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8->''"We the people, who are dedicated to protecting the common good, do hereby charge you with trespassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and a really crappy attitude! You are therefore sentenced to life imprisonment in the DL Correctional Facility on the moon."''
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10[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere One could describe]] ''Dead Leaves'' [[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere here.]] Alternately, one could simply resort to pegging ''Dead Leaves'' as an unholy bastard child of ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs made after doing a rhinoceros-sized dose of super-distilled white china crack cocaine and LSD]].
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12Either way, things are gonna get [[MindScrew weird.]]
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14Pandy (a woman with a red ring around her right eye) and Retro (a man with a TV for a head) awaken on Earth with no clothes and no memory of their pasts. After deciding that they need clothes and food, the duo go on a crime spree and car chase through the streets of Tokyo, featuring a completely bizarre NeckSnap martial arts move, ridiculous amounts of gunplay, a battle with a giant robot, and probably a hundred dead policemen.
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16All in about 4 minutes.
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18And '''[[ButWaitTheresMore then]]''' it gets '''''[[FromBadToWorse really fucking weird]]'''''.
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20They end up incarcerated in the titular lunar prison facility. After they discover Dead Leaves serves a dual purpose -- as a top-secret cloning facility -- and all of the prisoners are "cloned genetic garbage", the imprisoned lovebirds orchestrate a mass prison break.
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22Did we mention the straitjacket sex scene, the prisoner with [[ThisIsADrill a drill]] for a [[GagPenis penis,]] the insane mostly-naked warden, and the creepy children's story about caterpillars?
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24This OVA shares a [[Creator/HiroyukiImaishi director]] with ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', ''Anime/KillLaKill'' and ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'''s fifth episode -- [[ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels which explains both very little and oh-so-much…]]
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26Website/{{Youtube}} carries a legal stream of this OVA. It is, however, rated for mature audiences, and thus, you need an account and need to be over 18 to view it.
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29!!This anime provides examples of:
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31* ActionGirl: Pandy is this, given how she gets into a lot of high octane, insane fights, [[PregnantBadass even while pregnant!]]
32* TheAlcatraz: The eponymous Dead Leaves facility is a max security prison stationed in the shattered remnants of the moon. Secretly, it's a cloning facility as well.
33* {{Animesque}}: ''Dead Leaves'' inverts this trope; the design aesthetic seems inspired by American underground comics.
34* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Triple Six and Triple Seven have green and blue skin respectively, while many of the prisoners have skin colors that range from being dull to outright vibrant.
35* AmbiguousSituation: Given the fact that both the citizens seen on earth as well as the policemen could potentially be clones, as they're all identical in appearance aside from minute differences, with the police all being completely identical, and the only humans who were (presumably) naturally born instead of being cloned being Pandy, Retro, the Doctor, as well as the Warden and her father as well, leaving it unknown what happened to humanity to result in presumably replacing humanity with a bunch of clones and why, exactly they did it, as it could range from either being forced to do it due to some unknown crisis, or they did it for more sinister reasons, making humanity's status and fate up in the air.
36* AmbiguouslyChristian: Triple Seven. He begs God for forgiveness before he and Triple Six go to stop the prisoners in person, and when he approaches Retro to kill him as he's in the process of hijacking a robot, he tells him that "God is waiting for you" and when he tries to stomp on his head, he tells him to "Say hello to God for me."
37* AmbiguouslyHuman: The citizens on earth and the police officers may or may not be clones, given how all of them are physically identical with only minute differences, not to mention that the Dead Leaves prison facility doubles as a top secret cloning facility. It doesn't help that the cops also shown working as guards on the Dead Leaves facility, and that one of the prisoners who joins Pandy and Retro resembles one of the policemen to the point of looking like one of them without their uniforms and also having a buzzcut.
38* AnyoneCanDie: Guards and inmates alike end up slaughtered by various means -- and they don't come back. At the end of the OVA, the amount of survivors from the prison break Pandy and Retro orchestrate numbers in the ''low single digits''.
39* AppropriatedAppellation: Pandy and Retro name each other in this way upon waking up.
