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Anime's answer to ''[[Cops (series)]]'' (and to a lesser extent, [[COPS|the other version of ''COPS'']]).

Natsumi Tsujimoto is a new policewoman, [[Late for School|late for work]] on her first day at Bokuto Police Station. She hops on her moped and drives recklessly at top speed toward the police station on the sidewalk, down the stairs, and with consummate skill. Unfortunately, policewoman Miyuki Kobayakawa spots her and chases her down.

When Natsumi gets to the police station, she learns that she has been assigned to be Miyuki's partner. The two spar at first, but eventually become close friends, with Natsumi occasionally deploying her moped from the back of their ''kei'' police car to corner traffic offenders...

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* [[The Ace]]: Shouji Toukairin.

* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The [[Live Action Adaptation]] is almost completely unrecognizable. The anime also has a fair amount of scenarios not from the manga, a majority if not.

* [[Adult Child]]: Yoriko.

* <s>[[Airplane of Love|Airplane]]</s> [[Airplane of Love|Airport Of Love]]: Episode 48. An entire fleet of them, being that it takes place in Narita Airport, with a special version of the opening theme.

* [[Ambiguously Gay|Ambiguously Bi]]: Miyuki and Natsumi leak into this almost constantly.

* [[Anime Accent Absence]]: Variation. In the English dub Aoi has a naturally feminine and high pitched voice. In the original and the Latin-American dub, her voice is a bit lower then the other girls.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: When Aoi and Yoriko are sent undercover onto the train lines to catch a pair of thieves, Aoi spends far more time arresting perverts.

** Justified in that this was Aoi's original assignment going undercover as a woman and [[The Chikan|train molesters]] are still a big problem in Japan.

* [[Ascended Extra]]: Saori Saga in the anime. In the first season, she only appeared on a couple of episodes as nothing more than a [[Recurring Extra]]. As soon as season two starts though, she {{spoiler|becomes a police officer with similar screen time to Yoriko and Aoi}}, appearing on almost every episode.

** Subverted in ''Full Throttle'' where she was {{spoiler|[[Put on a Bus|transferred to another precinct]]}}. Later in the season, {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]}} for nothing less than a {{spoiler|[[Beach Episode]]}}.

* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Aoi Futaba. The entire department, male and female alike, falls all over '''him''' in Episode 5.

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* [[Big No]]: From all of the women in the station when they realized that, yes, they beat up a pervert who was taking pictures of them, but they forgot to destroy his film!

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Natsumi is this, too. And she's often seen ''very'' toasted.

** The Section Chief doesn't really get visibly plastered, but still he complained about hangover more than once.

* [[Brain Bleach]]: Ken and Yoriko obviously need some after they realize the implications of Aoi in a bikini. Thankfully she wears a sarong with it.

** While you can understand their horror, [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Aoi IS the fanservice character and she looked rather hot anyway.]]

** Miyuki and Natsumi hatch a plan to catch a pervert who's installed cameras in the women's restroom by tricking Nakajima into having to use the bugged stall. The guy's scream is priceless.

* [[Brand X]]: Averted in that their cruiser is not only obviously a Honda Today, but even has the stock Honda "H" on the hood that's normally replaced with an Imperial chrysanthemum badge on Japanese police cars (including the others in the series).

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* [[Crime-Time Soap]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The anime in comparison to the manga, and [[The Movie]] in comparison to the whole series.

* [[Date Peepers]]: The second half of the third OAV has Miyuki and Ken ''ordered'' to go on a date by [[Da Chief]] so they can sort their troubles, then several officers peep on them and keep him informed. The reason? {{spoiler|Miyuki mistakenly believes that Natsumi had a one-night stand with Nakajima, since she saw them racing together very early (when in truth, they just went out to talk and ride their bikes). That ''seriously'' disrupted their partner dynamics. }}

* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Assistant Inspector Kaoruko Kinoshita.

* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Used in one of the gang's schemes.

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* [[Gentle Giant]]: Ken, so much. Heck, he's nicknamed "Ken-chan", using a Japanese honorific that is usually reserved for girls...

* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Or better said, Lonely Gossip Hen: Yoriko Nikaidou.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Natsumi likes spouting out small English phrases like "Ok".

* [[Gratuitous French]]: A pastry chef in one second-season episode loves the phrase, "C'est si bon!"

** In the manga, Strike Man once says "Adieu!" before running away.

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* [[Idiot Crows]]: Flown past the Strike Man a few times.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Strike Man's arsenal gets more and more bizarre with each appearance, climaxing with spiked baseballs.

* [[~~Improbably-~~Female Cast]]: Of the whole main cast there's only two males -- Nakajima and Toukairin, and for Toukairin it's debatable: despite being {{spoiler|Natsumi's [[Love Interest]] and the}} lead whenever he appears, he is a [[Guest Star Party Member|guest character]] and does so in barely a quarter of all episodes. Aoi is technically male too, but for all narrative intents and purposes she is a woman - starting with referring to her with feminine pronouns. All other males in the show are clearly in supporting roles.

* [[Fundamentally Female Cast]]: Of the whole main cast there's only two males -- Nakajima and Toukairin, and for Toukairin it's debatable: despite being {{spoiler|Natsumi's [[Love Interest]] and the}} lead whenever he appears, he is a [[Guest Star Party Member|guest character]] and does so in barely a quarter of all episodes. Aoi is technically male too, but for all narrative intents and purposes she is a woman - starting with referring to her with feminine pronouns. All other males in the show are clearly in supporting roles.

