History Anime / Mnemosyne

* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: For both Rin and Mimi.

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Maeno]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: [[spoiler:Time Spores from Immortals are blue, while Time Spores from Angels are red.]]
** Furthermore, [[spoiler:Yggdrasil's regular spores are dull and don't glow, while time spores that haven't touched mortals yet are yellow.]]

* DepravedBisexual: Sayara, a sexual sadist who rapes both Rin and Koki.

%%* DepravedBisexual: Sayara. ZERO CONTEXT EXAMPLE

* PreMortemOneLiner: Rin gets one in the first episode, [[spoiler:though the recipient [[LeftForDead doesn't actually die]]]]. From the [[{{Woolseyism}} dub]]:

$$* ShowerOfAngst: Rin in episode 5.

* AugmentedReality: Becomes so prevalent in the near future of the last couple episodes that a skilled enough hacker can effectively turn himself into TheIllusionist - the thought of turning their AR interfaces off simply never ''occurs'' to people anymore.

* KnowledgeBroker: An [[NoNameGiven unnamed woman]] and two of her successors, who [[TrademarkFavoriteFood drink Grasshoppers]] and [[CoitusEnsues take sex as payment]].

* NaughtyNuns: [[spoiler:Mimi actually looks like a real nun, until the point of the [[CoitusEnsues yuri orgy]]]].

** [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Lesbian]] [[CoitusEnsues sex]] [[{{Fanservice}} scenes]].

** Rin fulfilled the trope when she went [[AirVentPassageway exploring air vents]], but not with a traditional catsuit: She wore a black, skin-tight shirt and pants. The shirt had a zipper, and for added {{fanservice}} [[BareYourMidriff bared her midriff]] and [[VaporWear did not feature a bra]]. She also dressed Kouki up in a similar but [[DoubleStandard less fanservicey]] outfit.

* DistressedDamsel: Mimi depends on Rin and other immortals to protect her. [[spoiler:It is then reversed in the final episode with Mimi having to rescue Rin from the castle.]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Most of the series' sex scenes are either [[SexForServices transactional]] or [[RapeAsDrama non-consensual]], and are portrayed as such. Rin's love scene with [[spoiler:Tajimamori]] in the final episode is a thing of beauty that they both clearly enjoy.

* HighPressureBlood

* LaserGuidedAmnesia

* CryCute: Rin.

* PsychoLesbian: Sayara and Laura.

* ShowerOfAngst: Rin in episode 5.

* ShowSomeLeg

** Laura's standard outfit is a black catsuit, but it's not particularly tight, so it's more badass than fanservicey. (Except for one brief, inexplicable shot where it was unzipped enough to [[AbsoluteCleavage show off her cleavage]].)

* TheStoic: Rin.

* {{Stripperific}}: Mishio Maeno's outfits.
* StuffBlowingUp: Courtesy of Laura.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Apos is consumed by his own Yggdrasil egg, and Rin forcibly feeds him Laura's time fruit so he'll know the pain he put her through, while Laura [[WhoWantsToLiveForever gets to finally die]]. Rin, Mimi, Teruki, and Mishio all live to the end credits, and Rin births Tajimamori's son, whose descendants will in time connect all of humanity to Yggdrasil

* FriendOnTheForce: Tamotsu Yanagihara.

* BlessedWithSuck: Being immortal is pretty nifty, overall, but there are a few issues: first, your body will always regenerate ''to the state it was in when you first became immortal''. That's fine if the subject happen to receive the Seed of Yggdrasil while you're young and healthy, but if they do it while wounded, they must endure an eternity of suffering. Rin ends up as one of the last people on Earth to wear glasses (see below) since she was born with bad eyesight and attained her immortality millennia before corrective surgery - so if she had any now, her eyes would just ''heal'' back to their original, defective state. Second, and more importantly, immortal women become paralyzed with suicidal lust in the presence of angels... which normally results in them ''[[BlackWidow feeding]] [[OutWithABang themselves]]'' to the monster.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: InUniverse and PlayedForLaughs in Episode 2, where Mimi retorts Koki's remark about screwing up a computer job by saying "This is a top of the line 16-bit 40MHz CPU and 128MB of RAM with a 300MB hard drive with all the bells and whistles."

Also known as ''Mnemosyne no Musume-tachi'' (''Daughters of Mnemosyne'') and marketed in the United States as ''Rin -Daughters of Mnemosyne-'', ''Mnemosyne'' is a six episode anime television series and light novel produced by Xebec that follows private investigator Rin Asougi, a member of the AlwaysFemale immortals, as she takes odd jobs and tries to avoid the mysterious connections to her past, while fighting against the sinister AlwaysMale [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] and their leader, [[BigBad Apos]].

* DepravedBisexual: Sayara.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The symbol of the Guardian resembles an uterus, ovaries, and fallopian tubes.

* FalseCameraEffects: LensFlare.
* FanDisservice
* FanService

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex
* GoodThingYouCanHeal

* GratuitousEnglish: The AnimeThemeSong ''Alsatia'' by Music/{{Galneryus}}, which is known for writing their lyrics in English.

* HealingFactor

* ImmortalLifeIsCheap

All in all, the series is a {{seinen}} taken UpToEleven, featuring nigh everything older male audiences' hearts may desire: sexy girls, [[CoolOldGuy respectable guys]], MindScrew of a plot, alcohol, blood, and a considerable amount of sex in all flavors. Be prepared to wince a couple of times, though, as the series often [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence blurs the line between its sex and violence]], and [[GoodThingYouCanHeal fully exploits its main character's immortality]] to put her in situations that often lead to what would be the end of a horror story.

---> '''Mimi''': "Rin! You were supppose to find our client's lost cat!"

* KnifeNut: Rin has at least several push knives on hand at all times.

* [[spoiler:BabiesEverAfter: Rin with Tajimamori, though she presumably raises the baby as a single mother since Taji was killed by Apos.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Rin. Even though she ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold very much]]'' subverts the "timid" meganekko stereotype, when she is nice she can also be a genuinely sweet, if not downright cute person.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Teruki's blond hair is presumably a dye job, and Ruon's orange hair is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since [[spoiler:she exists in {{Cyberspace}} and uses a [[RobotGirl gynoid body]] in the real world]], but there's no explanation for Rin or Mimi, whose hair are green and lavender respectively.