History Manga / Shitsurakuen

* [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale Molestation Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Considering that the alternative of Sora's plan to free Reiko was beating her for thirty minutes straight, Sora's not-quite-consensual molestation of Reiko isn't really too bad as far as moral standards go.

* [[RapeIsOkayWhenItsFemaleOnFemale Molestation Is Okay When Its Female On Female]]: Considering that the alternative of Sora's plan to free Reiko was beating her for thirty minutes straight, Sora's not-quite-consensual molestation of Reiko isn't really too bad as far as moral standards go.

* DespairEventHorizon: Lots, which is to be expected in a series where the girls are no more than slaves. Pretty much all of the girls have already crossed it, but the real kicker is when its shown that [[spoiler:a number of the boys have crossed it too. Its the resaon they follow the system instead of opposing it; they can do about as much about it as the girls, and so play along.]]

* AllMenArePerverts: This trope is [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagged]]. It's heavily implied that several girls are sexually abused by their "owners", and then there's Akane, who is a pretty nice guy who's just terrified of being ostracized/not allowed to graduate. Sumita is also an exception; Reiko states that he never touched her, he seems to genuinely care about her, and [[spoiler: he eventually marries her]].

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: There are stories where even the darkest villain has complex motivations, and even the brightest hero must ask questions about the righteousness of his or her cause. This is not one of those stories. [[spoiler:OR IS IT?]] [[spoiler:Yes, it is.]]

* AllMenArePerverts: This trope is [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagged]]. It's heavily implied that several girls are sexually abused by their "owners", and then there's Akane, who is a pretty nice guy who's just terrified of being ostracized/not allowed to graduate. Sumita is also an exception; Reiko states that he never touched her, he seems to genuinely care about her, and [[spoiler: he orders Tougyu to release Reiko.]]
* AloofAlly: Reiko, briefly. spoiler:She was not permitted to remain aloof.

* HoYay / LesYay: Most of the potential male love interests seen are psychotic thugs (with the exception of Akane), and some of the girls are blatantly in love with Sora. At least two of the male student council members are in love with El. [[spoiler: Or is one of them not male?]]

* TearsOfRemorse: Many of the male students shed these in the final chapter.

* AllMenArePerverts: The guys are all pretty happy with the situation, and abuse it for all it's worth.
** Except for Akane, who, so far, seems to actually be a pretty nice guy who's just terrified of being ostracized/not allowed to graduate. He even tried to protect Sora when he thought she was in trouble.
** Sumita is also an exception; Reiko states that he never touched her, he seems to genuinely care about her, and [[spoiler: he orders Tougyu to release Reiko.]]
** A few have started to [[HeelRealization wake up to their own monstrosity to some small extent]].
** [[spoiler:Let's just say that this trope is also [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]].]]
* AloofAlly: Reiko, briefly. [[spoiler:She was not permitted to remain aloof.]]
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe. Sora even sees the good in [[TortureTechnician Tougyu]]; he was just trying to protect [[MoralityPet Hiyo-chan]] by being an AxCrazy monster. Let's just say that the fandom isn't as forgiving.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: All the romantic tensions between Sora and the girls in her "harem" never lead to anything.
** [[spoiler: Until chapter 24, where Sora and Tsuki get married.]]
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: After getting Tomoko into his custody, El arranges for her to be released '''back''' to Sora.]] [[TortureAlwaysWorks Torture is involved]].
** [[spoiler: Repeated with Reiko. El really wants Sora to get the six girls he's signed up for her harem, whether or not they want to be there.]]
* BeginnersLuck: Averted. X [[PowersAsPrograms hacked the system]] to ensure that Sora has an advantage.

* BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: And how!

* ChekhovsGun: Periodically we see snippets of a fairytale story involving a prince, a princess, and a demon king, with elements that parallel the actual plot. This just seems like a way of comparing the story with fairytales until its revealed [[spoiler: that it's an actual [[FictionalDocument in-universe story called "Paradise Story"]] and that El and X's names are taken from it, which suggests that the actual events are deliberately following that story.]]

