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The [[Desu Des Brigade]], abbreviated to the D2Brigade, or incorrectly as the DUD Brigade, was a team of reviewers with the following members:
* '''Professor Otaku''', who produces the review series "Anime Dissection" and "OVA 101."
* '''Arkada''', who produces the anime review called "Glass Reflection." He wears a lab coat during his reviews, which makes him vaguely reminiscent of [[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Dr. Horrible]].
* '''[[Jesu Otaku]]''', who produces a review segment simply entitled "The [[Jesu Otaku]] Anime Review". She is much more analytical than the other reviewers, using a four-star rating system. She tries to be objective and may give high scores to shows that she doesn't personally like. She also produced her "summer project", an audio drama adaptation of [[Fruits Basket]], every Wednesday throughout summer 2011.
* '''Vixen''', who produces the "Kit-Suki" review series. Her review style is very informal, and quite [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|opposite to her fellow reviewer]] [[Jesu Otaku]]. In addition to reviewing anime, she sometimes reviews Western films (most of them [[Disney]]) in her "Film Fox" review series.
* '''Malakye''', who administers the DesuDes message board and produces the anime news segment called Pocky Spot. He has a cute, [[Vocaloid]], evil assistant called Tsubake. Now has two of his own review series, "Mal's Monthly Manga" and "Sake Shots".
* '''Tsubake''', Mal's Vocaloid assistant who wants to [[Kill All Humans]], Vixen in particular. She kills people on a regular basis and hates everyone.
* In March 2011 they added three new members to the brigade, unfortunately [http://cjhitchcockanimemoviereview.blogspot.com/2011/10/end.html real life forced] [http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/12/desu-rattle-the-garbage-story/ all of them to leave.]
** '''Kagami''', who produces K-Station, a series of AMVs. Not much else is known except she has an in universe fascination with knives and (also in-universe) most likely killed her own boyfriend to get on the site.
** '''Rabbit''', Vixen's closest friend who produces the show "To Read or Not To Read" where she reviews Manga. She has two other series called "Between the Lines" and "By the Quill". She also provided some of the website's artwork.
** '''Hitch''', who produces "AMR (Anime Movie Review)" where he reviews, well, anime movies. His second series is called "Season Impressions" where he showcases new animes of each season and gives them a score based on his first and last impressions. Currently writes the Fanservice Corner segments of Pocky Spot.
While each of the reviewers has his or her own individual video review series, they also collaborate on other productions together. This began with the "Desu Rattle" podcast, when Professor Otaku brought Arkada, JesuOtaku and Vixen together to create a weekly podcast about anime. They became known as the DesuDes Brigade when they created their personal website. Malakye helped in the creation of the site, so he became the fifth Brigade member. Their reviews are aimed at discerning anime viewers who want to find out anime worth watching.
The original site was hacked in late May 2011. Their new website is located at [http://www.desudesbrigade.com/ DesuDesBrigade.com].
As of April 20th, the [http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2012/04/the-desudes-brigade-disbands/ D2 Brigade is ending,] although all on good terms.
=== The [[Desu Des Brigade]] provides examples of the following tropes: ===
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* [[Animal Motifs]]: Vixen themes herself after the fox. Aside from her name (A vixen is a female fox), her two series on the site are called Kit-suki (short for [[wikipedia:Kitsune#Kitsunetsuki|Kitsunetsuki]], Japanese for being possessed by a fox) and the appropriately titled Film Fox. Her avatar also has fox ears and a tail.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Prof's avatar has changed twice.
** And now the Pocky Spot (and other videos involving their avatars, as seen on the side of the site) avatars have undergone this now that Rabbit's drawing them.
* [[Artificial Human]]: Tsubake, somewhat.
* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Tristan Gallant, Arkada's real name. He's named Badass Bravery!
