History Anime / MichikoToHatchin

Several episodes were done in conjunction with Creator/StudioBones,[[note]]Episode 3[[/note]] Creator/StudioGainax,[[note]]Episode 8[[/note]] and Creator/{{Xebec}}.[[note]]Episodes 7 & 9[[/note]] Creator/FUNimation has licensed the series. It was released in the U.S. in September 2013. The series also aired on Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}} block from June 20, 2015 to December 12, 2015.

** In episode 21 Michiko does the [[Manga/{{Akira}} Kaneda bike skid]].

* ShoutOut: The library from episode 15 is full of copies of the Vincent Law book from ''Anime/ErgoProxy'', another Manglobe production.

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[[caption-width-right:295:The title characters, Michiko (left) and Hatchin (right).]]

Several episodes were done in conjunction with Creator/StudioBones,[[note]]Episode 3[[/note]] Creator/StudioGainax,[[note]]Episode 8[[/note]] and Creator/{{Xebec}}.[[note]]Episodes 7 & 9[[/note]] Creator/FUNimation has licensed the series alongside ''The Woman Called Fujiko Mine'', and both are available for viewing on Creator/{{Hulu}}. It was released in the U.S. in September 2013. The show also aired on Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}} block from June 20, 2015 to December 12, 2015.

%%ZeroContextExample * GratuitousEnglish

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Hana gives one to her abusive foster sister Maria after she's kicked out of the house by the latter.]]

** [[spoiler:Hatchin's birth mother.]]
** Hatchin's [[spoiler:baby]]. Furthermore, the identity of [[spoiler:the father isn't revealed.]]

* DistantFinale: Episode 22 takes place during a TimeSkip to [[spoiler: Hatchin's life as a single mother working as cook, years after the series end.]]
%%* EasyAmnesia: [[spoiler:Lenine appears to suffer from this]].
* EnfantTerrible: Gabriel and Maria are even more sadistically psychotic towards their adopted sister Hana than their AbusivieParents are to her.

%%* DistantFinale: Episode 22 takes place during this time period.

* EnfantTerrible: Gabriel and Maria are even more sadistically psychotic towards their adopted sister Hana than their AbusvieParents are to her.

* SouthOfTheBorder: The overall vibe of the series.

Enter [[SpicyLatina Michiko Malandro]], who recently escaped from a hellish high-security prison, and literally crashes into Hana's life on a scooter. With nothing in common but a man (who may be dead) named Hiroshi Morenos-- who's Michiko's former lover and possibly Hana's father-- the two embark on a wild trip through the countryside to find him. [[SouthOfTheBorder Traveling through a fictional South American country based on Brazil]], they evade GangBangers like the infamous [[BigBad Satoshi Batista]] and cops like the persistent Inspector Aktsuko, and [[OddCouple learn to appreciate each other]]--just a little bit.

Several episodes were done in conjunction with Creator/StudioBones,[[note]]Episode 3[[/note]] Creator/StudioGainax,[[note]]Episode 8[[/note]] and Creator/{{Xebec}}.[[note]]Episodes 7 & 9[[/note]] Creator/FUNimation has licensed the show alongside ''[[Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine The Woman Called Fujiko Mine]]'', and both are available for viewing on Creator/{{Hulu}}. It was released in the U.S. in September 2013. The show also aired on Creator/AdultSwim's Creator/{{Toonami}} block from June 20, 2015 to December 12, 2015.

Enter [[SpicyLatina Michiko Malandro]], who recently escaped from a hellish high-security prison, and literally crashes into Hana's life on a scooter. With nothing in common but a man (who may be dead) named Hiroshi Morenos-- who's Michiko's former lover and possibly Hana's father-- the two embark on a wild trip through the countryside to find him. [[SouthOfTheBorder Traveling through a fictional South American country based on Brazil]], they evade GangBangers like the infamous [[BigBad Satoshi Baptista]] and cops like the persistent Inspector Aktsuko, and [[OddCouple learn to appreciate each other]]--just a little bit.

