Line #8 WebVideo/AnimeCrimesDivision


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3	->''"In Neo Otaku City, there are two kinds of people. The kind that can recite the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' theme song from memory in the original Japanese, and the kind who don't belong here."''
4	-->--'''OpeningNarration''' for "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E1SubsVsDubs Subs vs. Dubs]]"
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6	''Anime Crimes Division'' is a 2017 web series by Creator/RocketJump, in conjunction with Website/{{Crunchyroll}}.
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8	The Anime Crimes Division handles all anime and manga-related crimes in Neo Otaku City. Creator/SungWonCho stars as Detective Furuya, a hard-boiled and experienced member of the division. He and his new partner, rookie Detective Diesel (Riley Rose Critchlow), proceed to fight crime.
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10	The first episode was released on November 16, 2017. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urk_kp76RoI here.]] The first episode of the second season was released on September 7, 2018.
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12	!!''Anime Crimes Division'' provides examples of:
13	* AdBumpers: Parodied -- being a web video series with episode lengths around ten minutes, there aren't any ads, but such bumpers are placed where there would be in a real show:
14	** In Season 1, "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E2PlayingForKeeps Playing for Keeps]]" is an homage to "Who's That Pokémon" from the original ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series, while "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E3TheGundamKiller The Gundam Killer]]" references ''Manga/InitialD''.
15	** Season 2 continues the tradition, with "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E1TheCasePromisedInOurEarlyDays The Case Promised in Our Early Days]]" being a homage to ''Manga/SailorMoon'', "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E2ACDAMVWMV ACD_AMV.wmv]]" being one to ''Manga/DeathNote'', and "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E3SilenceOfTheFireflies Silence of the Fireflies]]" being one to ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''.
16	* AffectionateParody: The show parodies ''many'' cop show tropes by setting them against anime and manga-related crimes. In doing so, it also lampoons the anime and manga community, who often take trivial fandom issues rather seriously.
17	* {{Americasia}}: Neo Otaku City looks like a run-of-the-mill American city, except it's also peppered with Japanese cultural references.
18	* AnimationAgeGhetto: Invoked. Nancy believes anime to be childish and live-action TV to be the only truly "adult" and thus "better" medium in existence.
19	* ArcWords: "Anime is for everybody."
20	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: "They raided my house. They killed my mom. They took my anime."
21	* BerserkButton: When Nancy goes on about how the live-action ''Film/DragonballEvolution'' movie is superior to the original anime, Joe has to physically restrain himself from going into a rage and eventually vomits out of seething anger.
22	%%* BrokenPedestal:
23	%%** Parodied in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E2PlayingForKeeps Playing for Keeps]]" when Diesel finds out that Furuya plays ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' for keeps.
24	%%--->'''Diesel:''' I looked up to you, Joe... you were my Blue-Eyes White Dragon.
25	%%** In "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E3TheGundamKiller The Gundam Killer]]", when Furuya finds out who the Gundam SerialKiller is -- [[spoiler:The Chief, whom he looked up to]].
26	* ChekhovsGun: Throughout Season 2, Furuya has a gadget that shocks him whenever he regains his love for anime to remind him of the dark side of its fandom and stop loving it. [[spoiler:When the blood drive is destroyed by him under mind control, the resurgence in his love for anime thanks to Mama Sasuke's disk causes the gadget to generate enough electricity to destroy the limiter with a lighting bolt.]]
27	* ChekhovsGunman:
28	** "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E2ACDAMVWMV ACD_AMV.wmv]]" introduces Mama Sasuke, who's got a case of terminal malware in an attempt to bootleg the next season of ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' through the dark web. [[spoiler:Because of this, her blood is the only thing that can short out the limiter in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]" later on. Not only that, but she also gave a disk shortly after her blood donation that showed Furuya why he would be in love with anime in the first place. When the drive containing her blood was destroyed in the season finale, the disk snapped him out of the brainwashing and restored his love for anime.]]
