Line #39 Anime/BattleGirlsTimeParadox


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2	[[caption-width-right:244:[[GenderBender Not quite]] DemonLordNobunaga and [[JidaiGeki his generals]]. [[note]]From bottom to top, left to right: [[AnimalCompanion Shiro]], [[UsefulNotes/DateMasamune Date]] [[StealthMentor Masamune]], [[UsefulNotes/TokugawaIeyasu Tokugawa]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Ieyasu]], [[CloudCuckoolander Imagawa]] [[YuriFan Yoshimoto]], [[UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi Hide]] [[PunnyName Yoshino]], [[UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen Takeda]] [[FriendlyEnemies Shingen, Uesugi]] [[UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin Kenshin]], [[UsefulNotes/AkechiMitsuhide Akechi]] [[{{Yandere}} Mitsuhide]], [[UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga Oda]] [[EvilLaugh Nobunaga]]. Not pictured: [[ButtMonkey Han]][[UsefulNotes/HattoriHanzo zo]], [[WolverineClaws Mori]] [[InTheNameOfTheMoon Motonari]], Chokosabe [[InTheNameOfTheMoon Motichika]], [[{{BFG}} Otomo]] [[InTheNameOfTheMoon Sorin]].[[/note]]]]
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4	OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Hideyoshi (real name: Yoshino Hide[[note]]East Asian order: Hide Yoshino[[/note]]) can't do anything right. She's a trouble magnet who is in danger of failing, and with a test on the Sengoku period coming up, her future isn't looking bright. One night, she stops by a shrine and finds herself, through a series of accidents, being transported back to the actual Sengoku period. Only most of the major historical figures are now women, and Hideyoshi has no idea what to do or how to get home, so all she can do is help Nobunaga obtain the pieces of the Crimson Armor so she can take over Japan.
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6	Originally a pachinko game, ''Battle Girls - Time Paradox'' was adapted into an anime of the same name in April 2011.
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8	!!Tropes in ''Battle Girls - Time Paradox'' include:
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10	%% * ActionGirl: Just about the entire cast. Even Hideyoshi has her moments.
11	* ActuallyFourMooks: [[spoiler:In episode 11, "Hanzo" turns out to refer to about seventeen identically-clad shinobi.]]
12	* AlternateUniverse: The Sengoku era Hideoyoshi landed in is ''not'' Earth's. For one, men don't exist. Literally (Except Shiro but he is an animal so its more of a world without human men).
13	** The clincher is the outcome of the Battle of Okehazama, which in reality would be about a small force overcoming the enemy's greater numbers with superior strategy, ended in Yoshimoto Imagawa's death and signaled the beginning of Nobunaga's conquest. Here, it was a recreation tournament, with kite fighting done as a tie-breaker and ended with Yoshimoto just giving Nobunaga the Crimson Armor's left leg piece. This is lampshaded by Hideyoshi and Shiro.
14	** The Incident at Honnou-ji still happens [[spoiler:but in actual history, happens after years of suffering repeated insults from Nobunaga, but was ultimately tipped when Nobunaga's actions resulted in the death of UsefulNotes/AkechiMitsuhide's mother. This caused him to divert from reinforcing UsefulNotes/ToyotomiHideyoshi to attacking Honnou-ji, and the rest is history. In the show, Mitsuhide was enduring an UnrequitedLove for Nobunaga and jealous of the attention she constantly gave Hideyoshi. Not only that, but Date-sensei pushed her into actually going along with the whole incident as a ploy to steal the Crimson Armor. Nobunaga doesn't die (in fact, no one does) and she helps Mitsuhide resolve the issue, but they later find that the Crimson Armor is gone.]]
15	%% * AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:Hideyoshi and Masamune return to our modern-day world in the final episode, but Shiro is shown jumping over at the end to run some errands.]]
16	%% * AndYouWereThere: Hideyoshi's friends in the modern day resemble the people she'll meet in the past to an uncanny degree. Specifically, Mitsuhide looks like her friend Akerin, and Ieyasu resembles Tokunyan. [[spoiler: Masamune ''is'' actually her teacher Date-sensei, so that one is quite justified.]]
17	%% * AnimalMotifs: The Monkey for Hideyoshi and in Episode 2 Nobunaga is going to give Monkey as Hideyoshi's nickname but Hideyoshi hates it and prefers to have Hideyoshi as her nickname.
18	%% * BadassCape: Nobunaga
19	%% * BadBoss: Ieyasu
20	%% * BeamSpam: Nobunaga's method of fighting.
