History Anime / OhEdoRocket

** This extends to the film's title, as "O Edo" (大江戸, meaning "Big Edo") is an old nickname for Tokyo. This results in a Japanese pun in which the title can be read as "Big Edo Rocket". Rendering this in English as "Oh! Edo Rocket!" helps retain some of the DoubleEntendre.

''Oh! Edo Rocket'' is an anime that was shown in Japan during 2007, with an English-dubbed version from Funimation released in late 2010. It is loosely (and we mean ''loosely'') based on a stage play written for the Gekidan Shinkansen theater troupe by Kazuki Nakashima. [[GagSeries It is by no means a period piece]], even though the story gets very dramatic.

* CampGay: Akai, ''especially'' in the English dub.
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:A SWARM of Blue Beasts are accidentally created in the finale.]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Akai, Torii, and Mizuno. Akai takes the cake though. Right from the very start of the series, he's abusing the power of his job to pick on the residents of the rowhouse, doing whatever it takes to catch them in the act of breaking a law. He only gets worse from there.

* ActorAllusion: Near the end, Creator/KazukiNakashima’s AuthorAvatar is modelled after [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and is even voiced by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi. This doesn't carry on in the dub, as the character is voiced by Creator/JohnBurgmeier instead of Creator/KyleHebert.[[note]]Hebert started working for Funimation, which is the studio that dubbed the series. Presumably he was unavailable at the time. [[/note]]

* ActorAllusion: Near the end, Creator/KazukiNakashima’s AuthorAvatar is modelled after [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and is even voiced by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi. This doesn't carry on in the dub, as the character is voiced by Creator/JohnBurgmeier instead of Creator/KyleHebert.[[note]]Hebert started (and continues) working for Funimation. Presumably he was unavailable at the time. [[/note]]]]

* ActorAllusion: Near the end, Creator/KazukiNakashima’s AuthorAvatar is modelled after [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and is even voiced by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi. This doesn't carry on in the dub, as the character is voiced by Creator/JohnBurgmeier instead of Creator/KyleHebert.

* ActorAllusion: Near the end, there is a character modelled after Kamina and is even voiced by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi. This doesn't carry on in the dub, as the character is voiced by Creator/JohnBurgmeier instead of Creator/KyleHebert.

* BalefulPolymorph: In episode 10, Genzo is turned into a dove and stays that way until episode ''21''. A few characters notice his absence, but only his mother still remembers who he is.

* [[spoiler:EyeScream: Eyes has his left eye ripped out by the Blue Girl in episode 19.]]

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: [[spoiler:The very last episode reveals that the old man had invented a space ship that he had kept hidden in his home through the whole series! It's PlayedForLaughs, but still!]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Shunpei is a good male example of this trope. His glasses are never really brought up in detail, but he does fidget with them now and then.

* AssholeVictim: The Blue Beasts, specifically the ones that split off from the Blue Girl, start out by mercilessly killing people and drinking their blood, but they ultimately just want to leave Earth and go back to their home planet. They become obsessed with returning home, so much so that by the end of the series, it is almost hard not to feel sorry for them, even though they are wanted criminals to both the city of Edo and by Sora's own people.

* ReverseMole: Ginjiro, [[spoiler:but it backfires for a while later]].

* ThirdActStupidity: [[spoiler:Akai lets Seikichi and Sora go free in episode 19...so he can shoot Seikichi when his back's turned.]]

* {{Satire}}: This basically is to anime what ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' was to ''Series/StarTrek''.

* TheMenInBlack The.. well, Men In Black themselves are a covert government operation, though in action they act more like a SuperSentai team.

* SdrawkcabName: Onui's name reversed is Inuo, which means dog.

* [[spoiler:CloningBlues: A SWARM of Blue Beasts are accidentally created in the finale.]]

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: The Blue Girl[=/=]Yuu]]

* [[spoiler:INeverSaidItWasPoison: An accidental version that causes Akai to slip that he's the murderer.]]

* [[spoiler:PreciousPuppies: Onui in her dog form.]]

* ReverseMole: Ginjiro[[spoiler:, but it backfires for a while later]].

* [[spoiler:StarcrossedLovers: Akai and Yuu...[[TogetherInDeath until the final episode.]]]]

* [[spoiler:ThirdActStupidity: Akai lets Seikichi and Sora go free in episode 19...so he can shoot Seikichi when his back's turned.]]
* [[spoiler:TogetherInDeath: After Yuu activates the self-destruct mechanism on the ancient space ship, Akai vows to stay and die together with her. She doesn't accept this though, and ejects him out in an escape pod.]]

* {{Expy}}: Oriku has a very similar hairstyle as [[TenchiMuyo Washu]], inluding a similar hair color and the two small HairAntennae bangs hanging down her forehead.

** Episode 21 is about APlayWithinAPlay which is a watered-down version of the plot. Due to the alien cover-up, Sora's face can't be shown on-stage, so [[spoiler:Genzo appears as Sora's stand-in, while Sora recites her lines backstage... ''like a voice actor!'']]

* BalefulPolymorph: In episode 10, Genzo is turned into a dove and stays that way until episode ''21''. A few characters notice his absence, [[WhoIsThisGuyAgain but only his mother still remembers who he is.]]

* WhoIsThisGuyAgain: Genzo is forgotten by everyone to the point where the animators forget to colour him at one point.

* ActorAllusion: In the dub of episode 19, Sora yells Creator/VicMignogna's last name to Tetsuju.
** The AuthorAvatar of Kazuki Nakushima is an expy of [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] and voiced by Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi in the Japanese version.
*** Two episodes later, Genzo (also voiced by Konishi) shows up wearing Kamina's CoolShades.
** In episode 21, Tenhou mentions [[RomeoXJuliet Juliet]] and [[SgtFrog Tamama]] as past roles of Sora's VA.
** [[Creator/BrinaPalencia Sora]] gushes about ''{{Negima}}'' in episode 22, referencing both Negi and Yue. [[Creator/GregAyres Seikichi]] thinks the show sounds like crap.
** Seikichi and Sora dress up as the musicians Ami and Yumi in the opening of one episode, as they appear in the Western cartoon ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi''. Guess who performs the theme song!

* DevelopmentHell: A little bit -- Funi licensed this in 2008, but production issues prevented release until 2010.

* {{Sarashi}}: Ginjiro's is always visible, marking him as the designated action hero

** A lampshade is hung on the ability of the audience to buy into it when Oriku shows up ''on a helicopter'', and Tetsuju orders her to apologize to the audience and to the original author!