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* [[Animated Adaptation]]: It's worth noting that, [[Otaku no Video|despite]] [[Bubblegum Crisis|Sonoda's]] [[Gunsmith Cats|pedigree]], it ''hasn't'' been made into an animated work yet, with no studio having even stated interest (not even from Sonoda's old fellows at AIC), even in spite of a ''seven-year'' serialization run and very successful results for the graphic novel collections. [[Epileptic Trees|Speculation]] as to the cause varies, but pretty much everyone who reads the manga agrees it deserves a chance in the sun.
* [[Anyone Can Die]]: In a meta sense, this is true; while the main cast has plenty of [[Plot Armor]], if you aren't a named character and aren't part of the primary recurring cast? ''God help you.'' Your life expectancy anywhere near the proximity of Exaxxion is roughly ''five seconds''. This is of course [[Deconstruction|a large part of the point]] and is central to Hoichi's development as a character.
** And in the manga's final act, {{spoiler|the plot armor starts comin' off, but not to [[Kill
* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Most of the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] in the series is based around gravity and inertial control. Giant robots, [[Deflector Shields]], flying saucers, all of it, really.
* [[Author Appeal]]: This ''is'' a Kenichi Sonoda manga, after all. Expect lots of guns, boobs (both underage and [[Hot Shonen Mom|not]]) and copious amounts of lovingly detailed blood and guts.
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Oh so very ''many'', especially when Hoichi is in one-on-one combat inside his suit.
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: A lot of tension in the series comes from just how ''terrifyingly'' competent the Riofaldians are, especially Shes'ka.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Rather than be simply "lol boobs and guns", CGE does a good job of rather brutally examining the [[
** Hoichi manages to be a solid [[Super Robot]] pilot deconstruction, too, since a lot of the above [[Go Mad From the Revelation|slowly takes a toll on his sanity]] and he comes to realize the terrible ''burden'' that his grandfather has placed upon him. He takes it doubly hard because all the death and pain clashes with his vision of an ideal hero. The end result... well, read it and see!
* [[Diagonal Cut]]: Specialty of the Terminal Drone robots.
* [[Dirty Old Man]]: Hosuke Kano is one of the dirtiest there is.
* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Akane falls into this territory in the first few acts with a regularity that borders on the depressing. Hoichi finally manages to get her to safety at about the halfway point, though.
* [[Do
* [[Dueling Hackers]]: Happens when both sides run a propaganda war against each other.
* [[Dying Like Animals]]:Human ''and'' "Faldie" civilians manage to cover the entire spectrum, with Hoichi's old high school being a particularly good example over the course of the series (as opinions shift and change depending on events). And boy howdy, they ''[[Anyone Can Die|die]]'' like animals, to Hoichi's absolute ''horror''.
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* [[Freud Was Right]]: [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.
* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The Riofaldians' favourite weapon to use against anybody without access to gravitational lensing. One wonders why they would bother with something so energy-inefficient when they already have access to extremely powerful conventional guns, but lasers do look quite impressive and the 'Faldies are explicitly fond of terror weapons.
** First, Riofald spent ''ten years'' shaping Earth's civilization into something that couldn't repel an invasion - bright shiny laser technology was one of the carrots that turned out to be sticks. Hell, ''conventional bullets'' have a fair chance of penetrating personal shields. Second, Riofald is a civilization that thinks ''nothing'' of building twelve-story-tall [[Humongous Mecha]] at the drop of a hat. Their level of technology means lasers have [[Bottomless Magazines]], and are perfectly fine for exterminating "monkeys". [[Tempting Fate|It's not like any non-Riofaldians have gravtech...]]
* [[Fridge Horror]]: The story seems to try and work this in deliberately. One good example is "Oh hey so the nanomachines can influence thought, that's kind of - wait. [[Unfortunate Implications|Why the hell does Hosuke have all these gorgeous women working for him?...]] OH GOD."
