History Anime / SpeedGrapher

* PantyShot: Kagura, in the later version of the opening credits.

* AdultFear: One of the otherwise stoic mooks hunting Kagura covers his ears and trembles when the crazy dentist is killing a girl in the next room.

* NoSocialSkills: Kagura.

* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Kagura tries that when [[spoiler:Shinzen is about to marry Suitengu]]. [[{{Understatement}} It does not work.]]

* ShadowArchetype: Suitengu has some of this in relation to Saiga, as both have very similar perspectives on the world; they just act on them very differently, and have an even closer bond in sharing a MetaOrigin ([[spoiler: both contracted the virus allowing them to become Euphorics on the same island -- Saiga as a photographer; Suitengu as a young soldier]]). There's also [[spoiler: Ochiai]], who was someone Saiga considered an inspiration, but turns out to be evil, a fellow Euphoric, and keeps pulling NotSoDifferent on Saiga during their fight.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:When Suitengu plans to marry Kagura as a contingency plan, one of his henchmen points out that marrying 15 year olds is against the law, and if he tries to file the application he'll probably be arrested. Suitengu replies that they'll simply fudge the date on her birth certificate.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: As a part of Kagura's school uniform and her Divine Goddess outfit.

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: Suitengu achieves his main goal of creating a worldwide depression, but it isn't ([[EsotericHappyEnding meant to be]]) a DownerEnding -- life simply goes on, [[OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding while Kagura and Saiga find happiness]]]].

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Ginza, on an unconscious Saiga]]. [[UnfortunateImplications The show actually tries to make her seem]] [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic pitiable for it]].

* EyeScream: Via FridgeLogic. At the end [[spoiler:you just see blood gushing from Saiga's eyes, and afterwards they're closed or covered by sunglasses]]; which would imply that [[spoiler:his ''eyes exploded'']].

* RealSongThemeTune: ''[[Music/DuranDuran Girls on Film ~]]''
** When Funimation approached Duran Duran about using the song for the English release of the anime, the band found out that their record label had sold the rights to "Girls On Film." Since Duran Duran no longer owned their own song and were therefore not authorized to okay its use, Funimation instead used one of the tracks from the OST, "Shutter Speed."

* [[spoiler:YouAreTooLate: The WellIntentionedExtremist variation- while Saiga manages to prevent Suitengu from killing Kagura (or at least talks him out of it), he fails to stop Suitengu from killing the movers and shakers of Japanese society and literally blowing up the world economy -- but both are [[TheExtremistWasRight treated as a good thing]]. Also worth noting is that Saiga only lives because Suitengu decided to save his life before carrying out his ThanatosGambit]].

His curiosity piqued, Saiga decides to learn more about Kagura and her powers. When he does, he vows to free her from the Roppongi Club and the Tennouzu corrupt group, led by Kagura's [[EvilMatriarch ruthless mother]] [[BigBad Shinzen Tennouzu]] and her [[EnigmaticMinion mysterious right-hand man]] [[TheDragon Chouji Suitengu]], that cruelly uses the girl for their own purposes...

''Speed Grapher'' (スピードグラファー, ''Supiido Gurafaa'') is a 2005 anime series, created by {{Creator/GONZO}} Digimation and Creator/ToeiAnimation[[note]]Through their studio in the Philippines[[/note]], and with character designs by [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Yusuke]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Ko]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates za]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes ki.]] The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005. The series was licensed for release in North America by Creator/{{Funimation}} in 2006 and has been showing on IFC since March 7, 2008.

* RubberMan: Katsuya Shirogane.

* OminousPipeOrgan: The WeddingDay theme is ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor''.

''Speed Grapher'' (スピードグラファー, ''Supiido Gurafaa'') is a 2005 anime series, created by {{Creator/GONZO}} Digimation and Creator/ToeiAnimation[[note]]Through their studio in the Philippines[[/note]], and with character designs by [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Yusuke]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Ko]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates za]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes ki.]] The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005. The series was licensed for release in North America by Creator/Funimation in 2006 and has been showing on IFC since March 7, 2008.

