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[[caption-width-right:348: Not every mediocre highschooler is this lucky. ''This'' mediocre highschooler doesn't want to be. [[note]]Clockwise from top: [[CuteWitch Yukari Sendo]], [[AnIcePerson Mizore Shirayuki]], [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Moka Akashiya]], [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy Tsukune Aono]], [[HornyDevils Kurumu Kurono]].[[/note]] ]]

Tsukune Aono's an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, as they all are. Then, completely by accident, he gets accepted to a school where {{youkai}} attend and are taught how to be human. Before he gets to school, he has a run-in with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Moka Akashiya]], who sucks his blood. Other than being a little light-headed, Tsukune now finds out he has a [[MagicalGirlfriend girlfriend]]. Thing is, every guy on campus is ''also'' after her. Fortunately, he's the only one who can remove Moka's rosary around her neck, turning her into a powerful super-vampire, albeit changing Moka into an utter {{ice queen}}. As a member of the school's newspaper club, he's also [[UnwantedHarem surrounded by a harem of]] {{cute monster girl}}s; life just got a lot more interesting.

While the manga starts off as a harmless MonsterOfTheWeek, it slowly becomes a lot DarkerAndEdgier. One of the two major recurring issues is that humans are forbidden in the [[AnotherDimension monster realm]]. This is originally more of a precaution, though the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Public Safety Commission]] has reinterpreted the mandate to be an instant death sentence for any [[MistakenForSpies "filthy human spies"]] they find. The second is something very serious that happens to Tsukune, about which to go more into detail would spoil a major plot point. The anime, on the other hand, is a LighterAndSofter romantic comedy with {{Panty Shot}}s UpToEleven. Sure, it borrows some of the plot from the manga, but that pretty much stays in the background (entire arcs are reduced to single episodes, just to give an idea).

The first season of manga ran for 10 volumes in Japan, and the second for 14. The series was also published in America. An anime adaptation aired in early 2008, and a second [[OddlyNamedSequel season]] titled ''Rosario + Vampire [=Capu2=]'' aired later that year. Both seasons have been licensed by Funimation.

Season 2 ended in 2014 with 72 chapters, with an epilogue released in April.

Feel free to check out and contribute to the [[Characters/RosarioToVampire character page]] as well.

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!!This series contains examples of:
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* AboveTheInfluence:
** First and foremost, Tsukune. No matter how many times girls have propositioned him (sometimes when half-naked), he will turn them down. Kurumu has propositioned him a lot, both naked and clothed; Yukari propositions threesomes all the time (but is also only 11 years old) and he keeps regecting their advances. The most prominant example, however, has to be in the Flower Offering arc; Mizore (trying to avoid an ArrangedMarriage) drugs him with a powerful [[LovePotion aphrodisiac]] made from a local flower known to the yuki-onna, famous in the monster world for being among the best. She pretty much throws herself at him, literally begging him to knock her up. Even with all that Tsukune ''still'' turns her down, because he can tell she's only doing this out of desperation.
--> '''Tsukune''': If this is really what you want, why are you still crying?
** Kurumu accidentally charms Tsukune in Rosario + Vampire II when showing a nagging Kokoa that she is indeed a powerful succubus. She's gotten strong enough that it's not a 5-minute spell that goes haywire whenever he thinks of Moka anymore. Despite the ability to [[PowerPerversionPotential abuse his new-found willingness to do anything she desires]], she just takes him to her room, cooks him food and plays video games with him; she panicked and couldn't think of anywhere else to hide. [[spoiler: The only really selfish thing she had him do was say that he liked her; and she had to EARN that: Apparently it was hard for him to force the words out, even hypnotized. The poor girl broke then down crying and, in the end, got beat up because the other girls walked in [[NotWhatItLooksLike while she was taking off his shirt]] she had just soaked with her tears.]] Mind you, she could have just layered on the Charm until it worked and he literally did everything she wanted, but she likes to play fair.
** As far as Tsukune is concerned, keep in mind that the only girl around who is NOT an actual [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Monster In Human Form]] is a witch, and is young enough to keep him from being interested, since he is NOT a paedophile. No wonder he's able to resist their advances!
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: The "Public Safety Commission" was originally a good, necessary institution that suffered heavily from MotiveDecay. Now they're comparable to the {{yakuza}} who abuse their literal license to kill, and none of the faculty does anything about them.
** [[spoiler: Later it was revealed that group's leader Kuyou was in fact a member of Fairy Tale spying on the academy, which might explain some of why it got so evil.]]
* ACupAngst: Kurumu teases Yukari about her breast size in episode 5 of the first season. Yukari, after the initial shock, counters by saying that Kurumu's breasts will sag. Then it devolves into a RubberFace CatFight. Later, in Season 2, Yukari takes a temporary aging treatment and learns she'll fill out later; she's only small because she's ''[[SheIsAllGrownUp young]]''.
* AdaptationDistillation: The first season anime only adapted about half of the first season manga's material, and skipped a lot of important details. The second season skipped directly to year two, and proceeded to turn it into an original alternate continuity without much of an underlying plot, filled to the brim with {{fanservice}}.
* AdaptationDyeJob: In chapter 2, Kurumu mentions that Outer-Moka's hair was actually light brown. Her hair is also shown as that color in some early full-color art. It was made pink in the anime, and the manga changed to match, both in the full color work and in the characters' comments.
* AdultsAreUseless: With wide inroads into PoliceAreUseless territory. There are students [[spoiler: and teachers]] who attempt to rape, murder, mind-control, or otherwise commit felony-grade crimes against our protagonists on what seems like a weekly basis; our protagonists, in turn, defend themselves, often with near-lethal force. In the rare event that authority figures appear or that punitive measures are taken against the offenders, it's almost laughably minimal. The [[spoiler: teacher who turned students to stone as "art"]] and the [[spoiler: math instructor who mind-controlled students to force them to study]] were put on suspension, nothing more. Meanwhile, our protagonists are practically knee-deep in the casualties they turn out from these often-brutal fights, and there appears to be little or no action taken against them, either. (Perhaps monsters just have a much more casual view of rape and murder, seeing as how many of them can apparently survive anything short of actual decapitation.) And all this when the stated rules of the school even include not ''mentioning'' what Monster students are, let alone transforming into their true forms.
** Mikogami definitely takes the cake. He is the principal of a school that promotes human/monster co-existence, and yet, among other things, he allows a Swimming Club full of mermaids to [[LifeDrinker suck the life out of any males]] they persuade to join, as well as [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Kuyou]] (who happens to be an [[FantasticRacism anti-human extremist]] and [[spoiler:a [[FarEastAsianTerrorists terrorist]]]]) and the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil corrupt Student Police]] to [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem abuse their authority]] and make the other students' lives miserable, leaving Tsukune and his friends to sort such things out. In fact, when Kuyou had Tsukune scheduled for PublicExecution [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade because he was human]], Mikogami explicitly said he wasn't going to stop it and forbade Ms. Nekonome from doing anything to intervene, something she [[WhatTheHellHero rightfully calls him out on]].
* AllMenArePerverts
** Subverted, sort of. In Season 1, episode 8, Kurumu has Yukari tied up using a BDSM technique called shibari. It's a long story. Since it's Kurumu, we really shouldn't be surprised.
* AllWomenAreLustful: Every female in Tsukune's harem save Moka is this to him, including the ''eleven-year-old girl''.
* AlmostKiss: An OverusedRunningGag.
** Interestingly enough, it's usually Moka (one of the participants of the kiss) who makes it so.
* AloofBigBrother: Gender-inverted. Moka's eldest sister, Aqua.
* AlwaysInClassOne: The entire main cast gets moved to class 1 in season 2. In season 1, only Yukari was in class 1.
* AngelsPose: During the second season, one is performed by Moka, Kokoa Shuzen and Ruby.
* AnIcePerson: Mizore
* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Fairy Tale. The uniforms really drive it home (though [[BadassInANiceSuit they do look good on the main cast]]).
* AndTheAdventureContinues: ''Season II'' ends like this, but gives us a taste of what's to come. See WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue below.
* AnimeHair: Several examples, but the best is probably Mizore's hairstyle in her introductory arc.
** Moka [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the situation at once point by describing her sister Kokoa as having an "anime-like hairdo."
* AnotherDimension: Where the Youkai Academy's located. It takes any tunnel and the CreepyMonotone-spouting non-human bus driver to bridge our world and theirs
* AntiHumanAlliance: Fairy Tale, a monster terrorist organization who desire to subjugate humans under monster control.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Moka gives a couple to Tsukune.
* ArrangedMarriage: Played for drama. In the Flower Offering arc, Mizore gets forced into one against her will due to a custom that requires Yuki-onna to have a man by the time they're teenagers to ensure the preservation of the Yuki-onna race--but also because [[spoiler: a member of Fairy Tale had threatened the village with total destruction if they didn't give him a wife (read: sex slave).]] Mizore makes her most serious attempt at getting Tsukune to have sex with her to avoid it, but fails due to Tsukune being so AboveTheInfluence that not even a powerful aphrodisiac and Mizore pretty much throwing her almost-naked body at him works.
* ArtEvolution: Early and later issues of the manga might as well have been drawn by different people. It's no surprise, given that ''Rosario + Vampire'' is Akihisa Ikeda's very first manga. His art style barely beginning to be established when the manga started, so naturally it looks different five years later.
* ArtShift: Ruby suddenly takes on an [=80s=]-ish appearance in volume 4, as a ShoutOut to older Shoujo Manga. Also gets a lampshade when Yukari presents her growth drops to Kokoa - the bottle is drawn quite realistically, but it's held by a circle instead of a proper hand.
--> Oops! I messed up when drawing the hand.
* AsideGlance: Kurumu appears to have gained awareness of the fourth wall in the anime; everyone else is oblivious.
** She goes so far as to express her complaints for being OutOfFocus in the second season. To quote her in episode 6 of ''[=Capu2=]'':
---> Last week it was the yuki-onna... The week before, Yukari-chan... This time the episode should be centered on me! Yahoo-hoo! I'll make the most of this field trip... And, together with Tsukune, I'll... Huh? ''(she then notices that everyone's already left the bus)'' Hey! Don't leave me here!!!
** Note that Yukari was watching her rant before she left halfway into it. Her dismissive look at Kurumu is further proof that only the succubus is aware of the fourth wall.
* AssimilationBackfire: When {{Doppelganger}} copies a person, he gets all their powers... and their weaknesses. He's defeated when he copies Moka, only for Tsukune to slap the rosary on him, weakening him enough for them to defeat.
* AttemptedRape: Outer Moka is frequently the victim of this, but it usually gets turned around very quickly when Tsukune either removes her Rosary, or [[spoiler: powered-up Tsukune]] arrives in time to express his displeasure. [[AngstWhatAngst She never seems too upset by the experience.]]
** Tsukune himself has been the victim of this a few times from various members of his UnwantedHarem, but thanks to the DoubleStandard, it is usually not treated that seriously.
** Mizore also was the victim of this (in the anime, at least). To make things worse, the rest of the main cast see the teacher who tried to rape her frozen in ice and think she attacked him.
* AxCrazy: The MonsterOfTheWeek; after all, they ''are'' monsters, and are neither known for civility nor self-control.
* BackToBackBadasses:
** [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Fairy Tale District 7]] versus [[ChivalrousPervert Ginei Morioka]] and [[spoiler: Haiji Miyamoto]]. Guess who wins?
** Moka (outer) and Kurumu in chapter 26.
** [[spoiler: In Season II chapter 55, Inner Moka and Tsukune.]]
* BadassAbnormal: The doppelgänger villain compensates for his species' lack of inherent combat advantages with advanced martial arts skills. Thus, when he [[{{Humanshifting}} copies]] a body that ''does'' have such advantages, he's often able to put them to better use than the [[UnskilledButStrong original]].
* BadassCrew: The Newspaper Club.
* BadassFamily: Moka's superpowerful family of vampires includes her KickChick self, her CuteBruiser BloodKnight younger sister Kokoa, her [[AffablyEvil cheerfully frightening]] [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]] ditz of a middle sister Kahlua, the [[TheJuggernaut reigning queen]] of evil badass} Aqua, the eldest sister, and Akasha, Moka's mother, who, if it ever came to that, [[ActionMom could probably beat every girl in the above list. Simultaneously.]]
** The Huang family combine this and TheTriadsAndTheTongs.
** And now we can add Kahlua and Kokoa's mother Gyokuro to the list, as she's [[spoiler:season 2's BigBad]].
* BadassInANiceSuit: Season 2, Chapter 43, ''everyone'' gets a badass new outfit.
** In episode 6 of [=Capu2=], the girls dress like this when they go to rescue Tsukune.
* BadassLongcoat: [[spoiler: Moka's father and eldest sister, Aqua]] as well as Kiria, though his is slightly shorter than average.
* BadMoonRising: When Inner Moka comes out, the sky and moon go red.
* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: Kahlua Shuzen makes her debut as her little sister Kokoa gets uncharacteristically frightened. With her eyes mysteriously half-closed, she walks down the corridor... then trips over her own dress and sits up with a SillyMeGesture. Kokoa was not frightened for nothing, though; Kahlua may be naïve and childlike, but she is a top assassin who does anything for her employer, as it soon becomes obvious when she innocently reveals her blindfolded and straitjacketed hostage in a wheelchair.
* BarehandedBladeBlock: [[SmugSnake Fujisaki Miyabi]] pulls one on [[spoiler: his right-hand man, Kiria]].
* BarelyThereSwimwear: Ruby in Season II's Chapter 19. When the gang is lamenting a theft at the place they were staying could ruin their vacation, Ruby displays her swimsuit with the others. Kokoa has a major {{nosebleed}} as she notices that Ruby's swimsuit is nothing more than a glorified piece of string. She also wonders why the others aren't noticing this anomaly. Later on, as the gang works to help drum up business for the place they are staying, beach goers comment on the girls and their swimwear choices, with some noting Ruby is wearing nothing more than a string.
--> '''Kokoa''': Don't they see Ruby's bathing suit is nothing more than a string?\\
''(Later on at the beach)'' '''Beachgoers''': A string! Her bathing suit is a string!
* BashBrothers: Gin and Haiji.
* BatmanGambit: Though [[spoiler:Hokuto.]] says [[JustAsPlanned "it's all gone according to plan!]] its still a BatmanGambit since his plan involved [[spoiler:Tsukune reacting in the way he predicted]]
* BattleCouple: [[MamaBear "Mama"]] and [[PapaWolf "Papa"]] Huang -- she's a fighter, he's a sorcerer, and together they're unbeatable [[spoiler: until they meet Aqua]].
* BattleHarem: All the harem members are capable of holding their own in battle and spend much of the first season defending Tsukune. Justified in that while Tsukune is human, the girls are all {{Cute Monster Girl}}s - the possible exception is Moka, who needs Tsukune to take off her rosario in order to fight at full strength but even without that she is pretty strong. The show, while very fanservice-y, does also have a strong focus on romance especially in later arcs.
* BeachEpisode: In the manga's second season. Somewhat spoiled by the fact that the vampires can't swim and it's too hot for the ice girl.
