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* BadassDecay: Nyaro takes this to the logical extreme. At the beginning of the episode, he is introduced after having slain several gods, with bad lighting that barely reveals his features and apparently reveling in the carnage. By the end of the episode, he has been chased by the police, defeated several times ''by accident'', and his OneWingedAngel form [[ATwinkleInTheSky blasts off]] after basically having his toe stubbed. He actually puts up ''some'' of a fight in the light novels, but Nyarko still hands him his ass and sends him blasting off at the end.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Mahiro leaves a mixed first impression to the fans due to his treatment of his three companions. He [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap softens up]] to them overtime, though.
** Hasuta gets some flak for being a perceived TheGenericGuy who only exists to please trap fans. [[spoiler:His OlderAlterEgo on the other hand...]]
* CrackPairing: Considering the main pair is a human and an Outer God, you'd think this be enough, but there is also Cthugha x Nyarlathotep. In the regular Mythos, one was used to fight off the other; in ''Nyarko'', this is acknowledged as the two races being bitter enemies. On top of that, Nyarko is utterly repulsed by Cuuko's advances, and she originally threatened to kill Mahiro, so all told Nyarko has some pretty solid reasons to not wanting Cuuko around.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** Considering the official explanation that [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare aliens love Earth culture]], all of the show's copious [[ReferenceOverdosed references]] can easily be explained as the alien characters being total {{Otaku}} who love to pepper their daily conversations with lines from their favorite shows -- just like Nyarko does.
** A rare example of this happening in the ''theme song'', specifically, the ending of the first season, "Zutto Be With You". Nearly every single line ends with the sound "Oo". Try singing it out loud. Your face will look like you are desperately trying to blow someone a kiss.
* FridgeHorror:
** In the DatingSim episode, Mahiro is unwillingly jumped around between the key events of the game, skipping over large portions of the school year. We are never outright told how the others experience it, but the fact that Nyarko had the time to knit a (rather long) scarf for Mahiro's Christmas present implies they lived out the whole thing. That in and of itself is pretty scary, but then one has to wonder what happened to Mahiro in the meantime -- did he simply disappear, or was he on "autopilot" like Adam Sandler's character in ''{{Film/Click}}'' when he fast-forwarded time?
** FridgeBrilliance ''and'' FridgeHorror: The gods of the Cthulhu mythos love Earth's anime, manga, and games - especially, apparently, the hentai stuff based on the doujin Nyaruko was buying in episode one. What is hentai [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles infamous for]]? Of course it would appeal to them!
* FridgeLogic: Acknowledged in one of the ''Nyaruani'' shorts. Mahiro is [[NoFourthWall reading the first light novel]], and asks Cuuko some questions: she joined Nodens in order to see Nyarko again, and she got into the PDO thereafter thanks to [[{{Nepotism}} an uncle who works in HR]]. If that is the case, he asks, why didn't she just join the PDO to begin with and not have to become a criminal? Cuuko responds by lighting Mahiro's book on fire, telling him it is a warning.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the first season, Nyarko gives Mahiro a Yes[=/=]No pillow that depicts her wearing black lingerie; the first time she actually wears that lingerie is during her off-mentioned emotional breakdown and AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in the second season, where it is anything but sexy.
** On top of that, her breakdown is caused by the fact that Mahiro isn't willing to definitively say whether he's attracted to Nyarko or not -- in other words, because he '''will not''' just say "Yes" or "No".
* GeniusBonus: In one episode, Nyarko performs [[Series/KamenRiderOOO Eiji Hino]]'s transformation pose; the sharp-eyed viewer (and one familiar with ''Kamen Rider OOO'') will notice that the energy rings that appear correspond to the Kuwagata (Stag Beetle), Tora (Tiger), and Condor Medals. Applying the naming convention used for OOO's forms, one gets Ku-To-Ru - the Japanese pronunciation for "Cthulhu".
* HarsherInHindsight: Or rather Creepier in Hindsight. Once you see Shantak-kun's [[TokenMiniMoe human form]], it becomes much harder to laugh at jokes involving its eggs, or how it snuck a sausage which was apparently laced with aphrodisiacs in ''Remember my Love(craft-sensei)''.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Yoriko gives about how she thinks the Xoth-731 console is doomed to failure became a lot funnier after the reveal of the Xbox One at E3 2013.
** In episode 1 of the second season, Mahiro adopts the MadnessMantra "It is just ink... it is just ink..." as Nyarko slaughters a Nightgaunt off-screen; jump ahead to episode 11 of ''Nyarko-San W'', where the cast goes to a haunted house, and the mysterious stains on the carpet actually ''are'' ink.
** A voice actress-related example with Creator/RieKugimiya. We know that she voices Hasuta. Then in 2015, she voiced a character named Annie ''Hastur'' in the Japanese dub of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends.''
* {{Moe}}: Hasuta. Nyarko and Cuuko also count, given [[EldritchAbomination who they really are]]
** Thanks to fanart, Mahiro has also been considered this.
* MemeticMutation:
** ''The Strange Circumstances of one Mahiro Yasaka, as written by H.P. Lovecr/a/ft'', from the /a/ board of 4chan, which is a re-imagining of the events of the episodes of the anime as if they were written and narrated by Lovecraft himself:
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/nUiPK.jpg Episode 1]]
