History Series / TaiyoNiHoero

** Played for laughs at the end of one episode: Doc shows up to work wearing sunglasses but refuses to take them off. When the squad eggs him on and he does... it's revealed that his recent attempt at tanning didn't affect the area around his eyes.

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Variant. Sometimes a Nanamagari rookie will wear their precessor's clothing InMemoriam of their fellow detective.
** Bon once wore a green jacket as one of his default outfits. Rocky [[spoiler: would take to wearing it after Bon passed away.]]
** Before returning to Okinawa after his retirement, Sneakers confides to Gori that he would like to pass on his shoes to his successor. He later gave Rugger a new pair in Episode 489.

** Doc stopped wearing casual attire and wore more suits as the show entered its later episodes, just like Denka and Gori.

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Variant. Blues didn't kill Bogey, but as a tribute to him after his passing, the former wore the latter's fingerless gloves and trademark purple-red suit.

* PowerWalk: The last minute of the opening will show Boss doing this. The final version in particular had him walking while holding a rifle. Other variations included him doing it at Haneda Airport (twice) and putting on his jacket as he completed the walk.

* BerserkButton: Any case that involves or harms children will anger the entire squad greatly. Even calmer detectives like Yama-san and Scotch lose their cool in these situations.

* CastingGag: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi was later cast as the dub actor for [[Series/SherlockHolmes Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes]], who, much like Yama-san, is an expert detective, if a bit eccentric and maverick in nature.

* CharacterTics: Yama-san has a habit of wagging his finger to a rookies to admonish them if they get police work wrong.

** [[spoiler: Scotch]] arrests a culprit, plays RussianRoulette with him, all while he's suffering from hemophytis. He wins, places the handcuffs on the perp before coughing up blood one last time and is brought to hospital by Gori, where he dies.

* EveryoneLaughsEnding: Many episodes end with more humorous and lighthearted exchanges between the detectives and Boss.

* FreezeFrameEnding: Happens all the time, with everyone laughing at the joke of the week before ending with Boss laughing.

* HandicappedBadass: Suprisingly for a 70s show, ''Taiyo'' wasn't afraid to run with this, especially with its main cast:

* KilledOffForReal: The show pioneered this trope for Japanese [[CopShow Cop Shows]] and it became one of its more infamous trademarks.

** Gori during his run was very much subject to this. For example it took him a lot longer to warm up to Scotch, and even in the latter's second run they came close to blows in one episode after Gori was accused of murder. [[[spoiler: Yet by Scocth's death episode, Gori is the one to take him to hospital and is the only squad member to witness his passing.]]
* LongRunner: ''Taiyo'' is actually the second-longest nationally-syndicated Japanese cop show, with 718 episodes. Toei's ''Special Mobile Investigation Team'' is longer with 801 episodes.[[note]]The record for longest-running Japanese police procedural overall belongs to ''Buchou Keiji'', or ''Chief of Detectives'', which ran for ''2256 episodes'' from 1957 to 1990. However, it wasn't given a regular timeslot on national Japanese TV throughout its entire run and mostly aired in the Kansai region.[[/note]]

** Boss, big time. We rarely ever see his personal life outside of a few episodes early on in the show's run, and one of those has him meet an ex-lover of his. It's also established he is a perpetual bachelor and lives alone in a highrise.

** Doc's cheerful, fourth-wall breaking intro [[spoiler: happening the episode immediately after Denka died.]]

* MountainMan: Played with in Rocky's case. While he does engage in mountain climbing as a hobby, he actually hails from a fishing village in Hokkaido.

** Scotch by his second run is more prone to laugh and smile at the squad's antics, thanks to his CharacterDevelopment. One notable example happens in Episode 401 (his first full episode back), where he's seen relaxing on his desk chair, something you'd expect more from Macaroni or Jeans. The rest of the squad even feels more comfortable in making him the butt of the joke-of-the-week a few times.

* NumberTwo: Yama-san was this to Todo before [[spoiler: his death in Episode 691.]] Later, Detective Tachibana, played by Ishihara's RealLife HeterosexualLifePartner Tetsuya Watari would take up this role.

** Rocky & his successor Bogey both have the given name of Hajime spelled in different kanji.
** Gori & Blues both have the given name of Makoto spelled in the same kanji

* PassedOverPromotion: Yama-san, full stop. A recurring storyline is the fact he can never quite make Inspector. He finally becomes one in Episode 691, but it's hinted that this may be because [[KickedUpstairs his investigation into a gun-running ring is ruffling the feathers of the corrupt diplomat masterminding everything]]. [[spoiler: He does get enough evidence for the case to be prosecuted at a higher level, but it also results him in being killed by a hitman, whom he also kills.]]

* PungeonMaster: Doc would frequently do puns in the middle of an investigation, leading to disdain from his fellow detectives. He would also give everyone personalized variations of their nicknames.

** Five detectives were lucky enough to leave the show alive, namely [[spoiler: Shinko, Pops, Sneakers, Gypsy, and Duke. Downplayed since they showed up for guest spots in later episodes, Pops got to come back for ''Part 2'' and the first reunion show, while Shinko returned for the last one.]]

