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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.]]
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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.▼
▲{{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.
Of course, Keroro is still an invader, and still plotting the downfall of "Pekopon" (his species' name for Earth in the anime -- [
Surprisingly, for a series that's not meant to be taken seriously, often has [[No Fourth Wall]], and is frequently brimming with pop-culture references, it has a lot of heart (which may be why they got [[Junichi Sato]] to direct the anime). Though it stops far short of being sappy, there are many heartwarming moments sprinkled in that sometimes constitute [[Tear Jerker]] material. It's still firmly in the comedy genre, though, and hence, occasionally brings these scenes to an abrupt halt with a quick joke.
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
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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* [[The Abridged Series]]: It's had a few, but [[Sgt Frog Abridged]] by [http://youtube.com/themidnightfrogs The Midnight Frogs] is the most popular and acclaimed.
** If it weren't for that whole "not actually abridged" thing, [[Gag Dub|the Funimation dub would be one itself]].
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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 ''[[
** 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.
** And Urere, who gets an entire story lampooning ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'', which features his voice actor [[Toshihiko Seki]] as Momotaros.
** AND Saburo's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pb_E0v7vZQ break-in in Episode 9] wasted no time taking advantage of the fact that he was voiced by [[Akira Ishida]] to make an extended [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] [[Shout
** Also from Saburo in episode 298, a reference was made to Akira Ishida's role as Xellos from [[Slayers]], with Saburo using his catchphrase, "[[Classified Information|That is a secret!]]"
** It is particularly amusing to read the manga with Giroro speaking with [[
*** And, of course, the actual dub has had fun with the fact that Giroro is in fact voiced by Christopher Sabat, who was Vegeta (and Piccolo) in [[
** In episode 29, the octopus-like creature used to frighten the newspaper club in the manga is replaced with an obvious Ryo-ohki reference (Ryo-ohki being one of the first characters voiced by [[Etsuko Kozakura]]).
** Pururu's birthdate is exactly the same as her voice actress.
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** In the dub, Lavie's TV show is called [[Gunslinger Girl|"Gunbringer Girl"]], and it's described as being about "a cyborg child assassin who always brings her gun with her everywhere." Mois (Carrie Savage) thinks the title and the premise sound familiar - her actress having had a minor role on ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''.
** Another dub one: In one episode, Keroro meets Space Kumiko Watanabe and gets her autograph. He says he wishes [[Todd Haberkorn|the guy who does her roles in English]] was as nice to fans as she is.
* [[
* [[An Aesop]]: Early episodes had the Narrator end every episode with one of these, which eventually descended into [[Spoof Aesop
** Episode 10: Brush your teeth. Not to combat cavities, but to {{spoiler|[[Space Whale Aesop|combat an alien menace that sets up bases in your teeth]]}}.
* [[Affably Evil]]: The Vipers tend to be depicted this way, despite supposedly being the sworn enemy of the Keronian race - in fact, they've been shown to have a soft spot for Keronian children. [[Harmless Villain|Also they tend to fail as much as our heroes.]]
** For beings who destroy planets for a living, the Angols are pretty damned nice.
* [[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 [[
* [[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]] [[
* [[Amusing Alien]]
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: Several different cases. See [[Canon
* [[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
* [[The Aristocrats]] (the dub of episode 18 has Koyuki attempting and failing to tell the joke)
* [[Arm Cannon]]: All of the Vipers have one. A parody of ''[[Space Adventure Cobra]]'' and his psychogun.
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* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Zoruru, who not only has a robot arm and leg, but ''an entire half of his body and head'' too.
* [[Art Shift]]: Momoka tends to commit this during her plans to get closer to Fuyuki, who appears in a deliberate shojo manga art form, sometimes [[Lampshaded]] by the Narrator. Similarly with Tamama turning psychotic.
* [[Ascended Extra]]: In the manga, Sumomo was a character from a one-shot side story loosely connected to the main comic. In the anime, she was remade into an alien Idol Singer who was taking an impromptu vacation on Earth in her first appearance, and eventually became a recurring character. Interestingly, the show seems aware of this, as some characters only appear between long stretches of episodes, prompting the narrator to cheerfully jog the viewer's memory.
* [[Asleep for Days]]: Happens to Keroro in the 100th chapter, "The Frog That Lost New Year's", after partying a little too hard on New Year's Eve.
* [[Ass Kicks You]]: In episode 175, Fuyuki, Keroro, and Giroro shrink so they can swim in a kiddie pool. Everything goes fine, [[Oh Crap|until Natsumi and Koyuki show up and jump in the pool.]] Fuyuki and Keroro get tossed around and generally battered...but Giroro? Natsumi ends up sitting on him, ''complete with crunching sounds and poor Giroro groaning in pain.'' '''Ouch.'''
* [[Attack of the 50
* [[Author Appeal]]: It's a Mine Yoshizaki manga. What do you expect?
* [[Author Avatar]]: One of manga editor Aki Hinata's employees is called Yoshizaki-sensei, referring to Mine Yoshizaki (who used to work with ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'' creator Katsu '''Aki'''). This character goes on to appear onscreen several times, including one scene in the third movie where he's enthusiastically sketching Dark Keroro's flying fortress.
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* [[Beach Episode]]: Several, to [[Fan Service|gratuitous use]].
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: '''Side 6''', an underground city that acts as refuge for all alien immigrants on Earth, but otherwise looks exactly like any street-level environment. {{spoiler|Turns out that not only is it really a massive space battleship buried underground, but it combines with Side 1 through 5 to form a [[Humongous Mecha]]!}}
* [[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:
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** The "animal animalizer" episode featured some crows who attack Sarge after he mentions he's into Gundam - crows hate Gundam, since everybody knows ''[[Macross]]'' is where it's at!
** Don't ever hurt Keroro in front of Mois. She's got the power to destroy the entirety of the planet in her hands (although she does downsize her power when it comes to teaching those who harm Keroro a lesson, thankfully!)
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** Episode 133 has a rare case of Tamama leading the [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment {{spoiler|to rescue practically everyone else from Alisa Southerncross}}.
** The fourth movie has Aki doing this in a Citroen 2CV.
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Keroro has so much determination every once in a while, he grows giant eyebrows to display it.
** Giroro's father has actual [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]].
* [[Biker Babe]]: Aki and her motorcycle can outrun anything. ANYTHING. It seems Fuyuki inherited just enough of this to outrun alien missiles on a bicycle in the second movie, BEFORE activating the [[Nitro Boost]].