40-->'''Retro:''' "That thing around your eye makes you look like a ''panda'' bear!"
41-->'''Pandy:''' "Yeah, well, that ''retro'' TV on your head makes ''you'' look like an asshole."
42* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Pandy and Retro both receive life sentences for "trespassing, theft, violence, assault, illegal possession of firearms, and having a really crappy attitude."
43* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A lot of the mutants display this with how asinine and random their mutations are (looking at you, guy with a butt on his head), but a surprising standout example is Pandy. In just the span of a few minutes, she goes from sporting a flat belly after having sex with Retro, to already visibly pregnant. And then just a few minutes later she births a super baby when the Warden attempts to extract it from her. And said super baby undergoes RapidAging over the course of a few minutes as well, until it finally sacrifices itself to destroy the caterpillar monster the Warden turned into.
44* AuthorAppeal: The character designer (and director) also worked on ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''; take a look at Chinko Drill's... "equipment."
45* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Pandy and Retro react this way when they're first separated at prison. It's an oddly sweet moment, especially considering the characters and the rest of the story.
46** [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend Pandy's reaction]] to [[spoiler:Retro having his head ripped off by the Big Bad]] also qualifies, as does [[spoiler:their reaction after they finally escape Dead Leaves.]]
47* AxCrazy: Retro, The Warden, Triple-Six, and a lot of the inmates qualify for this trope.
48-->'''Retro''': ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin DAMN, IT FEELS GOOD TO BE VIOLENT!]]''
49* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: This trope briefly occurs in the first part of Retro and Triple-Seven's fight.
50* BigGuyLittleGuy: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six, respectively. It gets emphasized when they gear up to fight the inmates, as Triple-Six stays relatively lean... while Triple-Seven bulks up into a massive, muscular frame.
51* BookEnds: Both the beginning and end involve Pandy and Retro causing mayhem in a city.
52* CastOfSnowflakes: All the characters, outside of the citizens, policemen, and robot minions are all completely distinct and recognizable from one another. It helps that a lot of the characters are mutants who all have inhuman features.
53* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: It's not explained how Pandy and Retro are capable of their unbelievable feats of agility, strength, and dexterity. It's assumed to be the work of the mutant gene cluster in the case of Pandy, but Retro's body seems completely human yet still capable of similar feats. It's implied from flashbacks that Retro may have been experimented on by the Warden's father as a former prisoner, but this was not confirmed.
54* ClickHello: Pandy's baby makes its introduction to the world by pulling out a pistol and shooting the warden through the stomach -- just before ''it births itself''.
55* ClothingDamage: Pandy goes from the top half of the prison uniform, to... half of that, during her fight with Triple-Six.
56* CurseCutShort: In the dub, we get this gem, right before an inmate is shot square in the chest.
57--> "Now, move your asses, ya dumb f-"'''BANG'''
58* DaddyIssues: [[spoiler:The Warden is motivated to go after Pandy by fulfilling her father's wishes, and doesn't take too well to being insulted about that.]]
59* DarkActionGirl: The Warden [[spoiler: has her body cybernetically augmented to become extremely powerful and dangerous, with morphing limbs, [[TorpedoTits a boob-mounted cannon]], and other weaponry.]]
60* DeadpanSnarker: Retro's delivery was a bit too amped up to be called "deadpan", but Pandy tossed out some cool snarks.
61--> '''Pandy''' [to naked Retro]: "The cold isn't doing you any favors. Trust me."
62* DerangedAnimation: "Animation that dispenses with all semblance of reality, and sanity, taking the viewer into a nightmare world where anything goes"? Check.
63* DisneyDeath: Unlike the aforementioned inmates, [[spoiler:Retro]] does come back, though they subvert the trope by lacking a body upon return.
64* DisproportionateRetribution: One inmate and several others get killed because the first guy was ''crapping'' too much.
65* EatMe: [[spoiler:What Pandy and Retro's baby does to the giant space caterpillar at the end.]]
66* EliteMooks: The robotic guards. While the normal guards were definitely able to hold their own against the inmates, the robotic guards tear right through them like wet tissue paper.
67%%* EroticEating: Pandy sure does love that hot dog...
