History Manga / YozakuraQuartet

** BadassLongHair: Hime

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Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of KamisamaKazoku, VideoGame/DevilSurvivor and LightNovel/{{Durarara}}. Serialized in ''Monthly Shounen Sirius'' since 2006. Received an anime adaption in 2008. The anime went into production when the manga was on its second volume, making in the anime and manga different enough that Suzuhito encouraged people to think of them as separate and enjoy them both on their own merits.

** BadassAbnormal: Half-youkai by definition, as they are former humans who gained youkai powers after partially falling. Also, [[spoiler:Juri's sister Lila]], whose magical abilities are on par with a very powerful half-youkai [[spoiler:while remaining fully human]].

** BadassCrew: Though only Hime, Akina, Ao, and Kotoha actually work for the Hiizuma Life Counselling Office, Kyousuke and his sister Touka pretty much count as being part of the crew as well.

** [[spoiler:Enjin]] has the power to inflict this state on others, and is behind most cases of felling seen yet in the manga. This is because [[spoiler:Enjin's side of the Hiizume family has the opposite power known as "dropping," which sends things from the Otherworld to Earth, which is why they were tuned to make the Nana-gou in the first place. Except tuning and dropping are really two sides of the same power, with the two family branches each naturally strong in one but capable of both...]]

* FantasyKitchensink: Two characters are half vampire, half mermaid.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 62. [[spoiler:"...Hey. Isn't there one more Nana-gou than usual?"]]

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of KamisamaKazoku, VideoGame/DevilSurvivor and Literature/{{Durarara}}. Serialized in ''Monthly Shounen Sirius'' since 2006. Received an anime adaption in 2008. The anime went into production when the manga was on its second volume, making in the anime and manga different enough that Suzuhito encouraged people to think of them as separate and enjoy them both on their own merits.

* BagOfHolding: As a sidegag: Kyosuke's front pocket contains at least three handkerchiefs and ''a ricecake''.

Sakura-Shinmachi, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, Japan. The one town where humans and {{youkai}} can coexist. The gateway between this world and the Otherworld, the dimension from which youkai originally came. Protecting the town are Hime, Sakura-Shinmachi's superpowered high school girl mayor, and Akina, an "ordinary human" who holds the power to send youkai back to the other dimension and runs the Hiizumi Life Counseling Office to help keep them in this one. Along with their friends -- the employees of the Life Counseling Office, mind-reading satori Ao and the embodier of words, Kotoha; Kyousuke, Hime's oni assistant, and Touka, Kyousuke's little sister -- they protect the town from threats both external and much closer to home. In between hanging out like normal teenagers and eating copious amounts of ramen. Helping out are Yae, the nun-outfitted katana-wielding Land Goddess of Sakura-Shinmachi; her older brother Yuuhi, the dirty old man in a young boy's body Land God/Mayor of Setagaya Ward; his cosplaying immortal assistant, Mariabelle, and Juri, the nurse-outfitted youkai doctor idol of Sakura-Shinmachi. ''Yozakura Quartet'' is full of deep characterization, puzzle-piece plots, slice-of-life comedy, and more heartwarming moments than you can shake a stick at.

* ABloodyMess: Kyousuke accidentally crushes a tomato thrown to him unawares, when he has his PowerLimiter off, covering his hand in red. Almost immediately after he's asked if he wants to hold a baby. Cue seeing the stains still on his hand and a sudden freak-out.

* BadassAbnormal: Half-youkai by definition, being normal people who gained powers after struck by felling and recovering. Also [[spoiler:Juri's sister Lila]], whose magical abilities are on par with a very powerful half-youkai [[spoiler:yet has always been fully human]].
* BadassAdorable: Touka
* BadassBeard: Shidou
* BadassCrew: Given their youkai origins, this fits the main cast. It applies to the non-demons as well.
* BadassLongcoat: Gin/Enjin
* BadassLongHair: Hime
* BadassNormal: JURI. No demonic powers such as super strength, the power to conjure emphasized words, or reading minds. Just control of her bones and muscles allows her to overpower Hime and Touka ''at the same time'' and stop ''speeding cars''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At first, there seem to be no real reason why Hime and Akina always sit one seat apart at the restaurant, that is until [[spoiler: we find out that the middle seat used to be occupied by Gin]]

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Gin's body is taken over by Enjin when he goes to the Otherworld]]

--->'''Yuuhi''' "If a god says so, a black dog can turn white. . . Well a weak dog, might turn little better."
* RealMenWearPink: Akina is shown to be a pretty good chef, and he likes to clean.

** Tuning is actually more or less this trope. It varies between the anime and manga whether it's actually killing someone (anime) or just banishing them (manga), but the Hiizumi family in both cases has always considered it murder, since the person is no longer to be found on Earth either way.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Zakuro]]

** Tuning is actually more or less this trope.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome: Hime sets up her BigDamnHeroes moment backed by a tape recording of the town song, a cheery little tune sung by children.

