History Anime / Kamichu

** Yurie's mom is an even bigger one. She falls for any story told to her, she makes Yurie look like a hardened cynic.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Yurie feels very isolated when she's forced to temporarily transfer schools for the gods' conference but it's all due to mutual misunderstandings: the other kids interpret "Yuri-sama's" shyness as aloofness when she's actually quite intimidated by their formality.

Set in a faithfully reproduced version of Onomichi in the 1980s, the show has sometimes been called "MyNeighborTotoro the TV", for its [[SceneryPorn lush]], GhibliHills layout and casual insertion of a spirit world idling away between the cracks of the "real world". A surprisingly easy to enjoy series, provided with buoyant comedy where deification is less an earth-shattering shift of views and more of an after-school job - and ''far'' less stressful than being an insecure, easily flustered young lady whose biggest problem is still getting a certain boy to remember her name.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Yurie feels very isolated when she's forced to temporarily transfer schools for the gods' conference, but it's all due to mutual misunderstandings the other kids misinterpret her shyness as aloofness and assume "Yuri-sama" is stuck up when she's actually intimidated by their formality.

* HaveYouSeenMyGod - The basic plot for episode two of the anime.

* UglyGuyHotWife - While Yurie's mother is perhaps just [[GenericCuteness generically good-looking]], her father is noticeably overweight and has no neck. Nice guy, though.

** The episode with the cats has [[FightClub "Tyler Nyaden", who starts a violently anarchistic club.]] This same episode also features Yurie's cat Tama executing a very popular [[{{Shoryuken}} antiair punch]].

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname - The full name is ''Kami-chu! ~Kamisama de Chugakusei~'', i.e. ''"The Goddess, A Middle-School Girl"''

* ActorAllusion - Arguably, at least in the English adaptation. Yashima, voiced by Yuri Lowenthal, who is also the voice of teenage [[WesternAnimation Ben10]], is a major fanboy of a certain god musician named Benten. Coincidence?

What would you do if your best friend Yurie Hitotsubashi suddenly announced that she [[MagicalRealism had just become a god]] during lunch at school? Well, if you're anything like Mitsue Shijo, you'd probably assume the awkward and young-for-her-age eighth grader was joking with you, at least until you are approached by classmate and local shrine miko Matsuri Saegusa who also claims to have recognized little Yurie's “air of divinity”. Together they set out to uncover Yurie´s supposed powers and place in the world of Japanese Shinto, where cities, places, objects and even concepts can all have their own minor deities and the local goddess may just well be a cute and unassuming middle school girl. On the way they encounter a little more than they had bargained for.

* CatchPhrase - "Nothing interesting ever happens to me", as uttered by Mitsue between being possessed by (another) god.

* EyesAlwaysShut - Matsuri's dad.

* {{Fanservice}} - Almost non-existent in the anime, but the manga often has the girls in various states of undress--especially Matsuri (who also received an [[http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/k613/SpecularReflection/random/Kamichu-Matsuri.jpg "upgrade"]] of two cup sizes).
** With the exception of the BeachEpisode, in which Mitsue and Matsuri seem to have WAY too much boobage for girls still in middle school. Padded bathing suits?
*** Or just early bloomers. [[TruthInTelevision It does happen.]]

* LostInTranslation - Several puns, including the double meaning of Yurie's three divine assistants.

* MeaningfulName:

* OneHundredAndEight - The number of Yurie's fortune in the last episode.

* PatrioticFervor - Matsuri FREAKING ''LOVES'' Japan almost as much as she FREAKING ''LOVES'' its indigenous religion, Shinto (or at least, the series' interpretation of Shinto).
** Her patriotism seems to be mostly deployed as an excuse to set up a ([[{{Greed}} well-remunerated]]) shrine holiday to compete with Christmas, though.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship - Curiously, Yurie has a lot more chemistry with Matsuri than with her love interest Kenji.

* ShoutOut - The episode with the cats has [[FightClub "Tyler Nyaden", who starts a violently anarchistic club.]] This same episode also features Yurie's cat Tama executing a very popular [[{{Shoryuken}} antiair punch]].

* ThemeNaming:

* WeirdnessCensor - The spirit world is just ''there'', to Yurie, certain sensitives, users of her omamori, and the viewer of course. For the most part the villagers are oblivious to the activity of the little gods and spirits around them, though they are generally aware and accepting that such things exist.

* TheCameo - Episode 11, when Miko and Shou run away from the fast-food restaurant on their magical [[TheRunaway running away from home adventure]], you can see [[spoiler:[[Anime/ReadOrDie Yomiko Readman]] in the background as they run. This is because Koji Masunari (the director for Read or Die) co-wrote and directed Kamichu with Tomonori Ochiai and Hideyuki Kurata.]]
* TheDitz - Kenji again.

* TheRunaway - Episode 11. Miko, with Shou following. Much [[ShipTease Ship Teasing]] ensues.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment - Episode 4 to many fans of the series.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship - Curiously, Yurie has a lot more chemistry with Matsuri than with her love interest Kenji, which is even more pronounced in the manga.
** In the manga, Matsuri and Yurie even get into what could only be construed as a lover's quarrel.

* {{Jerkass}} - Matsuri. In almost any other series, her use of Yurie to help the shrine wouldn't be anything special, but considering the tone of Kamichu, Matsuri is being quite exploitative.

* CallToAgriculture - Saegusa Kouun, the chief priest, prefers farming.

What would you do if your best friend Yurie Hitotsubashi suddenly announced that she [[MagicalRealism had just become a god]] during lunch at school? Well, if you're anything like Mitsue Shijo, you'd probably assume the awkward and young-for-her-age eighth grader was joking with you, at least until you are approached by Matsuri Saegusa also who claims to have recognized little Yurie's “air of divinity”. Together they set out to uncover Yurie´s supposed powers and place in the world of Japanese Shinto, where cities, places, objects and even concepts can all have their own minor deities and the local goddess may just well be a cute and unassuming middle school girl. On the way they encounter a little more than they had bargained for.