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Paranoia Agent

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Paranoia Agent	label	Paranoia Agent
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Paranoia Agent	comment	A grinning boy in a baseball cap travels around Tokyo on golden rollerblades. He has a bent, golden baseball bat, and he uses it to whack people in the head.The police are searching for the boy codenamed "Shonen Bat" ("Lil' Slugger" in the English dub), but none of the victims are cooperating fully with the police; in fact, many seem relieved and thankful for the mild concussion the boy gives them via his golden bat. All of the victims have something to hide — but then again, so do the police ...and so does the frail old man who draws chalk equations in the hospital parking lot... and so does everybody who spreads rumors about Lil' Slugger. Who is this mysterious boy, who seems to attack people only when they are about to have an existential breakdown and has never been seen by anyone but his victims? Is he a gang member, a creature of the paranormal, or something else entirely?Paranoia Agent is a thirteen-episode anime series directed by the late Satoshi Kon, who specialized in mind-bending anime with some social commentary thrown into the mix. At times, the series resembles an anthology, with each episode throwing its star character through a Twist Ending, but everything later becomes connected in a way that rivals Serial Experiments Lain's levels of conspiracy and surrealism. Besides being perfectly creepy, this series is noteworthy for the (Studio Madhouse) animation alone: the characters all have distinct designs, and apart from some minor filler and Stock Footage, cost-cutting tricks were kept to a minimum.The anime was originally licensed by Geneon, who released it on DVD in North America. After Geneon folded, the series went out of print for well over a decade until Funimation finally acquired the license in February 2020. The English dub aired on [adult swim] in 2005, and re-aired on Toonami in 2020.Due to the surreal nature of the series, there are numerous spoilers. In order to get the full experience, please watch the series first.
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Paranoia Agent / int_119f77c0	type	Snowy Screen of Death
Paranoia Agent / int_119f77c0	comment	Snowy Screen of Death: When the black blob invades the TV studio in "The Final Episode".
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Paranoia Agent / int_15184afb	type	This Loser Is You
Paranoia Agent / int_15184afb	comment	This Loser Is You: The unnamed otaku. Even his figurines don't give him any respect.
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Paranoia Agent / int_16e17035	type	Patrick Stewart Speech
Paranoia Agent / int_16e17035	comment	Patrick Stewart Speech: Ikari's wife, Misae, gives a speech on how she as well as humanity can overcome despair toward Lil' Slugger.
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Paranoia Agent / int_19cc20f3	type	One-Person Birthday Party
Paranoia Agent / int_19cc20f3	comment	One-Person Birthday Party: This happen to Yuichi in "The Golden Shoes" as his classmates think he's the one who struck a fellow classmate, Ushiyama, as Lil' Slugger due to wearing gold colored roller blades. Despite trying to state otherwise, only his tutor, Harumi, shows up.
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Paranoia Agent / int_19e9b150	type	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage
Paranoia Agent / int_19e9b150	comment	Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: In "Mellow Maromi", one of Lil' Slugger's victim accidentally turns on his car radio and the series' opening theme song plays.
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Paranoia Agent / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Paranoia Agent / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Zebra, Fuyubachi and Kamome in "Happy Family Planning". In a variation, they're actually alive at the beginning of the episode, but then die accidentally but don't realize it because they were busy trying to commit suicide. The resulting ghosts keep on trying to kill themselves.
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Paranoia Agent / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Paranoia Agent / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: "Happy Family Planning" milks every bit of slapstick it can get from the characters' suicide attempts.
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Paranoia Agent / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Paranoia Agent / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: It's revealed in later episodes that Lil' Slugger is a negative apparition fueled by the paranoia of the growing and out-of-control rumors of the public, hence the title. How he came to be was due to Tsukiko lying due to stress of her successful anime character (Maromi). Of course, the original lie was due to her losing a puppy after begging so hard to get it and not owning up to the consequences from telling the truth. It isn't until she eventually confronts and admits her mistake that Lil' Slugger disappears.
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Paranoia Agent / int_2593d18f	type	Anime Theme Song
Paranoia Agent / int_2593d18f	comment	Anime Theme Song: A very, very weird one that very typical of Susumu Hirasawa, the song's author.
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Paranoia Agent / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Paranoia Agent / int_272abb98	comment	One of the gossiping women telling stories about Lil' Slugger's actions tells a story about a boy and an ill girl in love; the ill girl claims she will die when the last leaf on the vine she can see out her window falls. The boy spends all night atop a ladder, painting over the fallen leaf until he makes a perfect painted recreation of it, only for him to see Lil' Slugger kill the girl and fall in horror off the ladder to his own death. Another woman starts to point out it's from a famous story by O. Henry, but is cut short by the other ladies' angry glares.
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Paranoia Agent / int_2d50bb66	type	Perp Sweating
Paranoia Agent / int_2d50bb66	comment	Perp Sweating: Ikari tries this repeatedly on Kozuka.
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Paranoia Agent / int_3104d34	type	Suicide as Comedy
Paranoia Agent / int_3104d34	comment	Zebra, Fuyubachi and Kamome. It leads to such hilarious things like failed suicide attempts and chasing after Lil' Slugger and asking him to kill them. It turns out that they died early in the episode. It's heavily implied that Fuyubachi is terminally ill, and that Zebra's boyfriend broke up with him, hence why they want to die. Why Kamome wanted to kill herself is more ambiguous, but her concerned over being abandoned by the other two might indicate coming from a broken home or being an orphan.