...Enter [[SpicyLatina Michiko Malandro]], who recently escaped from a hellish high-security prison, and literally crashes into Hana's life on a scooter. With nothing in common but a man (who may be dead) named Hiroshi Morenos-- who's Michiko's former lover and possibly Hana's father-- the two embark on a wild trip through the countryside. [[SouthOfTheBorder Traveling through a fictional South American country based on Brazil]], where they encounter gangs, are pursued by the police, and [[OddCouple learn to appreciate each other]]--just a little bit.

** Michiko and Hatchin spends the entire series looking for Hiroshi. After they [[spoiler:finally find him, he claims that he wants to be a part of Hatchin's life. It's revealed that sometime after Hiroshi and Hatchin left together, he ran off with another woman.]]

* DeadlyGame: Shinsuke's plan to meet up with Michiko and Davi is have them trolley jump their way to an unknown locale while avoiding gunfire.
* DistantFinale: Episode 22 takes place during this time period.
* EasyAmnesia: Lenine appears to suffer from that one.
* EnfantTerrible: It's not so much that Gabriel and Maria are terrible. It's more the fact they're even more sadistically psychotic than their parents.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Hatchin's foster family is a quartet of bespectacled bastards.

* GangBangers: All members of Fantasma and Monstro Preto, including Satoshi, Hiroshi, Shinsuke, Kirill, and Vasiliy. Additionally, a number of unnamed gangs, such as Rico's collection of child bangers.

** Played with Michiko. She does love Hatchin, but her lifestyle does put the girl's life in danger.
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Hatchin and her baby.]]
* GratuitousEnglish

** {{Implied|Trope}} to have been the relationship between Michiko and Atsuko.
** In a mother-daughter sense, Michiko and Hatchin gradually, but surely become this.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Michiko Menezes was more attractive years ago before she grew too be overweight and clownish looking, as a photo would show.
* IntrepidReporter: Daniela Carneiro. Yes, he's a ''guy''. He is extremely obnoxious, but [[spoiler:turns out to be right about the circus]].
* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:The father of his and Hatchin's baby. He left after three months.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: The reporter who [[spoiler:was trying to frame the circus for child abuse turned out to be startlingly close to the truth; they were selling off any kids who didn't prove to be useful.]]
* TheMafiya: Fantasma is a Russian gang operating under the control of Kirill. [[spoiler:Later, after Kirill is killed, it is absorbed into Monstro under the control of Satoshi Batista.]]

* TheNamesTheSame: [[invoked]] There's a circus worker who is also named Michiko.

* OddCouple: Michiko and Hatchin. Really, as the former can be childish and ditzy, on top of being a criminal, while the latter is more mature and competent, along with being honest, for the most part..
* ParentalAbandonment: Hatchin, but also Michiko when she was a kid.
* ParentalFavoritism: Hatchin's foster parents appear to love their own children, but mistreat Hana. A ''lot''.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Michiko, a statuesque woman who works at the circus, not the title character, treats the kids who wind up working for her relatively well and doesn't take any crap from a crooked journalist who wants to make her look bad in order to get a scoop. [[spoiler: This is subverted when it's revealed that she's selling the kids who aren't useful.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: The whole Hiroshi search has a very anti-climatic end, especially when you consider that this plot drives the entire anime. Michiko's whole goal was to find Hiroshi again and give him his daughter, and since she proclaims her love for him for a good part of the series, possibly also get her HappyEnding by meeting him again. When the three of them meet, [[spoiler:Michiko has experienced enough to know that her sole mission was to simply deliver Hatchin to her father. Hatchin, who wasn't exactly excited about meeting the guy in the first place, is abandoned by him again after a few months, when he runs away with another woman]]. Still, from a certain point of view, it was all worth it, as the bond and friendship between the two women is also the main theme of the series, and is reinforced [[spoiler:when they meet after the TimeSkip at the end]].

