Literature / Cat Planet Cuties

"I'm going to drop by!"

Cat Planet Cuties (Asobi ni Iku yo!, "Let's Go Play!") is a series of Light Novels written by Okina Kamino and illustrated by Eizo Hoden (from volumes 1 to 14) and Nishieda (volumes 15 to 20), which was published from 2003 to 2015 for 20 volumes. It was further adapted into both a manga and an anime. The anime series aired in the summer of 2010 produced by AIC. An OVA was released in the Spring 2011 season. Funimation hosts the anime on its own website and regular viewing sites like YouTube and Hulu. It is, however, rated TV-MA, so you need an account to watch it on the latter.

One summer, a message from outer space is sent to Earth, carrying only the message "I'm going to drop by!", setting several organizations into motion.

Kio Kakazu lives an ordinary life on the Japanese island of Okinawa with the girl next door, an old friend he watches movies with, and his party-loving uncle. At a funeral for his grandfather, he meets a Cat Girl named Eris, who claims that her ship crashed near the site, and was looking for some food. Surprised, Kio accidentally takes a sip of his uncle's beer and passes out immediately. A few hours later, he wakes up to find Eris sleeping in his bed. She is a Catian, one of the aliens who sent the original message, and she's here to learn all she can about Earth. However, both she and Kio are unaware of the organizations close to them that want to investigate the aliens for reasons unknown.

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Cat Planet Cuties provides examples of the following tropes:

Tropes A-M

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects:
  • The AI avatar for Eris's personal spacecraft, and the turrets on the catgirl cult's flagship.
  • Every car sans Maki's in the first shot of episode 2. Note that it has more lines and choppier movement.
    • It's also not the only example of this played in reverse either. There's also the limo in episode one, Aoi's Mustang and Yuichi's Jeep.
• Accidental Pervert: Kio and most of the cast to be honest.
• Achilles' Heel:
  • The Dogisian Goujyuu Powered Armor has two of these. The first is a physical weak point that functions as a kill-switch when struck, shutting the unit down. The second is an automatic shutdown that occurs if the user tries to attack a Dogisian.
  • Also the Catian Latex Spacesuit deactivates when the user is 'In heat', with no visible Override Command. While it is a safety measure, it also can leave the user vulnerable.
• Action Prologue: Shows Aoi in action, and one of her many missions where she actively kills people.
• Actor Allusion: In the English dub, it's not the first time Tia Ballard has played a cat-like being from a different species before.
• A-Cup Angst: Aoi, though she's not too terribly distraught about it. It does become an issue later on during a conversation with Minami.
• Adaptation Distillation: The anime covers the 7 volumes of the manga published so far, but the light novels that the manga and anime based on ended in 2015 with 20 volumes published. The anime covers the first four light novels, with the ending borrowed from book 6, Momiji's opening action in episode 1 scene adapted from a flashback in book 9, and a side story from book 9 used as episode 9 (Lawry). In the first 10 books, at least, Manami is not a haremette, so a lot of scenes in episodes 3, 6, and 8 are original.
• Affectionate Parody: The continuous Lampshade Hanging, cameos, Shout Outs and playing of common genre tropes to their logical consequences put this series squarely into this category.
• Alien Catnip: A rather literal example, as Eris gets high (and hyper) when exposed to catnip.
• Aliens Love Human Food: The Catians take the many delicious foods that Earthlings make as a significant factor for establishing diplomatic relations. The anime is filled with Food Porn of the many dishes that Eris and the others go crazy over.
• Aliens Speaking English: Japanese in this case (unless you watch the English dub). They even call their planet "Earth", but decided on "Catia" to avoid confusion.
• Aliens Steal Cable: Subverted. The Catians are very interested in Earth media, and they want to buy it because interstellar copyright laws are Serious Business.
• All Part of the Show: Aoi and Manami set out to rescue Eris and Kio, while the director they stole the boat from keeps the cameras rolling, despite his crew's warnings that the show was not according to the script.
• All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The Dogisian Assistaroids taking over the Catian mothership in episode 10. The command staff manage to avoid capture by shifting the bridge out of normal space-time, but they're effectively trapped there until they can be rescued.
• Always Chaotic Evil: The Dogisians, according to galactic law. The one we've seen so far is an alien arms dealer, and trading with them is deemed illegal.
• Angels Pose: Done (minus the silhouette) by Aoi, Manami and Eris in the opening.
• Anime Accent Absence: While the aliens speak perfect Japanese, Jack, Manami's friend from the Company, has a significant accent to hers. Almost all the Earth-native characters speak Kyushu dialect, as well.
• Arc Words: "I'm going to drop by!"
• Artistic License – Gun Safety: In Episode 6, it's reasonable for Manami (who has no experience with guns) to be holding a gun and pointing it accidentally at Kio. Aoi, her instructor, should know better.
• An Asskicking Christmas: Episodes 10-12 take place during the Christmas season.
• Barbie Doll Anatomy: Played straight for the most part. Completely averted in the OVA and the DVD/Blu-ray versions. Nipples galore.
• Bathtub Bonding: Manami and Aoi. And Kio and Assistaroid 6, sorta.
• Battle Harem: Kio's harem has an alien Cat Girl with access to advanced technology, an Apporter with Teleportation and Improbable Aiming Skills, and a Badass Normal.
• Beach Episode: For a very short time, Aoi and Manami change into bunny girl swimsuits. Episode seven is a more traditional beach episode.
  • If it counts, the end credits take place at a beach.
• Beam Spam:
  • Episode 10.
  • Jen's ship in episode 12 has a form of attack like this as well.
• Bedmate Reveal: Hint: it's probably not Kio's uncle.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Aoi and Eris are nice girls, but you do not want them after you.
• The Big Damn Kiss: In the second half of episode 12, Aoi, Manami and finally Eris give Kio a kiss before leaving to fight the Dogisians.
• Bittersweet Ending: At the end of Episode 9, Lawry, after coming to Earth to fulfill her long-dead master's dying wish, also wishes to die, having refused the treatments needed to sustain her own life.
• Bland-Name Product:
  • Somy, OIAV, and PanaX among others.
  • AIC's name and logo can be seen on a truck in Episode 2.
