Line #48 Anime/NieaUnder7


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2	[[caption-width-right:318:Mayuko & Niea]]
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4	The aliens have landed! But that was many years ago, and no one really cares any more. All the fuss and excitement over the arriving [=UFOs=] has, for the most part, settled down, and people have returned to everyday life. Aliens, too, are gradually integrating into normal human society. Our story follows one Mayuko Chigasaki, a hard working, self supporting cram school student, who also works multiple part time jobs simply to pay for school and feed herself. Niea is the lazy, selfish, freeloading alien who lives in her cupboard, eats all her food, and generally drives her nuts.
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6	''Niea_7'' is an {{anime}} series created by Creator/YoshitoshiABe [[note]]intentional capitalization[[/note]], produced with the same team that worked on ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain.'' Despite being a typical [=Yoshitoshi ABe=] product, it is ''ostensibly'' a comedy series. It holds much more interest as a SliceOfLife series following everyday life in the sleepy district of Enohana, tracking Mayuko's struggles to come to terms with herself and the world around her.
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9	!! ''Niea_7'' provides examples of:
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11	%% * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Japanese, actually, but you get the idea.
12	* AnimeChineseGirl: Karna dresses and behaves like a stereotypical Chinese girl, even though she is actually an alien.
13	%% * Balloon Belly: Niea and Karna in Episode 8.
14	%% * BerserkButton: Don't make fun of Karna's antenna. Just... Don't.
15	* BigEater: Niea. About the only thing she does is eat, sleep and build [=UFOs=].
16	* BlushSticker: Niea sports two perpetual ones. Karna too, so it's likely an alien thing.
17	* ClosetSublet: Niea, who lives in Mayuko's closet.
18	%% * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
19	%%** Chiaki manages to even outdo the titular character at times.
20	%% ** Karna also tends to have a tenuous hold on reality.
21	* CranialEruption: Niea receives quite an amount of abuse from Mayuko. Deservedly.
22	* CuteLittleFangs: Niea sports one fang to emphasize her reckless easygoing tomboyish nature.
23	* FantasticCasteSystem: The aliens are divided into social castes based on the size/complexity of their antenna. Niea having none is at the rock bottom.
24	* FantasticRacism: A common theme throughout the series, also dealing with the sudden immigration of the aliens.
25	* {{Fauxreigner}}:
26	** Chada, the [[AsianStoreOwner Indian stereotype convenience store owner]] who is actually an alien.
27	** Also Karna, who is anything ''but'' a {{Chinese girl}}.
28	%% * FuroScene: Quite a few. Not surprising, considering Mayuko lives above a public bath.
29	%% * GenkiGirl: Niea, albeit more of the aggressive type.
30	* HandyFeet: Niea uses her feet to open doors.
31	* HomemadeInventions: Niea's makeshift [=UFOs=].
32	%% * {{Jerkass}}: Niea has to be the worst possible person to live with. But it is hinted that Niea's attitude is a way of coping with the rejection by her own people.
33	* LargeHam: Karna, whose easily irritable nature makes her chew the scenery like there's no tomorrow.
34	* LonersAreFreaks: Niea rarely socializes much with anyone, human or alien. She has her reasons, though -- she is discriminated because of FantasticRacism.
35	* MundaneFantastic: The arrival of aliens hasn't made any large impact on society. (Chiaki is intensely interested in alien tech and culture, but she's an outlier.)
36	* NobleWomansLaugh: Karna, whenever she starts feeling superior to the other aliens.
37	%% * OddCouple: Mayuko and Niea almost exactly.
38	* OnlyOneName: Niea doesn't seem to have a last name.
39	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Mayuko, who is ordinary, and a high school student
40	* {{Otaku}}: Chiaki, who loves [=UFOs=] and tries to replicate them.
41	%% * PerpetualPoverty: Mayuko suffers from this, which isn't helped by Niea's freeloading.
42	* PowerLevels: The aliens rank themselves as "Plusses" and "Unders" based on the size and complexity of their antennae. Niea is a rare, ultra low ''Under 7'', since she even lacks an antenna.
43	%% * PsychicPowers: The aliens having antennae seem to possess psychic abilities -- which Niea suspiciously ''lacks.' Explain what kind of psychic abilities they have.
44	* RunningGag: The skinny old guy at Chada's cuisine tryout meetings who always begs for water but never gets it.
45	* SittingOnTheRoof: Being a reckless tomboy, Niea loves doing sitting on Mayuko's house roof.. Mayuko too, at times, albeit for a different reason.
46	* UnusualEars: All the aliens have pointy, kind of elf-like ears.

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