History Anime / ThrillerRestaurant

The norm is three stories per episode, all organized like the many courses of a meal: the appetizer usually deals with a story of the supernatural (ghosts, possessed [=TVs=], whatever); the main course is similar, but longer and almost always with a twist; and the dessert is a short and sweet urban legend, almost always containing a vague moral ([[AnAesop Whether this works]] [[LostAesop or not]] is up to you).

* TheDollEpisode: Surprisingly averted. "Tatty" is only mildly frightening once, and the rest of it is heartwarming and sweet.

* {{Bishonen}}: The garçon's human form even has ''eyeshadow.''

* LaserGuidedKarma: A horrifying example exists in Episode 2's dessert course. Midori uses a curse doll to turn Kanaya into a flounder. [[spoiler: Kanaya returns the favor by turning Midori into a flounder. And then Midori's father ''[[UpToEleven cuts his own fish-daughter up]] [[ParanoiaFuel into sashimi for dinner.]]'']]

* {{Meganekko}}: Anko.

* TheAlcoholic - The garçon is implied to be one, given the closing theme.

* BodyHorror - The episode where Ako finds a wart with her face on it growing slowly on her shoulder.

The norm is three stories per episode, all organized like the many courses of a meal: the appetizer usually deals with a story of the supernatural (ghosts, possessed [=TVs=], whatever); the main course is similar, but longer and almost always with a twist; and the dessert is a short and sweet urban legend, almost always containing a vague moral ([[AnAesop Whether this works]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop or not]] is up to you).

* UrbanLegends: The desserts often consist of these, and one pops up in a few appetizers.
* WomanInWhite: The Ghastly Widow.

* ShoutOut: In the fourth episode's main dish, when Yuuma and his friend are playing a game on the shrine's steps, the sound from the game is definitely from {{Mario}}.

The norm is three stories per episode, all organized like the courses of a meal: the appetizer usually deals with a story of the supernatural (ghosts, possessed [=TVs=], whatever); the main course is similar, but longer and almost always with a twist; and the dessert is a short and sweet urban legend, almost always containing a vague moral ([[AnAesop Whether this works]] [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop or not]] is up to you).

* ArtShift: The movie, the first half is done in the usual anime style. The latter half then switches to live action.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Anko's wart when she takes over the real Anko in Episode 14. What appears to be a bright, attractive girl is really an arrogant, manipulative and sadistic madwoman.

* BodyHorror - The episode where Ako finds a wart with her face on it gowing on her shoulder.

* CreepyChild: A whole school-full, no less.

* DefangedHorrors: Your ghost host sometimes promises that the stories within your meal are safe for children to consume. Sometimes he's lying.

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->''"Welcome to Thriller Restaurant. I am the Ghastly Garçon, the manager of this establishment... We specialize in dishes that send shivers down your spine. Here is tonight's menu..."''\\
-- ''The Garçon''

Essentially a sort of ''TalesFromTheCrypt'' for kids.

!This show provides examples of:

* AxeCrazy: The GrimReaper gets a liiiiitle too excited with that scythe...

* PalsWithJesus: The Garçon is apparently on friendly terms with King Yama, the terrible but benevolent ruler of the Underworld.

* NoNameGiven: The garçon refers to himself as just that: the Ghastly Garçon. Whether he has a real name or not is unknown. Some employees of the restaurant follow this pattern as well: Kappa, The Grim Reaper, Bakeneko, The Ghastly Widow, etc.

* TheMovie: The series is getting a live-action/anime hybrid film in August, 2010.

* BodyHorror - The episode where Ako finds a wart with her face on it growing on her shoulder.
* ButNotTooForeign: Shou was living in London before the series began, hence the blue eyes and blonde hair. He still speaks very fluent Japanese, and is implied to originally be from Japan...

* DevilInPlainSight: When Anko's wart takes over her body, face, and mind, no one besides [[EvilDetectingDog Kicchomu]] and Shou seems to notice that there is something very, ''very'' wrong with Anko.

* ShoutOut: The fourth episode's main dish, when Yuuma and his friend are playing a game on the shrine's steps, the sound from the game is definitely from {{Mario}}.

* ShoutOut: The demon's exorcism from Mari and entry into Anko in Episode 18 are exact replicas of what happens when demons enter and leave people's bodies in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Are the creators of ThrillerRestaurant fans of the Winchester brothers?
** Seeing as the effect in question is OlderThenTheyThink, i'd say no.
* A Better example would be the fourth episode's main dish, when Yuuma and his friend are playing a game on the shrine's steps, the sound from the game is definetly from {{Mario}}.

* FridgeBrilliance: Shou using the bee to [[spoiler: defeat Anko's wart. Which makes sense as warts are sometimes lanced. Wart Anko herself alludes to this when the real Anko bites her finger and she mention she almost broke the skin.]]

* AxeCrazy: The Grim Reaper gets a liiiiitle too excited with that scythe...

* [[DeadLittleSister Dead Older Brother:]] [[spoiler: Reiko's FreudianExcuse for refusing to believe in the supernatural is her inability to contact her brother, who had drowned when she was younger.]]