History Videogame / GalaxyAngel

* Nakama: (Tact and the Angels, it's stated that the entire crew of the Elsior and the Angels are this as well.)

* NonLethalKO (If any one of the Angels gets shot down in battle, she automatically withdraws back to the hangar so her Emblem Frame can be fixed. But after the battle she scolds you for your subpar orders.

* HeroicBSOD

* HoldingBackthePhlebotinum: The Chrono Break Cannon, be it due to it's impracticality, it's charge time, or the fact that it's a giant WaveMotionGun.

* LoveMakesYouEvil (In the manga. It is hinted several times that the main reason behind Eonia's coup'd etat was [[spoiler: his love for the Moon Goddess Shatyarn.]])

* NonLethalKO

* TheOjou (Mint and is the reason for her charming "-desu wa" form of speech)

* ThePowerOfLove (An important concept since the Emblem Frames are powered by the emotions and state of mind of their pilot. Whoever is Takuto's girlfriend is essentially an unstoppable killing machine, even {{the medic}} Vanilla.

* ReiAyanamiExpy: Vanilla.
* ReliableTraitor

* TheStoic (Red-Eye, Forte's Hell Hound counterpart.)

* ShipperonDeck The BridgeBunnies, Coco and Almo are this with Tact and his chosen Angel.

* YamatoNadeshiko: subverted by Chitose. She looks the part but gets a little [[{{Yandere}} too devoted]]

* Attack!Attack!Attack!: For all of Tact's informed tactical (heh, tactical) prowess, this is essentially what your strategy turns into. The only real subversion of the trope is a battle mid-way through the third game where not only is Tact's girlfriend (and therefore strongest Angel in battle) out of commission, but the Elsior is at half health and must escape the battlefield. If you simply attack every ship in sight without carefully choosing which ships to attack and when, you can end up losing the battle very quickly.

* Attack!Attack!Attack! For all of Tact's informed tactical (heh, tactical) prowess, this is essentially what your strategy turns into. The only real subversion of the trope is a battle mid-way through the third game where not only is Tact's girlfriend (and therefore strongest Angel in battle) out of commission, but the Elsior is at half health and must escape the battlefield. If you simply attack every ship in sight without carefully choosing which ships to attack and when, you can end up losing the battle very quickly.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys (Subverted with Milfeulle who reacts to [[StalkerWithACrush Camus]] advances with complete dislike or utter fear depending on the medium. On the other hand, Ranpha has traces of this on both, game and manga.)
* AllergicToLove (Apricot.)

* Attack!Attack!Attack! For all of Tact's informed tactical (heh, tactical) prowess, this is essentially what your strategy turns into.

** Not to mention the Imperial Navy reinforcing the Final Weapon suicide run in the final mission of Moonlit Lover. Lastly, and the most epicly is during White Moon's [[GondorCallsForAid call for reinforcement]] that redirected the 8th Fleet during the desperate retreat from [[spoiler: Unit 7's theft]] and the subsequent Val-Fasc ambush.
* BigEater (Ranpha, Forte, and Chitose)

* BloodKnight (Guinness Stout, Ranpha's Hell Hound counterpart.)

* ButThouMust (An interesting variation occurs at the beginning of the first game when you are requested to take command of the Angel Troupe. While you will inevitably end up taking the position, playing this Trope straight, the amount of times you try to refuse will have an effect on the girls RelationshipValues. To elaborate: Ranpha, Forte and Vanilla will be impressed by your dutifulness if you say "yes" the first time. On the other hand, if you refuse once, Mint and Milfeulle will admire the fact you carefully considered the offer before accepting.)

* CoolBigSis Forte to the other Angels.

* EmotionlessGirl (Vanilla.)

