Line #23 Anime/ShinguSecretOfTheStellarWars


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Just your regular middle-school anime.]]
3	''Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars'' is a science fiction {{anime}} produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} under director Creator/TatsuoSato, aired on the Creator/{{NHK}} network. The series consists of 26 episodes released between May 8th, 2001 and December 4th, 2001. On March 3, 2008, the series made its North American television debut on the Creator/FUNimation Channel.
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5	The premise revolves around an alien invasion of Tokyo being repelled by a mysterious giant being which is almost a monster in itself. The attack and giant creature are witnessed by many of those at a highschool. Shortly after, highschool student Murata Hajime witnesses fellow classmates using psychic abilities and is drawn into the mysteries of the apparent psychic powers and the alien attack.
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7	!!This work shows examples of:
8	* AdultsAreUseless: Played with: Adults are not useless ''per se'', but have there hands tied. [[spoiler:Key members of the team being [[DeathByOriginStory dead]] also prevents them from being helpful.]]
9	* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: More like a highly responsible student council than anything.
10	%%* AllMythsAreTrue
11	* AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler: Nayuta's powers combined with Shun, Hachiyou and Kyouichi's allow Nayuta to travel through space.]]
12	* AudienceSurrogate: Hajime Murata, who narrates everything that happens to him so the viewers will understand what's going on.
13	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Hajime Murata occasionally turns to the audience and comments. Of course, other characters ask who he is talking to and think he is strange. Kazuo Murata, Hajime's father, also does this when he first shows up. "[[LineageComesFromTheFather Like father]], [[SharedFamilyQuirks like son]]".
14	* CharacterNarrator: Hajime Murata, who explains everything that happens in Tokyo.
15	* ComesGreatResponsibility: An oft-seen characteristic.
16	* CoolStarship: [[spoiler:seen in the last episodes.]]
17	* {{Main/Expy}}: Fans of Tatsuo's previous work ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' can recognize some elaborations on character designs and names:
18	** Hikaru Inagaki is an aged-down Hikaru Amano.
19	** Misumaru Middle School shares its name with the Nadesico's captain Yurika Misumaru and her father Admiral Kouichiro Misumaru.
20	** The 70s inspired-setting can be seen as a massive elaboration of the 70s-inspired anime-with-in-an-anime ''Gekigangar III''.
21	* GreatOffscreenWar: [[spoiler:10,000 years ago. That only ends after [[ApocalypseHow galactic physical annihilation]]]].
22	%%* HiddenElfVillage
23	* HighSchool: Misumaru Middle School.
24	* LetsYouAndHimFight: Between Muryou Subaru and Kyouichi Moriguchi.
25	* HumanAliens: You can be forgiven if you can not tell the alien and humans apart just by looking.
26	* JapaneseSchoolClub: Hajime and Muryou start a festival club.
27	%%* LamarckWasRight
28	* NewTransferStudent: Subaru.
29	* NextSundayAD: It's 2070, but that is not important.
30	* OurAncestorsAreSuperheroes: The founders of Tenmo.
31	%%* PowerParasite
32	* RockBeatsLaser: Some well-thrown rocks stop a cyborg.
33	* SchoolClubsAreSeriousBusiness: Plenty of {{Extracurricular Enthusiast}}s in the future, it seems.
34	* SchoolFestival: Hajime and Muryou have a festival skit.
35	* SchoolNewspaperNewshound: Hikaru who runs Misumaru Middle School Close Circuit News Channel bulletins and chronicles much of the social events in the school.
36	%%* SliceOfLife: Very much a slice-of-life show with sci-fi elements and Japanese paper mecha battles.
37	* SlidingScaleOfLeadershipResponsibility: Everyone falls pretty high on the scale.
38	* SuperpowerfulGenetics: [[spoiler: Most if not all the locals, but more prominent in the chosen.]]
39	* TokyoIsTheCentreOfTheUniverse: Tenmo specifically.
40	* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:The older residents know about the power of Shingu and have kept it a secret from the rest of the humans and other aliens. This explains why, when they saw the White Giant fighting the Aliens, they didn't react with shock and awe. Plus, there's a village where Muryou and Setsuna Subaru grew up that not even other members of the dark secret know about.]]
41	* TranslatorMicrobes: is required that visitors speak the native language.
42	* TwoGirlsToATeam: Naiyuta and Harumi are the only girls in the main student cast.
43	* TwoTeacherSchool: Yamamoto-sensei and Isozaki-sensei are the only two prominent teachers we see.
44	* {{Tsundere}}: Nayuta and Kyouichi.

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