* TheBeautifulElite: Thanks to MASSIVE ArtEvolution, now everyone who has slightest bit of plot relevance is gorgeous looking, and there is s considerably lower number of {{Gonk}}s by ''Season II''. You think that [[spoiler: dirty old man]] is just an ugly pervert? [[{{Bishonen}} Think again.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Most of the monsters attending Youkai Academy, who range in morality from generally dickish to creepily amoral to psychotic, are concealing hideous monster forms with a human persona. Tsukune's harem, however, are all genuine [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Girls]] who, if they're concealing anything at all, are just hiding wings/tails or, in Moka's case, a scarier but still extremely conventionally attractive young woman.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The primary reason Tsukune is able to gain his harem.
* BecomingTheMask: Aqua, Moka's eldest sister, [[spoiler: intentionally angled herself to go live with the Shuzen family so she could get close to Moka's mother and kill her as part of her attempts to become a Shinso. However, over time she found herself genuinely starting to care for her little sister Moka and admits that she held off on the attempt far longer than she meant to as a result of these feelings. Subverted in the end, unfortunately, as the mask proves not ''quite'' enough to overcome her drive for power...]]
* BerserkButton: You ''wouldn't'' want to wound Tsukune in front of the girls. Seriously. In the anime, a seemingly fatal attack on Tsukune from behind enraged Moka so much that Inner forcibly bypassed her rosary in order to manifest.
** Inner Moka also hates to be touched, ''even'' by Tsukune.
** If you mess with San-senpai, Gin will ''[[TranquilFury destroy]]'' you.
** Harming any of Tsukune's TrueCompanions will result in a unmerciful beatdown.
* BerserkerTears: Kahlua Shuzen. She doesn't cry because she's sad, but to "atone for" her opponent's impending death.
** And, in flashback, [[spoiler: Child Moka]].
* BettyAndVeronica: Outer Moka is the Betty to Kurumu, Mizore and Inner Moka's Veronica.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: San-senpai.
** We also have Moka's mother -- nice, gentle, looks like outer Moka and [[spoiler:is a uber-powerful Shinso and the leader of the three great dark lords]].
* BigBad: In the first season, [[FourEyesZeroSoul Hokuto Kaneshiro]] is the president of the student festival committee, but is also the leader of Anti-Thesis [[spoiler:and a leader of Fairy Tale]] who plots to reveal Yokai Academy's existence to humanity, provoking a human-monster war that will exterminate humanity and permanently destroy the academy's goal of coexistence between the races.
* BigBadDuumvirate: In the second season, [[EvilMatriarch Gyokuro Shuzen]] and the [[MalevolentMaskedMen Masked King]] are the commanders of [[AntiHumanAlliance Fairy Tale]]. Gyokuro is the mother of Kahlua and Kokoa who plots with the mysterious Masked King to revive [[VampireMonarch Alucard]] and destroy the human world. The Masked King later reveals himself as [[spoiler:the [[TheManInFrontOfTheMan supposed henchman]] Miyabi Fujisaki ''and Alucard himself'', originally an advocate of human-monster peace but now a FallenHero who wants revenge on humans after they destroyed his kingdom. The penultimate chapter reveals, however, that the whole thing was actually a GenghisGambit to achieve said peace]].
* BigBallOfViolence: Fang-Fang and Tsukune make their own in volume 7.
* BigBreastPride: Kurumu, who loves flaunting her large breasts as often as she can to tease ACupAngst Yukari and to seduce Tsukune.
* BigDamnHeroes: Pretty much anytime Inner Moka shows up, although the other girls and Tsukune have their share of them as well from time to time.
** Hiliariously subverted in episode 2 of Season 2. After Kokoa beats up Mizore, Kurumu, and Yukari, Gin and Ruby show up, as if to kick some butt. Tsukune even mentions that if those two are working together, even Kokoa won't stand a chance. They get a big dramatic reveal, [[spoiler: then instead Gin just takes pictures of Ruby as she poses, which confuses Kokoa for a few seconds, then she gets right back to Moka. However, they do use the distraction to escape from Kokoa.]]
** Season 2 Chapter 56 [[spoiler: Alucard is awake, and Tsukune has been curb-stomped by Fairy Tale's leader and is about to be eaten when Hokuto shows up and pulls him out of the way. Then, the airship the second group was in crashes into Alucard and gives Gyokuro one hell of an OhCrap moment.]]
* BigGood: The Three Dark Lords.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Moka's family seems so in particular given their secrets.
* BishieSparkle: Ginei "Gin" Morioka
* BishonenLine: Kuyou's final hybrid form.
** Subverted to Hell and back by most other villains. The king would have to be [[spoiler:Hokuto Kaneshiro]], who starts off the bishonen, but his final form can only be described as [[OneWingedAngel "a big, horrible thing"]].
* BloodFromTheMouth: Everybody, sooner or later. Usually of the cosmetic "hit in the mouth" variety, but plenty of the "internal injuries" type as well. It's by no means an accurate gauge of just how badly the bleeder is hurt, however, since everyone is MadeOfIron.
* BloodyMurder: "Creation", the ability to mix spirit energy into your blood and transform it into solid matter, such as armor or explosives. [[spoiler: Displayed by Moka and Tsukune once they become full-blown Shinsos.]]
* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: Literally in Yokai Academy's case. It was founded in order to help its monster students live peacefully among humanity and on the surface it functions just like a normal high school. Despite it having been founded to foster peace between monsters and humans, the school's policy when it finds a human in its borders is to catch and kill them on sight. Many of the students and teachers tend to allow their baser instincts to overrun them, with many students and teachers either bully, murder, rape, eat or all of the above each other in an almost Darwinian model of dominance with no forseeable oversight. The AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil has completely unchecked power over the student body and extorts the rest of its student body all it wants [[spoiler: and is later revealed to have been run by a terrorist member of a Monster Supremacist group that would later [[TheUnmasquedWorld reveal monster-kind's existence to modern-day humanity]]]]. [[spoiler: It is revealed in the manga's climactic finale that the Chairman had intentionally allowed Tsukune attend his school despite being human as a gambit to help bridge their worlds together, implying that the Chairman knew that his school was hopelessly inept at its purpose and needed a SpannerInTheWorks to fix things.]]
* BodyHorror: Tsukune's afraid he might turn into a vampire by taking Moka's blood; likewise, her true self informs him it won't happen. [[spoiler:Turns out she was wrong. Oops!]]
** He didn't turn into a vampire. [[spoiler: He turned into [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier something else entirely.]]]]
** After [[spoiler: Moka is taken away by Aqua,]] Tsukune seeks training from Touhou Fuhai, in order to save her. Touhou Fuhai decides to introduce Tsukune to his ''Human Modification Technique'', which involves remolding Tsukune's body to use Yokai powers. The process of this technique involves inserting needles into Tsukune's body. Then, Touhou Fuhai reveals that this is just the first of 109 needles, and each successive one is going to be even more horrifically painful than the last. You do the math.
* BodySnatcher: When Ijuuin Kotaro [[CharmPerson charms]] the girls in the second season of the animé, they are trapped in their own bodies, fully conscious but forced to love and obey him against their will.
* BookEnds: The first and last chapter have the bus driver ask Tsukune if he really wants to go to Youkai Academy, and that it's a dangerous place. The reasoning is different both times; the first because he's a human about to attend a school of monsters, and the second time because [[spoiler: he's chosen as the new successor to Youkai Academy's Headmaster position]]. Of course Tsukune agrees both times.
* BotanicalAbomination: Lady Oyakata (Ruby in the anime) uses her magic to merge her body with that of her hanabake plant monsters and becomes a giant plant monster with the intent of destroying Tsukune, his UnwantedHarem and every human being within the neighboring town.
* {{Bowdlerization}}: An early chapter of ''Season II'' has a fight with an originally male {{Doppelganger}} that takes the form of Kurumu and then flashes Tsukune to distract him when his SuperpoweredEvilSide takes over. The {{Doppelganger}} is bare-breasted in the original version, but in the American localization he inexplicably acquires a lace bra despite wearing men's clothing.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Vampire, actually. [[spoiler:Quickly followed by [[EmergencyTransformation Boy]] ''[[EmergencyTransformation Becomes]]'' [[EmergencyTransformation Ghoul]]]].
* BrassBalls: The English Dub plays this nearly word for word when Kou accidentally looks up Inner Moka's and Kokoa's skirts.
-->'''Inner Moka''': Well, you've got some big, brass ones, I'll give ya that much.
* BreakingSpeech: [[spoiler:Alucard]] gives one to Tsukune after the latter's transformation [[spoiler:into a Shinso]]. He reveals how Tsukune has been manipulated from the very beginning [[spoiler:by the Chairman]] to become what he is now, and how this has forever separated him from his former human identity. [[spoiler:Alucard]] then tells Tsukune that it's in his best interests to stop fighting and accept a place in the new world [[spoiler:Alucard]] will create. However, while it does make Tsukune freeze up for a second or two, he quickly [[ShutUpHannibal shrugs it off and tells the bastard to go stuff it.]]
* BreakTheCutie: Kurumu has come to the conclusion that, no matter what she does, Tsukune is going to try and make Moka his girlfriend and not them. Mizore states she won't give up or change in her feelings, Rubi seems to be of a similar mindset, but it has serious adverse effects on Kurumu. She's a succubus so she runs on love and when she is forced to acknowledge that Tsukune isn't going to love her, she breaks down and [[spoiler: reveals that for a Succubi unrequited love is fatal,]] in chapter 40 of Rosario Vampire II.[[spoiler: Though after they kissed it seems Kurumu has gained some insight and is no longer in danger of dying.]]
** The Flower Offering arc included a very serious intent of doing this to [[spoiler: Mizore]].
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A very humorous example. In chapter 23 of the second manga series, when Tsukune [[HoYay gets a very homoerotic request from]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady the very androgynous looking Fang-Fang]], Tsukune grabs Moka's arm, pulls her along with him, and mutters to himself "I think I'm in the wrong manga..."
** From episode 3 of the Anime:
--->'''Kurumu''': Hey, what the hell is this? I just debuted on the previous episode, can't you let me appear earlier?
** Once Season 2 starts, the bat narrator turns out to be more than just MrExposition when Kokoa shows up. Kurumu and the others immediately [[LampshadeHanging point that out.]]
* BreastAttack: In episode 5 while playing chicken in the pool, Yukari actually ''[[ManBitesMan bites]]'' Kurumu's left breast.
* BreastExpansion: Animated Moka's breasts go up a couple of cup sizes whenever she transforms into a super-vampire.
* BrickJoke: The tankobon volumes each feature a multiple-choice "test" about the monster or group that holds the most relevance to the volume's events. Volume 6 of season I is on [[spoiler:Ghouls, since Tsukune is starting to get kinda bloodthirsty.]]
-->[[spoiler:The reccomended treatment if you find yourself turning into a ghoul is...]]
--->[[spoiler:a. take a relaxing vacation in the human realm]]\\
[[spoiler:b. drink your vampire girlfriend's blood]]\\
[[spoiler:c. brains... brains...]]
** Volume 4 of Season II is on [[spoiler:''Inner'' Ghoul, since Tsukune is trying to toughen up so he can deal with Fairy Tale.]]
--->[[spoiler:To get in touch with your inner ghoul...]]
---->[[spoiler:a. go shopping]]\\
[[spoiler:b. cuddle a teddy bear]]\\
[[spoiler:c. brains... brains...]]
* BrownNote: The "Melody of Death".
** Also Kou's one-word love spell in "Pretty Boy And A vampire"
* BustContrastDuo: The first two love interests ([[UnwantedHarem of many]]) are Moka and Kurumu. FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Moka is, for the most part, sweet and wholesome, but has a SplitPersonality that borders on SuperpoweredEvilSide and is ''painfully'' Tsundere; the endlessly-lovestruck-succubus Kurumu is the trope-image for BuxomIsBetter. Moka has a good pair of boobs, but Kurumu's are certainly superior in size.
* ButtMonkey: At first, it was Tsukune for Rosario+Vampire because the series was a simple harem comedy, as of Rosario+[=Vampire II=], and the subsequent Genreshift to action adventure, now Kurumu is the one having jokes made at her expense.
* BuxomIsBetter: Kurumu's popularity in the school is due to her large bust.
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler:Tsukune Aono]] combines this trope with {{came back wrong}} via liberal use of [[spoiler:vampire blood]] to fix his wounds after ever near death experience. Later it's just this trope when he seals his {{super powered evil side}}, but keeps the power.
** In season 2, [[spoiler:his SuperpoweredEvilSide comes back with a vengeance, but this is a temporary thing and now he's even stronger]].
*** Chapter 56 of S2 demonstrates that [[spoiler: the ghoul nature is still there]] and in chapter 59 [[spoiler: his body is now trying to consume itself and morph into even more of a monstrosity. Luckily for him, with his friends' help he managed to master his powers enough to held off TheCorruption, save Moka by injecting his blood into her, and finally becoming a Shinso.]].
* CarFu: Courtesy of [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Bus Driver]] in Ruby's introduction, just prior to a BigDamnHeroes by the main cast
* CatchPhrase: "Inner" Moka's "Know your place!" ("Mi ni hodo o shire!"), guaranteed to be delivered with every kick.
** It's an inherited catch phrase, as [[spoiler:Moka's sweet mother delivers it against Alucard in the manner "Inner" Moka has made her own.]]
** In ''[=Capu2=]'', even Ruby gets one: "A lot of things happened" as an explanation of her ever-changing jobs. She becomes sad when Moka [[CatchphraseInterruptus beats her to it]] in episode nine.
** In the manga, the new character Ling-Ling Huang (Sister of Fang-Fang) is a zombie, and uses "Because I am dead" (which is not saying much in a school of monsters) to excuse herself for any troubles she causes. Doubles almost as a ShoutOut if she says "Because I am [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar already dead.]]" [[spoiler:She uses "Because I am already dead" when she uses a suicide attack to justify traumatizing her brother.]]
* CatSmile: Nekonome-sensei usually has one, the bat narrator, and Kokoa is seen with one sometimes, usually when Inner Moka shows up.
* CensorBox: The Mysterious Bat doubles as a censor when he needs to be.
** There seems to be very little rhyme or reason to his usage, however. In one scene there could be fully-visible {{Panty Shot}}s, and in the next scene Kou will block our view at every turn.
** Some episodes of ''[=Capu2=]'' have teddy bear heads covering many panties.
* CerebusSyndrome: The manga plays this HARD: it begins almost completely comedy-driven, with Tsukune the gag-hero in a typical harem-style setup. Then Mizore comes along as the first character with a serious, non-gag-driven plot arc comprising her introduction. Ruby's introduction during the Witch War arc doesn't pull any of the punches either. By the second manga serialization, they get really serious with the whole Fairy Tale organization, the truth behind Moka's Rosario, and the vampires.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the second manga, the supporting cast starts moving out of one note gags and gain backstories and character of their own:
** Kurumu develops from GagBoobs girl to [[spoiler:someone who's tortured inside by the love she has for Tsukune but hides it with her external cheerfulness and who deeply cares about her friends. She is further torn by the love she has for Tsukune and the love she has for her friends when she knows she will never "win" him from Moka.]]
** Mizore goes from {{yandere}} stalker to [[spoiler:SugarAndIcePersonality with an absolutely tragic back-story, unwanted arranged marriage, attempted rape and attempted suicide from the shame of thinking she's betrayed her friends by being violated and some seriously repressed emotional baggage.]]
