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All that comes to a screeching halt the moment he steps into Meme's home to find a young girl -- Meme's hitherto unknown daughter and his cousin, Erio -- wrapped in a futon lying on the front step. Worse than that, she [[Techno Babble|speaks strangely]]. And thinks [[Strange Girl|she's an alien]].
''Denpa Onna to Seishun Otoko'' is a series of light novels written by Hitoma Imura, which follow Makoto as he finds out more about his confused cousin and her strange beliefs about how their entire lives are nothing but a huge alien experiment.
An anime adaptation by [[Studio Shaft]] began airing in April 2011.
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* [[Expressive Hair]]: Erio's seems to glitter when she's happy.
* [[Expy]]: Meme looks like [[Toradora!|a certain baka-chihuahua]].
** And Makoto's basically a [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkier]] version of [[Durarara!!|Mikado]].
* [[Foot Focus]]/[[Does Not Like Shoes]]: Erio often goes barefoot, and there's quite a bit of shots to Erio's bare feet, at least in the anime. Most of the time, we can only see her legs and feet anyway -- her upper body is hidden in a futon.
* [[First-Person Smartass]]: As per [[Studio Shaft]] tradition, Makoto frequently converses with himself.
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* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Meme had some when she was a little girl. They help make her (more) adorable. Erio follows suit in some later appearances.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Multiple times, often by Meme as a way to avoid explaining something she said. In Episode 2, Makoto asks for directions when taking Erio on the bike, she responds with "Left Side", "Reright", and eventually "Sunny side up". She also dumbs down her [[Techno Babble]] to explain to Makoto that "I can fly". {{spoiler|During the ending credits of Episode 3, her tallying up the event when Makoto forces her to face the fact that she actually can't is "I can't fly."}}
** Maekawa responds to Ryuuko saying that she and Makoto can't go to the beach together with "Why?"
* [[Hair Antennae]]: Erio. They even have a [[Expressive Hair|life of their own.]]
** Also Meme.
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** [[Eureka 7|"IIIIIIII KYAAAAAN'T FRYYYYYYYYYY!"]]
** "How much of that was you acting cold? "99.7% real, 0.3% acting." "What about me?" "About [[5 Centimeters Per Second]]!"
** The last episode makes two more references to [[5 Centimeters Per Second]]. The episode's title is "0.00000000198 Centimeters Per Second", and Makoto also says the words "One more time, one more chance", which is the title of the theme song of the aforementioned film. Another possible shout out is, perhaps, this series' protagonist sharing his first name with the director of [[5 Centimeters Per Second]], Makoto Shinkai.
** Erio's bizarre, pokemon-like noises whilst in the futon are a shout out to ''[[Full Metal Panic!|Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu]]''.
** "Do you think I'd let a runaway who eats off fields in here?" Guess to whom this line is addressed to. Then think of [[To Aru Majutsu no Index|a certain blue-haired character in a white nun's habit]] and remember how much of a glutton she is.
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* [[Unperson]]: Meme initially treats her daughter Erio like this, seemingly avoiding any kind of meaningful interaction, and tries to get Makoto to do the same, but thankfully this trope falls out of play as the series goes on, and they start spending some quality time together.
* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Makoto is often caught juggling his attention between Erio and Ryuuko, thanks to the unspoken rivalry between them. Maekawa, surprisingly, is more laid back about the whole thing.
** In the last couple of episodes, {{spoiler|Maekawa starts to take it up a notch. She invites Makoto to her house, cooks a meal for him, and they generally spend some quality time together. She invites him back, and he seems to appreciate it...}}
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: A lot between Makoto and Ryuuko/[[My Name Is Not Durwood|Ryuushi]]
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Yashiro seems to invoke this trope on Makoto late in the season. Then some really coincidental stuff happens in Episode 13 to make him start questioning if all the stuff he did towards breaking Erio out of her "alien" shell was really a good thing or not.
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