Line #32 Anime/Onipan


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''Onipan!'' takes ComedicUnderwearExposure to a whole new level.[[note]] ''Clockwise, from the top: Tsuyukusa, Tsutsuji, and Himawari''[[/note]]]]
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4	Long ago, ''{{oni}}'' were relegated to the role of bad guys in Japanese folk stories. Although they've since made peace with humanity, old stereotypes about their kind linger. To remedy this, three ''oni'' girls -- Tsutsuji, Himawari, and Tsuyukusa -- are sent to the human world to improve the image of their people. And to help them in their quest, they've been given a magical item from their tribe...
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6	''Their legendary oni underwear.''
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8	Using the HenshinHero-style transforming power of their "onipan" (a {{Portmanteau}} of ''oni'' and ''pantsu''), it's up to these three girls to bridge the divide between ''oni'' and humanity.
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10	''Onipan!'' is an anime original series directed by Creator/MasahikoOhta and animated by Creator/WitStudio, from an original concept by Norihiro Naginuma, the director of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'' with the production as a whole being backed by Shogakukan [[note]]as they already have a hand in the production of ''Oha Suta'' in general[[/note]].
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12	It began airing on April 11th, 2022, as a series of three-minute shorts every weekday during the ''Oha Suta'' variety show on Creator/TVTokyo, with a twelve-minute compiled version available at the end of the week. The series is licensed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks and their service, [[Creator/AnimeNetwork HiDIVE]] is simulcasting the compiled version overseas.
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15	!! ''Onipan!'' provides examples of the following tropes:
16	* TheAlcoholic: Kuma seems to love its alcohol, starting from the moment its first presented to the girls clutching a bottle of sake as big as its body. When they go off to school, it toddles over to a bar where the staff seem to recognize it.
17	* AnimationBump: The Friday episode/last segment of the compiled show lets the animators go wild. Episode three has a totally unnecessary -- yet amazing -- journey through the universe to the Planet of Delicious Food, populated by vegetable dinosaurs.
18	* ArtShift: At the end of the third episode, a flashback to the bustling shopping center is animated in a chibi-ish art style.
19	* AssociatedComposer: Director Masahiko Ohta brings along his go-to composer Yasuhiro Misawa, and Misawa brings along his penchant for quirky, laidback arrhythmic percussion and off-beat pizzicato melodies.
20	* BadBadActing: To demonstrate that humans no longer fear the ''oni'', Himawari puts on some terrible wooden acting to run around the city shouting "Roar!"
21	* BaitAndSwitch: When Tsuyukusa introduces herself to her class:
22	--> "I'm Tsuyukusa. If you have any questions...go ask Tsutssun or Hima."
23	* BeastMan: The ''oni'' girls are accompanied to the human world by Kuma (the Japanese word for bear), which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a pint-sized bear]].
24	* BigEater: Tsuyukusa is happy to leave Onigashima behind, since the food there is so terrible. Only human sweets can rouse her from her terminal lethargy. When they first arrive in the city, she orders an abomination made of six different ice cream cones smashed together and merrily munches on it while the other two have more reasonable portions.
25	* BigOlEyebrows: Tsuyukusa and Momomomo sport thick, comma-shaped eyebrows.
26	* BreakingTheFourthWall: The very first conversation between our heroines ploughs right through the fourth wall.
27	--> '''Tsutsuji''': "Tsuyukusa-chan, Himawari-chan..."
28	--> '''Himawari''': "What is it, Tsutsuji?"
29	--> '''Tsutsuji''': "I want to go back to Onigashima."
30	--> '''Himawari''': "But the anime just started!"
31	--> '''Tsuyukusa''': "It was a great last episode."
32	--> '''Himawari''': "Not you too, Tsuyukusa!"
33	* ByThePowerOfGrayskull: "Onipaaaaan ... '''CHANGE'''!" Note that the exclamation doesn't actually do anything, they still have to physically put their ''onipan'' on by hand.
34	* CaptainObvious: When Eion-sama discusses misconceptions about the ''oni'' race, one of them is that if you cut off an ''oni''[='=]s head, they will die. Himawari counters that if you cut off ''anybody''[='=]s head, they'll die.
