Line #37 Anime/Memories


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3	->''"In the future, present, or imaginary world, [[TitleDrop MEMORIES]] reveal themselves like rose petals opening."''
4	-->-- {{Tagline}}
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6	''Memories'' is a set of three anime episodes adapted from three of Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo's manga short stories. Katsuhiro Otomo produced the film, but each of the episodes was directed, scripted, and had music composed by a different team, giving each episode a different style. It was released in Japan on December 23, 1995.
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8	The three episodes are:
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10	''Magnetic Rose'', directed by Koji Morimoto from a screenplay by Creator/SatoshiKon, with music by Music/YokoKanno. It's set in space, where a presumably abandoned space station gives out a distress signal. Two men from a spaceship go to investigate, and find much more than they bargained for.
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12	''Stink Bomb'', directed by Tensai Okamura from a screenplay by Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo, with key animation by Creator/YoshiakiKawajiri and music by Jun Miyake. A BlackComedy featuring a worker from a bioresearch facility, a weapon of mass destruction, and a lot of chaos.
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14	''Cannon Fodder'', written and directed by Creator/KatsuhiroOtomo, with music by Hiroyuki Nagashima. Uses a unique animation style to give the illusion of being filmed in [[TheOner one long take]]. The story centers on the residents of a city of cannons that is forever at war.
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16	Has a SpiritualSuccessor in ''Anime/ShortPeace'', also produced by Otomo.
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18	Creator/DiscotekMedia has licensed the film for Blu-ray release in the U.S. in 2021 including a brand new English dub, with Creator/NYAVPost handling ''Magnetic Rose'' and Sound Cadence Studio handling ''Stink Bomb'' & ''Cannon Fodder''.
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21	!!''Memories'' contains examples of:
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23	* AIIsACrapshoot: The computer in ''Magnetic Rose'' [[spoiler:carries out Eva's escapist fantasy long after Eva is dead, destroying other spaceships to assimilate them into itself.]]
24	* AmbiguousSituation: By the end of ''Cannon Fodder'', it's left unclear if [[spoiler:the enemy city actually exists and the cannon city simply cannot reliably hit it but lies to its populace anyways, or the enemy city used to or never existed at all and the government of the cannon city simply uses its threat as a means to control the population.]]
25	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Miguel Costrela, from ''Magnetic Rose''. He has a considerably darker skin tone, especially when compared to the obviously Caucasian Heinz and Ivanov, and the Japanese Aoshima, but the short doesn't give any hint of his past, nationality or ethnicity. At best one can guess he is Latino, but that's about it.
26	* AmericaSavesTheDay: In ''Stink Bomb''. [[spoiler:Or so they try to.]]
27	* ArmiesAreEvil:
28	** [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce The JSDF]] in ''Stink Bomb'' goes well above and beyond the call of overkill to try to stop Nobuo (although it's justified given [[PersonOfMassDestruction how lethal]] he has [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds unwittingly become]]), and the American military liaison that appears not only reveals himself as the man who ordered the creation of the bio-weapon Nobuo swallowed, but also conspires to capture Nobuo alive.
29	** The city of ''Cannon Fodder'' only exists to shoot cannons, all day, every day, and all of the activities of the people in it has been organized by the government to revolve around this (the children only learn trig and chemistry for the sake of figuring out shooting solutions, for example), [[NoOSHACompliance they don't care about the safety of the citizens]], and [[spoiler:it's implied that there is actually no rival cities to shoot, but they lie about it, ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''-style]].
30	* ArtificialGravity: The Eva ship in ''Magnetic Rose'' has this on its lower levels. Notably, the main character's ship does not... which allows for an impressive {{fanservice}} scene in which Miguel spins around while only wearing a minuscule thong.
31	* ArtShift: Used in the last sequence of ''Cannon Fodder'', where we jump into a child's drawing.
32	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Writing variant; the propaganda posters in "Cannon Fodder" contain some recognizable English words (such as "enemy") but are largely a jumble of different Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic letters arranged to look like sentences.
