History Manga / ChronoCrusade

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[[caption-width-right:301:Clockwise from bottom: Azmaria, Rosette, Satella, and Chrono.]]

''Chrono Crusade'' is a {{manga}} by Creator/DaisukeMoriyama that ran in ''Monthly Dragon Age'' from 1998 until 2003. Studio Creator/{{Gonzo}} made an AnimatedAdaptation of the series towards the end of the manga's run.

It must be noted that the manga and anime for ''Chrono Crusade'' differ on some things – particularly the ending, which drastically changes depending on which version of the story you're seeing. Because of this, this page is divided into three sections: tropes that are universal for the series, and tropes that only fit the manga or anime.

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[[folder:Applies across both versions]]

%%* ActionGirl: Rosette. Just look at her in the page image. Also Satella, Florette, and [[DarkActionGirl Rizelle]].
* ActionPrologue: Both versions begin with Rosette and Chrono being called in to help in a demon attack, and save most of the exposition for the second chapter/episode.

** Fiore – In the anime she dies trying to get back to Aion with Joshua. In the manga she's frozen in crystal trying to protect Joshua after defying Aion's orders to kill him.

* AlternateHistory:
** Manga: [[spoiler:There's obviously no ring orbiting our planet and New York City has not been wiped out by a freak tsunami in 1924 by an enormous flying fish city-thing.]]
** Anime: [[spoiler:San Francisco wasn't destroyed by anything in 1929, nor was there mass-rioting across the United States.]]

* AntiClimax: Some complain that the final battle between Chrono and Aion is much too short in the anime. The manga has a much longer, drawn out battle between the two, but [[spoiler:their true final battle is never shown; all we have is a page of them charging at each other that then cuts away to follow Rosette. We know Chrono probably won, but not much else.]]
* AnimeCatholicism[=/=]ChristianityIsCatholic: The liner notes for the anime state that, although it's technically interfaith, the Order of Magdalene is at its core a ''Protestant'' Order, which is absolutely silly if you know anything about how Protestant churches tend to operate.
%%* AnyoneCanDie: Particularly the anime version.

** In the manga, Chrono's "Someday, I'll have to tell you a story about something that happened a long time ago..." may qualify.
* AudioAdaptation: Both versions spawned at least one Drama CD. The anime version is set in a HighSchoolAU.

* BadassBoast: Rosette delivers one in the first chapter and the first episode when dealing with the Nepalese/Indian idol going on a rampage.
** Manga: "Send peace to those who are lost!\\

** Anime: "Bring peace to the lost lambs,\\
"Give rest to the fangs of wolves,\\
"And call the hammer of death unto the devil!"

* ABoyAndHisX: A girl and her demon.

* BoyMeetsGirl:
** Besides the fact that Chrono's a demon, you ''could'' explain the plot similarly to this trope – demon meets girl, [[spoiler:demon loses first girl, meets another girl,]] demon slowly kills girl but falls in love with girl at the same time.
** And in the anime, demon meets girl, demon loses girl, [[spoiler:demon meets reincarnation of girl, girl gets kidnapped by demon's old "friend", demon and girl are reunited at last and die together]]. OR...

* CanonForeigner: Lilith and [[spoiler:Grandson of Joshua and Azmaria]] from the manga, Eliza Brown from the anime, Father Joel from the Drama [=CDs=] and Slim from the Novel.

* CharacterDevelopment: Important in both the manga and anime, although since the manga is a bit slower paced it spends more time on it. Chrono's character development in particular is very key to the overall plot.

* ComingOfAgeStory: For Rosette in the manga (and a little bit in the anime). Arguably Chrono, as well.

* CrucifiedHeroShot:
** At one point in the anime, Chrono is sent flying backwards by an explosion. He's shown falling in slow motion, his arms outstretched.
** A promo art for the anime shows Joshua on a cross.
** Also, in the manga, after Chrono [[spoiler:destroys most of San Francisco]] and goes comatose, he's shown bound to a cross.

* DeadPersonConversation: [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene]] speaks to Rosette in the manga and Chrono in the anime.

* DevilButNoGod: In the manga, the demons are [[spoiler:actually aliens]] and there doesn't seem to be any proof that God really exists. In [[CardCarryingVillain the anime, Aion]] accuses Him of being uncaring and "sleeping". Then again, Rosette and the others fighting against Aion and others evil suggest otherwise.
* DistantFinale:
** The manga has an unusually-structured one – the epilogue jumps 70+ years after the main story where we learn what happened to many of the characters… then it flashes ''back'' to 1932 (eight years after the story) where we see Rosette's death.
** The anime's final episode also ends with one: [[spoiler:Father Remington in the Vatican on May 13th 1981, 52 years after the "end" of the series, where Aion appears and apparently is behind the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.]]

* FirstLawOfTragicomedies: Both versions of the story start off fairly lighthearted, but get DarkerAndEdgier as the series goes on. This is ''especially'' true of the anime.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Both in the anime and the manga, although some bits of foreshadowing in the manga made it over to the anime without their payoffs being animated as well. [[spoiler:Most particularly, that bit where Rosette's soul is leaked out of her body through the watch? That's important.]]