*** [[http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1337/14/1337143874115.png Episode 2]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/FseZv.jpg Episode 3]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/agrd8.png Episode 4]]
*** [[http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1337/14/1337141928936.png Episode 5]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/alvW6.jpg Episode 6]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/SImLV.jpg Episode 7]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/UOr2p.jpg Episode 8]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/YTF5w.jpg Episode 9]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/8T6Yp.jpg Episode 10]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/xzPXg.jpg Episode 11]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/e2SZ3.jpg Episode 12]]
** "She is an EldritchAbomination, not your waifu!"
** [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzQjLdFhiQ43YNXmov-2LcbyfRATFK3ldT9Rqc-Cr1Q/ A transcript of the posts up through Episode 11.]]
* {{Mondegreen}}: A line in the first OP says "Chaos, chaos, I wanna chaos". However, the {{Engrish}} pronunciation makes it sound like "Gay horse, gay horse, I want a gay horse" to English speaking viewers. It has pretty much become a meme.
** The second season OP has another one: "SAN-chi pinchi" ("[My] SAN[ity points] are in trouble", a reference to the SanityMeter mechanic in the TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu [=RPG=].), for all its fame, starts to sound to English-speakers like "sons of bitches" after a while (though some viewers also hear "sandy beaches" or "sun peaches").
* NightmareFuel: PlayedForLaughs. Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]]. Note: '''this is how the series ends in the light novel.'''
--> That night, the screams echoed through Mahiro's room.\\
"No!" 56 times,\\
"[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Stop!]]" 23 times,\\
"I'm dying!" an unmeasurable amount of times.\\
They all belonged to Mahiro.
* TheScrappy: Not a lot of people find Cunne's "incestuous PsychoLesbian" schtick very funny. The fact she is blatantly older than Cuuko only makes it worse.
* TearJerker: Nyaruko takes an [[TakingTheBullet attack meant for Mahiro]] and goes down, unmoving. Kuuko's [[TheScream reaction]] is bad enough, but [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Mahiro's is gutwrenching.]] He starts off telling Nyaruko to 'quit fooling around' in a trembling voice as if he still can't believe what he is seeing. He gets more and more desperate as it goes until he is finally ''screaming'' at her to get up, sobbing the entire time. [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Then it turns out Nyaruko was playing dead the whole time and uses Mahiro's lowered guard as an opportunity to french him.]]]]
** The beach episode: Nyaruko's pestering Mahiro throughout the whole day, with him making more and more aggressive attempts to ignore her. She finally makes an offhand remark about how it almost seems like he doesn't like her, [[TemptingFate but she knows that is impossible...]]
-->'''Mahiro:''' ''[[KickTheDog I don't like you.]]''
-->'''Nyaruko:''' (goes into ColorFailure and sinks to her knees, [[HeroicBSOD nearly comatose with shock]])
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Not exactly ''plot'', but more than a few fans feel that the Lovecraft references should have been better utilized. Some have even accused them of just being window dressing to make the series seem less generic.
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* BadassDecay: Nyaro takes this to the logical extreme. At the beginning of the episode, he is introduced after having slain several gods, with bad lighting that barely reveals his features and apparently reveling in the carnage. By the end of the episode, he has been chased by the police, defeated several times ''by accident'', and his OneWingedAngel form [[ATwinkleInTheSky blasts off]] after basically having his toe stubbed. He actually puts up ''some'' of a fight in the light novels, but Nyarko still hands him his ass and sends him blasting off at the end.
* BaseBreakingCharacter:
** Mahiro leaves a mixed first impression to the fans due to his treatment of his three companions. He [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap softens up]] to them overtime, though.
** Hasuta gets some flak for being a perceived TheGenericGuy who only exists to please trap fans. [[spoiler:His OlderAlterEgo on the other hand...]]
* CrackPairing: Considering the main pair is a human and an Outer God, you'd think this be enough, but there is also Cthugha x Nyarlathotep. In the regular Mythos, one was used to fight off the other; in ''Nyarko'', this is acknowledged as the two races being bitter enemies. On top of that, Nyarko is utterly repulsed by Cuuko's advances, and she originally threatened to kill Mahiro, so all told Nyarko has some pretty solid reasons to not wanting Cuuko around.
* FridgeBrilliance:
** Considering the official explanation that [[KlingonsLoveShakespeare aliens love Earth culture]], all of the show's copious [[ReferenceOverdosed references]] can easily be explained as the alien characters being total {{Otaku}} who love to pepper their daily conversations with lines from their favorite shows -- just like Nyarko does.
** A rare example of this happening in the ''theme song'', specifically, the ending of the first season, "Zutto Be With You". Nearly every single line ends with the sound "Oo". Try singing it out loud. Your face will look like you are desperately trying to blow someone a kiss.
* FridgeHorror:
** In the DatingSim episode, Mahiro is unwillingly jumped around between the key events of the game, skipping over large portions of the school year. We are never outright told how the others experience it, but the fact that Nyarko had the time to knit a (rather long) scarf for Mahiro's Christmas present implies they lived out the whole thing. That in and of itself is pretty scary, but then one has to wonder what happened to Mahiro in the meantime -- did he simply disappear, or was he on "autopilot" like Adam Sandler's character in ''{{Film/Click}}'' when he fast-forwarded time?
** FridgeBrilliance ''and'' FridgeHorror: The gods of the Cthulhu mythos love Earth's anime, manga, and games - especially, apparently, the hentai stuff based on the doujin Nyaruko was buying in episode one. What is hentai [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles infamous for]]? Of course it would appeal to them!
* FridgeLogic: Acknowledged in one of the ''Nyaruani'' shorts. Mahiro is [[NoFourthWall reading the first light novel]], and asks Cuuko some questions: she joined Nodens in order to see Nyarko again, and she got into the PDO thereafter thanks to [[{{Nepotism}} an uncle who works in HR]]. If that is the case, he asks, why didn't she just join the PDO to begin with and not have to become a criminal? Cuuko responds by lighting Mahiro's book on fire, telling him it is a warning.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the first season, Nyarko gives Mahiro a Yes[=/=]No pillow that depicts her wearing black lingerie; the first time she actually wears that lingerie is during her off-mentioned emotional breakdown and AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in the second season, where it is anything but sexy.
