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At Otogi Academy, there is an organization that helps people out, the Otogi Bank. Headed by the Kiriki cousins, Liszt and Alice, their members consist of the maid Tsurugaya Otsuu, the mad scientist/witch Majolica le Fay, the couple of Otohime Ryugu and Taro Urashima, and a prominent fighting duo, Ryoko Okami and Ringo Akai, the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. One day, Ryoko is confessed to by the painfully shy Ryoshi Morino, who finds himself <s>shanghaied into</s> joining the Otogi Bank to help people.

 

 

Licensed by Funimation in 2011, with the DVD/Blu-Ray release coming in April 2012. Not related to [[Okami]].

 

 

* [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]: Onigashima High's student council president, Shiro. He claims to have only arrived recently and therefore not every student accepts him yet, but some of the other characters point out that the coordinated attacks could only have been pulled off if he were already in control of them.

* [[Alertness Blink]]: Every once in a while, including in the first episode.

* [[Anything That Moves]]: Momoko Kibitsu (alias Momo-chan-senpai), who hits on both Ryoko ''and'' Ryoshi within minutes of her first appearance in episode 5.

* [[Battle Couple]]: Ryoko and Ryoshi.

* [[Beautiful All Along]]: Subverted; we knew Otohime was cute before we found out she used to be [[Hollywood Pudgy|a little bit fat]] and lost weight, becoming the beautiful, insane girl we see in the show. Of course, the reason why she decided to lose her extra mass is [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|absolutely adorable.]]

* [[Because You Were Nice to Me]]: Otohime's reason for liking Taro was because he was the only person who treated her like a person instead of insulting her due to [[Hollywood Pudgy|her looks at the time.]]

** Although much more subtle, potentially used with Ryoko towards Ryoshi, as evidenced by his determination to help her despite her repeated attempts to reject him or push him away. Her attitude towards him and life in general seems to lighten up more as a result. And arguably why she befriended Ringo as well.

** Played straight with Reiko.

* [[Boy Meets Girl]]: {{spoiler|The ploy Machiko tried to use to get Ryoshi to fall for her, complete with [[Panty Shot]] advertising.}}

* [[Breather Episode]]: Episodes 7 and 12, which follow some fairly serious drama episodes.

** Is there a stigma in the anime world between this trope and [[Black Lagoon|those names]]?

* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Disciplinary Committee Chairman Momoko Kibitsu is revered mostly for her "talents".

* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Averted with Ryoshi, who immediately confesses to Ryoko in the first episode. However, played straight with Ryoko, who constantly either avoids the issue altogether, or something else happens that then requires their attention and is forgotten. Machiko calls Ryoko out on this in episode 12, and she still doesn't exactly give a clear answer.

* [[Catgirl|Cat Boy]]: Saburo Nekomiya, the mysterious boy based on ''Puss in Boots''

** While she vehemently denies this, Ryoko falls into this trope in episode 12 when Machiko starts to make her moves on Ryoshi.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Majolica.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Ryoko gets one in the beginning, and later Shiro delivers one to Ryoshi, but the fight is interrupted before they can finish it after Ryoshi manages to land a powerful blow on Shiro.

* [[Cuteness Proximity]]: If the [[Improbable Weapon User|deceptively adorable cat boxing gloves]] didn't cue you in, then her absolute ''deredere'' breakdown in the presence of the dogs in episode 2 should have made it clear that Okami-san ''loves'' cute things.

* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: Shiro seems to know exactly how to fool the Otogi Bank members, and even utilizes some of their weaknesses against them in episode 11, such as surrounding Taro with a bunch of bikini-clad girls, and showing a bunch of uniforms to Otsu. Fortunately [[The Chessmaster|Liszt]] is no slouch himself.

* [[Date Peepers]]: Ringo and Ryoko do this to Ryoshi in episode 12 when he's on a date with Machiko.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The narrator. Sometimes the comments they make are "heard" or noticed by the characters as well.

* [[Death Glare]]: Ryoko's ''default'' expression.

* [[Deliberately Cute Child]]: Ringo. Don't let her demeanor fool you.

** Played straight in episode 12.

** {{spoiler|didn't mind? He WON the previous beauty pageant.}}

* [[Dynamic Entry]]: Kakari, after a rather impressive series of gymnastic flips.