68%%* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Warden.
69* EvilCounterpart: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six are this to Pandy and Retro, personality-wise, as Triple-Seven is stoic and unemotional, yet ruthless like Pandy, while Triple-Six is energetic and maniacal, like Retro. Ironically Retro ends up fighting Triple-Seven while Pandy fights Triple-Six.
70* ExpendableClone: Being a clone without the "mutation gene cluster" makes an inmate exceptionally expendable. One inmate remarks:
71-->''"Oh well, even if we all died tomorrow, it's no big deal. There's still a whole 'nother batch of clones to take our place. ''C'est la vie.''"''
72* ExpressDelivery: Pandy and Retro's baby. The two of them have sex early on in the OVA, and she is visibly pregnant roughly ten minutes later; not long after that, the baby just kind of...comes out ''of its own volition'', but ages super fast and dies in short order, all thanks to [[spoiler:the mutation gene cluster.]]
73* EyeScream: Pandy got that pink patch around her eye [[spoiler:after a mutation gene cluster gets jammed in there due to a lab explosion.]]
74* TheFaceless: In the few brief flashback shots we see, Retro's human face is always hidden.
75* FacelessMasses: Every normal citizen is depicted with the same blank, EyesAlwaysShut expression.
76* FatAndSkinny: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six. Subverted when they turn into their combat forms, where it's revealed that Triple-Seven is positively ripped.
77* FillingTheSilence: The vast majority of the quotes on this page are dub-exclusive, as the people in charge of the Japanese script forgot to add much humor until they were at least halfway done.
78* FingerPokeOfDoom: Triple 7 likes to maim and kill his victims by literally poking holes in them with his fingers or breaking them apart by flicking them.
79* FreezeFrameBonus: In the scene where the prisoners get shot, a penis flies off and into another's mouth. No, really. At 17:38, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, keep your eye on the robot prisoner's head.
80* FullFrontalAssault: [[InTheHood Apart from her cloak]], the Warden fights Pandy completely in the buff. A few shots even have her unaugmented breast in full view.
81* GagPenis: Chinko Drill, one of the inmates, has a large drill for a dick. '''''[[{{Squick}} The damn thing even EJACULATES!]]'''''
82* GroinAttack: After one particular explosion, Chinko Drill finds himself landing dick-first into a pile of rubble.
83-->'''Retro''': ''"That has '''GOT''' to hurt!"''
84** He later uses his drill as a weapon to attack 777 as an actual Groin Attack.
85* GunsAkimbo:
86** Retro (briefly) uses three guns at once.
87** Triple Six and his two BFG 's.
88* HandOrObjectUnderwear: When Pandy and Retro free the inmates, one of them can be seen scrambling to cover his junk, as the weight of his straitjacket nearly makes his pants and underwear fall off, resulting in this.
89* HumongousMecha: Used as mere cannon fodder during the initial car chase.
90* ImmuneToBullets: Triple 6 and Triple 7. No matter how many weapons the inmates unload on them, it barely does anything except maybe piss them off. Triple 7 ends up being less "immune" and "really freaking tough", as Retro manages to take him down by unloading an ungodly amount of lead on him after hijacking a damaged attack robot. And even then Triple 7 survives as a very damaged head, while Retro has to abandon his shredded robot body.
91-->'''666''': "I wouldn't use those crappy bullets to ''scratch my ass!''"
92* IronicNurseryTune: Actually a children's story, but close enough.
93* JustDesserts: [[spoiler:The Warden, Triple-6, and Triple-7 all get eaten by the giant space caterpillar.]]
94* LargeHam: Retro, oh so much in the dub, especially when he fights.
95-->'''Retro''': "DAMN IT FEELS GOOD TO BE VIOLENT!"\
96'''Retro''': "OH DEAR GOD, it's sucking my ASS!"
97* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Pandy and Retro have no memory of their past, but know how to get out of their straitjackets and handcuffs, and know their way around the prison. They repeatedly lampshade this with mutual confusion.
98* LickingTheBlade: 666 does this during his fight with Pandy, remarking "I can taste your panties."
