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[[File:canaan-maria.jpg|frame|Canaan & Maria]]
Neophyte professional photographer Maria Osawa travels from Japan to Shanghai to report on the annual festival, where she also hopes to meet Canaan, a mysterious [[Action Girl]] who saved her life a couple of years ago and has been [[Les Yay|fascinating]] her ever since. However, things get ugly when a [[Nebulous Evil Organization]] targets Maria. Known as the "Snakes", they are led by Canaan's [[The Rival|arch]]-[[Foe Yay|rival]] Alphard and are somehow involved with the "Ua Virus"--the biological weapon that left Maria the only known survivor of the deadly Shibuya terrorist attack. Fortunately for Maria, Canaan [[Big Damn Heroes|shows up to save her]] again, much to her (and [[Yuri Fan|the fans']]) excitement.
''[[Canaan]]'' is an anime series based upon a scenario from the [[Wii]] mystery [[Adventure Game]] titled ''428: Fuusasareta Shibuya de'' ("In Locked-down Shibuya"), which (the scenario, not the whole game) was created by Kinoko Nasu and Takashi Takeuchi of [[Type Moon]] fame (at which point many tropers rush off to leech it from the Internet, no further questions asked). Since the game is really obscure outside of Japan (its notability in the West basically being "that [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Famitsu]]'' gave a 40"), here's a [
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* [[Action Girl]]: Canaan.
* [[A
* [[Alliterative Name]]: Alphard Alshaya and Minoru Minorikawa.
* [[All Part of the Show]]: In the first episode, multiple people are shot and killed (or die horribly from the Ua Virus), and everyone thinks it's just part of the festival. Maria's partner Mino, however, attests that it's [[Somebody
* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: {{spoiler|Hakko}} does this after Liang Qi tricks her into using {{spoiler|her voice on Santana.}} He was already dying and requested that the last words he heard are "I love you."
** {{spoiler|Cummings to Liang Qi}} seconds before he shoots her. Mind you, she was dying anyway.
* [[Anime Chinese Girl]]: Yunyun.
* [[Arc Words|Arc Tune]]: The melody Alphard and Syam have been humming seems to be shaping into this.
* [[Attention Whore]]: Liang Qi, oh so much. It's not hard to extrapolate that her revealing attire is her [[
* [[Axe Crazy]]: Liang Qi
* [[Badass Bystander]]: The taxi driver. Also an example of [[Crazy Awesome]]. Being voiced by [[Joji Nakata]] really helps.
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Alphard's favorite accessory
* [[Badass Normal]]: Some characters take awesome risks. Mino {{spoiler|first tries to run into the virus infected area... not even eight SWAT men can force him to move, he also risks being killed in a precision airstrike trying to save Maria and delivers a [[Cooldown Hug]] to Hakko even whilst she's shooting at him}}. Cummings {{spoiler|twice risks getting shot for real by Liang and Alphard herself}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Bait and Switch Lesbians]] / [[Romantic Two
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Alphard and Yunyun are fond of this.
* [[Bathing Beauty]]: Liang Qi is the craziest one ever.
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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Canaan leaves Maria in the end, because their lifestyles are too different. Maria will be with Canaan "in her heart."}}
* [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]].
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: In gratuitous amounts. {{spoiler|Liang Qi in specific
* [[Book Ends]]: Canaan up in a tower with a sniper rifle, with some sort of candy stick in her mouth.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Maria, then Yunyun, then Hakko...}}
* {{spoiler|[[Bring Out Your Gay Dead]]: Liang Qi.}}
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: {{spoiler|Canaan loses her ability to "see colors" at the end of episode 7. She gets it back later, but only after getting hit indirectly by a missile, and confronting Alphard.}}
* [[Brown Note]]: The fact that {{spoiler|Hakko's voice can kill}} is only noticeable by the responses of other people.
* [[Bullet Time]]: One of Canaan's many combat abilities.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Cummings. Poor dude never seems to catch a break, though the events of episode 11 ventures into [[The Woobie|Woobie territory.]]
** Yun Yun as well. It seems like nothing goes right for the poor girl no matter how hard she tries. Let's see, {{spoiler|her borner mutation is a second appendix}}, her boss considers her life disposable {{spoiler|but also controls the supply of medication she needs to survive}}, she had her workplace shot up by her own "allies" ''twice'', she failed an assignment because her boobs were too small to interest the target, and she got interrogated at gunpoint ''with her own gun'' (while still wearing the embarassingly skimpy bunny girl outfit from her failed assignment to boot).
