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Mawaru-Penguindrum

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Mawaru-Penguindrum	type	TVTItem
Mawaru-Penguindrum	label	Mawaru-Penguindrum
Mawaru-Penguindrum	page	mawarupenguindrum
Mawaru-Penguindrum	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Mawaru-Penguindrum (Spinning-Penguindrum) is a Summer 2011 Anime First directed and co-written by Kunihiko Ikuhara, famous for his work on Revolutionary Girl Utena, and animated by Studio Brains Base. It has character designs by the manga author Lily Hoshino (Otome Youkai Zakuro), and the original series has also spawned a series of novels (written by Ikuhara and Kei Takahashi) that are being released alongside the anime. Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime (under the name Penguin Drum) for release starting at the end of 2012.The story follows the three siblings of the Takakura family: twin brothers Kanba and Shouma, and Ill Girl Himari. Their parents are gone, and they live in a small bungalow alone. Poor Himari dies during a trip to the aquarium in Ikebukuro; while Kanba and Shouma grieve over her death, she is suddenly brought back to life by a mysterious entity (one who apparently resides in a souvenir hat purchased at the same aquarium) who offers them a chance to extend Himari's life for a price: to bring her the "Penguindrum."Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })At the same time, they receive three mysterious penguins who understand the orders of the Takakura siblings. The only clue given to them by the Penguin Hat is to follow a certain Ringo Oginome, a girl the same age as the boys who also has a huge obsession with their teacher and tries daily to win his love by reenacting out the next entry of her (oddly accurate) diary...Yeah. This show is very weird.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_105ee3d1	type	Odango Hair
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_105ee3d1	comment	Odango Hair: Himari's hairstyle in episodes 3, 8 and 11.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: The penguin head logo, which in-universe is the logo for a corporation called Pingroup, which is also associated with the Takakura parents and their extremist group. It is ubiquitous on products throughout the show, including stranger ones such as Masako's ball-bullets. Three distinct variations of the penguin symbol have been revealed so far, standing for Penguin Force, Pingroup and Kiga Group. At least two of them are one and the same organization trying to confuse authorities with the new name.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_12dd1d4c	type	RapeAsDrama
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The extreme lengths to which Ringo will go to accomplish Project M. And it is most definitely not okay. And in episode 11 Ringo practically finds herself at the receiving end, when she hesitates into having sex with a Tabuki who's just been slipped a Love Potion and he won't back off due to the effect. Again, it's portrayed as rather screwed up. Happens again in episode 14, with Yuri drugging up and attempting to rape Ringo after bonding with her. Many times, a female/female rape scene is depicted less rape-like, but in this one it's clear that Yuri is very fucked up too.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: In episode 15, when Shoma opens the door of Yuri and Ringo's onsen room, his head blocks the audience form the sight of a drugged up, naked, and shibari-tied-up Ringo and the very awake and naked Yuri.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: Ringo invokes it when she decides to pretend she's drowning so Tabuki will save her. It fails spectacularly and she almost drowns for real, so Shoma saves her instead. Later played rather straighter between Shoma and Ringo, in an incident involving a speeding car, an inconveniently-timed Heroic B.S.O.D., and a Diving Save. Also, if you ship Momoka/Tabuki and Shouma/Himari, their scenes in the Child Broiler count as this.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_14a8974a	comment	And in episode 11 Ringo practically finds herself at the receiving end, when she hesitates into having sex with a Tabuki who's just been slipped a Love Potion and he won't back off due to the effect. Again, it's portrayed as rather screwed up.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The Mawaru-Penguindrum Prototype Manual Official Starting Guide reveals that possessed!Himari is called the Princess of the Crystal and that the bear mecha are called Teddydrums.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: In episode 15, Yuri fights Masako while wearing only a Modesty Towel. Which ends up falling off in the end, right before she wins.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: The terrorist attack within the series was carried out by Penguin Force using bombs, whereas the real attacks were done by Aum Shinrikyo with nerve gas. Momoka's diary can be used to create alternate timelines.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: Alluded to in the page quote. Most of the Takakura siblings' trouble is due to this, and Shouma in particular is weighed down with guilt about his parents.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In the third episode, after seeing Yuri at Tabuki's place, Ringo flips out when a cat carrying a fish in its mouth walks in front of her. She then imagines Yuri holding a fish with Tabuki's face on it in her mouth. This is because in Japanese the phrase "dorobou neko" ("thieving cat") refers to a woman who steals someone else's man, roughly analogous to the English term "homewrecker".
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1bdbbbae	comment	Shouma never, ever manages to save Himari or Ringo from trouble, typically either coming in too late, or falling over at a crucial moment. The only exception happens in episodes 19 and 20, where he successfully rescues Himari from the Child Broiler, and when he takes Ringo's curse into himself in the Grand Finale.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1e0bb316	type	Trolling Creator
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1e0bb316	comment	Episode 19. Himari is not a born Takakura, but a Child Broiler prospect victim. Shouma is revealed to be Himari's fated person, specifically because he rescued her from it. Ikuhara's trolling knows no limits.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1ee9819e	type	Scary Shiny Glasses
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_1ee9819e	comment	Renjaku has several things in common with Anthy, including Scary Shiny Glasses, her way of standing, purple hair that's actually a lot longer than it initially looks, and being Beautiful All Along.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Ringo's parents are separated. We only see Eriko Oginome keeping Ringo company at home, and episode 5 has Ringo "going out on a date with Daddy" during which Satoshi mentions visitation. And he actually remarried or is about to, as he's seen with another woman and a little girl in episode 8, but hasn't told Ringo anything. She sees him with his girlfriend anyway, which is the trigger to her planning to speed up her "Project M".
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20b5cce7	type	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20b5cce7	comment	"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Episode 10 features a cover of the ending theme by Yui Horie (Masako). The ending themes from the second half of the series are songs from the band ARB done by Triple H.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20e6a6e7	type	It Only Works Once
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_20e6a6e7	comment	It Only Works Once: The life-transferring scene from Episode 1, as revealed by the Princess of the Crystal in Episode 12. To be more accurate, it only works once per person. As revealed by episode 20, Shouma shared half of his life (or if you will, apple) with Himari years before episode 1. This is why the Princess never has Shouma transfer part of his life to Himari - he already has.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: None of the Takakura siblings are related but it doesn't stop them from being a deeply loving family even through constant hardship.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: The world is a sinister place where a magical factory will grind unwanted children into dust by the tons. Meanwhile terrorists and magical radicals try tinkering with reality with the goal of destroying the status quo regardless of the collateral damage.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_222059fa	type	Fairytale Motifs
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_222059fa	comment	Fairytale Motifs Pretty much any fairy tale involving apples has popped up in some form or another. The Destiny Diary has an Urashima Taro design motif. The tribulations of the Takakura siblings apparently fit the storyline of an in-universe fairy tale.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: You know how the series likes to turn comedic situations into dramatic ones? Well...
