History Anime / RedGarden

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Paula is quite clearly in love with Kate.

** This may just be WildMassGuessing but the reason Red Garden isn't [[GeniusBonus marketed as]] [[FurAgainstFang FAF]] might be because while it is the short and narrow, in order to attract [[{{Shojo}} a larger female following]] the [[FurAgainstFang FAF]] setting was wisely omitted in advertisements when one considers the art style and focus on the [[IJustWantToBeNormal main characters.]]

* LoveTriangle: Between Rachel, Luke, and Amanda. Sam wants in with Rachel though she never reciprocates, and people assume this about Rachel's [[HotForTeacher literature teacher]],

** Beforehand, Louise mentions having met the girls before which would indicate that she remembered her past life. If that is the case, then she could've been able to tell the girls about their past which is what they seeking clues for.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Grace.

* AncientConspiracy

* AnyoneCanDie: And ''how''.

* TheBerserker: Claire.
* BigApplesauce

* {{Bishonen}}: Herve.
* BittersweetEnding

* BloodSplatteredInnocents
* BreakTheCutie

* TheChewToy: Poor, poor Rachel.
* ChristmasEpisode: Which is also the penultimate episode.
* CouldntFindAPen: In the OVA, telling the girls to go to Anime/RedGarden.
* CowerPower: Rose's defining traits. It becomes so bad that [[spoiler: in Episode 13, it nearly gets Rachel killed.]]
** Oddly enough, in Episode 7, she is seen actually fighting the monster with the other girls, getting a few good hits as well.

* DarkMagicalGirl
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Randy and Dr. Bender.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Lula.

* DieOrFly
* DiesWideOpen

* EccentricMillionaire: Randy, Claire's older brother.
* EpisodeTitleCard

* FirstEpisodeResurrection

* ForeignLanguageTitle
* FourGirlEnsemble

* GirlPosse
* GlowingEyesOfDoom

* HealingFactor

* HotForTeacher: Rachel gets accused of this.
* HumongousMecha: In the OVA.
* IJustWantToBeNormal
* IllGirl: Mireille and Anna, Herve's cousin and sister respectively.

* InASingleBound
* IncurableCoughOfDeath
* JigsawPuzzlePlot

* LaserGuidedAmnesia

* OnTheNext
* OneHitKO: Occurs every now and then during the fights.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent

* PendulumWar: [[spoiler: The finale.]]
* PerpetualPoverty: Claire.

* ReallyDeadMontage
* RebelliousPrincess: Claire.
* TheReveal

* ShrinkingViolet: Rose.

* TrainingMontage
* TrueCompanions
* TheVirus: The curse.

* ConspicuousCG: The OVA mecha.

* TheVirus: The curse.

* HopeSpot: Lula presents one to the girls when they seem ready to quit fighting by showing them their dead bodies and telling them they can be resurrected and return to their normal lives if they can continue to fight. This lifts the girls' spirits up and they slowly begin to grow happier and start to get along with each other. Then comes [[TheReveal episode]] [[AwfulTruth sixteen]].

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:JC in Lula's and later, Lula in Rachel's.]]

* TheBerserker: Claire.

* TheOtherDarrin: Joe Diaz voices Herve up until episode 16 in the dub. He is voiced by Quentin Haag for the rest of the series.

* {{Timeskip}}: The Dead Girls {{OVA}} takes place several hundred years in the future, with all of New York except Roosevelt Island mile high buildings and floating cars.

* CaptainErsatz: The NYPD investigators, an old jaded white guy and his younger black partner, would seem to be [[LawAndOrder Detectives Briscoe and Green]] with the badge numbers filed off.

* ShoutOut: In episode 4, there's seemingly a shout out to either the "Soup Nazi" from ''{{Seinfeld}}'' or the real person who inspired the character.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Rachel is the first to kill a monster in Episode 4 when she beats it to death with Claire's bat in a berserk state. In Episode 7, the girls (with even ''Rose'' included) viciously beat up another in an alley, and once again in a strategic manner in Episode 11.

* CouldntFindAPen: In the OVA, telling the girls to go to RedGarden.

Combining elements of horror, music -- the girls occasionally break into song -- and teen drama, ''RedGarden'' takes a very different approach to the girls-fighting-monsters genre.

* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** Creator/BrittneyKarbowski: Rose
** Creator/MiyukiSawashiro: Claire
** Creator/RyokoShintani: Rachel
** Creator/MisatoFukuen: Lise
** Creator/TakashiKondo and Creator/ChrisPatton: JC
** Creator/IllichGuardiola: Luke
** Creator/RieTanaka: Lula
** Creator/JohnSwasey: Claude
** Creator/TakehitoKoyasu: Hervé
** Creator/DaisukeOno: Nick
** Creator/VicMignogna: Randy
** Creator/ReiIgarashi: Rachel's mother

Claire, Rose, Rachel and Kate -- four NewYorkCity girls from the same school but from very different backgrounds and social circles -- are drawn together one night by a flock of mysterious butterflies that only they can see. Waiting for them are two mysterious figures -- a woman named Lula and her partner, JC -- who inform the four girls that they are dead.

* [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas Even Bad Girls Love Their Mamas]]: Rachel is shown to be rather sweet to her LadyDrunk mother, who averts the stereotype of an alcoholic, abusive parent and visibly cares about her daughter.

* GenreShift: The OVA features sci-fi stuff such as [[HumongousMecha Humongous Mechas]] and flying cars. Justified because it takes hundreds of years after the events of the original series.

* [[FiveManBand Four Woman Band]]:
** TheHero: Kate.
** TheLancer: Claire.
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girls]]: Claire, again, and Rachel potentially.
** TheSmartGuy: Kate.
** TheChick: Rose.

** TakashiKondo and Creator/ChrisPatton: JC

* FauxActionGirl: Rachel.

** IllichGuardiola: Luke

** JohnSwasey: Claude

** RyokoShintani: Rachel

** MisatoFukuen: Lise

** ReiIgarashi: Rachel's mother

** DaisukeOno: Nick

** BrittneyKarbowski: Rose

** RieTanaka: Lula

** TakehitoKoyasu: Hervé

** VicMignogna: Randy

* Theatre/OedipusRex: Hervé ends up [[spoiler:killing his father]] for not caring enough about Mireille and Anna.