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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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* [[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 It's Not Awesome?|gooooaaaall!!]]), and otherwise getting abused by Natsumi. [[Lampshaded]] in one 'flashback' scene where Keroro throws in a few Japanese torture sequences that never really happened...
* [[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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* [[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).
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* [[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-Driven|in the KeroPla model line]] has been known to suffer from this. Contrast with fan favourites like Giroro Dendrobium and Autumn H.
* [[Homage]]: Out of all the shoutouts to ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the third movie in particular offers what may be the strongest homage yet, with an actual Gundam being used against the enemy. Keroro's rendition of the theme song just adds to it.
** 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 A Gundam
* [[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.
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* [[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-Dressing Voices|cross-dressing voice]] too) say "Sir, yes sir!" after the title.
** 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.
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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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* [[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-Man]] then Tamama, [[Ho Yay|even having sparkly pink backgrounds to emphasize his admiration]].
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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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