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*Badass: Many of the characters have to be this in order to stand a chance against the cockroaches.
** BadassNormal: George Smiles, the very first human to kill a Terra Formar without any special surgery, abilities, or tricks. He killed the cockroach with just his sword and a lot of determination to get revenge for his fallen comrades.
** BadassNormal: George Smiles, the very first human to kill a Terra Formar without any special surgery, abilities, or tricks. He killed the cockroach with just his sword and a lot of determination to get revenge for his fallen comrades.
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* PersonaOfMassDestruction: PersonOfMassDestruction: Those who have undergone the [[spoiler:Bacteria-type M.O operation, effectively turning them into biological weapons capable of killing an entire swarm of Terra Formars in less than a minute]]
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NiceJobBreakingItHero: Adolf Reinhardt may have killed [[spoiler:the roaches leader, the single genius of their species who was responsible for giving other members Bugs Surgery but in doing so, he forced the species as a whole to increase the quality of the individual's intelligence, making it so they would no longer need a genius to lead them.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Adolf Reinhardt may have killed [[spoiler:the roaches leader, the single genius of their species who was responsible for giving other members Bugs Surgery but in doing so, he forced the species as a whole to increase the quality of the individual's intelligence, making it so they would no longer need a genius to lead them.]]
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Victoria Wood attempts this on a pair of newly hatched roaches. [[spoiler: It doesn't work out very well for her.]]
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* ShockandAwe: Adolf Reinhardt's M.O. Operation allows him to generate incredibly powerful electric shocks.
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*ChocolateBaby:[[spoiler: Adolf Reinhardt's son may not be his own as his wife was having an affair at the time, and his son fails to gain any of his father's experiment genes.]]
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Never Mind Marcos can\'t defend while taking a breather.
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**Marcos is definitely this after transforming, being blessed with quick movements and fierce strength but unfortunately doesn't have much endurance and as a result must catch his breath on the battle field.
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* XMeetsY: Manga/AttackOnTitan meets Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure
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* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Pretty much any character who has an adaptation which gives them a blade.
* ActionGirl: While this generally applies to any of the female cast, Michelle stands out as an example of an ActionGirl amongst a cast of them.
* ActionGirl: While this generally applies to any of the female cast, Michelle stands out as an example of an ActionGirl amongst a cast of them.
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* OneHitKill: One of the things which keeps happening to the crews, which is to be expected from enemies which are LightningBruiser level fast and strong at the mook level.
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Currently at 7 volumes, all scanslated, with an 8th due in February. But I can\'t think of a way to show it while adhering to Tropes Are Not Recent.
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Gantz.
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** [[spoiler: Before the end of the second chapter, the main male character's girlfriend is given a OneHitKill in the first encounter with the bugs.]]
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* BodyHorror: If a human dopes on too much of the transformation drug, they become ''too'' insectoid and cant transform back, becoming more biologically insect than human.
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* BodyHorror: If a human dopes on too much of the transformation drug, they become ''too'' insectoid and cant transform back, becoming more biologically insect than human. Since an insect's biology is not meant for a human sized creature, RealityEnsues, and the person in question dies.
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** A large part of this is hinted to be the result of the fact that the bug's brains have evolved as much as their bodies (and have some sort of extraterrestrial tech available to help educate them). They have, by Bugs #3, become as smart as humans, if not more so, and simply lacked the necessary infrastructure needed to be able to build an industrial base like the humans have. Given that each Bugs missions has several years between them, this has given the roaches plenty of time to learn the basics of whatever tech they capture from previous missions, and from what they learn from that, allows them to quickly master any new tech they receive.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: This almost doesn't need to be said. While the actual attributes and abilities of the insects they are based on are true, you can't just turn humans into human-bug hybrids outside of the X-Men. Not to say anything about the roaches' hyper-evolution, which is less like evolution and closer to the adaptation ability of the Borg.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: This almost doesn't need to be said. While the actual attributes and abilities of the insects they are based on are true, you can't just turn humans into human-bug hybrids outside of the X-Men. Not to say anything about the roaches' hyper-evolution, which is less like evolution and closer to the adaptation ability of the Borg. [[spoiler: To further complicate matters the moths that were left on Mars seem to be evolving ''even faster'' than the cockroaches. Showing [[BodyHorror fingers]] on their bodies. Despite basically being a foodsource or the cockroaches that strengthens them.]]
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This series has a separate artist.
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* InstantExpert: The bugs somehow manage to learn how to use human equipment despite the fact thaqt the most advanced weapon they had previously was a club.
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* PowerCopying: [[spoiler: Some of the roaches facing the third expedition ave somehow evolved to be able to use the bug powers thta the crew of Bugs #2 used.]]
* SceneryPorn: For a desolate red wasteland, Yu Sasuga can make the mountainous terrain of Mars look ''beautiful''.
* SceneryPorn: For a desolate red wasteland, Yu Sasuga can make the mountainous terrain of Mars look ''beautiful''.
