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Cicadian Rhythm
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It is August. Or rather the last day of July to the first day of September for the Northern Hemisphere, or the last few days of December to the last ones of March for the South Hemisphere, A.K.A: "Forgotten Summer Vacation Homework time". How do we know? Because distinguished artists and sound designers show us an Establishing Shot with this green, noisy, bug-eyed bug striding a tree with the student yawning in a distant window....all the while chirping like crazy. Although sometimes we see an extreme closeup of the goggle-eyed critter in an Aspect Montage — whereupon it normally falls off the tree to show that even it has fainted from the heat. There is more of a knowledge gap than a cultural gap between Asian and western countries. Even though they are quite common in much of the Americas, most North Americans mistake the sound of the common summer cicada for crickets, even though their calls sound nothing like each other. It's when periodic cicadas emerge that cicadas make the news, despite them being a completely different species (Magicicada). That species has synchronized its life cycle into several 13 or 17 year broods. Unlike the yearly emergence of late summer or Dog Day cicadas, magicicadas broods emerge in vast numbers in the spring along North America's east-coast. They only live for about two weeks, during which they are present en very great masse. Thus, children in some areas may never hear of cicadas unless a periodic cicada brood emerges in their area. There are even a few places where multiple broods overlap. May God have mercy on the souls of the people living there. Most Europeans will be baffled by a cicada initially, and even moreso by their chirping noises, as they're not a common bug found in that part of the world. Many learn of cicadas for the first time through Anime (where they can be seen and heard constantly) or Video Games that feature them (usually to catch or as part of the scenery). In the southern part of North America (particularly Texas and Mexico) and northern South America, meanwhile, cicadas are more familiar, but have a very different cultural meaning than they do in Japan. The giant species present in this region, noted for its nearly year-round presence and incessant mind-numbingly loud drone sometimes compared to an industrial pressure valve, are strongly associated with The Savage South and Southern Gothic aesthetics, an auditory metaphor for the blistering heat of the non-winter seasons when they are most active. Traditionally, the sound effect used in manga to represent cicadas chirping is 「ミーーン ミーン ミーン ミーン ミーン」 (miiiiin miin miin miin miin). And, yes, they are THAT loud. See also Chirping Crickets. Examples |
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Comes up frequently in The Tatami Galaxy. It adds to the show's laid-back, casual setting. | |
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Orlando Furioso: Mentioned in Canto VIII, stanza 20: | |
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Many of Ranma ½'s summer episodes use these as episode openers; most notable of all, an Image Song for one of the characters pulls a slow pan up a tree for no other reason than to portray the cicada on its side. | |
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Asteroid in Love: A cicada appears at the beginning of Ao's flashback in the first episode of the Animated Adaptation, to clarify it was summer when the events of the flashback happened, especially since the scene immediately before and after the flashback is clearly in the first days of April. | |
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Manabi Straight!, pictured above. | |
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In Potemayo, Guchuko shows her usual patience by putting up with this racket for about 2 seconds before she uses hypersonics to stun the cicadas ... and shatter glass, set off car alarms, cause dogs to freak out, etc etc. You don't mess with Guchuko. | |
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Manga example: Yotsuba&! - Lampshade hung in the first chapter, at the start of summer vacation when Yotsuba climbs a telephone pole and pretends to be a cicada. Shows up again with her obsession with tsukutsukuboushi bringing the end of summer. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion uses this trope constantly to show that it's summer all year round in Japan, due to Second Impact shifting Earth's axis so much that traditional seasons no longer exist. Unlike most examples of this trope, which simply use cicada calls to signify that it's summer, Evangelion typically juxtaposes them with major dramatic events (i.e. an Angel attack). | |
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Dandelion Wine: In one chapter, Tom Spaulding is listening to the cicadas outside. He believes that the number of times a cicada buzzes in fifteen seconds plus thirty-nine equals the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Doug thinks this is a waste of time and tells him that he could just look at a thermometer. This annoys Tom and causes him to argue with his brother. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry (literally translated as "When the Cicadas Cry") has, appropriately enough, this trope in just about every episode. Although it's worth noting that the anime takes place in June, not the time frame given, and that a Higurashi is a particular type of cicada that comes out in early summer. More noticeable in the anime (because they're so persistent) is the distinct difference in chirping between day and night. The evening through night is when the higurashi cry. | |
