History Manga / TheDungeonOfBlackCompany

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Several examples. Kinji and Shia have blue hair despite being an ordinary humans. Belza has purple hair and Rim has pink hair.

* TheChessmaster: Kinji in full force [[spoiler: once he returns from the future.]]

* EasilyForgiven: Kinji doesn't hold a single ounce of resentment towards Shia [[spoiler: after she testified against him, leading to him being arrested.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Kinji is such a selfish and opportunistic man? [[spoiler: When he was a kid, His father threw him and his mother out on the streets in favor of his mistress and the child they had together.]]
** In Episode 11, Ranga spells out why Belza is the way she is:
--> '''Ranga:''' Born as the illegitimate child of the noble Shuba'ha family, loved by no one, you had no choice but to do everything by yourself. So you never trust anyone. You never love anyone. All you can do is deny, reject, and break everything. [[CycleOfRevenge Those broken by you, in turn, grow to hate you.]]

* LaboriousLaziness: Kinji's defining characteristic. The series starts out with him explaining how use worked his butt off to get everything he has now solely so he can live as a NEET. After being transported to another world, he is looking to do it all over again.

* MirrorCharacter: Belza is this to Kinji. Both are very cunning and ruthless individuals in the world of business due to their respective DarkAndTroubledPast involving family, hardening them into the cynical and cutthroat people that they are today. What separates the two is the fact that Kinji, for all of his self-centeredness, is still capable of sympathizing and befriending those around him, even going out of his way to help them out in their time of need and making sure they are in genuinely better conditions in life than before. Meanwhile, Belza has learned to only care about her own ambitions and power, to the point that she'll use anyone and anything to stand at the [[spoiler: even if it means damning the world itself.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Shia [[spoiler: when she sees for herself how bad Kinji has been treated during his incarceration and knowing she aided in getting him arrested.]]

* OutGambitted: Belza thought she had everything under wraps when [[spoiler: she managed to get Kinji arrested and get herself voted as Director of Raiza'ha. What she ''didn't'' foresee was Kinji having left an emergency plan for his team to follow during his incarceration, which leads to him being voted as the CEO of Raiza'ha and turning it into a subsidiary of the Dungeon Black Company.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Belza, during TheClimax of Episode 12, to the point of having to be physically restrained from attacking Kinji. She then spends the rest of the episode in a VillainousBSOD.
* VillainProtagonist: Kinji is both ruthless and unscrupulous, willing to use any and all means to make his life easier. This includes enslaving his co-workers via mind control and blackmailing Shia into working for him. He does get better though, and is far more moral then the upper management of Raiza'ha.

* TwelveEpisodeAnime: The anime adaptation ran for 12 episodes during the Summer of 2021.

* VillainProtagonist: Kinji is both ruthless and unscrupulous, willing to use any and all means to make his life easier. This includes enslaving his co-workers via mind control and blackmailing Shia into working for him.

* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Kinj is such a selfish and opportunistic man? [[spoiler: When he was a kid, His father threw him and his mother out on the streets in favor of his mistress and the child they had together.]]

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Ranga, the cross-dressing male priestess.

* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Kinj is such a selfish and opportunistic man? [[spoiler: His father threw him and his mother out on the streets in favor of his mistress and the child they had together.]]

* MirrorCharacter: Belza is this to Kinji. Both are very cunning and ruthless individuals in the world of business due to their respective DarkAndTroubledPast hardening them into the cynical and cutthroat people that they are today. What separates the two is the fact that Kinji, for all of his self-centeredness, is still capable of sympathizing and befriending those around him, even going out of his way to help them out in their time of need and making sure they are in genuinely better conditions in life than before. Meanwhile, Belza has learned to only care about her own ambitions and power, to the point that she'll use anyone and anything to stand at the [[spoiler: even if it means damning the world itself.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[GenkiGirl Yuka]], [[AscendedFangirl Yumeri]], [[StatuesqueStunner Maki]], [[TheLeader Reo]], [[SugarAndIcePersonality Sorane]], [[{{Tsundere}} Aya]], [[LoveInterest Maina]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: [[ExtremeOmnivore Rim]], [[Opportunisticbastard Kinji]], [[WholesomeCrossdresser Ranga]], [[DaddysGirl Shia]], and [[ExtremeDoormat Wanibe]]]]

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* TwelveEpisodeAnime: The anime adaptation is set to run for 12 episodes.

* NoOSHACompliance: The Raiza'ha Mining Corporation is not very concerned with the safety of its employees and will happily sacrifice them in the name of profit. Kinji is even less concerned with the well being of the workers he is put in charge of.

* CharacterDevelopment: Kinji goes from an self-centered BadBoss to a more altruistic and helpful BenevolentBoss.

* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Kinj is such a selfish and and opportunistic man? [[spoiler: His father threw him and his mother out on the streets in favor of his mistress and the child they had together.]]

* {{Magitek}}: The fantasy world Kinji ended up in has underwent an industrial revolution and needs magic crystals to power some of its more advanced technology. Hence why they are mining old dungeons.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Kinji getting yanked out of present day Earth to his new fantasy realm kicks off the story. It later happens to him again when he gets yanked into a BadFuture version of the world.

* BadBoss: There are several examples in the series, including Kinji. To provide an example of just how bad a boss Kinji is he finds a magic staff that mind controls people and the first thing he does is enslave the rest of the work crew and work them almost to death.

* AssholeVictim: Kinji is a {{Jerkass}} at the best of times so if anything bad happens to him he usually deserved it like when his co-workers beat the crap out of him for using a mind control spell on them.

* {{Brainwashed}}: Kinji does this to the rest of his crew. Naturally, once the spell wares off and the magic staff he used to do it breaks they immediately turn around and beat the crap out of him.

* LittleBitBeastly: Multiple examples exist in the series with one of the main ones being Rim, a dragon girl who serves as the Kinji's bodyguard and enforcer.

* {{NEET}}: Kinji, the story opens up about him bragging about managing to find a way to avoid becoming another office drone and most of the story is about him trying to find a way to return to this lifestyle.

* VillainProtagonist: Kinji is both ruthless and unscrupulous, willing to use any and all means to make his life easier. This includes enslaving his co-workers via mind control and blackmailing Shia into working for him.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Kinji getting yanked out of present day Earth to his new fantasy realm kicks off the story.
VlainProtagonist: Kinji is both ruthless and unscrupulous, willing to use any and all means to make his life easier. This includes enslaving his co-workers via mind control and blackmailing Shia into working for him.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Kinji getting yanked out of present day Earth to his new fantasy realm kicks off the story.