Line #41 Anime/DreamHunterRem


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3	''Dream Hunter Rem'' is a series of MagicalGirl {{Original Video Animation}}s by Creator/AnimeR from 1985 about a green-haired supernatural detective who enters other people's dreams and fights the demons who cause nightmares. It started out as a hentai one-shot, but when the producers realized that audiences actually enjoyed the plot, they re-released the first episode with the porn scenes cut out and continued the series with two more episodes. There was also a second series called ''New Dream Hunter Rem'' released in 1990.
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5	This page is for the non-hentai series only.
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7	Surprisingly, Rem's brought back for a crossover game called ''VideoGame/SuperHeroineChronicle''.
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9	The series bears no relation to and should not be confused with [[Music/{{REM}} the band R.E.M.]] or the 1989 direct-to-video children's film ''Film/CreatingRemLezar''.
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12	!!This series provides examples of:
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14	* ActionGirl: Rem kicks butt for a living with a sword and gun.
15	* AmbiguouslyGay: Rem kisses the girl from the first episode in a casual sexy gesture.
16	%%* CrashIntoHello: How Rem meets Youko. %How does Rem meet Youko? Crashing a car into them? A bike? While swimming?
17	* CoolCar: Rem owns a blue customized Honda Today with missile launchers, although it is destroyed in episode 3.
18	* {{Delinquents}}: Rem runs afoul of a gang of female delinquents in episode 2. Unusually, one of them wields a knife.
19	%%* DepletedPhlebotinumShells: Rem's gun uses these. %Uses what? Mithral? Wood?
20	%%* DreamWalker: Rem's powers, along with some DreamWeaver thrown in. %Powers aren't described
21	%%* FashionDissonance: Rem's leotard-and-legwarmers outfit is straight out of TheEighties. %This is dissonant because??
22	%%* GirlishPigtails: Youko. %What about Youko? Is she a talking wig?
23	* {{Gorn}}: Holy ''shit''. Beheadings, slit throats, stabbings, that one time Rem graphically melts down to a skeleton -- for a series with cute girls and {{Fanservice}}, it can quickly flip straight into FanDisservice when a villain goes on a murder spree or Rem herself gets seriously injured.
24	%%* HeadlessHorseman: Episode 3 features one of these from feudal Japan.
25	%%* LaserBlade: Rem uses one in the dream world.
26	* LoveTriangle: Kidou the parapsychology student and Enkou the Buddhist monk both compete for Rem's attentions. Though technically it can be counted as a love square since Elizabeth is also vying for her affections.
27	* MagicalGirl: A very early example of the MagicalGirlWarrior sub-genre.
28	* MeaningfulName: [=REM=] refers to Rapid Eye Movement, which people exhibit when they dream.
29	%%* MsFanservice
30	* MysteriousPast: Rem's. All it is shown is that [[spoiler:she descends from an ancient clan of Dream Guardians and she lost her mother and her ability to dream by herself.]]
31	* NaughtyTentacles: The demon from the first episode uses them to restrain his female prey. Played much straighter in the original version, as anybody can imagine.
32	* NonHumanSidekick: Rem's cat and dog sidekicks, Alpha and Beta, who help her out during fights.
33	%%* PrivateDetective: Rem's profession.
34	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Whenever somebody's getting possessed by a demon, their eyes turn red.
35	* SelfCensoredRelease: It started out as {{hentai}}, but was retooled into {{ecchi}} after the first episode. Averted in the manga series ''Dream Hunter Rem XX''.
36	* SerialKiller: Professor Shinigami has the same powers as Rem, but he uses them [[YourMindMakesItReal to kill people]].
37	%%* SexGoddess: Rem is implied to be this.
38	%%* ShowerScene: Rem gets one when she goes undercover as a student during the school episode.
39	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Rem's warrior outfit in the dream world is a ChainmailBikini made of SensualSpandex.
40	* SwallowedWhole: When Rem sees that a dream monster is about to devour her, she purposefully dives into its mouth, avoiding its [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily rows of sharp teeth]], and slices it apart from inside its throat.
41	%%* TalkingInYourDreams: Rem's main power.
42	%%* TransformationSequence: Rem has a very brief one.
43	* VagueAge: Rem. She's old enough to drive and own a car, but at the same time she can convincingly disguise herself as a highschool student, and she notes to Sakaki that she is pretty much one, though without stating her exact age.
44	%%* WarriorMonk: Enkou is the Eastern variety.%Variety of what? Christian?

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