** Token girl Yukari frets over [[spoiler:being the Token girl and wants to grow up like everyone else, to the point that she tries to develop a "grow older" potion. What the experience tells her is she can't rush things; being a ChildProdigy simply comes with the baggage of being so young she's only now coming into adolescence. She simply needs to wait.]] And on the magical side, she becomes an exceptional sorceress with time.
** Moka [[spoiler: is losing control to "Inner" Moka, who doesn't seem to be so ready to give up control as often.]] Both Inner and Outer gain more focus, as [[spoiler:Inner is slowly starting to defrost and Outer expresses some regret over being a "copy" of Akasha. Ultimately, the two personalities meet somewhere in the middle, with Outer's aspects tempering Inner's darker ones]].
** Even Gin, the HandsomeLech gets his by [[spoiler:taking the fall for an ex-girlfriend who's suspected of causing damaging "pranks" to other students for reasons he doesn't seem willing to admit even to himself. Then he plays a BatmanGambit, pretending to get captured so he could find out more information about the "Fairy Tale" group that's threatening the Newspaper Club. He proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle beat the crap]] out of his "captor" and make a threat of his own if they ever mess with his friends again. Then decides to take down ''all '' of "Fairy Tale" for the simple reason that they threatened San, who he considers the most important person to him.]] Whoo! Talk about an inversion...
** Fang-Fang gets in on this-- he goes from the ButtMonkey and comic relief to [[spoiler: an heir to his clan who's ''very'' frustrated about his magical shortcomings, who also gets ''reminded'' of these shortcomings in every serious fight he's in, and one who had tried to help make amends with his family's rival clan, but couldn't, due to his friend's circumstances.]] He eventually finds his footing at least, [[spoiler:in physical combat rather than summoning]].
* CharmPerson: Kotaro Ijuuin, an anime-only mysterious {{bishounen}} transfer student whose voice can captivate any woman...and [[EvenTheGuysWantHim some men]].
** Also Kurumu and [[InformedAbility Kokoa]].
* ChickMagnet: Tsukune, since female monsters are attracted to him for both his compassion and sweet, sweet human scent.
** [[LovableSexManiac Gin]] hangs a lampshade in ep. 8 of the second anime season pondering on what Aono's secret is, Gin decides is his hair style and we see him copying it. It fools Moka for a moment... Until he turns around and she makes a comment on Gin's hair maybe being messed up when he woke up.
* ChivalrousPervert: Gin. Also Haiji.
* ClearMyName: The end result of Tsukune being hazed in chapter 4 of the first serialization. Luckily for him, Kurumu had witnessed the hazing from a distance.
* ClingyJealousGirl:
** Several, but most notably Yukari and Kurumu
*** Over the series, Kurumu transitions from ClingyJealousGirl into Heartbroken Runner-up to FirstGirlWins.
** Moka isn't too fond of Tsukune paying attention to other girls, even if they forced themselves onto him. Also, at the end of the last episode of Season 2, after Outer Moka comes back, she gives Tsukune a really big squeeze (to the point he was hurting), then mentions being jealous of her inner self getting close to him.
* CollapsingLair: Issen Shuzen's castle in the anime. According to Kou, he has a policy of destroying his castles if they're infiltrated.
* ColonyDrop: In the final arc, [[spoiler: Gyokuro specifically exploits this trope in order to start off the second phase of her plan. She wants to crash her lair into the human world to kill off as many people as possible at first, and then use Alucard and the other monsters to wipe out humanity leaving only a world for monsters to inhabit.]]
* CombinationAttack: Kurumu and Mizore's "Black and White Duet".
* ComingOfAgeStory: Tsukune. Over the course of the manga he has changed a lot. From a nervous but brave teenager that freaks out at anything, to a young man willing partaking in assault missions at a moment's notice, while still retaining his positive outlook on life and his exasperation to the absurd. It's done so gradually that he remains completely believable while [[TookALevelInBadass Taking Levels In Badass]].
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Ruby and Yukari's reaction to Inner-Moka talking down on the idea of polygamy.
--> '''Inner-Moka''': "Claiming women like some daily bento. I won't allow it."\\
Ruby: [Blushing, eyes a bit glazed] "Daily bento..."\\
Yukari: "That seems like a wonderful idea."
** The translation makes it a bit funnier simply by hanging a massive lampshade on the fact that the girls find ''anything'' Tsukune does to be attractive. [[note]]Either that, or they clearly don't understand that Inner-Moka does ''not'' use euphemisms...[[/note]]
---> '''Inner-Moka''': "We're not talking about having ''lunch'' together, you know. You can just forget it, Tsukune."\\
Ruby: "Lunch together..."\\
Yukari: "That sounds kinda... hot."
* CoolAirship: The Fairy Tale dirigibles.
* TheCorruption: Vampire blood. [[spoiler:Injecting Tsukune with it, for example, slowly turned him into an unstable and ultra-violent ghoul. He needed a major stabilizing item in order to make his body work with the infusion.]]
** Monster blood in general has this effect.
* CrashIntoHello: How Tsukune and Moka first met.
* CrazyPrepared: Mizore's mother Tsurara had a [[WallOfWeapons store of close-combat weapons and ammunition]], detailed plans of the area Mizore is being held captive in, as well as a plan of action to offer Tsukune's TrueCompanions when they decided to go after Mizore.
* CreepyCoolCrosses: The rosaries.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kurumu, although completely overshadowed by Inner Moka is surprisingly formidable if you threaten someone she cares about. Certainly Kokoa seems impressed as indeed does Inner Moka.
** Both Gin and Haji qualify. While they're both shameless perverts, and Moka and Company wiped the floor with them during their first meeting ([[DefeatMeansFriendship because in this series, having a destructive battle is like shaking hands]]), readers are rather abruptly reminded that Gin is a werewolf (a class S monster like a vampire, albeit with more strings attached) and Haji is an insanely skilled martial artist when both of them [[spoiler: tear apart the Fairy Tale HQ.]] They don't even appear to be working all that hard, either, and Gin certainly doesn't have the full moon going for him at the time. They didn't bother to change into their monster forms and even throw some snarking in while wiping the floor with mooks.
** He might be the ButtMonkey to every member of the class (including enemies), and his magical output is abysmal at worst and subpar at best, but [[spoiler: Fang-Fang Huang]] actually has it in him to kick serious ass when time comes for a physical fight.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Tsukune, in the last two episodes of the first season of the anime.
* CurbStompBattle:
** The manga is littered with them, with the justification that just because they're all monsters doesn't mean they're properly trained to fight. Logically, this leads to weak monsters beaten on by stronger monsters, stronger and weaker monsters beaten on by trained fighters (who are usually strong anyway) and finally, really strong ''and'' trained monsters getting taken down by Inner Moka. She's never been at the receiving end of one, but she's been at a disadvantage.
** In the anime, when InvincibleHero Inner Moka comes out, the MonsterOfTheWeek goes down. The [[GreekChorus bats]] even lampshade it by counting the seconds that this episode's fight took; Kurumu taking 72 seconds to defeat is a sign that she's actually a pretty powerful monster.
* CuteMonsterGirl: The whole school's littered with them...well, the female half, anyway.
* CuteMute: San Otonashi. Uses a sketchbook to communicate... until she [[PowerLimiter closes it]] and [[OhCrap starts to talk]].
** Also Yukari's mother. She has a wide array of expressions to communicate in the anime, but that's only because she has yet to speak in the manga.
* CutenessProximity: When Kokoa gets turned into a little girl, Kurumu and Mizore seem to find it completely impossible to stop hugging her and dressing her up, much to her frustration. This is not entirely PlayedForLaughs, as Kokoa already had serious self-esteem issues, and is actually very hurt by people not taking her seriously, especially when Moka, despite a conscious effort to treat her the same as she usually does, accidentally finds herself patronising Kokoa anyway.
* DancingTheme: ''[=Capu2=]'' opening "DISCOTHEQUE"; it's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* DangerouslyShortSkirt: [[http://rosariovampire.wikia.com/wiki/File:Rosario-to-vampire-group-4.jpg Apparently, it's the dress code for Action Girls here]].
* DarkMagicalGirl: Ruby.
* ADayInTheLife: Episode 8 of Season 2, which shows what various characters do throughout the day. Ruby gets the two long parts, which gives her more screentime that episode.
* ADayInTheLimelight: In the anime, Inner Moka gets to spend the day as a High School student. [[spoiler: Well, a bit longer than that.]]
** A later chapter in the manga has done the same but this time [[spoiler: it looks like it's gonna take a story arc before we see Outer Moka again.]]
** Mizore and Yukari get episodes that focus largely on them in Season 2. Kurumu even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope during the school trip, mentioning that its her turn since the other two girls had one already. Ruby's is covered partly in the ADayInTheLife episode.
* DaywalkingVampire: Sunlight is no problem for Moka (but water is).
* DeadAllAlong: Huang Ling-Ling is a Chinese zombie/"hopping ghost". Her catchphrase is "Because I am dead".
** [[spoiler: Ruby's master]] in the anime.
* DeadlyPrank: Mizore tricking Kurumu into thinking Gin took her virginity. It fits the bill because [[spoiler:the prank had the potential to kill her, as hurting a succubus's heart too much can be fatal.]]
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Lady Oyakata uses the last of her own life force to nurse Ruby, who had gone out of her way to save her [[HoistByHisOwnPetard after her own powers backfired on her]], back to health. Keep in mind that Oyakata had critically wounded her for betraying her mere minutes earlier and also believed up to this point she was far over the MoralEventHorizon and not even Ruby could bring her back.
* DeathFromAbove: Yukari's mother in the Anime. How does she help her daughter fight? BY SUMMONING A METEOR SHOWER OF GOLDEN WASHTUBS FROM OUTER SPACE.
* DebutQueue: Moka, Kurumu, Gin and Yukari each get a chapter/episode dedicated to their introduction, plus a chapter dedicated to them deciding which club to join. That's a five chapter/episode DebutQueue (plus one filler episode in the anime. Ruby and Mizore followed a bit later, after which the story finally seemed to have some real direction. It's notable that Ling-Ling was introduced the chapter after Fang-Fang.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of numerous genre-related tropes. Tsukune being a NonActionGuy with a badass UnwantedHarem nearly gets him killed on multiple occasions early on, and we even get a somber look at what being runner-up in the UnwantedHarem actually does to a girl. The anime, however, plays all of the above painfully, obliviously straight.
** DeconstructorFleet
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Notice how every girl in the harem after Moka wanted to kill Tsukune before she literally kicks the living daylights out of them? And Gin too?
** You could also say this is why Gin cares about [[spoiler: San]] so much, and why messing with her is a gigantic BerserkButton.
** Averted with [[spoiler: Hokuto Kaneshiro]] who makes it clear that even after his defeat, he is definitely not Tsukune's friend.
*** Despite having come to Tsukune's aid twice after his defeat, the first of those times to help stop ''his own scheme''.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Inner Moka, not that she's willing to ''admit'' warming up to Tsukune. She insists she only tolerates him for Outer Moka's sake... but when somebody hurts him... while he was defending her...
** Played with in an episode of the anime where, to help the girls rescue Tsukune (who has been abducted by a youkai gang during a field trip to the human world), Ruby has them dress up in sukeban uniforms (which are SailorFuku with long skirts, typically associated to female juvenile delinquents) and wield various gangster-like weapons.
* DemotedToExtra: First season manga-only; Gin gets severely shafted in screen-time in the later volumes. The end-of-volume omake in the 10th volume lampshades this.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: In his own words;
--> '''Tsukune''': "Hiii, scary Yukari-chan is the scariest!"
* {{Determinator}}: Tsukune; long before [[spoiler:he gets his PowerUp]], after ridiculously severe beatings, he absolutely refuses to lay down and die like anyone can reasonably be expected to. Of course, then, there's his chance to get Moka's rosary off...
** Akasha. [[spoiler: The only way to seal the BigBad Alucard is to allow yourself to be torn to shreds and then somehow seal his power from inside him. Which, by the very nature of the attempt, means regenerating FromASingleCell and then clawing your way out without using your powers, since Alucard awakens if you use them. Something Akasha did the first time. And the only reason she didn't succeed the second time she'd just created Moka's rosario seal and also had to regenerate a few times already... And the only thing she failed to do the second time was actually get out.]]
** For a few issues after his introduction, Gin. No matter how many times the girls beat him down, he gets back up and keeps flirting. After a few more issues he gets a badass [[TranquilFury Upgrade]] if his friends are threatened, which he still uses as an excuse to try to grope the girls...
* DisproportionateRetribution: Several times during the series, but one particular instance:
--> '''[[NotSoStoic Inner-Moka]]''': You know, I... I... I also took part in making that lunchbox [[[{{Tsundere}} for Tsukune]]]! [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I'll have you face death for trampling it!]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Moka's sucking of Tsukune's blood. Sometimes accompanied by the line "Let me suck."
* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Nana Mizuki (Moka's voice actor) sang all the opening and ending themes.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Tsukune gets beaten up a lot by the girls, usually out of [[ClingyJealousGirl jealousy.]]
** Probably the most extremes cases of Inner-Moka's are an instance where because the other girls suggested he join the mafia so they could all have [[MarryThemAll polygamy marriage]], and Kurumu teased her of getting jealous when the idea was suggested, Inner-Moka beats up all the girls, and for no good reason also beats Tsukune, and of course denying that she was jealous (she lied of course). The other is when after a set of hijinks with the other girls getting jealous and trying to separate them, and because Tsukune picked up her up at one point, which she didn't give him permission to do, she beats after everything is done.
** After Tsukune [[spoiler: becomes a ghoul, he resolves that he must fight tooth and nail to resist the urge to suck Moka's blood, saying it would be an unspeakably horrible thing to do. Which is a little jarring, since Moka's been sucking his blood repeatedly for basically the entire series, almost never with permission, and it's treated as nothing more than a running gag.]] To be fair though, Moka seems to have independently come to the conclusion that she shouldn't do it anymore just before this starts, so it's not like the double standard ''persists'', but the way she goes about trying to stop is ''incredibly'' bizarre and roundabout and [[spoiler: winds up making the scenes where Tsukune almost gives in to the urge to bite Moka [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything look almost like attempted rape]] in contrast to the comically harmless portrayal of Moka's bites.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: At one point, out of resentment for an arranged marriage to an utter asshole, Mizore drugs Tsukune with an extremely powerful aphrodisiac and throws herself at him. Amazingly he has the willpower to turn her down, but when she's found out, nobody is upset at her for trying to date-rape Tsukune, but rather they're upset with her for her dishonesty and going behind the other girls' backs. The aforementioned asshole arranged fiancee's later forced kiss and groping of Mizore, on the other hand, is treated extremely seriously and causes [[spoiler: Mizore to attempt suicide]].
** Averted in one instance in season 2 of the anime, where the concept of Tsukune getting raped does get a horrified reaction from his loved ones, although it's actually a misunderstanding being played for laughs:
---> '''Moka''': Um, hi there. I'm Moka Akashiya. And I'm a... well, Tsukune's the first person I ever did it with (referring to sucking blood).\\
'''Kyoko''': YOU DID IT!?\\
'''Tsukune''': *screams* No, it's not what you think! Please, tell 'em, Moka!\\
'''Mrs. Aono''': My poor baby lost his innocence?\\
'''Tsukune''': No, wait listen!\\
'''Kurumu''': And what's worse is that you attacked Tsukune and just took it from him without asking!\\
'''Kyoko''': (weakly) ...Without asking?\\
'''Mrs. Aono''': (also weakly) ...You mean you violated my sweet little boy?
