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12	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Tactics}}'']]: In the Taisho era, a teenaged-looking albino 30-something ethnologist/wizard tries to feed his household of mythical-beings disguised as humans, by taking a series of odd-jobs as a writer, translator, or ghost-buster.
13	* [[spoiler:''Literature/TaishoBaseballGirls'']]: Japanese school girls play baseball... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace in 1925]].
14	* [[spoiler:''[[Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}} Tamagotchi]]]]'': An extremely cutesy children's anime about the exploits of a bunch of colorful, vastly unique aliens. Based on a toy series that barely even has the kind of plot you'd expect to lend itself to any animated adaptation.
15	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TamagotchiTheMovie'']]: A vaguely cat-looking mechanic has to get a human girl back to Earth ''and'' cure a planet's cold.
16	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TamagotchiHappiestStoryInTheUniverse'']]: A vaguely baboon-like kid jumps into a book and nearly destroys the planet by doing so.
17	** [[spoiler:''[[Anime/{{Tamagotchi}} Tamagotchi!]]'', the 2009 TV show]]: Colorful aliens highly value friendship as they have SliceOfLife and fantasy adventures.
18	*** [[spoiler:''Tamagotchi! Yume Kira Dream'']]: Colorful aliens aspire to accomplish their dreams. Two of those aliens are actually {{Magical Girl}}s.
19	*** [[spoiler:''Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends'']]: Fashion designer girls from the future are sent to the past by accident and have to collect a specific kind of creature to return.
20	*** [[spoiler:''GO-GO Tamagotchi!'']]: Towns merge and all sorts of things happen as a result of a natural phenomenon that occurs every 1,000 years. Nobody minds until the planet is sad.
21	** [[spoiler:''Anime/EigaTamagotchiHimitsuNoOtodokeDaiSakusen'']]: An egg wants another egg delivered to it, but an evil alien wants that egg (the second one) because he thinks it will hatch into a wish-granting being.
22	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TamakoMarket'']]: Creepy talking bird [[InterspeciesRomance attempts to wed a schoolgirl]]. SliceOfLife ensues.
23	* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Tamayura}}'']]: A shy girl takes pictures of her father's hometown. [[{{Iyashikei}} Very little drama ensues.]]
24	* [[spoiler:''Literature/TheTatamiGalaxy'']]: A college student is [[GroundhogDayLoop stuck repeating the same two years of college]] until he returns a toy.
25	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TeamMedicalDragon'']]: Open-heart surgery becomes [[MundaneMadeAwesome more dramatic than ever before.]]
26	* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/TearsToTiara'']]: King Arthur's sister marries a demon king so they can fight the [[strike: Roman]] Holy Empire.
27	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'']]: Boy tries to tease girl. Fails miserably.
28	** [[spoiler:''Karakai Jouzu no Moto Takagi-san'']]: Man and daughter try to tease wife. Fail miserably.
29	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Teekyuu}}'']]: High school tennis club does everything except play tennis.
30	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'']]: The mail is delivered.
31	** Or: Gun wielding Mailmen deliver peoples "heartfelt" letters across barren wastelands. They also fight giant armored insects. The main character cries a lot.
32	** Two words: Supercharged Mailmen.
33	** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The Manga.
34	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TekkamanBlade'']]: A [[ScreamingWarrior loud]] {{jerkass}} and his buddies trash his family's garden.
35	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TenchiMuyo'']]: High-school student prefers to remain [[NoRomanticResolution "just friends"]] with hot alien girls. Or: A Shinto priest has a family reunion.
36	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TenchiUniverse'']]: Same as above, [-[[RecycledInSPACE IN SPACE]]-]!
37	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TenchiInTokyo'']]: Same as above, [-[[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse IN TOKYO]]-]!
38	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TenchiMuyoGXP'']]: Same as above, [-[[ReplacementScrappy WITH A NEW CHARACTER]]-]!
39	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'']]: [[OverlyLongGag Same as above]], [-[[AnotherDimension IN ANOTHER WORLD]], [[HumongousMecha WITH ROBOTS]]-]!
40	** [[spoiler:''Anime/DualParallelTroubleAdventure'']]: Same as above, [-ON A [[TheMultiverse PARALLEL EARTH]], WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, [[HumongousMecha WITH ROBOTS]]!-]
41	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'']]: A young man goes digging and gets in trouble.
42	** A miner and a delinquent team up with an underage girl for the purpose of fighting a race war.
