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[[File:DearS.jpg|frame|There are aliens among us, and they're ''hot''.]]
[[Next Sunday
▲[[Next Sunday AD|In the not-too-distant future]], humanity is minding its own business when a huge alien spacecraft suddenly makes a crash-landing in Tokyo Bay. Its passengers look [[Human Aliens|very much like humans]], with a few key differences: The vast majority of them are [[Cute Monster Girl|incredibly beautiful young females]], and they all wear [[Slave Collar|large, distinctive collars]] around their necks. While they appear to "come in peace", their nature and origins are a mystery they don't seem eager to reveal. Lacking the knowledge to repair their ship, they decide to integrate into human society through a government-funded "home stay" program, picking up human languages and customs with surprising speed. Their eternally friendly, helpful, and accommodating nature earns them the nickname "DearS".
One year later, [[Ordinary High School Student]] Takeya Ikuhara is still suspicious of the alien "invaders", though most of his friends are infatuated with them. Walking home one afternoon, Takeya notices a girl huddled under a blanket at the side of the road, on the verge of collapsing from hunger. Taking pity on her, he carries the strange girl back to his apartment, only to discover that she is one of the very aliens he so distrusts. But "Ren", as Takeya nicknames her, is no ordinary DearS: She seems completely oblivious to even the most fundamental human customs (e.g. [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|wearing clothes]]), and she eagerly explains to anyone who will listen that Takeya is now her "master", and she is his "slave".
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So in short, ''[[Alien Nation (TV series)|Alien Nation]]'' as a romance manga with Newcomers wanting to be slaves.
Based on the manga by [[Peach
{{tropelist}}
* [[Above the Influence]] -- Ren explicitly offers to have sex with Takeya when he starts to feel turned on by her presence. Yet, because she's an alien and (primarily) because he feels that Ren isn't really doing it out of love, he politely (for him, anyway) declines.▼
== A-E ==
* [[Abuse Is Okay When Its Female On Male]] -- Takeya's sister, Natsuki cannot stand it when she finds out that Ren and Takeya are living together. While she's implying using physical force or wrestling moves on Ren, she actually does it to Takeya instead. Apparently Natsuki learned it from their mother, who also punishes her similarly from time to time.▼
▲* [[Above the Influence]]:
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]:
* [[Adult Child]]:
* [[An Aesop]]: The story has a really unsubtle moral that boils down to "love only happens if you aren't trying so hard for it to happen."
* [[Anime Hair]]:
* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]:
* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]:
** China shows this a bit at times, but ''not'' quite to Nia's level.
* [[Bait and Switch Credits]]:
* [[Barbie Doll Anatomy]]:
* [[Big Eater]]:
* [[Blank Slate]]:
** Happens twice in the manga.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]:
* [[Butt Monkey]]:
* [[Casanova]]:
* [[Catgirl]]:
** With her big paws, tail and mane she looks more like a ''[[Ambiguous Species|lion]]'' girl. Despite the fact that [[Animal Gender Bender|only male lions have manes.]]
* [[Cat Smile]]:
* [[The Chew Toy]]:
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]:
* [[Closet Sublet]]:
** Any other [[DearS]] that temporarily stays with Takeya usually sleeps in the bottom half under Ren.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]:
* [[Comic Sutra]]: In episode 9.5, Miu heads over to Takeya's house to check in on Ren, only to find her "Watching porn to study Takeya's preferences in the earthling ways of sex."
{{quote|'''Ren:''' ''Holy cow, that looks pretty complicated...''
'''Miu:''' '''''IS SHE SPINNING!?''''' }}
* [[Compressed Adaptation]]:
* [[Continuity Cameo]]:
* [[Cursed with Awesome]]:
* [[Cypher Language]]: [[DearS]] language (a substitution cypher for hiragana) is used for [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101231255/http://rickadams.org/thumbnails/dears1.jpg episode titles] and at various other times. Example: Ren's [https://web.archive.org/web/20131101203624/http://rickadams.org/thumbnails/renrenren.jpg serial number] in episode 1.
