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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Junko.]]

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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler:Junko.]]]] In Saki's words, she's "so innocent."
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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as three live-action series beginning in 1985, two feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').

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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as three live-action series beginning in 1985, from 1985 to 1987, two feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').
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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as three live-action series in 1985, two feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').

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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as three live-action series beginning in 1985, two feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').
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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as a live-action series in 1985, two subsequent feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').

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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as a three live-action series in 1985, two subsequent feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').
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* AttemptedRape: When Junko meets Saki for the first time in the {{OVA}}, she needs help because some guys try to rape her.
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* TheCameo: In the first movie, Shinji Wada, creator of the ''Sukeban Deka''-{{Manga}} had a cameo as yo-yo seller.

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Yumika Daimon's death is pretty brutal even by the standards of this series. Her pet dog contracts rabies and rips open her shoulder, and she ''breaks its neck with her bare hands while it's still biting her''. She gets immediate surgery for her shoulder, but that delayed getting the necessary rabies shots and she spent two weeks in agony before the disease finally killed her.



* EscapeArtist: In the manga there was Hiyako Midori, dubbed "Cassowary," a teenage escape artist who's been in and out of over 18 different reform schools and got herself sent to Saki's old reform school looking for prospective customers to bust out.

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* EscapeArtist: In the manga there was Hiyako Midori, Miyako Hidori, dubbed "Cassowary," a teenage escape artist who's been in and out of over 18 different reform schools and got herself sent to Saki's old reform school looking for prospective customers to bust out.


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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Cassowary and Kyoko Himuro in the manga.]]


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* FacialHorror: Saki's mother Natsu once scarred her own face with acid as part of a gambit to avoid capture by the police. Eri Hanabusa of "Cinderella's Counterattack" gets most of her face, including her nose and right eye, destroyed by a thug who mistook her for Kyoko Himuro. [[spoiler: Like Kyoko arranged.]]
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* BikerBabe: All the TV series Sakis like to rock around in Kawasaki motorbikes and in the manga, she drives one, too.

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* BikerBabe: All the TV series Sakis like to rock around in Kawasaki motorbikes and in the manga, she drives one, a motorbike, too.
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* BikerBabe: All the TV series Sakis like to rock around in Kawasaki motorbikes.

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* BikerBabe: All the TV series Sakis like to rock around in Kawasaki motorbikes.motorbikes and in the manga, she drives one, too.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: At the first movie's end, a high-ranking member of the Japanese government, who supported a failed coup d'etat, kills himself with a gun which was left behind by the Dark Inspector.]]

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* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: At the first movie's end, a high-ranking member of the Japanese government, who supported a failed coup d'etat, CoupDEtat, kills himself with a gun which was left behind by the [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Dark Inspector.]]]]]]
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: At the first movie's end, a high-ranking member of the Japanese government, who supported a failed coup d'etat, kills himself with a gun which was left behind by the Dark Inspector.]]

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* TheDitz: The third Saki's (Yui Kazama) personality is quite ditzy.



* EvilerThanThou: Reimi in contrast to her already messed-up siblings and father.

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* EvilerThanThou: Reimi Remi in contrast to her already messed-up siblings and father.



* InTheNameOfTheMoon

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* InTheNameOfTheMoonInTheNameOfTheMoon: Saki tells the bad guys what unforgivable things they have done.



* LiveActionAdaptation

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* LiveActionAdaptationLiveActionAdaptation: Three seasons, three movies.



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%%* * ProneToTears: Junko Yuina.Yuina's charakter design particulary in the {{OVA}} looks about to cry all the time.



** In one episode, there's Franchise/DragonBall on TV.



* TerribleTrio: The Mizuchi Sisters. [[spoiler: Until Reimi murders Emi and Ayumi by proxy in the OVA.]]

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* TerribleTrio: The Mizuchi Sisters. [[spoiler: Until Reimi Remi murders Emi and Ayumi by proxy in the OVA.]]



** In the OVA Reimi uses a whip in her battle against Saki.

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** In the OVA Reimi Remi uses a whip in her battle against Saki.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Not only KillerYoYos are used, but also other improbable weapons, such as kendama, knitting wool or origami cranes.

