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Nichijou

A 2011 anime by Kyoto Animation, *Nichijou*, or "My Ordinary Life", is basically the Japanese equivalent of Regular Show.

Based off of a 2006 manga, the anime mostly focuses on Yuko, Mio, Mai, Nano, the Professor, and Sakamoto. Random and wacky events, most of which stretch out over a long period of time, ensue.

Its closest inspiration-of-sorts is Azumanga Daioh.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: In Japan. It's obvious when Kadokawa allowed an international Blu-ray release of the show to happen, since they found the risks of reverse-importing it minimal. Sure enough, Funimation happily released it on Blu-ray... and found that sales of the *American* releases went up sky high, selling more than their other comedy anime licenses. And this was *before* it ever received an English dub.
* Dubless Series: The first time around, due to Bandai Entertainment closing their doors. It took until 2019 for Funimation to give it a dual-audio release. No dubs in other European-originated languages exist, either.
* The Colbert Effect: The Crunchyroll streams (until Crunchyroll lost the streaming rights) were fairly popular in the West. It proved enough for Funimation to sell a lot of copies of their sub-only release. The sales themselves proved enough for Funimation to re-release it with a dub.
* Padding Filler Z: Despite each segment being only five minutes long, Kyoto Animation does a rare good example of this.
* The Kanade Effect: The NHK-E broadcasts cut the anime down to *12* episodes.
* Rushed Pacing: Since each segment is only five minutes long, this can sometimes crop up.
* Financial Failure: The anime's ridiculous budget, even by KyoAni standards (the anime's budget easily rivals that of *JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*, an *action* anime), and the resulting low sales, led Kadokawa to decide that the risks of an international Blu-ray release are minimal.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Within Japan; see The Kanade Effect above.
	+ Also completely straight with the manga, despite Yen Press being a likely candidate.
Stupidly Angry

Not all short-tempered characters are smart.

This is where the very dumb character has a short temper and they are easily getting angry for some reason. They can always yell at people, throw stuff at them, throw tantrums, and of course, kill someone. The other things this character can do besides getting angry are scaring children and destroying stuff.

## Examples

* Go!Animate
	+ Boris The Teeth Guy ALWAYS falls into this trope.
	+ Karen
	+ Boris in the IT-Saac Studios, SolitaireJoker, and JonsCartoonShow videos. This is the series is where Boris is always abusing Caillou.
	+ The Morrison series
		- Jessie's real parents
		- Corey, Mandy's dad, from the first movie.

* Homer Simpson from The Simpsons, he likes to strangle Bart.
* Angry Video Game Nerd can ALSO act like this. Played for laughs, though.
* Caillou in his original show. Caillou gets angry because he doesn't want to eat vegatables, keeps getting annoyed by Rosie, and throws a temper tantrum for NOT going to the circus
Gurren Lagann

An anime by Aniplex and Gainax for TV Tokyo (yes, *that* TV Tokyo) that basically amounted to a Saturday-morning cartoon.

It chronicles the adventures of Simon and how he came to hold a drill core, so that he can one day "pierce the heavens".

Ran for 27 episodes in 2007.

Hiroyuki Imaishi, the series' director, would later go on to found Studio Trigger and direct Kill la Kill.

## Tropes

* The Colbert Effect: This series earned Imaishi some respect in the anime community. Prior to that, he was just another unknown who did little at Gainax.
	+ This and *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* before it also put Aniplex of America on the map after years of licensing very obscure anime titles.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Between Canada and the US. Also between the US and LatAM (a rarity for something that airs on the channel space of Cartoon Network in the US). Averted with TV Tokyo, considering Japanese over-the-air networks don't qualify for this trope.
* Dubless Series: At least when ADV had the license. Bandai rescued the license from ADV and produced the dub.
* Financial Failure: Best get to finding Bandai's release for cheap, because Aniplex will charge through the nose for their release.
* Popularity Killoff: The series is still well-known in America, but it's not as popular as it was when Bandai had it due to Aniplex's high prices.
* Size Changing: If a drill can grow to a size comparable to the observable universe, it truly can "pierce the heavens".
* Obscurity, much?: The manga outside Japan. The anime isn't nearly as obscure, but it's not too popular thanks to the high prices of any Aniplex release.
The Principal's Office (TV series)

A TruTV comedy/reality series that aired between 2008 and 2009, it featured dramatic (and hilarious) situations between high school students and principals. It is summed up as Innocent punishment: The Reality Show (since there's already an Innocent punishment: The Show and an Innocent punishment: The Anime).

Usually, the outcome... doesn't end well for the students. It can range from detention to suspension (and in at least one case, expulsion).