33	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: ''Magnetic Rose'' ends with the insane AI fully accomplishing everything it set out to do, and more. Heinz survives being ejected due to vacuum but he is almost guaranteed to die in space, as his spaceship and crewmates blew up due to the Eva Ship's powerful magnetic field. Miguel survives inside the Eva ship, but the AI has basically brainwashed him, and he is not going to live much longer either, as all food inside the ship is fake and previously Heinz found another astronaut corpse, pretty much calling out Miguel's fate]].
34	* BigBad: ''Magnetic Rose'' has some sort of ghost or being haunting the ship that Heinz and Miguel explore, constantly showing off apparitions to try and attract, trap them or straight up attacking. [[spoiler:Its the ship's AI gone insane trying to carry out its now long-dead master's wishes]].
35	* {{Brainwashed}}: The final fate of [[spoiler: Miguel, courtesy of the insane AI]].
36	* CitadelCity: "Cannon Fodder" is set in a walled city state positively ''bristling'' with cannons.
37	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Played for BlackComedy in ''Stink Bomb'', where Nobuo doesn't seem to understand there has to be some reason why the JSDF is [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill firing enough explosive ordinance towards him to kill Godzilla]] and every time he encounters people (who, knowing what he has become, stampede to get away from him and some don't succeed and choke to death on his gas [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight and he sees it happen]]) is to run after them going all "wait for me!".
38	* CreepyChangingPainting: In ''Magnetic Rose'', Miguel gets irrationally jealous when he sees a photo of Carlo kissing Eva during their search. As he and Heintz leave the room, the picture has swapped out Carlo for Miguel.
39	* CruelTwistEnding: Played for BlackComedy in ''Stink Bomb'': [[spoiler:Nobuo ''[[{{HandWave}} somehow]]'' managed to hijack one of the American PoweredArmor spacesuits in the midst of all the ''Anime/{{Akira}}''-level chaos to capture him at the tunnel and he gets out of it right inside of the bunker that is apparently beneath Tokyo, killing everybody.]] It is obvious from [[OhCrap the horrified reactions of everybody]], especially the American General, that this was not part of anybody's plan.
40	* DaddysGirl: Emily from ''Magnetic Rose''.
41	* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Heinz]] in ''Magnetic Rose''.
42	* {{Determinator}}: Nobuo was given one task, and one task alone: deliver the documents and experimental drug to his superiors [[TheTokyoFireball in Tokyo]]. [[spoiler:Nothing, not even carpet bombing, heavily armed barricades, collapsing tunnels, liquid Nitrogen, [[{{Eagleland}} Americans]] in [[PoweredArmor huge spacesuits]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking or his own grandmother's pleas]], will deter him from this mission]]. Naturally, this make it a twisted subversion of the trope's usual heroic overtones.
43	* DetrimentalDetermination: Played for BlackComedy (and a little bit [[PlayedForHorror of horror]]): normally, someone with ImplacableMan levels of determination would be a heroic thing, but within the context of [[WalkingWasteland the situation at hand]] and [[TheTokyoFireball what will happen if he succeeds]], it paints Nobuo as a hard-core example of LethallyStupid.
44	* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:Eva, the apparent main antagonist of ''Magnetic Rose'' has been dead for decades at the very least. The actual danger is the AI of her ship, who went insane and impersonated her. The climax shows Eva's actual corpse, that has decomposed down to the skeleton]]
45	* DerelictGraveyard: Where the ship emitting the DistressCall is centered [[spoiler:hinting at the true nature of the ship]].
46	* DistressCall: Starts off ''Magnetic Rose''. Turns out that [[spoiler:Eva's ghost continues to call men to their death... but it's because [[AIIsACrapshoot the computer thinks it's her!]] ]]
47	* DownerEnding: Practically all three episodes end on bad notes.
48	** In ''Magnetic Rose'', [[spoiler:Heinz escapes the station with his life, but he's stuck in space after getting yanked out by the Corona's analyzer, his fate uncertain. Ivanov and Aoshima likely died when the space station's magnetic field absorbed the Corona and the other ships of the graveyard into its mass, transforming the station into a giant rose. Miguel got the worst fate out of the whole crew; he's still alive, but his mind has been brainwashed by the insane A.I. posing as Eva into becoming her new "Carlo". With no real food on the station, he'll someday starve to death and join the other victims Heinz saw when he got sucked out. Once that happens, the cycle will start again, with "Eva" luring more people to her home to continue her escapist fantasy]].
