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[[File:alien-nine-episode-3-3.jpg|thumb|400px|Keeping E.S. #9 safe from [[Alien Invasion|Alien Invasions]]
''Alien Nine'' is a science fiction manga and anime about a trio of 6th grade girls (Yuri Otani, Kasumi Tomine, and Kumi Kawamura) who are selected by their elementary school to become alien hunters. Donning special uniforms, with rollerblades and helmet-like creatures called Borgs that they wear on their heads, the girls are tasked with hunting down and capturing the marauding aliens that periodically threaten their school. What starts off as a cute little shojo story turns [[It Got Worse|disturbing rather quickly]] when one of them gets ''eaten'' by an alien and suspicions about the teacher running the program and the principal arise.
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]
** Not even that they adults are useless, but that they are completely and utterly apathetic to the emotional trauma and pain the girls go through to fight aliens, brushing off death as "Oh, that's not good, well try harder next time" rather than treating it with the seriousness the subject demands. This latter part applies specifically with the teacher/head of the alien party Ms. Hisakawa.
* [[Alien Invasion]]
* [[All There in the Manual]]
* [[Animated Adaptation]]
* [[Assimilation Plot]]: The various alien species appear to have this in mind for humanity {{spoiler|and manage to succeed with Kasumi, Kumi, and their teacher}}
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Break the Cutie]]
* [[Brother-Sister Incest]]
** At the very least Kasumi had a quiet obsession for her brother, which the Yellow Knife took advantage of. Whether it was one-sided or not is open for debate.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]
* [[Cosmic Deadline]]
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]
* [[The End of the Beginning]]
* [[The End - or Is It?]]
** {{spoiler|Turns out the single drill is the extent of Yuri's transformation and she's still human. There's still the matter with the Yellow Knives, though...}}
* [[Fragile Flower]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The anime..oh ''god'' the anime!
* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]--{{spoiler|Kasumi tries to kill Kumi during the Yellow Knife incident, is brought back to semi-normal after becoming one, then ups her last one by 11 (killing Megumi's borg, allowing her Yellow Knife baby...things to eat and possibly kill the rest of the school, trying to force Yuri into fusing with Kumi regardless of the former's life) in [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|attempt to save Kumi in Emulators]]. To be fair to Kasumi, though, it's implied both times the Yellow Knife is manipulating her.}}
* [[It Got Worse]]
** [[It Gets Better]]
* [[Mind Rape]]
* [[Mind Screw]]
* [[Prehensile Hair]]
** In "Emulators" there's a fourth alien fighter whose hair hasn't settled down and ''the hair itself'' moves around on its own.
* [[Rollerblade Good]]
* [[Split Personality]]--{{spoiler|Kasumi}}, after being eaten.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
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