If you're still a high school student, the series is good information about what *not* to do in school.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Despite being from Cartoon Network's sister channel (in this case, TruTV), E! Television has shown a few clips of the series.
* Innocent punishment: The Reality Show. If we could list every known punishment the students get, this list could get long to the point where it could get its own page.
* Obscurity, much?: Maybe not as much as, well, Chloe, but Turner Broadcasting (and Leftfield Pictures) seem to forget about the clips on YouTube.
* Serious Issues Require Serious Moods: Most of the principals shown in the series use serious tones, but some of the students lose their temper.
* Super Evil: What the students did, to the faculty's eyes. There's a reason why it's called "The Principal's Office".
* Short-Lived Reality Show: Ran for only 6 months at best. It's unknown how many episodes were produced at the time of cancellation.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: Like most reality series, the series didn't have a fitting conclusion. The series just ended with yet another punishment for a student as a result of violating school conduct.
* Downwards Funnel: *Can* happen, but the most prominent example was the case "Un... Happy Meal". Not only did they pay six dollars for food from McDonald's, they snuck it into a closed campus, which meant that they gave the principal lunch, *and* they ended up serving Saturday school. For *two Saturdays*.
* Full of Lies: The students originally do this before confessing.
* One-off character: Most of the offenders, but some have occasionally returned.
* Everybody needs to be healthy: Soda machines aren't allowed to be in the school hallways in *any school* in New Jersey because it's not nutritious. This may not be true for other states (depending on where you live) but states that do allow those kinds of machines on campus usually have schools where *diet* sodas are put in said machines instead of regular sodas, for the exact same reason.

TBA.
Rule of Caffeine-free

Not many people need caffeine, so as a result, they don't need caffeinated brands like Coca-Cola, Pepsi or Mountain Dew.

So what happens?

Caffeine-free drinks, that's what happened.

This trope was birthed out of Crush in the 1910s, and may probably go back to the Earliest Example *Schweppes* in 1783.

Keep in mind that this list is not to mention Sprite or 7-UP or any other soft drink that's caffeine-free by default.

## Caffeine-free versions of caffeinated soft drinks

* Coca-Cola: Caffeine-free Coke, Caffeine-free Diet Coke, and Caffeine-free Coke Zero. Caffeine-free Diet's the most popular version.
* Pepsi: First tried using *Pepsi Free*, now marketed as Caffeine-free Pepsi and Caffeine-free Diet Pepsi. They also tried Crystal Pepsi in the 1990s (subsequent relaunches don't fall under this trope since the drink was reformulated with caffeine before the third relaunch).
* RC Cola: RC 100. Oh yeah, and Diet Rite since the 1980s.
* Mountain Dew: Caffeine-free Mountain Dew and Caffeine-free Diet Mountain Dew.
* Sunkist: Just about any of their soft drinks other than their signature orange flavor, Solar Fusion and Citrus Fusion.
* A&W: The bottled version of their root beer.
* Sun Drop: Caffeine-free Sun Drop and Caffeine-free Diet Sun Drop.
* Dr. Pepper: Caffeine-free Dr. Pepper and Caffeine-free Diet Dr. Pepper.
* A lot of store-brand colas have a Caffeine-free Diet version.
* Cheerwine: Caffeine-free Diet. There's no demand for a caffeine-free variant of the HFCS-sweetened Cheerwine.
* Barq's: Diet Barq's. And the Coca-Cola Freestyle Barq's.
* 7-UP has *two inversions*; the first was 7-UP Gold, and the second was dnL. Both of those are no longer around.

As such, the only major caffeinated brands not to introduce a caffeine-free version are Coca-Cola's Pibb Xtra and Mello Yello.
Werewolf Terror

Werewolf Terror is what happens when a seemingly-ordinary person suddenly becomes a werewolf. Complete with sharp teeth, sensitive hearing, and being vicious towards anyone. Alternatively, it can be a case of an otherwise-innocent-looking wolf suddenly becoming fearsome.

If the werewolf happens to be pretty (or cute) after transformation, that's a case of Shoujo Jump (unless you're referring to the *Twilight* saga).

## Examples

* Inverted in *Wan Wan Celeb Soreyuke! Tetsunoshin*, being about dogs (who are closely-related to wolves). Seto can actually turn them human... or into something else entirely.
* *Wolf Children* features Yuki and Ame, who often can't control their wolf sides.
* *Doraemon*: Several episodes focus on Doraemon and/or Noby becoming a werewolf. Ms. Nobi becomes one herself in one episode.
* Inverted in *Dragon Ball*. In fact, a lot of Weekly Shonen Jump series have werewolves in them. *Beast Children*, being a sports manga, is not one of those.
* Parodied in *Renkin 3-kyu Magical? Pokaan*; Liru can turn into... a puppy dog. Just by looking at round objects, but not the full moon itself.
* Also parodied in *OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes*. The closest to an actual werewolf the trio got was K.O. becoming a puppy dog.
* Another Cartoon Network example is *Summer Camp Island* (this time playing it straight): Get bit by the Werewolf Queen and you too can become a werewolf... just don't lose control when you do.
* Somebody at late-night Télétoon also likes werewolves, by seen by this trailer for The Bizarre Stories of Professor Zarbi.
* Despite not even being a werewolf in the slightest definition (he was a wolf to begin with), the Corruptor War Wolf often causes mayhem around ComNet.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving

"Give instinctively, generously, and like you have a year-long endless supply of sprinkles at the world's biggest ice cream convention. Or maybe my imagination just ran away with me."— **Clarice Lispector**

The phrase "the gift that keeps on giving" means there are many benefits of a gift, and these will continue over time. It is a person, object, place, or thing that is constantly full of surprises and never fails to impress, giving happiness, joy, or providing lots of entertainment.