49	** In ''Stink Bomb'', [[spoiler:just when it seems that the Japanese and U.S. military have finally found a way to stop Nobuo by trapping and freezing him in a tunnel, by some miracle, he survives by climbing into one of the U.S. space suits. After the military unknowingly brings him to their headquarters in Tokyo, Nobuo shows himself after giving his suitcase to Director Nirasaki and kills everyone when he tries to leave his suit after thinking they can't hear him. It's unclear what happens after that, as the episode ends there, but it can't be good for Japan or the U.S. now that some of their military leaders are dead]].
50	** ''Cannon Fodder'' is not chocolates and roses, either: our glimpse into a single day in the life of the city is all the more depressive knowing that there is no change coming. People will live and die shooting cannons all day, every day, with no end in sight.
51	* {{Dystopia}}: The city/state featured in ''Cannon Fodder'' is not a nice place to live.
52	* {{Eagleland}}: ''Stink Bomb'' has the evil variation[[note]](More Type 1 than Type 2, though)[[/note]], with the African-American officer who commissioned the bioweapon Nobuo ate, and who plans to capture the unwitting stinkbomb despite the risk to Japan.
53	* {{Fanservice}}: One of the first scenes of ''Magnetic Rose'' has both Heinz and Miguel wearing very skimpy outfits before they gear up in their spacesuits to go into the Eva ship. Heinz only has a pair of tiny shorts (which due to the zero gravity are rather floaty, giving quite a few views of his tights) and a revealing wifebeater shirt while Miguel is literally ''just in a thong'' prominently showing off his physique, featuring even a ''' happy trail'''. Even more blatant is the shot in which Miguel spins around while moving his legs for a solid 10 seconds in zero gravity, giving the viewer an ''extremely'' generous show of his ass and bulge from several different angles, as well as a peek of his asscrack a bit later. The scene in question doesn't serve any reason besides pretty eye candy, as Miguel doesn't even speak as he sexily spins and only makes a short comment at the end of it.
54	* FatBastard: The high ranking officer in "Cannon Fodder", whose only job is to walk up to the cannon and dramatically shout "Fire!", is portrayed with a hefty gut.
55	* AFateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Miguel's]] ultimate fate. By the end of ''Magnetic Rose'', [[spoiler:the central computer posing as Eva has completely brainwashed him into thinking that he's Carlo. With no proper food in the space station, he'll eventually starve to death and join the rest of the victims Heinz saw at the episode's climax]].
56	* FertileFeet: A side effect of the chemical in ''Stink Bomb'' is that every plant Nobuo comes near bursts into bloom regardless of the season [[spoiler:even as every animal drops dead.]]
57	* ForcedToWatch: In ''Magnetic Rose'', [[spoiler: Heinz gave his daughter a space-suit, promising to take her up with him next time. In her eagerness to show it off, she climbs onto the roof after him while he's repairing a weathervane, and winds up losing her footing. He barely misses saving her]]. And because of [[spoiler: the LotusEaterMachine, he has to watch this happen ''twice'' - once mirroring his own memory, and the second time while standing on the ground, still helpless to save his daughter]].
58	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
59	** A wealth of it in ''Magnetic Rose'' regarding TheReveal that [[spoiler: Heinz's daughter is DeadAllAlong -- namely, the porcelain doll falling and breaking, and the instances where he has visions of his daughter falling prior to the reveal itself]].
60	--->'''WebVideo/BennettTheSage''': The ''genius'' of this scene is that everything important to it has been well laid-out beforehand... Nothing [[AssPull came out of nowhere]], everything was established [[{{Consistency}} using in-universe logic that is completely sound]]. It did everything to build up to this one climactic point, and it succeeded ''astoundingly''.
61	** And the aforementioned CreepyChangingPainting hints at Miguel's fate.
62	* ForeverWar: The basis of ''Cannon Fodder''. The population is devoted to maintaining the eternal war machine of their city, receiving daily propaganda to boost their patriotic fervor. Why are they fighting? No one knows. Turns out, [[spoiler:there may not even be any enemy. Every shot fired lands somewhere in the desert landscape beyond the city; ancient craters are visible just beyond the walls]].
