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1[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sacred7.jpg]]
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3...Oh, [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs where do we begin with the synopsis]]?
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5An AnimeFirst series by Creator/{{Sunrise}} that premiered in the Summer 2011 season alongside the second half of ''Anime/TigerAndBunny''.
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7Seventeen years ago, a meteor fell from space, scattering a bunch of rare jewels around Japan known as "Dark Stones." These stones provide tremendous power to whoever touches them, but also have a bad habit of driving the user [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity insane]]. Fast-forward several years: a loner named Alma goes to school despite being accused of sending 19 kids to the hospital [[CurbStompBattle all at once]]. An [[BigFancyHouse amazingly rich]] woman named Ruri and her butler Makoto ask for his help. With the power from her "Soul Stone," he can wield the power of the "Sacred Seven" and destroy the Dark Stones.
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9But of course, everyone has their own agenda involving the Dark Stones. Even Alma's newfound friend.
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12!!This series contains examples of:
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14* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Alma, for the fact that he nearly killed eighteen other people in one of his rampages.
15%% * AmbiguouslyEvil: Kenmi. [[spoiler:At first.]]
16%% * ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler:"What are ''you'' fighting for, Tandoji?" asked by Naito.]]
17%% * ArtificialRiverbank
18* TheAssimilator:[[spoiler:Kenmi. He wants to devour all the power of the Sacred Seven]].
19* AxCrazy:[[spoiler:Kenmi by the last episode, as he goes DrunkWithPower]].
20* BattleButler:
21%% ** Makoto.
22** Even more so, his father who took on a Dark Stone in hand-to-hand combat without the benefit of a MiniMecha.
23%% * BeachEpisode: Episode 5.
24%% * BeastAndBeauty: Alma with both Wakana and Ruri.
25%% * TheBerserker:
26%% ** Alma's default SuperMode, without Ruri's power helping to balance it out.
27%% ** [[spoiler: Fei go full berserk after Kenmi gives him his powers]].
28* BettyAndVeronica: Wakana and Ruri respectively.
29* BigBad: [[spoiler:Kenmi]] is behind ''everything'' in the series. [[spoiler:Alma losing his pendant, Ruri and Makoto losing their family, Naito and Fei's predicament]]... he's behind it all.
30%% * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:The Maids and Oni-Gawara during episode 11.]]
31%% * BigGood: Ruri Aiba.
32* BigLittleSister: As Aoi didn't age over the years, Ruri is this to her older twin sister.
33%% * BirdRun: The Monster in episode 1.
34* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When called an coward, Kenmi says that he prefers to call his action([[spoiler:using a HumanShield]]) an "efficient use of resources".
35%% * BridalCarry: Alma to Ruri a couple of times.
36* BunnyEarsLawyer: The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] user of the Arachne PowerArmor. She treats fighting like a game.
37%% * ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "Your memories I take into me. My soul I give to you!" %%Quotes are not examples.
38%% * CannotSpitItOut: Ruri to Alma, and vice-versa.
39* ConvenientlySeated: Alma sits himself at the left corner by the window in the back to show his isolation. He actually reinforces this by pulling his desk even further back.
40%% * CloudCuckoolander: The woman in the Arachne Armor show signals of this.
41* DeathFromabove:[[spoiler:Fei unleashes an rain of projectiles after absorbing Kenmi's powers and turning [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity MadwithPower]]]].
42%% * DefrostingIceKing: Alma.
43* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Seeing his brother get killed by Kenmi drives Fei insane with homicidal rage, which Kenmi magnifies by passing his malice to him just before dying.]]
44%% * DetectEvil: Oni-Gawara can feel the presence of nearby Dark Stones.
45%% * DrunkWithPower:[[spoiler:Kenmi by the last episode]].
46%% * DudeLooksLikeALady: Fei.
47* {{Emoticon}}: Oni-gawara sometimes summons these in the air to express his emotions, since his own face is almost totally inexpressive.
48* ExtremeOmnivore: One of the Dark Stones from episode 9 eats trucks, {{BFG}}s and their ''laser beams''.
49* ExtremityExtremist: One of the two Darkstones from episode 9 only fought with it's legs, on account of its arms being locked in a BadassArmFold.
50* EyeColourChange: Alma's left eye turns red when there's Dark Stone activity nearby.
51** Changes in episode 12, where both eyes glow blue.