  • The Shimaneko (Striped Cat) Delivery Service counter in Episode 4. Notable as the same episode had earlier included a Shout-Out to the delivery service being parodied, Yamato ("Kuroneko"/"Black Cat") Transport.
  • Weirdly averted when they go to a fast food restaurant which is clearly a Long John Silver's. Burger chain A&W also ends up featured in a few other episodes.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: In the OVA, Ichika has a copy of the script for the OVA and reads narration from it.
• Breather Episode: Episodes 3, 6, and 9, all of which follow (and lead into) episodes that contain a lot of action and suspense.
• Bridal Carry: Kio does this to save an unconscious Aoi in episode 5, much to the latter's delight once she starts to wake up.
• But Liquor Is Quicker: When she gets drunk on alcohol or catnip, Eris offers to kiss anyone (male or female) who'll give her more.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Both Itokazu-sensei and Manami react to Eris with "Those aren't from around here." Aoi just goes "Imported?!" Becomes a plot point in Episode 7 Aoi's jealousy of Eris comes to the fore, and this is one of the points Aoi is jealous of.
• Cannot Spit It Out:
  • Aoi towards Kio.
  • Manami is much more subtle about this, but Aoi later calls her out on it, telling Manami that she's suffering from this trope as well.
  • Eris averts this completely; she's very open about her sexual desire for Kio and liberally employs Do You Want to Copulate? with him.
• Can't Hold His Liquor:
  • Kio. One sip of his uncle's beer, and he's out like a light.
  • Eris, too. Though that's apparently more an issue of her being, or soon to be, in heat.
• Cat Fight: And dogfights too.
• Cat Girl: Eris, and several other members of her species, are part of the cast. Taken to the point that the only other male Catian in the series aside from Kio in episode 12 is only shown in a flashback, and we only get to see his chin. According to the novels, the Catian female/male ratio is 30:1. No wonder Eris is so quick to suggest sharing Kio, as it's most probably the norm among Catians. Ichika is also a cat girl with real cat ears and tail as revealed in The OVA and on the light novels.
• Censor Box: The Assistaroids do this in the sauna scene, not unlike the censor sign guy in Hayate the Combat Butler. Averted in the DVD release.
• Censor Steam: Often combined with Lens Flare Censor, to the point that half the screen can be obscured at once. Removed in the DVD release.
• Chekhov's Gun: Eris's spacecraft is seen a few times early on in minor roles, then has a very important role in the last few episodes.
• The Chessmaster: Jens, whose plan for ruining Catian relations with Earth is really quite impressively thought-out. See Magnificent Bastard.
• City of Spies: Everyone in Okinawa besides Kio himself seems to be working for someone who's got an agenda related to the Catians. Yes, that includes his Patient Childhood Love Interest - it's that exaggerated.
• Clarke's Third Law: Ichika quotes this in episode 8 to explain her "magic" scrolls.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Manami, although she won't admit it. Gets a little interesting in episode 2 as she spies on them talking. Several times as she's listening in on their conversation, she ends up snapping pens in her hands as she hears some of the things Eris says to Kio.
  • Eris gets a little jealous in episode 12, when she sees both Aoi and Manami kissing Kio before their Suicide Mission, which prompts her to also kiss him.
• Clothing Damage: Catian weapons are designed to be non-lethal, in the sense of only destroying non-living matter. Just about any battle involving them is going to start with this and build to The Nudifier.
• Combo Platter Powers: Captain Kuune's Multi Task Organizer. It can even do LEGO Genetics Engineering on the spot!
• Cool Boat: Antonia's luxury yacht/waterborne Big Fancy House/high-tech battleship. In fact, it's Too Cool to Live, metaphorically speaking.
• Cool Starship: Several, the Catian mothership especially.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl:
  • Antonia, the leader of a cult of these kinds of people.
  • Eris, though not an otaku, certainly appreciates the effects of cat ears combined with school swimsuits on the bureaucracy of Japan.
• Couch Gag: The Opening Narration at the start of each episode, gleefully spoofing that of one classic show after another.
• Counting Bullets: Manami counts all the bullets fired from Aoi's (fully-automatic) assault-rifle; and so knows she's out of bullets.
• Crazy-Prepared: A few characters usually seem to have exactly what's needed for a particular incident, especially Kio's uncle, Manami, and Aoi.
• Crowd Song: With Lawry singing only a few bars, the entire cast starts harmonizing to Captain Future's "Oira wa Sabishii Spaceman", no matter where they are. It's worth noting that the dub went to the effort of translating and having the entire cast sing the song as well, achieving a similar effect to that of the original.
• Cult: The Underside of the Kitten's Paw, a religion of cat Otherkin cosplayers who decide that Eris (being a real catgirl) is the embodiment of the Divine and want to kidnap her so they can worship her.
• Cursed with Awesome: Aoi and her apporting abilities.
• Cuteness Proximity: Sara loves cats, and is easily wooed by an Assistaroid. To emphasize, Sara was one of the top candidates to join the SAS, but her weakness to cats lost her that opportunity.
• Cyber Cyclops: The Dogisian battle droids.
• Death In All Directions: What Jens's ship specialises in, unleashing both generous Beam Spam and a classic Macross Missile Massacre (or three) in the finale.
• Defeat by Modesty: When Manami and Aoi's training is interrupted by a sniper and her spotter, they counter with their convenient clothing-erasing bullets and send them running with nary a thread between them. Well, not running, per se — as in the next scene we see they've been shipped back to Jens in a wooden crate, only wearing some onmyodo tags.
• Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Catian anti-matter shells, which have no effect on organic matter.
• Digital Piracy Is Evil:
  • One law strictly enforced by Orsonians is that of copyright.
  • Doctor Durel is quick to point out that the Captain Future insert song can be purchased online.
• Diplomatic Impunity: Kio's house is quickly turned into the Catian embassy, where Earth laws don't apply. This comes up on multiple occasions.
  • The reason Aoi and Manami aren't arrested for treason is that the Catians essentially give them political asylum to keep them from being arrested, making it something of a subversion as it was protection that was applied after the crime rather than an attempt to use a diplomatic position to get away with criminal behavior. The Catian senior officers nicely point out that they're willing to overlook the fact that their first representative to Earth was kidnapped and nearly murdered while in Japan, so the Japanese government ought to be willing to leave a pair of Japanese teenagers alone.