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In the Japanese version, Tamama is filled with 嫉妬/しっと, pronounced [[Toilet Humor|"shitto"]] and meaning jealousy/envy. He makes some sort of energy ball with his feelings and shooting it towards someone who angered him. The ball [[Carrying a Cake|never reaches its destination though]], and usually [[Hoist
** Which on one occasion led to the use of [[Gratuitous English]] which led to
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Arguably, each of the Keroro Platoon is perfectly matched up with another major character. Keroro to Fuyuki, Tamama to Momoka, Giroro to Natsumi, Kululu to Mutsumi, and Dororo to Koyuki.
** Fuyuki mentioned in the manga that Tamama and Mois were like [[Birds of a Feather]] since they both didn't overthink their actions when trying to save others or going Berserk.
* [[Bishonen]]: Saburo
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Keronians like humidity, but too much makes them... drunk?
* [[Bland
** The Gundam ripoff seen occasionally, Dangale, is another example of this trope, but not to Gundam itself. It looks virtually identical to a real life Gundam knockoff called Gungal (And a more proper romanization would be "Dungal"), only with a different name and slightly goofier proportions. The manga actually used the Gungal name itself, rather than Dungal/Dangale. Hilariously, one of Keroro's model kits actually was released with a miniature Dungal as an accessory.
* [[Bleached Underpants]]: Sort of. Space Policewoman Poyon-chan began her career in one of Yoshizaki's doujins, wearing only her UFO skirt and three small adhesive stars. Yoshizaki himself is much in demand as a pin-up artist (see his book Mine Blue for examples).
* [[The Blind Leading the Blind]]: happens whenever our heroes get to explain things about Earth to other aliens. Episode 291 in particular involves Nevula getting the wrong idea about the ''onsen'' from Giroro and Kululu.
* [[Blue
* [[Book Ends]]: The third movie open with a recap of important anime scenes like Keroro being discovered by Fuyuki and Natsumi; then ends with {{spoiler|Dark Keroro being discovered by ''Space Fuyuki and Space Natsumi''.}}
* [[Bratty Half
** Through flashbacks and Kululu's age manipulation beam gun, we learn that Fuyuki [[Older and Wiser|used to be]] the brattiest of them all.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: Tamama's "Tamama Impact".
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]:
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Giroro, usually at the hands of Kululu.
** Runners up include Keroro, usually at the doing of Natsumi or Giroro, and Dororo, by most other characters.
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* [[The Cameo]]: [[Kaiketsu Zorori|Zorori, Ishishi and Noshishi]] appear briefly in the first movie, with Zorori [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] their out-of-nowhere appearance.
* [[Cannot Spit It Out]]: Momoka to Fuyuki.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Koyuki is like this in the English dub of episode 18, judging by her failed attempt to tell the joke about [[The Aristocrats]]. When they return to the beach a year later to compete in the comedy contest again, she's improved a
** [[Birds of a Feather|Dororo too]], to a greater extent.
* [[Canon
** To be fair, that episode actually ended with a [[Hand Wave]] disclaimer.
** A recent ep details elementary-school Momoka's original [[Crash Into Hello]] with Fuyuki, who didn't see her coming as he was busy reading a book... wait... wasn't he the [[Bratty Half
*** The bratty Fuyuki is younger than the Fuyuki that Momoka met. Although the anime changes the events slightly to make Momoka and Fuyuki meet earlier than in the manga version of the story (from one week to at least several months or even years before), the Fuyuki that she meets in the anime still is older and taller than the bratty one.
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: Several characters later in the series appeared in the anime before the manga, most notably Pururu and the casts of the 2nd and 4th movies. Of course, all those characters were originally created by Mine Yoshizaki anyway.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Baio and Ouka Nishizawa. In an early episode, Baio and Paul fought using techniques similar to [[Street Fighter]] characters Ryu and Ken while talking about their past rivalry. That short scene could be seen as a simple [[Shout
** There was also the briefly seen, but also the most obvious example, Eddy Honda to Street Fighter's Edmond Honda. Eddy Honda was a sumo fighter competing in the street fighting tournament and was defeated by the younger Ouka. He even fought in a location resembling the actual Honda's Street Fighter II stage and had the same voice actor as Edmond Honda from the Street Fighter II animated movie.
** In-universe ''non-character example'' - the Nishizawa radio tower to the [[Tokyo Tower]]. It helps that the NPG can afford to build a new one. Which they've done a few times.
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: The Great Resonance, which the Keroro Platoon discovers completely by accident in episode 155, is used to power up the God Keron's final attack against the Keromet in episode 203.
* [[The Chew Toy]]: Keroro's regular failure to complete his plans of world domination or even ''his household chores'' result in him getting grabbed by the head, smacked, punched, shoved into the wall, kicked across the room ([[What Do You Mean
* [[Clean Cut|Clean]]/DiagonalCut: Dororo seems to be a master of this.
* [[
** [[Lampshaded]] by the manga, when Fuyuki said that he was "just 12(?) years old" in a later volume.▼
** Irregularly contradicted by the anime itself, which is also the biggest offender due to the number of holiday and anniversary episodes. Paul, in Episode 92, mentions that Momoka's birth was commemorated 13 years ago, and Natsumi was said to be 14 in the second movie, which means that the entire cast aged at least one year. There are also various references to the Keroro platoon spending years on Earth and vague comments about the human characters getting older. However, official guidebooks still keep everyone's starting ages and school years as the only official ones.▼
*** The newest databook for the manga (as of volume 23) actually said that the human characters had aged one year since the start of the series, breaking away from the manga's previous references to the lack of aging of the human cast.▼
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Keroro's ceiling fan. Seriously, how is THAT the only thing?
** Most of the closing credits sequences utilise cel-shaded CGI.
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* [[Creepy Monotone]]: Kululu, who gets inexplicably high pitched when he gets particularly excited about something (usually terrible or destructive), which actually makes him even creepier.
** There's also the Keronian resonance ritual, which acts as a bonding ritual of caramaderie between fellow countrymen far from home, but to anyone else [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_CVXG0iyA it sounds like a satanic cult initiation...]
* [[Cross
** Keroro averts this in the Funi dub. Of course, in both versions Tamama and Fuyuki are voiced by women.
* [[Crossover]]: Aside from all the references and homages to other work, ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' has had several crossovers with other series which had direct participation from Mine Yoshizaki in their production.
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*** In the single volume of the 'Space X Jyubei' manga, the last chapter is actually a complete crossover with Keroro, featuring not only Keroro, but also Fuyuki and Natsumi in main roles.