* DepravedHomosexual: Mitarai. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], as [[spoiler:he tells Tomoko: "Between a guy who you don't know what he's thinking, and an {{okama}} who you don't know what he's thinking, which would you prefer?"]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Lots, which is to be expected in a series where the girls are no more than slaves. Pretty much all of the girls have already crossed it, but the real kicker is when its shown that [[spoiler: a number of the boys have crossed it too. Its the resaon they follow the system instead of opposing it; they can do about as much about it as the girls, and so play along.]]

* DragonWithAnAgenda: Although he's currently presented as the BigBad, El is this for the man in charge of Utopia Gakuen. His plots [[KickTheDog are unforgivably cruel]] but he has goals that others aren't privy to.

* EarlyBirdCameo: The picture at the top is from the first chapter of the series, showing the (presumed) "harem" of the main character. After three volumes, the last of the characters in the picture finally appears, and not all of them are under Sora's protection or have even ''met'' her. [[spoiler: One is TheMole (she eventually has a HeelFaceTurn). Another appears to be a member of the all male student council.]]

* EnigmaticMinion: Tsuki. It's hard to tell if she's helping or manipulating Sora, but at the very least Tsuki seems to have genuine feelings of friendship (at least) for her.
** El himself, for that matter. Although he's being presented as basically the BigBad.
* {{Expy}}: [[strike: The whole series]] See SerialNumbersFiledOff. In particular, Sora is obviously one for [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena Tenjou]]. Meanwhile, {{Yangire}} Shoujou has a strong resemblance to [[CodeGeass Rolo]].

* FacelessGoons: Most male students are drawn with their faces partly obscured, [[EyelessFace especially their eyes]]- probably to emphasize their [[CompleteMonster monstrosity and to further dehumanise them]]. [[spoiler: Most of the guys who were drawn with full faces are either complex enough not to be a CompleteMonster, have good motivations, or are actually decent people- Akane, who interestingly enough gets some CharacterDevelopment when he takes off his glasses and reveals his eyes.]]

* [[spoiler: GainaxEnding: Not so much that it's incomprehensible, but the story suddenly pulls a ShockingSwerve by revealing Tsuki was actually the BigBad. After this sudden revelation, [[TheUnfought Sora doesn't fight either El or Tsuki]] (though that may be the point), but instead announces an ending to "Paradise Story" over the school's PA system - an ending that she just made up. It somehow ends the misogyny once and for all. [[TheUnreveal And we don't even get to hear what that ending was]] (but again, that may be the point). Makes more sense when you realize the manga was CutShort. To make things more confusing, an extra chapter was added at the end of the collected version.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Akane. He's a guy.
** Karin, too, though he's [[spoiler: just a persona El is assuming- though on the other hand, chapter 22 seems to reveal that Karin is indeed his original "real" name and that he's actually a good guy.]] It is interesting to note that the only halfway "decent" guys introduced have [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender Names]].
** Student council member Haruka Kuchinawa. [[spoiler: [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Who you can see on that picture at the top of this page.]]]]

* HappinessInSlavery: {{Averted}}, {{Subverted}}, and {{Deconstructed}}. The female students are not happy. [[DespairEventHorizon They are hopeless and miserable]]. The only reason they don’t resist is because the past situation was ''[[BeyondTheImpossible even worse]]'' and after such a steady diet of oppression and abuse most of the girls have come to actually believe they're as worthless as they're told. Might easily have been played straight with Sora’s personal harem as they are [[LesYay one hundred percent okay with being in Sora's custody]] -- but differentiated from the Utopia Gakuen norm in that Sora tells Hiroko that ''she'' (Sora) will serve ''her'' by protecting and sheltering her.