  • Played straighter when Manami tries to justify her and Aoi's jobs as SP and the fact that Kio's house is now the Catian embassy site as an excuse to let her shoot off, but Kio would have none of it (check Japanese laws and cultural attitudes on guns) and wouldn't take her excuse.
  • Also, at one point, Kio brings up the question of whether Eris has reached the age of consent (in an attempt to get out of mating with Eris). The Catians point out that that, again, doesn't apply on embassy grounds.
• Dissonant Serenity: In episode 2, Eris sweetly tells a government agent that she will beat the utter crap out of him and his cronies after she confirms that they are in league with dog aliens. She even cracks her knuckles with a smile on her face.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Aoi tells this to Manami when the latter continues to insist on trying to hook her up with Kio, even though they have a slightly more pressing matter of attempting to get into space and stop the Catian mothership from crashing into Earth.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: No one seems to care about the headlocks that Manami likes to put Kio in.
• Do You Want to Copulate?: Hormone-overdosed Catians on their mating seasons act pretty... bold.
• Driven to Suicide: Assistaroids are programmed to do this if they are given an impossible command unless given a verbal override in 10 seconds. Aoi's samurai-themed Droids, upon realizing they can't perform a quick draw stunt due to a lack of the necessary fingers, immediately try to commit Seppuku.
• Emergency Transformation: Since the Catians' ship won't take direct orders from a non-Catian and Kio is the only one with the authority to give orders, Kio has to be transformed into a Catian to save the day.
• Evolving Credits: Not so much evolving as the ending alternates every time, though there is a unique ED in Episode 9.
  • The Assistaroids in the opening credits change constantly, reflecting episodal changes.
• Exactly What I Aimed At: With a Pinball Projectile. Aoi is quite The Gunslinger.
• Excuse Plot: In-Universe, the movie that Manami and Aoi get involved with filming in Episode 5 when they're rescuing Kio and Eris. The director is known for "movies with skimpy plots featuring girls in even skimpier outfits."
• Exotic Extended Marriage: The Catians have no issues with a male choosing multiple mates (mostly due to the fact that their planet averages 30 females to every 1 male, leaving almost no other choice should every member want a mate of the opposite sex). This becomes relevant to the plot when Kio's house is converted into the official Catian embassy, leaving Kio free to marry all three of the girls in love with him.
• Expy: A full-figured, happy-go-lucky, immodest alien girl with various mechanical gadgets cohabitates with the male lead? Are we sure she's from Catia and not Deviluke?
• Failed a Spot Check: In the beach episode, none of the girls notice that their swimwear have tailholes cut into them (in case Eris wanted to wear them)... until one girl walks out of the dressing room with her bikini bottom on backwards. Cue Nose Bleed.
• Family-Friendly Firearms: Weapons loaded with Catian ammo become this, for a certain definition of "family friendly".
• Fanboys: The organization Beautiful Contact. Being fans of Hard Sci-fi, they are not pleased the First Contact humanity might get is a Cat Girl.
  • Also the catgirl cult in episode four.
• Fanservice: And plenty of it.
  • The OVA takes this up to eleven. Cue Nose Bleed.

• Fantasy Kitchen Sink: There are alien catgirls, alien doggirls, a "recall" esper, and onmyoudo magicians, as well as alien bunny girls being alluded to in episode 5.
• Faux Paw: First episode. It's a Cat Girl show, after all. Only rarely used in later episodes, though.
• Female Gaze: During that scene in Episode 3 with Kio in the bath.
• First Contact: One of the secret organizations in the story is dedicated to making First Contact, and they expect it to be with Starfish Aliens. When it turns out that First Contact is actually going to be with a Rubber-Forehead Alien who speaks fluent Japanese, it pisses them off.
• Foe-Tossing Charge: Kio actually manages one of these in the climax, thanks to his new Power Armor. It goes well against the Dogetian Assisdroids he's fighting... up until he runs into a big one. And then he performes a foe tossing charge on it, too.
• Free-Love Future: Implied among the Catians. Their society is frank and open about sexuality, and it's acceptable for a male to have multiple mates due to the unbalanced gender ratio and female estrus cycle.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: The files on Kio, Eris, Aoi, Manami and Itokazu-sensei briefly seen in episode three come with a lot of info on them, some of it trivia (like Itokazu-sensei's reason for her love of Hard SF) and other really interesting (like Aoi's surprising family circumstances).
• Full-Frontal Assault: Manami and Aoi get out of the bath to grab guns charge an intruder in Episode 3, without taking any time to get dressed.
• Furo Scene: In Episode 3, Aoi and Manami do a little bonding in the tub, which results in them being completely naked when trouble strikes.
• Gambit Pileup: The sheer number of factions that have an interest in the Catians dropping by is astronomical. Every one of the main characters except for Kio himself is at first working for a different faction, all of them maintain at least some connection to these factions, the factions proper have their own agendas, and then you get other alien and human factions tangling up in the mess.
• Gender-Blender Name: JACK (though it's actually an acronym, and lampshaded by Kio when he points out it sounds like a guy's name), and Melwyn.
• Genre-Busting: About half fairly standard ecchi romance/comedy. The other half is a thriller.
• The Glasses Come Off: ... when Aoi gets serious.
• A God I Am Not: It is against regulations for a Catian to pose as a deity or accept any special attention from a religious organization. Eris rejects worship from the Underside of the Kitten's Paw accordingly. She does deliver some space wisdom, however: "Be kind to others, and stop hating yourselves, because everyone is beautiful in their own way."
• Godiva Hair: Most of the Catian crew are subjected to full-frontal nudity at some point or another. Their tails just oh-so-conveniently cover up their crotches, and only just barely.
• Gratuitous English: In the Japanese dub of episode 7, a guy riding a sports car stops near the beach, and says "rice rocket" as well as shit, right after a dog droid rips the top part of his car off and right before it knocks him out.
• Gratuitous French: Manami, in describing what she thought Kio and Eris were doing.
• Groin Attack: Part of Manami's arsenal. Kio gets hit twice.
• Gun Porn: Manami and Aoi are weapon fanatics.
• Guns Akimbo: Yun-Fat and its twin handguns.