* GrandFinale: Both the anime and the manga version end things with a bang.
* GratuitousEnglish:
** The title, originally.
** And in the anime, "South Brooklym", "Joan Paul", and a doozy from the preview:
---> "When the darkness enveloped the hidden world, the sudden post-war development of this new continent was gathering strange phenomenon and people wandeing ''[sic]'' in the darkness who are not human, regardless of the season was spring."
** In the Japanese vol.1, Rosette says "Dam!"... probably a misspelling of "damn".

%%* HeavenlyBlue: Priests and nuns

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight
** Satella VS [[spoiler:her sister, Florette/Fiore. It doesn't work]].[[note]] Well, the manga's distant finale is ambiguous on this, and in the anime Fiore seems to come to her senses right as she dies.[[/note]]
** Rosette VS Joshua in the manga.

%%* InterspeciesRomance: Chrono and Rosette.

%%* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis:
%%** Azmaria in the manga.
%%** Joshua in the anime (but [[spoiler:he doesn't remember that the things he's writing about ''actually happened'']]).

* ItsAllMyFault: Chrono says this in the anime once things take a turn for the worst, saying the cause is that he followed Aion instead of opposing him. In the manga he never says this word-for-word, but it's implied he feels at least some guilt for certain events.

* MarshmallowHell:
** Twice in the manga. Once with Chrono and Satella, and one with Azmaria and Rosette.
** There's also a gag episode in the anime that has characters repeatedly fainting into Satella's breasts.

* NightmareSequence: Rosette has one both in the anime and manga. Chrono has a few himself.

%%* OfficialCouple: Chrono and Rosette.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A large group of demons attack the beach house where Joshua and Fiore are staying. Joshua calmly asks Fiore to go back inside and make him some coffee. By the time she returns with the coffee, Joshua has slaughtered all of them, taking only a minor injury to his hand in return.

** The anime version introduces Joshua with a nightmare of Rosette's in episode 2.

* PostVictoryCollapse:
** In the manga, Rosette collapses right in front of Chrono when [[spoiler:she shoots the horns off of Joshua's head. And then she dies in his arms.]] ''Ouch''. [[note]] She actually survives that and lives for another eight years.[[/note]]
** Chrono collapses after his [[spoiler:final fight with Aion]] in the anime.

* PyrrhicVictory: The anime ending. You could possibly consider the manga ending this as well, but most characters have much happier endings despite the overall bittersweet feel.

** Played straighter with Chrono and Aion. Chrono is emotional, bad with demonic technology and cares about people over everything else. Aion is coldly logical, shown playing chess, and sacrifices people he cares about for the success of his plan. However, the anime version switches the roles for them — a scene in a flashback shows Chrono silhouetted in blue, and Aion in red.

* TheRoaringTwenties: Takes place during this period. Hammered home further in the anime, which name-checks the era multiple times and ends right as the stock market crashes.
* RubberFace:
** Anime – Shader does this to Chrono in a flashback.
** Appears occasionally in the manga as well, normally when Rosette is fighting with someone.

** Manga version only: Satella flirting with Chrono (which upsets Rosette and {{squick}}s Chrono).

* ShoutOut:
** The manga has a shout-out to ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' (and other mon shows) when Rosette briefly tries to order a confused Chrono around similarly to how trainers command their monsters.
** A music shout out in the anime's English dub to Jerry Lee Lewis, from episode 6:
---> ''(Rosette gets clocked over the back of the bench with an errant basketball, which [[RuleOfFunny shouldn't be possible]]'')\\
'''Azmaria:''' Goodness gracious!\\
'''Chrono:''' Great ball of fire!\\
''(Rosette gets up with a fiery PowerGlow)''
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Chrono Crusade is interesting, since there's conflict between these both in the story and OUTSIDE of it. In the story, Rosette tends to represent a very idealistic way of thinking, which contrasts with Aion's very, very cynical beliefs. Break outside the fourth wall, and the conflict exists in the two different versions of the story – The manga tends to show Rosette as often (but not always) in the right, and ends on a fairy idealistic note. The anime, on the other hand, gets DarkerAndEdgier towards the end, and comes across as being much more cynical including a final shot with a monologue lamenting [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil that humans continue in their evil ways, which invites trouble]].

* SurrogateSoliloquy: The ending of both the manga and anime have a character talking to [[spoiler:Rosette's grave]].
* TearsOfBlood: So much blood...
** Anime, a statue of the Virgin Mary cries tears of blood.
** Joshua also has TearsOfBlood after getting Chrono's horns.

* TranslationConvention: To be expected for an anime set in the United States – you don't communicate with Americans in Japanese, you just don't; and you don't speak Japanese ''or'' English in Germany…

* VivaLasVegas: In Chapter/Episode 3, Rosette and Chrono are sent to Vegas to save Azmaria from her casino magnate "father", and Rosette can't resist playing the slots.
** Vegas is a rather long way (read: over 2500 miles) from the Order's base in New York. It would take several days to get there by train, which makes the anime's decision to move the casino to Atlantic City, New Jersey – which is close to New York[[labelnote:*]] (about 130 miles by road or rail)[[/labelnote]] and ''was'' a gambling hotspot at the time – understandable.
* WhamEpisode: The battle at the San Francisco carnival – Episode 19 in the anime, about midway through the 5th volume of the manga.

* UsefulNotes/WorldWarI: Briefly mentioned at some points – in fact, [[AllThereInTheManual extras made for the anime]] discuss how the war affected the time period of the setting.

