Inazma Delivery is a CGI comedy series by Kanaban Graphics, the creators of Usavich.
The first season, which aired in 2016note consisted of ten short 2-minute episodes. It was followed by a second seasonnote in 2017.
On what should be a normal working day, Hemingway, a young pig working for Inazma Delivery company encounters a strange alien called Bytheway (yes, really) looking to be taken back to their home planet.
Chaos and car chases ensue.
Tropes:
- All There in the Manual: The names of certain characters and details about the setting are not mentioned in the series itself, only in promotional material and online.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: Although Bytheway is always shown wearing a tatty shark outfit, they sometimes pick up objects using a green appendage that comes out of the mouth of the costume.
- Bytheway uses this mouth/arm tentacle to swallow a TV and use it to communicate with Hemingway. After eating it, the screen, including the TV presenter, looks distorted and alien looking.
- Butt-Monkey: The Owl agent is mostly this. Not that he doesn't deserve it. Can't overlook poor Hemmingway dying more than someone should. Luckily his ghost can just swim back into his body.
- Car Fu: Hemingway exhibits driving skills that are to be reckoned with.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Bytheway just does whatever they feel like.
- Comedic Underwear Exposure: Courtesy of Bytheway's gun that erases everything except living matter. That means it erases also clothes. Both Hemingway and Catherine fall victim to its effect.
- Cool Car: Catherine's car Blacknoir. A 1960 Rolls Royce phantom with a full loadout of weapons and gadgets literally under the hood.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Hemingway may panic easily but when push comes to shove he proves to be able to stand up to anything that's seriously threatening either him or Bytheway.
- Defeat by Modesty: Catherine the owl agent is always defeated this way.
- Disintegrator Ray: Bytheway's weapon is a special version of this. Instead of actual rays it fires dark purple orbs that erase everything except living matter without a trace, but apparently can even reverse this effect i.e. restore erased stuff exactly as it was.
- Drives Like Crazy: Bytheway drives violently when listening to music in the van.
- Engrish: Hemingway is shown learning a few English phrases from his TV, until Bytheway eats it. This might be an example of Intentional Engrish for Funny however, as one of the phrases he learns is "By the way, I'm a sexy girl".
- Flying Saucer: Bytheway's personal ship and the mothership for his race both resemble very angular flying saucers.
- Gender-Blender Name: The owl in black? His name is Catherine. No really.
- Goofy Suit: Bytheway wears a shark costume with underwear over the top of it.
- Happy Dance: Bytheway dances every time something good happens.
- Humiliation Conga: Catherine, the owl often falls victim to this.
- Let's Get Dangerous!: Hemmingway's normally pretty meek but when he drives above a specific speed, his split personality takes over and he suddenly turns into a fearless daredevil and his delivery van becomes a lethal weapon!
- The Men in Black: More like an owl in black. Catherine is an owl agent that's always after the duo.
- Mini-Mecha: Tatsurobo. A tiny racoon piloting a man ... err, funny-animal-sized robot complete with rocket punches, machine gun fingers, and rockets in his butt.
- Nice Guy: Hemmingway's one of the nicest pigs you'll meet.
- No Inner Fourth Wall: The English teacher reacts with horror when Bytheway eats the TV he was on.
- Only Flesh Is Safe: Bytheway's Disintegrator Ray wipes non-living matter from existence but leaves living creatures (and underwearnote ) unharmed
- Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: One of the only things visible of Bytheway's alien form to the audience is a pair of glowing eyes in the shadows of his shark costume's mouth.
- Tranquillizer Dart: The owl agent tries to use both a giant claw and tranquillizer darts to subdue Bytheway. After failing several times, he decides to flat out try and kill the alien with missiles.