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* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Hoichi and Akane have a lot of sexual tension right from the start. {{spoiler|Gets resolved, too!}}
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: The fact that Hoichi keeps opposing the Riofaldans (who, let's face it, very much needed opposing) despite the toll it takes on him and the fact he has to actually deal with the consequences may make him ''more'' heroic.
* [[Hot Blooded]]: Hoichi bleeds ''fire'', not blood. He's very much cut from the mold of an 80's [[Super Robot]] protagonist. ([[My God, What Have I Done?|This turns out]] [[What the Hell, Hero?|to be something]] [[Deconstruction|of a problem for him]].) {{spoiler|(It ultimately ''saves'' him in the end, though; whatever else it deconstructs, the story doesn't say that being courageous is bad, you just have to know how to apply it and what being brave ''means''.)}}
* [[Hot Mom]]: Reiko. Oh is she ever.
* [[How Do I Shot Web]]: Hoichi takes some time to learn how to use his power suit and his robot properly. The former is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|comedic]]. The latter is [[Squick|terrifying]], ''even for him''.
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* [[Les Yay]]: Did you ''really'' think a Sonoda work would get away without some of this? Most of it focuses on Akane and Isaka. {{spoiler|Akane is eventually taken off the market, though.}}
* [[Lost Technology]]: The Exaxxion is really an ancient Riofaldian weapon that holds the last of their antimatter supply, aside from the stuff they need to keep their [[Portal Network]] alive.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Hosuke is really Hoichi's father, having stolen and impregnated his first son's wife.}}
* [[Marshmallow Hell]]: Hilariously, Isaka does this to ''Akane'' by accident in the first chapter. Given what happens in the scene on the whole, it's hard to tell if her [[Luminescent Blush]] is from [[Les Yay|embarrassment]] or ''[[Unlucky Childhood Friend|anger]]''.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The "Ho" in Hoichi uses the Kanji for gun or cannon, and Akane sometimes refers to him by the pet name "Ho" (or "Gun" in the Dark Horse English version).
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* [[Mukokuseki]]: A particular Sonoda mark. Akane gets this in particular - orange-red hair, big round green eyes and she's still ''supposedly'' Japanese.
* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much]]: Miss Kin'ba is a staunch supporter of Human rights. Well, as much as one can be when you've got a fascist police state breathing down your neck...
* [[
{{quote| "[[Space Runaway Ideon|Ideon]], [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]], [[Super High Speed Galvion|Galvion]], [[Voltron]]..."}}
* [[No Export for You]]: Siiiiiigh. This is probably why this here page sat fallow for so long. [[Dark Horse Comics]] published the first five volumes in English... and after the fifth volume proceeded to drop the title on a ''terrible'' cliffhanger. This may or may not have been due to a [[Fan Dumb|fandom kerfuffle]] over the editing of certain scenes in volume 5. Either way, they unfortunately stopped just ''before'' the manga finished making some of its [[An Aesop|Big Statements]] and before its [[Super Robot]] deconstruction was complete, so the manga isn't as well-known as it probably deserves to be.
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* [[Sacred First Kiss]]: ''Isaka'' almost steals this from Akane in a way that has to be seen to be believed.
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Riofaldians embody some of the worst excesses of both European Colonialism and the Axis Powers.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right|Screw Grandad's Plans, I'm Doing What's Right!]]: Near the end of the manga, {{spoiler|Hoichi secretly rebels against his grandfather's plan and makes an alternate one with Isaka to do the ''right'' thing, not what his [[Jerkass]] grandfather wants.}}
* [[Shout Out]]: A couple. There's the [[
** Hoichi's mom, Reiko, uses a power suit that is VERY similar to [[Bubblegum Crisis|a certain rock singer-slash-armored vigilante's]].
*** In fact, all the suits are not only a reference to ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', but they also have a similar appearance to ''[[Robot Hunter Casshan]]''.
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*** The guns and cars, naturally, are all modeled lovingly from real-world examples despite the [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] setting.
