The year is 2026. Tokyo is under attack from the Lucifer Hawk, alien life-forms that feed on human flesh. The Attacked Mystification Police (Abnormal Mystery Police in one volume of the manga), or AMP, an all-female squad of police officers is tasked with hunting and destroying the Lucifer Hawk.The AMP uses a mix of magic and high-tech gadgets to fight these monsters and their human allies. Along the way, some of them find love. And they find out most of the truth behind the Project Gaia disaster in 1999 that first opened the gate to the world of Nemesis and unleashed the Lucifer Hawks on Earth. Let's just say that just about all of them had parents, grandparents, or other close people involved in the screwup.Silent Möbius started in 1991 as a manga by Kia Asamiya, and was later adapted into two movies and a 26-episode TV series. The setting is heavily influenced by Blade Runner and many exterior shots have an uncanny resemblance to shots from Bubblegum Crisis.Feel free to check out the character list.
All Encompassing Mantle: Standard gear for villains, and the AMP uniform has one that seems to be optional. It also occasionally appears on civilians who're tired of the constant rain.
Alternate Continuity: The TV series differs significantly from the manga and movies on several points, especially Katsumi's introduction to the AMP.
Art Evolution: Compare volume 1 of the manga to volume 12. It is possible to guess when a panel was drawn based on the length and pointiness of a character's nose.
Break the Cutie: Basically what happens to Yuki. After Katsumi's possession by Medium, Yuki's ability to see the future goes out of control. It's not pretty.
But Not Too Foreign: Katsumi's mother Fuyuka is Japanese whereas her father Gigelf is of unspecified (though presumably foreign), origin. At least in the anime series, he is revealed to be a descendant of the Lucifer Hawk.
Car Fu: Nearly every major character tries to run over an enemy at some point. When done with the Simurgh, this becomes Ramming Always Works. Or would if they weren't fighting Lucifer Hawks.
Cartwright Curse: Dating an AMP officer is bad for your health. Only one couple gets a Her Heart Will Go On deal, but the others still get plenty screwed over.
The Cracker: Lampooned by Lebia. When Katsumi finds out her paycheck was withdrawn seconds after being deposited, Lebia investigates and then jokes to her teammates that she could theoretically hack into police payroll and reinstate the funds cause it's only bits of data.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: We have a Cyborg, a Mage, a Psychic, a Miko, and a Technomancer fighting a demonic invasion under the command of one of said demons' half-human spawn.
Functional Magic: Hermetic magic , Onmyodo, something or other based on Buddhist mysticism, Chinese elemental magic, maybe a couple other types. The effects are usually the same: flashy lights and a big explosion.
Generation Xerox: Katsumi, Lebia, Nami, Lum Cheng, and Rally share powers with their parents (grandparent in Lebia's case). And now they're trying to fix what the older generation screwed up.
Half-Human Hybrid with Human Mom, Non-human Dad: Rally and Rosa Cheyenne are half-Lucifer Hawk, while Katsumi (in the anime at least) has some distant ancestry among the Lucifer Hawk on at least her dad's side.
Hand Cannon: The Graviton, which is actually AMP standard-issue in the Manga. Both Lebia and Yuuki use them at one point.
Healing Factor: High-level Lucifer Hawk heal very quickly from just about anything.
Heroic BSOD: Katsumi, repeatedly, in the films and TV series.
Law Enforcement, Inc.: The Tokyo police department has been privatized, with multiple sponsors/owners. Towards the end of the series, Rally manages to buy a controlling interest to prevent the shutdown of the AMP.
Miko: Nami Yamigumo lives in an underground Shinto shrine and fights with ofuda and holy water.
Multinational Team: Kiddy is Australian, Lebia is American, Lum Cheng is Chinese, Katsumi is of mixed heritage and spent most of her life in Hawaii, and Cheyenne is almost certainly not a Japanese name. Somehow, they all speak perfect Japanese.
Psychic Powers: Yuki's schtick, along with a couple other characters.
Razor Floss: Wire's main weapon, used in both his cop-killing sprees.
Refusal Of The Call: Less refusal, and more "flight from" in Katsumi's case. Pretty much every time she learns something bad about her family history, she has a Heroic BSOD, usually paired with an outright Flight from the Call, generally to the outskirts of town.
Sacrificial Lion: Roy,after he and Katsumi consummated their love,gets killed by Ganossa.
Save Both Worlds: Ganossa is scheming to destroy both Nemesis and Earth.
Again, the omake strip with Lebia trying to convince Kiddy to cosplay Robocop. Also, those proposed upgrades look to be either stock Super Robot powers or something more specific.
The whole setting owes some inspiration from Blade Runner.
Shower Scene, combined with Shower of Angst: Katsumi in the first movie, coming to grips with the existence of monsters and magic. And then monsters pour out of the showerhead and try to eat her.
Space Elevator: Spiras, whose main role in the plot is to get blown to pieces.
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