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Sits firmly on [[HumansAreBastards one end]] and seems reluctant to budge. The setting is so unpleasant, it can be hard to watch.

* SoftWater: Michiko [[spoiler:safely lands in the sea after falling out a hot air balloon. This is after she has been tranquilized twice.]]

* SternChase: Throughout Michiko and Hatchin's search for Hiroshi, they are being pursued by cop Atsuko, who has been tasked with returning the escaped Michiko to prison. Several times Atsuko comes close to catching them, causing them to flee town and continue on the run.

* TitleCharacter: Actually ''two'' of them.

* TryNotToDie: Used almost ad verbatim.

** Several characters, but most importantly [[spoiler:Jair, the old man in episode 14 who attempted to assassinate Michiko. He is never mentioned again even though he last seen taking Michiko to her destination after calling for a truce.]]
** [[spoiler: Hiroshi, who doesn't seem so important in the end, although he was the main plot point and thus the reason why Michiko and Hatchin do all the stuff in the series in the first place. He doesn't seem to give a shit about Hatchin. After they leave together, Hatchin reveals that at some point, he ran off with another woman.[[note]]This is TruthInTelevision as some deadbeat dads act exactly like Hiroshi.[[/note]]]]
** Just who is [[spoiler:Hatchin's mother]]?

[[caption-width-right:295:Michiko and Hatchin.]]

* AerithAndBob: Michiko, Hiroshi -- Maria, Pedro... Also, Hatchin's actual name is "Hana", which can be both Japanese and Western. This is subverted due to the country's source of inspiration, Brazil, having the highest concentration of Japanese people in a single country besides Japan, of course.
* AnachronismStew: Vehicles from the 1970s, TV broadcasts with an '80s/'90s style, and every building and infrastructure looks run-down. It's a bit difficult to figure a proper time period.

* BadassAndChildDuo: A rare female version.

** Malandro means "scoundrel" in Portuguese.
** Morenos means "dark-skinned ones" or "dark-haired ones" in Portuguese and Spanish.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The series ends with Hiroshi running off with another woman, and the father of Hatchin's baby abandoning them. However, Hatchin doesn't seem too bothered about it. At least at the end, Michiko is either released from prison or escapes again, and reunites with Hatchin.]]

** The cooking of omelettes. Hatchin cooks omelettes for her foster family at the beginning, then cooks for [[spoiler:her baby]] at the end.
** In the first episode, Hatchin briefly runs away from home into the middle of nowhere and imagines crossing paths with a truck, whose driver is her father come to rescue her and whisk her away. [[spoiler:In the last episode, Hatchin decides to meet Michiko in the middle of nowhere, driving to her destination with a truck, wanting to travel with her surrogate mother again.]]

* CircusEpisode: There is a two-parter episode where a circus girl [[SweetOnPollyOliver mistakes Hatchin for a boy and falls for her]]. Even after Hatchin reveals her gender, they become friends and she stays with Rita. In the second episode, it turns out the circus was really smuggling children and selling them as slaves. Luckily, Michiko comes along and [[BigDamnHeroes saves Hatchin]]. Afterwards, Rita and Hatchin part ways.

* CooldownHug: Michiko does this to Hatchin after the latter goes through a painful, first heartbreak.
* CrapsackWorld: Their home is an ''incredibly'' unforgivable country. Most people tend to live in squalor or rely on crime and violence to make ends meet, children are hurt and taken advantage of like it's normal, and the average citizen tends to be a Jerkass, or much, much worse. Sometimes it feels like Michiko and Hatchin's journey is more of a 22 episode lesson in HumansAreBastards. It says something about how awful everything is when Michiko's completely incompetent and borderline abusive attempts to be a mother for Hatchin are heartwarming by comparison to everything else that happens.

* JerkassHasAPoint: The reporter who [[spoiler: was trying to frame the circus for child abuse turned out to be startlingly close to the truth; they were selling off any kids who didn't prove to be useful.]]

