Line #24 Anime/BattleAthletes


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3	''Battle Athletes'' is a [[ImprobablyFemaleCast Bishoujo]] / sports franchise consisting of three video-games, a manga series, and two anime series created by Hiroki Hayashi (''Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki'', ''Anime/ElHazardTheMagnificentWorld'') and produced by Creator/{{AIC}} in 1997.
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5	The first game was released for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn system at the end of 1996. Two more games were released later: "Alternative", also for the Saturn, was released in 1998. "GTO", for the Platform/PlayStation, was released the following year. The manga, penned by Yūki Nakano, was published from March 1997 to November 1998, with a total of 4 volumes.
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7	The anime series consist of a 6-episode {{OVA}} and a 26-episode TV series. The [=OVAs=] were released by [[Creator/NBCUniversalEntertainmentJapan Pioneer LDC]] from May 1997 to June 1998, while the TV series aired on TV Tokyo from October 1997 to March 1998. Both series were originally subtitled ''Daiundokai'' ("Great Athletic Meeting"), but upon receiving a North American release by Pioneer Entertainment, they received different Western titles: ''Battle Athletes'' (the original [=OVAs=]) and ''Battle Athletes Victory'' (the TV series).
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9	Through all different media, the series star CuteClumsyGirl Akari Kanzaki, the daughter of the legendary athlete Tomoe Mido, as she strives to join the University Satellite sports competition, where she and dozens of others will compete in a variety of futuristic sports, to see who is Earth's greatest female athlete and champion -- the "Cosmo Beauty".
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11	2020 saw the franchise return under the title ''Battle Athletes Victory [=ReSTART!=]'', with both a new manga and a new anime. The manga, with the full title ''Pale Blue Dot: Battle Athletes Daiundokai [=ReSTART!=]'', began serialization in July 2020. The new anime television series by Seven premiered on April 10, 2021, with Funimation having licensed the series.
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13	Creator/DiscotekMedia has also rescued the original OVA and TV series and is now available for purchase on SD Blu-ray.
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15	!!The original series provides examples of the following tropes:
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18	[[folder:Tropes present in both series]]
19	* AnimeHair: Most of the cast has weird and downright impossible hairstyles, but especially Akari and Kris.
20	* ArtisticLicenseSports:
21	** Athletic abilities are shown to be well above what is possible today. For example, over the course of the {{OVA}}s, Akari's time at the 100m dash goes from 9.6 seconds to [[spoiler:8.999]] seconds. For reference, at the time the anime was made, the women's 100m dash record was 10.49 seconds (which still holds in 2020) and the men's record was 9.93 seconds (dropped to 9.57 by 2020). Which basically means that every girl in the school is an Olympic grade athlete by 20th century standards on day one.
22	** The schools have a wide variety of invented sports, running from the plausible in outer space (such as zero G lacrosse), to the bizarre but possible (such as surf water polo and billiards bowling), to the ludicrously dangerous to the point where nobody could afford the insurance (such as mountain biking on roller coaster tracks and pulling cement rollers cross-country through minefields).
23	** The final competition of the TV series is a 4X1000m relay, in which the opposing team is only fielding one runner. Even if the rules of a relay allowed for one person to run multiple legs, they still wouldn't be allowed to run consecutive legs, because the baton pass is an essential part of a relay race - if the baton isn't passed, it isn't a relay. They would need, at a minimum, a second runner, so they could alternate who has the baton.
24	* AxCrazy: Mylandah, for whom seriously hurting opponents and any other girl that annoys her is a hobby. In the {{OVA}}s, she even tries to kill Akari and her friends.
25	* TheBigGuy: Kris is the tallest of the main trio and, when they first meet each other, the best athlete of them.
26	* BornWinner: Akari, being the daughter of Tomoe Midoh, a record-setting Cosmo Beauty in her own time.
