History Manga / TentaiSenshiSunred

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: As noted in FanServicePack below for Kayoko's beauty evolution in the manga, the anime disregards her initial plain and chubby design, to stick with the later hot housewife from the very begining.

* RetiredBadass: Sunred, as well as his former teammates Weather Blue and Yellow, are all retired from hero life. Partially this seems to be because their 'villains' [[Harmless are about as dangerous to Kawazaki City as a bingo club for elders]], but it's also implied they couldn't stand to stay together as a team any more. Despite not actively doing heroics any more Sunred is still ludicrously powerful, and he tends to curb-stomp whatever monsters Florsheim 'challenge' him with.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Inverted by Florsheim's Kawazaki division. They are genuinely powerful as Evil Organizations go, even by national standards (they are mentioned to have franchises all across Japan), but Sunred (and the other two members of the Weather Three) were so enormously ahead of them that they end up looking incompetent by comparison. Some of Florsheim's monsters have shown the ability to speed across the sound barrier, break mountains in half, and P-chan can launch nuclear missiles. [[spoiler:When another up-and-coming evil organization who have killed four Sentai heroes [[MoreEvilThanThou tries to hone in on their turf]] Armor Tiger curb-stomps the entire group without even having his Armor.]]

* IllKillYou

* IneffectualDeathThreat: Hellwolf's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAujonWr1Q&t=00m34s "Omae-tachi! Kolo-chu!"]] ("Kolo-chu" is an extremely cutesy-sounding mispronunciation of the word "korosu", which means "to kill")

A DeconstructiveParody of {{Toku}} created by Makoto Kubota in 2005, Tentai Senshi Sunred (Astro Fighter Sunred) runs on ''Young [=GanGan=]'', a {{Seinen}} magazine. Currently there are 12 Volumes published. In 2008 the manga got an AnimatedAdaptation running for 26 episodes, later in 2009 a 2nd Season was made, also with 26 episodes.

* TalkingToHimself" In the anime. Sunred, Kayoko, Vamp, Combat Goon #1, Hengel, and Night Owl are the only ones who have unique voice actors, with the remaining Florsheim monsters and background characters sharing a handful of voice actors. This trope naturally ensues.

* ChristmasCake: Kayoko, who's near 30. She already has a boyfriend, so she's lucky in that regard.

* AffectionateParody: Of the Sentai genre. Exactly what ''do'' {{Sentai}} heroes do when they hit middle age? It doesn't exactly look good on a resume, and it's not like they have retirement benefits.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: Sunred is never seen doing any of the heroic things he does near the end of the credits in the show itself, though he apparently did them at one point. The second season furthers this, including more power-up weapons and attacks that the audience will never actually see Sunred using.
** The first opening theme does show him selling his superbike and donning his civvies (plus mask), so it's not entirely bait-and-switch. Likewise, the second opening has him charging his gun from a wall socket.

* ComicallyInvincibleHero: Sunred would be boring if the show was at all about a standard Sentai dynamic, which it is not.

* EvilTastesGood: And they'll show you how to cook!

* GoKartingWithBowser: The series in its entirety.

Sunred is a bit of a jerk who wears his mask at all times. While mooching off of his girlfriend Kayoko, he deals with Florsheim on a daily basis, just not as you'd expect. He's on (grudgingly) friendly terms with General Vamp, and helps him move into a new house, clean his place, and occasionally meet to fight as heroes and villains do. The support cast consists of several monsters from Florsheim and other evil organizations going about their daily lives, as well as several of Sunred's fellow heroes.

* NamesTheSame: A meta example; Weather Yellow is Takuya Kimura, which is also the name of a famous actor/singer in Japan.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: "You oughta quit the world domination thing and open a restaraunt."

* IResembleThatRemark: In one skit, Sunred ends up surprising Vamp and the combat goons in the middle of their weekly "kill Sunred" planning meeting. Vamp and the goons panic and flip the whiteboard they'd been writing on, which turns out to have a list of Red's three main swears on the backside. Red, spotting the list and incensed that he's so easily to boil down, begins cussing out Vamp and the goons with the first line, only to realize halfway through the second what he's doing. Que awkward silence while Vamp and the goons [[UnSoundEffect stare at him]].

* IResembleThatRemark: In one skit, Sunred ends up surprising Vamp and the combat goons in the middle of their weekly "kill Sunred" planning meeting. Vamp and the goons panic and flip the whiteboard they'd been writing on, which turns out to have a list of Red's three main swears on the backside. Red, spotting the list and incensed that he's so easily to boil down, begins cussing out Vamp and the goons with the first line, only to realize halfway through the second what he's doing. Que awkward silence while Vamp and the goons [[UnSoundEffect stare at him]].