** The real kicker? [[spoiler:[[HeelRealization The boys themselves HATED this trope]] [[DespairEventHorizon but they could do nothing to change this]] [[JerkassWoobie and are forced to play their roles]].]]

* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler:Yes Sora, challenging one of the Student Council's top members (let alone one who is fanatically loyal to the president) when you've barely started is [[SarcasmMode such]] a great idea.]]
** [[spoiler:Shoujou admits to El later that the only reason he was able to win was that Sora was so lost in rage that she became very easy to read.]]
* HoYay / LesYay: Every potential male love interest seen so far is a psychotic thug (with the possible exception of Akane), and some of the girls are blatantly in love with Sora. At least two of the male student council members are in love with El. [[spoiler: Or is one of them not male?]]

** This goes UpToEleven when Chapter 22 reveals [[spoiler: that El reveals himself to Sora and tells him what's going on. All of the information he gives her overloads her and she faints, forcing her mind to process everything and retell it in the form of her younger self.]]

* InherentInTheSystem: Utopia Gakuen and the Exaclan game are designed to encourage the male student body to leap across the MoralEventHorizon (which they willingly do, the bastards -- [[spoiler:[[HeelRealization or]] [[JerkassWoobie maybe]] [[DespairEventHorizon NOT]]]]), and to encourage the female students [[DespairEventHorizon not to fight back]]. Sora is determined to save the boys just as much as the girls.

* MagikarpPower: [[spoiler: [[KatanasAreJustBetter Yuki's weapon]]]].

* MysteriousProtector: X. Though by all indications she's just as much of a victim as anyone else [[spoiler: and she's forcibly working for El; it's all but outright stated she's Tsuki. Interestingly the series played with this trope when X was impersonated by a VillainousCrossdresser]].
** [[spoiler: And it's revealed that El himself is protecting Sora... from Tsuki.]]

* NotJustATournament: Whoever collects all six seals in Exaclan will... actually, never mind, the ending is too confusing to tell, but it's certainly not about rounding up a six-girl harem.

* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler: El is able to gain Sora's trust by ruffling his hair and putting on an eyepatch.]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because she had never met him before in the first place, and the disguise doesn't fool others who know his identity.

* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler: Tsuki.]]

* [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption Equals]] FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler: Tougyu gets "excommunicated" after Sora whacks him in the head. Apparently; the manga gets a bit confusing.]]

* [[spoiler: RevisedEnding: Chapter 24, which was added in the collected edition.]]

* TakeAThirdOption: {{Subverted}}; see OutGambitted. [[spoiler: and then DoubleSubverted.]]

* TortureTechnician: Tougyu
* TriangRelations: One Type 5 is developing as of Issue 12: Koharu (A)->Sora (B)->Reiko (C). Most of the rest of the harem appears to be nonsexual, and we don't know how Tsuki [[LoveDodecahedron complicates things]] yet.

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsuki[[spoiler:, who gets rejected rather brutally by Sora]]. [[spoiler:Reversed with chapter 24, [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend where Sora proposes to Tsuki]].]]
* UnwittingPawn: Sora dear, you are just a little too trusting.

* {{Yandere}}: A male example, Shoujou seems to go ''frightening'' lengths for El (wanted or not), from listening in to conversations to [[spoiler: holding Aoi hostage.]] He actually doubles as a CutePsycho as well to the girls.

* XMarksTheHero: Sora's forehead. [[spoiler: Marked by Tsuki off all people.]]

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsuki[[spoiler:, who gets rejected rather brutally by Sora]].

--->'''Sora''': Knights even train their internal organs.

* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil: Currently the main antagonists.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: All the romantic tensions between Sora and the girls in her "harem" never lead to anything. [[spoiler: In the end most of the girls appear to hook with guys]].

** RealityIsUnrealistic: Look at [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104786470334 this]]. Was posted on a Shitsurakuen forum.