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Not only KillerYoYos {{Killer Yo Yo}}s are used, but also other improbable weapons, such as kendama, knitting wool or origami cranes.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Not only KillerYoYos are used, but also other improbable weapons, such as kendama, knitting wool or origami cranes.
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* {{Delinquents}}

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* {{Delinquents}}{{Delinquents}}: The serie's called '''Sukeban''' Deka.
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* ShoppingMontage: In episode 23 of season 2, Saki's searching for a dress.
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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as a live-action series in 1985, two subsequent feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').

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A manga by Shinji Wada first published in 1976, ''Sukeban Deka'' ("[[JapaneseDelinquents Delinquent Girl]] Detective") subsequently entered the PopculturalOsmosis. It was adapted as a live-action series in 1985, two subsequent feature films, and a 1992 OAV. A third feature film came out in 2006 (released stateside as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'').
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* FragileFlower: Junko Yuina.


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%%* ProneToTears: Junko Yuina.
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* AdaptationalWimp: In the TV series, Saki is left-handed because he broke her dominant right hand while punching a fellow inmate the juvenile detention center, which made her a bit weaker. This was written for the series because her actress Yuki Saito is a natural left-handed. (Ironically the actress of the second Saki, Yoko Minamino, is a left-handed as well.)

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* AdaptationalWimp: In the TV series, Saki is left-handed because he she broke her dominant right hand while punching a fellow inmate in the juvenile detention center, which made her a bit weaker. This was written for the series because her actress Yuki Saito is a natural left-handed. left-hander. (Ironically the actress of the second Saki, Yoko Minamino, is a left-handed left-hander as well.)
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* AdaptationalVillainy: It's established that Saki's mother is in jail for killing her husband, but her sympathetic reasons to do so (that he was a violent abuser who made her life hell) are omitted in some continuities, thus making her a murderer without redeeming qualities. The OVA notably adapts the abuse story out and replaces it with the theory by Remi that she simply went insane.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: It's established that Saki's mother mother, Natsu, is in jail for killing her husband, Toshiya, but her sympathetic reasons to do so (that he was a violent abuser who made her life hell) are omitted in some continuities, thus making her a murderer without redeeming qualities. The OVA notably adapts the abuse story out and replaces it with the theory by Remi that she simply went insane.insane.
* AdaptationalWimp: In the TV series, Saki is left-handed because he broke her dominant right hand while punching a fellow inmate the juvenile detention center, which made her a bit weaker. This was written for the series because her actress Yuki Saito is a natural left-handed. (Ironically the actress of the second Saki, Yoko Minamino, is a left-handed as well.)
* AdaptedOut: Saki's sister Miyuki and the storyline in which Remi impersonates her (and kills Sanpei) were not included in the TV series.



* BikerBabe: All the TV series Sakis like to rock around in Kawasaki motorbikes.



* BookDumb: Saki has bad grades, as she lacks both time and interest to study. Principal Numa believes he would improve a lot with a bit of effort, though not in English - she's ''really'' bad at that.



* BrainwashedAndCrazy: One of Remi's plans was to brainwash the students of Takanoha High. [[spoiler: One of them is programmed to murder Emi and Gozo, and then shoots herself in the head.]]

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* BrainwashedAndCrazy: BrainwashedAndCrazy:
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One of Remi's plans was to brainwash the students of Takanoha High. [[spoiler: One of them is programmed to murder Emi and Gozo, and then shoots herself in the head.]]]]
** Saki herself was brainwashed by the bad guys of a manga arc to believe she was Natsuki Komatsuzaki, the dead daughter of an important family. She snapped by herself at the end of the story.



* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: In the manga, after being rejected too many times by Saki, Sanpei starts developing feelings for her sister Miyuki. (Slighty subverted because they are similar-looking, not identical twins.) Unfortunately, [[spoiler:this leads to his death when Remi impersonates her.]]
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the pilot of the manga, it was implied Saki would return to prison after the chapter’s case. Only later it was revealed the Sukeban Deka was meant to be a regular agent and not a one-shot job.



* GeckoEnding: The OVA, where Saki defeats the Mizuchi sisters much faster than in the manga or TV series. In this case, it is not due to overtaking the manga, but in order to be a PragmaticAdaptation.



* ImportantHaircut: In the OVA, Saki rejects the advances of a classmate by saying that she hates guys with long hair. In response, the boy whips out a set of clippers and ''shaves himself bald'' right there in front of her. He doesn't graduate to love interest, but he does become one of Saki's allies.