* EnemyDetectingRadar (Mint's Trick Master has been stated to have been equipped with more powerful radars than other Frames.)
* EnfanteTerrible (Noah, who is actually [[spoiler:a humanoid interface the Black Moon's consciousness created to dupe Eonia into going along with its schemes.]])
* EscortMission
* EvilChancellor
* EvilCostumeSwitch

* FirstGirlWins
* FirstKiss

* TheFool (Milfeulle. So, SO much.)

* FuroScene in the first game.

* GenkiGirl (Milfeulle, Nano-Nano.)

* AlasPoorVillain (The Hell Hounds squad, Sherry and Eonia.)

* DisappearedDad

* CuteShotaroBoy (Chromier and Shiva. [[spoiler:Shiva's actually a girl, though.]])

* ConverseWithTheUnconscious In EL when the LI has been [[shot down due to Val-Fask treachery]]

''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', the comedy space anime, was originally based off a series of SpaceOpera DatingSim games that dealt with Commander Tact Mayers and his adventures with the Angel-tai (translated in the manga as "Angel Troupe", as opposed to the translated anime's "Angel Brigade", even though both originals use "Angel-tai"). It's a clear AlternateUniverse, the anime being a parody of AdaptationDecay in general by throwing out practically ''everything'' the game had to offer on purpose. [[ScheduleSlip This was mostly caused by the combination of the timing of the anime deal and delays in the game's production forcing the anime to air well in advance of the game's release]]. See [[Anime/GalaxyAngel the anime page]] for more information on the show.

''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', the comedy space anime, was originally based off a series of SpaceOpera DatingSim games that dealt with Commander Tact Mayers and his adventures with the Angel-tai (translated in the manga as "Angel Troupe", as opposed to the translated anime's "Angel Brigade", even though both originals use "Angel-tai"). It's a clear AlternateUniverse, the anime being a parody of AdaptationDecay in general by throwing out practically ''everything'' the game had to offer on purpose, [[ScheduleSlip mostly due to the fact that due to the timing of the anime deal and dealys in the game's production forced the anime to air well in advance of the games realease]].

''Anime/GalaxyAngel'', the comedy space anime, was originally based off a series of SpaceOpera DatingSim games that dealt with Commander Tact Mayers and his adventures with the Angel-tai (translated in the manga as "Angel Troupe", as opposed to the translated anime's "Angel Brigade", even though both originals use "Angel-tai"). It's a clear AlternateUniverse, the anime being a parody of AdaptationDecay in general by throwing out practically ''everything'' the game had to offer on purpose.

Brand new commander Tact Mayers, barely aware of his own job and responsibilities, is thrust into the position of commander of the Elsior and its five ace pilots, the Angel-tai. They're set to protect Shiva, prince of the Transbaal Empire, from its disgraced former heir. Shiva is more than he seems, too (but of course, you only realize this if you get all the special scenes), and all the while, Tact is falling for one of the Angels (If taking the Manga Canon Path, [[FirstGirlWins Milfeulle]], although the games do not have a set canonical route). ''Galaxy Angel, Galaxy Angel: Moonlit Lovers'' and ''Galaxy Angel: Eternal Lovers'' cover this point in time, as well as the non-{{canon}}ical ''Galaxy Angel EX''.

* TheAragorn (Luft, and Tact once he passes the torch.)

* SuperMode ([[spoiler: When the Angels have their Emblem Frame limiter's removed, they sprout wings as a result. More noticeable in the first game due to Moonlight Lovers upping the Ante by making endgame mooks very powerful. ]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation ([[CharacterTags Game!Camus]] is [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain hard to take seriously]]. Manga!Camus is a ''[[StalkerWithACrush creeper]]''.)
** To elaborate, here's a small comparison between their introductory lines. From the game:
-->'''Camus:''' My name is Camus O. Laphroaig. Such a beautiful name. Isn't it just like an elegant wind blowing through space?
-->'''Milfeulle:''' Doesn't wind not blow in space?
** From the manga:
-->'''Camus:''' We are the Hell Hounds. Today we only stopped by to say hello. But eventually...we shall escort you to Hell.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming (So, SO many; although the one that takes the cake happens in the first game [[spoiler:if you take the time to learn about Shiva during the DatingSim segments. We learn that Shiva is a girl born of a one-night-stand between the former emperor and MacGuffinGirl Shatyarn. The ensuing scene where mother and child are able to address each other as such for the first time and share a tearful embrace brought [[TearJerker tears]] to [[{{Azure012}}this troper's]] eyes.]])
* CrowningMomentOfSadness (Several, but chapter ten of Vanilla's route during the first game, "The Course of Life", takes the cake.)