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%%* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Pandaemonium.
* AfterlifeExpress: Transports souls to the afterlife. [[spoiler:Rosette]] takes a ride on it [[spoiler:when her contract with Chrono weakens her soul]], but decides to jump off and revive before the end of the trip.
* AngstComa: Chrono goes into one [[spoiler:after volume 5]]. It takes a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind to get him out of it.
* ArtShift: Volume 1 has some English [[WrittenSoundEffect sound effects]] and Rosette often mixes in English words in the Japanese version. But her use of English words is seen less often in the later volumes and English sound effects are never seen again after the 1st volume.
* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Killing another demon is a major taboo for law-abiding demons... unless the other demon is a Sinner.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The "holy" or possibly Astral-based technology behind the Order's weaponry - some of the more powerful bullets are explicitly based on bound and captured demons. Which leads into [[spoiler:the demons' legion cells, which compose them and the entirety of their Organic Technology. Father Remington is even infected with legion cells to make him a more powerful combatant, but they've been slowly growing more numerous.]]
* ArtEvolution: Subtle within the series, but comparing art earlier in the series to towards the end makes it obvious that Moriyama improved as an artist while working on the series. And then the brand-new reprint covers were released, and his art style has changed so much it almost looks like a different artist altogether drew the cover.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography[=/=]NoSenseOfDirection:
** The party's journey from NYC to San Fransisco takes them from New York to the Seventh Bell Orphanage (in Michigan), to Washington DC, to Chicago, and from there to San Fransisco. This route is about 1500 miles longer than it needs to be, especially given how important this mission is to Rosette. Particularly {{JustForFun/egregious}} given the absence of interstate highways, which wouldn't exist for roughly another 30 years. Either Moriyama didn't know better, or Rosette is totally incapable of cross-country navigation. For the record, the ''logical'' path would have been to go from NYC, to Seventh Bell, and then San Francisco. There was no stated plot reason why they had to go to DC at all, and the sole reason they went to Chicago is because that's where the train they were on was going (After wrecking the car in DC).
** The manga locates the Seventh Bell Orphanage in Michigan. The problem with that is that (1) Rosette is easily able to get there by car, which is unlikely to have been the case in 1924, in addition to it being hundreds of miles away from New York City; and (2) it's near a lovely mountain lake, but Michigan is pretty flat as far as US states go – ~1400' separate its lowest and highest elevations. The anime fixes both of these problems by putting Seventh Bell vaguely in Upstate New York, probably in the Catskills or Adirondacks.
** As mentioned above, Chapter 3 has Rosette and Chrono pick up Azmaria in Las Vegas, which is over 2500 miles from the Order's headquarters in New York. That a several-day trip by 1920's-era train, and would probably have been impossible by car due to the lack of reliable highways over the Rockies at the time.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The manga has Rosette and Chrono go on a mission to a casino on the UsefulNotes/LasVegas Strip... even though Nevada didn't legalize gambling until 1931 (7 years after the story is set) and Vegas didn't have much of a reputation for casinos until after World War II. The anime has the casino in Atlantic City, which both avoids this and explains why someone from the New York branch of the Order would be sent there (New Jersey being much closer to NYC than Nevada). Doubly smart because, unlike Vegas, Atlantic City ''was'' known as a gambling hotspot during TheRoaringTwenties.
* AnAssKickingChristmas: The GrandFinale takes place during Christmas Eve and Christmas.
* BerserkButton: Harming Rosette will piss Chrono off.
* BerserkerTears: Happens occasionally. For example, this is Joshua's reaction when he finds out about Chrono and Rosette's contract.
* BittersweetEnding: [[ForegoneConclusion Rosette dies]]. Beyond that, [[spoiler:Satella is revived, but decades have passed and almost everyone she knew is gone – Azmaria having died only one year beforehand.]]
* BizarreAlienBiology: Demon biology is very different from human. They're composed of "legion" cells which have integrated magic (astral) power into their metabolism, giving them incredible regenerative ability and effective immortality. They're so resilient that even if they take a wound so horrible they ''can't'' regenerate from it no matter how much astral they draw on, they can still take grafts and prosthetic limbs very well. Their horns are basically collection organs for ambient astral energy [[spoiler:and antennae for connecting to the Pandaemonium hive mind]]. Also, [[spoiler:in the manga the demons are literally aliens, hive workers in service to a queen/mothership]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Used often to show when someone's injured badly. Thanks to Chrono's tendency to throw himself in harm's way, it happens a ''lot'' with him.
%%* CatSmile: Azmaria displays one after being rescued in the desert by Satella.
* CrashingDreams: Chrono experiences this when he has a nightmare where he almost agrees to follow Aion again, but is stopped by a ghostly woman.
* CueTheSun: In the ending, Rosette looks out over a rising sun and says "There's plenty for us to do!"
* DarkenedBuildingShootout: A variation, when Rosette and co get chased into a warehouse by some Pursuers.
* DestinationDefenestration: In one scene, Chrono becomes so frustrated when Rosette won't wake up in the morning that he actually throws ''Rosette'' out the window.
%%* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Rosette, in Chrono's arms. ''Twice''.]]