* DysfunctionJunction: Pretty much everyone has a seriously troublesome life:
** Tsukune gets a DeadlyUpgrade and some BodyHorror.
** Moka was shunned during her childhood [[spoiler:and her mother was eaten by an EldritchAbomination]].
*** Worse [[spoiler:the revelation that not only is Omote actually some kind of accidentally created artifact spirit, most likely Akasha has as little idea about Omote's existence as Omote does of her true nature. HeroicBSOD waiting to happen.]]
** Kurumu takes LoveHurts to a new level: unrequited love can actually kill her.
** Mizore is a biological ChristmasCake who was abandoned by her first crush due to her heritage and nearly forced into an ArrangedMarriage.
** Yukari was hated for [[FantasticRacism being a witch]] had [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation trouble making friends]], and was afraid of the human world.
** Ruby's parents were killed by a drunk human driver, and the master who took her in raised her to hate humans.
** Ginei's old Newspaper Club comrades were apparently "taught a lesson" when he was a first year. He was also a friendless loner.
** San was [[ParentalAbandonment left behind as a child]] and grew up isolated and lonely due to her powers. She was also afraid to reveal her true nature to her mother-figure.
** Fang-Fang is the heir to a powerful Triad family, utterly inept and unprepared for it, and well aware of that fact.
** Xia-Long, Fang-Fang's RivalTurnedEvil has to destroy the Huang family or die [[spoiler: because Xia-Long's father signed a peace treaty with the Huang family leading to his murder by the Miao family's true head]].
** Hokuto Kaneshiro [[spoiler:was an illegitimate child who grew up abused by his father after his mother died, then when he enrolled in Youkai Academy to escape, went through hell in order to survive]].
* EarlyBirdCameo: Kurumu appears in the first episode of the anime, which is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the next episode (where she is introduced).
* EasilyForgiven: Ruby, who apparently stabbed Tsukune at the end of episode 9, pressing the BerserkButton everyone of his main harem, making Inner Moka come out despite the rosary still being on her, and a huge beam of light emanating from the area as the episode ends, is seen in the very next episode laying down in their tent, with Tsukune no worse for the wear, and no one apparently upset at what happened a few moments earlier.
** Half of the harem (Kurumu, Mizore, and Ruby if you count her) has attempted to kill Tsukune or another main character in their introductory story, and these attacks are all justified as being the result of emotional problems and forgiven.
* EldritchAbomination: This is the only way to desribe the... thing that is [[spoiler:Alucard]].
* EmergencyTransformation: What's that Lassie? Little [[spoiler:Tsukune]] fell in a well? *bite* [[spoiler:Ghoul Tsukune saves the day!]]
* EroticDream: Tsukune gets one (of [[spoiler:Inner Moka]], [[FanPreferredCouple to the delight of many fans]]) prior to his TrainingFromHell, but Kurumu fantasizes on seducing him during class.
* TheEveryman: Tsukune starts off as this before he TookALevelInBadass
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Bus Driver.
* {{Expy}}: While his goal and background are quite different, [[spoiler:Hokuto]] definitely brings to mind [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]]. There's some visual resemblance, his plan is built around and he even uses a couple of Light's better-known lines. Not to mention that he looks just like Aizen and is [[spoiler: a complete mastermind/nigh invincible dude wearing glasses who managed to infiltrate an organization, rise to the top, with everybody loving and trusting him. Only to turn around, kill a bunch of dudes, and become the BigBad. He also turns into a {{bishounen}} when he takes off his glasses by the way (not that [[SexySpectacles he needs to take them off to be sexy]] in ''Season II''). ]]
** Haiji Miyamoto's appearance and devotion to karate make him a paedophiliac version of [[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Ryo Sakazaki]].
** The Bus Driver too. Let's see... drives people around as a profession, hands out advice on the path on should take in life to the hero, implied to be a mega powerful badass though he never steps in directly, we will most likely never know what all of his face really looks like, [[VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines is that you Caine?!]]
* ExtranormalInstitute: The academy.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Nekonome-sensei, except when the Lilith Mirror turns her into her native catwoman monster form. Tsukune's mom too.
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[[folder:F-J]]
* TheFamilyForTheWholeFamily: The Huang family are some of the nicest, goofiest, most helpful people the cast have encountered in the whole series. They are also the Chinese mafia.
* {{Fanservice}}: To a minor degree in the manga version, but completely [[OverusedRunningGag overused and abused]] in the anime, to the extent that the writers sacrificed the entire {{plot}} and CharacterDevelopment of the original manga in favor of breast and [[PantyShot panty shots]]. Cue cries of outrage from fans of the manga.
* FantasticNatureReserve
* FantasticRacism: The Security Committee, upon finding out that Tsukune is a human, sets out to execute him. To be fair, monsters aren't exactly well received by humans either, and have been reduced to small numbers thanks to expanding human control and population, so their hatred of humans isn't entirely unjustified. However, some random characters do mention that not all HumansAreTheRealMonsters, but are promptly knocked out by the Security Committee. The rest of the students seem to call for his blood.
* FantasyKitchenSink: What else would you expect in a school for monsters?
* FemmeFatale: Kurumu, before joining the harem.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Inner-Moka does this to Tsukune during a date.
* FirstGirlWins: Moka's the only girl who Tsukune actively demonstrates any desire for. Technically, this could be a case of LastGirlWins at the same time, given the fact Tsukune doesn't meet "Inner" Moka long enough to talk with her until much later, especially with the growing hints that [[spoiler:eventually it's going to be "Inner" Moka all the time. But since technically both Mokas are the same person...]]
** Becoming a plot point as the manga progresses -- Tsukune has expressed a wish for for both Mokas to become one -- and both Inner and Outer Moka have begun to work together (shown during the flight to Fang-Fang's home) The distinction between them is starting to blur, to say the least.
* FiveRoundsRapid: When her AbsurdlySharpBlade proves ineffective against [[PsychoLesbian Aqua's]] AbsurdlySharpBlade, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Ling-Ling]] unloads an Uzi on her, only for the bullets to [[IntangibleMan pass right through]]. You'd think she'd know better, since they ''use the exact same power''. TooDumbToLive, which is probably why she's [[CatchPhrase already dead]].
** Ling-Ling's version of their shared power can only be used for offense. The stronger and more skilled Aqua can use it both offensively and defensively.
* {{Flanderization}}:
** Kurumu's character is much more noble in the manga: in spite of her love for Tsukune, she also loves her rivals in the harem like sisters and staunchly supports them with warm kindness in their hours of need. Her kind-hearted character is replaced by the bitchiness stereotypical "flirty" character in the anime, making her far less sympathetic.
** Kokoa as well. In the manga, she treats everyone in a much friendlier way than in the anime, where she's [[{{Tsundere}} tsuntsun]] from the very start. While she's still a BloodKnight (for instance, enjoying creating mayhem as a distraction at the Flower Offering arc) and obsessed with Inner Moka, she is more willing to join whatever the core group of friends want to do, instead of an out-and-out problem child who simply wants to beat them all up just because they're close to Moka like in the anime.
** Tsukune is Flanderized over time in the manga, bit by bit turning more from a classic harem hero into a shounen protagonist. Early on he's pretty clearly aware that the other girls like him (it would be hard for him not to, since they stated it outright back then), but as is typical of the genre he just preferred the NiceGirl type of Outer Moka to their more extroverted behavior. He's obviously aware they care about him and that they're very pretty girls. This is all completely forgotten later on when, to facilitate his change into the big strong hero [[SingleTargetSexuality who only has eyes for one girl in the world]], Tsukune apparently not only forgets that the other girls like him, but seems to forget that they're ''girls'', at least in any other fashion than that they [[DistressedDamsel need saving occasionally]]. He goes from seeing them as admirers and close friends he often doesn't quite know how to deal with to treating them like a bunch of friendly acquaintances that happen to follow him around.
* ForeignQueasine: The monsters consider the monster durian to be a mouth-watering delicacy. Tsukune describes it as smelling like blood and dirty socks. In fact, he goes to the hospital for trying to eat it.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Haiji's [[spoiler: love of young girls is a hint at his monster type: a Crow Tengu, a monster that loves children.]]
** The [[spoiler: bow]] Moka wears in Chapter 12 is a direct hint to [[spoiler: Outer Moka being a clone of Akasha the entire time.]]
* FourIsDeath: In episode 4 of the anime, Tsukune arrives at the bus stop at 4:44 pm and is attacked by rivals for Moka's love. Later, 4:44 pm is the scheduled time for [[spoiler:his execution after he's discovered for being human]]. There's also something to be said for Moka having three sisters, meaning four kids in the family.
** The Fairy Tale Agent's .mp3 file with "God's" death song on it is listed as track 4.
** Also, it takes four injections of Moka's blood before Tsukune [[spoiler:[[OurGhoulsAreCreepier starts ghouling out]].]]
** The busline, as revealed in Chapter 39, is called Bus-44.
** Apparently, Kurumu got 44 on her final exam so she has to attend the dreaded summer school.
* {{Frameup}}: In his introductory arc, Gin sets Tsukune up to look like ThePeepingTom to cover his own trail; while Moka easily falls for it, Kurumu and Yukari play detective and manage to expose Gin as the real peeper to the entire school.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Happens with Yukari and Fang-Fang. {{Hilarity Ensues}}.
** Fang-Fang tries to do some of the stereotypical [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman things to do when in a woman/girl's body]] only to get his head bashed by Yukari while she's in his body.
** And this happened on MeasuringDay, [[FromBadToWorse no less.]]
* FreudianExcuse:
** Hokuto has one of these: [[spoiler:My father beats me and monsters at school beat me as well, so I must destroy the world and recreate it in my image!]]
** Aqua's less than exceptional actions over the course of the story all center around the idea that she thinks she's the only one that could love and understand Moka (Inner Moka, not the Moka the rosario projects) completely. [[spoiler: And it has a lot to do with the fact that Inner Moka looks quite a bit like her dead sister Jasmine, basically serving as [[MyGreatestSecondChance Her Greatest Second Chance]].]]
* FriendlessBackground: Most of the girls, it seems. Outer Moka lived a lonely life in the human world. Yukari was ostracized for [[FantasticRacism being a witch]] and [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation being a prodigy who was younger than the rest of her class]]. Mizore was [[LonersAreFreaks a weird loner]] who missed school due to trauma, finding solace in Tsukune's articles due to their outsider's perspective. Ruby was raised in isolation, her only friend being the master who taught her to hate humans.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Moka. Inner Moka and Kokoa, not so much... [[HiddenHeartOfGold at least at first]]. Kahlua, being quite insane, is a mixed bag in this regard.
* GagBoobs: Kurumu. Even when turned into a child, she's still not flat.
* {{Gainaxing}}: ''Kurumu''. My, do they jiggle.
** And used for FanDisservice with her fanboy, whose stomach jiggles similarly.
* GeckoEnding: A lot of things were changed around in the anime, particularly in Season 2. It's also a lot LighterAndSofter compared to the manga; for example, Tsukune only uses Moka's blood once (against Kuyou) and doesn't turn ghoul.
* GenerationXerox:
** In ''[=Capu2=]'', Kurumu and Mizore's rivalry over Tsukune echoes that of their mothers' over a male student during their time at the academy. Neither won and the guy (who is Saizou's dad) turns out as a {{Gonk}} over the years.
** In the manga, San, Ginei and Haiji have a very similar relationship as the Three Dark Lords. [[spoiler:San and Akasha are both the SmurfettePrinciple, Akasha is the strongest of them and the leader, San is the strongest in Yokai Gakuen's history and she led Ginei and Haiji's paths in their school life. Ginei and Touhou Fuhai are both {{Chivalrous Pervert}}s and they have a VitriolicBestBuds relationship with Haiji and Mikogami, respectively, and they are more {{Bishounen}} than the latter. Haiji and Mikogami are both more of muscles. Ginei and Haiji admire San, and it's revealed that both Touhou Fuhai and Mikogami have flirted with Akasha. Also, all of them are high-class yokai.]]
** Fang-Fang's mother and father are a SwordAndSorcerer duo, with his mother being a martial arts expert, and his father having superb summoning ability. He's later teamed up with Yukari, who fulfills the summoning half, [[spoiler: and Fang-Fang himself is revealed to have ''insane'' martial arts skills]] in the final arc of ''Season II''. And in addition, [[spoiler: the both of them are still a pair ([[MaybeEverAfter romantically or otherwise]]) after Fang-Fang ascends to the chair of the clan's head.]]
* GenreShift: The manga started out as a comedy harem series, but the current presence of the Fairy Tail organization has shifted it over to a more traditional Shonen series.
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* GarnishingTheStory: Soooo...there's dragons now. Apparently.
* TheGlomp: Tsukune is an all-too-frequent victim of this.
* GodivaHair: Near the end of the season 1 opening, Moka is seen floating [[InvertedPortrait upside down]] naked underwater, modesty preserved by her long hair.
* GodzillaThreshold: Once or twice when the absolute last resort is to release Tsukune's uncontrollable and potentially irreversible [[spoiler: ghoul aspect.]]
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Akasha, full stop.
* GorgeousGorgon
* GreaterScopeVillain: Alucard turns out to be this, as [[spoiler: he has a hand in the foundation of the Miao family, was the reason why Moka had to be sealed in the first place, and was the leader of Fairy Tale.]]
* GreekChorus: The bats love chiming in with random exposition.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Tsukune does this.
* GunsAkimbo
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler: What Aqua does to apparently dispatch Moka's mom in Chapter 32 which triggered Moka to gain the power she has today in her inner self. Later, she does it to Fang-Fang's older sister. Conveniently, they're the two characters who absolutely cannot be killed by such an injury.]]
* HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler: Hokuto]], as of ''Season II''. [[spoiler: Being paralyzed below the waist isn't stopping him from using powers or still kicking ass.]]
* HandsomeLech: Gin. He's just so charming that even attacking Moka in an early chapter couldn't get rid of him. Getting his ass kicked just made him try harder.
** Kotaro Ijuuin greatly beats Gin to it in the anime, if only for a single episode ([[spoiler:because he's nothing but Kou-chan transformed]]). A single utterance of "[[WordsCanBreakMyBones Je]] [[GratuitousFrench t'aime]]" is enough to make anyone instantly fall in love with him... '''[[HoYay Even Gin himself!!!]]'''
* HarshWordImpact: In one chapter, Tsurara hits Tsukune very hard with the word "chicken", which doubles as a StealthPun, since Tsukune when written with different kanji can refer to a type of Japanese chicken dish.
* HateSink: Gyokuro Shuzen is one of the heads of the [[AntiHumanAlliance anti-human]] terrorist organization Fairy Tale, and is the vilest one. Holding a grudge against Akasha Bloodriver for stealing her husband Issa's attention away from her, Gyokuro seeks to start a war between humans and monsters solely for the sake of spiting Akasha's dream of co-existence between monsters and humankind. Along the way, she conditions her eldest daughter Kahlua into a mindless killing machine, attempts to have her youngest daughter Kokoa killed by her own sister, and takes every opportunity to physically and psychologically torment Akasha's daughter Moka. Finally, she [[spoiler:fuses with Alucard and attempts to destroy the whole world]]. Lacking the [[FreudianExcuse sympathetic backstories]] of Hokuto and The Masked King, Gyokuro is a monster both [[CuteMonsterGirl literally]] and [[TheSociopath figuratively]].
