History Literature / OthersidePicnic

* EagleLand: Averted. The U.S. Marines are at wits' end, stressed to the breaking point, and about to snap. But the commanding officers are {{Reasonable Authority Figure}}s and when Toriko and Sorawo return to rescue them, everyone is overjoyed to see ''' ''The Girls'' '''.

''Otherside Picnic'' (裏世界ピクニック, ''Urasekai Picnic'') is a Japanese LightNovel series written by Creator/IoriMiyazawa and illustrated by Shirakaba which can be best described as ''Literature/RoadsidePicnic''[[note]]Which is the original inspiration for this series, if you couldn't tell from the title[[/note]] crossed with Japanese Internet UrbanLegends and CreepyPasta, with a side dash of {{Yuri|Genre}}. The series began publication in 2017 under the Hayakawa Bunko JA imprint.

* CoolGuns: There are quite a few of these used by various characters, with the most notable being an AK-101 that Toriko picked up from Abarato [[spoiler: after he disappeared upon his encounter with [[https://www.kowabana.net/2017/09/06/hasshaku-sama/ Hasshaku-sama]],]] which shows up in all novel covers, both also uses Makarov pistols as their sidearms. In addition, during their first encounter with the US Marines in Kisaragi Station, the two also uses an M39 EMR that they secretly borrowed from the Marines' armory to kill the bull monster, while on the second one, Sorawo ends up "appropriating" a Mk.18 CQBR for her own use.

* YuriGenre: There isn't much romance yet in volume 1, but there are various hints that Toriko and Satsuki's relationship might have been a bit more than just friends. Kozakura notes that Satsuki's quite a charmer. There's also quite a big hint between Sorawo and Toriko, with the first big clue being that both of them are quite comfortable talking to each other since their first meeting, even though both of them generally have some problems talking to strangers. There's also things like Sorawo unknowingly sleeps with naked Toriko in Okinawa in Volume 2. [[spoiler: Toriko confesses to Sorawo at the end of Volume 3, and in Volume 4, Sorawo lets Toriko know about her feelings. The subtext is dead and buried in volume 8; Sorawo directly confesses her love to Toriko, and they become lovers shortly after.]]

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the manga, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/otherside-picnic/images/9/95/Abarato_manga.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/274?cb=20200422113846 Abarato had unkept, scraggly hair, a ragged looking cloak, and overall looked very haggard.]] In the anime, while his hair was still long and scruffy, [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/otherside-picnic/images/c/ce/Ep02_05-1024x576.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20210108084422 it looked much more well-kept and his overall appearance was much neater]] (the fact that he now also had glasses might have added to this impression). Fans joked about Abarato "becoming hot" to the point that Eita Mizuko jokingly apologized on Twitter for focusing on the "unclean" aspect of his character.

** In terms of character, Redrick has contrasts to Sorawo, who is a SourOutsideSadInside AntiHero who is willing to break the U.N.'s laws of visiting the Zone and has a family including his wife Guta and his mutated daughter Monkey. Sorawo is a ByronicHero with a DarkAndTroubledPast who lost her entire family including her mother from a car accident; and her father and grandmother became involved with the cult where she was chased out by them until their eventual death. Redrick has a known violent temper and is somewhat social, while Sorawo is cripplingly shy (at first) and extremely unsocial. And Redrick also contrasts to Toriko, where unlike the sour and brooding Redrick who barely has moments of happiness, Toriko is much brighter and more cheery than him, albeit they hide most of her insecurities of actually being alone. The last chapter of ''Roadside Picnic'' also furthers the contrast between Redrick to Sorawo and Toriko. Whereas Redrick is willing to sacrifice Arthur Burbridge, a child, to the Meat Grinder in order to complete his WishFulfillment goal (though no fault on his part), Sorawo and Toriko ''are against'' hurting a child (including [[spoiler:Kasumi]]) or someone, as they both pursue a ThirdOption to this type of goal instead of readily sacrificing someone to do so [[spoiler:which becomes fundamental after putting the cult leader Runa into a HeelFaceTurn.]] Redrick did not move on from his own demons and stayed as a broken man to the end, while both Sorawo and Toriko faced their old demons altogether [[spoiler:including their encounter with Satsuki during Volume 7 and have since wholly changed in their own CharacterDevelopment, with their eventual ascension to being an OfficialCouple during Volume 8.]] Redrick is a ShadowArchetype to both Sorawo and Toriko, representing the lowest point of humanity going through such cruel fate, something that is both willfully avoided by both the main characters throughout their hellish journey to the Otherside.

