History Anime / GodEater

** While never explicitly explained in the games, the third episode shows in great detail how God Arcs functions at the hands of God Eaters. Apart from having a visible gun trigger and digitized ammunition counter for its Gun Form, the transition from Gun Form to Blade Form to Predator Form and vice-versa is shown to be done via the God Arc's handle[[note]]Pushing the handle inward quickly switches between Blade and Gun Forms and vice-versa. On the other hand, pulling the handle immediately switches the God Arc to Blade Form as it enters into its Predator Form, in which it will eat any Aragami within the God Eater's line of sight until the handle is released from being pulled just as an Aragami is successfully bitten by the God Arc's maw, immediately refilling its Oracle supply for the Gun Form and entering a powerful Burst Mode when successful[[/note]], as shown when Alisa and Lenka fights off the Aragami swarm atop of a flying plane.

** While never explicitly explained in the games, the third episode shows in great detail how God Arcs functions at the hands of God Eaters. Apart from having a visible gun trigger and digitized ammunition counter for its Gun Form, the transition from Gun Form to Blade Form to Predator Form and vice-versa is shown to be done via the God Arc's handle[[note]]Pushing the handle inward quickly switches between Blade and Gun Forms and vice-versa. On the other hand, pulling the handle immediately switches the God Arc to Blade Form as it enters into its Predator Form, in which it will eat any Aragami with the God Eater's sight until the handle is released from being pulled just as an Aragami was successfully bitten by the God Arc's maw, immediately refilling its Oracle supply for the Gun Form and entering a powerful Burst Mode when successful[[/note]], as shown when Alisa and Lenka fights off the Aragami swarm atop of a flying plane.

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** While never explicitly explained in the games, the third episode shows in great detail how God Arcs functions at the hands of a God Eater. Apart from the visible trigger and the digitized ammunition counter for its Gun Form, the transition from Gun Form to Blade Form to Predator Form is shown to be done via the God Arc's handle[[note]]Pushing the handle inward switches between Blade and Gun Forms and vice-versa. On the other hand, pulling the handle immediately switches to Blade Form as it enters into its Predator Form, in which it will eat any Aragami with the God Eater's sight until the handle is released from being pulled just as an Aragami is bitten by the God Arc's maw, immediately refilling its Oracle supply for the Gun Form and entering a powerful Burst Mode when successful.[[/note]], as shown when Alisa and Lenka fights off the Aragami swarm atop of a flying plane.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Aragami seem hellbent on killing and devouring every living thing possible. Earth quickly turns into a desolate wasteland with just a few human strongholds holding out against it.

[[caption-width-right:849:The unending war of [[TitleDrop gods and eaters]] begins...]]

* HeroicBSOD: Alisa suffers traumatic flashbacks shortly after losing to Dyaus Pita. She's so traumatized that she's unable to do anything useful for the next two episodes, requiring Lenka and Lindow to do what they can to save the villagers and themselves against some Aragami.

* ItCanThink: [[spoiler:Dyaus Pita]] was shown many times to be able to think. Doing things such as using specific ways to attack in order to counter various tactics, come up with tactics on it's own (such as [[spoiler:corrupting the Aragami Trees to have them attack it's enemies]]) and even show emotions (shown when it [[SlasherSmile smiles]] and [[EvilLaugh laughs]]).

Adapting the events of the first half of the original game[[note]]Prior to the new storylines established in ''God Eater Burst'' and by extension, ''God Eater Resurrection''[[/note]], the anime revolves around the rise of Lenka Utsugi, a vengeful young man who voluntarily enlists into the Fenrir Far-East Branch's elite group of God Eater, all for the sole purpose of eradicating the Aragami for reasons for more complicated and tragic as it is dreadful for everyone involved...

%%* BattleInTheRain: The second half of Episode One.

** The unknown flying Aragamis that resemble both a Zygote and a Sariel which do not appear in games, even in later installments.
** The Dyaus Pita in the anime is different from those that appeared in the first four games. This Dyaus Pita is later introduced in ''Resurrection'' and the original Dyaus Pitas are renamed as "Heavenly Father" and demoted to just Divine-type Varjas.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: How Episode 5 ends. Sakuya's entire team is unable to defeat the Dyaus Pita, and near the end Lenka can just barely escape a very short distance away with a severely wounded Alisa. They're only saved because the Dyaus Pita causes the ground they were on to collapse, causing all of them to fall into a river.

* CoolVsAwesome: Basically the fights with Dyaus Pita after 1st Unit's initial encounter. A notable moment occurs when Lindow goes 1 on 1 against it.
* CrapsackWorld: Earth turns into this after the Aragami show up, and kill just about everything around them.

