History Anime / MeatOrDie

* SylisticSuck: Yanz' {{Eureka Moments}}s are depicted as extremely simplistic drawings.

* SuddenVideoGameMoment: Yans and Gans' {{Eureka Moment}}s are depicted as 8-bit minigames.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ultimately, all of the difficulties Yans and Gans suffer through is because they love meat far too much for their own good, driving away their food source (humans) and having to deal with more creatures whose physical attributes and survival instinct exceed theirs. They have been shown to be somewhat omnivorous, as Yans attempts to eat a flower at least twice, but Gans is fiercely opposed to eating plants.

* SexIsViolence: Whenever the duo gets meat-crazed, a heart appears over their target and they go slobbering mad. Combine this with the Japanese slang meaning of "carnivore" and "herbivore" (active and passive roles in a relationship, respectively), and you've got this trope.

* MeatVersusVeggies: Carnivores Yans and Gans are have harsh color schemes, overly macho and aggressive attitudes, and sharp edges on their character designs. The various herbivores they hunt down are round, decked out in pastels, and are usually minding their own business before Yans and Gans show up. There's also some elements of MarsAndVenusGenderContrast to it, as Yans and Gans are both male while all of the herbivores are female.

Known in Japan as ''Yans! Gans!'', ''Meat or Die'' is a series of 3D shorts produced by Bonus.co.jp. While they were initially produced for TV in Japan as well as the Spain branch of Canal+, their international run was massively eclipsed by their easy accesibility on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS Nintendo Video service.

! ''Meat or Die'' provides the following examples:

In the far future, carnivores have managed to drive the human race off of planet Earth into the stars, leaving their cities behind to be populated by various strange creatures. This short series follows the two of them as they try to find their next meal, which they are surprisingly bad at considering the series back story...

This CG slapstick series ran on the 3DS Nintendo Video service. Each episode details the two odd carnivores, Yans and Gans, trying and failing to catch and eat a specific and equally odd creature they come across. hilarity ensues.

* BumblingHenchmenDuo: Yans (the tall blue one) and Gans (the short red one). With the various duo-centric tropes it entails:
** RedOniBlueOni
** BigGuyLittleGuy
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Leads are shown to be incompetent bumblers whenever they attempt to hunt something, but somehow they were enough of a threat that humans had to take to the stars to avoid them.
* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: When you consider the backstory and their general bad attitudes, its tough for one to feel bad for Yans and Gans starving to the point of hallucinations, sticking themselves with spikes, or [[LaserGuidedKarma being shot at by humans with Star Wars-esque lasers and falling back to earth in a burning heap.]]
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ultimately, all of the difficulties Yans and Gans suffer through is because they love meat far too much for their own good, driving away their food source (humans) and having to deal with more creatures whose physical attributes and survival instinct exceed theirs. They have been shown to be somewhat omnivorous, as Yans attempts to eat a flower at least twice, but Gans is fiercely opposed to eating plants.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Yans (the tall blue one) and Gans (the short red one). With the various duo-centric tropes it entails:

In the far future, carnivores have managed to drive the human race off of planet Earth into the stars, leaving their cities behind to be populated by various strange creatures. This short series follows the two of them as they try to find their next meal, which they are surprisingly bad at considering the series back story..

This cgi slapstick series ran on Creator/CartoonNetwork (namely on Short Break) and eventually also on the 3DS Nintendo Video service. Each episode details the two odd carnivores, Yans and Gans, trying and failing to catch and eat a specific and equally odd creature they come across. HilarityEnsues.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Ultimately, all of the difficulties Yans and Gans suffer through is because they love meat far too much for their own good, driving away their food scource (humans) and having to deal with more creatures whose physical attributes and survival instinct exceed theirs. They have been shown to be somewhat omnivorous, as Yans attempts to eat a flower at least twice, but Gans is fiercely opposed to eating plants.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Leads are shown to be incompetent bumblers whenever they attempt to hunt something, but somehow they were enough of a threat that humans had to take to the stars to avoid them.

This cgi slapstick series ran on CartoonNetwork (namely on Short Break) and eventually also on the 3DS Nintendo Video service. Each episode details the two carnivores, Yans and Gans, trying and failing to catch and eat a specific creature they come across and Hilarity Ensues.

----