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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Irabu the Psychiatrist (although it's generally referred to as Trapeze) is a series of short stories about psychology from 2002-2006 by Hideo Okuda and follows the misadventures of the psychiatrist Ichiro Irabu, his nurse Mayumi, and the several patients they treat at Irabu General Hospital. (Before you ask, his father owns the place. Could you imagine this guy running a hospital? ...brr.) Unlike other doctors, though, Irabu's eccentric treatments demand that his patients have to get worse before they get better.The short stories are compiled into three books: In the Pool, Trapeze, and Mayoral Election. However, only the first of these has been released in English. Ten stories from all three books were adapted into an anime in 2009 (also titled Trapeze) along with an eleventh, original story. Three stories from In the Pool were adapted into a film in 2005, the story "Trapeze" into a live-action made-for-TV movie in 2005, a stage play in 2008 and the first 2 chapters of each book into a (extremely obscure, crappy and supposedly disowned) manga in 2004, too, but you're probably here because of the anime.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })And don't you dare go making the assumption that this show was animated anywhere near normally. It makes viewers fear for their own mental health. The show has a surreal visual style with psychedelic colors, trippy imagery, constant art-shifts, and occasional live-action.Stories: | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: Occasionally the details of a case break from reality for the sake of the story, although it's instantly noted whenever this occurs. | |
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Pen Name: Hoshiyama's real name is Toriyama. | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look: Tanabe, who looks maybe 30 but was a young man during the post-war reconstruction. Subverted; his post-traumatic stress flashbacks muddled how he perceived his own age. He's actually an old man like you'd expect. | |
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Former Child Star | |
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Former Child Star: Shiraki/anime!Yasukawa. | |
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Split Personality | |
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Split Personality: Yamashita. | |
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Faceless Masses | |
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Faceless Masses: More precisely, if you don't have a speaking part, you're a moving cardboard cutout. Played With in episode 5, where a couple people on a train and a lecture hall full of college students suddenly become human with comical "pop" sounds just to gasp. | |
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Minor Injury Overreaction | |
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Minor Injury Overreaction: Every time somebody gets a shot. A bit justified; thicker needles hurt, man! | |
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Trickster Mentor | |
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Trickster/Stealth Doctor: The closest one can come to describing Irabu. Half the time he drives his patients up the wall with his childish antics and hair-brained folk cures. The other half of the time he gives advice to the patients to take self-centered actions. All of this usually is intended for the patients to eventually reach an epiphany and help them help themselves. Dr. Irabu's therapy consists of a combination of placebos (the infamous Vitamin Shots) and essentially encouraging his patients to embrace their inner child or at least their true feelings to the point of being a blatant enabler for this in the fourth and fifth episodes. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Iwamura in the film; Iwamura in the anime goes from writing sports articles to a teen mag and back again, but makes his big break with an expose. | |
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Spirit Advisor | |
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Spirit Advisor: Irabu, in the anime. After Mayumi's shots, Irabu's patients see and talk to him everywhere. What is actually happening is unclear, given the wacky nature of the show. Irabu is probably not actually present—he's treating all 11 patients during the same week, so presumably he can't be in 11 places at once, and sometimes he's shown on screen when it's obviously impossible for him to actually be there, such as when he speaks to Bando, on the field, during a televised pro baseball game. It's up to the viewer to determine whether he actually is there "in spirit" or if this is simply a creative way to depict the patients recounting the events of their day to him in a counseling session after the fact. | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: While Irabu is not evil per se, he definitely laughs like this. | |
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Epiphany Therapy | |
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Epiphany Therapy: An odd example, but it's definitely there. Rather, there are no loud, spectacular epiphanies, but the psychological problems seem to just quietly stop existing. Keep in mind each patient sees Irabu for, at most, a week, and we've been dealing with deep-seated stuff like obsessive-compulsive disorder and dissociative identity disorder. The series finale has an interesting example of epiphany therapy in that Irabu seems to just manually extract Hideo Tsuda's neurosis. Though mostly averted in episode 8... As the patient's epiphany was more about learning how to deal with his OCD in the long run, and it's noted that instant cures do not always happen. | |
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Security Blanket | |
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Security Blanket: A yakuza has one in episode 7. The Predictable Yasu (rival ganglord to Ino) is shown to use a wakizashi as a security object. Also Ino's skier's goggles in the same ep as prescribed by Dr. Irabu as a Magic Feather to treat Ino's sharp-objects phobia. | |
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At the Opera Tonight | |
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At the Opera Tonight: A major plot-point in episode 5, and the major occurence is quite literally an example of Truth in Television (specifically a rotoscoped excerpt from the Real Life opera The First Emperor about Qin Shi Huangdi). | |