99* LivingMacguffin: The mutant gene cluster that can make the BigBad all-powerful [[spoiler: turns out to be the pink patch around Pandy's eye]].
100* MacrossMissileMassacre: Fired at a bunch of robots with [[RuleOfCool ONE rocket launcher]].
101* MadeOfExplodium: If it is mechanical, it can explode.
102** Pandy exploits this by cracking the casing of a statue open and extracting a football sized cylinder - which she then jammed in to [[spoiler: Triple-6]]'s torso and detonated.
103* MauveShirt: Chinko Drill, as well as a few other inmates, such as The Sergeant, the big, skull-faced prisoner who rides a tank, get enough characterization to become endearing.
104* MeaningfulName: Pandy and Retro are pretty obvious, but as for Chinko Drill, well..."''chinko''" is Japanese slang for "penis".
105* MechaMooks: Three different kinds. The first is a robot that appears in the police chase which is made out of cube shapes, while the second are a series of red polygonal robots that prove to be absurdly durable, and the final type are a series of blue robots made out of spherical shapes that are heavily armed, which are summoned by 777 during his battle with Retro and Chinko Drill.
106* MindScrew: There has to be some symbolism in there other than the obvious varieties through that children's story...
107* MoreDakka: Many fight scenes will involve this if any guns are involved. Hell, the fight between Retro and Triple-7 is a good example - both wail on each other for several seconds with ludicrous amounts of gunfire, until Triple-7 FINALLY goes down.
108* MrExposition: The Doctor seems to be a parody of this. He gives a speech to Pandy about halfway through that seems to explain the movie's entire backstory... but Pandy is talking over him the entire time, so neither she nor the viewers actually hear what he's saying. [[spoiler:Then 666 appears out of nowhere and kills him.]]
109* MusclesAreMeaningless: Pandy doesn't have a single bit of muscle on her body, but can casually dent robots and destroy metal walls with her bare hands.
110* NightmareFace: [[EldritchAbomination The giant caterpillar]] near the end.
111** The Warden gets a good one when Retro and Pandy finally meet her, as she makes a disturbing toothy grin [[spoiler:right before she rips off Retro's head]] with her gums displayed and the upper half of her face obscured by shadows with her eyes glowing with a horrible light.
112* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:Triple-6 and Triple-7, who have been reduced to heads as noted by Retro. The two then fire back that he's just a head too. This is after Triple-6 and Triple-7 were blown to smithereens and shot to hell respectively.]]
113* NumberOfTheBeast: 666 and his sidekick 777, [[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac The Number Of The Moose]].
114* OffhandBackhand: Pandy pulls off one. ''To a giant robot who dwarfs her in size.''
115* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: We don't actually get told if Pandy and Retro even ''have'' real names (because after a certain point...does it even matter?). They get "Pandy" and "Retro" because, respectively, Retro observes that the mark on Pandy's eye makes her look like a panda bear, and Pandy retorts that the retro TV on Retro's head makes him look like an asshole.
116* OnlySaneMan: Retro when he's not around Pandy. Pandy, otherwise.
117* ThePowerOfLove: Kinda? Sex breaks Pandy and Retro out of their cell. No, really.
118-->'''Inmate:''' That was some serious boot-knockin'...
119* PregnantBadass: Pandy, through most of the movie.
120* PrisonRape: And oh, dear Lord, it's done by [[ThisIsADrill Chinko.]]
121-->'''Chinko''': You want me to kiss you first?
122* RapeAsComedy: Despite the fact that he wants to stick his drill-penis into just about everyone and everything, regardless of its ability or willingness to consent, Chinko's behavior is typically portrayed as merely silly, as opposed to horrifying. But then again, [[BlackComedyRape that's probably the point.]]
123* RedOniBlueOni: Retro and Pandy themselves. Retro is wildly emotional and tends to shout a lot while Pandy constantly has a calm, focused face and usually speaks with a soft, deadpan tone. Triple-Six and Triple-Seven are this as well, as Triple-Six is deranged and sadistic while Triple-Seven is calm yet ruthless. Triple-Seven even has blue skin himself.
