Sweet Valerian
Sweet Valerian is a children's Magical Girl anime about a trio of girls who transform into a trio of superpowered bunnies known as Relaxation Combat Team Valerian and fight the evil Stress Team, who use people's stress to transform them into monsters.
Tropes used in Sweet Valerian include:
- Affectionate Parody: Similar to Super Pig.
- Ambiguously Brown: Pop
- Animal Superheroes
- Cat Smile: The girls all have permanent ones in their bunny forms.
- City of Adventure: Asialand
- CLAMP: They did the character designs.
- Flying Saucer: The Stress Team fly around in one.
- Hair of Gold: Kanoko seems to play this straight, until it turns out that she has a very short temper when it comes to dealing with monsters.
- Hime Cut: Kate
- In the Name of the Moon:
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Kate: Come forth, Serotonin! |
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- Magical Girl Warrior
- Mentor Mascot: Panda-bu, an oddly spherical panda-thing.
- Meaningful Name: The bunny-girls are named Valerian, Serotonin, and Dopamine, all of which are chemical substances that make you calm/happy.
- Mini-Dress of Power: Despite being bunnies, they still wear them.
- Monster of the Week: In typical Magical Girl Warrior fashion, the monsters are ordinary people whose negative emotions make them a prime target for the villains' monster-ification device, and whose monster form echoes the source of their angst.
- Nerd Glasses: The Stress Team members all wear these.
- Nice Hat: Pop. She even wears one in her bunny form.
- Pandaing to the Audience: Panda-bu
- Transformation Sequence: A very short one, but they get a longer and more traditional one in the next-to-last episode.
- Transformation Trinket: Which are activated via card-swiping.
- Verbal Tic: Panda-bu adds "-bu" to the ends of his sentences.