...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Sarazanmai

461 statements
89 feature instances
25 referencing feature instances

Sarazanmai	type	TVTItem
Sarazanmai	label	Sarazanmai
Sarazanmai	page	Sarazanmai
Sarazanmai	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The stage is Asakusa.One day, three second-year middle school students — Kazuki Yasaka, Tooi Kuji, and Enta Jinnai — meet a Kappa-like creature named Keppi, who is the self-proclaimed heir to the throne of Kappa Kingdom. When they anger Keppi by accident, Keppi forcibly takes the students' shirikodama (a mythical organ kappa steal through a person's anus) and they are transformed into kappa. Keppi informs them, "If you want to return to your former selves, you need to connect in 'that way' and you must bring me the shirikodama of zombies." If they do this for him, he will give them Dishes of Hope, which will grant the boys' wishes. Will the three boys be able to connect and take the shirikodama of zombies? At the same time, two policemen, Reo Niiboshi and Mabu Akutsu, interrogate suspects of widely reported crimes at the police box where they are stationed that have mysterious origins.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Sarazanmai (さらざんまい in Japanese) is an original 2019 anime by Kunihiko Ikuhara of Revolutionary Girl Utena fame and joint-animated by MAPPA and Lapin Track. It has character designs by Migi and it is regarded as his first anime to center on male protagonistsnote Though it can be argued that the true proactive protagonists of Penguindrum were male, the story focus was primarily on the heroine Himari, something he has stated he wanted to do for a long time until an idea was finally greenlit.It premiered in April 2019 on FujiTv’s Noitamina block in Japan, and is available for streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation.It has a spin-off Manga by Misaki Saitō, titled Reo to Mabu: Futari wa Sarazanmai (レオとマブ～ふたりはさらざんまい～ in Japanese) that takes place before the events of the anime. It centers on characters Reo, Mabu and a baby version of Sara and was published in Boys' Love magazine Rutile Sweet with releases up until the anime’s premiere. A proper adaptation of the anime, made by the character designer, was released in 2019.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })The series also has a two volume light novel available, which gives a bit more context into the motivations of the characters. The writing team admitted that some of the content was also things they couldn't fit into the show proper.You can watch the trailers for the anime here.
Sarazanmai	fetched	2022-03-31T15:00:23Z
Sarazanmai	parsed	2022-03-31T15:00:23Z
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to CastleInTheSky: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to DoubleEntendre: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to ETTheExtraTerrestrial: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to OsomatsuKun: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to RogerRabbitEffect: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to StandByMe: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to UltraSeries: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	processingComment	Dropped link to thelittleprince: Not a Feature - ITEM
Sarazanmai	isPartOf	DBTropes
Sarazanmai / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Sarazanmai / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: In Episode 9, an unseen convenience store cashier is voiced by Kunihiko Ikuhara himself.
Sarazanmai / int_127fc252	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_127fc252	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_127fc252
Sarazanmai / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Sarazanmai / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Where do we start? Before they're turned into zombies, the antagonists have some serious Subculture of the Week vibes. Since desire is stored in the anus, and the boys have a strangely anal bead-looking attack to extract shirikodama... Episode 7 does away with any lingering subtlety by having the explicitly masochistic Ball Zombie love the sensation of the boys entering him. A successful Sarazanmai requires the boys literally laying themselves bare and looking into each other's embarassing secrets. Mabu's maintenance scene in episode 7 consists of him nude, touched all over by the Otters with a pleasured but pained expression while Reo is helpless to watch; in another, he's practicing cooking while an Otter suspiciously shaped like Reo is touching him from behind. Coupled with the latter's previous comments of Mabu having "betrayed" him, one would be forgiven if they thought this scene came from a Netorare plot. The entire ordeal with Reo and Mabu basically boils down to a couple whose relationship is shattered by trauma, fueled by one of them not being able to perform or express themselves as well as they used to and the other desperately trying to get their relationship to what it used to be. Think "you're not the person I fell in love with" but with more fantastic elements. Mabu's side of the situation reads more like a man who's been forcibly closeted. Either he allows himself to express how much he loves his partner with disastrous social consequences (read: he blows himself and his surroundings up), or he'll be allowed to stay with his partner as long as he never publicly or blatantly shows affection to him, which already does damage to their relationship as they're not intimate anymore. A non-sexual example — Mabu and Reo brainwashing the officers to believe what they said happened may be commentating on police corruption.
Sarazanmai / int_14ed6ab7	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_14ed6ab7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_14ed6ab7
Sarazanmai / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Sarazanmai / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Reo, Mabu, and Sara are all more detailed in the prequel Manga.
Sarazanmai / int_17ce80aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_17ce80aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_17ce80aa
Sarazanmai / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Sarazanmai / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The "Sarazanmai" refers to a sound the three main protagonists have to make together once they defeat a zombie, after which they are literally laid bare and their secrets are revealed. The final episode has a multiple episode title drop of all the episodes up to then.
Sarazanmai / int_18d15922	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_18d15922	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_18d15922
Sarazanmai / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Sarazanmai / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The first trailers make it look like the anime is about anime characters in the real world. It only shows up during the endings, however.