** Dyaus Pita gets a taste of this in episode 13 after Lenka attaches one of its razor sharp wingtips to his broken God Arc, and this time around has no problem cutting into it.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:In Episode 5, presumably, the Dyaus Pita goes down along with Lenka and Alisa as the land bridge the Dayus Pita collapses and sending them all plummeting to a river below. While Lenka and Alisa are revealed to be alive, the Dyaus Pita's fate is unknown.]]
* DoomedHometown: Lenka's backstory is revealed during episode 11, where he's found as an abandoned baby by a family who failed the test to get into Fenrir's base. They try to raise him as a normal family member, but a testing kit that Lindow leaves behind tests positive on Lenka. After some Aragami attack the shelter they were hiding in, his father has Lenka and his sister run away on a motorbike. Unfortunately she gets cut by an Aragami during the escape, and her foot also gets infected, so she's unable to walk after a few days. [[spoiler:She then slashes her own throat so that he wouldn't pointlessly die trying to save her from the Aragami.]]

* EldritchAbomination: Dyaus Pita. Not only is it larger than the already huge Vajra, it also seems to kill other Aragami, behavior that even veteran God Eater Sakuya has never encountered before. It's also deadly, and easily stomps Lenka and the others during their fights with it.

* FakingTheDead: 1st Unit sees Dyaus Pita with a God Arc device in its mouth in episode 13. The team assumes that Lindow was killed, and many of them go into an UnstoppableRage moment. At the end, a person's shadow is briefly seen on a ledge overseeing where Soma was at. Later, that same shadowy figure dumps canned food on the ground, and is seen smoking, heavily implying it's Lindow. [[spoiler:He likely did this to draw attention away from the refugee village he secretly set up for people who were denied entry into Fenrir's base.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the credits of Episode One/the opening Lindow tosses Lenka something the viewer can't see. [[spoiler:This foreshadows the fact Lindow's leadership of the 1st Unit will be passed onto Lenka (the stand-in for the player character)]]
** [[spoiler:It's the [[FreezeFrameBonus compass]] they took off of Lenka when he was imprisoned in episode 2.]]

Adapting the events of the first half of the original game[[note]]Prior to the new storylines established in ''God Eater Burst'' and by extension, ''God Eater Resurrection''[[/note]], the anime revolves around the rise of Lenka Utsugi, a vengeful young man with voluntarily enlists into the Fenrir Far-East Branch's elite group of God Eater, all for the sole purpose of eradicating the Aragami for reasons for more complicated and tragic as it is dreadful for everyone involved...

[[caption-width-right:849:The war of [[TitleDrop gods and eaters]] begins...]]

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''God Eater'' is a 13-episode anime adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/GodEater1 God Eater]]'', which after two delays, began airing on July 12, 2015. The first nine episodes aired during the 2015 Summer season and the final four episodes were held off for 2016 Spring season.

* PowerWalk: Lenka, Lindow, and Alisa do this in Episode 3.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Alisa's outfit consists of a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] top that doesn't quite manage to button over her breasts, and an equally short pleated skirt over thigh-high boots.

* KnightOfCerebus: Much like its [[VideoGame/GodEaterBurst video game counterpart]], as soon as the [[spoiler:Dyaus Pita]] is introduced, things take a turn for the darker. In addition to being [[TheWorfEffect one of the more lethal Aragami]], as soon as it appears, [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitchBoss it devours the Vajra]], slaughters civilians in seconds, and even manages to temporary stun Sakuya and Kota, destroys Lenka's God Arc, and [[HeroKiller presumably kill Lenka and Alisa]].]]

''God Eater'' is a 13-episode anime adaptation of ''VideoGame/GodEaterBurst'', which after two delays, began airing on July 12, 2015. The first nine episodes aired during the 2015 Summer season and the final four episodes were held off for 2016 Spring season.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Alisa's outfit consists of a [[BareYourMidriff midriff-baring]] top that doesn't quite manage to button over her breasts, and an equally {{Dangerously Short|Skirt}} pleated skirt over thigh-high boots.

* BloodierAndGorier: Than the [[VideoGame/GodEaterBurst video games]].

** [[spoiler: Shio, the Aragami girl appeared in final episode bringing food to the surviving Lindow.]]

%%* FiveManBand
%%** TheLeader: Lindow
%%** TheLancer: Soma
%%** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Sakuya
%%** TheChick: Alisa
%%** NewMeat: Lenka and Kota