History YMMV / CannonGodEXaXXion

* SlowPacedBeginning: Especially in light of the occasional review like [[http://jonchoo.blogspot.com/2008/01/cannon-god-exaxxion-review.html this]], it perhaps does need to be said that the start can come off as ''very'' cliche. That's sort of the point; it needs to line up all the pins [[{{Deconstruction}} so it can start knocking 'em down one by one]]. It only begins to play with the expected tropes in the last parts of the first graphic novel volume, and only in the second volume do all of the old cliches [[FridgeHorror start to]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone fly apart]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality messily]].[[note]]Where he gets the whole "foreigners weasel their way into society!" bit is beyond us, though. The Riofaldians are about colonialism and government power, not a racial analogue.[[/note]]

* {{Squick}}: It's a Sonoda manga. Though there's nothing too terribly explicit, there's a lot of (topless) nudity and some pretty freaky stuff is going on with Hosuke and the BridgeBunnies. Then there's the violence, which, while usually not too gratuitous, is rendered very realistically. And let's not even get started on the [[HumanResources Processing Plants...]]

* MagnificentBastard / ManipulativeBastard: Hosuke and Shesh'ka duel to be the king of this trope. [[spoiler:In the end, ''Hoichi'' beats them both.]]

* {{Narm}}: [[spoiler:Hoichi and Akane's]] sex scene. "Oh my god! He's that big!? He's like a porn star!" Pfffftttt.
** [[spoiler:The voyeuristic BridgeBunnies do ''not'' help matters on this front]].

* TrappedByMountainLions: [[spoiler:The Hino family outside of Akane and Murata & Kin'ba eventually enter this territory, as there doesn't seem to be much of a point to the Hinos after they get rescued (despite something like a plot still getting dangled), and the whole Murata-Kin'ba thing doesn't really go anywhere, possibly due to Sonoda ending the manga a bit early and ditching extended plans for them. Most obviously, Murata gets a Cannon Glove and Suit... and then proceeds to do ''fuckall'' with it. He doesn't even appear again until the denouement.]]

* {{Squick}}: It's a Sonoda manga. Though there's nothing too terribly explicit, there's a lot of (topless) nudity and some pretty freaky stuff is going on with Hosuke and the BridgeBunnies. Then there's the violence, which, while usually not too gratuitous, is rendered very realistically. And let's not even get started on the [[SoylentGreen Processing Plants...]]

* FreudWasRight: [[http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-5&page_nr=11 Ummm...]]
** Which get a ''lot'' funnier later.

* ItGetsBetter: Especially in light of the occasional review like [[http://jonchoo.blogspot.com/2008/01/cannon-god-exaxxion-review.html this]], it perhaps does need to be said that the start can come off as ''very'' cliche. That's sort of the point; it needs to line up all the pins [[{{Deconstruction}} so it can start knocking 'em down one by one]]. It only begins to play with the expected tropes in the last parts of the first graphic novel volume, and only in the second volume do all of the old cliches [[FridgeHorror start to]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone fly apart]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality messily]].[[note]]Where he gets the whole "foreigners weasel their way into society!" bit is beyond us, though. The Riofaldians are about colonialism and government power, not a racial analogue.[[/note]]

* TrappedByMountainLions: [[spoiler:The Hino family outside of Akane and Murata & Kin'ba eventually enter this territory, as there doesn't seem to be much of a point to the Hinos after they get rescued (despite something like a plot still getting dangled), and the whole Murata-Kin'ba thing doesn't really go anywhere, possibly due to Sonoda ending the manga a bit early and ditching extended plans for them. Most obviously, Murata gets a Cannon Glove and Suit... and then proceeds to do ''fuckall'' with it. He doesn't even appear again until the denouement.]]

** Which get a ''lot'' funnier later.

* FreudWasRight: [[http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-5&page_nr=11 Ummm...]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Hosuke explains that it'd be quite easy to use nanomachines to create and control whatever woman Hoichi wanted, even Akane. This makes the unusual 'harem' of the BridgeBunnies quite disturbing when you wonder why so many young and beautiful women swoon over a man old enough to be their father. Not to mention how Hosuke described how he got his wife - "Hey, she was a babe with brains, laddie. I had to take her for myself."
** Also, Hoichi's mother cheerfully explains to Akane that they're going to use Exaxxion to rule the world and change whatever laws they want - including marriage laws.
** In light of all this, Akane's proclaimation that she is 'Hoichi's woman' after they [[spoiler:have sex for the first time]] comes off as a little skeevy, no matter how innocently she meant it.

* FanDumb: The edits to a rather infamous scene in the Dark Horse English version inspired a fair amount of this, even though the original was ''seriously'' unpublishable in the States, especially with the tizzies about "child porn". DH probably needs to be ''commended'' for making that bit work at all while preserving its (fairly important) place in the narrative.

* ItGetsBetter: Especially in light of the occasional review like [[http://jonchoo.blogspot.com/2008/01/cannon-god-exaxxion-review.html this]], it perhaps does need to be said that the start can come off as ''very'' cliche. That's sort of the point; it needs to line up all the pins [[{{Deconstruction}} so it can start knocking 'em down one by one]]. It only begins to play with the expected tropes in the last parts of the first graphic novel volume, and only in the second volume do all of the old cliches [[FridgeHorror start to]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone fly apart]] [[BlackAndGreyMorality messily]].[[hottip:* :Where he gets the whole "foreigners weasel their way into society!" bit is beyond us, though. The Riofaldians are about colonialism and government power, not a racial analogue.]]

* EverybodyRemembersTheStripper: The manga really does have some important things to say about the nature of heroism and the truth. All anyone seems to talk and/or complain about are various scenes involving Akane, though.