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* PowerCopying: [[spoiler: Some of the roaches facing the third expedition ave somehow evolved to be able to use the bug powers thta that the crew of Bugs #2 used.]]
* SceneryPorn: For a desolate red wasteland,Yu Sasuga Kenichi Tachibana can make the mountainous terrain of Mars look ''beautiful''.
* SceneryPorn: For a desolate red wasteland,
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: It's the 2600s and all that's shown to have changed is that society's gotten worse due to overpopulation and some improvemtns in space travel.
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* BadassIsraeli: God Lee of Bugs #2, the ground beetle-human. [spoiler: Was also the first to die in combat against the roaches.]]
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* BadassIsraeli: God Lee of Bugs #2, the ground beetle-human. [spoiler: [[spoiler: Was also the first to die in combat against the roaches.]]
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* BadassIsraeli: God Lee of Bugs #2, the ground beetle-human. [spoiler: Was also the first to die in combat against the roaches.]]
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* UnfortunateImplications: The roaches' design. As shown in the cm, they're actually red-brown like actual roaches and and designed mainly after ''homo erectus''. However, due to the manga being black-and-white, the lack of color makes them look more like large muscled humans in blackface with deformed heads and pitch black eyes.
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* SceneryPorn: For a desolate red wasteland, Yu Sasuga can make the mountainous terrain of Mars look ''beautiful''.
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* AdaptiveAbility: The bugs as a whole.
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* Elitemooks: [[spoiler:The roaches with the bug powers copied from the crew of Bugs #2.]]
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* Elitemooks: {{Determinator}}: Pretty much every character, even the bugs.
* DwindlingParty: Bugs#2 [[spoiler: during volume 1. Similarly the third expedition started with 100 people and their numbers are rapidly dwindling.]]
* EliteMooks: [[spoiler:The roaches with the bug powers copied from the crew of Bugs #2.]]]]
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* DwindlingParty: Bugs#2 [[spoiler: during volume 1. Similarly the third expedition started with 100 people and their numbers are rapidly dwindling.]]
* EliteMooks: [[spoiler:The roaches with the bug powers copied from the crew of Bugs #2.
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* MoodWhiplash: During the third expedition, some of the male characters are debating whether to peep on a woman in the shower room. [[spoiler: And then it turns out a flying roach had infiltrated the ship and brutally killed her. And then all hell breaks loose.]]
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Averted with the Mars teams who work together perfectly (and they need to just to stand a chance at surviving) despite all being from different countries. However there are hints that there is friction between the higher ups of each country.
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* Elitemooks: [[spoiler:The roaches with the bug powers copied from the crew of Bugs #2.]]
* GenderIsNoObject: It is 500 years later after all.
* InstantExpert: The bugs somehow manage to learn how to use human equipment despite the fact thaqt the most advanced weapon they had previously was a club.
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* AnyoneCanDie
* ArcWords: "The memory left by Rahab". As of this point, we don't know who or what Rahab is, just that he/she/it is probably responsible for what the roaches have become.
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* AnyoneCanDie
AnyoneCanDie: For instance Bugs #1 is annihilated by the first prequel chapter and [[spoiler:there are only two survivors from Bugs 2 by the end of the first volume.]]
* ArcWords: "The memory left by Rahab". As of this point, we don't know who or what Rahab is, just that he/she/it is probably responsible for what the roaches havebecome.become in just 500 years.
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The year is 2599. Humanity has reached an unsustainable level of overpopulation on Earth, and is beginning what would be the final stages of terraforming and colonizing Mars. The plan by late 21st century scientists was to release a form of moss on the planet along with cockroaches, who in turn would grow and eat, and their corpses would contribute to the moss growth, eventually leading to enough of a greenhouse effect for a breathable atmosphere to take hold. Recently a team named Bugs #1 went to Mars to exterminate the roaches, since the atmosphere had developed enough that the moss alone could finish the job. However, contact was lost with them almost immediately after arrival.
Now it is the time of the second expedition, Bugs #2. Upon arriving, the team found out what caused Bugs #1 to lose contact: the roaches. Having hyper-evolved in the last 500 years (hinted due to alien influence), they are now 7 ft tall cavemen-like humanoid creatures who posses their original proportional strength as bugs (50 times their body mass), and the seeming ability to keep evolving against anything that can kill them. However, the company that sent out Bugs #2 knew this was going to happen, and had prepared for it. The team members are all able to take on aspects of other creatures in the animal kingdom, and use that proportional abilities and unique insect powers to fight back against the nearly endless hordes of roaches.
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!!This manga provides examples of
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: This almost doesn't need to be said. While the actual attributes and abilities of the insects they are based on are true, you can't just turn humans into human-bug hybrids outside of the X-Men. Not to say anything about the roaches' hyper-evolution, which is less like evolution and closer to the adaptation ability of the Borg.
* AuthorAppeal: Yu Sasuga is clearly a big fan of KamenRider, especially considering one of the most sympathetic characters in Bugs #2 was a locust-human.
