History Manga / YozakuraQuartet

* BumblingDad: Shidou is this to his foster kids, Mina and Kana. It's a JustifiedTrope, as [[spoiler: they became his responsibility after he failed to protect their parents, and his taking them in so abruptly wouldn't give him much time to prepare for parenthood.]]

* HypocriticalHumor: In Volume 5, Hime and Juri are examining a broken sign. Juri deducts it as the result of someone going on a drunken rampage, with Hime getting a little antsy about it. It even gets a lampshade hanging by a nearby Rin.
-->'''Hime:''' "People should be more responsible when they drink!"
-->'''Rin:''' "How easily you forget..."

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Averted so hard in regards to the very role the Oyakume is supposed to take. Makiharu essentially sums up what the job entails by asking a young Akina, "Are you prepared to kill people?"

* BumblingDad: Shidou seems like one to Mina and Kana even though they aren't his kids. Probably adopted.

* InfantImmortality: It's normally averted, which is the case for [[spoiler: Kohime's abduction]] and [[spoiler: Mina's and Kana's kidnappings at the hands of Rokkaku]]. But it's shockingly averted when [[spoiler: one of Enyou's family members that were forcibly tuned to the Otherworld is clearly a child.]]

* 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, Kyousuke is asked why he protects Hime, but he only remembers her complaints and cries of hunger, which causes Akina to remind him to remember the good things. That heart of gold is buried VERY deep.

--> "Are you prepared to kill people?"

* [[TranquilFury Tranquil]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Rampage of Revenge]]: Everyone goes very quietly, very intensely violent on Enjin when [[spoiler:they think he's killed Akina]].

* {{Tsurime Eyes}}: Hime.

*** Before Kotoha disables the anti-youkai barrier i ''Hana no Uta'', Shinozuka is seen pursuing the van Shidou is driving and exclaims that Kotoha won't make the shot, but in the scene right after, he's waiting with Morino and the nameless old man for Akina, who was with Shidou up until that point, to arrive. The manga had Shinozuka making the observation about Kotoha's kotodama from afar and didn't have this problem.

* AlliterativeName: Kyousuke Kishi.

* BarrierMaiden: Although being a land goddess makes you powerful, it also makes sure that you're tied down to the area of land you're supposed to be guarding. This becomes a problem for Yae when she wants to kill Enjin.

* BlandNameProduct: Hidagyu from [[''Franchise/Pokemon'' Rocket Monsters]] is a frequent recurring mascot in the series.

* CherryBlossoms: Let's see... There are seven cherry blossom trees in Sakura-Shinmachi, "sakura" is in the town's name, and Yozakura means cherry blossoms in the night!

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hime, Kotoha, and surprisingly, Rin.
* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: Although it's not a real fireworks show, Great Fireworks is the name for the final formation of Hime's Dragon Spear techniques.

* ElegantGothicLolita: One of Mariabelle's cosplays.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler: Hime is a dragon, not a human]]. Literally a first-episode spoiler as the first episode of the 2008 anime reveals it off-hand, when it was a major revelation more than a dozen chapters into the manga. Akina's Tuning gets the same treatment between the anime and the manga.

* FlowerMotifs: Lila in particular and the "Hana no Uta" (Song of Flowers) arc in general, where Lila serves as the arc's antagonist. To a lesser extent, Juri and her hairpin [[spoiler:which Lila copied the shape of to brand on her face when they were younger, trying to "be more like" her beloved older sister]].

* SpoiledSweet: Hime.

* StoicSpectacles: Kyousuke.
* SquishyWizard: Ao more or less acts like one.

* TwelveEpisodeAnime: The first anime adaptation.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Played straight by Hime in Volume 3. [[spoiler:Eventually explained because she's a dragon. Part of her all-around physical prowess includes excellent stamina and recovery time.]]

