History Anime / LycorisRecoil

* PantyShot: In Episode 4, Chisato takes Takina shopping after seeing that she wears men's boxers on Mika's recommendation. When Takina checks Chisato's panties for comparison, [[SceneryCensor they're obscured by Takina's head]]. Chisato's panties are briefly seen when she tries out the boxers at the end of the episode, though when she directs Mizuki toward Takina to explain who the boxers came from, Takina's new panties are also obscured by Mizuki's head.

* KarmaHoudini: The hitmen hired by Robota to kill Walnut are not taken in for their actions in Episode 2, though this is after Takina gravely wounds one of them and then Chisato saves the man from bleeding out. [[spoiler:Robota manages to avoid justice [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty until Episode 12]], when Kurumi fries his setup and pinpoints his location for Detective Abe, who arrests him.]] By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Majima is the only character who still qualifies for this trope, as he survives falling from Enkuboku Tower and is still at large. While he is shown to be heavily injured from the previous battle, it is implied in plans on coming up with a new plan.]]

* KarmaHoudini: The hitmen hired by Robota to kill Walnut are not taken in for their actions in Episode 2, though this is after Takina gravely wounds one of them and then Chisato saves the man from bleeding out. [[spoiler:Robota manages to avoid justice [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty until Episode 12]], when Kurumi fries his setup and pinpoints his location for Detective Abe, who arrests him.]] By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Majima is the only character who still qualifies for this trope, as he survives falling from Enkuboku Tower and is still at large.]]

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The series starts with Takina being demoted and transferred to [=LycoReco=] as punishment for disobeying orders during a mission. Episode 3 also suggests this happened to [[spoiler:Chisato, as neither she nor Kusunoki are on friendly terms]], though it's unclear what happened to cause it.

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of ''Literature/BenTo'' fame), produced 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. [[https://twitter.com/aniplexUSA/status/1725657621259018465 The English dub will also air on Adult Swim's Toonami block starting January 20th, 2024]].

DA: Direct Attack, a secret organization dedicated to maintaining the public safety of Japan through any means necessarily. DA utilizes "Lycoris," young women trained as spies and assassins, to assist in this process. Takina Inoue was a member of DA's headquarters before being transferred to the cafe [="LycoReco"=] due to a mission where she disobeyed orders. She is partnered with Chisato Nishikigi, considered a top-tier Lycoris by many. Chisato doesn't appear to be the ideal Lycoris, though - but nothing is as it appears in the world of Lycoris.

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of ''Literature/BenTo'' fame), produced 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. [[https://twitter.com/aniplexUSA/status/1725657621259018465 The English Dub will also air on Adult Swim's Toonami block starting January 20th, 2024]].

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In real life, PKM machine guns have a weight of 4.5kg even in their lightest versions and not counting the ammo, and they also produce an appropriately fearsome kickback. No amount of presumible strength (additional factors in play like body weight and weight distribution would be just as necessary) would allow a slender, 1.60m girl like Takina to fire it at full auto from the hip all casually and achieving enough precision to hit a target without harming the dangerously close hostage.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Chisato is a genius at anticipating her enemy's movements by watching the movement of their muscles and clothes. However, that does her no good when she's blinded or can't see her target. In two instances, this is exploited by Majima. In Episode 6, [[spoiler:Majima spits blood in her eyes]], while in Episode 11, [[spoiler:Majima shuts the metal blinds of the Skytree and turns off the lights, turning the room they're in pitch black, while also knocking away her flashlight]]. In both instances, Chisato is rendered almost helpless.
** Majima's SuperHearing allows him to track enemies without needing to see them. However, having such sensitive hearing means he'd be vulnerable to loud noises, especially if they're unexpected. In Episode 12, [[spoiler:Chisato exploits this by firing her gun right next to Majima's ears, deafening him temporarily and allowing her and Takina to subdue him]].
** 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 [[PoliceAreUseless they're nearly helpless]] when [[spoiler:Majima spreads his thousands of guns around Tokyo and encourages civilians to take them.]]

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of ''Literature/BenTo'' fame), produced 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.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In real life, the lightest variation of the PKM machine gun weights 4.5kg without counting the ammo and has an appropriately fearsome kickback. No amount of physical training would allow a slender, non-superhuman 1.60m girl like Takina to fire it at full auto from the hip all casually and achieving enough precision to hit a target without harming the dangerously close hostage.

*** Kurumi means "Walnut", which also connects with her alias.

* ShootTheHostageTaker: In the first episode, when a Lycoris has been taken at gunpoint by arms dealers, Takina does this. [[MoreDakka With a PKM machinegun.]] She didn't particularly care if she had hit the Lycoris, though.

* FlowerMotifs: Both the imagery of the series and the name for DA ChildSoldiers is linked to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoris_radiata Lycoris radiata]], a flower heavily associated with death, funerals and graves in Japan. It seems appropriate for the Lycoris girls' role as assassins, and how many of them are regularly killed in action without ever receiving any official tribute for their sacrifice.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: In real life, the lightest variation of the PKM machine gun weights 4,5kg without counting the ammo and has an appropriately fearsome kickback. No amount of physical training would allow a slender, non-superhuman 1.60m girl like Takina to fire it at full auto from the hip all casually and achieving enough precision to hit a target without harming the dangerously close hostage.