63	** However, in a FreezeFrameBonus a news announcer mentions how much damage was done to the enemy's [[spoiler:mobile city]] but this actually adds to the bleak war since either it was invented to justify the apparent inability to defeat the enemy via constant bombardment for years or the enemy can never be truly defeated since they [[spoiler:constantly move away]].
64	* GlamourFailure: ''Magnetic Rose'' shows a realistic and futuristic example. Despite the space station's interior looking like a pristine royal palace, if one looks closer, the glamour doesn't hold up, literally. The beautiful "outside" are holograms to hide the rest of the ruined station, the "food" might look delicious, but it only mimics the smell, not the taste, the dresses and jewelry instantly fall apart with the slightest touch because they're ''that'' old, and as Miguel sees as he goes further in the station, the statues, furniture, and walls are rotting and dripping with black goo.
65	* GratuitousEnglish: Done for verisimilitude's sake. At one point in "Stink Bomb" the American officers converse with each other in English. Very, ''very'' heavily Japanese accented English.
66	* HardTruthAesop: For ''Magnetic Rose'', [[spoiler: that's it's better to face a painful truth (Eva's loss of her career and fiancée, Heinz's lost daughter) than to find solace in comforting lie.]]
67	* HeroTrackingFailure: ''Stink Bomb''. Justified in that [[spoiler:the chemical agent damages electronics (such as aiming devices,) even at long distance, the same way it kills animals]]... but it doesn't explain why ''bombs'' keep missing him too.
68	* {{Hologram}}: In ''Magnetic Rose'', [[spoiler:the entire interior of the ship is full of these, utilized by the deranged A.I. to disguise the ruined interior.]]
69	* IdiotBall: Just about everyone involved in ''Stink Bomb'' is a devoted ball carrier. Nobuo takes the cake, but his superiors and the army come a close second.
70	* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: Eva murdered Carlo when he tried to leave her.]]
71	* LadykillerInLove: ''Magnetic Rose'' [[spoiler: has Miguel fall for Eva due to her being a LotusEaterMachine. Early on he did seem to be falling for her more genuinely but as it goes on he begins just acting like a controlled puppet.]].
72	* LaserGuidedKarma: In ''Stink Bomb'', [[spoiler:the two men who led the project to create the bio-weapon Nobuo swallowed (the pharmaceutics CEO and the [[{{Eagleland}} American]] [[ArmiesAreEvil General]]) both end up trapped inside of a bunker with Nobuo five feet away from them as he opens his suit. They die the same awful death they have accidentally forced upon thousands of people and, in the case of the General, was planning to inflict on many more.]]
73	* LeitMotif: ''Magnetic Rose'' has [[https://youtu.be/52M_hk9lkjY "Un Bel Di" from "Madame Butterfly"]] as a recurring theme, right down to using the song as a distress signal. [[spoiler: This also doubles as {{foreshadowing}}, as Carlo had left Eva just as Pinkerton had left Butterfly]].
74	* LethallyStupid: In ''Stink Bomb'', Nobuo is this to a degree that turns him into a PersonOfMassDestruction. Starting with taking a pill that he assumes is an experimental flu medicine but was actually a bio-weapon (a co-worker explicitly told him what color they were and he misremembered) and continuing with him trying to follow the orders of his boss (to take his company's secret documents to Tokyo) like a good little {{Salaryman}} [[{{Determinator}} come hell or high water]] (and by which we mean "[[ImplacableMan the JSDF tossing everything and the kitchen sink at him doesn't deter him]]") without bothering to think ''why'' the hell the government would be so absurdly determined to stop him or why every human he approaches that doesn't run like hell just keels over dead. [[spoiler:The short ends with him killing all of the government and military officials inside of a secret bunker implied to be somewhere under Tokyo (and which means he may wipe out Tokyo, too, once he leaves) when he takes off the PoweredArmor he somehow managed to get into because he thinks the officials aren't hearing him well.]]
75	* LetsSplitUpGang: Smart move, Heinz. [[spoiler: It might have ended up being the right choice, as the AI did not manage to brainwash Heinz... not that his fate ends up being any better.]]
