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* BigNo: Nanamio screams "no!" this at least four times during episode, including the {{bookends}} of finding the egg in her bed and when she wakes up to find that the egg has hatched at the end.
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* BigNo: Nanamio Nanami screams "no!" "noooo!" this at least four times during episode, including the {{bookends}} of finding the egg in her bed at the beginning, and when she wakes up to find that the egg has hatched at the end.
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* FamilyHonor: Touga suggests that any girl who "lays an egg" is betraying her family. Given tall the indicators of wealth and high status that surround the Kiryuu family, it's not surprising that they would place priority of maintaining their dignity and reputation.
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: Close to the end of the episode, Anthy brings up reincarnation and how animals engage in TheDyingWalk at the ends of their lives. Nanami wakes up after dreaming that her egg hatched into a monster to find that it actually did hatch, and whatever was inside is gone. In the next scene at the chairman's residence, Utena hears the doorbell and looks down to find Chu-Chu on the threshold. The implication seems to be that ''the egg was a new incarnation of Chu-Chu'' all along.
* FamilyHonor: Touga suggests that any girl who "lays an egg" is betraying her family. Giventall all the indicators of wealth and high status that surround the Kiryuu family, it's not surprising that they he would place priority of on maintaining their dignity and reputation.
* FamilyHonor: Touga suggests that any girl who "lays an egg" is betraying her family. Given
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* GoodTimesMontage: After Nanami convinces herself that people actually ''do'' lay eggs and she has nothing to feel bad about, the next day is presented as a montage of scene of Nanami doting on her egg to the tune of ''Konnichiwa Akachan'', an 1960s Japanese pop song about welcoming a new baby.
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* GoodTimesMontage: After Nanami convinces herself that people actually ''do'' lay eggs and she has nothing to feel bad about, the next day is presented as a montage of scene of Nanami doting on her egg to the tune of ''Konnichiwa Akachan'', "Konnichiwa Akachan," an 1960s Japanese pop song about welcoming a new baby.baby.
* HeavierThanItLooks: Juri balances her bowling bag on her shoulder with ease, but when she offers it to Nanami, she can barely hold it up. Of course, Nanami was expecting egg weight rather than bowling ball weight.
* HeavierThanItLooks: Juri balances her bowling bag on her shoulder with ease, but when she offers it to Nanami, she can barely hold it up. Of course, Nanami was expecting egg weight rather than bowling ball weight.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami means having children, but Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: OneDialogueTwoConversations:
** Nanami thinks Juri is carrying an egg she laid around in a bag, and that she lays giant, heavy eggs. The reality is that the bag is a bowling bag containing a bowling ball, and Juri has a heretofore unmentioned bowling hobby.
** Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami means having children, but Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
** Nanami thinks Juri is carrying an egg she laid around in a bag, and that she lays giant, heavy eggs. The reality is that the bag is a bowling bag containing a bowling ball, and Juri has a heretofore unmentioned bowling hobby.
** Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami means having children, but Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: Nanami can barely lift Juri's bowling ball of the ground, but Juri can balance the thing on her shoulder with ease.
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Nanami wakes up one morning to find an egg in her bed. Thinking that she has laid the egg herself, she panics but soon starts nurturing the egg.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Egg mama]]
-> ''"Egg, egg, my little egg, hurry hurry and grow up!"''
Nanami wakes up one morning to find an egg in her bed. Thinking that shehas laid the egg herself, she panics but soon starts nurturing the egg.
[[caption-width-right:350:Egg mama]]
-> ''"Egg, egg, my little egg, hurry hurry and grow up!"''
Nanami wakes up one morning to find an egg in her bed. Thinking that she
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* BaffledByOwnBiology: Nanami is so ill-informed about puberty that she can't rule out the possibility that she laid the egg she finds in her bed, and she is too afraid of getting ridiculed to ask.
* BigNo: Nanamio screams "no!" this at least four times during episode, including the {{bookends}} of finding the egg in her bed and when she wakes up to find that the egg has hatched at the end.
* BrickJoke: Nanami gets hit square in the face with a soccer ball, and Utena, dressed in a soccer uniform, runs up apologizing and says, "it flew further than I thought it would!" The exact same thing happened in episode 6 except with baseball.
* BigNo: Nanamio screams "no!" this at least four times during episode, including the {{bookends}} of finding the egg in her bed and when she wakes up to find that the egg has hatched at the end.
* BrickJoke: Nanami gets hit square in the face with a soccer ball, and Utena, dressed in a soccer uniform, runs up apologizing and says, "it flew further than I thought it would!" The exact same thing happened in episode 6 except with baseball.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole episode is a metaphor for menstruation and teen pregnancy.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole episode is It's a puberty metaphor episode, but it takes a multi-purpose approach, using "egg-laying" to represent menstruation, unexpected pregnancy, and becoming sexually active.