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Paranoia Agent / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Paranoia Agent / int_316e9da2	comment	Memetic Mutation: An in-universe example - In "Etc.", the housewives are talking about the attacks they heard about, trying to outdo each other, with each story becoming more surreal and outrageous than the last. Lil' Slugger himself. It's a particularly bizarre and violent example, but it has been brought up. That is because Lil' Slugger is nothing but another side of Maromi. Maromi's idea is everywhere in Japan: toys, drawings, clothes and an animated series.
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Paranoia Agent / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
Paranoia Agent / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: Invoked by all the characters who are attacked by Lil' Slugger. They want a villain who they can blame for their own problems — and thanks to an in-universe Memetic Mutation, they get it.
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Paranoia Agent / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
Paranoia Agent / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Far on the cynical end. Essentially, every single thing that goes wrong in this series goes wrong because people won't grow up and take responsibility for their lives.
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Paranoia Agent / int_3e848d5c	type	Cast of Snowflakes
Paranoia Agent / int_3e848d5c	comment	Cast of Snowflakes: All the characters have very distinct designs.
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Paranoia Agent / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Paranoia Agent / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Nearly a Downer Ending. Tsukiko comes to terms with her past and saves Tokyo from the black ooze stuff. However, there's no indication that anyone else got over their problems. Ikari, whose wife is dead, is still a construction site security guard, and the final scenes are a clear mirror of the opening scene of the series as if to say it will happen all over again, but at least this time everyone will take responsibility for their own actions instead of blaming everything on everyone else. Maniwa, now white haired, replaces the old man from the beginning.
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Paranoia Agent / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
Paranoia Agent / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: Nearly all the major characters have animal names - Sagi (heron), Ikari (boar), Maniwa (horse, also his internet handle), Ushiyama (cow), Chono (butterfly), Hirukawa (frog), the Otaku Kamei (turtle), the internet handles of Zebra, Fuyubachi (Winter Wasp) and Kamome (Seagull) in "Happy Family Planning", and so on. Note that some of them have character-related double meanings, as well - written with a different kanji, Tsukiko's last name, Sagi, means "fraud".
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Paranoia Agent / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
Paranoia Agent / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Tsukiko created Lil' Slugger as a way to avoid her strict father's scolding for losing Maromi. However, Maniwa reveals that her father always knew the truth. He only went to search for Lil' Slugger to avoid the fact that he was so strict that his own daughter feared him, so he lied to the police and took a bat and pretended to search for Lil' Slugger to show Tsukiko that he cared about her.
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Paranoia Agent / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Paranoia Agent / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Borderline Gainax Ending.
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Paranoia Agent / int_4c30f8f0	type	Twitchy Eye
Paranoia Agent / int_4c30f8f0	comment	Twitchy Eye: A number of characters briefly display this. It ties into the series' theme of everyone being at least a little crazy.
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Paranoia Agent / int_4d1a06be	type	Doing in the Scientist
Paranoia Agent / int_4d1a06be	comment	Doing in the Scientist: Despite Ikari insisting otherwise, Lil' Slugger is not a human delinquent. He's a supernatural phantom unwittingly created by Tsukiko to escape responsibility for the death of her dog, before the rest of Tokyo begins using him as a scapegoat as well, turning him into a Humanoid Abomination of Never My Fault.
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Paranoia Agent / int_4e3e577a	type	Psychological Horror
Paranoia Agent / int_4e3e577a	comment	Psychological Horror: The series definitely delves into this; many episodes are driven by a character's Freak Out and/or Sanity Slippage portrayed from their own point of view.
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Paranoia Agent / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Paranoia Agent / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The entire city of Tokyo is swallowed up by a giant black blob because Tsukiko lied about how her dog died when she was in sixth grade. It can also be seen as a Snowball Lie.
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Paranoia Agent / int_51041191	type	Umbrella of Togetherness
Paranoia Agent / int_51041191	comment	Umbrella of Togetherness: A sketch of a lovers' umbrella symbol is briefly glimpsed in Ikari's dream world, drawn on a door in a school.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Paranoia Agent / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The last scenes mirror the very first almost perfectly.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5541da8c	type	Lotus-Eater Machine
Paranoia Agent / int_5541da8c	comment	Lotus-Eater Machine: Ikari's 2D cut-out world.
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Paranoia Agent / int_59f47557	type	Vicious Cycle
Paranoia Agent / int_59f47557	comment	Vicious Cycle: What's become of Maniwa at the very end implies this, as he's seemingly taken the place of the old man.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Paranoia Agent / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: "Mellow Maromi" combines this with Danger Takes a Backseat. The episode is told in flashbacks, with the present being Saruta, the production manager, driving frantically to deliver the taped episode for the new Maromi anime to the network to air while he frequently flashbacks to the past, which presents how the anime was made and how Saruta basically offed several members of the staff over the course of the production process. As the episode returns to the present, we begin to see Lil' Slugger trailing behind, getting ever closer to the car with each jump. Saruta finally notices him and drives frantically to escape. For a moment, he seems to have lost Lil' Slugger only to find out that he's now behind him in the backseat.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Paranoia Agent / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Two prominent ones: Giving into lies and illusions to escape the hardships of reality might feel good in the short term, but it can't last. Everyone has problems, and shouldering them onto other people only creates more problems. Your troubles are yours to deal with; that's part of growing up. Japan's obsession with cuteness (or in a broader sense, escapism) is getting in the way of actually doing things.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Paranoia Agent / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: In many episodes, you aren't sure what's supposed to be real. Tsukiko is the most notable example though, considering that it is her lie that devolves into the events of "The Final Episode". Your first clue that there's something more substantially wrong with her than just being a Cloudcuckoolander is when you see Maromi talk.