* [[Berserk Button|Berserk Buttons]] for the various Brigade members:
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** For Vixen: Constant [[Random Encounter|Random Encounters]] in [[Video Games]]. On the Fanservice <s>Coroner</s>Corner segment of Pocky Spot, excessive T&A is also a [[Berserk Button]] for her, but that's not generally the case in her actual reviews.
*** Not to mention ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''.
*** Pocky Spot 48 brings us an anime where [[Astarotte no Omocha|a 10 year old succubus has to have males ejaculate into her mouth in order to survive]]. She's horrified and disgusted to say the least.
** For Arkada: ''[[School Days]]''
*** And flimsy spindle DVD cases, as indicated in almost any of his given reviews.
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** Professor Otaku would have liked it after reviewing ''[[Kekko Kamen]]''.
* [[Brick Joke]]: In Prof's ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' review, he said "What next? Do I watch ''[[Prétear]]''? How about ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]''? Why not just grow a nice pair of BOOBS while I'm at it?" Half a year later, he's reviewed the first, about to review the second and the third? [[Gender Bender|Well...]]
* [[Breakup Breakout]]: Deconstructed. Rather than [[Jesu Otaku]] leaving the brigade after joining up with [[That Guy With The Glasses]], she still tried to be a loyal brigadier, and her newfound popularity did in fact bring in more viewers to the Brigade's site; however, her indecisiveness coupled with her [[Attention Defecit Creator Disorder|ADCD]] caused her to grow increasingly distant from the Brigade, unofficially breaking off from it about a year from its official disbandment.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Rin, one of their fans and Vixen's close friend. They make lots of fat jokes about her, lots and lots of fat jokes.
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Professor Otaku, mainly, though Vixen gets like this sometimes, too.
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* [[A Day in The Life]]: Tsubake's Adventures
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All of them are like this. Even the [[Large Ham]] Arkada.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Ark's suggestion for punishing Hitch for not liking ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' (which he even said wasn't horrible, he just didn't like it) is a letter bomb.... or a NUKE.
** His actual punishment (suggested by ''[[Beware the Nice Ones|Rabbit]]'') is to have his testicles electrocuted every time he has a naughty thought while reviewing ''[[La Blue Girl]]'' with Vixen.
*** Vix pulls the same thing on Prof for his 100th review.
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* [[Electric Torture]]: [http://www.desudesbrigade.com/2011/08/kit-suki-and-amr-la-blue-girl/ Poor Hitch...]
* [[Enemy Without]]: His normal person self, Tristan Gallant, distinct from his reviewer self, Arkada. The two argue over whether or not it's okay to show the sexier scenes of ''[[Desert Punk (manga)|Desert Punk]]'', due to the normal self having a girlfriend. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Hitch gives one of these off after giving Vixen [[Sailor Moon And The 7 Ballz]].
* [[The Faceless]]: Until recently, Mal was the only member who had never showed his face, instead opting to use an animated avatar wearing a mask similar to that of Zero from ''[[Code Geass]]''.
* [[Fantastic Slurs]]: Tsubake calls humans (and presumably other organic creatures) "fleshbags."
* [[Fan Vid]]: Kagami's AMV videos.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: As explicitly established by Prof:
** [[The Hero]]: Professor Otaku
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* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Done twice in Arkada's ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' review. The first time was after declaring that in no way was he ever going to review the aforementioned series. The second time was declaring that he was definitely not following it up with a ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'' review, which is then subverted when he's instead shown watching ''[[Baccano]]!'' after the Gilligan Cut.
* [[Go Mad From the Revelation]]: Vixen and Stevenlajr at the end of the ''The [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] Saga: New Moon'' review.
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Prof's and Hitch's friendship implies this.
** [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|Vixen and Rabbit]] take it even further.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Vixen points out a familiar Disney voice assigned to ''[[Spirited Away]]'''s dub by briefly overlaying images of the character onto the footage.