21	%% * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: During a hunting trip, Hideyoshi sees a cute rabbit and excitedly says she wants it. She is shocked when Nobunaga kills it, thinking Hideyoshi wanted it for meat instead of as a pet.
22	%% * {{BFG}}: Otomo Sourin's Don Frankie cannon.
23	%% * {{BFS}}: Nobunaga's sword is pretty big.
24	%% * BigBadEnsemble: [[spoiler:For the most part, there wasn't one, until Ieyasu pulls a FaceHeelTurn and fights the rest of the cast. Date-sensei tried to be this for about half of episode 13, but never really picked up, especially after Nobunaga destroys The Helmet of The Crimson Armor.]]
25	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Ieyasu
26	-->'''Hideyoshi''': "She's cute, but [[LittleMissSnarker sharp-tongued]]."\
27	'''Hideyoshi (again)''': [[LampshadeHanging Is]] [[AccidentalMisnaming Tokunyan]] [[LampshadeHanging actually mean and just keeps it hidden?]]
28	%% * BloodKnight: Shingen and Kenshin
29	%% * BookDumb: Hideyoshi
30	* BoundAndGagged: A lot of it. The girls don't seem to mind. Hideyoshi is lampshading it by the end of the series, after she's tied to a tree.
31	* BringMyBrownPants: Mitsuhide wet herself some time during the ghost story telling. She embarrassingly carries her wet pants on a large stick when they leave.
32	%% * CallingYourAttacks
33	%% * CerebusSyndrome: Episode 9, definitely.
34	* ChainmailBikini: Nobunaga. Other characters don similar armor, but wear extra clothing underneath. Not Oda.
35	** The Crimson Armour starts out as traditional samurai armour, but the moment it is put on it transforms into a chainmail bikini.
36	%% * ChekhovsGun: Hideyoshi has a history book containing detailed information about the Sengoku era.
37	%% * ClothingDamage: Ayup.
38	* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Done by Nobunaga to Mitsuhide when the latter was knocked out by smoke inhalation.
39	%% * Cute ClumsyGirl: Hideyoshi and Hanzo.
40	* DarkIsNotEvil: Oda Nobunaga has a black outfit and [[OminousOperaCape dark cape]] and she is one of the good guys. Nobunaga wants to unify Japan into a single entity to stop their territories' needless cycles of war, and become a strong nation. However, she learns through her quest for the incredible power of the Crimson Armor that power in and of itself does not make a great leader.
41	* DeathGlare: Nobunaga does one after the Saigoku Three kidnaps Hideyoshi. It's pretty scary.
42	* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Happens to poor Mitsuhide at the end of episode 9, when she finally realizes that Nobunaga will never love her.]]
43	* DistressBall: Hideyoshi has a knack for getting into trouble and be tied up. She even [[LampshadeHanging laments about it]] in episode 10 for [[RunningJoke being tied up for about 4 times in the show.]]
44	* EatsBabies: Mitsuhide was supposed to spread the rumor that Nobunaga was a FriendToAllChildren, but thanks to GossipEvolution, the only thing that made it through was that Mitsuhide was responsible.
45	%% * EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:Ieyasu]] and later [[spoiler:Date-sensei]].
46	%% * Eternal English
47	* EvolvingCredits: Hideyoshi's phone goes through some changes the first episode full bars and the next two no bars until it's finally broken a few episodes later.
48	%% * EyepatchOfPower: Date Masamune, obviously.
49	* FacelessGoons: The [[spoiler:Hanzou]] tribe, which is [[spoiler:a group of about 20 identically dressed kunoichi.]]
50	* FacelessMasses: Grayed-out generic character designs in the present. Also, don't expect most people without brightly colored hair to have speaking lines.
51	%% * FacialMarkings: Nobunaga
52	%% * {{Fanservice}}
53	%% * FieryRedhead: Nobunaga
54	%% * FishOutOfTemporalWater
55	* ForegoneConclusion: Anyone familiar with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Honn%C5%8D-ji the Incident at Honnou-ji]] knows how things are likely to turn out. [[spoiler: Subverted: Hideyoshi landed in an AlternateUniverse, and all bets are off.]]
56	** However in Episode 10 [[spoiler:it does happen, if for entirely different reasons, and Nobunaga survives the event and resolves the issue with Mitsuhide.]]
