History Anime / Obsolete

*** The OBSOLETE RESEARCH REPORT MOOK released by Hobby Japan has Exoframe lineart and story details on what's happening on Earth post-Peddler reveal.

* FictionalGenevaConventions: Shortly after the first Exoframes appeared in 2014, the US, EU, China and Japan entered into the Sankt Gallen Arrangement, to regulate the trade and use of Exoframes, as well as preventing them from being used as weapons of war. However, by the present day of 2023, the treaty has mostly faded into irrelevance as various conflicts in the interceding years made it clear that Exoframes were too much of a GameChanger to not be exploited.
** This was discussed by Bowman and the EXOFRAME Force Recon team while conducting training in Area 51 in "Area 51".

* PaletteSwap: Despite the show having roughly fourteen different exotype types, paying close attention to their designs reveals that there are roughly five major casing types: light Exoframes[[note]][[ChildSoldiers Improvised Armed]] / [[TheCartel Border Crossing]], industrial[[/note]], Outcast-style Exoframes[[note]][[UsefulNotes/PakistanisWithPanters Pakistani]], Armored, [[Main/SuicideAttack Submersible]], [[BadassArmy Outcast Brigade]], [[{{Bulungi}} Azanian]][[/note]], [[SemperFi USMC]] Exoframes[[note]]Prototype / Mass-produced[[/note]], Submarine Exoframes[[note]]Deep Sea / [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets Russian]][[/note]], and other Exoframes[[note]][[UsefulNotes/IndiansWithIglas Indian]], [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Cerberus]], Peruvian; ''[[Anime/ArmoredTrooperVOTOMS VOTOMS]]'' crossover[[/note]].

* ProtagonistTitle: Episodes 2 through to 6 are named after the main character of that segment, with "Bowman", "Miyajima Rei" and "Loewner" depicting the backstories of each member of EXOFRAME Force Recon.

* BittersweetEnding: "Bowman" ends with the USMC detachment in Angola defeating Exoframe-equipped insurgents, at the cost of heavy casualties and leaving Bowman as the SoleSurvivor of the attack. This leads to Washington acknowledging the military threat and potential of Exoframes, and Bowman's secondment to the Exoframe Force Recon unit tasked with investigating and hunting down hostile groups that operate Exoframes.

* TheAllegedCar: For all of the awesome BlackBox technology they carry, it's mentioned in the episode "Area 51" that the Exoframes given to humanity may be this by galactic standards. A scientist researching the Exoframes notes that a lot of them show signs of prior wear and tear.

* MiddleEasternTerrorists: In "Loewner", it's the hostile group operating Exoframes as suicide bombing platforms in the Persian Gulf. [[spoiler:It's impled that Outcast Brigade is secretly helping them.]]

* WorthlessYellowRocks: Humanity gets the better end of this; limestone is rare across the galaxy, but on Earth it's cheap as dirt (it averages about ''forty dollars'' per ton). Even if the Exoframes are TheAllegedCar by galactic standards, it's still an incredible deal.

''Obsolete'' (stylized as ''OBSOLETE'') is a [[Main/AllCGICartoon 3D CG]] Website/YouTube Original Main/Mecha anime series created by Creator/GenUrobuchi, with production handled by Buemon. It first premiered on 3 December 2019 via streaming on the Bandai Namco Arts Website/YouTube channel, with six episodes released so far. A second cour of six episodes was released with the first episode by December 1, 2020.

* VendorTrash: It seemed like it initially from the human perspective, cheap and common limestone for high-tech Exoframes that greatly enhance labour. But it's actually the other way around, limestone is rare on many worlds (the vast majority of it on Earth is from marine life) and the Exoframes traded already had signs of wear and tear, so they're well-used cast-offs.

The series had a Blu-Ray release in Japan on March 2021.

* RealRobot: Despite their extraterrestrial origins, the Exoframes (especially those with human after-market modifications) still require periodic maintenance, and can be damaged or destroyed with sufficient firepower.

Obsolete also has a manga adaptation, known as OBSOLETE: Hanabusa's Report, by Yoshihiro Sono. It's serialized in Kadokawa's [[https://comic.webnewtype.com/contents/obsolete_comic/ Comic Newtype web]] comic site.

** Also, episode [[spoiler:9]], where last line tells us that [[spoiler:Carhuincho is Zafir's callsign]]

''Obsolete'' (stylized as ''OBSOLETE'') is a [[Main/AllCGICartoon 3D CG]] Website/YouTube Original Main/Mecha anime series created by Creator/GenUrobuchi, with production handled by Buemon. It first premiered on 3 December 2019 via streaming on the Bandai Namco Arts Website/YouTube channel, with six episodes released so far. A second cour of six episodes is due to be released with the first episode by December 1, 2020.