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* [[Everybody Remembers the Stripper]]: The manga really does have some important things to say about the nature of heroism and the truth. All anyone seems to talk and/or complain about are various scenes involving Akane, though.
* [[Fan Dumb]]: The edits to a rather infamous scene in the Dark Horse English version inspired a fair amount of this, even though the original was ''seriously'' unpublishable in the States, especially with the tizzies about "child porn". DH probably needs to be ''commended'' for making that bit work at all while preserving its (fairly important) place in the narrative.
* [[It Gets Better]]: Especially in light of the occasional review like [http://jonchoo.blogspot.com/2008/01/cannon-god-exaxxion-review.html this], it perhaps does need to be said that the start can come off as ''very'' cliche. That's sort of the point; it needs to line up all the pins [[Deconstruction|so it can start knocking 'em down one by one]]. It only begins to play with the expected tropes in the last parts of the first graphic novel volume, and only in the second volume do all of the old cliches [[Fridge Horror|start to]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|fly apart]] [[Black and Grey Morality|messily]].<ref>Where he gets the whole "foreigners weasel their way into society!" bit is beyond us, though. The Riofaldians are about colonialism and government power, not a racial analogue.</ref>
* [[Magnificent Bastard]] / [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Hosuke and Shesh'ka duel to be the king of this trope. {{spoiler|In the end, ''Hoichi'' beats them both.}}
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Although not all Riofaldians are bad, the Riofaldian government as a whole crosses this ''very'' early into the series (particularly Shes'ka, who doesn't even care about his ''subordinates''). Hosuke himself also crosses it, as well as a bunch of secondary characters. In fact, you could say the heroes are only good because they ''don't'' cross the line like everyone else.
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