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Expressive Mask | |
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Expressive Mask: Irabu's mascot bear head, occasionally. | |
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Magic Feather | |
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Also Ino's skier's goggles in the same ep as prescribed by Dr. Irabu as a Magic Feather to treat Ino's sharp-objects phobia. | |
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Medium Blending | |
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Medium Blending: Or "hybrid animation", as the show calls it. | |
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The Hecate Sisters | |
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The Hecate Sisters: Inverted completely by anime!Irabu; he's male, his oldest form is an immature adult, and his youngest form is a Deadpan Snarker. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Irabu. The least of his eccentricities is probably his fetish of the backflow of blood into a syringe. | |
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Afraid of Needles | |
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Afraid of Needles: Ino the yakuza. note Along with knives. And fish. And table corners. And Pocky. And literally anything else long and/or pointy. The needle phobia goes into pure Hilarity Ensues combined with Dr. Irabu's obvious needle fetish... | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: Ino wears a pair of goggles on the off-chance this trope might occur, since he's terrified of sharp objects. | |
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Gender-Blender Name | |
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Gender-Blender Name: There are two Hiromi Yasukawas in this series: a woman in the books ("Trade Show Model") and a man in the anime ("Talented Child Actor"). Apparently Mr. Yasukawa is a Mythology Gag. | |
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Raging Stiffie | |
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Raging Stiffie: A week-long one as a psychosomatic ailment, even! | |
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12-Episode Anime | |
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Eleven Episode Anime | |
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Market-Based Title | |
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Market-Based Title: According to the English noitaminA website, the official English title is Welcome to Irabu's Office :). | |
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Mind Screw | |
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Mind Screw: Honestly, Irabu is just confusing.◊ This gets even worse in episode 11 where all three Irabus appear contemporaneously in The Stinger. | |
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Couch Gag | |
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Couch Gag: Every episode has end-credits artwork pointing to the subject of the next episode, ending with the patient ending up at Dr. Irabu's office and a promo for the next ep. Done in particularly hilarious fashion for the end credits of Episode 5/preview for Episode 6, featuring a patient with a texting addiction; and the preview for the episode after that, which is full of fish and doggy pawprints (the subject is...a yakuza). | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Removing Ike's father-in-law's toupee. Accompanied by a golden light and an operatic bellow. | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Apparently Irabu does not stand out at all compared to all the normal-looking people around him. | |
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Male Gaze | |
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Male Gaze: Anytime Mayumi shows up, but turned up to eleven during episode 2—all of episode 2—to visualize the permanent hornyness of the patient. | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality | |
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Although Mayumi's only deredere moments so far are to tell Hoshiyama that Tomorrow made her cry and ask him to write another book like it and to invite Yuta to a Christmas party. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Although they may already be present, Mayumi's "vitamin shots" will always induce them with the exception of Tanabe and Hideo Tsuda who have different transformation problems. Yamashita the trapeze artist is a penguin; Taguchi the erect is a rhino (he's horny); Hoshiyama the romance novelist is a chicken laying empty eggs; Bando the baseball player is a (racing) horse; Irabu's colleague Ikeyama is a chameleon; Yuta Tsuda the texting addict is a woodpeckernote specifically a flicker, a group of woodpeckers who drum on wood primarily as a mating call; Ino and his rival are both neurotic toy dogs (they come to have similar problems, namely Linus syndrome); Iwamura the reporter is a raccoon; Yasukawa is a performing sea lion. | |
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Cast Full of Pretty Boys | |
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Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The anime. They even turned two female patients male to keep it going. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Mayumi is a lampshaded one of Ringo Shiina in the novels. | |
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Early-Bird Cameo | |
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Early-Bird Cameo: In the anime, every patient has a cameo before their proper debut. Helps that they're all being treated concurrently. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: The narration is interrupted from time to time to Info Dump psychology facts relevant to the plot. In one case it's also used to point out something that wouldn't work in real life, but was used in-show for the sake of the storyline. These sessions are in part designed to remove stigma regarding mental health treatment. It's also interesting how there are slightly different diagnosis criteria between Japan and the US.note for example, most stuff that is noted as OCD in the various series is generally diagnosed as other types of anxiety disorders in the US; probably different standards between the DSM-V and the Japanese equivalent for psychiatric diagnoses | |
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