* IResembleThatRemark: In one skit, Sunred ends up surprising Vamp and the combat goons in the middle of their weekly "kill Sunred" planning meeting. Vamp and the goons panic and flip the whiteboard they'd been writing on, which turns out to have a list of Red's three main swears on them. Red, incensed that he's so easily to boil down, begins cussing out Vamp and the goons with the first line, only to realize halfway through the second what he's doing. Que awkward silence while Vamp and the goons [[UnSoundEffect stare at him]].

* EvilerThanThou: One short involves an Evil Organization called Devil Eye Army wanting to set up shop in Kawazaki and becoming Sunred's ArchEnemy. Sunred points out he already ''has'' an 'arch-enemy', so Devil Eye Army decide to beat up Florsheim. [[spoiler:They get completely trashed by Armor Tiger on his day off.]]

* ComicallyInvincibleHero: Sunred would be a BoringInvincibleHero if the show was at all about a standard Sentai dynamic, which it is not.

* AccidentalMisnaming -- The first time Sunred and Hengel meet, Hengel steadfastly refuses to get Sunred's name right, calling him "Red Moon", "Red Mask" and "Star Red", among others.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness -- As noted in FanServicePack below for Kayoko's beauty evolution in the manga, the anime disregards her initial plain and chubby design, to stick with the later hot housewife from the very begining.
* AffectionateParody -- Of the Sentai genre. Exactly what ''do'' {{Sentai}} heroes do when they hit middle age? It doesn't exactly look good on a resume, and it's not like they have retirement benefits.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter -- One episode deals with Sunred's feelings of inadequacy when stacked up against Shachihokoider Great. It is subverted when Vamp reveals that Shachikoider is a lying liar: His nephew works in the evil organization Shachihokoider is supposed to be the ArchEnemy of, and they've never heard of him.
* AmusingInjuries -- In the anime, Sunred's beatdowns usually result in this.
* AntagonistInMourning -- Vamp goes through this on a more personal level. Sunred's not dead, he's just angry at them, ridding Vamp of the dynamic he's used to. Which is, oddly, him being angry and lecturing them.
* ArtShift -- A special chapter contained in the first Volume of the manga has a few instances with Sunred and Vamp drawn in high-detailed art; it is from a manga that one of Vamp's underlings, Duo, drew himself, and Sunred and Vamp are the ones reading it. In truth it was a joint work with Sunred's creator, Makoto Kubota, and Ji-Hyoung Song (DOUBLE-S) the artist of ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart''; DOUBLE-S is the one drawing the high-detailed bits of the chapter.
* AudienceShift -- The manga is explicitly {{seinen}}. The anime was made LighterAndSofter and ended up completely kid-friendly (without really losing much of the subversive humour of the original), and ran on the Japanese KIDS channel in an evening timeslot.
* BadBadActing -- Florsheim's attempt at a 'hostage' taking, complete with delivering their demands to Sunred via video tape. "Mister X" (Vamp with a paper bag on his head) reads his lines incredibly flat, and the "hostage" (who is seen happily playing video games) has to be prompted to utter a very unconvincing "help, save me.".
* BaitAndSwitchCredits -- Sunred is never seen doing any of the heroic things he does near the end of the credits in the show itself, though he apparently did them at one point. The second season furthers this, including more power-up weapons and attacks that the audience will never actually see Sunred using.