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Yunyun. It is even [[Lampshaded]] by Maria and Mino from episodes 2-5 as they wonder who the hell she is.
* [[Child Soldier]]: Canaan's background. Alphard's, too. {{spoiler|Trained by the same man, no less.}}
* [[Close
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Maria. As Yunyun put it: "I've just found the Eighth Wonder of the World."
** Yunyun herself isn't far behind Maria ...
* [[Compilation Movie]]: Three of them are upcoming, though it remains to be seen if they will actually have any original material, or simply be all the episodes strung together.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Pretty much every vehicle that shows up, plus the cutesy avatar Liang Qi uses to troll the crowds during episode 6 {{spoiler|and the bomb in episode 7}}
* [[Cool Guns]]: Alphard's FN Five seveN Tactical, and Canaan's Beretta [[PX 4]] Storm.
** In a flashback, Canaan is seen using a Beretta 93R when she was being trained by Syam.
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* [[The Cutie]]: Maria, oh so very much.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Alphard, Liang Qi
* [[Dark
* [[Dead Person Conversation]]: Canaan with Shan in the last two episodes
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Hakko crosses it after accidentally killing Santana when she thought she was delivering a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to Liang Qi.}}
** [[Death
* [[
* [[Dodge the Bullet]]: One of Canaan's powers, which becomes prevalent in the last episode.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Liang Qi: "She's going to pull my tongue out; slowly and slowly, she's going to cut my neck open, then reach into the wound and churn my insides!"
** When Mino, sitting on a park bench, is thinking of the previous night when he first met Hakko (in her rather revealing [[Catgirl]] costume), a jet from the fountain suddenly shoots into the air. When she appears later on in the same scene and comes to sit down next to him, a whole ''bunch'' of jets go off.
* [[Dragon Lady]]: Liang Qi's choice of dress and sadism gives her elements of this trope, along with [[The Baroness]].
* [[The Driver]]: The [[Ensemble Darkhorse|taxi]] [[Crazy Awesome|driver]].
* [[Eagle Land]]: A mildly done flavour 2, but the United States is given a rather unflattering depiction in Canaan; They have a bombastic bozo for a President, a corrupt crook for a Vice President, are shamlessly neoconservative, and the CIA collude with a terrorist/private security organisation in the development of biological weapons, using Chinese villagers as test subjects.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Alphard. Besides the obvious example in Liang Qi, she sets the hearts of both the male and female party guests in episode 4 aflutter when she passes by them in her [[Pimped
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Canaan is referred to as "Synesthesia Girl".
* [[Fan Disservice]]: A [[Squick|Squicky]] Twofer from episode 11.
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** Later played straight in a rather [[Squick|f'ed up]] [[Tear Jerker|and tragic]] manner.
* [[Furo Scene]]: Liang Qi has upwards of half a dozen.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Done by Maria of all people {{spoiler|who delivers a punch combo to Yunyun's face when she's being fatalistic regarding her condition.}}
* [[Girls
* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]]: Canaan's Synesthesia abilities induce this (whether it's literal or for the audience's benefit is not established).
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Episode 7 {{spoiler|1=''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J7qgxGMEm4 HOOLEE SHIT!]''}}
** A lot of the Americans' dialogue in that episode.
** "GET SOME GET SOME GET SOME GET SOME"
** ULTRAVIOLET AND NOISE-CANCELING HELMET!
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* [[Gunpoint Banter]]
* [[Gun Stripping]]
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Yun Yun. [[Minion
* [[Heroic Bloodshed]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Hakko}}'s actions after the death of {{spoiler|Santana}} could bee seen as such.
* [[Heroic RROD]]: {{spoiler|Canaan}} gets one of these in Episode 7, when {{spoiler|she realizes her Synesthesia abilities don't work anymore.}}
* [[Hyper Awareness]]
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* [[Idol Singer]]: Nene.
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]
* [[In Love
* [[Irrevocable Order]]: The vice president cannot call off a {{spoiler|B-2 about to bomb the president}}.
* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: Someone forgot to inform the animation staff that B2 stealth bombers do not have vertical stabilisers, or afterburner nozzles on the engines.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: At the end of the series Canaan is still working with Natsumi despite the fact that {{spoiler|Natsumi would have killed Maria without the timely intervention of Alphard.}}
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Liang Qi, all the time.
