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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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