* HellishPupils: A trait common in vampires (except Outer Moka), along with pronounced canines.
* HeroInsurance: Subverted with the Belmont incident; Moka and her friends were lucky to simply be put on probation for the effort. It helps that Moka had no intention at all to pawn it off.
* HeroicBSOD: Hey, turns out [[spoiler: Outer Moka is just a fake personality, and in chapter 34 of season 2 Tsukune finds out and he loses all hope he had with her. Poor guy.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Akasha]] gave her life to protect [[spoiler: her precious daughters, Moka and Aqua.]]
** [[spoiler:When Moka is mortally wounded by Alucard, it looks like there is no way to save her, other than injecting vampiric blood into her, but Aqua doesn't have enough power to seal the deal, so Tsukune, without a way out, resolves to break his seal, enlarge his fangs (since in ghoul mode they aren't big enough) and inject his blood into Moka. Subverted closely, since the crew used ThePowerOfFriendship to help him finally get a grip on his shinso blood and the result not only saved Moka, but allowed Tsukune to stop being a ghoul and becoming a Shinso vampire.]]
* HighPressureBlood: Used most often in a gags, usually one where Kurumu hits Tsukune with a MarshmallowHell, only for Mizore to hit Kurumu in the head with a kunai formed of ice. The next panel shows the kunai popping free, complete with lots of blood. Appears in other gags, as well.
* HomoeroticSubtext: Kiria is very devoted to Hokuto and Miyabi, and when [[spoiler: Miyabi is destroyed and Hokuto falls indefinitely unconscious]], he curses Tsukune and his lot for taking away the two people that he loved. It's understandable in Miyabi's case [[spoiler:as he is Kiria's "father"]], but in Hokuto's case you can't exactly give him the same excuse. Suspiciously, Kiria also mentions in an omake that he's not interested in girls...
* HonorBeforeReason: Kurumu when competing for Tsukune's affections. She absolutely will not exploit anything that would give her a chance to win viewing it as unfair - one of her most endearing and, sadly, tragic traits. Especially since unrequited love can be ''fatal'' to a succubus.
* HopeSpot: Volume 13 ends with a massive one. [[spoiler: Gyokuro has been defeated and consumed by Alucard. Moka's rosario has been reclaimed and Outer Moka is restored. All of Fairy Tale's leaders have been taken out. Kahlua is dead too. The Bus Driver has taken control of the floating island and is directing it away from human civilization. Everything seems like it's going to turn out all right...then the secret BigBad of the series shows up.]]
* HopelessSuitor: None of the girls aside from Moka has any real shot with Tsukune. It doesn't stop them from trying however, even if they realize it. In ''Season II'', this trope hits Kurumu over the head again and again, which isn't good for her in the slightest since [[spoiler: succubi ''live'' for love, and heartbreak is a very powerful, and very dangerous thing for a succubus to suffer through.]]
* HornyDevils: Kurumu and her mother Ageha.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Poor Tsukune has to listen to this a LOT from the Monsters he encounters. No matter how hard he tries to show by example that his kind are at the least redeemable to any Big Bads, [[{{Hypocrite}} their views seldom, if not never, change]].
** Played with in an interesting case: [[spoiler: Aqua's backstory shows that her pseudo-sister Jasmine was lynched and dismembered by a group of angry humans who figured out that they were vampires. Except the reason they were out for blood is because Aqua ''killed'' a human that Jasmine liked, because she was [[SelfFulfillingProphecy that sure]] that any human would be out to get them and didn't want to see Jasmine get hurt, even if he hadn't even done anything yet.]]
** This is the only motive Fairy Tale needs.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Double subverted with Kokoa in her introductory arc. Tsukune guesses that her desire to fight Moka stems from missing her sister and just wanting to spend time with her. Nope, seems she doesn't care for her after all. Then the rosario comes off and Kokoa launches herself at ''inner''-Moka, who she really does love and is overjoyed to see.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Inner Moka, after being (inadvertently) smooth-talked by Tsukune. Goes hand-in-hand with her current {{Tsundere}} status.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: While they know Tsukune won't be able to have feelings of love for them, the girls in his UnwantedHarem still help him out, in both the anime the manga. Both Kurumu and Mizore seem resigned to the fact that they'll be happy so long as they can spend time with him at least, even if he's not romantically interested in them.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "[insert episode theme here] + Vampire"
* IdiotBall: Tsukune's inability to realize the other girls want him just as badly as (if not more than) Moka does. He will always, by default, try and save Moka first, then the others, and then will apologize for doing so. This goes hand in hand with his ChasteHero status because, if he wasn't so intent on being with Moka, he'd have probably spend more time with the other girls a bit more when there isn't a crisis happening. He will ALWAYS default to being in Moka's company first, even if the girls are doing him a favor.
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Moka as a baby. It also explains why she knew that injecting monster blood into someone could save them.]]
* ImagineSpot: Kuruma has one when talking with Tsukune in episode 2, having mentioned they're in the same class, showing where she sits in relation to him - he's confused when she simply asks "See what I mean?"
* IncestSubtext: With Aqua's feelings for Moka.
* InsertSong:
** A good portion of episode 5 is devoted to showing off Kurumu and Yukari's {{Image Song}}s. The other girls have their songs inserted in, too.
** Episode 3 of ''[=Capu2=]'' also. Kurumu gets another, but this time her competitor is Mizore.
* InstantFanClub: Moka, Kurumu and Yukari have three rather lame fanboys in the first season, but by the second season, they've developed large, screaming, mostly ''female'' fanclubs. ESPECIALLY Moka.
** Then again, it's perhaps due to them having made a name for themselves after the end of first year.
* InstantRunes: Mikogami, [[spoiler:and recently Tsukune]] have used these.
** Averted in the case of Touhoufuhai, who drew his runes by hand (midair, very quickly), but as he is [[spoiler:Tsukune's mentor]], he's most likely capable of this to some degree.
** Possibly averted by Fang-Fang's father Feihong; it is possible he draws them like Touhou Fuhai, but it's hard to be sure.
** Justified in [[spoiler: Tsukune's case as Touhou Fuhai basically reformatted his body to be able to use magic, thus meaning that the spells are essentially inscribed into Tsukune's flesh, allowing him to produce spells on command without having to use the more complex steps in the casting process that others need.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Tsukune]] is human, [[EmergencyTransformation sort of]]. [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The]] [[HornyDevils girls]] [[AnIcePerson pining]] [[CuteWitch for]] [[HotWitch him]]... [[CuteMonsterGirl not so much]].
** Technically, almost any romance at [[FantasyKitchenSink Youkai Academy]] qualifies. Season one's antagonists were an organization of [[HybridMonster hybrids]]. While everybody there is a monster except Tsukune [[spoiler:and Hokuto (and in both cases it's relative)]], very few characters are the same ''type'' of monster.
* InvertedPortrait: Near the end of the season 1 opening, the "camera" pans over Moka floating upside down naked underwater and surrounded by fruit, her rosary glowing.
* IronicEcho: [[spoiler: Moka apparently was an IllGirl and near death at birth and her mom had to inject her with her blood to save her which eventually led to Moka getting her powers...guess who had to inject her blood to save Tsukune which eventually led to him taking a level in badass by becoming a ghoul.]]
** [[spoiler: If Shinso Blood is needed to awaken Alucard, and Moka transferred it to Tsukune through the blood transfer...Oh dear, Aqua won't like this! Touhoufuhai already said that Tsukune's new Ghoul form smells like Alucard...]]
* JapaneseDelinquents: Almost all hybrid youkai (localized as "Monstrels") are practically the resident delinquents, but Moka and Kokoa send just as much terror down the spines of the most troublesome gang leaders, more specifically, the "inner" Moka.
* JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind: Kurumu with added levels of YouNeverAsked.
** Technically, it's more levels of "Not sure it will work"; it's the first time she's done it, and although [[spoiler: Tsukune's AnguishedDeclarationOfLove towards Moka]] certainly didn't help, she is feeling weakness from doing a complex spell like this and she did get lost on the way. Cue Touhou Fuhai's internal BigWhat and disbelief.
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[[folder:K-O]]
* KissOfTheVampire: "Kapuchuu~"
** Hilariously, the manga as translated for dead-tree gives the sound effect as a loud "Chomp!"
* KnightTemplar: Fairy Tale, a pro-monster/anti-human terrorist organization. They're firmly convinced that ''all'' humans are scum who deserve nothing but death, and that includes any monsters who dare to associate with humanity.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At least, but possibly outright breaking it, Yukari-chan.
* LecherousLicking: Kokoa licks the blood off Tsukune's face. From her point of view, she's just feeding, but from his point of view it's creepy.
** Also done by Routier to Fang-Fang.
* LethalChef: Inner Moka, of all people. Her first attempt to make pumpkin pie somehow creates a gigantic slimy ''thing'' that destroys the Home Ec room and traumatizes poor Yukari (Inner Moka's quite careless with knives, and accidentally sliced Yukari's clothing ''badly''). That "Thing" she creates turns out to be edible, however it manages to knock out Kokoa of all people. She was taken away on a gurney while hooked up to an IV. There was a puddle of... Something, oozing out of her mouth. This is beyond LethalChef. Nobody has ever made poison strong enough to make a vampire keel over and barf before, out of simple dough and pumpkin.
** Her second attempt looked more like someone had detonated an explosive device in the kitchen than anything that could be called 'cooking'. Later it turns out to be a cake, more burned than charcoal, and pretty hard as well.
* LighterAndSofter: Whereas the manga underwent CerebusSyndrome, the anime remains a lighthearted romantic comedy. Especially ''[=Capu2=]'', where most of the plots center on goofiness and {{fanservice}}.
* LightningGlare: Kurumu and Moka often do it to each other in the anime when fighting over Tsukune.
* LimitedWardrobe / SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Especially in the manga. With a few exceptions, everyone keeps wearing their school uniforms anywhere they go (the most ridiculous example being the trip to Mizore's hometown - before the Flower Offering day, everyone else is still in uniform, with only a scarf added "because they are somewhere cold"; seriously, this begets some levels of FridgeLogic), in spite of how different they dress from one another (Mizore only uses the skirt on her standard outfit, for example).
* LiteralSplitPersonality: The Lilith Mirror splits Moka into two separate beings, yet to Kokoa's disappointment, they must rejoin.
* LoadBearingBoss: At least in [[spoiler:the last episode of ''[=Capu2=]''; every time Moka's father leaves the castle, it collapses (also mentioned offhand)]]
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Seems to be heading this way. Counting Moka's two personalities as two separate characters, the series currently has at least nine main characters (more if you include Gin and Lingling). Add their families to the mix and that figure more than doubles. Then there's the Youkai Academy staff, Sun and Marin, Anti-Thesis, Fairy Tale... even if we only count characters who "appear in multiple chapters as more than a cameo", the character count is well into the forties. Add the various [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]], and the figure gets even bigger.
* LoopholeAbuse: In a contest where using superpowers is not allowed, everyone starts using weapons and outside interference.
* LossOfInhibitions: Lilith's Mirror is capable of revealing a monster's true form and unleashing their hidden desires. In the anime, the girls in Tsukune's become more lustful towards him than usual when the mirror is used on them.
* LovableSexManiac:
** Gin, who wants to grope one of the girls at any chance he gets, and Yukari, whose stated plans involve her, Moka, Tsukune and a bed (which can run to TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior because she's eleven years old and only ''mentally'' precocious). Pillow fight?
** [[spoiler: Ruby, especially during Tsukune's training with Belmont...]]
** Subverted with Kurumu; despite her pretenses of sexual confidence and aggressiveness (coupled with HornyDevils), she's very chaste and pure-hearted with endearingly innocent views on love.
* LoveAtFirstSight: Tsukune and Outer Moka "make friends" at their first encounter. Inner Moka's first encounter with him also includes her giving him a surprisingly tender MarshmallowHell embrace, though Tsukune doesn't like her quite as much at first.
* LoveBubbles
* LovelyAngels: Kurumu and Mizore in Season II. They started training together off-page with Gin in order to compete with Inner Moka. It paid off when they were able to use {{Combination Attack}}s against their enemies.
* LoverTugOfWar: How Tsukune is not literally snapped in half by now seems like a mystery -- but then even before his PowerUp, he was MadeOfIron: smashed into the ground hard enough to break rock, thrown onto vending machines...he just ''[[{{Determinator}} keeps getting up]]''.
* LuminescentBlush: [[BigBad Aqua]] breaks out in one of these after [[spoiler: seeing her sister Moka for the first time in years. The other characters see this as a sign Aqua is ''completely insane'' since she's out to kill Moka.]]
* MadArtist: Hitomi Ishigami. She was already mad in her first appearance, but is mad ''with revenge'' when she returns.
* MagicalGirlfriend
* MagicPants: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in an {{omake}} (seen in the trope's own page)
* MagicSkirt: The author specifically stated in spite of the "other Moka's" penchant for high kicks, her panties will ''not'' be shown, ever (Yukari specifically laments this fact in one of the {{omake}}s.) And even Inner Moka, in the manga, has at least one Precision Panty Strike per season. Inverted in the anime, when Moka has many panty shots just walking in her regular school uniform.
* MaleGaze:
** Right before they take a field trip to the human world, Moka happens to sit next to Tsukune in street clothes. Her blouse has cleavage and Tsukune can't help looking down her shirt (the next three or so panels are shown from his POV).
** The anime screams this trope the whole time. Especially when Kurumu appears or when Moka transforms.
* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Akasha Bloodriver.]] Come on, she gave birth to [[spoiler:Moka]], it can't be that much of a surprise!
* ManEatingPlant: The Witch War arc contains an entire army of these. In another chapter, it introduces the Dorian, a monster plant filled with tentacles and a taste for humans and monsters alike.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: The evil Doppleganger in the second part transforms into Kurumu. [[NoseBleed You can guess what happens next.]] Similar thing happens later on when Fang-Fang and Yukari switch bodies, but Yukari stops Fang-Fang before he can have any fun.
* MarryThemAll: Fang-Fang Huang attempts to lure Tsukune into the Chinese Demon Mafia (no, seriously) by pointing out that this would make it a simple matter for him to marry his entire harem. With the exception of Moka, the girls make it clear that they like the idea... and [[LovableSexManiac Yukari]] tries to ''put him on a leash and force him to accept''. And Kurumu, Ruby, and Mizore dress to fit in with the Chinese... Then Inner Moka reiterates Outer Moka's objection. [[{{Tsundere}} Except with a great deal more violence]].
** There's also the end of the anime, where Tsukune, faced with the question of "who will you end up with", tries using this in conjunction with LoveYouAndEverybody so as not to let the other girls down, especially because they busted their humps to help him before. [[spoiler: It only earns him a kick in the face from Inner Moka]].
