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A fourteen-episode TV series, adapted from [[All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku|the manga of the same name]] which features a [[Lighter and Softer]] tone, focusing more on slapstick comedy than action.

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: There's a ''lot'' of these for [[Akira Kamiya]] here, thanks to Kyuusaku's re-imagining as a [[Lord Error-Prone|bumbling]] [[Justice Will Prevail|ally of justice]].
* [[Alertness Blink]]
* [[Artificial Riverbank]]: Kyousuke goes to one to angst in episode 4, only to be subjected to several of Ryuunosuke's classmates practicing their karaoke.
* [[Attention Whore]], [[Rich Bitch]]: Chieko Shirakaba.
* [[Beyond the Impossible]]:In ''TV'', Nuku rides her bike so fast that she winds up [[Time Travel|15 years in the past]] when she finally stops.
* [[Boss Subtitles]]: Used for just about every single character in most early episodes.
* [[Class Representative]]: Nuku-Nuku's best friend Futaba. We later find out that she also has a number of sisters, each of whom is ''also'' a [[Class Representative]]. Every last one of them is ''extremely'' controlling and obsessed with organization and order.
** They actually carry out arguments with one another using their whistles.
* [[Discontinuity Nod]]: The first episode opens with Kyusaku [[Ham and Cheese|expositing dramatically]] about the new backstory. Then, Ryunosuke pops up [[Medium Awareness|holding tapes from the series' two previous incarnations]], [[Deadpan Snarker|sighing]] "That's not the way ''I'' remember it happening... but, whatever."
* [[Filk Song]]: Pretty much anything thought up by Eiichi Ikenami. Though the words are always different, it's always the same tune.
* [[Girl Posse]]: Hidariko and Migiko are this for Chieko. The posse is expanded during the valentine's episode, where the one-off characters Ueko and Shitako make an appearance to help them steal all the chocolate in town.
* [[Festival Episode]]: Doubles as a [[Time Travel]] episode.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Subverted. Nuku-Nuku manually directs a missile to prevent the [[Colony Drop]] in the final episode, but later turns up no worse for wear.
* [[Idol Singer]]: Spoofed with the "Speedy Girls Squad".
* [[Justice Will Prevail]]: Kyuusaku.
* [[Living Prop]]: Miyuki Miyuzawa, who mostly just stands around reading books and not saying or doing much of anything {{spoiler|until the second [[Musical Episode]], where she's revealed to have been the one playing the main character in the film being made by everyone.}}
* [[Lord Error-Prone]]: Kyusaku tends to misinterpret mostly harmless Mishima projects as intentionally evil ventures.
* [[Mars Needs Women]]: Spoofed. An alien mouse-woman comes down to Earth to profess her love for Yamagata-sensei. She eventually ditches him when she (eventually) realizes that he doesn't have a tail.
* [[Monster of the Week]]: At least for the first half.
* [[Musical Episode]]: Two. The first centers around a Mishima-sponsored singing contest, while the latter uses Nuku-Nuku's class working on a student film as a [[Framing Device]].
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Miyuki's.
* [[Occult Detective]]: Rie Shibata is an amateur version. Her [[Boss Subtitles|character subtitle]] is "Occult Maniac".
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Kyusaku has several, where he shows up attempting to be Nuku-Nuku's [[Mysterious Protector]].
* [[Psychic Powers]]: The Speedy Girls display some form of telekinesis.
* [[Running Gag]]: Pretty much 50% of what happens in [[Once an Episode|any given episode]].
** Chieko says something haughty, followed up by Migiko and Hidariko exclaiming [[Catch Phrase|"That's right! That's right! Miss Chieko is exactly right!"]]
** Eiichi breaks out into a [[Filk Song]]. "Lalalala...~"
** Rintarou says something cool and aloof; with or without a "Hmph".
** Futaba goes into full-on [[Class Representative]] mode, insisting that everybody follow her orders and panic in an organized manner.
** Yakumo Oizumi says something to the effect of "[[For Science!]]" or "[[How Unscientific]]".
** Ryuunosuke refers to his father as "Mr. Kyusaku" and is corrected.
** Yamagata-sensei is [[Amusing Injuries|hilariously injured]] by something, followed by [[Phrase Catcher|any given person who saw what happened]] commenting that "Yamagata-sensei has been in another unfortunate accident".
** Nuku-Nuku mispronouncing Chieko's last name wrong each time she see her.
* [[Shout-Out]]: This series spoofs several popular anime, such as when [[Harmless Villain]] Hell Mishima decides to hold a singing contest after seeing a rather transparent knockoff of [[Macross 7|Basara Nekki]] on TV and being inspired. Nuku-Nuku takes off to school every morning on her bike while yelling [[Great Mazinger|"SCRAMBLE DASH!"]]. Another instance is Kyusaku's high school invention, the [[Getter Robo|Geta Robo]] (which forms from, you guessed it, his [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|geta sandals]]).
** He then later upgrades to Geta Robo G, and fifteen years later, Shin Geta Robo.
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* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: "Combat Arisa".
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Nuku-Nuku tends to say this whenever dispatching a [[Monster of the Week]].
* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Hidariko and Migiko. Their names literally mean "Left Girl" and "Right Girl". The valentine's day episode gives us a second set (who also look like the first, but without moles) named Ueko ("Above Girl") and Shitako ("Below Girl").
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Spoofed with Rintarou Shimazaki, whose [[Boss Subtitles|Character Subtitle]] is "Nihilistic Pretty Boy". He's almost never taken seriously.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The opening scene of some episodes show the episode taking place in 2013 or 2014.
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Chieko to Nuku-Nuku.
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Kyuusaku and Akiko met as children at a [[Tokusatsu]] stage show, were together their whole lives, and eventually wound up getting married.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Hell Mishima and Kyusaku seem to think that they're in a dramatic toku show when they're really in a slapstick comedy.
* [[Yes-Man]]: Well, women: Hidariko and Migiko.

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