Line #54 Anime/BurnUp


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3	The ''Burn Up'' franchise is a set of four PantyFighter series revolving around an AmazonBrigade quasi-[=SWAT=] team called "Team Warrior", and their fight against crime and [[GovernmentConspiracy government conspiracies]]. The series are generally lighthearted at first, but develop a case of CerebusSyndrome near the end.
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5	All four series were produced by Creator/{{AIC}} between 1991 (the original) and 2004 (''Scramble''). Creator/ADVFilms actually helped co-produce the two middle entries in the franchise, ''Burn Up W'' and ''Burn Up Excess''[[note]]the latter also with Creator/MagicBus[[/note]], after the success of their release of the original one-shot {{OVA}}.
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7	The latest installment, ''Burn Up Scramble'' was released in North America by Creator/{{Geneon}} USA, who also co-produced the show along with their main office in Japan.
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10	!!This series contains examples of:
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12	* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The last two episodes of ''W''.
13	* AlternateContinuity: None of the series is in exactly the same continuity of the others.
14	* ArtShift: Between the OVA, ''W'' and ''Excess'', and finally ''Scramble'' as part of the general shift in anime art style between the early and late 90s, and then the early 2000s.
15	* BarbieDollAnatomy: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] It's averted in every other entry of the series, but for some reason ''Excess'' plays this trope straight and has it on full display. [[note]] And this is despite the fact that ''Excess'' originally aired in Japan exclusively on satellite TV ([=DirecTV=] Japan to be specific) which has looser restrictions. [[/note]]
16	%% This doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: ''Don't'' damage Remi's gear. "Lead enema", anyone?
17	%%zce* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''.
18	%%* Brainwashed: Implied with the New Warriors.
19	* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: In ''Excess'', Maya gets to play the straight woman for her father, his Yakuza syndicate, and more or less everyone else back home [[TheIdiotFromOsaka in Osaka]] during her ADayInTheLimelight episode. ([[NotSoAboveItAll Except after she gets her hands on heavy weaponry from an]] AuctionOfEvil.)
20	%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy
21	* BreastAttack: In the last episode of Excess, Rio grabs and pulls on Ruby's breasts in order to break out of a stranglehold, then knocks her out with a headbutt.
22	--> '''Rio''': "Hey, they almost feel real..."
23	* CantHoldHerLiquor: Lilika in ''Scramble''. Even a little gets her plastered and accentuated her clumsiness and LesYay, below.
24	* CherryBlossoms: In ''Scramble'', they fall while Maya informs Rio that she's leaving. They also fall on Lilika while she's [[CantHoldHerLiquor sleeping it off]].
25	* ColorCodedCharacters: The skinsuits in ''Scramble''. Red for Rio, green for Maya, blue for Lilika, purple for [[spoiler:The Commander]].
26	* CovertPervert: For a supposed sheltered innocent, ''Scramble''!Lilika has a kinky imagination!
27	* CuteClumsyGirl: Lilika in ''Scramble''.
28	* DarkActionGirl: Ruby, TheDragon from ''Excess''
29	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The original 1991 OVA's ending theme is sung by Yumiko Shibata, Creator/MikiIto and Creator/KumikoNishihara, who all voice Maki, Reimi and Yuka respectively
30	** ''Burn Up Excess'''s opening is sung by Creator/MamiKingetsu [[note]] mistranslated as Mami Kanezuki on ADV's DVD's [[/note]], who voices Maki
31	** ''Burn Up Scramble'''s ending is sung by Creator/MegumiToyoguchi, Creator/RieKugimiya and Creator/MamikoNoto who voice Rio, Maya and Lilika respectively
32	* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: The Commander from ''Scramble''
33	* EvilCounterpart: The "New Warriors" from ''Scrambled''. Two superpowered women who gave the Warriors a hard time. While they completed missions quicker, they left great damage and a body count. [[spoiler:Turns out they were illegally experimented on by the Police in collaboration with underground organizations: given drugs for strength and their combat techniques from data on Rio and Maya]].
34	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Our first view of Rio in ''Excess'' is one of these, where she's enjoying a bowl of ramen. ''Really'' enjoying. The scenes we see before this is revealed...
35	* GadgeteerGenius: Nanvel from ''W'' and ''Excess''
36	%%zce* GovernmentConspiracy
37	* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Rio is shown to wear childish underwear with teddy-bear prints in both Excess and Scramble.
38	* GroinAttack: Episode 8 of ''Excess'' had a giant Rio dealing with a giant male transvestite as the two of them were battling in the city from within a ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''-like parody battle. Near the end of the fight, Rio ends up delivering a devastating back mule kick to the guy's own groin and you can't help but feel sorry for him, since Rio struck him with a ''sharp'' high-heel shoe and that you could hear the direct ''SickeningCrunch'' of the man's own crotch (complete with an x-ray that shows the entire pelvis cracking itself). It's safe to say that it's gonna be a long time before the guy is able to recover from such a strike.
