History Manga / Shitsurakuen

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Uh, pretty much [[CaptainObvious every villain in the series.]]

** [[spoiler:Averted, he really is a she.]]

* {{Badass}}: Sora.
-->'''Sora''': Knights even train their internal organs.

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The attitude shown towards the victims and quite a few of the ones who enforce it. The female students hopeless and miserable. The only reason they don’t resist is because the past situation was ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' and after such a steady diet of oppression and abuse most of the girls have come to 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 Academy norm in that Sora tells her girls that ''she'' (Sora) will serve ''them'' by protecting and sheltering them.
:: Reiko appears to avert the Trope, [[HappinessInSlavery seemingly happy at first]], [[AvertedTrope but 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.
:: The real kicker? [[spoiler:[[HeelRealization Many of the boys themselves HATED this trope]] but they could do nothing to change this [[JerkassWoobie and were forced to play their roles]]. Still doesn't excuse the cruelty of some of them though.]]

* HappinessInSlavery: {{Averted}}, {{Subverted}}, and {{Deconstructed}}. The female students are not happy. They are hopeless and miserable. The only reason they don’t resist is because the past situation was ''[[UpToEleven even worse]]'' and after such a steady diet of oppression and abuse most of the girls have come to 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 Academy norm in that Sora tells her girls that ''she'' (Sora) will serve ''them'' by protecting and sheltering them.
** 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.
** The real kicker? [[spoiler:[[HeelRealization Many of the boys themselves HATED this trope]] but they could do nothing to change this [[JerkassWoobie and were forced to play their roles]]. Still doesn't excuse the cruelty of some of them though.]]

Seeing that the situation is unfair (that is, screwed up beyond all belief), Sora starts about entering Exaclan and trying to start a one girl revolution that quickly turns to a [[LesYay one-girl-and-her-harem]] revolution.

* 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, and he seems to genuinely care about her..

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In-universe. Sora sees the good in even [[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.

** And probably not-so-attempted several times both off-screen and before the story's beginning. [[FridgeLogic Think about it]]. [[{{Squick}} Or don't]], [[NightmareFuel you'll sleep better]].

* BatmanGambit: After getting Tomoko into his custody, El [[spoiler: arranges for her to be released '''back''' to Sora]]. [[TortureAlwaysWorks Torture is involved]].

* BeautifulAllAlong: Akane. Just look at [[http://mangafox.me/manga/shitsurakuen/v03/c010/11.html him!]]

* BreakingSpeech: Inverted. the BigBad / TheDragon calmly tells Tomoko that she really is brave and needn't call herself a coward. [[MoodWhipLash Then he kidnaps her]].

* 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 took their names from it and are deliberately causing the actual events of the series to mirror that story.]]
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. Tomoko is a 3rd year middle schooler and her wildest "bedtime fantasies" involving Sora are very innocent, but 1st year middle schooler Hiyo is the very first girl in Sora's harem to say that she and Sora are lovers and is a very broken Type A [[spoiler:with mix of Type C]] StepfordSmiler.

* DamselOutOfDistress: Inspired by Sora, the girls in her harem start to defend themselves as they can after [[spoiler:4 of them are taken away from Sora.]]

** Mirroring the story, [[spoiler:Sora went on a journey to grow and mature, and when the time was appropiated, she returned to marry her princess, Tsuki.]]

* EmpathicWeapon: Every female student has the ability to generate one, usable only by the male student she's bound to. [[PsychicLink Whatever happens to the weapon happens to the student]].

* {{Expy}}: Sora is one for [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena Tenjou]]. Meanwhile, CuteAndPsycho Shoujou has a strong resemblance to [[CodeGeass Rolo]]. Does Karin/[[spoiler:L]] look like a young Minato from {{Naruto}} anyone?

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sora's near breakdown when she is forced to choose which girl to save makes a lot more sense when it's revealed that [[spoiler: Tsuki forced her to make the same decision between her and El as a child, traumatizing her to point of repressing those memories.]]

** Karin. It is interesting to note that the only halfway "decent" guys introduced have [[GenderBlenderName Gender Blender Names]].

* 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. 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.

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

* 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.

--> [[spoiler:'''''[[http://mangafox.me/manga/shitsurakuen/v06/c022/34.html ...DONT' LEAVE ME, KNIGHT!!!]]''''']]

* [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption Equals]] FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Tougyu gets "excommunicated" after Sora whacks him in the head]].

* SadisticChoice: Although it doesn't actually happen, Yuki tells Sora to envison being forced to choose between her (Yuki) and Koharu; and no, TakingAThirdOption is not a possibility. Sora has a HeroicBSOD at the mere thought.
** By the end of the scene showing this choice, after first [[HeroicSacrifice offering herself instead]] she [[TakingAThirdOption takes the third option anyways]].