43	** '''[[LargeHam THE POWER OF HAM]]''' defeats evildoers! There are also giant robots.
44	** Almost everything is a robot and/or has to do with drills. Badassness ensues.
45	** 14-year old kid uses MiniMecha to destroy HumongousMecha using the power of [[AwesomenessIsVolatile how awesome he is]]. [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Don't watch it if you know a lot about physics]].
46	** The ultimate anime for [[ThisIsADrill drill enthusiasts]].
47	** Guy takes over the world, he then fights a badly drawn stick figure so he can kill his girlfriend.
48	** A charismatic rebel leads some of the last surviving humans in a war against mutant tyrants and extra-dimensional aliens. The hero is his young miner friend.
49	** Alternatively: Man fueled by Hot Blood fights a king and an Eldritch Abomination with digging implements.
50	** Alternatively alternatively: [[MiniMecha A midget]] [[CombiningMecha drills people]] [[SerialEscalation to get bigger]].
51	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TentaiSenshiSunred'']]: A cold war between a {{sentai}} hero and his nemesis takes place in a small town. The town takes the nemesis' side.
52	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TerrorInResonance'']]: With the help of two mysterious transfer students, a high school girl decides to break bad ([[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror with terrorism]] rather than drugs).
53	* [[spoiler:''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'']]: ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}'' if the pink puffball was a human being reincarnated in another world.
54	* [[spoiler:''Manga/ThermaeRomae'']]: A foreign architect in Japan is impressed with certain houses and decides to implement them in his homeland. Hilarity ensues.
55	* [[spoiler:''Literature/TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye'']]: A girl with an eye on her forehead travels the desert in a talking tank with her alien boyfriend and sometimes kills things.
56	* [[spoiler:''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'']]: A musclebrained karate freak, an Oscar-winning Actress, a Japanese Teenage Gun Otaku Girl, and a giant tank possessed by the spirit of a cat run around a fantasy world, trying to return home by forcibly removing the clothes of every female elf they can get their hands on.
57	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheThreeEyedOne'']]: Japan's greatest manga author draws his own version of Elmer Fudd with an extra eye.
58	* [[spoiler:''Series/{{Thunderbirds}} 2086'']]: Cooler-looking than the puppet version, but most of the stories aren't.
59	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TigerAndBunny'':]] An [[TheLastDJ old-fashioned]] ManChild and a stuck-up Franchise/{{Batman}} counterpart [[TeethClenchedTeamwork reluctantly team up]] to fight crime through the power of ProductPlacement.
60	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TimeBokan'']]: Good time-travelers in a bug-shaped robot fight [[TerribleTrio evil time-travelers]] in a skull-shaped robot over a big rock.
61	** [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'']]: A toymaker, his girlfriend and their sentient mechas fight three robbers over a magic rock that may or may not contain the map for the biggest gold mine in the world.
62	*** [[spoiler:''Yatterman'' (2008 remake)]]: Replace the magic rock with a set of rings.
63	*** [[spoiler:''Anime/YattermanNight'']]: The descendants of the three robbers are now the heroes because the toymaker's descendants are dictators enslaving the world with an army of robots.
64	** [[spoiler:''Zenderman'']]: People travel through time on train mechas to get immortality.
65	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TimePatrolTaiOtasukeman'']]: [[InsaneTrollLogic In order to fix a book filled with errors, three dudes go back in time and correct the past.]] The good guys stop them, but since they do it undercover their boss thinks they did nothing, so they get punished.
66	** [[spoiler:''Yattodetaman'']]: Two princesses chase a magic peacock through space and time. Features a giant robot that spares his opponents too much easily.
67	** [[spoiler:''Ippatsuman'']]: A baseball player tries to stop a war between lease companies.
68	** [[spoiler:''Itadakiman'']]: A bunch of people claiming they're descendants of a mythological character try to get pieces of a MacGuffin before people with better proof of their heritage can do it. They fail.
69	** [[spoiler:''Time Bokan: Royal Revival'']]: All the {{Terrible Trio}}s the franchise got thus far have a race to decide who gets the main role in the 20th anniversary special. The winners end up getting involved in a {{crossover}} with all the other shows made by the same company.
70	** [[spoiler:''Kaitou Kiramekiman'']]: Two kids steal stuff while driving a {{catgirl}} Literature/MaryPoppins mech while police fails to stop them.
71	** [[spoiler:''Anime/TimeBokan24'']]: Two kids discover that history books are all wrong. Schoolbook editors are angry for this discovery and send three interns to stop them from revealing the truth.