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_243c8078	type	Spontaneous Human Combustion
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_243c8078	comment	Ringo's flame motif: Momoka's payment to save Yuri from her abusive father was Spontaneous Human Combustion. In episodes 23 and 24, Ringo nearly burns to death, the former due to Kanba's and Sanetoshi's attempt to burn the diary, and the latter due to her using the diary to transfer fate just like Momoka did. Ultimately, it's Shouma who suffers this fate.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode: Episode 6 starts with Ringo catching a fever...
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Occurs constantly thanks to the penguins.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2796448d	type	Rules of Orphan Economics
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2796448d	comment	Rules of Orphan Economics: Kanba actively encourages his siblings not to worry about it, while he gets money from the Takakura parents' terrorist organization.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_285f34c7	type	World of Symbolism
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_285f34c7	comment	World of Symbolism: Unsurprising considering the director. It's uncertain if some things, particularly the Child Broiler (a factory where unwanted children are sent to be forgotten about—i.e., crushed down and reconstructed into generic nobodies), are actual phenomena or are simply some kind of strange representation of something else. The Child Broiler has evidence for being a real place, but at the same time it's such a bizarre concept that it's difficult to suspend such disbelief. The Child Broiler could be a strange metaphor for an orphanage or the emotions of abandoned children.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_294ed981	comment	Ringo's name means "apple." It derives from the Chinese "ping guo" which just happens to sound a bit like "penguin"—and the series generally uses "pingu" for "penguin" instead of the orthodox "pengin".
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: A major theme, happens to most of the characters. Most notably, Mr. and Mrs. Takakura are missing. By episode 12, it is revealed that they are on the run from authorities pursuing them for the bombings 16 years ago, and episode 21 reveals that they were Dead All Along, and Kanba meeting up with them in previous episodes was just a hallucination. Unlike many other instances, the Takakuras were good parents, and took in Himari and Kanba after they were abandoned by their own parents.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Kanba's computer has pTunes and puick Time. Practically everything seems to be made by companies with penguin-based names.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Kanba is apparently an expert lockpick, as can be seen in ep. 3. Where and how he acquired this rather peculiar skill isn't mentioned. Tabuki has some of this going on as well, specially in episodes 6 and 12. And then both 17 and 18 came along... OH WOW.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: During Ringo's Attempted Rape of Tabuki, she disguises herself as Yuri.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Ringo's "Destiny" stamp. As she uses it, she also says "Destiny" aloud. Tons of it in Episode 16 during a flashback sequence, as well. To Memetic Mutation levels.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2eee045f	type	Significant Birth Date
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2eee045f	comment	Significant Birthdate: While the exact date is never stated in-show, Ringo is said to be born on the same day (March 20, 1995) her sister Momoka died/disappeared - the date of the subway bombings headed by the Takakura parents that Momoka tried to stop. As it turns out, Shouma, Kanba, and Masako were also born on that day.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2ef118a2	type	"On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2ef118a2	comment	On The Next Episode Of Catchphrase: "Shall we initiate the Survival Strategy?" Different phrases are not uncommon, but "Survival Strategy" always comes up.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: When he appears to the Takakura brothers in the hospital, Sanetoshi uses the Princess of the Crystal's "Shall we initiate the Survival Strategy?" However, the existence of other Survival Strategies along with other "princesses" like Himari would imply that this particular catchphrase isn't very exclusive in the first place. Another is "Let's share the fruit of fate." Despite it being only stated in the finale, it is what Kanba tells Shoma as he saves him from starvation, Double-H's newest album title (named with Himari in mind, as according to them she cherishes the phrase since it's the same thing Shouma said to her as he saved her from the Child Broiler), and Momoka's spell to use the Fate Transferal, which Ringo does use in the episode (and she learns of from Hikari and Hibari aka Double-H).
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_316e9da2	comment	Tons of it in Episode 16 during a flashback sequence, as well. To Memetic Mutation levels.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3403abfc	type	Mugged for Disguise
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3403abfc	comment	Mugged for Disguise: Natsume disguises herself as a nurse in Episode 10, with the woman she stole the uniform from briefly shown Bound and Gagged inside a locker.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_34a9299c	type	It Was with You All Along
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_34a9299c	comment	It Was with You All Along: Final episode spoilers: The Penguindrum is the life, love and pain shared by the siblings, as represented by the apple that Kanba shared with Shouma, who himself shared it with Himari. When the Princess of the Crystal ordered the brothers to search for the Penguindrum, she only meant for them to find Ringo and thus be able to change fate - the Penguindrum itself was already within their reach, not that they could have known that.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_38325221	type	SexyWalk
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_38325221	comment	Sexy Walk: Possessed Himari has this coupled with She's Got Legs and Sexy Backless Outfit.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_38975db4	type	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_38975db4	comment	There Are Two Kinds of People in the World: Masako's grandfather thought there were only winners and losers in this world. This seems to be a recurring theme in character flashbacks: Yuri's father: The beautiful and the ugly, Tabuki's mother: The talented and the useless. Little!Himari: The Chosen and the Unchosen. Compare with Momoka, who believes that everyone and everything is beautiful.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3a79872e	type	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Female
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3a79872e	comment	Happens again in episode 14, with Yuri drugging up and attempting to rape Ringo after bonding with her. Many times, a female/female rape scene is depicted less rape-like, but in this one it's clear that Yuri is very fucked up too.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3aca1515	type	I Like My X Like I Like My Y
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_3aca1515	comment	I Like My X Like I Like My Y: Something of a Catch-Phrase for Masako's grandfather. All of them involve women, and some of them are rather disturbing.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Himari and Ringo survive and begin to live happy lives, and Yuri and Tabuki seem to be moving on to be better-adjusted people, but at the cost of Shoma and Kanba vanishing from existence.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_430e15e1	type	Stripperific
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_430e15e1	comment	Stripperific: Possessed!Himari loses items of her clothing as she Sexy Walks down the steps in her illusion world. In the first episode, she actually ends up completely naked at the bottom of it, and later she strips at least twice again.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_44bed14c	type	Hostage Situation
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_44bed14c	comment	Masako also seems to be this... for Kanba. It's specially shown via erasing the memories of Kanba's ex girlfriends (after apparently pushing one of them down a stair!) and later staging a whole Hostage Situation both to get Ringo's half of the Diary... and to steal a kiss from him. Though she seems to be less... unstable and more calculating than the standard yandere, and she also has other motives aside of him (re: Mario).
