History Manga / Joshiraku

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Both the opening and ending song are done by the voice actors.

* StatusQuoIsGod: The first section of episode two ends with [spoiler: Marii seemingly dead, but she's fine in the next bit].

* OrphanedPunchline: In the first episode, segments showing the girls during their ''Rakugo'' acts show the end of the routine.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Oh yes.

''Joshiraku'' is a {{Shonen}} manga series written by KojiKumeta (of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'') and illustrated by Yasu.

''Manga/{{Joshiraku}}'' is a {{Shonen}} manga series written by KojiKumeta (of Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei) and illustrated by Yasu.

The series is about a group of Rakugoka girls [[SeinfeldianConversation discussing random things and usually reaches an unusual or humorous conclusion that's far from the initial discussion topic.]] [[subscript: [MAL] ]]

Rakugo (落語, literally "fallen words") is a Japanese verbal entertainment. The lone storyteller (落語家 rakugoka) sits on the stage, called the Kōza (高座). Using only a paper fan (扇子, "sensu") and a small cloth (手拭, "tenugui") as props, and without standing up from the seiza sitting position, [[SeinfeldianConversation the rakugo artist depicts a long and complicated comical story. The story always involves the dialogue of two or more characters, the difference between the characters depicted only through change in pitch, tone, and a slight turn of the head]]. [[subscript: ThatOtherWiki ]]

An anime adaptation started airing during in the Summer2012Anime season.

!!''Manga/{{Joshiraku}}'' provides examples of:
* AnimationBump: When discussing how there is nothing special to animate, [[{{Irony}} perplexed Kukuru's hands movements suddenly become more fluid than everything else in the episode.]]
* BitingTheHandHumor: The girls can't even begin to understand how their anime adaptation project got greenlit, especially because there are nothing to animate.

* PunnyName: All five of the girls. We have Buratei Marii ("Bloody Mary"), Haroukitei Kigurumi ("HelloKitty Stuffed Animal"), Bouhatei Tetora ("Breakwater Tetrapod"), Kuurubiyuutei Gankyou ("Cool Beauty Glasses"), and Anrakutei Kukuru ("Dark and Gloomy")

* WidgetSeries: ''The'' textbook example. Cute girls doing cute things is a Widget in itself, but the fact that they are rakugo performers --a classical form of comedy pretty much no one under 40 watches, ''even in Japan''-- takes it to a whole new height.
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[[caption-width-right:250:From left to right: Haroukitei Kigurumi, Kuurubiyuutei Gankyou, Buratei Marii, Bouhatei Tetora, and Anrakutei Kukuru]]

* AnimationBump: When discussing how there is nothing special to animate, [[Irony perplexed Kukuru's hand movement suddenly become more fluid than everything else in the episode.]]