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Paranoia Agent / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Paranoia Agent / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: After Lil' Slugger vanishes with Tsukiko accepting her own fault, his black ooze form goes along with it, freeing everyone who was trapped, but Tokyo is devastated; "it's just like after the war" according to Ikari. Two years later, Tokyo is fixed, but the ending scene mirrors the beginning, only this time with everyone desperately trying to move on from anything that reminds them of what happened, with shades of also taking accountability for their actions. Meanwhile, Maniwa has descended into madness due to becoming Radar Man, and has become the next Old Man.
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Paranoia Agent / int_60b166be	type	Reformed Criminal
Paranoia Agent / int_60b166be	comment	Reformed Criminal: After Ikari is fired from the police, one of his co-workers at a new job is a man he put in prison years ago who seems pretty lighthearted about it.
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Paranoia Agent / int_613f4f77	type	RPG Episode
Paranoia Agent / int_613f4f77	comment	RPG Episode: "The Holy Warrior" is this, told from the warped perspective of Kozuka who played one too many RPGs and saw the world and his victims as game characters. Only not really, as revealed in "MHz". He was just doing it to screw with people before he died.
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Paranoia Agent / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Paranoia Agent / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Most of the cast suffers it over an episode. Three suffer it over the series. One does not ever lose it. Two recover from it. Everyone is smiling by the end. Unless they died already. Except in "Happy Family Planning," where all three died and are singing happily in the end.
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Paranoia Agent / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
Paranoia Agent / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: In the fantasy world Ikari and Tsukiko escape to, they become this to each other as he fills in as a protective father figure and she acts as the daughter he always wanted who died before birth.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6521f35c	type	Enter Eponymous
Paranoia Agent / int_6521f35c	comment	Enter Eponymous: Episode 1 is titled "Enter Lil' Slugger".
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Paranoia Agent / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Paranoia Agent / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: Occurs in the final episode.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6a61050e	type	The Only One
Paranoia Agent / int_6a61050e	comment	The Only One: There is only one person who can stop Lil' Slugger. This is justified because it's the person who created him.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6acb79b2	type	Episode Title Card
Paranoia Agent / int_6acb79b2	comment	Episode Title Card: It's always worked into the environment of the episode somehow. Two of the more creative ones are "Fear of a Direct Hit", which appears as part of a news company's LED scrolling text sign displaying coverage of a landing hurricane; and "Radar Man", in which the titular character stands in front of a rooftop sign for "ãƒˆãƒ¬ãƒ¼ãƒ€ãƒ¼ãƒžãƒ³ã‚ºãƒªãƒ¼" ("Trader Monthly") before cutting in with a tighter angle that only shows the "ãƒ¬ãƒ¼ãƒ€ãƒ¼ãƒžãƒ³" ("Rader Mon/Radar Man") part.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Paranoia Agent / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: Tsukiko created Lil' Slugger as a way to avoid her strict father's scolding for losing Maromi. However, Maniwa reveals that her father always knew the truth. He only went to search for Lil' Slugger to avoid the fact that he was so strict that his own daughter feared him, so he lied to the police and took a bat and pretended to search for Lil' Slugger to show Tsukiko that he cared about her.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Paranoia Agent / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Tsukiko's last name, Sagi, can mean "heron" or "fraud". The "cho" in Chono is one way of saying "butterfly". Another is chocho. The former is tied into the main plot, while the latter refers to Harumi's multiple personalties. The production manager in "Mellow Maromi" is called Oda Nobunaga after the famous warlord. Just like the real Nobunaga, he is betrayed by his subordinate and killed.
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Paranoia Agent / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Paranoia Agent / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: More like Everybody Laughs Beginning. The Title Sequence has a rather chipper theme song playing as characters are laughing in the most bizarre of places, some of which that go to hell very quickly, foreshadowing Tokyo's Perception Filter that would give birth to Lil' Slugger's Eldritch Abomination form at the end of the series, and would destroy the city before a two year Time Skip has Tokyo rebuilt. In a meta example, the anime had a late-night schedule for its original Japanese airing. Kon foresaw how a series like this would be overlooked for its non-action premise. To remedy that, he had the Title Sequence be incredibly weird to understand the first time people tuned in so they would stay and watch. Similarly, the ending theme ended up being a soothing theme so people would go to sleep.
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Paranoia Agent / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Paranoia Agent / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: In the DVD commentary, Kon himself says that one of the challenges of working on the series was deciding how much of the story he should tell the viewers.
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Paranoia Agent / int_72d31973	type	Surreal Horror
Paranoia Agent / int_72d31973	comment	Surreal Horror: Lil' Slugger starts as some punk kid with a bat, and becomes both more threatening and more bizarre as the series continues, culminating in him becoming a massive black blob that emerges from several unconnected locations at once, and overtakes virtually all of Tokyo in less than a few hours.
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Paranoia Agent / int_76e24530	type	Delicate and Sickly
Paranoia Agent / int_76e24530	comment	Delicate and Sickly: The girl from the one of the stories the housewives tell. Misae Ikari, an ill middle-aged housewife with traces of Plucky Girl.
