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'''''Omishi Magical Theatre: Risky☆Safety''''' is a particularly [[Needs More Love|underloved]] 1999-2000 [[Anime]] series based on a manga by [[Sorcerer Hunters|Ray]] [[Maze Megaburst Space|Omishi]], which has as its main selling point [[Tastes Like Diabetes|overpowering cuteness]].
Junior-high-schooler Moe Katsuragi is depressed upon seeing her crush with an older girl. The depths of her despair attract a [[Sleep Mode Size|tiny]] [[Shinigami]] named Risky, who will go to great lengths to capture her soul upon death. Risky gets as far as her initial pitch, which causes Moe to laugh... prompting Risky to disappear and the sudden appearance of equally tiny [[Our Angels Are Different|apprentice angel]] Safety. Turns out that the pair [[Sharing a Body|share the body]].
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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: For both Risky and Safety. In this case, Safety's hair color is changed from blue in the manga to cyan ([[Hair Color Dissonance|or green, depending on the viewer]]) in the anime, while Risky's outfit, crimson in the manga, becomes grey.
* [[Balloon Belly]]: Risky, whenever she [[Big Eater|indulges her appetite]].
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: The final arc of the series had The Moment of Destiny dramatically altering character's fates, and to some extent their personalities. Some characters, Safety included, are willing to give up and accept the changes, but...
** [[Screw Destiny]]: Risky sets her straight with this trope.
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* [[Big Breasts, Big Deal]]: Suzuko is embarrassed when Kotone tells Moe (in episode 11) that Suzuko's bust measurement is 88-E - that's a North American 35-D. Keep in mind that all three girls are still in junior high school, and thus no older than 14 (and might only be 12).
* [[Big Eater]]: Risky, apparently.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: ''Moe'', surprisingly enough.
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: {{spoiler|After successfully beating their destinies, Risky and Safety inform Moe that they have to return to their superiors now to await punishment. They vanish, telling her not to cry and that they'll always be friends. They return in the end though, presumably to spend the rest of Moe's life with her.}}
* [[Cultural Cross-Reference]]:
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** Additionally, two episode titles are references to the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' series (and the episodes themselves take place at what the angelic location system calls "Point T-[[James Bond|007]]"). Ray Omishi must ''really'' like American movies.
* [[Cute Little Fang]]: Risky has one. Just one.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: For Risky, at least. She receives increasingly-irritated nastygrams from her superiors over her failed scams for Moe's soul. {{spoiler|Averted in the final story arc, where Risky is the first to successfully [[Screw Destiny]].}}
* [[Fan Service Pack]]: Risky is shown in episodes 14 and 15 as being much more... ample.
* [[Flash Forward]]: In-universe, in episode 13. Future-Yuya and future-Moe have time to tell their present selves one short sentence each before they disappear; they use that opportunity to {{spoiler|foreshadow the anime's final story arc - not that it helps any}}.
* [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]]: Again, Risky. During the aforementioned episodes 14 and 15, her clothing really accentuated her bust.
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** Moe is voiced by [[Maaya Sakamoto]] in Japanese and [[Julie Ann Taylor]] in English.
** In the original Japanese, Fazzy is played by [[Yuri Shiratori]] and Suzuko is played by a then-up-and-coming [[Yui Horie]].
** In the dub, Risky and Safety have different actresses. One of them is [[
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Risky delivers one of these to Safety near the end, when she's ready to give up and just let her friend's destinies get rewritten.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In one episode, Safety wonders what if she never gets rid of the spell the love arrow has on Lani, and then supposes she might be forced to marry him. She then has a random vision of herself and Lani being married, then to the two of them in a hotel, and then just as the vision stops Safety starts panicking, saying "I don't even want to think about what comes after ''that''!"
* [[Growing the Beard|Growing the Goatee]]: The final six episodes are more serious in tone (though not ''overly'' so), featuring a mythical entity called the [[Because Destiny Says So|Moment of Destiny]] that dramatically alters the leads' personalities, fates, and even their memories.
* [[Genre Shift]]: The [[Fractured Fairy Tale]] which turns into a [[Space Opera]], mentioned below, and one episode even is played out like a
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: The DVDs include dubbing out-takes.
