History Anime / RomeoXJuliet

* BreakTheCutie: Things really don't work out for poor Hermione, and it really shows

* AnimeThemeSong: A Japanese version of "You Raise Me Up", no less, just for extra angst.

* TrailersAlwaysLie: So remember how at the end of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rlcpVz1ez8 trailer]], there's a big DuelToTheDeath between Romeo and Juliet on top of a tower, showing how their families' feud has driven them against each other, and as the fight intensifies they suddenly plummet off the tower's edge and share a passionate kiss as they descend? Remember how awesome that was? Well it never happened.

* ActorAllusion -- this is the one where [[JunkoIwao Mint]] [[TransformersDarkOfTheMoon goes nuts]].

* AnimeThemeSong -- A Japanese version of "You Raise Me Up", no less, just for extra angst.
* ArrangedMarriage -- Romeo and Hermione
* AscendedExtra -- The entire Montague family. Even though the Capulet family is mostly dead here, they're still a signfigant force of the story as opposed to being a moving prop. The Capulet family gets focus in the play due to Juliet's arranged marriage, whereas Benvolio is cast aside quickly, and Lady Montague has ''one line.'' In this story, Romeo's the one with the ArrangedMarriage instead, among other things!
* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning -- After Montague is defeated, Romeo pronounces Juliet Grand Duchess of Neo Verona.
* AxCrazy -- Ophelia in the last few episodes. Lord Montague before her

* Creator/AyaHisakawa -- She plays Romeo's mother, Lady Portia
* BabiesEverAfter -- The BetaCouple gets this as part of their HappilyEverAfter
* BecauseDestinySaysSo -- This is Ophelia's modus operandi and Juliet falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
* BetaCouple -- [[spoiler:Benvolio and Cordelia]], surprisingly enough
* {{Bishonen}} -- Francisco, Romeo, Tybalt
* BilingualBonus -- The wanted posters for the Crimson Whirlwind are in Italian. Also, during the church scene in episode 11, the aria "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Handel's ''Rinaldo'' opera plays; the lyrics go "Let me weep my cruel luck and sigh for freedom".
* BittersweetEnding -- Things turn out relatively well for the secondary protagonists in a story inspired by ''RomeoAndJuliet''
* BreakTheCutie -- Things really don't work out for poor Hermione, and it really shows
* CompetenceZone -- The show has a surprisingly wide CompetenceZone, to the point that the trope might as well be averted. Prepubescent Antonio, his grandfather (Conrad), and every Capulet supporter in between are reasonably competent and don't require rescuing on a regular basis.
* ConspicuousCGI -- Unfortunately, despite one of the show's strong points being the beautiful hand-drawn animated fight scenes and characters (to the point that the characters are virtually on-model for all 24 episodes), most of the buildings and furniture stick out like a sore thumb. The biggest offenders are the family flags (done similarly in the ''Anime/CodeGeass'' anime) and [[spoiler:the crazed branch-roots of the Escalus tree during the finale.]]
* CoolMask -- The Red Whirlwind has one, as well as a billowing red cape and a very NiceHat.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow -- Romeo ''and'' Juliet, to highlight their families' RedOniBlueOni status. Cordelia and Tybalt, too.
* CycleOfRevenge -- House Capulet wants to overthrow Lord Montague for usurping the throne and killing almost the entire Capulet family, which he did because [[spoiler: he's the bastard son of a prostitute and a Capulet.]]