• The Gunslinger: Manami, Aoi and the catgirl cult enforcer maids.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Episode 3, in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference; according to the fine print in Aoi's DIA file, she has an alien half-sister who is older than her because of a Time Dilation Field.
• Hammerspace: The bells worn around the Catian's necks. The captain's bell, which gets handed to Kio later on, seems to be even more awesome than even Eris's bell.
• Hands-On Approach: Aoi teaching Kio how to shoot.
• Healing Hands: Eris's cell phone thing can fix minor head trauma and presumably much more.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Aoi and Manami both attempt one to prevent a space station from crashing and obliterating Okinawa.
• Hopeless Suitor: Both Aoi and Manami feel they are this towards Kio, and they both resent Eris because they feel she's the reason why they won't stand a chance against her with Kio. At least until Eris mentions sharing him between the three of them.
• How Unscientific!: Jens's reaction to Onmyōdō, word by word. However, it doesn't stop her from buying Onmyodo tags on the black market, or using them effectively against the Catian mothership in episode 10.
• Humongous Mecha: Unyuu from Episode 4 is turned into one of these in Episode 7, in a attempt to make him "feel like a real Assistaroid". He even comes with a missile launcher and Frickin' Laser Beams - which get used.
• Hurricane of Euphemisms: When Kio asks Eris why she came to Earth, she gives an explanation that's one long string of Innocent Innuendo.
• Hyperspace Arsenal:
  • Aoi's weapons can come out of nowhere and materialize in thin air. Justified as she has the ability to warp any object within 50 metres of her.
  • Captain Kuune and other high-ranking officers also have access to a Hyperspace Arsenal through their neck-bells.
• I Have to Iron My Dog: When Dr. Durel and Manami get into an argument over whether or not Kio is old enough to be Eris's partner during her first mating season, they ask for his opinion. He says that he has to clean his room and runs for it.
• I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Manami's motive for trying to hook Kio up with Aoi.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Aoi when describing her situation to Manami in the bath.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Antonia, once Kio calls one of her maids out on it during episode 5. Up to that point, she was wondering why despite having a lot of money and anything she could ever want, whether it was a devoted cult/fanbase, and a Maid Corps who was ready to serve her every need, she still felt somewhat empty inside. Once Kio brings up her lack of friends, she decides to help them out, and later genuinely becomes friends with them, and seems to get better.
• Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Both the random mooks and even the Ninja Maid squad can't seem to shoot straight at all, like shooting full auto in a narrow train carriage without hitting anyone. The only time the unnamed mooks can hit anything is when the target is invulnerable. In part, this is a example of Truth in Television — as anyone who's ever fired a full-auto weapon knows...there's enough jitter caused by the multiple recoils as to make perfect (or even reasonable) accuracy nigh impossible.
• Imported Alien Phlebotinum: Courtesy of the Dogisians.
• Improbable Age: 16 year olds sent on a First Contact mission, being Intelligence agents, working as experienced black-ops...
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Aoi, with the most spectacular example probably being when she neutralizes a sniper round aimed at Manami by shooting her with an anti-matter bullet at exactly the right time and placement for the clothing-erasing effect to absorb the shot.
• Innocent Aliens: "We've come to play", and they mean it. And Eris keeps using porn as reference for Japanese etiquette.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: Eris sees no problem walking around the house in a partially-buttoned shirt/pair of panties, with nothing else on. Nor do the rest of the Catians with less. The most they object to it is after the peace meeting the representatives have with several male human ambassadors. Eris mistakenly thought that wearing schoolgirl swimsuits to a meeting was an Earth-custom, due to Kio's often misleading porn stash.
• Innocent Innuendo: At one point, Kio and Eris are making a video, and Kio says that he had better "open up a virgin tape." Eris is normally fairly mature, but since she's deeply in heat at this point, Kio had her at "open up a virgin."
• Ironic Echo: "It's alright, it's not like you'll lose anything if we saw it."
• Isn't It Ironic?: Jens says that she doesn't want her race to die like dogs. She points out the irony.
• It Amused Me: Aoi seems to invoke this trope during episode 1 when she shoots at her driver in the car. It's not made clear if she did it for this trope, or to vent some frustration for the fact that he just happened to show up while she was trying to set up a date with Kio.
• Jumped at the Call:
  • Manami, who always wanted to be a field operative.
  • Applies to both her and Aoi when Eris mentions having them work as security for the temporary Catian Embassy, aka Kio's house.
• Laser Blade: Aoi's melee weapon of choice is a laser spear.
• Laser Sight: Justified since it is IR and thus invisible to naked eye, probably a rangefinder.
• Latex Spacesuit:
  • All of the Catians. Aoi's isn't a spacesuit per se, but given what we've seen her duraflex suit shrug off, hard vacuum probably isn't beyond its capabilities.
  • All three of Kio's girlfriends put on latex suits before suiting up — Sol Tekkamen Suiting up: in Episode 12.
• Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: In Episode 8, when Kio, Aoi and Manami are in the holodeck training, Manami excuses herself to let Kio and Aoi train without her getting in the way. Aoi is not happy with Manami cutting out like that.
• Lens Flare Censor: Usually on Eris when she's walking around the house. Those clothes don't cover much.
  • Averted in the uncensored DVD release.
• Leotard of Power: Standard Catian uniform; some are actually a type of Powered Armor. They function the same way for male Catians, as well.
• Lethal Chef: Aoi, though it's a very minor example since she was only just then learning how to cook. When Kio tasted her cooking, he only grimaced a little bit and commented on its unique taste. Aoi is also better than most Lethal Chef characters. She's actually willing to taste her own cooking.
• Lonely Rich Kid: Antonia. She wasn't in the suit at all.
• Love Confession: Invoked in episode 7. While at the beach, Kio asks Aoi if she could do something for him, and they take a walk down the beach. Romantic music plays in the background, and Kio says that he's thought long and hard about it, and that Aoi would be the best choice... to train him to fight. The music cuts abruptly as Aoi says "huh?"
• Love Epiphany: Manami has one during episode 6, while conversing with a Kio replica in the Catian holodeck, who tells her that he's always liked her, but never took it to the next stage because he thought her calls to a "Jack" meant she was seeing someone already. She sheds a few tears as she starts to realize her feelings for him. Luckily for her, Eris is more than willing to share him with both her and Aoi.