** Angol Fear, Mois' cousin, debuted in ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' IV, but her backstory always referenced Keroro, mentioning Mois, who'd come to Earth after her. She eventually would go on to appear in the ''[[Keroro Gunso]]'' manga itself.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: There is a reason Sgt. Keroro is the leader even though he ''appears'' to be a fool. Threaten (or worse, actually hurt) his squadmates or his adoptive family, and there's no force in the universe that will stop him, {{spoiler|as the Garuru Platoon found out}}. Or just get him too wet. See [[Berserk Button]] far above.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj31e-jVgyc Video here,] from Episode 103, unfortunately sans subtitles. Complete with [[Transformation Sequence]] and [[Theme Music Power
** Fuyuki has a bit of this
*** In one chapter of the manga, the platoon goes way too far by converting some old Children's Day carp flags (which Fuyuki considered a family heirloom) into invasion weapons. Fuyuki snaps, prompting Natsumi to genuinely panic, and Kululu quickly zaps him with the age reduction beam. Child!Fuyuki promptly ''takes charge of the invasion''.
* [[Crowded Cast Shot]]: Several events in later episodes routinely reunite at least one member of each alien race shown in the series up to that point, although most only return as background cameos.
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* [[Darkskinned Blonde]]: Mois in human form and Asami.
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Tamama's "Deathblow 9000".
* [[Deep
* [[Depraved Dentist]]: Do not, under any circumstances, let Kululu near your mouth.
** It's a bit ironic when we briefly see his mouth filled with rotten teeth in episode 310.
*** At the end of the Caries War episode, it's revealed that Keronian teeth will all drop out and replace themselves several times (for humans it only happens ''once''), [[Fridge Brilliance|which sheds a little light on Kululu's attitude (saving the teeth is not a priority)]].
* [[Development Gag]]: In episode 12-B of the English dub, Kululu accidentally calls Giroro "Giro"
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Where is Mr. Hinata? He seemingly returns at the end of the anime, though the reason for his unspoken absence remains a mystery.
* [[Did We Just Have Tea
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The Drill Episode. Just... the Drill Episode.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uleYO-Zt1pA Tamama rubbing a balloon.]
* [[Do
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: In the manga when one of Tamama's attempts to discredit Mois not only ends in failure but results in Mois trying to console him without knowing what she is consoling him about.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Aki Hinata has a car as well. She is already known as a terror on the mountain roads in the series and is implied to have traversed miles of implausible terrain in a Citroen 2CV in the fourth movie.
* [[Drop the Washtub]]: Seen in a few episodes.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: Too many to count. However, "Afro Gunsou" seems to have a special place stuck in people's heads.
** Just go talk to people and not add "De Arimasu" mentally to every statement. I dare you!
* [[Easily
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: And Elaborate Bedroom, thanks to some [[Applied Phlebotinum]].
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: An enormous black hole dragon, composed by milions of smaller negative matter dragons, which appears in one of the show's final episodes (7th season), easily slaughtering the combined force of the Keronian army. Of course, the series doesn't end with it destroying the universe. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|So, somehow, it's defeated.]]
* [[Energy Ball]]: Tamama's Jealously Ball.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]: Natsumi, who in addition to Koyuki has an entire female fan club at her school.
* [[
** Momoka gets recast as an actual princess in the ''Musha Kero'' storyline. She is [[The Ojou]], after all!
** Anime Sumomo displays some princess behavior in her first
** <s>Natsumi</s> Princess Summer in ''Keroro RPG''.
* [[Cute Kitten]]: Giroro's kitten.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: Kululu. KUU KU KU KUUUUUU!
* [[Evil Twin]]: Dark Keroro from the third movie.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Expy]]: There are many characters and inventions which are obvious homages to other works, from the more well known ones like Wettol King to Iron King and Ultraman or the Pekopon Invasion Machine resembling a green Gunbuster to the less well known and one shot ones, like the Abilika group from a 5th season episode to Time Bokan's trio of antagonists and their successors.
** In-universe examples: Dasonu* Maso is the unabashed bootleg version of Dance* Man (see [[Ink Suit Actor]] below).
** Yoga and Cyclone to Street Fighter's Dalshim and Zangief (and, in this later example, Ouka actually calls them rip offs and compare them to the original ones, or their unseen Captain Ersatz versions, whom she had faced before).
** Alongside those two, are one to Guile, in a rather absurd way. Oka actualy complaints about his Hairstyle not comparable to the original, and lie on the ground while the Guile expy are charging for Sonic Boom or Flash Kick, just like in the game.
** Let's not forget Saburo who is also an expy of [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Kaworu]], considering that the first time he visits the Hinata household, the ode to joy starts playing and everything is pretty clear from there.
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** Sumomo is probably the most obvious example. The last time her VA returns to do her character's voice is in the beginning of the third season. Afterwards, Sumomo only makes minor silent cameos or uses old audio.
** There's also an example with Danceman in the 5th season. He's shown in a far away shot of a concert, which uses stock audio.
* [[Fantastic Voyage]]: In episode 10, Keroro's mouth becomes infested with microscopic, cavity-causing aliens, and a good chunk of the rest
of the cast (including a robot duplicate of the sergeant mentally controlled by Keroro) shrinks down and enters his mouth to fight them off.
* [[Fartillery]]: Tamama, especially in later episodes.
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* [[Feet of Clay]]
* [[Festival Episode]]: The Keroro Platoon runs a series of stalls as part of their latest scheme to raise invasion funds. Natsumi gets them to leave by meeting their turtle-catching challenge.
* [[Five
* [[Flanderization]]: Ooooh boy... this is the ''purpose'' of the series!
* [[Forgotten Birthday]]: Keroro does this to Natsumi in one episode, while Fuyuki insists that Natsumi wouldn't enjoy it. Much to his chagrin, he finds his sister not only has a good time at the party, but completely fell for the Forgotten Birthday ploy.
* [[Foreign Fanservice]]: Recurring American character Melody Honey, originally from the much less popular (and understandably so) [[Arcade Gamer Fubuki]].
* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]: The Kero Ball and Angol Mois's Lucifer Spear gets used less and less each season. This gets [[Lampshaded]] in the third movie - both items are lost at different points, but recovered from the wreckage during the end credits.
** The 7th season of the anime attempted to reestablish the basic characters and setting of the show. As a result, both of these elements come to the forefront again. There are 3 episodes with the Keroball in the center of everything just in the first half of the season. That's more than in all of the first season!