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: There are stories where even the darkest villain has complex motivations, and even the brightest hero must ask questions about the righteousness of his or her cause. This is not one of those stories.[[spoiler: OR IS IT?]]
** As for chapter 22, [[spoiler:yes, it is.]]

* BreakTheCutie: After Sora wins Tomoko, the boys figure out that Exaclan ''only'' protects against physical harm, not threats or emotional abuse. A group of boys isolate Tomoko and procede to terrorize her in the worst way. Tomoko doesn't [[FreakOut handle it too well]].

* DepravedHomosexual: Mitarai.
** Ironically, despite being MadLove, this also serves to humanize Mitarai. He's the only one of the boys who's actually shown he's capable of love of any sort.

* EnigmaticMinion: Tsuki. We don't know if she's helping or manipulating Sora, but at the very least Tsuki seems to have genuine feelings of friendship (at least) for her.

* {{Expy}}: [[strike: The whole series]] See SerialNumbersFiledOff. In particular, Sora is obviously one for [[RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena Tenjou]].

* EveryScarHasAStory: Sora got her scar when saving a girl when she was little. She wears it as a badge of honor.
** [[spoiler: Turns out she got that scar from the one she was protecting: Tsuki, who went on a PsychoLesbian Yandere war path.]]
* [[spoiler: EyeScream: Tsuki cuts Karin's eye when he tried to "sway" Sora from being a her knight.]]

* [[spoiler: GainaxEnding: Not so much that it's incomprehensible, but the story suddenly pulls a ShockingSwerve by revealing Tsuki was actually the BigBad. After this sudden revelation, [[TheUnfought Sora doesn't fight either El or Tsuki]] (though that may be the point), but instead announces an ending to "Paradise Story" over the school's PA system - an ending that she just made up. It somehow ends the misogyny once and for all. [[TheUnreveal And we don't even get to hear what that ending was]] (but again, that may be the point). The whole thing feels like the manga was CutShort. To make things more confusing, an extra chapter was added at the end of the collected version.]]

** Karin, too, though he's [[spoiler: just a persona El is assuming- though on the other hand, chapter 22 seems to reveal that Karin is indeed his original "real" name and that he's actually a good guy.]] It is interesting to note that the only halfway "decent" guys introduced yet have [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender Names]].
** Student council member Haruka Kuchinawa. [[spoiler: [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Who appears to be on that picture at the top of this page.]]]]

** Reiko appears to play this straight, then admits that there is no way she, or any girl could love her owner, and says that she only acts as such to exert power through him.

* [[spoiler: HopelessBossFight: Yes Sora, challenging one of the Student Council's top members (let alone one who is fanatically loyal to the president) when you've barely started is [[SarcasmMode such]] a great idea.]]
** [[spoiler: To her defense, by that point she had beaten at least three of the Student Council's members.]]
*** [[spoiler: Sumita lost to her on purpose, against Tougyu she had InfinityPlusOneSword, only her victory against Mitarai might be credited entirely to her, and even that was more of a mutual KO.]]
** [[spoiler: Shoujou admits to El later that the only reason he was able to win was that Sora was so lost in rage that she became very easy to read.]]

* InherentInTheSystem: Utopia Gakuen and the Exaclan game are designed to encourage the male student body to leap across the MoralEventHorizon (which they willingly do, the bastards[[spoiler:, [[HeelRealization or]] [[JerkassWoobie maybe]] [[DespairEventHorizon NOT]]]]), and to encourage the female students [[DespairEventHorizon not to fight back]].
** It's reached the point where Sora has announced she will save the boys just as much as the girls.

** [[spoiler: And it's revealed that El himself is protecting her... from Tsuki.]]

* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler: El is able to gain Sora's trust by ruffling his hair and putting on an eyepatch.]] [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], because the person in question had never met him before in the first place, and the disguise doesn't fool others who know his identity.

* PsychopathicManchild: Tougyu and Houjou.

