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'''[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]]'' 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, [[H.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]]. 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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* [[A Date with 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 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 (tabletop game)]]'' character sheet.

* [[A Twinkle in the Sky]]: As every good inffective villain, Nyar-o is thrown over the horizon screaming.

* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Kana Asumi|Nyarko]] makes quick ''[[Amagami]]'' and ''[[MM!]]'' references in Episode 3, as well as that to ''[[Working]]'' on Episode 8.

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{{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]].

* [[Animation Bump]]: ''Remember my Love(craft-sensei)'' is a flash series, but the Ending credits are done traditionally. As a result, the Credits have better animation than the show itself.

* [[Aside Comment]]: Nyarko looks at the camera and repeats a second time that she has a convenient barrier to keep up [[The Masquerade]] because, in her own words, it is important information.

* [[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 with Fire|Chtughan]] girl.

** R'lyehland sells [[Call of Cthulhu|Cola of Cthulhu]].

** R'lyehland sells [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)|Cola of Cthulhu]].

** Nyarko's "Three Minute" Cooking segment. In Japanese, it's "SAN-pun" Cooking.

** The [[Kamen Rider Decade|DK-do]] 10-year-anniversary premium cake made by D. Endo<ref>In Japanese, "decade" is pronounced di-kei-do.</ref>.

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* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Nodens look very imposing. [[Subverted Trope|He's really a wimp.]]

* [[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 on 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.

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{{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-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]].

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' 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 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.

* [[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 (tabletop game)|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]]}}.

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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|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|Final]] [[Gratuitous English|fusion]]" all bets are off.

* [[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.

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* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: When Isuka, a Yithian (currently in Tamao's body), fails to take over Nyarko's body, this happens to her and Mahiro. [[First Law of Gender Bending|The device of course runs out of power immediately]].

* [[Funny Background Event]]: The Flash series feature this often.

* [[Gag Series]]: The Flash series focused on surreal humor more than any plot. The TV series probably falls halfway between this and [[Excuse Plot]].

* [[Gender Flip]]: Nyarko, Cuuko, and Luuhi. In the Mythos, Nyarlathotep's human forms tend to be male, and Cthugha and Cthulhu are considered "male".

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** 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 It's You It's Okay]]: Even if it's actually Mahiro in Nyarko's body, Cuuko would still attempt to have her way with him, so long as it's Nyarko's body. The fact that Mahiro is relatively easy on her compared to Nyarko also helps.

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** 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.

* [[Kill It with 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".

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* [[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.

* [[Overt Operative]]: Despite taking human forms, Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta use their real names when introducing themselves to Mahiro's class. Nyarko even goes so far as announce that she travels the stars and fights villainous deities.

* [[Phantom Zone]]: The "convenient barrier" Nyarko uses to fight in privacy.

* [[Pixellation]]: Used several times in the first flash anime. [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|For our own good too.]]

* [[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: The 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.

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* [[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.

* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]]: Cuuko is an odd example: to almost everyone (particularly Mahiro) she's extremely icy, but to Nyarko she's over-the-top sugary

* [[Team Pet]]: Shantak-kun, a [[Pet Monstrosity]]. Weak against nightgaunts. Becomes [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] afterward.

* [[Trapped in TV Land]]: The premise of Episode 8 of the anime -- the gang gets trapped inside a [[Wonder Swan]]-lookalike (with a [[Dating Sim]] currently playing), and they couldn't get out unless Mahiro chooses either [[First Girl Wins|Nyarko]], [[Yandere|Cuuko]], [[Gay Option|Hasta]] or [[Third Option Love Interest|Tamao]].

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{{quote|'''Mahiro:''' "[[Lampshade Hanging|Obviously the last one is of your own making.]]"}}

** "Hasta is an alien? Hasta is Hastur, the Outer God of Wind? Hasta is... a boy???"

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: In the second flash series, with Nyarko and Nyarue.

* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU0K4fQYX7A The OP] of the first TV series makes it look like it's a normal anime with [[Romantic Comedy]] themes. It's still a short gag flash animation.

* [[Voices Are Mental]]: Handwritings aren't, apparently.

* [[Widget Series]]: Naturally, considering the premise.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Ato-ko, the Atlach-Nachan girl. Her propriety belies her perversity.