** [[Curse Cut Short]]: One out-take has [[Sandy Fox]] messing up her line, and saying, "Aw, cra-!" before it cuts off.
* [[In Love with the Mark]]:
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Lani the Pomeranian is in love with both Risky ''and'' Safety, thanks to Safety accidentally shooting him with a love arrow. Needless to say, it's unrequited.
* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: Safety is extremely polite and always uses an appropriate honorific when talking to someone. On the other hand, Risky is the exact opposite: she is ''very'' rude and ''never'' uses honorifics.
* [[Les Yay]], with a dash of [[Foe Yay]]: There's people who ship Risky and Safety as a couple. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrWoZCkmpjc No, really] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWDCpHgCNPo (may contain spoilers)].
** Also, Moe's friends Suzuko and Kotone. Come on, there ''has'' to be something going on there...
** As well as Risky and
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* [[Lucky Charms Title]]
* [[Meganekko]]: Safety, and occasionally Moe.
** [[Blind Without'Em]]: Again, Safety.
* [[Moe]]: [[Meaningful Name|Take a wild guess.]] Applies to most of the cast, come to think of it.
* [[Naked First Impression|<s>Naked</s>
* [[Odd Couple]]: Risky and Safety, although a variation, as they don't live with each other, but [[Sharing a Body|share each other's body]].
* [[One Head Taller]]: Moe is a head taller than her boyfriend, Yuya. {{spoiler|She has to bend down a bit to kiss him in the second-to-last episode.}}
* [["On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase]]: This changes slightly depending on who's delivering the line. Risky uses "Yoroshiku, baby!" while Safety reads the line straighter, but
* [[Purple Eyes]]: Risky. Moe too, but hers are more bluish.
* [[Sharing a Body]]: The gimmick behind the series.
* [[Shinigami]]: Risky, who has a lot of skull motifs in her clothing, is a cross between the "[[Grim Reaper]]" and "[[Good Angel, Bad Angel|shoulder devil]]" portrayals.
* [[Something Completely Different]]: Done
* [[Shout-Out]]s:
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Wakatake, one of the Momotaros, and Kade, a shinigami.▼
** Episode 8: "[[Golgo 13|Sniper Risky 13]]"
** Episode 13: "... like [[The Phantom Menace|Queen Amidala and Anakin]]"
** Episode 14:
*** The entire episode is a shout-out to the Legend of [[w:Momotarō|Momotarō]].
*** One of the green-haired bikini-wearing oni in Risky's group looks remarkably like [[Urusei Yatsura|Lum]].
*** The Momotaro spaceships look like they're on loan from [[Star Trek|Starfleet]], while the oni space fighters "Tiger Horns" are reminiscent of [[Space Cruiser Yamato|"Cosmo Tigers"]].
** Episode 15:
*** "[[Mobile Suit Gundam|Minovsky particles]]"
*** Safety's "Ama Kakeru Tenshi no Hirameki Cathartic Wave" is suspiciously similar to "[[Rurouni Kenshin|Ama Kakeru Ryu no Hirameki]]".
** Episode 19: Terry shares an outfit, verbal tic, and favourite food with [[Fatal Fury|Terry Bogard]].
▲* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]:
* [[Sweet Dreams Fuel]]: This is definitely a "healing" anime.
* [[The Woobie]]: Fazzy, in her little arc. Arguably Moe as well.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Fazzy's mini-arc. {{spoiler|Risky and Safety's seemingly-final goodbye to Moe.}}
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* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: It's not obvious that Risky is female at first glance. Maybe that's why she's often [[Les Yay|shipped with Safety]].
** Although some people [[Girls Love|still ship her]] with Safety, even ''after'' [[The Reveal]]...
** The dub was apparently confused too, referring to Risky as "he," "him" and as "Mister Shinigami" in a few episodes before switching to female pronouns after it was apparent she was a girl. This was done deliberately to preserve the surprise of [[The Reveal]] in the absence of the gender-neutral pronouns used in the Japanese version (even though that [[Naked First Impression|Underwear First Impression]] mentioned above showed Risky wearing bloomers).
* [[The Voiceless]]: Yuya's classmate, even when she gets [[A Day in the Limelight]] - that episode is presented as a [[Silent Movie]].
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]: Safety.
* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: {{spoiler|Ultimately averted.}}
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Safety in both the anime and manga versions.
** Though it's more of a [[Green Is Blue|greenish-blue]] shade in the anime.
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