The gift that keeps on giving is meant to continually invoke the feelings people get when they receive a present. It implies any present that gives endless enjoyment, such as a stuffed rabbit, glitter diamond, or a children's magazine subscription would each be better than a gift that only provides happiness once, like a bouquet of rainbow flowers. The phrase is especially popular with different companies and some of the most well-known tropes using the phrase include the following examples.
Insist on the X

Sometimes, you try to persuade viewers to try or buy something, or even to stop somebody from hurting a friend or pet.

Trope Namer was Mist Twst's slogan "Insist on the Twist". Not to be confused with That's a Capital Idea, where the first idea that comes to mind is carried out.

## Examples

* The Trope Namer was Mist Twst and their slogan for all of two years (now a redirect to the Sierra Mist website).
* The Loud House has Lincoln and every one of his sisters who are not afraid of Frank trying to persuade Leni (and later, the exterminator) to not kill Frank. She escapes, and even Leni tried to persuade the exterminator to not kill that specific spider.
* Commercials tend to do this.
	+ Specifically, those including slogans for the product they are trying to sell. One example is the obscure toothpaste brand "Ipana".
* The Coca-Cola Company once revamped their Coca-Cola formula and tried to market it as "New Coke" to persuade Coke fans to get the new drink. The new formula didn't sell well and was only moderately successful at the Pepsi Challenges, leading to Coke bringing the old formula back as "Classic Coke" six months afterward.
* The end of Gravity Falls has Soos try to persuade Stan Pines not to shut down the Mystery Shack. Stan listens, and makes Soos the new manager of the Shack.
	+ Technically, he only made Soos manager of the Shack because there would otherwise be no one to run the place.
* Most of the time, Yokoi tries to get Seki to pay attention in class. She either fails to do so, or gets involved in his childish games.
* "*Teen Titans Go! Your new favorite show!*" ...except it probably won't be past season one.
* This even got an episode of a Nickelodeon (technically Nick Jr.) series completely banned in Australia; it's a bad idea to teach children in Australia "spiders are harmless" when in Australia, they're very deadly. This episode was skipped in fear of a rising death toll from spiders in Australia.

TBA.
Close Enough

What happens if you take Cartoon Network's Regular Show, give it a more mature tone, and make the main characters humans.

Close Enough is an HBO Max show with a rapidly-growing cult following, mostly because the show is from the same guy who created *Regular Show*.

The show's first season was released on HBO Max in 2020, being greenlit for a second season the same year.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Appropriateness Scale: Level 3. The show was originally ordered by TBS and TBS as a superstation hasn't aired any children's programming since it split from WPCH-TV.
* Obscurity, much?: At the time it was greenlit, the cult following of the show was fairly small and the remaining fans of J.G. Quintel knew him solely for creating and working on *Regular Show*. It has since gained a rapidly-growing cult following, and may or may not fall into Pop culture in the future.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: As of 2020, averted. While Cartoon Network Studios is involved, this was originally set to air on TBS; as of 2020, it was moved to HBO Max, a corporate sister to CN.
* This gave us inspiration: The character designs are similar to the character designs from Regular Show; justified, considering this *is* from the same guy who created Regular Show.
* Downwards Funnel: Just like J.G. Quintel's previous series, the entire show is this *in spades*.

TBA.
Point of discontinuation

A once-popular product (or product that isn't popular it all) is announced to become discontinued at one point, or the makers might hint at it's discontinuation. May lead to a re-introduction.

Alternatively, television networks can also cancel programs.

Obscure examples overlap with Obscurity, much?.

## Examples

### Consumable products with their own page

* Coca-Cola products
	+ Sprite
* Pepsi

### Television networks with their own page

* YTV
* Cartoon Network

### Examples for consumable products

* Doritos Quest, basically Mountain Dew-flavored Doritos, became this sometime after the promotion.
	+ It wouldn't be the last time they combined; there were also *Dewitos*.
* Squirt, a soft drink that has been around *11 years before Sun Drop*, suffered this in many Southern regions:
	+ In North Carolina, it became the Caffeine-free Sun Drop of the region prior to the actual introduction of Caffeine-free Sun Drop.
* Dr. Pepper/7-UP used to not bottle their own drinks. They licensed to Coke and Pepsi (they always licensed 7-UP to Pepsi, though). The deal expired sometime around 2003, allowing Sierra Mist to go nationwide. This, however, caused many soft drinks to be discontinued.
* Sun Drop is the #1 soft drink created in the South. Many Southerners consume Sun Drop every single day, and many consider it their favorite drink. It's easier to list the *unpopular* variants:
	+ Caffeine-free Sun Drop has it's own region-specific section on Coke's own page.
	+ Cherry-Lemon Sun Drop isn't even carried in some areas where Caffeine-free Sun Drop *is*.
* 7-UP examples:
	+ DNL (7-UP turned upside down) came in a clear bottle, was colored green, and contained caffeine. All this, despite 7-UP having a slogan before introducing it called "Never had it. Never will".
	+ 7-UP Gold was a spice-flavored beverage, and it, once again, contained caffeine. It has since been discontinued.
	+ So many 7-UP examples exist, it's hard to keep track of all of them; Wikipedia does a better job of listing all the examples.
* A&W Root Beer zig-zagged this with its various flavors and variants. The last bottled A&W product containing caffeine, their cream soda, now contains no caffeine at all.
* Sunkist used to zig-zag this with its Grape variant in specific regions. One season, Grape is available, the next, it's not.
	+ Solar Fusion and Citrus Fusion.
* Zig-zagged with Crush. There are few areas where you could find a Crush variant that *isn't* orange or grape flavored.
* Also zig-zagged with Schweppes, whether it be their ginger ale or anything else. Schweppes almost always licenses their *ginger ale* to Pepsi, though their other products are mostly licensed to independent bottlers. For many places, the latter could be this.
* Ever since Aldi stores promised "No certified synthetic colors", Summit's sodas have been getting "clearer", but especially Orange Plunge and Grape Plunge. Yes, the original formula was discontinued. When the same chain remodeled their existing locations beginning in 2017, even *that* wasn't available anymore.

