History Anime / Canaan

* [[spoiler:BringOutYourGayDead: Liang Qi.]]
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Canaan loses her ability to "see colors" at the end of episode 7. She gets it back later, but only after getting hit indirectly by a missile, and confronting Alphard.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Hakko crosses it after accidentally killing Santana when she thought she was delivering a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Liang Qi.]]
** DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Hakko, refusing to leave the collapsing building, seems to have decided to just die next to Santana's corpse]].

* OneSceneWonder: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsIBJhPIvI CHINESE STYLE. '''HIGH TENSION!''']]

* DistressedDamsel: Maria

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* CoolGuns: Alphard's FN Five seveN Tactical, and Canaan's Beretta PX4 Storm.

* AllPartOfTheShow: In the first episode, multiple people are shot and killed (or die horribly from the Ua Virus), and everyone thinks it's just part of the festival. Maria's partner Mino, however, attests that it's [[SomebodyElsesProblem something else]].

* [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitchLesbians / {{RomanticTwoGirlFriendship}}: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again.]]

!!Provides Examples Of:

** [[spoiler:Cummings to Liang Qi]] seconds before he shoots her. Mind you, she was dying anyway.

* ChekhovsGunman: Yunyun. It is even LampShaded by Maria and Mino from episodes 2-5 as they wonder who the hell she is.

* ConspicuousCG: Pretty much every vehicle that shows up, plus the cutesy avatar Liang Qi uses to troll the crowds during episode 6 [[spoiler:and the bomb in episode 7]]

* MistressAndServantBoy: Liang Qi and Cummings are a particularly dark and violent version of this trope. Liang Qi couldn't care less about Cummings and mainly takes her frustration out on him, but Cummings has a (one sided) infatuation with her and even seems to ''like'' the abuse he suffers. He loves her so much, in fact, [[spoiler:that he's the one who gives her a MercyKill, and he becomes a monk at the end of the series.]]

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Only demonstrated in episode one, Liang Qi is the '''BEST SECRETARY EVER!''' [[AxCrazy All]] [[{{Yandere}} other]] [[CompleteMonster things]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy considered.]]

!!''{{Canaan}}'' contains the following tropes:

* {{Eagleland}}: A mildly done flavour 2, but the United States is given a rather unflattering depiction in Canaan; They have a bombastic bozo for a President, a corrupt crook for a Vice President, are shamlessly neoconservative, and the CIA collude with a terrorist/private security organisation in the development of biological weapons, using Chinese villagers as test subjects.

* FoeYay: Alphard does like pinning Canaan down a lot, and isn't particularly in a hurry to kill her, which makes Liang Qi [[MurderTheHypotenuse quite jealous]].

* FreudWasRight: Subverted. In episode 4, Santana says he will "Make [Hakko] happy in bed." What does he do? Shows her some magic tricks. No, not ''those'' magic tricks.
** Later played straight in a rather [[{{Squick}} f'ed up]] [[TearJerker and tragic]] manner.

* JustPlaneWrong: Someone forgot to inform the animation staff that B2 stealth bombers do not have vertical stabilisers, or afterburner nozzles on the engines.

* LesYay: Canaan and Maria. They flirt a lot, indeed. At one point, Maria even [[spoiler:delivers lines that can easily be interpreted as a confession of love.]]

** Yun Yun as well. It seems like nothing goes right for the poor girl no matter how hard she tries. Let's see, [[spoiler: her borner mutation is a second appendix]], her boss considers her life disposable [[spoiler: but also controls the supply of medication she needs to survive]], she had her workplace shot up by her own "allies" ''twice'', she failed an assignment because her boobs were too small to interest the target, and she got interrogated at gunpoint ''with her own gun'' (while still wearing the embarassingly skimpy bunny girl outfit from her failed assignment to boot).

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Subverted ''hard'' and played straight at the same time in episode 10. [[spoiler:Hakko tries twice to kill Liang Qi with one of these, only to have Liang Qi troll her on both accounts and then deliver her own Reason You Suck Speech right back at Hakko each time. To add insult to injury, Hakko finds to her dismay that she accidentally killed Santana with her second speech, which Liang Qi all too gleefully informs her of during ''her'' second Speech]].

* DeadPersonConversation: Canaan with Shan in the last two episodes

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Only demonstrated in episode one, Liang Qi is the '''BEST SECRETARY EVER!''' [AxCrazy All]] [[{{Yandere}} other]] [[CompleteMonster things]] [[LoveMakesYouCrazy considered.]]

* {{Eagleland}}: A mildly done flavour 2, but the United States is given a rather unflattering depiction in Canaan; They have a bombastic bozo for a President, a corrupt crook for a Vice President, are shamlessly neoconservative, and the CIA collude with a terrorist/private security organisation in the development of biological weapons, using chinese villagers as test subjects.

* SexyBack: Canaan, thanks to a backless shirt.

* StereotypesOfChinesePeople: Well, it does take place in Shanghai.

* AnimeChinesePeople: Well, it does take place in Shanghai.

** The American Special Forces guys in episode 11.

* RunningGag: Liang Qi's airsoft pistol, [[spoiler:which gets used in a minor XanatosRoulette set up by Alphard in episode 9]].

* {{Eagleland}}: A mildly done flavour 2, but the United States is given a rather unflattering depiction in Canaan; They have a bombastic bozo for a priesident, a corrupt crook for a Vice President, are shamlessly neoconservative, and the CIA collude with a terrorist/private security organisation in the development of biological weapons, using chinese villagers as test subjects.

* [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitchLesbians/{{Romantic Two Girl Friendship}}: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again.]]

* [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitchLesbians: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again.]]

* [[spoiler:BaitAndSwitchLesbians: After all the heightened emotions, almost-declarations of love and subtext between them, Canaan and Maria choose to separate because their lifestyles are too different--and they don't even once contact each other again. A lot of {{yuri fan}}s felt this was quite a cop-out. At least the makers decided not to [[BuryYourGays kill any of them off]] or suddenly give one of them a straight option out of nowhere...]]

** Yun Yun as well. It seems like nothing goes right for the poor girl no matter how hard she tries. Let's see, [[spoiler: her borner power is having two appendixes]], her boss considers her life disposable [[spoiler: but also controls the supply of medication she needs to survive]], she had her workplace shot up by her own "allies" ''twice'', she failed an assignment because her boobs were too small to interest the target, and she got interrogated at gunpoint ''with her own gun'' (while still wearing the embarassingly skimpy bunny girl outfit from her failed assignment to boot).

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Yunyun's power of having two appendices.

* GirlsWithGuns: Canaan, Liang Qi, and Alphard.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Canaan is a mild version, closer to a WhiteHairedPrettyGirl than anything. [[spoiler:And it's later revealed that this is not natural, since exposure to the Ua virus causes dark hair to turn white]]

* RedStringOfFate: Used to play the string game "Cat's Cradle".