72	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TimeOfEve'']]: A boy goes to a cafe where people and robots socialize without knowing which is which.
73	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TisTimeForTorturePrincess'']]: Demons interrogate an EasilyImpressed warrior princess using free food and video games.
74	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TokyoBabylon'']]: Bisexual, sociopathic veterinarian/assassin with a floral theme makes a bet with a fashion-challenged {{uke}}, wins, and kills the uke's sister. It takes place to an 80's soundtrack.
75	** [[spoiler:''Manga/{{X 1999}}'']]: Sequel to the above. A fight between an EmoTeen and his best friend gets [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a bit out of hand]].
76	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TokyoGhoul'']]: The story of a boy and his malfunctioning taste buds.
77	** A teenager is forced to change his diet after his date nearly kills him.
78	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TokyoMewMew'']]: Genetic experiments become battle waitresses. Bigfoot is possessed by an alien.
79	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/ToLoveRu'' ]]: Manga and anime with {{Fanservice}}, an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, {{Fanservice}}, a MagicalGirl, {{Fanservice}}, a continuously-growing UnwantedHarem, {{Panty Shot}}s, and {{Fanservice}}.
80	** The result of a manga artist drawing pornography and telling the publisher it isn't pornography.
81	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Tomie}}'']]: A beautiful compulsive liar with the ability to regenerate manipulates men into killing her in increasingly horrible ways.
82	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TonaGura'']]: A girl's joy at being reunited with her childhood crush is cut short when she learns [[PerverseSexualLust puberty hit said childhood crush especially hard]].
83	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TonoToIssho'']]: The day-to-day trials and tribulations of vassals to historically significant warlords of the Sengoku era. Kyupah!
84	* [[spoiler:''Literature/{{Toradora}}'']]: A scary looking guy helps an obsessed midget find love.
85	** A grumpy, violent martinet and an obsessive homemaker hook up. Their genders are reversed.
86	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Toriko}}'']]: A cook and a gourmet travel the world looking for new food for a menu.
87	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit'']]: An animal lover makes friends with a miko and a witch.
88	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TouhouSangetsusei'']]: Three fairies go on wacky adventures pranking people.
89	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TouhouSuichoukaLotusEaterTachiNoSuisei'']]: The trials and tribulations of a pub and its patrons.
90	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery'']]: A librarian's curiosity gets the best of her.
91	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TransformersCybertron'']]: [[HumongousMecha Giant robots]] summon glowing poker chips from the sky with their {{Battle Aura}}s in order to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] {{BFG}}'s, every non-melee SpamAttack trope, and a [[CoolSword lot]] of [[NitroBoost other]] RuleOfCool [[RecursiveAmmo ones]] too. [[JustHereForGodzilla There's a storyline somewhere too, but...]]
92	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Translucent}}'']]: A young actress gains a superpower powered by angst. This makes her angsty, of course.
93	* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever'']]: Two [[NotBloodSiblings siblings who are actually cousins]] live in a FantasyKitchenSink. Terrorists want to kill and/or marry their IdolSinger friend. None of the above is the winning girl.
94	** Or: [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha Nanoha's]] family has an unrelated side-story.
95	* [[spoiler:''Literature/{{Trapeze}}'']]: A psychiatrist in a bear suit decides the best way to treat everything is a gigantic Vitamin B shot.
96	* [[spoiler:''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'']]: A guy dies and has to suffer constant targeting from passive-aggressive rich brats.
97	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Trigun}}'']]: A gun-toting pacifist and his genocidal brother emerge from a lightbulb. Humanity responds to being simultaneously saved and fucked by trying to kill the pacifist.
98	** Or: Two insurance agents chase after a (literal) human disaster across the desert.
99	* [[spoiler:''Literature/TrinityBlood'']]: A guy who eats vampires acts like a complete idiot while occasionally eating vampires and making [[BloodyMurder a scythe out of his blood]]. {{Nanomachines}} started it.
100	** A [[AnimeCatholicism theoretically Catholic]] vampire deals with his family issues.
101	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TrinitySeven'']]: A guy teams up with the world's most powerful magical girls and two books to save his beloved cousin...[[spoiler:who wants to kill him.]]
102	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'']]: Girl suffers a ''bad'' case of amnesia. She and her friends must travel to regain her memories, while dealing with more [[TheMole moles]] than a Whack-A-Mole factory. MindScrew ensues.