27	* CombatByChampion: In the OVA, the world's sports obsession was kicked off because of a ForeverWar against an alien race being settled by both sides getting tired of the interminable fighting and deciding to settle things with a sporting competition. In the anime, [[spoiler:aliens are ''going to'' invade and conquer the world if Earth can't beat them in a sporting competition, so the Cosmo Beauty competition is a multi-generational effort to train and select the best people to fight them]].
28	* CreditsRunningSequence: There is lot of running in the ending credits of the OVA and the opening of the TV series. Which actually makes sense, since running is one of the main focus of both.
29	* CuteBruiser: Most of the cast are cute, young girls and also phenomenal athletes.
30	* DisappearedDad: Akari's father never gets any mention. [[spoiler:Until the end of the TV series, when it's revealed Mr. Miracle [[LukeIAmYourFather was him all along]].]]
31	* GenkiGirl: Tanya is so energetic you start wondering if she has a perpetual motion machine inside her body. Akari and Ichino occasionally show this trait as well, but unlike Tanya, they are not locked on this mode.
32	* IdiotHero: Akari is a sweet girl, but she is also not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Tanya's worse, of course.
33	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Justified, as it's a women's competition.
34	* MiracleRally: Akari, Kris, and Anna have a terrible start in the University Satellite, but quickly grow to become some of the best athletes in the Solar System. In the TV series, they lose '''eleven times in a row''' before going undefeated for the remaining of the preliminary.
35	* MultinationalTeam: The main cast members hail from multiple continents, and even planets and other types of space colonies when it comes to the University Satellite.
36	* NubileSavage: Tanya's behavior and energy don't stop her from being every bit as cute as the more "civilized" girls.
37	* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Mylandah refuses to allow anyone but her to defeat Lahrri. She gets angry when Lahrri ignores her, and even angrier when Lahrri acknowledges that another girl might become a rival.
38	* RapidFireTyping: If someone is looking for important information in this series, you can bet they will do this.
39	* RedOniBlueOni: In both series, Lahhri is the Blue to Mylandah's red. The TV series has a similar dynamic between Ayla and Jessie. While Lahri and Ayla are stoic and believe they can reach the top through perfect calculations and planning, Jessie and Mylandah are spirited competitors always aiming to surpass their rivals without trying to hide their emotions. The negative side of that is Jessie's temper and Mylandah's violence.
40	* SacredFirstKiss: In the TV series Ichino's brother steals Akari's. Ichino was not amused. In the {{OVA}}, Akari instead gets hers from [[spoiler:Kris]].
41	* SeriousBusiness: High school athletics. Major competitions are covered by international news networks, not as the kind of thing aired on ESPN during slack hours while all other sports are off season or not playing, but as major events in their own right.
42	* TheStoic: Ayla and Lahhri, who are borderline robotic in behavior. They both get better about this.
43	* TrueCompanions: Akari, Anna and Kris become a very close team in both series.
44	* UnderdogsNeverLose: Akari starts in an unfavorable position and with many people underestimating her. As you can probably figure out, she wins a lot.
45	* UnnecessaryRoughness: All over the place, really, but Mylandah is the queen of this trope.
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49	* AttackHello: The headmasters of the two schools greet each other with RapidFireFisticuffs.
50	* BarbieDollAnatomy: There's plenty of fanservice in the OVA, but no nipples or genitalia are shown.
51	* BookEnds: The series begins with Akari running because she's late for her shuttle to go to her new school. The series ends with her running because she's late for her shuttle to go to an inter-school competition.
52	* DirtyOldMan: Headmaster Grant as he's constantly sneaking into the girls' bath and otherwise finding ways to peep.
53	* DistractedByTheSexy: This was Headmaster Grant entire plan to defeat the Boy's School in episode 4. And he has been doing that for a while, which results in the Headmaster of that school developing a counter-strategy: send a gay couple to compete! [[spoiler:He also sends Anna, who lived as a girl for most of his life and has no issue with half-naked girls.]]
54	* KarmaHoudini: Between her blatantly poor sportsmanship in official events and her violent behavior outside of them (starting with assaulting a freshman for daring to ask her for directions), one has to wonder why Mylandah wasn't expelled years before the story started. Out an airlock.
