Chekhov’s Gun is the foreshadowing theory that if a gun appears early in a story or scene, said gun MUST be used later in the story. And no better example of this is the EXTREMELY overused trope in J-dramas of the “Swimming Pool at a Fancy Dress Dinner” where as SOON as you see the swimming pool, you KNOW that at some point someone is gonna FALL right INTO it!And such it was in the recent Black Cinderella where Kamiya (Riko) is invited to a snooty outdoor party by her affluent classmates. The FIRST thing you see when the scene opens is the pool, and I immediately said to myself, “Huh, guess Manaha’s going to fall into the pool”...And of course, that’s EXACTLY what happened!! Luckily for Kamiya, her supposed romantic interest Keigo Tachibana happens to be on hand to ceremoniously carry her out of the pool...which, now that I think about it, is also part of this cliche! Chekhov's Swimming Pool, a trusted trope of the teenage j-drama series!!!
