- Badass Decay: Nyaro takes this to the logical extreme. At the beginning of the episode, he is introduced after having slain several gods, with bad lighting that barely reveals his features and apparently reveling in the carnage. By the end of the episode, he has been chased by the police, defeated several times by accident, and his One-Winged Angel form blasts off after basically having his toe stubbed. He actually puts up some of a fight in the light novels, but Nyarko still hands him his ass and sends him blasting off at the end.
- Base-Breaking Character:
- Mahiro leaves a mixed first impression to the fans due to his treatment of his three companions. He softens up to them overtime, though.
- Hasuta gets some flak for being a perceived The Generic Guy who only exists to please trap fans. His Older Alter Ego on the other hand...
- Crack Pairing: Considering the main pair is a human and an Outer God, you'd think this be enough, but there is also Cthugha x Nyarlathotep. In the regular Mythos, one was used to fight off the other; in Nyarko, this is acknowledged as the two races being bitter enemies. On top of that, Nyarko is utterly repulsed by Cuuko's advances, and she originally threatened to kill Mahiro, so all told Nyarko has some pretty solid reasons to not wanting Cuuko around.
- Fan Nickname: Ah, My Elder Goddess! and variations.
- Fridge Brilliance:
- Considering the official explanation that aliens love Earth culture, all of the show's copious references can easily be explained as the alien characters being total Otaku who love to pepper their daily conversations with lines from their favorite shows — just like Nyarko does.
- A rare example of this happening in the theme song, specifically, the ending of the first season, "Zutto Be With You". Nearly every single line ends with the sound "Oo". Try singing it out loud. Your face will look like you are desperately trying to blow someone a kiss.
- Fridge Horror:
- In the Dating Sim episode, Mahiro is unwillingly jumped around between the key events of the game, skipping over large portions of the school year. We are never outright told how the others experience it, but the fact that Nyarko had the time to knit a (rather long) scarf for Mahiro's Christmas present implies they lived out the whole thing. That in and of itself is pretty scary, but then one has to wonder what happened to Mahiro in the meantime — did he simply disappear, or was he on "autopilot" like Adam Sandler's character in Click when he fast-forwarded time?
- Fridge Brilliance and Fridge Horror: The gods of the Cthulhu mythos love Earth's anime, manga, and games - especially, apparently, the hentai stuff based on the doujin Nyaruko was buying in episode one. What is hentai infamous for? Of course it would appeal to them!
- Fridge Logic: Acknowledged in one of the Nyaruani shorts. Mahiro is reading the first light novel, and asks Cuuko some questions: she joined Nodens in order to see Nyarko again, and she got into the PDO thereafter thanks to an uncle who works in HR. If that is the case, he asks, why didn't she just join the PDO to begin with and not have to become a criminal? Cuuko responds by lighting Mahiro's book on fire, telling him it is a warning.
- Friendly Fandoms: With Demonbane, another Cthulhu Mythos-inspired series that features Moe characters.
- Genius Bonus: In one episode, Nyarko performs Eiji Hino's transformation pose; the sharp-eyed viewer (and one familiar with Kamen Rider OOO) will notice that the energy rings that appear correspond to the Kuwagata (Stag Beetle), Tora (Tiger), and Condor Medals. Applying the naming convention used for OOO's forms, one gets Ku-To-Ru - the Japanese pronunciation for "Cthulhu".
- Harsher in Hindsight: Or rather Creepier in Hindsight. Once you see Shantak-kun's human form, it becomes much harder to laugh at jokes involving its eggs, or how it snuck a sausage which was apparently laced with aphrodisiacs in Remember my Love(craft-sensei).
- In the first season, Nyarko gives Mahiro a Yes/No pillow that depicts her wearing black lingerie; the first time she actually wears that lingerie is during her off-mentioned emotional breakdown and Anguished Declaration of Love in the second season, where it is anything but sexy. On top of that, her breakdown is caused by the fact that Mahiro isn't willing to definitively say whether he's attracted to Nyarko or not — in other words, because he will not just say "Yes" or "No".
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech Yoriko gives about how she thinks the Xoth-731 console is doomed to failure became a lot funnier after the reveal of the Xbox One at E3 2013.
- In episode 1 of the second season, Mahiro adopts the Madness Mantra "It is just ink... it is just ink..." as Nyarko slaughters a Nightgaunt off-screen; jump ahead to episode 11 of Nyarko-San W, where the cast goes to a haunted house, and the mysterious stains on the carpet actually are ink.
- A voice actress-related example with Rie Kugimiya. We know that she voices Hasuta. Then in 2015, she voiced a character named Annie Hastur in the Japanese dub of League of Legends.
- Moe: Hasuta. Nyarko and Cuuko also count, given who they really are.
- Thanks to fanart, Mahiro has also been considered this.
- Memetic Mutation:
- The Strange Circumstances of one Mahiro Yasaka, as written by H.P. Lovecr/a/ft, from the /a/ board of 4chan, which is a re-imagining of the events of the episodes of the anime as if they were written and narrated by Lovecraft himself:
- A transcript of the posts up through Episode 11.
- "She is an Eldritch Abomination, not your waifu!"
- Nightmare Fuel: Played for Laughs. Mahiro finally having sex together with Nyaruko, in the sense that it ends with what may well be Out with a Bang. Note: this is how the series ends in the light novel.That night, the screams echoed through Mahiro's room.
"No!" 56 times,
"Help!" 77 times,
"I can't do it anymore!" 32 times,
"I'm dying!" an unmeasurable amount of times.
They all belonged to Mahiro. - Ron the Death Eater: Mahiro gets this a lot and is the reason why he's been called a Base-Breaking Character, but they're forgetting that Nyaruko keeps obsessing and annoying him. He is also not obligated to fall in love with Nyaruko just because she tells him that she loves him. He has said that he doesn't hate his three companions but just doesn't like all the trouble they've caused him. It also doesn't help that we've seen female characters hitting male characters in anime before, but I guess this is a Double Standard.
- The Scrappy: Not a lot of people find Cunne's "incestuous Psycho Lesbian" schtick very funny. The fact she is blatantly older than Cuuko only makes it worse.
- Tear Jerker:
- Nyaruko takes an attack meant for Mahiro and goes down, unmoving. Kuuko's reaction is bad enough, but Mahiro's is gutwrenching. He starts off telling Nyaruko to 'quit fooling around' in a trembling voice as if he still can't believe what he is seeing. He gets more and more desperate as it goes until he is finally screaming at her to get up, sobbing the entire time. Then it turns out Nyaruko was playing dead the whole time and uses Mahiro's lowered guard as an opportunity to french him.
- The beach episode: Nyaruko's pestering Mahiro throughout the whole day, with him making more and more aggressive attempts to ignore her. She finally makes an offhand remark about how it almost seems like he doesn't like her, but she knows that is impossible...Mahiro: I don't like you.
Nyaruko: (Goes into Color Failure and sinks to her knees, nearly comatose with shock.)
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Not exactly plot, but more than a few fans feel that the Lovecraft references should have been better utilized. Some have even accused them of just being window dressing to make the series seem less generic.
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