Line #30 Manga/GoldfishWarning


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Beware of flying goldfish.]]
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4	''Goldfish Warning!'' is a {{Shoujo\|Demographic}} {{Manga}} by Neko Nekobe, which ran in ''Magazine/{{Nakayoshi}}'' from 1989 to 1993. It follows the adventures of Chitose Fujinomiya, a snobbish young girl, who's been orphaned and impoverished by the death of her father. Thrown out of her exclusive, ritzy private school "Tokaino Gakuen"[[note]]a pun which can be read as "Big City High School"[[/note]], she and her only remaining possession--a strange pink goldfish named Gyopi--find themselves at Inakano Chugakko[[note]]another pun that can be read as "Out in the Country Junior High"[[/note]]. Inakano isn't exactly what Chitose is used to--it's dilapidated, filled with strange people, and farm animals wander both the grounds and the classrooms. Despite their rough manners, though, the students are good-hearted, and Chitose soon makes several friends, including pink-haired semi-[[TheDitz ditz]] Wapiko, goody two-shoes Shu, and token delinquent Aoi.
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6	Then Chitose's late father's lawyer shows up, seeking to steal Gyopi. Gyopi, it turns out, is an extremely rare and valuable fish, and just about the only thing from the estate of Chitose's father that the lawyer hasn't already plundered. But the school's guard chicken (yes, guard chicken) catches him in the act and raises an alarm. He is caught and in the process drops a key to a safe-deposit box in which Chitose finds her lost inheritance--billions of yen in stocks, bonds, deeds and other documents.
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8	With the money, Chitose could return to Tokaino Gakuen, but instead she chooses to remain at and rebuild Inakano Chugakko. She then installs herself as head of the student council, and tries to "elevate" the school and its student body, while at the same time getting revenge on Tokaino. Most of the subsequent episodes deal with her efforts at sophisticating her classmates, and how her own snobbishness both sabotages her efforts and keeps her from enjoying herself the way her friends do.
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10	This is a strange, high-energy series where the characters spend almost half their time SuperDeformed. Chitose plots and yells at people, there are a lot of random cows and chickens in almost every scene, and the principal of the school has antennae.
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12	A 54-episode animated adaptation, produced by Creator/ToeiAnimation and directed by Junichi Sato, aired from 1991 to 1992. Both the anime series and its successor, ''Anime/SailorMoon'', aired Saturdays on TV Asahi at 7:00 pm.
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15	!!''Goldfish Warning!'' provides examples of:
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17	* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Justified in this case, as Chitose is student council president and also owns the school.
18	* AmusingInjuries: Between the cartoon violence, talking animals, and school setting, it's not too much of a stretch to call this the anime equivalent of Tiny Toon Adventures.
19	%%* BigBallOfViolence
20	* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Episode 44, Chitose informs Aoi that the point of the episode was a fan request to see him in tights.
21	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tanakayama is a literal example: he was Chitose's lawyer and often wears rabbit ears for no reason.
22	* ButtMonkey: Aoi may be Chitose's uninterested love interest, but he's also her personal punching bag.
23	** Mizoguchi-sensei gets absolutely no respect from his students.
24	%%* TheCharmer: Aoi.
25	%%* TheChewToy: Tanakayama.
26	%%* CityMouse
27	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: All but three members of the student body are varying levels of this. Wapiko is their queen; Shuu is the only sane man; and Aoi simply rolls with it. Chitose is the crowning example, seeming to be her own special breed of frustration & madness.
28	* CluelessChickMagnet: Averted. Aoi only pretends not to notice Chitose or Yurika because he thinks they're horrible people.
29	%%* CoolOldGuy: Inakano's principal, complete with antennae.
30	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tanakayama, Chitose's former lawyer.
31	%%* CrossPoppingVeins: Appears frequently. All of the characters get upset with each other on a daily basis and have visible veins when it happens.
32	* CrocodileTears: While Shuu & Aoi find Chitose & Yurika to be utterly transparent, Wapiko falls for the crying act every time.
33	* DestinationDefenestration: Every few episodes, someone will chuck Tanaka through a window.
34	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The Inakano bell rings a part of the opening theme.
35	* DistressedDude: Gyoupi is constantly under threat of being kidnapped & sold. Shark was once a target for a special food item.
36	%%* TheDitz
37	* DomesticAbuser: Chitose's former love interest dumps her when she briefly goes from RichesToRags, then wants to get back with her when she's rich again. Fortunately, Chitose is having none of it.
38	* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: In this series, the general rule of thumb concerning characters is that [[DoesNotLikeMen women are masochists]] and [[ButtMonkey men are punching bags]].
39	* DramaQueen: Chitose and Yurika both eat, breathe, & sleep melodrama.
40	* DumbIsGood: Ignorance is heavenly bliss.