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: [[Playing
* [[Les Yay]]: Canaan and Maria. They flirt a lot, indeed. At one point, Maria even {{spoiler|delivers lines that can easily be interpreted as a confession of love.}}
* [[Location Theme Naming]]: [
** Syam may refer the region now known as Syria.
* [[Locked Into Strangeness]]: {{spoiler|In some cases exposure to the Ua virus results in dark hair turning white. This is known to have happened to Canaan, Liang Qi and at least one other girl who was an attempt to make a second Canaan.}}
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: {{spoiler|Natsume}}
* [[Meaningful Name]]: "Canaan".
** "Alphard" means "the solitary one" in Arabic. It's also the name of the brightest star in the constellation Hydra, marking the heart of the snake. She wasn't quite modest when she chose her new name.
** Written in kanji, ''Hakkō'' can mean "misfortune" (薄幸).
* [[The Messiah]]: Maria.
* [[Minion
* [[Mistress and Servant Boy]]: Liang Qi and Cummings are a particularly dark and violent version of this trope. Liang Qi couldn't care less about Cummings and mainly takes her frustration out on him, but Cummings has a (one sided) infatuation with her and even seems to ''like'' the abuse he suffers. He loves her so much, in fact, {{spoiler|that he's the one who gives her a [[Mercy Kill]], and he becomes a monk at the end of the series.}}
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Liang Qi. She likes long baths.
** Hakko in her hostess club outfit counts for this as well.
* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: {{spoiler|Poor Hakko just can't let go of Santana after he dies}}.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Liang Qi is always attempting to kill Canaan because she believes that Canaan 'changed' her beloved "Nee-sama".
* [[No
* [[Non
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Maria's dad}}, though his "death" was revealed to be but a sly trick by the Snakes to make US bomb their own president.
** {{spoiler|Maria's later exploding train ride}}. Not much explanation is given, although Yunyun appears to have a major hand in it.
** Finally, {{spoiler|Alphard}} survives falling off a train trestle, as seen in the epilogue.
* [[The Obi
* [[One Hero, Hold the Weaksauce]]: Canaan's power doesn't come with a corresponding weakness unlike the rest of the Borners.
* [[One
* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: Alphard towards Canaan. She even delivers a speech to that effect to Canaan in episode 9.
* [[Onee
* [[Orgasmic Combat]]: Holy shit, Liang Qi.
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Yunyun.
* [[Plucky Girl]]: Yun Yun in the last episode, {{spoiler|pulling Maria out of a train car that's about to explode and then carrying her who even knows how far. By the time Mino finds them, she's completely out of it and thinks the three of them are in Buddhist heaven}}.
* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Daedala Corporation. But they aren't entirely a PMC considering that {{spoiler|most of its personnel, if not all, are Snake terrorists.}}
▲* [[Post Mortem One Liner]]: "... and play cat's cradle."
▲* [[Private Military Contractors]]: The Daedala Corporation. But they aren't entirely a PMC considering that {{spoiler|most of its personnel, if not all, are Snake terrorists.}}
* [[Product Placement]]: That red detonator Liang Qi uses in episode 6 looks suspiciously like a red Wiimote Nunchuk; the aforementioned airsoft pistols Liang Qi uses to torment Cummings.
* [[Psycho Lesbian]]: Liang Qi is obsessed with her "[[Onee
* [[Psychotic Smirk]]: Liang Qi's usual facial expression.
* [[Qipao]]: Liang Qi's favorite attire.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Subverted ''hard'' and played straight at the same time in episode 10. {{spoiler|Hakko tries twice to kill Liang Qi with one of these, only to have Liang Qi troll her on both accounts and then deliver her own Reason You Suck Speech right back at Hakko each time. To add insult to injury, Hakko finds to her dismay that she accidentally killed Santana with her second speech, which Liang Qi all too gleefully informs her of during ''her'' second Speech}}.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Canaan
* [[Red String of Fate]]: Used to play "Cat's Cradle".
* [[Rescue Romance]]: Maria attempts to replay her first meeting with Canaan by getting in trouble.
** Liang Qi had set up a trap for Alphard to get captured in the beginning so that Liang Qi would get to rescue her. Alphard was very aware of this, and went along with it merely because she was curious where Liang Qi was going with it.