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Paranoia Agent / int_7d3f1d63	type	The Ending Changes Everything
Paranoia Agent / int_7d3f1d63	comment	The Ending Changes Everything: Revealing Lil' Slugger's true nature, origin, and purpose puts virtually everything that happens in the series in a new context, given that the majority of episodes are about how people encounter and react to him. This is lampshaded in "The Final Episode", which has an On the Next sequence that invites you to watch the series again, because knowing how it ends will alter the experience for you.
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Paranoia Agent / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Paranoia Agent / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: In "A Man's Path", the Yakuza boss keeps raising the amount of money Hirukawa owes him so he'll be forever in his debt.
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Paranoia Agent / int_7e07f634	type	Paranoia Fuel
Paranoia Agent / int_7e07f634	comment	Paranoia Fuel: This series contains a good deal of in-universe fuel. Lil' Slugger is basically powered by it. This may inspire you, however, to fear fear itself.
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Paranoia Agent / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Paranoia Agent / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: The entire plot is due to how a lie about a puppy was used in order to escape responsibility. Said lie would effectively come to life when other people began using it. This is best lampshaded by Ikari in "The Final Episode":
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Paranoia Agent / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
Paranoia Agent / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Most episodes have a climax involving the central character experiencing this. This is literally what summons Lil' Slugger to his targets. The entire point of his actions is to make your problems insignificant by turning you into a victim of a violent crime. And that's only a "net gain" for somebody who's been driven to the point of complete despair.
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Paranoia Agent / int_7fe5166b	type	Nerds Are Pervs
Paranoia Agent / int_7fe5166b	comment	Nerds Are Pervs: The first client we see call girl Maria with is a gonky otaku who beds her in a room full of anime figurines. On coming, he blows her off to talk to them about how much they helped him "get there."
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Paranoia Agent / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Paranoia Agent / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: "Happy Family Planning", the episode after the prime suspect for Lil' Slugger is murdered by the real Lil' Slugger in his own cell, both Maniwa and Ikari are fired for their failure, and Maniwa starts going insane. It involves three people trying and comically failing to commit suicide together.
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Paranoia Agent / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Paranoia Agent / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: [adult swim] said in a blurb "we've got some new shows that are pretty f'ed up. And we know f'ed up - we saw the end of Paranoia Agent". To wit: Tsukiko, enveloped by the Lil' Slugger ooze cloud, has a flashback to the incident that killed her real puppy Maromi and takes responsibility for her negligence at the exact moment that Lil' Slugger is formed in young Tsukiko's mind. The forgiveness causes Lil' Slugger to evaporate, both in the memory and the real world. She awakens floating in Tokyo Bay. Time skips forward two years to a rebuilt Tokyo, where the first scene of the series plays out again, suggesting that another escalating problem is just on the horizon. A white-haired Maniwa has replaced the Old Man writing the equation in the parking lot, and he gasps upon realizing the answer to the equation. Cut to credits.
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Paranoia Agent / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Paranoia Agent / int_85debad9	comment	Misae Ikari, an ill middle-aged housewife with traces of Plucky Girl.
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Paranoia Agent / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Paranoia Agent / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The intro to the anime could suggest that some sort of natural disaster or even a nuclear war could factor in the plot. While a disaster does engulf a large part of Tokyo it is basically a Cozy Catastrophe that the city recovers from in a few months.
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Paranoia Agent / int_8864056	type	Plague of Good Fortune
Paranoia Agent / int_8864056	comment	Plague of Good Fortune: "Happy Family Planning". It's less "good fortune" and more "dead people can't commit suicide" by the conclusion.
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Paranoia Agent / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Paranoia Agent / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed Trope: The production manager for the Mellow Maromi series is a deconstruction of the Plucky Comic Relief character, showing just how obnoxious such a person would be when put in charge of anything. Mrs. Ikari is set up to be a Yamato Nadeshiko. She acts like a submissive housewife because she is deeply depressed. Then, as her episode goes by, she seems becomes a Reconstruction of this; it's revealed that's she's happy being submissive to her husband due to the deep, deep respect she has for him, and when Lil' Slugger appears to her, she is able to acknowledge her past, take responsibility for her actions, and give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to boot. In a way, she could be considered a variant of Silk Hiding Steel in that she is the only character to "defeat" Lil' Slugger while being calm and thoughtful, and without raising a finger.
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Paranoia Agent / int_8c96ae78	type	No One Could Survive That!
Paranoia Agent / int_8c96ae78	comment	When they're trying to throw themselves in front of a train, someone beats them to the punch but seems to limp away in an act of No One Could Survive That!. He didn't.
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Paranoia Agent / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Paranoia Agent / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: "MHz". The reasoning behind the attacks are somewhat explained and Kozuka, the prime suspect, is in jail. And then he turns out to be a copycat criminal who is murdered in his cell by the real Lil' Slugger, who skates through the walls in plain view of the police, proving his supernatural nature.
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Paranoia Agent / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Paranoia Agent / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: Usually a sign that things just got weird.
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Paranoia Agent / int_95ab81e8	type	Tokyo Tower
Paranoia Agent / int_95ab81e8	comment	Tokyo Tower: Maniwa perches on it while delivering an emergency message to Ikari in "The Final Episode".