*** The Lucifer Spear may be condemned to this [[Too Soon|after the earthquake of March 2011.]]
* [[Four
* [[Funny Afro]]: Anyone who survives an explosion will have their hair fried into this, with bonus sideburns and soul patch, in Keroro's case.
** A variant in episode 294: Paul's [[Mobile Shrubbery]] camouflage includes a ''massive'' green afro resembling a bush.
* [[Gag Dub]]: Funimation pretty much took the same approach as they did with ''[[
* [[Gag Series]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|...tell me it isn't.]]
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Dasonu*Maso is an in-universe example (again).
** On the [[Real Life]] front, this show is apparently extremely popular in France.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: A little-known gesture of implied rape in Japanese culture involves the Shogun grabbing the waistband of his consort and ripping it off so hard that she spins several circles and falls on the bed with her clothes splayed open. The second movie actually ''turns this into a running gag... with Giroro as the consort.''
** Drill episode. There is a reason why [[Double Standard Rape (Male
** This gem of a line from the dub, which makes sense in context in case you're wondering: "This DNA spilled out of your sack!"
** Another line from the dub, when Keroro becomes a teacher: "My name is Hugh, but you can call me Mr. Jass".
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** Netflix has the dubbed version of the show under ''children's TV'', making typical words like "bastard" in the dub more of this. Sure, it is categorized under 8 to 10 and 11 to 12 (tween audience), but still...
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|Giant Space Plant-based Moisture-hungry Seasonally-Appearing Creature... Thing From Nowhere]]
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Giroro.
* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Thanks to a special Gashapon machine. In the anime, the first time, it's used by Keroro to steal Natsumi's body, but the situation ends up closer to [[Freaky Friday Flip]] when he is dragged to help her classmates. The manga's story turned out differently though. Either way, it seemed like a one-off item, but it returned in the 6th season. Keroro's mother disappears with Natsumi's body and even convinces Giroro to go on a date with her. There were also incidents involving Momoka and Keroro and {{spoiler|Tamama and Fuyuki, when Tamama decides to use Fuyuki's body to approach Keroro and even attempts to kiss him... although he made a mistake}}. In the later episodes, the voice actors stay with the bodies, only following the personalities for internal monologues.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Oddly enough, Keroro and Giroro wind up delivering more of this than the [[Foreign Fanservice]] character.
** [[Engrish]]: Once scene involving Tamama's Jealousy Ball has its proper Japanese name, 'Shittou Ball', written in the background in
*** On a less hilarious level, Momoka's swimsuit from the first beach episode is "Qute".
** The dub invokes this in episode 4: "Buubii Torappu?"
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* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Angol Mois in the dub, probably because to a western viewer her tan complexion immediately suggests Latin heritage.
** And then lampshaded when she stopped doing it. Well, okay, she doesn't do it as much anymore at least, but "stopped" is an exaggeration.
* [[Green
* [[Hand Cannon]]: Giroro's [[Rule of Cool|oh-so-cool alien handguns]].
* [[Handy Remote Control]]: Kululu's [[Buffy
* [[Hero of Another Story]]: Yamato and Kapu. Yamato was a kid around Fuyuki's age who befriended a kappa-like creature similar to Keroro, who took he and his friends in many adventures. When Fuyuki meets him though, Kapu had disappeared, although his friends still hoped to meet him again.
** In the manga, it's directly lampshaded by Fuyuki writing a report afterwards where he talks about how he realized, with that incident, that there are other stories like his going on in the world, which doesn't spin around him after all.
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** Keroro sometimes gets this, when all the pentup remorse for everything he did to Dororo turns him into a broken, sobbing mess.
* [[Hidden Eyes]]: Fuyuki, when he's had enough; Natsumi, right before she brings the wrath of god down upon Keroro; amongst others.
* [[High
* [[Hoist
* [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]]: The outlook on [[Humongous Mecha|Keroro DaiShogun's]] next appearance isn't very bright. As a matter of fact, any Keronian mecha that gets featured [[Merchandise
* [[Homage]]: Out of all the shoutouts to ''[[
** The 4th movie starts out with Keroro dresing up as the Zeta Gundam and ZZ Gundam, then takes advantage of the retro setting of France to homage ''[[Turn
* [[Honorifics]]: Keroro is especially fond of using honorifics with his adoptive family, applying military-equivalent ranks to each member. He uses "dono" for the family members in the anime, and calls Aki "Mama-dono". Mois calls Keroro "Oji-sama" (Uncle).
* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Pururu.
* [[Hot
* [[Hot Shounen Mom]]: '''Aki'''.
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Angol Mois's parents.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Mois, Kogoro, a few other examples.
* [[Humans Are
** Also in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 4'', which features Angol Fear, Angol Mois' cousin who'd go on to appear in the Keroro manga later. Her story suggests the Angol race thinks [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Special]]: It's hinted in one arc of the manga (the World's Tiniest Invasion: Lost Episode IIRC) that humans have an absurd level of mental potential, and that Keroro's contact with them has put his own potential far beyond that of the average Keroronian, which still leaves him far below a human's level.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The series '''loves''' them, as does its titular [[Anti
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Giroro's weapons are always summoned from nowhere via Keronian tech. In the third movie, Kululu's computer system is hacked and Giroro is left without his heavy arms for half of the movie.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: [[J Michael Tatum]] has admitted to naming Dororo's katana "Stephen". This made it into an episode when Dororo broke his sword against an indestructible spaceship hull and cried its name out in grief.
* [[An Ice Person]]: Koyuki has some ice-related ninja moves, as her name would imply. Also Yukiki, who was a snowman after all.
* [[Identical Grandson]]: After being zapped with Kululu's "Midlife Crisis" gun in Episode 9, preadolescent Aki is shown to look very similar to Fuyuki (but not close enough that Funimation's dub could resist [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] it). A later episode involving time travel reveals that teenage Aki looked a lot like
** {{spoiler|Fuyuki's son shown in a brief glimpse of the future at the end of the 6th season looks basically identical to Fuyuki's ''[[Bratty Half
* [[Identical Stranger]]: the ''Musha Kero'' saga taks place on a planet full of people resembling our heroes' friends. Their actual characters range from disturbingly similar (Fuyuki, Momoka) to completely different (Natsumi, Saburo) to something from out of left field ([[Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?|Mois]].)
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Episode titles always start with the name of whichever character the story will be about and end with Keroro's [[Verbal Tic|"de arimasu".]]