* TheNamesTheSame: In-universe. There's a circus worker who is also named Michiko.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: In the first episode when Hana finally goes after her abusive foster sister Maria.

** Hatchin's [[spoiler:baby]]. Furthermore, the identity of [[spoiler:the father isn't revealed]].

** Hatchin gets one in the {{distant finale}}, when she figures out that [[spoiler:Michiko is heading in her direction]].

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:When Hana finally goes after her abusive foster sister Maria.]]

''Michiko & Hatchin'' is an {{anime}} series produced by Creator/{{Manglobe}}; it marked Sayo Yamamoto's directing debut, which she followed with 2012's ''Anime/LupinIIITheWomanCalledFujikoMine''. Coincidentally or not, legendary director Creator/ShinichiroWatanabe handled the music direction for both series.

%% * TheFagin: Rico.

%% * IWasQuiteALooker: Michiko Menezes.

* OddCouple: Michiko and Hatchin. Really.

* {{Bishonen}}: Hiroshi.

* BrandX
* CampGay: Ivan.
* CircusEpisode: There is a two-parter episode where a circus girl [[SweetOnPollyOliver mistakes Hatchin for a boy and falls for her]]. Even after Hatchin reveals her gender, they become friends and she stays with Rita. In the second episode, it turns out the circus was really smuggling children and selling them as slaves. Luckily Michiko comes along and [[BigDamnHeroes saves Hatchin]]. Afterwards, Rita and Hatchin part ways.

* TheFagin: Rico.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Michiko Menezes.

* {{Bishounen}}: Hiroshi.

* IWasQuiteALooker: Michiko Menezes.

* TheMafiya: Fantasma is a Russian gang operating under the control of Kirill. [[spoiler: Later, after Kirill is killed, it is absorbed into Monstro under the control of Satoshi Batista.]]

* NameAndName

** Hatchin's [[spoiler:baby]]. Futhermore, the identity of [[spoiler:the father isn't revealed]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: The show has become Toonami's successor to ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. It's also acting as this to ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', now that said show's [[Anime/SpaceDandy other successor]] has stopped airing.

...Enter [[SpicyLatina Michiko Malandro]], who recently escaped from a hellish high-security prison, and literally crashes into Hana's life on a scooter. With nothing in common but a man (who may be dead) named Hiroshi Morenos-- who's Michiko's former lover and possibly Hana's father-- the two embark on a wild trip through the countryside. [[SouthOfTheBorder Traveling through a fictional South American country based on Brazil]], where everyone has Japanese given names, they encounter gangs, are pursued by the police, and [[OddCouple learn to appreciate each other]]--just a little bit.

* SmokingIsCool: There is plenty of smoking featured in the series.

* WickedStepmother: Hatchin's foster mother.

* SunglassesAtNight: Michiko and Atsuko.
* TeenageWasteland: Diamandra, for the most part, is crowded with gangs that are made up of or led by children.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:When Hana finally goes after her abusive foster-sister Maria.]]

* RedOniBlueOni: Hatchin is the Blue and Michiko is the Red.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:When Hana fights back against her abusive foster siblings.]] Too bad it turned out to be just a daydream.

* ParentalFavoritism: Hatchin's foster parents idolize their own kids and mistreat her. A ''lot''.

* SlasherSmile: Satoshi.

* CrapsackWorld: Diamandra is an ''incredibly'' unforgivable country. Most people tend to live in squalor or rely on crime and violence to make ends meet, children are hurt and taken advantage of like it's normal, and the average citizen tends to be a Jerkass, or much, much worse. Sometimes it feels like Michiko and Hatchin's journey is more of a 22 episode lesson in HumansAreBastards. It says something about how awful everything is when Michiko's completely incompetent and borderline abusive attempts to be a mother for Hatchin are heartwarming by comparison to everything else that happens.