* BeePeople: Quite literally in one of our main characters. Specifically, he's a Japanese Giant Hornet.
* BodyHorror: If a human dopes on too much of the transformation drug, they become ''too'' insectoid and cant transform back, becoming more biologically insect than human.
* BugWar: Though in a twist, the human are more bug-like when transformed than the roaches.
* CatchPhrase: "Don't underestimate humanity!", said by several characters.
* CompleteImmortality: Hiruma's power. Nothing can kill him while he's in his hibernation state. Balanced by the fact that he has to sleep during it, and it's the only power he has.
* CreepyCockroach: The manga can't exist without this trope.
* LightningBruiser: The roaches, even in their most base form.
* PoorCommunicationKills: This appears to be at first the reason behind why the roaches wanted to kill us as soon as we first saw them, [[spoiler: but later it turns out that they just have an instinctual need to "squish" us much like how we do towards regular roaches]].
* SlasherSmile: While the roaches usually have expressionless faces, some of them pull off this.
* StarfishLanguage: The roaches clearly have some form of language, but to us it just sounds like "Juh" over and over with different inflections.
* UnfortunateImplications: The roaches' design. As shown in the cm, they're actually red-brown like actual roaches and and designed mainly after ''homo erectus''. However, due to the manga being black-and-white, the lack of color makes them look more like large muscled humans in blackface with deformed heads and pitch black eyes.
* UnskilledButStrong: The roaches started out as this. By the end of volume 1, there were new roaches born that instinctively knew how to counter martial arts styles and took combat stances when fighting.
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The year is 2599. Humanity has reached an unsustainable level of overpopulation on Earth, and is beginning what would be the final stages of terraforming and colonizing Mars. The plan by late 21st century scientists was to release a form of moss on the planet along with cockroaches, who in turn would grow and eat, and their corpses would contribute to the moss growth, eventually leading to enough of a greenhouse effect for a breathable atmosphere to take hold. Recently a team named Bugs #1 went to Mars to exterminate the roaches, since the atmosphere had developed enough that the moss alone could finish the job. However, contact was lost with them almost immediately after arrival.
Now it is the time of the second expedition, Bugs #2. Upon arriving, the team found out what caused Bugs #1 to lose contact: the roaches. Having hyper-evolved in the last 500 years (hinted due to alien influence), they are now 7 ft tall cavemen-like humanoid creatures who posses their original proportional strength as bugs (50 times their body mass), and the seeming ability to keep evolving against anything that can kill them. However, the company that sent out Bugs #2 knew this was going to happen, and had prepared for it. The team members are all able to take on aspects of other creatures in the animal kingdom, and use that proportional abilities and unique insect powers to fight back against the nearly endless hordes of roaches.
Very explicit and bloody, and in many ways is a SpiritualSuccessor to Gantz. Is currently at 4 volumes, 3 of which have been translated thanks to a CM for volume 4 of the manga on tv that resparked interest in the series.
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!!This manga provides examples of
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: This almost doesn't need to be said. While the actual attributes and abilities of the insects they are based on are true, you can't just turn humans into human-bug hybrids outside of the X-Men. Not to say anything about the roaches' hyper-evolution, which is less like evolution and closer to the adaptation ability of the Borg.
* AuthorAppeal: Yu Sasuga is clearly a big fan of KamenRider, especially considering one of the most sympathetic characters in Bugs #2 was a locust-human.
* BeePeople: Quite literally in one of our main characters. Specifically, he's a Japanese Giant Hornet.
* BodyHorror: If a human dopes on too much of the transformation drug, they become ''too'' insectoid and cant transform back, becoming more biologically insect than human.
* BugWar: Though in a twist, the human are more bug-like when transformed than the roaches.
* CatchPhrase: "Don't underestimate humanity!", said by several characters.
* CompleteImmortality: Hiruma's power. Nothing can kill him while he's in his hibernation state. Balanced by the fact that he has to sleep during it, and it's the only power he has.
* CreepyCockroach: The manga can't exist without this trope.
* LightningBruiser: The roaches, even in their most base form.
* PoorCommunicationKills: This appears to be at first the reason behind why the roaches wanted to kill us as soon as we first saw them, [[spoiler: but later it turns out that they just have an instinctual need to "squish" us much like how we do towards regular roaches]].
* SlasherSmile: While the roaches usually have expressionless faces, some of them pull off this.
* StarfishLanguage: The roaches clearly have some form of language, but to us it just sounds like "Juh" over and over with different inflections.
* UnfortunateImplications: The roaches' design. As shown in the cm, they're actually red-brown like actual roaches and and designed mainly after ''homo erectus''. However, due to the manga being black-and-white, the lack of color makes them look more like large muscled humans in blackface with deformed heads and pitch black eyes.
* UnskilledButStrong: The roaches started out as this. By the end of volume 1, there were new roaches born that instinctively knew how to counter martial arts styles and took combat stances when fighting.
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