History Anime / Kyousogiga

%%* DropTheHammer: Koto's weapon.

* WidgetSeries: The ONA is infamous for being colorful, wacky, fun, and complete ''nonsense''.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a play on ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga Chojugiga]]'', an old piece of Japanese sequential art.

* PinocchioSyndrome: Lady Koto, in black rabbit form, in love with the original Myoe. The bodhisattva granted her wish by letting her use her body.

* ActionGirl: Koto

* BigBrotherMentor: Inari to Koto.
* CommissarCap: Inari
* DirtyOldMonk: Myoe to a degree.
* DocumentaryEpisode: The majority of ONA episode 3.
* DropTheHammer: Koto's weapon.

* HumongousMecha: Bishamaru
* HulkingOut: This happens whenever Yase is pissed, especially if her teacup has a very ugly design.

* PaperFanOfDoom: Lady Koto wields one in the PV.

* PimpedOutDress: Yase

* SeriousBusiness: Shoko barges into Koto's house and wrecks half of the city just to look for her PSP controller.
** To be fair, it does control [[HumongousMecha Bishamaru.]]
* TrappedInTVLand: Koto's brothers towards the end.

* WarriorMonk: Myoe

* {{Youkai}}: Yase and her minions.

* PointyEars: Yase has these, indicating that she isn't human.

* {{Engrish}}: The poem "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" by Lewis Carroll read at the beginning of the original animation.

* NotBloodSiblings: While they treat and refer to each other as siblings, A and Un aren't actually related to Koto. The same goes for Kurama, Yakushimaru, and Yase, who aren't blood related to each other or [[spoiler: Koto, who they believe is their sister.]]
** Although [[spoiler: it may be that Yakushimaru and Koto are in fact blood related in a fashion. The original Myoe gave Yakushimaru a strand of green, DNA-shaped power before he left, and after that Yakushimaru grew up to look just like original Myoe even though Yakushimaru was adopted. There's also a green dna helix background to Koto and Yakushimaru's last scene in the OP.]]

* OnceMoreWithClarity: After airing the notoriously confusing pilot ONA unmodified, the series replays select scenes in a somewhat easier to understand context in other episodes.

* RantInducingSlight: After constantly being annoyed by Koto and her familiars' antics, Myoe rants how he hates staying in Mirror Kyoto for a long time and is irritated at Koto.

* ShownTheirWork: Quite literally. Episode 5.5 is a live action sequence dedicated to showing off the real life Kyoto and highlights the inspiration behind the location and characters.

* [[spoiler:ApocalypseHow: Class Z where it is revealed that Mirror Kyoto is a forbidden thirteen parallel world which holds the balance of the other 12 parallel worlds. Inari's creation of his family and Koto's entry to Mirror Kyoto both caused a chain reaction that would destroy all worlds.]]

* TightsUnderShorts: Inari, in a RareMaleExample.

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The title is a play on ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%8Dj%C5%AB-jinbutsu-giga Chojugiga]]'', an old piece of Japanese sequential art.

* ConspicuousCG

''Kyousogiga'' is an original net animation written by Izumi Todo (a collective pseudonym for the staff of Creator/ToeiAnimation, who are also the minds behind ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' and the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise) and produced by Toei Animation with the collaboration of Creator/{{Banpresto}} which debuted on December 2011 on Website/NicoNicoDouga. From September to December 2012, five additional shorts were released which expanded the setting and characters. After it garnered sufficient attention, a TV series was greenlit for the Fall 2013 anime season. The original ONA series was adapted as a two-volume manga serialized in ''Dengeki Maoh'' from February 2012 to March 2013. Another manga adaptation following the TV series began was serialized from November 2013 to March 2014 issues.

''Kyousogiga'' is an original net animation written by Izumi Todo (a collective pseudonym for the staff of Creator/ToeiAnimation, who are also the minds behind ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' and the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise) and produced by Toei Animation with the collaboration of Creator/{{Banpresto}} which debuted on December 2011 on Website/NicoNicoDouga. From September to December 2012, five additional shorts were released which expanded the setting and characters. After it garnered sufficient attention, a TV series was greenlit for the Fall 2013 anime season. The original ONA series was adapted as a two-volume manga serialized in ''Dengeki Maoh'' from February 2012 to March 2013. Another manga adaptation following the TV series began serialization in November 2013.

''Kyousogiga'' is an original net animation written by Izumi Todo (a collective pseudonym for the staff of Creator/ToeiAnimation, who are also the minds behind ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' and the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise) and produced by Toei Animation with the collaboration of Banpresto which debuted on December 2011 on Website/NicoNicoDouga. From September to December 2012, five additional shorts were released which expanded the setting and characters. After it garnered sufficient attention, a TV series was greenlit for the Fall 2013 anime season. The original ONA series was adapted as a two-volume manga serialized in ''Dengeki Maoh'' from February 2012 to March 2013. Another manga adaptation following the TV series began serialization in November 2013.

Hidden in an old ink painting is the "Looking-Glass City" of Kyoto, where demons and humans live together and anything broken is instantly fixed. Created by Myoue, a Buddhist monk with the power to bring drawings to life, and his lover Koto, a black rabbit given human form by a kindly bodhisattva, the city is now ruled by their three adopted children: the secretive temple priest Kurama, the aristocratic yet childish demon Yase, and Myoue's lazy, girl-crazy successor Yakushimaru, who have grown estranged and jaded waiting for their parents' return. One day, a schoolgirl from another world, also named Koto, arrives with her "brothers", A and Un, to search for the black rabbit who she believes is also her long-lost mother.

''Kyousogiga'' is an original net animation written by Izumi Todo (a pseudonym for the staff of Creator/ToeiAnimation, who are also the minds behind ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' and the ''Anime/PrettyCure'' franchise) and produced by Toei Animation with the collaboration of Banpresto which debuted on December 2011 on Website/NicoNicoDouga. From September to December 2012, five additional shorts were released which expanded the setting and characters. After it garnered sufficient attention, a TV series was greenlit for the Fall 2013 anime season. The original ONA series was adapted as a two-volume manga serialized in ''Dengeki Maoh'' from February 2012 to March 2013. Another manga adaptation following the TV series began serialization in November 2013.

* AliceAllusion: ''Kyousogiga'' is supposed to be based off ''Through the Looking-Glass'', though you'd have a hard time knowing it if not for the whole "finding the rabbit" gig, chess imagery, and quotes from the books.