76	* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The ship in ''Magnetic Rose'' is dominated by an AI which went nuts, taking the form of its former master, Eva, who tricks rescuers by bringing their fondest dream to life... or tricking them into living ''hers''.]]
77	* MacrossMissileMassacre: Happens a few times in ''Stink Bomb'' when the entire military is trying to kill a single guy on a moped. HilarityEnsues.
78	* MagicalRealism: ''Magnetic Rose'' has shades of this [[spoiler:at least until TheReveal. But even then, it could be questionable... Even so, the AI's apparent weird PsychicPowers are evocative of something not technological]]
79	* MassOhCrap: Most of the comedy in ''Stink Bomb'' is repeatedly watching hordes of people noticing that Nobuo is wandering towards them looking for a ride to Tokyo and stampeding to get away from him, with the ones who were too slow suffocating to death as they inhale the gas, and for further BlackComedy, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint at no point Nobuo questions what is happening]] and [[LethallyStupid runs after them, which leads to more deaths and running]]. Rinse and repeat [[PersonOfMassDestruction until everybody in Japan is screwed]].
80	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Eva in Magnetic Rose. [[spoiler: Her ability to read Heinz' mind, the sheer effectiveness of her illusions, and the borderline EldritchLocation aspects of her ship interior make it seem like she's evolved far beyond being "just" a hyper-intelligent, insane AI. But nothing is confirmed either way.]]
81	* MechanicalAbomination: [[spoiler: Eva is the ''entire ship'' in Magnetic Rose, able to twist her insides to resemble palaces, beautiful fields, or even the memories of an intruder. All of this is actually rusted, disgustingly organic-looking scrap metal she takes from the ships she lures in to kill.]]
82	* MoreDakka: The ''entire city'' in ''Cannon Fodder'' is dedicated to heavy artillery, with nary a building lacking a giant cannon on its roof.
83	* MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: Nobuo. Hee hee. He becomes a living bioweapon, kills an unknown amount of people in rural Japan (and in Tokyo, as the ending implies), and causes chaos on the level of a natural disaster, and not ''once'' does he ever think that he may be the reason for it.
84	* MindScrew: ''Magnetic Rose'' has industrial levels of this.
85	* MuggedForDisguise: [[spoiler:Somehow, Nobuo manages to get himself into one of the NASA spacesuits when nobody's looking and makes it all the way to the executive he was delivering his MacGuffin to. And he still doesn't realize what's going on.]]
86	* MultinationalTeam: The ship's crew in ''Magnetic Rose'' consists of Heinz Beckner (German), Miguel Costrela (Spanish or Portuguese), Aoshima (Japanese), and Ivanov (Russian).
87	* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Eva's dead fiance has the exact same name as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rambaldi a special effects designer named Carlo Rambaldi]], who worked on famous films such as ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''Film/{{Alien}}'', and ''Film/Dune1984''.
88	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Aside from [[https://youtu.be/52M_hk9lkjY singing]] [[https://youtu.be/c-r2vu4t9-g her rendition]] of "[[Theatre/MadameButterfly Un bel di vedremo]]", [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pe6RgKoSYlM/hqdefault.jpg Eva]] bears a striking resemblance to famous opera star [[https://www.traveltaormina.com/images/eventi/2017/maria-callas-memorial-taormina-2017.jpg Maria]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Callas Callas]], right down to being referred to as "[[TheDiva a Tigress]]" by the press, and Callas having similarly [[spoiler: lost some of her vocal ability, though Eva had lost all of hers]].
89	* NoOSHACompliance:
90	** The events of ''Stink Bomb'' happen because the guy in charge of Nobuo's lab thought it was a good idea to leave an experimental bio-weapon, ''[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong in capsule form]]'', right on his desk where anybody could grab it and swallow it, thinking it to be medicine.
91	** The city in ''Cannon Fodder'' definitely considers shooting all day, every day more important than the safety of the people working to make it happen (we see a bunch of people protesting that chemicals used for shell propellant have harmful fumes and the punishment for screwing up while loading one of the cannons is to be ordered to stand close to it with no ear protection). Justified because it happens in an AlternateUniverse where something like OSHA probably hasn't been created yet, if ever.
