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Mahiro Yasaka is an [[Ordinary High School Student]] who happens to be a fan of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. One day he was attacked by a creature he identifies as a nightgaunt, only to be saved by a [[White
This strange girl -- "Nyarko" as she prefers to be called -- is an agent of the Planetary Defense Organization, tasked to stop a smuggling ring revolving around a precious cosmic commodity... Earth's entertainment, specifically manga (and especially hentai). But she's not only out to perform her task. She also takes it to herself to protect Mahiro.
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** Also occurs in the first series:
{{quote| '''Mahiro:''' "Wait a minute. Why'd did you get censored by the broadcast code?"}}
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: "I don't like you", by Mahiro to Nyarko in Episode 7 of the second anime. It was enough to drive the latter into a [[Heroic BSOD]] and [[Color Failure]] which Mahiro [[Tsundere|would later have to reluctantly rectify himself]] at the sight of [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|Cuuko about to exploit Nyarko's shock to undress her in the middle of the beach]].
* [[Buffy
* [[Cain and Abel]]: Nyarko's older brother Nyar-o ran away from home because he's [[Book Dumb]] while Nyarko is a [[Child Prodigy]] (she aced scores at a top university, while he even dropped out of a C-grade college). He blames her for his downfall (because she hit his head while playing space gateball) and tries to antagonize her after he gains his own Full Force Form -- [[Harmless Villain|so he wanted to be]].
* [[Calvin Ball]]: Space CQC is explicitly stated to be whatever one claims it to be. Even if their opponent disagrees.
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** [[Only Sane Man|Mahiro Yasaka]] is voiced by [[Eri Kitamura]] -- which happens to be probably her only teenage male role.
** [[Adorably Precocious Child|Hasta]] is voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]] -- a [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|male (albeit effeminate)]] role and a [[Nice Guy|sweet, cuddly]] [[Playing Against Type|departure from]] the [[Shana Clone|Shana Clones]] she's [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor|used to voice]].
* [[Cultural Cross
* [[Dating Sim]]: [[Love Plus|Lovecraft Plus]], mentioned in the fourth episode of the short flash, is an inverted version of the standard dating sim that happens to have [[Sanity Meter|SAN]] [[Call of Cthulhu|among its stats]]. Instead of getting the girls to fall for you, the girls try to get ''you'' to fall for ''them'' Your SAN points are basically your resistance to the [[Yandere]] [[Stalker With a Crush]]'s advances. Lose enough SAN and you end up with her forever, wallowing in your mutual insanity. Definitely a game worthy of the title.
** This is also the premise of [[Trapped in TV Land|episode 8]]. The characters are stuck in ''Doki Doki High School'' until Mahiro scores with either Nyarko, Cuuko, Hasta or Tamao.
* [[Dead Pet Sketch]]: One episode of the flash series plays with this. Cuuko feeds ''something'' to Mahiro's goldfish. Mahiro becomes angry, {{spoiler|but [[Comically Missing the Point|being an alien, Cuuko doesn't realize that fish shouldn't have spouted legs]]}}.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Did You Just ]][[Groin Attack|Groin Attack ]][[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Cthulhu?]]: A nightgaunt, actually. A subversion, since Nyarko's an Outer God, in the form of a schoolgirl. Played straight with Mahiro who frequently threatens Nyarko with a ''fork''.
* [[Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?|Did You Just Romance Nyarlathotep?]]: [[Subverted Trope|A subversion]] -- while Mahiro does have feelings for Nyarko, being an astute Lovecraft reader, he doubts that having an affair with Nyarlathotep is a good idea. As a result, his attitude can be [[Tsundere]] at times.
* [[Disney Dog Fight]]: In the Flash animation Nyarko tests Shanta-kun's loyalty when it looks like it is getting too attached to Mahiro. He chooses her. After some concussive convincing.
* [[Do It Yourself Theme Tune]]: [[Kana Asumi]] [Nyarko] sings the themes of all three adaptations -- solo on the first flash opening ("Like, Like, Love") and the anime ending ("Always Be With You"), collaborative on the second flash ending ("Catharsis of a Woman's Love", with Azusa Kataoka [Atko] and Sayuri Hara [Nyarue]) and the anime opening ("The Sun Says 'Burn, Chaos'" with [[Miyu Matsuki]] [Cuuko] and Yuka Ootsubo [Tamao]).
* [[Double Entendre]]: Believe it or not, Hasta uses the crap out of this, most of the time he uses the term "[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Anime)|gattai]]" to refer to doing it, this is not a corruption as the term '''can''' mean such an act, however when he refers to it as "[[
* [[Dragged By the Collar]]: Nyarko likes to grab Mahiro and run with him in tow.
* [[Dramatic Chase Opening]]: The second anime series begins with Mahiro being chased by a nightgaunt.
* [[Faceless Goons]]: Nightgaunts.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: [[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah, My Elder Goddess!]] and variations.
* [[Fan Service]]: The [[Light Novel|Light Novels]] are illustrated by the artist who did [[Kanokon (Light Novel)|Kanokon]]'s, so one should expect it. Invoked in the first TV episode with Nyarko telling Mahiro that since [[Medium Awareness|this is an anime adaptation]], their fans surely want to see them get wet. Mahiro flatly rejects it, claiming that he doesn't care about that kind of fan.
* [[Fast
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Occurs in Episode 5. Mahiro tries to figure out why his Mom is taken by Luhy. He thinks it has something to do with "sononium", which he thought was merely Yoriko's excuse to hug him. [[Mistaken for Evidence|Turn's out he was mistaken]]. The ''real'' foreshadowing was Yoriko discussing how [[Gamer Chick|she collects old video game consoles]].]
