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Haré is a boy who lives in a jungle village with his young, slightly-alcoholic mother Weda. Life is good in the jungle, and Haré is a happy boy, until the day a monster eats him. He wakes up the next morning, uneaten and in his own bed. While he is wondering if it was all a dream, Weda announces that she has adopted a little girl named Guu. With her pink hair, shining eyes, and sweet smile, Guu charms Haré's mother -- but when Weda's back is turned, Guu becomes a scowling dark presence that frightens Haré. Not only that, she is capable of swallowing ''anything'' she takes a fancy to -- whole bananas, live birds, even people and landscapes -- and Haré discovers that anything Guu swallows is ''still alive inside her, in a completely different world...''

Haré's life turns into an endless parade of torments by Guu as he tries to keep her out of trouble, and find out what kind of creature she really is. This is all made rather difficult by the wide array of paranormal abilities she possesses, the bizarre supernatural events that happen around her, and her enjoyment in toying with Hare's neurosis.

 

 

The title of the series is a rather elaborate pun that can be read several different ways, due to different readings of some of the words:

 

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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Dama takes this to nightmare levels if she sees any male with white hair - or even a white wig, due to their 'resemblance' to her late husband.

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]

* [[Beach Episode]]

* [[Big Eater]]: Guu, loosely speaking.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Haré, mostly through Guu's doing.

* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: Haré

* [[Epunymous Title]]

* [[Everythings Funkier With Disco]]

* [[Extreme Omnivore]] (duh)

* [[Eyecatch]], in the anime.

* [[Gainax Bounce]]: Done (disturbingly) with the Elder's ''chest hair'', in the third episode.

** Weda also has this.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: The aptly-named Lazy. Problem is, he's the ''teacher.''

* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Rikako Aikawa voiced Hare, and Naoko Watanabe as Guu. For dubbers, those watching this nowadays would know that Hare was voiced by [[Philece Sampler]], who was starting her ADR anime career, and Guu by [[Stephanie Sheh]] (both credited under different names). The other characters are sprinkled with viewer déjà vu as well.

* [[Playboy Bunny]]: Weda dons the costume during the game show bit.

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Lazy with regard to his little sister Marie.

* [[Reality Warper]]: This is basically Guu's shtick. Anything she wants will happen, no exceptions, no matter how crazy it is.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: "Normal" Guu has these, and they're just the tip of the iceberg as far as her weirdness goes...

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]

* [[The Speechless]]: Two of the students. They're always seen in the background, and whenever one of them would speak, [[The Un-Reveal|something seems to prevent us from hearing it.]]

* [[Spoof Aesop]]: Frequently. And of course... it's usually Guu's doing.

* [[Super-Deformed]]

* [[Super Mode]]: If pushed, Guu can {{spoiler|transform into a much older, much more serious-looking, goddess-like version of herself}}. This happens very rarely and always heralds a serious asskicking.

* [[The Sweat Drop]]

* [[Two-Teacher School|One Teacher School]]: Then again, this ''is'' the middle of the jungle...

** An anime [[Dr. Seuss]] with even more crack

** A children's book story gone wrong

* [[Yandere]]: Yamada. She's introduced trying to kill herself in order to come back as a ghost to haunt the man who wronged her.

 

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