57	* FriendlyRival: Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen view each other as rivals. Hideyoshi even lampshades this when they're first introduced, something that is later confirmed by their actions towards one another. They fight, they throw insults around, but they have great respect for one another as combatants as well as friends, and -- up until Nobunaga intervened -- had only fought one another to the point where they were fighting because they had so much fun. When Nobunaga bested Shingen in battle and nearly took her head, Kenshin stepped in and offered both her head and her portion of the Crimson Armor to Nobunaga, in exchange for Shingen's life, all but stating that they were friends. She never said it directly, but you could tell by her tone of voice and her expression.
58	%% * GirlishPigtails: Hideyoshi
59	%% * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Shiro definitely thinks so.
60	%% * GottaCatchEmAll: The DismantledMacGuffin, the Crimson Armor.
61	* GratuitousEnglish: "UNJUST ACCESS" [[spoiler:flashes on Date-sensei's device when the Crimson Armor activates.]]
62	%% * GreenEyedMonster: Mitsuhide is jealous of all the attention that Nobunaga gives Hideyoshi.
63	* HeadbuttThermometer: Nobunaga performs this on Hideyoshi in Episode 8 to make sure her fever has broken. It doesn't help matters that there was [[spoiler: an [[IntimateHealing awkward kiss]] the previous night that was [[NotWhatItLooksLike actually anything but.]]]]
64	%% * TheHeart: Hideyoshi
65	%% * HiddenAgendaVillain: [[spoiler:Date]]
66	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: All based on characters from the Sengoku era. Hideyoshi even fits, being based on a general who came out of nowhere historically.
67	* HistoricalGenderFlip: To the point where it was {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Hideyoshi.
68	* HistoricalInJoke: Nobunaga famously said: "If a bird does not sing, kill it." She repeats this when Hideyoshi insists on keeping her broken cellphone.
69	** When Ieyasu [[spoiler:mugs Date-sensei for the Crimson Armor after biding her time for the circumstances to lead thusly]], she says "If a bird does not sing, wait for it to sing."
70	* HonorBeforeReason: When she was bested by Nobunaga in combat, Takeda Shingen asked that she take her life, because she had shamed herself and the Takeda Clan with this defeat to someone other than her rival. Thankfully, Kenshin intervened on her behalf and prevented her friend's death.
71	%% * HotSpringsEpisode
72	%% * HowWeGotHere: Episode 9.
73	%% * I Ate What: Hideyoshi realizes a little too late what Sengoku-era medicine consists of. Primarily horse manure, with a few other things mixed in. %%Needs to elaborate on his disgusted reaction because that's a important part of the trope.
74	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode as "Maiden" in the title, like "Transfer Maiden", "Confused Maiden", etc.
75	* IKnowMortalKombat: Hideyoshi sucked at nearly everything Mitsuhide challenged her at, except for the staff fighting, where she emulated a ShowWithinAShow Kung Fat. She still lost, but she impressed Nobunaga and showed that she wasn't completely unskilled.
76	* ImprobablyFemaleCast: There are no men in the world. As Hideyoshi [[LampshadeHanging notices]].
77	* InTheNameOfTheMoon: Motonari, Motochika and Sourin introduce themselves with an elaborate roll call that, as soon as it finishes, causes them to be blown up by Nobunaga.
78	%% * IntimateHealing: Happens in episode 8 when Nobunaga gives medicine to an unconscious Hideyoshi.
79	%% * KingmakerScenario: [[DefiedTrope Mitsuhide gets in trouble]] for offering one of these to Nobunaga.
80	%% * LargeHam: Nobunaga
81	* LaymansTerms: Date goes into a long stream of TechnoBabble about time travel. Nobunaga cuts it off with "You guys are from another country?". Hideyoshi goes with that.
82	%% * MartialArtsHeadband: Hideyoshi
83	%% * Mitsuhide in episode 9, during her [[LetsGetDangerous Let's Get Dangerous]] moment against Motochika and Sourin.
84	* MarshmallowHell: When [[spoiler:Ieyasu]] ''makes'' [[spoiler:Nobunaga]] give it to her, you know you've got a problem a lot bigger than [[spoiler:the Crimson Armour]]...
85	%% * {{Miko}}: Ieyasu Tokugawa, or at least, that's how she dresses.
86	* NavelDeepNeckline: Nonunaga's outfit has a neckline that goes all the way down to her navel.
87	%% * NerdGlasses: Hanzou
88	%% * NoblewomansLaugh: Yoshimoto Imagawa's laugh can match Nobunaga's own EvilLaugh.