* VomitDiscretionShot / RelaxOVision: An odd combination of both happens. After a noodle-eating challenge shown in a flashback, we cut to Hime, Akina, and [[spoiler: Gin]] prancing around in a field filled with flowers, laughing while being covered in BishieSparkle. Amidst all the happy images and music, the aftermath of the vomitting is heard in the background.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Akina suffers from this trope in regards to characterization in the 2013 anime. In the 2013 adaptation, most of the events of the first volume of the manga are either left out entirely or took enough creative liberties to be different from what was already adapted in the 2008 anime. While not centered directly around Akina, most of these chapters showed how fundamental Akina is to the main group and how he stabilizes it without even establishing his importance as the Oyakume. The absence of these events can make Akina seem insensitive or even outright ignorant of the conflict of human-demon coexistence when viewing the first few episodes of the 2013 anime, even when the actions themselves are consistent with manga canon and/or its context, which includes:
** His blatantly overlooking Shidare and Shiina's insistence of human life being more important than that of demon kind.
** His near-tuning of Touka. In the manga, it is shown that he takes different approaches when trying to help others with their issues. (i.e. he's calmer when dealing with Ao, and definitely more vocal when dealing with Kotoha.) It's implied threatening Touka was most likely the only way for Akina to get Kyousuke's attention and try to get through to him. In the 2013 anime, this is the first time viewers will see Akina's approach to the human-youkai conflict, which would make Akina's position of being a ''life counseling office director'' rather dubious.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: ''Hana no Uta'' and ''Tsuki ni Naku'' suffer from this at times.

*** After Enjin [[spoiler: fakes killing Akina]] in Episode 7, Hime turns the Dragon Spear into what amounts to a flamethrower and a large knife when it's clearly established that night is the first time she's used it at all and most likely wouldn't know how to change it. Hime doesn't change the Dragon Spear at all in manga version of the fight.

* CallBack / MythologyGag: The 2013 anime opening is full of call backs to earlier manga plot arcs that took place before ''Hoshi no Umi'' or ''Hana no Uta'' and weren't exactly faithfully dealt with in the 2008 adaptation (if at all).

* PuniPlush: The 2013 anime, as opposed to the more angular character designs in the manga and 2008 anime.

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* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Akina suffers from this trope in regards to characterization in the 2013 anime. In the 2013 adaptation, most of the events of the first volume of the manga are either left out entirely or took enough creative liberties to be different from what was already adapted in the 2008 anime. While not centered directly around Akina, most of these chapters showed how fundamental Akina is to the main group and how he stabilizes it without even establishing his importance as the Oyakume. The absence of these events can make Akina seem insensitive or even outright ignorant of the conflict of human-demon coexistence when viewing the first few episodes of the 2013 anime, even when the actions themselves are consistent with manga canon and/or its context, which includes:
** His blatantly overlooking Shidare and Shiina's insistence of human life being more important than that of demon kind.
** His near-tuning of Touka. In the manga, it is shown that he takes different approaches when trying to help others with their issues. (i.e. he's calmer when dealing with Ao, and definitely more vocal when dealing with Kotoha.) It's implied threatening Touka was most likely the only way for Akina to get Kyousuke's attention and try to get through to him. In the 2013 anime, this is the first time viewers will see Akina's approach to the human-youkai conflict, which would make Akina's position of being a ''life counseling office director'' rather dubious.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: ''Hana no Uta'' and ''Tsuki ni Naku'' suffer from this at times.
** ''Hana no Uta'' instances:
*** After Enjin [[spoiler: fakes killing Akina]] in Episode 7, Hime turns the Dragon Spear into what amounts to a flamethrower and a large knife when it's clearly established that night is the first time she's used it at all and most likely wouldn't know how to change it. Hime doesn't change the Dragon Spear at all in manga version of the fight.
*** Before Kotoha disables the anti-youkai barrier i ''Hana no Uta'', Shinozuka is seen pursuing the van Shidou is driving and exclaims that Kotoha won't make the shot, but in the scene right after, he's waiting with Morino and the nameless old man for Akina, who was with Shidou up until that point, to arrive. The manga had Shinozuka making the observation about Kotoha's kotodama from afar and didn't have this problem.
** ''Tsuki ni Naku'' instances:
*** In the manga, Kotoha is initially concerned about regular humans finding out about Tomoe's otherworldly qualities by seeing her dog ears, but Tomoe says she just covers them. In ''Tsuki in Naku,'' she has a very fluffy tail that is ''far'' more noticeable than her manga counterpart's, and yet Tomoe is similarly unconcerned about the idea of humans finding out.
*** Touka is the one who made the vacation spot booklet in the manga, and even states she made it for the sake of going places with Kyousuke. In ''Tsuki ni Naku'', however, Kyousuke is the one who made it, despite the fact that he can't even relax on the trip and was discussing how to fit the vacation into Hime's schedule before they left.