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* ImportantHaircut: In the OVA, Saki rejects the advances of a classmate Sanpei by saying that she hates guys with long hair. In response, the boy whips out a set of clippers and ''shaves himself bald'' right there in front of her. He doesn't graduate to love interest, but he does become one of Saki's allies.



* OnlyKnownByInitials: In the 2006 movie, Saki's original name is never given aside from the initial K. It might or might not be meant to be Kei.

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* OnlyKnownByInitials: In the 2006 movie, Saki's original name is never given aside from the initial K. ''K''. It might or might not be meant to be Kei.''Kei'', the letter's sound.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Saki is just an average-to-thin teenage girl, but she can kick ass. In the TV series, even in her non-dominant left hand, Saki’s grip strength shocked the police technician in task of building her yo-yo weapon.



* ShoutOut: The recipient of so many in the years since its debut. Most recognizable is perhaps ''Anime/KillLaKill'', which begins with a similar premise - heroic delinquent bringing a corrupt academy to justice through gratuitous violence.
** The third season of the live action series had mentor characters called [[StarWars Obiwan, Yoda and Leia]]. Now that's subtle.

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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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The recipient of so many in the years since its debut. Most recognizable is perhaps ''Anime/KillLaKill'', which begins with a similar premise - heroic delinquent bringing a corrupt academy to justice through gratuitous violence.
** The third season of the live action series had mentor characters called [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars Obiwan, Yoda and Leia]]. Reia]]. Now that's subtle.subtle.
* SirSwearsALot: Saki, as expected from a delinquent.



* SmokingIsCool: By Saki in the manga.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Junko, Ayumi and Emi]] in the live action series. Also, going for the ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'' movie, [[spoiler:Saki is revealed to be alive as well.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Junko, [[spoiler:Sanpei, Junko, Ayumi and Emi]] all live in the live action series. series, while they die in the manga. Also, going for [[spoiler:Saki herself]] dies in the manga, but the TV series leaves it ambiguous, and the ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'' movie, [[spoiler:Saki movie ultimately reveals [[spoiler:she]] is revealed to be alive as well.]]alive.



* WhipItGood: In the OVA Reimi uses a whip in her battle against Saki.

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* WhipItGood: WhipItGood:
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In the OVA Reimi uses a whip in her battle against Saki.



* YoureInsane: Done by Saki to Remi. Subverted because Remi totally agrees with her.

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* YoureInsane: Done Said by Saki to Remi. Subverted because Remi totally agrees with her.
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* AnyoneCanDie: In the manga, at least. [[spoiler:The poor girl who Saki considers to be a little sister? Dead. The girl's mother? Dead. The boy who has a crush on Saki? Dead. Saki's actual little sister? Dead. Saki's mother? Dead. Saki's friends? Dead.]] This doesn't just apply to major characters, however. Quite a few villains prove that they WouldHurtAChild and avert InfantImmortality.
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* BadAss: Saki, considering she was/is a sukeban (delinquent girl) and many other delinquent students see her as their leader.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Every next incarnation of "Saki Asamiya" is mostly refered by her codename. The exception is Yui Kazama from ''Sukeban Deka III'', who was mostly refered by her real name. Conversely, the 2006 film goes to the extent of not mentiong at all the fourth Saki's name aside from the initial K.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Every next incarnation of "Saki Asamiya" is mostly refered by her codename. The exception is Yui Kazama from ''Sukeban Deka III'', who was mostly refered by her real name. Conversely, the 2006 film goes to the extent of not mentiong to mention at all the fourth Saki's name aside from the initial K.


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* OnlyKnownByInitials: In the 2006 movie, Saki's original name is never given aside from the initial K. It might or might not be meant to be Kei.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: In the OVA, Saki makes a point in her alliance with Vice-Principal Numa by showing him her yo-yo badge, expecting him to be shocked as a police chief was earlier in the episode. However, Numa instead becomes confused and asks her if it is a toy badge.



* TheFilmOfTheSeries: Three of them.

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* TheFilmOfTheSeries: Three Two, plus another which is not the film to any of the series, but is connected to one of them.


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* HammerspaceHair: In the OVA, Saki keeps her yo-yo in her hair when she is arrested. Amazingly, it is played seriously.


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* SternTeacher: Vice-Principal Juuzo Numa.

