Line #30 Manga/Teekyuu


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Just your average, ordinary bunch of high school students.[[labelnote:characters]]Left to right: Marimo, Yuri, Nasuno and Kanae.[[/labelnote]]]]
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4	''Teekyuu'' (てーきゅう -- lit. "Tennis") is a SliceOfLife sports comedy focusing on four precocious school students as they deal with the typical lifestyle of the average teenage high-schooler: Struggling through class, making new friends, being part of school activities, playing sports, cooking, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick stealing panties, digging up mummies in Egypt with their withered, senile grandmother, befriending an alien and going to their planet...]]
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8	[[FlatWhat Wait,]] ''[[FlatWhat what?]]''
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10	''Teekyuu'' is the [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs acid-induced love child]] of writer Roots and illustrator Piyo. It was serialized from 2012 to 2018 as a manga in Earth Star Entertainment's ''Comic Star Magazine'', and was adapted the same year it began into a 2-minute, short format anime by Tokyo Metropolitan Station. Shin Itagaki not only directed the show, but also scripted, edited, storyboarded, and even composed music for it. The series is [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/teekyu currently running]] on Crunchyroll, currently at nine seasons consisting of twelve episodes each.[[note]]In the time it takes you to watch one episode of a standard-format anime series, you can watch an ''entire season'' of ''Teekyuu''.[[/note]]
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13	!!Examples With Senpai:
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15	* ACupAngst: Kanae is markedly envious of her clubmates' attributes and height, in spite having the same age as them. Most of the third season's opening consists of the girls swinging around a helpless Kanae with their boobs while dancing... So, yeah.
16	* {{Absurdism}}: The series' humour jumps between this and {{surrealism}}, almost bordering [[UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} dadaism]]. Though the episodes ''sometimes'' follow a theme, the logical non-sequiturs of the plot usually happen in a matter of seconds, and more often than not, they are never resolved.
17	* ADayInTheLimelight: "Species with Senpai," episode 97, is all about Tomarin.
18	* AnimeHair: Kanae's fluffy, bubbly pink hair.
19	* ArtEvolution: While still very stiff and limited in its movements (see LimitedAnimation below), backgrounds have become increasingly lavish and the girls' designs have become increasingly consistent and even three-dimensional. Compare [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/teekyu/episode-1-once-in-a-lifetime-with-senpai-612533 Episode 1]] with [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/teekyu/episode-84-saving-private-ryan-with-senpai-692955 Episode 84.]]
20	* CampingEpisode: Episode 83, "The Straight Story with Senpai"
21	* CantHoldHerLiquor: Yuri is the most "normal" of the four, [[DrunkOnMilk but if you give her amazake]], she'll out-zany her three friends ''combined''.
22	* TheCartel: Referred to as the "Mexican mafia", they run a festival in one episode [[spoiler:and end up in a shootout with the local ''{{yakuza}}''.]]
23	* CloudCuckooLandersMinder: Yuri is the only reason the Tennis Club is a "tennis" club. Though she can't stop the zaniness of her clubmates, she at least is the person who tries to make sense of whatever situation they're involved in.
24	* TheComicallySerious: Nasuno remains parsimonious and deadpan regardless of the craziness that she is part of.
25	* CompressedAdaptation: Played with. ''Teekyuu'' has enough gags in a 2-minute episode to fill up a 23-minute episode of any other series.
26	* ConversationCut: A [[VisualGag Visual]] RunningGag of sorts in a series that goes as fast as ''Teekyu'', typically induced by some form of BreadEggsMilkSquick. Within one second, a character will be having a perfectly normal conversation, relayed by still frames of the locations of what they're talking about, (i.e., a day at school), then, all of a sudden, they or another person will completely derail themselves by injecting with a non-sequitur that will transport the group to Mars or back in time.
27	* CuddleBug: Marimo is in equal parts cuddly and gropey.
28	* ExtremeOmnivore: Marimo is a Type 2, since she has been known to eat underwear. [[note]] Preferebly Yuri's.[[/note]]
29	* FourManBand: While the personalities are flip-flopped, but Marimo will typically be the pervert and Kanae will usually be the ButtMonkey. Usually.
