Line #72 Manga/ChisSweetHome


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8	Originally a ({{seinen}}!) manga series written by Konami Kanata, Chi's Sweet Home (チーズスイートホーム, ''Chīzu Suīto Hōmu'') is the story of a lost kitten who tries to return home to her mother and littermates, only to be adopted by a couple (the Yamadas) and their young son Youhei. However, the apartment complex in which the family lives doesn't allow pets, so a lot of time is spent preventing the landlady and the other tenants from seeing Chi. Later, the Yamadas move into a new house, and Chi has to adjust once again to her new surroundings.
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10	The anime is produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}}, and each episode is three minutes long. The episodes correspond to one chapter from the manga. Chi is voiced by Creator/SatomiKoorogi, better known for her roles as Himawari Nohara from ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'' and Togepi from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''.
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12	The manga is currently licensed by Vertical, with its first volume released July 2010. Both seasons of the anime were licensed by Creator/DiscotekMedia in April 2014.
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14	The manga finally wrapped up in 2015 after its 11 year run. However, the anime has now gotten a reboot serving as a sequel to the Madhouse anime, airing in 2016. The reboot's episodes are about ten minutes long as opposed to three. The first season aired 51 episodes and it has now begun its second season.
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16	!!This manga provides examples of:
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18	* AdaptationDyeJob:
19	** Youhei and his parents' hair color would sometimes change in a different story or scene in the earlier volumes of the manga. In the anime, their hair color is completely different, most notable for Youhei, whose hair was orange in the original manga while his hair is brown in the anime.
20	** Ann the kitten has grey fur exactly like Chi in the manga, in the CGI series, she has much lighter grey or lilac fur. She is also a blotched tabby, like her mother as opposed to her 'mackerel' tabby siblings. This is probably to make it easier to tell her and Chi apart.
21	* AdaptationExpansion: The anime included stories not found in the manga.
22	* AnthropomorphicShift: A subtle example. Chi and the other cats act slightly more human-like in the 2016 series than in the 2004 and 2009 series, though they're still obviously pets.
23	* ArtEvolution: [[http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2010/10/chis-mama.jpg Chi's facial and head design in the earlier volumes looked a lot more realistic]] [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120205213356/chissweethome/images/7/7f/Chi1.jpg compared to her Anime design.]] Most notable when Chi's head is turned to a different angle or during a close up in the manga. [[http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd450/bacocongchua/Chi%20sweet%20home/ChisSweetHomefull250828.jpg Chi would later start looking more like her Anime counterpart around volume 4.]]
24	%% AllJustADream: "Cat, Taken Away".
25	%% AnimalReactionShot
26	* AnimalsHateHim: [[spoiler:Youhei's friend (and the pet store clerk's brother!) Ryu, but he gets better once he gets Chi down from a tree.]]
27	* ArtisticAge: Chi is said to be three months old yet she and the other kittens look closer to 6 weeks old because of their stylized proportions.
28	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Goldfish don't have eyelids. Or teeth, for that matter. Is Flutter part betta? They're the ones with a mouthful of fangs.
29	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Chi can be very easily distracted, being a kitten.
30	* AuthorAppeal: ''Every single one'' of Konami Kanata's manga are about cats.
31	* BabyTalk: 'Chi-go' ("Chi-speak" or "Chi language"), which is kept in the English manga.
32	* BattleAura: [[spoiler:Kuroino, when his territory is intruded on.]]
33	* BigFriendlyDog: Cat variation. Kuroino is big and scary, yet after eating her food his instinct is to bathe Chi.
34	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Chi is finally reunited with her original family but their reunion is cut short as she has to choose between her original home or the Yamadas as the latter are moving to France and may never return. Chi's mother is saddened by this as she finally found Chi but accepts her decision.]]
35	* BlandNameProduct: "Nam's" cat food for "Iam's".
36	* ButtMonkey: Mr. Yamada, who tends to get the short end of the stick during Chi's antics and has difficulty in pleasing her.
37	* CatConcerto: The 2016 anime has an episode with one, which causes a DisneyAcidSequence.
38	* CatsAreMean: ''Definitely'' subverted (if not outright averted), since Chi's annoyances are presented from her point of view.
39	%% CatSmile: From Chi, naturally.
40	* CatStereotype:
41	** Chi fits the "hyperactive" and "friendly" tabby stereotypes, but Kuroino/Blackie doesn't really fit the "black cat" ones. His are [[SubvertedTrope more of a cross between the "orange" and "gray" stereotypes]].
42	%% Also, [[spoiler: Cocchi is very much a black-and-white cat stereotype.]]
43	** Alice is a longhaired Scottish Fold, and fits the stereotype of longhaired cats being "prissy" and "snobbish." [[NotSoAboveItAll At least that's what it seems like.]]
44	%% CheerfulChild: Chi and Youhei.
45	* ChekhovsGunman: In ''New Address'', [[spoiler:Tama sometimes reflected on her little sister, who was separated from her. Chi runs into said sister, Hana, in episode 97 when she's trying to find a way back home. She's living with a couple and is a mother now.]]
46	* TheComicallySerious: Alice is a distinguished pure breed cat and all this kittening is so "under her".
47	* CommonalityConnection: David is a puppy, Chi is a kitten, they bound over ChasingAButterfly.
48	* ContinuityCameo: Fuku from Konami's previous work appears in a chapter.
49	* ContinuityReboot: The 2016 CGI anime has Chi and family living in the new apartment, or one resembling it, but Blackie is still in the neighborhood and acts as a mentor to Chi, while the animals from ''Chi's New Address'' are nowhere to be seen. Instead, Chi makes friends with a male kitten named Come-Come, along with a few other, less-frequently-appearing cats like sister and brother pair Ann and Telly.
50	%% CoolBigSis: [[spoiler:Tama]]
51	* CuteClumsyCreature: There is a chapter in which Chi is exploring her "father's" office. She ends up getting a roll of packing tape stuck to her butt and, after a series of events, the office is a complete wreck.
52	* CuteKitten: Chi herself. Many of the other kittens also qualify.
53	* CutenessProximity: The pet shop lady goes into this around Chi.
54	* CuteLittleFangs: Chi, being a cat, has a prominent pair.
55	* DefrostingIceQueen: Cocchi/Come-Come is a tsundere kitten who pretends to be annoyed by Chi, but actually loves playing with her. He slowly warms up to Chi at first, but comes a long way and admits to being her friend after she gets food poisoning from eating some rotten sidewalk-chicken. He remains a tsundere, however.
56	* DownTheRabbitHole: Season 2 of the CGI adaptation, strangely enough, dips into this with "Fluffyland," a colorful, physics-defying, [[Creator/DrSeuss Seussian]] world populated by tasty flying fish [[spoiler: as well as more dangerous creatures]] that the kittens find inside of a tree stump.
57	* DramaBomb: Episode 103 of ''Sweet Home''; [[spoiler:Blackie moves away, leaving Chi devastated.]]
58	%% DogsAreDumb: [[spoiler: Eventually subverted with]] David.
59	* FamilyOfChoice: [[spoiler:Becomes a plot point at the end of the manga, when Chi is confused on whether to go back to her original litter, or her adopted family.]]
60	%% FestivalEpisode: Episodes 70 to 72 of ''New Address''
61	* FiveStagesOfGrief: [[spoiler: Chi goes through these when Blackie moves away.]]
62	* FunSize: [[http://static.minitokyo.net/downloads/21/34/391721.jpg Huge eyes on a tiny kitten.]] [[http://ilarge.listal.com/image/336382/936full-chi%27s-sweet-home-screenshot.jpg Almost creepy when she's excited, as the pupils dilate.]]
63	* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Chi does this a lot in the original manga. Justified, as she is the equivalent of a very young child.
64	* FemaleFelineMaleMutt: Chi is a female cat, and David is a male dog.
65	* FromStrayToPet: Chi is a stray kitten adopted by a family. [[spoiler:In the manga, it's subverted in that her cat family had owners to begin with, and they've been looking for their lost kitten for a while.]]
66	* GeckoEnding: The first anime ended well before the manga did. As such, it doesn't feature the ending from the manga, which involves [[spoiler: Chi returning to her original family, but ultimately choosing to live with the Yamadas in Paris.]] The 2016 anime ignores the manga ending altogether.
67	* GivenNameReveal: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, Chi's mother reveals that her original name was Sarah.]]
68	* GoodParents: Chi's mom is another example. She even saves Chi from being hit by a car.
69	%% Youhei's parents.
70	* GoneHorriblyRight: When Chi decides, after being moved multiple times, that she is not moving for the vacuum cleaner again, Mrs. Yamada uses the hose and brush extension on ''her'' and Chi '''loves it'''. The next time Mrs. Yamada tries to vacuum Chi actively gets in her way in hopes of getting brushed again.
71	* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: The pet store clerk towards Chi ''constantly'', even after she learns she has an owner.
72	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Chi and Blackie's relationship is best described as this.
73	* {{Irony}}: WordOfGod states that when the Yamadas moved to the pet friendly apartment, they actually moved closer to Chi's original home. In fact, they were separated by a wall.
74	* {{Kawaiiko}}: Chi. [[JustifiedTrope She's a kitten.]]
75	%% KindlyVet
76	* LicensedGame: [[http://www.shopncsx.com/images1/products/detail/chi_sweet_home.jpg Yes, there is a video game based on Chi's Sweet Home which is available for the Nintendo DS.]] [[NoExportForYou But only in Japan]].
77	* LongLostRelative: In the 2016 series [[spoiler: Chi eventually meets and befriends her brother and sister, Terry and Ann. However, she still doesn't know they're her siblings and vice-versa.]]
78	* LostInTranslation: Some translations use Cocchi not realizing it came from the store owner saying "come here" in Japanese. Other translations use Come-Come instead to stay closer to the original.
79	* MadeOfIron: [[spoiler:Chi's mother somehow manages to survive ''getting hit by a car'']].
80	* MatureAnimalStory: Downplayed. The manga is {{seinen}} and thus aimed at adult men. Despite this, there's nothing "mature" about it. It's just a cute series about a kitten.
