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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.

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}}.

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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!!This series contains examples of:

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The last two episodes of ''W''.
* AlternateContinuity: None of the series is in exactly the same continuity of the others.
* 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.
* 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]]
%% This doesn't explain what the reaction is. * BerserkButton: ''Don't'' damage Remi's gear. "Lead enema", anyone?
%%zce* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:The Commander]] in ''Scramble''.
%%* Brainwashed: Implied with the New Warriors.
* 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.)
%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy
* 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.
--> '''Rio''': "Hey, they almost feel real..."
* CantHoldHerLiquor: Lilika in ''Scramble''. Even a little gets her plastered and accentuated her clumsiness and LesYay, below.
* 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]].
* ColorCodedCharacters: The skinsuits in ''Scramble''. Red for Rio, green for Maya, blue for Lilika, purple for [[spoiler:The Commander]].
* CovertPervert: For a supposed sheltered innocent, ''Scramble''!Lilika has a kinky imagination!
* CuteClumsyGirl: Lilika in ''Scramble''.
* DarkActionGirl: Ruby, TheDragon from ''Excess''
* 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
** ''Burn Up Excess'''s opening is sung by Creator/MamiKingetsu [[note]] mistranslated as Mami Kanezuki on ADV's DVD's [[/note]], who voices Maki
** ''Burn Up Scramble'''s ending is sung by Creator/MegumiToyoguchi, Creator/RieKugimiya and Creator/MamikoNoto who voice Rio, Maya and Lilika respectively
* EveryoneCallsHerBarkeep: The Commander from ''Scramble''
* 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]].
* 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...
* GadgeteerGenius: Nanvel from ''W'' and ''Excess''
%%zce* GovernmentConspiracy
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Rio is shown to wear childish underwear with teddy-bear prints in both Excess and Scramble.
* 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.
--> '''Chi-Mama:''' Shoulda gone to Morocco for that sex-change operation...
* HadakaApron: ''Scramble''!Lilika
* HandOrObjectUnderwear: ''Scramble''!Lilika, the "objects" being Rio and Maya.
* HandsomeLech:Yuji
* ICallItVera: Every version of Maya.
* IronicEcho: "It's showtime!"
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Rio
* LawEnforcementInc: Team Warrior is usually non-official, and always provides bounties for successfully completed missions.
* LethalChef: Adding ''bullets'' and ''gunpowder'' to "punch up" stew? Yeah, sure thing, Lilika
* LittleMissSnarker: ''Scramble''!Maya
* LocalHangout: The ramen restaraunt in ''Excess'', mostly because it's one of the places Rio can afford to eat at.
* MafiaPrincess: ''W''/''Excess''!Maya was the daughter of a {{Yakuza}} boss.
* MarshmallowHell: In ''Scramble'', [[spoiler:The Warriors Commander]] uses this as an ''attack'' against Rio, before throwing her into a stack of junked cars.
* MarsNeedsWomen: Henry the AI HoverTank, towards Rio.
* MsFanservice: Lots of it, but particularly Rio.
* NonActionGuy: Yuji, although he ''is'' technically an ace helicopter pilot.
* {{Omake}}: ''Excess'' usually had an epilogue to each episode, which eventually evolved into "Yuji's Omake Theater".
* NoNameGiven: We are never told who the two New Warriors real names are in ''Scramble''.
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: One of these approves dispatching Team Warrior in ''Scramble''.
* PerpetualPoverty: Rio, because of her spendthrift habits.
* PlayboyBunny: In ''Excess'', Maya ends up in one as part of a (half-baked) plan to infiltrate an AuctionOfEvil as entertainers.
%%zce* PlayfulHacker: ''W[=/=]Excess''!Lilica
* PsychicPowers: ''Scramble''!Lilica; they don't really work that well, though.
** 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).
* ScaryShinyGlasses: ''Excess''!Maki, though she's a good guy.
* ScreamingWarrior: In ''Scramble'', Lilika, of all people. Also a pun.
* 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.)
* ShootTheBullet: At the end of ''Scramble''.
* 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.
* ShowerScene: Several across all incarnations of the franchise.
* 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.
%%zce* SuperpoweredRobotMeterMaids
* 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.
* TankGoodness: Rio has to escort a robotic AI HoverTank in ''Excess''; it turns out to be controlled by a KillSat.
* 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.
* ThisLoserIsYou: Yuji in ''W'' and ''Excess''.
* TokenMiniMoe: ''W[=/=]Excess''!Lilica
* TriggerHappy: Every version of Maya, but ''especially'' the ''W''/''Excess'' incarnation.
* TronLines: [[spoiler:The Commander]]'s skinsuit in ''Scramble''.
* TwelveEpisodeAnime: ''Excess'', ''Scramble''
* VirtualCelebrity: Maria from the second episode of ''W''.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* WrenchWench: Nanvel Candlestick. Quirky but genius inventor and still as busty as most of her squad.
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