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Minato Sahashi is an Ordinary College Student, even though he's failed his entrance exams twice. As he's walking down the street, he suddenly finds a Magical Girlfriend falling from the sky and crashing into him. She is Musubi, one of 108 beings known as Sekirei, about to be engaged in a Battle Royale across Tokyo, headed by the mysterious MBI organization. With a kiss, Minato "wings" Musubi and becomes her Ashikabi, or master, for the battle royale. The Sekirei Plan begins.
Based on the manga by Sakurako Gokurakuin, it was turned into a Twelve Episode Anime in summer 2008 by Seven Arcs. A second season has been confirmed.
Tropes in Sekirei include:
- Accidental Pervert — Minato, though usually the result of the action of one or more of his haremettes.
- Accidental Marriage — You may say this when Minato winged Tsukiumi and Kazehana as both of them said they are his wives.
- Aloof Ally — Uzume
- Apron Matron — Miya Asama, the landlady of Izumo, is also crazy tough in combat, and thus regularly trains with Musubi.
- Badass Bookworm — Again, Matsu. She is one of the single-digit Sekirei, after all. If she has to fight, she will turn into a biker babe with a bazooka.
- Little Miss Badass — Kusano, at least at anime episode 11 where she carried a big grenade launcher atop Matsu's motorcycle.
- Bandage Babe — Haihane, and Uzume in her fighting outfit
- Beware The Nice Ones — Miya may appears to be a very nice landlady, though everyone in the house are deathly afraid of her. Of course she is Sekirei Number 1, not a badass normal you think she is at first. Cue Demon Head and Glowing Eyes of Doom every time she is angry.
- Big Eater — Every single sekirei out there, but especially Musubi.
- Biker Babe — In a surprising bit of anime-original material, Matsu.
- Bland Name Product - Once in a while you can see Sony Vaio laptops with blanded name
- Blood Knight — Karasuba
- Boobs Of Steel, Gag Boobs, Gainaxing, Most Common Superpower — Sekirei: produce doesn't stand a chance.
- Book Dumb - Minato is actually very intelligence, but he does badly in school since he cannot perform well when under pressure.
- Bottle Fairy — Kazehana
- Bishounen — Shiina, Yukari's Sekirei. One of the few male ones. Kagari, too. Even works at a host club.
- Clingy Jealous Girl — Tsukiumi changes from a Tsundere to this after her winging, Kusano also appears to learn to behave this way from her. Also Hikari and Hibiki (the former has a shorter fuse than the latter) does not let Seo to wing another Sekirei, and will immediately zap him if they catch him trying to do that. They don't mind if he take a male one like Shiina though.
- Clothing Damage — Musubi is especially prone to this.
- Covert Pervert — Yukari at first appears to be a very well off, but soon, you see her getting Nose Bleed around Shiina and even struggling trying NOT TO PEEK at him taking shower.
- Cute Shotaro Boy — Shiina, a bishonen one to boot, though you won't call it Shotacon because Yukari is rather short for her age (just barely one head taller than him). For once she dressed him up as a girl too.
- Compressed Adaptation — A fine example, too. The anime uses only the most important bits, moving along at a brisk pace.
- Defeat By Modesty — Played straight in many cases, but Musubi early on is seemingly immune to this. Miya also did this to Tsukiumi in a training session.
- Determinator — Musubi.
- Disappeared Dad — The only mention of Minatos father is 'unknown', by Matsu. You just know something's up when the information Sekirei has no clue.
- Does This Remind You Of Anything — The winging scenes in the anime version seem a little too sexual.
- Dojikko — Kuno, pretty standard version.
- Haihane and Akitsu to lesser extent. The former sometimes forgets to remove her claws so that she often stab herself in the face, the latter ... forgets to wear panties!
- Elemental Powers — Most Sekirei have some sort of elemental power. Specifically:
- Emotionless Girl — Akitsu
- Everything's Worse With Bears — Musubi occasionally has an animal avatar of a bear appear behind her, and the bear fist is one of her attacks.
- Eyes Always Shut — Karasuba
- Fanservice — Oh yes.
- Fan Nickname — The series is often simply referred to as "Pokemon with tits", with each member of The Unwanted Harem having a different Pokemon related nickname:
- Hitmonchan — Musubi, as she fights with her fists
- Blastoise — Tsukiumi, for her water powers
- Bulbasaur — Kusano, for her plant powers
- Pigeotto — Kazehana, for her wind powers
- Alakazam — Matsu, for her role as The Smart Guy
- Charmander — Homura
- And Minato is just called "L", since he resembles a slightly more well-adjusted L.
- Fetish Fuel — Hell, that crate of clothes that Yukari sent to Minato is just full of these. Also Uzume's costume collection that she gave to others in the house is, well... need to ask more? Those twins' dominatrix outfits too.
- Five Man Band — Minato's harem:
- Fridge Logic — The rules state that when a Sekirei loses, they also lose the ability to be with their Ashikabi. Also, there's a battle royale going on that states that they must all fight until one is left. It doesn't really seem to make sense to give Minato a harem of these Sekirei if he's going to lose all but one of them (maybe even all of them).