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Ringo is trying to become her dead sister Momoka by coming on and almost raping Momoka's love Tabuki, who is married to the very shady and mentally/physically scarred Yuri, who also loved Momoka and tries to rape Ringo because they're so much alike. And then Ringo starts to fall in love with Shouma whose parents killed Momoka in the first place. The incestuous Love Triangle between Kanba, Himari, and Masako looks like an episode of Leave It to Beaver by comparison.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Shoma provides this in episodes 4 and 7.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_45a177f1	type	Touched by Vorlons
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_45a177f1	comment	Touched by Vorlons: Himari, possibly also coinciding with Demonic Possession.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: #2 gets into some of the most painful and humiliating situations of all the penguins, either through no fault of his own or sheer derp. Fitting as he represents Shouma, who also bears the brunt of many situations.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_47fec0dd	type	Faceless Masses
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_47fec0dd	comment	Faceless Masses: They're big, unmoving, bathroom sign-style figures.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: They're always of the penguins doing something while a Cryptic Conversation regarding the next episode plays over. And in episode 21, another one shows how Kenzan and Chiemi took Kanba into the Takakura family. In episode 22, young Shouma is seen in a cage with a penguin logo that is not from KIGA.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: Starts up once possessed!Himari shouts her "Survival strategy!". Except for episode 11.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_49d59be9	type	SceneryPorn
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Nearly every daytime scene is filled with detailed and lushly-colored backdrops. Not to mention all the fantasy sequences...
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In episode 21, when Tabuki gets stabbed by Yuri's jilted lover.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4b1ca7d2	type	Genre Roulette
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4b1ca7d2	comment	Genre Roulette: the show at first seems like a touching Slice of Life comedy, picks up Ecchi and fantasy content before veering into tragic realism. Then the Science Fiction and Fantasy elements are upped and the characters find themselves in a crime thriller with gunfights and secret organizations...
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4b86a724	type	Getting Crap Past the Radar
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4b86a724	comment	Getting Crap Past the Radar: A little-known gesture of implied rape in Japanese culture involves the Shogun grabbing the waistband of his consort and ripping it off so hard that she spins several circles and falls on the bed with her clothes splayed open. #1 does this to #3 in episode 12, while they're both dressed as a shogun and his lover — and then #3 retaliates by tying #1 up in shibari (Japanese bondage). Made even funnier by Himari making some very... ahem, special comments as she cooks cabbages in the background.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4c66466a	type	Honest Axe
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_4c66466a	comment	Honest Axe: Or rather, an Honest Erotic Novel in episode 17's stinger.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_51b6fe40	type	The Chikan
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_51b6fe40	comment	In episode two, PSAs warning riders not to grope others play on the train right before Ringo's ganguro friend thinks that Shoma was doing just that.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5313c266	comment	Book-Ends: At the start of the first episode, two random kids walk by the Takakura house while discussing Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad. The series ends with the spirits of Kanba and Shouma walking by the house discussing Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: the kitten in episode 19
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Ringo attempts to invoke the romantic aspect of this trope by throwing herself in a pond to be rescued by Tabuki. It doesn't work out like she planned, but the trope is played straight when Shouma revives her with no physical trauma.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5586a766	type	Luminescent Blush
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5586a766	comment	Luminescent Blush: Kanba's whole face turns bright red in episode 10, after telling Himari (in a rather extravagant manner) that any man would be lucky to get a knitted gift from her.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55c0b038	type	Everything's Better with Penguins
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_55c0b038	comment	Everything's Better with Penguins: Penguins 1, 2 and 3 are a major source of the Plucky Comic Relief, and penguins and penguin iconography are pervasive throughout the series
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_564c1500	type	RedStringOfFate
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_564c1500	comment	Red String of Fate: Appears in both ending credits sequences. In episode 10, Masako makes Kanba wear an unfinished sweater that's trailing a long piece of red yarn. This might symbolize the state of their relationship, but then again 1 ends up entangled with the loose end, so maybe it's hinting at a potential romantic angle there, eh eh. In episode 18, #3 knits with a ball of yarn that represents the red string of fate. When Kanba says that he wants to live for Himari, the yarn is shown up close, slowly falling and unraveling.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Zig-zagged with Yuri. Initially inverted, as she is portrayed as a reasonable and mature adult in contrast with Ringo's Yandere antics. After some Character Development, she gets more and more extreme and violent in her quest to acquire the diary, and her love for Momoka definitely reaches Psycho Lesbian territory when she tries to rape Ringo. But overall, she is a sympathetic and mostly reasonable character. Yuri's jilted ex-lover Tsubasa definitely fits the trope.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: The cafe where Kanba meets his parents as revealed in episode 21. It's actually abandoned, has been for a while, and Kenzan and Chiemi's lifeless and rotten bodies are under a table.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: The activation of the Child Broiler, which entails the grinding-up of unwanted children and reforming them as identical, invisible nobodies, and the torching of Momoka's hand in the same scene are announced with generic cheerfulness by a factory floor foreman.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: #2 is quite the glutton.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus/Bilingual Bonus: The newspaper Masako's grandpa is reading in episode 16 contains an English language article about making paper from pachyderm excrement. The opening paragraph mentions a brand of colorful notebooks with animals on the cover as being manufactured with this process, which could mean that Ringo's diary is really elephant dung.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6465928f	type	More Hero than Thou
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6465928f	comment	More Hero Than Thou: The final episode is the equivalent of a ten-car pileup. Himari has been trying to convince Kanba to give up on her so that he won't be killed, Kanba refuses point-blank out of his own feelings of love and obligation and insists on martyring himself, Ringo comes charging in declaring that she'll finish transferring fate despite the life-threatening consequences, Shouma coughs up his half of the Scorpion's Soul-slash-Penguindrum by tearing it out of his heart, Kanba dies saving Himari anyway, and finally, Shouma transfers the Destiny Diary's curse from Ringo to himself and dies declaring his love for her. Himari and Ringo survive.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_64c64cfb	type	Pink Girl, Blue Boy
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_64c64cfb	comment	Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Ringo buys herself a pink toothbrush and Tabuki a blue one.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_65acf9db	comment	Episode 21. All of it. Kanba has a tabloid writer killed for digging in way too much. Somebody is stabbed, and it's either Tabuki or Yuri. Kenzan Takakura is revealed to be already dead as well as Chiemi. Sanetoshi is also revealed to have been involved in the 1995 bombings on the subway, and despite being dead, has every intention to succeed at destroying the world this time around. Shouma finally confronts Kanba. Kanba and Shoma fight. Kanba leaves the family. Himari declares her love for Shoma, but she then leaves him. Himari is still gonna die, so she joins Kanba — to save him. And we see how Kanba, a member of the Natsume clan, was brought into the Takakura family. This is a heavy episode.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: The main Aesop. The world is cutthroat and indifferent but through love and kindness you can fight against despair and make a difference in someone's life.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In episode 6, we find out that Ringo's diary belonged to her dead older sister Momoka and that Ringo's motivation behind fulfilling the diary entries is to "become her sister", which she believes will bring back everything she holds precious and allow it to continue into eternity. Every single episode from ep. 9 on has had some kind of revelation.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: The opening narration in the first episode is narrated once more by Sanetoshi in Episode 12, and again by Shouma in Episode 13.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Sanetoshi Watase's first name means (if the kanji are anything to go by, Sane = truth/reality (present in the buddhist word "shingon" for "mantra", "words of truth"), toshi = clever/shrewd/crafty/cunning/guile...) something like Cunning Truth-teller. Kind of appropriate, one would say. Ringo's name means "apple." It derives from the Chinese "ping guo" which just happens to sound a bit like "penguin"—and the series generally uses "pingu" for "penguin" instead of the orthodox "pengin". And need we mention, well, Yuri?
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6c32ceab	type	Yuri Genre
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6c32ceab	comment	And need we mention, well, Yuri?
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Ringo tries to invoke this with Project M, believing that giving birth to Tabuki's child will bring her broken family back together and allow her to fulfill her sister's destiny. This is portrayed in a negative light, showcasing how crazy she is.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6e6b8ca7	type	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6e6b8ca7	comment	Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: #3 has a pink bow and long eyelashes, but is otherwise identical to the other two penguins. The other girl penguin, Esmeralda, has longer eyelashes and darker coat.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: The penguins eat plenty of things that penguins usually do not. Case in point, 3 eats a wig in episode 2. 2 attempts to eat 3 in episode 4.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Himari, halfway through the first episode.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_71de9062	type	Zettai Ryouiki
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_71de9062	comment	Zettai Ryouiki: Possessed!Himari's outfit has very, very high black boots.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate/Screw Destiny: The show is heavily associated with fate, though which theme it will take in the end is still up in the air. The theme is emphasized further with an in-universe fairy tale with characters that all the main characters correspond to. Will it be derailed, or will it stick to the storyline?
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_73f7975f	type	Jerkass Gods
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_73f7975f	comment	Jerkass Gods: The goddess in Shoma's fairy tale only revived the Himari!sheep so that the characters' suffering can continue.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Survival Strategy" and the "Destination of Fate"."Let's share the fruit of fate" becomes one as well for the last few episodes. The words "never amount to anything" are also used abundantly. Comically when the Princess of the Crystal mocks those she summons, dramatically everywhere else.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7702408c	type	Big Brother Attraction
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7702408c	comment	Motivation-wise, Masako turns out to be one of Nanami Kiryuu what with the unrequited Big Brother Attraction and all. She's slightly more heroic, though.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_771f6307	type	BrotherSisterIncest
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_771f6307	comment	Brother–Sister Incest: Abundant (see All Love Is Unrequited). In short: Kanba likes Himari, Himari likes Shouma. It turns out that they are Not Blood Siblings, and Masako and Kanba are actually siblings, making her obsession with him a case of this as well.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_78410584	type	She Is Not My Girlfriend
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_78410584	comment	She Is Not My Girlfriend: Shouma tells this to Ringo's mother, and Ringo returns the favor to Tabuki and Yuri. Masako-disguised-as-a-nurse refers to Ringo as Shoma's girlfriend in episode 10, and he denies it again. And Yuri asks Ringo again if Shoma is her boyfriend in episode 11, which she also denies.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Masako loves Kanba, who loves Himari who cares for Kanba but doesn't show any sign of reciprocating (although the Princess of the Crystal does). Ringo starts out loving Tabuki, who is an engaged adult and her Big Brother Mentor and naturally doesn't reciprocate. She eventually moves on to Shoma, but Shoma is too guilty about how his parents killed her older sister Momoka to let himself love her back. Tabuki's fiancee, Yuri, would like to stay together to form a fake family that would eventually in her eyes be real, a hope that Tabuki abandons, and their true love was their common friend Momoka... who either died or disappeared from this world. Shoma's friend Yamashita is revealed in a audio drama to be in love with him. Later, it turns out that Himari sees Shoma as her soulmate, with episode 20 showing the two having sweet moments together as children that could be seen as familiar or romantic. The last episode (and the second novel) also shows that Shoma returns his feelings for Ringo, but he has to let her go.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: Shouma's friend Yamashita (only the back of his head is shown), Masako's grandfather (at least half of his face is usually blocked by a paper tag), Momoka (until episode 15), Yuri's father, Tabuki's mother (she's only shown as a painting with too little detail to make out her face), and the "tabloid journalist" (his head is never in frame).
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7cda47b	type	Dying Declaration of Love
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7cda47b	comment	Dying Declaration of Love: In the final episode, Shouma gives this to Ringo before succumbing to his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7e851477	type	BalancingDeathsBooks
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: In the end, Kanba transfers his whole fruit of fate to Himari and Shouma takes on Ringo's punishment allowing both girls to live
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: Episode 9. Episode 10 is horrendously off-model, presumably to compensate. Also episode 21.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Everybody has issues. Ringo, who stalks Shouma's teacher in an attempt to become her dead sister, has it together better than anyone else by the end of the series.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Shouma is a calm pacifist Team Mom and Kamba is more action-oriented, decisive and the Team Dad. Their hair is colored to hammer in the point.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Himari.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: There's strong evidence in the final episode that Penguin #2's constant eating is linked to Shouma nearly starving to death in a cage as a child.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Episode 11. Kanba talks to Masako and then meets Mario. Ringo attempts again to have Tabuki for herself, and it backfires badly again. She explains her full backstory to Shouma and possessed!Himari. Shouma pretty much screams "It's All My Fault" for only later disclosed reasons. The allusions to the Sarin Gas Attack in the Tokyo Metro are laid out at their thickest. Holy shit. Episode 12. Himari dies again, seemingly for real this time, since even the Penguin hat stops working. And the Takakura parents are part of the group which organized the 1995 bombings on the subway. And then the legend of Black Bunnies and Sanetoshi's appearance in the end. Hooo leee sheeeeet. Episode 19. Himari is not a born Takakura, but a Child Broiler prospect victim. Shouma is revealed to be Himari's fated person, specifically because he rescued her from it. Ikuhara's trolling knows no limits. Episode 21. All of it. Kanba has a tabloid writer killed for digging in way too much. Somebody is stabbed, and it's either Tabuki or Yuri. Kenzan Takakura is revealed to be already dead as well as Chiemi. Sanetoshi is also revealed to have been involved in the 1995 bombings on the subway, and despite being dead, has every intention to succeed at destroying the world this time around. Shouma finally confronts Kanba. Kanba and Shoma fight. Kanba leaves the family. Himari declares her love for Shoma, but she then leaves him. Himari is still gonna die, so she joins Kanba — to save him. And we see how Kanba, a member of the Natsume clan, was brought into the Takakura family. This is a heavy episode.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_907a3f07	type	SlapstickKnowsNoGender
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_907a3f07	comment	Slapstick Knows No Gender: The extended sequence in episode 3 that ends with Ringo covered in curry counts.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: During Ringo's Imagine Spots with Tabuki, the characters are drawn like paper cut outs and in a much more 70s Shoujo style.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_91b42301	type	Forehead of Doom
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_91b42301	comment	Forehead of Doom: Himari. In the final episode, she receives a scar on her forehead, which causes her to comb her hair in a way that hides her forehead.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 95, as seen in both the logo and OP sequence. It refers to the series of subway bombings in 1995 that resulted in Momoka Oginome's death.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_926e0d7d	type	Hot Springs Episode
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_926e0d7d	comment	Episode 14 takes the cake. Two cute young women (Yuri and Ringo) bonding and spending a whole day together in an onsen? Oh yes, please. A mentally and emotionally broken Yuri drugging up Ringo, stripping both of them naked and then trying to rape her, while mentally repeating how much she hates herself due to her body issues and loneliness? While we have LOTS of Male Gaze directed at the unconscious Ringo's nude body as she's about to be raped by her dead sister's Unlucky Childhood Friend? Whaaaaaaat?!
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_92a642f1	type	Credits Jukebox
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_92a642f1	comment	Credits Jukebox: 10 ending themes for 26 episodes.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_92cca75b	comment	Even the lyrics can be considered spoilers at least in hindsight). The second OP gives us "Boys come back to me." Both Shoma and Kanba have their existences rewritten so they are reborn as the kindergarten-age boys seen in front of the Takakura household in episode 1. Himari has no memories - at least conscious - of her brothers by the end of the Grand Finale, yet she's moved to tears because of a note they managed to leave her, prompting her to desire what is said in the lyrics. What's more, Himari actually does say "come back to me" to Kanba. Since the title can also be translated "Boy (singular), Come Back to Me," the song may have been named for that very moment. The lyrics to the first OP are told from the perspective of Momoka, immediately before the bomb that killed her exploded.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_95ab81e8	type	Tokyo Tower
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_95ab81e8	comment	Tokyo Tower: Very plot-relevant in this series. Apparently, it didn't always look the way it does now.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9657fe0f	type	Transformation Sequence
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9657fe0f	comment	Transformation Sequence: One that's more than one minute long. Accompanied by a bubbly Jpop version of a stadium rock anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xal2-mlWYo
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: There's a girl who breaks into the crawlspace under a man's house every night while plotting to rape him in his sleep, because her dead sister's diary told her to. She's the most sane character in the series.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9cdef1ef	type	Lovable Sex Maniac
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9cdef1ef	comment	Lovable Sex Maniac: #1 has a more extreme version of his owner's love of the ladies.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The train PS As tend to foreshadow events or themes in the episode they are in. In episode two, PSAs warning riders not to grope others play on the train right before Ringo's ganguro friend thinks that Shoma was doing just that. In episode four, the PSA warns riders that falling asleep may lead to possessions getting stolen. Later in the episode, Ringo passes out after falling into a pond while attempting to get Tabuki to kiss her. Sho ends up stealing her first kiss while giving her CPR. And onto episode five, where the PSA mentions to "borrow responsibly." This time, while he is ON the train, Kanba is seen being handed a good deal of money by an unknown man in an overcoat. The cash presumably helps him pay off whatever is still owed on the siblings' house. As the series becomes more and more of a Mind Screw, the PSA warn riders become more and more aggressive. In episode 15, i.e, the girls are seen ganging up on an innocent white figure, tying him up from the "ceiling", using him as a swing, making a bonfire underneath him., and whipping him. In episode 9 it's revealed that the labels on the bins the penguins were hiding in in episode 1 are marked 'Recyclable' (1) 'Flammable' (2) and 'Non-Flammable' (3). In the end Shouma gets consumed by the 'Cursed Fire' caused by the fate transfer spell. Both of the brothers get seemingly reincarnated as young children whilst Himari survives. In episode 12's flashback, Kenzan calls Chiemi at the hospital and hears that "the baby" is okay, even though Shouma said both he and Kanba were born on that day. They were... but not to the same parents. In episode 9's flashback, Chiemi shields Himari from a falling mirror and her face is permanently scarred in the process. When we see Kanba talking with her at the noodle shop, her face is unblemished.. because she's just a hallucination. There's a flashback to the Child Broiler in episode 9, where Himari first met her soulmate. Careful viewers will notice that the boy's shoes are blue which is heavily associated with Shouma
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Ringo has things going on in her head that don't quite match the flow of normal people's perceptions. And she's the most sane character.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a066d9f3	type	Tempting Apple
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a066d9f3	comment	Tempting Apple: Apple motifs are important from the very first episode and show up everywhere, in Ringo's name and curry to the omnipresent Kiga apples. The fairy tale Shouma tells has elements of the story of Genesis as well. The apples lack some of the evil connotations of many variants of this trope, but seem to represent life and fate, similar to many mythological uses. Kanba offers Shouma an apple in the Child Broiler, and Shouma later does the same to Himari. In both cases the apple comes with an offer and opportunity to live a new life. In the final, Shouma shares the fruit of fate- an apple, rewriting the timeline. Ringo is also an apple, and she holds the key to the curse of the diary and the power to change fate.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: In episode 22. After Masako chases after Kanba only for Kanba to get severely wounded while protecting her, Masako stands up and blames herself for not being able to save Mario, and then goes on to talk about the curse of the Natsume Clan and how Kanba saved her and Mario from being dragged into the terrorist group at a young age. Her final words are her catchphrase - "Gosh, I must crush them soon" - followed by gunfire.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: This show is very fond of turning comedic situations on their heads.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Penguindrum that the siblings have been sent out to find. At first, it's thought to be Ringo's diary, itself an important MacGuffin.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Ringo has one before knocking on Tabuki's door in episode 3. She has another one while on the train in episode 4. And from then on...