** You'll also see Momoko briefly during the Beauty Pageant in Episode 3 before her proper introduction in Episode 5.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: While trying to save a [[Cat Up a Tree]], Ryoko loses her memory of the past few years, reverting back to age 13. She's normal by the end of the episode.

* [[Empathic Environment]]: Ryoshi and Shiro have a dramatic confrontation in the middle of the rain.

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Nearly everyone in the club gets a smirk on their face when Ryoshi and Ryoko are near each other.

* {{spoiler|[[Evil Former Friend|Evil Former Boyfriend]]: It's implied that Ryoko and Hitsujikai had something going until the whole attempted rape thing.}}

* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Ryoko is a boxer.

** Saburo fights exclusively with kick attacks.

** Also, Momoko [[Gainaxing|provides]] [[Whip It Good|plenty]].

* [[Fan Disservice]]: The narrator actually lampshades this during Ryoko's shower scene in the first episode of the dub, if only because of Ryoko's [[Pettanko|lack of assets]].

* [[Fractured Fairy Tale]]: Most of the characters are based off of fairy tale characters or stories, though the characterizations often have been warped beyond recognition. See Characters for their tales.

* [[Gainaxing]]: Otsu in the anime's OP, and Momoko ''all the time''.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: Machiko Himura knows the anime rules for getting attention, deliberately invoking [[Late for School]] and a [[Panty Shot]] (panties with her name on them!).

* [[Gold Digger]]: Machiko. {{spoiler|Though mainly because she wanted to get her and her father out of debt.}}

* [[Gonk]]: The three "little" pigs in Ringo's movie trailer.

* [[Groin Attack]]: Saru, Kiji and Inu land a triple punch combo on one of Onigashima's students when he tries to grope Momoko. The last punch from Inu (the shortest) goes for the groin.

* [[Hair Antennae]]: Chuutaro Nezumi has them in the shape of mouse ears. Alice also sports an ant-like pair.

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Taro. He has a "perfect gentleman" persona that only emerges when Otohime "extracts his essence".

* [[Hit Stop]]: In Ryoshi and Shiro's fight.

* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|Ryoshi had one during his fight with Shiro when he thought about why he was fighting and what Saburo said to him before the fight.}}

* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Though Liszt is nominally the president, it's Alice who does all the work.

* [[Identity Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Ryoko has an interesting variation of this in episode 7 where she reverts back to her pre-assault persona.}}

** Interestingly, even the narrator is surprised at some of what happens, as is Ringo, who outright believes she must be hallucinating.

* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: Ryoshi.

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: Otsu is incredibly determined to pay back debts to people, for good reason. Though Ryoshi didn't want her becoming his live-in maid either.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Nezumi's butler. Also, to date {{spoiler|Hitsujikai}} has gotten off very lightly for {{spoiler|attempting to rape Ryoko, ruining her reputation at school, forcing her to transfer, warping her personality forever through trauma and kidnapping her twice.}} That's a lot to get away with.

* [[Kevlard]]: During episode 11, {{spoiler|one of the Tonda brothers takes a lead pipe to the gut without even flinching.}}

* [[Late for School]]: Machiko does this very deliberately in an attempt to get Ryoshi's attention, complete with toast in her mouth.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: [[Interactive Narrator|The characters are aware of]] the cheeky narrator and, at one point, punch her.

* [[Lightning Glare]]: Seen several times over the course of episode three between Mimi and Otohime. Apparently becomes visible at one point, as the host points out the sparks flying onstage between the two.

* [[Limp and Livid]]: Shiro's (rather un-[[Magnificent Bastard]]-like) fighting stance alternates between this and quick, sudden rushes at his opponent.

* [[Love At First Punch]]: Well, love at first kick, at least. Cinderella's passion makes a real impression in the prince of tennis.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Mimi Usami.

* [[Mary Suetopia]]: Otogibana City and Otogi Academy are set up to provide a secluded environment where the students can better themselves and use their free will, but Onigashima High was placed there to provide an idea of the negative outside forces the real world has.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: [[Theme Naming]] is also present, with everyone's names drawing from the fairy tale that provides their motif.

* [[Meido]]: Otsu.

* [[Mission Control]]: Ringo sometimes does this, otherwise usually done by the other Otogi bank members.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Usually happens with Ryoshi getting nervous at being stared at anytime a potential serious moment between him and Ryoko occurs.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Majolica.