Sarazanmai / int_19ebe383	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_19ebe383	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_19ebe383
Sarazanmai / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Sarazanmai / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: The cast's refusal to really say what's on their mind becomes the center of everyone's problems in the story: Kazuki's extreme guilt and overcompensating for being involved in Haruka's paralysis could have been easily avoided if he had just opened up about how lost he felt when he learned he was adopted. Likewise Haruka could have spared some heartache if he had mentioned his desires to keep being brothers with Kazuki despite the latter's desire to reach out to his birth family. Invoked and exploited with Reo and Mabu. The Otters' entire point was to get the pair off of the same wavelength, in order to harvest their despair and gain some workers willing to take Desire energy.
Sarazanmai / int_1c445e86	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_1c445e86	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_1c445e86
Sarazanmai / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
Sarazanmai / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: Kazuki and Enta.
Sarazanmai / int_1fe9e22	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_1fe9e22	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_1fe9e22
Sarazanmai / int_20152e12	type	Real Place Background
Sarazanmai / int_20152e12	comment	Real-Place Background: The series takes place in Asakusa, a real district of Tokyo, and it uses real landmarks from there as backgrounds. It's an especially appropriate choice since the series also features the street of Kappabashi-dori, which ties into the Kappa motif. This is also done quite literally in the first PV and the ending credits, where the characters are animated over real shots of Asakusa.
Sarazanmai / int_20152e12	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_20152e12	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_20152e12
Sarazanmai / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Sarazanmai / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A literal gun example. Tooi's brother is seen with a gun in his desk; later on in the episode it's fired by Tooi, who kills a man. The gun disappears for a few episodes but comes back again when Tooi uses it to stop Kazuki from sacrificing his shirikodama at the last second. The miçanga Kazuki used to wear. It was originally given to him by a younger Tooi right before he prepared to leave Asakusa with Chikai, and is considered the cornerstone for all of the bonds they made later. Delivering that miçanga to Young Kazuki becomes the climax of the show.
Sarazanmai / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_22cf536c
Sarazanmai / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Sarazanmai / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: The light novel does elaborate on a few scenes and has a few extra lines of dialog (ex. Kazuki's father stands up for him against his grandfather after the adoption reveal). Reo and Mabu also have a few book exclusive scenes that give a small glimpse into their old relationship.
Sarazanmai / int_23473ae7	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_23473ae7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_23473ae7
Sarazanmai / int_25f0ed12	type	Hollywood Tone-Deaf
Sarazanmai / int_25f0ed12	comment	Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Each time the boys sing during the extraction sequences, their vocals are slightly off key and overall not professional sounding.
Sarazanmai / int_25f0ed12	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_25f0ed12	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_25f0ed12
Sarazanmai / int_26f68115	type	Art Imitates Art
Sarazanmai / int_26f68115	comment	Art Imitates Art: In the final episode, Reo and Mabu crowning Sara is styled in a manner reminiscent of a more baroque Coronation of the Virgin.
Sarazanmai / int_26f68115	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_26f68115	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_26f68115
Sarazanmai / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Sarazanmai / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Invoked. As the story goes on, it's clear that Reo and Mabu were a loving couple at one point. However, there's currently a lot of strife in their relationship, mainly due to the fact that the Otter Doctor fitted Mabu with a mechanical heart that will explode and kill him if he ever tells Reo he loves him. In a last-ditch effort to connect with Reo again, Mabu still takes the risk and confesses his love to Reo before dying. Ultimately, the trope is subverted when Keppi was able to bring both Mabu and Reo back to life. Almost happens to Enta after he is shot by Reo. Surprisingly, the Zombies of all people fall under Preserve Your Gays instead. Mabu Zombie, the only Zombie who desired a gay relationship, is also the only Zombie to permanently be brought back to life and have at least one person connected to him.
Sarazanmai / int_2a8a7ea6	featureApplicability	-0.3
Sarazanmai / int_2a8a7ea6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_2a8a7ea6
Sarazanmai / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Sarazanmai / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: The cardboard boxes featured in the first episode have a "Kappazon" logo on them. Later episodes also include Circle-Kappa convenience stores, Dr. Kappa beverages and so on.
Sarazanmai / int_2b5ea43c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_2b5ea43c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_2b5ea43c
Sarazanmai / int_311500f5	type	Breaking Old Trends
Sarazanmai / int_311500f5	comment	Breaking Old Trends: A meta example, as this is regarded as the first Kunihiko Ikuhara anime to center on the male protagonists, rather than being female focused. note as stated in the summary, Penguindrum had male main characters who drove the story, though the female character was the center focus. In Sarazanmai, the male characters not only drive the story but are also the center focus, which is new to Ikuhara’s type of story telling. This is also one of the few works to have an unambiguously happy ending for all of the leads and eschew self sacrifice.
Sarazanmai / int_311500f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_311500f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_311500f5
Sarazanmai / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Sarazanmai / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: After Enta is shot in Episode 8, the credits sequence updates to show only two shadows at the end instead of the usual three. It reverts after the issue was resolved, but changes to one shadow in episode 11.