*** And it has an ultra-rare ''justification'' for [[Humongous Mecha]]; how else are you going to field giant gravity and inertia manipulating systems with multi-petajoule power requirements? Having them walk around rather than fly saves energy and permits precision usage of otherwise-nuclear kinetic force. Exaxxion is able to ''punch through an enemy robot's chest and rip out its fusion reactor.'' It's stated that the impact was the equivalent of a multi-megaton bomb, focused into an area the width of a car.
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: the pilot tries a [[We Can Rule Together]]-[http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=27 type] [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=28 speech]. [http://www.mangavolume.com/index.php?serie=cannon-god-exaxxion&chapter=cannon-god-exaxxion-30&page_nr=29 This happens].
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: {{spoiler|Hoichi, who somehow manages to fuck up ''everybody's plans'' at every turn through a combination of [[Bigger Stick|superior firepower]], [[Hot Blooded]]-ness, and at least ''trying'' to be an actual hero.}}
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: The aliens. Are they supposed to be Riofaldians, or Leopoldians? The former is what the Dark Horse version went for, but the latter is preferred by some fans due to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_II_of_Belgium the possible reference to King Leopold of Belgium], the infamous conqueror, colonizer and exploiter of the Congo, [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|which seems rather apropos to our villains]].
* [[Squick]]: Early in the manga, a Terminal Drone saves Kin'ba from an assault from another teacher... {{spoiler|by cleaving that teacher in two through the waist. Right in front of her. Needless to say, she does not take it ''particularly'' well.}} Poor Hoichi finding the entire situation squicky as hell is also part of the ''[[Deconstruction|point]]''.
* [[The Starscream]]: Shes'ka eventually {{spoiler|wants to capture Exaxxion so he can go home and stage a coup. His cronies in the occupational government feel the same, but as it turns out, they don't particularily care whether Shes'ka's the one leading it or not}}.
* [[Super Prototype]]: Pretty much everything used by the Kano family. They stress a quality over quantity approach, whereas the Riofaldians, who have to budget for an entire planetary occupation, do the exact opposite.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The men of the Kano family all have the kanji for "gun" in their name (''Ho''ichi, his dad ''Ho''jo, and his grandfather ''Ho''suke). It's worth noting that "Hoichi" [[Meaningful Name|means "First Gun" or "Best Gun"]], while Hosuke is something like "Selfish Gun".
** The Hino girls are named for colors - Akane (for a red pigment) and Aoi ("blue"). Interestingly, this [[Averted Trope|doesn't lead]] [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|to the obvious joke]], partially because Aoi doesn't really take part in the plot to a great degree.
* [[Transformation Trinket]]: The Gunner Glove. Hoichi's mom also has one of the stranger ones out there, in the form of a wig.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Anybody lacking the smarts to keep up with all the maniacal plotting going on has a good chance of turning into one.
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* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Akane. Her and Hoichi's first night together somehow manages to be funny, squicky and heartwarming all at once.}}
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Hoichi ends up thinking of himself as this for a while, and a large part of the story is dedicated to whether or not people see him as this or [[The Hero]], straight up.
* [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save The World]]: Averted so hard as to be ''profound''. From the instant he dons the Gunner Glove, Hoichi is doomed to a life that varies between furtive hiding and absurd violence. The Riofaldians would kill him in seconds if he tried to live a normal life (and nearly ''do'', at one point). {{spoiler|The one and only time he can return to school for any length of time is under deep, deep cover in volume 5.}}
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in The Future]]: Definitely averted. Hosuke and the Riofaldians are constantly cooking up new phoney videos to make each other look bad. Not that there's a shortage of real ones that do it, too. If the story were told from the perspective of a civilian on the sidelines it would get [[Mind Screw]]-ingly difficult to tell what was real or not very quickly.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Riofaldian government do not give the ''slightest damn'' about their own people, even ones who were just fighting against Hoichi. If they can kill millions of their own people to stop Exaxxion, they'll do it without a second thought.
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