TBA.
Obscurity, much?/Home media

The world of home video is filled with DVD and Blu-ray releases (as of 2023). Then there's these failed physical formats...

A few restrictions for this page:

* Home video formats that were particularly successful shouldn't be documented here (for example, the VHS format, despite being discontinued, was actually pretty successful prior to the introduction of DVDs; same with Betamax which was also popular during its earlier years, just not as much as VHS).
* With the exception of legacy examples (documented before January 1st, 2023), the home video format in question must be discontinued without much of an audience before being added to the page.
* Please note that this only documents failed home media formats, *not* home media *distributors* (basically, the people who press DVDs and distribute them, content and all) or shows released to physical media but in an incomplete format (that's another trope entirely). For example, while Tele1st (documented below) was a TV subscription service, the blank tapes you needed to record the broadcast were their own home media format.

* DIVX, and laughably so. For the cost of a DIVX-compatible system and a DIVX disc, you get to watch... absolutely nothing as of 2001, as this is one of the few *enforced* examples that do not involve a ban.
* Flexplay is also laughably bad, because like DIVX, it *also* no longer works, although unlike DIVX, this happened because there is a chemical compound that reacts to the disc's surface, making the back of the disc turn black. *Also* a case where its obscurity is enforced by the company making it rather than the government. Is it any wonder there is no such thing as rental-only formats anymore?
* Game Boy Advance Video fared better compared to DIVX and Flexplay (especially since it's not a rental format), but since the format is discontinued thanks to Nintendo launching another system...
* LaserDisc to the general public. You know it's obscure when the only mainstream work mentioning it in the 2010s was *Regular Show*, which uses pop culture from the 70s/80s as plot points in some episodes anyways.
* VideoNow, a former video-playing system released by Hasbro. Most of the shows featured for the system were from Nickelodeon (specifically, their Nicktoons); however, some non-Nickelodeon shows, such as Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and a couple of series from 4Kids Entertainment were also released. While some of the shows released went on to become popular, the VideoNow format itself fell into obscurity.
* Of all obscure home video formats, the videotapes used to record broadcasts from ABC-owned Tele1st (yes, ABC once owned a subscription network before they were bought by Disney) were the most laughable of all. The kicker? Tele1st wasn't even *designed* to be home media; it was meant to be a subscription TV service, and the only reason we documented it on this subpage rather than on the television subpage is because Tele1st required the use of 4-hour tapes to watch what they provide. It got so bad, is it any wonder only 4,000 households (all based in Chicago) subscribed to it? Oh, and most of what Tele1st ran *also* fell under this trope.
Point of discontinuation/YTV

YTV has cancelled the Canadian runs of so many programs, it's amazing that the network has its own Point of discontinuation page.

## Examples

* Bionix is the biggest thing of YTV history to play this straight. First off, YTV began cutting its airtime, and even cut down its airtime for CanCon. They started running shows such as Captain Flamingo and Being Ian in the block's former timeslots, and even stopped Naruto from moving on to Shippuden, and Bleach from moving on to its next saga. In February 2010, YTV even cut the block altogether to make room for live-action shows.
* Kid vs. Kat only lasted two seasons and the season two finale only solved part of the plot.
* Ever since Nickelodeon Canada launched, YTV has focused more and more on CanCon, and they even acquired some Discovery Family series.
* Redakai was dumped from YTV and never even reran on Nick Canada. It was eventually seen again on Cartoon Network Canada, but not until Corus bought over Teletoon Canada, Inc. and started moving some YTV content to Teletoon.
* Edgar & Ellen and Three Delivery only did 26 episodes each. The similarities? They were co-productions with Nicktoons.
* Rated A for Awesome didn't last long on YTV, presumably due to the hatedom of said show in the US.

TBA.
Wave, Listen to Me!

*Wave, Listen to Me!* is a Japanese manga by Hiroaki Samura about Minare Koda, who started out working at a restaurant in Sapporo before becoming a late-night amateur radio talk show host, all because of a rant that was broadcast over-the-air.

An anime by Sunrise was produced, with Funimation licensing the anime adaptation.