35	* CategoryTraitor: Tsuyukusa finds human food so tasty she claims she's ready to follow the teachings of Momotaro, referring to how the folk hero recruited followers in his campaign against the oni by offering them rations. Himawari immediately calls her out for betraying her own kind so easily.
36	* {{Chuunibyou}}: Among her classmates, Noriko Issun looks gloomy and speaks in pretentious, cryptic quips about destiny and legendary battles. Tsuyu spells out to Tsutsuji that she's a chuuni.
37	* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Of the self-inflicted variety. The ''onikko'' have to physically put their tiger-striped boxer shorts on in order to transform. And they need to wear them ''over'' their street clothes too -- when Tsuyukusa tries to hide hers under her dress, the transformation fails.
38	* CompanyCameo: The ''oni'' girls live in the Ohasuta district, referring to the children's variety show that aired the anime.
39	* {{Cosplay}}: After the ''onikko'' transform into policewomen and go to great lengths to return a little girl's stuffed rabbit, it improves the girl's image of the ''oni''. Unfortunately for the ''onikko'', that 'improvement' is that she instead thinks they're all cosplay fans.
40	* CountryMouse: Onigashima is a fairly remote tourist spot, so when Tsutsuji is sent off to the human world she's completely overwhelmed by the enormous crowds. However, the allure of human fashion gives her the strength to overcome her worries ... at least until she rides the train for the first time, and immediately wants to go home.
41	* CultureEqualsCostume:
42	** Although the girls have been sent to the human world to dispel stereotypes about ''oni'', such as them only wearing tiger-striped loincloths, they still have to wear their ''onipan'' to transform. Himawari complains that only old people still dress that way.
43	** When the girls help revitalize the shopping center in episode three, naturally they're depicted on the refurbished sign wearing tiger-striped tunics even though they only wore their "onipan" in front of the crowd for about five seconds.
44	* CuteLittleFangs: Himawari sports one of these, to compliment her broad, easygoing smirk.
45	* TheDeterminator: Though Tsutsuji is generally a worrywort, when she sets her mind to something she commits 100%, as demonstrated in the first episode when she's hellbent on returning a stuffed animal to a little girl.
46	* DubInducedPlotlineChange: Even though the Japanese soundtrack clearly says "Enuo-sama" and "Eion-sama", [=HiDive=]'s subtitles translate both as "King Yama".
47	* DuelToTheDeath: When the girls cross paths with the ancestor of their peoples' mortal enemy, Momotaro, they meet on the sports field at lunchtime to settle old scores. The girls draw their clubs, Momo draws her katana and summors her animal companions, they they spend the whole last act epically duking it out for the honor of their people. [[spoiler: {{Subverted\|Trope}} when it's revealed they were just playing an RPG on their smartphones.]]
48	* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: When Tsutsuji remarks she wants to go back home at the beginning of the first episode, her eyes are two glassy golden circles.
49	* DyingTown: The Ohasuta shopping center is on the verge of shutting down, unless the ''oni'' girls can find a way to revitalize it.
50	* ElvisImpersonator: One of them appears in the [=ED=] during a group shot of bit characters. He later appears in Episode 11 as an idol producer.
51	* EmbarrassingButEmpoweringOutfit: To transform, the girls need to wear their tiger-striped shorts ''outside'' their street clothes, to their deep embarrassment.
52	* EvilSoundsDeep: Tsutsuji isn't remotely evil, but (in the fansubbed translation) she laments that a lot of people back home thought she had "dark secrets" because of her deep (for a teenaged girl) voice.
53	* EyesOfSight: Issun-Boko wears a ''hime'' cut that completely covers her eyes. It's meant to mimic the bowl-shaped hat her ancestor, folk hero Issun-boshi, is sometimes depicted wearing.
54	* FantasticRacism: Although humanity and the ''oni'' get along just fine in the modern day, there's still some lingering prejudice among humans. It's stronger outside of the major cities, where people don't encounter ''oni'' as often. At the behest of their leader, the protagonists have been sent to the big city to improve the image of their people.
55	* TheFashionista: Tsutsuji expresses distaste for the tiger-striped clothing that is everywhere in Onigashima, and finds the cute clothes in the human world alluring.
56	* FictionalSocialNetwork: "Noririn" and Himawari both post videos on Ohasutagram.
