Cyber Team in Akihabara



Cyber Team in Akihabara is an anime series, which moves from being a Magical Girl show to a much darker plot to destroy the world.

The main character is Hibari Hanakoganei, an Ordinary Middle School Student who dreams of getting her own Pata-Pi, the new fad toy. She is given one by her prince, whom she has previously seen in a dream, and calls it Densuke. This leads her to being attacked by Homunculi, which are controlled by a team of three young women, and protected by her Pata-Pi turning into a Diva - the Diva being a combination of Greek goddess and Powered Armor.

Soon she is joined by the other four members of the Cyber Team, each with her own Pata-Pi, thus forming a Five-Man Band to fight the Terrible Trio (the Sibyl Team) that opposes them.

Of course, there are more powerful forces behind the Sibyl Team, including the headmaster of their school who has links with the Rosicrucians.


 * The Beard: In episode 8, Tsugumi crossdresses and pretends to be Hibari's boyfriend so that Hibari will have an excuse to turn down Uzura.
 * BFG:
 * Break the Cutie: Played in reverse. Tsubame Otorii is introduced as a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds who viciously attacks and defeats the main cast every chance she gets.
 * Big Bad: Washuu Ryuugasaki
 * Bishonen: Crane Bahnsteik
 * Broken Pedestal: Happens several times, but the penultimate episode is rather epic.
 * Captain Ersatz: Tsugumi's mom is a pro wrestler who's gimmick is a Distaff Counterpart of The Ultimate Warrior.
 * Cerebus Syndrome: What starts out as a fairly light Magical Girl romp gets very dark and heavy in the later episodes.
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience: The heroine has a Diva with white wings, and the Dark Magical Girl has a Diva with black wings.
 * A Day in the Limelight: Episode 9 is all about the Sibyl Team.
 * Dirty Old Man: Kamome's grandpa.
 * Doing In the Wizard: Eventually every "magical" event is explained via Techno Babble, albeit not always directly to the one who experiences it.
 * Evil Counterpart: Tsubame was this to Hibari until her Heel Face Turn
 * Fan Service: And most of it done by 12-13 years old girls.
 * Funbag Airbag: Nearly every time Hibari encounters Blood Falcon. After a while, she lets out a complaint along the lines of "Not this again!"
 * Girlish Pigtails: Tsubame's cute pigtails make her Troubling Unchildhood Behavior even more dissonant. Hibari is a much straighter example.
 * Good Parents: Unusually for a Magical Girl heroine, Hibari has both her parents and has a good relationship with them.
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: This isn't the only time Luci Christian has voiced an awkward red-headed Magical Girl who dreams about a white-haired prince.
 * Hot-Blooded: Tsugumi's mom.
 * I Want My Jetpack: It's past 2010, now where are the Pata-Pis?
 * Latex Perfection:
 * Light Is Not Good:
 * Magical Girl Warriors: the Pata-Pi.
 * The Man Behind the Man: Takashi/Shooting Star is in charge of the Sibyl Team,  He soon turns out to be taking orders from Washuu Ryuugasaki.
 * Mecha
 * Musical Pastiche: Cyberteam's transformation theme was later reused in the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh!, both series share the same composer, Shinkichi Mitsumune
 * The Movie
 * Older Alter Ego: The Divas are sort of like this for the girls, since they look like adult versions of them.
 * Older Than They Look:.
 * One Dialogue, Two Conversations: The Crowning Moment of Funny where the Cyber Team misunderstands Hibari's "uniting" with Densuke as her uniting...in a different way.
 * Orekko: Tsugumi, in the Japanese version.
 * Suzume goes to the other extreme by using "watakushi"
 * Our Homunculi Are Different
 * Overly Long Name: The name of Suzume's Pata-Pi, Francesca Leopold Classic Renoir III.
 * Panty Shot: Numerous.
 * Petite Pride: Uzura is an absolutely fanatic of the Delicious Flat Chest.
 * The Power of Love: A rare example where both The Hero and the Goldfish Poop Gang draw strength from it.
 * Gets name-dropped and invoked in the finale.
 * Powered Armor:.
 * Quirky Miniboss Squad: Jun, Miyama, and Hatoko.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old:.
 * Replacement Goldfish: Also, the reason why
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: All the Pata-Pis.
 * Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: Suzume's attitude towards Hibari, borderline with Schoolgirl Lesbians. Hibari and Tsubame's friendship has traces of this too.
 * Science Is Bad:
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians: Uzura.
 * Shotacon: The infatuation that the Sibyl team feels towards the Black Prince can be seen as this.
 * Skinship Grope: Lampshaded at the end of the obligatory hot springs episode, when Kamome declares that they've finally gone through all the necessary cliches.
 * Toilet Humor: In episode 6, there's a Running Gag of Suzume making fun of Tsugumi for taking a long time to take a dump
 * Teen Genius: Crane used to be one.
 * Transformation Sequence: For every Cyber Team girl. When they all transform, a shorter version is usually used, except for Hibari, of course.
 * Transforming Mecha
 * Turned Against Their Masters:
 * Twenty Minutes Into the Future: produced in 1998 and set in 2010.
 * Verbal Tic:
 * Hatoko likes to say "kurukku" after each phrase, quite appropiate since her name means "pigeon".
 * Tsugumi ends her sentences with "dazé".
 * Suzume's "chun~" and "de gozaimasu desu wa/that it is".
 * Villains Out Shopping: The Quirky Miniboss Squad spends much of their time being normal people, and even end up befriending the protagonists in their off-time.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic: Quite a lot, similar to Neon Genesis Evangelion. For example, there's a MacGuffin called Metatron, the Five-Man Band of girls are referred to as the Anima Mundi, the powered armor suits of Takashi and his gang are all named after Biblical demons (Astaroth, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, and Lucifer), and when we see Crane
 * White-Haired Pretty Boy: Crane, Takashi, and Christian.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Poor
 * World War I: disgust of the bloodshed is what prompted him to escape from Earth in 1918. He also uses it to justify why humanity hasn't changed at all and needs to be destroyed.
 * "Well Done, Son" Guy: Poor
 * World War I: disgust of the bloodshed is what prompted him to escape from Earth in 1918. He also uses it to justify why humanity hasn't changed at all and needs to be destroyed.
 * World War I: disgust of the bloodshed is what prompted him to escape from Earth in 1918. He also uses it to justify why humanity hasn't changed at all and needs to be destroyed.