55	* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler:Grant runs out of patience for Mylandah's bad conduct after he catches her sabotaging the final event of the tournament red-handed.]]
56	* MiserableMassage: Kris gives a massage to Akari after an exhausting training session. Between the awkwardness of the masseuse being naked and the fact that Kris' massage technique involves multiple unexpected acts of chiropractry, Akari really doesn't enjoy it.
57	* NoNudityTaboo: Kris doesn't understand why Akari and Anna are so shocked seeing her dancing naked.
58	* NoOshaCompliance: The school should really do a better job of securing the computer systems that control the environment that ensures student safety and/or controls the sporting equipment. [[spoiler:Mylandah]] sabotaging said systems on three separate occasions results in a destroyed space station, three near deaths, an injured back, and a broken leg. One also has to wonder why the lacrosse ball launcher is capable of firing balls at speeds that can seriously injure people, why the gravity controls on the race track go up to 9g, and why they can be altered in the middle of a race.
59	* NormalFishInATinyPond: Akari was the top student of her prep school, but the upperclassmen of her new school are far ahead of her at the start of the series.
60	* PsychoLesbian: Mylandah wants Lahrri to look at her, and only her. She goes insane with jealousy when Kris catches Lahrri's attention as a difficult opponent.
61	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Intentionally invoked by Headmaster Grant with the uniforms from episode 4, since his entire plan was to leave the boys DistractedByTheSexy.
62	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: In episode 3, [[spoiler:it's revealed Anna is a boy raised to believe he was a girl so he could join the University Satellite. All because his mother was a huge fan of the school]].
63	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Jessie simply disappears after the first episode.
64	* {{Yandere}}: Mylandah combines this trope with TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou. She is the only who can defeat Lahrri, and if Lahrri acknowledges anybody else as a possible rival, she will find a way to remove that person of the equation.
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68	* AdaptationDyeJob: Headmaster Grant has red hair here, while in the games and {{OVA}}s, he had black hair.
69	* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Because this story is longer, Akari goes through more difficulties before reaching the top, and thus there are more moments were she drowns in self-doubt. [[spoiler:The reveal of her father's identity at the end also gives her a new reason to angst.]]
70	* AdaptationalJerkass:
71	** In the games, manga (and her brief appearance in the OVA), Jessie is a lot more cheerful and is just as nice to Akari as her other friends. In the TV series, she initially hated Akari for not giving her all during training despite being the daughter of the athlete Jessie admires the most in the world. She even punches her at one point.
72	** Similarly, Ling-Pha in the anime is a selfish cheater. In the games and manga, she was a nice girl who never cheated.
73	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Mylandah is still AxCrazy like in the OVA, but this time, she doesn't try to kill anyone, and she has a more sympathetic backstory. [[spoiler:She also gets a bit better in the end.]]
74	* AlphaBitch: Wong Ling-Pha, with the catch that her posse isn't a bunch of girls from her school, but an army of adult servants, who will do everything she says.
75	* AnimeChineseGirl: Ling-Pha. Adding some Chinese words to her speech, surrounding herself with servants wearing traditional Chinese clothes, having a grandfather that hits most tropes related to "stereotypical Chinese old man"…
76	* BettyAndVeronica: Ichino and Kris for Akari's Archie in the last arc. Ichino, who is Akari's longtime friends and the most normal of the two, is the Betty. Kris, who is more "eccentric" but also more aggressive in her pursuit of Akari, is the Veronica.
77	* BirdRun: Both Akari's and Tomoe's fastest runs.
78	* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler:Anna pretty much gets a PTSD attack seeing Mylandah attacking another girl, as it reminds her of the time she sent her twin sister to the hospital during a game, jealous of the attention she received from their mother. She becomes even more desperate to win to get the approval of her mother, but when she nearly does the same thing to Mylandah in desperation, her mind breaks in self-loathing. And then Mylandah dodges and proceeds to break her in a more literal way. Thankfully both her mind and body recover.]]
