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* CallingCard: Sphinx spray paints the word "Von" on the floor of the nuclear fuel facility they steal the plutonium from and at the bombing sites. It isn't until the last episode that the word's significance is revealed: [[spoiler:"von" is Icelandic "hope"]].
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* CallingCard: Sphinx spray paints the word "Von" on the floor of the nuclear fuel facility they steal the plutonium from and at the bombing sites. It isn't until the last episode that the word's significance is revealed: [[spoiler:"von" is Icelandic for "hope"]].
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* WhamEpisode: Episode 10 includes [[spoiler:Five defeating Nine and killing herself. Nine decides to go and set off an atomic bomb on Japan because his press conference was stopped, revealing his face to the entire world in a pre-recorded video.]].
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* AntiVillain: Nine and Twelve commit acts of terrorism, but are firmly against murder and don't indiscriminately bomb random buildings; they plan their bombings in such a way to ensure that the building(s) are mostly or entirely empty, and the buildings themselves are connected to each other in some way. They even frantically try to stop one of their bombs after Five interferes with their tech.
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* AntiVillain: Nine and Twelve commit acts of terrorism, but are firmly against murder and don't indiscriminately bomb random buildings; they plan their bombings in such a way to ensure that the building(s) are mostly or entirely empty, and the buildings themselves are connected to each other in some way.by way of their owners. They even frantically try to stop one of their bombs after Five interferes with their tech.
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* {{Leitmotif}}:
** "walt" plays during many of Lisa's scenes.
** As with "fugl" and its arrangement, "seele".
* MeaningfulEcho: %%stopped here
** Episode 1: "Fly high, Lisa!"
** Episode 4: "Know thyself."
** Episode 5: "Are you ready?"
* MoodWhiplash: The incredibly upbeat scenes [[spoiler:near the end of the last episode. Tokyo is left without power and Nine, Twelve, and Lisa go to play around and enjoy themselves near the Athena Plan orphans' burial sites.]]
* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:Five gives one to Twelve. Betray Nine and save Lisa, or let Lisa die and protect Nine]].
** "walt" plays during many of Lisa's scenes.
** As with "fugl" and its arrangement, "seele".
* MeaningfulEcho: %%stopped here
** Episode 1: "Fly high, Lisa!"
** Episode 4: "Know thyself."
** Episode 5: "Are you ready?"
* MoodWhiplash: The incredibly upbeat scenes [[spoiler:near the end of the last episode. Tokyo is left without power and Nine, Twelve, and Lisa go to play around and enjoy themselves near the Athena Plan orphans' burial sites.]]
* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:Five gives one to Twelve. Betray Nine and save Lisa, or let Lisa die and protect Nine]].
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* {{Leitmotif}}:
**{{Leitmotif}}: "walt" plays during many of Lisa's scenes.
** As with "fugl" and its arrangement, "seele".
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** Episode 1: "Fly high, Lisa!"
**Lisa!"** Episode 4: "Know thyself."
**"** Episode 5: "Are you ready?"
* MoodWhiplash:The incredibly upbeat scenes [[spoiler:near the end of In the last episode. Tokyo is left without power and Nine, episode, [[spoiler:Nine, Twelve, and Lisa go to play around and enjoy themselves near the Athena Plan orphans' burial sites.]]
* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:Five gives one to Twelve. Betraysites. They play around and enjoy themselves for once now that Sphinx's mission has been achieved. Shibazaki shows up and calmly talks about recent events with Sphinx. Then some American military helicopters randomly show up with armed soldiers inside. Nine pulls out a detonator button and save Lisa, or let Lisa die and protect Nine]].threatens to push it, but the American's are ordered to fire anyway, with Twelve being their first victim. Nine hands off the detonator to Shibazaki before dying from the aftereffects of the Athena experimentation]].
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** Sphinx's plots are structured so that, despite their destructiveness, ''nobody is killed''. [[spoiler:Subverted in that Twelve has ''zero'' qualms about letting Lisa die if she decides not to join Sphinx.]]
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** Sphinx's plots are structured so that, despite their destructiveness, ''nobody nobody is killed''. [[spoiler:Subverted killed. Subverted in that Twelve has ''zero'' qualms about letting Lisa die if she decides not to join Sphinx.]]
