History Anime / Barangay143

* ShesGotLegs: Vicky when she's in short shorts.

-->''Ito ang liga ng buhay.'' ("It's the league of life.")

* BlandNameProduct: "Friendspace," a social-media network that's an obvious {{Expy}} of Website/{{Facebook}}, with its name likely taken from older social networks Friendster and [=MySpace=]. In Episode 5, Buchoy (Bren's new little friend) was logged onto it in an Internet café, which is how Bren finds out Jinri's been trying to contact him. (Although one wonders why he didn't get the same notifications from his phone.)

* ShesGotLegs: Vicky when she's in [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]].

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Vicky does sometimes, along with a t-shirt that forms one of her default outfits (the other is her purple hoodie, usually paired with black leggings).

%%* {{Meganekko}}: Vicky (well, when she wears glasses, at least).

* NotSoSafeHarbour: Barangay 143 is smack up against northern Manila's Port Area, and it's indicated Buchoy's drunkard father lives on a sort of houseboat or tugboat. When Buchoy puts away his dad's beer and gin bottles, the dad flies into a rage and upsets a burner, causing a house(boat) fire from which Bren rescues Buchoy.

** There are also scenes and lines which shows racial discrimination among the Filipinos, especially if the person is considered First Generation MixedAncestry and have grew up away from the Philippines. This also applies to some foreigners in the Philippines and some them were targets of attempts banning them in some aspects of the society and life in the country.

* {{Meganekko}}: Vicky (well, when she wears glasses, at least).
* MixedAncestry: Bren Park. [[spoiler:His father is biologically, a Filipino.]]His mother, Park Yu-mi, is a Korean.

* SmurfettePrinciple: Vicky. She's basically the Filipino equivalent of [[Manga/KurokoNoBasuke Riko Aida]].

The anime centres around that most Filipino of obsessions—street basketball—and follows a [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits ragtag underdog street-ball team]], the Puzakals that hail from the titular Barangay 143, a poor neighbourhood in the City of UsefulNotes/{{Manila}}. (''Barangay'' is the rough Filipino term for "neighbourhood".) As the series opens, they've been losing badly, but that's nothing compared to the personal tragedy they're going through: Baste, the captain of the Puzakals and the son of Coach B, was brutally shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike—leaving Coach and his daughter Vicky to fill in the gaping hole both in the team and in their lives. Meanwhile, over in South Korea, Bren T. Park grapples with family duties even as he makes captain of his own basketball team, but tragedy claims his family as well and eventually drives him to find his true parentage in the Philippines (it's that kind of show, and he's only half-Korean), where events will put him on a collision course with—who else—that ragtag team angling to bring glory to their hometown, Barangay 143.

* AffectionateNickname: Buchoy, the barangay's plucky little elementary-school-aged kid, frequently calls Bren "[=KPop=]", as in the music genre (a very popular one in the Philippines as of the present).

* BlandNameProduct: "Friendspace", a social-media network that's an obvious {{Expy}} of Website/{{Facebook}}, with its name likely taken from older social networks Friendster and [=MySpace=]. In Episode 5, Buchoy (Bren's new little friend) was logged onto it in an Internet café, which is how Bren finds out Jinri's been trying to contact him. (Although one wonders why he didn't get the same notifications from his phone.)

** In the song, "Para sa isa't isa", some of its lines were in Korean.

** One of the Puzakals' rival teams is named the Oso Negros—on the surface it's derived from the Filipino-Spanish for "Black Bears", but add a "P" to "Oso" and it becomes "Poso Negros"—''Sewers''. (The incorrect "Spanish" grammar gives it away, because the proper Spanish translation of "Black Bears" would be "Oso'''s''' Negros". Well, then again, even "sewers" would translate as "''pozos negros''"—literally meaning "black wells"—but suffice it to say that Filipinos would understand the pun from hearing it.)
** The Puzakals themselves are presumably named, tongue-in-cheek style, after the Azkals, a RealLife Philippine team … in ''football''. (They're the Philippine national football team, in fact.) "''Azkals''" is the shortened plural of ''asong kalye'', or "stray dog"; likewise, "''Puzakals''" comes from ''pusang kalye'', or "stray cat".

** After getting two leads on the whereabouts of Bren's biological father, he then promised Buchoy to treat him at "[=McJollie=]", a nearby fast-food restaurant near the Barangay. The name "[=McJollie=]" is a reference to the two rival fast-food chains in the Philippines (the local Jollibee and the international UsefulNotes/{{McDonalds}}).

** There are also scenes and lines which shows racial discrimination amongst the Filipinos, especially if the person is considered First Generation MixedAncestry and have grew up away from the Philippines. This also applies to some foreigners in the Philippines and some them were targets of attempts banning them in some aspects of the society and life in the country.

* PanderingToTheBase: Received some criticisms that it was basically a {{Telenovela}} in anime form, attracting the [[LowestCommonDenominator younger Filipino masses]] with popular mass-based obsessions, like basketball, loveteams, and Koreans.

** There are also scenes and lines which shows racial discrimination amongst the Filipinos, especially if the person is considered 1st Generation MixedAncestry and have grew up away from the Philippines. This also applies to some foreigners in the Philippines and some them were targets of attempts banning them in some aspects of the society and life in the country.

* SmurfettePrinciple: Vicky. She's basically the equivalent of Riko from ''Manga/KurokoNoBasuke''.
* {{Telenovela}}: Having Filipino screenwriters and network executives directing them, it's perhaps not entirely surprising that the overall plot of ''Barangay 143'' owes quite a bit to SoapOpera tropes, such as tragic character backstories, {{Love Triangle}}s, near-fatal accidents and hospital scenes, overly emotional acting heavy with shouting matches, and a domineering wealthy female antagonist in the persona of Wax' mother Sophia, among others.

** Vicky was once also trying to sign up for her high school's women's basketball team, but she gets into a fight with an AlphaBitch classmate who vandalised her locker and accused her of selling out to the Koreans and costing the Philippine team their win. Naturally, the school administration sides with the powerful—the family of the girl Vicky assaulted is cited as a generous donor to the school—and suspends Vicky for three months, thereby ending her chances of joining the women's team. Not even Wax' defence of Vicky ends up helping her case.

* PanderingToTheBase: Received some criticisms that it was basically a {{Telenovela}} in anime form, attracting the [[LowestCommonDenominator younger Filipino masses]] with popular mass-based obsessions, like basketball and Koreans.