** On top of that, her breakdown is caused by the fact that Mahiro isn't willing to definitively say whether he's attracted to Nyarko or not -- in other words, because he '''will not''' just say "Yes" or "No".
* GeniusBonus: In one episode, Nyarko performs [[Series/KamenRiderOOO Eiji Hino]]'s transformation pose; the sharp-eyed viewer (and one familiar with ''Kamen Rider OOO'') will notice that the energy rings that appear correspond to the Kuwagata (Stag Beetle), Tora (Tiger), and Condor Medals. Applying the naming convention used for OOO's forms, one gets Ku-To-Ru - the Japanese pronunciation for "Cthulhu".
* HarsherInHindsight: Or rather Creepier in Hindsight. Once you see Shantak-kun's [[TokenMiniMoe human form]], it becomes much harder to laugh at jokes involving its eggs, or how it snuck a sausage which was apparently laced with aphrodisiacs in ''Remember my Love(craft-sensei)''.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Yoriko gives about how she thinks the Xoth-731 console is doomed to failure became a lot funnier after the reveal of the Xbox One at E3 2013.
** In episode 1 of the second season, Mahiro adopts the MadnessMantra "It is just ink... it is just ink..." as Nyarko slaughters a Nightgaunt off-screen; jump ahead to episode 11 of ''Nyarko-San W'', where the cast goes to a haunted house, and the mysterious stains on the carpet actually ''are'' ink.
** A voice actress-related example with Creator/RieKugimiya. We know that she voices Hasuta. Then in 2015, she voiced a character named Annie ''Hastur'' in the Japanese dub of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends.''
* {{Moe}}: Hasuta. Nyarko and Cuuko also count, given [[EldritchAbomination who they really are]]
** Thanks to fanart, Mahiro has also been considered this.
* MemeticMutation:
** ''The Strange Circumstances of one Mahiro Yasaka, as written by H.P. Lovecr/a/ft'', from the /a/ board of 4chan, which is a re-imagining of the events of the episodes of the anime as if they were written and narrated by Lovecraft himself:
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/nUiPK.jpg Episode 1]]
*** [[http://0-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1337/14/1337143874115.png Episode 2]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/FseZv.jpg Episode 3]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/agrd8.png Episode 4]]
*** [[http://1-media-cdn.foolz.us/ffuuka/board/a/image/1337/14/1337141928936.png Episode 5]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/alvW6.jpg Episode 6]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/SImLV.jpg Episode 7]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/UOr2p.jpg Episode 8]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/YTF5w.jpg Episode 9]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/8T6Yp.jpg Episode 10]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/xzPXg.jpg Episode 11]]
*** [[http://i.imgur.com/e2SZ3.jpg Episode 12]]
** "She is an EldritchAbomination, not your waifu!"
** [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fzQjLdFhiQ43YNXmov-2LcbyfRATFK3ldT9Rqc-Cr1Q/ A transcript of the posts up through Episode 11.]]
* {{Mondegreen}}: A line in the first OP says "Chaos, chaos, I wanna chaos". However, the {{Engrish}} pronunciation makes it sound like "Gay horse, gay horse, I want a gay horse" to English speaking viewers. It has pretty much become a meme.
** The second season OP has another one: "SAN-chi pinchi" ("[My] SAN[ity points] are in trouble", a reference to the SanityMeter mechanic in the TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu [=RPG=].), for all its fame, starts to sound to English-speakers like "sons of bitches" after a while (though some viewers also hear "sandy beaches" or "sun peaches").
* NightmareFuel: PlayedForLaughs. Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]]. Note: '''this is how the series ends in the light novel.'''
--> That night, the screams echoed through Mahiro's room.\\
"No!" 56 times,\\
"[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Stop!]]" 23 times,\\
"I'm dying!" an unmeasurable amount of times.\\
They all belonged to Mahiro.
* TheScrappy: Not a lot of people find Cunne's "incestuous PsychoLesbian" schtick very funny. The fact she is blatantly older than Cuuko only makes it worse.
* TearJerker: Nyaruko takes an [[TakingTheBullet attack meant for Mahiro]] and goes down, unmoving. Kuuko's [[TheScream reaction]] is bad enough, but [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Mahiro's is gutwrenching.]] He starts off telling Nyaruko to 'quit fooling around' in a trembling voice as if he still can't believe what he is seeing. He gets more and more desperate as it goes until he is finally ''screaming'' at her to get up, sobbing the entire time. [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Then it turns out Nyaruko was playing dead the whole time and uses Mahiro's lowered guard as an opportunity to french him.]]]]
** The beach episode: Nyaruko's pestering Mahiro throughout the whole day, with him making more and more aggressive attempts to ignore her. She finally makes an offhand remark about how it almost seems like he doesn't like her, [[TemptingFate but she knows that is impossible...]]
-->'''Mahiro:''' ''[[KickTheDog I don't like you.]]''
-->'''Nyaruko:''' (goes into ColorFailure and sinks to her knees, [[HeroicBSOD nearly comatose with shock]])
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Not exactly ''plot'', but more than a few fans feel that the Lovecraft references should have been better utilized. Some have even accused them of just being window dressing to make the series seem less generic.
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** The second season OP has another one: "SAN-chi pinchi", for all its fame, starts to sound to English-speakers like "sons of bitches" after a while (though some viewers also hear "sandy beaches" or "sun peaches").