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Paranoia Agent / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Paranoia Agent / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Zigzagged. Harumi is seeing a therapist, but any real life practitioner worth their salt would've institutionalized the poor woman ages ago. But then we wouldn't have "Double Lips". Played straight with Tsukiko Sagi. She clearly has issues, but has never sought help for them. This ends up causing a lot of problems for a lot of people...
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Paranoia Agent / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Paranoia Agent / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Lil' Slugger, although it's open to interpretation whether he's even sentient in the first place.
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Paranoia Agent / int_974a9fe0	type	On the Next
Paranoia Agent / int_974a9fe0	comment	On the Next: The episode trailers are narrated by the Old Man, and are mini-Mind Screws in and of themselves. More specifically, they're told in the form of metaphors that won't make any sense until after watching the episode they're describing. "The Final Episode" even has one, with Maniwa replacing the Old Man, and it essentially encourages the viewer to rewatch the series in order to better understand it.
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Paranoia Agent / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Paranoia Agent / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: "Happy Family Planning" follows three people who all coordinated a Suicide Pact on a message board, and seemingly keep trying to off themselves through most of the episode, especially when they learn of Lil' Slugger's involvement in people getting killed. By the end of the episode, Fuyubachi realizes the truth that they've been dead for quite some time because he wasn't casting a shadow. Indeed, the episode makes a good job of showing that the trio had died from gas inhalation and sleeping pills, but kept them hidden inside larger shadowed areas and lit interiors where shadows wouldn't be very visible. Other civilians would still cast them though. Even Lil' Slugger cast a shadow as he ran away from the trio who chased after him.
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Paranoia Agent / int_9981590a	type	Anti-Escapism Aesop
Paranoia Agent / int_9981590a	comment	Anti-Escapism Aesop: The central theme of the series. The "Lil' Slugger" persona is constantly used as a scapegoat by numerous people who are looking for an excuse to get out of the problems they have. Along with imagining up fantasy worlds such as one straight out of a video game, being attacked or killed by Lil' Slugger is the go-to excuse for people. To drive the point home, the attacks by Lil' Slugger only offer a brief reprieve, and ultimately only make things worse in the long run, ending with the literal destruction of Tokyo. Though it ties into the series' overall message, there's also a centralized take on this in "A Man's Path". In it, the pathetic central character, Officer Hirukawa, juxtaposes his increasingly desperate crimes of robbery, burglary and possible rape with a clichÃ© Shōnen manga that he reads for stress relief. It's disturbing how easily he mentally maps a male power fantasy narrative about Heroic Resolve, I Did What I Had to Do and rescuing the Damsel in Distress to justify violent crime.
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Paranoia Agent / int_9b0f37de	type	Contemplate Our Navels
Paranoia Agent / int_9b0f37de	comment	Contemplate Our Navels: Interesting case with Mrs. Ikari. Her telling Lil' Slugger her life story could be symbolic of meditation and mindfulness, which are a huge part of Buddhism. The fact that she's the only character to reveal a great deal of her backstory is a contrast to how virtually no one else ever discusses their past and how they became as messed up as they are, and it's implied this happens because Japan is losing the ability to make peace with the suffering that comes with being alive. And as per the theme of the series, this causes Tokyo to suffer - you can't take someone else's troubles for them, knowingly or not, and expect everything to be all right.
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Paranoia Agent / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Paranoia Agent / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: A lot in the Title Sequence: Tsukiko stands on top of a building with a sky that's sunny, before it suddenly turns into a storm. She's the source for everything that goes to hell in the series. Maniwa is falling to the ground from the air, which hides his decent into madness. The two ladies laughing next to each other are one and the same. During the part when Lil' Slugger is rolling up to the screen, characters in front of him are laughing before disappearing, except for Ikari and Maniwa, which not only foreshadows what Lil' Slugger really is, but that Ikari is The Only Sane Man in the entire series, even breaking out of his Lotus-Eater Machine, while Maniwa also fights against Lil' Slugger and reveals the truth behind him, but sacrifices his sanity to do so. A lot of the places the characters are laughing at are ruined areas, with Kawazu standing in blasted ruins with no life, Yuichi and Ushiyama laughing in a storm before a flood carries them away, Ikari standing on top of Tokyo Tower as a nuke goes off behind him, and the Old Man laughing on the moon as sonic booms are shown happening on the Earth. It all foretells the coming destruction of Tokyo at the hands of Lil' Slugger's final, inhuman form. In "Enter Lil' Slugger", Lil' Slugger tells Tsukiko, "Hello again." It's not until the last episodes where it's revealed they "met" before when she was in middle school. "Happy Family Planning" has a lot for its twist ending where it turns out the trio in a suicide pact are already dead: It seems like the trio got out by the skin of their teeth when the building they're in is being demolished. They didn't. None of the background characters react to them at all because they can't be seen. When they're trying to throw themselves in front of a train, someone beats them to the punch but seems to limp away in an act of No One Could Survive That!. He didn't. When Lil' Slugger meets them, he seems freaked out at their enthusiasm and promptly runs when instead it's because they're ghosts and even he doesn't want to deal with that! Finally, they cast no shadows. The first scene is set so far into sundown that the building's shadows cover the characters, but even then, the top of Kamome's head does not cast a shadow on the wall behind her. A woman walks past behind her to demonstrate as much. The group's shadows aren't visible at all on their first train ride, either. It's only pointed out explicitly at the end, when Fuyubachi realizes that the trio doesn't cast shadows anymore.
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Paranoia Agent / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
Paranoia Agent / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: Ikari's Lotus-Eater Machine is powered by this; rejecting it is how he eventually breaks out.
