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* ShesAManInJapan: Potentially. The English scanlations routinely use "she" to refer to Rakkasei, but the final author's note at the conclusion of the series claims Kinome-sensei never decided on a gender.
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* AmbiguousGender: In the afterword in volume 3, the author Kinome states that Rakkasei's design is meant to be ambiguous with a mix of boyish and girlish traits, and that they never really decided on a specific gender for Rakkasei, but that readers tend to lean toward thinking Rakkasei is female. Despite that, Rakkasei is described throughout the series with female pronouns, so either Kinome-san is lying or the scanlators didn't get the hint.
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* AmbiguousGender: In the afterword in volume 3, the author Kinome states that Rakkasei's design is meant to be ambiguous with has a mix of boyish and girlish traits, and that they never really decided on a specific gender for Rakkasei, but that readers tend to lean toward thinking Rakkasei the character in question is female."most likely" a girl. Despite that, Rakkasei is described throughout the series with female pronouns, so either Kinome-san is lying or the scanlators didn't get the hint.
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* LostInTranslation: Maybe? The English scanlations refer to Rakkasei with female pronouns. But at the end of the series, Kinome's afterword says they never decided on a gender, so either the author contradicted themselves or the scanlators misread the Japanese.
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* {{Pastiche}}: Of 2010-ish Creator/CartoonNetwork shows. Aside from the aforementioned ''Adventure Time'', it also takes place in a world of weirdo animal people like ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', with Rojika having nearly the same design as Rigby.
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* AmbiguousGender: In the afterword in volume 3, the author Kinome states that Rakkasei's design is meant to be ambiguous with a mix of boyish and girlish traits, and that they never really decided on a specific gender for Rakkasei, but that readers tend to lean toward thinking Rakkasei is female. Despite that, Rakkasei is described throughout the series with female pronouns, so either Kinome-san is lying or the scanlators didn't get the hint.
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* CreepyGood: A number of characters have strange or unsettling appearances, but are otherwise decent.
** Cowbell is a farmer with a vase for a head who lords over a farm with somewhat unsettling cows. But he helps the duo get milk and gives them a present after one of his cows follows them around all day. [[spoiler: Of course, the gift is ''steak'', presumably made from the cow that they had become friends with, but that ''is'' what a farmer does.]]
** Shii-san makes has a somewhat unsettling introduction, seemingly having a permanent SlasherSmile, a rather intense stare, and a NonstandardCharacterDesign even by the strange standards of the series, along with a name that literally sounds like "death" (see MeaningfulName below). Furthermore, his true EstablishingCharacterMoment is [[spoiler: killing a giant by morphing into some kind of HumanoidAbomination]]. Yet over the course of the series he turns out to be one of the duo's staunchest allies, having helped Rojika raise Rakkasei and solving a lot of problems for the locals. We eventually find out [[spoiler: he was a LivingWeapon created to ''restore'' the world by killing giants until the earth was habitable again]], making him the closest thing the series has to a BigGood.
** Miss Grace is a strange spider-like creature who is mostly only seen screaming while chasing small creatures. Despite this, we eventually learn [[spoiler: she used to be a beautiful and intelligent mother who traded her body and her heart to heal her daughter's seemingly uncurable ailment. Even in her current form it's shown there's enough of her original personality left that she's still a FriendToAllChildren and even helps Rojika catch a moment of respite from parenting duties by holding baby Rakkassei for a few minutes.]]
** Cowbell is a farmer with a vase for a head who lords over a farm with somewhat unsettling cows. But he helps the duo get milk and gives them a present after one of his cows follows them around all day. [[spoiler: Of course, the gift is ''steak'', presumably made from the cow that they had become friends with, but that ''is'' what a farmer does.]]
** Shii-san makes has a somewhat unsettling introduction, seemingly having a permanent SlasherSmile, a rather intense stare, and a NonstandardCharacterDesign even by the strange standards of the series, along with a name that literally sounds like "death" (see MeaningfulName below). Furthermore, his true EstablishingCharacterMoment is [[spoiler: killing a giant by morphing into some kind of HumanoidAbomination]]. Yet over the course of the series he turns out to be one of the duo's staunchest allies, having helped Rojika raise Rakkasei and solving a lot of problems for the locals. We eventually find out [[spoiler: he was a LivingWeapon created to ''restore'' the world by killing giants until the earth was habitable again]], making him the closest thing the series has to a BigGood.
** Miss Grace is a strange spider-like creature who is mostly only seen screaming while chasing small creatures. Despite this, we eventually learn [[spoiler: she used to be a beautiful and intelligent mother who traded her body and her heart to heal her daughter's seemingly uncurable ailment. Even in her current form it's shown there's enough of her original personality left that she's still a FriendToAllChildren and even helps Rojika catch a moment of respite from parenting duties by holding baby Rakkassei for a few minutes.]]
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