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** The second season OP has another one: "SAN-chi pinchi", pinchi" ("[My] SAN[ity points] are in trouble", a reference to the SanityMeter mechanic in the TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu [=RPG=].), for all its fame, starts to sound to English-speakers like "sons of bitches" after a while (though some viewers also hear "sandy beaches" or "sun peaches").
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* BrokenBase:
** Having a male character (Mahiro) hitting female characters (Nyaruko and Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.
*** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as PlayedForLaughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.
*** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro. May have to do with Main/MenAreTheExpendableGender.
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* EarWorm:
** Days after the trailer was out, people thought the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAaUNyDOjnw beginning part of the song was catchy.]]
*** (」・ω・)」うー!(/・ω・)/にゃー!
*** The tune is in fact inspired by Music/DschinghisKhan's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmI3vAIhbE first song]], which is also a EarWorm of its own right.
*** In fact, because of said EarWorm, ''[[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-02-28/yuuki-kaji-kana-asumi-win-7th-annual-seiyu-awards it won the Best Singing Award for 2013]]''.
** The opening for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PxnTy6CcCU second season]], W, also has a catchy tune as well.
*** The cute chant heard throughout that song, "SAN-chi, pinchi!", which means "You SAN points are in trouble!" This was actually voted the 4th most memorable anime CatchPhrase of 2013.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vcxqPO5lA8 first ending]] for W has a nice beat as well.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-6uskZj8k second ending]] for W.
** Another ending song for the second season, this time focusing on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptf7TbbDZIw Tamao Kurei]].
** Another ending song for season 2, this time with emphasis on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gg9AM0VMFc Kuuko.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKqpq52KjII Once Nyagain]], the opening for the 2015 OVA starts with the catchiest parts from the first and second intros overlapping.
*** [[MemeAcknowledgment The OVA itself also references them]]:
--->'''Nyaruko''': "Oo" will be "Nya"! "San" will be "Pinch"!
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*** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as played for laughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.

