History Anime / LycorisRecoil

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime made by Creator/A1Pictures and aired in the Summer 2022 Season. The series is licenced by Creator/AniplexUSA who are simulcasting it on Website/{{Crunchyroll}}, with an English dub from Creator/BangZoomEntertainment currently streaming.

* RareGuns:
** The Lycoris agents shown in the later part of episode 10 are using what appear to be custom-made KRISS Vector CRB submachine guns, with a barrel length halfway in between the standard short-barrel model and the carbine model.
** [[spoiler: The [=LilyBell=] agents wield what look to be the Beretta [=ARX160=] assault rifle in Episode 12.]] This may be a case of RuleOfCool because the Japanese government does not make use of the rifle in real life.

* RealPlaceBackground: The "Blue Turtle" restaurant in the last episode is [[https://blueturtle.jp/ an actual restaurant]]

* RealPlaceBackground: The "Blue Turtle" restaurant in the last episode is [[https://blueturtle.jp/ an restaurant]]

* CarFu: Majima's usual tactic against [[spoiler:Lycoris agents]] is to run them over with his car to disable them, before finishing them off with his team's gunshots.

* AffablyEvil: Majima affects a casual, devil-may-care attitude, and despite being entirely willing to kill Chisato or anyone else in his way, he and Chisato also hit it off geeking out over their shared favorite movie, ''[[BlandNameProduct Guy]] [[Film/DieHard Hard]]'', and he even calls a time-out during their final face-off to give her a breather and a drink.

** In Episode 2, Some of the movies Chisato was considering to suggest to Takina include "[[Film/ConAir Rum Air]]", "[[Film/TheTerminator Eliminator]]", [[Film/DieHard Guy Hard]]", and "[[Film/JohnWick Max Trick]]".

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: pretty much sums up the whole series; a dark and deadly world of spy fiction where youngs girls are trained to murder terrorists in secret - said girls being at the danger of being "erased" at any moment notice if the higher-ups think their existence compromise the masquerade - where the main protagonist is a superpowered shounen manga pacifist who avoid killing anybody while moonlighting as the cute and friendly mascot of your local cafe.

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Chisato and Takina play an online video game but don't know that their actually playing against [[TheRival Fuki and Sakura]], who likewise don't know who their opponents actually are. The two groups have the following exchange: One of the girls (Takina/Sakura) comments how their partner (Chisato/Fuki) is taking the game seriously, to which the partner responds in [[{{SpeakInUnison}} unknown unison]]:

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Chisato and Takina play an online video game but don't know that their actually playing against[[TheRival Fuki and Sakura]], who likewise don't know who their opponents actually are. The two groups have the following exchange: One of the girls (Takina/Sakura) comments how their partner (Chisato/Fuki) is taking the game seriously, to which the partner responds in [[{{SpeakInUnison}} unknown unison]]:

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: pretty much sums up the whole series - a dark and deadly world of spy fiction where youngs girls are trained to murder terrorists in secret - said girls being at the danger of being "erased" at any moment if the higher-ups think their existence compromise the masquerade - where the main protagonist is a superpowered shounen manga pacifist who avoid killing anybody.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: pretty much sums up the whole series - a dark and deadly world of spy fiction where youngs girls are trained to murder terrorists in secret where the main protagonist is a superpowered shounen manga pacifist who avoid killing anybody.

** Episode 1 shows Chisato taking the {{https://outdoorempire.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/rsz_retention_position.jpg retention stance}} when it comes to shooting a pistol, which is where the shooter tucks in their shooting arm into their body. This is to prevent a close range attacker from grabbing your gun, easily smacking the arm out of the way, or using the arm for leverage in some manner. This is necessary because Chisato's non-lethal bullets are inaccurate, requiring her to shoot her targets at essentially melee range. Everyone else doesn't adopt this stance, and Chisato takes advantage of this in Episode 3

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Neither Robota or the hitmen hired to kill Walnut are taken in for their actions in episode 2. In the case of the latter, this is partially due to Chisato [[YouWillBeSpared letting their leader live]], though she does threaten to [[MurderByInaction let him bleed out]].]]

** [[spoiler:Majima survives his fall off the Enkuboku Tower in the finale and is still at large]].
** [[spoiler:Chisato and Takina are taking troubleshooting requests from locals in Hawaii]].

*** In the same episode, one of Majima's terrorists uses a Panzerfaust 3, which the JSDF is known to have access to.

** With Lycoris agents intercepting all violent criminals and terrorists in Tokyo, the police don't have the necessary experience to deal with hostile situations, and thus they're nearly helpless when [[spoiler:Majima spreads his thousands of guns around Tokyo and encourages civilians to take them.]]

