History Manga / PsychoBusters

%%* HeroesWantRedHeads: In the manga, Ayano is drawn with dark red hair.

%%* FiveManBand: TheHero is Joi Touma, TheLancer is Kakeru Hase, TheBigGuy is Kaito Himuro, TheSmartGuy is Xiao Long Bai, TheChick is Ayano Fujimura, and together work as a team. See those trope for more detail.

* TemptingFate: In the first chapter, Kakeru says that there's no way that the exciting stuff he sees on TV or videogames could ''possibly'' be true. [[GotVolunteered Guess]] [[JumpedAtTheCall what]] [[PsychicPowers happens next]].
* TheHero: Joi Touma, {{clairvoyan|ce}}t leader of the fledgling psychic LaResistance.
* TheLancer: Kakeru Hase, the protagonist and fledgling RealityWarper[=/=]TimeMaster.
* TheBigGuy: Kaito Himuro, the HotBlooded [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]].
* TheSmartGuy: Xiao Long Bai, specialist in qigong, a special technique that requires lots of thinking.
%%* TheChick: Ayano Fujimura is used to bring Kakeru into the group.

%%* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Starting in volume 3.

* AllMenArePerverts: Not that they ''mean'' to... Besides Ayano can [[InnocentFanserviceGirl be just that innocent]].
* AstralProjection: Ayano's powers, which often manifests naked ([[InnocentFanserviceGirl not that she minds it]], [[AllMenArePerverts but as for the boys...]]).

* BadassNormal --> EmpoweredBadassNormal: Kakeru thought he had no psychic powers, until later he discovers that he has the power to control time and space within the range of his Perfect World.
* ChivalrousPervert: Kakeru -- and to a less extent on the perverted aspect -- Kaito, Xiao Long and Joi.
* CombatMedic: Xiao Long.
* [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon: Kakeru traveled back in time to avert the past events that led to Tomoe's death and her father Arata Ikushima's StartOfDarkness, [[HeroicSacrifice knowing all too well]] [[RetGone that he may never come back]] -- which he surprisingly does.]]
* CursedWithAwesome: Not a few naysayer are warning against Kakeru using his time-and-space manipulation abilities at will.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Xiao Long and Takemaru.
* [[spoiler:DeathEqualsRedemption[=/=]RedemptionEarnsLife: Oddly played by Ikushima in the end. After Kakeru mortally impales him, Tomoe's spirit appears to comfort her father and allow him to accept his fate, making sure they are TogetherInDeath. Then the latter trope is applied when Kakeru travels back in time ([[HeroicSacrifice at the risk of]] [[RetGone permanently deleting him from existence]]) to prevent Tomoe's death and thus indirectly avert her father's StartOfDarkness.]]

* FiveManBand: TheHero is Joi Touma, TheLancer is Kakeru Hase, TheBigGuy is Kaito Himuro, TheSmartGuy is Xiao Long Bai, TheChick is Ayano Fujimura, and together work as a team. See those trope for more detail.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Ikushima.
* HeroesWantRedHeads: In the manga, Ayano is drawn with dark red hair.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: All the psychics.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Kakeru.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Ayano; it really doesn't help that her teammates are all [[AllMenArePerverts guys...]]
* MobstacleCourse: Of zombies!

* NerdsAreSexy: Joi.
* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Kakeru and Ayano in the end.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Kaito.
* PsychicPowers: ''Hello''! It's called ''Psycho Busters'' for a reason!
* RealityWarper[=/=]TimeMaster: The nature of Kakeru's powers.

* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Joi.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Ikushima used to be a loving father, until Tomoe died in a bus accident.]]

* TheChick: Ayano Fujimura is used to bring Kakeru into the group.
* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld: Starting in volume 3.

Kakeru is ultimately dragged into the fight together with Ayano and Joi, as well as their other allies -- Xiao Long Bai and Kaito Himura -- despite lacking powers... or so he thought he doesn't.

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* TheChick: Ayano Fujimura, the {{[telepath|y}}, is used to bring Kakeru into the group.

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* PropheticDreams: Joi's power is seeing into the future.

* TheChick: Ayano Fujimura, the {[telepath|y}}

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Joi Touma, {{clairvoyan|ce}}t leader of the fledgling psychic LaResistance.
** TheLancer: Kakeru Hase, the protagonist and fledgling RealityWarper[=/=]TimeMaster.
** TheBigGuy: Kaito Himuro, the HotBlooded [[PlayingWithFire pyromancer]].
** TheSmartGuy: Xiao Long Bai, specialist in qigong, a special technique that requires lots of thinking.
** TheChick: Ayano Fujimura, the {[telepath|y}}
** TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler:Four ex-members of the Greenhouse -- Maya Kasuga, MasterOfIllusion with a crush on Kakeru; Shou Amamiya, teleporter and erstwhile PunchClockVillain; Takemaru Hidaka, telekinetic; and Fuyuko Isshiki, summoner.]]

