Line #77 Anime/CoyoteRagtimeShow


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/coyote_ragtime_show.png]]
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3	[[DesignatedHero A group of rough-and-tumble space outlaws]]. [[TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness A criminal organization]] with a team of [[RobotGirl android assassins]]. A [[ActionGirl hard-as-nails female detective]] and her [[TheDitz airhead sidekick]]. [[EarthShatteringKaboom And a planet packed with treasure scheduled for demolition]].
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5	Shove them together, and you've got ''Coyote Ragtime Show''.
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7	The [[TwelveEpisodeAnime twelve-episode series]] basically follows the misadventures of Mister, the leader of a branch of outlaws referred to as 'Coyotes', and his adopted daughter-thing Franca, who holds the keys to a massive treasure that's the legacy of her father, a legendary Coyote. However, they are not only being pursued by a sexy, gothic woman named Marciano, but her band of '12 [=SISTERs=]', a band of robots dressed head to toe in [[ElegantGothicLolita Goth-Loli]]. Really.
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9	The first two episodes can currently be watched for free on the [=FUNimation=] video portal, [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=18 here]]
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12	!!'''This series provides examples of:'''
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14	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: [[spoiler:Angelica developed feelings for Mister after seeing him pull off a caper while she was a traffic cop.]]
15	* AlternativeCalendar: The series uses the G.C. calendar, though it's unsure what it stands for.
16	* AmazonBrigade: The Twelve Sisters.
17	* AmbiguousInnocence: All the Sisters, especially the young-looking ones. They treat mass murder like a game and are more interested in clothes, and it's not clear that they really know what they're doing. [[spoiler:May gets a redemption arc when she has little choice but to follow along with Angelica, and April definitely knows the weight of her actions, but those two were more mature.]]
18	* AnachronismStew: Where did they get those seventies-cop-show AMC Matador police cars from?
19	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The Coyotes end the show talking about the next capers they want to pull off.]]
20	* BadassAndChildDuo: Mister and Franca, a hardened criminal known for over-the-top heroics and a little girl. See the page image above.
21	* BigEater: Angelica is constantly eating and Mister and friends can pack in just as much.
22	* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler:While Angelica spends the series being the more lawful counterpart to the criminal Coyotes, she ends up contributing in the end by threatening to expose the President of the Federation as a Guild member if he doesn't help her stop the bomb.]]
23	* BlingBlingBang: April has a gold Luger.
24	* BoardToDeath: Marciano is being scolded by the rest of the Guild's council for causing an undue disturbance. Her response is to smile like a psycho; the next time we see the board, they're in the process of being slaughtered by the 12 Sisters. One of the board members that hasn't been killed yet grumbles that this is a bit of an over-reaction.
25	* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Nearly all of the Twelve Sisters carry WWII-era firearms, and seem to especially favor German guns like April's Luger.
26	* ButtMonkey: Bishop is the butt of nearly every joke in his CastHerd.
27	* ChurchMilitant: You've gotta wonder what's going through people's heads when they ask a ''fully armed ex-criminal'' to be the head priest in a local church.
28	* CoolOldGuy: The main character!
29	* CuteBruiser: Four of the [=SISTERs=] are little girls. August usually uses bombs, but the triplets -- Oct, Nove, and Dec -- prefer to throw things around.
30	* CutLexLuthorACheck: The super-heist Bruce pulled off in the backstory, and which is central to the whole plot, had him infiltrate the bank that runs all of the galaxy's finances and climbing its ladder to obtain the CEO authorization to its main vault. Along the way he revolutionized the bank's mangement, earned it billions more, and would have remained with a very good settlement for him and his daughter for life had he remained a loyal employee. Mister muses that [[JustAGangster in the end, Bruce wanted the rep of pulling off the heist much more]].
31	* CuteMute: June, unlike her sisters, generally doesn't speak.
32	* DaddysGirl: Franca towards her father, Bruce, back when he was still alive. Bruce was also known to dote on her a lot too.
33	* DayOfTheWeekName: The 12 Sisters, named for the 12 months.
