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[[File:Arashi_no_Yoru_ni.jpg|link=Male Gaze|frame|This movie has slightly more [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|sexual tension]] than [[The Fox and The Hound (Disney)|The Fox and Thethe Hound]].]]
 
''Arashi no Yoru ni'', a 1994 Japanese children's book and 2005 Japanese animated film about the deeply romantic friendship (or [[Straight Gay|relationship]], depending on whom you ask) between a goat named Mei and a wolf named Gabu.
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A CG-animated TV series began airing on April 4, 2012 subtitled ''Himitsu no Tomodachi'' (Secret Friends). It is noteworthy for [[Gender Flip|Gender Flipping]] Mei.
 
''God help you'' if you confuse this with ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]''.
 
There is [[No Export for You|no official English title]], but when a translation is needed, fans usually call it ''One Stormy Night''.
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* [[All CGI Cartoon]]: The anime series.
* [[Beast and Beauty]]: Mei is the "beauty", but more in that the bestial Gabu finds him irresistable ''[[Carnivore Confusion|to eat]]''.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Mei's perfect faith and devotion to Gabu is never strongly challenged until near the end, when he is reunited with Gabu only to find out that Gabu had a [[Tap Onon the Head]] and has [[Identity Amnesia]] and cannot remember anything that happened, and that goat meat is and has always been Gabu's absolute favorite food. Mei has his only real loss of composure in his horror that the one he loves has forgotten him and wants to eat him as an indifferent stranger. But Gabu's memory is quickly jogged when Mei cries about the one stormy night together when they first met -- their "[[Title Drop|Arashi no Yoru ni]]".}}
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Gabu loves goat meat. Gabu loves Mei. Mei loves Gabu. {{spoiler|Mei is willing to be eaten by Gabu if only one of them can live. Gabu has an emotional meltdown. This trope is used to subvert the [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]] trope.}}
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Some of the terrain stands out ''juuuuuust'' a bit. [[Scenery Porn|Not]] that it's any uglier for it.
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* [[Ghibli Hills]]: The idyllic Pleasant Mountain where Mei and his goat kin live. {{spoiler|Also the Emerald Forest where Mei and Gabu are finally free to be together.}}
* [[The Glomp]]
* [[Go-Karting Withwith Bowser]]: {{spoiler|When Mei and Gabu's kin each learn that the two have been spending so much time together as friends, they are horrified and angered (respectively) at what they see as an ultimate blood betrayal.}}
* [[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}}.
* [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?|Have You Tried Not Being A Monster?]]: Gabu does, and {{spoiler|it ends up nearly killing him and giving him [[Easy Amnesia]].}}
* [[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]]).
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Huge Guy, Tiny Guy]]: Look at them! Just ''look'' at them!
* [[Identity Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|After Gabu has a [[Tap Onon 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.}}
* [[If It's You It's Okay]]: {{spoiler|Mei doesn't want to be eaten by a wolf or anyone, unless that wolf is his friend Gabu and there's no other choice.}}
* [[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.}}
* [[It Was a Dark Andand Stormy Night]]: Gee... [[Title Drop|you think?]] (Only in this case it's less horrorific.)
* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]: {{spoiler|Gabu, bravely fighting to protect Mei.}}
* [[The Lost Woods]]: {{spoiler|The forest Mei and Gabu wander through while escaping their pursuers.}}
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