39	--> '''Chi-Mama:''' Shoulda gone to Morocco for that sex-change operation...
40	* HadakaApron: ''Scramble''!Lilika
41	* HandOrObjectUnderwear: ''Scramble''!Lilika, the "objects" being Rio and Maya.
42	* HandsomeLech:Yuji
43	* ICallItVera: Every version of Maya.
44	* IronicEcho: "It's showtime!"
45	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rio
46	* LawEnforcementInc: Team Warrior is usually non-official, and always provides bounties for successfully completed missions.
47	* LethalChef: Adding ''bullets'' and ''gunpowder'' to "punch up" stew? Yeah, sure thing, Lilika
48	* LittleMissSnarker: ''Scramble''!Maya
49	* LocalHangout: The ramen restaraunt in ''Excess'', mostly because it's one of the places Rio can afford to eat at.
50	* MafiaPrincess: ''W''/''Excess''!Maya was the daughter of a {{Yakuza}} boss.
51	* MarshmallowHell: In ''Scramble'', [[spoiler:The Warriors Commander]] uses this as an ''attack'' against Rio, before throwing her into a stack of junked cars.
52	* MarsNeedsWomen: Henry the AI HoverTank, towards Rio.
53	* MsFanservice: Lots of it, but particularly Rio.
54	* NonActionGuy: Yuji, although he ''is'' technically an ace helicopter pilot.
55	* {{Omake}}: ''Excess'' usually had an epilogue to each episode, which eventually evolved into "Yuji's Omake Theater".
56	* NoNameGiven: We are never told who the two New Warriors real names are in ''Scramble''.
57	* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: One of these approves dispatching Team Warrior in ''Scramble''.
58	* PerpetualPoverty: Rio, because of her spendthrift habits.
59	* PlayboyBunny: In ''Excess'', Maya ends up in one as part of a (half-baked) plan to infiltrate an AuctionOfEvil as entertainers.
60	%%zce* PlayfulHacker: ''W[=/=]Excess''!Lilica
61	* PsychicPowers: ''Scramble''!Lilica; they don't really work that well, though.
62	** Not so much that they work poorly as too well, and Lilika had a tendency to spout off what she read in a CreepyMonotone without thought to how it may embarrass others (usually Rio).
63	* ScaryShinyGlasses: ''Excess''!Maki, though she's a good guy.
64	* ScreamingWarrior: In ''Scramble'', Lilika, of all people. Also a pun.
65	* SeriousBusiness: In the first ep of W, one of the terrorists' demands is that a manager for a baseball team publicly prostrate himself and apologize for their lackluster season. (Their rage at Lilika's faked BackhandedApology footage is taken as more evidence that they're not the masterminds.)
66	* ShootTheBullet: At the end of ''Scramble''.
67	* ShoutOut: Many, to ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'', ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'', and oh-so-many to ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' -- such as a scene-for-scene remake of the fight with the Third Angel featuring Rio and a CampGay transvestite.
68	* ShowerScene: Several across all incarnations of the franchise.
69	* ShowSomeLeg: Rio does this to get out of trouble at her job in ''W''. She and the rest of Warrior also do this several other times in the line of duty.
70	%%zce* SuperpoweredRobotMeterMaids
71	* SuperCop: The "New Warriors" from ''Scramble'' are an attempt in police force. Keyword attempt, as while they do their jobs, they leave alot of collateral damage in their wake.
72	* TankGoodness: Rio has to escort a robotic AI HoverTank in ''Excess''; it turns out to be controlled by a KillSat.
73	* ThatWasTheReward: A rich young man, whom the AmazonBrigade assisted, offered one of the ladies 500 acres of desert land. She refused it, because it's just a pile of sand. Then she found out about the oil, but he had already left.
74	* ThisLoserIsYou: Yuji in ''W'' and ''Excess''.
75	* TokenMiniMoe: ''W[=/=]Excess''!Lilica
76	* TriggerHappy: Every version of Maya, but ''especially'' the ''W''/''Excess'' incarnation.
77	* TronLines: [[spoiler:The Commander]]'s skinsuit in ''Scramble''.
78	* TwelveEpisodeAnime: ''Excess'', ''Scramble''
79	* VirtualCelebrity: Maria from the second episode of ''W''.
80	* WeHardlyKnewYe: Chisato from ''W''; the audience learns that she's Rio's best friend just in time for her to be [[DroppedABridgeOnHim killed by the villains of the two-parter.]]
81	* WhiteSheep: ''Excess''!Maya; in her ADayInTheLimelight episode, we learn she's a [[MafiaPrincess Yakuza Princess]] ([[TheIdiotFromOsaka from Osaka]]) whose father [[IHaveNoSon threw her out]] because she wanted to be a cop. The episode revolves around her father trying to guilt her into coming home, and the two coming to terms while allying against a corrupt construction company.
82	* WrenchWench: Nanvel Candlestick. Quirky but genius inventor and still as busty as most of her squad.

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