* StrawMisogynist: This series is ''packed'' with viciously misogynistic characters. Almost as if the author ''really'' DoesNotLikeMen. [[spoiler: Get somewhat subverted later on because of InherentInTheSystem...although YourMileageMayVary with the suggestion that "It's not their fault, it was the game!"]]

* {{Yandere}}: A male example, Houjou seems to go ''frightening'' lengths for El (wanted or not), from listening in to conversations to [[spoiler: holding Aoi hostage.]] He actually doubles as a CutePsycho as well to the girls.
** As for a female example, we have [[spoiler:Tsuki]].

* VillainousValour: The manga favorably compares Mitarai's faith in [[TheDragon El]] to Yuki's faith in [[KnightInShiningArmor Sora]]. Doesn't make Mitarai any less of a creep.

** Koharu was just the first. Now it's a straight-up love nest.

* [[spoiler: GainaxEnding: Not so much that it's incomprehensible, but the story suddenly pulls a ShockingSwerve by revealing Tsuki was actually the BigBad. After this sudden revelation, [[TheUnfought Sora doesn't fight either El or Tsuki]] (though that may be the point), but instead announces an ending to "Paradise Story" over the school's PA system - an ending that she just made up. It somehow ends the misogyny once and for all. [[TheUnreveal And we don't even get to hear what that ending was]] (but again, that may be the point). The whole thing feels like the manga was CutShort.]]

* [[spoiler: GainaxEnding: Not so much that it's incomprehensible, but the story suddenly pulls a ShockingSwerve by revealing Tsuki was actually the BigBad. After this sudden revelation, [[TheUnfought Sora doesn't fight either El or Tsuki]] (though that may be the point), but instead announces an ending to "Paradise Story" - an ending that she just made up - over the school's PA system, which somehow ends the misogyny. [[TheUnreveal And we don't even get to hear what the ending was.]] (but again, that may be the point). The whole thing feels like the manga was CutShort.]]

* DyingLikeAnimals: Sora quickly finds out that most of the girls are mice, and all of the boys are [[spoiler:([[DespairEventHorizon forcefully]])]] jackals.

* DyingLikeAnimals: Sora quickly finds out that most of the girls are mice, and all of the boys are jackals.

* KickTheDog: Yuki starts the story as an abject demonstration of the abuses of Utopia Gakuen: hospitalized by her former master, abandon by her then-current master, and then forcibly used against Sora.

* {{Yandere}}: A male example, Houjou seems to go ''frightening'' lengths for El (wanted or not), from listening in to conversations to [[spoiler: holding Aoi hostage.]] He actually doubles as a Yangire as well to the girls.

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: All the romantic tensions between Sora and her the girls in her "harem" never lead to anything. [[spoiler: In the end most of the girls appear to hook with guys]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: All the romantic overtones among girls (especially between Sora and her "harem") never lead to anything. [[spoiler: In the end most of the girls appear to hook with guys]].

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Despite all the romantic overtones among girls (especially between Sora and her "harem"), nothing ever comes of it. [[spoiler: In the end most of the girls appear to hook with guys]].

* HoYay / LesYay: Every potential male love interest seen so far is a psychotic thug (with the possible exception of Akane), and some of the girls are blatantly in love with Sora. At least two of the male student council members are in love with El. [[spoiler: [[OrIsIt Or is one of them not male?]]]]

* InherentInTheSystem: Utopia Gakuen and the Exaclan game are designed to encourage the male student body to leap across the MoralEventHorizon (which they willingly do, the bastards), and to encourage the female students [[DespairEventHorizon not to fight back]].

* RapeIsLove: A heroic version, or something. [[BatmanGambit Just as El planned]], [[spoiler: Reiko was finally driven to want to escape from the craziest member of the Student Council, who had been instructed not to battle using her. Sora had to assault her to force her new owner to release her...so she chose the "least painful method of assault," spending most of an issue on top of Reiko while caressing her. It was not precisely romantic.]]