As spoilers will be present, it's best to read the manga or watch the anime before reading the rest of the page.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: A rare case where the fans were *thankful*. In Japan, the series streams on Netflix and Hulu, which charge monthly subscription fees just to watch the show (or any other). But in North America, Funimation has it on its streaming service, where episodes become free the week after they're aired and/or dubbed. As for the anime licensee, Bandai Entertainment was not around to license the anime, so this trope was justified in that case.
	+ Averted with the manga, with Kodansha licensing it in both Japan *and* North America.
* Rage Over the Airwaves: How the main story begins; after hearing her voice on the radio, Minare ends up going over to the radio station and doing a rant about her then-recent Super Breakup.
* You Are Fired: After her rant which was broadcast over-the-air, all Minare had to do was wait until the summer festival was over in order for this trope to happen. Thankfully, she did get another job, albeit in the radio business this time.
* Super Breakup: This is what triggers Minare's Rage Over the Airwaves in the first episode.
* Downwards Funnel: Minare goes through a Super Breakup, unleashes her Rage Over the Airwaves, and gets fired from her daytime job because of it. If anything good happened to her during that time, she at least was able to secure a career in the radio broadcasting industry.
* Loads and Loads of Irony: Minare switches industries from working at a restaurant to working in radio all because of her Rage Over the Airwaves.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: How did Minare manage to avoid getting arrested after her Rage Over the Airwaves? Granted, her rant didn't come completely without consequences, but still.
Edgar & Ellen

Edgar & Ellen is a series of children's books by various authors, all ghostwriting under "Charles Ogden".

To put it in perspective, it's A Series of Unfortunate Events meets Home Alone.

YTV commissioned a TV series in 2006, and has aired every episode.

The story is about two fraternal twins named Edgar and Ellen (hence the title), who prank the people of Nod's Limbs- that is, when they're not pranking each other.

The series is pretty dark for a children's book. Thus, there's a reason why the Edgar & Ellen TV series have a TV-Y7 rating in America.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Subverted in America, since Nicktoons co-produced the TV series.
	+ Unfortunately, this is played straight in Australia, Portugal, and Latin America.
* That's a Capital Idea: When Edgar said that if what the mailman did to them happened "to other people in Nod's Limbs", he would be out of a job, guess what they scheme up...
* You Are Fired: ...their scheme ended up a success and the mailman is fired (though at the expense of their getting to prank the new mailman as often).
* Obscurity, much?: Both the books and TV series, though the obscurity level may differ...
	+ The books are completely obscure so the ghostwriters under the pen name "Charles Ogden" stopped writing them.
	+ The TV series, however, has been reran into the "completely obscure" section in its native Canada; only those who watched Nick Canada between 2009 and 2016 got to see it. In the US, however, the TV series is semi-obscure at best.
* Innocent punishment: A candidate for its own page.
* This gave us inspiration: The TV series is, at its worst, a darker counterpart to *What's with Andy?*.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: In almost every other TV series that tackles the effects of pirate radio, the pirate station is usually ended when the people behind it learn their lesson and/or are arrested for it. But in the episode "Radio Free Nod's Limbs", the pirate station is ended because of the owners' (read: Edgar & Ellen's) own follies. Why did no one in Nod's Limbs try to bust them for owning an illegal radio station?
	+ Unanswered questions can form if you read the original books.

TBA.
Deadman Wonderland

Deadman Wonderland is a manga/anime series that has been running from 2008 to 2013.

The series' backstory was that 3/4ths of Tokyo sank into the ocean.

Flash forward years later, where Ganta, an escapee from the earthquake, is met by the mysterious "Red Man". His classmates are massacred and he gets turned into one of the deadmen- people who can control their own blood. Ganta ends up sentenced to Deadman Wonderland.

Deadman Wonderland's form of currency? Cast Points (CP), stored in a Cast Card (which works similar to a debit card in that the funds are automatically taken out upon use). These points must be used for candy, a temporary cure for the poison injected into death row inmates; they either take it, or they die.

The anime series was aired in 2011.

## Tropes

* Innocent punishment: Ganta ended up in Deadman Wonderland all because of the Red Man.
* Financial Failure: And it's a bad thing to be one for a death row inmate. They *need* to take their candy in order to live.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Was on Funimation Channel before Adult Swim aired the anime.
* Obscurity, much?: It depends on the version:
	+ The Tokyopop releases of the manga are fairly obscure, especially since Viz has rereleased the volumes Tokyopop initially released.
	+ The anime helped the series become a cult hit, to the point where the manga was eventually re-released. (It's worth noting that this only applied in the US; the anime is still fairly obscure in its native Japan.)
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: The anime wrapped up solving few plot threads.
Shuriken and Pleats

With the Meiji Restoration came the end of the way of the Samurai. Which meant that the once-feared ninja were forced to continue working in secret.

Female ninja Mikage once was a bodyguard for a rich person... but then, said rich person was killed, his final orders to her being to attend school like a normal high school girl.

From Vampire Knight mangaka Matsuri Hino, this 2-volume manga kept the story short and to the point.

Viz Media has a page about it here.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: Short run (only 2 volumes), only a bare mention on Wikipedia (on the mangaka's own page there), and it's without an anime. That sums up how it's at least semi-obscure. Contrast Chloe, which is even *more* obscure to the internet than this manga.
* Friendly Ninja: Mikage.
* Only One Setting: Volume 2 takes place entirely in Japan.
* Innocent punishment: A house on fire usually won't end well for whoever Mikage works for at the moment.
* Japanese Academy: The school Mikage attends.
* Gainax Ruined the Ending: If you thought volume 1 ended concluding the story... then you can read volume 2 to see it continue.
* Samurai Jack Timeskip: It takes place sometime after the Meiji Restoration, after all.
* Shonen Beat: As per Matsuri Hino, shonen influences are a part of the manga's story.