57	* FlawlessToken: {{Invoked\|Trope}}. The ''onikko'' are sent to the human world to provide a positive portrayal of ''oni'' to counter negative stereotypes about them being violent hooligans who only wear tiger-striped clothing. In reality, however, Tsutsuji is neurotic and kind of pathetic, Himawari is an acid-tongued tsukkomi, and Tsuyukusa is a lazy girl who doesn't care about anything except eating sweet human candy.
58	* ForeignExchangeStudent: Tsutsuji, Himawari, and Tsuyukusa are sent away from Onigashima ("island of ogres") to become cultural ambassadors at a Japanese high school.
59	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first episode features billboards for "Noririn" -- a cutesy Japanese nickname for Noriko -- an idol singer who appears prominently in the [=ED=]. "Noririn" herself first appears in episode 3.
60	* FreudianTrio: Tsuyukusa doesn't want to do anything unless it involves human sweets (the Id), Himawari provides constant tsukkomi snark to berate the others into thinking clearly and staying on-mission (the Superego), and Tsutsuji is torn between her desire to experience human fashion and her desire to return home and escape the crowded human city (the Ego).
61	* GlowingEyesOfDoom: After Kuma presents the girls with their ''onipan'' as if it'll solve all their problems, they read the disclaimer that despite changing their costumes it won't actually give them any superpowers. They angrily corner Kuma with glowing golden eyes and shout, "We can't use this!"
62	* HellishPupils: The oni girls have eyes with vertical pupils, giving them a cat-like appearance.
63	* HenshinHero: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. After the girls don their ''onipan'' for the first time and magically transform into policewomen, they then notice a disclaimer saying they will need to gather all the necessary skills themselves. Meaning it doesn't give them any superpowers.
64	* HeroDoesPublicService: When the ''onikko'' see the sorry state of Ohasuta's shopping center, they try their hardest to revitalize it. In the end, Himawari's cooking (using ingredients from the local market) is so good it blows the judges away and brings throngs of crowds in. They even become part of the new sign.
65	* HeroesPreferSwords: Momo-zono, the descendant of Japanese folk hero Momotaro, poses with a katana in the [=ED=].
66	* HuddleShot: Seen when the ''onikko'' gather in episode two to try and figure out how to introduce themselves to their new class.
67	* HornedHumanoid: The oni, naturally. They seem to come in a few different flavors: one horn coming straight out of their forehead, two horns coming out on either side, or just one horn on either side.
68	* HypocriticalHumor: Tsutsuji nervously tells a young girl that ''oni'' aren't scary ... while she has Tsuyukusa in a sleeper hold, and Tsuyukusa is desperately trying to tap out before she's choked into unconsciousness.
69	* IdolGenre: According to the press release, the girls will become idols at some point, which is fitting since their voice actresses are actual idols.
70	* IdolSinger: The [=ED=] prominently features an idol singer named "Noririn" -- who is surrounded by mallets -- right in the spot where Noriko Issun -- who was previously shown in the very same [=ED=] surrounded by mallets and is the descendent of a folk hero who owned a magic mallet -- should be.
71	* InASingleBound: In the first episode, the ''onikko'' effortlessly vault atop a six-story building in their quest to return a stuffed animal to a little girl.
72	* InnocentBigot: When the girls arrive in the Ohasuta district, they meet a young girl clutching a book with some ''oni'' chasing either a small child or Momotaro on the cover. She cries out in fear because she thinks they really do eat children. Tsutsuji is offended, but Himawari and Tsuyukusa play along with it just to mess with her.
73	* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Himawari tries to create a video calling on people to come to the Ohasuta shopping center. It's just ten seconds of her freezing up and sputtering.
74	* InvisibleToNormals: {{Discussed\|Trope}}. When the girls don their ''onipan'' the first time, Tsuyukusa says there's probably some magic that will prevent normies from seeing them change into their embarrassing tiger-striped boxer shorts in public. She's very, very wrong.
75	* {{Irony}}: Tsutsuji is in love with cute human clothes, yet her idea of a "cute" mascot is a literal walking pile of garbage.
76	* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Tsuyukusa dons a battle-damaged wizard's robe and groans that Tsutsuji should leave her behind ... in a bid to avoid getting out of bed and going to school.