103	* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'']]: An OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent slices a girl he never met before into seventeen pieces. She gets better and enlists him to fight [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]].
104	** An anemic boy slices a girl he never met before into seventeen pieces. They then sleep and hunt together.
105	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/TsukiGaKirei'']]: Middle-school romance between a boy and a girl, who are both so shy and awkward they can barely talk to each other... even once they're officially dating.
106	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Tsuritama}}'']]: A shy kid and his group of fellow odd ducks save their home through the power of friendship and fishing.
107	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheTyrantFallsInLove'']]: Kind-hearted, dark-haired {{seme}} rapes violent, gay bashing, long-haired {{uke}} and later blackmails him into having sex once a week. {{Angst}} and [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday Denial]] ensues. Title refers to the uke.
108	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/UbelBlatt'']]: A guy comes back to life as a little kid after eating a fairy so he can kill some heroes.
109	* [[spoiler:''Manga/UFOPrincessValkyrie'']]: A bathhouse owner is killed and resurrected by an alien girl, which causes her to revert to childhood. Then her sisters and a CatGirl [[{{Meido}} maid]] show up, and [[HilarityEnsues things get]] ''[[HilarityEnsues really]]'' [[HilarityEnsues weird]].
110	* [[spoiler:''Ultimate Girls'']]: 100ft tall girls make like Ultraman to defend Tokyo from evil, but they lose power (and their clothes) even faster than he does.
111	* [[spoiler: ''[[Manga/HentaiKamen Ultimate!! Hentai Kamen]]'']]: A man wearing only two pairs of underwear fights crime.
112	* [[spoiler: ''[[Anime/UmaMusume Uma Musume: Pretty Derby]]'']]: A young girl aspires to be the very best racer Japan has ever known. She, her teammates, and her rivals are anthropomorphic horses.
113	* [[spoiler: ''[[Manga/KenkoZenrakeiSuieibuUmisho Umisho]]'']]: An ocean-dwelling nudist joins a mediocre high school swim team full of weirdos that is managed by guy who can't swim because of a pathological fear of mermaids.
114	* [[spoiler:''Manga/UndeadUnluck'']]: A girl with the power [[TheJinx to jinx people]] fell in love with a guy whose power is that [[{{Immortality}} he can't die]]. They fought bad guys while finding out a way for the unkillable man to be KilledOffForReal.
115	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/UntilDeathDoUsPart'']]: A blind man protects a thirteen-year-old girl who says he's her future husband.
116	* [[spoiler:''Manga/UQHolder]]'': CluelessChickMagnet tries to win the heart of his mother figure. [[{{Immortality}} He has plenty of time to do so]].
117	* [[spoiler:''Manga/UruseiYatsura'']]: An alien loses a game of tag to a perverted slob. She decides to marry him.
118	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'']]: Inexplicable spirals spell certain doom for a small town in Japan.
119	** Alternately: A town in Japan is destroyed by geometry. Readers are scarred for life.
120	** Or: Everyone in a town goes crazy, indulges in a little ArtisticLicenseBiology, and dies.
121	* [[spoiler:''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'']]: The Cold War [[RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE!]]
122	* [[spoiler:''Manga/VampireDoll'']]: Ancient and powerful vampire lord gets stuck in a wax doll, is now a young girl who summons candy.
123	* [[spoiler:''Manga/VampireGame'']]: A girl adopts a cat. The cat has a grudge to settle.
124	* [[spoiler:''Literature/VampireHunterD'']]: A Film/HammerHorror [[TheWestern Western]] starring a guy who gets into arguments with his hand.
125	** Or: Stockholm syndrome girl kidnapped by evil vampire dies. Vampire Hero rampages everything in the way, in the end you still root for the evil vampire to fly away.
126	* [[spoiler:''Manga/VampireKnight'']]: A schoolgirl is surrounded by {{bishounen}} vampires and proceeds to get in a love triangle. Everyone starts drinking everyone else's blood, probably to stay alive.
127	* [[spoiler:''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'']]: [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Japanese Vampire]] fights demons. Actually much scarier than it sounds.
128	* [[spoiler:''Anime/{{Vandread}}'']]: The Battle of the Sexes is SeriousBusiness.
129	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/VariableGeo'']]: An {{OVA}} series about a tournament for [[WorldOfActionGirls combat waitresses]] competing for 10 million yen, prime real estate, and bragging rights. [[NotJustATournament Except the competion's anything but friendly]], since the real intent is to use the winner's body as a host for the disembodied spirit of an EvilMatriarch.