** Animax's little-known English dub of the show—it was only seen in Asia—preserves this tic by having Keroro's voice actress (yes, they kept his [[Cross
** American Keroro says "de arimasu" after ''one'' episode's title, [[Throw It In|just for the hell of it]]. However, most episode names are Shouts Out to various other media: [[V for Vendetta|V for Valentinedetta]], [[The Producers|Springtime for Hitters]], [[Last Action Hero|Lost Action Hero]], [[Lost in Translation|Lost in Transportation]] (de arimasu), you get the idea. Note that this is only ''most'' episodes, though all the others are puns ("Pop Startled", "Fake It Til You Make It", etc.) As of the second season a couple of episodes use a line from the show as the title, a la ''[[
** The ''Musha Kero'' saga has chapter numbers instead, and "de arimasu" is replaced with [[Jidai Geki|the more archaic "de gozasorou"]].
* [[The Idiot From Osaka]]: Keroro, but without the accent. Whenever he has one of his money-making schemes he ''gains'' one, and eats takoyaki.
* [[
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Pururu, and her various novelty-sized syringes. Like, [[BFG|as big as her.]] These are made even more improbable in the anime, due to the fact the needles are tipped with a ball, so as to [[Bowdlerise|not scare the children or give the impression they could actually cause bodily harm.]]
** Dororo's mother can battle berserk security robots with ''frying pans''.
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* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Episode 175.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Dance*Man (real name Hideki Fujisawa) in the regular show; 'Dylan & Catherine' in the ''Fundari Kettari'' title theme.
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja]]: They really didn't need ninja, but aren't you happy they added them anyways?
* [[Intelligent Gerbil]]: The Keronians are a frog-like intelligent alien race.
* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: The Anti-Barrier, or the system the Keronians use to become invisible to anyone other than a select few, like the Hinatas.
** It's explained that very curious people (like the mangakas in the deadline arc, and the Hinatas early on) can see straight through it, but then it says this is how Natsumi and Fuyuki saw the Sergeant to begin with... yet Keroro had forgotten about the anti-barrier at that point. Someone slipped, or maybe Keroro's just a moron.
*** (Hint: The latter.)
* [[Jerkass]]:
** Natsumi is a total jerk toward Keroro. Yes, she hates the fact that a platoon of aliens intending to take over the planet is living with her, but she constantly abuses him, both verbally and physically, at [[Disproportionate Retribution|the slightest provocation]].
*** Keroro too in the first eps, but than he became a bit of a [[Butt Monkey]] with little lines.
* [[Jerk
** Occasionally Keroro comes off as this, except he's not so much a jerk to begin with as an annoying, mooching houseguest. However, he ''does'' tend to do the right thing when all the cards are down to crisis
* [[Jidai Geki]]: The entire ''Musha Kero'' arc takes place on an [[Alternate Universe]] planet vaguely like ancient Japan. All the best-known [[Jidai Geki]] tropes are played straight, from the alternate [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]] to Keroro saying "Kore nite, ikken rakchaku... ''[[Verbal Tic|de arimasu.]]''"
* [[Kawaiiko]]: Tamama, when he's not being a psycho.
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* [[Kid From the Future]]: One episode has Fuyuki and the platoon dragged into the '80s, where Fuyuki meets young Aki.
* [[Kid With the Remote Control]]: Mero in the second movie.
* [[Kill It
* [[Large Ham]]: [[Calling Your Attacks|SPACE DEPUTY (Add verb.)]]
* [[Last
* [[Latex Space Suit]]: Several times, played up for fanservice with the girls.
* [[Law of Alien Names]]: The Keronian naming pattern, "A-B-B".
* [[Lawyer
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]: Parodied (but of course!) at the end of episode 293. [[Ruined FOREVER|The platoon's reaction is what seals it.]]
** Keroro also says George (or Johji) Nakata—in reality the voice of Giroro—is rumored to be starring in the live action Captain Geroro movie in a much earlier episode.
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* [[Looming Silhouette of Rage]]: Several occasions. Natsumi gets Billowing Pigtails of Rage in addition to this.
* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: Episode 3. A variant appears in Episode 135, in the form of Kululu's beam gun invention that causes Keroro to dream that he's lived his entire life as a grain of rice. He wakes up with an epiphany.
** Episode 267 features one that started out as a [[Deep
* [[Lovecraftian Superpower]]: Subverted, as {{spoiler|Alisa's assumed to have this ability at first, but it's really due to her "Daddy", a shapeshifting symbiote that lives on her head}}.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Also, [[All Love Is Unrequited]], for the most part.
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* [[Made of Explodium]]: Viper.
* [[Made of Iron|Made of Rubber]]: The real reason Keroro survives Natsumi's abuse. Keronians are shown to be particularly flexible, never needing more than bandages and maybe a crutch for their injuries (unless the plot requires otherwise), to the extent that the human children can survive very high falls ''by landing on Keronians.''
* [[TV Tropes Made of Win Archive]]: [[Christopher Sabat]] does, in fact, voice Giroro. [[Squee]]!
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Kululu, who's also an [[Insufferable Genius]], and the [[Witch Doctor]].
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Natsumi, in the anime, despite the best efforts of the universe at large.
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: Aki, being a top manga editor, is primarily responsible for this. Also, the Narrator can pinpoint the episode numbers of recurring events and character debuts on demand.
** Dasonu*Maso/The Dance*Master mentions in his debut ep that if he leaves, the episode will be over (because there won't be anything to provide conflict)
* [[Merchandise
** 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
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: Thanks to Kululu's [[Transformation Ray|"We All Live Together" beam gun that turns animals into humans.]]
* [[Mooks]]: All the members of the Shurara Corps aside from Shurara himself.
* [[Multiple Endings]]: The "segmented endings" variant. They aren't alternate takes, just more and more complete versions of the series. The show's 7th season aired in different timeslots, with different running times in different timeslots. In order to satisfy people who couldn't watch the longer version of the show, the last 3 episodes of the series all ended up being different types of ending stories.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Keroro sometimes elicits Keronian technology to complete his chores. A non-technological example would be [[Highly
* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: In one episode, Kogoro keeps forgetting Dororo's name and guessing wrong. He thinks he's called "Terere" in the original and either "Domomo", "Dimimi", or "Dolo" in the dub.
** [[I Am Not Shazam]]: Alisa's "Daddy" is named Nevula, but tends to be forgotten as such.
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* [[Narrator]]: As per [[Rule of Funny]], the characters can hear ''everything'' the Narrator says (Natsumi asks him for fashion advice in one case), and finally the Narrator appears on screen ([[The Faceless|wearing a mask]]) in episode 40.
