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::''This series is called '''C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control'''. A technical limitation prevents us from using that name on our pages.''
[[File:C_licence_max_3515.jpg|frame|[[Mundane Made Awesome|Finance deals never looked this good.]]]]
Set in a financially bankrupt Japan with only the government as a safe employer, ''
▲Set in a financially bankrupt Japan with only the government as a safe employer, ''[C]<ref>Control</ref> - The Money and Soul of Possibility'' is an anime about economics, finances and [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield|beautiful battles]] over money ending in private insolvency of the loser. In exchange for a prospective borrower's future (including his prospects, possibilities, lifespan etc.), an organization known as Midas Bank will take him on as an Entrepreneur and lend him a large, zero-interest sum of money under the condition that he participate in weekly "Deals"--battles over each participant's money using [[Familiar|familiars]] called "Assets"--against other Entrepreneurs on an alternate plane called the Financial District.
College sophomore Kimimaro Yoga is sucked into the whole affair when he is approached by the alarmingly eccentric Masakaki from Midas Bank's Commercial Division, who offers him a loan as they need a new entrepreneur and Kimimaro needs money. Though he refuses, he is more or less coerced into partaking. Kimimaro quickly piques the interest of and is recruited by Souichirou Mikuni, a powerful and exceedingly wealthy--even by Financial District standards--businessman who leads the Starling Guild, a collective that seeks to minimize any effect the Financial District and its "Midas Money" might inflict on the real world's economy.
The series is directed by Kenji Nakamura, whose previous projects, ''[[Mononoke]]'' and ''[[Trapeze]]'', should be enough to tell you that [[Mind Screw]] and mindbogglingly good-looking scenes await those who take this anime on. Broadcasted as part of the [[
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* [[Above the Influence]]: It's made clear in episode 7 that an entre can rape their asset without much difficulty, if they feel like it. Kimimaro ends up sucker-punching the guy in question. And later Msyu asks him to kiss her ([[Innocent Fanservice Girl|she doesn't really understand the implications]]), and he politely turns her down.
* [[Action Prologue]]: Every episode starts with this trope.
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* [[Alternate Character Reading]]: The ending theme, "RPG" by School Food Punishment, has "future" (未来) read as "you" (きみ).
* [[Alternate Universe]]: {{spoiler|The final episode implies that Kimimaro steps into one when he rebuilds the future; it's possible that that means that Mikuni remained in the world without a future.}}
* [[Ambiguously Evil]]: [[Fiction
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: The Financial District looks awesome.
* [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]: An "asset" is a representation of a person's future, and has the [[Don't Explain the Joke|option]] of being like this. The "entre" is a representation (from a larger perspective) of a stock in the Financial District. "[[Visual Pun|In the red]]", [
* [[The Anti
* [[Apocalypse How]]: A Class 0, but since a financial collapse in one of the Districts means that {{spoiler|entire cities or nations [[Ret
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Mikuni, although he seems to just drape it around his shoulders without filling the sleeves.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: Jennifer's hulking, minibus-sized Asset György.
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* [[BFS]]: All Entres can adjust the size and shape of their [[Laser Blade|Direct]] according to their wealth and ability. Whereas most have a dagger-shaped Direct, Mikuni tends to swing around a blade the size of a small building.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: Japan's future is saved as {{spoiler|C passes over it and the rotary press reverses to restore the lost future. However, in the process, Kimimaro arrives in a world that is very different to his, Mikuni's sister passes on and they can never meet again as he stays behind and disappears and Masakaki appears before Kimimaro gleefully revealing that the immortal FD will continue to go on with so many new bright futures ahead. However, on the plus side, there's a good chance that because of this, Kimimaro will be able to see Msyu again}}
* [[Black Blood]]: If struck by a Direct, an Entre will bleed a slurry of black oil and cash. Assets that take significant damage also have the oil bit, as well.
* [[Body Horror]]: The asset Yoga and Msyu face off with at the end of episode 5. Yeesh.
