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[[File:ichigo_mashimaro_encore2_small.jpg|frame|Chika, Miu, Ana, Nobue & Matsuri]]
Depicting the [[Slice of Life|everyday life]] of four pre-adolescent girls and their older sister figure, ''Ichigo Mashimaro'' (Strawberry Marshmallow) doesn't have excessive drama, or supernatural events, or giant robots. Just the antics of four girls, two 12 year olds, two 11 year olds, somewhat cuter acting and more childlike than perhaps is entirely realistic. This notwithstanding, for raw cuteness with added snark, the anime, and the manga, should be recommended.
Originally a [[Shonen]] manga series by Barasui, created in 2001, later adapted in 2005 to a video game, and an anime series in 2005. An OAV adaptation was released in early 2007 and another one, entitled ''Encore'' in early 2009.
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* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: Chika occasionally has this reaction to Miu.
* [[Adult Child]]: Nobue, to an extent; on more than one occasion, she acts less mature than her 12 year old sister.
** Nobue isn't really a 20 year old, [[No Smoking|she just plays one on TV]], so some childish behaviour is to be expected.
* [[All Just a Dream]]: The first episode of ''Encore'', after Miu gets knocked out while attempting to do a backflip.
* [[Anime Accent Absence]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Ana Coppola is notably a Japanophile who knows more about Japanese culture than her native friends.
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* [[Attention Whore]]: Miu.
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Nobue.
* [[Beach Episode]]
* [[Big Sister Instinct]]
* [[Big Fancy House]]: Ana's.
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* [[Bird Run]]
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Nobue's Mild Even cigarettes.
* [[Blank White Eyes]]: Episode 5.
* [[Blind Without'Em]]: Matsuri, which leads to some very dangerous situations in the public bath.
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: Every scene involving Miu doing something stupid and Chika commenting on it.
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* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Happens to Ana whenever she shows that she can actually speak very good Japanese (and next to no English).
* [[Dojikko]]: Matsuri.
* [[Drop
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Miu and Chika are usually shown wearing hair decorations.
* [[Fable Remake]]: Miu retells Cinderella in one chapter of the manga, with Matsuri as Cinderella, Chika and Ana as the stepsisters, Nobue as the prince, and herself as the fairy godmother who {{spoiler|marries the prince at the end}}.
* [[Faux Paw]]: In episode 51, Matsuri and Miu each don kitty ears. Matsuri does the [[Faux Paw]] maneuver (just batting, no licking), to Nobue's delight. Miu behaves more like a cat that's lashing out. Nobue doesn't think so highly of this.
* [[Festival Episode]]
* [[The Friend Nobody Likes]]: Miu.
** To a point. Occasionally [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in some parts of the anime and manga where the girls still invite her to places and include her in their general daily life despite what a pain she is. Nobue outright states in the manga "You and Chika are our best friends too." and goes to effort to console Miu when she has her breakdown. Chika is arguably Miu's toughest critic and she still gets the most visibly and tearfully upset if Miu is seriously hurt. It's more that she's just a loopy sister to these girls instead of being someone they resent on any level.
* [[Friendly Tickle Torture]]: Nobue and Miu are pretending that Miu's dead. One of Nobue's "proofs" is that Miu, despite "having been" very ticklish, doesn't react to the most severe tickling. Except that she does, of course.
* [[The Generic Guy]]: Chika.
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* [[Hair Colors]]: Miu is the classic red-haired anime character, British-born Ana the blond, Chika the typical anime brown or black haired girl, and Matsuri is ''gray'' at ''eleven'', just to round out the mix with a touch of the unusual.
* [[Headbutt Thermometer]]
* [[Hot Mom]]: Ana's mother is a [[Phenotype Stereotype|blond]], [[Meganekko|bespectacled]] beauty. From the glimpse we get of Nobue and Chika's mother we can conclude she is rather pretty too.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]
* [[I'll Kill You!]]
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* [[Look Behind You!]]: Subverted and played straight in one scene.
* [[Magical Girl]]: Shinohara the angel, from Miu's dream sequence.
* [[Meganekko]]: Matsuri. Ana's mother also appears to be one.
* [[Must Have Nicotine]]: Nobue. Big time.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[No Smoking]]: Nobue is 16 in the manga, but is depicted as 20 in the anime, giving her an excuse to freely smoke and drink.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]
* [[Phenotype Stereotype]]: Nobue fawns over Ana's "typically British" blond hair & blue eyes, while Miu is jealous of Ana's breasts developing before hers.
** And of course Ana's mother is blond too.
** Light hair is fairly common in Britain (compared to the more southerly European nations), so arguably it is "typical" that Ana and her mum are fair-haired.
* [[Poke the Poodle]]: ''Encore'' introduces the cutest, most pathetic attempts at a demon facilitating hell.
* [[Potty Dance]]: Miu does it while lying on the bed because holding it in is temporarily preferable to entering the bathroom without a [[Metroid|Varia Suit]].
* [[Puni Plush]]: Rather evident, but throttled to new heights in the ''Encore'' [[OVA]].
* [[Real Place Background]]: The girls apparently live in the town of Hamamatsu in Japan's Shizuoka prefecture, and the author sometimes sneaks in local landmarks.
* [[Running Gag]]: Miu lying face-down on the floor after skipping some off-screen violence.
** This is played with one time in the manga where in the following panel Nobue says she hasn't hit her yet, and Miu says she thought she could skip that part if she lay down in advance. Cue Miu lying down again, this time with a bump on her head.
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