* DangerousSixteenthBirthday -- On her sixteenth birthday, Juliet is told he real identity, which makes her relationship with Romeo all the more complicated.
* DeathByChildbirth -- [[spoiler: Tybalt]]'s mother.
* DefrostingIceQueen -- [[spoiler: Tybalt.]]
* DiedInYourArmsTonight -- [[spoiler: Romeo]] dies in [[spoiler: Juliet]]'s arms. [[spoiler: Laertes]] dies in both Romeo's and Juliet's.
* {{Disneyfication}} -- Though not much lighter then the play [[spoiler: (you won't see Romeo and Juliet committing suicide)]], it is more uplifting. It also simplifies the morality into good and bad.
* TheDogBitesBack -- [[spoiler:Driving Mercutio insane]] didn't turn out well for [[spoiler:Lord Montague]].
* DontYouDarePityMe -- As [[spoiler:Lord Montague]] dies, he tells Juliet he'll not have her pity.
* EarnYourHappyEnding -- As per [[RomeoAndJuliet the source material]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards -- The commander of the carabieri, previously shown to not be a particularly nice man, [[spoiler: refuses to enforce the order to kill any guards that desert, saying that any that wish to can leave. Later he surrenders and opens the gates to Juliet's rebellion.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer -- Juliet. She and Romeo are the official couple, but after learning Juliet's true identity, her friend Emilia admits a bit of attraction towards her as well.
* TheExile -- [[spoiler: Romeo eventually becomes this. He comes back when Juliet begins her rebellion]]
* {{Expy}} -- Aside of Romeo, Juliet, Benvolio, Mercutio and Lord Montague being [[{{Expy}} expies]] of their Romeo And Juliet selves, Hermione is a genderflipped expy for Count Paris, and William is an obvious stand-in for Shakespeare himself.
* EyesAlwaysShut -- Hilariously played with when a nobleman who looks like this mistakes Juliet (disguised as Odin disguised as a girl) for Emilia, his actual date, and rushes out with Juliet before Emilia has a chance to return and explain the situation.
* EyeScream -- [[spoiler: Curio loses an eye protecting "Odin" from abusive guards. That prompts Juliet to become the Red Whirlwind]]
* FanNickname -- Curio and Francisco are nicknamed [[{{Tsubasa}} Fai and Kurogane]] by fandom.
* FiveManBand -- Juliet's group:
** {{The Hero}}ine -- Juliet.

** TheSmartGuy -- Francisco.
** TheChick -- Cordelia.
** TagAlongKid -- Antonio, later Regan.

** SacrificialLamb -- [[spoiler: Dr. Lancelot, who had traces of TheSmartGuy.]]
** SixthRanger -- Tybalt, Romeo
** SixthRangerTraitor -- [[spoiler: Camilo]]
* FloatingContinent -- Neo Verona and the surrounding lands, which becomes quite important to the plot in the second half.
* ForcefulKiss -- Romeo plants one on Juliet, which doubles as their FirstKiss. He's sweet and [[ShelteredAristocrat innocent]] enough to pull it off as romantic.
* ForegoneConclusion -- The anime is based on ''RomeoAndJuliet''. Did you really expect it to end HappilyEverAfter?
* FreakOut -- [[spoiler:Mercutio]], after being defeated
* FreudianExcuse -- [[spoiler: Laertes Montague was the bastard child of a Capulet and a prostitute. He [[SelfMadeMan climbed his way up the Montague clan]] to seek revenge for his BreakTheCutie childhood years.]]
* GainaxEnding -- Despite their deaths being being a ForegoneConclusion it still comes across as a [[KickTheDog kick in the nads]] when it finally happens.

* HeelFaceTurn -- [[spoiler:Tubal]] turns against Lord Montague after the latter orders [[spoiler:the peasant's quarters of Neo Varona burnt to the ground]].
* TheHeroDies -- Did you really expect Juliet or Romeo to come out of this one alive? [[spoiler: Though the last 10 seconds of the final episode makes it really ambigous...]]

