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.

Characters:

 * The Cyber Team
 * Hibari Hanakoganei, an Ordinary Middle School Student
 * Densuke, her Pata-Pi
 * Aphrodite, her Diva
 * Suzume Sakurajosui, a girl from a wealthy family who speaks in an extremely polite way
 * Francesca Leopold Classic Renoir III, her Pata-Pi
 * Hestia, her Diva
 * Tsugumi Higashijuujou, a girl with a martial arts background and a not so secret interest in becoming an Idol Singer
 * Tetsuro, her Pata-Pi with a microphone built-in
 * Athena, her Diva
 * Kamome Sengakuji, a girl from Osaka who has a Money Fetish
 * Billiken, her piggy bank Pata-Pi
 * Amphitrite, her Diva
 * Tsubame Otorii, the Emotionless Girl with a dark past and ambiguous intentions.
 * Petit-Ange, her Pata-Pi
 * Erinyes, her Diva
 * The Sibyl Team, all working for "Black Prince Shooting Star":
 * Jun Goutokuji, an Office Lady bordering into Christmas Cake
 * Blood Falcon, her alter ego
 * Miyama Soshigaya, a student with Nerd Glasses
 * Death Crow, her alter ego
 * Hatoko Daikanyama, an Idol Singer
 * Dark Pigeon, her alter ego
 * Crane Bahnsteik, also known as The White Prince, who turns out to be
 * Washuu Ryuugasaki, the school principal, who turns out to be
 * Takashi Ryuugasaki, also known as The Black Prince and Shooting Star.
 * Cigogne Ratspieu, the "father" of Tsubame
 * Shimabukuro Sengakuji, Kamome's grandparent and resident Dirty Old Man

Cyber Team in Akihabara has examples of:
"Uzura Kitaurawa: I was embarrassed about signing my real name, so I signed with the pen name I use when writing poetry. I did try signing "Kitaurawa" at first also, but that sounds somewhat like a train station..."
 * A-Cup Angst: Kamome, who wants to have bigger boobs for Gold Digger reasons and stuff her bra in consequence. To make things worse, she has Uzura, a Schoolgirl Lesbian with a open preference for flat-chested girls, pining for her - in fact, Uzura turned her affects towards Kamome because she has less breasts than Hibari, her former crush.
 * Animal Theme Naming: The members of the Cyber Team are all named after birds: Hibari (skylark), Tsugumi (thrush), Suzume (sparrow), Kamome (seagull), and Tsubame (swallow). Many of the other characters have also bird names.
 * 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.
 * Breast Expansion: Kamome's grandpa gave here a bikini that increases her breast size.
 * 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.
 * Dark Magical Girl: Tsubame
 * A Day in the Limelight: Episode 9 is all about the Sibyl Team.
 * Defrosting Ice Queen: Tsubame.
 * Demoted to Extra: Kamome was almost completely ignored in the movie in favor of Uzura.
 * 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.
 * Fairy Tale Symbolism: part of Hibari's Character Development is to outgrow her wish for a White Prince. At one point the fairytale "The Red Shoes" are brought up
 * Five-Man Band: The Cyber Team.
 * Hibari even lampshades this trope when she sees Uzura dressed up in a Diva costume and wonders if she's the final member of their team, since "the rule of thumb is that you need five members to complete an anime team."
 * Funbag Airbag: Nearly every time Hibari encounters Blood Falcon. After a while, she lets out a complaint along the lines of "Not this again!"
 * Gag Boobs: Blood Falcon
 * Girlish Pigtails: Tsubame's cute pigtails make her Troubling Unchildhood Behavior even more dissonant. Hibari is a much straighter example.
 * Good Bad Girl: Kamome often does fanservicey acts and then extorts money to the ones who saw her, but deep down she is a good girl and has her reason for doing so.
 * 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.
 * The Idiot From Osaka: Kamome, who is hardly an idiot but personifies pretty much every other element of the stereotype.
 * Idol Singer: Hatoko Daikanyama.
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: The Sibyl Team.
 * I Want My Jetpack: It's already 2012, now where are the Pata-Pis?
 * Japanese Politeness: Suzume Sakurajosui is noteworthy for always speaking in an extremely polite register, especially compared with the other members of the Cyber Team.
 * Late for School: Hibari, frequently.
 * Latex Perfection:
 * Leitmotif: In the movie, whenever Kamome shows up, you can hear a Musical Pastiche of "Disco Inferno" playing in the background.
 * 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
 * Megumi Hayashibara: Voices Tsubame in the Japanese version.
 * Money Fetish: Kamome.
 * 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
 * Nerd Glasses: Miyama Soshigaya.
 * Office Lady: Jun Goutokuji.
 * 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.
 * Ordinary High School Student: Hibari.
 * 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:.
 * Redheaded Hero: Hibari
 * 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.
 * Rose-Haired Girl: Tsubame is an aversion, since she avoids all the character types usually associated with pink hair.
 * 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.
 * Skirts and Ladders: The first time we meet Kamome, she is going first up stairs in a very short skirt providing a Panty Shot; when some boys enjoying the view remark her this, her first action is to demand money from them in exchange for the fanservice, so she doesn't denounce them as perverts.
 * 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.
 * Theme Naming: The surnames of the Cyber Team are all names of railway stations; the given names of almost every important character are all names of birds.
 * Lampshaded by Uzura in episode 08.
 * Theme Naming: The surnames of the Cyber Team are all names of railway stations; the given names of almost every important character are all names of birds.
 * Lampshaded by Uzura in episode 08.


 * The Divas are all named after Greek goddesses, with Tsubame's being named after the Greek equivalent of the Furies — infernal goddesses of vengeance. And since this is a Magical Girl show, the heroine's Diva is naturally named after the goddess of love.
 * 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.
 * Tyke Bomb: Tsubame.
 * 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".
 * Villainous BSOD: Tsubame Otorii. Since her introduction, she acts as the Dragon to the Big Bad, easily defeating the Cyber Team girls in every encounter. The episode is also one long Tear Jerker, as we see how horrible a childhood Tsubame actually has had up to this point.
 * 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.
 * Yuu Asakawa: Voices Tsugumi in the Japanese version.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Suzume
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Suzume