Sarazanmai / int_3297cfbb	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_3297cfbb	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_3297cfbb
Sarazanmai / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Sarazanmai / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The last scenes of the anime take place three years later, after Tooi has gotten out of juvenile detention and reunited with Kazuki and Enta. It's also revealed that Reo and Mabu have become rickshaw pullers, while Sara and Keppi are still happily together, and Nyantaro is the mother to a litter of kittens.
Sarazanmai / int_3318a1cb	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_3318a1cb	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_3318a1cb
Sarazanmai / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Sarazanmai / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Reo's Happy Dance in episode 9 references his seiyuu Mamoru Miyano's then upcoming role as Tony in a Japanese production of West Side Story.
Sarazanmai / int_392372f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_392372f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_392372f9
Sarazanmai / int_396d046e	type	Fun with Homophones
Sarazanmai / int_396d046e	comment	Fun with Homophones: Episode 3 is all about making kiss/kisu puns. The zombie of the episode is even named Kiis, a womanizer who runs a fish shop specializing in kisu. Episode 4 does the same with words "soba" (a type of noodles) and "soba" (someone's side), from a man who wanted to cook soba with the bath water of the woman he loved. For episode 7, we have balls and "balls" (testicles). While the Ball Zombie ends up stealing soccer balls, his greatest desire was also getting his testicles stomped on by his lady love. He also makes a crack about his soul (also tama or tamashii). Mabu's character arc gets a bit of milage out of him being referred to as a ningyo (doll) and him constantly making ningyouyaki (a Japanese pastry common in Asakusa). The Japanese word for otter is "kawauso", so there's quite a few puns about lies ("uso").
Sarazanmai / int_396d046e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_396d046e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_396d046e
Sarazanmai / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Sarazanmai / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: After spending three years turning himself into a juvenile delinquent, Tooi finally gets treated like one in the eyes of the law. He spends three years doing time in a juvenile detention center, with all of the bitterness and solemn air it implies.
Sarazanmai / int_3ed23024	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_3ed23024	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_3ed23024
Sarazanmai / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Sarazanmai / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Reo And Mabu act as this to a baby Sara in the Manga.
Sarazanmai / int_3f11ef74	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_3f11ef74	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_3f11ef74
Sarazanmai / int_41f26c58	type	Happy Dance
Sarazanmai / int_41f26c58	comment	Happy Dance: Reo does one in Episode 9 while singing about how he and Mabu are "the ultimate couple" (since he thinks their relationship is finally back to the way it was). The dance itself is taken straight from West Side Story (1961).
Sarazanmai / int_41f26c58	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_41f26c58	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_41f26c58
Sarazanmai / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Sarazanmai / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The transformation sequences often feature reused animation.
Sarazanmai / int_4856ac40	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_4856ac40	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_4856ac40
Sarazanmai / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Sarazanmai / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: Enta is fatally shot in Episode 8, but in Episode 9 Keppi is able to revive him by turning him into his kappa form. However, Enta has a timer on his head indicating that he doesn't have long until he's Killed Off for Real, so now the other characters must find enough Dishes of Hope in time to wish him back to life.
Sarazanmai / int_496569e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_496569e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_496569e8
Sarazanmai / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Sarazanmai / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The trailers are filled with beautiful shots of Asakusa.
Sarazanmai / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_49d59be9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_49d59be9
Sarazanmai / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
Sarazanmai / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Big "WHAT?!": Kazuki and Tooi do this together twice in episode one, with explosions accompanying the scenes. Enta does it too, in the episode two after learning he had taken home the wrong box.
Sarazanmai / int_4a8c4e5f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_4a8c4e5f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_4a8c4e5f
Sarazanmai / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Sarazanmai / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: The gangster that shows up in episode 8 gets shot clean in the head, but there was only smoke from both ends of his head to show for it.
Sarazanmai / int_4ab9c868	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_4ab9c868	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_4ab9c868
Sarazanmai / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Sarazanmai / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: When all three of the main characters call Keppi a frog, he gets so angry that he swallows them whole, forcefully extracts their shirokodama and turns them into kappa.
Sarazanmai / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_50b05d30
Sarazanmai / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Sarazanmai / int_5313c266	comment	Bookends: Chronologically, Tooi and Chikai's relationship ends the same way; the first scene and the last scene we see has Chikai toss blood money at Tooi so he can feed himself. The last time it was rather literally dyed in Chikai's blood after being shot. The series starts with Kazuki running by the water alone before the "A" symbol falls on top of him. When Tooi gets back from juvie, he jumps off a bridge and falls into the "A" symbol on his way down before Kazuki and Enta reunite with him in the water.
Sarazanmai / int_5313c266	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5313c266	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5313c266
Sarazanmai / int_53fd0a77	type	Out of the Frying Pan
Sarazanmai / int_53fd0a77	comment	Out of the Frying Pan: Haruka being chosen as a desire extraction candidate was bad enough already, but all seems well when his feelings are determined to be love instead of desire. When his box is taken away to be "returned", it goes from all the desire boxes straight in the direction of a garbage disposal where "love" is destined for.
