History Manga / Coppelion

* AmusingInjuries: [[spoiler: Shion, courtesy of Kanon. GoodThingYouCanHeal indeed.]]

* TooSoon: Due to the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the anime adaptation was put on hold before being revived in 2013.
** Even with 2 years passing the adaption seems to avoid using words like "nuclear" instead just referring to an "incident"

Based on the manga by Tomonori Inoue, an anime adaptation by Go Hands was aired for [[Fall2013Anime Fall 2013]] and is simulcasted in English subtitles by Creator/{{Animax}} in Asia, Creator/VizMedia in North America, and Creator/MadmanEntertainment in Australia and New Zealand.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After seeing the city he ruined is exploited further through illegal nuclear waste disposal, Shiba decided that the only way to atone is to die. But the persistent efforts of the Coppelion turn it into BungledSuicide]].

* BigBadassWolf: The stray dogs of Tokyo have (somehow) reverted back into wolves. They are a danger. [[TooDumbToLive The girls take a while to pick up on this.]] [[spoiler:And then it's subverted, when it turns out the ominous trail of blood was left by a wolf that got injured trying to protect Taeko.]]

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Shiba Denjiro. The reactor he made suffered a malfunction and turned Tokyo into radioactive zone. He own up to his sin by creating super-Barrier Suits and life support system for the survivors.]]

* BigEater: Aoi. Coppelion doesn't need to eat like the humans do, but Aoi takes an entire picnic basket to Tokyo.

* BlessedWithSuck: Aoi doesn't have unique power unlike other Coppelion, but she's easily the most human of them.
** [[spoiler: Actually, it turns out she's the most powerful of them all. Being able to levitate, absorbe electricity, create an impenetrable shield around herself, move at incredible speed, etc.]]

* CosyCatastrophe: It's ''not'' exactly cosy-- the main characters are in a rescue mission to pin-point the location of survivors so the military can extract them. The survivors are often found clinging to dear life, in which case the girls administer Aether (read: [[{{VideoGame/Fallout}} RadX]]) to them to buy them just a little time before extraction. Aside from this rather bleak mission, post-apocalypse Tokyo is a nice place... if you're immune to radiation.
** [[spoiler:The reason why there are survivors in Tokyo is that an [[TheAtoner atoning genius]] has been delivering food to them. However, when the story starts, the delivery has not been appearing for a week, driving the survivors to desperation and unraveling their social structure.]]

* FantasticNuke: A nuclear power plant suffer a meltdown, which contaminates Tokyo, forcing the government to evacuate the citizens of Tokyo. Also, Tokyo is perpetually shrouded by fog that only occasionally dissipates.

* HealingFactor: The Coppelions all heal several times faster than normal humans. Ibara has a particularly strong one. Then it was revealed that [[spoiler: Haruto HealingFactor is stronger than Ibara. It is his ''special abilities'']].

* HumansAreSpecial: Ibara is a firm believer in this, which is why she is so dedicating to helping Tokyo survivors. However, some of her fellow coppelion believe HumansAreBastards and not worth saving.

* JustPlaneWrong: [[spoiler:B2 Bombers]] doesn't work that way! To begin with, they need a runway that is at least 2 km long!

* NoSell: The Coppelion are completely unaffected by anything radioactive. Other people have to wear protective gears that will eventually fail, but they walk into ground zero ''in school uniform''.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: The Prime Minister is an absolute JerkAss who refuses to spare even ''one'' helicopter to extract Tokyo survivors due an upcoming national conference where he wants to gather all of the JSDF forces at his disposal to show off Japan's military might.
* RagnarokProofing: Averted, plant life and wildlife flourish around Tokyo and are slowly decaying the once-populated Tokyo 20 years after people are forced to abandoned the city.[[note]]Yes, for the record, wildlife does flourish and manages to adopt in nuclear wastelands. Just look at Chernobyl[[/note]].

* SpiderTank: [[spoiler: Shows up at the end of Episode 10. Taken down by the middle of Episode 11 though.]]

[[spoiler: Actually, it turns out she's the most powerful of them all. Being able to levitate, absorbe electricity, create an impenetrable shield around herself, move at incredible speed, etc.]]

* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: The leader of the 1st Division helps the survivors before he dies.]]

Not to be confused with the ballet ''Coppelia''.

* AxeCrazy: The Ozu siblings. As of episode 12, they are showing signs of being [[Deathseeker Death Seekers]] too.

* AxeCrazy: The Ozu siblings. As of episode 12, they are showing signs of being DeathSeekers too.

* AxeCrazy: The Ozu siblings.

* CursedWithAwesome: The main characters are immune to radiation, but they are not treated as humans, even by the people they save.

* FacialHorror: The officer from the 1st Division. His face is basically rotted off under his mask.

* HazmatSuit: These are called Barrier Suits, and non-Coppelion characters have to wear them if they want to survive. The suits have the distinct appearance of old diving suits.

* RagnarokProofing: Averted, plant life and wildlife flourish around Tokyo and are slowly decaying the once-populated Tokyo 20 years after people are forced to abandoned the city.[[note]]Yes, for the record, wildlife does flourish and manages to adopt in nuclear wastelands. Just look at Chernobyl[[/note]].

* SpiderTank: [[spoiler: Shows up at the end of Episode 10.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Coppelion are different from humans. They know it, and they each have a different approach in dealing with this issue. Aoi does her best to live like a human, while Ibara doesn't even bother eating, preferring to simply inject nutrients into herself. Kanon Ozu outright asks who the JSDF thinks she is,[[spoiler: adding electric eel DNA to her genome.]] Nosense the robot[[spoiler Has his head punched in by Shion, and one of his arms busted by the same.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Coppelion are different from humans. They know it, and they each have a different approach in dealing with this issue. Aoi does her best to live like a human, while Ibara doesn't even bother eating, preferring to simply inject nutrients into herself. Kanon Ozu outright asks who the JSDF thinks she is,[[spoiler: adding electric eel DNA to her genome.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Coppelion are different from humans. They know it, and they each have a different approach in dealing with this issue. Aoi does her best to live like a human, while Ibara doesn't even bother eating, preferring to simply inject nutrients into herself.

* HealingFactor: The Coppelions all heal several times faster than normal humans. Ibara has a particularly strong one.