79	* BrilliantButLazy: Akari's natural state as an athlete. When left to her own devices, she's liable to coast with a barely acceptable score, then go hide in a cardboard box out of shame over her bad grades. Give her a reason to go all out, and she can smoke the top competitors in her school despite having already given them a head start measured in ''kilometers''.
80	* BrokenAce: Jessie is the best student in Akari's school, but she is also one of the more competitive ones, and as revealed later, [[spoiler:she had the harshest life among the cast, growing up in the streets and failing to save her sister.]]
81	* BrokenBird: As it turns out, Jessie is hiding some deep issues. [[spoiler:She grew up on the streets with no parents, her sister died when they were still children, and she started running only because it was the only thing she could do to bring money and happiness to the other children at the orphanage.]]
82	* BrokenPedestal: Akari does not take meeting [[spoiler:her mother from before Akari was born]] very well at all. Neither does anyone else, as it turns out that [[spoiler:the greatest sports legend in living memory was ''incredibly'' immature during her pro days]].
83	* CharacterExaggeration: Done to Kris in regards to her feelings for Akari. In the {{OVA}}s, she did took a liking to her and Anna very early, but kept their relationship as nothing more than friends and teammates, with the last episode being the first time the series showed there might be more to Kris' feelings. Here, she [[LoveAtFirstSight falls for Akari at first sight]] and immediately proclaims herself to be Akari's lover, and spends most of their time together afterwards talking about their love and hugging her.
84	* CurbStompBattle: Jessie does this to Akari in a race early in the series, [[TheWorfEffect only to have the same done to her by Lahrri later on.]]
85	* DefrostingIceQueen: Jessie is abrasive and hates Akari at first, but warms up to her later and becomes much kinder. Lahhri also learns to stop hiding her emotions and starts behaving less like a robot at the end of the series.
86	* DownToTheLastPlay: The last prelim match for the Grand Competition on two levels. Both competing teams are tied for the lowest seed in the Grand Competition, so the winner of the match will be the one to go on. And the game itself is won by a tie-breaking at the buzzer score. The semi-finals of the Grand Tournament end up being settled 2-1 in three set matches, and [[spoiler:the Mega Tournament is eleven events with the final round breaking a 5-5 tie]]
87	* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Akari is this to Kris and Ichino. Jessie, meanwhile, is this in general. [[IncompatibleOrientation Too bad she doesn't swing that way]].
88	* FixingTheGame:
89	** Ayla is ordered to throw the triathalon ''by her government'', as her withdrawal from candidacy to the University Satellite is an explicit term of a recently signed treaty - the other country wanted their candidate to have a better chance. She complies after beating her rival Jessie in the opening event - her personal best - as a matter of principle.
90	** Ling-Pha tries to rig competitions regularly, and painfully obviously. It usually backfires.
91	* {{Foil}}: Mylandah and Lahhri come across as extremer versions of Jessie and Ayla. Jessi was spirited and emotional, but tempered, whereas Mylandah is AxCrazy. Ayla was reserved but ultimately friendly, whereas Lahhri acts like a robot.
92	* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:The Nerelians]] are first mentioned in an incoherent rant by terrorists who hijacked Akari's flight half a season before they become plot relevant.
93	* GameBreakingInjury: [[spoiler:Ichino misses her chance to join the University Satellite due to a leg injury she suffered while trying to beat Akari in a race.]]
94	* GenderFlip: Unlike the {{OVA}}s, [[spoiler:there is no UnsettlingGenderReveal for Anna here. She really is a girl.]]
95	* GetARoom: Kris' attempts to hit on Akari can get so blatant that Anna occasionally offers to ''give'' them the room.
96	* GodivaHair: Mylandah displays this when she's working out topless.
97	* GorgeousGaijin: With her long blond hair, blue eyes, and slender body, Jessie is a great example of what "foreigner fanservice" consists of in Japan.