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*** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as played for laughs.PlayedForLaughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.
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*** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro.

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*** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro. May have to do with Main/MenAreTheExpendableGender.
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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It is always characterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they are mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].
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* NightmareFuel: Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]]. Note: '''this is how the series ends.'''

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* NightmareFuel: PlayedForLaughs. Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]]. Note: '''this is how the series ends.ends in the light novel.'''


* CounterpartComparison: It is like a LighterAndSofter ''Webcomic/OwMySanity''.
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* TheScrappy: Not a lot of people find Cunne's "incestuous PsychoLesbian" very funny. The fact she is blatantly older than Cuuko only makes it worse.

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* TheScrappy: Not a lot of people find Cunne's "incestuous PsychoLesbian" schtick very funny. The fact she is blatantly older than Cuuko only makes it worse.
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* BadassDecay: Nyaro takes this to the logical extreme. At the beginning of the episode, he is introduced after having slain several gods, with bad lighting that barely reveals his features and apparently reveling in the carnage. By the end of the episode, he's been chased by the police, defeated several times ''by accident'', and his OneWingedAngel form [[ATwinkleInTheSky blasts off]] after basically having his toe stubbed. He actually puts up ''some'' of a fight in the light novels, but Nyarko still hands him his ass and sends him blasting off at the end.

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* BadassDecay: Nyaro takes this to the logical extreme. At the beginning of the episode, he is introduced after having slain several gods, with bad lighting that barely reveals his features and apparently reveling in the carnage. By the end of the episode, he's he has been chased by the police, defeated several times ''by accident'', and his OneWingedAngel form [[ATwinkleInTheSky blasts off]] after basically having his toe stubbed. He actually puts up ''some'' of a fight in the light novels, but Nyarko still hands him his ass and sends him blasting off at the end.



* CounterpartComparison: It's like a LighterAndSofter ''Webcomic/OwMySanity''.
* CrackPairing: Considering the main pair is a human and an Outer God, you'd think this be enough. But there's also Cthugha x Nyarlathotep. In the regular Mythos, one was used to fight off the other; in ''Nyarko'', this is acknowledged as the two races being bitter enemies. On top of that, Nyarko is utterly repulsed by Cuuko's advances, and she originally threatened to kill Mahiro, so all told Nyarko has some pretty solid reasons to not wanting Cuuko around.

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* CounterpartComparison: It's It is like a LighterAndSofter ''Webcomic/OwMySanity''.
* CrackPairing: Considering the main pair is a human and an Outer God, you'd think this be enough. But there's enough, but there is also Cthugha x Nyarlathotep. In the regular Mythos, one was used to fight off the other; in ''Nyarko'', this is acknowledged as the two races being bitter enemies. On top of that, Nyarko is utterly repulsed by Cuuko's advances, and she originally threatened to kill Mahiro, so all told Nyarko has some pretty solid reasons to not wanting Cuuko around.