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* TheNewTens: The show's set in 2014. Particularly in the month of July.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few casualties; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name a few... ''thousand''.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted: the politician whom Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler:The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx; Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a genuine miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
* RiddleMeThis: The way Sphinx hints at where they place their bombs.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few casualties; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name a few... ''thousand''.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted: the politician whom Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler:The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx; Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a genuine miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
* RiddleMeThis: The way Sphinx hints at where they place their bombs.
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* TheNewTens: The show's show is set in 2014. Particularly in July 2014, the same year and month of July.
it began airing.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few casualties; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name afew... ''thousand''.few thousand]].
* NoPartyGiven: Averted; the politician whom Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx. Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a ''genuine'' miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
* NoPartyGiven: Averted: the politician whom Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler:The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx; Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a genuine miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
*%%* RiddleMeThis: The way Sphinx hints at where they place their bombs.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Even with a few hours to prepare for it, it's doubtful that [[spoiler:an EMP blast over Japan would not result in at least a few casualties; like everyone on hospitalized life support, such as premature infants, and countless people trampled under the inevitably ensuing wave of panicked civil unrest, just to name a
* NoPartyGiven: Averted; the politician whom Shibazaki interviews in Episode 8 is clearly stated on a campaign poster to be part of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main powerhouse party of Japanese politics.
* RelocatingTheExplosion: The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx. Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a ''genuine'' miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
* RelocatingTheExplosion: [[spoiler:The Kururi-bomb Twelve gives Lisa is meant to kill her if she doesn't join Sphinx; Nine has her use it to blow a hole in a wall to facilitate her escape.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve didn't steal plutonium from the reprocessing facility: it was a genuine miniaturized nuclear bomb secretly built by the Japanese government in blatant violation of international treaties.]]
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** [[spoiler:You can die where you are, or become an accomplice.]]
** In Episode 9, Five gives Twelve one: [[spoiler:Disclose the location of the nuke they stole and thus betray Nine, or die together with Lisa]].
* RomanticRideSharing: Happens when Twelve comes on his bike to take Lisa away from the cops and she gets to enjoy the air as it hits her face during the whole ride. She proceeds to ask him if they are gonna destroy the world which he doesn't answer.
* SceneryPorn: One episode and the animation is already getting overwhelming praise.
** SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:All the children from the institution have their days numbered because of the drugs they took while being raised/trained there. Five hides it well at the beginning, but it becomes quickly clear that her physical state is worse than Nine and Twelve, and she bites the dust first by committing suicide. Nine's body fails him in the last episode. As for Twelve, he would probably have died the same way as Nine had he not been shot.]]
* ShoutOut: Episode 4 features a purple-haired {{Expy}} of [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].
** In Episode 9, Five gives Twelve one: [[spoiler:Disclose the location of the nuke they stole and thus betray Nine, or die together with Lisa]].
* RomanticRideSharing: Happens when Twelve comes on his bike to take Lisa away from the cops and she gets to enjoy the air as it hits her face during the whole ride. She proceeds to ask him if they are gonna destroy the world which he doesn't answer.
* SceneryPorn: One episode and the animation is already getting overwhelming praise.
** SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:All the children from the institution have their days numbered because of the drugs they took while being raised/trained there. Five hides it well at the beginning, but it becomes quickly clear that her physical state is worse than Nine and Twelve, and she bites the dust first by committing suicide. Nine's body fails him in the last episode. As for Twelve, he would probably have died the same way as Nine had he not been shot.]]
* ShoutOut: Episode 4 features a purple-haired {{Expy}} of [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].
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** [[spoiler:You In Episode 1, Lisa catches Twelve while he's in the middle of setting down some bomb-stuffed Kururi dolls. He gives her one of the dolls with the promise that she not let go of it. Later, after a brief discussion with Nine, Twelve calls Lisa to tell her that she can die where you are, or become Sphinx's accomplice or she can die. Not wanting to die, Lisa agrees to be an accomplice.]]
accomplice.
** In Episode 9,Five gives [[spoiler:Five calls Twelve one: [[spoiler:Disclose to offer him a deal: she'll stop the location of countdown timer to the nuke they stole and thus betray bomb strapped to Lisa if he tells her where Sphinx left the plutonium or he can stay loyal to Nine, or but die together along with Lisa]].
with Lisa. Close to the very last second, Twelve breaks and gives Five the location. True to her word, Five stops the timer]].
* RomanticRideSharing:Happens when Twelve comes on rides his bike to take Lisa away from the cops and she gets to enjoy the air as it hits her face during the whole ride. She proceeds to ask him if they Sphinx are gonna actually destroy the world which he world. He doesn't answer.
* SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.
%%* SceneryPorn: One episode and the animation is already getting overwhelming praise.
** SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.
* SecretlyDying: [[spoiler:All the children from the institution have their days numbered because of the drugs they took while being raised/trained there. Five hides it well at the beginning, but it becomes quickly clear that her physical state is worse than Nine and Twelve, and she bites the dust decides to kill herself first by committing suicide. before the disease can. In the last episode, Nine's body fails him in the last episode. As for Twelve, he would probably have died the same way as Nine had he not been shortly after Twelve gets shot.]]
* ShoutOut: In Episode4 4, the digital bomb features a purple-haired {{Expy}} of [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]].
** In Episode 9,
* RomanticRideSharing:
* SceneryGorn: Scenes of destruction get just as much attention as scenes of beauty.
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* ShoutOut: In Episode
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** During a briefing meeting, the police mention that Sphinx uploaded their threat video to the internet using a software called TOR to avoid detection. TOR is real, and it's short for The Onion Router; it's a technology that allows internet access through a series of proxy servers to avoid detection, similar to the layers of an onion.
** The mechanics behind the thermite bombs and the subsequent phreatic explosion are accurate to real-world physics.
** The mechanics behind the thermite bombs and the subsequent phreatic explosion are accurate to real-world physics.
** During a briefing meeting, the police mention that Sphinx uploaded their threat video to the internet using a software called TOR to avoid detection. TOR- short for The Onion Router- is a real software: it's a technology that allows internet access through a series of proxy servers to avoid detection, similar to the layers of an onion.
** The mechanics behind the thermite bombs and the subsequent phreatic explosion are accurate to real-world physics.
** The mechanics behind the thermite bombs and the subsequent phreatic explosion are accurate to real-world physics.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]]. This is an anime about terrorism, but Yuuki Ozaki's voice is somehow just so ''soothing''...
* StealthPun: The episode that Five is introduced in is, of course, Episode 5.
* TeensAreMonsters: There's Nine and Twelve being terrorists, and Lisa's merciless bullies.
* ThouShaltNotKill: How Sphinx's plans are laid out: causing destruction and terror with no casualties, if possible.
* TimeSkip: There's one in the final episode of a year.
* {{Tragedy}}: Nine and Twelve are determined to reveal their pasts to the world at any cost, and this determination [[spoiler: leads to their deaths.]]
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Nine, Twelve, and Lisa.
* VillainProtagonist: Two of the protagonists are terrorists who are planting bombs all over Tokyo. [[spoiler: Granted, [[AntiVillain they're going out of their way to make sure no one dies.]]]]
* VoiceOfReason: Clarence is duty-bound, honor-bound, and very by-the-book. Unfortunately, he is paired with Five, who wants to ruthlessly pursue a very personal "game" against Sphinx that will clearly endanger others.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Episode 7 is 20 minutes of this. Both literally and figuratively.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 10. [[spoiler:Five defeats Nine and kills herself, but the real wham moment is Nine deciding to go and set off an atomic bomb on Japan because his press conference was stopped.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lisa's mother, who was never mentioned again after episode 3, and we never found out who Lisa's DisappearedDad was.
* YouAreNumberSix: The names of our resident bomb-throwers are Nine, Twelve and [[spoiler:Five]], courtesy of the Rising Peace Academy.
* StealthPun: The episode that Five is introduced in is, of course, Episode 5.
* TeensAreMonsters: There's Nine and Twelve being terrorists, and Lisa's merciless bullies.
* ThouShaltNotKill: How Sphinx's plans are laid out: causing destruction and terror with no casualties, if possible.
* TimeSkip: There's one in the final episode of a year.
* {{Tragedy}}: Nine and Twelve are determined to reveal their pasts to the world at any cost, and this determination [[spoiler: leads to their deaths.]]
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Nine, Twelve, and Lisa.
* VillainProtagonist: Two of the protagonists are terrorists who are planting bombs all over Tokyo. [[spoiler: Granted, [[AntiVillain they're going out of their way to make sure no one dies.]]]]
* VoiceOfReason: Clarence is duty-bound, honor-bound, and very by-the-book. Unfortunately, he is paired with Five, who wants to ruthlessly pursue a very personal "game" against Sphinx that will clearly endanger others.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Episode 7 is 20 minutes of this. Both literally and figuratively.