34	* {{Determinator}}: Shot twice? Has to chase after the BigBad's battleship? The only vehicle available is the unarmed flying car being used by the [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist detective who's been chasing him for four years?]] Yeah, that's not gonna stop Mister from rescuing Franca.
35	* TheEndOrIsIt: Sure, Mister and the crew were able to defeat Marciano's guild and save Planet Graceland from being destroyed while contributing to the end of the civil war there. [[spoiler: But some of the 12 Sisters are still alive. April shows the ability to cry when Marciano dies, even though we know she's a robot. Angelica and Mister also both leave hints as to what they'll be up to next.]]
36	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Evil as they may be, the 12 Sisters seem to genuinely love and care for each other. They also seem to think their mother, Marciano, cares for them, though she sure doesn't seem to show it; in the end, [[spoiler:she even reveals that she calls them her daughters because people belittled her for not being able to have children. Which would be great if she actually treated them like her children]].
37	* EyesAlwaysShut: July. It doesn't make her aim worse than anyone else, somehow.
38	* FairCop: Angelica and Chelsea. Both are commented on fairly often, with Angelica "beautiful" and Chelsea "cute."
39	* FashionableAsymmetry: Franca wears one of her stockings all the way up and lets the other lag down.
40	* AFatherToHisMen: Coyotes in general aspire to be this, with their principle being that they never betray their TrueCompanions.
41	* FunWithForeignLanguages: An accidental case that may count as BilingualBonus: Marciano means "Martian" (as in, an alien from planet Mars) in Spanish. With the added cultural hilarity that in some places it's used as a term for either 'weird' or 'flamboyantly gay' (to avoid the use of the actual derogatory term for an obviously gay man).
42	* GeniusDitz: Chelsea is an airhead and struggles with reading, but she has PhotographicMemory.
43	* GratuitousEnglish: Marciano commands her troops with "It's showtime!"
44	* HandCannon: According to the title sequence, Mister's favored revolver is chambered in .500 S&W Magnum. No wonder armored mooks go down in a single shot.
45	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:May starts out completely AxCrazy in the first episode, but once she literally [[LosingYourHead loses her head]], she ends up bonding with Angelica and Chelsea, eventually helping them escape from Marciano in the end.]]
46	* HelpingWouldBeKillstealing: At one point, January wants to shoot Katana while he's in a knife fight with June, but August stops her because it would be interfering.
47	* IgnoredEpiphany: Late in the series, [[spoiler:Marciano wonders if all the corruption and death she leaves in her wake is the right path, but her yes-man Nilson assures her that she's fine, and she just keeps on going.]]
48	* IHaveManyNames: Mister has so many false identities that he's pretty much [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Only Known By His Nickname]].
49	* ImprobableAge: Notably averted, which is surprising given that so many other anime use it. Mister is fifty or more, Angelica is explicitly thirty, and as a twenty-four-year-old detective, Chelsea's on the ''young'' side.
50	* ImprobableAimingSkills: Mister drops a Guild soldier with a headshot... behind him, without looking.
51	* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Shots only seem to hit major characters when drama requires it or when a Sister needs to be hit, since they can be easily repaired. At one point, Franca parachutes out into a firefight and is completely unharmed.
52	* InconsistentSpelling: Franca's father is supposed to be ''Blues'', but Creator/ADVFilms called him Bruce. Also, the last SISTER is called Dec, but some subs called her Diesse. %% verify + remove unofficial examples
53	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Mister with his crew. He's in his fifties, Bishop and Katana in their twenties or thirties, and Franca is a little girl.
54	* JustAGangster: Used in a "[[LoveableRogue heroic]]" fashion when Mister reminisces of Bruce's super-heist. Bruce ''could'' have earned a billion times more on a steady basis by remaining a bank CEO, but he started up in the company with the desire to steal from it and that's what he did, a Coyote to the end.
55	* LadyOfWar: Marciano, a dignified mobster who directs her children like a general.
56	* LosingYourHead: May is decapitated by a rocket launcher in the first episode and is still operational.
57	* LovableRogue: The Coyotes in general, being pirates with a skewed but strong moral code.
58	* MacrossMissileMassacre: A lot of action sequences have these, as does the opening theme.
