History Anime / IrresponsibleCaptainTylor

* 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.]]]]

* 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.

* 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.

* CatchPhrase: "Just leave everything to me!" and "Don't worry!"

* PeekABangs: Dom, for the entire series except for a couple of moments of surprise.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Azalyn is the empress of the Raalgon empire, meaning she has to appear decisive and stoic. Don accidentally catches her crying after her father is assassinated and earns her trust by praising her for her normal emotional reactions instead of condemning her. She also grows close to Tylor since he doesn’t treat her any differently, showing a softer side around him. However, it's later suggested that she needs to wear the queenly mask ''more'' by standing up for herself and carrying herself with dignity and authority so that her advisors don't control everything instead of her.

* TheThingThatGoesDoink: In the second episode in a rooftop garden where Yamamoto is practicing kendo shirtless for his vacation.

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* AliensSpeakingEnglish

* ShotAtDawn

* TenMinuteRetirement: [[spoiler: Tylor, after Admiral Hanner's death]]. Goes hand-in-hand with the BaitAndSwitch ending, when we're led to believe [[spoiler: Yamamoto's reunited the rest of the crew aboard the ''Aso'', until he steps out of the way]]...
* TheThingThatGoesDoink: In the second episode in a rooftop garden where Yamamoto is practicing kendo shirtless for his vacation.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Subverted. The female characters in this show slap pretty hard, but the reaction is portrayed realistically. It's still painful though.

* RunningGag: Combined with ShoutOut -- one of the marines has a familiar white hockey mask, and [[Franchise/FridayThe13th a very familiar name]]. Every time something gets destroyed unexpectedly, he's immediately blamed. Doesn't help that his WeaponOfChoice is a ''chainsaw''.

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]]. Each episode was a mere 3 minutes.

* {{Expy}}: Captain Tylor is a [[LighterAndSofter much less serious]] version/interpretation of [[Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes Yang Wen-li.]] He even wears sunglasses at the end!

* RecycledInSpace: According to ''The Anime Encyclopedia'', "Tylor is a cartoon version of Hitoshi Taira, the lazy protagonist of the 1962 live-action movie ''Japan's Irresponsible Age'' who was played by comedian Hitoshi Ueki. This popular satire on Japan's salaryman culture featured a feckless individual who always managed to come out on top, advancing up promotional ladders when accidents befall his superiors or lucking into important business information simply by malingering and goofing off. The series and its theatrical spin-offs were revived in 1990, suspiciously close to the time when Hitoshi Yoshioka would have begun work on this anime version."

* PowerTrio: Tylor is Id, Yamamoto is Superego, and Yuriko is the ego.

* ThemeTuneCameo: At [[spoiler: Admiral Hanner's funeral]] Tylor sings the show's ending theme "Downtown Dance" with slightly different lyrics.

* {{Leitmotif}}: Every major character or group has one.
* LetsGetDangerous: "''As steady as a mountain. We stay... a mountain neither runs nor hides.''"

* LightNovels

* LoveFreak: Yuriko wanders into this trope occasionally.

* ManekiNeko: It's on the bridge.

* TheyDontMakeThemLikeTheyUsedTo: And perhaps [[TonkaTough Tonka Tough]] too, the Soyokaze went through an entire space base to reach the maiden departing dock of the Aso, without a scratch!

* BornLucky: About the only aspect of Tylor that both [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation theories on his intelligence]] agree on. It really comes down to how much does Tylor make his own luck.

* TheJester: When among the Raalgon, Tylor constantly points out the flaws and political maneuvering among Azalyn’s top advisors. Since he’s her ‘pet’ he can get away with being quite insulting. Unfortunately, Azalyn doesn’t listen to him as much as she should.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: At least some of Tylor’s stupid behavior is just playing dumb. The question is how ''much'' is just playing dumb. He usually doesn’t bother with tactics because of his odd fatalistic streak rather than not comprehending them, can act like a perfectly competent captain if he wants to and is an excellent judge of character and motivations when he wants to be. When inside his inner world, Yuriko and Azalyn see that there’s a lot going on under the surface that Tylor doesn’t tell anyone, but it’s all so hard to grasp that they can’t tell what he’s really like, only knowing tidbits like him knowingly playing TheJester for Azalyn to avoid mistreatment.

* CastOfSnowflakes: Every single member of the crew, even the members of the rarely seen fighter ships support crew, has a uniquely identifiable face.

--> -- '''Dr. Kitaguchi''' on Justy Ueki Tylor

** One of the marines is [[Franchise/FridayTheThirteenth Jason Voorhees]] IN SPACE! [[HilariousInHindsight Eight years before]] ''Film/JasonX'' was released.

** According to ''The Anime Encyclopedia'', "Tylor is a cartoon version of Hitoshi Taira, the lazy protagonist of the 1962 live-action movie ''Japan's Irresponsible Age'' who was played by comedian Hitoshi Ueki. This popular satire on Japan's salaryman culture featured a feckless individual who always managed to come out on top, advancing up promotional ladders when accidents befall his superiors or lucking into important business information simply by malingering and goofing off. The series and its theatrical spin-offs were revived in 1990, suspiciously close to the time when Hitoshi Yoshioka would have begun work on this anime version."

* RedHerring: A scene in the opening suggests that Dom would be revealed to be the BigBad, he isn't.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots