Line #30 Anime/Kagewani


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2	[[caption-width-right:225:Professor Banba seems to be confident to stand in front of those [=UMAs=].]]
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4	''Kagewani'' (影鰐, which means ''Shadow Crocodile'' in English) is an anime series that premiered on October 2, 2015, with a second season following on April 1, 2016, which consists of anime shorts. It aired as part of the Ultra Super Anime Time block on Tokyo [=MX=] and [=BS11=]. Crunchyroll is exclusively airing it for English-speaking countries. The show is directed by Tomoyo Takashima with the scripts written by Hiromu Kumamoto.
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6	The show takes place in the present day where cryptids, also known as Unidentified Mysterious Animals, have begun to attack -- and sometimes kill -- civilians for no discernible reason.
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8	Scientist and university professor Sousuke Banba investigates these mysterious attacks. This is usually a problem for him since it means ditching his university job to hunt down the cryptids and investigate what happened.
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11	!!''Kagewani'' contains the following examples:
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13	* ActionSurvivor: Mika Kuroda throughout "Hyouga" after her mountaineering crew was massacred. She was able to deduce that the UMA hunting her uses heat vision.
14	* BittersweetEnding: At the end of "Hyouga", Mika is saved by a [=SAR=] team from the mountain summit and is in a hospital, recovering from hypothermia. [[spoiler:But her father was confirmed to be dead and his corpse is still in the mountains.]]
15	* BlandNameProduct: [=TomTube=] standing in for Youtube.
16	* ChainLinkFence: The first episode ("Doba") centers on a camera crew that got passed through a restricted zone that led to a lake due to a hole in the fence.
17	* ChekhovsGun:
18	** [[spoiler:The accidental use of the submersible's sonar device in "Shin'en" allowed Banba to create a plan in which the man piloting it uses the device to drive the UMA away from it.]]
19	** [[spoiler:The UMA's weakness to sound vibration made on the ground in "Setsuki" enabled the teacher to help the students get to high ground.]]
20	* CryptidEpisode: The episode format for the show. Specifically in the MonsterOfTheWeek form.
21	* DrivingQuestion: What's the significance of the black liquid after a [=UMA=] is reported in?
22	* {{Expy}}: All the [=UMAs=] are based on well-known cryptids.
23	* FakeVideoCameraView: "Doba" has Takeru doing this while doing a video for his faux-documentary show on [=TomTube=] by holding the video camera in front of him.
24	* FauxDocumentary: What Takeru tried to do in "Doba" to make a documentary that claims an encounter with a cryptid. [[spoiler:Too bad he didn't expect a real cryptid to kill him and his crew.]]
25	* ForbiddenZone: The chain-link fence at the end of "Doba" shows yellow caution tapes torn up, which suggest that explorers have ignored the warnings to not go inside the forest.
26	* GoryDiscretionShot: Most of the cryptid attacks on civilians are not fully depicted on screen.
27	* HopeSpot: Takeru thinks that he got away from the cryptid in "Doba". But when he sees a reflection of himself on the lake, [[spoiler:he catches sight of the cryptid sneaking up on him with its mouth open.]]
28	** Near the end of "Hyouga", Mika finds the music box she gave to her father. [[spoiler:She later finds out that it was a bit damaged and her father had died from the UMA attack.]]
29	** Near the end of "Camouflage", Banba was able to get Saori out of the tunnel. [[spoiler:He realized that the UMA had masqueraded as his wife and survived the airstrike.]]
30	* IdiotBall: Takeru still tries to capture cryptid footage with his life on the line.
31	* ItsQuietTooQuiet:
32	** Takeru realizes that something was wrong after he noted that he didn't hear from his two crew members [[spoiler:after they got killed by a cryptid.]]
33	** Mika finds that her camp is a bit quiet in the morning [[spoiler:after the UMA kills everyone in its heat vision thanks to their kerosene lamps.]]
34	* {{Kaiju}}: Several of the larger creatures encountered fit the bill, especially the aquatic UMA.
35	* MegaCorp: Sarugaku is apparently an influential company that it can afford to raise mercenary teams [[spoiler:and a fighter plane sent in to destroy a UMA-infested tunnel in "Camouflage".]]
36	* NothingIsScarier: The show plays this trope by showing that nothing was probably there at first until the cryptid chooses to reveal itself.
37	* OurCryptidsAreMoreMysterious: The main theme of the show. The episodes will show off a very different cryptid for Banba to investigate.
38	* RealAfterAll: Each episode ends with the revelation that a cryptid attack did happen and they are real.
39	* ScalingTheSummit: "Hyouga" centers on a group of mountaineers climbing up a summit led by Mika Kuroda. She was leading the team to locate her missing father when the team got attacked by a cryptid. She was the only survivor rescued by SAR parties.
40	* ShoutOut:
41	** The [=UMA=] from "Shin'en" appears to be partially based on the Gill-Man from the Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon.
42	** "Setsuki" is a WholePlotReference to the Film/{{Tremors}} movies.
43	* TooDumbToLive: A camera crew gets massacred by a cryptid in the middle of "Doba" when they were making a faux documentary on a monster that supposedly lives in a lake. The crew gets hunted down. [[SkewedPriorities Takeru, the documentary host, still wants to film the cryptid despite putting himself at risk]].
44	* UrbanLegends: Centers on investigating whether attacks on civilians were made by cryptids or not.
45	* WhamEpisode: In "Return", Banba is invited to analyze the X-ray of the [=UMA=] in custody. [[spoiler:Banba is in shock when he finds out that a human skeleton is fused with its remains, suggesting that the UMA was once human.]]
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