77	* JapaneseSchoolClub: The school has a lot of very weird clubs. They include: the Bat Club, who hit every kind of sports ball with a baseball bat ''except'' baseballs (because that would make them the '''Baseball''' Club); the Pitfall Digging Club, who dig random pitfalls around the school grounds; and the Pitfall ''Finding'' Club, who look for pitfalls and disarm them.
78	* LargeHam: Momo begins chewing the scenery the moment she first swaggers into the classroom and she never stops.
79	* LeParkour: The oni girls perform an impressive (and humanly impossible) version of this in the first episode, when they [[spoiler:try to return a plushie to the girl who dropped it]].
80	* LemonyNarrator: At the beginning of episode 2, the narrator says the girls were handpicked for their mission. When the footage doesn't agree, she goes off on a rant about how it's not following along with what she's saying.
81	* LimitedAnimation: Tsutsuji and Tsuyukusa have a "fight" in the third segment that's only three (wildly-exaggerated) key frames repeated over and over.
82	* LiteralMetaphor: In episode 3, Himawari's cooking blasts everybody across the universe to a prehistoric planet made of delicious food. When a volcano explodes, they get caught in its ''literal'' primordial soup.
83	* LittleBitBeastly: The ''oni'' look identical to human beings, with the exception of {{hellish pupils}}, pointy ears and horns sticking out of their foreheads.
84	* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Momo inherits her ancestors' penchant for being accompanied into battle by a bird, a wolf, and a monkey.
85	* {{Mascot}}: Tsutsuji tries to invent a mascot to revitalize the Ohasuta shopping center. Unfortunately, despite her best efforts, it looks so bad it makes [[ComicBook/NotBrandEchh Forbush Man]] look like Iron Man.
86	* MatchCut: When the ''onikko'' meet a young girl who's frightened of them, the girl holds up her picture book. The cover has an illustration of three ugly leering ''oni''. She then lowers the book to reveal the ''onikko'' in the exact same pose, only ''much'' less threatening.
87	* MediumAwareness: In the first episode, Tsutsuji brusquely shoves Tsuyukusa's ImagineSpot out of the way.
88	* MentorMascot: Kuma ... sort of? It's not clear ''what'' it is. Eion-sama gave it to the girls before they left, telling them "it" would help them, implying it's not biological. It follows the girls to their new home and seems to have emotions and be capable of PokemonSpeak, but they forget all about it until it gives them their ''onipan'' and starts delivering explanations they can't understand a word of.
89	* MonsterShapedMountain: Onigashima has a giant, smoking volcano with an enormous scowling ''oni'' face carved into its side.
90	* MoodWhiplash: {{Parodied\|Trope}}. When Tsutsuji tries to wake Tsuyukusa up for school, Tsuyu dons a wizard's cloak and groans that [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown Tsutsuji should go on and defeat the demon king without her, since she's too wounded to continue]]. Tsutsuji -- now decked out in hero's garb with a giant sword on her back -- freaks out about how the story suddenly got a lot darker. Himawari calls them in for breakfast, but Tsutsuji flails her arms and yells that she has to defeat the demon king first.
91	* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: In episode 3's credits, "Noririn" is credited with a string of question marks -- despite ''very obviously'' being Creator/MiyuTomita.
92	* NoblewomansLaugh: When Momozono enters the classroom to greet the ''onikko'', she lets loose a shrill noblewoman's laugh into the back of her hand.
93	* NonIndicativeName: Though the show literally has "underwear" in the title, it doesn't mean what it sounds like. ''Pantsu'' in Japan refers to underwear in general, and here it means the bright yellow, poofy, tiger-striped shorts[=/=]loincloths ''oni'' are sometimes depicted wearing in statues and illustrations, and they wear it ''outside'' their school uniforms so there's even less risk of lewdness. [[note]] Not that such lewdness would be allowed anyway given that the show airs at 7 AM and TV Tokyo (for the most part) hasn't allowed panty shots in their shows since 1997 due to the "[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Electric Soldier Porygon]]" incident causing them to up their censorship standards. [[/note]]
94	* NonActorVehicle: The ''onikko'' are played by teenaged idols rather than professional voice actresses, and the weekday morning airdate -- during a popular children's variety show -- suggests the anime is meant to market their new idol unit.
95	* NonStandardCharacterDesign:
96	** The main cast consists of five moe schoolgirls and a simplistic rotund bear with SphereEyes.