29	** The girl who is a fan of Furuya in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E3SilenceOfTheFireflies Silence of the Fireflies]]". [[spoiler:She helps make Joe do the final push to breach his love for anime to go beyond 100% in the season finale, allowing him to enter his SuperMode to destroy the limiter.]]
30	* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Nancy orders her men to take the [[spoiler:captured Furuya]] to the "binge chamber" instead of killing him. InUniverse, it's considered a FateWorseThanDeath if [[spoiler:Furuya's]] reaction is anything to go by.
31	* ContemplateOurNavels: Mocked in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]" by a minor character who says one of the things he misses about anime is the characters staring into the open while having an internal monologue to save on animation.
32	* CreatorCameo: Darnell Murphy and Freddie Wong appear as fellow ACD cops in Season 2. They're Officer Wong and Officer Murphy respectively.
33	* DarkerAndEdgier: Season 1 starts out parodying otaku culture and is treated as SeriousBusiness. [[spoiler:Outside of a boy being banished to the Shadow Realm]], no one dies or get hurt. In Season 2, real people start dying left and right from an actual [[TheConspiracy evil conspiracy]] replicating the saddest anime deaths in history. Even its trailer shows police officer casualties brought about by exploding [[Manga/DragonBall Saibaman]] bombs.
34	* DawsonCasting: One of the discs in the Binge Chamber is labeled "Twenty-Somethings Playing Teenagers", referencing the trope InUniverse.
35	* DisconnectedByDeath: Discussed and invoked. The "normal" cop realizes that the murder is anime-related when he realizes the victim was shot in an old-style phone booth holding [[FatalFamilyPhoto a photograph of his friend]]. The murderer was imitating such a death from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''.
36	* DrunkOnMilk: Furuya chows down on Pocky in lieu of smoking and drinks marble soda instead of alcohol.
37	-->'''Furuya:''' I'm quitting.
38	* {{Expy}}: Chief bears an uncanny resemblance to Joseph Joestar from ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'', complete with hat and greying beard.
39	* ExpoLabel: Furuya's second, otherwise identical gun: [[spoiler:THIS ONE FIRES REAL BULLETS]]
40	* EyeScream: Since Furuya only has a cosplay gun, he takes down a perp by shooting a BB into his eye.
41	* FailedAttemptAtDrama:
42	** When DrowningHisSorrows, Furuya wrestles a bottle of marble soda away from the bartender and dramatically tries to open it, but he fails.
43	** "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]" has Diesel attempting to sabotage [[spoiler:TOXIC's limiter on the fiber connection by plugging Mama Sasuke's malware-contaminated blood]] into a computer's USB port. She has some issues actually plugging in the USB, however.
44	* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: Furuya has an airsoft pistol. Subverted in that the rest of the force has actual guns, it's just that Furuya was banned from them after a bit of RecklessGunUsage.
45	* FauxHorrific: Having to pretend ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'' was better than the source material makes Joe physically ill.
46	* {{Fingore}}: Furuya breaks each of his pinky fingers after [[spoiler:Hideki and Officer Vink are murdered in succession]] out of anger and frustration upon realizing that he just roped himself into a situation beyond his control and thought could never happen.
47	* FelonyMisdemeanor: Played with in Season 1. None of the "crimes" that take place in this show are even remotely serious and are at worst fandom grievances, but they are nonetheless treated with grave importance. Only the main crime in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E2PlayingForKeeps Playing for Keeps]]" could even be considered an actual crime, considering how limited exclusive and one-of-a-kind TGC cards actually do fetch a very hefty sum and would actually be grounds for a case due to value.
48	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
49	** In Season 2 the serial killer carries out his murders using the saddest deaths in anime as a reference. [[spoiler: Officer Vink's death mirrors [[Manga/DragonBall Yamcha's]], which was treated as a joke. He was actually FakingTheDead]].
50	** In Season 2, [[spoiler:the new Chief has a police tape X between him and what appears to be an upside-down image of Lady Justice. Turns out he's corrupt. Also, Joe's background is vertically and color inverted. He gets {{brainwashed}} to hate anime and love prestige TV, when his normal preferences are the reverse.]]