* NightmareFuel (The fate of the Hell Hounds.)

* TheScrappy (Chitose; even the anime writers didn't like her. She comes off much better in the game than in the manga, though.)

** Rapha and Forte also have a "serious" argument over radish and carrot in the GA1. Saying that you (Takuto) prefer potatoes instead is not a good idea.

* ViewerGenderConfusion (Riserva Chianti, Mint's Hell Hound Counterpart.)

* AbusivePrecursors: Perhaps. The Black Moon is either an evil factory of destruction or a corrupted factory of destruction, the White Moon is therefore either it's counterpart or its opposite. This makes whomever built it either the AbusivePrecursors trope or the NeglectfulPrecursors trope.

Also see ''GalaxyAngel'' and ''GalaxyAngelRune''; though all of the characters have either been removed or exaggerated and the plot is completely gone, a few tropes are still shared.

Brand new commander Tact Mayers, barely aware of his own job and responsibilities, is thrust into the position of commander of the Elsior and its five ace pilots, the Angel-tai. They're set to protect Shiva, prince of the Transbaal Empire, from its disgraced former heir. Shiva is more than he seems, too (but of course, you only realize this if you get all the special scenes), and all the while, Tact is falling for one of the Angels ([[FirstGirlWins canonically Milfeulle]]). ''Galaxy Angel, Galaxy Angel: Moonlit Lovers'' and ''Galaxy Angel: Eternal Lovers'' cover this point in time, as well as the non-{{canon}}ical ''Galaxy Angel EX''.

''GalaxyAngel'', the comedy space anime, was originally based off a series of SpaceOpera DatingSim games that dealt with Commander Tact Mayers and his adventures with the Angel-tai (translated in the manga as "Angel Troupe", as opposed to the translated anime's "Angel Brigade", even though both originals use "Angel-tai"). It's a clear AlternateUniverse, the anime being a parody of AdaptationDecay in general by throwing out practically ''everything'' the game had to offer on purpose.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Galaxy_Angel_anime_image.jpg BROCCOLI had a problem. The first game in the [[Game/GalaxyAngel Galaxy Angel]] gameverse was announced as an epic DatingSim [[MixAndMatch meets]] RealTimeStrategy game, to much applause and speculation. But as video games often are, ''Galaxy Angel: Project G.A.'' was delayed... and they still had an anime deal. A lesser franchise would have cut their losses and gone for the AdaptationDecay that was sure to follow; after all, they had little to no information, just the basic designs and personalities of the five beautiful, powerful and quirky Angels.

The anime producers, however, had another idea.

The ''Galaxy Angel'' anime became a strange [[strike:little]] big GagSeries, featuring a gang of cute but unusual women with jobs as a peacekeeping force in the galaxy. In place of honest AdaptationDecay, they outright parodied the concept, taking out all the characters but the Angels and fitting in new ones, exaggerating the Angels' personalities for comedic effect, and using the premise as an excuse to send them on strange 12-minute excursions.

''Galaxy Angel'' followed an evolution much like many of {{Cartoon Network}}'s [[AdultSwim Williams Street]] productions, [[strike:gradually]] almost instantly abandoning continuity and going into more surreal episodic tangents. Although "LostTechnology" is commonly used as a comedic plot device, it is very difficult to predict any given episode, which can range from whole parodies to violent alternate realities. Ironically, this setup makes the show surprisingly accessible to the causal viewer.