** Q using her Mezzoflation {{spoiler|Cannibalization. Teeth like that can't be normal.}}
* [[Bolt of Divine Retribution]]: The "Angel" Flation used by Sennoza's asset, Karma.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Midas Bank makes you a member and takes your future as collateral, theoretically "if you consent." Kimimaro explicitly [[Refusal of the Call|does not consent]], only to find that Masakaki has somehow spirited him off into a taxi headed for the Financial District.
** As with many [[Deal
* [[Central Theme]]: The "Midas Bank" is really a metaphor for {{spoiler|real-life central banks. What happens in the second half of the show due to Mikuni's actions is a negative representation of the effects of recent governement and central bank policies (very roughly, injecting trillions of dollars "out of thin air" into the economy to bail out companies/buy government debt), which, according to Austrian-school Economics, make the economy look better in the short-term but result in much harsher consequences in the future.}}
** The deals themselves are a smaller-scale representation of the hidden costs of creating new currency. When new ("printed") money is issued to someone/something, it devaluates the currency and everyone else holding the same currency is worse off. Whenever Entres win a deal, they get Midas Money in exchange for making someone else's life worse.
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* [[The Danza]]: Shimada is played by [[Bin Shimada]].
* [[Dead Little Sister]]: Souichirou hints that this is what happened to his seriously ill sister Takako after their father spent all his money on his company instead of using it to cure her of her illness. Episode 7 reveals that she's not dead, but is merely in a coma. {{spoiler|She also looks quite a bit like Q...}}
* [[Deal
** {{spoiler|With a Black Card, you can also withdraw more money from the Midas Bank for more of your future. But the effects can be equally devastating for everyone else.}}
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: After Kimimaro defeated him, {{spoiler|and [[Ret
* [[Design Student's Orgasm]]: The Financial District and both credits sequences.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: In episode 10 you learn that Mikuni has a special card that lets him spin the Midas Money rotisserie and {{spoiler|steal the entire country's future}} in order to produce massive amounts of Midas Money. When the heroes can't {{spoiler|stop him,}} with virtually no explanation, the "higher ups" decide to {{spoiler|give Kinimaro one,}} thus giving him a fighting chance.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The financial district (and Masakaki in particular) doesn't actually want Mikuni to mortgage the country's ''entire'' future. They're in the business of loans, and loans have to be repaid to be worth anything -- someone like Mikuni who completely stops caring about the future is a bad investment.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] : [
** [
** Easy loans [
** Q is eating money. That's...[[It Makes Sense in Context|paradoxical]].
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Makita jumps in front of a train after losing to Mikuni. {{spoiler|Kimimaro's father hung himself after getting bankrupt. Ebara is talked out of jumping off a roof, but later walks into oncoming traffic.}}
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** {{spoiler|It also appears as the logo on Black Cards.}}
* [[Eldritch Location]]: The Financial District, ''sooooo'' very much so.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Eleven Episode Anime]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]:
** The Southeast Asian Masakaki as {{spoiler|The Southeast Asia district, and in extension Singapore, are wiped out of existence.}}
** Masakaki as he operates the Midas Money rotary press in in Episode 9.
* [[Eyes of Gold]]: Entres' eyes become gold when they deal or when they watch a deal.
* [[Familiar]]: It appears that given the series' [[Deal
* [[Fetish Fuel Station Attendant]]: Msyu, Msyu, Msyu. Msyu is Yours, indeed.
** [[Bare Your Midriff]]
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** [[Tsundere]]: Msyu is a classic Type A.
** [[Zettai Ryouki]]: Grade B, almost qualifying for Grade S. She doesn't wear stockings, but her humanoid legs do the job.
* [[Fiction
** The only reason Japan stays afloat is because Mikuni is buying enough government bonds to stop the country's collapse
** He buys the real-world trillion-yen corporations of failing Entres to keep them from crashing.
** In episode 9, {{spoiler|He buys 80% of the companies and stocks in Japan to prevent Japan from being destroyed by [c}}].
*** To be fair, most of that was payed for by money from Guild members or his Rotary Press loan, rather than being a feat of his personal fortune.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Whenever we see Q, she is eating Midas Money. We find out later that {{spoiler|her Macroflation is "Cannibalization", where she eats anything made of money, including entres and assets.}}
* [[Freeze
** It changes every episode adding some sort of director commentary to each episode.
* [[Gainax Ending]]
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Msyu's introduction involves punching and slapping Kimimaro quite a bit until he gets with the program.
