The Cyber Team, from left to right: Suzume, Tsugumi, Hibari, Tsubame, Kamome.
Cyber Team in Akihabara is an anime series, which moves from being a Magical Girl show to a much darker plot to destroy the world.The main character is Hibari Hanakoganei, an Ordinary Middle School Student who dreams of getting her own Pata-Pi, the new fad toy. She is given one by her prince, whom she has previously seen in a dream, and calls it Densuke. This leads her to being attacked by Homunculi, which are controlled by a team of three young women, and protected by her Pata-Pi turning into a Diva - the Diva being a combination of Greek goddess and Powered Armor.Soon she is joined by the other four members of the Cyber Team, each with her own Pata-Pi, thus forming a Five-Man Band to fight the Terrible Trio (the Sibyl Team) that opposes them.Of course, there are more powerful forces behind the Sibyl Team, including the headmaster of their school who has links with the Rosicrucians.
Crane Bahnsteik, also known as The White Prince, who turns out to be a 126-year-old scientist
Washuu Ryuugasaki, the school principal, who turns out to be the 400-year-old Christian Rosenkreuz
Takashi Ryuugasaki, also known as The Black Prince and Shooting Star.
Cigogne Ratspieu, the "father" of Tsubame and actually the Comte St. Germaine, Rosenkreuz main scientist aide
Shimabukuro Sengakuji, Kamome's grandparent and resident Dirty Old Manwho used to work for Rozenkreuz and is very knowing of what's transpiring in town
A-Cup Angst: Kamome, who wants to have bigger boobs for Gold Digger reasons and stuff her bra in consequence. To make things worse, she has Uzura, a Schoolgirl Lesbian with a open preference for flat-chested girls, pining for her - in fact, Uzura turned her affects towards Kamome because she has less breasts than Hibari, her former crush.
Animal Theme Naming: The members of the Cyber Team are all named after birds: Hibari (skylark), Tsugumi (thrush), Suzume (sparrow), Kamome (seagull), and Tsubame (swallow). Many of the other characters have also bird names.
BFG: The Sibyl team get a sweet one for shooting down enemy Divas near the end of the series, but can't agree on what to call it.
Break the Cutie: Played in reverse. Tsubame Otorii is introduced as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who viciously attacks and defeats the main cast every chance she gets. It's eventually shown just how badly broken she is. In a late episode, Hibari goes to great lengths to try and befriend Tsubame. After an emotional breakdown in which she compares her life to Hibari's, Tsubame joins the Cyber Team, and spends the remainder of the series trying to repair her broken childhood with good memories as an adopted child in the Hanakoganei household.
Breast Expansion: Kamome's grandpa gave here a bikini that increases her breast size.
Big Bad: Washuu Ryuugasaki until its revealed that Crane is the true Big Bad and that he is using him as a pawn
Bishōnen: Crane Bahnsteik As well as Washuu Ryuugasaki/Christian Rosenkreuz in his true face there is also Shimabukuro Sengakuji who used to look good when he is young
Broken Pedestal: Happens several times, but the penultimate episode is rather epic. Both for Hibari and Christian.
Fanservice: And most of it done by 12-13 years old girls.
Fairy Tale Symbolism: part of Hibari's Character Development is to outgrow her wish for a White Prince. At one point the fairytale "The Red Shoes" are brought up as a item and a metaphor of the mind control Shooting Star inflicts on Hibari.
Hibari even lampshades this trope when she sees Uzura dressed up in a Diva costume and wonders if she's the final member of their team, since "the rule of thumb is that you need five members to complete an anime team."
Funbag Airbag: Nearly every time Hibari encounters Blood Falcon. After a while, she lets out a complaint along the lines of "Not this again!"
Good Bad Girl: Kamome often does fanservicey acts and then extorts money to the ones who saw her, but deep down she is a good girl and has her reason for doing so.
Good Parents: Unusually for a Magical Girl heroine, Hibari has both her parents and has a good relationship with them.
Japanese Politeness: Suzume Sakurajosui is noteworthy for always speaking in an extremely polite register, especially compared with the other members of the Cyber Team.
The Man Behind the Man: Takashi/Shooting Star is in charge of the Sibyl Team, intentionally sending them into losing battles in order to awaken the Divas. He soon turns out to be taking orders from Washuu Ryuugasaki. And in the end, it turns out that Christian Rosenkreuz himself was an Unwitting Pawn in Crane'sXanatos Roulette.
Older Alter Ego: The Divas are sort of like this for the girls, since they look like adult versions of them. Played straighter when Hibari and Tsubame merge with their Divas.
Older than They Look: Crane Bahnsteik, Washuu Ryuugasaki, and Takashi Ryuugasaki.
Shotacon: The infatuation that the Sibyl team feels towards the Black Prince can be seen as this.
Skinship Grope: Lampshaded at the end of the obligatory hot springs episode, when Kamome declares that they've finally gone through all the necessary cliches.
Skirts and Ladders: The first time we meet Kamome, she is going first up stairs in a very short skirt providing a Panty Shot; when some boys enjoying the view remark her this, her first action is to demand money from them in exchange for the fanservice, so she doesn't denounce them as perverts.
Toilet Humor: In episode 6, there's a running gag of Suzume making fun of Tsugumi for taking a long time to take a dump
Teen Genius: Crane used to be one and Takashi, being his clone, is also one.
Theme Naming: The surnames of the Cyber Team are all names of railway stations; the given names of almost every important character are all names of birds.
Lampshaded by Uzura in episode 08.
Uzura Kitaurawa: I was embarrassed about signing my real name, so I signed with the pen name I use when writing poetry. I did try signing "Kitaurawa" at first also, but that sounds somewhat like a train station...
The Divas are all named after Greek goddesses, with Tsubame's being named after the Greek equivalent of the Furies — infernal goddesses of vengeance. And since this is a Magical Girl show, the heroine's Diva is naturally named after the goddess of love.
Transformation Sequence: For every Cyber Team girl. When they all transform, a shorter version is usually used, except for Hibari, of course. Especially cool when Hibari "unites" with Densuke.
Turned Against Their Masters: In the finale, the Pata-pis' love for the girls overrides their obedience to Crane, their creator, and they defy his wishes in order to save the girls.
Hatoko likes to say "kurukku" after each phrase, quite appropiate since her name means "pigeon".
Tsugumi ends her sentences with "dazé".
Suzume's "chun~" and "de gozaimasu desu wa/that it is".
Villainous BSOD: Tsubame Otorii. Since her introduction, she acts as the Dragon to the Big Bad, easily defeating the Cyber Team girls in every encounter. In episode 20, Tsubame is dragged home by Hibari. She spends the entire episode slowly breaking down while watching how Hibari's family interacts with one another, eventually suffering a Villainous BSOD and freakout by the credits, followed by a Heel Face Turn in the next episode. The episode is also one long Tear Jerker, as we see how horrible a childhood Tsubame actually has had up to this point.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Quite a lot, similar to Neon Genesis Evangelion. For example, there's a MacGuffin called Metatron, the Five-Man Band of girls are referred to as the Anima Mundi, the powered armor suits of Takashi and his gang are all named after Biblical demons (Astaroth, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Lucifer), and when we see Crane in the present day, he has white wings and is strung up on a cross, and resides in a space fortress called Primum Mobile.
Well Done Son Guy: Poor Takashi, being cloned/created to look like Crane and failing for a bit, and treated like crap by his "father".
Made even worse as Christian conditioned him to be this, so he couldn't even find solace in having three gorgeous women absolutely head over heels for him.
Yuu Asakawa: Voices Tsugumi in the Japanese version.
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