History Anime / Shinzo

* IllGirl: Yakumo, [[spoiler: after the TimeSkip because she's experiencing a prolonged HeroicRedRingOfDeath.]]

* WomenAreDelicate: IllGirl Yakumo can't save a life without being shown collapsing afterward/losing consciousness/needing help herself/[[spoiler:dying from exhaustion]], the male heroes save lives looking all heroic. Similarly, female antagonists will either be absorbed by someone with only their face sticking out and get Mushra's spear shoved in said face, another died by having Mushra fall on her from high altitude, the last was killed by Yakumo (who collapsed afterward). Whereas all main male enemies died in combat with the heroes in full battle mode and got epic deaths. [[spoiler:Also, the very same powers that make Mushra a god and boosted Saago and Kutal are apparently too much for Yakumo to handle and they end up killing her.]]

The adaptations differ per country, and some are [[CutAndPasteTranslation rather butchered]], but all tend to follow the general travel-and-battle Shonen plot.

Creator/SabanEntertainment later licensed the series and aired it on Creator/FoxKids in 2002 [[note]] Though they only aired the first 17 episodes [[/note]] and in 2005 later aired in reruns on [[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] where the series finished its run internationally.

Creator/Saban Entertainment later licensed the series and aired it on Creator/Fox Kids[=/=][[Creator/ToonDisney Jetix]] [[note]] (it aired on Fox Kids internationally, but on Creator/ABCFamily in the US after Fox Kids ended) [[/note]] in 2002.

''Mushrambo'', also known as ''Shinzo'', is a 32-episode {{Shonen}} series that aired on Fox Kids/Jetix (it aired on Fox Kids internationally, but on Creator/ABCFamily in the US after Fox Kids ended) in the early 2000s.

''Mushrambo'', also known as ''Shinzo'', is a 32-episode {{Shonen}} series that aired on Fox Kids/Jetix in the early 2000s.

* ThePrettyGuysAreStronger: Gyasa is a scary, physically imposing {{Medusa}}, but the actual King of the Reptiles, Ryuma, is a short, boyish {{Bishonen}}. Lord Caris is a very muscular WingedHumanoid, but his much stronger master Queen Rusephine is a delicately-build, angelic-looking woman.

* DiabolusExMachina: After the heroes have just spent several episodes trying to save Robot City from the Bird Enterrans led by Lord Caris, after his defeat his angered boss Queen Rusephine immediately destroys the city to render all their efforts null and void.

The adaptions differ per country, and some are [[CutAndPasteTranslation rather butchered]], but all tend to follow the general travel-and-battle Shonen plot.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Prior to the series' first timeline, there was global genocide on the human race, leaving the world to the Enterrans. In the second time line, Lanancuras threatens it as well.

* FusionDance: Enterrans have the ability to transform to become stronger and they turn into "En Cards" when they die. When an Enterran eats an En Card, or absorbs one through the chest, they transform into a composite of them self and the Enterran the card they ate/absorbed. The protagonist Mushra does this with the other two male heroes, Saago and Kutall, to become Mushrambo. [[spoiler:Subverted later on when it's revealed that they're actually the three split components of the ''original'' Enterran General Mushrambo, who originally orchestrated the genocide of the human race.]]

* IllGirl: Yakumo, [[spoiler: after the TimeSkip because she's experinecing a prolonged HeroicRedRingOfDeath.]]

* TheManBehindTheMan: Lanancuras is the cause of the wars on Entera. Shinzo, the leader of the Enterrans who wiped out mankind, was brainwashed by him.

The show tends to be more about the battles with the three enterrans each having a their own {{Super Mode}} (later with [[PowerGivesYouWings wings]]) and are even able to [[FusionDance combine]] into the legendary [[MasterSwordsman Mushrambo]].

* JerkAssFacade: The local TinMan, King Niper, only pretends to be nasty to appease those above him. [[spoiler: He's actually sympathetic to Yakumo and her guardians.]]

* AbortedArc: The first season sets up an arc where the heroes have to confront the so-called Seven Enterran Generals who started the war and ending with their leader, [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil who is of course the most powerful one]]. This quest is cut short when the third General on the list reveals that she had already killed the remaining ones to absorb their power, then herself is killed by a time-displaced version of the BigBad. Killing ''him'' then causes a TemporalParadox that changes the entire history of the show.

* ContrastingSequelProtagonist: Yakumo is an ActualPacifist and perennial DamselInDistress due to never getting the message that bad guys you forgive might still come after you later. So naturally, [[spoiler: after time is altered, Binka, who finds Mushra in the same way as Yakumo, is a BrattyHalfPint who ''loves'' a good fight and carries a bazooka with her everywhere.]]

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Evil Mushrambo]] in the first season, Lanancuras in the second.

* FourGods: The five main protagonists symbolize this trope.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Ryuma gets distressing affectionate with a captured Yakumo.

* LightIsGood: Mostly played straight, especially with Yakumo and Mushra.

* LiteralSplitPersonality: [[spoiler:The three male protagonists]] are revealed to actually be different components of the Enterran overlord Mushrambo, whose soul was split into several parts by Yakumo when he tried to kill her.

* MacGuffintitle: Dub only.

* OneWingedAngel: Pretty much every major villain will transform into some sort of grotesque monster during their battle sequence.

* ThePowerOfLove: Yakumo breaks Ryumma's mindcontrol on Mushrambo this way. The dub added some extra sugar too.
* ThePrettyGuysAreStronger: Pretty consistent. Gyasa is a scary, physically imposing {{Medusa}}, but the actual King of the Reptiles, Ryuma, is a short, boyish {{Bishonen}}. Lord Caris is a very muscular WingedHumanoid, but his much stronger master Queen Rusephine is a delicately-build, angelic-looking woman.

* TimeyWimeyBall: What do you expect from a series where time is a power alongside spider-web and phantom energy?

* WomenAreDelicate: IllGirl Yakumo can't save a life without being shown collapsing afterward/losing consciousness/needing help herself/[[spoiler:dying from exhaustion]], the male heroes save lives looking all heroic. Similarly, female antagonists will either be absorbed by someone with only their face sticking out and get Mushra's spear shoved in said face, another died by having Mushra fall on her from high altitude, the last was killed by Yakumo (who collapsed afterward). Whereas pretty much all main male enemies died in combat with the heroes in full battle mode and got epic deaths. [[spoiler:Also, the very same powers that make Mushra a god and boosted Saago and Kutal are apparently too much for Yakumo to handle and they end up killing her.]]

* OutdoorBathPeeping: In the 7th episode of ''Anime/{{Shinzo}}'', Yakumo is looked at while bathing in a lake by monster warriors who try to attack her. But [[KidHero Mushra]] shows up and fights them -- [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn and gives Yakumo a towel.]]