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* [[Alliterative Name]]: Alice Alice Arquet
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The ''Read Or Die'' novels, the ''Read Or Die'' manga, the ''Read Or Dream'' manga and the TV adaption (consisting of the ''[[Read or Die (Anime)|Read or Die]]'' [[OVA]] and this series) are all separate continuities, but borrow key concepts and characters from each other.
* [[Anti
* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|Class 0, Hong Kong sinking.}}
* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Junior, Maggie
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* [[Brown Note]]: Webber's giant pipe organ.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Yomiko is half-Japanese and half-British, while Wendy Earhart is half-Indian, half-English.
* [[Cheese
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Nenene's novel she works on throughout the series. {{spoiler|[[What an Idiot!|Seriously you think someone as smart as Joker would have seen that coming.]]}}
* [[Christmas Cake]]: Yomiko is 30 years old.
* [[Christmas Episode]]: The three sisters share birthday cake and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] with Nenene.
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* [[Cute Shotaro Boy]]: Junior.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The series is notably darker than both the over the top superheroics of the ''Read or Die'' manga, and the whimsical friendly nature of the ''Read or Dream'' manga. On the other hand, it's not half as bloody as the OVA, though it does do away with most of the 1960s spy gadgetry.
* [[Dark
* [[Determinator]]: Would you believe it's the ''villain'' this time? When Yomiko has him cornered, {{spoiler|Joker}} makes a speech about how no matter what the heroes do, he or his survivors will pick up and begin their plan again, and that nothing they can do can crush the ideals they believe in. It's a downright inspiring speech, the type that normally gets reserved for the ''hero''.
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: Parodied with a pigeon ''named John Woo''.
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* [[Expy]]: Alice Alice Arquet bears more than a passing resemblance to [[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]], both in terms of physical appearance and in terms of character backstories (Daughters of British aristocrats who indulge in adventure archaeology)
* [[Fan Service]]
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Dokusensha operatives wears something that resembles [[Highly
* [[Flashback Echo]]: Anita's memories of burning books.
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: Nenene does this to a literary terrorist in the first episode, and Anita does it to ''her'' in the next one.
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* [[Gratuitous English]]: Anita's homeroom teacher seems to speak as much [[Gratuitous English]] as Japanese, but he is actually teaching English and asking the students to translate, so it is not gratuitous at all. How does he teach them English? He quotes ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]].'' Students around the world would probably do better in their studies if their teachers [[An Offer You Can't Refuse|made them an offer they couldn't refuse...]] It becomes [[Gratuitous Japanese]] in the English dub, which is strangely out of place seeing how [[Redundant Department of Redundancy|a Japanese teacher is teaching Japanese to Japanese schoolchildren.]]
{{quote| "Zah...PAAAAAYPAAAAAAHHH!!!"}}
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: {{spoiler|Joker}} gives one to Yomiko when they meet for the first time in the series. Nenene [[Shut UP, Hannibal|cuts him short]].
* [[Hot Librarian]] + [[Badass Bookworm]]: Yomiko. Her extreme love of books can get to be a very expensive habit (at one point, she even asks her boss for a cash advance so that she can purchase more books), but the British Library still regards her as [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|one of the best in her field]].
* [[Ill Girl]]: Hisami
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* [[Limp and Livid]]: Non-angry example when Maggie is forbidden from visiting bookstores when visiting a town full of them. Apparently it takes all she has to resist the lure.
* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Wendy's}} reason for her actions.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Yomiko reveals that Junior is Nancy's son (whom Yomiko had earlier told Nancy was dead)}}.
* [[Madness Mantra]]
{{quote| "John Smith got his forest burned down.<br />
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* [[The Other Darrin]]: The TV series has an entirely different English dub cast than the OAV (save for Wendy Tomson/Tricia Dickson, who goes from playing Wendy in the OAV to Nenene in the TV series), which was not too jarring for the most part, except that Yomiko went from having a ''very'' American accent to having a ''very'' English accent (according to the DVD commentary, this is because the Japanese creators specifically asked [[Geneon]] to give Yomiko an English accent since she is supposed to be half-British).
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: Dr. Weber. Really, though he certainly has all the appearances of a vampire, he does not seem to possess any kind of extraordinary abilities.
* [[
* [[One Last Smoke]]: {{spoiler|Lee Linho}}
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with Maggie Mui and Drake's daughter Maggie. Drake of course has a double take when he hears Maggie Mui's name.
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* [[Power Trio]]: the Paper Sisters.
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Junior to Michelle; especially after the writers found that Junior and Anita had no chemistry.
* [[Pre
* [[Prophetic Names]]: "Yomiko" = "reading child"; "Readman" is obvious.
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: Mr. Kim is rather personable if a bit reticent and [[Pet the Dog|seems to have an amicable working relationship with Mr. John Woo]]. Nonetheless {{spoiler|he works for both Dokusensha and the British Library, and the only thing that stops him from outright being a [[Double Agent]] canonically is most likely the small amount of screen time he gets}}.
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* [[Reality Warper]]: {{spoiler|The Gentleman; just a fraction of his power transforms London into his memories of it, turn of the century.}}
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Lee is fatally wounded while helping Nenene and Anita escape from the Dokusensha's base.}}
* [[Romantic Two
* [[Rubber Face]]: Michelle sometimes does this to herself (one cheek only) after being told off for [[Cloudcuckoolander|doing something silly]]. Anita gets it a lot from various characters, and Yomiko says that getting [[Rubber Face|Rubber Faced]] helps when she is anxious. She's genuinely surprised when it does not work that way on Anita.
* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Nenene gets these when she gets angry (i.e. quite often). Yomiko's glasses also go shiny a lot, but in her case it usually signifies emotional trauma.
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** '''Nenene:''' I left [[The Three Stooges]] at home.
** ''[[The Godfather (Film)|The Godfather]]'', as mentioned before.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: "Don't be tricked, you idiot! He's the ''bad guy!''"
* [[Soul Jar]]: While The Gentleman's books don't strictly speaking contain his entire soul (his personality was simply too vast to be contained), they still contain vital pieces of it.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Action cliffhangers with the girls in peril, leading into the rather chipper end theme.
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* [[Wham Episode]]: Episode 12, when {{spoiler|Nenene is kidnapped, and Lee is revealed to be a Dokusensha agent}}.
** Episode 9, where Alice gets [[Impaled With Extreme Prejudice]], qualifies.
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The shot of a statue of the Virgin Mary during {{spoiler|the destruction of Hong Kong}}. Also, John Woo (the pigeon) shows up at the end of the episode in a manner evocative of the story of Noah's Ark.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Maggie, who mostly wears men's suits.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Junior, in a rare female parental figure example.
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: "Who the heck would come up with such a fiasco? It's no good! It's not realistic at all!"
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Junior. Chronologically, he is only 6 years old, but due to accelerated aging, he appears to be about 12. This is probably also technically true for his I-Jin mother Nancy.
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: The [[Wham Episode]] (see below) begins as a fairly formulaic episode about Anita saying goodbye to her friends before she moves back to Hong Kong, culminating in a sweet moment between herself and Hisa. Time for the credits, right? Right?
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