History Anime / AngelCop

%%* [[He could've accepted Ichihara's experiments on the Special Security Force which could've stopped the Red May more quickly.]]
%%%* [[And if he knew that Maisaka was behind the H-File, why couldn't he have shot him dead?]]

* BitchinSheep'sClothing: [[Governor Maisaka pretends to be working for the Special Security Force when it's all a play to earn money for himself.]]

* Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: [[Governor Maisaka pretends to be working for the Special Security Force when it's all a play to earn money for himself.]]

* Corrupt Corporate Executive: [[spoiler: A non-business example, Governor Maisaka started this whole mess over money.]]
* Corrupt Politician: [[Maisaka]]

''Angel Cop'' is a six-part original video animation directed by Ichiro Itano, but due to the content of the anime, it's usually considered that the driving force of the anime is actually the writer Creator/ShoAikawa. A manga adaptation written and illustrated by Taku Kitazaki was serialized in Newtype Magazine and reprinted as a Newtype 100% collection in 1990.

* MadScientist: An [[NoNameGiven unnamed one]] is introduced as a sort-of mentor to Angel and Raiden, the latter of which [[spoiler:he saves through cybernetic modification]].

* TheyCalledMeMad: The [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] MadScientist who rebuilds Raiden chortles that “those who laughed at my genius will now be destroyed by it!” One of the few times a non-evil mad scientist spouts this.

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** Asura: [[Music/{{Queen}} Brian May]].

&&* ActionGirl: Angel

* DecoyProtagonist: The titular Angel doesn't get to do all that much until the finale, and that's because almost everyone else is dead or disabled.

* FeministFantasy: Sorta. Angel exhibits the key traits of the NinetiesAntiHero to the hilt, delivers zero {{Fanservice}} and never undergoes {{Chickification}} at the hands of a male character (well, unless you count [[spoiler:[[SociopathicHero uncharacteristically]] hesitating when forced to shoot dead her male partner whom she has developed romantic feelings for]]). The anime is somewhat unusual in just how little it acknowledges the gender of its female lead; Raiden expresses surprise when he discovers that his partner who just splattered a terrorist's brains across the wall [[SamusIsAGirl is a woman]], but otherwise Angel is essentially written identically to the typical male badass of 90's {{Cyberpunk}} anime.

* ActionGirl: Angel

* CoversAlwaysLie: The {{Stripperiffic}} outfit that Angel is sporting on the cover suggests that she will be providing copious {{Fanservice}}, which never happens in the series.

* LadyOfWar: Lucifer.

* LudicrousGibs: Emphasis on "ludicrous".

* [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti-Heroine]]: Angel, '''to the extreme'''. She has no problem with killing people during her missions, displays a callous {{Jerkass}} attitude towards even her allies, and generally seems to be rather unpleasant.

* PlayingWithFire: Freya's power.
* PowerHair: Lucifer.

* ClusterFBomb: The English dub has this in ''spades''.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The {{Stripperiffic}} outfit displaying AbsoluteCleavage that Angel is sporting on the cover suggests that she will be providing copious {{Fanservice}}, which never happens in the series.
* {{Cyberpunk}}: Heavily inspired by this genre.

* DullSurprise: Hacker has this problem... a lot.

* {{Expy}}:
** Angel looks more or less like [[Manga/GhostInTheShell the Major]].
** Lucifer herself kinda looks like Creator/BrigitteNielsen.

* KillEmAll: The only named characters who survive the series are [[spoiler:Angel, Taki, and (maybe) Asura]]. To say nothing of the the nameless people who got sent to the slaughterhouse.

* BigBad: Tachihara, [[DragonAscendant originally a fight-hand man]], is the new leader of the [[DirtyCommunists Red May]] terrorist organization which wants to bring down the government and is the enemy of the titular [[AntiHero anti heroine]] Angel. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss He gets captured about halfway through]], after which the [[PsychicPowers Hunter]] known as [[DarkActionGirl Lucifer]] takes over, carrying out orders to kill everyone in the Special Security Force for (supposedly) aiding the terrorists. Then ''both'' of them are revealed to be pawns of [[AntagonisticGovernor Governor Maisaka]], all as part of his plan to dump American toxic waste in Japan and get rich off it.]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: The {{Stripperiffic}} outfit displaying AbsoluteCleavage that Angel is sporting on the cover suggests that she will providing copious {{Fanservice}}, which never happens in the series.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The Stripperiffic outfit displaying AbsoluteCleavage that Angel is sporting on the cover suggests that she will providing copious {{Fanservice}}, which never happens in the series.