** Moka's father deconstructs this in the manga's epilogue too, saying that although he's not really in a position to go all OverprotectiveDad over his daughter being part of a harem [[HypocrisyNod since he's a polygamist himself]], considering how his own polygamy [[GreenEyedMonster turned]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse out]] Tsukune may want to think very carefully before attempting anything similar. Tsukune confirms that the implications of the parallel have not been lost on him.
* MarshmallowHell: Kurumu's favorite form of greeting to Tsukune, but only so it annoys the competition; Tsukune's usually too busy suffocating to protest much.
** She managed to invert this when they joined the swim club, launching herself crotch-first at his face.
* {{Masquerade}}: The whole of point of Youkai Academy is to teach monsters how to blend into the human society. Hence, as a lucky break for Tsukune, their curriculum is directly based on the leading human (Japanese) schools.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Inner Moka's feelings successfully confuse not only Tsukune but the rest of the UnwantedHarem as well.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: It's not really brought up, but it's mentioned several times in-series that vampires, at least, are immortal, [[spoiler:later proven by Moka's mother, who's [[{{Really 700 Years Old}} definitely over 200]], possibly much older, but [[{{Older Than They Look}} looks like she's in her twenties or thirties]].]] We've also seen a witch and a yuki-onna who are both over 100, (though the witch, at least, actually looked the part). Succubi probably have a different growth rate as well. And [[{{Unwanted Harem}} they're all after]] [[{{Ridiculously Average Guy}} Tsukune]].
** By the end of the manga, [[spoiler: Tsukune has become a full vampire thanks to the Holy Lock slowly but surely adjusting Tsukune's body to Moka's blood]], so the problem may sort itself out on its own.
* MeaningfulName:
** Youkai Academy's name means "Monster Academy", though it's a pun in Japanese and the Kanji actually makes it mean something completely different. It's basically like if a school called "Read Son (Red Sun) Academy" were secretly a school for [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kryptonians]].
** Not to mention the names given to some of the characters:
*** Let's just take Mizore: her first name is Japanese for "sleet", and her last name is Japanese for "white snow." And her [[FamilyThemeNaming mother's name]], Tsurara, means "icicle. " Additionally, '''Shirayuki'''-hime is the Japanese name for Snow White.
*** "Gin" means "silver", commonly linked to werewolves, and Gin's a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]].
*** "Yuki" means snow, and Mizore Shira'''yuki''' is a snow woman. And "Mizore" is the word for "sleet".
*** Their teacher's a cat girl, and she has "neko" ("cat") as part of her last name.
*** Otonashi San's family name phonetically means without sound. [[spoiler:This is actually a subversion of the author's usual theme naming to keep her power a secret until the reveal.]]
* MegatonPunch: Tsukune accidentally receives one from Moka in the first episode. She also gives one to Kurumu in episode 2, which knocks her outside of the school.
** Most of Moka's fights end this way, usually with Moka shouting "Learn your place!" and a [[MegatonPunch Megaton Kick]]
* MentalFusion: In the manga, Lady Oyakta transforms into a giant plant monster and then absorbs Moka, Kurumu, Mizore and Ruby into her body. After being absorbed, the girls fuse with Oyakata, becoming part of the monster's body and being mentally controlled by it.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Mostly students, but there have been teachers who're AxCrazy sociopaths with hair triggers.
* MonstersAnonymous: Yokai Academy.
* MoodWhiplash: Upon finding out Tsukune has attracted boys now, Mizore is impressed... Then threatens to stab him if he continues being unfaithful... Then Yukari mentions that boy's love is now considered 'wholesome' in the human world... While she's reading an example with a heavy blush on her face.
** Kokoa's reading a boy's love book on the next page, while she and Ruby explain that the boy in question doesn't have ''that'' idea in mind... And Kokoa's [[NoseBleed Nosebleeding]] all over her uniform.
** The chapters after the Snow Village arc have gone back to light-hearted comedy harem humor, adding a guy to the mix, right after a ton of CharacterDevelopment and an ''awesome'' fight.
** [[spoiler: During the depressing Snow Village arc Mizore jumps out of a window, cue a heroic save, an epic kiss, a comic reaction, than Crowning Moment of Heartwarming IN FIVE PAGES!]] Now excuse me while I go to a chiropractor.
** As dark as the current arc is, you can always continue to expect at least one silly, random or just plain goofy moment thrown in to lighten the mood, if only for a moment. Whether it be Aqua fangirling over her own sister, the hilarious training methods of the rest of the cast or something else entirely, the manga hardly goes one chapter without getting a good laugh in. If there's no humor at all...then something horrible is going down. But, if there are a few funny moments afterwards, then that means there's hope.
* MoralDissonance:
** Snow maidens need to reproduce young due to their short period of fertility, which ends in their mid-twenties. To ensure population growth, a law is enforced that requires arranged marriages at age seventeen. The snow maiden Mizore, one of the romantic interests for the hero Tsukune, to avoid an arranged marriage, uses a powerful aphrodisiac in an attempt to bewitch Tsukune into making love to her. In other words, Mizore's solution to a marriage without consent is to force herself on Tsukune without consent, the very definition of rape. To compound matters, Mizore herself was the victim of a rape attempt at the hands of a teacher. At no point does anyone call out Mizore for her actions. Yes, they were originally upset that Mizore betrayed their trust and tried to "snatch away" Tsukune, but they completely forgive upon learning of the arranged marriage. Nobody points out that when her "fiancé" forces a kiss on her (an act that drives her to attempt suicide), she behaved in a similar manner. A worse manner actually. A complete scumbag the fiancé might have been, but even he drew the line at having sex with her. So essentially the message is, rape is okay, provided you're really, really desperate and are in a bad situation.
** The HumansAreTheRealMonsters message is heavily harped on, especially in the witch storyarc. The fact that most humans are completely unaware of monsters' existence (including those witches) and are thus unaware that they are harming anyone is completely unmentioned. It doesn't help that humans are often victims of monsters as well, who often see humans are inferior, suitable only for food, playthings to be killed, or objects to rape (the first villain monster to appear in the manga is notorious for this, suggesting that monsters should forget about the {{Masquerade}} and just eat all the humans, except for the cute ones who would be raped instead). While humans are not blameless, in particular when it came to witch hunts, most anti-monster behavior from humans occurs out of ignorance or from having been victimized by monsters, like Hokuto.
** In Mizore's introduction, Mizore attempts to kill Moka to steal Tsukune away. The next chapter features Tsukune apologizing for hurting her feelings by rejecting her. Because clearly its wrong to harshly reject a girl that attempts to kidnap you and kill your crush. That same chapter, Mizore is upset that Tsukune would think she was capable of hurting an innocent person. Apparently, her interpretation of innocent is a bystander who in no way impedes her desire and her wants, and thus excludes Moka, who is an obstacle in her way to romancing Tsukune.
* MrExposition: The bat gives out info on types of monsters and gives the exact number of seconds it takes to defeat an opponent. The manga (and second season of the anime) reveals he's also a MorphWeapon. He'll also chide characters who try stealing his job.
** In the manga, though, Kou-chan is mute.
* MrFanservice: From the regular cast alone, we have Gin and his shirtless moments, but Tsukune slowly starts becoming the main perpetrator of this as time goes on and the art style becomes more detailed.
* MsFanservice: In the manga, Kurumu provides more panty shots and ends up in states of undress more times than all the other characters combined (It certainly seems that way, at any rate).
** Under another viewpoint, Ruby and her [[InformedAttribute self-made]] uniforms.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: The very first opponent Inner Moka faces is a huge monster almost three times her size (Saizou's true form). It was quite obvious that she didn't even have to try.
** Explained how she can do so in the final chapter of the first manga season. Vampires' strength isn't based on muscles.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Poor Ruby gets this sometimes.
** Fang-Fang gets this treatment quite a bit.
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours: The [[AbsurdlySharpClaws Dimension Sword]] technique (detailed below under {{Telefrag}} + {{Vibroweapon}}) has three known users, and its effectivity is directly proportionate to how many "dimension shifts per second" it uses. Ling-Ling Huang uses sixteen ds/sec; Aqua Shuzen and Touhou Fuhai use ''one hundred'' ds/sec.
* Mystical108: The body transformation technique of Touhou Fuhai's involves 109 needles – [[spoiler: Tsukune had 108 of them put into him before he passes out and Touhou Fuhai was getting low on energy and decided to suspend the operation to recover energy... but then suddenly Tsukune's holy lock starts breaking and he gets up and transforms something seemly far more monstrous than his ghoul form.]]
* NoEndorHolocaust: After the final battle, a good chunk of the human world is in disrepair. There were hundreds of buildings (including skyscrapers) that had received damage, but apparently a good chunk of the town had been evacuated beforehand.
* NoFourthWall: In the second-season episode after Kokoa is introduced, she reveals that the narrator-bat can change into anything by turning him into a gigantic hammer (beforehand, she turned him into multiple envelopes). As she goes on a rampage against the protagonists, they lament how the writers were probably drunk when writing the episode. Plus, we get this gem:
--> '''Yukari''': They were keeping this idea in their back pocket the whole first season!!!
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: As mentioned in the CMOA section, [[spoiler: Hokuto does this to Tsukune, ''twice''. Once when Tsukune gets the will to fight him when he unveils his evil plan, and again...immediately after the first, because Tsukune is a {{Determinator}} who just had to get up after the first one. Now, this isn't just one beatdown because [[MadeOfIron Tsukune]] was able to take two really long beatings with the gap between them literally just him deciding to continue fighting, and charging at Hokuto, who had already dismissed him as defeated.]]
* {{Nosebleed}}: Interestingly, the victim is Kokoa, in reaction to fanservice from ''women''.
** One noteable example in the anime is episode 11 of ''[=Capu2=]'': [[spoiler:Tsukune does this with {{high pressure blood}} when Kurumu ''in a really skimpy outfit'' flashes him while under the effects of a magical mirror that not only reveals monsters' true forms, but also stops any resistance to their inner desires and natures.]]
** Also happens once in the manga, when a Doppleganger who's taken Kurumu's form briefly incapacitates Tsukune by flashing him. This is notable because Tsukune [[spoiler: was in ghoul mode]] and he ''still'' got a nosebleed.
--->[[spoiler:'''Ruby''': Thank god! He's still human!]]
*** The same happens to the Doppelganger himself while he's... ahem... "test-driving" Kurumu's body.
---> '''Kurumu''' ''(the real one)'': Stop squeezing them! They don't belong to you!
** Mizore's eyes showing through the spray of Tsukune's blood makes for a particularly funny scene in Chapter 39 of the first season.
*** That same scene also happens in episode 7 of Season 2.
** Not only Kokoa but her bat nosebleeds from watching Gin apparently speed-grope Kurumu and Mizore.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Bad enough from Kurumu's point of view, to wake up and find herself in bed with ''Gin'' -- but when she sees a bloodstain on the sheets, it's a BerserkButton. And then Mizore slides out from under the bed and [[spoiler:admits ''she'' put the bloodstain there as a prank]].
-->'''Mizore''': Surprised you, did it?\\
'''Kurumu''': ''It didn't just surprise me!! I thought I had lost something!''
* NumberOfTheBeast: The final numbered chapter of season II is 66-6: "Dawn of the Dark #6".
* OfficialCouple: Of all of the characters who could have gone together or are hinted at getting together, [[spoiler: Haiji and Kokoa]] are the only ones to take the next step and actually start ''dating'' at the end of the series. However, they have no clue about dating or what should happen, so they pretty much wing it.
* OfficialKiss: Tsukune and "outer" Moka finally have their first kiss near the end of ''Season II''. [[spoiler: But it's also their last, since the rosario has broken and she's fading away. Eventually, though, some aspects of Outer Moka merge with Inner Moka (shown by her hair now having pink tips), tempering her just enough to allow her and Tsukune to become the official couple. Good thing, as both are now ''shinso''.]]
* OhCrap: [[spoiler:[[TheJuggernaut Aqua]]]] isn't immune to this. [[spoiler:Though she ultimately figures out a way to beat the attack that was frightening her.]]
** [[spoiler: Kuyou is subject to this when he witnesses Tsukune vamp out for the first time during their rematch at the Fairy Tale headquarters.]]
** Sun-sempai sets aside her notebook and opens her mouth.
** When Hokuto sees Tsukune [[spoiler: cause a magical explosion that sends surrounding Fairy Tale members flying ''and'' deflect a thrown stone pillar ''with a single spell '''that is apparently supposed to be for close-range aerial combat'''''.]]
* OminousFloatingCastle: Fairy Tale headquarters.
* OnceAnEpisode: One can practically time when the obligatory fight and final blood-sucking "kapuchu~!!" will happen by the start of episode 4.
** Also, possibly coupled with the blood-sucking, the exchange of SayMyName.
* OneGenderRace: Both [[HornyDevils succubi]] and [[AnIcePerson yuki onna]] are implied to be this; we've seen some hybrid monsters, so OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace only works if their racial traits are inherently dominant.
** It's possible that this contributes to their motivations to pursue Tsukune, a human - monstrels are said to be the result of inter-monster-species pairings, but it's never clarified what kind of being a human-monster pairing would produce.
* OneWingedAngel: When the latest student causing trouble reveals their true form, it's time for Moka to go all out.
** Also Kahlua, in a more literal form - her entire right arm becomes a writhing mass of bat wings sharper than blades. [[spoiler:This is achieved by taking off ''one of two'' PowerLimiter earrings. When she takes off both of them, her entire body becomes a humanoid mass of sludge that she mentions leaves her feeling ''almost not alive'', as she says while casually decapitating herself.]]
** [[spoiler: Tsukune himself gained one.]]
* TheOnlyOne: We all know Tsukune was the only one enabled to remove Moka's seal and unleash "inner" Moka, but for the most part we thought that it was because they were alike in terms of trying to protect their loved ones, but later on (chapter 34 season 2) we find out there is another purpose to it-- [[spoiler: the only one who can remove the seal has to be someone who truly loves Moka and means her no harm, and luckily for her Tsukune fits the bill.]]
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Kurumu has expressed (eventually, in some cases) an unwillingness to capitalize on anything that would take Moka out of the picture, leaving her free to pursue Tsukune in Moka's absence. Only winning him over in some form of woman-to-woman confrontation would satisfy her.
** Supposedly Mizore feels the same, so that makes this a sort of Defeat Triangle.
* OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Tsukune is either blessed or ''[[CursedWithAwesome cursed]]'' with the fact Kurumu ''and'' Mizore are able/willing to have him father their child.
** Yet slightly averted: they decide to choose ''[[SingleTargetSexuality only ]]''[[SingleTargetSexuality him]] and no other guy on campus. Any guy would work, but they're thus far fixated on Tsukune.
* OralFixation: Mizore and her lollipop; justified that all snow women need to have something in their mouths to stay cool from the heat. But she continues to keep it in her mouth even when in her rather cold homeland, because she likes it.
** Not just a matter of taste: she states that the lollipop also symbolizes the good times she's been having with her friends and would-be lover, and she doesn't wanna let go of that.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: At first, with Tsukune. [[spoiler: Then Hokuto gets thrown into the mix. And ''then'' the both of them gain powers on separate occasions, with the latter becoming a ghoul and then a full blown vampire by the end of the series.]]
