Arashi no Yoru ni: Difference between revisions

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]

* [[Feuding Families]]: Wolves eat goats. Goats flee from wolves. They can never be friends.

* [[Fan Vid]]: ''Arashi no Yoru ni'' is [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=arashi+no+yoru+ni+amv&aq=f very popular] for making anime music videos, especially of the [[Fan Yay]] variety. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MulpQxbKttY Here], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etFHtwF06hY try] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZj5Z1UKrJE some] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTk8-e_xzN8 video] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORrZgNYe2lQ links].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsCHDWGvNu0 And we watch the moonrise on the hilltop, you and I~]

* [[Green Hill Zone]]: For the goats, every place away from Pleasant Mountain. It's beautiful, there's lots of food, and goats can be killed in broad daylight.

* [[Happily Ever After]]: In the film. Averted in the original novels where {{spoiler|Gabu eventually starves to death and Mei dies of exhaustion}}.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Averted twice. When Mei and Gabu are on their [[Death Mountain]] and slowly starving to death, Mei offers himself to be eaten by Gabu so that Gabu may live. Gabu, rejecting this, goes out to dig for grass to feed Mei, but confronts his wolf pack and decides Mei may be worth dying for, and attacks them. Gabu survives the fight and an avalanche, albeit with amnesia.}}

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Lots of it. This is a ''very gay'' film. But it's also for children, so there are no explicit sexual overtones that aren't wrapped heavily in [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|symbolism]] (such as [[Carnivore Confusion]]).

* [[Identity Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|After Gabu has a [[Tap On the Head]] (well, an avalanche), when he and Mei are next reunited, Gabu doesn't remember who he is or where he came from, except that goats are his absolute favorite food.}}

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Mei and Gabu finding out where each other lives and imagining what it must be like to be there.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Mei and Gabu. {{spoiler|No one else is happy with it.}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Mei and Gabu's mothers have both already died. Gabu's father is mentioned once, but otherwise fathers are nowhere to be seen. Averted in the books, where Giro is Gabu's father.

* [[Parental Substitute]]: Mei was raised by his grandmother after his mother died.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Subverted at Mei and Gabu's first meeting; it's ''because'' the pair aren't specific about what they mean by "food" that they can get along... at first.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: The goat elder. {{spoiler|And in abstract, his objection to Mei befriending a wolf is reasonable in context -- if the wolf is not absolutely trustworthy to all the goats, it's a grim threat to their survival.}}

* [[The Reveal]]: When Mei and Gabu meet for the second time, they see each other for the first time and realize they are different species. Eye-widening [[Body Language]] follows.

* [[Rule of Romantic]].

* [[Say My Name]]: Through the course of the movie, Mei and Gabu speak/yell the other's name in times of peril and/or uncertainty.

* [[Secret Relationship]]: Gabu and Mei conceal their association from both their kin.

* [[Suicidal Gotcha]]: {{spoiler|Twice. First when Mei and Gabu suddenly decide to jump into the river together to be swept far away from the suspicious eyes of their kin. Then again when Mei and Gabu are fleeing their wolf pursuers in the forest and Gabu makes a brave leap he's never been able to make before.}}

* [[Take a Third Option]]. {{spoiler|Either act as [[The Mole]] for your kind, or have Mei be devoured by Gabu? Naaaaaah, just jump in the flash-flooded river!}}