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* ActionGirl: Saki

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* ActionGirl: SakiSaki.
* AdaptationalVillainy: It's established that Saki's mother is in jail for killing her husband, but her sympathetic reasons to do so (that he was a violent abuser who made her life hell) are omitted in some continuities, thus making her a murderer without redeeming qualities. The OVA notably adapts the abuse story out and replaces it with the theory by Remi that she simply went insane.



* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: In the OVA, where Saki and her opponents often bust very high-flying moves.



* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: "Saki Asamiya" is her codename; her name before that wasn't given.

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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Every next incarnation of "Saki Asamiya" is mostly refered by her codename; codename. The exception is Yui Kazama from ''Sukeban Deka III'', who was mostly refered by her real name. Conversely, the 2006 film goes to the extent of not mentiong at all the fourth Saki's name before that wasn't given.aside from the initial K.



* RapunzelHair: In the manga and anime, Saki has quite of a mane, almost reaching her ankles.



* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Junko.]]

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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Junko.[[spoiler:Junko.]]



* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Like the average manga of TheEighties, it contains references to puroresu. Only in the first OVA, Saki takes out a mook with a palm strike and rams other two with a double lariat.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Saki in the manga is a tall, lithe, 17 year old with pink hair and anime “European” features. Saki in the live action is shorter, younger, wider, with Japanese features and has black hair. When seen side by side they look nothing alike. The one you like more is YMMV.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Like the average manga of TheEighties, it contains references to puroresu. Only in the first OVA, Saki takes out a mook with a palm strike and rams other two mooks with a double lariat.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Saki in the manga is a tall, lithe, 17 year old with pink hair and anime “European” features. Saki in the live action is shorter, younger, wider, with Japanese features and has black hair. When seen side by side they look nothing alike. The one you like more is YMMV.

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* InTheBlood: Discussed during Saki and Remi's duel. After Saki calls Remi insane, Remi goes on a rant exclaiming she's a woman who inherited "Crazy blood" much as Saki did. Remi reveals she knows everything about Saki's mother Natsu, who went to jail for murdering her husband (Saki's father) and is reported to be completely mad. Remi exclaims the only reason Saki is able to fight her is because they both have the blood of insane people flowing through them.

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* InTheBlood: Discussed during Saki and Remi's duel. After Saki calls Remi insane, Remi goes on a rant exclaiming she's a woman who inherited "Crazy "crazy blood" much as Saki did. Remi reveals she knows everything about Saki's mother Natsu, who went to jail for murdering her husband (Saki's father) and is reported to be completely mad. Remi exclaims the only reason Saki is able to fight her is because they both have the blood of insane people flowing through them.



* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Ultimately, "Saki" is this in the TV series, with Saki being replaced by Yoko Godai, who is in turn replaced by Yui Kazama. Yoko and Yui use "Saki Asamiya" as a codename.]]

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* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Ultimately, "Saki" is this in the TV series, with Saki being replaced by Yoko Godai, who is in turn replaced by Yui Kazama. Yoko and Yui use "Saki Asamiya" as a codename. In the ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'', it is then inherited by a girl only named K [[spoiler:who is actually Saki's daughter.]]



** The third season of the live action series had mentor characters called [[StarWars Obiwan and Yoda]].

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** The third season of the live action series had mentor characters called [[StarWars Obiwan Obiwan, Yoda and Yoda]].Leia]]. Now that's subtle.



* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Junko, Ayumi,and Emi in the live action series.]]

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Junko, Ayumi,and Emi Ayumi and Emi]] in the live action series.series. Also, going for the ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'' movie, [[spoiler:Saki is revealed to be alive as well.]]



* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Saki and Jin die in the final chapter of the manga]]

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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Saki and Jin die in the final chapter of the manga]]manga.]]


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* ThreeAmigos: Saki, Sanpei and Junko.


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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Like the average manga of TheEighties, it contains references to puroresu. Only in the first OVA, Saki takes out a mook with a palm strike and rams other two with a double lariat.
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* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Ultimately, "Saki" is this in the TV series.]]

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* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler: Ultimately, "Saki" is this in the TV series.series, with Saki being replaced by Yoko Godai, who is in turn replaced by Yui Kazama. Yoko and Yui use "Saki Asamiya" as a codename.]]
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* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Both Saki and Jin die in the final chapter of the manga]]

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