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The narrator regularly makes insulting remarks about the [[Pettanko|mammarial deficiencies]] of Ryoko and Ringo, and cringes as they [[Death Glare|STARE]] into the fourth wall at her.

* [[Not a Date]]: The double date is meant more for Ami Jizou than Ryoshi and Ryoko, but it ends up being a date for them by the end.

* [[Ojou]]: Otohime, the daughter of a large and powerful corporation.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Ringo is a high schooler, but looks much younger.

* [[Bokukko|Orekko]]: Ryoko fits both the "masculine pronoun" and "tomboyish appearance" parts of the trope.

* [[Gondor Calls for Aid|Otogi Bank Calls For Aid]]: Liszt called in some of the favors the Bank had raked up in the request sale to get some back-up at the Big Battle at Onigashima High Part Two.

* [[Pettanko]]: Both Ringo and Ryoko. It's the one thing that always gets a rise out of them, and is responsible for the narrator getting punched.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Quite literally for Ryoko.

* [[Product Placement]]: Hitsujikai's computer seems to have Windows 7 onboard, even with recognizable Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player icons on taskbar and also network, sound and alerts tray icons. Liszt is also seen with an Ipad.

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Himeno had this happen to her somewhere in the past.

** And again when Ryoshi punches the same guy in episode 5.

* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: A cover of Lazy's "Akazukin-chan Goyoujin" is the ending theme.

* [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud]]: In the first episode, "Staaaaare~".

* [[Saying Too Much]]: After her bout with [[Easy Amnesia]], Ryoko is walking home with Ringo. Ryoko informs Ringo that she doesn't remember anything from the time where she had regressed to her younger self. {{spoiler|When Ringo asks Ryoko if she's hungry, Ryoko tells her she's still full from the parfait she ate. Except she ate that parfait during the time she claims she can't remember. Ringo quickly realizes that Ryoko does indeed remember, and uses that information to blackmail her into wearing [[Hair Decorations|a cute little ribbon in her hair.]]}}

* [[Schoolgirl Rival]]: Otohime (the tortoise) and Mimi Usami (the hare), appropriately enough.

* [[She's Got Legs]]: Ryoko. One could wonder why she doesn't kick when fighting.

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Inverted, Ryoshi immediately confesses to Ryoko in episode 1. While the series goes on, she seems to lighten up a little bit, but still largely refuses to acknowledge anything between them. Ringo constantly calls her out on it and teases her about it as a result.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Hitsujikai has one.

*** Made even funnier considering their enemy, and the one who they were dressing up to undermine, is a pink haired loli with a sadistic streak, voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]].

** Otsu references her seiyuu's catch phrase, that [[Mahoromatic|"Dirty thoughts are bad!"]]

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Specifically in Episode 3, swear words are covered by Pig Squeals made by the narrator...

** Ami also counts. After being given an umbrella by one of the baseball players, she starts sneaking into his house to do chores/make dinner...and roll around in his bed and look at his girly mags. (Ringo, of course, finds this delightful in an even creepier way.)

* [[Stealth Hi Bye]]: Ringo does this at least once, and the club president does this as well occasionally.

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Majolica.

* [[Teenage Wasteland]]: Essentially Onigashima High School, complete with dust flying around and decrepit walls filled with graffiti.

* [[There Are No Adults]]: Well technically there are, but they're pretty nonexistent. Otherwise one would have to wonder how all these fights happen in the first place. Especially at Onigashima High School.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: Saburo attempts to teach this to Ryoshi, so as not to lose his cool in his fight with Shiro.

* [[Tsundere]]: Ryoko. The dub might actually bring [[Spice and Wolf|another tsundere wolf girl]] to mind, only with the tsuntsun turned up here.

** The three Tonda brothers, aka the [[Three Little Pigs]], invoke this trope with -bu and -buhi, then subvert it when the third one speaks normally.

* [[Whip It Good]]: Momoko.

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: You'd never know it, but Liszt is damn good at crossdressing. He even has a disturbingly good female voice for just such an occasion, and was good enough to [[Even the Guys Want Him|get the judo team on a group date with him.]]

** It's no wonder since said female voice is acted out by the seiyuu of [[K-On!|Ritsu]]

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