* AlertnessBlink: Right there in the OVA opening.

* BladeOnAStick: Hime's weapon of choice in the 2008 anime.

* CallBack: The 2013 anime opening is full of call backs to earlier manga plot arcs that took place before ''Hoshi no Umi'' or ''Hana no Uta'' and weren't exactly faithfully dealt with in the 2008 adaptation (if at all).

* CompressedAdaptation: Some of the characters that are deeply developed in the manga barely get introduced in the 2008 anime. The anime also takes the plot of Volumes 3 and 4 of the manga and chops it up into Frankenstein pieces, leaving out important things like character motivation and coherency.

** Or the Land Gods. Holy crap, Yae.
* EvilSoundsDeep: In the "Hoshi no Umi" OVA, when [[spoiler: Zakuro]] was shown to be a perfectly amiable person, her voice is actually rather high pitched. However, after her FaceHeelTurn, her voice noticeably sounds sinister, and deeper, as a result.

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

* PuniPlush: The 2013 anime, as opposed to the more angular character designs in the manga and 2008 anime.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: In Rin's flashback [[spoiler:of meeting Zakuro Kurumaki,]] she is seen running away from people with lit torches. No pitchforks though.

* VomitDiscretionShot / RelaxOVision: An odd combination of both happens in the 2008 anime. After a ramen eating challenge shown in a flashback, we cut to Hime, Akina, and [[spoiler: Gin]] prancing around in a field filled with flowers, laughing while being covered in BishieSparkle. Amidst all the happy images and music, the aftermath of the vomitting is heard in the background.

** 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''.

** Inverted with Enjin. Whenever a youkai hunter is on the verge of defeat, he either fells them one more time with the intent of making the situation work or just leaves, and never finishes the job on his own.

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

* {{Fanservice}}: Happens to every female character and often goes to ridiculous extremes.

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Akina suffers from this trope in terms of characterization in the 2013 anime. In the 2013 adaptation, most of the events of the first volume of the manga are either left out entirely or took enough creative liberties to be different from what was already adapted in the 2008 anime. While not centered directly around Akina, most of these chapters showed how fundamental Akina is to the main group and how he stabilizes it without even establishing his importance as the Oyakume. The absence of these events can make Akina seem insensitive or even outright ignorant of the conflict of human-demon coexistence when viewing the first few episodes of the 2013 anime, even when the actions themselves are consistent with manga canon and/or its context, which includes:
** His blatantly overlooking the insistence of human life being more important than that of demon kind.
** His near-tuning of Touka. In the manga, it is shown that he takes different approaches when trying to help others with their issues. (i.e. he's calmer when dealing with Ao, and definitely more vocal when dealing with Kotoha.) With this in mind, it's implied threatening Touka was most likely the only way for Akina to get Kyousuke's attention.

* FirstNameBasis: Kyousuke to Hime.
* FlowerMotifs: Lila in particular and the "Hana no Uta" (Song of Flowers) arc in general, where Lila serves as the arc's antagonist. To a lesser extent, Juri and her hairpin [[spoiler:which Lila copied the shape of to brand on her face when they were younger, trying to "be more like" her beloved older sister. Yikes]].

* HopeSpot: Hime rushes off to get the [[spoiler: fake]] Dragon Spear, and is almost assured victory, [[spoiler: until she messes up the last move in a special technique, and gets the fake Dragon Spear broken in two]].

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Inverted. Akina's the only boy in the Quartet.
* {{Soaperizing}}: Not just the focus on character development and relationships and the softer, slice-of-life feel, but also... Evil twins! Love triangles! Dead parents! However, these things are generally played well in terms of story and character development.

* ActionGirl: Hime, Kotoha, Touka, Yae, Juri.

* BladeOnAStick: Hime's weapon of choice in the anime.

* CompressedAdaptation: Some of the characters that are deeply developed in the manga barely get introduced in the anime. The anime also takes the plot of Volumes 3 and 4 of the manga and chops it up into Frankenstein pieces, leaving out important things like character motivation and coherency.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: All of the main characters are conveniently orphans, and many side characters. [[spoiler:This is later explained by there being a "gap" generation. It is hinted that the generation the kids' parents belong to was sacrificed or sent to the Otherworld in order to stop the blooming of the Nana-gou. There seems to be no one between the ages of thirty and sixty left in Sakura-Shinmachi, at least no native Sakura-Shinmachi-ians]].