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{{quote|(while being attacked by barrels) ''That's right folks, if you can't kill a castle, a castle will kill you.''}}
* [[It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time]]: Vixen's guest co-reviewer of the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' saga, Stephen Lajr, on shooting himself in the balls when he learns they're splitting ''Breaking Dawn'' into two movies.
* [["I Want" Song]]: Vixen's and Tsubake's parody of ''[[Portal (series)|Want You Gone]]''.
** [[Let's Duet]]
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Tsubake's goal.
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* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Vixen, of course. Usually, this is played for laughs, as in some of her [[Double Entendre|lines]] in the Fanservice Corner segment of Pocky Spot, or in the [http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu283/VideoGameVixen/DDB/QABanner.jpg banner] for her <s>T&A</s> Q&A segments.
** See the entry for [[Of Corsets Sexy]] below.
** She has also [[Cosplay|cosplayed]] as Jasmine when she did her Film Fox review of [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], which of course involved [[Bare Your Midriff|baring her midriff]].
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Arkada's quick recap of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' to help put context into ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]''.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Both Ark and Prof have one.
* [[Of Corsets Sexy]]: Vixen is rather fond of corsets, including her "trademark" white corset, which she first wore in her review of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' for the hell of it, and is shown wearing in the intro sequence to her reviews.
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Coincidentally, Prof.'s real name is CJ Irelan and Hitch's is CJ Hitchcock.
** It helps that the members all refer to each other by their stage names.
* [[Opposite Sex Clone]]: Prof's aforementioned [[Gender Bender]] ended in this the male and female forms becoming seperate people towards the end of the review. [[A Wizard Did It|How exactly that happened is never explained.]]
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: Blink and you'll miss it, but during the Red Scorpion "Luck Be a Lady" radio drama, featuring a red-tinted Green Hornet, the titular character uses this as a password before smashing down a door.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Vixen's the Red Oni, JesuOtaku is solidly the Blue one.
** Ark is [[Large Ham|red]] and Prof is [[Deadpan Snarker|blue]].
* [[Retool]]: Pocky Spot as of episode 50. All segments barring Mailbag Showdown and Fanservice Corner have been replaced by a whole new host of segments, including one for each of the new brigadiers and Tsubake getting one to herself.
* [[Rule 63]]: Vixen [[Invoked Trope|mentions this]] after encountering a male version of herself in her review of [[Vandread]]. Also invoked with Profette.
* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]] Rabbit and Vixen
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* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Tsubake. Originally Malakye, though [[The Starscream|it's been brought up a a lot less since she came along.]]
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: JesuOtaku has this dynamic with Vixen, full stop.
* [[Top Ten List]]: Top X Lists, mostly.
** Vixen has Top 20 Musical Numbers.
** Prof had Top 10 Babes (though it was actually 10 + 5 Wussiest Girls + 5 Almost Made Its), Top 10 Stupidest ''[[Transformers]]'' Episodes, Top 10 Crushes, and Top 5 Mismatched Openings and Endings.
** Ark had Top 19 Anime BGM, Top 10 Unlicensed Anime of 2010, Top 14 Tragically Sad Moments, and Top 17 anime voice actors.
** Hitch had his Top 10 70's anime openings and Top 10 Singalongs.
** Mal recently had his Top 10 Anime Openings.
* [[Visual Pun]]: Arkada uses these to great effect in his Glass Reflection reviews.
* [[Wall Bang]]: Some series that Professor Otaku reviewed, and he couldn't take it, and... you know.
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{{quote|''Sky Walker? [[Star Wars|Luke]] called, he wants his name back.''}}
* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Inverted. Vixen was way too squicked out by what she reviewed in ''[[Papa to Kiss in the Dark]]'', mostly due to that story being [[Brain Bleach|wholly]] [[Parental Incest|terrible]].
** Tsubake apparently has a rather large colleciton of Yaoi porn.
* [[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]: Was Ark stripping through their riff of Venus Wars, cause it certainly looked like it.
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