41	%%* EpilepticFlashingLights: About 16 minutes into episode 41.
42	* EveryManHasHisPrice: Moral grounds are as thin and crumbly as potato chips; absolutely everyone can and will bribe everyone else with food.
43	%%* FishOutOfWater
44	%%* FlowerMotifs: To parody classic shoujo manga & to emphasize the melodrama.
45	%%* GenkiGirl: Wapiko takes this trope to the extreme.
46	* TheGlassesGottaGo: Tanakayama is ordered by Yurika to get pictures of Aoi without the sunglasses he never ever takes off, so he bribes the entire school with Yakisoba Pan to forcibly remove them.
47	* IgnoredAesop: It wouldn't be much of a comedy if Chitose and Yurika ever learned to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over.
48	* InterspeciesRomance: A running gag played for laughs. Due to animals having free reign of the school, there are subplots such as Wapiko wanting to date a penguin, a cat fallinh in love with an oxen, and the school spreading rumors about Shu dating one of the cows.
49	* IronButtMonkey: Chitose. It seems not a day goes by when she isn't trampled by a herd of cows.
50	** Also Tanakayama to the extreme.
51	* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Bad Ox is given a plot convenient WeaksauceWeakness of carrots, which is resolved in the same episode and never brought up again.
52	* ItsAllAboutMe: Chitose will step on the happiness of her friends if she can sell whatever makes them happy for a new wardrobe.
53	* {{Jerkass}}: Tanakayama. He's frequently fired for incompetency, will do anything for cash, lives to freeload and steal, and will happily play double agent because he has no loyalties.
54	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Bad Ox.
55	%%* {{Joshikousei}}
56	* LaserGuidedKarma: All of Yurika and Chitose's selfish plans come back to bite them in the ass before long.
57	* LongLostRelative: In episode 8B, Yurika finds out that Chitose is her sister, and starts having a change of heart because of this. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a lie by Tanakayama, who was angry because of how she treats him. After finding out the truth, Chitose starts to shamelessly use this to her advantage.]]
58	%%* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Wapiko, especially to a certain male student from a rival school.
59	%%* TheMole
60	%%* NoblewomansLaugh
61	%%* NoGuyWantsToBeChased
62	%%* NonHumanSidekick
63	%%* NoblewomansLaugh: Lots from Chitose, her mom and Yurika.
64	%%* TheOjou: Chitose.
65	* OneOfTheKids: The principal is just as childish and playful as the school's students.
66	* OnlySaneMan: Shu. Everyone else is out of their gourd.
67	%%* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
68	%%* ParentalAbandonment
69	%%* PingPongNaivete: Everyone to a degree, but mostly Wapiko.
70	%%* PrincessInRags: Chitose...for about ten minutes in the first episode. She learns nothing from the experience.
71	* PrincessesPreferPink: Chitose almost always wears pink, but when fantasizing about life as a princess, she is often sporting a dress remarkably similar to Princess Peach's in Super Mario Brothers.
72	* ProperLady: Chitose & Yurika. Chitose also uses this as an excuse to avoid unladylike things that involve dirt & manual labor.
73	* PygmalionPlot: Albeit a doomed enterprise from the start. Chitose tries and fails to "refine" Inakano's students.
74	%%* RichBitch: Chitose, to a degree, but more so her former schoolmates at Tokaino.
75	%%* TheRival: Yurika to Chitose. Really, Tokaino in its entirety to Chitose.
76	* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: Chitose makes up school rules at will, while also breaking them at will.
77	%%* SharePhrase: Bye been!
78	* SharkPool: Home of the school's pet shark, also where the kids like to play.
79	* SlobsVersusSnobs: In part, though the rivalry between Inakano and Tokaino is manufactured almost entirely by Chitose. Inakano's students have little interest in competing with their rich counterparts.
80	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: While everyone understands cow, only Wapiko can speak to all animals.
81	* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Gyopi, possibly; it's hard to tell when you don't speak the language.
82	* SuperDeformed: Characters spend so long in this mode that the animators developed three distinct levels of super-deformedness for each main character. While many anime will change all of the characters in a scene to super-deformed for a gag moment, this show routinely features interactions between normal-sized characters and super-deformed characters, leading to bizarre situations such as a super-deformed character running between the legs of someone who would usually be the same height as them.
83	%%* TheSweatDrop
84	%%* {{Troll}}: Yurika. Also called an Ogre by Chitose.
85	%%* TroubledButCute
86	%%* {{Tsundere}}: Chitose is Type A, but she unconvincingly pretends to be type B.
87	%%* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist
88	* VoodooDoll: In episode 8A, Takapi makes a voodoo doll of Wapiko so she can love him. However, it flies away in all directions, causing madness.
89	%%* WeirdCurrency: Potato chips & yakisoba pan.
90	%%* WoundedGazelleGambit: Chitose does this occasionally.
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