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"We the people, who are dedicated to protecting the common good, do hereby charge you with trespassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and a really crappy attitude! You are therefore sentenced to life imprisonment in the DL Correctional Facility on the moon."
Describe Dead Leaves here. Alternately, describe the end result of an unholy fusion ofFLCL and Superjail!on a rhino-sized dose of super-distilled crack cocaine and LSD.It'll be really weird.Pandy, a woman with a red ring around her right eye, and Retro, a man with a TV for a head, awaken naked on Earth with no memory of their pasts. After a brief crime spree through the streets of Tokyo, they're incarcerated in the titular lunar prison facility. They soon find out that Dead Leaves is also a top-secret cloning facility and that all the prisoners are "cloned genetic garbage," and orchestrate a mass prison break.Oh, did I mention the sex scene, the prisoner with a drill for a penis, the insane warden, and the strange children's story?This OVA shares a director with Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, and FLCL's fifth episode. That... probably explains a lot...Now streaming legally on YouTube and Netflix. so what the hell are you waiting for??
Dead Leaves contains examples of the following tropes:
Animesque: Inverted. The whole design aesthetic seems to be inspired by American underground comics.
Anyone Can Die: A lot of inmates get slaughtered by various means. They don't come back. At the end of the OVA, the number of survivors from the prison break Pandy and Retro orchestrate is in the low single digits. That includes guards and inmates alike.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Pandy and Retro are sentenced to life imprisonment in the titular prison for "tresspassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and having a really crappy attitude."
Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The way Pandy and Retro react when they're first separated at prison. It's an oddly sweet moment considering the characters and the rest of the story.
Same with Pandy's reaction to Retro having his head ripped off by the Big Bad.
Also their reaction when they finally escape the prison at the end of the movie- they're looking at one another with very contented and affectionate expressions.
Made especially funny/heartwarming given the Reality Subtext - see below.
Ax Crazy: Retro, The Warden, Triple-Six, and a lot of the inmates are this.
Book Ends: The movie ends exactly like it started.
Click Hello: Pandy's baby makes its introduction to the world by pulling out a pistol and shooting the warden through the stomach... then proceeds to birth itself.
Cloning Blues: Being a clone without the "mutation gene cluster" makes you very expendable. One inmate remarks:
"Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, there's still a whole nother batch of clones to take our place. C'est la vie."
Clothing Damage: Pandy goes from the top half of the prison uniform, to... half of that, during her fight with 666.
Deadpan Snarker: Retro's delivery was a bit too amped up to be called "deadpan", but Pandy tossed out some cool snarks.
Pandy [to naked Retro]: "The cold isn't doing you any favors. Trust me."
Deranged Animation: "Animation that dispenses with all semblance of reality, and sanity, taking the viewer into a nightmare world where anything goes"? Check.
Disney Death: Unlike the aforementioned inmates, Retro does come back.
Subverted as he's short one body afterwards.
Eat Me: What Pandy and Retro's baby does to the giant space caterpillar at the end.
Express Delivery: Pandy and Retro's baby. The two of them have sex early on in the OVA, and she is visibly pregnant roughly ten minutes later; not long after that, the baby just kind of...comes out of its own volition, but ages super fast and dies in short order, all thanks to the mutation gene cluster.
The Faceless: In the few brief flashback shots we see, Retro's human face is always hidden.
Large Ham: Retro, oh so much in the dub, especially when he fights.
Retro: "DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE VIOLENT!"
Retro: "My ass! OH DEAR GOD, it's sucking my ASS!"
Laser-Guided Amnesia: Pandy and Retro have no memory of their past, but know how to get out of their straitjackets and handcuffs, and know their way around the prison.
Licking The Blade: 666 does this during his fight with Pandy, remarking "I can taste your panties."
Lull Destruction: The dub is an example of this totallyworking. The vast majority of the quotes on this page are dub-exclusive, as the people in charge of the Japanese script forgot to add much humor until they were at least halfway done.
Pandy exploits this by cracking the casing of a statue open and extracting a football sized cylinder - which she then jammed in to 777's torso and detonated.
Mauve Shirt: Chinko Drill, as well as a few other inmates, get enough characterization to become endearing.
Meaningful Name: Pandy and Retro are pretty obvious, but as for Chinko Drill, well..."chinko" is Japanese slang for "penis".
Only Known by Their Nickname: We don't actually get told if Pandy and Retro even have real names (because after a certain point...does it even matter?). They get "Pandy" and "Retro" because, respectively, Retro observes that the mark on her face makes her look like a panda bear, and Pandy retorts that that old-school TV on Retro's head makes him look like a dumbass.
Only Sane Man: Retro when he's not around Pandy. Pandy, otherwise.
Reality Subtext: A twofer: not only are the English voices of Pandy and Retro married in real life, but Pandy's voice actress became pregnant with their first child while working on the movie.
Red Shirt Army: Pretty much the prison's entire population, guards and inmates alike.
Refuge in Audacity: The subtitled version was an action movie with a bit of comedy here and there. The dub version borders on Gag Dub, with the only thing that makes it not one being the fact that they keep most of the original script relatively intact.
Right Through His Pants: Pandy and Retro's sex scene is done while the two of them are wearing what can only be described as "overgrown straitjackets."
That was some serious boot-knockin'!
Pandy chides Retro for initially trying to go in the wrong hole.
You All Look Familiar: Both played comically straight and spectacularly averted. On Earth, every single personhas the sameEyes Always Shutface; on the moon, however, every single one of the mutants is unique, even characters who only show up in the background or for a single scene.
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