• Macross Missile Massacre: Jens launches some of these in episode 12.
• Made of Iron: Even without her combat suit, Aoi survives getting knocked out out the back of a moving subway car with little more than a few bruises.
• Magic from Technology:
  • Ichika's Onmyōdō tags; they're indeed magical, but magic is as much a part of Physics as other universal forces, according to her. And then she mentions Clarke's Third Law almost word by word.
  • The Dogisians even manage to reverse-engineer the talismans, and make both a time-freeze variant and a exploding one able to cut through Catian ship armor — that space debris couldn't dent.
  • More like bought the talismans. In episode 11 Ichika said those talisman are sold by mages who aren't too picky about their customers.
• Male-to-Female Universal Adaptor: Even though Eris is a Cat Girl, with all that entails (including being in heat), she mentions that the Catian and human reproductive systems are compatible.
• Marry Them All: Eris suggests this solution by telling Aoi and Manami that Catians are allowed to have more than one mate, so the three of them can share Kio. The other girls are ok with it.
• Marshmallow Hell
  • After rescuing Eris, Kio gets his face buried in her chest.
  • In the OVA, Kio briefly gets subjected to a Marshmellow Pie Hell when his head is trapped between Manami's chest, Aoi's butt, and Eris's next move during a game of Twister. All three girls are aware of it.
• Meaningful Name:
  • In Greek mythology, Eris was the goddess (of chaos) whose actions indirectly started the Trojan War. In THIS show, Eris is a Catgirl alien whose very presence causes several secret societies and black ops organizations to come gunning for her all at once.
    • Becomes FAR more literal in Episode 10 when the Dogisians take a far more...active role in trying to get rid of the Catians. That is, if you define a sneak attack on the Catians' ship that's sent it into a collision course with Earth, the Captain of said ship being neutralized by Dogisian Assistaroids, and Kio being left in command by said Captain as being a "bit more literal"
    • Another meaning example for Eris: during the OVA, the kids are playing games, one of which is Twister. After a discussion about Eris being able to use her tail and having her bust on Kio's back, she moves again, before inadvertently brushing her tail across Aoi's butt. She promptly freaks out at the touch and instinctively moves, collapsing herself and everyone else, save Eris who's confused about what happened, and she ends up winning the game thanks to this.
• Mecha-Mooks: The Assistaroids employed by both sides. They do show some intelligence and emotion, though (at least the Catians'); most of the Catian Embassy's Assistaroids are named, or at least numbered to differentiate them.
• The Mole: Manami's father works for the CIA, and she begins spying on Eris in the first chapter/episode.
• Mood Whiplash: In the first episode, compare any scene with Kio and/or Eris to any scene without them. You would think the channel was switching back and forth between two completely different shows.
  • Episode 10 as well - Seems to start out as a standard angsty Christmas harem episode - ends with the Catians' ship about to crash into Earth, the Captain having been infected with mind-stopping nanomachines, and Kio about to take command of the situation and save the day. All in about 15 minutes. Whew!
• More Dakka: Jens's starfighter in episode 12, which can unleash both Beam Spam and Macross Missile Massacre.

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• Narrator All Along: Ichika narrates throughout the whole series. It's only revealed that it was her in the OVA, when the other characters have to point out that she missed her cue to continue expositing the story. She pulled out the script of the show and starts reading from it for the rest of the episode, including one scene where she's reading the lines for the show itself in a recording studio.
• New Transfer Student: Eris, Antonia, Sara and Maya. Antonia shows up with bread in their mouth, mistakenly believing (because of reading shojo manga) that it is a Japanese custom for new transfer students to do so. See the Late for School trope for more information on the "bread in mouth" convention that Asobi ni Iku yo! pokes fun at.
• Nice Guy: Kio; he sure keeps his own Porn Stash but he is pretty much "look-but-don't touch" type. He is really scared when Eris tried to sleep with him. Pretty much all the main characters agree that he's a very pleasant and helpful young man that they like having as a friend.
  • The girls at his Film Club outright call him this and put him in the "diamond-in-the-rough" category.
• Nigh-Invulnerability:
  • Aoi, earning her the codename Akuun Momiji - Bad-luck Momiji. (a few times in the novels, her codename is given as Akuen Momiji; her English-speaking enemy in book 9 translates that as "Calamity Momiji")
  • Eris's service drones. They can withstand being shot down in a helicopter by a tank with nothing worse than a few scorch marks. They're essentially Servbots with a cat theme.
• Ninja Maid: Acting as enforcers of a ... catgirl cult???
• Nose Bleed: Not a direct shot though, just in a form of Discretion Shot in Episode 7.
• Not Quite Dead: The pirate captain in episode 1, who supposedly died when he blew up the ship, somehow survived and is seen in episode 11. He goads Aoi into shooting him, saying she's nothing more than a killer, which Aoi promptly complies with. Luckily for him (maybe), she had Catian ammo loaded, so all that happens is he loses his gun and some of his outfit.
• Now or Never Kiss: Aoi first gives Kio one of these causing Manami and Eris to get jealous and kiss him as well.
• The Nudifier: A theme in Catian weapons design seems to be to neutralize your opponent's weaponry non-lethally. They often simply erase anything they hit that isn't living tissue.
• Oblivious to Love: Justified by Kio in regards to Aio and Manami, who have taken a lot of effort to convince him that they're only interested in him as a friend. He's far less oblivious to Eris's very, very obvious romantic interest.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
  • Eris beating up the scientist and wrecking the laboratory she is held captured in in episode 2 offscreen.
  • In Episode 5, an obvious cue (looking back) for a Fanservice scene is skipped to set up a twist. Kio and Eris exchanged clothes so Kio can use Eris's power armour and make an escape, which was Eris's idea.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Manami, Maki and Aoi when they see some of the Catians's large chests (especially Eris and Durel).
  • The scientist when Eris breaks out of containment and is going to beat him up.
• One-Gender Race: Averted with the Catians. While it may at first seem that their planet is populated solely by women, it is later revealed that a genetic mutation causes the birth rate of females to be significantly higher than that of males (30:1 odds against). Despite this, male Catians do hold a very real place in their society.
• One of the Boys: Manami said that when they were young, Kio was shy around women and she was able to get along with him due to her unfeminine personality.