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]/[[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Q sports them when she enters the fray.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Masakaki implies that Hanabi is one; if Kimimaro has enough money, maybe he can win her away from her current boyfriend. No evidence as to whether this is true.
* [[Gold Tooth]]: Despite being one of the least ostentatious Entres otherwise, Takedazaki has a full set.
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* {{spoiler|[[Good Versus Good]]: According to Masakaki's superior, everyone involved in the Financial District was a good guy who was trying to make the world a better place.}}
* [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Jennifer}} after the duel with {{spoiler|Mikuni}}.
** Mikuni cuts {{spoiler|Kikuchi}} ''vertically'' at the climax of their deal but he survives as he doesn't get bankrupted.
* [[Horned Humanoid]]: All Assets have horns of some description. Some Assets are humanoid. Do the maths.
* [[Hot Chick in
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Souichirou Mikuni and his asset Q. He's quite a bit taller than the protagonist of the series and Q is a short, elfin girl. Meeting together her face is stuck right in his stomach, antlers not even reaching his shoulders.
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: They all start with "C."
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: {{spoiler|Q eats Midas Money and things made from Midas Money. This includes other Assets and Entres.}}
* [[Improbable Weapon]]/[[Laser Blade]]: Money as ammo and weapons!
* [[Incest Subtext]]: {{spoiler|Late in the series, Yoga becomes aware that Msyu was derived from his [[Ret
* [[Information Broker]]: Takedazaki.
* [[Invocation]]: Each Asset's attacks and the scale of attack (Macro/Mezzo/Micro) are activated this way.
* [[Jump Cut]]: They appear frequently; a director trademark.
* [[Kill It
* [[Kiss Me, I'm Virtual]]: An Entre can "treat [his Asset] like a human, [[
* [[Laser Blade]]: Made of cash!
* [[Last Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Between Yoga and Msyu, as the latter vanishes along with the rest of the District.}}
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Midas Bank. Gee, what are the odds on a loan from ''them'' having unpleasant, unexpected outcomes?
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In episode 6, Kimimaro faces Sennoza, a philanthropist who greatly helped the third world. He defeats him soundly, reversing almost all of Sennoza's work.
* [[Non
* [[No Sense of Personal Space]]: Masakaki, naturally.
** Jennifer as well, it would seem.
* [[Not So Different]]: In episode 9, Jennifer implies this about {{spoiler|Kimimaro and his late father}}
* [[Number of the Beast]]: Used repeatedly.
** Naoya Makita, the salaryman in the first episode, uses a PIN of 666 to access the Financial District's services.
** In episode 1, it shows that the taxi fare to the Finacial District is 666 yen.
** Deals have a time limit of 666 seconds.
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* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: episode 6 has Kimimaro fighting a truly strong opponent with an Asset that shoots lightning, after almost losing within the first few seconds, it cuts to the real world, showing the aftereffect and stating that he won.
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: Masakaki makes a bad habit of it.
* [[Old Master]]: Kikusho - an old CEO and Black Card Entre in a Financial District full of young people.
* [[One-Woman Wail]]:
** Used when Kimimaro's teacher {{spoiler|reveals to him that anything gained through Midas Money will be [[Ret
** Also used when Msyu is damaged to the point of near-death during the battle with Sennoza.
** And the end of Episode 8, during the {{spoiler|Lovecraftian ''thing's'' attack on the SE asia district}}.
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* [[Perpetual Smiler]]: Masakaki.
* [[Power At a Price]]: Well, it doesn't get any more literal than "it costs money to use your Asset's powers," does it?
* [[Powered
* [[Precocious Crush]]: {{spoiler|Whilst her precise age is unclear, Msyu's crush on Yoga ends up coming across this way. Particularly given his initial reaction.}}
* [[Ret
** As a market reaches its dying days, even people and businesses not directly related to specific Entres begin to disappear in the blink of an eye. One minute a person exists, a second later ''nobody remembers they even existed''. This results in whoever isn't claimed by a bankruptcy ending up listless and confused, not knowing why they were there when whoever they came with no longer exists.