** A rare example of this happening in the ''theme song'', specifically, the ending of the first season, "Zutto Be With You". Nearly every single line ends with the sound "Oo". Try singing it out loud. Your face will look like you're desperately trying to blow someone a kiss.

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** A rare example of this happening in the ''theme song'', specifically, the ending of the first season, "Zutto Be With You". Nearly every single line ends with the sound "Oo". Try singing it out loud. Your face will look like you're you are desperately trying to blow someone a kiss.



** In the DatingSim episode, Mahiro is unwillingly jumped around between the key events of the game, skipping over large portions of the school year. We're never outright told how the others experience it, but the fact that Nyarko had the time to knit a (rather long) scarf for Mahiro's Christmas present implies they lived out the whole thing. That in and of itself is pretty scary, but then one has to wonder what happened to Mahiro in the meantime -- did he simply disappear, or was he on "autopilot" like Adam Sandler's character in ''{{Film/Click}}'' when he fast-forwarded time?
** FridgeBrilliance ''and'' FridgeHorror: The gods of the Cthulhu mythos love Earth's anime, manga, and games - especially, apparently, the hentai stuff based on the doujin Nyaruko was buying in episode one. What's hentai [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles infamous for]]? Of course it would appeal to them!
* FridgeLogic: Acknowledged in one of the ''Nyaruani'' shorts. Mahiro is [[NoFourthWall reading the first light novel]], and asks Cuuko some questions: she joined Nodens in order to see Nyarko again, and she got into the PDO thereafter thanks to [[{{Nepotism}} an uncle who works in HR]]. If that's the case, he asks, why didn't she just join the PDO to begin with and not have to become a criminal? Cuuko responds by lighting Mahiro's book on fire, telling him it's a warning.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the first season, Nyarko gives Mahiro a Yes[=/=]No pillow that depicts her wearing black lingerie; the first time she actually wears that lingerie is during her off-mentioned emotional breakdown and AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in the second season, where it's anything but sexy.
** On top of that, her breakdown is caused by the fact that Mahiro isn't willing to definitively say whether he's attracted to Nyarko or not -- in other words, because he '''won't''' just say "Yes" or "No".

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** In the DatingSim episode, Mahiro is unwillingly jumped around between the key events of the game, skipping over large portions of the school year. We're We are never outright told how the others experience it, but the fact that Nyarko had the time to knit a (rather long) scarf for Mahiro's Christmas present implies they lived out the whole thing. That in and of itself is pretty scary, but then one has to wonder what happened to Mahiro in the meantime -- did he simply disappear, or was he on "autopilot" like Adam Sandler's character in ''{{Film/Click}}'' when he fast-forwarded time?
** FridgeBrilliance ''and'' FridgeHorror: The gods of the Cthulhu mythos love Earth's anime, manga, and games - especially, apparently, the hentai stuff based on the doujin Nyaruko was buying in episode one. What's What is hentai [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles infamous for]]? Of course it would appeal to them!
* FridgeLogic: Acknowledged in one of the ''Nyaruani'' shorts. Mahiro is [[NoFourthWall reading the first light novel]], and asks Cuuko some questions: she joined Nodens in order to see Nyarko again, and she got into the PDO thereafter thanks to [[{{Nepotism}} an uncle who works in HR]]. If that's that is the case, he asks, why didn't she just join the PDO to begin with and not have to become a criminal? Cuuko responds by lighting Mahiro's book on fire, telling him it's it is a warning.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the first season, Nyarko gives Mahiro a Yes[=/=]No pillow that depicts her wearing black lingerie; the first time she actually wears that lingerie is during her off-mentioned emotional breakdown and AnguishedDeclarationOfLove in the second season, where it's it is anything but sexy.
** On top of that, her breakdown is caused by the fact that Mahiro isn't willing to definitively say whether he's attracted to Nyarko or not -- in other words, because he '''won't''' '''will not''' just say "Yes" or "No".



** In episode 1 of the second season, Mahiro adopts the MadnessMantra "It's just ink... it's just ink..." as Nyarko slaughters a Nightgaunt off-screen; jump ahead to episode 11 of ''Nyarko-San W'', where the cast goes to a haunted house, and the mysterious stains on the carpet actually ''are'' ink.

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** In episode 1 of the second season, Mahiro adopts the MadnessMantra "It's "It is just ink... it's it is just ink..." as Nyarko slaughters a Nightgaunt off-screen; jump ahead to episode 11 of ''Nyarko-San W'', where the cast goes to a haunted house, and the mysterious stains on the carpet actually ''are'' ink.