* DistantDuet: Joshua and Rosette are both shown singing ''Israfel''.
* DistantFinale: [[spoiler:Technically it has two – one]] in the early 1930's showing Azmaria and Joshua becoming full members of the Order. [[spoiler:And another in 1999, when Satella finally emerges from her stasis and learns that Azmaria had died of old age just one year earlier, but not before recording a video explaining what happened to everyone else.]]
* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler:Demons are really aliens.]]
%%* DontSaySuchStupidThings: Rosette gives Chrono this speech after his HeroicBSOD.
* DreamSequence: Chrono has one that foreshadows later revelations about his backstory.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Although some characters have more traditionally happy endings and others are more bittersweet.
* EngagingConversation: Shader tells Fiore "I want you to be my wife!" after Fi makes everyone a delicious meal. She's ''probably'' joking, but [[LesYay it's hard to tell with Shader sometimes]].
* EpilogueLetter: The manga uses a videotaped message from Azmaria to Satella as a framing device for a flashback that covers what happened to the characters in the months leading up to [[spoiler:Rosette's death]].
* EveryCarIsAPinto: During an extra at the end of volume 7, Rosette shoots a car that immediately explodes on contact.
* EyeAwaken: Chrono and Rosette defeat a demon by the skin of their teeth. As soon as they begin to relax, the demon jumps out of the rubble – and is promptly finished off by backup arriving just in time.
* FalseCrucible: [[spoiler:Remington challenges Chrono to a duel to the death when he's ordered to execute him, but in reality he's testing to see if Chrono can learn to control his rage. He succeeds, and Remington gives them supplies before setting them on the path to their final battle with Aion.]]
%%* FloatingContinent: Eden.
* FictionalDocument: Mary Magdalene's book of prophecies and Azmaria's memoir.
* GainaxEnding: The end of the manga is strange, somewhat open-ended, and rather rushed and abrupt, causing the ending to come off as pretty weird. To make matters worse, the original published ending was VERY open-ended, with a lot of loose strings not tied up until the final collected volume was released several months later with an additional epilogue added onto the end. (And even THAT ending has some questions that are never answered, and raises new ones on top of it!)
** And yet it's ''considerably'' more upbeat than the anime's infamous DownerEnding.
* GoThroughMe:
** Chrono throws himself between Aion and [[spoiler:Mary Magdalene. Aion, knowing full well Chrono will heal, actually does just go through him.]]
** [[HistoryRepeats Repeated]] later when he attempts to save [[spoiler:Rosette. It works, thanks to a spot of "luck".]]
%%* GreenRocks: Legion
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler:Father Remington was infected with demon cells to make him a more powerful combatant and effectively part-demon. When Rosette (and readers) learn about this near the end of the series, his body mass is already 40% legion, and it's shown to have only gotten worse in the epilogue. Aion and Chrono are as well, because their mother was a human who was pregnant when she was taken to be the new host for Pandaemonium, infecting them with legion cells before they were born.]]
* HistoryRepeats: [[spoiler:Mary was possessed by Pandaemonium, which led to Aion wanting her dead and Chrono making a contract with her. Later, when Pandaemonium is killed by Aion, she seeks out a new body: and decides on Rosette.]] Aion can't help but [[LampshadeHanging point out]] that "It's just like we're reliving what happened 50 years ago!"
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:The demon race is technically a hive in service to Pandaemonium, who is both queen and mothership, though many of the more powerful demons still have their own individual personalities as well - individual enough for some to rebel before they can be forced into compliance, even.]]
* HolyWater: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Demons]] are weak to holy water. The [[DepletedPhlebotinumShells bullets]] in Rosette's guns use holy water instead of an explosive charge and, in the anime, Chrono burns his hand once when he attempts to use it against a demonic enemy.
* HomeSweetHome: [[spoiler:After her adventures, Rosette returns back to the orphanage she grew up in and becomes a caretaker there.]]
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: [[spoiler:Aion plans to use the corrupted legion in this way to destroy the world and rebuild it.]]
* IAmNotLeftHanded: When Aion fights Duke Daffau, he purposely loses the battle, before [[spoiler:revealing his plan to weaken the demons that still have horns, and that his sword has a device built into it to enhance his own powers]].
%%* ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:Rosette during her final moments in March 1932.]]
* ImNotHungry: When kidnapped by Aion, [[spoiler:Azmaria]] refuses to eat. Shader convinces her to eat by telling her that "food isn't good or evil."
* ImplausibleDeniability: Joshua tells Rosette "You're not Rosette. My sister was nice."
* InelegantBlubbering: Rosette, towards the end of the manga [[spoiler:when she realizes she's died]].
* IntangibleTimeTravel: Rosette dives into Chrono's soul to relive his memories in this way.
* IronicEcho: "If you had to pretend to be a big shot, you should never have come to the front lines."
* IWasHavingSuchANiceDream: Parodied in the first chapter. Instead of asking for five minutes, Chrono asks Rosette if he can sleep for ''ten hours''. Of course, Rosette doesn't agree to it.
* IWillWaitForYou: In the end of the manga, Chrono promises Rosette that he'll come back to her right before he leaves to fight Aion in their final battle. [[spoiler:He either takes 8 years to finally return for some unexplained reason, or was killed in his final battle and comes back to her as a ghost. Either way, he returns to her just as she takes her final breaths.]]
* LeaveTheTwoLoveBirdsAlone: Azmaria arranges for Chrono and Rosette to be alone at the Carnival.