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You can hear cicadas outside in the summer months in Persona 4, especially late at night (since your window is open, it seems). | |
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Pops up in the Summer Episode of Shugo Chara!, complete with Cloud Cuckoo Lander Su clinging to a tree and imitating a cicada. For some reason. | |
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Lucky Star uses this trope a few times, a cicada seemingly dying, breaking its hypnotic trance on a sleeping Konata and starting the next scene. The aftermath of its death is the center of another scene opening, featuring other smaller bugs breaking the dead cicada into pieces to take to their nest. | |
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The anime adaptation of Haruhi Suzumiya's Endless Eight arc frequently features the sound of cicadas, due to taking place during summer vacation. Haruhi insists that catching cicadas is part of a perfect summer, and she also insists on releasing them, after. Kyon says that releasing them feels like opening Pandora's Box. The interesting theme here is that in Eastern mythology, cicadas represent reincarnation and the soul leaving the body to start over again, which perfectly describes the Endless Eight. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has Sand Cicadas hanging out in the Lanayru Sand Sea, usually clinging to tall, thin objects in lieu of trees. | |
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Nincada and its evolutions Ninjask and Shedinja from Pokémon are based on cicadas; Ninjask are said to be loud enough to induce headaches. | |
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In Splatoon, cicada calls can be heard in the background of the Flounder Heights stage. During Splatfests, which take place at night, crickets replace them. | |
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The really fast opening shots in episode of Code Geass that shows Suzaku and Lelouch as children during the war contains a brief flash of one. In the DVD Commentary, one of the creators of the show talks about how an artist went all to all the trouble of going out and photographing a dead cicada to make sure to draw it correctly. It was disappointing when it was reduced to a two second frame. | |
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Everlasting Summer has yet another Higurashi: When They Cry reference, complete with a similarly creepy storyline and ominously misheard/Japanese Ranguage character names. | |
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One of the "Thousand Years of Dreams" flashback segments in Lost Odyssey features immortal protagonist Kaim hired to protect a village from soldiers so that the local cicada brood will survive to sing many years later. | |
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Eat Your Kimchi (filmed in South Korea) has a video about how annoying cicadas are, though the sound effect is written as HEEEEEGH. They use actual cicada sounds, which are really annoying. | |
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Parodied in the anime of Muromi-san with a blatantly fake voiceover of "buzz-buzz" noises instead of the usual cicada stock recordings. | |
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Animal Crossing: Various species of cicada appear in the summer months, residing on trees. True to their real-life counterparts, they're disgustingly common and obnoxiously loud. You can, of course, catch the cicadas and sell them (the high commonality of cicadas makes them one of the least skittish tree bugs at that time of the year), or put them in your house so your character can have this trope year round. | |
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Averted in Gosick, when Japanese exchange student Kazuya points out that one major difference between the summer in the European Fictional Country of Sauville and Japan is the distinct lack of cicadas. | |
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Seen in a flashback in Karin, where the cicada was used as a visual aid for bloodsucking. In case that wasn't already pretty obvious from the blood... | |
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In Tsukihime, the cicadas chirping is the most vivid thing Shiki remembers of the day he was killed, brought back to life, and brainwashed to forget it. He even compares his own dead body to a discarded cicada shell. | |
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During the training level in the second Tenchu game, the only thing that passes for soundtrack in this place is the droning of the cicadas. | |
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Parodied in Rurouni Kenshin. Kenshin and Sanosuke were tailing Yahiko in one episode, checking up on some form of suspicious activity they thought he was doing. Yahiko catches on, and when he turns around to look, Sanosuke and Kenshin duck behind a rooftop and start imitating cicada sounds to try and convince Yahiko that there's nothing out of the ordinary going on. Yahiko calls them out on it by saying it's the wrong season for cicadas. | |
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Bee and Puppycat has a joke about cicadas in the first episode, with Puppycat grabbing one off a tree and yelling at it to shut up. | |
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