The original show lasted four seasons:

* ''Galaxy Angel'' (26 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel Z'' (19 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel A'', ''Galaxy Angel AA'' and ''Galaxy Angel S'' (56 episodes)
* ''Galaxy Angel X'' (26 episodes)

A SequelSeries, ''GalaxyAngelRune'', aired for thirteen half-hour episodes.

Just about ''every single trope'' in this wiki gets spoofed at one time or another (Yes, ''all of them.''), but these are the tropes present in every episode or series to some degree or another.

* AdaptationDecay: The entire show is a parody of this, throwing out ''everything'' in the game besides the Angels, their ships and the notion of Lost Technology, and highly exaggerating the rest.
* [[{{AliensSpeakingEnglish}} Aliens Speaking Japanese]]
* {{AerithAndBob}}: Takuto Mayers have Japanese first name and a surname that came from a brand of Jamaican rum. The main heroine, Milfeulle Sakuraba, has a weird first name and a Japanese surname. Everyone else, for the most part, have weird full names. Though, since this page seems to only refer to the gag anime Takuto may not count.
* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations
* [[spoiler:AnimatedActors: The final episode of ''X'' reveals the cast to be these...[[MindScrew or]] [[GainaxEnding not]].]]
* AnyoneCanDie: For comedic effect.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Happens several times throughout the series for various reasons. Mostly Lost Technology.
* BalloonBelly: The inevitable result of visiting Milfeulle while she is baking.
* BakersDozen: One DVD-exclusive episode per season.
* BlatantLies:
-->'''Forte:''' You ate [the forbidden Lost Technology sweetened chestnuts], didn't you?
-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.
-->'''Forte:''' You ate them, didn't you?
-->'''Giant Milfeulle:''' No, I didn't.
* CallBack: Believe it or not, there are numerous callbacks in the later seasons to gags made in the earlier ones, such as Milfeulle singing the theme song for a CombiningMecha or Chitose, Kokomo and Malibu growing larger due to eating sweet broiled chestnuts.
* CipherScything: The anime tossed out several aspects of the games it's based on, including the male lead.
* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In one episode the angels are on a space ship trying to defuse a time bomb. Meanwhile, Milfeulle is standing in the corner with Vanilla repeating [[SurvivalMantra "teleport, teleport, teleport"]]. She not only teleports out of the room but subsequently removes the entire invading army by teleporting them away.
* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In one episode, Mint is told that she has the ''kigurumi'' disease and that if she wears another mascot costume she will die. This conveniently coincides with the Angel Wing's trip to a planet that is in the midst of an animal costume celebration.
* ColourFailure
* ConspicuousCG: Any sequence involving the Angel or Twin Star Troupes' [[CoolStarship Emblem Frames]].
* CorruptHick: Parodied. Forte meets a CorruptHick owning a hospital full of completely incompetent staff and blaming his bad patient turnout on the existence of a kindly town doctor across the street.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: When Forte gets transformed into a man, Ranpha starts gushing over her.
* FlashbackEcho: Played for laughs when the Angels come under attack by guerrillas. It turns out each one of them has some kind of traumatic memory from their past...except Milfeulle. [[spoiler:Then Forte starts waving her finger in a circle...]]
* ForSCIENCE: Malibu builds a machine to predict the future.
* GagSeries
* HeroicSacrifice: Subverted in one episode where Normad has to load himself back into his missile in order to destroy a threat to the universe. What he neglected to mention was that they only needed to upload the guidance program.
* HonestAxe: Mint is offered a gold animal costume and a silver animal costume at a time when she believes that wearing an animal costume will kill her. She's not very happy when the water sprite tries to give her both.
* HurricaneOfPuns
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode has the name of a food inserted.