Sarazanmai / int_53fd0a77	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_53fd0a77	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_53fd0a77
Sarazanmai / int_5527dc0c	type	Plot Coupon
Sarazanmai / int_5527dc0c	comment	Plot Coupon: The Dishes of Hope serve as this to the story; ordinarily they would only need one Golden Dish to make a wish, but the Zombies the gang fights only produce Silver Dishes. They now need to collect five of those to make a wish, and everyone has their own ideas on what to do with it.
Sarazanmai / int_5527dc0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5527dc0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5527dc0c
Sarazanmai / int_57fe068e	type	LuckyTranslation
Sarazanmai / int_57fe068e	comment	Lucky Translation: Every episode has Keppi tell the boys to steal the kappa zombie's shirikodama with the command "kapparae!" ("snatch it!"). French just so happens to have the word "accaparer", which not only has a similar meaning but is almost an anagram and keeps the kappa pun, so the French translator went straight for it.
Sarazanmai / int_57fe068e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_57fe068e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_57fe068e
Sarazanmai / int_58d31a8b	type	Body Motifs
Sarazanmai / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: What else but the butt? Being the area where the shirikodama is located, expect to see butts on screen quite often even out of Sarazanmai situations.
Sarazanmai / int_58d31a8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_58d31a8b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_58d31a8b
Sarazanmai / int_5a22609e	type	Creator Thumbprint
Sarazanmai / int_5a22609e	comment	Creator Thumbprint: This anime has quite a few signs of Kunihiko Ikuhara's typical style, such as dramatic poses, repeated phrases, wacky animal hijinks, surreal imagery and Stock Footage.
Sarazanmai / int_5a22609e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5a22609e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5a22609e
Sarazanmai / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Sarazanmai / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Connections. All of the PVs have the characters talk about being socially isolated from other people and the bonds humanity shares, and Sara's trailer has her sing a song from the perspective of someone either spiritually or physically isolated from her classmates. Desire also plays a big part into the story, with both the hero and the antagonist side focusing on how it can be warped and used for selfish purposes, even coming into conflict with their true wishes (i.e. Tooi wanting to be with his brother when he really just wants to have an environment where he can be with people that care for him, Reo and Mabu wanting to get Mabu back to a more "normal" state when they just want their old relationship back).
Sarazanmai / int_5ce7dbb9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5ce7dbb9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5ce7dbb9
Sarazanmai / int_5d0dd7b3	type	Wasteful Wishing
Sarazanmai / int_5d0dd7b3	comment	Wasteful Wishing: After Keppi informs the boys that the Dishes of Hope he'll give them in return for collecting shirikodama for him will grant any wish, Enta grabs it and asks if he can use it to wish for a year's supply of cucumber rolls. His frivolous wish is immediately granted by having an enormous cucumber roll drop down on them, and Enta realizes too late that he's wasted his wish and the Dish of Hope has broken.
Sarazanmai / int_5d0dd7b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5d0dd7b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5d0dd7b3
Sarazanmai / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Sarazanmai / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: "Kawausoiya" gets an instrumental one during the final battle, when Reo and Mabu emerge from their links to help take down Dark Keppi, in the middle of a Triumphant Reprise of "Sarazanmai no Uta".
Sarazanmai / int_5da37ab5	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5da37ab5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5da37ab5
Sarazanmai / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Sarazanmai / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: During their transformations into kappa, Kazuki, Toi, and Enta can be heard screaming as their shirikodama are extracted from their butts.
Sarazanmai / int_5ff9310b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_5ff9310b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_5ff9310b
Sarazanmai / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Sarazanmai / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: After Keppi swallows Kazuki whole, there are very brief◊ shots◊ of Kazuki's face while he's still inside Keppi's stomach. The same will go for the other two boys when they are digested instead. All of Sara's news bulletins feature a message from her point of view.
Sarazanmai / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_62f9d08e
Sarazanmai / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Sarazanmai / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Enta thinks he can hide his theft of the dishes of hope from people who read his mind on a regular basis.
Sarazanmai / int_7286e96d	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_7286e96d	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_7286e96d
Sarazanmai / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Sarazanmai / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: Had Tooi never thrown out his soccer memorabilia and went to Azuma bridge, he would have never met Kazuki and gave him his miçanga. And had that never happened, Kazuki wouldn't be able to reach out to Enta, who would have remained alone and friendless. The Bad Future shown in the final episode shows what the plot might have gone like if the main trio was connected without working through their problems, emphasized by each "episode" in the sequence having the exact same title as the series' own up to that point.
Sarazanmai / int_79a60aec	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_79a60aec	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_79a60aec
Sarazanmai / int_7d7f4e4f	type	Magical Girl
Sarazanmai / int_7d7f4e4f	comment	Magical Girl: Baby Sara is implied to be this in the Manga due to her ability to charm whoever looks at her. This aspect of her is largely ignored in the anime, relegating her to a simple quirky host.