* WhamEpisode: Episode 10. [[spoiler:Five defeats Nine and kills herself, but the real wham moment is Nine deciding to go and set off an atomic bomb on Japan because his press conference was stopped.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lisa's mother, who was never mentioned again after episode 3, and we never found out who Lisa's DisappearedDad was.
* YouAreNumberSix: The names of our resident bomb-throwers are Nine, Twelve and [[spoiler:Five]], courtesy of the Rising Peace Academy.
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* TwoGuysAndAGirl:
* VillainProtagonist: Two of the protagonists are terrorists who
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* WhamEpisode: Episode
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Lisa's overbearing mother is never mentioned again after Episode 3. [[spoiler:The final episodes doesn't even bring up whether or not Lisa went back to live with her or managed to break free.]]
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!!Tropes in Resonance:
* AllAccordingToPlan: Said by Nine during Sphinx's first plot.
* AntiVillain: Nine and Twelve seems to be this as part of their agenda.
* AnyoneCanDie: The final episodes feature a lot of this. [[spoiler: Even Nine and Twelve die in the last one.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: The VillainProtagonist duo [[spoiler:accomplish their objective, and also set off a nuclear weapon over Japan.]]
* BatmanGambit: Sphinx's bombing plots rely on predicting how people and public services will act after various diversions or threats, usually with the result being that [[ThouShaltNotKill no one is killed.]]
* BilingualBonus: The song '''von''', which plays during the Ferris Wheel scene, makes sense if you know Icelandic.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Nine and Twelve both die, but they manage to reveal the truth about their past to the world through Shibazaki. Lisa also lives and moves on with her life. Also, Japan most likely has to rebuild after having their entire country lose access to all electricity-based technology for a while. So far, progress has been made with Tokyo being the first city to have electricity back, while the conspirators of the Athena Plan are arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.]]
* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like LINE and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like Tor, Creator/{{Amazon}} and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
* BlatantLies:
-->'''Nine:''' I don't have a cell phone or anything.\\
''[phone rings]''
* AllAccordingToPlan: Said by Nine during Sphinx's first plot.
* AntiVillain: Nine and Twelve seems to be this as part of their agenda.
* AnyoneCanDie: The final episodes feature a lot of this. [[spoiler: Even Nine and Twelve die in the last one.]]
* TheBadGuyWins: The VillainProtagonist duo [[spoiler:accomplish their objective, and also set off a nuclear weapon over Japan.]]
* BatmanGambit: Sphinx's bombing plots rely on predicting how people and public services will act after various diversions or threats, usually with the result being that [[ThouShaltNotKill no one is killed.]]
* BilingualBonus: The song '''von''', which plays during the Ferris Wheel scene, makes sense if you know Icelandic.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Nine and Twelve both die, but they manage to reveal the truth about their past to the world through Shibazaki. Lisa also lives and moves on with her life. Also, Japan most likely has to rebuild after having their entire country lose access to all electricity-based technology for a while. So far, progress has been made with Tokyo being the first city to have electricity back, while the conspirators of the Athena Plan are arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.]]
* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like LINE and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like Tor, Creator/{{Amazon}} and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
* BlatantLies:
-->'''Nine:''' I don't have a cell phone or anything.\\
''[phone rings]''
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%%* AllAccordingToPlan: Said by Nine during Sphinx's first plot.
* AntiVillain: Nine and Twelve
*
%%* AnyoneCanDie: The final episodes feature a lot of this. [[spoiler: Even Nine and Twelve die in the last one.]]
* TheBadGuyWins:
* BatmanGambit: Sphinx's bombing plots rely on predicting how people and public services will act after various diversions or threats, usually with the result being that [[ThouShaltNotKill no one is
%%* BilingualBonus: The insert song "Von" makes sense if you know Icelandic.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Nine and Twelve both die, but they manage to reveal the truth about their past to the world through Shibazaki. Lisa also lives and manages to move on. Japan most likely has to rebuild after having their entire country lose access to all electricity-based technology for a while. One year after the nuclear bombing, Tokyo is the first city to have electricity back, while the conspirators of the Athena Plan are arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Nine and Twelve both die, but they manage to reveal the truth about their past to the world through Shibazaki. Lisa also lives and moves on with her life. Also, Japan most likely has to rebuild after having their entire country lose access to all electricity-based technology for a while. So far, progress has been made with Tokyo being the first city to have electricity back, while the conspirators of the Athena Plan are arrested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police.]]