* OT3: In-universe. This is Yukari's plan for her, Moka, and Tsukune, and she really goes into detail. [[invoked]]
* OurHeroIsDead: Episode nine ends on a cliffhanger with Tsukune apparently dead. He gets better.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Mermaids here are depicted as life-sucking creatures with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily in their true form.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Most can shapeshift or approximate a human form. One student [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on the fact [[CatGirl Nekonome-sensei]] has the most obviously non-human form. She smiles and proceeds to claw his face off before returning to the lesson.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: All vampires are seemingly unaffected by sunlight and clearly aren't [[TheUndead undead]]. Water will paralyzes them, though it's uncertain if it's supernatural or psychosomatic. The eponymous PowerLimiter rosary's a holy item. [[spoiler: Then there's the matter of the first ancestor vampire, Alucard, who's more monster than humanoid...]]
* OurWitchesAreDifferent: Witches are monsters that look indistinguishable from humans, except they can do magic. They come in both male and female.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: In the second anime season a episode involves Curry Zombies via MindControl Curry..[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer no really]]...
** in the Manga proper Ling-Ling Huang, the sister of Fang-Fang Huang, is a [[ChineseVampire Jiangshi]] while one of the translations for her kind's name is vampire they act more like traditional Hollywood zombies.
* OvernightAgeUp: Yukari and Kokoa in the manga, while just Yukari in the anime. The manga version backfires into a FountainOfYouth, while the anime takes place on MeasuringDay.
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* PantyShot:
** The anime is ''loaded'' with these in just the first episode (roughly one every minute or so). Just look at how short the skirts are in the pictures. In some instances, girls' crotches are drawn to actually peek out from under their skirts.
** According to the official staff blog, each writer's meeting for the show involved serious discussions of the character's panties.
** The author said that Inner Moka's panties [[MagicSkirt will ]]''[[MagicSkirt never ]]''[[MagicSkirt be shown]], no matter how high she kicks. It's not true, because the first time Inner Moka's panties are seen is in ''chapter 8'' but they are few and far in between, and usually hidden in shadow, not called attention to.
** Season One has roughly 400 pantyshots, and Season Two has a whopping 650. Basically, this is '''Pantyshot: The Anime.'''
* PantyFighter: The anime.
* PlayboyBunny: Ruby dresses as one in chapter 24.
* PointyEars: Kurumu in her true form.
* POVBoyPosterGirl: Moka is the primary driving force behind much of the plot (not to mention TheAce in just about any desperate situation), but Tsukune is the primary viewpoint protagonist.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Moka gains silver hair when she takes her rosary off and gains her true vampire power. Inverted in that is her PowerLimiter that dyes her hair, and removing it restores her natural hair color.
* PowerLimiter: Moka's rosary necklace and [[spoiler:Tsukune's rosary bracelet, after he becomes a ghoul. And Kahlua's rosary earrings. And San's notebook.]]
* PreAssKickingOneLiner: Inner Moka does this a lot, mostly by telling her enemies ''Know your place'', but one of the best came from the most recent chapter and from [[ButtMonkey Fong Fong]] no less.
--> '''Fong Fong''': If it's about supremacy then I'll give it to you, but in return I will protect her until the very end!!![[note]] He's talking about Yukari here.[[/note]]
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Happens to [[AffablyEvil Miyabi]] when Tsukune does a MegatonPunch on him.
* PunnyName: The school is called "Youkai," but uses an alternate set of kanji than expected (陽海 instead of 妖怪).
* PuttingOnTheReich: Fairy Tale as shown by the TrueCompanions.
* RapeAsDrama: The MonsterOfTheWeek would get his [[CurbStompBattle ass handed to them]] because of attempting this with one of the girls in early stories. As the series progresses, [[FromBadToWorse it gets more serious.]] [[spoiler:Mizore is treated to a brutal setup in the Flower Offering arc. Not treated as a gimmick or done overly heavy-handed or melodramatic, and one of the most moving, ''emotionally battering'' and awesome arcs of the whole series.]] Bear in mind that's the '''second''' rape attempt she's faced.
* RapunzelHair: Moka. However, the artist can be a little inconsistent as her hair can be seen to be anywhere from the center of her back to nearly her knees!
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: 'Inner' Moka has no problems with delivering these. Most notably:
--> "Tsukune, I'll give you my judgement. ''This is no good at all''. You have vampire blood, so you must have the 'aptitude' to become stronger. You were dutiful originally, so you are a fast learner. However...''They're light''. I'm speaking about your weakness, your fists. The things needed to win, you have no 'will', nor do you have 'killing intent'. '''So who on earth are you planning to defeat?'''
* RedOniBlueOni: Appearance-wise Outer Moka and Kurumu.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Moka's super-vampire side has these. [[spoiler: Tsukune too.]]
* RescueArc: Rescuing Moka from the Sky Garden.
* RetiredBadass: Two hundred years of retirement have done nothing to dull [[spoiler: Akasha Bloodriver, the Greatest Lord of Darkness]] or her fighting prowess.
* TheReveal: If Moka's father had been an extremely powerful "Shinso" vampire, it would have been TheUntwist at this point. [[spoiler: It's her mother instead.]]
* RidiculouslyAverageGuy: Tsukune. More and more averted as the series goes on.
* RunningGag: Whenever Moka and Tsukune just say each other's names a few times in succession, complete with BishieSparkle. Sometimes the other girls butt in during those times.
** Ruby saying "It's a long story" anytime she's asked about a new job. She even gets distraught in one episode after Moka steals that line from her.
** The bat showing up to explain how long a battle took. Sometimes he may not mention the time however, or gets interrupted. It gets Lampshaded in the Anime by a member of the Security Commitee:
--->"Kuyou": What? Keito was beaten?\\
"School Police Member": Indeed, and in a matter of 117 seconds!
* SacredFirstKiss: Mizore's is [[spoiler: stolen by the representative of the Fairy Tale group during their BreakTheCutie [[RapeAsDrama semi-attempted-rape]], and is [[DrivenToSuicide incredibly devastating]] to her.]]
** Kurumu [[spoiler: also steals Tsukune's in a very heartwarming scene]].
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Moka's outer personality was this at first, but she has become much less so in the later chapters of the manga, especially during ''Season II''.
* SayItWithHearts: Almost everyone in Tsukune's harem, but mostly Moka and Kurumu.
* SayMyName: "Moka-san!" "Tsukune!". Repeat as many times as necessary, until someone or something interrupts.
** Played with in episode 12 of ''[=Capu2=]'', when Inner Moka asks Tsukune to do it with her. It doesn't work because 1. she does it in a very emotionless way and 2. he's unable to get "the other Moka" out of his mind.
* SchoolFestival: There was a fair amount of buildup, as Tsukune's role on the festival committee was a major plot point for the conflict with Hokuto, but the festival itself turned out to be a BreatherEpisode by comparison to the preceding arc.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: Everything Ling-Ling does in the Sports Festival revolves around this. She's a shameless underhanded cheater who uses fellow hopping corpses to compete as students (by conveniently enrolling them at the Academy just one day before the Festival). She cannot afford to lose, but apparently words like "rule" and "regulation" don't exist in her vocabulary.
* SecretKeeper: The Newspaper Club, towards Tsukune (well, just Moka up 'til the end of the first season).
* ShipTease:
** The Bus Driver and Shizuka Nekonome-sensei.
** Chapters 39 and 40 really ramp up the implied Gin/Kurumu subtext, though it's still very one-sided. The beach episode and omakes opted for Gin/San instead.
** And then Chapters 41 and 42 expanded on Kurumu's relationship with Tsukune quite a bit. She's actually made him blush a few times. Granted, it's still [[FirstGirlWins almost guaranteed]] he'll pick Moka.
** This seems to be happening between Yukari and Fong-Fong.
** Kokoa and Haiji have a little bit of this going on, but it's mainly one-sided because of Haiji's obsession with little girls. [[spoiler:At least, until the end of ''Season II'', where they get together.]]
* ShoutOut: A full list is right [[ShoutOut/RosarioToVampire here]].
* SilentBob: San Otonashi, who communicates by TalkingWithSigns. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a siren and can talk, but doesn't to avoid the nasty effects of her enchanted voice]]
* SkewedPriorities: Outer Moka considers relationship issues more important than the monster trying to kill them - [[DiscussedTrope the other characters find at this least as odd as the audience]].
* SlidingScaleOfVampireFriendliness: Moka is so friendly, she suffers from anemia due to drinking only tomato juice. In the anime, her bite only causes the victim to feel faint temporarily (sometimes the animators even bother with drawing Tsukune [[{{Squick}} with an emaciated face]] because of this). In the manga, Tsukune eventually [[spoiler: becomes a zombie (of sorts, and not directly because of Moka drinking his blood), though his personality is not compromised]].
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Episode eight of ''[=Capu2=]'', which is a series of short stories revolving more around the side cast than the main.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Kurumu's family name is Kur'''o'''no. Just like [[{{Manga/Gantz}} that other guy from that other manga]]. Yet, many people tend to misspell as "Kur''u''no". Might as well be the pronunciation.
** Also, F'''a'''ng-F'''a'''ng '''Huang'''. Just like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Yang Fang Leiden]] So many different sources (including Wiki/ThisVeryWiki once or twice), refer to it as F''o''ng-F''o''ng ''Won''/''Wang''/''Wong'' that it is not difficult for a get-the-facts-right fan to turn it into a BerserkButton. The confusion likely stems from the fact that despite being Hong Kong based (mainly Cantonese), they are seen speaking Mandarin in the manga, Fang-Fang Huang would be correct for Mandarin, Fong-Fong Wong would be correct for Cantonese.
** Aqua had her name spelled "Aqua" for the Viz translation.
* SplitPersonality: Outer and Inner Moka have very different personalities, but they are not actually in conflict with each other and fully accept each other. [[spoiler: There's a reason for this: it turns out a copy of her mother's consciousness was left in the rosario and grew its own personality, while the real Moka was to be sealed off and protected by the rosario. Thus, "outer" and "inner" Moka.]]
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Vampires have become this in the latter half of the manga. More specifically, it's just the Shuuzen family, who are very quickly shown to have a hand in ''everything'' by one connection or another.
* StalkerWithACrush: Mizore, lampshaded endlessly. She even out-and-out says at one point that stalking Tsukune is her ''hobby''.
** Heck, the girl treats stalking ''professionally''. She suggests stalking methods as topics for the Newspaper every once in a while, for crying out loud. Goes into StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale because of this.
---> "Oh yeah Tsukune, Rock that forward bend."
* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Used against Kurumu by Hokuto, and justified.
--> '''Hokuto''': Although your attacks are sharp, it becomes weak once you're caught.
* StrangerInAStrangeSchool: Though he does eventually start settling in...
* StrippingSnag: In episode 7 of season 2, Tsukune is taking a bath when he's [[InterruptedBath interrupted]] by Kurumu, who is only wearing a ModestyTowel trying to seduce him. But she ''also'' gets interrupted by other girls, including Yukari, who bursts into the bathroom and slips on a bar of soap, accidentally pulling off Kurumu's towel as she falls. Tsukune gets a violent {{Nosebleed}} at the sight as Kurumu has a NakedFreakOut.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: The outer Moka looks (if not exactly) like her mother. [[spoiler: Because she ''is'' her mother. Or, at least, a copy of her.]]
* SuggestiveCollision: Ageha and Tsurara are fighting. In an attempt to break the fight up, Tsukune is thrown at the two women -- and lands in a very awkward position where his face is between Tsurara's legs and [[ThanksForTheMammary his hand is grabbing Ageha's chest]].
* SupernaturalSensitivity
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Moka's super-vampire abilities has to be sealed away, released only when the rosary's removed. Doing so reveals her true personality: cold, ruthless and arrogant, but less evil than traditional vampires. Hard to believe that those two are the same girl.
** [[spoiler:It's ultimately revealed that Inner Moka is the real Moka, making Outer Moka a HelplessGoodSide.]]
* SuperMode: Whenever Moka gives some of her blood to Tsukune (think ''Manga/{{Karin}}''), he temporarily gains vampiric powers. [[spoiler:[[OurGhoulsAreCreepier There's just one little problem...]]]]
* SupportingHarem: Moka is the only girl Tsukune clearly loves. The other girls try but there's nothing they can do.
* SwordAndSorcerer: Fang-Fang's parents, [[MamaBear his mother]] as the fighter and [[PapaWolf his father]] as the mage. [[spoiler: He eventually becomes the sword to [[CuteWitch Yukari's]] sorceress]].
* TakeThatAudience: One set of bonus yonkoma focuses on the gang trying to become a more {{moe}} series after a fan writes in about their lack of standard moe traits despite being a harem series. Their attempts come out with them first realizing that moe characters [[OnlySixFaces come from the same mold]], then placing way more emphasis on physical cutesy traits to tell them apart.
* TakingTheBullet: Though it never happens with literal bullets, Tsukune has a dangerous habit of jumping in front of attacks to protect his friends. It eventually leads to his {{emergency transformation}}.
** Ginei once took a fireball in the fight against [[KnightTemplar Kuyou]].
* TakingYouWithMe: via KillItWithFire [[spoiler: Ling-Ling attempts to do this with Aqua. It doesn't work, but fortunately Ling-Ling is saved.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Thanks to ArtEvolution, every other man is either this or {{Bishonen}}.
* {{Telefrag}} + {{Vibroweapon}}: The [[AbsurdlySharpBlade Dimension Sword]] technique. Let's let Touhou Fuhai explain it better:
-->'''Touhou Fuhai''': The Dimension Sword is like a 'saw' moving back and forth between dimensions. Watch. First, I'll put my hand through this block of wood by shifting dimensions.\\
''(does just that, causing the wood to ripple where his hand emerges while Tsukune [[TooDumbToLive stares closely]])''\\
'''Touhou Fuhai''': Nothing happens in this state. The block of wood is unharmed. But if I shift the dimension ''back''...\\
''(does just that; wood [[UnsoundEffect SPLIN-TER!]]s, and Tsukune is sent flying)''.\\
'''Touhou Fuhai''': Two objects cannot exist in the same dimension at once. The moment my hand returns to ''this'' dimension, it ''[[{{Telefrag}} pushes away]]'' the block of wood that was originally there. The Dimension Sword technique repeats this process [[{{Vibroweapon}} a hundred times a second]]. My hand moves back and forth between dimensions as if pulling a saw, which enables me to destroy any object with ease.\\
''([[RuleOfThree does just that]] without moving his hand, emitting a 'vrr' as it forces the air around it back)''\\
'''Touhou Fuhai''': It moves extremely quickly, so [[DifficultButAwesome it's a very difficult technique to master]].
* ThanksForTheMammary:
** In the bonus chapter of the first season of Kurumu gives Tsukune the usual MarshmallowHell treatment after seeing him looking drained after Moka sucked his blood. Tsukune tries to reach up to push her away... [[UnfortunateImplications Stop me if you've heard this one before...]].
*** In season 2 of the anime, Kurumu use this twice to seduce him.
** An occasion in Season 2 has Tsukune do this to Kurumu's mom twice. The first made by she herself for tease him, the second accidentally when he fall on her and Mizore's mother.
** Gin, who wants to grope one of the girls at any chance. When in the manga he save Tsukune from Kuyou, he grope Kurumu claiming that this is his reward.
* TheTease: Inner Moka, often before kicking the teased.
* {{The Hero}}es: Tsukune and Inner Moka, the most powerful members. Tsukune is also TheHeart, as the rest would never have become friends without him.