TBA.
Obscurity, much?/Namco

*Note*: This page only documents Namco-developed/published videogames released before Namco's merger with Bandai. Videogames released by Bandai Namco will be documented on the general videogame page.

* *Dig Dug*. While a cult classic to Namco fans, outside of ports and remakes the *only* time Namco acknowledged the franchise since the original game (at least for home consoles) was in *Pac-Man World*.
* Likewise, *Galaga* and *Galaxian* haven't been acknowledged in Namco-developed games since their original releases outside of ports/remakes.
* All *Pac-Man* games outside the original game and *Ms. Pac-Man* are cult hits at best, and completely forgotten at worst. Then again, this applies to ports that aren't close to the original version- the Atari 2600 version in particular fared so badly it and the *E.T.* game brought about the Great Video Game Crash of 1983, and it's only remembered *because* of that.
	+ Speaking of which, not too many people (especially people who didn't own an SNES or a Sega Genesis) have played the console-exclusive sequel *Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures*. While not completely obscure (it's more of a cult classic among *Pac-Man* fans), it's one of the most obscure games in the franchise.
		- Even if the sequel isn't as well-known as the original, the SNES version is far better remembered than the Sega Genesis version
		- And as if this trope wasn't bad enough for the game already, it's rare to see a video related to *Pac-Man 2* on YouTube with at least one million views. And the kicker? This is *Pac-Man*, one of Namco's biggest success stories, that we're talking about.
* Namcot. Despite being Namco's company to create games for consoles, people outside of Japan didn't get the memo. Most of Namcot's games never made it outside Japan and the ones that did (the Famicom/NES ports of *Pac-Man* and *Galaxian* as well as the console-exclusive *Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures* included) played up the fact they were developed by Namco while scrubbing all evidence they were ever released by Namcot in the overseas versions.
Mikecrack/Characters

This is a page for describing characters in the fictional series *Mikecrack*.

## As a whole

* **Author Avatar:** Each character is based and named after the youtuber portraying them.
* **Badass Adorable** Each in their own way.
* **Badass Crew:** The Compas battle tons of evil beings from Creepers to .exes.
* **The Squad:** The Compas.

## Mike

The eponymous talking dog, mascot of the Mikecrack channel.

* **Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal:** Mike only wears a green cape he's never seen without.
* **Ambiguously Human**: Ambiguously Canine, actually. He has the ability to talk, has two known superpowers and in several videos, but especially, in the TV show, he questions where his family is and doesn't want to talk about his past, Raptor even questions what he is.
* **Badass Cape:** Never seen without his green cape.
* **Cheerful Child:** He is very cheerful, happy go lucky and just loves having fun.
* **Civilized Animal/Talking Animal:** He talks and also walks in two legs, but still has his dog instincts and generally does dog things, like chewing paper and play with cats.
* **Iconic Item:** His green cape.
* **Nonhuman Sidekick:** To Trolli.
* **Team Pet:** To the Compas.

## Trollino

Mike´s best friend and owner.

* **Does Not Like Shoes:** Always barefoot.
* **Cool Crown:** He wears a small golden crown.
* **Grumpy Bear:** He can be rather short-tempered and has low patience with Mike´s antics.
* **Sleeves Are For Wimps:** He wears an open vest without shirt.

## Timba

Trollino´s best friend.

* **Delinquent Hair:** While he´s not a delinquent and is a friendly guy, he has a mohawk-type comb.
* **Cool Shades/Sunglasses at Night:** He always wears sunglasses.
* **Lazy Bum:** There are even two songs dedicated to his habit of sleeping through the day.
* **You Gotta Have Blue Hair:** Has bluish/greenish hair.
Danganronpa

Danganronpa is a franchise that originated as a Japan-only game in 2010, later exploding across the West due to its popularity.

Both games have its own set of characters. Some of the characters from the first game go on to become members of the Future Foundation.

In 2013, an anime series aired on Japanese television.

## Tropes

* Gainax Ruined the Ending: Can be done deliberately should you not take the fall for Kirigiri. However, this was only present in the first game and for a brief moment in the anime.
* Innocent punishment: Seemed like Naegi was going to get this until Alter Ego rescued him.
	+ As for the Bad Ending, Kirigiri *did* get one.
* Financial Failure: Junko Enoshima is the closest thing to a *human* one in the first game.
	+ Monokuma also counts. How would a despair-induced Financial Failure *not* get a thousand baseballs to *brutally murder* Leon Kuwata or enough ingredients to cover Teruteru Hanamura to deep-fry Teruteru tonkatsu... in a *volcano*?
* Obscurity, much?: The PSP version of the game is completely obscure outside Japan. The Playstation Vita version, as well as the rest of the games, not to mention *both* anime series, fall into Pop culture.
* Adult-oriented Aesop: The main conflict is Hope vs. Despair. How could there *not* be one?
* All Clues are Evidence: While each murder case is treated differently, all of the clues count as evidence for any trial.
* That's a Capital Idea: When Naegi suggests to Maizono that they swap rooms, she accepts. She made a big mistake, as she was killed by Leon Kuwata that very night.
* Everybody needs to be healthy: Surprisingly averted, as nobody ever comments on Yamada or the doppelganger Togami about this.
* Japanese Academy: Hope's Peak Academy (Americanized to Hope's Peak High School in the English dub of the anime).
* Different voices: The English translation of the first game used a different voice actor for Toko Fukawa and her alter-ego Genocider Sho.
	+ The entire English anime cast save for Bryce Papenbrook, who reprised his role as Naegi. Well, in the first anime; the second anime brings back almost all the cast from the second game.
* Last Minute Plot Switchover: After the first game, everything prior to the third game had something to do with the conflict of Hope vs. Despair.
* Who Framed Who?: Every single class trial. If someone falsely accuses someone of being the blackened, everyone *except* the blackened gets killed.
* Dropping Scale of Awesome: At first, Hope's Peak seems like an awesome school... but then we see Monokuma...
* Insist on the X: Monokuma insists that whoever is the last one alive in Hope's Peak gets to "graduate". In other words, the Bad Ending means no graduation for anyone.
	+ Likewise, Junko Enoshima insists that she be killed if she lost the class trial of Mukuro Ikusaba.
* Size Changing: In the second anime (specifically the Despair Arc), this happened to Nagito Komaeda's dog. You all know what happened afterwards.