• Only Flesh Is Safe: Catian weaponry focuses specifically on destroying material matter. In the 2nd episode, anti-matter hammers are used to destroy a battalion of tanks, and the clothes of the pilots inside. Later on in the series, anti-matter bullets are used to defuse a hostage situation by shooting the gun pointed at someone's head.
• Opening Narration: Not the show's own, though. Outside of the first two episodes, the show uses modified versions of other shows' opening narration. If you didn't even know some of the listed shows had a narration, they did in their Japanese dub.
  • Episode 3-4: Star Trek: The Original Series
  • Episode 5: Mission: Impossible
  • Episode 6: Charlie's Angels
  • Episode 7: Bewitched
  • Episode 8: Starsky & Hutch
  • Episode 11: Red Dwarf
  • Episode 12: The Greatest American Hero
  • OVA: I Dream of Jeannie
• Oral Fixation: Dr. Durel is almost never seen without something in her mouth.
• Overly Long Name: If you think JACK was that long, that is not the longest one. The record right now goes to Antonia Lirimonie Norfedras Papanorgas Arecroteles Cnorses Morfenoss.
• Parental Abandonment: Aoi's parents kicked her out after finding out about her apporting abilities. There might be more to the reasons why her parents left her behind if the DIA file on her from Episode 3 is accurate.
• Patient Childhood Love Interest: Manami.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Manami can skirt the line between this and Unprovoked Pervert Payback when Kio sees her in unfortunate positions. Really, beating the guy up for walking into his own living room? Or coming running to help you after hearing gunfire in a public street?
• Petite Pride: Chaika from the Catian ranks.
• Phenotype Stereotype: Jack, also an example of Americans Are Cowboys.
• Playing Cyrano: Manami does this for Aoi towards Kio, but the latter learns that the former is still in love with Kio too, due to certain dialogue, clues, and gestures Manami gives throughout the series. Aoi then calls Manami out on this in episodes 11 and 12, combined with a Don't You Dare Pity Me!.
• Polyamory: Having more than one mate is not taboo on Catia, so with Kio's house being the official Catian embassy, its soil is Catian territory, and therefore all three girls can share Kio without any problems. Kio doesn't seem to mind this decision... too much. This makes perfect sense if you know anything about mating among lions.
• Porn Stash: Kio has a few magazines. Not very secret, though, as even Manami knows where they are. And Eris keeps finding them... and using them as cultural references.
• Powered Armor: Aoi's Goujyuu Powered Suit. Also Eris's Latex Spacesuit is a light version of one. Jens has the same type as Aoi's. Turns out that the armor is actually Dogisian (Jen's race) technology.
• Power Perversion Potential: More technology than power, actually; Chaika explicitly says that the Caitians use their Super Multi-Purpose Room to satisfy their sexual urges. It's also a blatant copy of the Holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation as well — down to the grid displayed when the room is turned off.
• Pretty Freeloader: Eris, but only temporarily at first, as she had a mission to accomplish (namely collecting information about Earth).
• Product Placement:
  • Played straight with the current A&W logo and subverted in the very next shot with Manami's "OIAV" laptop.
  • And when we're at computers — you don't have to be too perceptive to notice that OS on screen after closing credits of episode 9 is Windows 7 (taskbar and general looks).
  • Also see Gun Porn, they do put THAT much detail on the guns in close up view.
• Psychic Powers: Aoi is an Apporter.
• Reality Is Unrealistic:
  • In-universe, Kio's friends in the Movie Club call Eris "too unrealistic" an alien for their movie. Undeterred, she gives them a flyover: whereupon the cameras pick up the ship's energy emitter probes (necessary to stabilize it for low-velocity atmospheric flight), which just happen to look exactly like strings suspending the ship. They then ask if she has an advanced robot, and she brings up an assistadroid, which they also lament looks more like a toy than an actual robot. Given an Ironic Echo in the OVA when the Movie Club considers putting together another science fiction movie and decides that having Starfish Aliens or Silicon-Based Life just isn't realistic compared to the already known Catians.
  • Also Itokazu's group wanted to get rid of Eris at first just for THIS reason alone.
• Real-Place Background: The show is set in Okinawa, and spends its opening, eyecatches and On the Next showing it off.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Aoi gives a passionate one to Eris on the beach, stating all the reasons Kio would choose Eris over her. Eris responds by hugging her and telling her that she knows how Aoi feels, then they get interrupted by a dog attack before Aoi can respond.
  • Manami also gives Eris a tongue-lashing in episode 12, stating similar reasons to Aoi about how she came in and "stole" him away from her. After hearing her gripes, Eris smiles, and suggests the three of them sharing him, which immediately shuts both of them up. Cue a confused Kio wondering what's going on.
• Reckless Gun Usage:
  • Aoi waves a revolver around in the first episode to intimidate her contact when he disturbs her while she's trying to arrange a date with Kio. She then goes on to actually fire it through the windshield of a moving vehicle in heavy traffic, showing no regard whatsoever for the risk to other cars.
  • Manami displays face-palmingly poor trigger discipline in episode 6, waving a revolver in Kio's face with her finger on the trigger. The gun had just been emptied, but that's no excuse: and she only gets worse later, when she loads the revolver and waves it around in a fast-food joint, once slamming it down on the table while pointed at Aoi. It was quite justified that even though Manami is a gun nut, it was shown that she barely know how to handle guns. And seemingly Kio is better at marksmanship than she is.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Manami (red) and Aoi (blue). Made explicit in the opening theme, as each of them are shown washed to their respective colors. Also, both girls serve as blue to Eris's red.
• Redundant Rescue: Type 2 in Episode 2, Kio enters the hanger to rescue Eris after everyone breaks into the military base only to find that she's already freed herself and beaten her captors senseless. Eris is still impressed that Kio risked his life to help her anyway.
• Retro Rocket: Kio is into classic SF, it seems.
• Rubber-Forehead Aliens:
  • Catians and Dogisians perfectly fit the trope. In the first episode, disbelief in Eris's species is expressed because she looks indistinguishable from a catgirl cosplayer. It doesn't help that she has both human and cat ears. Later in the same episode, Eris points out that her species was also rather shocked at how similar their race looks to Humans. In fact, they originally called themselves Earthlings and their planet was called Earth before they learned about Earth. Being the more advanced race, they decided to be courteous and rename their planet to Catia.