** In the English dub, he frequently gets into arguments with the guy who writes the subtitles for the on-screen Japanese text (the latter often choosing to write insults rather than actually translating what's written).
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'''Narrator:''' Here's a caption: ''Bite me!'' }}
** Hell, an ENTIRE EPISODE revolved around how Kururu got tired of the Narrator's comments, and caused even more mayhem. This causes all the characters to [[Kick the Dog|Blame the narrator]]
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** ''later in the episode...''
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'''Fuyuki:''' Because you hate the show? }}
* [[The Neidermeyer]]: Keroro, sort of, his squad wavers between apathy and quasi-respect.
* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Kululu.
* [[Never Bareheaded]]: All Keronians have hats, usually a long-eared one with their personal symbol on it. One episode involves a notorious [[Un Reveal]] when Keroro switches to a baseball cap after his hat is picked up by a toddler.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The sarge manages to nearly cause Armageddon by returning Moa's cell phone.
** The ''Musha Kero'' saga ends with one. {{spoiler|Upon learning that civilians have been enslaved to unearth something in a mine, Kululu scans the area and finds an energy reading, and Keroro speeds up the excavation. It turns out to be an [[Eldritch Abomination]].}}
* [[Ninja]]: Dororo and Koyuki.
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* [[Noodle Incident]]: It's mentioned often that Keroro was the most insane and violent soldier in all of Keron ''"in the old days"'', but the only times we see anything close to it is when Keroro gets drunk on moisture. A better example would be Keroro's own father, the "Demon Sergeant", rumored to be the most fearsome sergeant in the galaxy, but only appears on vacation in a Hawaii shirt and an easygoing attitude, [[Obfuscating Stupidity|at least on the surface.]]
* [[No Sense of Humor]]: Giroro. In the dub, he describes himself as incapable of feeling joy.
▲* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Even though every season of the anime features holiday and birthday specials and there are direct references to previous years, the human characters still keep their original ages and are still in the same school years. The same happens with Tamama, who still keeps a tadpole's tail and white face, even though Taruru, a Keronian younger than him, matured in the 2nd season.
▲** [[Lampshaded]] by the manga, when Fuyuki said that he was "just 12(?) years old" in a later volume.
▲** Irregularly contradicted by the anime itself, which is also the biggest offender due to the number of holiday and anniversary episodes. Paul, in Episode 92, mentions that Momoka's birth was commemorated 13 years ago, and Natsumi was said to be 14 in the second movie, which means that the entire cast aged at least one year. There are also various references to the Keroro platoon spending years on Earth and vague comments about the human characters getting older. However, official guidebooks still keep everyone's starting ages and school years as the only official ones.
▲*** The newest databook for the manga (as of volume 23) actually said that the human characters had aged one year since the start of the series, breaking away from the manga's previous references to the lack of aging of the human cast.
* [[Not Me This Time]]: There's a rather sad example in one chapter; Keroro is expecting praise for doing a good job cleaning the house, but is instead met with furious accusations by Natsumi and Fuyuki of screwing with computer networks across the city, and has a nervous breakdown when they refuse to believe his pleas that he's not responsible. {{spoiler|The real culprits turn out to be [[The Psycho Rangers|the Garuru Platoon]], as a prelude to taking over the invasion of Earth.}}
* [[Not So Different]]: In the anime, when Keroro is inspired by finding Dororo to actually act like a competent leader, Giroro acts like more of a [[Yes
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: At first, the platoon believed Keroro was doing this. Turns out he's just stupid.
* [[The Ojou]]: Momoka.
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** Actually, her theme repeats the words ''Nostra'' and ''Damus'' continouously. Although they're a clear reference to ''Nostradamus'', they're also, individualy, actual words in Latin.
** Also Shion Drakon from the fourth movie, the chant she uses {{spoiler|to transform Keronians into Dragon Warriors is a little hard to make out, but it}} contains the word "draconis," meaning 'Dragon.'
* [[One
* [[Only Six Faces]]: Keronians are a borderline case, since they come in a rainbow of colors and a few even throw out the humanoid build. Thankfully all Keronians have their own personal symbols.
* [["On the Next Episode of..." Catchphrase]]: "''Sonna kotoyori!'' ("Never mind about all that!") Next week on Keroro Gunsou -- (name of first story), de arimasu! (name of second story), de arimasu! Two stories! How about that! ''Gerogeeroo...''"
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Fuyuki's voice actress had to step down due to sickness and was replaced around episode 223.
** Jirara, the leader of Dororo's former assassin unit, had a completely different voice actors and style of voices in the 7th season flashbacks compared to the 4th season story which featured him. In the 4th season, he sounded like a cold warrior type, while in the 7th season, he sounded like an old mentor.
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* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Nevulon is a fairly good example in episode 291 {{spoiler|when he and Alisa Southerncross are separated at the hotsprings, and he goes insane with worry.}}
* [[Overly Long Name]]: [[Ascended Extra]] Masayoshi Yoshiokadaira. Kululu's inventions get hit by this a lot.
* [[Pac
* [[Panty Shot]]: Happens to many of the females frequently in the manga. And not all that rarely in the anime...
* [[Paper
** On the flipside, headbands with googlibobs are all that's needed for humans like Fuyuki and Natsumi to walk unnoticed among the alien community.
** There's a really odd example in the Girls' Day episode, where Kululu's Kululuko disguise is very good (i.e., looks just like a real human woman), but his identity is still very obvious to the viewer if not the cast (the name, the spiral motif, the color yellow, the voice, etc.)
* [[People Puppets]]: All Mekeke's doing.
* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Giroro, presumably, though the Keronian biological structure disguises this a little.
* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Natsumi, taking on
** Ironically, Natsumi still benefitted since nobody but her could see Keroro, and struggling to beat him allowed her to beat everyone else.
** In the dub at least it was not so plot induced as it was youthful pride and not thinking induced, and to her credit it does hit her pretty fast just how bad an idea it was.
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* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: Many characters. Also played in reverse.
* [[Public Domain Character]]: Two one-shot characters who appear in one episode (and the reality-show hosts they're impersonating) are a Roswell gray and the Flatwoods monster.
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Several cases. Assassin Captain Jirara has ''three''. {{spoiler|Dark Keroro's red eyes turn black when he is rid of Kiruru's influence.}}
* [[Redubbing]]: A few years before the ''Sgt. Frog'' anime finally made it to North America, it was dubbed into English by Sony's anime-themed satellite channel Animax, giving it the title ''Sergeant Keroro''. Although the acting (decent for Animax) may not have been quite up to American standards, this dub was ''considerably'' more faithful to the Japanese script than Funimation's dub. As a result, there are a few script purists who prefer it. A few clips of the Animax dub can be found online, for those curious enough to sample it.