52* FeedItwithFire:[[spoiler:Fei hits Kenmi with projectiles in the finale. It makes him [[NighInvulnerability NighInvunerable]] ]].
53* ForgottenFirstMeeting: Alma saved Ruri from falling beams when they were children. This was the first time that he had activated his Sacred powers. Alma forgot all about it, though.
54* FriendlessBackground: Alma. He could actually make friends, but invariably lost them because he scared them off when he exhibited his powers and had to constantly move to a new town because of that.
55* GagSub: One sub group jokingly calls Alma "Squall" due to his resemblance to the character from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', both appearance and personality-wise.
56%% * AGodAmI: [[spoiler:Kenmi in episodes 11 and 12, after absorbing Hung's Darkstone powers]]
57%% * {{Golem}}: The Dark Stones, the monsters that Alma must battle, appear to be these.
58* GoodColorsEvilColors: Naito's coat and armour are black. [[spoiler:With Aoi activating his powers, he dons a white armour (which also does away with the mask covering his entire face) and he's seen wearing a white version of his coat at the very end.]]
59%% * HenshinHero: Of course!
60* HeroicSacrifice: Kagami's father blew himself and Number 0 up to stop the latter from going after Ruri after he killed the rest of her family.
61%% * HimeCut: Ruri.
62* HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]BullyingTheDragon:
63** The rampage that nearly killed those students. They threw his [[AmuletOfConcentratedAwesome necklace]] in the river.
64** In a looser way, in the episode with two darkstones, where the Engagement Suit actually uses it's BFG, said BFG makes the MonsterOfTheWeek ''stronger'', rather than injuring it...
65** [[spoiler: Fei shoots at Kenmi in the last episode. It gives him NighInvulnerability thanks to his new absorption powers]]
66* HowWeGotHere: Episode 9 opens with Alma getting absolutely owned by the episode's Dark Stone. As the audience wonders how things have gotten [[TheWorfEffect to that point]], cue the opening and the story [[WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld plays out as usual]].
67* HugeGuyTinyGirl: While Alma dwarfs almost everyone it's especially visible with Ruri who doesn't even come up to his chest.
68%% * HumanShield: [[spoiler:Kenmi uses Fei as this in he last episode]]
69* IdenticalTwinIDTag:
70** Two of Ruri's maids are twins who are distinguished by the side of their head their bangs are placed on.
71** Ruri and Aoi are distinguished by the shape of their hair; Ruri's is curly while Aoi's is straight.
72* [[IAteWhat I Drank What?]]: Those drinks Ruri is inhaling all throughout episode 4? [[spoiler:Sexual stamina drinks.]] When she finds out, her whole face goes bright red.
73* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Ruri and Aoi's mother died when Number 0 impaled her with his spear-like tail.
74* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: Kagami pilots the only mecha in a series that isn't about them. Perhaps because of that, it suffers from TheWorfEffect a lot.
75* IntimateHealing: Variation in which Alma and Ruri need to hold hands in order to make a piece of stone shine so Oni-Gawara can be healed. At the end of the episode, it turns out that the whole thing was just an elaborate ploy to have Alma and Ruri go on a date, though we don't get an explanation as to how Oni-Gawara gets fixed.
76* JapaneseRanguage: Is it Alma, Arma, or Aruma?
77* LadyAndKnight: Ruri and Alma respectively. Makoto also fills the knight part too.
78* LightningBruiser: One of the Dark Stones from episode 9 is lightning fast, has enough strength to kick Alma across a forest and a river and is pretty much impervious to anything anyone throws at him, until Alma has a moment of HeroicResolve.
79* LittleMissBadass: Ruri is willing to jump out of a plane to help Alma fight Darkstones. Without a parachute.
80%% * LovableSexManiac: Oni-Gawara.
81%% * MaidCorps: And HOW. %%%% Explain how
82* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Arachne's user gets stabbed through her arm by Naito. She doesn't scream in pain, merely remarks in a whiny tone, "I really hate him" after the fight is over.
83* MarkOfTheSupernatural: People with the power of Soul Stones have green eyes.
84* MeaningfulName: Arma, an alternate rendering of Alma's name, is "Weapon" in Latin.
85** Ruri means "lapis lazuli" in Japanese. Guess what color it [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli is]]?
86* MineralMacGuffin: Soul Stones. Dark Stones, despite the name, aren't an example.