* 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.]]

* DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler:Walnut turns to [=LycoReco=] for help escaping. What Mika and Mizuki cook up is an audacious plan to masquerade as Walnut, while an unaware Chisato and Takina bodyguard him in a supposed "escape" to the airport, until he's gunned down by rival hitmen, leaving everyone initially convinced that Walnut has been killed.]]

** Episode 11 takes Kurumi's analysis abilities to ludicrous levels, especially given all she was using at the time was a headset and voice commands. With those, she does the following: analyze a photo of a person's face, use the reflection in the person's iris to determine their immediate surroundings, use time-lapsing to look at the location when it was an active workshop, look through camera footage from 10 years ago, record audio vibrations to create a profile of the person's voice, then cross-reference it to find the latest point the person spoke in the same room. ''Phew''.

** Even more directly, the spider lily seen prominently in the show has a direct, straightforward meaning from its historical use. The scientific name - ''Lycoris radiata'' - is the name of our assassins and of [=DM's=] computer system. Historically, the poisonous plant was grown at the edges of rice fields, to discourage bugs and mice from eating the rice, just as DM and the Lycoris protect the peace of Tokyo.

* GasLeakCoverUp: One of the standard-issue excuses released to the public in regards to any Lycoris-related incident. In the first episode, Takina ventilates a room of arms dealers in a high rise building with a machinegun, but Saori, a civilian Takina later meets, only hears that a "gas explosion" had occurred.

* RealPlaceBackground: The final episode has a scene that takes place on Miyako Island, which is in Okinawa Archipelago south of the mainland. Scenes include the front of the airport, Irabu Bridge (which connects to the nearby Irabu Island), and the "Blue Turtle" restaurant, which is [[https://blueturtle.jp/ an actual restaurant]]

** Episode 1 shows Chisato taking the 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

-->'''[[{{SplitScreen}} Chisato/Fuki]]:''' "Well/I Mean Yeah!. Take a look at their annoying username!"

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of ''LightNovel/BenTo'' fame), produced 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.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: In episode 4, several background Lycoris happen to be dead-ringers for [[https://twitter.com/tsuguminarita/status/1550917543648321536 Asuna, Suguha and Rika]] from ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', which was also adapted by A-1 Pictures. Just to drive the reference home, they appear when Majima makes his first appearance, who also happens to have Kirito's voice actor.[[note]]Tragically, all three were presumably KIA'd when Majima detonated explosives kept in his men's bags.[[/note]]

* LovelyAngels: Chisato and Takina, following in the footsteps of the ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'', right down to one being a GenkiGirl with light-colored short hair and the other more demure with long, dark hair. Furthering the similarity, they are the best team on the force, but are hated by management.

* ToiletHumor: One of the ways Takina tries to boost profitability for [=LycoReco=] is by creating a new desert made of chocolate. Many characters point out that it looks like a steaming pile of poo (though not to Takina's face, not wanting to upset her), which the café eventually capitalizes on. In spite of its looks, it's actually a very tasty dessert. Much to Takina's embarrassment, by the time she realizes what it looks like, the dessert is too popular to stop making.

* ChildSoldiers: The Lycoris are trained as assassins from a very young age - Chisato stopped a terrorist attack 10 years ago... and she's still ''only 17-18'' now.

* ConspiracyTheorist: One of the hackers Robota hires in episode 6 proudly proclaims himself as one, even proclaiming that both Freemasons and the Illuminati (both common conspiracies) are themselves hoaxes. He makes the mistake of hacking into Radiata directly, [[EvenEvilHasStandards something even Robota is terrified about]]. The police quickly arrest him for both the hacking and the subsequent child porn they find in his possession.

* AllPartOfTheShow: [[spoiler:Despite Majima's public broadcast exposing DA to Japan, Kurumi manages to take back control of the airwaves from Robota and then quickly kludge up a fake broadcast claiming the footage of all the gunfights is just part of a SpyFiction-themed AlternateRealityGame taking place at the Enkuboku. Combined with the restored Radiata returning to run media control, Japan's populace (mostly) buys the excuse, sparing all the Lycoris from being executed by the [=LilyBell=] agents in a clean-up operation.]]

* TerribleArtist: When Takina and Chisato draw a picture in Episode 7, they both look utterly amateurish. [[spoiler:They were supposed to draw Majima's appearance for DA, but Takina's attempt falls into the UncannyValley and Chisato's only just being slightly better by looking more "like a manga". Fuki's attempt, while better on a technical level, looks nothing like the subject. Sakura snarks about how drawing should be a requirement to be a Lycoris as this happens.]]

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime co-created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of ''LightNovel/BenTo'' fame), produced 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.

** Episode 4 starts with Chisato and Takina at a firing range, using rubber bullets. As would be the case in real life, they are horribly inaccurate. Chisato overcomes this by using her dodging skills to get into [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank range]] of her targets, eliminating the accuracy issue. Once Takina switches back to her regular pistol rounds, she's back to near-perfect accuracy with her handgun.

''Lycoris Recoil'' is an original action thriller anime co-created by Spider Lily and Asaura (of LightNovel/BenTo fame), produced 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.