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That's just the beginning. Rebecca's class consists of six students and several cloned extras, and she also has to deal with the general mayhem that ensues at Momotsuki Academy. Did we mention that she's accompanied by a mopey, luckless rabbit named Mesousa, and is being monitored by aliens? Then there's the strange cat-like creature who claims to be a god, likes to hide in vending machines and keep the sodas warmed-over with his body heat, and seems to be following Rebecca and her class...

 

 

Originally licensed by the fine folks at [[ADV Films]], now licensed by [[FUNimation]].

 

* [[Actor Allusion]]:

*** He also briefly turns into [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Keel Lorenz]], also voiced by Mugihito.

** Episode 8 is entirely about Behoimi as she comes to realise that she's not a real magical girl.

** Episode 19 is almost entirely about Class D.

* [[Affectionate Parody]]

* [[The Alcoholic]]:

'''Miss Igarashi''': No, actually, it was this morning. }}

* [[All-Star Cast]]: ''Both dub versions''.

* [[And the Rest]]:

'''Rei''': That's efficient. }}

* [[Animated Actors]]

* [[Art Shift]]

* [[Aside Glance]]: Almost everyone, but the most common one of doing this is Ichijou.

* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: Two Words: Tsurugi Inugami. He's got a cool name, but is he a badass? Not really.

* [[Back From the Dead]]: Some characters die from time to time. And then they come back in the next episode, [[Negative Continuity|and the issue is never mentioned.]]

** Mesousa would also fall under this, what with all kinds of slapstick hijinx happening to him.

* [[Bishounen]]: Shu Momose and [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Tsurugi Inugami]].

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Himeko's 'Maho' is as much this as it is a [[Verbal Tic]]. Also, Sayaka's "X of the year".

** Also, Becky enjoys reminding people in a plaintive whine that "I'm a teacher!"

* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]: While most of the jokes are based around Japanese pop culture and anime, there are moments where people like Colonel Sanders and Chuck Norris are mentioned.

** Among ''many'' others. This is, after all, Studio SHAFT.

** Episode 15 has Himeko imagining their bus crashing onto the [[Discworld]]

* [[Curtain Camouflage]]

* [[Custom Uniform]]

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: Akane Serizawa. Media gets them in the OVA.

'''Old Geezer''': What a damn buncha cowards. }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Tsurugi Inugami and Rei Tachibana.

* [[Deliberately Monochrome]]: One episode had a segment that was possibly inspired by ''Schindler's List'', where everything was black and white except for the girls' uniform ties and Mesousa's bandana.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The United States Defense Department of Defense.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Happens in episode 25.

* [[Fluffy Tamer]]: Misao Nanjo. See [[Friend to All Living Things]].

* [[For the Evulz]]: Taeko, the Jinx Trainee, plants a bomb on Mesousa because she's training to make people be unhappy. She even asks him if she's doing a good job at making him unhappy. She's very polite about it.

** In the OVA, there's a [[Funny Background Event|Blink And You'll Miss It]] scene that shows one of the twins cosplaying as [[Soul Eater|Maka]].

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Misao Nanjo is an extreme animal lover with many, ''many'' exotic pets that she often brings to school, ranging from crocodiles to giraffes to kangaroos. In one [[Jidai Geki|episode]], she's convinced her father is a fish.

* [[Gonk]]: Yankee is the trope picture, [[Verbal Tic|dotcom]].

* [[Great Detective]]: Himeko dresses up and ''acts'' like [[Sherlock Holmes]] in the OVA.

* [[Greek Chorus]]: The aliens.

* [[Hair Colors]]

*** Also, Rukia now has an ahoge and blue hair, as well as being the resident idiot.

** [[Hidamari Sketch|Yoshinoya]] is now combat [[Meido]] [[Miyu Matsuki|Media]].

* [[Innocent Prodigy]]: Becky.

* [[Jerkass]]: Suzune, Becky, Miyako and Rei.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[Sure Why Not|Just because she can]], Ichijo creates the "Ichijo Festival", {{spoiler|which is basically an entire universe existing within a fruit box. It later ends up being a threat to the entire planet, so it's up to Class 1-C to put a stop to it.}} Does anyone ever blame Ichijo for creating it or try to punish her for it? '''HELL NO.'''