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a7f4710f	type	Mood Dissonance
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a7f4710f	comment	Mood Dissonance: The show has some very silly trappings, like the Crystal Princess's shiny, teddy bear-based imagery and the Idol Singer Greek Chorus. The actual storyline involves terminal illness, childhood abandonment, human trafficking, and terrorism.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: When it's up to 4 teenagers to stop a terrorist plot you're fully in this trope. It ties into a major theme of an indifferent society that ignores danger and abandons its most vulnerable people.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ab8e26e2	type	Slipping a Mickey
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ab8e26e2	comment	Slipping a Mickey: Several times. In episode 8, Tabuki and Shouma are both subjected to this via a mont blanc that Ringo prepared and drugged. And then in episode 10, Shouma has this happen to him again when Natsume feeds him a drugged dessert so she can kidnap him. And then in episode 14 Ringo has it done to her by Yuri, who spiked her drink so she can tie up and rape her.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Quite a few episodes have this, but episode 23 is by far the worst offender.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Episodes are called Stations.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ac7b87df	type	Off-Model
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ac7b87df	comment	Off-Model: Even when the budget is far, FAR bigger than Revolutionary Girl Utena's, there are entire episodes that are horribly done. Episode 10 has some very... bizarre-looking faces. Episode 19 gives us Himari and Masako's horribly huge heads, disrupting the drama of their meeting.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_aed59f28	type	Girls Love Stuffed Animals
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_aed59f28	comment	Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Himari certainly does.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_af3ea0e3	comment	The siblings running: Kanba runs in a different direction, symbolizing how Shouma and Himari are soulmates... but even more so, his upcoming Face–Heel Turn and abandonement of the Takakura family.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b00d5a3c	type	Badass Grandpa
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b00d5a3c	comment	Badass Grandpa: Deconstructed with Masako's grandfather, a master swordsman Large Ham corporate CEO obsessed with manliness and power. His misguided attempts at getting frail Mario follow in his footsteps made him a decidedly abusive individual and destroys his relationship with his grandchildren.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: In a series that is otherwise pretty much devoid of sex-based fanservice, it seems Himari and the two mascot girls (Hibari and Hikari) are this, particularly in the first ending.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b0cd3349	type	Fridge Brilliance
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b0cd3349	comment	To be more accurate, it only works once per person. As revealed by episode 20, Shouma shared half of his life (or if you will, apple) with Himari years before episode 1. This is why the Princess never has Shouma transfer part of his life to Himari - he already has.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents/Parental Neglect: A major theme in the show; the majority of the older characters have a screwed up childhood because of them.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b486877f	comment	In episode 10, Masako makes Kanba wear an unfinished sweater that's trailing a long piece of red yarn. This might symbolize the state of their relationship, but then again 1 ends up entangled with the loose end, so maybe it's hinting at a potential romantic angle there, eh eh.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b4f5a440	type	WidgetSeries
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b4f5a440	comment	Widget Series
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Masako's grandfather insists on eating blowfish that he prepared himself.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b956ebdd	type	Tron Lines
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_b956ebdd	comment	Tron Lines: The Princess's illusion starts with subway station gates made out of orange and blue lines. The Kiga Group's base is also decorated with a grid of green Tron Lines.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ba0a370c	type	Color Failure
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ba0a370c	comment	Color Failure: Kanba briefly suffers this in episode 10 after realizing that he unintentionally insulted Himari by saying that he doesn't like homemade sweaters... while she's knitting him a scarf.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_baa2a78d	type	Knife Nut
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_baa2a78d	comment	In that same episode, either Yuri or Tabuki (if not both) get a similar treatment when they find out the truth about Kenzan and Chiemi. Right after that, A MIB attacks them with a knife, and all we see is the blood that falls on the floor... Then, it turns out it was just Yuri's spurned lover Tsubasa in for revenge. Probably. Oh, and Tabuki survives.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Happens over and over again with Ringo's diary, but as long as everything technically works out she isn't too bothered.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_be7ff283	type	YouGottaHaveBlueHair
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_be7ff283	comment	You Gotta Have Blue Hair
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: In typical Ikuhara fashion, the show becomes more and more surreal as time goes on, and it becomes difficult to tell when events are being depicted literally or symbolically. At times, Sanetoshi seems to be offering apples—but then they're medicine ampules in other shots. A similar phenomenon occurs with Sanetoshi's Creepy Twin tagalongs and a pair of black rabbits. Similarly, in episode 15, Momoka and Yuri meet on a grassy hill to discuss how Momoka can change Yuri's miserable fate. In the next shot, they're sitting in chairs on concrete or asphalt painted with subway maps. Anything related to the Child Broiler The final episode, which is back to endgame-Utena levels of symbolism.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c042eee9	type	Invisible to Normals
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c042eee9	comment	Invisible to Normals: The mysterious penguins that the siblings receive.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: Ringo reads a magazine at a bookshop that suggests this in episode two. She goes on to try it in episode three, musing as she prepares it that curry must've been the first cooked meal and served this purpose to boot. Too bad Yuri was also making curry for him... In episode 11, Shouma is seen cooking stuffed cabbage and his sister Himari notices it's a dish he only cooks when he intends to ask someone for forgiveness. She then speculates that he's had a fight with Ringo and says "I hope Ringo-chan likes cabbage!". In a subversion, Ringo don't get to taste it, as she knocks the dish down because when Shouma and Himari found her, the kid was in the middle of a huge Heroic B.S.O.D.. Invoked again in episode 17, since Shouma and Kanba's takoyaki is so good that not even the Princess of the Crystal can resist their taste.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c0e3994b	type	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c0e3994b	comment	Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Ringo beats up Shoma a few times, though as Character Development kicks in she stops doing it.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: Ringo doesn't face any consequences for her attempted rape of Tabuki. Made even worse as her plan was to get pregnant and force him to raise the child with her. In real life, if a man is raped and the woman falls pregnant the aftermath can be horrendous, with the man being forced to support the child he was forced into creating. Even Shouma doesn't criticise Ringo all that much for her actions.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: The Episode 13 ending is one for Ringo as she resolves herself to stop trying to be Momoka and be her own person instead, then Episode 14 have her get rejected by Shouma and then almost raped by Yuri. In episode 22, Ringo recieves half of Momoka's diary from Yuri, only to have it burned to pieces in episode 23. And then she's left to die in the flames. Oh, and Kanba burns the other half as well.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c5249c79	type	Nice Hat