  • This is also one of the main reasons the conspiracy group First Contact wants to get rid of them, because they want Earth's First Contact aliens to look more alien.
• Scenery Porn: It's like a vacation brochure for Okinawa. The author of the light novels is a native of Okinawa and is proud of his home.
• School Swimsuit: The Catians actually hold a conference in them at Eris's suggestion (which was, in turn, Kio's porn stash's suggestion).
• Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale:
  • When the Catian mothership is sent out of control, it's stated by the Catians that an impact with Earth by a ship that size will destroy the planet. A news broadcast states that it will be a multi-kiloton impact, which is the size of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
  • Catians and humans are said to be genetically just one one hundredth of a percent different genetically. This is the level of genetic difference found between siblings, not different species (though that itself could be part of the joke).
• Senseless Violins: Aoi carries her tools of the trade in a cello case in Episode 3.
• Serious Business: The OVA involves everyone in the main cast playing various games, with prizes on the line that are either precious or embarrassing for each of the contestants. Given what's at stake, Aoi and Manami are particularly desperate to win.
• Sexual Euphemism: Manami calls it "très bien and c'est si bon".
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Manami invokes this trope when Kio mentions her talking to Jack on the phone, and assuming that it was a guy she was dating. This comes to haunt her when he (or rather a duplicate of him in the Catian holodeck) tells her that the reason why he stopped acting shy around her was because when he thought she had a boyfriend, he let go of his feelings for her, and treated her as "one of the guys", since he felt he didn't have a chance with her.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Manami tries to ship Aoi and Kio. However a bit of a tragic twist as she is only doing this because she believes she lost her chance to be with him.
  • Captain Kuune and Dr. Durel both actively work to set Eris up with Kio. Kuune is subtle and just tries to arrange opportunities for Eris to spend time with Kio so their relationship can grow naturally. Durel is a lot more aggressive about it and tells them to go ahead and enjoy Eris's first mating season while shooting down Kio's objections.
• Shoot the Bullet: To save Manami, Aoi shoots a sniper round in mid-flight with a Catian clothes-destroying bullet.
• Shoot the Messenger: Subverted and lampshaded. Aoi nearly killed her driver at point blank and clearly stated that she purposely missed because she just let him off the hook.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page.
• Shower Scene: With Jens in episode 9, and Eris in episode 2.
• Shown Their Work: The unrealistic nature of the premise is frequently lampshaded, in ways that make it clear the creators knew quite a bit about a number of relevant fields, but deliberately let Rule of Funny take over when the situation warrants it. Some examples:
  • The Catian mothership is so huge that if it were to ever crash into the Earth, it would cause an Extinction Level Event. Only a complete idiot would park a ship like that in orbit. Since the Catians aren't idiots, such ships are designed to self-destruct (read: break apart at the molecular level) long before an impending crash, specifically to avoid this, so the only danger is to those in the ship.
  • The Catians go into heat, as actual cats do. This is Played for Laughs. You'd think a space-faring race would realize the potential trouble this causes, and find a way around it. They are in fact perfectly capable of suppressing their heat cycle, and do so when necessary, but some of them leave it as normal simply because it's fun. Also, some of the dangerous features of their suits are locked down while in heat, which causes it's own problems.
  • It makes little sense for non-human mating practices to slot so easily into a Harem Anime romantic comedy plot... until it's revealed that the Catians, like Earth cats, have no problem at all with polygamy, so Marry Them All is the most realistic option.
• Shrinking Violet: Aoi in attitude, though her past as an immigration bureau agent would make one think otherwise. This is more of a Japanese cliché that's seen in multiple shows — the person put through Training from Hell Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome Training; these skills having been deemed unnecessary by the people doing the training. Multiple examples of this exist all through Japanese anime - and Aoi's no shrinking violet when the action starts, she just doesn't know anything at all about intimacy, or boy/girl relationships.
• Space Elevator: Catians' Christmas gift to Mankind.
• Special Effects Failure: In-universe example - in the OVA, the movie with Aoi and Manami in it has a guy in a rubber suit which catches on fire, which seems to be accidental. The guy in the suit even pats one of the fires out.
• Spell My Name With An S:
  • Eris/Elis/Elice.
  • Also Catia/Cathea/Kyatia.
  • Antonia/Antnia.
  • Muttley/Matray/Matlay/Madlay.
• Squee: Eris has this reaction for just about every tasty Earth food she's eaten, so she does this fairly often. In fact, her reactions were so good, everyone on the Catian mothership decided to visit Earth based on her food analysis report.
• Starfish Aliens: Notable by their absence, at least as far as races we've SEEN goes (the Orsonians may be a different matter, though) - much to the frustration of the Beautiful Contact Society, who go as far as deciding to threaten and - if necessary - KILL earth's first alien contact (as far as they know), simply because she doesn't fit their idea of what an alien SHOULD be.
• Stock Scream: In the English dub of episode 1, a Wilhelm Scream can be heard when a pirate gets knocked away during Aoi's infiltration.
• Strip Poker: In The OVA, The Female Catia Cast play strip mahjong and strip poker, and there is strip chess with Jens loosing to Muttley as well as strip rock paper scissors with Kio and some of the female cast, and Kio is winning (he was blindfolded and they kept using scissors to his rock).
• Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: As incredibly advanced as Catian technology is by our standards, the unseen Orsonians scare the crap out of pretty much every other space-faring race out there.
• Super Multi-Purpose Room: The Catians have a multipurpose virtual reality room capable of producing any type of environment and simulating anything... or anyone.
• Supporting Harem: No matter how much Aoi and Manami love Kio, they just know they won't stand a chance against Eris with Kio. However, this takes a variation when Eris lets Aoi and Manami know that she has no problem with sharing Kio with them.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: There is no-one inside the Earth-made Assistaroid suit. It is a robot that was created and there is no-one inside. Despite this, both Kio and Eris know Antonia is inside that "robot", but they largely play along until the end.
• Taking You with Me: The pirate boat captain tries this on Aoi when he blows up his ship in the beginning of episode 1. Except that both of them survive.
• Talking with Signs: The assist droids communicate in this fashion.
