Line #13 YMMV/Canaan


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: The fact ''Canaan'' isn't an anime original is pretty much unknown to most. This is because [[VisualNovel/FourTwoEightShibuyaScramble the original game]] was a Japanese only title until 2018.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The OP [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12pHlAjUygc Mind as Judgement]].
3	** The ED [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-61BQCKLduA My Heaven]].
4	* CrossesTheLineTwice: This may be the only show where a suicide assassination attempt is played for laughs--at first.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsIBJhPIvI badass taxi driver]] who wasn't even named in-story!
6	* FanNickname:
7	** Osawa {{Moe}}ria.
8	** Sugoi Sugoi: Either just Maria as her CatchPhrase, or the show on a whole.
9	** Mino-Sama: By those who like Mino.
10	** HIGH TENSION!: the badass taxi driver after his apparent Catchphrase.
11	*** Some fans call him "Taxi Driver George" due to his awesomeness multiplied by a few times thanks to Creator/JojiNakata voicing him, who's also known as '''George.'''
12	* GeniusBonus:
13	** Alphard is the name of a star in the middle of the Hydra constellation. It is also known as the "Heart of the Snake" because of that (thus, no wonder Alphard commands the "Snakes"). "Al-Phard" also means "the lonely one" in Arabic because it's the brightest star in the whole sky sector.
14	** Canaan is the name of the land that eventually became Israel in [[Literature/TheBible the Old Testament.]]
15	** Before even that, "Canaan" referred to Phoenicians (you can even hear the phonetic similarity) in their own language. Phoenicians were the supreme mariners and traders of their time and founded Carthage, TheRival and WorthyOpponent to AncientRome. They also helped invent the modern European alphabets.
16	* HilariousInHindsight: In first episode, on a tv screen the TVB Jade watermark is displayed on the further top-right. In spring 2013, the watermark was moved there in RealLife as part of the switch away from standard definition.
17	%%* LesYay: There are quite a few fans of Alphard/Canaan, not to mention Maria/Canaan.
18	* MemeticMutation:
19	** HIGH TENSION!!
20	** GET SOME GET SOME, GET SOME GET SOME
21	** Sugoi!
22	* MoralEventHorizon: Liang Qi crosses this when she [[spoiler: throws Hyakko through the DespairEventHorizon via tricking her into killing her savior and love Santana]], and then [[spoiler: ''mocking Hyakko's grief'' gleefully.]]
23	* MorePopularSpinOff: In North America, due to [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] involvement and [[AdaptationDisplacement the obscurity of the original game]].
24	%% * OneSceneWonder: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsIBJhPIvI CHINESE STYLE. '''HIGH TENSION!''']]
25	* ShipToShipCombat: Between [[FoeYayShipping Alphard/Canaan]] and [[StarcrossedLovers Maria/Canaan]].
26	* SignatureScene:
27	** [[spoiler: Liang Qi's]] death scene. Not only the musical backdrop add the tension of the scene, but the overall circumstance of the scene makes this feel like scene with a Shakespearean villain. Dying from an ironic, but in character means and a tragic story behind it all.
28	** The most well-known fight scene is the one where Alphard and Canaan fight while Alphard is all dressed up.
29	* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Hakko becomes ''very'' intimate with Santana's dead body]]. Not just squick, but due to the circumstances, a brutal TearJerker since it shows you [[spoiler: how far past the DespairEventHorizon the poor girl is.]]
30	* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Hakko and Santana's deaths]]. There's also [[spoiler:Liang Qi's death]], as horrifying as it is saddening.
31	* TheWoobie:
32	** Hakko. ''Oh, Hakko''.
33	** Cummings, too.

Context YMMV / Canaan