51	* FreezeFrameBonus: In Season 2, Diesel, a noted fan of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', is wearing a replica necklace from the show - the Crest (which each protagonist in the show had) within it seems to be reflective of her feelings in any particular scene. In the first two episodes, while trying to reconnect with Joe and bring him back to the ACD, she's often seen wearing the Crest of Friendship. She's briefly seen wearing the Crest of Hope at the end of "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E3SilenceOfTheFireflies Silence of the Fireflies]]" when they're back on speaking terms. In "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E4TheBeachEpisode The Beach Episode]]", however, the Crest keeps changing - sometimes it's Friendship, and other times it's Love. However, this isn't a continuity error, but an effect of the location the episode is taking place in. [[OutOfGenreExperience Prestige TV City]], being a location run on live-action tropes, is applying a WillTheyOrWontThey bent to Diesel and Joe's interactions, something they're both aware of and [[FightingFromTheInside resisting]]. Later on when Diesel and Joe spy on the villains' meeting, it's very briefly the Crest of Knowledge as they discover the depth of the conspiracy. In "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]", her tag changes to Hope when [[spoiler:she discovers that Mama Sasuke's malware-infected blood can short out the limiter]] and it becomes Courage when storming through the server room.
52	* GenreSavvy: Everyone is well-aware of anime and manga tropes, frequently lampshading, discussing, or conversing them.
53	* GoodCopBadCop: During Sasuke's interrogation, Furuya is the Bad Cop (yelling, punching the table, and threatening) while Diesel is the Good Cop (doubting the interrogation since they don't have evidence and stopping Furuya when his threats go too far).
54	* HallwayFight: Joe fights a squadron of prestige TV mooks in a hallway.
55	* HannibalLecture: In Season 2. When Diesel goes to the prison to [[spoiler: get information from the previous chief as to who the serial killer is]] in an obvious homage to ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs'', the former does this in an attempt to break her, almost copying the TropeNamer. But it fails and in the process it is accidentally revealed that [[spoiler: Joe is the next target for the killer.]]
56	* HeroicSacrifice:
57	** Joe sacrifices himself to let Diesel escape in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E4TheBeachEpisode The Beach Episode]]".
58	** In "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]", [[spoiler:Mama Sasuke offers Diesel her malware-infected blood in order to destroy the limiter on the fiber connection and dies as a result of the draining process as the amount required is enough to make her to die of blood loss.]]
59	* HongKongDub: Parodied. The dubber gang, naturally, have their lines poorly dubbed over the actors moving their mouths randomly.
60	* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Diesel's primary motivation. She left her privileged upbringing in Prestige TV City for Neo Otaku City, and hoped that by joining the ACD she would gain acceptance in this community.
61	* INeverSaidItWasPoison:
62	** Sasuke reveals he knows about Hideki's anime murder even though it wasn't yet revealed to the public.
63	** This is also how Diesel figures out that [[spoiler: Joe is the next victim of the serial killer as the previous chief mid-HannibalLecture tells her that she will never see Joe again to break her spirit.]]
64	* InUniverseFactoidFailure: The Gundam Killer features several Gundam-related errors:
65	** Furuya's Dom model was explicitly called an "MS-09R" from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam''. However, the MS-09R was the Rick Dom, which never appeared in said OVA.
66	** The first victim of the Gundam Killer was an MS-06 Zaku II said to be from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket''. However, the Zaku model shown was the standard Zaku II, rather than the Zaku II Kai from the OVA.
67	** Diesel says nothing connects the first two victims, even though the Zaku II was seen holding the beam rifle of the second victim, Zephyranthes. The beam rifle was even given its own photo on the evidence board.
68	** Most glaringly, Gunpla is referred to as "Gundam" multiple times, even though two out of the three Gunplas shown in the episode aren't Gundams.
69	* JackTheRipoff: Parodied. The premise of season two involves a serial killer recreating iconic anime deaths in real life.
