History Anime / Kakurenbo

* AllMythsAreTrue: Despite the characters' skepticism, all the rumors about the city being haunted by demon who play hide and seek with groups of eight people are completely true. [[spoiler:It makes sense; the leader of the demon was spreading the rumor to attract more kids to come and investigate it.]]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Hikkora becomes the host of the fifth demon and starts the next game of Hide and Seek.]]

!!Provides examples of:

* AllMythsAreTrue

* [[spoiler:AndThenJohnWasAZombie]]

* BecomingTheMask: A [[UnderStatement slightly]] [[FateWorseThanDeath more literal case here.]]

* CreepyChild: A few of the players, including [[spoiler:the Sorincha-imposter, and Hikkora]] at the end.
* CreepyTwins: Subverted. Despite their creepy silence and [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing eyes]], they never do any evil at all.
* CuteMute: It's hard to say if she can really be called "cute," since her face is covered by a fox-mask, but the lone female player doesn't speak, and her mask/costume are pretty cute...[[spoiler:Neither the muteness nor the cuteness lasts.]]
* [[spoiler:DemonicPossession: What the Fifth Demon is doing.]]

** She [[CassandraTruth speaks plenty]], its just not with [[spoiler: the VoiceOfTheLegion]] until the endgame.

* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the [[CreepyTwins twins]]. Played straight with the demons.
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: [[spoiler: Or rather, kill all but Hikkora. He just gets possessed by the main demon - arguably a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

* [[spoiler:LivingBattery: The machines use the children they captured for this.]]
* {{Mecha}}: The demons's designs are partly based on this.

* OminousFog: Appears at the end.

* [[spoiler:PoweredByAForsakenChild:]] What happens to the children who play the game and lose? [[spoiler:Their bodies are taken to the center of the town and are plugged into strange machines--their LifeEnergy is used to light up the town.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the [[CreepyTwins twins]]. Played straight with the demons.

* [[spoiler: SchmuckBait: The Nine-Tailed Fox tells the children exactly how to reach the arena and specifically of the demons to pique their interests.]] [[CassandraTruth The kids naturally don't listen]].

* SiblingTeam: The twins, plus Sorincha and Hikkora kinda.

* ThereAreNoAdults: No adults are seen or even referred to in this short--no, no one even mentions having parents. (Early concept art shows that originally, there ''were'' going to be adults in the town, but any adult who came in to find their children was turned into a featureless, mindless zombie.)
* [[spoiler: TooDumbToLive:]] All the kids but especially Noshiga for not listening when Sorincha [[spoiler: the BigBad tells them explicitly about all the dangers that they promptly disregard as fairy tales until its too late.]]

** [[spoiler: The "winner" - basically, the last one standing - is possessed by the final demon, is made "it", and is used to lure in more children, as we see with Hikkora in the end. Not to mention, and on a side note, the same thing probably happened to Sorincha earlier (off-screen) before "she" passes her brother the baton figuratively speaking, as it is highly likely that she was the previous "winner"; and that would explain why Hikkora thinks he is seeing and hearing his sister at first even though she is not the same anymore since the Fifth Demon has taken over her.]]

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* {{Mecha}}: The demons's designs are partly based on this.

* BecomingTheMask: A [[Understatement slightly]] [[FateWorseThanDeath more literal case here.]]

* ExactWords: Yaimao told Hikkora to find Sorincha. [[ItGotWorse Hoo Boy]].

* ThereAreNoAdults: No adults are seen or even referred to in this short--no, no one even mentions having parents. (Early concept art shows that originally, there ''were'' going to be adults in the town, but any adult who came in to find their children was turned into a featureless, mindless zombie.)

** [[AvertedTrope Averted hard]], since he only does when [[spoiler: [[LivingBattery he gets captured and realizes their all screwed]].]]

* BigBrotherMentor: Yaimao seems like the oldest or at least the most mature of the participants, and makes sure to keep an eye out for Sorincha and protect Hikkora, who clearly looks up to him.

** She speaks plenty, its just not with [[spoiler: the VoiceOfTheLegion]] until the endgame.

-> ''In the game of O To Ko Yo, kids will disappear.''

* ExecutiveMeddling: In the original script, the losing children were killed and horribly devoured by the demons, but the higher-ups thought it was too horrific even by the short's standard...Ironically, the ending they ''did'' approve of was more disturbing.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy, Suku (the small boy with the big red scarf), played by Creator/VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything]] even though he sounds eerily similar to the franchise's protagonist.
** Veronica Taylor [[TalkingToHimself also voices]] Sorincha... er, at least who we think is Sorincha. And [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} May]] just got scary since you can hear a bit of her voice in there too.
** Not to mention '''[[DanGreen DAN GREEN]]''' as Yaimao.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy, Suku (the small boy with the big red scarf), played by VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything]] even though he sounds eerily similar to the franchise's protagonist.

** Veronica Taylor also voices Sorincha... er, at least who we think is Sorincha. And [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} May]] just got scary since you can hear a bit of her voice in there too.

** [[spoiler: The "winner" - basically, the last one standing - is possessed by the final demon, is made "it", and is used to lure in more children, as we see with Hikkora in the end. Not to mention, the same thing probably happened to Sorincha earlier (off-screen) before "she" passes her brother the baton, figuratively speaking.]]

** [[spoiler: The "winner" - basically, the last one standing - is possessed by the final demon, is made "it", and is used to lure in more children, as we see with Hikkora in the end. Not to mention, the same thing probably happened to Sorincha earlier, off-screen, before "she" passes her brother the baton.]]

** Veronica Taylor also voices Sorincha... er, at least who we think is Sorincha. And you can hear a bit of [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} May's]] voice in there.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy, Suku (the boy with the red scarf), played by VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything]] even though he sounds eerily similar to the franchise's protagonist.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy, Suku, played by VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything]] even though he sounds eerily similar to the franchise's protagonist.

** [[spoiler: The "winner" is possessed by the final demon and used to lure in more children.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy, Suku, played by VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything]] even though he sounds eerily similar to the protagonist.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The dub contains voice actors from numerous companies, including one boy played by VeronicaTaylor. [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} No, he doesn't catch anything.]]

* BigBrotherMentor Yaimao seems like the oldest or at least the most mature of the participants, and makes sure to keep an eye out for Sorincha and protect Hikkora, who clearly looks up to him.