Sarazanmai / int_7d7f4e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_7d7f4e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_7d7f4e4f
Sarazanmai / int_7e345221	type	Snowball Lie
Sarazanmai / int_7e345221	comment	Snowball Lie: Kazuki pretends to be Sara Azuma via texts with Haruka in order to connect with him, and takes selfies where he crossdresses as her. His friends find out, and it becomes harder and harder to keep the secret. When Sara comes to his neighborhood to do a fan visit, Kazuki enlists his friends in an elaborate scheme to maintain the lie that involves kidnapping the real Sara and impersonating her in front of a large crowd. It fails, and his secret is revealed in front of everyone.
Sarazanmai / int_7e345221	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_7e345221	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_7e345221
Sarazanmai / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Sarazanmai / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Reo and Mabu's dance is animated much more smoothly than anything else in the show.
Sarazanmai / int_7ea2a915	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_7ea2a915	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_7ea2a915
Sarazanmai / int_7f061717	type	Teen Idol
Sarazanmai / int_7f061717	comment	Teen Idol: Sara is the local idol of Asakusa, shown through her daily news show and themed merch. She even sings her own theme song.
Sarazanmai / int_7f061717	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_7f061717	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_7f061717
Sarazanmai / int_82a60dce	type	Signature Laugh
Sarazanmai / int_82a60dce	comment	Chikai's former gang, Kamome, is often associated with seagulls; they have an emblem of one on their official jacket, their boss has a Signature Laugh resuming a seagull's cry and a long nose evocative of a beak, and the other members that come up make cawing sounds and poses.
Sarazanmai / int_82a60dce	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_82a60dce	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_82a60dce
Sarazanmai / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Sarazanmai / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: In the spin-off manga, Reo and Mabu are depicted as kind police officers raising a baby they found together in a fairly light hearted and for the most part, mundane setting. In the anime, however, they’re Ambiguously Evil partners with different personalities. Reo comes off as more disdainful than his Manga counterpart and Mabu appears to be more stoic than his originally seen Cloud Cuckoo Lander nature. They also perform “Desire Extractions” on whoever comes into their police station, which ends up killing the unlucky victim and turns them into the zombies that the main characters have to remove the shirikodama of. While their true motives have yet to be revealed, what’s made clear is that they’re far less kindly than their manga counterparts.
Sarazanmai / int_82a64c4b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_82a64c4b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_82a64c4b
Sarazanmai / int_831b0a18	type	Intentional Heartbreaker
Sarazanmai / int_831b0a18	comment	Intentional Heartbreaker: Villain of the Week Kiis Motoclay, a prettyboy fishmonger who becomes a local Casanova in Asakusa. Before the heroes properly get to fight him, we learn that he was arrested on suspicion of marrying women and then driving them to suicide to collect marriage fraud reimbursement. His monster form reflects this, as he turns girls into wedding dolls that kiss him and then turn into dead fish for his collection.
Sarazanmai / int_831b0a18	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_831b0a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_831b0a18
Sarazanmai / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Sarazanmai / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: In this story, zombies are monsters that used to be human, but with deviant habits. Their desires are extracted from them by Reo and Mabu, which kills them and makes them come back as zombies that look like giant humanoids with Non Human Heads. The characters must steal the zombies' shirikodama and connect in “that way” to return to their human forms.
Sarazanmai / int_8ba9512b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_8ba9512b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_8ba9512b
Sarazanmai / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Sarazanmai / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: When Keppi brings the kappas to the battle, the pathway is illustrated in CGI.
Sarazanmai / int_912b24c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_912b24c4	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_912b24c4
Sarazanmai / int_94be6b61	type	Coordinated Clothes
Sarazanmai / int_94be6b61	comment	Coordinated Clothes: Downplayed since their outfits don't exactly match, but Kazuki's parents and Haruka all wear striped clothing. Kazuki is the only member of the Yasaka family who doesn't wear anything with stripes, due to feeling isolated from his family after finding out he was actually adopted. He starts up again after the halfway point.
Sarazanmai / int_94be6b61	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_94be6b61	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_94be6b61
Sarazanmai / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
Sarazanmai / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: So far, there have been 3. One for when Keppi turns one of the boys or Reo into a kappa, a transformation sequence for the Monster of the Week and there’s one for when the protagonists turn back into humans before their secrets are revealed.
Sarazanmai / int_9657fe0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9657fe0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9657fe0f
Sarazanmai / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Sarazanmai / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Tooi this to Kazuki. Case in point, Kazuki is perfectly willing to kidnap someone just to keep up a childish fantasy for his brother, and in fact goes to Tooi to help him with it.
Sarazanmai / int_984ef9ef	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_984ef9ef	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_984ef9ef
Sarazanmai / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Sarazanmai / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: The Connect trailers have the 2D characters animated over real shots of Asakusa. This is also done with the anime's ending credits.
Sarazanmai / int_985795ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_985795ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_985795ab
Sarazanmai / int_985f0a0f	type	Production Throwback
Sarazanmai / int_985f0a0f	comment	Production Throwback: One of the special illustrations for the series (where the three boys play games at a summer stall) have quite a few references to Ikuhara's previous works. One can spot a rose in a vase, a penguin family and an apple, a honey jar, and a bear statue along with a kappa, a plate, and a cucumber.