* [[Ripple
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: {{spoiler|The more the economy goes down the toilet, the worse Hanabi's mental state gets. Once Mikuni's bailout package has hit the market, she's barely functional.}}
* [[Ship Tease]]: The conversation between Sato and Yoga ends with quite a bit. "I like your eyes", indeed.
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* [[Signature Style]]: [[Mind Screw|Mind screwy]] plot events and trippy, extravagant visuals? Sounds like a Kenji Nakamura anime, all right.
* [[Panty Shot|Spats Shot]]: Msyu, flying around in that skirt, gets an upskirt shot whenever the camera feels like it.
* [[Spell My Name
** Some viewers are split between Mashu/Msyu.
*** Her name is spelled "Msyu" (as shown when it is written on Kimimaro's credit card ''in English'' in the very first episode) but it is pronounced "Mashu".
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*** The four-letter codes on the cards don't reflect the name of the asset. Kimimaro simply named his asset after the code on his card.
* [[Spoiler Opening]]: It's very vague, but it dictates what happens {{spoiler|in the final three episodes}}. Worldwide currency {{spoiler|inflation}}, falling money {{spoiler|by using an airplane to drop it all in Japan}} which transitions to the US Dollar {{spoiler|that makes the Yen extremely worthless}}, the four kinds of cards {{spoiler|of which only Black cards can control the [[Eldritch Abomination]] that is Midas Money}}, and the finale between Kimimaro and Mikuni {{spoiler|directly underneath said abomination for its control}}.
* [[Stay
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Something is ''very'' wrong with Hanabi, and it only gets worse as Japan's future slowly peels away.}}
* [[Summon Magic]]: Negotiations involve summoning familiars called Assets to fight alongside you. Unlike some forms of Summon Magic, Entres (the summoners) are fully expected to fight alongside their Assets; it's not just Asset on Asset. Which means that it's possible to penetrate an opponent's defenses by bypassing the enemy Asset and going straight for the Entre.
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: ATMs and Negotiations use English. Jennifer's boss at the International Monetary Fund is also voiced by a native English speaker, though Jennifer is not (since that character is not a bit part, most of her lines are in Japanese).
** [[Gratuitous English]]: Said negotiations use [
** Episodes 9 and 10 have fairly long conversations in English that, while not perfect, is pretty damn good for anime standards.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Most of time, Jennifer appears eating a lollipop or fast food
* [[Take Our Word for It]]: All we get to see of Kimimaro's fight with Sennoza is Msyu getting beaten within an inch of her life. Somehow, Kimimaro wins, but we don't get to see.
* [[Talking the Monster
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: {{spoiler|Jennifer Sato gives her Asset to Kimimaro like this for the final fight. Particularly significant since her Asset represents her future, so as long as he has it, part of her future will literally survive.}}
* [[Technicolor Eyes]]:
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Mikuni is willing to sacrifice any number of potential futures in order to preserve the present.
** {{spoiler|Yoga, Jennifer and Takedazaki completely crashed the Japanese economy to defeat Mikuni and stop C.}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Episode 8. ''Dear god'' Episode 8. {{spoiler|Hundreds of people disappear at a time along with ''the entirety of Singapore'' due to the Southeast Asian Financial District's collapse. And this isn't the first time, either--apparently there used to be a Caribbean Republic.}}
** Episode 9. {{spoiler|The future of Japan has just been mortgaged to prevent the destruction of Japan in the present. This results in quite a few children vanishing just to keep the rest of Japan from going up in smoke.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: ''Financial negotiations'' played out as extravagant, complex duels in an [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]].
* [[
* [[Workaholic]]: Kimimaro at the start of the series. The Financial District offers him... alternatives.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: The beings in charge of the Financial Districts put it best:
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* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' meets ''[[The Inside Job]]'' meets ''[[
** More like ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' meets the stock market. [[Fridge Logic|Oh, great]] more [[Black Box
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Eden of the East]]'' meets ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''.
*** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** Warren Buffet's ''[[Fate/stay
** Stock Market and International Economics...meets
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]:
** Masakaki has lavender hair. His Southeast Asian equivalent has turquoise hair.
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