** In terms of character, Redrick has contrasts to Sorawo, who is a SourOutsideSadInside AntiHero who is willing to break the U.N.'s laws of visiting the Zone and has a family including his wife Guta and his mutated daughter Monkey. Sorawo is a ByronicHero with a DarkAndTroubledPast who lost her entire family including her mother from a car accident; and her father and grandmother became involved with the cult where she was chased out by them until their eventual death. Redrick has a known violent temper and is somewhat social, while Sorawo is cripplingly shy (at first) and extremely unsocial. And Redrick also contrasts to Toriko, where unlike the sour and brooding Redrick who barely has moments of happiness, Toriko is much brighter and more cheery than him, albeit they hide most of her insecurities of actually being alone. The last chapter of ''Roadside Picnic'' also furthers the contrast between Redrick to Sorawo and Toriko. Whereas Redrick is willing to sacrifice Arthur Burbridge, a child, to the Meat Grinder in order to complete his WishFulfillment goal (though no fault on his part), Sorawo and Toriko ''are against'' hurting a child (including [[spoiler:Kasumi]]) or someone, as they both pursue a ThirdOption to this type of goal instead of readily sacrificing someone to do so [[spoiler:which becomes fundamental after putting the cult leader Runa into a HeelFaceTurn.]] Redrick did not move on from his own demons and stayed as a broken man to the end, while both Sorawo and Toriko faced their old demons altogether [[spoiler:including their encounter with Satsuki during Volume 7 and have since wholly changed in their own CharacterDevelopment, with their eventual ascension to being an OfficialCouple during Volume 8.]]

** In ''Roadside Picnic'' the story focuses on Redrick Schuhart, a stalker whose goal is to retrieve artifacts within the Zone. At day he is working as a member of the Institute, but at night he is actually an illegal stalker who breaks the U.N.'s laws regarding such prohibited visits there. On the other hand, ''Otherside Picnic'' starts off as this: both Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina meet each other coincidentally in the Otherside after dealing with the Kunekune, doing the same thing that Redrick did in ''Roadside Picnic'': finding artifacts for monetary value. The difference starts here. Redrick works, or worked, for the government and is a law-breaker, while Sorawo and Toriko doesn't, being mostly working independently with the Otherside expert Kozakura.

** Their own settings also contrast. ''Roadside Picnic's'' the Zone is obviously visible and is explorable without through the need of special doors. ''Otherside Picnic's'' the Otherside can only be explored through various doors and sometimes mere conicidences in various spots that are otherwise completely unknown to an average human.

** In ''Roadside Picnic'' the story focuses on Redrick Schuhart, a stalker whose goal is to retrieve artifacts within the Zone. At day he is working as a member of the Institute, but at night he is actually an illegal stalker who actually breaks the U.N.'s laws regarding such prohibited visits there. On the other hand, ''Otherside Picnic'' starts off as this: both Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina meet each other coincidentally in the Otherside after dealing with the Kunekune, doing the same thing that Redrick did in ''Roadside Picnic'': finding artifacts for monetary value. The difference starts here. Redrick works, or worked, for the government and is a law-breaker, while Sorawo and Toriko doesn't, being mostly working independently with the Otherside expert Kozakura.