89	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Nobunaga giving Hideyoshi some medicine looks like a kiss. It turns out Nobunaga didn't even know what a kiss was.
90	** More like Nobunaga didn't know what the term "kiss" since it's an English word commonly used by people in Hideyoshi's time. As soon as Hideyoshi explains what it is, Nobunaga promptly blushes and denies doing such a thing.
91	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ieyasu [[spoiler:is engaged in a plan to let Nobunaga complete the Crimson Armor and then take it for herself when that is done. Hideyoshi notices the difference in personality when she comes back from the woods behind the group.]]
92	* ObliviousToLove: Nobunaga really does not see that Mitsuhide admires her to the point where she wants to go all the way with everything the practice of ''shudo'' entails.
93	%% * {{Odango}}: Hideyoshi
94	%% * OminousOperaCape: Nobunaga.
95	* OnTheNext: Notably, done in live action, with Rina Hidaka (Hideyoshi) and Yuka Hirata (Date) having a brief discussion about something sort of related to the next episode.
96	%% * TheOneGuy: Shiro
97	* PaperFanOfDoom: In relation to her legendary duel with Kenshin, Shingen's signature weapon is a ''gunbai'' war fan, primarily used to signal troops, though here, she uses it to control her fire and wind abilities, and as a thrusting/stabbing weapon.
98	%% * PunnyName: ''Hide Yoshi''no
99	%% * {{Sarashi}}: Nobunaga in her regular clothes.
100	* ScaryShinyGlasses: Mitsuhide, on some occassions, showing off her jealousy of Hideyoshi for being the favorite of Nobunaga.
101	%% * SickEpisode: Episode eight.
102	%% * ShockAndAwe: Kenshin's Lightning Spear Flurry.
103	%% * SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:Ieyasu at the end of Episode 10.]]
104	%% * SpamAttack: Kenshin's Lightning Spear Flurry.
105	* StealthMentor: Masamune Date to Hideyoshi. Maybe. [[spoiler:Likely, since she is the same Date-sensei from the other world.]]
106	** As it turns out, [[spoiler:she's something of a HiddenAgendaVillain who only looks out for Hideyoshi as she's concerned for her student, but the character that better fits the mentor role is Shiro.]]
107	* StockFootage: When using Nobunaga's special move, Cruel Blade.
108	%% * {{Stripperiffic}}
109	* TalkingAnimal: Shiro, but only to Hideyoshi. He shuts up whenever there's someone else around. Until episode 11, where he breaks his silence when [[spoiler:he tries to stop Ieyasu.]]
110	* TheTalk: Unusual in that both parties already know the mechanics and outcome of the deed, but Hideyoshi was asking Shiro how it worked because there are no men around and she was wondering how the people in that world reproduce. He explains this with three DeliveryStork answers (that babies were delivered by storks, were found in cabbage patches and found inside bamboo shoots), which Hideyoshi actually takes for truth, not because of immediate stupidity, but because she has no other idea how else it could work in a world without men.
111	%% * TalkingIsAFreeAction: Beautifully subverted in epsidoe 9, When Nobunaga nukes the Saigoku three as they make thier over the top entrance.
112	%% * ThisLoserIsYou: Oh, Hideyoshi...
113	%% * TickleTorture: Used on the Saigoku Three, who in turn use it on Hideyoshi.
114	%% * TomboyishPonytail: Nobunaga
115	%% * TrappedInAnotherWorld: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Hideyoshi.
116	%% * {{Tsundere}}: Hideyoshi has Mitsuhide pegged as one.
117	* UnrequitedLove: Poor Mitsuhide. Coincidentally, she's heading the same path as that other [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica tragic character]] voiced by Creator/EriKitamura. This is also the reason fans use to back up the [[ForegoneConclusion Foregone Conclusion ]] noted above.
118	%% * UnusualEyebrows: Nobunaga
119	%% * WelcomeBackTraitor: [[spoiler:Masamune Date Twice.]]
120	%% * WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Masamune Date]]
121	* WolverineClaws: Mouri Motonari wields a sinister one in her left hand called the Triple Soul Claw that's able to read into people's emotions.
122	%% * {{Yandere}}: Mitsuhide is showing signs of it.
123	%% * YouWillBeBeethoven: Happens to Hideyoshi [[spoiler:and Date-sensei.]]
124	%% * YuriFan: A given, considering there are no men around, but Yoshimoto and Mitsuhide stand out.
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Context Anime / BattleGirlsTimeParadox