97	** The [=ED=] shows a dozen supporting characters in profile. Among them, we see a handful of lumpy-looking kids, a squint-eyed middle-aged man with a six-inch chin, and an overweight Elvis impersonator.
98	* NotAMorningPerson: In the ending, Tsutsuji and Himawari have to physically drag the slumped-over Tsuyukusa out of their apartment.
99	* {{Oni}}: The three main characters are oni, though they don't look much different from humans aside from [[HornedHumanoid their horns]] and their pointy ears. Their tiger-striped underwear also alludes to how oni are traditionally depicted as wearing loincloths made from tiger skin.
100	* PlainJane: After Tsutsuji nervously tries to convince a little girl the ''oni'' aren't monsters, the girl changes her mind ... and says Tsutsuji is "surprisingly plain". Tsutsuji sinks to her knees with BlankWhiteEyes and says she gets that a lot and that people think she's hiding some evil secret. This was changed in the [=HiDive=] translation to her being too "normal" when compared to the weirdoes around her.
101	* PokemonSpeak: Kuma can only say, well, "Kuma."
102	* PowerTrio: Our three heroines are sent to the human world by themselves to counter misconceptions and stereotypes about the ''oni''.
103	* ProductionThrowback: When the oni girls discuss humanity fearing the oni, there's an ImagineSpot of a Titan-ified Tsutsuji, referring to Creator/WitStudio's [[Manga/AttackOnTitan past work]].
104	* ProsceniumReveal: The climax of episode 2 is an epic duel on school grounds between the club-wielding ''oni'' girls and the katana-slinging descendant of their arch-nemesis, Momotaro...[[spoiler: played out via an [=RPG=] on their smart phones.]]
105	* PublicDomainCanonWelding: The show incorporates the Japanese fairy tales of ''Literature/{{Momotaro}}'' and ''Issun-boshi'' into its backstory, both as in-universe historical events and with their descendants being classmates of the ''onikko''.
106	* RealPlaceBackground: The show starts with the girls arriving at Shibuya station. Their destination, Ohasuta, is more of an amalgam of typical small towns that can be found throughout Japan and as such doesn't have a real-life counterpart.
107	* RedOniBlueOni:
108	** Despite the obvious color alignment, it's not a direct one-to-one. Tsuyukusa is a frosty, stoic girl with a sharp tongue, but Tsutsuji spends the first short acting unusually dour for a red oni, while Himawari plays both TheGadfly ''and also'' the straight man to the other two, fusing the traits of red and blue oni together.
109	** In the first episode, a boy reads an 80s-style shonen manga on his tablet with an ugly-looking red oni and a handsome blue oni (and a yellow oni frothing at the mouth).
110	* RunningGag: All of Noririn's videos have the exact same two comments: "Noririn's SO cute eating that [X]!" and "I'm gonna go to that shop too!"
111	* ShortTank: Himawari dresses like a teenage boy, with cutoff denim shorts and a dark blue tank top.
112	* ShoutOut:
113	** In the first episode, a boy is shown reading an ''oni''-fied version of ''Manga/SakigakeOtokojuku'' -- which had a main character named Momotaro, ironically enough -- on his tablet.
114	** The leader of the ''oni'' is named Enuo, after a legendary sorcerer from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV''.
115	** After Tsuyukusa inadvertently makes the class laugh during her introduction, she says, "[[Manga/DeathNote Just as planned.]]"
116	** Noriko, acting like a chuuni, is surprised Tsutsuji can see through her [[Franchise/HarryPotter invisibility cloak.]]
117	** In the third episode, Himawari's cooking is so good it causes everybody who eats it to fly into a "scrumptious [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey stargate]]".
118	** In episode five, Momo wears a pink version of Bruce Lee's outfit from ''Film/GameOfDeath''.
119	* SignatureShot: The director often inserts a shot in the premiere episode of the camera rushing headlong through a [=3D=] environment. In ''Manga/MinamiKe'', it started simple with a character running down a hallway and smacking her face into a wall. Now, in ''Onipan!'', the premiere episode blows it up into a two-minute footrace through town with epic parkour skills, wall-running alongside cars, and leaping atop six-story buildings.