%%* TheLifestream: Astral Line.
* ListOfExperiencesSpeech: The anime ends with an [[TearJerker absolutely heart-wrenching]] variation, with Rosette listing off all of the shared experiences with Chrono [[spoiler:she will never actually have, since she only has a few hours left to live]].
%%* MegatonPunch: Satella delivers one to Chrono after he passes out on her boobs.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler:Demons are actually just SufficientlyAdvancedAliens and Hell is their SpaceWhale buried under the Atlantic Ocean.]]
* MoralityKitchenSink: Most of the Order and Rosette's companions are on the white side of the scale (with some sliding), the Sinners are mostly on the blackish side of gray, and the other demons are usually black (but occasionally sympathetic).
* TheMountainsOfIllinois: Some of the background shots around Seventh Bell show jagged mountains. Problem is, you won't find that sort of scenery in Michigan – no point in the state is higher than 2000'. For this and logistical reasons, the anime moved Seventh Bell's location to somewhere in Upstate New York, a much more fitting setting.
%%* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chrono, volume 5.
* NearDeathClairvoyance: [[spoiler:Rosette]] is able to watch a battle over her body after she dies.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Joshua gives Chrono a brief one of these when he finds out about his contract with Rosette.
%%* OminousMultipleScreens: Used to show who Pandaemonium plans to use as a host-[[spoiler:Rosette.]]
%%* OminousPipeOrgan: Joshua plays one of these to channel his powers.
* OrganicTechnology: [[spoiler:Anything to do with the demons. It's all based on their "legion" cells. Aion's grand scheme involves poisoning the living demon mothership, Pandaemonium.]]
* OurHeroIsDead: [[spoiler:Rosette actually ''does'' die, but is later revived.]]
* PlotBasedVoiceCancellation: In the manga, a promise Joshua made to Rosette when they were children is scribbled out in the text bubble, and revealed later on.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Demon contracts consume the human's soul. Azmaria's foster father used a great machine with her at the center to channel the Astral Line [[spoiler:which was hijacked by his own contracted demon]]. Much later, [[spoiler:Aion has been doing the same thing with all the Apostles, including Azmaria and Joshua now that he has them]]. And finally, we learn that [[spoiler:Pandaemonium's living core died nearly 10,000 years ago when the ship crashed on Earth, and the demons have been capturing suitable human women and plugging them into the ship to act as a series of temporary cores just to keep their species alive. And the last Pandaemonium was pregnant with Chrono and Aion when she was taken, infecting them with legion cells ''in utero'' as a result.]]
* PowerIncontinence: How Aion created the corrupted legion – by feeding them more power than they can handle.
* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood is exchanged when a demon makes a contract with a human. (The anime doesn't specify if it follows this or not.)
* ThePromise: There's ''several'' promises made from one character to another that later come into play.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: The manga has several scenes where Joshua points a gun outside of the frame and off towards the page.
%%* SecretTest
* ShowerOfAwkward: Rosette chases the Elder out of the shower... naked. Chrono, of course, is standing right outside, and gets to see Rosette in her full glory. He then gets blamed for the incident and is [[RunningGag punched by Rosette]].
* StormingTheCastle: The manga ends with two stormings in rapid succession.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Chrono and Rosette's reaction when they discover the full extent of Aion's plans.
%%* TrippyFinaleSyndrome
* UnstoppableRage: Chrono, in Volume 5. A main part of his character development is him learning to control [[FatalFlaw his rage]].
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The final volume contains a bonus chapter that's one of these.
* WhereItAllBegan: Chrono and Aion's final battle takes place in Pandaemonium the very place Chrono first joined Aion over half a century ago. [[spoiler:Not to mention that their battle starts and ends with the corpse of their mother nearby...]]
* YouAreWithMe: Used at least twice...
** "...like each light is its own life."
** "The place Chrono could go back to was decided four years ago!"
* YourFavorite: A variation – Fiore cooks someone [[spoiler:her sister's]] favorite food, because one reminds her of the other.
* YourSoulIsMine: Sort of the contracts, although more a case of DealWithTheDevil since both of Chrono's contracts are willing. However, in the manga Aion makes contracts with [[spoiler:kidnapped, or possibly murdered, victims that the Sinners round up for him. Fiore then somehow turns them into jewels, which Aion uses to power himself up during fights.]]
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* AccentAdaptation: A strange one in the dub – a generic police chief was given an Irish accent to match the stereotype of New York cops of the time period. In the commentary track, the director admitted this was for RuleOfFunny. The dub also gives Satella and [[spoiler:Florette]] German accents (something that she's noted to have in the manga, but was cut out of the Japanese anime track).
* AnimeThemeSong: The opening is (apparently) a love song from Rosette to Chrono, while the ending theme is a sad farewell song [[spoiler:to match the feel of the ending]].
%%* AsLongAsThereIsEvil
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** A panning shot in Episode 21 of the anime briefly shows what appears to be the Golden Gate Bridge, which did not open until 1937. One of the next episode previews also alludes to the bridge in the original Japanese, though the English dub writers noticed the error and removed the reference.
** One quick shot of Manhattan in the anime appears to show the Empire State Building, which did not exist at the time (it was started in late 1929 and completed in 1931).
* AsTheGoodBookSays: This version of Aion seems to be meant to be [[TheAntiChrist the anti-Christ]], with constant scripture quotations to back that up.
