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1	->''"Koizumi... I mean Itsuki, is not a person that you can control! I'll protect him with all I've got!"''
2	-->-- '''Mikuru'''
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4	''The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina, Episode 00'' is an independent film starring Mikuru Asahina, Yuki Nagato, and Itsuki Koizumi, directed by Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya, and narrated by chore boy Kyon.
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6	Mikuru Asahina is a battle waitress from the future. Her job is to protect Itsuki Koizumi, an esper with dormant powers. Yuki Nagato, an evil witch who's also an alien, wants to control Itsuki and use his powers.
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8	This film premiered at the North High SchoolFestival in Nishinomiya City.
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11	!! This show provides examples of:
12	%% Please don't add tropes relative to the series, like StylisticSuck. The joke here is that this page is written from the POV of a viewer from within the Haruhi Suzumiya universe.
13	* AsHimself: Mikuru Asahina, Yuki Nagato, and Itsuki Koizumi play themselves.
14	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: One suspects most viewers only watched this for the shots of Mikuru’s, um, assets.
15	* CherryBlossoms: The final scene between Itsuki and Mikuru has a part where he takes one out of her hair.
16	%%* ClicheStorm
17	* {{Corpsing}}: InUniverse. Ms. Tsuruya bursts into laughter in the middle of saying that she trusts Mikuru.
18	%%* DoItYourselfThemeTune: ''Koi No Mikuru Densetsu''.
19	%%* DramaticWind
20	* DudeShesLikeInAComa: Itsuki attempts to kiss Mikuru while she's passed out after falling into a lake. He is interrupted by Yuki.
21	* DullSurprise: When Itsuki first sees Yuki, he pauses, gasps, and plainly asks who she is.
22	%%* EarWorm: Mi mi mirakuru mikurun-run, mi mi mirakuru mikurun-run!
23	%%* EpisodeZeroTheBeginning
24	* EnforcedMethodActing: The actress playing Mikuru is drunk in the scene where she wakes up at Itsuki’s house. This was due to collusion between the director and the actress who plays one of Yuki’s minions, out of the belief that it would make Mikuru cuter and more vulnerable. So they spiked her drink without her knowledge or consent. When the cameraman found out about this, he was so enraged that he very nearly [[HostilityOnTheSet punched the director in the face]], and was only barely stopped by the actor playing Itsuki.
25	%%* EyeBeams: Mikuru's super power.
26	--> Mi... mi... MIKURU BEAM!
27	%%* {{Eyecatch}}: A completely hand-drawn one.
28	* GoKartingWithBowser: Yuki is seen working with Mikuru in selling electronics at the mall. No explanation for this is given at all.
29	* GratuitousEnglish: From the theme tune: Come on, let's dance! Come on, let's dance, baby~!
30	* HumanAliens: Yuki, who looks just like a human in a stereotypical witch costume.
31	* InformedAbility: Mikuru is a time traveler. We never see her in other time periods.
32	%%* LampshadeHanging: By the narrator.
33	* LemonyNarrator: The narrator is so snarky you gotta wonder whether or not the DVD gives the {{MST}}ed version by mistake.
34	%%* MagicalGirl: Albeit lacking a TransformationSequence.
35	%%* MagicWand: Yuki's Starring Inferno is supposed to be one.
36	%%* MemeticMutation: MIKURU BEAM!
37	* MisplacedWildlife: PlayedWith. The doves that torment Mikuru in the opening are native Japanese doves filmed on location, but rumors that some practical joker painted them white and made them look like passenger pigeons (which are ''extinct'', and were restricted to the Americas when they were alive) are unsubstantiated.
38	* MsFanservice: Mikuru. She is totally inept at her job, but nearly every seen shows off her endowments.
39	* {{Narm}}: Yuki's henchmen throwing Mikuru into the lake was set up to be dramatic, but as they do so, one of the henchmen ''falls into the lake with her''.
40	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Mikuru the time traveling battle waitress and Yuki the alien witch.
41	* NoBudget: Literally. They only bought a camera, and even then the director convinced the shopkeeper to give it to them for free in exchange for [[ProductPlacement shooting a commercial for them]].
42	%%* OneEpisodeWonder: Though there is a possibility of a second episode...
43	* OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow: Mikuru is utterly inept against Yuki, who has her on the ropes from beginning to end, and [[TheBadGuyWins would surely triumph]] were it not for [[spoiler:Itsuki awakening his esper powers at that exact moment for no clear reason and no foreshadowing, sending Yuki flying miles away]].