* BewareTheNiceOnes -- Weather Yellow is openly friendly towards Vamp and Florsheim and happily joins them for food and drink and wastes away the evening laughing about the good old days... But when two of the monsters ask him for a practice round, he goes all out and turns out to be a much more vicious fighter than Sunred.
* {{BFG}} -- The Corona Buster, an oversized gun whose blasts are visible from space, appears in the second season's opening.
* BigEater -- Tiser, who eats near-constantly and with childlike enthusiasm.
* BigFun -- Weather Yellow, who has what several characters describe as "a hell of a beer belly" and is a total blast to hang out with.
* BossSubtitles -- For hero, monster and human alike.
* ChasteHero -- Villain edition though. All the sexual references and innuendos seem to pass over Vamp's head.
* ChristmasCake -- Kayoko, who's near 30. She already has a boyfriend, so she's lucky in that regard.
* ClothesMakeTheSuperman -- Averted. In a total break from the general Sentai and Tokusatsu medium, Sunred does not need his costume to keep his SuperStrength, [[NighInvulnerable Nigh Invulnerability]] or any other powers. He does constantly keep his CoolMask on (which does have some air filters and other abilities), and apparently ''has'' a costume that grants him a power-up (called "Firebird Form"), but the former appears to be a stylistic choice and the latter is kept stashed in Sunred's closet because he never needs it. The one time he ends up dressing up as some other sentai hero, it doesn't seem to change his power level at all.
* ComicallyInvincibleHero -- Sunred would be a BoringInvincibleHero if the show was at all about a standard Sentai dynamic, which it is not.
* CommanderContrarian -- Antkiller will generally gainsay (and subsequently abuse) his two mole sidekicks on general principle. See also {{Jerkass}}.
* ContractualGenreBlindness -- Florsheim. Despite being constantly curb-stomped and otherwise completely non-villainous they still follow genre conventions and fight Sunred on a weekly basis, because they're an Evil Organization and fighting heroes is what Evil Organizations do. Sunred is much less genre blind and finds the whole thing annoying, though apparently not annoying enough to actually try to stop it.
* CookingShow -- General Vamp's Quick Recipes, a regular segment. Season 2 introduces Vamp & Kayoko's Quick Recipes.
* CoolMask -- Sunred is [[TheFaceless never seen without his mask]].
* CoolOldGuy -- Vamp. It's unknown exactly ''how'' old, but he seems to be in his fifties in the very least and a veteran in the sentai villains biz.
* CouchGag -- The end of the opening has Sunred selling his bike for an increasingly lower price. Season 2's opening features the Sun Shoot slowly charging up after its use (except for the episode where Kayoko unplugged it so she could vacuum the apartment). The intensity of the blast of the Corona Buster (as seen from space) also changes in each episode.

* {{Crossover}} -- The Pudding Empire, which appears in the first half of season 2, are from ''Go! Go! Pudding Empire'', creator Makoto Kubota's previous work.
* CurbStompBattle -- Sunred vs. anyone. However, because the show isn't about the fight between good and evil, it doesn't really matter.

* CutenessProximity -- Almost anyone when they get near the Animal Soldiers. Special mention goes to Reiji, a stuffed dog who's the intersection of this and TheCasanova as the best selling host of a club.

* CutLexLuthorACheck -- "You oughta quit the world domination thing and open a restaraunt."
* {{Cyborg}} -- Parodied (of course) when Florsheim's scientist create a hideous Monster-Machine Fusion Cyborg by combining a horrible moth monster with... A piece of water pipe. Red is notably unimpressed.
* DeathbringerTheAdorable -- Hellwolf, the newest member of the Animal Soldiers, who's as cute as Usa and the rest. {{Subverted}} in that he actually is [[OneWingedAngel terrifying]] under the full moon. But [[WeaksauceWeakness the moon has to be fully out]]. A cloudy night (which is when Vamp schedules the fight) [[DoubleSubverted renders him powerless]].
* DigYourOwnGrave -- In one episode, the Animal Soldiers are saving time by digging Red's grave in the sand of a children's playground. Red and Kayoko pass by and ask them what they're doing. Usacots honestly tells Kayoko that they're digging Red's grave. Kayoko says they are going to get dirty with sand, and asks Red to dig his grave himself instead.
* DirtyOldMan -- Hengel is a proud pervert.
* DoAnythingRobot -- Is there anything P-chan can't do?
* DrunkOnMilk -- Vamp, on cola.
* EmbarrassingRingtone -- Vamp gets a new cell phone and uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfN5pnDs2G0 an instrumental of "Shuchishin"]] (a dated OneHitWonder[[invoked]] even at the show's release date) as his ringtone. The combat goons immediately point out how [[TotallyRadical stereotypically 'old man' this is of him]]. Vamp later gets stuck in Sunred's closet while trying to hide from two of his drunk {{jerkass}} colleagues and the phone promptly goes off with Vamp unable to figure out how to turn it off.
* EmergencyImpersonation -- Sunred once receives the suit of Sakyun, a fellow toku hero, back from the laundromat. So he decides to put it on and impersonate his friend. Sunred-as-Sakyun then goes off to fight Florsheim for the hell of it. Curiously, this is the closest Sunred ever gets to acting like an actual toku hero, and he's not even in his own outfit.
* EvilOldFolks -- Vamp. [[HarmlessVillain For a certain level of 'evil']].
* EvilTastesGood -- And they'll show you how to cook!
* EvilerThanThou -- One short involves an Evil Organization called Devil Eye Army wanting to set up shop in Kawazaki and becoming Sunred's ArchEnemy. Sunred points out he already ''has'' an 'arch-enemy', so Devil Eye Army decide to beat up Florsheim. [[spoiler:They get completely trashed by Armor Tiger on his day off.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards -- The Animal Soldiers are almost never sent to fight Sunred because they're so weak that local children bully them... Yet when Peeled Shrimp asks if he can join them, they're very reluctant in hearing him out.