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler: Hime is a dragon, not a human]]. Literally a first-episode spoiler as the first episode of the anime reveals it off-hand, when it was a major revelation more than a dozen chapters into the manga. Akina's Tuning gets the same treatment between the anime and the manga.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Hime likes to use a lacrosse racket in the manga. Averted in the anime due to her using a spear. Interestingly, when Kotoha conjures one up for her, she chews her out for giving her something dangerous.

** Tuning is actually more or less this trope. It varies between the anime and manga whether it's actually killing someone's physical body and sending their "youkai spirit" back (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 and there's no way at all to communicate with the Otherworld, meaning the actual effect of Tuning as well as its destination are under some doubt due to a lack of empirical evidence.

* VomitDiscretionShot / RelaxOVision: An odd combination of both happens in the anime. After a ramen eating challenge, we cut to Hime, Akina, and [[spoiler: Gin (since it's a flashback)]] prancing around in a field filled with flowers, laughing while being covered in BishieSparkle. Amidst all the happy images and music, the aftermath of the vomitting is heard in the background.

The series has also since had an OVA that disregarded the 2008 anime's departures and adapted the manga's "Hoshi no Umi" (Sea of Stars) story arc much more faithfully, and a second series in the Fall2013Anime season called ''Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta'' (Song of Flowers). Note that ''Hana no Uta'' skips the ''Hoshi no Umi'' arc without summarizing it, making the OVA required viewing between episodes 8 and 9.

The series has also since had an OVA that disregarded the 2008 anime's departures and adapted the manga's "Hoshi no Umi" (Sea of Stars) story arc much more faithfully, and a second series in the Fall2013Anime season called ''Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta'' (Song of Flowers). Note that ''Hana no Uta'' skips the ''Hoshi no Umi'' arc, making the OVA required viewing.

The series has also since had an OVA that disregarded the 2008 anime's departures and adapted the manga's "Hoshi no Umi" (Sea of Stars) story arc much more faithfully, and a second series in the Fall2013Anime season called ''Yozakura Quartet -Hana no Uta-'' (Song of Flowers).

** Tuning is actually more or less this trope. It varies between the anime and manga whether it's actually killing someone's physical body and sending their "youkai spirit" back (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, there's no way at all to communicate with the Otherworld, meaning the actual effect of Tuning as well as its destination are under some doubt due to a lack of empirical evidence.

* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Fourth chapter. The dog is a literal example]].
** Tuning is actually more or less this trope. It varies between the anime and manga whether it's actually killing someone's physical body and sending their "youkai spirit" back (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.

The series has also since had an OVA that disregarded the 2008 anime's departures and adapted the manga's "Hoshi no Umi" (Sea of Stars) story arc much more faithfully, and a second series in the Fall2013Anime season called ''Yozakura Quartet -Hana no Uta-" (Song of Flowers).

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.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Played straight by Hime in Volume 3.

* ButtMonkey: Most of the male cast seems to suffer from this, but special mention goes to Kyousuke, whose [[powers MadeOfIron]] make him ideal for it.

* ButtMonkey: Akina constantly takes blows from everyone, friend or otherwise.

* PsychoRangers: Sakurashin-machi meet [[spoiler: the Demon Hunters]].

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Zakuro in the OVA.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Gin and Shinozuka.
* WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Ao, being Gin's sister.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Here and there.
-->'''Akina:''' "Heh heh heh. Don't do anything crazy, they said."
-->'''Kyousuke:''' "Yeah."
-->'''Akina:''' "They don't get it, do they... ''Now's the time to do something crazy, right?''"
-->'''Kyousuke:''' "''Agreed.''"
** From the end of the first anime sequence, Kotoha begins using her power to describe something. When you realize that Kotoha is an artillery otaku, that she's right next to several sets of train tracks, and what the dimensions of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5 Krupp K5]] are...
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The manga is chock-full of them.
** Such as the reaction of Rin's human employers/foster parents upon learning that someone who harmed Rin might be in town. It's sweet when the huge, burly, bearlike man puts an arm protectively around Rin, saying that the town's humans will protect the youkai. It's downright awesome when the kind older lady drives a cleaver entirely through a chopping block and embeds it into the counter below while calmly smiling and saying she'd like a long talk with the abuser.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFRHxaBxPA JUST TUNE]], the opening for the anime could count.