98	* HalfHumanHybrid: The Nerelian competitors during the final competition. For example, one of their number is [[SentientVehicle half-car]]--as in, the top half of a humanoid girl grafted onto the hood of a Lamborghini-like sports car--[[LoopholeAbuse but still shows biological signs of life, making her eligible to compete.]]
99	* HardWorkHardlyWorks: Played straight for Akari, who [[BornWinner is the daughter of Tomoe]] and just needs confidence to win a triathlon without training for it at all. Her teammates on the University Satellite, though, don't train enough, don't train together, and the team suffers as a result.
100	* HotBlooded: Ichino, who is almost always screaming at Akari about how she needs spirit, guts and determination to win.
101	* HumanAliens: The Nerelians… with the catch that they don't mind losing some of the parts of the body that give them a humanoid shape if it will give them an advantage in sports.
102	* TheIdiotFromOsaka: Ichino manages to exemplify ''every'' possible Osakan stereotype -- she's uncouth, ultra-competitive, extremely proud of her native city, and obsessed with Osaka's Hanshin Tigers baseball team.
103	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Jessie Gurtland seems like a ultra-competitive woman who hates those below her, but she has a soft side and actually likes seeing Akari working to become better in the second half of the show.
104	* KonamiCode: [[spoiler: Mylandah uses this to brainhack a Nerilian robot in a three-legged race.]]
105	* LoveAtFirstSight: In this version of the story, Kris falls for Akari after they accidentally bump into each other in the airport.
106	* LoveTriangle: Akari/Ichino/Kris. Unresolved as of the end.
107	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Mr. Miracle is actually Akari's DisappearedDad.]] Oh, and [[spoiler:Akari's MissingMom Tomoe is the final boss.]]
108	* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: Lahrri does this in episode 24, pausing every so often, without warning, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower to split a log in two with a single punch]].
109	* NakedApron: Averted, but when Anna is acting as TeamChef for the group before the final competition she's only wearing her leotard under her apron, giving the illusion of this in many shots.
110	* NoblewomansLaugh: Ling-Pha does this many times. Mostly when she is planning how she is going to cheat to win, or when it seems to be working.
111	* NotSoAboveItAll: Lahrri is so stoic she comes across as a robot sometimes, but even she has trouble keeping a straight face when dealing with [[spoiler:the antics of the 17-years old Tomoe Midou.]]
112	* PairTheSpares: [[InvokedTrope Suggested]] by Kris, when she suggests that Ichino marry Anna so she can have Akari all to herself.
113	* PerfectPoison: Right at the TV series' climax, it's revealed that [[spoiler:one of Mr. Miracle's caretakers had been secretly poisoning his chocolate with the perfect amounts to be able to take him out of commission right before the most crucial moment]].
114	* PinkySwear: Between Akari and Ichino about [[spoiler:trying to get to University Satellite together]].
115	* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: After the Mega Tournament is announced, Akari recruits the best athletes she competed against from University Satellite and the Antarctic School to be her team in the tournament. She successfully gets everyone she was after except [[spoiler:Ayla, who is now married and heavily pregnant]].
116	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: The Headmaster of the Satellite [[spoiler:catching a falling shuttle with his bare hands]].
117	* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:The headmaster is apparently the athlete who repelled the original Nerelian invasion ''three thousand years ago'', and has been preparing for their return ever since.]] No explanation is given as to how he's lived that long.
118	* RunningGag: Whenever Akari starts losing, she retreats into Akari House, a cardboard box with a house drawn on the side.
119	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Ling-Pha, of course. It never gets her anywhere. Worse, she often ''helps'' her competition with her antics. Her grandfather seems to share the same attitude, given his comment about hating things that can't be bought.
120	* SchoolSwimsuit: Swimming is one of the many sports featured here, so it's no surprise those show up.
121	* SeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:The fate of the world is at stake in a sports competition between humans and aliens.]]
122	* SmugSnake: [[spoiler:The Nereli queen talks a big game about how the technological superiority of her race will ensure their victory, but none of their modified athletes is able to defeat the girls from Earth - in fact, their augmentations are usually the reason they ''lose''. Their only victory before bringing out a resurrected, de-aged and brainwashed Tomoe Midou comes from Akari accidentally self-destructing.]]