87* MiniMecha: Engagement Suit, a mini-tank which can transform into a MiniMecha while in combat.
88* MurderByCremation: Pretty much the fate of anyone who dies at Number 0's hands, Ruri and Aoi's father being an example.
89%% * NiceGirl: Ruri, oh so much.
90%% * NighInvulnerability:[[spoiler:Kenmi, after absorbing Fei's defensive power]].
91* NoNameGiven: Twelve episodes later, and the woman in the Arachne armor is ''still'' just "Kenmi's SP."
92%% * NoShirtLongJacket: Naito Kijima.
93* NotADate: Episode 8 is totally about Alma and Ruri trying to fix Oni-Gawara and is most definitely not a date. S-so what if they're holding hands?! It's for Oni-Gawara's sake! ''Oni-Gawara!''
94%% * {{Ojou}}: Ruri is a Type 1.
95%% * OjouRinglets: Ruri.
96%% * OfficialCouple: Alma and Ruri. Natch.
97%% * OmnicidalManiac: [[spoiler:Fei, even if only for a few minutes]].
98* OneDialogueTwoConversations: In episode 4, Alma calls Ruri to the school rooftop to ask her for a Soul Stone without telling her that a Dark Stone is in the school premises. Ruri initially believes he's going to confess his love to her.
99%% * OneHitKill: The Dark Stone in episode 2.
100* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Kenmi fuses with his armour and becomes a horned golden beast in the last episode.]]
101* OnlyAFleshWound: During their second fight, Naito manages to lodge a ''sword'' into the Arachne-user's left forearm before fleeing. Her subsequent reaction is to rip it out and comment on what an annoyance Naito is.
102%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
103%% * {{Otaku}}: Wakana for stones.
104* PartingWordsRegret: Before Aoi got crystallized [[spoiler: as a means to protect herself from a rampaging Hon let loose by Dr. Kenmi in the Aiba's vacation home, killing the twins' parents]], Ruri got into a fight with her that ended with Ruri calling Aoi an idiot for accidentally breaking the angel she worked so hard for. Needless to say, after what happened afterwards, Ruri bitterly regrets doing so and spent most of her years growing up trying to get rid of all the Darkstones for Aoi's sake.
105%% * PlayingWithFire: Number 0 / Hung Lau, Fei's older brother.
106%% * PluckyComicRelief: Oni-Gawara.
107* PowerDyesYourHair:
108** Alma's hair, normally a sort of grey-ish brown, turns red when Ruri activates his Sacred powers.
109** [[spoiler: Naito's hair becomes blue when Aoi activates his.]]
110* PowerLimiter:
111%% ** [[spoiler:The real purpose of Tandoji's lost pendant]]
112** Inverted in episode 11, where Tandoji finds it again and then uses it [[spoiler:to break the stone enclosing Ruri]].
113%% * {{Protectorate}}: Ruri to Alma and Makoto.
114%% * PungeonMaster: Certain fansubs have Oni-Gawara's VerbalTic translated like this.
115%% * PyramidPower: The Darkstone from episode 5.
116* RedEyesTakeWarning:
117** Beware of [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Alma when this happens.]]
118%% ** Makoto
119* RedIsHeroic: All of Alma's armours have lots of red in it, in addition to his hair becoming red.
120%% * RedOniBlueOni:
121%% ** Alma and Ruri, respectively.
122%% * Also of note are the horns that Alma and Naito have, mimicking the most popular depictions of the mythical Oni.
123%% ** Also inverted color-wise with Ruri and Aoi.
124* RescueRomance: [[spoiler: Ruri first fell for Alma when he saved her from getting crushed by a falling beam when they were just kids years before the start of the series.]]
125%% * ScarfOfAsskicking: Alma. A ''literal'' one as of episode 5.
126* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ruri buys the entire school at the end of the 1st episode just to keep an eye on Alma.
127* ShipTease: ''Lots'' between Alma and Ruri. The date episode is especially oozing with a lot of Alma x Ruri.
128* ShipperOnDeck:
129** Onigawara seems to be one for Alma and Ruri.
130** And so is the entire Maid Squad.
131* ShoutOut:
132** Alma's initial SuperMode looks like a Manga/{{Guyver}}, while his real SuperMode looks like VideoGame/{{Strider}}.
133** His ArmCannon is a lot like Franchise/MegaMan's, even the barrel on it used similarly.