* FaceHeelTurn -- In ''Sunred'' fashion, even the FaceHeelTurn is twisted. Junior superhero Night Man was mentored by Sunred. However, in his heart he felt he was not a hero but a villain. So even when he "defects" to Florsheim and becomes Night Owl, it only mildly annoys Sunred. Things are made even worse (for Sunred) when Night Owl's father and brother Night Father and Night Brother (two other heroes) come all the way from Yamaguchi to support Night Owl's new career path. This still doesn't stop Sunred from doing his usual CurbStompBattle against a Florsheim minion.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption -- Obviously Florsheim are never going to be able to defeat Sunred: Even with all their monsters combined Sunred is ''way'' out of their league. The closest they've ever come is [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere when Sunred is unwilling to fight Hellwolf because the situation has gotten too ridiculous]], and Vamp wonders aloud if this counts as a "win" until one of the combat goons says it probably can't.

* FanServicePack -- Kayoko's original design in the manga, in the earlier volumes she is a woman of average looks, quite short and chubby, even her hair is kind of curly. Later volumes simply changed her design to look like a beautiful housewife, packed with a body and looks fit of a bikini model; the later design is the Kayoko seen in the anime from the very begining, in which she is even more beautiful because the anime's artstyle is more polished than the manga's.

* FireIceLightning -- The motif of the Weather Three. There's Sunred (fire), Blue (water) and Yellow (electricity). The power set is standard, but the way they use it is unusual. For example, Sunred considers using a ''lighter'' to be adequate enough for "fire" powers, Blue uses a water hose, and Yellow uses a stun gun.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling -- Antkiller and Khamenman. The jerkish and insufferable Antkiller is the responsible one (having his own apartment and finances in order) while the relaxed and personable Khamenman bums off his brother and spent his money on a car he has problem paying for.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes -- Peeled Shrimp. Despite his senior status (he's been in Florsheim's Kawasaki Division longer than even Vamp), he gets no respect and is often left out of Florsheim's Aqua Monster meetings. However, he isn't treated as such because he's weak -- it's because he's unbelievably arrogant, has a short temper and is all around unpleasant. The closest thing he has to a friend is Durtle, and it's clear that Durtle would rather be doing something else every time they hang out.
* FriendToAllLivingThings -- GentleGiant Jargo the Berserker. He also speaks in GratuitousEnglish.

* FriendlyEnemy -- Vamp and Sunred are on very good terms with each other.
* GoKartingWithBowser -- The series in its entirety.
* GoodIsNotNice -- Despite being a hero, Sunred is a bit of a jerk. The other heroes seen to have the same problem. The Abasilin brothers from Hokkaido actually managed to wipe out their entire villain group on a drunken bender.
* HarmlessVillain -- Florsheim has the appearances of this, particularly General Vamp, as Sunred is easily able to defeat the entire monster creations Vamp has at his disposal with simple dirty fighting techniques. Even Vamp has said that the Florsheim Kawasaki Branch is lucky that Sunred is such an honest archenemy.

* HeroAntagonist -- Sunred. For a certain level of 'hero'.

* HowDidThatGetInThere? -- P-chan, when trying to show a video of Hellwolf's powers, ends up showing a "[[PornStash Birds Gone Wild]]" video instead. Usa calls him out on this, and he quickly changes it.
* HypocriticalHumor -- The monster in the ceiling is a consistent source of this, often berating Vamp's henchmen (and on one occasion, Sunred himself) for being "freeloaders" when she is probably the biggest freeloader in the series. Lampshaded by Vamp's Combat Goons.

* TheIdiotFromOsaka -- Weather Yellow. Supposedly. He, like his comrades, is not above dirty fighting.
* {{ILLKILLYOU}}
* ImageSong -- "Tentai Senshi Sunred no Theme", sung by the monster(s?) in the ceiling. "We're really 'that'?"
* InTheBack -- An independent monster during season 1 reminisces about how it delivered its OneHitKill attack to Sunred's back while he was obliviously fishing by the riverside. [[spoiler:It only managed to tear Sunred's shirt and knock him into the river. This made Sunred very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move -- The poor monster got PTSD from Sunred's retaliation.]]
* IneffectualDeathThreat -- Hellwolf's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAujonWr1Q&t=00m34s "Omae-tachi! Kolo-chu!"]] ("Kolo-chu" is an extremely cutesy-sounding mispronunciation of the word "korosu", which means "to kill")
* InterspeciesRomance -- A relationship between a Florsheim frog monster and a human girl. Not only is it possible, it seems to be a very intimate, if weird, relationship.