* EasilyForgiven: Mayor Morino, who resorts to kidnapping, coercion, and threats to try to ''forcefully annex the mayoral office of Sakura-shinmachi'' into his own control.

* Expy: Kotoha bears more than a passing resemblance to [[RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]]

* EvilOldGuy: [[spoiler: One of Enjin's disguises.]]

* HalfHumanHybrids: When a human is felled, there's a window of time where a tuner can exorcise them (which can last years in some cases). Done almost immediately, they will become a normal human again. If too much time has passed before exorcism or the felling is too powerful, then they will retain some powers and be a half-youkai, such as Kotoha. Sometimes the felled half-youkai simply can't be exorcised and must be tuned completely over to the Otherworld.
** Explained later as not being a case of someone being "50% human, 50% youkai," but being both 100% human and 100% youkai as if two separate beings existed in the same space. [[spoiler:Zakuro]] takes this to mean she needs to go on a diet.

* HoldingHands: A tuner risks sliding off into the Otherworld if he uses his power too much, and the simplest way to re-anchor him to Earth is very simply... for another human to hold his hand. A half-youkai can do it too, being still half-human, but isn't as quick and effective. Holding hands with a full youkai does nothing. Carries undertones of TakeMyHand when done in the middle of a fight or other emergency situation.
** This becomes a source of angst for Hime (and to a lesser extent Touka) as symbolic of her non-human nature and what she fears is a fundamental distance between her and Akina, and also that she just won't be able to help him in such a simple way if he ever needs it. Also possibly because Akina gets to visit [[HospitalHottie Juri]] for his regular "check-ups."

* HoYay: Akina and Kyosuke.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Hime. A big heart of gold, just... tends to go to far and forget why she did something in the first place.
** In Volume 3, Kyosuke is asked why he protects Hime, but he only remembers her complaining and cries of hunger, which causes Akina to remind him to remember the good things. That heart of gold is buried VERY deep.

* LesYay: Kotoha, when drunk she declares that she "likes girls" and then gets touchy-feely with Hime. In both a small sketch and a short breather chapter, it shows that Yae wants Kotoha.
** Don't forget [[spoiler: Rin and Zakuro]].
** Also, Hime and Touka sleep together (not like that), take baths together, dress each other, and [[spoiler: ditch the guy they both like to go home to take a nap together. While holding hands.]]

* MoreDakka: Kotoha, in the first episode, "Machinenpistole! Da, da, dadadadadadadadadadada!"

** This also appplies to Ao and Kotoha. Ao has to either eat a lot or go to sleep directly after using Satellite, and Kotoha loses her ability to talk for a while if she abuses her reality warping powers.
** Also fundamentally what happens to ''all'' youkai caught on Earth. They are forced to age and eventually die just like humans, on a human time scale, despite being naturally immortal in the Otherworld. Being forced to obey Earth biology may be why even dragons and oni can look like cute adolescent girls, being bound in a humanoid form.

* RealMenWearPink: Akina is shown to be a pretty good chef.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Everyone goes on one when [[spoiler:they think Enjin killed Akina.]]
** Though they weren't roaring, making this TranquilFury.
*** A Tranquil Rampage of Revenge?

* [[CrowningMomentofHeartwarming Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: The manga is chock-full of them.

* HimeCut: Hime, fittingly.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of KamisamaKazoku, DevilSurvivor and Literature/{{Durarara}}. Serialized in ''Monthly Shounen Sirius'' since 2006. Received an anime adaption in 2008. The anime went into production when the manga was on its second volume, making in the anime and manga different enough that Suzuhito encouraged people to think of them as separate and enjoy them both on their own merits.

** Yuhi looking more like an AdorablyPrecociousChild

** Yuhi looking more like a CuteShotaroBoy

* CuteShotaroBoy: Minor character Junta, as well as Yuhi.

* {{I Got Better}}: Played straight by Hime in Volume 3.

* {{Nakama}}: The main characters, plus...pretty much everyone. They even refer to themselves as a "nakama" in the manga. [[spoiler:For instance, when Kotoha tells Zakuro to "join the gang," the word nakama is used in the original Japanese.]]

* TechnicalPacifist: Sure the 'good guys' will whack you with a lamppost, throw a car at you, punch you out, shoot at you with machineguns and a rocket launcher, play russian roulette with you, zap you with electricity, and send you to another dimension that they really don't know much about, but they won't actually kill you.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of KamisamaKazoku, DevilSurvivor and {{Durarara}}. Serialized in ''Monthly Shounen Sirius'' since 2006. Received an anime adaption in 2008. The anime went into production when the manga was on its second volume, making in the anime and manga different enough that Suzuhito encouraged people to think of them as separate and enjoy them both on their own merits.

* CarFu: Touka is fond of this, [[spoiler: chucking a car at Enjin when they think he's killed Akina.]]