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Line 10: Combining elements of horror, music -- the girls occasionally break into song -- and teen drama, ''[[Red Garden]]'' takes a very different approach to the girls-fighting-monsters genre. {{tropelist}} * [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: Grace. Line 17 ⟶ 18: * [[Animation Bump]]: The last episode is noticeably better looking than the others. * [[Anti-Villain]]: Herve just wants to save his family from its curse. * [[Artistic Title]]: Averted so hard. The opening is made of stylized silhouettes of the girls and the city, giving a light cosmopolitan feel akin to [[Sex and the City]]. The show has a [[Mind Screw\|different mood]] though. * [[Back ~~From~~from the Dead]]: Kate, Rose, Rachel, and Claire, obviously enough. An unexpected example comes up later when {{spoiler\|Lise is revived.}} * [[Bait and Switch Credits]]: The opening credits are pretty floral silhouettes accompanied by a pleasant girlish song. The show, on the other hand, is ''dark''. * [[Big Applesauce]] Line 37 ⟶ 39: * [[Cultured Badass]]: Claire listens to [[Classical Music]], really LOUD. * [[Dark Magical Girl]] * [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Randy and Dr. Bender. * [[Dating Catwoman]]: Kate ends up dating Herve. She's oblivious about who he is for a several episodes, but he knows from the start - it's why he pursued her in the first place. * [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Lula Line 54 ⟶ 56: * [[Four-Girl Ensemble]] * [[Fridge Logic]]: Why could J.C. fight the way he did? It's clearly stated that only women become Animus, and he wasn't part of the Delor clan. * [[Fur Against Fang]]: It's the tiniest bit of a stretch, but the [[Our Vampires Are Different\|Animus]] and the [[Our Werewolves Are Different\|Delor clan]] can be seen as [[Our Vampires Are Different]] and [[Our Werewolves Are Different]] respectively. A clan of people that have [[Immortality]] are [[The Undead\|dead,]] and have [[Super Strength\|super-human-strength,]] which also reproduce by [[The Virus\|reviving the dead]], and have a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?\|thirst that can only be quenched by]] [[Bait and Switch\|lemons]]. Where as the Delor clan is full of [[Wolf Man\|beast-men]] with [[Prophet Eyes\|glowing eyes]] and [[Fangs Are Evil\|sharp teeth]] who [[Primal Stance\|run around on all fours]] and systematically [[Freak-Out\|go crazy]] at [[Does This Remind You of Anything?\|designated times]] in their lives. ** This may just be [[Wild Mass Guessing]] but the reason Red Garden isn't [[Genius Bonus\|marketed as]] [[Fur Against Fang\|FAF]] might be because while it is the short and narrow, in order to attract [[Shojo\|a larger female following]] the [[Fur Against Fang\|FAF]] setting was wisely omitted in advertisements when one considers the art style and focus on the [[I Just Want to Be Normal\|main characters.]] * ¨[[Genre Shift]]: The OVA features sci-fi stuff such as [[Humongous Mecha\|Humongous Mechas]] and flying cars. Justified because it takes hundreds of years after the events of the original series. * [[Girl Posse]] Line 70 ⟶ 72: * [[Incurable Cough of Death]] * [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]] * [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler\|Raul, Dr. Bender and Hervé especially.}} * [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler\|Just about every member of both clans bar the four main girls, and the two detectives.}} * [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] * [[Les Yay]]: The first episode has Kate pining for Lise on a very -- personal level. And at times, Paula seems very close to Kate -- ''very'' close. This goes into [[Anvilicious]] territory from episode 18 onwards. * [[Limited Social Circle]]: Much of the show deals with the heroines' escalating ostracism from their old social groups and their varying efforts to stay in contact with their old lives. * [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Averted; most of the girls wear different clothes everyday. Even Kate, who wears her Grace uniform more than anything, wears unique outfits outside of school. Line 80 ⟶ 82: * [[MacGuffin]]: The cursed books. * [[Magical Girl]]: Played very very dark, and more for the character aspects and conflicts than for the powers. There are powers, but they rarely show up. * [[Minion ~~With~~with an F In Evil]]: Emilio * [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: The pharmaceutical company Vivaleo. * [[Names to Know Inin Anime]]: [[Brittney Karbowski]]: Rose [[Miyuki Sawashiro]]: Claire Line 109 ⟶ 111: * [[Robot Girl]]: In the OVA Louise turns out to be one. * [[Shout-Out]]: In episode 4, there's seemingly a shout out to either the "Soup Nazi" from ''[[Seinfeld]]'' or the real person who inspired the character. ** Episode 5 has a shot of a billboard, labeled Witches, that is obviously modeled off the poster for ''[[Wicked (~~Theatre~~theatre)\|Wicked]]''. * [[Shrinking Violet]]: Rose. * [[Taking the Bullet]] * [[Talking the Monster Toto Death]]: In the OVA, {{spoiler\|Louise challenges the girls to a battle and when they lose, they'll have to become her friends. The girls point out that she already has valuable friends even if they're not immortal, and the battle never actually takes place.}} * [[Technicolor Eyes]]: Claire and Randy have purple eyes. * [[The Other Darrin]]: Joe Diaz voices Herve up until episode 16 in the dub. He is voiced by Quentin Haag for the rest of the series. Line 118 ⟶ 120: * [[There Are No Therapists]]: [[Subverted]]. While the girls never actually go to therapists their friends and family do notice that something is wrong, and they do ask the girls questions. The girls, however refuse to tell them. * [[Time Skip]]: The Dead Girls [[OVA]] takes place several hundred years in the future, with all of New York except Roosevelt Island mile high buildings and floating cars. * [[Throw the Dog Aa Bone]]: The only outsider to the family wars who gets entrusted with a vague hint of what the girls are doing is {{spoiler\|[[Butt Monkey]] Sam}}, who doesn't understand it, but it's the thought that counts. ** Happens again in the OVA where {{spoiler\|a dressed-up Rachel starts flirting with Sam's [[Expy]] at the school prom.}} * [[Title Drop]]: Not in the main series, but in the OVA. The Red Garden is Roosevelt Island, which is now covered in pink flowers. Line 125 ⟶ 127: * [[Training Montage]] * [[True Companions]] * [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save ~~The~~the World]]: [[Deconstructed]]. Fighting is clearly difficult for the girls (whether physically or mentally), and they don't know why they have to do it. This ends up creating a lot of social (and mental) problems for them, which are given quite a bit of focus. * [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: As mentioned before, the only reason Herve does what he does is to save his family. * [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The leaders of Animus whose only goal is to die. Of course being unable to move as a result of a curse probably contributed a lot to their disillusionment with eternal life. Line 134 ⟶ 136: {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Mystery and Detective Anime And Manga~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:FU Nimation]]▼ [[Category:Seinen]]▼ [[Category:Anime]] [[Category:~~Red~~Anime ~~Garden~~of the 2000s]] [[Category:Manga]] [[Category:Manga of the 2000s]] [[Category:Horror Anime and Manga]] [[Category:Mystery and Detective Anime and Manga]] ▲[[Category:Seinen]] ▲[[Category:FUTV ~~Nimation~~Asahi]] [[Category:Funimation]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]]