92	* TheOner: ''Cannon Fodder'' is animated to give the illusion of being filmed in one long take.
93	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Seemingly the premise of ''Magnetic Rose'' is about a haunted, sinister spaceship [[spoiler: It's not a ghost, but an AI gone insane having taken the visage of its master and trying to carry out its will]]
94	* PoisonousPerson: Nobuo becomes a walking dispenser of poisonous gas, and only becomes more powerful the more he gets agitated.
95	* PoweredArmor: The NASA experimental spacesuits from ''Stink Bomb'' that the {{Eagleland}}ers use to try to capture Nobuo. The reason why they look the way they do is that they were designed for walking on Venus' surface.
96	* PowerIncontinence: Again, Nobuo. He never even realizes he has become highly toxic.
97	* PsychoElectro: What [[spoiler:Nobuo]] ultimately (and unwittingly) becomes. Turns out that once his bio-chemistry hits critical mass because he's stressed out, not only does he unleashes DeadlyGas, but the gas somehow develops a mighty electrical charge that works as ECM and goes full ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' when he finally freaks.
98	* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler: The insane AI in ''Magnetic Rose'' has the ability to mind read and brainwash, as it precisely does the later to Miguel, and has to have the former to create the holograms of Heinz memories]]
99	* PuttingOnTheReich: A rather odd example. While the society shown in ''Cannon Fodder'' is pretty militaristic, its aesthetics are drawn from the early 20th century, being a mix of [=WW1=] French, German, and British uniforms and weapons. However, in the faux Latin alphabet used on posters and signs, the letter "S" looks like the Waffen SS rune.
100	* ShoutOut: The use of "Un Bel Di" in ''Magnetic Rose'' as the ship's unusual SOS signal. "Un Bel Di" is a famous aria about a woman watching the sea, waiting for her husband's ship to return so they can be together. Of course, ''Theatre/MadameButterfly'' is also a tragedy.
101	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Heinz]] is the only one who escapes the wrecked space station with his life. [[spoiler:Miguel is also alive if you want to get technical, but he arguably [[AFateWorseThanDeath got the worst out of the Corona's crew]]]].
102	* SpaceIsolationHorror: [[spoiler:Heinz's final fate as he is ejected into space while his ship and crew explode.]]
103	* SpoilerCover: The back of the DVD case (pictured at the top of the page) shows [[spoiler: Eva's desiccated corpse]], which only appears at the very end of ''Magnetic Rose''.
104	* SteamPunk: ''Cannon Fodder''.
105	* SuperpowerMeltdown: The more agitated or distraught Nobuo gets, the higher concentration of lethal biochemicals he exudes.
106	* SuperpoweredRobotMeterMaids: The little cherub statues in ''Magnetic Rose'' remind their mistress of her schedule... and also fly and shoot EyeBeams.
107	* TakeThat: An obscure one. One of the titanic and ugly buildings in ''Cannon Fodder'' has an engraving quoting Le Corbusier's definition of architecture ("the skillful, accurate, and magnificent play of volumes seen in light"). Much of Le Corbusier's large-scale work has been controversial, often described as cold and inhuman.
108	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Nobuo is '''painfully ignorant''' of the fact that he is a walking PersonOfMassDestruction. The army is trying to kill him, his own grandmother begging him to stop. Perhaps justified in that the worker can't see the neurotoxin gas he's emitting, but the crowning moment of his delusion, is when he puts on one of the NASA experimental spacesuits from an American ''he just killed'', so he could get near his superiors hiding from him in Tokyo. What would possess him to do that? It's open to interpretation as to how LethallyStupid he's behaving, or if the bio-weapon experiment is [[TheVirus somehow controlling him]] in order to spread itself to new victims.
109	* TitleDrop: Not for the shorts, but for the whole movie: in ''Magnetic Rose'', Heinz mutters out that "memories... memories are not to be toyed with!" before he tries to go Rambo on [[spoiler:the crazy ship A.I. in retaliation for it trying to MindRape him with the memories of his dead daughter.]]
110	* TooDumbToLive:
111	** While one could argue Nobuo is [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation delusional from suffering a nervous breakdown]], it's kind of ridiculous he doesn't put together that ''he'' is the reason everyone keeps dropping dead, especially when it happens multiple times ''right in front of him''.