59	* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler:It's revealed later in the story that Angelica has a crush on Mister, despite him being at least 20 or 30 years her senior.]]
60	* MusicalThemeNaming: There's a lot going on here. The planet they're chasing is called "[[Music/ElvisPresley Graceland]]" and the bomb deactivation code is [=ELVIS0821=]. The space gate they travel through midway through the series is [[Music/TheBand Big Pink]], the pirate king's name is Blues, and so on.
61	* NeverMyFault: Marciano says "it's your fault for dying" when she monologues hoping Blues will hear from the afterlife. And ''who'' killed Blues, again...?
62	* NotSoHarmlessVillain: When Marciano finally actually fights on her own instead of commanding the Sisters or her soldiers, she's frighteningly strong and fast, able to dodge bullets and throw people larger than she is.
63	* PapaWolf: Mister towards Franca.
64	* PrecociousCrush: Franca harbours one towards Katana, which surprises him before he laughs. Kids, right?
65	* {{Pride}}: Marciano's main vice. She admits herself that she fights to keep her way of life as a respected Guild leader and for others to follow her, and everything she does is to prove that she's better than others think.
66	-->"I will not stand for any Coyote sullying my pride!"
67	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Mister has so many aliases that "Mister" is the only name he can reliably be called.
68	* OrphansPlotTrinket: Franca's necklace, with the key to Blues's treasure.
69	* OldSoldier: Old ''Outlaw'' technically but Mister's gotta be in his fifties.
70	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The Sisters can eat regular food for some reason, and they have bones and muscle structure intertwined with electrical wiring but don't bleed. [[spoiler:As shown in the last episode, they can also cry.]]
71	* RoboCam: Bruce had a mechanical eye that recorded everything he saw.
72	* RobotGirl: Marciano's Twelve Sisters are life-like robots.
73	* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:Marciano herself is later revealed to be a cyborg.]]
74	* ScaryBlackMan: Swamp Gordon may be a preacher, but he's a large, intimidating man with a criminal record.
75	* ShoutOut: "[[Film/EscapeFromNewYork Don't call him Plissken]]", which is a slogan on a van seen in a flashback.
76	** A billboard for ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' can be seen in the last episode.
77	* SoulBrotha: Super Soul and Brother Swamp Gordon are both black, religious, and very loud.
78	* SpoilerOpening: Subverted. You think that the opening is foreshadowing [[spoiler:that Swamp will leave the group or die, since he doesn't appear at all. He lives to the end as a part of the Coyote crew.]]
79	* StrongFamilyResemblance: While Franca doesn't look much like Blues, when we first see her mother in episode 11, she looks ''exactly'' like her.
80	* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Angelica plays this role, though [[FirstEpisodeTwist we at first think]] [[DecoyProtagonist she's the lead]].
81	* ThemeMusicPowerUp: Mister and the 12 Sisters both get this.
82	* ThirdPersonPerson: Katana sometimes calls himself "Katana-sama" to talk himself up.
83	* ThrowDownTheBomblet: August likes big grenades.
84	* TimeBomb: The Graceland bomb.
85	* TreasureRoom: The Giga Banks vault is a huge one.
86	* {{Tsundere}}: Franca is a child version of this, combative until someone proves they can be trustworthy.
87	* WallRun: For someone who leaves most of the fighting to her troops and the Sisters, Marciano is surprisingly physically capable, able to run up the side of a structure that's at least three storeys high.
88	* WorthlessTreasureTwist: [[spoiler:The key to the treasure, Franca's OrphansPlotTrinket, turns out to include Blues's home movies, fond memories of watching his daughter grow up. Subverted in that the treasure itself is still the stash of money we've been led to believe.]]
89	* WorthyOpponent: In the very end of the show, [[spoiler:after killing Marciano in their final duel, Mister calls Marciano a Coyote, not to insult her (though she'd certainly take it that way) but to say that she is the same as him and, had things gone differently, maybe they could have been friends.]]
90	* WouldHurtAChild: Marciano chases, kidnaps, and threatens Franca regularly.
91	* YouKilledMyFather: Franca to Marciano, something she witnessed herself firsthand in flashbacks.

Context Anime / CoyoteRagtimeShow