woerterbuch.info/?query=Gott&s=dict&l=en TT]]) has its own special way of dealing with these problems - it dispatches duos of superpowered enforcers referred as "ES Members" to deal with galactic law breakers. Among their number are two who... tend to stand out a bit: Éclair and Lumière. Behind their appearance of just your run-of-the-mill, happy-go-lucky C-class agents lurks a far more sinister past soiled with blood, desperation, and bitter conflict with the very world order they are now charged with protecting.