History Manga / PilotCandidate

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: No, planets are NOT stars!

* MsFanservice: Teela wears a {{Stripperific}} [[LeotardOfPower one piece leotard]], has ridiculously long blue hair, has a [[BoobsOfSteel well-endowed bust]], [[LegFocus has long legs]]... She's quite the package.

* FieryRedhead: Kizna, though it might be pink. It's kind of hard to tell.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* HotBlooded IdiotHero: Zero Enna.

* LonersAreFreaks: Hiead can be a '''''scary''''' guy.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Hiead.

* MsFanservice: Teela wears a {{Stripperific}} [[LeotardOfPower one piece leotard]], has ridiculously long blue hair, has a [[BoobsOfSteel well-endowed bust]], [[ShesGotLegs has long legs]]... She's quite the package.

* MsFanservice: Teela wears a {{Stripperific}} [[LeotardOfPower one piece leotard]], has [[RapunzelHair ridiculously long]] blue hair, has a [[BoobsOfSteel well-endowed bust]], [[ShesGotLegs has long legs]]... She's quite the package.

* RapunzelHair: Teela's hair goes down all the way ''to the floor'' almost!
** The mystery girl in Curriculum 01 ([[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming the second episode]]) takes it UpToEleven... or [[BeyondTheImpossible at least Twelve]] if Teela's hair IS Eleven.

* [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys Cast Full Of]] {{Bishonen}}: Most of the candidates.

* {{Meganekko}}: Ikhny and Clay.
* MsFanservice: Teela wears a {{Stripperific}} [[LeotardOfPower one piece leotard]], has [[RapunzelHair ridiculously long]] [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blur hair]], has a [[BoobsOfSteel well-endowed bust]], [[ShesGotLegs has long legs]]... She's quite the package.

* {{Stripperific}}: The boys' candidate uniforms. You know, the black ones they wear everyday, which seem to show a lot of skin. And given that this series is [[CastFullOfPrettyBoys full of]] {{Bishonen}}...

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Oh so very much. Let's see... There's Roose, Yamagi, Kizna, Tsukasa, Wrecka (who deserves a mention for literal blue hair), Teela, the mystery girl from Curriculum 01, Gareas, the nurses, and the list goes on... Apparently in the forty-first century, AnimeHair is a genetic normality.

''The Candidate for Goddess'' (女神候補生 ''Megami Kōhosei'' — lit. "Goddess Candidate/Cadet") is a manga by Creator/YukiruSugisaki, later adapted into a TwelveEpisodeAnime series mostly known in the United States for a very brief, one-time run on Creator/AdultSwim during the block's early years (when it aired on the weekends and had animated comedies on Sundays and action cartoons on Saturdays) under the title ''Pilot Candidate''. There was a thirteenth episode {{OVA}} that never made it out of Japan until 2016, when Creator/DiscotekMedia rescued the anime's North American license.

If you're not aware of Sugisaki's [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder particular claim to infamy]], the series has been on hiatus since around the turn of the millennium. But as there are no reports of [[AuthorExistenceFailure her passing away]], it's [[HopeSpot not impossible]] for the series to continue, or even be [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]].

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Zero to Hiead, once. Cue shocked gasps from everyone around. [[HoYay And from]] [[FoeYay some of]] [[YaoiFangirl the fans.]]

** [[HoYay Erts]], his senior partner [[spoiler:prior to Erts' promotion to pilot.]]

** [[FoeYay Hiead]], whose antagonism brings to mind the likes of [[Manga/DragonBall Vegeta]], [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Katsuki Bakugō]], or even [[Franchise/StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]], all of which have been interpreted as homoerotic by fans.

* UnfortunateNames: Hiead. Take out the "i", and you have "head". [[FoeYay How peachy.]]
** The "Giseisha" (犠牲者) whose name means "victim" and yet are the [[GeckoEnding ambigious]] bad guys of the series.

''The Candidate for Goddess'' (女神候補生 ''Megami Kōhosei'' — lit. "Goddess Candidate/Cadet") is a manga by Creator/YukiruSugisaki, later adapted into a TwelveEpisodeAnime series mostly known in the United States for a very brief, one-time run on Creator/AdultSwim during the block's early years (when it aired on the weekends and had animated comedies on Sundays and action cartoons on Saturdays) under the title ''Pilot Candidate''. There was a thirteenth episode {{OVA}} that never made it out of Japan.

If you're not aware of Sugisaki-san's [[AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder particular claim to infamy]], the series has been on hiatus since around the turn of the millennium. But as there are no reports of [[AuthorExistenceFailure her passing away]], it's [[HopeSpot not impossible]] for the series to continue, or even be [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]].