* EggSitting: Nanami takes care of her egg of her own initiative and thinks of it like a baby pretty much from the start. In a departure from the sort of humor that American media typically builds from this premise, Nanami does not struggle to care formenstruation the egg -- she seems to enjoy her motherhood test-drive more than viewers might expect she would. The humor derives from {{Sustained Misunderstanding}}s about what the egg means for Nanami's relationships.
* FamilyHonor: Touga suggests that any girl who "lays an egg" is betraying her family. Given tall the indicators of wealth andteen pregnancy.high status that surround the Kiryuu family, it's not surprising that they would place priority of maintaining their dignity and reputation.
* FoodEatsYou: In the shadow play, A-ko is trying to make some sort of point about accomplishing impossible tasks by propping a large egg up on chopsticks, but then the impossible really happens. The egg wiggles, and with the two-dimensional trickery of the shadow plays running at maximum, the egg is now a [[MegaMicrobes monster bacterium]] and the chopsticks are its flagellae. As the scene fades out, A-ko and B-ko scream and crunching sounds are heard, implying that the "egg" eats them.
* GoodTimesMontage: After Nanami convinces herself that people actually ''do'' lay eggs and she has nothing to feel bad about, the next day is presented as a montage of scene of Nanami doting on her egg to the tune of ''Konnichiwa Akachan'', an 1960s Japanese pop song about welcoming a new baby.
* EggSitting: Nanami takes care of her egg of her own initiative and thinks of it like a baby pretty much from the start. In a departure from the sort of humor that American media typically builds from this premise, Nanami does not struggle to care for
* FamilyHonor: Touga suggests that any girl who "lays an egg" is betraying her family. Given tall the indicators of wealth and
* FoodEatsYou: In the shadow play, A-ko is trying to make some sort of point about accomplishing impossible tasks by propping a large egg up on chopsticks, but then the impossible really happens. The egg wiggles, and with the two-dimensional trickery of the shadow plays running at maximum, the egg is now a [[MegaMicrobes monster bacterium]] and the chopsticks are its flagellae. As the scene fades out, A-ko and B-ko scream and crunching sounds are heard, implying that the "egg" eats them.
* GoodTimesMontage: After Nanami convinces herself that people actually ''do'' lay eggs and she has nothing to feel bad about, the next day is presented as a montage of scene of Nanami doting on her egg to the tune of ''Konnichiwa Akachan'', an 1960s Japanese pop song about welcoming a new baby.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When a misunderstanding makes Touga believe Nanami is attracted to girls, he lectures her about how homosexuality is wrong, when he himself also sleeps with guys.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: HypocriticalHumor: When a misunderstanding makes Touga believe Nanami is attracted to girls, he lectures her about how homosexuality is wrong, when he himself also sleeps with guys.
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* MistakenForLesbian: When Nanami asks Touga if he prefers boys or girls (she's talking about the gender of whatever is inside the egg), he misinterprets the question and believes that she is talking about his sexuality and answers "Girls, obviously," which then Nanami replies with "Really? Me too.".
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* MistakenForLesbian: When Nanami asks Touga if he prefers boys or girls (she's talking about the gender of whatever is inside the egg), he misinterprets the question and believes that she is talking about his sexuality and answers "Girls, obviously," which then Nanami replies with "Really? Me too."."
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami talks about a kid (which she thinks will get hatched from an egg she got...ItMakesSenseInContext); Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
* RunningGag: Nanami's [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]].
* RunningGag: Nanami's [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]].
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami talks about a kid (which she thinks will get hatched from an egg she got...ItMakesSenseInContext); means having children, but Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
*RunningGag: Nanami's [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]].RealPlaceBackground: At one point in the episode [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Marine_Tower Yokohama Marine Tower]], a recognizable part of the Yokohama downtown skyline, appears in the background. Ikuhara mentioned in liner notes that he wanted to use a song titled "Blue Light Yokohama" in this episode, but was not able to secure the rights.
* RunningJoke: Nanami has four absurd {{Imagine Spot}}s that involve her being locked up with various egg-laying animals.
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* RunningJoke: Nanami has four absurd {{Imagine Spot}}s that involve her being locked up with various egg-laying animals.
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* TableSpace: Touga and Nanami have a meal, seated at opposite ends of a long table. It indicates SymbolicDistance, especially when Touga uses it as an opportunity to repeat his earlier warning that their happiness together depends on her not being "the sort of girl who lays eggs."
* TakenFromADream: Nanami dreams about about finding a distinctively decorated egg, and when she wakes up that distinctively decorated egg is in her bed.
* YouMonster: Nanami calls Saionji this repeatedly after she finds him cooking eggs over a camp stove, and she even smacks him a few times. For his part, Saionji is surprisingly tolerant of Nanami's eccentricities.