124* RedShirtArmy: Pretty much the prison's entire population, guards and inmates alike.
125* RightThroughHisPants: Pandy and Retro have sex while wearing the prison's standard outfit (best described as an overgrown straitjacket).
126-->That was some serious boot-knockin'!
127** Pandy chides Retro for initially trying to enter the wrong hole.
128* RuleOfCool: Probably the only rule with any meaningful consistency in this universe.
129* ShapeshifterWeapon: Triple-Six turns his arms into [[BladeBelowTheShoulder swords]], while Triple-Seven's body turns into guns.
130* ShoutOut:
131** The Drill Penis is a nod to ''Film/TetsuoTheIronMan''.
132** Dub-only example: "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Let's make like a tree and get the hell out of here!]]"
133* SomethingElseAlsoRises: When the other inmates are listening in on Pandy's and Retro's lovemaking, one of them, a blue elephant-like inmate, can be seen with his trunk looking ''very'' erect, filled with veins and throbbing, to boot.
134* SouthernFriedPrivate: The Sergeant, (the prisoner who pilots the tank) in the English Dub is portrayed with a notable southern accent.
135* SpoilerOpening: If you look between both words of the title when it appears on screen, you can see [[spoiler: the developing fetus of Pandy's baby as foreshadowing.]]
136* SuperSexOrgans: One of the mutant prisoners has a giant drill for a dick which he uses as a weapon.
137* SurprisePregnancy: An ExaggeratedTrope, given the very tiny timespan between Retro and Pandy having sex and then the signs of pregnancy show. Pandy starts getting morning sickness on the train, and doesn't know what's wrong with her. The doctor quickly clears up the situation and loudly boasts it to the train.
138-->'''Doctor:''' "Looks like '''SOMEONE'S''' a little bit ''PREGNANT!''"
139-->'''Inmates:''' "HURRAY!!!"
140* TheUnfettered: Pandy and Retro acts as this while being the main characters. Their first inclination towards obtaining food and clothing after losing their memories is to cause massive citywide destruction to get what they want and instigate a violent police chase. They then proceeded to breakout by using other prisoners as fodder while slaughtering any enemy who gets in their way. They even disregard the death of their mutant son after no more than a few minutes of pondering.
141* TankGoodness: Two of the prisoners commandeer a tank after they get into the armory and manage to use it to kill the red polygonal robots.
142* ThisIsADrill: Chinko Drill combines it with GagPenis, as his pelvis-mounted drill is spectacularly powerful... until Triple-Seven ends up not even fazed by his attempts at attack.
143* TransformationSequence: Triple-Seven and Triple-Six have one before they go to stop the prisoners. They shed their clothes and go [[WalkingShirtlessScene barechested]] and become vastly more muscular, and various guns appear on their person as well.
144* TransformingMecha: Lots here, but of particular note is one that transforms from [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative a dump truck's back]].
145* [[DualWielding Triple Wielding]]: Retro pulls this off. '''Somehow.'''
146* TVHeadRobot: Retro. Maybe. Considering he was able to impregnate Pandy [[spoiler:and his head left a pool of blood after the Warden rips it off]] on top of his head functioning as a TV monitor, it's hard to tell if he's this or a [[{{Cyborg}} TV Head Cyborg]]. [[spoiler:Oh, did we forget to mention how he was able to just stick his head on some cobbled-together robot body after being reduced to just a head?]]
147* UsedToBeASweetKid: [[spoiler:From what is shown from Pandy's flashback, the women who inherited the title of the warden from her father was a sweet, friendly child who Pandy used to read to. By the present in the OVA, she's shown to have become a monstrous sadist.]]
148* WorldOfHam: Every single member of the cast acts with obscene amounts of scenery chewing. Even Pandy, otherwise TheStoic, gets in on it with how much she yells in a fight.
149* YouAllLookFamiliar: Both played comically straight and spectacularly averted. On Earth, ''every single person'' [[OnlySixFaces looks the same]] (with an EyesAlwaysShut [[OnlySixFaces face]]), but on the moon, ''every single one'' of the prisoners -- even those who show up for a background appearance -- possess a unique appearance.

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