70	* KilledMidSentence:
71	** [[spoiler:Sasuke dies of a heart attack]] while saying a name.
72	** [[spoiler: Chief Brody gets gunned down by Diesel]] in the middle of a dramatic monologue.
73	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: One of the ACD detectives in the season 2 premiere mentions what went down with Furuya last season. He meant last spring, since it's now summer.
74	* TheLudovicoTechnique: The Binge Chamber in Prestige TV City [[spoiler: which Nancy subjects Joe to in an attempt to make him an agent of their side.]]
75	* NewNeoCity: The show takes place in "Neo Otaku City."
76	* NinjaRun: Given how shows like ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' helped popularize this trope, it's only natural that chase scenes in an affectionate parody would be done this way, even when the characters doing so are cops and not ninjas.
77	* NoHuggingNoKissing: When the tropes of Prestige TV City start affecting Diesel and Furuya's relationship, she lampshades that in Neo Otaku City they would just be a couple of asexual cops because of anime rules.
78	* NoTrueScotsman: TOXIC believes that any anime fan who doesn't conform to their standards is obviously a "fake fan."
79	%%* ObsessivelyNormal: Prestige TV City and its denizens', especially [[MyBelovedSmother Nancy]] modus operandi.
80	* OldCopYoungCop: Grizzled detective Furuya and idealistic rookie Diesel. In a reversal of the typical roles, the older one is the CowboyCop while the younger one is the ByTheBookCop.
81	* OutOfGenreExperience: What Diesel and Joe go through in Prestige TV City, as they are forced to subject themselves to the dynamics of Live-Action TV.
82	* OverlyLongScream: Due to parodying [[TransformationIsAFreeAction extended transformations and the accompanying kiais]], Joe's BattleCry goes on for ''nearly three minutes''.
83	* PaintingTheMedium: Members of the subbing gang speak in Japanese, with subtitles appearing below them and [[TooLongDidntDub translator's notes]] appearing above them; members of the dubbing gang clearly have English dubbed over their mouth movements.
84	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Conversed. "Did you think your life would be like ''Manga/FairyTail'' -- that friendship would save you in the end?"
85	* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
86	** Joe gets one, fittingly, in Prestige TV City.
87	--->'''Joe:''' You know, I once watched the first episode of ''Series/TheWire''. It was boring. ''[cue HallwayFight]''
88	** Diesel gives one to [[spoiler: Chief Brody and his goons]].
89	---> [[spoiler:'''Chief Brody:''']] Did you think this was like ''Manga/FairyTail'', that [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship would save you in the end?]]\
90	'''Diesel:''' No, I'm more a fan of ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'', and in ''Digimon'', you just fuck people up. ''[proceeds to shoot each of them one by one]''
91	* PreviouslyOn: Lampshaded in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]", where a news report shows what TOXIC has been up to. Nancy turns it off and says that it's enough of a recap.
92	* ProductPlacement: Pocky and Gundam, among others.
93	* ThePromise: Joe and Hideki pinky-promised that if one of them were murdered, the other would avenge him. Joe tries to get out of it by breaking his pinky, but it's too strong. Joe also made a similar promise to Officer Vink ("promise me you'll never let me die"). [[spoiler:He breaks both pinkies when they die.]]
94	* ReformedCriminal: Apparently Joe used to be an AMV creator, which in this world translates to something between a graffiti artist and a bootlegger.
95	* RunningGag: In Season 2, Diesel and Joe are both shown to be confused when someone [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall refers to 'last season' or 'third season']], thinking they literally mean the time of year (which given the way this show works, they do).
96	* SelfDeprecation: One of the shows used to torture people in the Binge Chamber is Creator/RocketJump's own ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool''.
97	* SequelHook:
98	** At the end of Season 1, [[spoiler:Furuya leaves the force and the city after being broken by the Chief's betrayal, and there's someone who's set this all up.]]
