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And don't you dare go making the assumption that this show was [[Deranged Animation|animated anywhere near normally.]] It makes viewers fear for their own mental health. The show has a surreal visual style with psychedelic colors, trippy imagery, constant art-shifts, and occasional live-action.

 

 

== In the Pool ==

 

Meanwhile, the anime's eleventh episode is titled "Canary" and is an original scenario about Hideo Tsuda, an emergency room surgeon at Irabu General and the father of Yuta Tsuda from "Cell".

 

* [[Afraid of Needles]]: Ino the yakuza. <ref>Along with knives. And fish. And table corners. And ''Pocky''. And literally anything else long and/or pointy.</ref> The needle phobia goes into pure [[Hilarity Ensues]] combined with Dr. Irabu's obvious needle fetish...

* [[All-Star Cast]]: Mostly big voice actors, but Yumi Sugimoto (Mayumi) is a pretty popular one as well.

* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Eleven Episode Anime]]

* [[Epiphany Therapy]]: An odd example, but it's definitely there. Rather, there are no loud, spectacular epiphanies, but the psychological problems seem to just quietly stop existing. Keep in mind each patient sees Irabu for, at most, a week, and we've been dealing with deep-seated stuff like obsessive-compulsive disorder and dissociative identity disorder. The series finale has an interesting example of epiphany therapy in that {{spoiler|Irabu seems to just manually ''extract'' Hideo Tsuda's neurosis}}.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: While Irabu is not evil per se, he definitely laughs like this.

* [[Expressive Mask]]: Irabu's mascot bear head, occasionally.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Mayumi.

* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: The anime uses instrumental mixes of various famous [[Denki Groove]] tunes, including the anime's opening, "Upside Down", as its soundtrack.

** This Troper would go so far as to say that Dr. Irabu's therapy consists of a combination of placebos (the infamous Vitamin Shots) and essentially encouraging his patients to embrace their inner child or at least their true feelings {{spoiler|to the point of being a blatant enabler for this in the fourth and fifth episodes}}.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: Apparently Irabu does not stand out at all compared to all the normal-looking people around him.

* ~What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?~: Removing Ike's father-in-law's toupee. Accompanied by a golden light and an operatic bellow.

** Even more hilarious when you consider {{spoiler|Ike's father-in-law is a huge opera fan, and a very famous operatic piece plays as aforementioned toupee is removed...}}

* [[Widget Series]]

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Yamashita's purple, Taguchi's green, Hoshiyama's red and yellow (possibly an aversion, since his actor has his hair colored the same way), and Bando is a sort of auburnish, but Irabu takes the prize--just [http://www.toei-anim.co.jp/tv/kuchu_buranko/character/img/irabu.jpg look at him.]

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