History Anime / WizardBarristers

* AlmightyJanitor: [[spoiler: Moyo may just be a paralegal, but she manages to scare the holy bejeezus out of Rei with just a look. For reference, Rei and his brother Shukuji are psychopathic killers who can create HumongousMecha at will, and who aren't even afraid of ''Cecil''.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: Anyone who has played ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' will quickly recognize [[SerialKiller Shukuji's]] sinister laugh.

** Koromo's threats to sexually harass Cecil just to grope at her breasts.

Wizard Barristers is an anime television series directed by Yasuomi Umetsu and produced by the animation studio Arms Corporation. It aired in Japanese televisions in 2014 as part of the 2014 Winter Season. It's scheduled to air 12 episodes on television with eventual DVD and Blu-Ray releases. The show is licensed by Sentai Filmworks for a North American release and is also available for legal viewing via Crunchyroll.

* SuperPowerLottery: Magic works this way. You can wind up with anything from clairvoyancy, to hyper destructive elemental powers, to being able to form a HomgongousMecha from the metal surrounding you. Multiple powers are rare.

* MiscarriageOfJustice: This happens quite often due to the dysfunctional law system that wizards are subject to (see also the ArtisticLicenseLaw entry above). [[spoiler: This is even lampshaded on episode 3, in which a defendant proclaims that she killed a man on purpose and because it wasn't premeditated, she got sentenced to life imprisonment, while the man she loved got sentenced to death because he was blackmailed into using magic and accidentaly murdered someone]].
* MythologyGag: In terms of the similarities with the [=SAT=] assaulters who stormed the hijacked subway car, their assault gear is used by the [=SWAT=] team stationed at the [=ISSP=] in [[Anime/{{Kite}} Kite Liberator]].

* WrongGenreSavvy: The police in the bank robbery case. They think a former bank teller who was present at the time and used his magic to play good Samaritan was actually in on the robbery, but simply got into an argument about something with the culprits. [[spoiler: It turns out that he just had a crush on one of his former coworkers and came by to see her. He was acting in legitimate self defense.]]

** This can lead to the breaking of WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief for some. A lot of anime series [[{{Anvilicious}} have the message]] about bullied and oppressed minority, but to have this minority [[BullyingTheDragon to wield THAT amounts of power]] -- it's definitely stretching it a bit. Realistically the society in question ought to look more like [[Literature/LabyrinthsOfEcho Echo during the Age of Orders]] rather than "modern Tokyo but with magic".

* AmbulanceChaser: Cecil in "Sword and Scales". Does she ''really'' need to rush to the crime scene and offer her service without telling her coworkers, while not actually being a proper employee ''yet''?
** Given how the police treat suspects in-series? Yes.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Let's see... in the first episode we have: torture of a suspect in custody, summary execution without chance of appeal and no presumption of innocence... and no one, including the protagonist, raises an objection to this.
** Justified in that the magical court system is different from the normal one.

* WrongGenreSavvy: The police in the bank robbery case. They think a former bank teller who was present at the time and used his magic to play good Samaritan was actually in on the robbery, but simply got into an argument about something with the culprits. [[spoiler: It turns out that he just had a crush on one of his former coworkers and came by to see her. He was acting in legitimate self defense.]]
* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' meets ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei.''

* ShownTheirWork: The use of the term "Barrister." In the British[[note]]This also includes countries and territories where the British had a lasting influence on their legal system like Canada, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.[[/note]] legal system, lawyers are split into two specialties: solicitors, who advise you in the office, and barristers, who represent your case at court. (Albeit barristers don't do investigating of their own, or have magic at their fingertips...)

* ShownTheirWork: The use of the term "Barrister." In the British[[note]]This also includes countries and territories where the British had a lasting influence on their legal system like Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore.[[/note]] legal system, lawyers are split into two specialties: solicitors, who advise you in the office, and barristers, who represent your case at court. (Albeit barristers don't do investigating of their own, or have magic at their fingertips...)

* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/AceAttorney'' meets ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei.''

InAWorld where a certain portion of the population have powerful destructive magical gifts, crimes committed by magicians are handled by a special Court of Magic, and the accused are defended by Wizard Barristers. Enter Cecil Sudo, a powerful wizard and [[TeenGenius the youngest Wizard Barrister ever, at 17]]. Cecil now begins her life investigating--and sometimes ''preventing''--magic crimes for the Barrister firm Butterfly.

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: A group of magicians known as "No Face" possess the ability to create the [[HumongousMecha mecha]]-dragon-tyrannosaurus thing -- and then use it to rob banks. And this is but one example.

* PlayingWithFire: The wizard who rampages in the train. He later [[KarmicDeath gets executed]] by what seems to be {{Hellfire}}.

* VerbalTic: Nanagenie ends his sentence with "-bun".

* BunnyEarsLawyer: The crews at Butterfly is a colorful cast, and not just literally.

* CrusadingLawyer: The Butterfly are this to varying degrees when it comes to defending wizards, with Cecil being one [[ItsPersonal for personal reasons]].

* HeroAntagonist: Inspectors Quinn and Shizumu who keep butting heads against the Butterfly.

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: A group of magicians possess the ability to create the [[HumongousMecha mecha]]-dragon-tyrannosaurus thing -- and then use it to rob banks. And this is but one example.

* MiscarriageOfJustice: This happens quite often due to the dysfunctional law system that wizards are subject to (see also the ArtisticLicenseLaw entry above). [[spoiler: This is even lampshaded on episode 3, in which a defendant proclaims that she killed a man on purpose and got sentenced to life imprisonment, while the man she loved got sentenced to death because he was blackmailed into using magic and accidentaly murdered someone]].

* MiscarriageOfJustice: This happens quite often due to the dysfunctional law system that wizards are subject to (see also the ArtisticLicenseLaw entry above). [[spoiler: This is even lampshaded on episode 3, in which a defendant proclaims that she killed a man on purpose and got sentenced to life imprisonment, while the man she loved got sentenced to death over a crime he didn't commit]].

* MisappliedPhlebotinum: A group of magicians possess the ability to create the [[HumongousMecha mecha]]-dragon-tyrannosaurus thing -- and then use it to rob banks. And this is but one example.

* ButNotTooForeign: Cecil is half Canadian.

* FairCop: Inspectors Quinn and Shizumu who arrest Shigeki Oto in "Sword and Scales".

* TeenGenius: Cecil, both as a law student and as a magician.