* {{Irony}} -- This show's bread and butter, given that the Evil Organization is much more 'heroic' than the "Ally of Justice" who's supposed to save the world from them. One episode showcases this: Florsheim are having a riverside picnic when a boy upstream falls into the river and their Shark monster immediately leaps into the river and saves the boy. Sunred and Kayoko note how this is not terribly 'evil' of them. Sunred, feeling somewhat envious of Florsheim getting press coverage for this, ends up in the middle of a bank robbery. However, he gets too distracted trying to think of when it would be the most dramatic time to intervene, and a HeroicBystander ends up saving everyone instead (Sunred ''did'' covertly disarm the robber and save the day, but nobody notices it). Vamp and Kayoko note how this is not terribly 'heroic' of him.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold -- Sunred is a bit of a jerk as noted many times, but he genuinely cares about his girlfriend Kayoko and is much nicer to the General Vamp than the hero should be (at least compared to his senpai heroes, who make [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Captain Hammer]] look like a nice guy).
* {{Jerkass}} -- Sunred, back in the day. A flashback shows him chasing down a Florsheim monster who hides in a tree to escape him. Sunred starts kicking and shaking the tree to coax it to come down, before producing a lighter and threatening to burn the tree down. Then the monster comes down. Then Sunred beats the hell out of it.

* KillerRobot -- In one episode, a deathbot is shipped to Vamp in the form of a model kit. He has no idea how to construct the thing, and goes to Sunred for help. After initially refusing to help his "enemy", Sunred ends up completing it. Then it explodes because one of Vamp's minions is too dumb to realize that he has one of the robot's crucial parts.

* KillSat -- According to the opening, one of these assists Sunred in activating Firebird Form. Since he keeps said form in a box in his closet, it's likely that's just another bit of tokusatsu hyperbole that Sunred has since abandoned.

* LimitedAnimation -- The anime favors limited frames, particularly when it comes to animating anyone who isn't a civilian. The regular humans wandering about Kawasaki are more or less animated fairly normally, while the villains and Red from time to time get very little animation. Of course, owing to their {{Sentai}} tropes it's because the villains are supposed to be in rubber and foam costumes with very little articulation and static facial features, while Red is constantly wearing a helmet with a OneWayVisor.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: In the ColdOpening of Episode 14 (a usual half-way point in any 26-episode TV series), Vamp is over at Red's apartment tidying up for New Year when Vamp spots a box labeled "Firebird Form" in the closet and asks what it is. Red explains the whole MidSeasonUpgrade trope and mentions that Firebird Form is his ultimate form. He then pushes the box farther back into the closet, only for Vamp to exclaim that he won't be able to use it if it's got too many things in front of it. The opening sequence later shows off Firebird Form, now that the theme song has switched to the second verse.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil -- Not many of the monsters are actually ''evil''. They're just trying to make a living. Some of them are even perfectly happy in non-TakeOverTheWorld fields of work.
* {{Mooks}} -- Florsheim does have two Combat Goons who are regular characters. They appear to be regular guys doing their jobs, and, despite being Mooks, generally suffer less damage than the monsters.
* MundaneMadeAwesome -- General Hengel, a leader of a branch of Florsheim, takes even the most mundane tasks on with an incredible seriousness.
* MundaneFantastic -- Nobody sees the presence of evil organizations, monsters or masked heroes of justice as being too out of the ordinary.
* MysteriousPast -- Sunred doesn't know much about himself, aside from his parents are dead and that he is 27 years old, in fact he only knows how old he is because he keeps counting the passage of years, he doesn't know his own birth date.
* NamesTheSame -- Weather Yellow is Takuya Kimura, which is also the name of a famous actor/singer in Japan.
* NebulousEvilOrganization -- Florsheim. Minus the 'Nebulous'. Aaaand the 'Evil'. Well, they ''call'' themselves an 'Evil Organization'...
* NighInvulnerable -- Sunred. In the few occasions where a monster ''does'' get a hit in (usually by sneak attacks), the attacks do nothing apart from making Sunred angry.

* NoHeroToHisValet -- Kayoko towards Sunred. She's the household's breadwinner, owns their apartment, and is in no way afraid of Sunred or outright criticizing him.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain -- Florsheim only looks weak [[spoiler:because Sunred is just incredibly out of their league when it comes to power; the Devil Eye Army learns this the hard way]].
* NukeEm -- P-chan, one of the adorably evil Animal Soldiers, has a nuclear missile in his body for some reason.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent -- Sunred even calls Hellwolf out on how oddly nonstandard he is.
-->''"What kind of wolf needs to look at a full moon to turn into another wolf?"''
* ParentalAbandonment -- Sunred's parents are dead, and he has no recollection of when; in thruth he has no remembrance of his childhood at all or his origins, he knows he is 27 years old but not his birthday, Sunred just counts the years.
* PetTheDog -- ''Sunred'' has to have them on occasion, lest we forget he's supposed to be (sort of) TheHero.
* PokeThePoodle -- The Animal Soldiers once come up with a great plan -- to steal all of Sunred's water. It doesn't work very well.