** What makes it interesting is that though in English, Animax's dub was still made for Asian audiences, so there was probably no percieved need to change
*** Simple. Animax targets "Asian" audiences, but not the Japanese. It airs in countries like Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India, all of which use English as their official second language. There's also a Latin America version of the channel, but another troper entered that one over at [[Network Decay]].
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: And how! Both the Japanese and English dubs go to nearly [[Lucky Star]] levels of referential.
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* [[Rule of Cool]]: ...narrow it down to ''one'' example? Um.
* [[Rule of Funny]]: ...narrow it down to ''one'' example? Um.
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In the English dub, the narrator makes notice of the show recycling the 'multiple of one character' gag, and gets tired of it.
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** Later in episode 23, {{spoiler|Where there actually ARE more than one Keroro, he keeps his word.}}
* [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]]: It seems like virtually all of Natsumi's class or teammates in the manga would die happy as the filling of a Natsumi/Aki sandwich. Except for Koyuki, who's only in love with Natsumi.
* [[School Idol]]: Natsumi in the earlier seasons and manga volumes. However, this aspect of her character seems to be dropped in later chapters and episodes of the series, with later school scenes showing her more like an average girl.
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* [[School Play]]: Episode 29 also features Natsumi and Koyuki starring in a production of ''[[Peter Pan]]'', with Keroro dressing as [[Glass Mask|Chigusa Tsukikage]] to help Natsumi overcome a case of stage fright.
* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]: There's a background character called ''Yoshi Mine''zaki.
* [[Sealed Evil in
* [[Sea Monster]]: One episode has several sea creatures crawl out of the ingredients pot and come in contact with [[Transformation Trinket|the Flash Spoon]], which turns them into giant sea creatures.
* [[Second Place Is for Winners]]: The first beach comedy contest. Keroro enters to get a Gundam knockoff (because it's really rare due to poor sales). He doesn't find out that it's a consolation prize for everyone who doesn't til near the end...[[Failure Is the Only Option|and he can't stop himself.]]
* [[Serious Business]]: In episode 10, Keroro gets a cavity. The other platoon members notice this and immediately go all DEFCON 1, locking down the entire house, complete with steel barriers on the windows and doors, red rotating lights, and a loud klaxon. This is because cavities are actually caused by ''other alien invaders!'' Granted, these invaders are the size of bacteria, and so, are often confused with bacteria by humans.
* [[Shorttank]]: Natsumi.
* [[Shout
** [[Lampshaded]] at least
** More than once: in the episode that introduces Kogoro, he and the frogs disappear into another dimension in the middle of a pastiche of ''[[Kamen Rider]]'', and when Natsumi asks "What the heck was that?", Fuyuki replies, "I think it was a parody of some old kids' show."
*** Not to mention that there are two seperate episodes lampooning ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]'' and ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]''.
** Especially notable for a Japanese anime is the number of ''Western'' shows that get a [[Shout
*** Nevula (Alisa's "Daddy") apears to be something between a [[Parasyte]] and [[Spider-Man|Venom]].
*** Sarge has shown the curious ability to turn into [[The Incredible Hulk]] when sufficiently angry!
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**** And also features not one, but ''two'' instances of [[Predator|"Get to da choppa!"]]
*** Dasonu* Maso strikes the classic pose from the original ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' poster and has a [[X-Men|Cyclops]] visor.
**** And in the same episode (in the dub), after getting an afro, Dororo complains that "Afros are for [[Afro Samurai
** In the episode where the Hinata family visit the grandma, at the very beginning, two people are driving... Hilariously, they're [[Palette Swap
** The dub's version of the [[Lotus Eater Machine]] Tamama uses on Sarge in episode 3 is called the [[For the Man Who Has Everything|Purple Mercy]] Lotus Eating Lotus.
** The size-changing spoon thing is called [[Vince Offer|SpoonWOW]] in the
** The dub also has Keroro claim he's not a [[Doraemon|robotic cat from the future sent by Fuyuki's great grandson to make his life easier]]. For context, he meant something like "What am I, Superman?"
** When empowered by extreme humidity in episode 4b, Keroro puts on a yellow shirt just so he can tear it off a la [[Hulk Hogan]].
* [[Shown Their Work]]: The best known example would be the depictions of Keroro's [[Gundam|GunPla]] collection, down to individual versions. Some of the Keroro toys manufactured can even be connected to Gundam toys.
** One episode shows Momoka hammering a table that Tamama is standing on, catapulting him into the
** When a [[Transformation Ray]] turns some koalas into humans, one of them says, "Mummy told me I must never leave this tree, or I'll die." Eucalyptus leaves really are the only form of sustenance for koalas, so there's some truth behind this.
** Crosses into [[Product Placement]] in the fourth movie, with Shion's Citroen-looking limo and Aki's 2CV.
** How many of us have even heard of the [
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The top manga/anime ''Admiral Geroro'', which is essentially ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' [[Recycled in Space|with frogs]]. Featuring Keroro and Giroro's voice actors to boot.
** And thanks to DJ 623 {{spoiler|a.k.a Saburo}}, there's also a Radio Show Within A Show. Heck, Keroro's Strange Dopamine counts in this sense.
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* [[Similar Squad]]: When digging for a spa, Keroro finds a superweapon left by a team of invaders not unlike his own. The dub takes this further, making them lizardmen from the planet Lizardono come to invade the planet they know as Ponopek but saddled with an incompetant leader who spends all his time building models. They even have similar insignias.
** The first movie reveals that the ancient invaders who used those statues were actually Keronians, and they also left other weapons on Earth...
* [[Single
* [[Sixth Ranger]]: Dororo in the manga could be considered this, because he only joins after the initial 4 man team (+Mois) was consolitated throughout several volumes of the manga. In the very beginning though, it was shown that the platoon had 5 members, so his status is debatable.
** In the anime, Joriri joins the Keroro Platoon officially during an episode of the 6th season. However, because [[Status Quo Is God]], it turns out there was a mistake and he leaves... That event was still referenced afterwards though and he continued to be a minor recurring character for the anime.
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* [[Space Police]]: Poyon and Poyan, with a [[Portal Network]] at their disposal.