Sarazanmai / int_985f0a0f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_985f0a0f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_985f0a0f
Sarazanmai / int_991ae060	type	Henshin Hero
Sarazanmai / int_991ae060	comment	Henshin Hero: The boys are a very unconventional group of these with some Magical Boy elements: for starters, they turn into kappas to fight off Zombies and only turn back when their target is defeated.
Sarazanmai / int_991ae060	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_991ae060	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_991ae060
Sarazanmai / int_9ae0cca6	type	Character Blog
Sarazanmai / int_9ae0cca6	comment	Character Blog: Reo and Mabu have one, which was updated up until the anime’s release. The account strangely takes place in 2007, about ten years before the beginning of the anime. It updated only once, to coincide with the events of episode 10: Mabu posts a message to Reo saying that he's always loved his partner, and then the whole account is deleted now that Mabu is Ret-Gone.
Sarazanmai / int_9ae0cca6	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9ae0cca6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9ae0cca6
Sarazanmai / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Sarazanmai / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Haruka is never shown standing up or walking at any point in the early episodes; he is always sitting down when interacting with others. Before it's revealed in episode 3, Haruka tells Enta to give Kazuki his miçanga back because Haruka can't "run with him" himself. He means this literally. Both the opening and the text crawls during the Sara News pretty much give away that Sara is a kappa right from the start. If the prequel manga wasn't enough indication. Tooi's interest in soccer, which he still keeps in the present, foreshadows that he used to know Kazuki when he was younger. The miçanga Kazuki has is also rather blue compared to the red one Enta wanted to give him; blue is Tooi's color. A young Tooi mentions that people don't realize they had connections until they lost them. Not only is this true for Chikai, who admitted his need to be with his brother in his dying moments, but it's also true for Reo and Mabu, who finally fully speak to each other the moment the latter sets himself up for oblivion. "Kawausoiya", especially the second verse, is this big time to Reo and Mabu's backstory. Haruka's insistence that Kazuki's in the middle of a big circle. He is, pretty much; aside from being a family member, getting Tooi's miçanga is the catalyst for everything else that happens in Asakusa and is the very basis of his, Enta, and Tooi's friendship.
Sarazanmai / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9d12bbc1
Sarazanmai / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
Sarazanmai / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The Transformation Sequence when the boys have their shirikodama removed shows them spinning around in extremely simplified and detail-free nudity.
Sarazanmai / int_9d1cc720	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9d1cc720	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9d1cc720
Sarazanmai / int_9e8e5e8f	type	Acting Out a Daydream
Sarazanmai / int_9e8e5e8f	comment	Acting Out a Daydream: Enta does this twice over the course of the third episode: he accidentally puts the miçanga he wanted to give to Kazuki on his sister the first time, and the third time he full on smooches Keppi.
Sarazanmai / int_9e8e5e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9e8e5e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9e8e5e8f
Sarazanmai / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Sarazanmai / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: When a zombie's shirikodama is successfully taken, any evidence of their human identities disappears and people will forget they existed. Episode 6 reveals that this can happen to anyone whose shirikodama is taken. Despite this, Kazuki is willing to give up his own shirikodama and disappear if it means Haruka can be saved, but luckily he doesn't have to go through with it. The only ones to escape this fate are Reo and Mabu, who are linked together after they die.
Sarazanmai / int_9ebd9c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_9ebd9c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_9ebd9c33
Sarazanmai / int_a621882	type	The Bad Guys Are Cops
Sarazanmai / int_a621882	comment	The Bad Guys Are Cops: Local cops Reo and Mabu are the ones responsible for the zombie attacks. The latter half of the series implies that they're not even real cops, as some actual local policemen don't recognize them.
Sarazanmai / int_a621882	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_a621882	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_a621882
Sarazanmai / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Sarazanmai / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: All things considered, Reo and Mabu are never brought to justice for framing Chikai and bringing their extraction victims to certain death, even if they are Asshole Victims. If you don't consider their "can't really be with the person they love" predicament punishment enough, their coming Back from the Dead is a reward for all their efforts.
Sarazanmai / int_a70223	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_a70223
Sarazanmai / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Sarazanmai / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Uses "Dish" replacing the word "episode". It's related to something about dish/plate. "I Want to be Connected, but..." Usually the following segment would fill it in with "I Want to [X]" or "I Can't [X]", but the final episode breaks this trend with "So I won't Give Up" and "So Let's Sarazanmai".
Sarazanmai / int_ac4ac8e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_ac4ac8e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_ac4ac8e5
Sarazanmai / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
Sarazanmai / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Soccer. All three main characters have an interest in soccer that's important for their relationships, but this skill comes into play dramatically in episode 6, when they use their soccer skills to lob Keppi, morphed into the shape of a soccer ball, into Haruka, knocking him out of the shredder.