* ReallyDeadMontage: Whenever a detective dies, a montage plays of the main cast mourning his death while flashbacks of their time on the show are played.

* SelfOffense: Happens in Episode 664, where Micom accidentally shoots Toshi-san, causing him to suffer a HeroicBSOD.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In Episode 10, Gori-san works with a young detective from another station(played by Masaya Oki before he joined the main cast). The detective bears many similar characteristics to Macaroni, who only appeared at the beginning and end of the story.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Denka, Scotch, Gypsy, and Duke were quite the lookers in their runs on the show. Denka in particular was so popular with female fans that [[spoiler: the site of his fatal road accident in the series was frequented by said fans, who left tributes at the site.]] Scotch was quite dandy-like in nature and always dressed in suits.

** Gypsy has [[https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/dextrocardia dextrocardia]], which means his heart is on the right side of his body, rather than his left.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: It's pointed out multiple times in the show that Nanamagari faces ''a lot'' more crimes than the average Tokyo police station. In one episode Chief Nishiyama even chews out Gori, Doc, and Sneakers after a failed arrest in front of the rest of the squad, saying that their actions make Nanamagari look like a station full of violent detectives.

* UnusuallyInterestingSight: It's pointed out multiple times in the show that Nanamagari faces ''a lot'' more crimes than the average Tokyo police station. In one episode Chief Nishiyama even chews out Gori, Doc, and Sneakers after a failed arrest in front of the rest of the squad, saying that their actions make Nanamagari look like a station full of violent detectives.

* PromotionToOpeningTitles: Mommy started out in a semi-regular role as a policewoman and Rocky's love interest, then-wife, and was PutOnABus after [[spoiler: her husband's death]] before she became a regular.

** Five detectives were lucky enough to leave the show alive, namely [[spoiler: Shinko, Pops, Sneakers, Gypsy, and Duke. Downplayed since they showed up for guest spots in later episodes, Pops got to come back for ''Part 2'' and the first three reunion films, and Shinko returned for the last one.]]
** Happens to Boss in the sequel series, as Ishihara's health had deteriorated to the point that he could no longer work.

* {{Yakuza}}: Nanamagari sometimes clashes with various groups as recurring antagonists. Dealing with them tends to be very dangerous, with some detectives even losing their lives against them. Recurring groups include the Ryushinki, the Togawa-gumi, and the Hibiki-gumi.

** Pops left in Episode 520, but returned for guest spots and came back for the sequel series, and later the [[ReunionShow Reunion Shows.]]

* MountainMan: Rocky hails from a mountain village in Hokkaido.

* ObessiveSportsFan: Although not so much obsessive, Doc is a proud Youmuri Giants fan. This however, put him in conflict sometimes with Bogey, who being from Hiroshima, supports the Hiroshima Carp.

** Macaroni Jipan Texas Sneakers & DJ all of the given name of Jun spelled in different kanji.

* CastingGag: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi was later cast as the dub actor for [[Series/SherlockHolmes Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes]], who, much like Yama-san, is an expert detective, if a bit eccentric and maverick in natire.

** Episodes 399 to 414 featured some of the darker and more mature episodes in the show's entire run, and was topped off with [[spoiler: Denka getting killed off.]] Things more or less got back to normal as soon as Doc arrived, though.

*** Blues because he likes listening to blues music (his father was a piano player), and arguably because of his perpetually downbeat nature.

* AbortedArc: Episode 48's conclusion reveals a BigBad shadow organization that manipulated and later kill Shinko's friend without a trace of their actions. Boss vows to find the culprit if a case like this was to happen again. They never did.

* TheArtifact: By the end of the original series, Boss was the last member of the original cast still on the show. By the time of the sequel series and the first three reunion shows, Pops later took over this distinction after [[TheBusCameBack joining the cast again]].

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Yama-san in the first episode is rather lazy, as he is seen playing mahjong in the middle of a case. He is also more aggressive in interrogations early on before adopting his classic relaxed attitude that he had for the rest of the series.

*** Gypsy because of his tendency to walk on his own.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
** To put it simply, just about every Nanamagari detective squad member has been in the ICU at least once in the show. Some more than others.
** Sneakers actually quits in Episode 401 after a child he was trying to protect dies and he gets into a severe argument with Scotch that results in both of them getting involved in a fistfight with each other. He serves as a constriction worker for a while before Gori gives him a pep talk. [[spoiler: Ultimately subverted in Episode 476, when he quits again and this time it sticks.]]

** Scotch by his second run is more prone to laugh and smile at the squad's antics, thanks to his CharacterDevelopment. One notable example happens in Episode 401 (his first full episode back), where he's seen lazing about with his legs on the table, something you'd expect more from Macaroni or Jeans. The rest of the squad even feel more comfortable in making him the butt of the joke-of-the-week a few times.

* RuleOfSeven: The station is named Nanamagari, which translations in English as "Seven Songs". The majority of the first half of the series features seven main detectives working in the station. It was lampshaded by Scotch in episode 274, who denied to come back because of the seven-person system. Eventually dropped by episode 400, where Scotch himself fully returns, increasing the main cast to eight. However, the team does go back to seven for a few short periods.