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c5249c79	comment	Nice Hat: Himari has one. It seems to facilitate possession by whatever entity is offering to extend her life. Mario also has another.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: The Takakura siblings resemble their parents quite a bit, particularly Himari to their mother Chiemi and Kanba to their father Kenzan. Rather curious, considering Himari was adopted by the Takakuras after being rescued from the Child Broiler, and Kanba himself was a member of the Natsume clan also taken in by the family.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Ringo is a very cute girl, indeed, but seeing her in a black negligee when she's about to rape a completely drugged Tabuki so she can be the mom of his child in episode 8 is all but ACK. It's not much better in episode 11, when she gets the guy to "love" her via a Love Potion, then backs off the sex deal... and Tabuki is so Not Himself that he starts making creepy Nightmare Faces... Episode 14 takes the cake. Two cute young women (Yuri and Ringo) bonding and spending a whole day together in an onsen? Oh yes, please. A mentally and emotionally broken Yuri drugging up Ringo, stripping both of them naked and then trying to rape her, while mentally repeating how much she hates herself due to her body issues and loneliness? While we have LOTS of Male Gaze directed at the unconscious Ringo's nude body as she's about to be raped by her dead sister's Unlucky Childhood Friend? Whaaaaaaat?! Episode 15 has a quite bit of it, what with all the nudity of a young girl like a loli!Yuri who is about to be heavily scarred and possibly raped by her father. The ending card for episode 17◊ features a very handsome-looking Tabuki, with his shirt open and his glasses off. The bad thing? He's actually leaning his head on a little girl's lap. And while we don't see her face, the little girl is pretty obviously Momoka. Aaaaawkward.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: The hat usually gets on Himari's head this way.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: So many that they needed their own page.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c7e7529c	type	Five Stages of Grief
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c7e7529c	comment	Five Stages of Grief: Upon learning of Himari's condition in the first episode, Kanba goes through the first four stages in about a minute.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_c868a42a	comment	Tabuki is shown to have some whiffs of this as well, as of the end of episode 17 and the whole of episode 18 — he actually tries to kill Himari to punish the Takakura family for the death of Momoka. Again, he has an extreme Freudian Excuse.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Sanetoshi's Creepy Twins haven't been named in the show yet. The credits call them Shirase and Souya.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: Kanba apparently wears pink boxers.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Episode 5. Ringo vs. Himari's possessor. PUNCH, Ringo wins. Sorta.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cd83fa5b	type	Spoiler Opening
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: The opening turns out to be quite spoilerrific: Ringo's flame motif: Momoka's payment to save Yuri from her abusive father was Spontaneous Human Combustion. In episodes 23 and 24, Ringo nearly burns to death, the former due to Kanba's and Sanetoshi's attempt to burn the diary, and the latter due to her using the diary to transfer fate just like Momoka did. Ultimately, it's Shouma who suffers this fate. Tabuki's bird and elevator grate: Tabuki kept a pet bird as a child. A similar elevator is used when Tabuki decides to dish out a punishment upon the Takakuras for their hand in the bombings that killed Momoka. Sanetoshi and medicine ampules: Sanetoshi poses as a doctor and gives Himari said drugs to keep her alive after Kanba's life force is no longer enough. The black penguin: Her name is Esmeralda and she's owned by Masako, who is conducting her own Project M and Survival Strategy. Glass shards: A visual used to represent the victims of the Child Broiler. They show around Himari because she was this close to becoming a victim as well, but was rescued in the nick of time. During an out-of-reality moment in episode 24, both Himari and Shouma walk through a myriad of these suspended in midair to reach Kanba, letting the shards cut them in the process to represent the "punishment" the two are both willing and destined to go through because of Kanba's actions. Penguin-shaped "rose petals": Actually stylized blood spatter used in the aforementioned punishment by Tabuki. Also seen in the Grand Finale.. The factory fan: The "Child Broiler", where unwanted children are sent to be forgotten about. Momoka saved Tabuki from here, and young Shouma took Himari as well.. The siblings running: Kanba runs in a different direction, symbolizing how Shouma and Himari are soulmates... but even more so, his upcoming Face–Heel Turn and abandonement of the Takakura family. Masako's Ass-Kicking Pose in the first OP: It is the last stance, or stand she makes while she acts as sacrificial bait to get a heavily injured Kanba away from the police. Even the lyrics can be considered spoilers at least in hindsight). The second OP gives us "Boys come back to me." Both Shoma and Kanba have their existences rewritten so they are reborn as the kindergarten-age boys seen in front of the Takakura household in episode 1. Himari has no memories - at least conscious - of her brothers by the end of the Grand Finale, yet she's moved to tears because of a note they managed to leave her, prompting her to desire what is said in the lyrics. What's more, Himari actually does say "come back to me" to Kanba. Since the title can also be translated "Boy (singular), Come Back to Me," the song may have been named for that very moment. The lyrics to the first OP are told from the perspective of Momoka, immediately before the bomb that killed her exploded.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: What Ringo suspects about Yuri in her jealousy-fueled Imagine Spot in ep. 7.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Three teenagers living in a rundown shack after their parents go on the lam as wanted terrorists and the only adult who shows any interest in their situation is an uncle who stops asking questions after Kanba comes up with enough money to cover the mortgage. (Though considering it's Kanba, the uncle likely knew that it simply wouldn't work — Kanba is that stubborn.) In general, abandoned children end up in the Child Broiler.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Shouma tries to tell Himari's doctor and later Ringo about the powers of the penguin hat, with no success until Ringo sees that Himari's life really does rely on the hat's presence.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Episode 21 is occasionally desaturated to reflect the characters' moods. Also, a dying Himari in episode 24 is similarly desaturated.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d6901d5a	type	Dress Hits Floor
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d6901d5a	comment	Dress Hits Floor: Ringo at the beginning of episode 8.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d72b162f	type	Technicolor Eyes
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_d72b162f	comment	Technicolor Eyes: When Himari is possessed, she has magenta eyes and pinkish sclerae. Same goes to Mario. Sanetoshi has magenta eyes, but white sclerae.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_dcb9c541	comment	In episode 11, Shouma is seen cooking stuffed cabbage and his sister Himari notices it's a dish he only cooks when he intends to ask someone for forgiveness. She then speculates that he's had a fight with Ringo and says "I hope Ringo-chan likes cabbage!". In a subversion, Ringo don't get to taste it, as she knocks the dish down because when Shouma and Himari found her, the kid was in the middle of a huge Heroic B.S.O.D..
