History Manga / GokuMidnightEye

* MsFanservice: Nearly female character in the story is virtually and gratuitously naked, with the peacock woman being Terasawa's portrayal of femme fatales in a nutshell -- literally all she does is silently stand around topless, looking all smokin' hot, until she's killed for it.

* {{Telefrag}}: The ArcVillain of the "Ryoko" arc, Zenzo, is an overwhelmingly powerful psychic that could block and deflect anything thrown at him. With his cyber-eye, Goku does research on a weapon that could overcome the villain's telekinesis and finds the answer is teleporting missiles. In the end, Zenzo has Goku on the ropes but is too distracted to notice the hero's car shooting a missile from the side and is blown to LudicrousGibs when it warps into his body.

* DropDeadGorgeous: Much like in the author's ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', most of the female characters in the story are barely dressed and tend to be killed while topless or completely naked.

A live action adaptation was announced in the Cannes Film Festival in 2006 and is still waiting.

* DropDeadGorgeous: Much like in the author's ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra'', most female characters in the story are barely dressed and tend to be killed while topless or completely naked.
** The peacock assassin feels empowered from hypnotizing people to death while standing around nearly nude and untouchable, but is shot down by Goku in a pathetic way and, particularly in the OVA, is prominently shown sprawled on the floor as she dies.
** The cover of the series' artbook is of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in underwear (in the actual story she was nude at the time). One of the colored illustrations in the book is the volume 3 scene of Li-Chen Li's corpse being left nude and covered in toxic tattoos to spite Goku, in a reference to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Said scene is followed by an examination of the corpse in a morgue for good measure.

** The topless red-haired cyborg woman who shoots lasers from her mouth and runs on all fours is very reminiscent of Rajaki from ''Space Adventure Cobra''. Terasawa later introduced even more henchwomen like them in ''The Psychogun'' sequel arc of ''Cobra''.

* The TelescopingStaff is Goku's weapon (and means of transportation) of choice.

* InstantExpert: At least in the OVA, Goku masters the Sun Wu Kong rod offscreen and apparently quite fast. One can almost forget he is supposed to be a detective and not a pole vaulting champion when watching him RoofHopping with the damn thing. The manga states he has training in ''bojutsu'', the Japanese art of staff fighting, but that still doesn't explain all of it.

** In volume 2, Goku is attacked by a squad of female ninjas who he kills in increasingly gruesome ways. One is impaled on his pole, another is bitten in half by a shark and the last two are trapped by Goku inside a boiler room and burned to death. When their leader gets herself blown up while having sex with Goku, the protagonist actually smirks at her gruesome fate.

** The cover of the series' artbook is of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in underwear (in the actual story she was nude at the time). One of the colored illustrations in the book is the volume 3 scene of Li-Chen Li's corpse being left nude and covered in toxic tattoos to spite Goku, similar to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Said scene is followed by an examination of the corpse in a morgue for good measure.

** The occasional [[DropDeadGorgeous erotization of female corpses]] turns even more violent than that of the author's ''Space Adventure Cobra'' when one villainess is inflated until she explodes [[{{Gorn}} and is left as a nude bloody torso on the floor]].

* NoEnding: The series after the first chapter is a sequence of only six [[RandomEventsPlot unrelated incidents]] investigated by Goku with no MythArc or resolution. Chapter 5 gets pushed to the end depending on the version, so the series either closes with Goku [[AndTheAdventureContinues happily polevaulting into a city]] in the "Cassandra" arc or somberly riding into the horizon with the dead body of Bonnie on his back.

* WouldHitAGirl: Goku is characterized as a ruthless and hardcore anti-hero in part by his willingness to kill female opponents, not unlike how the author frequently wrote [[Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra Cobra]] killing hot villainesses in dispassionate and even cruel ways.

** In volume 2, Goku is attacked by a squad of female ninjas who he kills in increasingly gruesome ways. One is impaled on his pole, another is bitten in half by a shark and the last two are trapped by Goku inside a boiler room and burned to death.

** The cover of the series' artbook is of a mournful Goku standing over Yoko's unconscious, mortally poisoned body in underwear (in the actual story she was nude at the time). One of the colored illustrations in the book is the volume 3 scene of a damsel's corpse being left nude and covered in tattoos to spite Goku, similar to the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. Said scene is followed by an examination of the corpse in a morgue for good measure.

** A damsel is killed by drug overdose from being tattooed all over her body with heroin and her nude corpse is left for Goku to find, evoking the signature scene of ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}''. One background also shows a theater advertising a ''James Bond'' film.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In volume 2, a female ninja is bitten in half by a shark and an assassin who tries to kill Goku during sex is instead blown in half by her own bug robot.

** In volume 2, one of the kunoichi attacking Goku in a pool releases sharks in it but this only gets one of her companions killed. A few scenes later, an assassin seduces Goku but is caught and horribly killed by her own trap.

* PopGoesTheHuman: A female assassin in volume 2 has sex with Goku while aiming to kill him with a bug robot that inflates its victims until they explode. In the end it is her who gets stung and blown in half by the thing while Goku just watches the gruesome scene with a faint smile.

** Cassandra takes on a nude demonic form that looks mostly stunning beautiful, [[{{Butterface}} except for her monstrous face]].

** "Yoko", "Yuko" and "Bonnie" were also names of love interests in ''Space Adventure Cobra''. In fact, there were ''two'' Yukos tied to creators of Cobra's arsenal who were otherwise unrelated.
** In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Terasawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.

* ShoutOut: Ryu is obviously based on Roy from ''Film/BladeRunner''.

* ProductionThrowback: In the "Leila" arc, Leila[=/=]Risa sings a song written by Buichi Terasawa that was originally used in the Hell Crusaders arc of ''Manga/SpaceAdventureCobra''.

** The occasional [[DropDeadGorgeous erotization of female corpses]] turns even more violent than that of the author's ''Space Adventure Cobra'' when one villainess is inflated until she explodes [[{{Gorn}} and is left as a bloody torso on the floor]].