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Kio Kakazu lives an ordinary life on the Japanese island of Okinawa with the girl next door, an old friend he watches movies with, and his party-loving uncle. At a funeral for his grandfather, he meets a [[Catgirl]] named Eris, who claims that her ship crashed near the site, and was looking for some food. Surprised, Kio accidentally takes a sip of his uncle's beer and passes out immediately. A few hours later, he wakes up to find [[Bedmate Reveal|Eris sleeping in his bed]]. She is a Catian, one of the aliens who sent the original message, and she's here to learn all she can about Earth. However, both she and Kio are unaware of the organizations close to them that want to investigate the aliens for reasons unknown.

 

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=== Tropes: ===

* [[Big Bad]] -- Jens

* [[Beware of the Nice Ones]] -- Aoi and Eris.

** The Shimaneko (Striped Cat) Delivery Service counter in Episode 4. Notable as the same episode had earlier included a [[Shout Out]] to the delivery service being parodied, Yamato ("Kuroneko"/"Black Cat") Transport.

* [[Blood On These Hands]] -- A consequence of Aoi's previous work.

* [[Fan Boy|Fanboys]] -- The organization Beautiful Contact. Being fans of Hard Sci-fi, they are not pleased the [[First Contact]] humanity might get is a [[Catgirl]].

** Also the catgirl cult in episode four.

* [[Fan Service]] -- And plenty of it.

** The OVA takes this up to 11. Cue [[Nosebleed]].

* [[Gun Porn]] -- Manami and Aoi are weapon fanatics.

* [[The Gunslinger]] -- Manami, Aoi and the {{spoiler|catgirl cult}} enforcer maids.

* [[Hammerspace]] -- The bells worn around the Catian's necks. The captain's bell, which gets handed to Kio later on, seems to be even more awesome than even Eris's bell.

* [[Hands On Approach]] -- Aoi teaching Kio how to shoot.

* [[How Unscientific]] -- Jens' reaction to [[Onmyodo]], word by word.

** {{spoiler|However, it doesn't stop her from buying [[Onmyodo]] tags on the black market, or using them effectively against the Catian mothership in episode 10.}}

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] -- [[Reality Warper|Aoi]]'s weapons can come out of nowhere and materialize in thin air.

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]]. {{spoiler|Aoi has the ability to warp any object within 50 metres of her}}.

** It was their assistaroids who did the flying.

* [[Ironic Echo]] -- "It's alright, it's not like you'll lose anything if we saw it."

* [[Jumped At the Call]] -- Manami, who always wanted to be a field operative.

** Applies to both her and Aoi when Eris mentions having them work as security for the temporary Catian Embassy, aka Kio's house.

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]] -- Aoi, earning her the codename Akuun Momiji - Bad-luck Momiji. (a few times in the novels, her codename is given as Akuen Momiji; her English-speaking enemy in book 9 translates that as "Calamity Momiji")

** Eris' service drones. They can withstand {{spoiler|being shot down in a helicopter by a tank}} with nothing worse than a few scorch marks. They're essentially [[Megaman Legends|Servbots]] with a cat theme.

** Aoi should probably have been crippled or killed after she fell out of the moving subway car, but she didn't even end up with any bruises or abrasions other than some scrapes on her left arm when she stood up immediately after getting kicked off. Her fast recovery is noticed later on.

* [[Nosebleed]] -- Not a direct shot though, just in a form of [[Discretion Shot]] in Episode 7.

* [[Space Elevator]] -- {{spoiler|Catians' Christmas gift to Mankind.}}

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: In-universe example - in the OVA, the movie with Aoi and Manami in it has a guy in a rubber suit which catches on fire, which seems to be accidental. The guy in the suit even pats one of the fires out.

** Also Catia/Cathea/Kyatia.

** Antonia/Antnia

* [[The Nudifier]] -- A theme in Catian weapons design seems to be to neutralize your opponent's weaponry non-lethally. They often simply erase anything they hit that isn't living tissue.

* [[This Is Reality]] -- Time after time Kio has to remind everyone that Catians are real aliens.

** Manami also gives Eris a tongue-lashing in episode 12, stating similar reasons to Aoi about how she came in and "stole" him away from her. After hearing her gripes, Eris smiles, and {{spoiler|suggests [[Polyamory|the three of them sharing him]], which immediately shuts both of them up.}} Cue [[Oblivious to Love|a confused]] Kio wondering what's going on.

* [[Those Two Guys]] -- Kio's two male friends in the Film Club. The other two girls could probably count as female versions as well.

* [[Title Drop]] -- In the first minute of the first episode, and at the end of episode 2.

** In ''every single episode'', at the [[Eyecatch]], spoken by various characters.

** In the light novels, Chaika has three daughters; the youngest is 3-4, the oldest 16-17. She and Kuune were childhood friends. Ichika, on the other hand, {{spoiler|is an immortal catgirl sage created hundreds of years ago on Earth with magic.}} Melwyn is 12.

* [[Tomboy]] -- Manami said that when they were young, Kio was shy around women and she was able to get along with him due to her unfeminine personality..

* [[Tsundere]] -- Manami, a Type A

** Aoi towards Manami, later on in the series anytime Manami brings up the subject of Kio; a type B situation.

* [[Tyke Bomb]] -- Aoi.

* [[Uncanny Valley]] -- The Assistaroids' current appearance is a conscious effort to avoid this. Lawry, an older generation humanoid Assistaroid, explains it to Kio in a manner that wouldn't seem out of place in ''[[Chobits (Manga)|Chobits]]''.

* [[Verbal Tic]] -- Rulos, Eris' ship AI ends most sentences with ~deshi.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Dogisian attitude to their assistaroids.

** Borders on a Subverted Trope - there's a trope overused in action movies where the victim tries to (and succeeds) in guilting their captor into letting them go by bringing the captor's faults to their attention. In Aoi's case, it fails - as the [[Oh Crap|expression on the terrorist's face]] reveals.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] -- You are in a [[Harem Show]] with [[Catgirl|Cat Girls]], Antonia, not in a [[Shoujo]].

** One could also make an argument for ''most of the human race'' for trying to insist on seriousness in a universe inherently skewed toward silliness on the [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|sliding scale.]]

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