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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.
 
'''[http://ga.sbcr.jp/novel/nyaruko/index.html Haiyore! Nyarko-san]''' is a 2009 [[Romantic Comedy]] [[Light Novel]] series written by Manta Aisora and illustrated by Koin (of ''[[Kanokon (Light Novel)|Kanokon]]'' fame) with elements from [[Toku]] and the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. [[Lovecraft Lite|It isn't as bad as you think, though]], especially since [[Affectionate Parody|it doesn't take itself all that seriously]]. As it turns out that while the mythos beings are real, [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]] pretty much exaggerated the stories from his [[Humanoid Alien|Nyarlathotepian]] friend and turned them into horror tales.
 
The series has been well-received in Japan, spawning numerous drama CDs and a nine-episode short-flash anime called ''Haiyoru! Nyarani''. An 11 episode TV flash series called '''Haiyoru! Nyarani Remember my Love(craft-sensei)''' aired in Winter 2010, followed by a traditional animation season come the [[Spring 2012 Anime Season]]. The opening for said anime would achieve [[Memetic Mutation|memetic status]] on [[Nico Nico Douga]] with the [[Ear Worm|Un! Nya! Let's GO!]] [http://youtube.com/watch?v=rv6iuCtQXkE portion of the opening].
 
Being a slapstick comedy based on the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], it's a pretty violent story. It is also a hurricane of anime and manga [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Mythology Gag|Mythos-ology Gags]].
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=== These are the Tropes that crawl up to us with a smile! ===
 