- The Battle Royale only applies to teams, not individual Sekirei. Once Minato is the only Ashikabi with active Sekirei, he and his remaining Sekirei win, no matter how many are still active.
- So it's possible for Minato to wing the 108 Sekirei by himself and have all of them carry him to ascension. Sounds great but I sincerely hope it's not how this is going to finish. Also, the biggest harem in history.
- Except most of the Sekirei have already been winged and can't be re-winged.
- And are you ignoring that mad scientist boss? It is possible for another way for more than one to survive, such as by blowing him away?
- Do you really think he's not an Ashikabi himself? I bet my head he has like 7 Sekirei protecting him already.
- Faceless Goons — those MBI soldiers
- Furo Scene — The Izumo inn's bath provides many opportunities.
- Gender Bender — Homura, who finds himself growing breasts when he becomes the last unwinged Sekirei.
- Glowing Eyes Of Doom — Miya will use these if she is REALLY pissed off. Hikari and Hibiki also use this when they are angry with Seo.
- Hadaka Apron — Present and correct.
- Harem Nanny — Miya Asama, though she comes down hard on anything too ero-ero in the house.
- Les Yay — Same sex Ashikabi/Sekirei. They've already kissed, most likely due to reacting to their future partner.
- Idiot Hair — Musubi, Saber style.
- Ill Girl — Chiho, Uzume's ashikabi
- Innocent Cohabitation — All of Minato's harem sleeps in his room, until they're reshuffled elsewhere for having the room get too crowded.
- Innocent Fanservice Girl — Musubi at first, though she eventually catches onto the concept of "modesty".
- Jerk With A Heart Of Gold — Seo Kaoru, at least those two will 'discipline' him if he goes too far.
- Kill Sat — Matsu has full control of one. Probably one of the reasons why she holds so much influence in the Sekirei game.
- Large Ham — Hiroto Minaka, chairman of the MBI and Mad Scientist.
- Love Freak — Kazehana, Yume
- Mad Scientist — Minaka Hiroto, the MBI chairman
- Make Me Wanna Shout — Kuno
- Marshmallow Hell — Chapter 49 of the manga. Rasserfrasserluckyb'tard...
- Mega Corp — MBI, also a Law Enforcement Inc in the city.
- Meganekko — Resident tech geek, Sekirei and haremette Matsu.
- Nose Bleed — Minato, obviously. Surprisingly, Yukari is also prone to this, being a Bishonen fangirl.
- Obfuscating Stupidity — Kazehana doesn't take threats seriously. She doesn't need to.
- Panty Fighter — Tsukiumi in particular, as she holds the record number of Panty Shots. Musubi ends most of her major fights in various states of undress.
- Pettanko — Kusano, she is rather proud of it too. Benitsubasa on the other hand, does not seem to like being one at all, especially when Haihane picks on her about it.
- Power Gives You Wings — Or rather, wings give you power.
- The Power Of Love
- Scary Shiny Glasses — Matsu gets a chance to do this once or twice. Minaka also does this ALL the time that we rarely see his eyes through his glasses.
- Skinship Grope — Goes with the whole fanservice thing.
- Split Personality — Musubi. Sekirei No. 8, Yume, is inside of her. Yume is a love-crazy beam-user type, but while Musubi knows she has Yume's soul inside of her, she remembers nothing she's done as Yume.
- Sailor Earth — Roughly thirty or forty or so out of potentially 108 Sekirei have yet been introduced, and, most notably, the number seven Sekirei, the only one of the Single-Digit Sekirei to remain unknown, hasn't yet been introduced. Lastly, it's uncertain how many un-numbered Sekirei like Akitsu exist. In short, there's still plenty of room for Fanon to make new Sekirei.
- Shout Out — This troper has reason to believe that Minaka's body suit looks a lot like Justimon's
- Standard Female Grab Area — Minato seemingly know how to do this properly, though usually make whoever he did it to calling him a pervert.
- Technopath — Matsu.
- Token Loli — Kusano.
- Twenty Minutes Into The Future — 2020, which really doesn't seem that different from today.
- Tsundere — Tsukiumi.
- Unwanted Harem
- X Meets Y — Pokemon meets Gag Boobs.
- You All Look Familiar — How many short-grey haired people with gray eyes are there?
- This troper cannot remember where exactly, but it's definitely Lampshaded somewhere in the series.
- Actually, Tsukiumi commented that Homura and Kagari looks very similar, though back then she was not aware that Homura and Kagari is the same person.
- I only see the grey hair, the eye colours are different. There is Homura, Mutsu, Karasuba, Shiina, and Haihane, probably more
- Younger Than They Look — It's really easy to forget that apart from No.00/01 all sekirei are 20 years old or less. Honestly, look at Kazehana, she does not look like she was a teenager just last year.
- Of course they are some sort of aliens or at least superpowered artificial humans, what can you expect
- Manga only at least, in anime in the flashback, it is shown that most of them have adult body when Minaka found them.
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