Bloody Monday

24... In Japan!

A deadly viral outbreak in Russia somehow comes to the attention of "Third-I", a top secret Japanese investigative group under the Public Security Intelligence Agency, and their top hacker, student Fujimaru "Falcon" Takagi. Through a complex and disturbing web of deceit, lies and covert-ops, Takagi and his friends must help Third-I prevent a dangerous cult from initiating their "Bloody Monday".


 * Action Girl: Aoi, the second-placed Karate champion in Japan.
 * There's also Minami, who is a fully-trained Third-I officer.
 * Adults Are Useless - And how.
 * Anyone Can Die
 * Bittersweet Ending:
 * Blood From the Mouth / Eye Scream - the plague-like symptoms of BloodyX
 * As it turns out,
 * Bodyguard Betrayal:
 * Cain and Abel - subverted with the actual Cain and Abel sisters who love each other dearly, played straight with
 * Clear My Name: Ryuunosuke Takagi.
 * Distressed Damsel: In the first season, Haruka is kidnapped three times and once. She gets less kidnap prone in the second season, though.
 * Extreme Graphical Representation - Done with images of a falcon flying through corridors of data.
 * Fan Girl - Anko really does admire Falcon's work... maybe a bit too much.
 * Five-Man Band - The Newspaper Club.
 * The Hero - Fujimaru "Falcon" Takagi.
 * The Big Guy - Aoi Asada.
 * The Chick - Mako "Anko" Anzai.
 * The Lancer / The Smart Guy - Otoya Kujo.
 * Cowardly Lion - Hide Tachikawa.
 * Gambit Roulette - How the hell did they know ?!
 * Genki Girl - Anko.
 * Gorn - You know what this manga needs? More people vomiting blood.
 * Guile Hero - Falcon often figures out what his opponents are trying to do, and regularly comes up with counter-plans to manipulate them to his advantage. The success rate, on the other hand, is iffy at best because his opponents are Magnificent Bastards in their own right.
 * Heel Face Turn -
 * Hellish Pupils - Falcon and his dad get freaky cat's eyes when they tap into their Badass Normal powers.
 * And look at the eyes of anyone who's in full-on cultist mode. Scary!
 * Hollywood Hacking - Computer security is portrayed accurately, with bad guys employing tools that would give the NSA fits -- but which takes the Falcon five minutes to crack the Third-I mainframe, including a two minute bathroom break.
 * This is done just to show how much of an incredible hacker Fujimaru is.
 * It took Falcon under five minutes to crack a security system he designed himself. Doesn't seem too unreasonable he'd have a back door.
 * Hot Teacher: Maya Orihara,
 * I Know Mortal Kombat: Turns out all those helicopter sims Fujimaru used to play were close enough to the real thing.
 * I Know You Know I Know - Pretty much applied liberally between Falcon and J.
 * Ill Girl - Haruka. The enemy often takes advantage of this, even in the second manga.
 * Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Sasha, one of the Russian agents employed to help Third-I, uses this to force  to talk.
 * Just a Kid -
 * Loads and Loads of Characters - The series start off as just a few high school kids trying to outsmart a teacher. Later on we have more than a dozen of main characters. The story reaches a point where if a minor or secondary character appears at least once then they'll play a larger role in the future. Heck by the end of the manga we still have new major characters appearing.
 * And now there's a whole new group of terrorists, the Shooter of the Magic Bullet, in the sequel of the manga.
 * Long Lost Sibling:
 * Manipulative Bastard - J. The things he manages to pull off get pretty ridiculous.
 * Meaningful Name - The cult has loads of these, with the prominent members getting names based on figures from the bible. Most of the names are significant of their character, but the biggest example would have to be
 * The organization Third-I is actually a word play on the concept of Third Eye.
 * Mission Control: Kirishima and Fujimaru.
 * Oblivious Younger Sibling: Subverted for Haruka. Though Fujimaru and Ryuunosuke tried their best to keep Haruka from getting involved in the trouble that they've gone through, she is still aware that they're up to something.
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat - tries to take over the unit handling the BloodyX case.
 * Omnicidal Maniac - Jack Daemon, a former SWAT team member.
 * Path of Inspiration - The cult.
 * Rapid-Fire Typing - Done by all the hackers during the tense moments. Averted in some cases where the hacking is done by software loaded in a USB key.
 * The Rival - Hornet, who doesn't show up until Chapter 84.
 * Rule of Cool - While Falcon is described as a "wizard" class hacker in-universe, many of his feats are impossible in reality given the time it takes to accomplish it, or the computing power required to accomplish such feat in that time frame. Or simply impossible with the lack of equipment.
 * Shoo Out the Clowns:
 * Unspoken Plan Guarantee - Played straight and subverted in equal amounts throughout the story.
 * The Mole - two within Third-I
 * Time Bomb - When infected with "Bloody-X," a person has two to three hours before they die.
 * The Vamp - Maya.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic? - the cultists.
 * Xanatos Gambit - Practically every other chapter.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: Fujimaru, those who are in the Third-I HQ and the enemy hackers.
 * Walking the Earth: J and his loyal supporters.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic -
 * Viewer-Friendly Interface - Too many scenes to count properly.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic? - the cultists.
 * Xanatos Gambit - Practically every other chapter.
 * Voice with an Internet Connection: Fujimaru, those who are in the Third-I HQ and the enemy hackers.
 * Walking the Earth: J and his loyal supporters.
 * What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic -
 * Viewer-Friendly Interface - Too many scenes to count properly.

