Cyber Team in Akihabara: Difference between revisions

 

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* {{spoiler|[[Ancient Conspiracy]]: The Rosenkreuz, similar to [[The Illuminati]].}}

* [[The Beard]]: In episode 8, Tsugumi [[Sweet Polly Oliver|crossdresses]] and pretends to be [[Les Yay|Hibari's boyfriend]] so that Hibari will have an excuse to turn down [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|Uzura]].

* [[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. {{spoiler|It's eventually shown just how badly broken she is. In a late episode, Hibari goes to great lengths to try and befriend Tsubame. After an emotional breakdown in which she compares her life to Hibari's, Tsubame joins the Cyber Team, and spends the remainder of the series trying to repair her broken childhood with good memories as an adopted child in the Hanakoganei household.}}

* [[Big Bad]]: Washuu Ryuugasaki {{spoiler|until its revealed that Crane is the true Big Bad and that he is using him as a pawn}}

* [[Bishonen]]: Crane Bahnsteik {{spoiler|As well as Washuu Ryuugasaki/Christian Rosenkreuz in his true face there is also Shimabukuro Sengakuji who used to look good when he is young}}

* [[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.

* [[A Day in the Limelight]]: Episode 9 is all about the Sibyl Team.

* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Kamome's grandpa.

* [[Doing In the Wizard]]: Eventually every [[Magic From Technology|"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.

* [[Funbag Airbag]]: Nearly every time Hibari encounters Blood Falcon. After a while, she lets out a complaint along the lines of "Not this again!"

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Tsubame's cute pigtails make her [[Troubling Unchildhood Behavior]] even more dissonant. Hibari is a much straighter example.

* [[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 [[Princess Tutu|awkward red-headed Magical Girl who dreams about a white-haired prince]].

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Tsugumi's mom.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: {{spoiler|Crane Bahnsteik}}

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Takashi/Shooting Star is in charge of the Sibyl Team, {{spoiler|intentionally sending them into losing battles in order to awaken the Divas.}} He soon turns out to be taking orders from [[The Man Behind the Man|Washuu Ryuugasaki.]] {{spoiler|And in the end, it turns out that Christian Rosenkreuz himself was an [[Unwitting Pawn]] in [[Magnificent Bastard|Crane's]] [[Xanatos Roulette]].}}

* [[Mecha]]

* [[Musical Pastiche]]: Cyberteam's [http://soundcloud.com/theshugotv/cyberteam-in-akihabara-bgm transformation theme] was later [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvbdz8yYW0 reused in] the Japanese version of [[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]], both series share the same composer, Shinkichi Mitsumune

* [[The Movie]]

* [[Older Alter Ego]]: The Divas are sort of like this for the girls, since they look like adult versions of them. {{spoiler|Played straighter when Hibari and Tsubame merge with their Divas.}}

* [[Bokukko|Orekko]]: Tsugumi, in the Japanese version.

** Suzume goes to the other extreme by using "[[Japanese Pronouns|watakushi]]"

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: Jun, Miyama, and Hatoko.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: {{spoiler|Washuu Ryuugasaki, among others}}.

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: {{spoiler|Takashi, of Crane.}} Also, the reason why {{spoiler|Hibari names her Pata-Pi "Densuke" was in honor of her stillborn little brother.}}

* [[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.

* [[Science Is Bad]]: {{spoiler|Crane believes this.}}

* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Uzura.

* [[Shotacon]]: The infatuation that the Sibyl team feels towards the Black Prince can be seen as this.

* [[Skinship Grope]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at the end of the obligatory hot springs episode, when Kamome declares that they've finally gone through all the necessary cliches.

* [[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 {{spoiler|and Takashi, being his clone, is also one}}.

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: For every Cyber Team girl. When they all transform, a shorter version is usually used, except for Hibari, of course. {{spoiler|Especially cool when Hibari "unites" with Densuke.}}

* [[Transforming Mecha]]

* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: produced in 1998 and set in 2010.

* [[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".

* [[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 [[The Bible|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 {{spoiler|in the present day, he has white wings and is [[Crucified Hero Shot|strung up on a cross]], and resides in a space fortress called Primum Mobile.}}

** {{spoiler|Made even worse as Christian conditioned him to be this, so he couldn't even find solace in having three gorgeous women absolutely head over heels for him.}}

* [[World War I]]: {{spoiler|Crane Bahnsteik's}} 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.

 

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