History Anime / TokyoGodfathers

** It helps that the actors are born Spanish speakers, of course.

** Don't harm a cat in fron of Miyuki

* BerserkButton: Hana doesn't forgive anyone who calls her an "old man".

* FatGirl: Played as legitimate characters. There are four [[BigBeautifulWoman handsomely-built ladies]] in the movie: Kiyoko the ''yakuza'''s daughter, Kiyoko the nurse, the kind Spanish-speaking mother, and Miyuki in flashback.

* TheTramp: All of them

* DoorstopBaby

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Hana and Miyuki are homeless due to believing this. Hana left home after he after she attacked a heckler at her foster mother's drag bar and was too ashamed to face her foster mother and Miyuki left believing [[spoiler: her father would arrest her for stabbing him]].

* MamaBear: Hana.

* FatGirl: Played as legitimate characters. There are four [[BigBeautifulWoman handsomely-built ladies]] in the movie: Kiyoko the ''yakuza'' 's daughter, Kiyoko the nurse, the kind Spanish-speaking mother, and Miyuki in flashback.

* TheRunaway: Miyuki. She ran away from home after stabbing her father during a fight.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Hana and Miyuki are homeless due to believing this. Hana left home after he after she attacked a heckler at her foster mother's drag bar and was too ashamed to face her foster mother and Miyuki left believing her father would arrest her for stabbing him.

* FomerlyFat: Due to living in the streets during several months, Miyuki lost a large amount of weight.

* KindheartedCatLover: Miyuki. She even has cat named Angel and gets very angry when Gin suggests eat some cats.

* {{Transsexual}}

* KindheartedCatLover: Miyuki. She even has cat named Angel and gets very angry when Gin suggests eating cats.

* TheTramp: all of them
* TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse -- however, in this film, Tokyo is a city with a shady side just like any other.

* DragQueen: Hana's former vocation. She left the biz after getting married.

* Surprisingly Good Foreign Language: The entirety of the Hispanic characters' dialogue is delivered in Surprisingly Good Spanish. The boy's lines might sound a bit like translated Japanese at times, but in all it's far better Spanish than it has any reason to be.

* [[JapaneseChristian Christianity In Japan]]: The fiery preacher seen in the opening credits may have been the same drunken slob who accosts Gin and Hana in a convenience store later on; if so, Hana is a better Christian than he is.

* DragQueen: Hana's former vocation.

* QueerPeopleAreFunny

* WellDoneSonGuy: It appears that Miyuki's father was perpetually cold and callous to her... from [[UnreliableNarrator her perspective]], anyway.

Three [[CrazyHomelessPeople homeless people]] -- Gin (the JerkWithAHeartOfGold), Hana (a {{Transvestite}} {{Transsexual}}) and Miyuki ([[TheRunaway a runaway girl]] who doesn't fit any of the usual Japanese teenage girl tropes) -- find an [[DoorstopBaby abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[ParentalAbandonment missing parents]].

* CampGay: Hana.

* FairyGodmother: Played with -- it looks like a Fairy Godmother, but it then turns out to be [[spoiler:a transvestite in a Fairy Godmother costume.]]

* {{Transvestite}}

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hana, so much.

Contains alot of [[ContrivedCoincidence contrived coincidences]] (miracles, really, but always within the realm of possibility), but that's kind of the point. In the meantime, viewers get a glimpse of a side of Tokyo that is rarely seen in anime.

* ShoutOut: Akio Ohtsuka gets a brief cameo as a [[{{BlackJack}} doctor.]]

* ArcNumber: 1225.

* CampGay

* FatGirl: Played as legitimate characters. There are four [[BigBeautifulWoman handsomely-built ladies]] in the movie: Kiyoko the ''yakuza'' 's daughter, Kiyoko the nurse, the kind Spanish mother, and Miyuki in flashback.