81	* MeaningfulEcho: Chi's statement of [[spoiler: "I can't see him, but he's there!"]] is repeated towards the end of ''New Address''.
82	* MegaNeko: Not as huge as some examples of the trope, but Kuroino is the size of the average dog.
83	* TheMentor: Kuroino does a lot to teach Chi how to cat.
84	* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler:Downplayed as Kuroino doesn't die, but gets exposed and has to move away with his family.]]
85	* MissedHimByThatMuch: There were numerous times Chi almost reunited with her mother and siblings.
86	* MistakenForToilet: Inverted, where the eponymous cat mistakes her litter box for a "play bed".
87	* MovingAngst: {{Inverted}}. In episode 102, Blackie's owners move away and take Blackie with them. In episode 103, Chi ends up going through the Five Stages of Grief, especially since she has become close to him. However, in episode 104, she comes to the realization that even if she can't see him, he's still there.
88	* NearlyNormalAnimal: Similar to ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} in that the cats' mouths don't actually move, except for typical cat noises.
89	* NeverWorkWithChildrenOrAnimals: InUniverse; Chi and Youhei (the Yamadas' son) provide most of the humor.
90	* NoAntagonist: With the arguable exception of the landlady, there aren't any true antagonists in the series.
91	* NoNameGiven:
92	** The pet store clerk. A number of the neighborhood cats also remain nameless, despite apparently becoming good friends with Chi.
93	** Subverted in Volume 12 of the manga. Chi's siblings names are Terry and Ann.
94	** Youhei's parents are never named either in the original manga and anime. In the 2016 anime, though, their names are Miwa and Kento.
95	* NotSoAboveItAll: Alice is very prim and proper... until a toy moving fast enough comes along.
96	%% TheOjou: Alice.
97	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Blackie (or Kuroina) is what Chi calls him and he never once revealed his actual name. The humans referred to him as Higumaneko, which means Brown Bear Cat, due to his appearance. Higuma also happens to be the name of the editor's real life cat who served as the inspiration for Blackie.
98	* PottyEmergency: Chi doesn't get that her litter box is, well, her ''litter box''. Also, a few instances with Youhei. It's interesting to note that the events surrounding this trope is the reason for Chi's name. It's based on the way the Japanese word for "pee" is pronounced.
99	* PottyFailure: Chi's current name comes from not realizing where to properly pee in the house around the time Yohei was potty training.
100	%% PollyWantsAMicrophone: Lucky the budgerigar
101	* ProperlyParanoid: Whenever the family needs to take Chi to the vet or someplace like that they will take her there in a basket with blanket in it. By the time they move to the new place in season 2 Chi is ''certain'' that the new home they have taken her to is a bad place, because they carried her there in the basket.
102	%% PutOnABus: [[spoiler: Kuroino/"Blackie". He comes back for a short time as of Episode 100 of ''New Address''.]]
103	%% RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The driving focus of the series.
104	%% SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Cocchi and Chi.
105	* ScaryShinyGlasses: The landlady, [[spoiler:when referring to the "bear cat" (see Episode 87)]].
106	* SeniorSleepCycle: Cats generally sleep a lot; Fuji-san can fall asleep while addressing the cat meeting.
107	* ShoutOut: One of the dolls to camouflage Chi was that of [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Blossom]].
108	* ShroudedInMyth: Fuji-san is the oldest cat in the neighbourhood. All the other cats only dare to talk about his exploits in whispers, and are at awe of his wisdom. [[spoiler:Exploits nobody ever saw, and wisdom that generally amounts to observations like "the sky is... blue" which then gets analysed into oblivion by the others.]]
109	* SmallNameBigEgo [[spoiler: Cocchi, the black-and-white kitten from the manga and OVA.]]
110	* TallDarkAndSnarky: [[spoiler:Kuroino/"Blacky", who is this in tomcat form.]]
111	* ToiletTrainingPlot: Early on, both Youhei and Chi are learning not to miss their respective bathrooms, and both have at least one accident before finally getting it.
112	* {{Tsundere}}:
113	** [[spoiler:Alice seems like a dignified show cat, but loves chasing after things all the same.]]
114	** Cocchi/Come-Come from the 2016 adaptation is a completely straight example of a tsundere, right down to his VerbalTic. Keh.
115	* UrineTrouble: Chi got her name because she peed on everything but her litterbox when being trained to use it[[note]]the word "chi" can mean either "pee" or "small" in Japanese, similar to the English word "wee." While she got her name from the former meaning, it seems like the latter is the one everyone thinks of after the "litter training" arc is over[[/note]]. Yohei remedied this by putting a peed-on sock in the litter, and Chi got the message..
116	%% WhamEpisode: Episodes 103; doubles as a DramaBomb.
117	* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In the 2016 anime, Yohei's mother hates frogs and freaks out when he brings one into the house.
118	* ZanyScheme: What Chi's owners have to go through to keep her in their apartment. However, [[spoiler:before they finally decided to keep her, they put out advertisements in the newspaper for a kitten. [[StatusQuoIsGod They don't succeed, though]].]]

Context Manga / ChisSweetHome