* JAMProject: Performed the ending theme for ''AA'''s final episode.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The Region 1 collection of ''A'' is long out of print and impossible to find at non-CrackIsCheaper prices. (The original series and ''Z'''s R1 collections suffered the same fate, but those seasons also had individual volume releases that aren't too hard to find yet.)
* KewpieDollSurprise
* LawyerFriendlyCameo: By the main characters of DiGiCharat and MazingerZ itself.
* LeftHanging: Almost every episode ends [[AntiClimax abruptly with no resolution]]. This is even {{lampshaded}} in a FourthWallMailSlot segment where Normad explains that it's because the writers are lazy.
* LivingProp: You can actually see Chitose in the background throughout the first episode of X, before her first actual speaking episode.
* MildlyMilitary: More like ''Barely'' Military.
* TheMultiverse: Can be accessed by Lost Technology, including realities where the Angel Wing is completely serious about their jobs, a pop band, a pirate gang, a basketball team and humanoid lizards.
* NegativeContinuity
* OutOfGenreExperience: Westerns, Soap Operas, High School Romance Comedies, Super Robot Anime, you name it.
* PaperThinDisguise: Oh no, Milfeulle is late to a meeting that could decide the fate of the Angel Wing's funding! What do? Volcott promptly excuses himself from the room...
* PlantAliens: One notable instance has the Angel Base taken over by a sentient mass of Kelp. It demands that the girls apologize for earlier Kelp-related insults and wait on it hand and foot.
* ResetButton: Sometimes blatantly invoked with [[AWizardDidIt no explanation whatsoever]] for comic effect. In one episode, all the characters were hanging off a cliff edge, developed various ways to fly, then suddenly lost their methods of flight for no explained reason and were hanging off the cliff again. [[MetaGuy Normad]] was [[LampshadeHanging terribly confused]].
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Bandai Entertainment only dubbed 8 episodes of X, the final season, due to poor sales of AA and S, although most fans of the dub take it as a "fuck you" due to paying full price for an incomplete dub. This happened after the trainwreck company Bandai Visual USA released Rune with no dub and Region 2 format, and volume 1 had a grand total of ''one episode''. It's not even worth it.
* ShoutOut: There's an episode where Ranpha and Col. Volcott are contestants on [[strike:TakeshisCastle]] ''Charge! The Fearsome Castle''.
** Later episodes pay tribute to CombattlerV and MazingerZ.
* {{Snapback}}: In many episodes the majority of the cast is killed off, the universe is destroyed, or someone is altered permanently in some drastic way.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: A dramatic episode "played straight" once every season.
* StockVisualMetaphors: A common one is the tree in autumn outside the hospital window, with the patient's life being as short as the last leaves. Then the tree gets destroyed or the leaves blow off in a sudden wind.
* StopHelpingMe: After associating with Milfeulle leads to her getting run over by a train, flushed out of an airlock, and being fried during an alien invasion, Chitose becomes terrified of Milfie's particular brand of "friendship".
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Occasionally, Mint's family will all have rabbit ears (even their butler, maid, and pet), Vanilla's family will all wear the same helmet, and Ranpha's family will all wear the same hair ornaments.
* SurrealThemeTune: ''Five'' of them.
* ThemeNaming: The five girls are named after foods and spices.
* ThirteenEpisodeAnime: Although the writers "cheat" in later seasons by sticking two 15-minute episodes together to fill a half-hour time slot.
* TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential: The Angels are playing the King Game and Vanilla orders Milfeulle to awaken Mint's true power...which takes the form of flying and reciting tongue-twisters perfectly.
* WeHaventLearnedAnythingYet: The events of the "serious" episodes are never mentioned during the rest of the series.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Or, in this case, a ''chikuwa''.
* WidgetSeries: The show is loaded with obscure puns, tongue-twisters, Buddhist proverbs and references to Japanese culture that don't translate particularly well.
* WikiRule: [[http://galaxyangel.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Yep.]]