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* {{Adorkable}}: Momoko, played by Keiko Kitagawa to be as dorky as possible.
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* {{Lolicon}}: Ayahiko Takajo in Episode 8.
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* CerebusSyndrome: As early as Episode 4, Momoko learns the hard way that [[YouCantFightFate she cannot save everyone]].
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* CuteClumsyGirl: Momoko
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* LastNameBasis: Shotaro Otomo is often called by his colleagues by his last name. Only his girlfriend calls him Shotaro.
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* LastNameBasis: Shotaro Otomo is often called by his colleagues by his last name. Only his girlfriend calls called him Shotaro.Shotaro [[spoiler: before she died]].
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* MoodWhiplash: The show zigzags between hilarious and dramatic with spoofs of a generic detective plot, followed by heartwrenching twists.
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* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Otomo in Episode 8 by an Kisuke Nawashibari, an author of erotic novels and [=BSM=] fetishist.
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* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Otomo in Episode 8 by an Kisuke Nawashibari, an author of erotic novels and [=BSM=] [=BDSM=] fetishist.
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** Following his girlfriend's death, Otomo has a fascination for foreign girls. Once Momoko comes back in time, she exploits this fact to coax Otomo to help her solve the case.
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** Following his girlfriend's death, Otomo has a fascination for foreign girls. Once Momoko comes back in time, she exploits this fact to coax Otomo to help her solve the case.
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* MuggleBestFriend:
** Otomo, whose help Momoko enlists after going back in time, with the excuse of visions of her grandma and the promise of pretty foreign girls. His navigation and investigative skills prove useful in locating possible suspects.
** Hina, Momoko's best friend who works in a publishing company. Her connections also help Momoko in her investigation.
** Otomo, whose help Momoko enlists after going back in time, with the excuse of visions of her grandma and the promise of pretty foreign girls. His navigation and investigative skills prove useful in locating possible suspects.
** Hina, Momoko's best friend who works in a publishing company. Her connections also help Momoko in her investigation.
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* StrictlyFormula: Momoko meets the episode's central character and later gets in trouble at the funeral parlor she's workin in. The murder of the episode's character is discovered. Momoko locates an item linked to the dead person and goes back in time, getting help from Otomo and Hina along the way. Potential suspects are investigated. Momoko and Otomo stop the crime of the central character, just to discover that another side character has the real motive to kill all along.
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* StrictlyFormula: Momoko meets the episode's central main character and later gets in trouble at the funeral parlor she's workin working in. The murder of the episode's character is discovered. Momoko locates an item linked to the dead person and goes back in time, getting help from Otomo and Hina along the way. Potential suspects are investigated. Momoko and Otomo stop the crime of the central character, just to discover that another side character has the real motive to kill all along.
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* GenerationXerox: Momoko's stern father Ryuji and her brother Keigo share her {{Malaproper}} tendencies.
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* InsistentTerminology: Yokochi Atsushi, ''Sub-Divisional Inspector''.
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* MistakenForRomance: Momoko and Otomo are mistaken to be a couple.
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** Yokochi hits on Momoko as he praises her physique, only to be rebuffed.
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* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Otomo gets the bed, Momoko gets the couch.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Momoko and Otomo.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Momoko and Otomo.
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* {{Yakuza}}: Episode 9 deals with a whole gang of them. Momoko has to bring the dying Yakuza leader to meet his childhood girlfriend that he was forced to leave.
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** In the final episode, [[spoiler: The assailant happened to have a spare knife to attack Momoko, but Otomo jumps in between. It looks like Otomo died from his wound as the staff look by his empty desk. It turns out he recovered from the wound and just came back from a vacation in Hawaii.]]
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** In the final episode, [[spoiler: The assailant happened to have a spare knife to attack Momoko, but Otomo jumps in between. It looks like Otomo died between and apparently dies from his wound as wound. Some time later, the staff look looks by his empty desk. It turns out he fully recovered from the wound and just came back from a vacation in Hawaii.]]
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'''Mop Girl''' is a 2007 Japanese miniseries based from Miaki Kato's novel of the same name. It follows the adventures of [[PeggySue Momoko Hasegawa]] (Keiko Kitagawa), who at a young age was rescued by a woman from a traffic accident. The woman dies from her injury, but not after she passes on a strange ability into Momoko. With this power, Momoko can travel back in time by holding a deceased person's memento, giving her a [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong chance to prevent that person's death and discover the culprit.]]