99	** At the end of Season 2, [[spoiler:the limiter is destroyed. However, the season ends with Furuya getting shot the moment his TransformationSequence is finished, a distraught Diesel trying to save him and TOXIC is still in control over the rest of Neo Otaku City.]]
100	* SerialKiller:
101	** Parodied. "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E3TheGundamKiller The Gundam Killer]]" features a serial Gundam destroyer, but since all anime and manga related crimes are treated as SeriousBusiness, he's treated as a serial killer.
102	** Season 2 features one committing real murders using the saddest deaths in anime history as a playbook.
103	* SeriousBusiness: There are gang wars over subbing vs dubbing, Pocky is a drug, body pillows are part of the sex trade, a dismembered Gundam is treated like a murder, playing for keeps in ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' is treated as unforgivable, and in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E3TheGundamKiller The Gundam Killer]]" [[spoiler:the Chief]] creating a lazy kitbash out of stolen parts for his Gundam fanfiction is treated both like an earth-shattering revelation and a world-ending EvilPlan.
104	* ShoutOut: Has [[ShoutOut/AnimeCrimesDivision its own page]].
105	* SlowPacedBeginning: Referenced InUniverse in the motto of Prestige TV City: "Give it a chance! It gets better after the first two seasons!"
106	* SpoilerOpening: The only person actually pointing a gun in the first season intro is a sinister bearded figure, pointing it at a vertically-inverted reflection. Look closer; it's [[spoiler:DaChief, and there's two of him because he's hiding his real agenda. You know, 'cause he's [[RuleOfSymbolism two-faced]].]]
107	* SpoilingShoutOut:
108	** In Season 2, the ACD starts connecting a series of real-life murders to a selection of the "saddest anime deaths" of all time. Hideki's, [[spoiler:Sasuke's, and Officer Vink's]] murders replicate iconic deaths from ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood'', ''Manga/DeathNote'', and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' respectively, and at the end of "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E2ACDAMVWMV ACD_AMV.wmv]]", they are threatened with a setup evoking ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies''. These are all, of course, spoiler material for the referenced works.
109	** The ending of "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E6TheSaddestAnimeDeathOfAllTime The Saddest Anime Death of All Time]]" has [[spoiler:Joe invoking [[Anime/CowboyBebop "the saddest anime death of all time"]] as he's been shot and is bleeding out.]]
110	* SuperMode: [[spoiler:Joe embracing his love of anime in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E6TheSaddestAnimeDeathOfAllTime The Saddest Anime Death of All Time]]" makes him shoot lightning, cause a storm, raise a PillarOfLight, temporarily resurrect his friend Hideki, and scream for nearly 3 minutes straight.]]
111	* SWATTeam: The division's SWAT team appears in the second season, in keeping with what's mentioned above in Darker and Edgier.
112	* TalkToTheFist: [[spoiler:Combined with KilledMidSentence, Diesel does this to Chief Brody while he's gloating to her about the extermination of fake anime fans.]]
113	* TakeThat:
114	** In order to [[spoiler:move to Prestige TV City]], Furuya complains that he had to pretend to like and familiarize himself with ''Series/{{Westworld}}''.
115	** Nancy proceeds to gush about ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'' to see if Furuya is desensitized enough from anime or pretty much normal TV in general to not care about how bad it is. Poor guy was struggling not to fly into a rage throughout her gushing, and actually vomits on the beach in disgust shortly after the interview.
116	** The EvilPlan in Season 2 is [[spoiler:by TOXIC who are comprised of die-hard anime fanatics who wants to make Neo Otaku City cater only to the most hardcore of anime fans while teaming up with Prestige TV City to control the streaming market in Neo Otaku City so that normal fans would be stuck with nothing but bad-live action dramas and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.]]
117	** Nancy says their live-action dramas have multi-long seasons that ultimately go nowhere.
118	** Diesel complains that they miss being "two asexual cops in an anime town", no doubt poking fun at forced romantic subplots in general.
119	** To make him know what real TV is, Nancy orders her men to take the [[spoiler:captured Furuya]] to the "binge chamber".
