Burn Up

The Burn Up franchise is a set of four Panty Fighter series revolving around an Amazon Brigade quasi-SWAT team called "Team Warrior", and their fight against crime and government conspiracies. The series are generally lighthearted at first, but develop a case of Cerebus Syndrome near the end.

All four series were produced by AIC between 1991 (the original) and 2004 (Scramble). ADV Films actually helped co-produce the two middle entries in the franchise, Burn Up W and Burn Up Excess, after the success of their release of the original one-shot OVA. The latest installment, Burn Up Scramble was released in North America by Geneon USA.

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Tropes used in Burn Up include:

• A Day at the Bizarro
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The last two episodes of W.
• Alternate Continuity: None of the series is in exactly the same continuity of the others.
• Art Shift: Between the OVA, W and Excess, and finally Scramble as part of the general shift in anime art style between the early and late 90s, and then the early 2000s.
• Berserk Button: Don't damage Remi's gear. "Lead enema", anyone?
• Brainwashed and Crazy
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Lilika in Scramble. Even a little gets her plastered and accentuated her Dojikko and Les Yay, below.
• Cherry Blossoms: In Scramble, they fall while Maya informs Rio that she's leaving. They also fall on Lilika while she's sleeping it off.
• Color Coded for Your Convenience: The skinsuits in Scramble. Red for Rio, green for Maya, blue for Lilika, purple for The Commander.
• Covert Pervert: For a supposed sheltered innocent, Scramble!Lilika has a kinky imagination!
• Dark Action Girl: Ruby
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: Scramble!Lilika
• Little Miss Snarker: Scramble!Maya
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Our first view of Rio in Excess is one of these, where she's enjoying a bowl of ramen. Really enjoying. The scenes we see before this is revealed...
• Dojikko: Lilika in Scramble.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Nanvel from W and Excess
• Gainaxing: ADV Films had a "Jiggle Meter" as a special feature.
• Hadaka Apron: Scramble!Lilika
• Hand or Object Underwear: Scramble!Lilika, the "objects" being Rio and Maya
• Handsome Lech: Yuji
• I Call It Vera: Every version of Maya.
• Ironic Echo: "It's showtime!"
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Rio
• Law Enforcement, Inc.: Team Warrior is usually non-official, and always provides bounties for successfully completed missions.
• Lethal Chef: Adding bullets and gunpowder to "punch up" stew? Yeah, sure thing, Lilika
• Local Hangout: The ramen restaraunt in Excess, mostly because it's one of the places Rio can afford to eat at.
• Mafia Princess: W/Excess!Maya was the daughter of a Yakuza boss.
• Marshmallow Hell: In Scramble, The Warriors Commander uses this as an attack against Rio, before throwing her into a stack of junked cars.
• Mars Needs Women: Henry, towards Rio.
• Ms. Fanservice: Lots of it, but particularly Rio.
• Non-Action Guy: Yuji, although he is technically an ace helicopter pilot.
• Norio Wakamoto: McCoy in the original series
• Official Couple: Maki and Kenji in the original series
• Omake: Excess usually had an epilogue to each episode, which eventually evolved into "Yuji's Omake Theater".
• Omniscient Council of Vagueness
• Perpetual Poverty: Rio, because of her spendthrift habits.
• Playful Hacker: W/Excess!Lilica
• Psychic Powers: Scramble!Lilica; they don't really work that well, though.
  • Not so much that they work poorly as too well, and Lilika had a tendency to spout off what she read in a Creepy Monotone without thought to how it may embarrass others (usually Rio).
• Scary Shiny Glasses: Excess!Maki, though she's a good guy
• Screaming Warrior: In Scramble, Lilika, of all people. Also a pun.
• Sempai-Kohai: In Scramble, Lilika addresses Rio and Maya as "sempai".
• Shout-Out: Many, to Captain Scarlet, Ultraman, and oh-so-many to Neon Genesis Evangelion — such as a scene-for-scene remake of the fight with the Third Angel featuring Rio and a Camp Gay transvestite.
• Shoot the Bullet: At the end of Scramble
• Shower Scene
• Show Some Leg: Rio does this to get out of trouble at her job in W. She and the rest of Warrior also do this several other times in the line of duty.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: Maki and Kenji are like this at times.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids
• Tank Goodness: Rio has to escort a robotic AI hovertank in Excess; it turns out to be controlled by a Kill Sat.
• This Loser Is You: Yuji in W and Excess.
• Token Mini-Moe: W/Excess!Lilica
• Trigger Happy: Every version of Maya, but especially the W/Excess incarnation.
• Tron Lines: The Commander's skinsuit in Scramble.
• Twelve-Episode Anime: Excess, Scramble
• Virtual Celebrity: Maria from the second episode of W.