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Paranoia Agent / int_a031ff7b	type	Noblewoman's Laugh
Paranoia Agent / int_a031ff7b	comment	Noblewoman's Laugh: "Princess Flyer" in Kozuka's story.
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Paranoia Agent / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Paranoia Agent / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: The opening theme is already very creepy. Having it suddenly blare out of a radio is enough to scare anyone out of their wits.
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Paranoia Agent / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
Paranoia Agent / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Lil' Slugger is an evil being who kills people who are in despair. In "Radar Man", Maniwa fights a giant version of Lil' Slugger who has red Glowing Eyes.
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Paranoia Agent / int_acc265c6	type	Rollerblade Good
Paranoia Agent / int_acc265c6	comment	Rollerblade Good: Despite how vicious he is, Lil' Slugger is skilled at riding those golden rollerblades.
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Paranoia Agent / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Paranoia Agent / int_ae853f28	comment	Parody: Maromi takes after the real world Tarepanda.
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Paranoia Agent / int_b2ed4736	type	Bare Midriffs Are Feminine
Paranoia Agent / int_b2ed4736	comment	Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: A standard feature of one of Maria's outfits. The outfit the evil princess wears in "The Holy Warrior", who appears to be "played" by Harumi.
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Paranoia Agent / int_b476386f	type	Sweetie Graffiti
Paranoia Agent / int_b476386f	comment	Sweetie Graffiti: A drawing shaped like an umbrella is seen drawn on a door in a school in Ikari's dream world.
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Paranoia Agent / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Paranoia Agent / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The episode with the Mellow Maromi staff takes not so subtle potshots at the anime industry. The fat otaku that Maria has sex with in the third episode is a not-so-subtle jab at the otaku community. Even his action figures don't respect him.
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Paranoia Agent / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
Paranoia Agent / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: "Etc." focuses on a group of them.
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Paranoia Agent / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Paranoia Agent / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Maromi and Lil' Slugger are both shown to be disturbing in how obsessed people are with them, and they're both fictional characters, in-universe, created by Tsukiko that have come to life. They're also both symptoms/causes of people hiding from the truth. The difference is that people fear Lil' Slugger, because he is overtly hostile, while Maromi only ever displays concern for people. Misae lampshades this in "No Entry".
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Paranoia Agent / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Paranoia Agent / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: In "Etc.", the gossipers share ridiculous stories. The first to come up is the story of a student, under pressure because he's studying for an all-important exam, who vomits out typed text and dies; this is believed to be connected to Lil' Slugger due the typed word "bat" landing on his forehead. The next story involves a woman and her overbearing, abusive mother-in-law. The women say "How tragic" and so forth. We then get to the new girl telling ridiculous stories, and she gets singled out for it.
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Paranoia Agent / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Paranoia Agent / int_ba236071	comment	The fat otaku that Maria has sex with in the third episode is a not-so-subtle jab at the otaku community. Even his action figures don't respect him.
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Paranoia Agent / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Paranoia Agent / int_bcbf7aef	comment	The production manager for the Mellow Maromi series is a deconstruction of the Plucky Comic Relief character, showing just how obnoxious such a person would be when put in charge of anything.
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Paranoia Agent / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Paranoia Agent / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
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Paranoia Agent / int_bdddc73e	type	Yakuza
Paranoia Agent / int_bdddc73e	comment	Yakuza: They drive the plot of "A Man's Path" by demanding money from Hirukawa, causing him to turn to crime.
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Paranoia Agent / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Paranoia Agent / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The series is par for the course for Kon.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Paranoia Agent / int_c19bdbe1	comment	Good Cop/Bad Cop: Maniwa and Ikari both intentionally and unintentionally fall into these roles during interrogation.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: As Hirukawa falls farther and farther from grace, he begins modeling his mindset on the Determinator hero of a Rated M for Manly manga in a desperate, twisted attempt to justify his actions to himself. Mellow Maromi, the series staring Maromi, the mascot dog that Tsukiko created. Kozuka's video game. The series has quite a few of these.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Paranoia Agent / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Because of the anime's success, you can buy Maromi merchandise in real life.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c38afac1	type	Otaku
Paranoia Agent / int_c38afac1	comment	Otaku: An unnamed but recurring character. Given the series' overall themes of people running from real life, it's not difficult to see how this archetype ties in.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c4b09e97	type	Doppelgänger
Paranoia Agent / int_c4b09e97	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger: Makoto Kozuka and Lil' Slugger.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c5fa22af	type	The Tokyo Fireball
Paranoia Agent / int_c5fa22af	comment	The Tokyo Fireball: The black sludge that Lil' Slugger becomes as his power reaches a crescendo devastates Tokyo in "The Final Episode".
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Paranoia Agent / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Paranoia Agent / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: the series was made by Satoshi Kon, after all: The topless shot of Maria after she has sex with the fat otaku, especially when he starts talking to his action figures about the deed. The pictures of Hirukawa's daughter undressing, partly because she's in her early teens and mostly because the pics came from the spy cam her father placed in her bedroom.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Paranoia Agent / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: One of the first signs that something about Lil' Slugger is a bit off. This is most egregiously used in "Mellow Maromi".
