History Anime / Kamichu

* AdultsAreUseless: not quite useless, but Matsuri and Miko's father abdicates his role as head priest the instant he thinks the girls are old enough.

* {{Jerkass}} - Matsuri. In almost any other series, her use of Yurie to help the shrine wouldn't be anything special, but considering the tone of Kamichu, Matsuri is being quite exploitative.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as it's revealed in the very first episode that they're on the verge of repossession (even their furniture has been tagged) and she's constantly worried about losing the shrine and (in the manga) providing for Miko.

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[[caption-width-right:280:Mitsue, Miko, Yurie, and Matsuri. Spot the deity.]]

* ExcitedShowTitle

** [[ComicBook/TheSandman The God of Death appears to be a]] PerkyGoth.

* {{Bishonen}} - Yashima-sama fits the mold of a bishonen boy... er, god.

* PowerMakesYourHairGrow - When Yurie exercises her divine powers, she gets extreme RapunzelHair.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent - Episode four moves into Science Fiction.
* SpiritAdvisor - Yashima

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship
** Curiously, Yurie has a lot more chemistry with Matsuri than with her love interest Kenji.
** In the manga, Matsuri and Yurie get into what could easily be construed as a lover's quarrel.

* InnocentBlueEyes: Yurie has these as does her brother and father. However their eyes are a significantly weaker shade of blue compared to Yurie.

[[caption-width-right:280:Mitsue, Miko, Yurie, and Matsuri]]

* OneHundredAndEight
** The number of Yurie's fortune in the last episode.
** Also, her rank (dead last) on the midterm exam at her transfer school in episode 12.

* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: Yurie's dad is making those for the future: Of her sleeping and drooling on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotatsu Kotatsu]], of her in pajamas, or her being too lazy to come from under the Kotatsu to use the phone.

* {{Kotatsu}} - Yurie literally spends all of episode 14 under one.

* AGodAmI - Averted wonderfully; Yurie is completely unassuming and seems vaguely uncomfortable about the obligations of her new divine status. Rather than pontificate about her newfound power, she almost freezes up when asked to speak at her first festival.

** Yurie's mom may be an even bigger one. She falls for any story told to her, she makes Yurie look like a hardened cynic.

** Curiously, Yurie has a [[RelationshipWritingFumble lot more chemistry with Matsuri than with her love interest Kenji.]]
** In the manga, Matsuri and Mitsue get into what could easily be construed as a lover's quarrel arguing over Yurie.

* {{Jerkass}} - Matsuri. In almost any other series, her use of Yurie to help the shrine wouldn't be anything special, but considering the tone of Kamichu, Matsuri is being quite exploitative.[[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in the manga where it's revealed that they're on the verge of repossession and she's constantly worried about providing for Miko.

What would you do if your best friend suddenly announced that she [[MagicalRealism had just become a god]] during lunch at school? Well, if you're anything like Mitsue Shijo, you'd probably assume the awkward and young-for-her-age eighth grader Yurie Hitotsubashi was joking with you, at least until you are approached by classmate and local shrine miko Matsuri Saegusa who also claims to have recognized little Yurie's “air of divinity”. Together they set out to uncover Yurie's supposed powers and place in the world of Japanese Shinto, where cities, places, objects and even concepts can all have their own minor deities and the local goddess may just well be a cute and unassuming middle school girl. On the way they encounter a little more than they had bargained for.

* HaveYouSeenMyGod - The basic plot for episode two of the anime. The girls spend a day looking (unsucessfully) for the previous devine tenant of Miko and Matsuri's family shrine, culminating in the page image above.
* HiddenDepths: Yurie's parents in the beach episode. It turns out the dad was once an amateur photographer but he couldn't go professional because his talent only lay in photographing people and the town he loves. Mom is three years younger than dad and the two of them have been in love with each other since the time when they were teens at the beach.

[[caption-width-right:280:Mitsue, Miko, Yurie & Matsuri]]


'''a.k.a.''' ''Kamichu!'', ''Teenage Goddess'', ''Kami-chu! ~Kamisama de Chugakusei''

''Kamichu'' (かみちゅ) is an anime series produced by Aniplex.

What would you do if your best friend suddenly announced that she [[MagicalRealism had just become a god]] during lunch at school? Well, if you're anything like Mitsue Shijo, you'd probably assume the awkward and young-for-her-age eighth grader Yurie Hitotsubashi was joking with you, at least until you are approached by classmate and local shrine miko Matsuri Saegusa who also claims to have recognized little Yurie's “air of divinity”. Together they set out to uncover Yurie´s supposed powers and place in the world of Japanese Shinto, where cities, places, objects and even concepts can all have their own minor deities and the local goddess may just well be a cute and unassuming middle school girl. On the way they encounter a little more than they had bargained for.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl - Matsuri

* SweetDreamsFuel

* KingOfAllCosmos - Among other things, the SevenLuckyGods as a Jpop band, including Benten as a {{Catgirl}} vocalist and Bishamon with a cool guitar.

* CloudCuckoolander - Kenji. Dear god, Kenji.

** Curiously, Yurie has a lot more chemistry with Matsuri than with her love interest Kenji.

* {{Iyashikei}}

** With the exception of the BeachEpisode, in which Mitsue and Matsuri seem to have WAY too much boobage for girls still in middle school. Padded bathing suits, or just early bloomers? [[TruthInTelevision It does happen.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: The real reason why Miko runs away from home. She's got a crush on Yashima-sama, but he likes Matsuri. So Miko wants to run away in case she starts hating Matsuri.