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 Counselling Office to help keep them in this one. Along with their friends -- the employees of the Life Counselling 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.

* AdventureTowns: Sakura-shinmachi.

* AlliterativeName: Kyosuke Kishi

* AnotherDimension: The Otherworld, the dimension from which the youkai came and where Akina's power send them back to. [[spoiler:And which Enjin's power of "dropping" can draw things from.]]

* Badass

** 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''.
* BagOfHolding: As a sidegag, Kyosuke's shirt pocket contains at least three handkerchiefs and ''a rice dumpling''.
--->'''Akina''': "What's the deal with that pocket?"

* BigFancyHouse: Hime's house is huge. In a flashback, [[spoiler: she tells little Kyousuke and Touka to move in with her and her grandmother, because there's too much room for just the two of them. And this is the middle of Tokyo.]]

* BumblingDad: Shidou seems like one to Mina and Kana even though they aren't his kids. Prolly adopted.

* CarFu: Touka is fond of this, [[spoiler: chucking a car at Enjin when they think he's killed Akina.]] Shinozuka gets in on the CarFu earlier in the same fight.

* CherryBlossoms: Let's see... There are seven cherry blossom trees in Sakura-shinmachi, "sakura" is in the town's name, and Yozakura means cherry blossoms in the night!
* ChivalrousPervert: Yuhi, oh so much...

* CompressedAdaptation: Some of the characters that are deeply developed in the manga barely get introduced in the anime. The anime also takes the plot of volumes 3 and 4 of the manga and chops it up into Frankenstein pieces, leaving out important things like character motivation and coherency.
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: All of the main characters are conveniently orphans, and many side characters. [[spoiler:This is later explained by there being a "gap" generation. It is hinted that the generation the kids' parents belong to was sacrificed or sent to the Otherworld in order to stop the blooming of the Nana-gou. There seems to be no one between the ages of thirty and sixty left in Sakura-Shinmachi, at least no native Sakura-Shinmachi-ians.]]

* [[CrowningMomentofAwesome Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: Here and there.
--->'''Akina''': "Heh heh heh. Don't do anything crazy, they said."
--->'''Kyousuke''': "Yeah."
--->'''Akina''': "They don't get it, do they... ''Now's the time to do something crazy, right?''"
--->'''Kyousuke''': "''Agreed.''"

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

* CrowningMusicofAwesome: Just Tune, the opening for the anime could count.

---> '''Akina''': ''We look forward to it. [[SincerityMode We'll make sure that they'll be happy in this town.]]''
* EasilyForgiven: Mayor Morino, who resorts to kidnapping, coercion, and threats to try to force Kohime - a 9 year old child - out of the mayoral race. Pushed by Enjin somewhat, but wanted it and went along with it willingly almost to the end, including having Shinozuka fight to kill.

--> '''Hime's Grandmother:''' ''Be beloved by the people. Be beloved by the town. Be beloved by the Dragon.''
* {{Expy}}: Kotoha bears more than a passing resemblance to [[RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]]
* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Hime, who [[spoiler:even with the vast majority of her power sealed, is still much more powerful than anyone else in the manga.]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: In the OVA, when [[spoiler: Zakuro]] was shown to be a perfectly amiable person, her voice is actually rather high pitched. However, after her FaceHeelTurn, her voice noticeably sounds sinister, and deeper, as a result.
* EvilOldFolks: [[spoiler: One of Enjin's disguises.]]

* FlowerMotifs: Lila in particular and the "Hana no Uta" (Song of Flowers) arc in general, where Lila serves as the arc's antagonist. To a lesser extent, Juri and her hairpin [[spoiler:which Lila copied the shape of to brand on her face when they were younger, trying to "be more like" her beloved older sister. Yikes.]]

* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Gin's body is taken over by Enjin after going into the Otherworld]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: All of the Youkai Hunters so far, upon defeat.]]