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: The pink- and blue-haired girls who appear on subway signs every episode turn out to be childhood friends of Himari's with an important role in her backstory.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e19e68	type	Cruel Mercy
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e19e68	comment	Cruel Mercy: As Himari aptly puts it, living was the punishment
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: Episode 4, sort of. It involves Ringo's Shojo-tastic daydreams and three songs.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The "dark bunnies", who in Shoma's fairy tale are an actual pair of black rabbits. In the real world, they appear to simply be black-haired Creepy Twins. In episode 23, they are revealed to be the containers that sealed Sanetoshi away 16 years ago, which have been reunited and allowed Sanetoshi to manifest in reality. Similarly, penguins. The three penguins are representative of the owner's personality, and the penguin hat is revealed in episode 23 to be one-half of the containers which sealed Momoka, courtesy of Sanetoshi.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e2e80e71	type	Ass-Kicking Pose
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e2e80e71	comment	Masako's Ass-Kicking Pose in the first OP: It is the last stance, or stand she makes while she acts as sacrificial bait to get a heavily injured Kanba away from the police.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e40f6792	type	Design Student's Orgasm
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e40f6792	comment	Design Student's Orgasm: The aesthetic of the series.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e540d1e6	type	Camp
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e540d1e6	comment	Camp: Turns into this a few times, Ala Utena and Star Driver.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The red and blue-haired girls look like Tsubomi Hanasaki and Erika Kurumi untransformed. When Himari has her hair up in Odangos, it makes her look like Doremi Harukaze. Himari, Hibari and Hikari resembled Hazuki, Aiko and Doremi when they were younger. There are several Utena ones: Sanetoshi Watase is a dead-ringer for Souji Mikage. Alternatively, he can be seen as a mix of Mikage and Akio Ohtori. Masako Natsume's hair and face make her look a lot like Juri Arisugawa. Motivation-wise, Masako turns out to be one of Nanami Kiryuu what with the unrequited Big Brother Attraction and all. She's slightly more heroic, though. In the creepiest way possible, Yuri's abusive father seems to be an expy of Touga's rapist stepfather from The Movie. The subway cartoon versions of Double-H◊ look unquestionably like Utena Tenjou and Anthy Himemiya. Renjaku has several things in common with Anthy, including Scary Shiny Glasses, her way of standing, purple hair that's actually a lot longer than it initially looks, and being Beautiful All Along.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e621b159	type	A-Cup Angst
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: Ringo, though it only comes up as a minor note in her introduction. (And considering her design, it's a sort-of informed flaw.)
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e68d9ddd	type	Not Blood Siblings
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e68d9ddd	comment	Not Blood Siblings: In episode 19 we learn that Himari is actually not Kanba and Shouma's blood sister, but a little girl rescued from the Child Broiler and adopted into the Takakura family. The next episode reveals that Kanba is likewise adopted, with episode 21 explaining exactly where he comes from. As a corollary... in episode 21 Masako explains to Himari that yes, Kanba is her older brother (later on revealed as a Half Identical Twin, and that Kanba left alongside their Disappeared Dad to protect them from shame. Yeah.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: They're bear-shaped and called Teddydrums. These teddydrums are used to commit terrorist attacks by Kanba and Sanetoshi
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: Quite literally. It fits the trope so perfectly, you'd think Ikuhara reads this wiki.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: For the sake of convenience, Kanba labels the penguins with a permanent marker. 1. is his, 2. is Shouma's, and 3. is Himari's.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: The two fights between Yuri and Masako in Episode 14 and 17. Episode 17 even has feathers and rose petals fly about while the two engage in a verbal battle and later begin shooting at each other with weapons.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Zig-zagged. After episode 21, Kanba has a Heel–Face Turn that breaks up the family and transforms his relationship with Shouma into this. Largely played straight, with the older Kanba as a Well-Intentioned Extremist Cain and the broken cutie Abel Shouma working in opposition. It's also subverted, as Kanba reveals they are Not Blood Siblings when the breakup happens. And they don't end up defeating each other exactly.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ecedfef7	type	Conspicuous Trenchcoat
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ecedfef7	comment	And onto episode five, where the PSA mentions to "borrow responsibly." This time, while he is ON the train, Kanba is seen being handed a good deal of money by an unknown man in an overcoat. The cash presumably helps him pay off whatever is still owed on the siblings' house.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: A deliberate decision by the staff was to make all the food look delicious.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f4cc32ce	type	Creepy Twins
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f4cc32ce	comment	At times, Sanetoshi seems to be offering apples—but then they're medicine ampules in other shots. A similar phenomenon occurs with Sanetoshi's Creepy Twin tagalongs and a pair of black rabbits.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: In episode 8, Ringo serves Tabuki a drugged montblanc and attempts to rape him so she can bear his kid and finish her Project M. Shoma's interference and Yuri showing up at home stop her, however. And in episode 11, Ringo drugs Tabuki with a Love Potion that makes him lust for her, but when she backs off she barely escapes being in the receiving end of this at the hands of a Tabuki who is very much Not Himself. In episode 14 Yuri attempts to rape a drugged Ringo because she looks a lot like her lost love, Ringo's dead sister Momoka. It is ambiguous if Shouma got there in time to stop it; her lines at first implies that he didn't, but later she contradicts it..
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f97b5d33	type	Shoo Out the Clowns
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f97b5d33	comment	Shoo Out The Penguins: The invisible Penguins don't disappear completely when things become darker- but they notoriously interacted and are seen less with their humans partners as time passes.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f9f2c33	type	RunningGag
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Penguin 2's hate of insects, which it always exterminates on the spot with a handy insecticide bottle from Hammer Space. Possessed Himari always has Shouma drop through the floor for talking back to her. Shouma never, ever manages to save Himari or Ringo from trouble, typically either coming in too late, or falling over at a crucial moment. The only exception happens in episodes 19 and 20, where he successfully rescues Himari from the Child Broiler, and when he takes Ringo's curse into himself in the Grand Finale.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: "Triple H" stands for the first names of its three members. Then there's Ringo (apple) and Momoka (peach blossom). Strangely there doesn't seem to be a theme to the twins, Shouma and Kanba. Although that's to be expected, considering Kanba was adopted.
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Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ffb1df90	type	Perpetual Poverty
Mawaru-Penguindrum / int_ffb1df90	comment	Perpetual Poverty: The Takakura house is very run-down, and there's the possibility that the siblings will be separated and taken in by others. Their concerned uncle is trying to get them to sell their old house so they can live a little more comfortably in a smaller place, but Kanba will have nothing of it. He does receive an apparently large sum of money in episode 5, and we later learn that it comes from the KIGA group, Kenzan's faction. Kanba is apparently not only still in contact with them, but can order them around, including fetching him large sums of money, as seen in his deals with Sanetoshi.
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