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[[File:NEEDLESS.jpg|frame|Adam Blade and Eve Neuschwanstein]]
'''''NEEDLESS''''': In the near future, mankind has suffered from [[World War III]], leaving extreme damage all over. Mankind has been forced to evolve. From this chaos comes a new species: "Needless". The Needless are humans who have contracted a [[Cursed with Awesome|"disease"]], as humans call it, which allows them to wield extraordinary powers. Their abilities include [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]], [[Elemental Powers]], [[Gravity Master|gravity control]], adaptation, radioactive release and so on, all seemingly impossible.
The manga debuted in
Not to be confused with [[The Needless]].
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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: Kana for her group of thugs, and {{spoiler|and Solva for her group of thugs}}.
* [[Accidental Pervert]]: A [[Running Gag]] in episode nine.
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* [[Blow You Away]]: Mother Black's power.
* [[Book Ends]]: In the chapter "The Sacred Sword of the Reaper" Adam says both at the beginning and at the end that "funeral service will be seven thousand yen" when seeing a situation where people seem to be in the risk of death.
* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted for the anti-NEEDLESS machine Testament. The problem is, the moment it runs out of bullets, it begins to use missiles.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]:
** "You are the main character of this anime!"
** Kana:"You're (Hatfield) not the main character of this MUSTACHE ARC!!!"
** At chapter five of the manga, Eve says to Cruz she is surprised he is a recurring character.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: <s>Cruz</s> Yamada.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Practically anyone who can fight is prone to this.
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** "It's judgment time!" "Your sentence... IS DEATH!"
** Taeka says to men they "have tiny balls". Yup.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Bishoujo Squad member Mio is shown to to have recently learn to read kanji in the beginning of the group's focus chapter, but she is only able to ready kanji by kanji, that result in interpretations of the symbols that are completely wrong. {{spoiler|In the climax of the chapter, the other members of the group hope she takes the object they were assigned to retrieve, but she instead grabs the owner of said object thanks to another misreading}}.
* [[Children Are Innocent]]: Subverted with Uten and Mio. And See-chan{{spoiler|Adam Cyclops}} from NEEDLESS 1.5
* [[Confessional]]: Subverted with Momiji Teruyama's introduction, the booth winds up getting destroyed.▼
* [[Clothing Damage]]: Eve is a frequent victim...as if her outfit wasn't [[Stripperific]] enough already.
** Heavily lampshaded and subverted by the head mistress of St. Lily Academy. {{spoiler|After deflecting Rin's attack}}, she says that [[Clothing Damage]] acts as the [[Life Meter]] [[No Fourth Wall|in this manga]] and thanks to her steel clothes, she is invincible against [[Clothing Damage]] and real damage.
* [[Cool Shades]]: Blade's. If they were a bit more pointy and orange, they'd look almost like [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina's]].▼
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Arclight's preferred method of attack.
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: To levels that start [[Serial Escalation|continually increasing]] halfway through the first episode.
* [[Confusion Fu]]: Saten keeps his ''actual'' ability secret and throws people for a loop with what appear to be multiple fragments. In the Anime original material (beginning episode 22 or so) And he takes this even ''further'' by hiding his ''true'' status as {{spoiler|an artificial Adam Project subject, having had the "Zero" fragment infused into him.}}▼
* [[Compelling Voice]]: Cain's NEEDLESS power.
▲* [[Confessional]]: Subverted with Momiji Teruyama's introduction, the booth winds up getting destroyed.
▲* [[Confusion Fu]]: Saten keeps his ''actual'' ability secret and throws people for a loop with what appear to be multiple fragments. In the Anime original material (beginning episode 22 or so) And he takes this even ''further'' by hiding his ''true'' status as {{spoiler|an artificial Adam Project subject, having had the "Zero" fragment infused into him.}}
* [[Continuity Cameo]]: {{spoiler|Adam Neuschwanstein}}, Adam Blade's {{spoiler|rumored future clone/transexual form/daughter from NEEDLESS 1.5}}, makes an appearance in the 82th chapter of the main series, a very brief and almost purposeless one.
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: The Bishoujo Squad members are divided in two groups but assigned to the same mission. The team who don't succeeds in the mission will wear skirts that don't reach beyond 30cm above the knee and no underwear. {{spoiler|Both teams fail and therefore both receive the punishment}}.
▲* [[Cool Shades]]: Blade's. If they were a bit more pointy and orange, they'd look almost like [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina's]].
* [[Cross Dressing Voice]]: Cruz is played by [[Aya Endo]], usually playing the [[Cool Big Sis]].
* [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]]: The Second.
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* [[Fan Service]]: So, so much...Although the [[E Ds]] and episode 6 take it to near-extremes.
** In the words of Adam Blade, "There's always room for more [[Panty Shot|Panty Shots]]!"
* [[Fanservice Extra]]: General Vonsanger Heokoider's maids dress in skimpy outfits(we wouldn't they say they wear bras but rather pieces of clothing attached to the front of their breasts) for no good reasons and are only there for a few panels.
* [[Fearful Symmetry]]: Eve, as Setsuna, forces her to fight herself.
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Where did the container with super-concentrated Derodoro go? Probably inside Eve's body, she could easily hide it using her fragment.
