#One dog story tv tropes movie
#One dog story tv tropes series

In Digimon Adventure, Patamon gets lost and overhears a couple of teenage girls talking about how Hachiko is where to go if you want to meet up with someone.

Hachiko makes a cameo appearance in the first Death Note movie, in a scene where news of Kira's exploits are starting to spread.

The statue can be seen in Risky☆Safety.

Recovering the original Hachiko statue from thieves who had stolen it is one of the things that brings 'Captain Tokyo' to the media's attention.

Mirai briefly waits for a male friend (on whom she has a crush) by the statue of Hachiko in one episode.

The main characters of Gals! often congregate around the statue of Hachiko.

Talk to the old lady in the other side of the street, and she tells you the two of them were abandoned and are waiting there every day for their old Trainer to return.

In the front of Lumiose Station in Pokémon X and Y, there are two Skiddo sleeping next to each other, which is rather cute.

In Persona 5, a book that the protagonist can read is titled 'Buchiko' telling the story of a dog waiting for his master's return.

Koromaru is eventually revealed have a human-like intelligence and joins the party as a Team Pet to avenge his master, who turns out to have been killed by Shadows. Even a year after his owner was killed, Koromaru would still go on the same walk that his owner used to take him on every day.

Koromaru from Persona 3 is a Fictional Counterpart of Hachiko.

Most character classes begin with a random, nameless pet animal: Samurai always receive a little dog named Hachi. In Shibuya you can meet as enemies 'Hachiko Zombie', which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin.

Dandy Dungeon II is set in a parodistic version of Tokyo and, as such, it has many bizarre versions of locations and landmarks.

At the end, Brock shattered Ninetales' Poké Ball to release it so it could go free.

#One dog story tv tropes series

An episode of Pokémon: The Series features a Ninetales who's been waiting for its master, the owner of a mansion who died centuries ago and never returned, and mistook Brock for him due to their physical resemblance.The statue is prominently featured at several points in the anime's opening (and even comes to life and dances with the three main characters), and will sometimes show up as part of a joke in the series itself. Gals! takes place in Shibuya, where Hachiko's statue is located.Cue Gintoki screaming hilariously in horror and kicking the radio out cold. The dog is named Jerry rather than Hachiko and instead of dying, he turns into a seemingly harmless old man that turned into a monster. In Gintama, when Kagura is having trouble sleeping, they listen to a variation of the story on a radio talk show.One of Luffy's earliest adventures in One Piece pays Hachiko a homage in the form of a dog who waits and guards his late master's pet food shop.Fortune Dogs includes an expy of Hachiko in one episode who suffers the same fate as the real one.Fran, on the other hand.įran: I thought they addressed the bestiality quite tastefully. Veronica, who insisted on saving the dog in the first place, is horrified.

#One dog story tv tropes movie

Hachiko is parodied when a movie changes Pudding into a handsome bishounen, who then gets into an explicit romantic relationship with Emily's aged-up counterpart even though she's still aware he's a dog inside.

Of course, a statue of the loyal man-dog is built in his memory. Unfortunately she gets pneumonia and dies in a faraway hospital, leaving the poor dog-man to waste away while awaiting her return. Did I mention the dog's owner is a little girl? After defending his owner from rapists, the girl Emily accepts and loves her dog, even if his form is a bit weird.

An appropriately squicky parody of Hachiko shows up in Franken Fran, who puts the brain of Pudding (Hachiko's equivalent here) in the body of a balding, portly middle-aged man (she at least gives him underwear) the 'dog' remains his usual affectionate self.

The nickname is generally shortened to 'Hachi,' since 'hachi' means 'eight,' and 'nana' means 'seven'.

In Nana, one of the two titular Nanas (Nana Komatsu) is nicknamed 'Hachiko' because of her loyalty, but also due to her personality being rather doglike in general (being very excitable and clingy towards those she loves).