123	* TheSpartanWay: [[spoiler:This is essentially the true purpose of the whole University Satellite/Cosmo Beauty system. To create an athlete good enough to take on the Nerelians.]]
124	* StepfordSmiler: Anna slowly develops into TheFakeCutie during the second arc under Mr. Miracle's influence [[spoiler: until she has to face down a ''real'' [[AxCrazy psychopath]]]].
125	* TheStrategist: Anna's strongest point is her ability to analyze her opponent’s weakness and creating a strategy around it.
126	* SweetTooth: Mr. Miracle eats chocolate like they were medicine. [[spoiler:It's actually poison]].
127	* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Ayla ends up marrying and having a daughter with her coach.]]
128	* TeamPet: Gyubei, the cow that Kris brings with her to University Satellite. According with her, she is part of her family.
129	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: HotBlooded Ichino and CuteClumsyGirl Akari.
130	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Mr. Miracle virtually ''runs'' on chocolate. [[spoiler:Too bad his doctor has been poisoning it.]]
131	* TrainingFromHell: What Mr. Miracle does to the athletes he chooses to train to be the next Cosmo Beauty.
132	* {{Tsundere}}: Ichino adores Akari and wants her to get better, but only knows how to help by yelling at her when she is swimming in self-depreciation.
133	* WhamEpisode: Akari wins the grand tournament and becomes Cosmo Beauty 4999. She rushes to her mother's grave to tell her about it, when she sees someone she doesn't recognize there. [[spoiler:Then a UFO comes out of nowhere and blows up the tombstone.]]
134	* TheWorfEffect: Jessie is the fastest and strongest competitor Akari has come across by the time she leaves for University Satellite, but once they get there, she gets [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] in a race with Lahhri.
135	* YouDontLookLikeYou: Sorta, while most of the characters look pretty much 1 to 1 with their game[=/=]OVA[=/=]manga counterparts, Ayla has a [[https://members.tripod.com/ken_ohki/tvcover_05.jpg completely different hairstyle]] in ''Victory'' from the on she has [[https://rubberslug.s3.amazonaws.com/user/c/7296de92f534aada67b1e2565344e57/yenotocbuk_o.jpg in the original game as well as the manga]].
136	** Similarly, Tomoe in her younger days [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51G4NX4DGWL.jpg looks completely different here]] than [[https://cdn.donmai.us/sample/31/19/__battle_athletes__sample-31195876f6c0f0bd4c540816babfc799.jpg how she does]] in the game[=/=]OVA[=/=]manga, but then again her personality is ''dramatically different'' in ''Victory'' too, so the design change makes sense.
137	* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: How Ichino frequently reacts to Akari's antics, even saying the actual line at one point.
138	* ZenSurvivor: Mr. Miracle, a man of few words that puts his students to go through a TrainingFromHell and insists kindness will only hold them back. It may have something to do with [[spoiler:the death of his wife and the knowledge that Earth will soon be attacked by aliens.]]
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141	!!''[=RESTART!!=]'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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144	* TheCameo: Obscured photos of Akari and Tomoe are seen in the first episode, as part of an exposition of the previous Cosmic Beauties.
145	** [[spoiler: In the final episode we see a photo of Akari following in her father's footsteps by wearing the Mr. Miracle outfit and standing next to a young Stella being crowned as a Cosmo Beauty.]]
146	* CastOfExpies: PlayedWith. Being a SpinOffspring, this anime has many characters who physically resemble the cast of the classic series. However, not all of them have similar personalities, and some also come across as expies for characters they are not related to:
147	** The main character, Kanata Akehoshi, physically resembles previous main character Akari Kanzaki, and even has a similar GenkiGirl personality, [[spoiler: and she happens to be Akari's granddaughter as revealed in the final episode]] .