* {{Engrish}}: Lucifer in the original.

''Angel Cop'' is a six-part original video animation directed by Ichiro Itano, but due to the content of the anime, it's usually considered that the driving force of the anime is actually the writer Sho Aikawa. A manga adaptation written and illustrated by Taku Kitazaki was serialized in Newtype Magazine and reprinted as a Newtype 100% collection in 1990.

The real reason to watch this anime is for the gunplay, the cars, the gruesome kills, the awesomely-animated displays of telekinetic power being thrown about by the Hunters, and the hilarious profanity in the dub.

%%* AntiHero

* BigBad: Tachihara, [[DragonAscendant originally a fight-hand man]], is the new leader of the [[DirtyCommunists Red May]] terrorist organization which wants to bring down the government and is the enemy of the titular {{anti heroine}} Angel. [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss He gets captured about halfway through]], after which the [[PsychicPowers Hunter]] known as [[DarkActionGirl Lucifer]] takes over, carrying out orders to kill everyone in the Special Security Force for (supposedly) aiding the terrorists. Then ''both'' of them are revealed to be pawns of [[AntagonisticGovernor Governor Maisaka]], all as part of his plan to dump American toxic waste in Japan and get rich off it.]]

%%* BlownAcrossTheRoom

%%* {{Cyberpunk}}

* {{Expy}}: Angel looks more or less like [[Manga/GhostInTheShell the Major]].

* {{Dubtitle}}: Since the Japanese original was deemed anti-Semitic and impossible to market in the west, the English sub and dub toned down the Jewish plot. Of course, anyone who knows Japanese can simply overlook the subtitles and listen to the actual dialogue and know what is actually going on in the scene. There is also the problem that even viewers who don't know Japanese can clearly hear the word "America" being said while the subtitles say something else.

* {{Jerkass}}: Angel.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Raiden shows back up as a cyborg courtesy of a local friendly MadScientist, it turns out most of the government is evil, and two of the Hunters join Angel and her team when they realize they're the unwitting pawns of a government conspiracy to somehow profit off of Americans dumping nuclear waste in Japanese territory.]]

* AntiHero

* BlownAcrossTheRoom

* {{Cyberpunk}}

* EnemyMine

* HighPressureBlood

* {{Magitek}}

* OffModel
* OutdatedOutfit

TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Japan's economy is so strong that it's linked to the global economy. This angers a communist terrorist group called "The Red May," who decides that the best way to make the world a more equitable place is to blow up as much Japanese infrastructure as possible. To combat these terrorists, a bunch of elite law enforcement officials licensed to kill are assembled. They include the titular "Angel," a buff dude called Raiden, a couple of other token stereotypes, and DaChief, Kaishō Taki. Together, they fight against Tachihara, the new leader of the Red May who took over from his boss and aims to accomplish the organization’s goals.

Things take a turn for the bizarre when Raiden goes missing after one encounter with the terrorists, and then the terrorists themselves get attacked attacked and murdered by three powerful psychics called "Hunters", Asura, Freya, and Lucifer.

* BigBad: Initially Tachihara, leader of the [[DirtyCommunists Red May]] terrorist organization which wants to bring down the government. He gets captured about halfway through, after which the [[PsychicPowers Hunter]] known as [[DarkActionGirl Lucifer]] takes over, carrying out orders to kill everyone in the Special Security Force for (supposedly) aiding the terrorists. [[spoiler:Then ''both'' of them are revealed to be pawns of [[AntagonisticGovernor Governor Maisaka]], all as part of his plan to dump American toxic waste in Japan and get rich off it.]]

* ColdBloddedTorture: A rare example committed by the ''heroes.'' The leader of Red May is tortured by the police for information. [[spoiler: It goes so far, that by the time they tell him that he has three ultra-powerful psychic assassins on his tail, his arm has been so damaged that it's ''[[{{Squick}} gangrenous and infested with maggots!]]]]''