30	* GenreBusting: It's technically listed as a "sports comedy" and a "slice of life" series. While there is at least one or two episodes dedicated to showing the girls playing tennis, more often than not the series will have them travel to alien planets with their extraterrestrial best friend, digging mummies in Egypt, and hunting ghosts.
31	* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Tomarin, at least in her human form.
32	* GroinAttack: Tomarin uses this on an alien who was about to take Udonko, courtesy of her "Tomarin Safety Bar" ability.
33	* HammerSpace: Udonko's pockets can apparently hold large construction vehicles, such as dirt diggers and bulldozers.
34	* TheHeart: In spite of how they try her patience, Yuri loves her clubmates and thoroughly enjoys being with them.
35	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode title is "X With Senpai", the X being the name of a famous movie. Some have included ''Film/{{Juon}} With Senpai!'' and ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel with Senpai!'' Usually, the episodes have elements ancillary to the movies themselves, but have very little to do with the movie's plot. For example ''Film/MenInBlack with Senpai'' has to do with alien life forms and ''Film/MadMax with Senpai'' has harassing thugs that dress like the movie's characters. Then there's ''Film/{{TED}} with Senpai'', which simply has a talking bear who Kanae and Marimo ask about tips to hibernate.
36	* LimitedAnimation: All of the MotorMouth talking is done with only two mouth flaps per character.
37	* MotorMouth. '''''HOOO''''' boy. While most short-format anime, even GagSeries anime between four and ten minutes long, will go at a slower pace to let its viewers get an understanding of what is being conveyed, ''Teekyu'' [[ExaggeratedTrope takes and runs with this trope into the ground,]] having every character, even those who show up for a scene or two for one episode, speak their lines a mile per millisecond to the point where, if you blink, you've missed an entire episode.
38	* MouthFlaps: The series is famous for its intentionally LimitedAnimation around the mouth; the mouth flaps in each scene each only have ''two frames''.
39	* MsFanservice: Though it includes all of the protagonist girls, an emphasis is put on Nasuno in particular, who happens to be the curviest and the most buxom of the girls.
40	* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: It's shown that Nasuno doesn't quite like Marimo and can barely stand her.
41	* NotSoAboveItAll: When the other Tennis club members appear in Nasuno's spin off, Yuri actually goes along with the others' craziness. She explains to her brother Youta that, since he's being the straight man this time, she doesn't need to worry about it.
42	* OlderThanSheLooks:
43	** Kanae is the same age as Marimo and Nasuno, but she looks like a little girl. Yuri is a year younger than her and she is like two heads taller than Kanae, ''Yuri being the third tallest of the girls''.
44	** Nasuno's mother looks younger than all of the tennis club's girls, though she has mentioned that she remembers stuff from World War II.
45	* OnlySaneMan: Yuri usually takes this role, but when the other tennis club members are absent, Marimo ironically ends up taking that role instead despite being arguably the craziest of them. Likewise, Youta takes this role in Takamiya Nasuno Desu! and Ayako does in Usakame.
46	* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: The four girls make up a tennis club... that does everything except ''actually play tennis''. When approached for an interview, they do everything short of demonstrating a tennis match, including playing ''VideoGame/{{Pong}}'' and then doing a re-enactment of it.
47	* RapidFireComedy: The gags come just fast enough for you to barely process them.
48	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Nasuno's solution to everything is to throw money at it.
49	* ShockAndAwe: Kanae seems to have the ability to shoot a ball of electricity; as shown in episodes 26 & 67.
50	* SpinOff: Nasuno got one entitled, "Takamiya Nasuno Desu!" (I am Nasuno Takamiya!). There's also Usakame, about the titular rival team of the main series' characters.
51	* TheSixthRanger: Either Udonko (from the school's newspaper) or the alien Tomarin fill this role from time to time.
52	* StatuesqueStunner: Marimo towers over the rest of the cast. She's so tall, she frightens children.
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54	-> To be continued. \
55	Next episode: Website/{{Wikipedia}} With Senpai

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