* TheLancer: Kurumu, who is 2nd in the harem and the second strongest girl next to Inner Moka.
* {{The Big Guy}}s: Mizore and Kokoa, who are both extremely powerful, though Kokoa is more untrained.
* TheSmartGuy: Ruby, who is very knowledgeable about enchantments and curses.
* {{The Chick}}s: Yukari and Outer Moka, the least powerful members.
* TheSixthRanger: Ginei, who doesn't hang out with the others very often, but is very powerful. Huang Fang-Fang replaces him as this in ''Season II'' though, since Gin has been [[DemotedToExtra appearing less often.]]
* ThemeNaming:
** The vampire sisters (in order of appearance) [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Moka/Mocha]], [[BrattyHalfPint Kokoa/Cocoa]], [[AxCrazy Kahlua]] and [[{{Yandere}} Aqua]], all names after various drinks. It's for this reason that their father was given the FanNickname "Daddy Starbucks" before he was revealed as [[spoiler:Issa Shuzen]].
** In addition, most major characters have a word referencing [[ColourfulThemeNaming color]] somewhere in their names:
*** Red - Moka '''Aka'''shiya, Kokoa '''Shu'''zen, '''Ruby''' Tojo, [[spoiler:'''Aka'''sha Bloodriver]]
*** Blue - Tsukune '''Ao'''no, '''Ru'''by Tojo
*** Black - Kurumu '''Kuro'''no
*** Violet - '''Yukari''' Sendou
*** White - Mizore '''Shira'''yuki
*** Silver - '''Gin'''ei Morioka
*** Orange - Ruby '''To'''jo
*** Gold - Hokuto '''Kane'''shiro
*** Grey - '''Hai'''ji Miyamoto
* ThouShaltNotKillMuggles: The reason why Tsukune, who is still ''genetically'' human, was the only one who could do anything against the {{Yakuza}} who kidnapped Moka and Sun (at least, without getting arrested). Which turns the fact that the Student Police have a death penalty for any human who discovers Youkai Academy into a serious case of FridgeLogic. The school itself doesn't have that severe a penalty for being human, but the Student Police, being the Knights Templar they are, interpret the rules as allowing them to kill any human that trespasses onto the school. Especially Kuyou strongly believes in that idea. [[spoiler:It becomes a FridgeHorror when he reappears in the second serialization...]]
* TookALevelInBadass: Tsukune, several times.
** More later, it seems that the entire [[BadassCrew Newspaper Club]] TookALevelInBadass.
** Hell, Season II has basically been one giant version of this for Tsukune.
** [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Fang-Fang takes several more as the clan head of the Huang family, being considered the "second coming of Touhou Fuhai" once he figures himself out. And Kiria steps up to the plate as the new head of Fairy Tale.]]
* TooHotForTV
* TooKinkyToTorture: [[spoiler:Ruby; when Tsukune goes into training and is bound to Ruby by a chain that shocks her whenever he uses his power improperly, it seems like it's to encourage him to learn faster to spare her pain. Instead, she seems rather "disappointed" when she stops getting zapped after a day. She also ties herself up in the chain while he's unconscious, including passing it between her legs at the crotch level, excusing it as being like twisting a phone cord around one's finger when bored - an excuse Tsukune doesn't buy. She also likes the idea of him with the whip, and pleads him to order her around.]]
** [[spoiler:Coupled along with the fact that while fighting, the electrical current seems to give Ruby an orgasm before Tsukune learns to control his power.]]
** [[spoiler: ...and her dialogue while he's fighting: [[DoubleEntendre "Keep beating it.", "Harder", "Beat it", "His youkai power, it's getting larger and larger"]]...* ahem* ]]
** Also the incident where she joins the Newspaper Club as an adviser, and tells Tsukune, "Order me around, I'll do anything."
** When asked what her relationship to Tsukune was, her answer was "toy".
** When a [[spoiler: doppelganger posing as Tsukune]] gives her what's ''intended'' to be a rib-breaking elbow smash, her response is to [[spoiler: hug him with a blush of pleasure and beg him to hit her again.]]
** Brought back to hilarious effect when [[spoiler: the group confronts the first leader of Fairy Tale--Raika, a lightning user. One good blast and Ruby dusts herself off, saying that not only does she not need to defend, she wouldn't mind if he keeps going.]]
** Incidentally, the "Meaningless End-of-Volume Theater" omake for Series II Volume 4 claims that Yukari and Outer Moka enjoy getting electric shocks through that chain, too.
* TooManyBelts: Mizore has a couple of extra belts connecting her waist to her ZettaiRyouiki for no discernible reason.
* TrainingFromHell: In the China arc, [[spoiler:Tsukune's gets trained by "Inner" Moka that pushes his limits. Blood leaks from his mouth while Moka belittles his fighting ability, in comparison to her. Tsukune's will breaks at this and he's ready to quit. It's not until later in the arc he gets into a fight and fully unleashes his ghoul-strength without becoming the slightest bit crazed. And after weeks of trying to keep pace with Inner Moka, the humans he has to fight (and even ''the bullets they shoot at him'') seem like they're in slow motion by comparison. Though he still sucks ''compared to Inner-Moka'', he's grown by considerable leaps and bounds.]]
* TranquilFury: Gin calmly and methodically disassembles [[spoiler:the entire operation of the local Fairy Tale base because they threatened his friends, San in particular, and plans on doing the same to the rest of the organization.]]
* TransformationSequence: It seems the production company spent so much money animating the ''awesome'' fights in the closing credits they have to use this '''exact''' stock footage every damned episode just to get the cash back.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Fang-Fang Huang is the only son of the boss of the biggest (Youkai) one in all of China. It's unclear whether his undead sister is part of it as well. And their grandfather is not just any strongest Youkai, but one of the three demonic kings (making him as strong as the Headmaster) named the Invincible East, and it was he who taught the Headmaster how to make the seals and barrier.
* TrueCompanions: Certainly by series two, no matter how much Kurumu and Inner Moka would deny it.
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[[folder:U-Z]]
* TheUndead:
** Not Moka, but [[spoiler:Tsukune following his [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier "upgrade"]]]].
** Also, Chinese zombies.
* UnexplainedRecovery: In the animé, when Moka literally [[CrashIntoHello runs Tsukune over]] on her bike, he is perfectly fine afterwards.
* UnfazedEveryman: Tsukune is very quick to accept that monsters exist and learn to operate within their realm.
* UnmovingPlaid: A couple of pages of the manga feature this with the girls' skirts when they disguise themselves as members of Fairy Tail.
* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Tsukune]] gets like this when [[spoiler: his ghoul side starts to take over.]] It takes a lot to even subdue the bastard when he gets like that.
* UnusualChapterNumbers: The final volume consists of chapters 66, 66-2, and so on, through to 66-6. There's also 65-2 from the previous volume.
* UnwantedHarem: Doesn't help that you want to cheer for each girl. Or the fact they all know only Moka has a shot with him. Beautifully {{Deconstructed}}, especially with Kurumu and Mizore, where we see the full effect of what they go through when they know have already lost but still try to have hope. Hilarity does not Ensue.
* UnwittingMuggleFriend: Inverted, Tsukune is the muggle hiding his identity from his non-muggle friends.
* VerbalTic: You could probably find a few, given how quirky everyone in the series is, but the most obvious example is Yukari's -desu. The bat adds "whee~" to his statements as well.
* VignetteEpisode: Episode 8 of [=Capu2=].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Every member of the UnwantedHarem will fight very viciously if Tsukune's in danger. Ironically, the one Tsukune truly wants as a girlfriend, Moka, isn't really much use until her Rosary is removed and she becomes [[SplitPersonality Inner Moka]], who will fight just as viciously as the others but does it for herself rather than for Tsukune ([[spoiler: at least at first]]).
* VitriolicBestBuds: Most of the girls' relationships with each other fall under this, especially where [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Kurumu]] is concerned.
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Every single monster that doesn't already look like a human is capable of taking on a human appearance.
** InvoluntaryShapeshifter: Moka is restricted to her human form by the rosary cross, and transforms into her true vampire form when it's removed.
* VoodooDoll: Yukari used one to control Tsukune and make him humiliate himself.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: As of Season Two, Kaneshiro Hokuto.
* WallOfWeapons: Mizore's mother seems to have...interesting hobbies. Unexplained is exactly ''how'' she managed to acquire all those guns. Collecting submachine guns would be difficult enough in America, but the Yuki-Onna village is in hidden somewhere in Japan. Which has the strictest gun ban in the world.
** All those weapons fire ''[[AbnormalAmmo snowballs]]''. [[FridgeBrilliance Maybe that's]] how Tsurara manages to collect them: this kind of ammo could make the guns pass off as highly realistic toy/prop weapons.
* TheWatcher: This seems to be at least one role [[spoiler:the bus driver]] plays.
* WeakButSkilled: The Doppleganger in early Season 2. He became highly proficient in martial arts to make up for a low level of natural strength/demonic power. When combined with his copying ability, it made him seriously dangerous for awhile.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Vampires can be weakened with just a splash of ordinary water, though oddly, herbal water has no effect. It's even pointed out vampires have far more weaknesses than any other monsters to compensate for their extreme power: silver, water, the rosaries... Indeed, this is one of the advantages [[spoiler:Tsukune's ghoul form]] has over Moka; there are ''no'' weaknesses (except for a spell-binding crucifix and [[spoiler:[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity the risk of permanent insanity]]]]).
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:Alucard]] makes this offer to Tsukune. He mentions that Tsukune [[spoiler:after becoming a Shinso]] is also an enemy of humanity like himself, so it's in his best interests to abandon the humans to their fate.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 9, "Secret". The main cast other than Moka (who knew all along) learn that Tsukune is human, as does the ArcVillain Kuyou. The next chapter continues the wham by having Tsukune almost die and have to be given vampire blood to live, Inner Moka--up until then an archetypal InvincibleHero--getting her ass kicked and ''Tsukune'' stopping the bad guy.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In a school of badass monsters like vampires, it's got to suck to be the guy who can ''turn into an umbrella''.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Inverted example, Tsukune is the only human amongst a school full of monsters, and humans are largely hated by them. Some of them even object to having to disguise themselves as people and learn human way of life at the school.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue:
** The main crew goes back to Youkai Academy, and Tsukune is given a bodyguard in the form of [[spoiler: Issa Shuuzen]], who's set to protect him because he's a target of Fairy Tale [[spoiler: and a hopeful for the Youkai Academy Headmaster position]]. And Moka's [[spoiler:silver hair starts to get a subtle pink tint at its tips, revealing that Outer Moka ''wasn't'' KilledOffForReal after all, and instead was subject to a SplitPersonalityMerge with Inner Moka]].
** Gin graduates high school, and goes to work at San's family hotel.
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, Kahlua isn't dead, and is taken by Kuyo after the final battle. She and Akhua are managing fine.]]
** Hokuto fell unconscious after the final battle, since [[spoiler: part of Alucard was inside of him as well. Kiria continues to take care of him until the day when he can finally wake up-- but in the meantime, he's going to become the new head of Fairy Tale.]]
** The Huang family and the Miao family are starting to make amends.
* WindowLove: Happens between [[spoiler: Moka and Kurumu]] in season II. They are on opposite sides of a force field, and the latter has just been critically injured. They put their hands up against each others' from opposite sides of the force field before the latter collapses.
* WindowWatcher:
** Mizore, the resident stalker, can be occasionally be seen looking in on people through the window.
** Kokoa often shows up outside of a window, staring at her sister.
** Ginei likes to look at girls in their rooms by zooming in on them with his camera.
* WitchClassic: Witches in ''Rosario + Vampire'' are a ''species'' of "monsters" despite looking like humans, and conform to the traditional Witch stereotypes, including the pointed hat, cape, broomstick-riding, use wands with pentagrams on them. What breaks the traditional mold, though, is that men are members of this species as well, and they have hats, capes, and the works.
* WolverineClaws:
** Part of Kurumu's power set.
** Also, Mizore usually appears with ice claws over her hands whenever she uses her powers.
* WordSaladTitle: To the tune of "X and a Vampire" for the anime.
* WorldOfBadass
* {{Yandere}}: Mizore, at least at first, though Kokoa seems to have taken the spot ('course, not for Tsukune but for dear Moka onee-sama~!)
** Mizore's definitely yandere at her introduction, but since being admitted into the UnwantedHarem, she's more of a SugarAndIcePersonality who, as mentioned above, finds it fun to continue "stalking" Tsukune.
** Kahlua as well.
** As if the last couple of chapters weren't enough, Chapter 38 seems to firmly push Aqua into this territory, with a slight mix of Tsundere.
* YouAreTooLate: [[spoiler:Hokuto]] explains his master plan as a distraction to keep Moka and Tsukune away from him long enough to pull it off.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Kurumu, both Mokas (pink for the outer, white for the inner) and Mizore (purple).
* YouHaveFailedMe: If a BigBad's underling has a change of heart, they're instantly a fool and a traitor. Monsters are really extremist like that.
* {{Youkai}}: [[SarcasmMode What kind of series do you take this for?]] though classical western monsters are often found alongside them.
* YouWannaGetSued: Kokoa was merely using "It's too childish!" as an excuse to remove her [[Manga/DoctorSlump Arale-chan]] costume.
[[/folder]]
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* BigGood: The [[PowerTrio Three Dark Lords]].

'''Touhou Fuhai''': Too objects cannot exist in the same dimension at once. The moment my hand returns to ''this'' dimension, it ''[[{{Telefrag}} pushes away]]'' the block of wood that was originally there. The Dimension Sword technique repeats this process [[{{Vibroweapon}} a hundred times a second]]. My hand moves back and forth between dimensions as if pulling a saw, which enables me to destroy any object with ease.\\

* HeroicBSOD: Hey, turns out [[spoiler: Outer Moka is just a fake personality, and in chapter 34 of season 2 Tsukune finds out and he loses all hope he had with her. Poor guy.]]
* HeroInsurance: Subverted with the Belmont incident; Moka and her friends were lucky to simply be put on probation for the effort. It helps that Moka had no intention at all to pawn it off.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: "[insert episode theme here] + Vampire"
* IdiotBall: Tsukune's inability to realize the other girls want him just as badly as (if not more than) Moka does. He will always, by default, try and save Moka first, then the others, and then will apologize for doing so. This goes hand in hand with his ChasteHero status because, if he wasn't so intent on being with Moka, he'd have probably spend more time with the other girls a bit more when there isn't a crisis happening. He will ALWAYS default to being in Moka's company first, even if the girls are doing him a favor.

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:Moka as a baby. It also explains why she knew that injecting monster blood into someone could save them.]]
* ImagineSpot: Kuruma has one when talking with Tsukune in episode 2, having mentioned they're in the same class, showing where she sits in relation to him - he's confused when she simply asks "See what I mean?"
* IncestSubtext: With Aqua's feelings for Moka.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Soooo...there's dragons now. Apparently.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: While they know Tsukune won't be able to have feelings of love for them, the girls in his UnwantedHarem still help him out, in both the anime the manga. Both Kurumu and Mizore seem resigned to the fact that they'll be happy so long as they can spend time with him at least, even if he's not romantically interested in them.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: So, so much of this! Of particular note is the Funimation trailer for the anime's second season advertising MILF fights. As in that actual acronym!