44	* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Itsuki. He is an esper, but doesn’t know it [[spoiler:until he awakens his powers to banish Yuki at the end]].
45	%%* PanUpToTheSkyEnding
46	* PlayboyBunny: Mikuru dresses as one while working at the mall. The narrator wonders why a waitress would wear one, and says it screams "trying too hard".
47	* ProductPlacement: Mikuru is seen working at stores in a mall. They are Morimura Produce, Kumai Meat Shop, Suzuki Stationery, Ohmori Electronics and Yamatsuchi Model Shop.
48	* PsychicPowers: Itsuki is an esper, yet he doesn't realize it.
49	* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Lots of this, thanks to [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants the director not having a script and making stuff up as she went along]], which was actually quite useful considering all that went wrong. Originally, Mikuru was only going to wear the waitress outfit, and had one brown eye and one blue eye for no reason other than [[GarnishingTheStory to mark her as special]]. They lost the blue contact after filming one scene with it, so the director decided her eye was only blue when using the power. Yuki was only made a witch when her actress showed up to filming dressed in the outfit (which was for her class’s cultural festival exhibit). The rest snowballed from there.
50	* SexyDiscretionShot: As soon as Mikuru starts taking off her PlayboyBunny outfit, the screen turns blue and cuts to Mikuru post-changing. The narrator claims that they don't have the footage and it's useless to ask for it. Later, when Mikuru changes from her waitress outfit and changes, it cuts to her walking down the stairs outside her room.
51	%%* SoBadItsGood
52	* SpecialEffectFailure: Everything else freezes as the Starring Inferno's rays are animated.
53	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Mikuru, oh so very much. Her clothes have included a PlayboyBunny suit and a short-skirted waitress dress.
54	* TalkingAnimal: Subverted with Yuki's cat. After delivering advice to Yuki, she hits him with the Starring Inferno, and says that that was ventriloquism.
55	* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Over the ending credits.
56	--> ''This story is a work of fiction. All character names, organizations, incidents and any other names, phenomena and such, are fictional as well. It's all made up. Even if it resembles someone, it's probably just a coincidence. Oh, except for the commercials! Shop at Ohmori Electronics and Yamatsuchi Model Shop for great deals. Stop by and buy! Huh, I gotta say it again? This story is a work of fiction. All character names, organizations, incidents and any other names... Hey Kyon! Why do I have to say all this stuff anyway? I mean, it's totally obvious.''
57	* ThisIsThePartWhere: Unintentionally, the director gives out a stage instruction in the middle of a scene.
58	--> '''Director:''' This is when you're supposed to faint!
59	%%* {{Toku}}
60	%%* TransformationSequence: A lampshaded aversion.
61	* TroubledProduction: Making this film was pure hell for everyone involved except the director. Mikuru’s actress was actually tackled down and attacked by Yuki’s actress on several occasions as well as suffered through the incident recorded under EnforcedMethodActing. Both the cameraman and Itsuki’s actor almost got ''[[FatalMethodActing killed]]'' during the Mikuru Beam scene, the extras playing Yuki’s minions got dunked in water and sent home on their own without a change of clothes, the whole crew was sent all over town aimlessly, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking postproduction had to pull an all-nighter]].
62	* ATwinkleInTheSky: [[spoiler:Yuki]] is sent flying into the sky, spinning, after [[spoiler:Itsuki]] blasts her.
63	--> Curses.
64	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Mikuru and Yuki are the two girls, and Itsuki is the guy.
65	* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Mikuru places her paycheck in her PlayboyBunny outfit.
66	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:
67	** Mikuru’s eye beams. The ones in the final battle... [[SpecialEffectFailure not so much.]]
68	** Yuki's cat talking. The puppetry matched the ventriloquism ''perfectly.''
69	** Itsuki [[spoiler:blasting Yuki]] into the sky.
70	* AWizardDidIt
71	--> '''Narrator:''' Uh, some kind of electromagnetic waves coming out of the so-called Starring Inferno wand has turned Tsuruya and the guys into a trio of mindless puppets.
72	* WraparoundBackground: A rare live action example. There are shots of Mikuru running through the same part of the mall, getting more exhausted by each clip.
73	* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The director didn’t write a script, and as such made stuff up as she went along.

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