* PoseOfSupplication -- Vamp and Florsheim tend to do this whenever Sunred defeats them in battle, sitting still and listening to him lecture them.
* PowerTrio -- The animal soldiers ("power" part optional). Devilcat is the superego, Usacots is the ego, and P-Chan is the id.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Kayoko's beauty evolution in the manga also coincides with her character and importance growth within the series; in the begining her role wasn't clearly defined, only that Sunred lived off her was, but other characteristics such as working at an insurance firm, being on friendly terms with Vamp, getting more recurring appearances, all of this only came when Kayoko was estabilished as Sunred's pretty and independent girlfriend.
* PunchClockHero -- Sunred.
* PunchClockVillain -- Florsheim.
* RealPlaceBackground -- While the art style the show uses isn't normally associated with this trope, everything in the opening, and almost everything in the show itself, is a real location in the Mizonokuchi area where the show takes place. The ED of episode 34, in fact, is "lip synched" by various real life people from the Takatsu, Kawasaki, Ward Office and other Kawasaki locations.
* RealSongThemeTune [[invoked]] -- Twice, for a SpecialEditionTitle, a real song has been used. The first season had a polyphonic ringtone version of the incredibly popular (at the time) song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACoHX00x-dk "Shuchishin"]], by the [[MrFanservice male idol group of the same name]], when Vamp had it as his ringtone. The second season used the Kawasaki city anthem [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7tqUm8q7s "Suki desu, Kawasaki, Ai no Machi"]] in an episode where the song was annoying one of Florsheim's monsters.

* RedOniBlueOni -- Florsheim has an actual Blue Oni on payroll. As suitable for his colour he has a calm and community-minded temperament, and volunteers to let [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni_%28folklore%29#Traditional_culture people throw soybeans at him during Setsubun]].
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter -- All of the Animal Soldiers.
* SanityBall -- Sunred and Kayoko compete about it. Sunred is the straight man in sketches involving himself and Florsheim, while Kayoko is the straight man in sketches involving herself and Sunred (whether or not Vamp and Florsheim are involved).
* SdrawkcabName: A play on it, "Red-san" as many characters adress to Sunred, his name is spelled in japanese as ''Sanreddo'' or Sanred; just separate ''San'' and ''Red'', place it in reverse order, and you have Redsan, the ''Red-san''. The characters are being polite by adding the honorific and spelling his name backwards at the same time.
* SeinfeldianConversation -- One of the major sources of humor in the series. Of note are the Godom and Sodorrah segments, where one of the pair is constantly trying to ''start'' one of these, which the other refuses to participate in.

* {{Sentai}} -- Largely a parody of this type of genre. Sunred himself was part of a Sentai team at one point, the Weather Three.
* ShoutOut -- Tama from ''Manga/BambooBlade'' appears riding past, and Antkiller does Red Braver's finishing move, Atomic Fire Blade, in episode 24. In episode 23, Sunred is seen walking by a ''Spider-Man'' poster.
* ShrinkingViolet -- Florsheim turtle monster Games/Durtle, who is always trying to avoid social contact
* SirSwearsALot -- Sunred is ''incredibly'' foul-mouthed for a Sentai hero and his {{Catch Phrase}}s are all insults of one type of another.
* SitcomArchNemesis -- Sunred and Florsheim.
** Within Florsheim, Armor Lion and Armor Tiger
* SmallNameBigEgo -- Peeled Shrimp thinks he can beat Sunred five times out of ten, but he's one of the only Florsheim monsters that Vamp doesn't even consider sending after Sunred.
* SmokingIsCool -- Well, Sunred smokes. Whether he is 'cool' or not is another matter entirely. As a Sentai hero he's presumably immune to the side-effects.
* SpiritedCompetitor -- Say what you want about Florsheim's competence, but nobody can claim they're not good sports. Sunred occasionally gets fired up if Florsheim appears to have brought something that can actually challenge him, and tends to get meaner the less 'serious' the fight is.
* SuperMode -- Firebird Form!