%%* TheBadGuyWins: Depending on how you interpret the final scene.
* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: Depending on the details of the final scene and your own interpretation. Either way, some of the final scenes are well-known {{Tear Jerker}}s.
%%* BreatherEpisode: Episode 12, which is also the ChristmasEpisode
* CartesianKarma: When Joshua is forcibly separated from Chrono's stolen horns, he is able to revert back to his old self. Problem is, he becomes "locked" in that state, stuck with the mind of a 12-year-old for the rest of his life, with no memories of Rosette or any realization that the events of the series (which he does remember) actually happened. He fares much better in the manga.
%%* ClothingDamage: Happens to Rosette on the train in episode 13 after Rizelle uses her web attack.
* ColorFailure: Happens to Azmaria, Rosette, and Satella's butler in episode 14 after he passes out on Satella's chest.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: In the English dub of the first episode, Rosette literally threatens to kill the Elder with a spoon.
* DoubleEntendre: In the preview for Episode 2, Rosette frets over having lost something "very important". When Chrono asks her what she lost, her response is a vague "when a girl says she's lost something very important, what else could it be but ''[[TheirFirstTime that]]''?" It turns out the object she's referring to from the episode is actually her ''gun'', but Chrono assumes the sexual meaning (and is immediately scolded for being perverted).
* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude He's, Like, In A Coma]]: Rosette kisses Chrono while he's trying to sleep off a fever.
* DubInducedPlotHole: While not exactly a plot hole in the strictest sense, in the original Japanese dub, Satella's seiyuu [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent sounds just as Japanese as all the other characters]] (who all happen to live in 1920s New York, by the way), while in the dub she has a fairly thick German accent. Therefore, Azmaria's sudden realization that she's German when she calls a hot dog a "wurst" makes the otherwise established intelligent girl come off as rather slow.
* EsotericMotifs: A pentagram is drawn in the air behind Rosette when she releases the seal on the watch.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: The only main characters to survive the last episode are [[spoiler:Azmaria, Joshua (sort of), Sister Kate, and Remington.]]
* ForcefulKiss:
** Aion forces a kiss on Rosette not once, but twice.
** He also does this to Satella after revealing he killed her parents and before molesting her.
* ForkFencing: Rosette attacks the Elder with a spoon in the first episode.
* GeckoEnding: The anime shows signs of splitting from the manga from almost the beginning, but splits pretty solidly in episode 7 and becomes nearly completely different somewhere around the halfway point.
* IntertwinedFingers: In the last episode, Chrono and Rosette clasp their hands together in this way [[spoiler:as they both die in each other's arms]]. This is a '''very''' iconic image for the series – chances are you've seen a clip of this if you've ever watched a Chrono Crusade [[AnimeMusicVideo AMV]].
* IntimateHealing: Chrono comes down with some sort of demon fever, and Rosette is told by a fortune teller that a folk remedy for fevers is... a kiss. She tries it, and it works.
* KissOfDeath: Aion kisses Rosette after giving her a BreakingSpeech.
* PartlyCloudyWithAChanceOfDeath: [[spoiler:Chrono and Rosette]] die as the sun sets.
* PresentDayPast: The story takes place in the 20's, but newspaper articles often have modern headlines.
* {{Retraux}}: Used in the Creator/ADVFilms trailer, particularly the narration that mimics old newsreels. Also shows up a little bit in the opening and title cards, although isn't used too frequently in the anime proper.
%%* ShootTheShaggyDog
* SpitTake: Sister Kate does this when Azmaria asks to be an exorcist like Rosette.
* SickEpisode: Chrono falls ill during the trip to San Francisco.
* SproutingEars: Rosette displays some cat ears when Satella picks them up while they were traveling in the desert to San Francisco, and then goes into RichBitch mode to tease Rosette for not having better prepared for the trip due to their lack of funds and training.
* ToBeContinued: Every episode (except the final one) ends with a title card displaying this phrase, which then [[{{Retraux}} melts away in a way reminiscent of old, worn film]].
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:Chrono and Rosette]] are buried together in a grave with a single headstone.
* TransformationSequence: Chrono was given one in the anime when he turns into his true form.
* UnrequitedLove: Rosette uses this against Rizelle on the train, and taunts her that despite everything the spider lady is doing for Aion, he never notices her. It seems to set off her BerserkButton, which also allows Rosette a brief opening to bypass her defenses.
%%* UnwittingPawn: Pretty much the entire main cast.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: When Chrono's transforming in the anime, his voice echoes – particularly in the second episode when he thinks Rosette's been killed and tries to break through the seal on his own.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Both played straight and averted. The "played straight" part is that Azmaria [[spoiler:is the only main character to survive the end of the series without extreme mental damage]]. Averted, in that some young children are killed because of their powers (although they're minor enough to not even have names).
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''Chrono Crusade''[[note]] sometimes called ''Chrno Crusade'' due to a [[TyopOnTheCover tyop on the cover of the first issue]][[/note]] is a {{manga}} by Creator/DaisukeMoriyama that ran in ''Monthly Dragon Age'' from 1998 until 2003. Studio Creator/{{Gonzo}} made an AnimatedAdaptation of the series towards the end of the manga's run.