* HeroicSacrifice -- [[spoiler:Lancelot]] and [[spoiler:Juliet.]] [[spoiler: Romeo too, depending on how you interpret the ending. With Ophelia dead and Neo Verona safely landed, it can be assumed the tree won't be calling for blood anymore. Plus Juliet won't be consigned to eternal torment, sense she'll instead be spending [[TogetherInDeath eternity with Romeo]].]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard -- Lord Montague, who is killed by [[spoiler:Mercutio]]
* HopeSpot -- [[spoiler: Twice in the final episode, once when Juliet opens her eyes when Escalus is destroyed, and once not even two minutes later, when Romeo drives his sword through Ophelia, killing her - the scene that shatters this hope is when Romeo is shown with one of Ophelia's branches driven through his chest.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice -- [[spoiler: Romeo, by a ''giant tree root.'' Ouch.]]
* IncestIsRelative -- [[spoiler:Laertes is revealed to be the son of a Capulet man (who abandoned him, leading to his StartOfDarkness), and he later has an affair with a Capulet ''woman'', resulting in Tybalt. With these in mind, Romeo and Juliet themselves plausibly fall under this, though it depends on how distant the aforementioned nameless were related to the Capulets.]]
* InNameOnly -- [[http://pursuedbyabear.net/pbab/377/ Not so much an adaption of the play]] as a story inspired by several of Shakespeare's works as well as drawing on many anime and fantasy tropes. Still good.

* InTheBack -- It was [[spoiler:Mercutio]], [[TabletopGame/{{Clue}} with the knife, in the throne room.]]
* InTheBlood -- ''Averted like no tomorrow'' with Romeo. Lord Montague is a [[KickTheDog puppy-kicking bastard]] while Romeo's a pure KnightInShiningArmor. Makes you wonder how he turned out to be a complete opposite of his father while being raised in the same castle.
* ItGetsEasier -- In the earliest parts of the anime, Juliet has a HeroicBSOD when she wounds a soldier who tries to kill her. Later in the second to last episode she has no qualms about making good on a promise to run [[spoiler: Romeo, her love interest and husband]] through if he tries to stop her. [[spoiler:She loses the fight though.]]
* KarmicDeath -- [[spoiler:Lord Montague]] is killed by [[spoiler:Mercutio, who has been driven insane as a result of Lord Montague's actions]].
* KickTheDog -- Lord Montague does this on a fairly regular basis, but perhaps the most shocking example is when he [[spoiler:kills his old friend Titus for blackmailing him]], forcing [[spoiler:Mercutio]]'s descent into insanity.
* KissingCousins -- [[ShipTease Mildly teased at]] but eventually averted with [[spoiler: Tybalt]] and Juliet. Turns out he's quite the ShipperOnDeck.

* LaughingMad -- [[spoiler:Mercutio]], in his final episode.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall -- Half way through the series, Willy confides to Juliet how he's been wanting to write a play about two StarCrossedLovers who both die horribly. Juliet, understandably, doesn't share his enthusiasm.
* LoveAtFirstSight -- Romeo and Juliet, though it happens to Romeo twice (once with the Red Whirlwind and once with Juliet).
* LuckyCharmsTitle -- The "X" is assumed to be pronounced "and", similarly to Baz Luhrmann's ''WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''.
* [[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter Mad Dictator's Handsome Son]] -- Romeo, of course. Also, [[spoiler: HeroicBastard Tybalt]]. And through adoption (sorta), [[spoiler: Mercutio]]
* MalignantPlotTumor -- [[spoiler:Escalus dying]] becomes the focus of the final two episodes after being fairly irrelevant to the main plot until then.
* MythologyGag / FridgeBrilliance -- It should also be noted that back in Shakespeare's time, the parts of women were usually played by young boys (11-13 years old). And then you have Juliet dressing up as a male and going by the name "Odin"...