Bloody Monday: Season Two contains examples of: "Fujimaru: I can't believe you're getting jealous over : Jealous...? I see, this is jealousy! Hee hee, this is the first time I've been jealous!"
 * Action Girl: We have a new one in the form of
 * From the Shooter of the Magic Bullet, Snow White.
 * Another Dark Action Girl is Alissa, the only other surviving member of Nikolai's "Dream Team".
 * Air Vent Passageway: Used to break into a nuclear reactor chamber. It's a tight fit but manages.
 * Badass Normal, possibly Colonel Badass: "Arthur" the terrorist leader is an ex-astronaut.
 * Bittersweet Ending: Borderline to Downer Ending.
 * Call Back: The monstrously perverted teacher from Season One
 * Maya arrives to deal information, The Mole's Brainwashed and Crazy-Eyes remind Fujimaru uncomfortably of S.1's cult leader, and J. also gets a mention when Fujimaru fears The Mole was sent by him.
 * The deadline for the threat is again on a Monday, which is Lampshaded by Fujimaru.
 * Child Soldier: While we don't know how old  is, it's clear that   been a well-trained soldier for most of   life.
 * Dark and Troubled Past: See Call Back.
 * Disc One Final Boss:
 * / What Is This Thing You Call Love?:
 * Disc One Final Boss:
 * / What Is This Thing You Call Love?:


 * Did Not Do the Research: Pandora's Box, the nuclear launch control system carried with the President of the United States. The equivalent object in reality is referred to as a nuclear football, and cannot be used to launch nuclear missiles, only to authorize their launch.
 * Emotionless Girl:
 * Government Conspiracy: Third-I is one for secretly keeping the country safe,
 * Heel Face Turn:
 * Heroic Sacrifice:
 * Hostage Situation: Averted a bit.
 * Info Dump:
 * Laser-Guided Amnesia: "Snow White".
 * The Load: President Adams. After he tries to make a deal with Psycho for Hire Alissa, even telling her that some info they just got was fake, she straight-up tells him the only thing they need from him are his eyes and KO's him.
 * Manipulative Bastard: This season gives us Hino Alexei. From the same terrorist group, Peter Pan,
 * Meaningful Name / Theme Naming: The terrorists' code-names are from fairy tales: Arthur is the leader; a youthful hacker is Peter Pan; a Bishounen(?) is Hansel and his counterpart is Gretel, a young woman is Snow White, and their chief is called Story Teller.
 * The Mole:
 * Fujimaru's  is also a mole.
 * Naked People Are Funny:
 * No Kill Like Overkill / Earthshattering Kaboom: The "Third Emperor" is actually
 * No ka-boom, but Peter Pan's plan is to
 * Our Presidents Are Different: President Adams sure looks like George W. Bush and is a bit overconfident, but he also seems to be fairly level-headed.
 * Put on a Bus: We only get to see Aoi on the first few chapters but then, we never know what happened to her.
 * Psycho for Hire: "Peter Pan", Nikolai, and the dozens of guys he hired then put through an impromptu Battle Royale to get the best of the best for his "Dream Team".
 * Renegade Russian: Hino Alexiel
 * Retired Badass: Fujimaru hasn't even touched a keyboard since "Bloody Monday"
 * The Rival: Peter Pan, who is said to be what Falcon could become given a few years (which should already give some indication how powerful he is), and
 * She Cleans Up Nicely: Minami. Her Third-I teammates were surprised about this, at first. Later, she does it again in the last season.
 * Sickeningly Sweethearts:
 * Confirmed in
 * Too Dumb to Live / What an Idiot!: The Minister of Justice ("They've all been bad"), who think Third-I is wasting time and money trying to attack Arthur & Co. and they should just get rid of the bureau anyway.
 * The American head of security, who's so overconfident he doesn't realize that Peter Pan has already taken over a powerful spy satellite.
 * President Adams, who thinks he can make a deal a terrorist who previously said she could have killed any one of the dignitaries by moving into the penthouse next door and apparently forgot a retina scan doesn't require your eyes to be attached to your head.
 * We Have Reserves:
 * Too Dumb to Live / What an Idiot!: The Minister of Justice ("They've all been bad"), who think Third-I is wasting time and money trying to attack Arthur & Co. and they should just get rid of the bureau anyway.
 * The American head of security, who's so overconfident he doesn't realize that Peter Pan has already taken over a powerful spy satellite.
 * President Adams, who thinks he can make a deal a terrorist who previously said she could have killed any one of the dignitaries by moving into the penthouse next door and apparently forgot a retina scan doesn't require your eyes to be attached to your head.
 * We Have Reserves:

Bloody Monday: Last Season contains examples of

"Storyteller: The idea that violence cannot change things... is a lie. Every time the world has been changed it was by unilateral violence. [...] We are sacrificing ourselves as terrorists to make this nation a truly independent nation that has pride!!"
 * Beauty Equals Goodness / Evil Makes You Ugly:.
 * Elites Are More Glamorous: CraUNs, an elite JGSDF unit with some of its agents fighting alongside Third-I operators in the Neo Tokyo Tower.
 * The Mole:
 * Our Presidents Are Different: The new one, Curtis, has a beard!
 * Power Tattoo: Not magical but.
 * The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: Storyteller's "prologue" involves shooting a half-dozen hostages on live TV -- including children -- in order to . His lackey "Seagull" seems hesitant, so someone else does it..
 * Spy Catsuit:
 * Theme Naming: Storyteller's group uses birds for code-names like shrike and kingfisher.
 * Time Skip: One year later
 * Title Drop: "We are Bloody Monday!"
 * Violence Really Is the Answer:
 * Time Skip: One year later
 * Title Drop: "We are Bloody Monday!"
 * Violence Really Is the Answer:


 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: See above.
 * What the Hell, Hero?: Hibiki after gunning down what appeared to be hostages.
 * Hibiki again: she.
 * J has to keep reminding Fujimaru that Everyone Lives isn't an really option but Fujimaru does his best anyway.
 * White Mask of Doom: Storyteller's terrorists wear them, as do the disguised counter-terrorists.