{{Greyjoy}}: Removed BadassNormal. It doesn't apply if "pretty much every person in the show" is one.

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SpaceDrake: Concerning my CrowningMomentOfAwesome entry here; is the per-episode thing a little excessive? I wanted to ensure there were examples of the trope but I think I may have gone overboard.

{{Scifantasy}}: I think you did. But personally I've found that people tend to apply "CrowningMomentOfAwesome" too casually.

{{Tanto}}: That's because it doesn't actually have a definition. It's just "any moment that someone, somewhere, thinks is cool enough to talk about".

No, I'm not bitter. Why do you ask?

{{Scifantasy}}: Heh. You have a point. The problem is, it's one of those extremely SubjectiveTropes.

Count your blessings, though. There could be worse problems for this wiki to have than a lot of geeking out. At least it's pretty well contained.

Really, I think that the big thing is to try to keep CMOA-creep from infecting pages outside the CMOA set. So, SpaceDrake, maybe shift your comments to the CrowningMomentOfAwesomeAnime page? There, you can fight it out.

SpaceDrake: CMOA examples moved to the CMOA page. For the record, I still think at least episode 3 was a legitimate Crowning Moment if only for [[spoiler: the huge Xanatos Gambit based on a bluff, and the animation and voice work of Chiko sliding from confusion to "oh yeah, it's so on".]]

{{Scifantasy}}: It's damn awesome, I don't deny it...but the page looks a lot saner now.

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GloatingSwine: On timeframe: It all looks late forties/early fifties to me, with a few bits of mild SchizoTech like the tank and plane in episodes 2 and 3. Chiko's family had an electronic television (invented 1936), but people seemed to be watching a public one, implying that they're not all that common yet. I'd say TheRoaringTwenties is definitely wrong, but could be TheFiftes, though that doesn't quite fit.

{{Scifantasy}}: Tricky. If this was the US I'd be more confident saying "between the wars." Zeppelins, gangsters with guns, and the way they refer to "the war" screams post-WWI, but before WWII. Of course, that's if this was America. I don't know enough about Japanese history to comment.

GloatingSwine: Pulling it. One of the newspapers in the first episode has a date on (the second one that flashes up). January 2, 1955. It's readable on the HD version.

* TheRoaringTwenties (Ambiguous, as the show has not yet explicitly stated precisely which "war" has occurred or if this is some sort of AlternateUniverse or not. The style and technology of the show suggests the 20s and 30s, however, with lots of old Volkswagon Beetles, MP-4 machineguns, zeppelin-like airships, a dearth of complex probably-not-invented-yet electronics, and a jazzy soundtrack.)

GloatingSwine: Although, the newspaper in Episode 7 is dated March 11th 1950, maybe they're not used to HD animation and the concept that people can and will read this stuff yet and it's a continuity gaffe. The setting is definiely fifties though.

{{Scifantasy}}: Apropos of nothing, I'm now convinced it's post-WWII, given the way the war got discussed in episode 8.

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{{Nerem}} Was Angie really always out to get Chiko? As she seemed to snap after Chiko runs away with the stolen goods. And later when Chiko asks if she had basically always been a thief and just playing Chiko, Angie tells her that she's 'a moron if you believe that' implying that Chiko was wrong.

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GloatingSwine: Cut

* ShoutOut ("Twenty Faces" was the main antagonist in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogoro_Akechi Kogoro Akechi]], Edogawa Ranpo's series of GreatDetective stories.)

It's no mere shout out, and too big a part for a cameo, it ''is'' Twenty Faces from the Akechi stories, used with permission from Edogawa Ranpo's estate. When I figure out what trope that is, I'll re-add it appropriately.
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{{Dentaku}}: I wonder whether it's wise to use Japanese characters. Most people who visit this site will likely not have the right character set installed and only see garbage.

GloatingSwine: Agreed, they don't display at this location either. Nuked it, the Japanese title is in the page pic anyway.