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'''Mop Girl''' is a 2007 Japanese {{Dramedy}} miniseries based from Miaki Kato's novel of the same name. It follows the adventures of [[PeggySue Momoko Hasegawa]] (Keiko Kitagawa), who at a young age was rescued by a woman from a traffic accident. The woman dies from her injury, but not after she passes on a strange ability into Momoko. With this power, Momoko can travel back in time by holding a deceased person's memento, giving her a [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong chance to prevent that person's death and discover the culprit.]]
* BigEater: Miki Kataoka, Momoko's colleague who brings big lunches to work and is often seen eating.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, Momoko discovers the latent power she got from her childhood accident. She travels back in time to prevent a former teacher from doing a bank robbery that got him killed by cops. Subsequent episodes follow the plot of a DetectiveDrama.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, Momoko discovers the latent power she got from her childhood accident. She travels back in time to prevent a former teacher from doing a bank robbery and hostage taking that got him killed by cops. Subsequent episodes follow the plot of a DetectiveDrama.
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* PosthumousCharacter / TheReveal: Ryoko Hazuki [[was the mysterious woman who rescued Momoko 13 years ago at the cost of her life, later revealed to be Otomo's girlfriend.]]
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* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]: Momoko lives solo in an apartment as a blue-collar worker even though her brother is a doctor and her father is a wealthy hospital director. She aspired to be a wedding planner but got shafted into a funeral services office as a mop girl.
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'''Mop Girl''' is a 2007 Japanese miniseries based from Miaki Kato's novel of the same name. It follows the adventures of [[PeggySue Momoko Hasegawa]] (Keiko Kitagawa), who at a young age was rescued by a woman from a traffic accident. The woman dies from her injury, but not after she passes on a strange ability into Momoko. With this power, Momoko can travel back in time by holding a deceased person's memento, giving her a [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong chance to prevent that person's death and discover the culprit.]]
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!!This series contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Momoko, played by Keiko Kitagawa to be as dorky as possible.
* AffectionateParody: Of the DetectiveDrama genre. The show even "recreates" a crime scene using people in body suits and labels plastered on their faces. See also the StrictlyFormula entry.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** A recurring event with the suspects. [[spoiler: As they find more evidence against the prime suspect, a disregarded character is the actual culprit.]]
** In the final episode, [[spoiler: The assailant happened to have a spare knife to attack Momoko, but Otomo jumps in between. It looks like Otomo died from his wound as the staff look by his empty desk. It turns out he recovered from the wound and just came back from a vacation in Hawaii.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Shigeo Higashi, the Little Angel funeral services president. He is a goofy eccentric who is quite friendly towards his workers, and is even shown to bond with them time by time. He is also very lenient toward Momoko's regular mishaps.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Otomo in Episode 8 by an Kisuke Nawashibari, an author of erotic novels and [=BSM=] fetishist.
* CerebusSyndrome: As early as Episode 4, Momoko learns the hard way that [[YouCantFightFate she cannot save everyone]].
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: In the final episode: Momoko, then Otomo. Both came out well.]]
* DopeSlap: Commonly delivered by Otomo to Momoko with several variations.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, Momoko discovers the latent power she got from her childhood accident. She travels back in time to prevent a former teacher from doing a bank robbery that got him killed by cops. Subsequent episodes follow the plot of a DetectiveDrama.
* FemmeFatale: Discussed in Episode 8, where the culprit ''is'' one.
* HasAType:
** Momoko is obsessed with muscles. She even has a cutout of a muscled figure on her mirror.
** Following his girlfriend's death, Otomo has a fascination for foreign girls. Once Momoko comes back in time, she exploits this fact to coax Otomo to help her solve the case.
* LastNameBasis: Shotaro Otomo is often called by his colleagues by his last name. Only his girlfriend calls him Shotaro.
* LipstickLesbian: Karenko Todoroki in Episode 8.
* {{Lolicon}}: Ayahiko Takajo in Episode 8.
* {{Malaproper}}: Momoko has some trouble with idioms and tends to mispronouce or misunderstand homonyms.
* MeaningfulName: Otomo means ''companion'', who usually plays TheWatson to Momoko and gets a fair share in solving the case.
* MementoMacGuffin: The trigger of Momoko's time travel is holding an item that the deceased has an attachment to.
* PeggySue: Upon touching a memento, Momoko goes back in time, usually the morning of that day of the character's death. Momoko races against the clock and uses her knowledge of various clues and time frames before the crime takes place.
* PosthumousCharacter / TheReveal: Ryoko Hazuki [[was the mysterious woman who rescued Momoko 13 years ago at the cost of her life, later revealed to be Otomo's girlfriend.]]
* RedHerring: All over the place. [[spoiler: Potential suspects are pointed out, then just as a main suspect is zeroed by an incriminating clue, it turns out a character who looks like having the least motive is the real criminal.]]
