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[[File:1151084756893-resized.jpg|frame|From L to R: Kululu, Tamama, Keroro, Giroro, and Dororo. For simplicity's sake, the ''[[Loads and Loads of Characters|enormous]]'' supporting cast is omitted.]]
{{quote|''What are you talking about? I'm just a slightly overgrown and slightly mischievous normal frog. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|I've never even thought about invading Pekopon.]]''}}
Originating as a gag-manga by Mine Yoshizaki, published in ''Shonen Ace'' starting in 1999, and every bit as goofy as its English title, ''Sergeant Frog'' would suggest, '''''Keroro Gunsou''''' is the story of a not-so typical Japanese family and the alien frogs who turned their lives upside-down.
When pre-teen paranormalist Fuyuki Hinata (age 12) and his tomboyish sister Natsumi (age 13 in the anime, 14 in the manga) discover an alien in Fuyuki's bedroom, it's just the beginning of their troubles. This alien, Sergeant Keroro, is the leader of a recon team for an alien invasion from Keron, "the 58th Planet of the Gamma Nebula". But once his superiors realize he's been found out, they abort the mission and leave him and his crew behind. With no one else to turn to, Keroro ends up staying at the Hinata house with Fuyuki, Natsumi, and their [[Hot Mom]] Aki, living as something between a servant and a pet.
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Rounding out the cast is an assortment of eccentric humanoids, including Momoka Nishizawa, bi-polar scion of a multi-billion-dollar international corporation who hangs out with Tamama and has a serious crush on Fuyuki; Mutsumi Saburo, a smooth talking poet/artist/radio show host who hangs out with Kululu; Koyuki Azumaya, [[New Transfer Student]] and [[Ninja]] girl who hangs out with Dororo and is a [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|rather close]] friend of Natsumi; and Angol Moa/Mois, a ditzy alien girl who has a crush on Keroro and the power to destroy an entire city block with literally a fraction of her power ([[Calling Your Attacks|"Armageddon One Ten-Millionth!"]]).
Insanely popular in Japan, the manga was eventually released in North America in 2004 by Tokyopop, with the title ''Sgt. Frog''. An anime adaptation naturally followed, also begun in 2004. In November 2006, [[ADV Films]] announced that they had acquired the rights to the anime version. However, after nearly two years without a single word on the project save for a couple of trailers, [[
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* [[Action Girl]]: Nearly every main female character will qualify occasionally, if not regularly.
* [[Action Mom]]: Aki. Moreso, {{spoiler|Momoka's mother and Dororo's Mom.}}.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Giroro's voice actor also played Leonidas in the Japanese dub of ''[[300]]'', which is quite appropriate, as they are both [[Badass]] warriors or violent, cryptofascist lunatics [[Alternate Character Interpretation|depending on your point of view]]. At one point Giroro even utters [[
** In a similar vein, Dororo once executed an [[Energy Ball]] in the exact same manner as a basketball shot, uttering the line "[[Slam Dunk|the left hand is only for support]]"...
** And Garuru, whose voice actor was previously Anavel Gato of [[Gundam]] 0083, is known to carry weapons identical to those of Anavel's GP02 Physalis.
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* [[Alien Among Us]]: ...well, that's kind of the ''idea''. There are other aliens on Earth besides the Keroro Platoon, though.
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: Even in the original, Pekoponian media saturates the lives of aliens, though in the dub this is exaggerated. There's even a [[Galaxy Quest]] reference, where the Keronians believe [[Star Trek]] episodes are the actual documented voyages of a real Enterprise.
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: Momoka likes Fuyuki, Chiruyo likes Fuyuki, Alisa likes Fuyuki, Fuyuki likes... being nice? Natsumi likes Mutsumi, Giroro likes Natsumi, Koyuki likes Natsumi, Tamama likes Keroro, Mois like Keroro, Keroro likes his Gundam models, Bariri likes Pururu.. and the list goes on, including situations involving one
** Played straight to hilarious results in episode 320.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: About half the time, when it's not parodied to hell and back.
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Natsumi's 'school rival' [[Princess Curls|Imogo]] [[Noblewoman's Laugh|Rie]].
* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Several different cases. See [[Canon Discontinuity]] below for one; there's also the {{spoiler|Kappa friend of the Ghost Girl, implied to be Keronian}}.
* [[Anticlimax]]: All through the Episode 101-103 arc, it was being set that there was going to be a huge epic showdown between Dororo and Zoruru. Of course, right when it was going to begin, Dororo revealed that he didn't remember Zoruru, and well, Zoruru just left. '''HE JUST LEFT'''.
**
** This gets played for laughs too, several times. In the fourth movie, {{spoiler|the climax sees Keroro willingly undergoing the ritual to evolve himself into a dragon, and Shion starts reciting from the spellbook, as Keroro starts to glow and the music slowly builds up -- so slowly that Keroro catches a cold first}}.
* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Rabbie/[[Spell My Name with an "S"|Lavie]].
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* [[Berserk Button]]: You hurt Natsumi, Prepare to be filled with bullets by Giroro.
** Also, Tamama/Momoka are Berzerk ''Keyboards''!
** And
*** And when some visiting aliens broke some of his models:
{{quote|Keroro: 'What flavour is your blood?!'}}
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** And on Keron, the platoon is a super duper popular cash cow... but they didn't actually know this until they got letters from Keronian kids on New Year's. ''Somebody'''s really rich, but it sure as Hell isn't them.
* [[Mildly Military]]: Done intentionally, the squad is lazy and incompetent, and their only oversight is the reports Keroro has to send back to his superiors, in which he [[Blatant Lies|lies outrageously]].
▲* [[The Minnesota Fats]]: Giroro's brother, Lieutenant Garuru.
* [[Mobile Suit Human]]: The Keronians run around in these when they need to be seen in public.
** Kululu's female Pekoponian suits (to date, Kululuko and a faux-Natsumi loaned to Sumomo) fit more closely, placing the Keronian pilot entirely within the torso instead of leaving the head exposed to allow for a more realistic human appearance—despite being quite unnecessary (see [[Paper-Thin Disguise]] below).
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** Episode 133 features a rapid succession of heavy hitters going down for the count, thanks to {{spoiler|Alisa Southerncross}}.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Taruru knows all of the tropes, but he's a little mixed up as to which ones apply to whom.
* [[
* [[You Would Make a Great Model]]: Tamama tries to discredit Angol Mois by posing as a sleazy camera man (with the help of a robotic exoskeleton) and telling her that she can become more "mature" by doing a photo shoot.
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