''Chrono Crusade'' (or ''Chrno Crusade'' if you want to be literal) is a {{manga}} by Creator/DaisukeMoriyama that ran in ''Monthly Dragon Age'' from 1998 until 2003. Studio Creator/{{Gonzo}} made an AnimatedAdaptation of the series towards the end of the manga's run.

* GratuitousEnglish: The title, originally.

--> "When the darkness enveloped the hidden world, the sudden post-war development of this new continent was gathering strange phenomenon and people wandeing ''[sic]'' in the darkness who are not human, regardless of the season was spring."
** In the Japanese vol.1 Rosette says "Dam!"… probably a misspelling of "damn".

* RedOniBlueOni: Inverted. Rosette is hotblooded, but wears blue. Chrono is the calm voice of reason, but wears red.

%%v* AnyoneCanDie: Particularly the anime version.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The manga locates the Seventh Bell Orphanage in Michigan. The problem with that is that (1) Rosette is easily able to get there by car, which is unlikely to have been the case in 1924, in addition to it being hundreds of miles away from New York City; and (2) it's near a lovely mountain lake, but Michigan is pretty flat as far as US states go – ~1400' separate its lowest and highest elevations. The anime fixes both of these problems by putting Seventh Bell vaguely in Upstate New York, probably in the Catskills or Adirondacks.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory:
** The manga has Rosette and Chrono go on a mission to a casino on the UsefulNotes/LasVegas Strip… even though Nevada didn't legalize gambling until 1931 (7 years after the story is set) and Vegas didn't have much of a reputation for casinos until after World War II. The anime has the casino in Atlantic City, which both avoids this and explains why someone from the New York branch of the Order would be sent there (New Jersey being much closer to NYC than Nevada). Doubly smart because, unlike Vegas, Atlantic City ''was'' known as a gambling hotspot during TheRoaringTwenties.
** A panning shot in Episode 21 of the anime briefly shows what appears to be the Golden Gate Bridge, which did not open until 1937. One of the next episode previews also alludes to the bridge in the original Japanese, though the English dub writers noticed the error and removed the reference.
** One quick shot of Manhattan in the anime appears to show the Empire State Building, which did not exist at the time (it was started in late 1929 and completed in 1931).

** The party's journey from NYC to San Fransisco takes them from New York to the Seventh Bell Orphanage (in Michigan), to Washington DC, to Chicago, and from there to San Fransisco. This route is about 1500 miles longer than it needs to be, especially given how important this mission is to Rosette. Particularly {{JustForFun/egregious}} given the absence of interstate highways, which wouldn't exist for roughly another 30 years. Either Moriyama didn't know better, or Rosette is totally incapable of cross-country navigation.
*** For the record, the ''logical'' path would have been to go from NYC, to Seventh Bell, and then San Francisco. There was no stated plot reason why they had to go to DC at all, and the sole reason they went to Chicago is because that's where the train they were on was going (After wrecking the car in DC).

*** The anime fixes this by not saying where the casino is, but implying it's in Atlantic City, New Jersey – which is only 130 miles from New York and was a notorious gambling haven in the 1920's.
*** This chapter also [[ArtisticLicenseHistory fudges history]] a bit – there's no way it could have taken place in Vegas, because Nevada did not legalize gambling until 1931 (seven years after this story) and Las Vegas itself did not start to become the casino Mecca it is today until after WWII. In 1924, it was just a sleepy little railroad town in the desert.
** The anime makes a further correction by moving Seventh Bell from Michigan to Upstate New York. Even the closest part of Michigan to New York[[labelnote:*]] (that'd be Detroit)[[/labelnote]] is several hundred miles away and would take over a day to reach by train, probably longer by car given the poor state of roads in 1924.

* {{Gainaxing}}: The anime does this from time to time. For instance in episode three when Rosette is wearing that magenta dress, or pretty much any time Shader is onscreen.

* {{Gainaxing}}:
** Rosette in Episode 3, while wearing that red dress.
** Shader Gainaxes on her first appearance.

This series is known, regrettably, for confusion among Western otaku over how the title should be spelled. Originally titled ''"Chrno Crusade"'' in Japan, even though the katakana indicates "Chrono", this name carried over amongst people who watched the anime via {{fansub}}s. Those same people were unhappy when the series's Western publisher "corrected" the title, refusing to acknowledge it. Years later, a reissue of the manga restored the missing "O" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20180228105726/miamaha.tumblr.com/post/63230787295/chrono-crusade-2010-manga-reprint-covers which was highlighted by a flame]] [[LampshadeHanging just so you know it's there]][[http://web.archive.org/web/20051106023440/http://www.gonzo.co.jp/english/titles/0402.html .]])

* KillEmAll: The only main characters to survive the last episode are [[spoiler:Azmaria, Joshua (sort of), Sister Kate, and Remington.]]

* ActionGirl: Rosette. Just look at her in the page image. Also Satella, Florette, and [[DarkActionGirl Rizelle]].

* AnyoneCanDie: Particularly the anime version.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Noticeable in the various shower scenes and {{Out Of Clothes Experience}}s.
* BattleCouple: Chrono and Rosette.
* BeastAndBeauty: Chrono and Rosette, sort of. They ''look'' like this, but she definitely doesn't match the typical personality.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Chrono and Rosette.
* BigDamnHeroes: Several moments of this.
* BlankWhiteEyes: Several characters get this at different times.

* {{Catfight}}: Especially Rosette and Satella.

* ClothingDamage: Often, but a particularly good example is "Marionette Train".
* ColorFailure: Both the manga and the anime uses this gag at least once.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Chrono and Shader definitely count.