* [[In the Name of the Moon]]: In the name of the penal code!

** Also Strike Man's Strike Brigade, though the girls are just punishing the boys who like to tease them.

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* [[Lovely Angels]]: Natsumi and Miyuki. Also, Aoi is so feminine that she and Yoriko also fall here to an extent.

* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: How Yoriko made it through the academy.

* [[No Export for You]]: ''No Mercy!!'' has not been released outside of Japan. The manga is also hard to find due to lack of re-releases, and is mostly not officially exported. The fact that [[Dark Horse Comics]], responsible for the English version, had to contend with [[Executive Meddling]]<ref> presumably by Kosuke Fujishima himself</ref> didn't help matters much.

* [[Mask Power]]: Completely subverted -- Strike Man is an amusing clown.

* [[May-December Romance]]: Daimaru and his second wife Sena, who's younger than Daimaru's ''son'' Ken. Yoriko later meets Prince Saki Abdusha, who falls for her despite him being a teenager and Yoriko being in her early to mid twenties.

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* [[Motorcycle on the Coast Road]]: Cars and bikes feature in many of these scenes.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Miyuki, Natsumi, and Nakajima have stopped the rogue officers, but also realize that they may have killed one of them. It's left vague.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Natsumi, especially in the dub.

* [[Odd Couple]]: Miyuki and Natsumi.

* [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo]]: ''No Mercy!!'' and ''Full Throttle''.

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* [[Off-Model]]: The first season kept on switching from excellent animation to [[Off-Model]]. It eventually decided to go with a middle animation; Not as high-quality as the original episodes but not as mediocre as the others. The other seasons have better quality. On occasion, they'd slip up eye colors in the first season. Natsumi would be given brown instead of purple eyes, and Miyuki would be given purple instead of blue. Though to be blunt, this was animated by [[Studio DEEN]], the queen of this trope.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Kachou is fifty, but looks barely 35. Oshou, too, "still has it goin' on" despite the fact that he has to be at least in his sixties or seventies.

** While their ages are [[Vague Age|never confirmed]], the main girls seem to be this due to the fact they say they're old when compared to twenty something year olds. Then again they could just be exaggerating the [[Christmas Cake]] trope.

* [[Out-Gambitted]]: No matter what elaborate plan the crooks have, Miyuki figures it out.

* [[Paintball Episode]] -- One episode features Chie Sagamiono challenging Yoriko to a paintball match; another one features the Bokuto officers visiting an amusement park with a (in the anime) paintball arena / (in the manga) laser tag arena.

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** just in case someone claims suggestion a might have been about any tall monster, there was a silhouette.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: At the end of the first episode, Miyuki and Natsumi are eating a late picnic lunch and doing so well out of sight since police officers are not allowed to be seen eating in public while in uniform in Japan.

* [[Sitting on the Roof]]: The main characters of the series like to hang out on the roof of Bokuto Station and do all kinds of things, ranging from musing by oneself to having lunch with each other.

* [[Small Girl, Big Gun]]: Natsumi. Becomes Small Girl Even Bigger Guns in ''Full Throttle,'' where she goes for training with the JGSDF Rangers.

* [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]]: '''AOI'''

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Miyuki.

* [[Technology Porn]]: This was created by ''Kosuke Fujishima'', after all. The story can sometimes focus a little excessively on the nifty features of Miyuki's and Natsumi's police car. And her off-duty car. And the bikes. And the modifications made to all of those...

* [[The Eighties]]: The manga. It shows very much in the casual outfits the girls wear. Thankfully the anime updated the series to be set in the mid 90's to late 2000's (depending on the season).

* [[The Faceless]]: Aoi's face as a male is never completely seen. The closest we get is in episode 5 when we see her face, with [[Blinding Bangs|bangs covering her eyes]], and in episode 6 of ''Full Throttle'' when we see it completely... While she's dressed as a girl.

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: The first opening theme is playing on the radio in epsiode 19, and Natsumi sings the third opening theme in episode 43.

** In episode 11 of ''Full Throttle'', Miyuki hums the opening theme while working on her patrol car.

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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Natsumi and Miyuki.

* [[Transsexualism]]: Never out right confirmed but Aoi is heavily implied to be one. It's one of the most realistic portrayals of transsexuality in anime too, an not to mention she's treated quite respectfully by her coworkers after her introduction.

** It may have been confirmed, though without saying any transgender related terms. She is thought of as being female almost all of the time, and transsexuality tropes have appeared relating to her. Episode 6 all but goes out and says "transsexual"; A character says that her "natural flow" leads toward her being a woman, and goes on to say that he doesn't care if she's male or female (signifying she's a girl instead of a crossdresser). The original manga implies she had interests in crossdressing and feminine thoughts ''before'' becoming a police officer too.

* [[Twice Shy]]: Miyuki and Ken, so much!

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The manga just reeks of 80s and 90s, especially the clothing.

* [[Unsettling Gender Reveal]]: Practically ''every'' male who meets Aoi falls into this one. Notable examples include the Bokuto Precinct officers and then Aoi's former classmates in episode 5, and the idol singer Go Kitaoji in episode 24.

** This happens to the girls in Episode 5, when Yoriko bursts into the locker room with all the hot gossip on the "smart, rich, eligible bachelor" who's just joined the department...

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Toukairin is from Akita and it shows, mostly in characteristic northerner's "-s" that he adds to anything he says.