* SuperSenses -- The manga states that Sunred can detect any sound within a 10-km ratius. He also has razor-sharp eyesight, and his mask renders him immune to inhaled allergens and toxins (probably justifying how he can smoke so much with no bad effects).
* SuperSpeed -- Sunred can run as fast as a high-speed train; the anime actually spoofs this by making hin run alongside a high-speed train in one OP.
* SuperStrength -- The only superpower that Sunred displays on a regular basis apart from his Nigh Invulnerability. He can stomp craters in concrete without much trouble.
* SupportingProtagonist -- Sunred is this, even though the series carries his name, the story is mostly about Florsheim Members' lives and how it interacts with the titular hero; case in point is how many named and recurring characters Florsheim has in comparison to Sunred's friends, there's a great contrast in it. The manga is not subtle about it, all Volumes published so far had Vamp, his lackeys or any variation portraying the Florsheim organization on the covers, while Sunred himself rarely appears on the covers, only in inside color arts.
* TakeOverTheCity -- Florsheim’s EvilPlan is, in order: 1) Defeat Sunred. 2) TakeOverTheWorld. They’re still sort of stuck at step 1 and refuse to move on to step 2 until it is finished. Which is sort of good, since [[HarmlessVillain they probably wouldn’t know what to do for step 2 even if they did get to that point]].
* TakeOverTheWorld -- Florsheim's ultimate goal. Vamp considers the first step towards achieving it to be eliminating Sunred.
* TalkingToHimself -- In the anime. Sunred, Kayoko, Vamp, Combat Goon #1, Hengel, and Night Owl are the only ones who have unique voice actors, with the remaining Florsheim monsters and background characters sharing a handful of voice actors. This trope naturally ensues.
* TeamMom -- Vamp is an not so evil version of this.
* ThoseTwoGuys -- Vamp's "Combat Goons", #1 and #2, Florsheim's only {{Mooks}}. Also Khamenman and Medallion, two Florsheim monsters almost never seen apart, and Godom and Sodorrah.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood -- Medallion loves cup noodles.
* {{Tsundere}} -- Sunred, towards his girlfriend Kayoko. And somewhat against Florsheim too, given that he's rude and abrasive against them on one hand and on the other shows up to help clean a monster out of their attic.

* {{Villain Protagonist}}s -- Florsheim's members are the viewpoint characters for the most part.
* VillainsOutShopping -- Whether Florsheim is evil or not, a lot of time is spent on them doing the most mundane of activities. One episode details a frog monster who, the narration says, can kill an elephant with the venom he shoots. All of his screentime is spent cruising ramen restaurants and writing on his blog.
** This eventually turns into a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when he brings Vamp and the Mooks to one of his favorite ramen restaurants and after the others say that they don't like how the ramen tastes, one of the Mooks points out that this restaurant was given high points by the blogger and that [[spoiler:everyone on the Internet thinks he has horrible taste in ramen]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity -- While the "villain" part is doubtful, Florsheim have enough good publicity on their own, despite frequently talking of world domination. The town regards them as overall better citizens than Sunred.
* VitriolicBestBuds -- Sunred and Vamp. Sunred is a jerk to Vamp, who takes most of it in good humour and accepts it as Sunred being Sunred. Though to be completely fair to Sunred, Vamp ''is'' trying to exterminate him.
* WhenIWasYourAge -- Vamp resorts to this after [[spoiler:Armour Tiger thrashes Devil Eye Army]], complaining about how modern monsters don't respect the community.

* SdrawkcabName: A play on it, "Red-san" as many characters adress to Sunred, his name is spelled in japanese as ''Sanreddo'' or Sanred; just separate ''San'' and ''Red'', place it in reverse order, and you have Redsan, the ''Red-san''. The characters are being polite by adding the honofric and spelling his name backwards at the same time.

* SuperSenses -- The manga states that Sunred can detect any sound within a 10 Km ratius. He also has razor-sharp eyesight, and his mask renders him immune to inhaled allergens and toxins (probably justifying how he can smoke so much with no bad effects).

* SupportingProtagonist -- Sunred is this, even though the series carries his name, the story is mostly about Florsheim Members' lives and how it interacts with the titular hero; case in point is how many named and recurring characters Florsheim has in comparison to Sunred's friends, there's a great contrast in it. The manga is not subtle about it, all Volumes published so far had Vamp, his lackeys or any variation potraying the Florsheim organization in the cover, while Sunred himself does not appear in the covers, only in inside color arts.

* TalkingToHimself -- In the anime. Sunred, Kayoko, Vamp and Hengel are the only ones who have unique voice actors, with the remaining Florsheim monsters and background characters sharing a handful of voice actors. This trope naturally ensues.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Kayoko's beauty evolution in the manga also coincides with her character and importance growth within the series; in the begining her role wasn't clearly defined, only that Sunred lived off her was, but other characteristics such as working at an insurance firm, being on friendly terms with Vamp, getting more recurring appearances, all of this only came when Kayoko was stabilished as Sunred's pretty and independant girlfriend.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain -- Florsheim only looks weak [[spoiler:because Sunred is just incredibly out of their league when it comes to power; the Devil Eye Army learns this the hard wa]].