TBA.
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil

A Disney XD original series by the otherwise-unknown animator Sandro Corsaro. Most of the episodes were directed by Chris Savino (of *The Loud House* fame).

The titular character is a Kid Daredevil who hangs out with his best friend Gunther, who helps him out on his stunts.

Kick also visits the Food n' Fix occasionally, where Wade is almost always there to help him out.

The series ran from 2010 to 2012 in the United States.

## Tropes

* Kid Daredevil: It's obvious.
* Innocent punishment: Inverted in "Stumped", where Billy Stumps called Kick out for wrecking his truck... only to say it was awesome and asking him his name.
	+ Brad got sent to reform school because the general-esque teacher said he was out of control (mostly due to Brad wanting to send Kick to that same fate).
* Dropping Scale of Awesome: When the principal threatens to have Kick expelled, Kick imagines skateboarding over the school property. When the principal threatens to have been homeschooled too, Kick imagines staying home with almost nothing to do. However, the most boring part is that the principal threatens to have Kick homeschooled by Ms. Chicarelli, in which Kick imagines having to learn math. *With Mrs. Chicarelli purposely scratching the chalkboard with her chalk*.
* I hate filing paperwork: The principal hates paperwork to the point where he tells Kick that he knows how the principal hates paperwork. Especially since the paperwork refers to expulsion.
* Item of Transformation: Cheetah Chug. Too much can turn one's mind into that of a cheetah temporarily. However, there's no known physical changes...
	+ Anything saying "Fizzies" combined with Cheetah Chug can turn the Food n' Fix into a mess. Despite this, Wade got promoted.
* Who Framed Who?: The janitor framed Kick since he was tired of cleaning up his messes.
* Animal World: The edutainment show-within-a-show in "Stumped".
* That's a Capital Idea: Kick thinks that Gunther could find the key, and Gunther thought it was great. It worked.
* All Energy Drinks are Cheetah Chug: Name one energy drink in the show that isn't Cheetah Chug.
* Stunt Double: Scarlett, to the main character of Teena Sometimes.
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: While it's obvious Disney Channel reran the show as part of its *Disney XD on Disney Channel* block in the US, in some countries, the main channel for the show was Disney Channel, not Disney XD. Of course, this is justified in the countries that do not have Disney XD.
	+ As of 2019, reruns in India are exclusive to the action-only Marvel HQ. Also justified; Disney XD shut down over there and Marvel HQ is its replacement.
* You Are Fired: Ms. Chicarelli not only gets fired in one episode, she also has to serve detention.
	+ Pulled on the janitor after he framed Kick in another episode. Of course, this doesn't stick.
	+ Subverted when Wade is told he's fired... up and ready to go; he's promoted instead. In fact, much of the episode revolves around Wade being promoted for any reason the boss thinks can boost the Food N' Fix company's profits.

TBA.
"Drawn Together" Casting

Once upon of time in the kingdom, a young highwayman knight constantly outsmarts the Lord King's men, to the Chamberlain's fury and to the delight of the Princess Melissa, he orders her to keep away from the knight. He then hits upon a scheme to lure the knight into town and kill him by marrying Melissa to the Great Duke and imprisons her in a tower, with a this.... silly and dumb..... cartoon...... duck? Wait? What is this silly comedic Funny Animal in here? He is NOT supposed to be here? He is supposed at the animated comedy short, not here. He should be here! Damn it.... oh, sorry about that.

This trope is where the live-action characters and/or animated cartoon characters from different genres or different media co-appeared as a cast. A notable mark is how each character manages to be a parody of a specific style of animation.

Comedic Sapient, Dramatic Human is the sub-trope of this trope.

## Examples

* Drawn Togehter is the name troper.
* Kappa Mikey: The show has a Western cartoon style boy enters the world of Japanese anime and joins the anime cast
* Magic Crusade: The game is a homage to both Disney and SEGA. It's a battle of 2D animation, 3D animation, stop-motion, puppets, anime, and live-action.
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit: It's the movie where live-action humans and anime Toons co-exist
Aggretsuko

Aggretsuko is a character created by Sanrio (yes, the same company that made Hello Kitty and Jewelpet) for an adult audience.

The title character is a red panda who relieves her stress (and, believe it or not, rage) by drinking and singing death metal at a karaoke bar.