* [[spoiler: SweetPollyOliver]]: [[spoiler: Student council member Haruka Kuchinawa is one]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: After a while, Sora realizes that [[spoiler:the men in the school are suffering with the misogynist system in the school as well]] and decides to help them too. That precisely was the plan [[spoiler:for El. He wanted Sora to consider the villains' situation.]]

* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Tsuki got rejected rather brutally by Sora...[[spoiler: Or so it seems. It wasn't an outright rejection so much as rejecting her cynical view of the world to help her for the better, and in chapter 24 [[VictoriousChildhoodFriend Sora marries Tsuki]]]].

* VillainousValour: The manga favorably compares Shoujou's faith in [[TheDragon El]] to Yuki's faith in [[KnightInShiningArmor Sora]].

** In the RevisedEnding [[spoiler:Sora and Tsuki get married. White tux for Sora and everything.]]

Title translation: ''ParadiseLost''.

* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:All the CosmicChessGame between Karin and Tsuki was so Sora could win half of the MegaCorp's rights (that Karin wanted from the beginning to give to her). When the last of the original founders died, all the Corp become Sora's.]]

This manga [[strike:blatantly rips off]] draws inspiration from ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' but with the bride/dueling mechanic extended to the entire student body. The [[{{Megacorp}} school financers]] have taken it upon themselves to use [[CutLexLuthorACheck sophisticated virtual reality]] to create an environment where gender (in)equality has been pushed back a few thousand years and then cranked up to eleven. The duels are part of a game called “Exaclan” where the males students are contestants and the female students are [[EmpathicWeapon weapons]] to be used, wagered, traded, abused and discarded. The female students have no protections or rights of any kind against the player who currently owns them, and any girl without a master has no protections or rights of any kind, period.

Seeing that the situation is [[strike:fucked up beyond all possible belief]] unfair Sora starts about entering Exaclan and trying to start a one girl revolution that quickly turns to a [[LesYay one-girl-and-her-harem]] revolution.

* SympathyForTheDevil: After a while, Sora realizes that [[spoiler:the men in the school are suffering with the misogynist system in the school as well]] and decides to help them too. That precisely was [[spoiler:El's]] plan. [[spoiler:He]] wants Sora to consider the villains' situation.

* TheSadisticChoice: Although it doesn't actually happen, Yuki tells Sora to envison being forced to choose between her (Yuki) and Koharu; and no, TakingAThirdOption is not a possibility. Sora has a HeroicBSOD at the mere thought.

* TraumaticHaircut: In the ImagineSpot of Sora while Yuki was putting the hypothetical case of a [[TheSadisticChoice Sadistic Choice]], the evil guy was molesting "Princess Koharu" while threatering to cut "Princess Yuki"'s braids.

* DyingLikeAnimals: Sora quickly finds out that most of the girls are mice, and at least some of the boys are [[spoiler:([[DespairEventHorizon force]][[HeelRealization fully]])]] jackals.

* BadassDamsel: Inspired by Sora, the girls in her harem start to defend themselves as they can after [[spoiler:4 of them are taken away from Sora.]]

* TheGlassesComeOff: When Akane start training. [[SheCleansUpNicely Sora thinks he's gorgeous without 'em.]] He stops using them when he decides to stop hiding his real feelings about the male dominance in the school.

* AdultsAreUseless: We never see any adults. Utopia Gakuen may as well be a co-ed LordOfTheFlies.
** Actually, adults are visible in most of the scenes in the infirmary. Unfortunately, they're all female. [[FridgeHorror Which likely means...]]

* BadassDamsel: Inspired by Sora, the girls in her harem start to defend themselfs as they can after [[spoiler:4 of them are taken away from Sora.]]

** [[spoiler: WhiteAndGreyMorality]]: What the series really is.

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

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: While it is somewhat understandable that the guys went along with the system, it still doesn't excuse how extremely cruel they have been treating the girls. The most egregious example of this might be between Koharu and Shinji. He tried to rape her and ''she'' is the one who apologizes first (for reasons no mortal could comprehend).]]

* 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.
** 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.
* HowDoIShotWeb: Averted. Exaclan has documentation, and Yuki has the foresight to make Sora sit down and read it.
** And {{Inverted}}. Most the boys '''haven't''' read the documentation, which allows Sora to exploit a few loopholes to her advantage.
* HumansAreBastards: This manga kind of makes you wonder how far the male characters can really go into bastard territory. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope And they themselves HATED it.]]]]
* IdiotHero: Sora, though it's more [[WideEyedIdealist naivete]] [[WrongGenreSavvy in a world like this]] than actual stupidity, and she wouldn't act any differently if she ''did'' know how screwed she was. (She'd be [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter better at picking her allies, though]].)
** 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.]]
** It's worth noting, however, that Sora displays incredible insight numerous times throughout the story.