* CoolCar: The "super car" that Chisato sees in Episode 2 is a Lexus LFA. It's no wonder she's all mopey afterwards when Walnut shows up in a much less extravagant white van and they have to leave the Lexus behind.
* CrapsaccharineWorld: Tokyo and Japan are touted as being the safest places to live in the world, but that comes at the cost of DA preemptively assassinating anybody that is a potential threat. And their agents? Orphaned girls trained and indoctrinated from childhood to be government sanctioned assassins. And they're fighting terrorist threats on almost a ''daily'' basis. Episode 11 also [[spoiler:has Majima reveal that ''3,000 people a year'' go missing in Tokyo and imply that many of those disappearances are caused by Lycoris agents.]]

** [[spoiler:Chisato and Takina are taking troubleshooting requests from locals in HAwaii]].

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Majima survives his fall off the Enkuboku Tower in the finale and is still at large.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chisato, Takina and the rest of [=LycoReco=] manage to stop Majima and Robota’s rampage, with the latter having been arrested thanks to Kurumi’s efforts, and are able to get Chisato her replacement heart transplant, before moving to Hawaii to start a new life together running a food truck. However, Mika was forced to kill Shinji in order to retrieve Chisato’s transplant and lied about how he got it to keep her conscience clean. Furthermore, Majima was able to survive his fall off the Enkuboku Tower and is still at large, meaning he’ll likely be causing more trouble again in the future and half of the firearms he distributed across Tokyo are still unaccounted for. Additionally, despite Kurumi's efforts, the people of Tokyo now question whether the Lycoris agents actually exist, leaving the future of DA uncertain.]]

* BookEnds: In the first episode, Saori starts the [=LycoReco=] crew on their journey after accidentally snapping a shot of the arms deal. Then, in Episode 13, [[spoiler:she accidentallly snaps a shot of Chisato when she and her boyfriend are on vacation, as Chisato had run away after receiving her surgery and was trying to hide.]]

-->'''Chisato:''' Miss Saori, at some point you're gonna take a picture of an alien or something.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chisato, Takina and the rest of [=LycoReco=] manage to stop Majima and Robota’s rampage and are able to get Chisato her replacement heart transplant, before moving to Hawaii to start a new life together running a food truck. However, Mika was forced to kill Shinji in order to retrieve Chisato’s transplant and lied about how he got it to keep her conscience clean. Furthermore, Majima was able to survive his fall off the Enkuboku Tower and is still at large, meaning he’ll likely be causing more trouble again in the future and half of the firearms he distributed across Tokyo are still unaccounted for. Additionally, despite Kurumi's efforts, the people of Tokyo now question whether the Lycoris agents actually exist, leaving the future of DA uncertain.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chisato, Takina and the rest of [=LycoReco=] manage to stop Majima and Robota’s rampage and are able to get Chisato her replacement heart transplant, before moving to Hawaii to start a new life together running a food truck. However, Mika was forced to kill Shinji in order to retrieve Chisato’s transplant and lied about how he got it to keep her conscience clean. Furthermore, Majima was able to survive his fall off the Enkuboku Tower and is still at large, meaning he’ll likely be causing more trouble again in the future. Additionally, despite Kurumi's efforts, the people of Tokyo now question whether the Lycoris agents actually exist, leaving the future of DA uncertain.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Chisato, Takina and the rest of [=LycoReco=] manage to stop Majima and Robota’s rampage and are able to get Chisato her replacement heart transplant, before moving to Hawaii to start a new life together running a food truck. However, Mika was forced to kill Shinji in order to retrieve Chisato’s transplant and lied about how he got it to keep her conscience clean. Furthermore, Majima was able to survive his fall off the Enkuboku Tower and is still at large, meaning he’ll likely be causing more trouble again in the future.]]

* DodgeTheBullet: Chisato seemingly has this ability, since a gunman using a rifle at close range was unable to hit her and she's able to dodge Takina's hairtie bullet at the end of Episode 2, despite Takina being behind her. It turns out this is because she has enough awareness to know where the bullet is going to end up; Kusunoki states Chisato could dodge a bullet fired right against her head. This is further explained in Episode 6 by Mizuki: Chisato watches the movements of her opponent's muscles and clothing, allowing her to predict where they plan to shoot.

* FalseUtopia: Japan is known to be the safest place in the world, but this is only possible due to preemtive assassination of anyone who might cause an incident. This is then reinforced by a media that reports only what DA tells them, covering up deaths and violent crimes as nothing more than accidents. And all of this is only possible due to intensive surveillance by the government and their exploitation of orphan girls to serve as child soldiers.

* PoliceAreUseless: Due to Lycoris agents intercepting all terrorists and violent criminals, the Tokyo Police [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome don't have sufficient experience in dealing with potentially hostile scenarios]]. This bites them in the ass in Episode 10 [[spoiler:when Majima spread his thousands of guns around Tokyo and encourages civilians to take them. This quickly results in one officer shooting a curious civilian dead for holding a pistol.]]

* [[TitleDropChapter Title Drop Episode]]: Episode 13 is titled "Recoil of Lycoris", which can also be gramatically interpreted as "Lycoris Recoil".