''Speed Grapher'' (スピードグラファー, ''Supiido Gurafaa'') is a 2005 anime series, created by {{Creator/GONZO}} Digimation and Creator/ToeiAnimation[[note]]Through their studio in the Philippines[[/note]], and with character designs by [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Yusuke]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Ko]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates za]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes ki.]] The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005. The series was licensed for release in North America by [=FUNimation=] Entertainment in 2006 and has been showing on IFC since March 7, 2008.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: A new Euphoric pops up every few episodes, and is dealt with just as quickly. [[TropesAreNotBad Surprisingly, this keeps the story moving at a good pace.]] [[JustifiedTrope Plus, all Euphorics are elite members of the Roppongi Club, and so they're being deliberately contracted to kill Saiga and recover Kagura.]]

* GoOutWithASmile: Rather madly played around with [[spoiler:Ekoda]]. Also, [[spoiler:both Shinzen and Suitengu]].

* MayDecemberRomance: Kagura is 15, Saiga is 33. [[spoiler:Which is probably why they decide to wait five years before getting back together (seeing as the age of majority in Japan is 20, as opposed to 16~18 in most of the world)]].

* AuthorTract: See SexIsEvil. Also money is the root of all evil.

* AbusiveParents: Where to start?

** Miharu's StageMom, too. No wonder she's completely fucked up.

* AGodAmI: One of the minor Euphorics is a [[PsychoElectro lightning-using priest with a god complex]]. He provides his (extravagant) church for Suitengu's wedding.
* AllMenArePerverts ''and'' AllWomenAreLustful: A part of the premise, since the series deconstructs sexual liberation among other things.

** Chouji Suitengu is a HUGE bastard, but he genuinely cares for his henchmen and shows a softer spot for children [[spoiler: since he thought his sister died]].
*** In any other series, Suitengu would probably be one of the heroes, considering his StartOfDarkness.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:This is probably why Ginza ends up working as a nurse in war-torn countries]].
* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler: Dr. Nishiya, on Kagura]].

* AuthorTract: See SexIsEvil.

* BreakTheCutie: Poor Kagura.

* BreakTheHaughty: Poor Suitengu.
** Ginza too in a later episode, in which she finally learns the kind of people she's been helping by obstructing Saiga.

* ChildSoldiers: [[spoiler: Suitengu started as one of these]].

* ChromeChampion: Madame Kouganei can change into diamond.
* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: [[spoiler: Ginza and Dr. Ryougoku]].
* ClipShow: [[FramingDevice An internal audit]] illustrates the club's profits and losses over the course of the series.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Loads and loads of this in a CrapsackWorld where a debtor can be shot for being a few thousand yen short.
** A few thousand yen short? In one of the early episodes, a man is hanged for being ''ten yen short'' of his 300 million yen membership fees to the Roppongi Club.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Given that Euphoric powers are tied to sexual desire, it's kind of interesting that Saiga [[spoiler: [[ADateWithRosiePalms eventually goes blind from using his too often.]]]]
%%* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: In spite of the moral against sexual aberration, much of the {{Fanservice}} that occurs in this series is, indeed, incredibly ''hot.''
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: [[spoiler:Ginza, on an unconscious Saiga]]. [[UnfortunateImplications The show actually tries to make her seem pitiable for it]], rather than... [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic what she is.]]
* TheDragon: Tsujido, to Suitengu. Suitengu himself, to Shinzen [[spoiler:at least until he's forced to kill her]].
* DressedAllInRubber: Katsuya Shirogane's body becomes a rubber gimp suit when he was killing people.
* {{Eagleland}}: Major type two. America launches missiles at Tokyo at the end of the series [[spoiler: to kill Suitengu, who is "evidence" of the biological weapon experimentation program of which America had a part in sponsoring]]. Judging by the accent, the President is definitely UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush.

* EvilDebtCollector: Suitengu and his minions were the victims of them in the past, but also act the part themselves to anyone who is in debt after enjoying the Roppongi Club.

* EvilVersusEvil: Suitengu against some of the leaders of Parliament [[spoiler: including the Prime Minister himself]].

* EyeScream: Via FridgeLogic. At the end [[spoiler:you just see blood gushing from Saiga's eyes, and afterwards they're closed or covered by sunglasses]]; does that mean [[spoiler:his ''eyes exploded'']]?

* FastForwardToReunion: At the end of the series [[spoiler: Kagura, now an adult, comes back to Saiga and embraces him]].

* GoOutWithASmile: Rather madly played around with [[spoiler: Ekoda]]. Also, [[spoiler: Shinzen and Suitengu]].

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Shinzen]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: Ginza]].

* HeroicComedicSociopath: Ginza. "SELF DEFENSE!" ''BANG!'' [[spoiler: She gets better]].

* IOweYouMyLife: Tsujido, Makado and Niihari were rescued from slavery and torture by Suitengu. Also, Saiga owes his life to Kagura and her KissOfDeath. [[spoiler:Much earlier, Saiga believes a certain music box melody saved his life on a battleground he got trapped in. Turns out it was Suitengu's]].

** You could also count [[spoiler: Niihari, since thanks to Suitengu's machinations, he ends up as possibly the wealthiest person in Japan]]. This isn't a case where the audience feels ''that'' bad, since the character is sort of sympathetic. Not to mention, his end goal is to build a monument to honor his dead friends and savior, which is rather noble. The methods he's shown to accomplish this, however... not so much.

* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Kagura, the daughter of a supermodel-turned-financial-superpower, can also turn people's fantasies to real superpowers with her kiss. The entire series is about rescuing her ''from'' her family. [[spoiler: Or at least the first half...]]

* MadeOfDiamond: A ''literal'' example is Madame Kouganei from episodes 5-6.

* MakeMeWannaShout: [[spoiler: Ochiai]].
* MayContainEvil: Suitengu used the Tennuozu megacorp to [[spoiler: distribute products that contained a chemical that would lower people's inhibitions, making them more violent]].
* MayDecemberRomance: Kagura is 15, Saiga is 33. [[spoiler:Which is probably why they decide to wait five years before getting back together (cultural note: the age of majority in Japan is 20, as opposed to 16~18 in most of the world]].

* MurderTheHypotenuse: Ginza admits she'd love to kill Kagura. [[spoiler: She doesn't go through with it]].

* NastyParty: [[spoiler: In the final episode, Suitengu invites a bunch of particularly important, and corrupt people to the Roppongi Club and then blows it up with them inside]].

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Ginza's diminutive, cowardly, and kind of perverted boss [[spoiler: turns out to be TheMole for the villains, and has a fetish [[ShesGotLegs for women's legs]] that he pursues by cutting off with a chainsaw - including the legs of his wife and daughter]].

* OminousPipeOrgan: The WeddingDay theme is ''Music/ToccataAndFugueInDMinor''. Subtle.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Dr. Nishiya compares having the Euphoric virus to being a vampire -- especially the modern kind wherein vampirism is actually given a scientific explanation. Like vampires, euphorics have some impressive benefits to their powers, but also some quite negative drawbacks. Also true, but unmentioned, is how both exhibit the InterplayOfSexAndViolence.

** Suitengu's pardoning of play money girl's father is another example. [[spoiler: Killing the guy when he offers to sell his own daughter is an arguable example]], or it counts more as KickTheSonOfABitch.

* RealSongThemeTune: Sing with us, tropers: ''[[Music/DuranDuran Girls on Film ~]]''
** Unfortunately, when Funimation approached Duran Duran about using the song for the English release of the anime, the band found out that their record label had sold the rights to "Girls On Film." Since Duran Duran no longer owned their own song and were therefore not authorized to okay its use, Funimation instead used one of the tracks from the OST, "Shutter Speed."

* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: Suitengu sees Kagura as a replacement for his dead little sister, Yui. Saiga lampshades the trope when he directly asks this question in the GrandFinale]].

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: And HOW!

* ShadowArchetype: Suitengu has some of this in relation to Saiga, as both have very similar perspectives on the world; they just act on them very differently, and have an even closer bond in sharing a MetaOrigin [[spoiler: both contracted the virus allowing them to become Euphorics on the same island -- Saiga as a photographer; Suitengu as a young soldier]]. There's also [[spoiler: Ochiai]], who was someone Saiga considered an inspiration, but turns out to be evil, and a fellow Euphoric, and keeps pulling NotSoDifferent on Saiga during their fight.

* SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: Kagura tries that [[spoiler: when Shinzen is about to marry Suitengu]]. To say it doesn't work... it's an understatement.

* SplitPersonality: Poor Kagura seems to have no recollection of her acts as the "Divine Goddess", except in her nightmares.

* StuffBlowingUp: Basically, Saiga's power.
* TearsOfBlood: [[spoiler: Saiga, during his last fight with Suitengu]].
** Also, the victims of [[spoiler: Seiji Ochiai and his sound manipulation power]].
** Not to mention, Suitengu [[spoiler: when he mercy-kills Yui]].

* TerribleTrio: Tsujido, Makabe and Niihari fit the personality and physical requirements for a Team Rocket. And they ''would'' be a full-fledged TR, were this series a comedy... but since it's NOT, they're competent and a genuine threat to Saiga and Kagura for most of the series.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Suitengu knew he didn't have long to live and planned on his complex being destroyed with himself inside. Also in the complex is tons of money and investments, and since there's been lots of shady deals by powerful people, destroying the building means destroying Japan's economy and subsequently inducing a massive financial crisis, and this happens exactly according to plan]].

* TransformationHorror: Saiga, Suitengu and Tsujido are the only ones that do NOT go bonkers when they use their powers.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler: Poor Miharu]].
* WifeHusbandry: More deliberate in Suitengu's case, but the plan gradually grows on Saiga.
* WomanScorned: The ''true'' reason (aside of jealousy) why Shinzen is so cruel to Kagura is because [[spoiler: she has believed for at least 15 years that her husband and Kagura's father, Dr. Kazuki Odawara, abandoned her right after their marriage, when she was still pregnant with Kagura]]. It turns out [[spoiler: she was wrong. The guy was late, and then died days later, though it's ambiguous if he was murdered or if he committed suicide over the fact he didn't make it in time]].
** Which she learned ''just'' [[spoiler:as she was dying, causing her to leave the world regretting pretty much everything, especially how she'd treated her only child. [[LaserGuidedKarma This may well be deserved]]]].

* XanatosGambit: Suitengu's marriage ceremony with [[spoiler: Kagura]]. The paperwork was already completed and so there was no point if someone interupted it. If someone did, then he could justify any [[BigBrotherInstinct protective brotherly]] [[MySisterIsOffLimits feelings]] for his ReplacementGoldfish. If someone did, then he wouldn't feel bad losing her to that person. Considering that he [[spoiler: deliberately spares Saiga at the end]] the latter may be the case.
* [[spoiler: YouAreTooLate: The well-intentioned extremist variation- while Saiga manages to prevent Suitengu from killing Kagura (or at least talks him out of it), he fails to stop Suitengu from killing the movers and shakers of Japanese society and literally blowing up the world economy -- but both are sort of treated as a good thing. Also worth noting is that Saiga only lives because Suitengu decided to save his life before carrying out his ThanatosGambit]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The diamond lady. The henchmen had clearly seen what a liability her demand for diamonds had been, so were unsurprised by the execution order.

* ZettaiRyouiki: As a part of Kagura's school uniform AND her Divine Goddess outfit.

** Miharu, as well. She works for the BigBad and assassinates people, including an attempt on the main characters, but when the show delves beneath her exterior, she turns out to be rather sad and pitiful.

His curiosity piqued, Saiga decides to learn more about Kagura and her powers. When he does, he vows to free her from the Roppongi Club and the Tennouzu corrupt group (whose head is Kagura's [[EvilMatriarch ruthless mother]], Shinzen) that cruelly uses the girl for their own purposes...

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. Suitengu achieves his main goal of creating a worldwide depression, but it isn't a DownerEnding -- life simply goes on, while Kagura and Saiga find happiness]].

''Speed Grapher'' (スピードグラファー, ''Supiido Gurafaa'') is a 2005 anime series, created by {{Creator/GONZO}} Digimation and ToeiAnimation[[note]]Through their studio in the Philippines[[/note]], and with character designs by [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes Yusuke]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Ko]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates za]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes ki.]] The series ran for 24 episodes from April to October 2005. The series was licensed for release in North America by [=FUNimation=] Entertainment in 2006 and has been showing on IFC since March 7, 2008.