* RetGone: [[spoiler:The ultimate fate of the Ikushima who served as BigBad of the series; in his place is the kinder HotDad whose daughter Tomoe never died and thus caused his StartOfDarkness. Kakeru was also supposed to have vanished for good after traveling back in time to {{retcon}} Ikushima and Tomoe's destinies, but he got better.]]

* BadassNormal[=/=]BadassAbnormal: Kakeru thought he had no psychic powers, until later he discovers that he has the power to control time and space within the range of his Perfect World.

Kakeru is just an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent left alone at home after his mother and sisters go on a vacation to Hawaii (and with his father away on business). No sooner had their cab left than Kakeru proceeds to do what boys his age do -- watch TV all he wants, play games for the entire summer break, and uncover his PornStash (as well as his father's). For him, life is too peaceful...

...That is, until he discovers a beautiful naked girl in his bedroom. The girl -- Ayano, as she calls herself -- is a psychic escaping the Greenhouse, an enigmatic organization who captures such savants like her and experiment on them. Earlier, she and a few other psychics are forced to jump off a cliff to elude the Farmers, the personal troops of the Greenhouse, but not before their leader, Joi, asking her to find Kakeru himself.

Soon, Kakeru is forced to join Ayano and Joi and the rest of the fleeing psychics despite lacking such powers -- or so he thought he doesn't.

''Psycho Busters'' is a seven-volume manga adaptation of a three-volume light novel series by Yuya Aoki, the same creator behind ''Manga/GetBackers'', with art by Akinari Nao.

* AllMenArePerverts: Not that they ''mean'' to... Besies Ayano can [[InnocentFanserviceGirl be just that innocent]].
* AstralProjection: Ayano's powers, which often manifests naked ([[InnocentFanserviceGirl not that she minds it, but it still disturbs Kakeru]]).

* BadassNormal[=/=]BadassAbnormal: Kakeru thought he had no psychic powers, until later he discovers that he has the power to [[spoiler:control time and space within the range of his Perfect World. It also allows him to survive a potentially fatal time travel to save Tomoe from her death and her father Ikushima from his StartOfDarkness]].

* [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon: Kakeru traveled back in time to avert the past events that led to Tomoe's death and her father Ikushima's StartOfDarkness, [[HeroicSacrifice knowing all too well]] [[RetGone that he may never come back]] -- which he surprisingly does.]]

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Kakeru's reappearence in the end, after he [[HeroicSacrifice erases himself from existence]]. There's very little explanation to it and the title of the last chapter is "Miracle".]]

* [[spoiler:RealityWarper: The nature of Kakeru's powers.]]

* AllMenArePerverts: Not that they ''mean'' to be...
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Kakeru defeats several powerful psychics mostly by figuring out the weakpoints and brutally exploiting them.
* BadassNormal: Kakeru.[[spoiler: But it's implied that he has some powers deep within.]]
** [[spoiler: It's eventually revealed that his continued survival is due to subconscious use of his ridiculously potent power, which allows him to control time and space within the range of his Perfect World.]]

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:Ikushima used to be a loving father, until Tomoe died in a bus explosion.]]

Based off a three part series of light novels by Yuya Aoki, creator of ''{{Getbackers}}'', ''Psycho Busters'' is a seven volume manga by Akinari Nao about a group of psychics trying to escape an evil organization bent on ending the world as we know it. While trying to escape, the group is pursued by The Farmers--members of The Greenhouse who capture psychics and perform horrifying experiments on them--and are forced to jump off a cliff (doing so will not kill them because they seem capable of [[{{Reincarnation}}resurrecting themselves]]); just as they hit the bottom, the leader, Joi, tells the others to find Kakeru, who is the only one who can help them defeat The Greenhouse once and for all. Meanwhile, [[BadassNormal Kakeru]] is left alone for the summer (actually, he was ditched by his mother and sister, who get to go to Hawaii, not that he cares...) when all of a sudden, he finds a beautiful naked girl in his bedroom. Said girl is Ayano, one of the members of the psychic gang trying to escape from The Farmers' clutches. Kakeru soon finds himself joining the group [[spoiler: totally unaware of the power he contains deep within him]].

The first chapter [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] several common anime romantic comedy and adventure tropes as Kakeru goes about the house while his family is away.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* ChivalrousPervert: Kakeru--and to a less extent on the perverted aspect--Kaito, Xiao Long, and Joi.

* [[spoiler:CosmicRetcon: Kakeru voluntarily did a HeroicSacrifice to avert the past events that led to Tomoe's death and her father Ikushima's StartOfDarkness, with the risk of him going RetGone. Surprisingly, he survives the ordeal.]]

* CompleteMonster: The Greenhouse/Ikushima.

* HoYay: It is ''very'' easy to read [[spoiler:Takemaru's]] behavior after his HeelFaceTurn as him being {{Tsundere}} for Kakeru. Given that the {{Omake}} comics {{Lampshade}} this, it's probably not accidental.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Ikushima. [[OneWordExamples Just... Ikushima.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: One of the bonus {{Yonkoma}}s has Joi and Kaito marveling at how ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean big]]'' a giant cyclops is.