112	** Zigzagged with the Head Researcher. He kept dangerous biochemicals unsecured in his personal office but was shrewd enough to know he was about to die in seconds with no time left [[PoorCommunicationKills to issue a warning]], and his IdiotBall carrying superiors in Tokyo would try to recover the bioweapon away from a suspected leak, not knowing Nobuo ''[[PoisonousPerson is the cause of the leak]]''. He turned off the bio-contamination warning system, but the moronic Nobuo of course, turns it back ''on''.
113	* ToxicPhlebotinum: It's not clear what the bio-weapon chemical that Nobuo ingested in ''Stink Bomb'' even is. The military seems to be incapable of using their guidance systems to accurately kill this WalkingWasteland, as the gas messes with their electronic systems regardless of how far away the target is. Okay, ''[[HandWave fine]]'', but when Americans arrive in NASA [[PoweredArmor experimental spacesuits]] that the deadly gas is now ineffective against, to apprehend him, [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands freaking lightning]] comes out of him. It seems on some molecular level, this dangerous substance, whatever it is, ''[[TheVirus wants to spread]]'', and it found the perfect host in the LethallyStupid Nobuo.
114	* TruthInTelevision: In ''Stink Bomb'', the idea that a person can unwittingly become a walking biological weapon sounds ludicrous. However, it's based on a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gloria_Ramirez real event]] where hospital workers inexplicably fell ill when treating an emergency room patient forcing an evacuation. While there is no official cause for the incident, the commonly accepted theory is that a chain of highly unlikely circumstances occurred that caused a chemical reaction within the patient's body that caused it to start releasing toxic dimethyl sulfate gas.
115	* TyphoidMary: Nobuo in ''Stink Bomb'' becomes a living bio-weapon, a walking dispenser of highly potent DeadlyGas.
116	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In ''Stink Bomb'' we have both the fellow researcher who tells Nobuo about the experimental flu medicine in the director's office (that Nobuo ends up mistaking for the bio-weapon) and Nobuo himself, who arrives at his work while having a cold and it's implied that the flu shot he was given at the local clinic before arriving interacted with the bio-weapon somehow, [[GoneHorriblyWrong and most definitely not in a good way]].
117	* WalkingWasteland: Again, Nobuo from ''Stink Bomb''. Made all the more ironic considering he's ''also'' a case of FertileFeet.
118	* WhamLine: From ''Magnetic Rose''. Carlo was murdered the night before her wedding with Eva, with the culprit never being found. When Heinz confronts her for [[spoiler:brainwashing Miguel to replace him and]] refusing to accept his death, she reveals this bombshell.
119	-->'''Eva''': Carlo will live on forever, always, here within my memories.\
120	'''Heintz''': What?\
121	'''Eva''': You understand. I know you do.\
122	'''Heintz''': This is all bullshit! You're just living your life in denial. [[TheLostLenore Carlo is already dead!]]\
123	'''Eva''': (''laughs'') I prefer to think I've made my Carlo ''eternal''.\
124	'''Heinz''': You what?!\
125	'''Eva''': And the Carlo that lives in my memories [[spoiler:[[IfICantHaveYou will never have a change of heart]].]]
126	* WhamShot: [[spoiler:In ''Cannon Fodder'', the shot of craters littering the wasteland beyond the city, deliberately suggesting that the cannons are literally firing at ''nothing''.]]
127	* WhiteDwarfStarlet: [[spoiler:Eva, an opera singer]] in ''Magnetic Rose''.
128	* WhyAmITicking: A variant occurs in ''Stink Bomb''.
129	* WiltingOdor: The entire premise of ''Stink Bomb'' revolves around a lab technician who, after mixing up some experimental pills, exudes a smell so unbearable ''it kills everyone in Kofu''. As mentioned earlier, ironically it makes plant life bloom.
130	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Eva from ''Magnetic Rose'' [[spoiler:(or better said, the AI that took her BrokenBird personality)]].
131	* {{Yandere}}: Turns out that [[spoiler: Eva wasn't willing to let Carlos leave her. Or any of the [[ReplacementGoldfish replacements she finds, for that matter]]]].

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