Sarazanmai / int_ac5364fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_ac5364fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_ac5364fe
Sarazanmai / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Sarazanmai / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming-of-Age Story: A genre that was listed for the show, and definitely applies to the three boy protagonists.
Sarazanmai / int_b1e8a3b3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_b1e8a3b3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_b1e8a3b3
Sarazanmai / int_b72923df	type	The Final Temptation
Sarazanmai / int_b72923df	comment	The Final Temptation: The Otters end up doing this to the protagonists in episode 11, taking the forms of their most loved people in order to lead them to their side. Enta and Tooi are subjected to this like Mabu was; Enta rejects the false Kazuki, but Tooi is consumed by his desire to be with his brother.
Sarazanmai / int_b72923df	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_b72923df	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_b72923df
Sarazanmai / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Sarazanmai / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Towards the end of the show, Mabu is given two choices: take a chance to finally tell Reo how he feels at the cost of his existence and transformation into a Zombie, or remain with Reo like they have been since his revival, which means they'll still be physically together but emotionally scarred/distant forever.
Sarazanmai / int_babc974	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_babc974	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_babc974
Sarazanmai / int_bacf8e98	type	Preserve Your Gays
Sarazanmai / int_bacf8e98	comment	Surprisingly, the Zombies of all people fall under Preserve Your Gays instead. Mabu Zombie, the only Zombie who desired a gay relationship, is also the only Zombie to permanently be brought back to life and have at least one person connected to him.
Sarazanmai / int_bacf8e98	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_bacf8e98	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_bacf8e98
Sarazanmai / int_bb660963	type	Color-Coded Characters
Sarazanmai / int_bb660963	comment	Color-Coded Characters: Every character is assigned a color. Kazuki is red. Tooi is blue. Enta is yellow. Keppi is green. Reo is white. Mabu is black. Sara is purple. Chikai is golden-brown.
Sarazanmai / int_bb660963	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_bb660963	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_bb660963
Sarazanmai / int_c042eee9	type	Invisible to Normals
Sarazanmai / int_c042eee9	comment	Invisible to Normals: The entire desire dimension and the kappas and zombies cannot be seen by normal people; they would have had to be transformed/altered to see it.
Sarazanmai / int_c042eee9	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_c042eee9	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_c042eee9
Sarazanmai / int_c34a3286	type	Kappa
Sarazanmai / int_c34a3286	comment	Kappa: Kappa are very prominent in this story, and the three main characters are turned into kappa themselves. The fact that they're turned into kappa by having their shirikodama removed is an allusion to many folktales about kappa doing that to their unsuspecting victims.
Sarazanmai / int_c34a3286	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_c34a3286	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_c34a3286
Sarazanmai / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Sarazanmai / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: There's no denying that some of the characters are meant to be seen in titillating lights, but the context just makes it all wrong: When Mabu is with the Otters, he's being touched sensually by them and either stark naked or in flattering clothing. He clearly doesn't enjoy it one bit, and the acts are always in conjunction with his feelings for Reo. Any time when the Otters transform into Reo to molest Mabu as well, since what should be sexy moments between two heavily teased people is perverted by the fact that the Otters are manipulating and having their way with the man in the body of a guy he loves. Enta and Kazuki sumo wrestling in the former's episode 6 delusions; for one thing, they're still in Kappa form, and for another, they're still kids.
Sarazanmai / int_c660bc15	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_c660bc15	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_c660bc15
Sarazanmai / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Sarazanmai / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Towards the end of Reo and Mabu's dance, the way Reo pulls Mabu's heart out of his chest is incredibly similar to the scenes in Revolutionary Girl Utena where Utena pulls her sword out of Anthy. In Episode 3, Sara and Migii parody the scene in Castle in the Sky where Pazu first encounters Sheeta. At the end of Episode 3, Haruka tells Enta about a dream he had where he met The Little Prince. This comes up again in the finale. Ikuhara cites Stand by Me as one of the inspirations for the anime. This is referenced by the ED song, which is also called "Stand by Me". In Episode 6, Sara dresses up as Iyami from Osomatsu-kun and does his well-known "Sheeeeh!" Catchphrase and pose. In Episode 7, Sara's report on the town's soccer balls suddenly flying away segues into a parody of the flying bicycle scene from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Episode 9 has Reo dance home in excitement, shot for shot imitating a dance from West Side Story (1961). This doubles as an Actor Allusion, since Mamoru Miyano (who voices Reo) was set to play Tony in a Japanese production of West Side Story at the time. In Episode 11, Keppi enlarges himself for the final battle against Dark Keppi in a manner reminiscent of Ultraman.
Sarazanmai / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_c75df49a
Sarazanmai / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Sarazanmai / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: The fact that Reo is also shown with the boys doing a Sarazanmai sequence in the opening spoils the fact that he in fact gets to take down a Kappa Zombie in Episode 10.
Sarazanmai / int_cd83fa5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_cd83fa5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_cd83fa5b
Sarazanmai / int_d512ac5b	type	Subculture of the Week
Sarazanmai / int_d512ac5b	comment	Before they're turned into zombies, the antagonists have some serious Subculture of the Week vibes. Since desire is stored in the anus, and the boys have a strangely anal bead-looking attack to extract shirikodama... Episode 7 does away with any lingering subtlety by having the explicitly masochistic Ball Zombie love the sensation of the boys entering him.