120	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: {{Subverted\|Trope}}. When Kuma, a diminutive bear, hands the girls their ''onipan'' for the first time, it gives an explanation in PokemonSpeak. Tsutsuji [[RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear "repeats" what it said so the audience can hear]]. Himawari, confused, asks her if she can speak bear, but Tsutsuji reveals she was just reading the tag dangling from the ''onipan''.
121	* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Manga/GabrielDropout''. It has similar comedy aesthetics and visual language, it was made by the same [[invoked]] ProductionPosse, it uses same basic premise of "mythological creatures go to Japanese high school", Gabriel's voice actress has a major supporting role as Noriko Issun, and their dogged "rival" Momo Momo-zono is basically Satania 2.0.
122	* SuperSentaiStance: Both the opening voiceover and the the ending feature a shot of the three ''oni'' heroines posing like this.
123	* SurprisinglyCreepyMoment: The show is billed as a children's show, airing at seven in the morning, yet the very first episode has an ''unnecessarily-detailed'' PastelChalkedFreezeFrame of Tsutsuji as a grotesque, skull-like oni opening up a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth with strands of sinew stretched between her jaws.
124	* TakeOurWordForIt: Tsuyukusa's "scary face" is so frightening it can't be shown. We only see the horrified looks of neighborhood children and pets recoiling from its power.
125	* TaremeEyes: Tsutsuji has tarame eyes that highlight her youthfulness and naivety.
126	* TeamMom: Despite dressing like a skater girl and having an impish sense of humor, Himawari is also the most domestic and goal-oriented of the girls, and also a surprisingly good chef. She also chides Tsutsuji not to spoil Tsuyu while Tsutsuji is in the middle of spoon-feeding the girl breakfast.
127	* ThemeNaming: The ''onikko'' are named after flowers: Tsutsuji means "azalea", Himawari means "sunflower", and Tsuyukusa means "dayflower".
128	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Tsuyukusa wears light, summery dresses and an ojou-style sunhat, while Himawari wears tanks tops, denim shorts, and a backwards baseball cap. Tsutsuji strikes a balance between them with a light pink hoodie and a plain brimmed hat, but she's also interested in the "cute clothes" of the human world compared to Onigashima's overabundance of tiger-striped garb.
129	* TransformationSequence: The titular ''onipan'' give the girls a magical glow-up that allows them to transform.
130	* TransformationTrinket: The ''onipan'' allows the girls to transform into a variety of costumes -- albeit without any actual superpowers.
131	** In episode one, they transform into policewomen to return a stuffed animal to a little girl.
132	** In episode two, they transform into their gym clothes, and also arm themselves with giant ''oni'' clubs so they duel with Momotaro.
133	** In episode three, they transform into chefs in order to win a cooking competition with ingredients from the shopping center.
134	** In episode four, they transform into hi-tech cyborgs to pilot the Mecha Club's drones in a race.
135	** In episode five, they briefly transform into cheerleaders to cheer in the tournament to decide who gets to be this year's Momotaro.
136	* TriangleShades: Eion-sama, the ''oni'' leader's deputy who sends the girls on their mission to the human world, sports a pair of sharp black sunglasses.
137	* TheTriple: From the first episode's opening monologue:
138	--> '''Narrator''': "To improve the image of the ''oni'' among humanity, these three girls left Onigashima in a tale of love, friendship, and underwear."
139	--> '''Tsutsuji, Himawari, & Tsuyukusa''': ({{Beat}}, [[SqueakyEyes Blink]]) "[[DelayedReaction Underwear]]"?
140	* TsurimeEyes: Himawari and Tsuyukusa both have tsurime eyes. In Himawari's case, they emphasize her shrewd, level-headed nature and her impish sense of humor. On the other hand, Tsuyukusa's tsurime eyes just make her look like she's falling asleep.
141	* UnderwearOfPower: It's right there in the title. The ''onikko'' can transform into different costumes if they pull the traditional costume of their people -- a pair of tiger-striped boxer shorts -- on over their everyday street clothes.
142	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Kuma accompanies the ''oni'' girls to their new home. It has no lines, doesn't do anything, and the show doesn't call attention to it until over halfway into the first episode, when the ''onikko'' suddenly remember it exists.
143	* VisualPun: At the beginning of episode 2, we're told the girls were "handpicked" for their mission. In this case, "handpicked" means the king's ''hand picked'' up a dart and threw it at a list of names.

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