** The Devil Eye Army's appearance in Kawasaki is supposed to show the viewers what a real villain group is like, as their main monster is said to have killed three previous heroes. They want Sunred as their next hero, but he tells them Florsheim had first dibs and to take it up with them first. Kayoko is horrified that Red has apparently sent Florsheim to their doom but he assures her they aren't weak. [[spoiler:He's just that much more powerful than them. Across town, the monster uses his hero-killing move on Vamp only for it to get [[NoSell No-Selled]] by Armor Tiger while he's off-duty and wearing a track suit. What follows (off-screen) is a CurbStomp and Vamp chastising Devil Eye Army's leader for making Florsheim look bad due to their [[FelonyMisdemeanor poor manners and juvenile delinquent behaviors]].]]

** When the Devil Eye Army moves into town and tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim as they were his arch-enemies first. When Kayoko learns that Red has sent a set of competent villains, including one who claims to have killed three heroes before, off to face Florsheim, she is horrified that he has essentially signed Vamp and the others' death sentences. Cue Vamp crossing paths with the Devil Eye Army alone. Back at Kayoko's apartment, Red reassures her by telling her that the members of Florsheim aren't weak. [[spoiler:He's just far too strong for them. Just as the hero-killer monster is about to strike, his attack is [[NoSell No-Selled]] by Armor Tiger in his civilian track suit. The next scene shows a post-CurbStomp Devil Eye Army, Armor Tiger worried he hurt them too badly, and General Vamp lecturing their leader on [[FelonyMisdemeanor his poor manners and how his group acts like juvenile delinquents, bringing Florsheim into disrepute]].]]

* NotSoHarmlessVillain -- Florsheim is made to look weak [[spoiler:until a rival villain group steps on their territory. They ''are'' strong, just weaker than Sunred]].

** When the Devil Eye Army moves into town and tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim as they were his arch-enemies first. When Kayoko learns that Red has sent a set of competent villains, including one who claims to have killed three heroes before, she is horrified that he has essentially killed Vamp and the others. Red reassures her by telling her that [[spoiler:Florsheim only appear to be pushovers because he is just that much more powerful than they are. Cut to the hero-killer about to attack General Vamp only to get [[NoSell No-Selled]] by Armor Tiger in just a track suit. The next cut is to a post-CurbStomp Devil Eye Army, with Armor Tiger upset that he's severely hurt them and General Vamp lecturing their leader on [[FelonyMisdemeanor his poor manners and how his group acts like juvenile delinquents]].]]

** However, when the Devil Eye Army moves into town and tries to become Sunred's new villain group, he convinces them to handle matters with Florsheim first. When he gets home that night, Kayoko is horrified and chastises Red that he has sent much more competent villains to essentially wipe out Florsheim for him, considering one of them was said to have killed three heroes before. Elsewhere in town, General Vamp comes across the Devil Eye Army while out shopping, and when they realize he's with Florsheim, the hero-killer uses his finishing move on Vamp [[spoiler:only to get [[NoSell No-Selled]] by Armor Tiger in a track suit showing up in the nick of time. Back at their apartment, Red reassures Kayoko by telling her that Vamp and the others aren't incredibly weak, but he's just much, much stronger than all of them. Cut back to a post-CurbStomp Devil Eye Army, with Armor Tiger upset he's severely hurt Devil Eye's monsters, while Vamp gives the leader a lecture on [[FelonyMisdemeanor his poor manners and how they act like juvenile delinquents]].]]

* EmbarrassingRingtone -- Vamp gets a new cell phone and uses [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfN5pnDs2G0 an instrumental of "Shuchishin"]] (a dated OneHitWonder even at the show's release date) as his ringtone. The combat goons immediately point out how [[TotallyRadical stereotypically 'old man' this is of him]]. Vamp later gets stuck in Sunred's closet while trying to hide from two of his drunk {{jerkass}} colleagues and the phone promptly goes off with Vamp unable to figure out how to turn it off.

* TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty -- Weather Yellow, even by the standards of his fellow Sentai colleagues. He's a lot nicer when he's ''not'' fighting, but Red usually doesn't bring foreign objects or stun guns to fights. Nowadays, anyway.

** This eventually turns into a CrowningMomentOfFunny when he brings Vamp and the Mooks to one of his favorite ramen restaurants and after the others say that they don't like how the ramen tastes, one of the Mooks points out that this restaurant was given high points by the blogger and that [[spoiler:everyone on the Internet thinks he has horrible taste in ramen]].