** "She's an EldritchAbomination, not your waifu!"

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** "She's "She is an EldritchAbomination, not your waifu!"



* {{Mondegreen}}: A line in the first OP says "Chaos, chaos, I wanna chaos". However, the {{Engrish}} pronunciation makes it sound like "Gay horse, gay horse, I want a gay horse" to English speaking viewers. It's pretty much become a meme.

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* {{Mondegreen}}: A line in the first OP says "Chaos, chaos, I wanna chaos". However, the {{Engrish}} pronunciation makes it sound like "Gay horse, gay horse, I want a gay horse" to English speaking viewers. It's It has pretty much become a meme.



* TearJerker: Nyaruko takes an [[TakingTheBullet attack meant for Mahiro]] and goes down, unmoving. Kuuko's [[TheScream reaction]] is bad enough, but [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Mahiro's is gutwrenching.]] He starts off telling Nyaruko to 'quit fooling around' in a trembling voice as if he still can't believe what he's seeing. He gets more and more desperate as it goes until he's finally ''screaming'' at her to get up, sobbing the entire time. [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Then it turns out Nyaruko was playing dead the whole time and uses Mahiro's lowered guard as an opportunity to french him.]]]]
** The beach episode: Nyaruko's pestering Mahiro throughout the whole day, with him making more and more aggressive attempts to ignore her. She finally makes an offhand remark about how it almost seems like he doesn't like her, [[TemptingFate but she knows that's impossible...]]

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* TearJerker: Nyaruko takes an [[TakingTheBullet attack meant for Mahiro]] and goes down, unmoving. Kuuko's [[TheScream reaction]] is bad enough, but [[TheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Mahiro's is gutwrenching.]] He starts off telling Nyaruko to 'quit fooling around' in a trembling voice as if he still can't believe what he's he is seeing. He gets more and more desperate as it goes until he's he is finally ''screaming'' at her to get up, sobbing the entire time. [[spoiler: [[MoodWhiplash Then it turns out Nyaruko was playing dead the whole time and uses Mahiro's lowered guard as an opportunity to french him.]]]]
** The beach episode: Nyaruko's pestering Mahiro throughout the whole day, with him making more and more aggressive attempts to ignore her. She finally makes an offhand remark about how it almost seems like he doesn't like her, [[TemptingFate but she knows that's that is impossible...]]



* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It's always characterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they're mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].

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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It's It is always characterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they're they are mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].
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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It's always charaterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they're mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].

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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It's always charaterized characterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they're mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].
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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] and they're mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].

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* ValuesDissonance: This is a ''Japanese'' series based on characters written by [[Creator/HPLovecraft an infamous racist]] (Lovecraft mentions Shinto in passing a few times in his stories. It's always charaterized as a ReligionOfEvil) and they're mostly used for [[RuleOfCool coolness]] and [[PlayedForLaughs laughs]], possibly [[MisaimedFandom without knowing the cultural background of those stories]].

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** Having the main male character (Mahiro) hitting the female main character (Nyaruko) and to a lesser extent a female supporting character (Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.

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** Having the main a male character (Mahiro) hitting the female main character (Nyaruko) characters (Nyaruko and to a lesser extent a female supporting character (Cuuko) Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.
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* Having the main male character (Mahiro) hitting the female main character (Nyaruko) and to a lesser extent a female supporting character (Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.
** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as played for laughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.
** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro.

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* ** Having the main male character (Mahiro) hitting the female main character (Nyaruko) and to a lesser extent a female supporting character (Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.
** *** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as played for laughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.
** *** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro.
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* Having the main male character (Mahiro) hitting the female main character (Nyaruko) and to a lesser extent a female supporting character (Cuuko) treated as comedy received mixed reactions from the audience.
** On one side there are those who welcome the change since in most anime and manga, it is usually the female character hitting the male character being treated as played for laughs. They just want to watch something different from the usual.
** On the other side, there are those who disapprove male-on-female violence even for comedy purposes. They typically tend to show love and/or sympathy towards Nyaruko while expressing their dislike to even downright hate towards Mahiro.
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* NightmareFuel: Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]].

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* NightmareFuel: Mahiro ''finally'' having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be [[spoiler:DeathBySex]]. Note: '''this is how the series ends.'''



"Stop!" 23 times,\\

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"Stop!" "[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Stop!]]" 23 times,\\

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