130	* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Vassalord}}'']]: Just how much {{UST}} can there be between [[HoYay two male]] [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires?]]
131	* [[spoiler:''Manga/VinlandSaga'']]: A bunch of Vikings duke it out in TheDungAges. A [[DudeLooksLikeALady princess with no boobs]] is involved.
132	* [[spoiler:''Literature/VioletEvergarden'']]: A former soldier gets a job at a temp agency.
133	* [[spoiler:''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' (manga)]]: A bunch of teenagers with nice hats and [[ThemeNaming instrument names]] set out to kill demons.
134	* [[spoiler:''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' (anime)]]: Same as above, but [[{{Wangst}} angstier]] and [[OffModel only slightly more animated]]. Equally funny, but [[{{Narm}} not on purpose.]]
135	* [[spoiler:''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'']]: A psychic high school track star helps in the fight against Isaac Newton's evil mecha army on a highly improbable moon made by Atlanteans.
136	* [[spoiler:''Anime/VividredOperation'']]: A mayonnaise-loving lesbian fights aliens while another girl angsts about selling her soul to a crow.
137	* [[spoiler:''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar'']]: A drama centered around a teenager's disconnection anxiety due to her poorly performing cellphone.
138	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'']]: Average family restaurant with dysfunctional staff somehow still has customers.
139	* [[spoiler:''Anime/WaitingInTheSummer'']]: [[LoveDodecahedron Dodecahedron]] of [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited love]] interrupted by IntimateHealing from a hot HumanAlien.
140	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/TheWallflower'']]:
141	** A group of {{Bishounen}} housemates must turn a {{Gorn}}-loving girl into a [[YamatoNadeshiko demure young Japanese lady]] to avoid paying their rent. She's not having any of it.
142	** The girl in the well from ''Film/TheRing'' is forced to live with four useless {{Bishonen}} by her aunt. HilarityEnsues.
143	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/WanganMidnight'']]: An 18-year-old high school student drives an allegedly-possessed car.
144	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'']]: A former mobster tries to abandon his old life for one of quiet domesticity, despite being met with fear and suspicion by his neighbors, and his time in the ''yakuza'' frequently coming back to haunt him. It's a SliceOfLife comedy.
145	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/WeddingPeach'']]: A hopelessly romantic girl beats up demons while wearing a wedding dress.
146	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WeissKreuz'']]: A group of [[{{Bishounen}} androgynous]], AmbiguouslyGay young men pose as florists to cover-up their lucrative business as [[ProfessionalKiller assassins]].
147	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WelcomeToTheNHK'']]: Four crazy people lack a psychiatrist.
148	** Or: A depressed college dropout converses with his fridge, finds redemption in creating anime porn with his neighbour.
149	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WindyTales'']]: Strangely drawn high-school students learn how to manipulate wind, which apparently is something even cats can pull off.
150	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'']]: Single mom gains a bracelet of mass destruction and a sexy-as-hell outfit. It's a tear jerker.
151	** Or : A young woman finds a high-profit job, seduces the company's CEO and fights (literally) to keep her daughter by herself.
152	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WitchHunterRobin'']]: An anime adaptation of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' goes off the rails when the bad guys start throwing fire around and crushing people with their minds.
153	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/WJuliet'']]: A manly woman and a girly man with daddy issues fall in love.
154	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WolfChildren'']]: Single mother raises two furries.
155	* [[spoiler: ''Anime/WolfsRain'']]: A group of bickering quadrupeds in human disguise go looking for paradise in the company of a girl who's made from plant DNA.
156	* [[spoiler: ''Manga/WolfGuyWolfenCrest'']]: [[TallDarkAndSnarky Snarky]] WolfMan manages to wow and/or infuriate everyone he comes across, including a [[NotSoStoic formerly emotionless]] {{Yakuza}} and his ''[[NightmareFetishist weird]]'' girlfriend.
157	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'']]: The God of Video Games teaches you how to save the world by bagging chicks using the power of TROPES.
158	** Or: Man plays DatingSim with real girls. This somehow works.
159	** Outcast gaming nerd acquires demonic contract to smooch cute girls, resents it.
160	* [[spoiler:''Anime/WorldMasterpieceTheater'']]: Sad European kids suffer a lot.
161	* [[spoiler:''Manga/TheWorldOfNarue'']]: A half-Japanese girl has family problems because of her father's previous marriage and the Theory of Relativity.

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