* [[Running Gag]]: Liang Qi's airsoft pistol, {{spoiler|which gets used in a minor [[Gambit Roulette]] set up by Alphard in episode 9}}.
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* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|Canaan gets the assignment to kill a "one-armed woman"}}.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Liang Qi is quite poetic at times, especially in regards to hurting people.
* [[Sex Is
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Canaan's shirt.
* [[Shameless Fanservice Girl]]: Only demonstrated in episode one, Liang Qi is the '''BEST SECRETARY EVER!''' [[Ax Crazy|All]] [[Yandere|other]] [[Complete Monster|things]] [[Love Makes You Crazy|considered.]]
* [[Shout
* [[Shower Scene]]: Alphard gets a vaguely plot-important scene where we first see that she has the same tattoo as Canaan.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: other then the of glaring errors with the stealth bomber the creators clearly spent some time researching everything from US military uniforms through Chinese railroads to the local cuisine of Xinjiang province.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Cummings has to kill Liang Qi after her attempt to give herself Synesthesia...really, really doesn't end well.}}
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Canaan.
* [[Single
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Liang Qi, again.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Alphard's humming in the first episode.
** China Kibun de High Tension plays during a life-or-death chase scene, in which the taxi Maria is in is being pursued by an insane old man with an Uzi.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stereotypes of Chinese People]]: Well, it does take place in Shanghai.
* [[The Stoic]]: Alphard and Syam
* [[Superpower Lottery]]: The kind of mutation a Borner gets, along with its strengths and drawbacks, seem to be entirely random. Hayatori in episode 2 has two hearts, granting him immense agility and premature aging, while his brother in episode 3 can contort and squeeze inside small spaces, though he's physically trapped in a child's body. Meanwhile {{spoiler|Yunyun}} has been granted... [[Blessed
** The "winner" until now is {{spoiler|Hakko}}: {{spoiler|She can kill you with her voice!}}
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: Episode 7. {{spoiler|The English in the stealth bomber scene. The Chinese}} (it isn't English, but still!) {{spoiler|used by the Chinese army}} is also surprising good.
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** The Delta Force commandos in the 11th Episode. Averted in the North American release as the lines were removed.
* [[Take My Hand]]: This is how Canaan and Alphard's ultimate duel ends, but Alphard ''really'' doesn't want to be rescued by her... {{spoiler|She survives, nonetheless.}}
* [[Twelve
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: Liang Qi's assistant Cummings eventually starts ''enjoying'' her constant abuse.
** Liang Qi herself would appear to be getting very excited when Alphard is beating her down in episode 11.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Canaan and those sugar candy stick things she's often shown munching on.
* [[Triang Relations]]: Alphard, Liang Qi and Cummings are in a Type 5, since Cummings loves Liang Qi, who [[Single
* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Liang Qi.
* [[The Virus]]: Obviously.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Maria Osawa, bearing a too-close-for-comfort name of [
* [[Vaporware]]: The announced three theatrical releases have yet to appear.
* [[War for Fun
* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]: Yunyun is a Borner mutant... with two appendices.
* [[Where It All Began]]: The train (possibly the same train, but at least the same make) was both the setting for the beginning of Canaan and Alphard's feud ({{spoiler|when Alphard killed Syam}}) and their climactic duel.
** The airport that {{spoiler|Alphard}} is sitting in during the epilogue would seem to be the same one from the last scene in 428.
* [[White
** Horrifyingly subverted when {{spoiler|Liang Qi tries to give herself synesthesia}}. Her hair turns white... {{spoiler|but then she turns anything but pretty herself, and suffers a truly horrible death.}}
* [[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?]]: Yunyun, lampshaded by Minoru and Maria, and then explained in episode 5 {{spoiler|as she is spying on them as per Liang Qi's orders.}} Could also be a reference to the potential after effects of China's economic growth spurt as Yunyun mentions that many in the slums take up several part-time jobs to make ends meet.
* [[Yandere|Yan-Fucking-Dere:]] Liang-Qi.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Alphard with regard to Liang Qi. Liang Qi with regard to Yunyun.}}
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: {{spoiler|Hakko}}'s power, to a degree.
* [[Your Mom]]: In episode 5, Santana and Minorikawa eventually devolve into [[Volleying Insults|slinging this back and forth]].
* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Liang Qi manages to combine this with a [[Qipao|cheongsam]].
** Maria sports it on one occasion as well.
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