* [[Space X]]: there are dozens ''upon dozens'' of "Space" versions for festivals, TV shows, celebrities, anything you can name. {{spoiler|The third movie ends with Dark Keroro attempting to invade another planet, only to be thwarted by ''Space Fuyuki and Space Natsumi''.}}
* [[Spell My Name
** Somewhere around volume 11 or 12 of the English edition of the manga, Tokyopop switched from using "Kururu" to "Kululu". This could have been due to a switch in translators, or the Japanese finally decided to settle some R/L confusion and told them how to transliterate it (they do that sometimes).
** Angol Mois' name <s>is</s> was spelled "Moa" almost exclusively on this page... despite the fact that in her debut episode her name is spelled out in English as "Angol Mois".
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* [[Status Quo Is God]]: Where to begin?
** [[Lampshaded]] in one episode where Momoka visualises herself still watching Fuyuki quietly from a corner. In the future. Where both are ''well into their eighties''. Apparently the Japanese are known to age well, but still...
** Occasionally [[Subverted]] in the character development, even if they're [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]. Natsumi evolves from someone who hates the Keronians into a fairly good friend of Giroro, while Keroro goes from someone who merely stops caring about his mission to conquer Earth in favor of being a parasite on the Hinatas, to someone who actually cares about them.
* [[Stalker
** Better(?), [[School Newspaper Newshound|Chiruyo Tsukigami]], seeing as how she spies on Fuyuki ''personally'', snapping pictures on her camera phone and scribbling in her notebook to boot.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Kogoro, who never stops smiling. He's far less dangerous than the usual example though.
** Lavie/Rabbie is the only one who can read his emotions.
* [[Step Three: Profit]]: Keroro's invasion-fund-raising schemes.
* [[Strange Pond Woman]]: In one story Tamama pretends to be a god (angel in the Funimation English dub) after being caught by a boy practising soccer. While he did help the boy become more confident he gave some rather strange advice, especially in the Manga and English dub not to mention teaching the boy a soccer kick fueled by resentment.
* [[Stringy
** There's also the on-off character Tiger-Horse, a bizarre creature with some features of both animals but predominantly resembles a stringy haired ghost. To elaborate: Tiger Horse in Japanese is Tora Uma, referring to 'trauma' {{spoiler|and its origins in Dororo's subconscious.}}
* [[Super Robot Wars]]: Keroro shows up in SRW OE. There is even a bonus DLC with prepaid orders of the game that let Keroro pilot his own copy of the RX-78-2 Gundam (on top of his own machine).
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The Kero Ball... but most of the time Keroro's not sure [[Rummage Fail|which button accompanies which function]].
* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: Keroro meets an alien version of his own seiyuu, Kumiko Watanabe. Sadly all her future appearances are scarce on dialogue.
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: Dororo.
* [[Tempting Fate]]: In episode 16, the narrator threatens to quit if there's another [[Split Personality]] story. Seven episodes later, Keroro clones himself and he makes good on his word until the end of the episode.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Fuyuki, Natsumi, and
** Also, many characters have names that can be and are converted to numbers, such as Mutsumi (623), Natsumi (723), Kululu (966), and many others. Helped by the fact that there are several different ways (old fashioned ways, modern ways, [[Four Is Death|ways to avoid saying death...]]) to say the numbers, and that similar sounds (K sounds about the same as G, for example) can be used to keep character's names in this convention even if a syllable doesn't match up exactly with that of a number. However, three of the main five frogs don't exactly follow it (Keroro->K66, Giroro->G66, Dororo->D66, though as Zeroro, he may have been 066) and Tamama doesn't fit into it at all.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: While doing chores around the house, Keroro sometimes sings his own version of the show's closing theme.
** Another episode had Sumomo singing a few bars of the show's theme.
** Another one had the first ending as Fuyuki's ringtone.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself]]: In the third movie, Tamama attempts to invoke this while fighting Shivava, but Momoka talks him out of it. They then proceed to curpstomp him together.
* [[This Is Sparta]]!: The line is uttered by Giroro in episode 190, while fighting a viper over a gift at the market. No variation, he actually says "This is Sparta!"
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: In early episodes, this is part of the reason (along with imprisonment and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|potential traffic accidents]]) why the alien frogs are not allowed to go out on their own, at least before they develop their [[Mobile Suit Human
** Played for laughs in the ''Kero Zero'' prequel story - it seems that "human abductions" are a well-known urban myth on alien civilisations like Keron, to the extent that the word "probing" has become a Freakout Button of sorts for our heroes.
* [[Those Two Guys|Those Two Girls]]: Natsumi's classmates Yayoi and Satsuki.
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* [[Tyke Bomb]]: Kiruru. -- read as [[King of Fighters|Kiruru-Dot.]]
* [[Tyrant Takes the Helm]]: Tamama travels this path after a badly worded letter from High Command awards him with Keroro's position.
* [[The Un
** And a season 7 episode about Dororo's mask {{spoiler|in the end we don't see his mouth but the characters do, from their reaction it can't be that strange looking}}.
*** {{spoiler|Actually, they're distracted by Keroro spilling some water or something and don't get to see it before Dororo puts his mask back on. It's probably nothing unusual though, since Dororo agrees to show them in the first place. (He does blush and... giggle... afterwards, but wearing a mask all the time probably makes taking it off feel like getting naked.)}}
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* [[Villains Out Shopping]]: Hell, this could be the ''alternate title'' of the series!
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Keroro and Giroro
* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]: To date, Sumomo, Pururu, and Miruru can all take on human form. It's suggested that this is a uniquely female
* [[Waif Fu]]: Natsumi, an average high school girl, is able to take on giant mecha, alien monsters, intergalactic mercenaries, devious deathtraps, etc. It's hinted that her mother is even stronger.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Fuyuki
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[White
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: All five Keronians have crossdressed at least once, with Keroro himself as the biggest repeat offender. On the flipside, Kululu's debut episode has him turning Aki back into a 14-year-
* [[Why Can't I Hate You?]]: Tamama views Angol Mois as his greatest competition for Keroro's affections, but sometimes has trouble viewing her as an enemy because she's too damn nice about everything.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Keroro has '''two''' -- huge dogs and the Banana Lizard (although not for the same reasons).
** For Natsumi, it's slugs, which leads to the creation of Wettol King.
** For Giroro, it's sea
*** Technically Giroro has
* [[Widget Series]]: [[Gag Series]], in particular.
* [[Wistful Amnesia]]: In the first season finale.
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* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Taruru knows all of the tropes, but he's a little mixed up as to which ones apply to whom.
* [[Yandere]]: Momoka and Tamama.
* [[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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