Risky☆Safety

Ebony and ivory...

Omishi Magical Theatre: Risky☆Safety is a particularly underloved 1999-2000 Anime series based on a manga by Ray Omishi, which has as its main selling point overpowering cuteness.

Junior-high-schooler Moe Katsuragi is depressed upon seeing her crush with an older girl. The depths of her despair attract a tiny Shinigami named Risky, who will go to great lengths to capture her soul upon death. Risky gets as far as her initial pitch, which causes Moe to laugh... prompting Risky to disappear and the sudden appearance of equally tiny apprentice angel Safety. Turns out that the pair share the body.

Comprised of 24 eight-minute episodes, Risky☆Safety manages to start with Slice of Life comedy and make it even Lighter and Softer than previously thought possible. As Moe goes about her daily life, now accompanied by the bossy Risky and the klutzy Safety, she comes to learn what her happiness really entails.

Tropes used in Risky☆Safety include:

Risky: "I'm a shinigami who's brave enough to follow her own will! Isn't that the same for you, Safety?"

  • Big Breasts, Big Deal: Suzuko is embarrassed when Kotone tells Moe (in episode 11) that Suzuko's bust measurement is 88-E - that's a North American 35-D. Keep in mind that all three girls are still in junior high school, and thus no older than 14 (and might only be 12).
  • Big Eater: Risky, apparently. In the first episode alone, she apparently ate an entire box of chocolate kisses in about ten seconds. Chocolates which are the size of her head.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Moe, surprisingly enough.
  • But Now I Must Go: After successfully beating their destinies, Risky and Safety inform Moe that they have to return to their superiors now to await punishment. They vanish, telling her not to cry and that they'll always be friends. They return in the end though, presumably to spend the rest of Moe's life with her.
  • Cultural Cross-Reference:
    • A shrine kami compares Moe and Yuya's relationship to Anakin and Amidala's. This gag originated in the Japanese script.
    • Additionally, two episode titles are references to the Austin Powers series (and the episodes themselves take place at what the angelic location system calls "Point T-007"). Ray Omishi must really like American movies.
  • Cute Little Fang: Risky has one. Just one.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: For Risky, at least. She receives increasingly-irritated nastygrams from her superiors over her failed scams for Moe's soul. Averted in the final story arc, where Risky is the first to successfully Screw Destiny.
  • Fan Service Pack: Risky is shown in episodes 14 and 15 as being much more... ample.
  • Flash Forward: In-universe, in episode 13. Future-Yuya and future-Moe have time to tell their present selves one short sentence each before they disappear; they use that opportunity to foreshadow the anime's final story arc - not that it helps any.
  • Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Again, Risky. During the aforementioned episodes 14 and 15, her clothing really accentuated her bust.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: For being such a short series, the show has a very impressive cast in both Japanese and English.
  • Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Risky delivers one of these to Safety near the end, when she's ready to give up and just let her friend's destinies get rewritten.
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: In one episode, Safety wonders what if she never gets rid of the spell the love arrow has on Lani, and then supposes she might be forced to marry him. She then has a random vision of herself and Lani being married, then to the two of them in a hotel, and then just as the vision stops Safety starts panicking, saying "I don't even want to think about what comes after that!"
  • Growing the Goatee: The final six episodes are more serious in tone (though not overly so), featuring a mythical entity called the Moment of Destiny that dramatically alters the leads' personalities, fates, and even their memories.
  • Genre Shift: The Fractured Fairy Tale which turns into a Space Opera, mentioned below, and one episode even is played out like a Silent Movie, complete with black-and-white and sepia tone.
  • Hilarious Outtakes: The DVDs include dubbing out-takes.
  • In Love with the Mark: Kaede was sent to kill one of the Momotaro. They fell in love instead.
  • Interspecies Romance: Lani the Pomeranian is in love with both Risky and Safety, thanks to Safety accidentally shooting him with a love arrow. Needless to say, it's unrequited.
  • Japanese Honorifics: Safety is extremely polite and always uses an appropriate honorific when talking to someone. On the other hand, Risky is the exact opposite: she is very rude and never uses honorifics.
  • Les Yay, with a dash of Foe Yay: There's people who ship Risky and Safety as a couple. No, really (may contain spoilers).
    • Also, Moe's friends Suzuko and Kotone. Come on, there has to be something going on there...
    • As well as Risky and Kaede. Seriously, Risky looks devastated when she tells the part of Kaede falling for a Momotaro, she starts a full-scale war when she believes Kaede has been kidnapped (let that sink in - Risky started an entire war to get one girl back home, and the girl isn't even royalty, or that important to the tribe... although, as a shinagami, Risky might have been interested in the death toll a war would bring), and believes Kaede to be Brainwashed when hearing she's in love with Wakatake.

Risky: Bastard. You must have brainwashed her!

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