* NiceJobBreakingItHerod -- Montague inadvertently condemns Neo Verona to a slow death by slaughtering House Capulet, [[spoiler:whose blood keeps Escalus alive and healthy]]. And of course he gets increasingly paranoid throughout the series as he learns that there's a Capulet survivor out there somewhere and she's ''really'' pissed with him.
* ObfuscatingStupidity -- [[spoiler: Willy, oh so much. He only ''pretended'' to not have an idea of Juliet's identity for almost 14 years, but in fact he was an asymmetric SecretKeeper]]
* OfficialCouple -- Do you even have to ask?
* OffModel -- From about episode 15 or so the gorgeous character animation gets choppier and cruder and almost caricatures of the earlier work. Even more glaring when there's a flashback to a better-animated episode.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase - "Is this truely a love that can never be?"
* PetTheDog -- AntiHero Tybalt doesn't get a moment like this until his final scene: he [[spoiler:takes Petruccio's younger siblings for a ride on a dragonhorse in the epilogue]]. Awwww.

* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege -- Hermione pulls this on Lord Montague to make sure Ciel isn't taken away.
* PortmanteauSeriesNickname -- [=RomeJuli=]
* ProperLady-- Hermione, at her best.

* RecursiveCrossdressing -- Juliet, disguised as Odin, disguises herself as a girl to go to a party.

* RichesToRags -- [[spoiler: Romeo's courting of Juliet eventually pisses his father off enough that he ends up exiled from the city and working in a derelict old mine (though part of that is his own decision; he could've easily just supervised the mine without having to lift a finger, but chose to take part in the actual mining as well.]]
* RomanticFalseLead -- Hermione, who initially comes off as an unfortunate victim of circumstance, but at some point shows her {{Yandere}} side. Unlike others, she ''does'' get better. Subverted, also. We were led to believe Tybalt would be a male Paolo of the KissingCousins variety at the beginning, but this doesn't happen.
* RomanticRunnerUp -- Hermione is a female version of this; while Romeo was never particularly interested in her, her only flaw was perhaps being too accepting of Romeo forgetting about meeting her whenever he ran into Juliet, at least until she gets stuck on the wrong end of BreakTheCutie...
* RunawayFiance -- Romeo (contrast with this role in the original play--yep, Romeo's the one stuck dealing with romantic issues while Juliet plans a coup)
* SacrificialLamb -- [[spoiler: Dr. Lancelot]]
* SanitySlippage -- [[spoiler:Mercutio]], starting with watching the murder of someone close to him
* SayMyName -- ROMIOOOOOOOOOO! JULIETTOOOOOOOOOOOOO! The same in English, just take off all the "O's".

* SettingUpdate -- It's ''RomeoAndJuliet'' [-[[RecycledInSpace WITH DRAGONHORSES AND MAGIC TREES ON AN ISLAND IN THE SKY]]-]
* ShelteredAristocrat -- When the story begins, Romeo is the sympathetic version of this trope, as is his friend Benvolio, albeit with a lesser emphasis on nobility and a greater emphasis on clumsiness. This aspect lessens, particularly in Benvolio, when they get hit with CharacterDevelopment, [[spoiler: and Benvolio adapts to peasant life rather quickly anyway]].
* ShipperOnDeck -- For the main couple, Antonio, Willy, and also Cordelia to a certain degree, but Tybalt, of all people, takes the cake.

* ShootTheDog -- Tybalt takes Juliet to confront a snitch and tells her to kill him so that he can't report back to Montague in the future. She [[spoiler:lets the priest go, and Tybalt has to kill him to save her life.]]
* SmugSnake -- Mercutio, until [[spoiler: his FreakOut]]. Also [[spoiler: Camilo]] (Tybalt's caretaker).
* SnicketWarningLabel -- You know that scene where everyone important with a hint of combat ability shows up in the throne room? It's completely alright to stop watching after the end of that scene and skip the final two episodes if you want a (mostly) happy ending.
* SonOfAWhore -- [[spoiler: Montague, supposedly with a Capulet noble for a father]]
* StarCrossedLovers -- Romeo and Juliet
* StuffBlowingUp -- Antonio's WeaponOfChoice are his smoke bombs.
* TagalongKid -- Antonio often tags along with Juliet when she goes out as the Red Whirlwind. Fortunately for the audience, he's surprisingly competent and sensible for a token child in a show with teenage protagonists.
* TakeAThirdOption -- The show flirts with this for half its run then veers wildly back into BecauseDestinySaysSo at the end.
* TeamMom -- Cordelia, despite being one of the younger Capulets in hiding, fills this role in the group. It helps that at age 4, she was already looking after the two-year-old Juliet.
* TetsuyaKakihara -- As Mercutio.
* ThirdLineSomeWaiting -- The subplot about Escalus tends to be of tertiary importance any time it appears (behind the romance and the Capulet coup/whatever they're keeping Romeo busy with)
* TogetherInDeath -- Romeo and Juliet, of course
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl -- Juliet and either Hermione, Cordelia or Emilia.
* TrailersAlwaysLie -- So remember how at the end of the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rlcpVz1ez8 trailer]], there's a big DuelToTheDeath between Romeo and Juliet on top of a tower, showing how their families' feud has driven them against each other, and as the fight intensifies they suddenly plummet off the tower's edge and share a passionate kiss as they descend? Remember how awesome that was? Well it never happened.