''The Candidate for Goddess'' is a manga by Creator/YukiruSugisaki, later adapted into a TwelveEpisodeAnime series mostly known in the United States for a very brief, one-time run on Creator/AdultSwim during the block's early years (when it aired on the weekends and had animated comedies on Sundays and action cartoons on Saturdays) under the title ''Pilot Candidate''. There was a thirteenth episode {{OVA}} that never made it out of Japan.

The story takes place in the year 4084. It has been over one thousand years since the Crisis of Systems, which resulted in the destruction of four planetary systems, leaving only a single inhabitable planet named Zion. Mankind is forced to live in space colonies, since that one planet is constantly being invaded by alien life forms that have come to be known as Victim. To stop the aliens and to allow people to land on Zion, mankind has developed the astronomical humanoid weapons, Ingrids, or Goddesses. At the G.O.A. (Goddess Operation Academy), young men are trained to pilot the Ingrids. Each of the pilots has a special power called EX; for example the ability to freeze time or to move at extreme speed.

* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Zero to Hiead, once. Cue shocked gasps from everyone around.

* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the candidates.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys

* FallingIntoTheCockpit: Notably subverted. Zero does this in first episode but immediately refuses to pilot mecha because of his lack of skill.

* GeckoEnding

* GratuitousEnglish: Naming the things attacking you... “Victim” of all things?

* HotBlooded: Zero.
* HumongousMecha
* IdiotHero: Zero Enna.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Ernest. Fried to death by a Victim.]]
* LonersAreFreaks: Hiead can be a ''scary'' guy.

* MeaningfulName: Zero's real name, Rei, is written with the kanji representing number 0.
* {{Meganekko}}: Ikhny.

* MyHeroZero

** It's probably more appropriate to say that the manga has been "eternally hiatused", rather than having ended. There is still a ''very'' slim chance that Sugisaki will take it back up again, as the manga was rather better than the anime.

* ShipTease: Zero gets this with at least THREE characters throughout the series:

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Teela is the only female pilot. The other female characters are either repairers or hold supporting jobs.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Since the series is full of made-up, difficult names (''hello'', Philphleora), it's prone to this.
* StayInTheKitchen: Hiead looks like he's about to rape Ikhny, but tells her "your job is to support me."
* {{Stripperific}}: The boys' candidate uniforms. You know, the black ones they wear everyday, which seem to show a lot of skin. And given that this series is full of {{Bishonen}}...

* UnfortunateNames: Hiead. Take out the "i", and you have "head". How peachy.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Hiead is TheLancer, but he is also a very cold, asocial guy who has no problems with threatening girls. Decidedly not the most heroic of characters, though he does seem to become nicer by the end ([[GeckoEnding but who can say for sure, really?]]).

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Oh so very much. Let's see... There's Roose, Yamagi, Kizna, Tsukasa, Wrecka (who deserves a mention for literal blue hair), Teela, Gareas, the nurses, and the list goes on... Apparently in the future hairdye will be really popular.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Many thought that Roose's weight loss was caused by him and Wrecka getting... too close.
** And in the same episode, there was a scene which looked like Hiead was going to rape Ihkny ''in the middle of the hallway''. Lucky nothing happened (though this was one of many cut scenes in the Cartoon Network version).

** CastFullOfPrettyBoys
* ConspicuousCG

''Pilot Candidate'' (or ''Candidate for Goddess'') is a manga by Creator/YukiruSugisaki, later adapted into an {{anime}} series mostly known in the United States for a very brief, one-time run on Creator/AdultSwim during the block's early years (when it aired on the weekends and had animated comedies on Sundays and action cartoons on Saturdays).

!! ''Pilot Candidate'' contains examples of:

** The manga also had similar issues, but at least it tried to explain some of things happening, as well as giving the [[CharacterDevelopment characters some depth]] in the process.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was also a vicious BloodKnight who took no qualms of [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating down (and nearly killing)]] a fellow classmate during a training exercise. It got to the point to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] frequently clashed violently and the latter even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was also a vicious BloodKnight who took no qualms of [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating down (and nearly killing)]] a fellow classmate during a training exercise. It got to the point to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] frequently clashed violently. Zero even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was also a vicious BloodKnight who took no qualms of [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating down (and nearly killing)]] a fellow classmate. It got to the point to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] frequently clashed violently. Zero even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was also a vicious BloodKnight who took no qualms of [[NoHoldBarredBeatdown beating down (and nearly killing)]] a fellow classmate. It got to the point to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] frequently clashed violently. Zero even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was vicious BloodKnight, to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] frequently clashed violently. Zero even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.

** In the manga, Hiead was TheRival who was vicious BloodKnight, to the point that he and [[AllLovingHero Zero]] constantly fought. Zero even grew to hate his guts and never tried to befriend him unlike in the anime.