** She does get pulled out from the scene in case she ruins an emotional scene. She also indeed has slapsticky moments every once in a while.

* [[Name's the Same]]: Sayaka Suzuki happens to also be the name of a singer in real life.

** Also Rei Tachibana here is not [[Kagaku Sentai Dynaman|Dyna Pink]].

* [[Negative Continuity]]: Surprisingly averted for a comedy series. There's a lot of handwaving, but a lot of plot elements from earlier episodes are referenced in later ones.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Rei. More so in the manga than in the anime.

** The characters themselves DO break the fourth wall in recognizing every once in a while that they're in a show -- such as Himeko crashing into the camera in the first episode, Becky mentioning the number of episodes left near the end of the series and Kurumi hearing, then talking to the narrator in episode 23.

** From the first episode:

* [[No Name Given]]: The Alien Captain and his subordinates, and also lampshaded. One scene confirms that they ''have'' names, they just don't use them.

* [[Only Six Faces]]

** He also likes eat living cans with his VERY long prehensile tongue. Also, the cans '''scream for their life!'''

* [[Precision F-Strike]]

** And then there's Nanjo and Serizawa calling each other bitches in the English dub of episode 19.

* [[Princess Curls]]: Misao Nanjo.

** And to add more [[Fetish Fuel]], she has [[Zettai Ryouiki]].

** ''Otome''. She sure shows them in one of the cards on the ED theme for the 18th episode.

* [[Something About a Rose]]: Nanjo's face is perpetually framed by roses in one episode. The frame even ''follows her around'' as she moves.

* [[Stylistic Self Parody]]

** Even when she's not SD, it's a rare occasion when Ichijo's face isn't locked in a noseless SD expression with black circles for eyes.

* [[Supreme Chef]]: Rei is a damn good cook. She can make any Chinese food with enough firewood. After all, Chinese food is all about firepower! She's even good at substituting ingredients in a pinch. Poor giant salamander....

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyZVcugd3D8 Shoujo Q]

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Episode 1.

'''Alien Subordinate''': "[[Lampshade Hanging|Let me give you some time to think up a better excuse.]]" }}

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: In the OVA, Media and Behoimi set up a booby-trap to prevent Team Fail from kicking the can. The trap consists of M18 Claymore anti-personnel mines, an infantry mortar, a grenade launcher, and two tactical robots [[BFG|(one mounted with a machine gun and another shaped like a small tank)]], all sensor-activated. Once again, this was all to stop the other team from kicking a can.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: There are at least three:

** Serizawa and Kuruzu fits the trope the most.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Several, particularly Himeko, who is possibly ''the'' example. "Himeko Katagiri, maho!"

** Can't forget about her habit of attaching "omega-" and, less frequently, "mach-" to words.

** Yankee likes to add "dotcom" to the end of his sentences.

** Kami-sama likes to add "nya" to the end of his sentences, the same for the giant salamander and "kero".

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Sayaka does an Argentine Backbreaker in the dreamworld. Everyone else present is rather unimpressed that this was the most fantastic special attack she could think of, since they were shooting forehead lasers and [[Chest Blaster|boob missiles]].

** Serizawa/Roboko does a German Suplex at one point.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: When Class 1-C contracts a mysterious virus, Rebecca and Class 1-D attempt to find the original carrier. Unfortunately, 1-D starts trying to use [[Mystery Tropes]] to find him/her, blaming Akira for being a minor character and thus the one everyone would least suspect, and then Rebecca herself for bringing up the whole issue in the first place, and thus also the one everyone would least suspect.

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: Just when Mesousa is being respected and celebrated by Becky and her students for supposedly shrinking Ichijo's little sister back to normal, the space aliens [[Retcon]] the entire scene to cover their own mistake, relegating the rabbit back to [[Butt Monkey]] status.

* [[You Are Number Six]]: Sayaka is sometimes referred to as "Number 6" or "Rokugou" due to being the sixth girl named Suzuki at the school.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: Kurumi, Yuma.

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