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* [[Mega Manning]]: Adam Blade's Fragment "Zero" Overcomes the "one fragment, one power" restriction by allowing him to memorize other fragments. {{spoiler|Adam Arclight has an even ''stronger'' version of this ability, "Positive Feedback Zero", and is using it to become [[A God Am I|unbelievably powerful]]. And then there's Saten...}}
* [[Mind Control]]: {{spoiler|Kurumi.}}
* [[Mistaken for Gay]]: When Blade says he loves NEEDLESS, Momiji says he don't swings that way.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Eve.
* [[Muggle Born of Mages]]: {{spoiler|Kana have no powers despite her father being a NEEDLESS, though no mention is made of her mother}}.
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** {{spoiler|Subverted in the two flashbacks episodes 20 and 21 where there isn't a single one.Blade points it out in the preview.}}
** {{spoiler|Ever since Cruz started cross-dressing, he's gotten panty shots in droves, ''showing bulging junk and everything''. Looks like the artist is a trap fetish.}}
* [[Pervert Revenge Mode]]: Eve kicks Momiji in the had for bursting in the place where she is bathing completely naked. Mind you, he doesn't even notice Eve is there and is completely focused on Blade.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Momiji Teruyama, Arca Schild, and to a degree, Saten.
* [[Power At a Price]]: Adam Neuschwanstein has an horrible memory thanks to her powers.
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* [[Rape Is Love]] [[Love Makes You Evil|That Makes You Evil]]: Riru genuinely fell in love with Arclight after their first meeting... When he implanted Eden's Seeds into her in a [[Nightmare Fuel]] moment that looks suspiciously similar to tentacle rape...
* [[Razor Floss]]: Kafka's "Kandatta String" ability. Blade and, later, Arclight are able to do this after memorizing the move. Of course, it usually winds up being [[The Worf Barrage]].
* [[Reality Ensues]]: What kind of energy drink have so much sugar and/or fat that each unit would have 5000 calories? Answer:one that failed commercially, actually is kind of gross and nasty, and had its deposit dumped on the Black Spots, that explains how Eve has access to it in the wasteland she lives.
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: The Killer Girls [[Idol Singer]] trio that appears in episode 19 are singing a song that is, on closer inspection, a remixed version of the [[Theme Tune Cameo|second ending theme]].
* '''[[Refuge in Audacity]]''': Pretty much the ''genre''.
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* [[This Is a Drill]]: Eve likes transforming her hands into drills.
* [[Time Skip]]: Even before ''Imai Kami'' started working on Needless in a official magazine like ''Ultra Jump'' he had the whole storyline set in his mind years ago, back then he just wrote a few doujinshi stories and ''Needless 1.5'' is one of them, Kami confirmed that the story is set 2 years after the current plotline; Needless 1.5 was collected officially in the Needless Zero volume which is filled with prequel - before the current Needless - stories after said "sometime" in the future chapter. The chapter itself doesn't explain much it just features a girl who {{spoiler|looks a lot like Blade}}, her name is {{spoiler|Adam Neuschwanstein}} and she lives with {{spoiler|Eve in the same regular church}}, {{spoiler|Blade}} is nowhere to be seem, the girl just fights a few Testaments and nothing really relevant happens. As Kami said the story is only set 2 years after the current Needless is hard to presume {{spoiler|Adam Neuschwanstein's}} conection with {{spoiler|Blade}} and {{spoiler|Eve}} as she is shown to be around the same age as {{spoiler|Eve}} in the current Needless, she might be a clone as she has {{spoiler|Blade's collar and a fragment on her forehead}}, or a gender-bent {{spoiler|Blade}}, or a {{spoiler|daughter}} with an absurd growth spurt...
** Also is in Kami's plans to continue Needless 1.5 after the current Needless is finished, on [https://web.archive.org/web/20090214204728/http://imaikami.cool.ne.jp/ his blog] he mounted [https://web.archive.org/web/20091216175938/http://imaikami.cool.ne.jp/jidai.jpg an image] despicting a time-line flow chart with the current Needless to Needless 1.5, according to him if everything goes well it will eventually lead to Needless 2 after the current manga is finished.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Eve's Super ''De''rodoro Drink. Note that it's different from Super ''[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Do]]''[[Spell My Name with an "S"|rodoro]] ("Muddy") Drink - which is probably the generic version or somesuch. The former contains [[wikipedia:Food energy|5000 kcal(!) per can]]; Eve needs much more than that to use her [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|Doppelganger]] Fragment.
** This is spoofed in episode 6, where she cockily challenges the Bishoujou Squad after downing a can... Only to find out that it's Derodoro ''Light'', which contains no calories at all. As Eve herself puts it: ''"WHAT THE HELL'S THE POINT, THEN?!''
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* [[Troperiffic]]
* [[Twinkle Smile]]: Blade in the first opening, while [[Shirtless Scene|showing off his six-packs]].
* [[Unsound Effect]]: The most common is "dramatic" for when something dramatic happens or someone's just being overblown, but also [https://web.archive.org/web/20120627151538/http://mangafox.me/manga/needless/v15/c105.5/9.html "pleasant"] used for punching someone in the face.
* [[Used to Be a Sweet Kid]]: Blade. Yes ''that'' Blade. Gido wonders where he went wrong.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: In the [[Gecko Ending|anime]], the reason {{spoiler|Arca}} joined Simeon was to create a paradise for all Needless.
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