• Their First Time: Eris's first mating season. Kio is way too "pure-pure", though, and she has to prematurely end it because of some embarrasing incidents.
• This Is Reality: Time after time Kio has to remind everyone that Catians are real aliens.
• Those Two Guys: Kio's two male friends in the Film Club. The other two girls could probably count as female versions as well.

• Title Drop:
  • In the first minute of the first episode, and at the end of episode 2.
  • In every single episode, at the eyecatch, spoken by various characters.
• Toast of Tardiness: Antonia, Maya and Sara all have a piece of toast in their mouths when they transfer. Specifically invoked by Antonia, who learned about it by reading shojo manga.
• Token Mini-Moe:
  • Antonia, Melwyn, and Ichika. It's hard to tell if Chaika is this or just flat chested.
  • In the light novels, Chaika has three daughters; the youngest is 3-4, the oldest 16-17. She and Kuune were childhood friends. Ichika, on the other hand, is an immortal catgirl sage created hundreds of years ago on Earth with magic. Melwyn is 12.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Manami and Aoi, respectively, though Aoi is by far the more deadly of the two.
• Took a Level in Badass: Kio, who goes from 'standard-model Unlucky Everydude' to 'capable of tearing apart a Humongous Mecha with his bare hands' after getting his own suit of Powered Armour. The rest of the cast were suitably astonished.
• Too Much Information: Aoi and Manami's reaction to Chaika informing them that the Catian's Super Multi-Purpose Room can be and is used to create sexual partners.
• Transformation Sequence: Subverted; although the senior Catian officers can use this to change into their uniforms, Chaika isn't given that privilege and has to change manually.
• Tsundere:
  • Manami, a Type A, though in an unusual twist, she has no issues with talking about how much she likes Kio as a platonic friend. She's only tsundere about her romantic feelings toward him.
  • Aoi towards Manami, later on in the series anytime Manami brings up the subject of Kio; a type B situation.
• Unfazed Everyman: Kio and his friends in the Film Club, in stark contrast to everybody else in his life. Kio shows increasing signs of being an Action Survivor. And he might even be an Ordinary High-School Student yet.
• Unusual Ears: Becoming more so now that more races are being introduced. If you look, you'll see that the Catians have four ears — the two cat-style ones on the tops of their heads, and two very human-shaped ones in the usual places — usually covered by their hair.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight:
  • The assist droids are out in the open, and the people of Okinawa barely react. When they do, it's usually a quick, positive acceptance based on their cute appearance.
  • Unusually, Eris's unusual body parts also seems to be ignored by a lot of people. Lampshaded by Manami. Since Catians have FOUR ears, with two very human-looking, it's easy for Catians to pass as human cosplayers with good costumes.
  • And then there was one time Manami kept waving a revolver inside a regular restaurant. No-one really reacts about it.
  • Unless some major peace/alliance treaties were signed in this universe, it's a bit odd that there are NATO tanks and helicopters on Russian soil. They sort of try to justify it in-universe, but it's still kind of Hilarious in Hindsight that the Russians are allowing M1 Abrams tanks and Apache helicopters to roam on their lands like that.
    • The Dogisians have THAT MUCH political power. It's the reason why Antonia could not book a flight with a rocket anywhere in the entire world.
• Verbal Tic: Rulos, Eris's ship AI ends most sentences with ~deshi. Also, in the English dub, both the Catians and Jens are very prone to using cat and dog related phrases - [Okinawa cuisine] is the cat's meow, the Dogisians are forbidden to engage in interplanetary trade so they must have dug under the fence, and so forth.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Catians are shown to have a lower tolerance for high temperatures than humans. ^note This may seem odd for a feline race, but it's actually not that far-fetched: cats like warmth a lot, but if things gets too warm for them, they can get lethargic real easily... and they are as susceptible to sweltering, sunburns, and the like as humans are during hot temperatures. Eris swoons in the heat in episode two, prompting Kio to introduce her to ice cream, while the Catian ship crew find the simulated sauna practically unbearable after only a few minutes.
• Weather Dissonance: Episode 12 shows it snowing in Okinawa, which would normally be impossible because the islands has a humid tropical climate with temperatures only going down to about 60 degrees Fahrenheit or 15 degrees Celsius. Eris explains this is due to the activation of the Space Elevator cooling the air around it and causing large amounts of atmospheric water to freeze, part of which managed to stay frozen until reaching the ground because this happened at night.
• We Have Reserves: The Dogisian attitude to their assistaroids.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Explicitly brought up by Lawry, forming the basis of episode nine.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In episode 11, a terrorist seen in the first episode comes back and calls Aoi out for being a Tykebomb who's spent her life killing without love for the country that made her that way, and now she's fighting for a world she's never even seen. She eventually says Shut Up, Hannibal! and dissolves his gun with Catian bullets. Borders on a Subverted Trope — there's a trope overused in action movies where the victim tries to (and succeeds) in guilting their captor into letting them go by bringing the captor's faults to their attention. In Aoi's case, it fails — as the expression on the terrorist's face reveals.
• World of Action Girls: Nearly every girl in this series, from the alien ambassador in Latex Powered Armor, to the assassin with Teleportation powers, to the Patient Childhood Love Interest with only her courage, is a badass heroine. Antonia isn't...but she has an Amazon Brigade of heavily armed Meido to do the asskicking for her. Kio (the main male of significance) tries to keep up, but most of it's up to the girls.
• Wrong Genre Savvy:
  • You are in a Harem Show with Cat Girls, Antonia, not in a Shoujo.
  • One could also make an argument for most of the human race for trying to insist on seriousness in a universe inherently skewed toward silliness on the sliding scale.
  • Poor Maki doesn't live in a universe of Starfish Aliens. The members of Beautiful Contact try to KILL Eris because she doesn't fit the Starfish Aliens trope. At the very least, she'd accept Little Green Men as an alternative.
• You Are in Command Now: Happens to Kio when the Catian ship captain hands him her bell after falling unconscious to a Dogsian ambush. Cue salutes from the Catians, the droids, and shocked expression on the humans.
• You Are Number 6: Played literally and said word for word in the subtitles in episode 3 when the Assistaroids are numbered to make them easier to use, number 6 is the one we actually see being assigned a number.

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