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1	%%Sentai spells the long O's in the title without Us. See http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Watch-Anime/Urara-Meirocho
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4	''Urara Meirocho'' is a {{yonkoma}} manga by Harikamo and published in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Miracle!'' since 2014, moving to ''Manga Time Kirara'' as of October 2017. The series concluded in 2019, compiled into seven volumes. It received an animated adaptation by Creator/JCStaff in the winter 2017 season, which ran for 12 episodes adapting the events of the first 23 chapters. In North America it is distributed by Creator/SentaiFilmworks and livestreamed by Creator/AnimeNetwork.
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6	The series focuses on the WildChild Chiya, as she ventures into Meirocho ("Labyrinth Town") to become an Urara (a type of fortune-teller) and search for her MissingMom.
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9	!!''Urara Meirocho'' contains examples of:
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11	* AnachronismStew: Assuming this series is based on Meiji/Taisho era, then Ko'ume's bikini in Episode 8 seems at least several decades too early.
12	* AntiquatedLinguistics:
13	** The kitsune spirit speaks like this, using the feminine, archaic "''warawa''" to refer to herself.
14	** Incantations are recited in archaic language.
15	* TheApprentice: The main cast are apprentices in divination.
16	* ChromosomeCasting: While the fact that the uraras are all women have internal justification, the fact that all the law enforcement in the town are women smacks of this trope.
17	* CreepyDoll: Nono's doll, Matsuko, is exactly that. She's a doll with dark, gloomy eyes that speaks in a really deep voice and can spin her head around 360 degrees, as shown in Episode 1. The background also changes to a dark blue pattern when focusing on her. Not quite Nightmare Fuel, but definitively uncanny.
18	* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The OP, "Yumeji Labyrinth", is performed by Sayaka Harada (Chiya), Creator/YurikaKubo (Koume Yukimi), Haruka Yoshimura (Nono Natsume), and Creator/KaedeHondo (Kon Tatsumi).
19	* ExorcistHead: Matsuko is seen spinning her around on different occasions. In Episode 1 she does a full 360 spin.
20	* FairytaleWeddingDress: The first half of episode 5 is mainly about this. Meirocho has a yearly festival where uraras are required to wear the Japanese wedding dress ''shiromuku''.
21	* {{Familiar}}: The main cast all have this in some form:
22	** Chiya has [[spoiler:Kurou]].
23	** Kon has one or more [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] that she summons for OuijaBoard divination, but she can also let those spirits take over her for short periods of time.
24	** For Ko'ume, the spirit inside her DowsingDevice, whatever it's called.
25	** [[CreepyDoll Matsuko]] acts like one for Nono.
26	* FortuneTeller: The Uraras are this, and they live in Meirocho, a town of diviners.
27	* FrothyMugsOfWater: Originally, the uraras did drink the religious sake during the shiromuku festival. When adopted as the fifth episode of the anime, though, they just smelled it--but enough to give Chiya IntoxicationEnsues.
28	* KyuAndDanRanks: Uraras' levels are organized in this way, although the suffix used is -han, which ordinarily turns a number into ordinals.
29	* JustFriends: Lampshaded in episode 3, usually in anime 2 girls have an scene in which they deepen their bonds in what for an outsider looks clearly like a romantic scene, but they also usually tend to shut down that scene saying they're "friends", this didn't work in episode 3 though, when Koume said it to Chiya, the background characters immediately commented on the scene saying they're having a "lover's quarrel", making Koume realize that nobody bought her "friends" speech.
30	* TheMaze: Team Natsume-ya has to navigate the Belly of the Serpent, a cryptic labyrinth filled with traps, where they are required to retrieve a hidden key arrow to pass the Rank 9 promotion examination.
31	* MickeyMousing: The ED theme, Go to Romance, is an {{Exaggerat\|ed Trope}}ion. Not only are the girls' movements and camera cuts perfectly timed with the music, several of the lyrics directly refer to their moods and actions during their respective portions of the sequence.
32	* TheNarrator: Unusual for this type of work. Performed by Creator/KikukoInoue.
33	%%* OpeningNarration:
34	%%-->''Sometimes, people lose their way to their fate, or the crossroads of life, as they wander through the maze of their everyday lives. In those times, a diviner can present you with an arrow pointing you to the right choice. The magical power that points the way is sometimes panacea, sometimes poison. To possess that power, one must be a girl who has passed her fifteenth birthday. The girls in this fortune-telling town are sometimes goddesses, sometimes witches--''
35	%%-->''Cast [[SpeakInUnison in unison]]'': Urara!
36	%%* SliceOfLife: One which is supernatural-themed.
37	* SneezeCut: Saku has one at the end of the first episode, ''probably'' courtesy of Chiya.
38	* SupernaturalGoldEyes: The kitsune spirit's hosts sport these eyes.
39	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In episode 8, Nina first recalls that the gods of the town often purify themselves in the springs across the town... then added that they are the most ''definitively'' not there to cool off because it has been hot lately.
40	* ThoseTwoGirls: Oshima and Shiozawa, two patrol officers who work under Saku. They are often seen admiring her.
41	* {{Whatevermancy}}: Uraras are not limited by one kind of divination. Even in the introduction, we have been shown with a large number of these working in Meirocho.
42	* {{Wutai}}: WordOfGod confirms this series is based on Meiji/Taisho era Japan. But this is also a universe where gods definitively exists and speak to humans, and because of this, the uraras can use divination via the gods' powers.
43	* {{Yonkoma}}: Like other manga series published in ''Manga Time Kirara Miracle!'', ''Urara Meirocho'' is illustrated in the four-panel format.

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