* [[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms]]: When Nyarko accidentally switched bodies with Mahiro in Episode 9, she spends an inordinarily long time in the restroom, and comes out radiantly singing "Oh, boys are so great... It's a feeling that girls just won't understand..." Naturally, Mahiro is ''livid'' about this.
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: Mahiro tells Nyarko he pictured Nyarlathotep far more monstrous. She offers to show him some of her other forms... if he doesn't mind losing his sanity. Mahiro passes. Cue a shot of 20 [[Sanity Meter|sanity points]] getting dashed off of a ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' character sheet.
* [[A Twinkle in Thethe Sky]]: As every good inffective villain, Nyar-o is thrown over the horizon screaming.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Kana Asumi|Nyarko]] makes quick ''[[Amagami (Video Game)|Amagami]]'' and ''[[MM (Light Novel)|MM!]]'' references in Episode 3, as well as that to ''[[Working (Manga)|Working]]'' on Episode 8.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: You can tell those in charge of the series [[Shown Their Work|are quite familiar with and are fans of]] Lovecraft's work and the actual [[Cthulhu Mythos]], and use that to great effectiveness here.
* [[Alien Geometries]]: Nodens' auction house in R'lyeh is [[Bigger Onon the Inside]] that on the outside, of course.
* [[Alien Lunch]]: An ongoing [[Running Gag]]. Nyarko keeps using alien ingredients on everything she cooks, be it shantak bird eggs, Shub-Niggurath (the "Black Goat of the Woods") meat or her famous [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|"BLT"]] (Byakhee-Lloigor-Tsathougga) sandwich. And then there's the hotdog from Episode 4 of the second anime -- "dog" here meaning "Hound of Tindalos".
{{quote| '''Mahiro:''' "I'm definitely gonna kick the crap out of you if you prepare something like that!" (Episode 1, referring to the "BLT")}}
* [[Amusement Park of Doom]]: In Episode 2 of the second anime, we learn that R'lyeh is essentially a twisted version of Disneyland which caters to [[Eldritch Abominations]].
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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: Nyarko loses track of objectives easily, especially when confronted with her hobbies or anything fun.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]
** Cuuko (as in "[[Sugar and Ice Personality|Kuudere]]") for a [[Playing Withwith Fire|Chtughan]] girl.
** R'lyehland sells [[Call of Cthulhu|Cola of Cthulhu]].
** Nyarko's "Three Minute" Cooking segment. In Japanese, it's "SAN-pun" Cooking.
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* [[Beach Episode]]: Episodes 6-7 of the second anime.
* [[Big Book of War]]: The Nyarlathotepians have Citizen Bright's ''Amazing! Our Space CQC''. Basically, it's summed up as "CQC is what you want it to be, even if others disagree."
* [[Black Comedy Rape]]/[[Double Standard Rape (Female Onon Male)]]: The end of Episode 6. Ultimately subverted come next episode, because Mahiro managed to fend Nyarko off [[Crazy Prepared|with a bunch of forks from beneath his futon]], then bound her onto a table beneath a bed sheet affixed by forks.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Nyarko practically begged to take the job of protecting Mahiro after seeing his picture.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Nyarko reminds Mahiro to be careful with that fork or they might be taken off the air in the first episode of the second anime series.
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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 Aa Coma|Cuuko about to exploit Nyarko's shock to undress her in the middle of the beach]].
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: When asked about the crowbar she was holding, Nyarko describes it as "some kind of unspeakable Bar thing."
* [[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]].
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** [[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-Reference]]: ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' blatant [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] are quite surprising when you consider they are jokes about a classic, but not "mainstream", Western tabletop RPG.
* [[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 Withwith 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]]}}.
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* [[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 "[[GaoGaiGar (Anime)|Final]] [[Gratuitous English|fusion]]" all bets are off.
* [[Dragged Byby 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-Forward Gag]]: In the first episode of the second anime series, Nyarko's explanation for who/what she is and her purpose for being on Earth gets fast-forwarded due to being extremely long-winded and Mahiro has to summarize everything in a format that the audience can understand and respects broadcasting time constraints.
* [[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]].]
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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 Aa 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]]''.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Episode 5 of second flash series downplay with this trope. As [[Comically Missing the Point|the camera was focus on bathing Shantak-kun for whole episode]], so the audience won't see anything despite all naughty dialogue. Atoko even lampshade that she feel bad for deceiving audiences.
** Happens for real in Episode 6 of the TV series, [[Mythology Gag|complete with Shantak-kun bathing scene]] with Aisora's [[Author Avatar]] next episode.
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* [[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.
* [[Kill It Withwith Fire]]: Mahiro's reaction to seeing Nyarue's true form is ask "Just tell me if this is combustible or noncombustible?". Nyarko says she definitely isn't. Note that [[Incredibly Lame Pun|the word for "combustible" they use is]] "''[[Moe]]''ru".
* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]: Earth is the gold mine of the universe entertainment industry. Our manga, especially [[Hentai]], are restricted goods.
* [[Love Before First Sight]]: Nyarko fell hopelessly in love with Mahiro the moment she saw his picture.
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* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Noden's beard can grab people.
* [[Product Placement]]: The shop in Episode 1 of the anime series has covers and posters all over the place for GA Bunko, the [[Light Novel]] label under which this series is published. An instantly recognizable one is the cover for Volume 1 of ''Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru''.
* [[Race Against the Clock]]: Used in ''Remember my Love(craft-sensei)''. After the initial short is over, it cuts to a scene of a massive [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Borg-ish]] ship heading towards Earth, with the days left "Until The End Of Mankind". Then again, the shorts have nothing to do with the ship, until the last episode or so.
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Nyarko's hair goes below the hip. [[Godiva Hair|Useful for covering up]].
* [[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 Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'' [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] alone is daunting.
* [[Rule of Three]]: Whenever Mahiro asks somebody to make a [[It's a Long Story|long story]] short, he asks for three lines or less. [[Non Sequitur|The fourth will always be entirely unrelated.]]
* [[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.
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{{quote| '''Nyarko''': I'm suffering from abnormal and blasphemous amounts of ominously chaotic pain. }}
* [[Share the Male Pain]]: A nightgaunt may be a creature seeking to abduct him for who knows what, but Mahiro definitely felt this way towards the poor sucker Nyarko kneed.
* [[Shout-Out]]: See the the [[NyarkoHaiyore! San (Light Novel)Nyaruko-san/Trivia|subpage]] under the Trivia section.
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: The comical abuse actually comes from Mahiro using a fork to stop Nyarko's crazed binges and unsolicited advances.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: Those not familiar with the expanded Mythos won't know Cthugha or Atlach-Nacha. As a result, some have mistaken Cuuko as Cthulhu because of the similarities of their names. Also, Elder Gods, Great Old Ones and Outer Gods are not synonymous.
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* [[Space X]]: Nyarko and Cuuko refer to the alien equivalents of CQC, Kindergarten, etc. by simply adding the word "Space" before them.
{{quote| '''Mahiro:''' "[[Lampshade Hanging|Stop adding 'space' onto almost everything!]]"}}
* [[Speak of the Devil]]/[[Call Onon Me]]: Nyarko tells Mahiro to say her name if he needs her.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Nyarlathotepians, Chtughans, etc. are actually abominations the human mind cannot grasp without going insane. The human forms they take are quite pleasant, though.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: True to the original source, the "deities" of the Mythos are really advanced and freaky aliens.
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