* [[Dancing Theme]]:
* [[Deconstruction]]: Two of them. One is of the concept of a slave race, which {{spoiler|the [[DearS]] set themselves up to be, and the reasons why are rather disturbing.}} The other, somewhat less serious one is Mitsuka-sensei, a deconstruction of the [[Hot for Teacher]] trope. She is, objectively speaking, good looking, but in both the anime and manga she takes hitting on her own students so far ''even the hormone addled males'' find her to be [[Fetish Retardant]], and it's heavily implied that she might actually get somewhere if she wasn't trying so hard.
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]:
▲* [[
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]:
* [[Dude, She's Like, in a Coma]]:
* [[Ecchi]]:
** The [[Hot Springs Episode]] in particular ''really'' skirts the [[Hentai]] line.
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]:
* [[Expy]]:
** Miu sure looks a lot like [[Full Moon o Sagashite|Meroko]], minus the green eyes - The hair is spot on!
* [[Fan Service]] -- Aplenty.▼
== F-J ==
* [[First Kiss]] -- Ren uses one on Takeya to confirm their master-slave relationship in the first episode.▼
▲* [[First Kiss]]:
* [[Foreign Language Title]]
* [[Gainaxing]]
* [[Gecko Ending]]
* [[Genki Girl]]:
* [[Gratuitous English]]:
* [[Hadaka Apron]]
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]:
* [[Harem Nanny]]:
* [[Healing Hands]]:
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]:
* [[Hot for Student]]:
* [[Hot Mom]]:
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]:
* [[Ho Yay]]:
* [[Human Aliens]]:
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]
* [[I Kiss Your Hand]]:
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Nia. She's supposed to capture Ren, but [[Once an Episode]] she goes out and [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|completely forgets just what the hell she's doing,]] often to chase after a [[Delicious Distraction]].
* [[Innocent Cohabitation]]:
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]:
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]:
* [[Landlady]] -- Neneko Izumi▼
== K-O ==
* [[Latex Space Suit]] -- All DearS have one, and they leave little to the imagination ([[Mr. Fanservice|this includes the male "Biters"]]).▼
▲* [[Latex Space Suit]]:
** Also an example of [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: The suits contain a powerful "gravity manipulation device", allowing for effortless [[Telekinesis]] and [[Flight]] (though these are only used when absolutely necessary). Presumably this is also the source of the DearS' [[Healing Hands|healing powers]]. When not needed, the suits turn into [[Pure Energy]] and are stored inside the DearS' collars.
*** While the clothes do turn into energy for storage (depending on the anime or the manga, the clothes either swap completely or it only affects the standard latex suit, requiring a change of normal clothes anyway), the [[Power Crystal|forehead crystal]] are responsible for controlling the [[DearS]]' gravity manipulation, as well as other abilities not further mentioned (although it is active during the time that Ren learns Japanese). Wearing the latex outfit is not required.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
{{quote|'''Miu:''' 'Since it is a bath house, a woman would be better than a man.'
'''Ren:''' 'A woman would be better?'
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'''Ren:''' 'Is that so?' ''moves in front, also looking at the viewer.''
'''Takeya, [[Art Shift|Art Shifted]]:''' 'Um, who are you talking to?' }}
* [[Lethal Chef]]:
* [[Likes Older Women]]:
▲* [[Lethal Chef]] -- Ren's cooking was so bad that any humans who ate it cried ''tears of blood''. Apparently, however, other [[DearS]] (or, at the very least, Miu) find it to be heavenly. Ren's cooking does improve... sort of.
▲* [[Likes Older Women]] -- Takeya, or at least he's mercilessly teased about being one after Ren blurts out the contents of his [[Porn Stash]] to his classroom.
* [[Magical Girlfriend]]: Ren.
▲* [[Loveable Sex Maniac]] - Mitsuka-sensei
* [[
* [[My Hero Zero]]:
▲* [[Moment Killer]] -- God''damn'', but Natsuki has some sense of timing.
* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]]:
▲* [[My Hero Zero]] -- In the DearS' language, "Ren" means "zero" or "nothing". It's the first digit of Ren's [[You Are Number Six|identification number]], because that's how the DearS indicate "defective units".
* [[New Transfer Student]]: Ren and Miu.
▲* [[My Sensors Indicate You Want to Tap That]] -- [[DearS]] can sense emotion from their masters, including any desires they might have.
* [[
* [[
* [[The Ojou]]:
▲* [[OT 3]] - Manga Only: A rare canonical example in that {{spoiler|with all [[DearS]] now fertile, Ren, Miu, China and even Nyu, all want to participate in 'baby making' with Takeya.}}
▲* [[The Ojou]] -- Miu, again. Refined speech patterns? Check. Frilly and girlishly princess-like decor and clothing? Check. Although when you take [[Dark and Troubled Past|certain factors]] into account, you realize that she's [[Broken Bird|compensating for something]]...
* [[Overly Long Name]]:
▲* [[Otaku]] -- Neneko has shades of this, as shown in Ep. 9.
▲* [[Overly Long Name]] -- Ren's full name is Ren Ren Ren Nagusaran Rensia Rurunnren Nakora, and Miu's full name is Sia Nostal Ren Naguregyug Thanast Useim Ruki Miu. [[Justified]] due to [[You Are Number Six]] (see below).
== P-T ==
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Mitsuka, at one point in the manga, takes a brief break from her usual pervy ways to fashion a swimsuit (a decent one, at that) for the youngest [[DearS]] so she can have fun swimming like everyone else.
** Also for Mitsuka: Takeya had bought a rabbit as a pet for Ren. The moment Mitsuka heard about it, she warned him, with obvious genuine concern, that rabbits left completely alone often quickly lose the will to live — he should've bought '''two''' rabbits so they'd be company for each other whenever he and Ren weren't there. The warning turned out to be too late; rushing home, he [[Tear Jerker|found Ren sitting sadly with the dead rabbit in her lap]]....
* [[Playing Against Type]]:
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]] -- Mitsuka-sensei simply ''cannot'' keep her clothes on in front of her students. [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Meanwhile, Ren just doesn't get that she needs to wear clothing.]]▼
** Not really "against type", unless you're only looking at the [[Small Reference Pools|Small Reference Pool]] of what's been licensed by North American distributors.
▲* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]:
* [[Please Wake Up]]
* [[Porn Stash]]:
* [[Promotion to Parent]]:
* [[Screw the Rules I Have Plot]]:
* [[Sex Slave]]:
* [[Shallow Love Interest]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** During the Dollfest chapter, Neneko has two dolls on display that look a lot like Shinku and Suigintou from [[Rozen Maiden]].
* [[Slave Collar]]
* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]:
* [[Spit Take]]:
* [[Stay with the Aliens]]
* {{spoiler|[[Tenchi Solution]]: By default, Takeya literally ends up with all the [[DearS]] who decided to return to space.}}
* [[Third Person Person]]:
* [[Too Hot for TV]]:
* [[Tsundere]]:
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]:
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] -- Neneko.▼
== U-Z ==
* [[Unwanted Harem]] -- Three girls all want Takeya, though a couple of them [[Cannot Spit It Out]].▼
** [[Balanced Harem]] -- In the manga, while the main focus is on Ren, all of the girls have a shot at him. {{spoiler|Most of them get him.}}▼
▲* [[Unwanted Harem]]:
** [[Supporting Harem]] -- In the anime, due to [[Adaptation Distillation]] and [[Compressed Adaptation]], the series ends as a Takeya/Ren show.▼
▲** [[Balanced Harem]]:
* [[Verbal Tic]] -- Nia the [[Catgirl]]. Sometimes the only thing she says is "Ni!"▼
▲** [[Supporting Harem]]:
** "Nya" in the dub.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]:
* [[You Are Number Six]]:
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