* RunningGag:
** Momoko [[{{Malaproper}} mispronouncing a word or mistaking a word for another]], followed by Otomo's DopeSlap.
** Momoko being dragged away by two men when she blurts out she is about to stop an impending murder.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The main premise of the series.
* StrictlyFormula: Momoko meets the episode's central character and later gets in trouble at the funeral parlor she's workin in. The murder of the episode's character is discovered. Momoko locates an item linked to the dead person and goes back in time, getting help from Otomo and Hina along the way. Potential suspects are investigated. Momoko and Otomo stop the crime of the central character, just to discover that another side character has the real motive to kill all along.
* WideEyedIdealist: Momoko, to ludicrous degrees. In earlier episodes, she can talk down the culprit to stop a crime they are about to commit.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Momoko, played by Keiko Kitagawa to be as dorky as possible.
* AffectionateParody: Of the DetectiveDrama genre. The show even "recreates" a crime scene using people in body suits and labels plastered on their faces. See also the StrictlyFormula entry.
* BaitAndSwitch:
** A recurring event with the suspects. [[spoiler: As they find more evidence against the prime suspect, a disregarded character is the actual culprit.]]
** In the final episode, [[spoiler: The assailant happened to have a spare knife to attack Momoko, but Otomo jumps in between. It looks like Otomo died from his wound as the staff look by his empty desk. It turns out he recovered from the wound and just came back from a vacation in Hawaii.]]
* BenevolentBoss: Shigeo Higashi, the Little Angel funeral services president. He is a goofy eccentric who is quite friendly towards his workers, and is even shown to bond with them time by time. He is also very lenient toward Momoko's regular mishaps.
* BoundAndGagged: Happens to Otomo in Episode 8 by an Kisuke Nawashibari, an author of erotic novels and [=BSM=] fetishist.
* CerebusSyndrome: As early as Episode 4, Momoko learns the hard way that [[YouCantFightFate she cannot save everyone]].
* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: In the final episode: Momoko, then Otomo. Both came out well.]]
* DopeSlap: Commonly delivered by Otomo to Momoko with several variations.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first episode, Momoko discovers the latent power she got from her childhood accident. She travels back in time to prevent a former teacher from doing a bank robbery that got him killed by cops. Subsequent episodes follow the plot of a DetectiveDrama.
* FemmeFatale: Discussed in Episode 8, where the culprit ''is'' one.
* HasAType:
** Momoko is obsessed with muscles. She even has a cutout of a muscled figure on her mirror.
** Following his girlfriend's death, Otomo has a fascination for foreign girls. Once Momoko comes back in time, she exploits this fact to coax Otomo to help her solve the case.
* LastNameBasis: Shotaro Otomo is often called by his colleagues by his last name. Only his girlfriend calls him Shotaro.
* LipstickLesbian: Karenko Todoroki in Episode 8.
* {{Lolicon}}: Ayahiko Takajo in Episode 8.
* {{Malaproper}}: Momoko has some trouble with idioms and tends to mispronouce or misunderstand homonyms.
* MeaningfulName: Otomo means ''companion'', who usually plays TheWatson to Momoko and gets a fair share in solving the case.
* MementoMacGuffin: The trigger of Momoko's time travel is holding an item that the deceased has an attachment to.
* PeggySue: Upon touching a memento, Momoko goes back in time, usually the morning of that day of the character's death. Momoko races against the clock and uses her knowledge of various clues and time frames before the crime takes place.
* PosthumousCharacter / TheReveal: Ryoko Hazuki [[was the mysterious woman who rescued Momoko 13 years ago at the cost of her life, later revealed to be Otomo's girlfriend.]]
* RedHerring: All over the place. [[spoiler: Potential suspects are pointed out, then just as a main suspect is zeroed by an incriminating clue, it turns out a character who looks like having the least motive is the real criminal.]]
* RunningGag:
** Momoko [[{{Malaproper}} mispronouncing a word or mistaking a word for another]], followed by Otomo's DopeSlap.
** Momoko being dragged away by two men when she blurts out she is about to stop an impending murder.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The main premise of the series.
* StrictlyFormula: Momoko meets the episode's central character and later gets in trouble at the funeral parlor she's workin in. The murder of the episode's character is discovered. Momoko locates an item linked to the dead person and goes back in time, getting help from Otomo and Hina along the way. Potential suspects are investigated. Momoko and Otomo stop the crime of the central character, just to discover that another side character has the real motive to kill all along.
* WideEyedIdealist: Momoko, to ludicrous degrees. In earlier episodes, she can talk down the culprit to stop a crime they are about to commit.
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