* {{Tsundere}} -- Cordelia is a bit of a Type B (more deredere), towards [[spoiler: Benvolio]].
* TwoGuysAndAGirl -- Curio, Francisco, Cordelia
* UnsettlingGenderReveal -- Since one of the main characters is a WholesomeCrossdresser, of course it happens more than once.
* UrbanSegregation -- The nobles live in the upper parts of Neo Verona.
* VigilanteMan -- Juliet as the Red Whirlwind

* WideEyedIdealist -- Romeo, much to the disgust of his father and Mercutio.
* {{Yandere}} -- Hermione, at her worst. Being Romeo's fiance, she seems rather demure at first, but once she finds out about Romeo's love for Juliet, she subtly starts showing some subtle signs of mental instability. And then comes episode 16... [[spoiler: She ''did'' get better, though, at the end of that very same episode no less.]]
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe -- Promotional copies of the English dub version feature this trope. For many viewers it's strange that they kept switching between normal English and YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe.
* YouKilledMyFather -- As the series nears its end, it becomes a question of whether Juliet, Tybalt, or Romeo will be the one to kill Lord Montague, with the former two having lost family at his hand. It ends up being [[spoiler:the fourth candidate, Mercutio.]]

* HotMom -- Romeo's mother, Portia. [[spoiler: Cordelia becomes this, in the end]]

** Also Portia, Romeo's HotMom.

* FloatingContinent -- Neo Verona and the surrounding lands, which becomes quite important to the plot in the second half

* ForegoneConclusion -- The anime is based on ''RomeoAndJuliet''. Did you really expect it to end HappilyEverAfter?
* ForcefulKiss -- Romeo plants one on Juliet, which doubles as their FirstKiss. He's sweet and [[ShelteredAristocrat innocent]] enough to pull it off as romantic.

* TheHeroDies -- Did you really expect Juliet or Romeo to come out of this one alive? [[spoilers: Though the last 10 seconds of the final episode makes it really ambigous...]]

* HopeSpot -- [[spoiler: Twice in the final episode, once when Juliet opens her eyes when Escalus is destroyed, and once not even two minutes later, when Romeo drives his sword through Ophelia, killing her - the scene that shatters this hope is when Romeo is shown with one of Ophelia's branches driven through his chest.

* TheHeroDies -- Did you really expect Juliet or Romeo to come out of this one alive?

* {{Yandere}} -- Hermione, at her worst. Being Romeo's fiance, she seems rather demure at first, but once she finds out about Romeo's love for Juliet, she subtly starts showing some subtle signs of mental instability. And then comes episode 16... [[spoiler: She ''did'' get better, though]]

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: Episode 25 showcases Juliet and Romeo fighting against each other due to clashing differences. Episode 26? The second half is a WhamEpisode and MoodWhiplash all at once. [[spoiler:You just know that this anime is going to end horribly, but when Romeo dies first to protect Juliet, and then Juliet sacrifices herself to save the floating colony, you realize the ending was a TearJerker waiting to happen]].