* BlatantLies:
%%* BlatantLies: -->'''Nine:''' I don't have a cell phone or anything.
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* CallingCard: "VON" for Sphinx.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: [[spoiler:Nine plants a bomb in a police station under the guise of a food delivery.]]
* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler:The thermite bomb Kururi dolls trigger the fire alarms, the water from which triggers an even ''stronger'' explosion. In the process, the building is evacuated before the second explosion.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]]. This is an anime about terrorism, but Yuuki Ozaki's voice is somehow just so ''soothing''...
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: [[spoiler:Nine plants a bomb in a police station under the guise of a food delivery.]]
* DisasterDominoes: [[spoiler:The thermite bomb Kururi dolls trigger the fire alarms, the water from which triggers an even ''stronger'' explosion. In the process, the building is evacuated before the second explosion.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]]. This is an anime about terrorism, but Yuuki Ozaki's voice is somehow just so ''soothing''...
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* CallingCard: "VON" for Sphinx.
Sphinx spray paints the word "Von" on the floor of the nuclear fuel facility they steal the plutonium from and at the bombing sites. It isn't until the last episode that the word's significance is revealed: [[spoiler:"von" is Icelandic "hope"]].
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration:[[spoiler:Nine Nine plants a bomb in a police station under the guise of a food delivery.]]
ramen delivery guy.
* DisasterDominoes:[[spoiler:The The thermite bomb Kururi dolls trigger the fire alarms, the water from which triggers an even ''stronger'' explosion. In the process, the building is evacuated before the second explosion.]]
* DissonantSerenity: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]].This is an anime about terrorism, but Yuuki Ozaki's voice is somehow just so ''soothing''...destroys the key infrastructure of one of the towers of the Home Office, resulting in that section's collapse.
* DeliveryGuyInfiltration:
* DisasterDominoes:
* DissonantSerenity: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]].
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** The cover poster is [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror two towers spewing smoke and flames,]] just in case you were wondering what theme the show's about.
** The names of the VillainProtagonist[=s=], 9 and 12, may be another, albeit flimsy, reference to 9/11.
** The ruins that result from the first attack also ''heavily'' resemble that of the World Trade Center during its immediate aftermath.
** Nine dropping a smoke bomb in the subway in episode 5 brings to mind the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Nine removes his mask at the end of the pre-recorded video message at the end of Episode 10 after announcing that the atomic bomb is set to explode at 10 PM, revealing his face to the world. "Goodbye, Japan" indeed.]]
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler: Shibazaki solves Sphinx's riddle in episode 3 thanks to his coworker's video game. Happens again in episode 4.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: Five engineers one by orchestrating a terror attack at Haneda Airport to blame Sphinx for the casualties. She later does another one on the TMPD prisoner convoy in order to conduct a "blacker than black" op.
* {{Flashback}}: Nine has one of his past. Also doubles as a DreamSequence.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "You should've sacrificed your queen."
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:The Japanese government was involved in a series of experimentation on Japanese orphans. This ended when the American government found out about it.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Episode 6 has a part where Five and her team [[spoiler:are watching Twelve and Nine at the airport]]. Five is speaking in English, but her pronunciation is extremely stilted and unnatural. Her cohort Clarence, on the other hand, has an actor who is fluent in English as well as Japanese... and a thick British accent [[note]]He is meant to be an American[[/note]].
** The names of the VillainProtagonist[=s=], 9 and 12, may be another, albeit flimsy, reference to 9/11.
** The ruins that result from the first attack also ''heavily'' resemble that of the World Trade Center during its immediate aftermath.
** Nine dropping a smoke bomb in the subway in episode 5 brings to mind the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Nine removes his mask at the end of the pre-recorded video message at the end of Episode 10 after announcing that the atomic bomb is set to explode at 10 PM, revealing his face to the world. "Goodbye, Japan" indeed.]]
* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler: Shibazaki solves Sphinx's riddle in episode 3 thanks to his coworker's video game. Happens again in episode 4.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: Five engineers one by orchestrating a terror attack at Haneda Airport to blame Sphinx for the casualties. She later does another one on the TMPD prisoner convoy in order to conduct a "blacker than black" op.
* {{Flashback}}: Nine has one of his past. Also doubles as a DreamSequence.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: "You should've sacrificed your queen."
* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:The Japanese government was involved in a series of experimentation on Japanese orphans. This ended when the American government found out about it.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: Episode 6 has a part where Five and her team [[spoiler:are watching Twelve and Nine at the airport]]. Five is speaking in English, but her pronunciation is extremely stilted and unnatural. Her cohort Clarence, on the other hand, has an actor who is fluent in English as well as Japanese... and a thick British accent [[note]]He is meant to be an American[[/note]].
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** The cover One of the series' key visuals is a poster is depictiting [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror two towers spewing smoke and flames,]] just flames]] in case you were wondering what theme the show's about.
** The names of the VillainProtagonist[=s=], 9 and 12, may be another, albeit flimsy, reference to 9/11.
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** The ruins that result from the first attackalso ''heavily'' resemble that of the World Trade Center during its immediate aftermath.
** Nine dropping a smoke bomb in the subway inepisode Episode 5 brings to mind the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Nine removes his mask at the end of the pre-recorded video message at the end of Episode 10 after announcing that the atomic bomb is set to explode at 10 PM, revealing his face to the world. "Goodbye, Japan" indeed.]]
* EurekaMoment:[[spoiler: Shibazaki [[spoiler:Shibazaki solves Sphinx's riddle in episode Episode 3 thanks to his coworker's video game. Happens again in episode 4.game.]]
* FalseFlagOperation: Five engineersone a false flag operation by orchestrating a terror attack at Haneda Airport to blame Sphinx for the casualties. She later does another one on the TMPD prisoner convoy in order to conduct a "blacker than black" op.
* {{Flashback}}: Ninehas one will sometimes have flashes of memories from his past. Also doubles as a DreamSequence.
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* DramaticUnmask: [[spoiler:Nine removes his mask at the end of the pre-recorded video message at the end of Episode 10 after announcing that the atomic bomb is set to explode at 10 PM, revealing his face to the world.
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* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Nine, Twelve and Five are all going through this due to being SecretlyDying.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:American special forces were ordered to assassinate Nine and Twelve due to their personal involvement with Five.]]
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler:Nine, Twelve and Five are all going through this due to being SecretlyDying.]]
* LeaveNoWitnesses: [[spoiler:American special forces were ordered to assassinate Nine and Twelve due to their personal involvement with Five.]]
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* SoundtrackDissonance: Out-of-universe example with the opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1ARRcK4LVs Trigger]]. This is an anime about terrorism, but Yuuki Ozaki's voice is somehow just so ''soothing''...
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From Studio Creator/{{MAPPA}}, ''Terror in Resonance'' (''Zankyou no Terror'') is a Summer2014Anime directed by Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe with music composed by Music/YokoKanno.
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* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like LINE and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like Tor, Creator/{{Amazon}} and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
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* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} "[[Website/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like LINE and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like Tor, Creator/{{Amazon}} and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
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* RomanticRideSharing: Happens when Twelve comes on his bike to take Lisa away from the cops and she gets to enjoy the air as it hits her face during the whole ride. She proceeds to ask him if they are gonna destroy the world which he doesn't answer.
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* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins:]] The VillainProtagonist duo [[spoiler:accomplish their objective, and also set off a nuclear weapon over Japan.]]
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* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) LINE]] and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOR_(onion_network) Tor]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon]] and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
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* BlandNameProduct: Applied inconsistently. The ever-ubiquitous "[[UsefulNotes/{{Mcdonalds}} [=Wcdonald's=]]]" is present, as well as other knock-offs like "[[Website/{{GOOGLE}} Goodgle]]" and "[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} Wikipedio]]", and several unnamed smartphone apps are clearly meant to resemble real-world apps like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_(application) LINE]] LINE and ''VideoGame/PuzzleAndDragons''. Some real names, like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOR_(onion_network) Tor]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon]] Tor, Creator/{{Amazon}} and Website/YouTube, also appear, however.
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** Nine dropping a smoke bomb in the subway in episode 5 brings to mind [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack the Aum Shinrikyo cult's sarin gas attack]] on the Tokyo subway in 1995.
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** During a briefing meeting, the police mention that Sphinx uploaded their threat video to the internet using a software called TOR to avoid detection. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion_Router TOR is real, and it's short for The Onion Router; it's a technology that allows internet access through a series of proxy servers to avoid detection, similar to the layers of an onion]].
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** During a briefing meeting, the police mention that Sphinx uploaded their threat video to the internet using a software called TOR to avoid detection. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion_Router TOR is real, and it's short for The Onion Router; it's a technology that allows internet access through a series of proxy servers to avoid detection, similar to the layers of an onion]].onion.