* HeavenlyBlue: Priests and nuns

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Satella, certainly. Pretty much the entire Magdalene Order if you like their uniforms.
* InterspeciesRomance: Chrono and Rosette.

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis:
** Azmaria in the manga.
** Joshua in the anime (but [[spoiler:he doesn't remember that the things he's writing about ''actually happened'']]).

* KissingDiscretionShot: Whenever Chrono and Rosette kiss.

* MagicContractRomance: Chrono and Rosette.

* OfficialCouple: Chrono and Rosette.

* OppositesAttract: Chrono and Rosette.

* OrphanageOfLove: Seventh Bell, before Joshua destroyed it.
* OutOfClothesExperience: When Rosette dives into Azmaria's soul.

* SpeedEchoes
* StandardBleedingSpots: Chrono in particular, although Rosette isn't immune.
* StarCrossedLovers: Chrono and Rosette.

** The Sinners experience this when a Geas is cast on them.
** The Apostles also have them during the oratorio in the manga.

* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Rosette tells Joshua this to convince him not to join the Order.

* AdvancedAncientAcropolis: Pandaemonium.

* CatSmile: Azmaria displays one after being rescued in the desert by Satella.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler:Rosette, in Chrono's arms. ''Twice''.]]

* DontSaySuchStupidThings: Rosette gives Chrono this speech after his HeroicBSOD.

* FloatingContinent: Eden.

* GreenRocks: Legion

* ImColdSoCold: [[spoiler:Rosette during her final moments in March 1932.]]

* TheLifestream: Astral Line.

* MegatonPunch: Satella delivers one to Chrono after he passes out on her boobs.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Chrono, volume 5.

* OminousMultipleScreens: Used to show who Pandaemonium plans to use as a host-[[spoiler:Rosette.]]
* OminousPipeOrgan: Joshua plays one of these to channel his powers.

* SecretTest

* TrippyFinaleSyndrome

* AsLongAsThereIsEvil

* TheBadGuyWins: Depending on how you interpret the final scene.

* BreatherEpisode: Episode 12, which is also the:
** ChristmasEpisode

* ClothingDamage: Happens to Rosette on the train in episode 13 after Rizelle uses her web attack.

* ShootTheShaggyDog

* UnwittingPawn: Pretty much the entire main cast.

* PlotInducedStupidity: [[spoiler:Great job, Chrono, you got your horns back. Now you can... wait, why are you using them as a throwing weapon?]]

This series is known, regrettably, for confusion among Western otaku over how the title should be spelled. Originally titled ''"Chrno Crusade"'' in Japan due to a typo (or so Moriyama says), this name carried over amongst people who watched the anime via {{fansub}}s. Those same people were unhappy when the series's Western publisher "corrected" the title, refusing to acknowledge it. Years later, a reissue of the manga restored the missing "O" ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20180228105726/miamaha.tumblr.com/post/63230787295/chrono-crusade-2010-manga-reprint-covers which was highlighted by a flame]] [[LampshadeHanging just so you know it's there]][[http://web.archive.org/web/20051106023440/http://www.gonzo.co.jp/english/titles/0402.html .]])

* CreepyCoolCrosses: What would we do without them?

** The manga has a shout-out to ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' (and other mon shows) when Rosette briefly tries to order a confused Chrono around similarly to how trainers command their monsters.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Has nothing to do with the Square games]] ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. [[TrendCover Not even if the original Japanese logo with overlapping "C"s bears a striking resemblance to the aforementioned games']], and if ''Crusade'' sounds like the next in the series after ''Trigger'', ''Cross'', and ''Break''.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Has nothing to do with the Square games]] ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' and ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. [[SerialNumbersFiledOff Not even if the original Japanese logo with overlapping "C"s bears a striking resemblance to the aforementioned games']], and if ''Crusade'' sounds like the next in the series after ''Trigger'', ''Cross'', and ''Break''.

''Chrono Crusade'' (or ''Chrno Crusade'' if you want to be literal) is a {{manga}} by ''Creator/DaisukeMoriyama'' that ran in Monthly Dragon Age from 1998 until 2003. Studio ''Creator/{{Gonzo}}'' made an AnimatedAdaptation of the series towards the end of the manga's run.

Both the manga and the anime were licensed in North America by Creator/{{ADV|Films}} via their various publishing arms. The manga fell out of print when ADV shuttered their comics division in 2007 and is currently unlicensed ([[KeepCirculatingTheTapes so if you want to read this series legit and see any volumes for sale anywhere, snatch them up]][[labelnote:*]] or just read scans online, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial but I didn't tell you that]][[/labelnote]]). Creator/{{Funimation}} picked up the rights to the anime in 2010 and has released it in a single set containing all 24 episodes. It has also aired on American television, first on The Anime Network (created by ADV), then on Showtime Beyond, before Creator/{{Manga|Entertainment}} picked up the broadcast rights and aired it on Creator/{{Syfy}}'s now-defunct anime block.

* WorldOfCardboardSpeech: Chrono gives one of these to Aion towards the end of the manga, explaining the affect that humans (particularly Rosette) have had on him.

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Noticeable in the the various shower scenes and {{Out Of Clothes Experience}}s.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: This version of Aion seems to be meant to be the anti-Christ, with constant scripture quotations to back that up.

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