YMMV / Anime Crimes Division

• Accidental Aesop: While being a blatant parody of anime and live-action TV tropes, the series shown throughout that while one can be passionate for something they love, taking it too seriously where real people get hurt physically and/or emotionally is where you crossed the line. Secondly, an entertainment medium or genre by itself doesn't automatically guarantee quality and maturity as demonstrated the Ms. Prestige's invocation of the Animation Age Ghetto despite admitting that their live-action dramas are just bad as the anime they constantly look down on.
• Cliché Storm: This show revels in anime tropes, cop show tropes and some live-action drama tropes and gleefully lampshades them.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Why Ms. Prestige can't shoot Furuya in the middle of his Transformation Sequence? She is under the influence of a TOXIC-controlled Neo Otaku City enforcing Transformation Is a Free Action just like how Prestige TV City influenced Furuya and Diesel. She can only shoot Furuya when he is finished as he just finished his free action.
  • As another piece of Fridge Brilliance, this is her first time dealing with an enemy that wields this sort of power-set. Meaning that Ms. Prestige is unsure about how specifically Furuya's powers work. So how would she know whether or not he's vulnerable during the transformation process?
• I Knew It!:
  • Many a viewer noted that Officer Vink's death mirroring Yamcha's didn't make sense, as Yamcha's death was a joke death and not a sad one, and thus they suspected that he was actually Faking the Dead.
  • Due to their similar appearances and the revelation that Diesel was born and brought up in Prestige TV City, a lot of people figured out that the Villain in a White Suit who makes a brief appearance the Season 2 trailer was Diesel's mother as well as the kind of relationship they have.
• Iron Woobie: Diesel spent her entire childhood shunned and friendless by virtue of being an Otaku in a place where anything anime related is seen as freakish and abnormal. Her mother made things even worse by denying her acceptance and unconditional love unless she forced herself to conform to her ideals. It doesn't take a genius to see why she believed that Neo Otaku City would give her the sense of kinship she was denied growing up. However, she quickly realizes that being a member of the ACD is far from easy. As of Season 2, she has had to deal with her partner slash Love Interest abandoning both her and his love of anime, not one, but TWO of her consecutive chiefs turning out to be Evil All Along, and the deaths of several of her colleagues including said partner slash Love Interest. And yet in spite of all the shit she's been through, she still manages to not lose heart and keep the fight for anime alive.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • The fight scene near the end of Season 2, Episode 4 "The Beach Episode", Joe proceeds to kick the crap out of Diesel's mom's goons in a lengthy, one-take corridor battle, all set to an awesome rap song that parodies the cliches in those fight scenes in TV shows.
  • In Season 2, Episode 5 "Blood: The Last Hard Drive", Diesel gets her turn. She casually mows down a squad of corrupt cops John Wick-style before subverting the Talking Is a Free Action and shoots Chief Brody in the middle of his Evil Gloating.
  • Joe regaining his love for anime and going Super Saiyan in the Season 2 finale.
• Tear Jerker: Mama Sasuke choosing to transfer all of her malware infected blood to a hard drive in order to destroy the limiter on the fibre connection. Even viewers who were watching the show ironically found this moment genuinely sad. The fact that it got destroyed by a Brainwashed and Crazy Furuya before it finished uploading while the limiter was instead destroyed by Furuya's anime-love induced Super Mode effectively making it a Senseless Sacrifice just turned it up to eleven.
  • At the final scene of Season 2, Furuya is shot the moment his transformation sequence is over when he destroyed the limiter. As he walks to Diesel, he only has this to say:
    Furuya: This all started with the saddest anime deaths. Guess it figures it'll end with the saddest one of all.

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