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As sure as the taxes, it comes at the end of every year: the New Year. Time for looking back, looking forward and just going crazy, to celebrate and do all the things you for obvious reasons could not do in the [[Christmas Episode]].
Manga and anime love the New Year. After all, this is where you can show all the girls and some of the boys looking good in kimono while making the traditional visit to the local shrine. Of course you can also dress some of them up as mikos (yes, some of the boys, too!) taking against the visitors. Or you can just let them stay up late to see the first sunrise of the new year - if they can stay awake, of course!
In Western media, often a source of date anxiety. Common things include big fireworks, a lot of champagne and [[New Years Resolution]] and, not least, breaking of them. And of course, toast [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]. That is, of course, if you agree whether it is the first or the last stroke which marks it (it's the first). And if the characters can stay awake. In fact both young and old characters may fall asleep before midnight, indicating immaturity for the former, and fatigue for the latter.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Kokoro Library]]'': The three sisters, Iina, Aruto and Kokoro, pray for good things to happen in the new year - however not exactly the same things.
* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': Nagi wants to see the first sunrise of the new year in Kujukurihama. Guess which butler-in-debt has to take her the 100 km (62 miles) there - on bike!
* ''[[Kedamono Damono]]'': Haruki gets a night job as a miko in his female form to earn some money so he can buy a gift to Konatsu. But his partner as miko is also in love with him, and since she does not know the facts she wonders if the good looking girl she is working together with really is the cousin of Haruki as she was told.
** Mangaka Haruka Fukushima noticed in the afterword that one could say that she only made this story to draw Haruki as a miko.
* ''[[Mao-chan]]'': Alien spies Yuriko and Chinami have disguised themselves as mikos to get people at the shrine to get people to touch one of their cute animals (a big sheep in case) promising them that their first dream of the year will come true. But touching the sheep in reality put people into sleep. Which soon gives Kagome her hands full since she is the only one of the defence forces not to touch the sheep.
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* ''[[The Apartment]]''
* ''[[The Gold Rush]]''
* ''[[When Harry Met Sally...]]''
* ''[[Terror Train]]''
* ''[[Trading Places]]'' had the train party on New Years Eve, where the group attempts to steal Beeks' reports.
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* ''[[The Poseidon Adventure]]'', as well as its remake ''[[Poseidon]]''.
* The main heist of ''[[Entrapment]]'' takes place on New Years Eve.
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' has Forrest and Lieutenant Dan celebrating New Year's Eve in a bar.
* At the end of the film ''[[Radio Days]]'', [[Nostalgic Narrator|Joe's]] family celebrates New Year's Eve together at home while Sally spends the night at a lavish ball with other radio personalities.
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== Theater ==
* The first couple of songs in the second act of ''[[Rent]]'' deal with the new year and how the characters succeed or fail in changing their lives: Maureen trying to win back Joanne, Roger choosing to believe in [[The Power of Love]], Mimi failing to quit heroin.
== Video Games ==
* With many other holidays in this year-in-the-life-of-it's-protagonist, ''[[Persona 3]]'' has a pivotal decision on New Years Eve, {{spoiler|whether or not to kill Ryoji. Killing him would [[Let Them Die Happy|let everyone die peacefully]] as [[The End of the World as We Know It]] happens, or [[Do Not Go Gentle|to fight the seemingly fight the inevitable end]]. [[What You Are in the Dark|Note that all of your teammates are for the latter.]] If you go for option number two you then get to see...}}
** New Years Day is slightly more upbeat with everyone visting a local shrine and [[Kimono Fanservice|see the girls in kimono's]].
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