Sweet Piglet
(also known as Master and Piglet) is a children's book written and drawn by Midori Harada (who is known for doing artwork for Pokémon). Sweet Piglet chronicles the life of a man and his pet piglet, up until the man's death of illness and the piglet wanting to see its master again.
Tropes for Sweet Piglet:
- Ambiguous Gender: The piglet is never referred to as he or she (save for one apparent translation error), just it.
- Children Are Innocent: The titular piglet, which makes the situation all the more tragic, as they don't understand why its Master is gone or why they can't join him.
- Bittersweet Ending: The Piglet apparently dies and joins its master in the afterlife.
- Driven to Suicide: Apparently, the piglet, seeing as it had gone to a butcher wanting to be a meat. The Butcher turns him away.
- Foregone Conclusion: We have some layer of this, earlier in the story, when the Master starts getting a mysterious pain in his back and, after awhile, he's made to go to the doctor, who informs he's to be hospitalized. Things go downhill for the Piglet from there.
- Housepet Pig: The Master has a loyal pet piglet who loves him dearly.
- No Name Given: The Master and the Piglet, actually, no one is named.
- Radiograph of Doom: When the Master is at the doctor's, we see X-rays with what looks like a mass in the background.
- Snow Means Death: In the end, the piglet apparently dies in the beginning of winter, seeing its master again.
- Soap Opera Disease: We never find out what the master's illness was besides that it was terminal.
- Together in Death: Implied to the case in with the piglet and its master in the end.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Cabbage is the Piglet's.
- Undying Loyalty: The Piglet, who continuously visits its Master's grave and lays flowers on it
