History Anime / Obsolete

* ChildSoldiers: Jamal and Kayira, along with other children fighting enemy military forces in Sub-Saharan Africa in Episodes 5 and 6.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Zahir has two large scars running down his left cheek [[spoiler: just like the Outcast Brigade's skull insignia]].

* InscrutableAliens: Little is known about the Peddlers, as they never appear on screen, other than their FirstContact declaration whereby they will simply exchange limestone for Exoframes, irrespective of human politics or creeds. Bowman and a fellow Marine jokingly trade conspiracy theories, such as that the Exoframes' neural connection technology actually brainwashes the pilots.
* LampshadeHanging: In the second episode, a U.S. Marine mocks the whole situation regarding the Exoframes as sounding like a typical Japanese Anime.

* ShownTheirWork: While not shown clearly, "Bowman"'s setting in Cariba province is an oil-rich region and there has been occasions where hostile anti-government groups have demanded secessions from Angola due to the abysmal poverty levels while other parts of Angola benefit from oil money.

* ShownTheirWork: While not shown cleary, "Bowman"'s setting in Cariba province is an oil-rich region and there has been occasions where hostile anti-government groups have demanded secessions from Angola due to the abysmal poverty levels while other parts of Angola benefit from oil money.

* PreventTheWar: The second season trailer suggests that the Outcast Brigade is trying to forment conditions for a major war with EXOFRAMES.

* LampshadeHanging: Just in the second episode alone, we have someone (a U.S. Marine, no less) mocking the whole situation regarding the Exoframes as sounding like a typical Japanese Anime.

* ImprovisedWeapon: "Bowman" shows the first use of Exoframes on the battlefield, at the hands of guerrilla fighters using them as war mounts while shooting with assault rifles and Rocket-Propelled Grenades and strapped with explosives for suicide charges. While all of the fighters are eliminated, the casualty count amongst the Marines they were fighting (which includes a couple of Abrams tank platoons, at least) is just obscene. Just a few minutes before, a friend of Bowman was comparing he idea of using Exoframes in such a way to "a Toyota carrying a heavy machine gun".

* InscrutableAliens: Overall, the aliens that supply the Exoframes are a big question mark. They make clear in their FirstContact declaration that they don't care at all for human politics and creeds and will supply the Exoframes to anybody who can afford the price, and that is all that is known about them. They never appear on screen and a couple of minutes of the episode "Bowman" has Bowman and a fellow Marine jokingly trading conspiracy theories (like one that the Exoframes' neural connection technology actually brainwashes the pilots).

* FictionalGenevaConventions: Shortly after the first Exoframes appeared, the US, EU, China and Japan entered the Sankt Gallen Arrangement, to regulate the trade and use of Exoframes, as well as preventing them from being used as weapons of war. However, by the present day of the setting, the treaty has mostly faded into irrelevance as various conflicts in the interceding years made it clear that Exoframes were too much of a GameChanger to not be exploited.

* FictionalGenevaConventions: The second episode, "Bowman", makes quick mention that a treatise was made to prevent use of the Exoframes as weapons of war shortly after their appearance, but the "current day" of the setting (after several battles, one of which is shown right in that episode) makes clear that the Exoframes became too much of a GameChanger to not exploit them.

* BittersweetEnding:
** The end of "Bowman" has the USMC force in Angola defeat the insurgents despite the latter being armed with Exoframes, but the force has sustained casualties and Bowman was the SoleSurvivor of the attack. It also made Washington DC realize the power of the Exoframes and Bowman's secondment to the Exoframe Force Recon unit to investigate and take out hostile groups that operate Exoframes.
** In "Loewner", the Persian Gulf oil facility was being overrun by terrorists conducting suicide bombing attacks because the company who owns it refuses to pay the fees to Cerberus per contract.

* AllThereInTheManual: The anime's chronology page [[https://project-obsolete.com/en/chronology/ shows the proper sequence of events]].
** The Exoframes [[https://project-obsolete.com/en/exoframe/ are listed here]].
** The official site's Redundant page [[https://project-obsolete.com/special/redundant/ has a list of Exoframes published by Hobby Japan and approved by Nitroplus]].

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: While on the verge of winning a battle against raiders attacking an oil refinery in the Persian Gulf, Cerberus Security Services receive word that their client has refused to pay for their services, so the former promptly order all their Exoframe contractors to stand down, leaving the latter to their fate.[[note]]Some viewers who have previous PMC experience have commented that CSS officials should have taken their client instead of abandoning them to their fate.[[/note]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: While on the verge of winning a battle against raiders attacking an oil refinery in the Persian Gulf, Cerberus Security Services receive word that their client has refused to pay for their services, so the former promptly order all their Exoframe contractors to stand down, leaving the latter to their fate.

* BittersweetEnding: In "Loewner", the Persian Gulf oil facility was being overrun by terrorists conducting suicide bombing attacks because the company who owns it refuses to pay the fees to Cerberus per contract.

* ImprovisedWeapon: The second episode shows the first use of Exoframes on the battlefield, at the hands of guerrilla fighters using them as war mounts while shooting with rifles and Rocket-Propelled Grenades and strapped with explosives for suicide charges. While all of the fighters are eliminated, the casualty count amongst the Marines they were fighting (which includes a couple of Abrams tank platoons, at least) is just obscene. Just a few minutes before, a friend of Bowman was comparing he idea of using Exoframes in such a way to "a Toyota carrying a heavy machine gun".

* BittersweetEnding: In "Loewner", the Persian Gulf oil facility was being overrun by terrorists conducting suicide bombing attacks because the company who owns it refuses to pay the fees.

* AllThereInTheManual: The anime's chronology page [[https://project-obsolete.com/en/chronology/ shows the proper sequence of events.]]

* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Cerberus Security Services in Episode 4, in which Loewner served in.

* PreventTheWar: The second season trailer suggests that an armed group is trying to forment conditions for a major war with EXOFRAMES.

The official stie is [[https://project-obsolete.com/en/ here]].

* BluffTheImposter: During a demonstration of their uparmored Exoframes to Rei Miyajima, Captain Wangchuk of the Indian Army Special Warfare Brigade Ladakh Scouts demonstrates a "traditional Indian exercise" while operating an Exoframe. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Wangchuk reveals to a subordinate that the exercise was actually a common Japanese calisthenic routine, and the fact that the Miyajima didn't immediately react or recognize it confirmed Wangchuk's suspicions that Miyajima was not from Japan, much less seconded by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force as he claimed to be (with the implication he is in fact a Japanese-''American'', given his chronologically later involvement in EXOFRAME Force Recon, shown previously in Episode 1)]]

* SkeletonMotif: Outcast Brigade Exoframes [[spoiler: such as Zahir's personal unit]] are marked with an insignia of a white skull with two red scars.

* SkeletonMotif: Outcast Brigade Exoframes [[spoiler: such as Zahir's personal unit]] are marked with an insignia of a white skull with two red scars on the cheek.

* SkeletonMotif: Outcast Brigade Exoframes are marked with an insignia of a white skull with two red scars on the cheek.