Sarazanmai / int_d512ac5b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_d512ac5b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_d512ac5b
Sarazanmai / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Sarazanmai / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Has a page here.
Sarazanmai / int_dcb9c541	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_dcb9c541	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_dcb9c541
Sarazanmai / int_deb39de3	type	Bad Future
Sarazanmai / int_deb39de3	comment	The Bad Future shown in the final episode shows what the plot might have gone like if the main trio was connected without working through their problems, emphasized by each "episode" in the sequence having the exact same title as the series' own up to that point.
Sarazanmai / int_deb39de3	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_deb39de3	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_deb39de3
Sarazanmai / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Sarazanmai / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Kappa, being also what the characters are turned into. Otters are also given importance, since they're said to be a kind of kappa in some areas of Japan. Chikai's former gang, Kamome, is often associated with seagulls; they have an emblem of one on their official jacket, their boss has a Signature Laugh resuming a seagull's cry and a long nose evocative of a beak, and the other members that come up make cawing sounds and poses.
Sarazanmai / int_e2ccee25	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_e2ccee25	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_e2ccee25
Sarazanmai / int_e3739de7	type	Cast Full of Pretty Boys
Sarazanmai / int_e3739de7	comment	Cast Full of Pretty Boys: With how little focus the female characters get, the show is very much this.
Sarazanmai / int_e3739de7	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_e3739de7	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_e3739de7
Sarazanmai / int_e61d9a3c	type	Clothing Damage
Sarazanmai / int_e61d9a3c	comment	Clothing Damage: When Keppi turns the boys into kappa, all of their clothes are torn off before he swallows them whole.
Sarazanmai / int_e61d9a3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_e61d9a3c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_e61d9a3c
Sarazanmai / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Sarazanmai / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: The episodes generally follow this formula, as the characters will encounter a new zombie in every episode with very few recurring enemies.
Sarazanmai / int_e9604359	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_e9604359	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_e9604359
Sarazanmai / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Sarazanmai / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Keppi swallows the boys whole in order to turn them into kappa.
Sarazanmai / int_eea96e78	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_eea96e78	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_eea96e78
Sarazanmai / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Sarazanmai / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like, in a Coma!: In The Stinger of Episode 2, Enta comes across Kazuki while he's asleep and wearing his Sara costume, and proceeds to kiss him.
Sarazanmai / int_f604f64b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_f604f64b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_f604f64b
Sarazanmai / int_f654419c	type	Baleful Polymorph
Sarazanmai / int_f654419c	comment	Baleful Polymorph: The premise of the show is the three main protagonists having their shirikodama forcefully removed, turning them into kappa.
Sarazanmai / int_f654419c	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_f654419c	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_f654419c
Sarazanmai / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Sarazanmai / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: A theme throughout the series revolves around the secrets that various characters keep. Whenever the three protagonists defeat a kappa zombie, its deepest secret is exposed. Plus, every time they defeat a kappa zombie, the protagonists go on a mental trip where they discover each other's most personal secrets.
Sarazanmai / int_f909b16b	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_f909b16b	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_f909b16b
Sarazanmai / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Sarazanmai / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Frogs and Kappas being confused for each other, which only serves to make Keppi hopping mad. At the end of the show, the joke is retired by having the new Asakusa Teen Idol after Sara be frog themed instead of Kappa themed.
Sarazanmai / int_f9f2c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_f9f2c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_f9f2c33
Sarazanmai / int_ffb79066	type	Chromosome Casting
Sarazanmai / int_ffb79066	comment	Chromosome Casting: The main cast is primarily made up of boys, with only a handful of girlsnote There are 5 female characters. Sara, Enta’s Grandmother and sister, Kazuki’s adoptive mother and Kazuki’s real mother. Sara is the only female character who really contributes anything to the story but it’s minuscule compared to the male leads. being important to the narrative.
Sarazanmai / int_ffb79066	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_ffb79066	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_ffb79066
Sarazanmai / int_name	type	ItemName
Sarazanmai / int_name	comment
Sarazanmai / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Sarazanmai / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Sarazanmai / int_name
Sarazanmai / int_name	itemName	Sarazanmai

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Adoption Angst / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Anime and Manga of the 2010s / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Anime First / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	April Fools' Day / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Dark Secret / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Dude, She's Like in a Coma / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Free-Sample Plot Coupon / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Greek Chorus / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Happy Dance / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	I Wished You Were Dead / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Intentional Heartbreaker / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Just Friends / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Kappa / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Look Both Ways / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Perverted Sniffing / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Ret-Gone / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Role Swap AU / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Second Year Protagonist / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Snowball Lie / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	The Bad Guys Are Cops / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	The "I Love You" Stigma / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Wasteful Wishing / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	World of Pun / int_4a957617
Sarazanmai	hasFeature	Youkai Works / int_4a957617

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.