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Paranoia Agent / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Paranoia Agent / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Tsukiko looks like a grown-up version of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, though given the context it could be more of a Take That!. An image seen on posters in the otaku's room are quite clearly recolored versions of Di Gi Charat characters, but again, counts as a Take That!. Ikari's younger self looks identical to young Genya in Millennium Actress, both of whom are played by Shozo Iizuka so it could double as an an Actor Allusion. Radar Man hitches a ride on a "Speedy Bat" delivery truck in a nod to Batman; it's also a play on words for Lil' Slugger's Japanese name, Shonen Bat. Monty Python's Flying Circus. In "The Holy Warrior", Kozuka seems to have defeated the monster. Then he looks up: Much of the JRPG material in "The Holy Warrior" is from Dragon Quest, the Big Bad Goma being based on Zoma. In "Fear of a Direct Hit", Taeko's last line in the episode is oddly reminiscent of another work by Kon. One of the gossiping women telling stories about Lil' Slugger's actions tells a story about a boy and an ill girl in love; the ill girl claims she will die when the last leaf on the vine she can see out her window falls. The boy spends all night atop a ladder, painting over the fallen leaf until he makes a perfect painted recreation of it, only for him to see Lil' Slugger kill the girl and fall in horror off the ladder to his own death. Another woman starts to point out it's from a famous story by O. Henry, but is cut short by the other ladies' angry glares.
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Paranoia Agent / int_c866231c	type	The Mentally Disturbed
Paranoia Agent / int_c866231c	comment	Played straight with Tsukiko Sagi. She clearly has issues, but has never sought help for them. This ends up causing a lot of problems for a lot of people...
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Paranoia Agent / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Paranoia Agent / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Tsukiko talks and interacts with Maromi likes it's a real person. Kozuka. This is subverted when it's revealed that he was lying the whole time.
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Paranoia Agent / int_cd5ceb69	type	Barefoot Suicide
Paranoia Agent / int_cd5ceb69	comment	Barefoot Suicide: The Title Sequence starts with Tsukiko standing at the edge of the building with her shoes off, laughing. It's easy to infer what she's about to do.
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Paranoia Agent / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Paranoia Agent / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Defied Trope. There is a clear mushroom cloud in the Title Sequence as a part of the background of Ikari's scene.
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Paranoia Agent / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Paranoia Agent / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: The hideous clown-like makeup worn by Harumi as her internal conflict with her "Maria" personality reaches its boiling point. It shows up twice, once before she's whacked by Lil' Slugger and once as the black sludge swallows her in "The Final Episode".
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Paranoia Agent / int_d17eaa9f	type	Postmodernism
Paranoia Agent / int_d17eaa9f	comment	Postmodernism: The animation team must have had fun working on "Mellow Maromi", eh?...
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Paranoia Agent / int_d3427b48	type	Yamato Nadeshiko
Paranoia Agent / int_d3427b48	comment	Mrs. Ikari is set up to be a Yamato Nadeshiko. She acts like a submissive housewife because she is deeply depressed. Then, as her episode goes by, she seems becomes a Reconstruction of this; it's revealed that's she's happy being submissive to her husband due to the deep, deep respect she has for him, and when Lil' Slugger appears to her, she is able to acknowledge her past, take responsibility for her actions, and give him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to boot. In a way, she could be considered a variant of Silk Hiding Steel in that she is the only character to "defeat" Lil' Slugger while being calm and thoughtful, and without raising a finger.
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Paranoia Agent / int_d959d421	type	Rotating Protagonist
Paranoia Agent / int_d959d421	comment	Rotating Protagonist: The series rotates through the main cast as each episode focuses on a character's emotional instabilities and eventual confrontation with the antagonist.
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Paranoia Agent / int_da06866e	type	Old Cop, Young Cop
Paranoia Agent / int_da06866e	comment	Old Cop, Young Cop: Ikari and Maniwa, respectively.
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Paranoia Agent / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Paranoia Agent / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: The song accompanying the Title Sequence. In a sense, it also applies to the superficially soothing song that plays over the end credits, although the dissonance is with the images rather than with the non-existent lyrics. This was done intentionally due to the late timeslot the series received in Japan.
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Paranoia Agent / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Paranoia Agent / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: This is how Lil' Slugger chooses his victims. His purpose is to fix the situations that have driven them there by making their problems irrelevant in the face of an entirely new problem, recovering from being beaten half to death.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Paranoia Agent / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: A number of characters are designed to in some way resemble an animal either visually or through behavior (or both). Some of the more overt include Kawazu being a frog, Yuichi being a fish, Shogo being a cow, Saruta being a monkey (a fact which is even lampshaded in his episode) and Harumi being a butterfly.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e542d80a	type	Gonk
Paranoia Agent / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Maria is shown sleeping with some pretty ugly clients, including Hirukawa and the unnamed otaku who imagines having sex with his anime figurines while doing her.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Paranoia Agent / int_e567510d	comment	As Hirukawa falls farther and farther from grace, he begins modeling his mindset on the Determinator hero of a Rated M for Manly manga in a desperate, twisted attempt to justify his actions to himself.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e5700c89	type	Reluctant Psycho
Paranoia Agent / int_e5700c89	comment	Reluctant Psycho: A couple, most notably Harumi. She's not exactly a straight example, though: she treats Maria as the Enemy Within who's ruining her life, and society would back her up on that because a chaste tutor in love is more "acceptable" than a call girl. However, Maria fights back only when Harumi tries to erase her and, early in their focus episode, it's shown that Maria was the original personality while Harumi is the split personality.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
Paranoia Agent / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: This shows up in multiple ways: Lil' Slugger is not a person, or even a living thing. He's a physical avatar of the desire to abdicate responsibility for being in a bad situation. Maromi is the same thing, but also represents the comfort that something familiar and harmless brings, and giving too much significance to trivial things. An otaku's dolls come to life and assist with the investigation briefly. Ikari ends up trapped in a world literally made of his own nostalgia, where everybody is two-dimensional and poorly animated. "Happy Family Planning" follows a group of ghosts who don't realize that they're dead. There appears to exist a sort-of "imaginary realm" that reclassifies real things and people as fantastic characters and items, such as Maniwa's golden bat becoming a sword.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e6c6d3ea	type	Something Person
Paranoia Agent / int_e6c6d3ea	comment	Something Person: Radar Man, whose powers include mastery of metaphor and non-linear thinking.