As I'm sure you could have guessed, this is generally a serious anime, and features action scenes on a regular basis, though the fights never reach the absurd levels of a lot of {{shonen}} anime. Just don't forget the Dragonhorses! (think: Pegasus).

* ActorAllusion -- I've seen this one. This is the one where [[JunkoIwao Mint]] [[TransformersDarkOfTheMoon goes nuts]].

** For lack of a better option, Cordelia is presumably an Expy of The Nurse.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim -- Since one of the main characters is a WholesomeCrossdresser, of course it happens more than once.

* AyaHisakawa -- She plays Romeo's mother, Lady Portia

* EvenEvilHasStandards -- The commander of the carabieri, previously shown to not be a particularly nice man, refuses to enforce the order to kill any guards that desert, saying that any that wish to can leave

* TheExile -- [[spoiler: Romeo eventually becomes this.]]

* AxCrazy -- Ophelia in the last few episodes.

** Virtually every character not from the original play is named after other Shakespearean characters. Even characters who went unnamed in the original play, like Lord and Lady Montague, are given proper names [[strike:stolen]] borrowed from Shakespeare's other works.

* SonofaWhore -- [[spoiler: Montague, supposedly with a Capulet noble for a father]]

Fourteen years later, Lord Leontes Montague is the tyrannical leader of all of Neo Verona. The surviving Capulet retainers are in hiding beneath a theater company run by a sympathetic playwright named [[WilliamShakespeare Willy]]. Juliet is disguised as a boy named Odin, and she has no idea who she really is - all she knows is that she has to dress up as a male and work as Willy's stagehand. Whenever she can sneak out, she fights against the oppressive Montague regime as the Red Whirlwind, a {{Zorro}}-esque vigilante. As the Red Whirlwind, she gets into a bind and is saved by Romeo Candore Van di Montague, the idealistic only child of Lord Montague. Some time later, "Odin's" friend Emilia, Willy's top actress, invites "Odin" to a high-class party with her, thinking that "he" would make a very pretty girl. One case of mistaken identity later, Juliet is alone at the party, where she runs into Romeo again. You all know where this is going, right?

The series also draws a bit on other WilliamShakespeare plays for both character names and plot elements. The cross-dressing and disguises reach the point that Romeo meets Juliet three times without realizing that they are the same person. Inevitably, someone else dresses up as the Red Whirlwind. And, of course, there's a play within the play that matters to the plot.

* ConspicuousCGI -- Unfortunately, despite one of the show's strong points being the beautiful hand-drawn animated fight scenes and characters (to the point that the characters are virtually on-model for all 24 episodes), most of the buildings and furniture stick out like a sore thumb. The biggest offenders are the family flags (done similarly in the ''CodeGeass'' anime) and [[spoiler:the crazed branch-roots of the Escalus tree during the finale.]]
* CoolMask -- The Red Whirlwind has one, as well as a billowing red cape and a very NiceHat.

* DefrostingIceQueen -- [[spoiler: Tybalt.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding -- As per [[RomeoAndJuliet the source material]].

* InNameOnly -- [[http://pursuedbyabear.net/pbab/377/ Not so much an adaption of the play]] as a story inspired by several of Shakespeare's works as well as drawing on many anime and fantasy tropes. Still good.

* KissingCousins -- [[ShipTease Mildly teased at]] but eventually averted with [[spoiler: Tybalt]] and Juliet. Turns out he's quite the ShipperOnDeck.

* ProperLady-- Hermione, at her best.

* RescueIntroduction: Juliet, with both Tybalt and Romeo.

* ShipperOnDeck -- For the main couple, Antonio, Willy, and also Cordelia to a certain degree, but Tybalt, of all people, takes the cake.

* {{Tsundere}} -- Cordelia is a bit of a Type B (more deredere), towards [[spoiler: Benvolio]].

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