{{quote| '''Mahiro:''' "''That'' was the foreshadowing?!"}}
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* [[Harem Genre]]: Subverted. The main character is a high school student who lives with a group of girls, but only Nyarlko is a viable romantic prospect. Of the other girls in the series, one is in love with the female lead, one is the main character's mom, and one is actually a boy.
* [[Harmless Villain|Harmless Villains]]: Both Nodens and Nyar-o went down with extreme anticlimax.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: [[Played for Laughs]] in Episode 7 by Nyarko (coupled with [[Color Failure]]), when Mahiro [[Brutal Honesty|bluntly tells her he doesn't like her]]. It took the sight of Cuuko [[Dude, She's Like, in A Coma|about to exploit the chance to molest Nyarko]] to make Mahiro reconsider his stance, apologize to her and take her on a date.
* [[High Pressure Emotion]]: Cuuko full body blushing is actually harmful to the environment. Justified, considering she is a living fireball.
* [[Homage]]: In the first Flash animation series, Atoko and Nyarko re-enact the silent elevator ride from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
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** In the second episode of the second anime, Nyarko complains that Cuuko's lasers shouldn't be considered close-quarters-combat. At the beginning of the episode, Mahiro raised the same point about her using hand grenades.
** Many of Nyarko's frequent insults towards Cuuko revolve around her hobbies, like gaming... In the first episode she was drooling over an anime/manga store's entire stock, including the games.
* [[I Ate What?]]: In Luhy's seaside restaurant, the gang is enjoying her takoyaki. Mahiro was also about to reluctantly eat some... [[Moment Killer|then he saw the restaurant's banner with an image of Cthulhu]]. Needless to say, he lost his appetite.
* [[Iconic Logo]]: In the Op, Hasta is holding the Yellow Sign.
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Nyarko has one, pretty much a replacement of tentacles.
* [[If
{{quote| '''Cuuko:''' "Just her [i.e, Nyarko] body will do."}}
* [[Incompatible Orientation]]
** Cuuko would [[Lovable Sex Maniac|love to jump on Nyarko]] if she has the chance. Never mind that they are both girls, and that cthughans and nyarlathotepians are mortal enemies, much less that Nyarko [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased|tries her darndest to get her off her back]], she's more than willing to [[Psycho Lesbian|do just]] [[Yandere|about anything]] just to win her over.
** Hasta reveals to Mahiro in Episode 5 that he once gave him CPR after nearly drowning while traveling to R'lyeh, and that [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|it was his first time]] (cue Mahiro [[Survival Mantra|insistently telling himself that it doesn't count as a kiss]]) then tells him "I love you." Needless to say, Mahiro is clearly disturbed by the implications, but nevertheless plays along with him. It also helps that Hasta looks like [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|a ridiculously effeminate]] [[Adorably Precocious Child|young boy]].
* [[Inside a Computer System]]: In ''Nyaruani'', Mahiro tries out a alien JRPG. Much to his chagrin, he ends up being transported within the game.
* [[Instant Bandages]]: Nyarko gets these when Mahiro whacks her on the head. They vanish again moments later.
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* [[Madness Mantra]]/[[Survival Mantra]]: After losing his SAN, Mahiro begins to repeat "It's only ink..." while trying to forget about the pool of Nightgaunt blood shed by Nyarko.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]/[[Interspecies Romance]]: Parodied, with the girlfriend in question being a Lovecraftian horror.
* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: Inverted and played straight. When Nyarko and Mahiro switched bodies, Nyarko wasted ''no'' time at all discovering Mahiro's junk and how boys pleasure themselves, and comes back from a trip to the restroom happily singing "Oh, boys are so great!!". On the flip side, Mahiro can't even find the courage to look at Nyarko's naked body while taking a bath.
* [[Manic Pixie Dream Girl]]: Nyarko's entire personality basically both purposely plays up and spoofs this character type. She literally drags around Mahiro, and despite all his resistance he does find her cute.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Brought to you by [[Rule of Funny]]. Mahiro, for example, somehow reads an imaginary number bubble floating next to Shantak-kun.
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* [[Nominal Hero]]: While technically a space cop doing her job, Nyarko is protecting Mahiro out of a crush, takes on the bad guys with too much enthusiasm and does a little personal smuggling of the kind she's supposed to stop.
{{quote| '''Nyarko''': "It's not a crime if no one finds out."}}
* [[Not
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: When Yoriko arrives home at the beginning of Episode 4, the first thing she sees is her son entangled with two girls in highly suggestive positions.
* [[Otaku Surrogate]]: Nyarko shares the same obsession her race has with Earth (specifically, Japanese) entertainment.
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* [[Real Place Background]]: Nodens' action house front just looks like the Sagrada Familia, a famous church and touristic spot of Barcelona, Spain.
* [[Red Sky Take Warning]]: Nyarko's "convenient barrier" to keep [[The Masquerade]] turns the scene dark and tinted red, sky and Moon included.
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Counting the ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', ''[[Gundam]]'' and ''[[Jo
* [[Rule of Three]]: Whenever Mahiro asks somebody to make a [[
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: Cuuko has a one-sided crush on Nyarko. More of a post-schoolgirl case since both have already graduated from space elementary school but attend Mahiro's alma mater, Boryo Municipal High School to keep an eye on him.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Playing with Lovecraft's love of colorful, obscure adjectives and words, Nyarko sometimes gives ominous, long descriptions of mundane things. For example, in Episode 1 of the anime, after Mahiro alerts her to a Nighgaunt attack with a bump on the head...
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