A series of shorts were created based around the title character.

## Tropes

* Cartoons Mean They're For Kids: Surprisingly averted, considering what Sanrio did in the past.
* This gave us inspiration: The anime looks like a gender-flipped Stressed Eric set in Japan with no internal forces to kill Retsuko.
* Animal World: Level 5. An adult-oriented variant, too.
* Obscurity, much?: The 2016 anime outside Japan, as per usual for a Sanrio franchise not named *Hello Kitty* or *Show by Rock!!*. Despite this, the BBC did a news article on Aggretsuko at one point. The franchise as a whole would go on to avert this.
* Keep on Debating You: Some fans of the character debate on whether or not Retsuko is singing screamo music or death metal. However, it's often confirmed that Retsuko is, indeed, singing death metal.
* What's with Andy's Unanswered Questions?: How could Retsuko unleash her inner rage at the worst times imaginable? This became rare in the Netflix series.
* Only One Setting: Most of the TBS shorts took place at either the workplace or at Retsuko's home. Averted with the Netflix series.
* Different Lyrics per Episode: Retsuko sings a different death metal song every episode of the 2016 series, with few exceptions. *Every* episode this happens in the TBS series, it's the same melody. The Netflix series changes up the melody *and* the lyrics.
* Innocent punishment: Averted, but ironically not inverted; Retsuko doesn't get fired despite her actions and rage. On the other hand, her actions *are* questioned by a few.
* Pop culture: To anime fans. At first, it was just notebook paper and T-shirts coming to America, but as of 2019 this trope is full-blown to the franchise. Plush, t-shirts, *everything* but physical media. It's no surprise that Retsuko's even popular among the furry fandom.
* You Are Fired: Averted. Retsuko is never fired despite her tendencies to sing death metal from time to time. She doesn't even get kicked out of *OTMGirls*, to the point where the only reason she left was because she was almost killed for transforming the group into a death metal-pop band.
* I Renounce My Position: At the end of season 3, Retsuko resigns from the OTMGirls (the idol singer group she joined earlier in said season) after a stalker tried to kill her.

TBA.
Kappa Mikey

Kappa Mikey is Nicktoons' most successful show, and is MTV's first global acquisition.

The show is about Mikey Simon, who goes to Japan to star in Lily-Mu.

The first thing Mikey sees is anime cliches, but he can't do any of these, due to being drawn in an American style.

See also My Life Me, Teletoon's answer to Kappa Mikey, except without any American-drawn characters.

## Tropes

* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: In Canada, it aired on Teletoon, despite it being a Nicktoons series.
* Obscurity, much?: Semi-obscure at best. The commercials, however, are completely obscure.
* All Japanese People are Anime Characters: Think about it. Larry Schwarz thought this idea up as early as 2000, so he intentionally wanted the Japanese people in the show to have animesque looks.
* One-show redemption: Larry Schwarz previously created the obscure *Leader Dog* and the near-universally hated *Tortellini Western* (both for Nicktoons/Nicktoons Network) long before Kappa Mikey, so this show bears this trope for Animation Collective.
* Fauxnime: It's a series set in Japan. Mikey's the only character that isn't this as he's from America (never mind some examples of this trope come from America).
* "Jetson, You're Fired!": Ozu threatens to fire the entire Lily Mu cast *frequently*.

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David Bowie

You're face to face with the man who sold the world.

David Bowie was an English musician who started recording while the British Invasion was still going strong.

His first album was full of fanciful music and the occasional pop song, but Bowie is most known for the type of music that would later give us the works of Sweet, the Time Warp, and every 70s song by hard rock band Kiss.

Sadly, Bowie died after the release of his final album, and unrelated pop superstar Prince would die three months later. Both men were very popular.

## Trope Namer for

* The Man Who Sold The World: Refers to anyone who sold an expensive (or in some cases irreplaceable) map or globe of the world.

TBA.
TruTV

TruTV (formerly CourtTV) is a channel dedicated to reality television. Like any other channel owned by Turner Broadcasting, it's a sister channel to Cartoon Network. The network was launched in 1991, broadcasting nothing but legal trials. That changed as of 1999, when it began broadcasting Cops (which had nothing to do with trials, but still mentioned the U.S. legal system). As of January 2008, it took on the TruTV name.

After a string of low-rated series within its first few years under the new name (the most notorious being The Principal's Office), TruTV cancelled their version of *Jail* in 2010. In 2011, it began showing NCAA games (which made more sense on CBS, TBS, and TNT than on TruTV) and later built upon the success of Impractical Jokers.

And then a new head stepped in towards the start of 2014, and the network was (once again) overhauled into the *New* TruTV (basically just TruTV with more comedy programs).

When it *was* CourtTV, it was somewhat similar to today's Investigation Discovery.

## Tropes

* Obscurity, much?: All its low-rated series, obviously.
* Point of discontinuation: This being a reality TV network...
* Cartoon Network Isn't Teletoon: Some of its shows had clips air on other networks.
* Reality TV
* Exaggerated Court Procedures: It launched as a channel dedicated to court trials.
* Rampant Crime: CourtTV shows these that have been stopped by police.
* Demoted to Secondary Brand: CourtTV was demoted to a secondary brand upon the relaunch of the U.S. version as TruTV.

TBA.