134*** Changes in episode 12, where ALL FIVE KNUCKLES become barrels.
135** The beginning of the first episode seems to be a ShoutOut to ''Anime/MyHime'', a series by the same company, which also started with a ship getting destroyed.
136** Kenmi is defeated by an attack that resembles a smaller version of the [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann GIGA DRILL BREAKER]]... which is kinda ironic, when you consider that he was voiced by [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann the Great Kamina]]!
137** In episode 4, Makoto has to bust out the Engagement Suit in the middle of a school festival...and paints it in Franchise/{{Gundam}} colors so the students won't freak out.
138* ShownTheirWork: In episode two, while the uniforms themselves are outdated, the United States Air Force Security Forces are seen in berets baring the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DefensorFortis.jpg proper insigina,]] and the ranks themselves are easily discernible to those with Air Force experience.
139* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is some debate on whether Tandoji's name is spelled "Alma" (the spelling used in the official subs), "Arma" (for the possible pun, mentioned under MeaningfulName), or "Aruma" (a flat transliteration of the characters used).
140* SpiderSense:
141** Alma can detect the presence of other Dark Stones, usually indicated by one of his eyes changing color.
142** Not so much a SpiderSense, but his own Darkstone activating when another one gets close. The other one gets close enough, it'll provoke a transformation into his Dark Side, which without Ruri's abilities allowing him to keep his sanity, can turn VERY violent.)
143* StrappedToAnOperatingTable:
144** [[spoiler: Ruri]] during episode 8. Thought they didn't operate on [[spoiler:her, they just needed to make some serum from her blood]].
145** [[spoiler:Happens to her once again in episode 11. And this time, there was a planned operation. By which we mean, Kenmi was going to cut her heart out. ''While she was awake''.]]
146** Naito is also seen like this during his flashback to his time as a guinea pig.
147* StudentCouncilPresident: Makoto gives himself this position at the end of the 1st episode.
148%% * SubordinateExcuse: Makoto for Ruri.
149%% * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Alma's SuperMode, at first.
150* SwissArmyHero: While in his SuperMode, Alma can summon several weapons and tools:
151** ArmCannon: Forms around Alma's left arm. And his middle finger becomes the barrel. It becomes a Arm GATLING GUN in episode 12.
152** HoverBoard: Which Alma can use for some SkySurfing.
153** He has a mode the lets him pass through walls [[spoiler: Shown in episode 3. It's the exact same as Naito Kimija's, just blue in color]]
154** WhipSword: Can turn his ScarfOfAsskicking into one of these.
155** An armor on his legs that gives him SuperSpeed
156** In the same episode, a Superpowered Jet Pack that turns him into a anti-air missile.
157** ThisIsADrill: Alma gains the power to summon a drill over his arm in episode 12.
158%% * TakenForGranite:
159%% ** The monster in episode 1
160%% ** And another one in episode 4.
161%% ** And [[spoiler:Kenmi's final fate]].
162* TeenGenius: Makoto is eighteen and has already [[IvyLeagueForEveryone graduated from Harvard]].
163* ThemeNaming: The PowerArmor produced by Kenmi has thus far had a Greek mythology motif going, with the two models produced being "Cyclops" and "Arachne".
164* TransformingMecha: Kagami's Engagement Suit, which goes from a tank to a humanoid MiniMecha.
165%% * TransformationSequence
166* TransformationTrinket: Deconstructed with Soul Stones. They cannot be reused and have to be bought for sums of up to billions of yens. That said, Ruri seems to have a hefty amount of them, so it doesn't really become an issue.
167* UndyingLoyalty: Ruri's entire staff including Makoto are all incredibly loyal to her, and will not hesitate to put their lives on the line for her sake. Alma is also pretty dedicated towards her too for giving him a purpose in life and freeing him from his past.
168* VerbalTic:
169** "Oni" for Oni-Gawara. It's even a thought-tic, as shown in episode 4.
170** One sub group out there has "Oni" translated as "Hell", and has translated his name as "Hellbrick". This same sub group is rather notorious for altering the anime they translate for their own amusement.
171* VitriolicBestBuds: Alma and Makoto may both dislike one another, but they do eventually respect each other over the series' run and will not hesitate to engage in TeethClenchedTeamwork when it comes to protecting Ruri.
172%% * WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld
173%% * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:Fei after Kenmi transfers his power to him in episode 12.]]

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