History Anime / Etotama

* BoobsOfSteel: Shima-tan, Mo-tan and Chu-tan all have large bust sizes and are very strong.

* BareYourMidriff: Shar-tan, Chu-tan, Mo-tan and Ki-tan.

''Etotama'' (''Eto-tamashii'') is an [[AnimeFirst Anime First]] production by studio Encourage Films and 3DCG studio Shirogumi, which aired in the [[Spring2015Anime Spring 2015]] anime season.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Shar-tan has dark skin and white hair.

* ShesGotLegs: A lot of the Eto-shin and Eto-musume has tight and/or short clothing that reveals their legs. The most notable examples are Usa-tan, Shima-tan, Piyo-tan and Chu-tan.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Good god, Chu-tan.

* GirlishPigtails: Uri-tan.

* HeadWings: Piyo-tan.

* LensFlareCensor: Used in episode 5 to hide the naughty bits of the Eto-shin that are present, much to Nya-tan's annoyance. The girls go on to point out that the censors are animated in, so they can't be removed as part of the blu-ray release.

* MoeAnthropomorphism: [[EasternZodiac Chinese zodiac]] as cute kemonomimi girls. Why not?

* RoseHairedSweetie: Mei-tan.

** Taken UpToEleven with the [[SuperDeformed Pretty Mode]], which is the mode the Eto-Musume take to fight in the Eto World.

-->'''Nya-tan:'''[[spoiler:"Wh-what is this feeling!? Does this mean I can't join the zodiac!? [[{{NoFourthWall}} My one cour worth of effort..."]]]]

* RapunzelHair: Quite a few Eto-musumes have very long hair.

* ActorAllusion: Takeru's house has a giant shogi piece with "keima"[[note]] ''lit. "knight"[[/note]] written on it, referencing Creator/HiroShimono's starring role in ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows''.

'''Etotama''' (''Eto-tamashii'') is an [[AnimeFirst Anime First]] production by studio Encourage Films and 3DCG studio Shirogumi, which aired in the [[Spring2015Anime Spring 2015]] anime season.

* ForbiddenTechnique: Etotama Kagura Senguu is a forbidden ritual that only gods can perform but [[spoiler:Chu-tan somehow figured out how to use it]]. Unlike other examples, Kagura Senguu doesn't appear to have drawbacks on the wielder, but it's still, well, forbidden because it can [[spoiler:permanently destroy any Eto-shin's or Eto-musume's Etotama]].

* MoeAnthropomorphism: [[EasternZodiac Chinese zodiac]] as cute nekomimi girls. Why not?
** Taken UpToEleven with the Pretty Mode, which is the mode the Eto-Musume take to fight in the Eto World.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: When Usa-tan shows everyone a chart of which Eto-shin do and do not want a cat to be included in the Zodiac, Mo-tan is off to the side on her own since she's "too perverted to be counted."

* ThePowerOfLove: Mo-tan tries to invoke this, trying to get Chu-tan to leave Nya-tan alone by reminding her of the more tender relationship that she and Nya-tan had before the whole "kill all cats" business started. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

Unexpectedly for everyone a new TV series based on franchise was [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/2018-02-18/etotama-anime-gets-new-series/.127945 confirmed]] in 2018.

* InsistentTerminology: Uma-tan insists on referring to the "Takamagahara Commemorative Maid Cafe Eto Manager's Cup" by its full title, rather than shorten it to "Manager's Cup" as everyone else does.

* DeathIsCheap: If any Eto-musume dies, she just reincarnates couple of days after. [[FridgeHorror Which makes a bit disturbing the fact that Chu-tan seems to ABSORB Eto-musumes, and avoid this...]]

One day, [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary high school student]] Takeru Amato moved to an extremely cheap apartment...only to find out that there's a hole to the astral world, with his flatmate being the extremely clingy and egotistic [[CatGirl cat deity]] Nya-tan. She failed her promotion to Zodiac being (Eto-musume) 2000 years ago and now seeks to change things.

* MoeAnthropomorphism: Chinese zodiac as cute nekomimi girls. Why not?

'''Etotama''' (''Eto-tamashii'') is an [[AnimeFirst Anime First]] production by studio Encourage Films and 3DCG studio Shirogumi, currently airing in the [[Spring2015Anime Spring 2015]] anime season.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Every episode at least once. The Eto-Musume seem to have a backdoor to that, to be honest. Averted with Takeru, who gets confused every time the girls do this.

* AnimalEaredHeadband: In Pretty Mode, the fighters get animal hats of their respective animals. Outside of Pretty Mode, Moo-tan wears a cow-spotted cowboy hat with small cow ears and horns.

* BoobsOfSteel: Shima-tan, Moo-tan and Chu-tan all have large bust sizes and are very strong.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Moo-tan is primarily a joke character, but she can be serious when she wants to be.

* HiddenDepths: Mo-Tan, who decides to live with human families to make them happy, until they die.

* IronicEcho: When Uri-Tan died in episode 3, the ending showed scenes of her. This happens again [[spoiler: when Mo-tan dies. The two girls even died for the hands of Chu-tan.]]The Ironic part plays when, while Uri-tan's death was played by comedy (At least in the next chapter), [[spoiler: Mo-tan's]] is not.

* BareYourMidriff: Shar-tan, Chu-tan, Moo-tan and Ki-tan.

* DeathIsCheap: If any Eto-musume dies, she just reincarnates couple of days after. [[FridgeHorror Which makes a bit disturbing the fact that Chu-Tan seems to ABSORB Eto-Musumes, and avoid this...]]

* GratuitousEnglish: Moo-tan likes to pepper her speech with English words and phrases.

* IronicEcho: When Uri-Tan died in episode 3, the ending showed scenes of her. This happens again [[spoiler: when Mo-Tan dies. The two girls even died for the hands of Chu-Tan.]]The Ironic part plays when, while Uri-Tan's death was played by comedy (At least in the next chapter), [[spoiler: Mo-Tan's]] is not.

* ThePowerOfLove: Moo-tan tries to invoke this, trying to get Chu-tan to leave Nya-tan alone by reminding her of the more tender relationship that she and Nyaa-tan had before the whole "kill all cats" business started. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

* SleepCute: The ending sequence has Nya-tan and all the Eto-shin except Chu-tan doing this.

* {{Revenge}}: Chu-tan wants it on Nya-tan. The reason is left ambiguous as Nya-tan doesn't remember and Chu-tan refuses to elaborate. This prompts Nya-tan to assume it was probably something extremely petty.

* IdiotHair: Ki-tan.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Chu-tan.

* HiddenDepths: Mo-Tan, who decides to live with human families to make them happy, until tthey die.

* IronicEcho: When Uri-Tan died in episode 3, the ending showed scenes of her. This happens again [[spoiler: when Mo-Tan dies. The two girls even died for the hands of Chu-Tan.]The Irocic part plays when, while Uri-Tan's death was played by comedy (At least in the next chapter), [spoiler: Mo-Tan's]] is not.