History Anime / IrresponsibleCaptainTylor

* KnifeThrowingAct: Referenced. The marines hear someone listening at the door during a secret meeting with the captain, so they leap outside throwing a couple of knives which hit on either side of Harumi, who's dressed in a skintight outfit (instead of her usual HelloNurse look) as she's trying to assassinate Captain Tylor.

* HelloNurse: Harumi. Pretty much the entire crew fakes sick just to be treated by her.

* CaptainErsatz: Several characters and organizations are based on those found in ''StarTrek'', if skewed a little... sideways.

Interesting Fact: Captain Tylor's first and second name ([[PunnyName Justy Ueki]]) is a pun on the words 'Just wake', as in "Just Wake Tylor." "Just Lucky" can be derived as well; seems appropriate.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Yuriko worries that a random warp may make the Soyokaze teleport into a high population area while Tylor looks on the bright side and thinks it’ll appear near a paradise world. Almost all of space is empty, so the odds of appearing near ANYTHING of note would be fantastically small.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of the time, Tylor looks and acts like a complete ditz. But when the chips are down and his crew is in trouble, he'll usually come up with a brilliant plan to save the day. Either that, or [[IndyPloy he's just making it up as he goes.]]

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[[caption-width-right:220:[-A [[BornLucky lucky bastard]] or a ''[[MagnificentBastard Magnificent]]'' [[MagnificentBastard Bastard]]?-] ]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of the time, Tylor looks and acts like a complete ditz. But when the chips are down and his crew is in trouble, he'll usually come up with a plan to save the day. Either that, or [[IndyPloy he's just making it up as he goes.]]

* OrganicTechnology: The Raalgons are based around this.
* OurElvesAreDifferent: The Raalgon have [[SpaceElves pointed ears and organic technology,]] as well as a feudalistic society ruled by an Empress.

* HealItWithBooze: Subverted in one episode, where Dr. Kitaguchi considers using his personal stash when crew injuries are piling up. He considers it, takes a swig, then decides it'd be a waste.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Harumi after she puts the plan in motion to infect the crew.

* NegativeSpaceWedgie

* ItsPersonal: Admiral Donan after being “outwitted” by the Soyokaze early in the show attempts to track Tylor down for revenge. [[spoiler:He leads his entire fleet to orbit around a star then fires on the Soyokaze. The star’s gravity well changes the course of the shots, hitting the star and causing it to flare up and destroy his own fleet. His ship crippled, Donan asks Dom if he managed to take out the Soyokaze as well and Dom [[LetThemDieHappy confirms his success.]]]]

* CliffHanger: The OVA, the OVA, the OVA! [[spoiler: The ''Soyokaze'' is destroyed, the Raalgon Empire is under attack by an unknown third party and Yamamoto of all people is placed in charge of the entire human fleet.]]) Wanna know what happens next? Too bad! They never made a sequel! If you can find the light novels maybe, maybe you can find out what happens next.
** Except the light novels are an entirely different continuity. On the bright side, apparently there's a live action movie being worked on in Japan...and there's a summation in the special features of the deluxe box sets which explains what was meant to happen afterward...

* ChekhovsSkill: A fairly odd one. Tylor accidentally sweet-talking the recruitment exam AI just seems like an odd throwaway gag at first (once it becomes clear that he's '''not''' an AccidentalPornomancer, that is). But suddenly it becomes a lot more plot relevant when Tylor does almost exactly the same thing again [[spoiler: with Raalgon spy and RobotGirl Harumi]].

*** All of the above come from one fabulous episode. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny It has to be seen to be believed.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Most of the time, Tylor looks and acts like a complete ditz. But when the chips are down and his crew is in trouble, he'll usually come up with a CrazyAwesome plan to save the day. Either that, or [[IndyPloy he's just making it up as he goes.]]

* AdjectiveNounFred

* AdaptationDistillation: According to the box set liner notes, the producers weren't keen on the light novels' original depiction of the romance between Tylor and Azalyn -- not when Tylor was close to 30 and Azalyn was 10. One of the demands by the producers was that Tylor's age was to be reduced to 20, and Azalyn's to be increased to 16.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Tylor. Most of the time, he looks and acts like a complete ditz. But when the chips are down and his crew is in trouble, he'll usually come up with a CrazyAwesome plan to save the day. Either that, or [[IndyPloy he's just making it up as he goes.]]

On July 11, 2017, a sequel of sorts, ''Musekinin Galaxy Tylor'' has been broadcast, with a descendant of Justy named Banjo Ueki Tylor as the main character, and finally ended in September 26, 2017 with 12 episodes. If you're hoping for some of the charm from the original, [[{{Sequelitis}} you won't find it there]].

* TheGift: The twins are natural fighter pilots once they actually know how the controls work in the ship.

* HeadbuttingHeroes: For about half the show, most of the crew dislikes or disrespects Tylor. For his part, he’s not good at dealing with Yuriko but hides it far better than she does. After Harumi is annoyed by the marines disrespecting him the story turns more serious and the crew realizes that they do trust Tylor.

* HeManWomanHater: Kojiro Sasaki never quite grew out of the GirlsHaveCooties stage of childhood. Naturally, this means that the ridiculously cute twins just ''have'' to latch on to him from day one onward...

On July 11, 2017, a sequel of sorts, ''Musekinin Galaxy Tylor'' will broadcast, with a descendant of Justy named Banjo Ueki Tylor as the main character.

* TheAlcoholic[=/=]DrunkenMaster: Dr. Kitaguchi. If what he says is true, he's at his best for work when drunk.

* ShroudedInMyth: Most of the people who meet Tylor think he’s an idiot, but with his constantly good results people just don’t know what to think of him. The Raalgon empire in particular has great admiration for his apparent abilities.

* GenreSavvy: In episode 17, [[spoiler:after Tylor has been captured by Raalgons and the crew of the ''Soyokaze'' has been locked up in quarantine,]] the characters have seen enough of the dumb luck that follows Tylor around that they start asking themselves "what would Tylor do?" and then doing it, even if it seems to make no sense by the strategies and regulations they've clung to so far. And by the middle of episode 18, even the WrongGenreSavvy Lieutenant Yamamamoto has started acting like Tylor to the point that Yuriko Star remarks on it in internal dialogue. [[spoiler: By the end of episode 18, this Tylorian philosophy has seen the crew escape from captivity, evade an entire UPSF fleet in pursuit, infiltrate the Raalgon flagship, ''and'' rescue Tylor and capture Azalyn. So you could say it worked.]]

* SlobsVersusSnobs: During episode eleven Kim and Yuriko come into conflict over how formal they should be while on duty with no emergencies. After awhile they intentionally go to extremes just to annoy each other, but come to a compromise when Kim realizes they don’t know when an emergency might occur. Of course, she actually proved her point when she was the only effective person to respond when an emergency DID occur. Then comes a forced bonding scene where they talk about all sorts of girly things like make up and high heels.