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Yakumo Fujii is just an ordinary high school kid... with [[Parental Abandonment|a runaway mom and a missing anthropologist father]] and the resulting need to hold down a part-time job as a "waitress" in a gay bar. Then a mysterious [[Anime Chinese Girl|Tibetan girl]] named Pai shows up, claiming that his now-dead father sent her to Yakumo to "help her become human." Yakumo is not inclined to believe his dad's last message, to the effect that Pai is the last of a race of [[Third Eye|three-eyed]] demons called the Sanjiyan Unkara... until a thief accidentally unleashes her "pet," a giant bird-monster that goes on a rampage ending in Yakumo's death.

 

 

Created by Yuuzo Takada, the author and artist of [[Blue Seed]] and [[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku (Anime)|All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku]], 3x3 Eyes (pronounced Sazan Aizu) ran in Young Magazine from 1987 to 2002, was collected in forty manga volumes of which nine were translated by Dark Horse Comics, and spawned an OAV series adapting the first five. Plans for a 2003 TV series were scotched by Japanese censorship laws.

* [[Mons]]: Juuma (Beast Magic) creatures, apparently created by Benares as combat familiars; however, they're mindless servitors rather than fighting "partners". Bonus points for actually being able to show up as cute little critters in certain situations.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: [[Fun Size|SD]] Pai performs mansai (classic Japanese comedy) right in the middle of a highly serious arc.

* [[Multinational Team]]: Pai is from Chinese Tibet, Ling Ling is from the then-British colony of Hong Kong, and Yakumo Fujii is from Japan.

* [[My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: Has a justification here: A Wu's power increases when his Sanjiyan is threatened, so Yakumo and Benares keep inadvertently powering ''each other'' up. This develops into something of a cat-and-mouse game.

* [[Not So Above It All]]: Parvati takes a liking to nightclub life {{spoiler|after spending 4 years as an amnesiac Pai.}}

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Parvati again. Especially {{spoiler|after the [[Lotus Eater Machine]] incident and soon afterward when Yakumo's soul is taken from her. Yakumo himself had to make sure it was her ''crying on his shoulder while hugging him'' instead of Pai. Quite jarring given that readers have only been shown how aloof she is up to that point.}}

* [[Our Souls Are Different]]: Wu retain their personalities and humanity (if they had it to begin with) despite having had their souls removed and "stored" in their Sanjiyan partners. One could argue that they're operating their bodies by remote control.

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Again, the Wu.

* [[Tsundere]]: Parvati, Uukai.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: the <s>Nine</s> Three Dragon Generals, Uukai, D.D., and Talisman (nine is clearly too many for a Q.M.S., so their numbers were brutally cut in their first appearance).

* [[You Don't Want to Die A Virgin Do You]]: {{spoiler|Yakumo and [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Parvati]] [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/3x3_eyes/v38/c001/19.html slept together] before Parvati leaves for the humanization ritual.}}