Line #20 WebAnimation/Mameshiba


1	[[http://dogatch.jp/mameshibaworld/?red=mameshibaworld Mameshiba]] are weird, adorable creatures that are part bean and part dog. They star in a series of short videos, in which they appear to people in their food to give a random fact, usually one that's gross or [[DespairEventHorizon demoralising]]. All the shorts, with English subtitles, can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjsZbnTNB8c found here]].
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4	!!Trops associated with Mameshiba:
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6	* AllThereInTheManual: [[http://dogatch.jp/mameshibaworld/characters.html The website]] is probably the only place you can find out about the personality of different Mameshiba.
7	* AmbiguousGender: It's impossible to tell what gender any of the Mameshiba are, since the only features they seem to have on their bodies are faces and ears, and they all speak with an androgynous, childish voice.
8	* AnthropomorphicFood
9	* ColorFailure: Frequently happens to people who encounter them in the commercials.
10	* {{Eagleland}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJV22FfIXM Jelly Bean's short]] is set in America with the characters speaking in English. It seemed like a rather positive, if not stereotypical, interpretation.
11	* FromTheLatinIntroDucere: In the first video, Green Pea, the trivia is that the French word for dandelion, "pissenlit", means "urinate in bed". Cocoa Bean's trivia is that tiramisu is Italian for "Take me to heaven."
12	* GyaruGirl: Fava Bean's short features two of them.
13	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: They are dogs... and also beans.
14	* OnceAnEpisode: Each short has someone about to eat, when a Mameshiba suddenly starts talking to them and gives them an interesting fact. The person then decides they are no longer hungry.
15	* PunnyName: Mameshiba, apart from literally meaning "bean dog", is also a word used to refer to plushes modeled after a Shiba Inu. It is also a pun on the Japanese word for trivia, ''mamechishiki''[[note]]lit. "bean of knowledge"[[/note]]. This in turn fits with the titular beans telling random trivia to whoever is about to eat them.
16	* PuppyDogEyes
17	* PutOffTheirFood: In most of the episodes on the website, when a certain bean appears on the screen and tells the person who is about to eat it some random fact, they immediately stop eating their food or say "I'm done now." Though every once in a while this ends being [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and the bean gets eaten.
18	* QuiveringEyes: They appear to do this, probably to look cuter.
19	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Look at those faces!
20	* SpinoffBabies: The original Mameshiba are cute, but the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc86A43FXLA Babyshiba]] shorts take it to another level for obvious reasons.
21	* {{Troll}}: They may or may not be aware of it, but the Mameshiba sometimes come off as this.
22	** Two of the best examples are probably the one where a Mameshiba tells a couple that kissing exchanges millions of germs and another who tells an older lady who is watching a romantic movie that a species of duck stops loving its partner after building their nest.

Context WebAnimation / Mameshiba