148	** The role of Ichino Yanagida has effectively been split between two characters: Coach Tamami Yanagida, her descendent, got her appearance and [[TheIdiotFromOsaka the rougher aspects of her personality]]. Shelley Wong fulfills her role as a close friend of the main character, with whom she forms a TomboyAndGirlyGirl relationship. Shelley's surname implies she is related to Wong Ling-Pha, but she has no resemblance to her.
149	** Lydia Gurtland plays this trope completely straight, looking like a younger version of Jessie Gurtland and having a similar competitive personality (albeit for different reasons).
150	** Yana Christopher looks a lot like Kris Christopher, but has a completely different personality: While Kris was friendly, upbeat and something of a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, Yana has a serious personality, isn't afraid of starting fights with her teammate, and is anything but upbeat, due to her vastly different circumstances.
151	** Eva Garenstein fulfills a similar role as Lahrri Feldnunt, being TheAce, the biggest hurdle the cast wants to surpass, and having [[TheStoic a stoic personality]], despite not being related to her.
152	** Averted by Paglia Respighi, Jefferson Natdhipytadd, and Stella Rosnovsky. Their surnames imply they are related to Anna, Tanya and Ayla respectively, but outside of the names they have no resemblance to those characters.
153	* CatchPhrase: Kanata has "I'm fine. I trust in my toughness"
154	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Kanata built a log cabin when she was 10 years old by herself. As in, she carried, cut and put together all the logs ''with her own hands''.
155	* DarkerAndEdgier: The original series was mostly about the sports tournament, only introducing a different, more serious plot later in its run (that is, the plot about [[spoiler:stopping alien invaders from conquering the planet.]]). And even that plotline wasn't taken 100% seriously, as the show never let go of its whacky humor. In contrast, this series already starts with plotlines involving a civil war, terrorism, and attempted murder. And those are played in a completely serious manner, with the humor disappearing when they are brought to the forefront.
156	* DefeatMeansFriendship: Invoked by Kanata in Episode 1, downright telling the girl she defeated that "once the match is over, you make up and become friends". In the following episode, when Lydia loses her match with Yuna and tells her she will accept any punishment she may think of, Yuna decides the punishment will be becoming friends with her.
157	* DontYouDarePityMe: Shelley refuses to accept any pity for being a double-amputee, and aims to become the Cosmic Beauty to show that her mechanical limbs do not make her inferior to anyone.
158	* ExpressiveUvula: In the first episode, Kanata's uvula adopts her facial expression while she's running in one scene.
159	* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Eva Garenstein is genetical engineered to be a perfect athlete.
160	* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: When Yucil blows herself up at the end of episode 8, she somehow manages to survive the very next episode with no injuries. By that same token due to not being shown fleeing with the rest of the stadium's crowd, it's unclear if Kanata, Eva and Jefferson even fled the arena. Or how they survived being in immediate blast range with zero injuries outside of a gunshot wound to Jefferson's leg assuming they didn't.
161	* SpinOffspring: A lot of the cast are direct descendants of the original cast and as such they bear a striking resemblance to their ancestors.
162	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Potatoes for Kanata, who wants everyone to know that the potatoes her family farms are the best in the universe.
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166	* CastOfExpies: Like its accompanying anime, many characters here resemble the cast of the original series, with the bonus of [[spoiler:also having characters (or giant monsters) that are expies to the cast of other anime made by Studio Creator/{{AIC}}, like ''Anime/Megazone23'' and ''Anime/{{Dangaioh}}''.]]
167	* HotterAndSexier: While the franchise is no stranger to {{Fanservice}}, this manga surpasses all other entries in this aspect.
168	* {{Interquel}}: The plot of this manga takes place between the classical series and the new anime.
169	* RefugeInAudacity: The plan the girls come up with to escape imprisonment in chapter 9 is so ridiculous, there was no way it could have failed. [[spoiler:They just start stripping and [[GirlOnGirlIsHot making out with each other]], and then they invite the guards to join. The horny guards open the doors to do that and are promptly knocked out.]]
170	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Many faces in this manga – be they from major characters or background characters – are identical to those from ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'', another manga by Takatou Rui.
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