120	** What was the series that Nancy use to break [[spoiler:Furuya]] in the "binge chamber"? ''WebVideo/VideoGameHighSchool.'' Counts as SelfDeprecation as it was made by the same people.
121	** [[spoiler:When the corrupt chief Brody goes into his villainous monologue, Diesel just shoots him instead of listening to him.]]
122	** [[spoiler:While brainwashed, Furuya says that anime is worse than the last season of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'' movie is a masterpiece.]]
123	** As a jab at the widespread usage of the AntiVillain trope, [[spoiler:the bodyguards around Ms. Prestige start gushing about how "complicated and nuanced" their charge is when she says that she did all this to bring Diesel back to Prestige TV City. When Diesel smacks her with a pistol, the guards simply carry Ms. Prestige while gushing about how exquisite the family drama is, and don't try to stop Diesel until she outright orders them to.]]
124	* TimeSkip: Three months have passed between the events of Season 1 and 2.
125	* TranslationYes: A long Japanese sentence spoken by the leader of the Subber gang is subbed as simply "No...!"
126	* UnfortunateItemSwap: Joe's application for [[spoiler:moving to Prestige Television City]] is swapped with his student's love letter when they bump into each other.
127	* ViewerFriendlyInterface: Diesel's phone in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]" flashes "Error: No Connectivity" in red.
128	* VomitingCop: First, Diesel gags on bubble tea when chief introduce her. Then she loses her lunch at the sight of a dismembered Gundam. In a flashback to a similar murder Furuya appears to be gagging.
129	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Furuya throws up after being forced to agree that ''Film/DragonBallEvolution'' was better than the source material.
130	* WeCanRuleTogether: Nancy seems to be wanting to pull this on [[spoiler: her daughter, Diesel]], to get the latter to realize that [[spoiler: leaving her home for Neo Otaku City]] was a mistake and that Nancy was right all along.
131	* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis: When Diesel infiltrates an underground ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' game: "What is a lovely card shark like yourself doing all alone in a place like this?"
132	* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: How Nancy feels about Diesel with regards to her identifying with Otaku culture as opposed to live action TV culture.
133	* WillTheyOrWontThey:
134	** Lampshaded in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E4TheBeachEpisode The Beach Episode]]". When Joe and Diesel are being interviewed by Nancy, she marks down their relationship status as such. It's also lampshaded by Diesel's [[Anime/DigimonAdventure crest necklace]] [[FreezeFrameBonus constantly switching]] between the Friendship and Love crests in the same episode.
135	** Conversed; when Furuya questions if [[spoiler:confessing their feelings would make all the tension go away]], Diesel compares it to ''Series/{{Friends}}''.
136	** Diesel states that this is an effect of Prestige TV City itself, and not reflective of their actual relationship in Neo Otaku City, meaning the use of this trope is the result of an in-universe OutOfGenreExperience.
137	---> '''Diesel:''' I hate what this city does to people. I miss being two asexual cops in an anime town.\
138	'''Joe:''' That's not the only thing I'll miss.\
139	'''Diesel:''' What- Who, will you miss?\
140	'''Joe:''' Goddammit. We're doing it again. Just go.
141	** The effect seems to linger outside of Prestige TV City, since [[spoiler:Diesel admits to a brainwashed Joe in "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS2E5BloodTheLastHardDrive Blood: The Last Hard Drive]]" that she has the "will-they-won't-theys" for him.]]
142	* WorldOfHam:
143	** In Neo Otaku City, ''everyone'' is a die-hard {{Otaku}} and anything involving anime, manga and merchandise there-of is treated like SeriousBusiness. Street gangs based on the "[[Recap/AnimeCrimesDivisionS1E1SubsVsDubs Subs or Dubs]]" rivalry roam the streets, the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game is treated as seriously as it is in [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime]] (including the bartering of souls), disassembling toy Gundams is treated as seriously as murder and there is an entire division of law enforcement centered around it.

Context WebVideo / AnimeCrimesDivision