* TakenFromADream: Nanami dreams about about finding a distinctively decorated egg, and when she wakes up that distinctively decorated egg is in her bed.
* YouMonster: Nanami calls Saionji this repeatedly after she finds him cooking eggs over a camp stove, and she even smacks him a few times. For his part, Saionji is surprisingly tolerant of Nanami's eccentricities.
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* TheChainOfHarm: Discussed. Utena and Anthy have a brief discussion about the concept of reincarnation and parents passing down things to their children through the ages, exemplified in how they raised said children. Nanami is led to believe she has to abandon her egg, but when she returns for it the egg hatches into something which violently rejects Nanami as its mother and repays her earlier abandonment by leaving.
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* HiddenDepths: Juri, of all people, is shown to be an expert bowler.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: An unintended example. Anthy's despondent expression after Chu-Chu returns implies both that she maybe went too far hurting Nanami and she regrets the harm Chu-Chu experienced while he masqueraded as Nanami's egg.
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* StrongerThanTheyLook: Nanami can barely lift Juri's bowling ball of the ground, but Juri can balance the thing on her shoulder with ease.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that someone must've put it there but fears everyone will assume ''she'' laid it. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that all girls lay eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that someone must've put it there but fears so everyone will assume think ''she'' laid it. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that all girls lay eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head, and Chu-Chu may have been harmed by the experience as well.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** Nanami regrets abandoning the egg out of fear it'll be eaten, but when she returns for it's become monstrously big and the thing that hatches out abandons her. While that part seems to be a dream, Nanami screams out in horror when she finds the broken egg shells in her bed.
** The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head, and Chu-Chu may have been harmed by the experience as well.
** Nanami regrets abandoning the egg out of fear it'll be eaten, but when she returns for it's become monstrously big and the thing that hatches out abandons her. While that part seems to be a dream, Nanami screams out in horror when she finds the broken egg shells in her bed.
** The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head, and Chu-Chu may have been harmed by the experience as well.
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* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Nanami and Touga have a conversation where she asks him if he would prefer a boy or a girl. Nanami talks about a kid (which she thinks will get hatched from an egg she got...ItMakesSenseInContext); Touga thinks she's talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, so when she says she would like a girl, Touga ends up thinking she's a lesbian.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head.head, and Chu-Chu may have been harmed by the experience as well.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that she must've laid it instead of assuming someone put it there. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that everyone lays eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that she someone must've laid it instead of assuming someone put it there. there but fears everyone will assume ''she'' laid it. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that everyone lays all girls lay eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The ending of the episode largely implies the egg Nanami was carrying around all this time was Chu-Chu, enchanted by Anthy as yet another attempt to mess with Nanami. However, the very last shot before the end credits shows Anthy appearing to visibly regret something, indicating she feels she went too far to screw with Nanami's head.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: When a misunderstanding makes Touga believe Nanami is attracted to girls, he lectures her about how homosexuality is wrong, when he himself also sleeps with guys.
* ImagineSpot: Nanami has many of those over the course of the episode, where other character discovers that she has laid an egg and makes fun of her for it, calling her a space alien. These imagine spots always end with Nanami being put on a cage together with other animals that lay eggs.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that she must've laid it instead of assuming someone put it there. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that everyone lays eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
* MistakenForLesbian: When Nanami asks Touga if he prefers boys or girls (she's talking about the gender of whatever is inside the egg), he misinterprets the question and believes that she is talking about his sexuality and answers "Girls, obviously," which then Nanami replies with "Really? Me too.".
* RunningGag: Nanami's [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]].
* ImagineSpot: Nanami has many of those over the course of the episode, where other character discovers that she has laid an egg and makes fun of her for it, calling her a space alien. These imagine spots always end with Nanami being put on a cage together with other animals that lay eggs.
* InsaneTrollLogic: Nanami isn't exactly the most logical person in this setting, but her thought processes during this episode are a clear example of this. When she finds the egg, her immediate thought is that she must've laid it instead of assuming someone put it there. She then somehow gets the mistaken idea that everyone lays eggs when Miki explains some mammals do indeed lay them and spends the episode hiding the egg she found because she doesn't want to be mocked for being a late bloomer.
* MistakenForLesbian: When Nanami asks Touga if he prefers boys or girls (she's talking about the gender of whatever is inside the egg), he misinterprets the question and believes that she is talking about his sexuality and answers "Girls, obviously," which then Nanami replies with "Really? Me too.".
* RunningGag: Nanami's [[ImagineSpot imagine spots]].
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*DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The whole episode is a metaphor for menstruation and teen pregnancy.
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Nanami wakes up one morning to find an egg in her bed. Thinking that she has laid the egg herself, she panics but soon starts nurturing the egg.
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