* StrawFeminist: [[spoiler:Tsuki]]. Sorta of.
--> [[spoiler:'''Tsuki:''']] You're the knight who protects the princesses! Princesses are girls! Not men! Don't look at men. Don't go to their side. Look at girls only.
* StrawMisogynist: This series is ''packed'' with viciously misogynistic characters. Almost as if the author ''really'' DoesNotLikeMen. [[spoiler: Subverted later on because of InherentInTheSystem.]]

* SympathyForTheDevil: After a while, Sora realizes that [[spoiler:the men in the school are suffering as much as the girls with the misogynist system in the school]] and decides to help them too.
** That precisely was [[spoiler:El's]] plan. [[spoiler:He]] wants Sora to consider the "villains" situation.

** B) The maids are drawn without eyes, which implies they are so far past the MoralEventHorizon they are will broken and thus gave up to even care to resist.

* FacelessGoons: Most male students are drawn with their faces partly obscured, [[EyelessFace especially their eyes]] -- probably to emphasize their monstrosity and to further dehumanize them. [[spoiler:Most of the guys who were drawn with full faces are either complex, 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.]]

* BrokenBird: Yuki before Sora makes her believe that things can get better.
** [[spoiler: Tsuki.]]
* BullyHunter: Sora, a particularly overloaded one.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Don't be fooled, Yuki can get really annoyed of Koharu's attempts of getting close to Sora.
** Reiko and Tomoko have their own fights over Sora too.

* CovertPervert: Koharu has rather risque "bedtime fantasies" involving Sora...

* 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?"]]

* KnightInShiningArmor: Sora.

* PluckyGirl: Sora.

* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:Tsuki.]]
* PsychopathicManchild: Tougyu and Shoujou.

* RedHeadedHero: Sora.

* TasteTheRainbow:
** As the picture quote says, this manga shows pleny of girls's tropes.
*** PluckyGirl: Sora.
*** EmotionlessGirl[=/=][[spoiler:{{Yandere}}]]: Tsuki.
*** SilkHidingSteel: Yuki.
*** CovertPervert: Koharu.
*** ShrinkingViolet: Tomoko.
*** {{Tsundere}}: Reiko.
*** GenkiGirl: Hiyo.
*** [[spoiler:SweetPollyOliver]]: [[spoiler:Haruka]].
** It also show quite a lot of weapons.
*** KnifeNut[=/=][[spoiler:KatanasAreJustBetter]]: Yuki's weapon.
*** ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Koharu's weapon.
*** BladeOnAStick: Tomoko's weapon.
*** EpicFlail: Reiko's weapon.
*** AnAxeToGrind: Hiyo's weapon.

* TheGlassesComeOff: When Akane to start training. [[SheCleansUpNicely Sora thinks he's gorgeous without 'em.]] He stops using them when he decides to stop hiding his real feelings about the male dominance in the school.

* TortureTechnician: Tougyu.

* TsurimeEyes: Reiko. Sora even lampshades it in chapter 9.
* UnexpectedSuccessor: [[spoiler:All the CosmicChessGame between Karin and Tsuki was so Sora could win half of the MegaCorp's rights (that Karin wanted from the beginning to give to her). When the last of the original founders died, all the Corp became Sora's.]]

* UnwittingPawn: Sora, dear, you are just a little too trusting.
* WhipItGood: Mitarai.

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

* ActionGirl: Even without an EmpathicWeapon, Sora can fight two guys twice her size. This a good thing as she is outnumbered a few hundred to one.

* AllLovingHero: Sora, after some good CharacterDevelopment, evolves into one.

* {{Bishonen}}: K

* EarsAsHair: Inverted. Tomoko has hair which, according to Sora, looks like ears.

* GoldDigger: Reiko, at first, is fine with being a student council member's possesion because after graduation, he'll get money and power and he might decide to keep her as his companion. [[spoiler:Suvberted, as she as her own plans to save girls.]]

* HaremSeeker: Sora.

* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Tsuki was a genius child so many children didn't approach to her. [[spoiler:Or rather, she consideres them inferior to her and unable to understand her.]]
* InternalReformist: Sora is the "become an icon" variety.

* MeaningfulName: Tsuki is the moon in Sora's sky.
* MissionControl: Tsuki, of some sort. She is El's "possesion" so she can help Sora being TheMole, getting information and telling her what to do next. [[spoiler:Because she actually wants to manipulate Sora to depend on her for guide in what to do, just like Princess IX manipulated her knight.]]

* NeutralNoLonger: Tomoko.

*** BandageBabe[=/=]SilkHidingSteel: Yuki.

*** BandageBabe[=/=]WomenAreWiser: Yuki.

*** SugarAndIcePersonality[=/=]{{Meganekko}}: Tsuki.
*** WomenAreWiser: Yuki.

** As the picture quote says, this manga shows all girls's tropes.
*** {{Tsundere}}: Reiko.
*** ShrinkingViolet: Tomoko.
*** GenkiGirl: Hiyo.
*** CovertPervert: Koharu.

*** SugarAndIcePersonality: Tsuki.

* {{Tsundere}}: Reiko.