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Paranoia Agent / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Paranoia Agent / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: If you have some sort of weird wild Psychic Powers to make your imagination come to life, don't lie about how your puppy died. Good advice!
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Paranoia Agent / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Paranoia Agent / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: According with the theme of the series that you can bring the worst on yourself, many of Lil' Slugger's victims are terrible people who've created the circumstances through selfishness. In a weird way, Lil' Slugger brings about a chance for some of them to change for the better: Kawazu is a sleazy, perverted reporter who stalks and harasses marks for potential stories. At the beginning of a story, he's dealing with a lawsuit after hitting an old man with his car, and views himself as the victim of the circumstance; after all, he's the one who had to pay so much money after hitting him. Yuichi. Even when the person he threatened was defending him, he still had it out for him. This grudge seems to have disappeared by "Fear of a Direct Hit", though. Hirukawa is introduced first as a man who frequents prostitutes. Then it's revealed he's a dirty cop who's rubbing elbows with the Yakuza. Then it's revealed he's a pedophile who takes pictures of his daughter and may or may not have raped a girl during a break-in. Sort of playing with this a bit, Hirukawa is one of the few characters who takes Lil' Slugger's attack as a chance to change himself and attempts to be a better person who re-establishes a connection with his daughter.
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Paranoia Agent / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Paranoia Agent / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The Title Sequence contains almost every major character, even though many don't show up until later in the series.
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Paranoia Agent / int_f3da74ff	type	Creepy Crows
Paranoia Agent / int_f3da74ff	comment	Creepy Crows: When crows show up, something bad is about to happen.
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Paranoia Agent / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
Paranoia Agent / int_f76b8969	comment	During the part when Lil' Slugger is rolling up to the screen, characters in front of him are laughing before disappearing, except for Ikari and Maniwa, which not only foreshadows what Lil' Slugger really is, but that Ikari is The Only Sane Man in the entire series, even breaking out of his Lotus-Eater Machine, while Maniwa also fights against Lil' Slugger and reveals the truth behind him, but sacrifices his sanity to do so.
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Paranoia Agent / int_f844a17c	type	Blame Game
Paranoia Agent / int_f844a17c	comment	Blame Game: The entire series boils down to Tsukiko blaming an imaginary villain for an accident that she was responsible for. However, as if reflecting back on the core issue, Tsukiko's co-workers also place the blame on her repeatedly for whatever goes wrong, continuously talking about her behind her back. Ironically, although this comes from their own dissatisfaction, jealousy and ineptitude, because Tsukiko is constantly trying to avoid feeling guilty about the one thing that she can be blamed for, the death of her pet dog, she is unable to confront any kind of blame whatsoever, using Maromi as a shield.
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Paranoia Agent / int_f974d1fc	type	The Shadow Knows
Paranoia Agent / int_f974d1fc	comment	The Shadow Knows: Used subtly to show The Reveal in "Happy Family Planning"; ghosts don't have shadows. Zebra, Fuyubachi and Kamome lose theirs when the construction equipment unexpectedly tears down the building they're in, bathing them in sunlight and killing them accidentally. It changes the context of most of the episode, and gives a nice Rewatch Bonus for those who watch the whole thing already knowing the big secret.
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Paranoia Agent / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Paranoia Agent / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Zebra, Fuyubachi and Kamome. It leads to such hilarious things like failed suicide attempts and chasing after Lil' Slugger and asking him to kill them. It turns out that they died early in the episode. It's heavily implied that Fuyubachi is terminally ill, and that Zebra's boyfriend broke up with him, hence why they want to die. Why Kamome wanted to kill herself is more ambiguous, but her concerned over being abandoned by the other two might indicate coming from a broken home or being an orphan. Kozuka apparently, as he had a connection to them; he was killed by Lil' Slugger before he could take his own life, though.
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Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Super Zeroes / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Surreal Horror / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Talking the Monster to Death / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Talking to Themself / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	The Cuckoolander Was Right / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	The Internet Is for Porn / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	The Quiet One / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	The Shadow Knows / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	The Tokyo Fireball / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Thief Bag / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Through the Eyes of Madness / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Tokyo Tower / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Tulpa / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	12-Episode Anime / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Twinkle Smile / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Umbrella of Togetherness / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Urban Legends / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Vicious Cycle / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Villain-Based Franchise / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Voice Changeling / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Whole Costume Reference / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Woobie of the Week / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Yakuza / int_37cfcb80
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Your Mind Makes It Real / int_37cfcb80
paranoiaagent	sameAs	Paranoia Agent
Paranoia Agent	hasFeature	Instant Fan Club / int_37cfcb80

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