* HopeSpot: Hime rushes off to get the [[spoiler: fake]] Dragon Spear, and is almost assured victory, [[spoiler: until she messes up the last move in a special technique, and gets the fake Dragon Spear broken in two.]]

--->'''Hime''': "People should be more responsible when they drink!"
--->'''Rin''': "How easily you forget..."
* IdeaBulb: One appears above Touka's head at the beginning of chapter 40 - and then [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall balances precariously on her head afterward]] until she snatches it off and holds it out to Kyousuke, as something fragile for him to grab to test his control of his unrestrained strength.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each chapter is called a "Night" (so chapter 1 is "1st Night: Cherry Blossoms Bloom," for example). As well, each chapter of a longer story arc has the name of the arc followed by a number, with the final chapter bearing the arc name alone (so numberless chapter titles indicate either a stand-alone chapter or the conclusion of a story arc).

* IsThatWhatHeToldYou: Remember Akina's ancestors who wanted to be sent to the demon world in order to stop the merging of worlds? [[spoiler: As it turns out, they were forcibly tuned and sent to a world they knew little to nothing about. As a result, the ancestors sent the Nana-gou in order to merge the human and demon worlds together anyway.]]
* 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 complaints and cries of hunger, which causes Akina to remind him to remember the good things. That heart of gold is buried VERY deep.

* LateArrivalSpoiler: Tuning. The first few chapters of the manga keep it out of direct sight of the reader when it's employed, leaving it something of a mystery as to how they dealt with the gun nut and the felled dog. It's not until Kyosuke challenges Akina over his apparent inability to tune that it's fully revealed.

* LivingForeverIsAwesome: It applies to both Yae and Yuhi. However, Yuhi goes for the more obscure side of the spectrum, with the best part of the last 200 years is observing how shorter the skirts get and having more stuff for Mariabelle to cosplay.

* MasterOfIllusion: [[spoiler:Gin, and Enjin because he took over the former's body.]] Ao's getting there.

* NoOntologicalInertia: Averted with the Nana-gou. [[spoiler:Even if they were physically destroyed on Earth, their "presence" would remain and the fusion of the worlds would continue.]]
* OneWingedAngel: "Felling." [[spoiler: Enjin forces this upon Zakuro in order to get the upper hand.]] Crosses over with SuperPoweredEvilSide since felling makes even a perfectly nice person (or normal animal) violent and sociopathic.

* {{Ojou}}: Hime. Kyousuke even calls her "Ojou-sama." (Or M'Lady, translated.)

* RealityWarper: Kotoha - Whatever she says happens, but if she uses it to much, she'll lose her voice for a while.
--->'''Kotoha''': "I am called a 'Kotodama user'! When I say it will "hit"... it definitely will!"
** The land gods are another type of reality warper. Though so far it is unclear how strong their ability is.
--->'''Yuuhi''' "If a god says so, a black dog can turn white... well a weak dog, might turn little better."

* ShaggyDogStory: To an extent, the "Thorny Path" story arc. Hime's cousin Kohime intends on following in Hime's footsteps by becoming a mayor at 9 years old, and that means running against the mayor of the neighboring town in the upcoming election. After a lengthy conflict involving a kidnapping and hostage situation, a lengthy fight, and some property destruction, Yuuhi reveals that [[spoiler:Kohime couldn't even have run in the election because she was too young. Hime was a special case.]] However, the arc also sets up [[ChekhovsArmory a number of important plot elements and conflicts for later in the series]].
* ShootTheDog: [[spoiler:Fourth chapter. The dog is a literal example.]]

* ShonenHair: When Akina starts tuning, his hair becomes very spiky and messy. Justified because he seems to emit static electricity when tuning.

* {{Soaperizing}}: Not just the focus on character development and relationships and the softer, slice-of-life feel, but also... Evil twins! Love triangles! Dead parents! However, these things are generally played well in terms of story and character development.
* SpoiledSweet: Hime

* SuperPoweredEvilSide: "Felling" (or "falling") brings this out of a being, humans and animals. Naturally happens because of an imbalance between the Otherworld and this world, since tuning sends matter and energy over but can't draw it back, so energy from the Otherworld spontaneously crosses back over and drives non-youkai life (humans and natural animals) power-mad.

* TrueCompanions: 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.]]

--->'''Hime''': Don't take it the wrong way! I didn't fall asleep because of you!!
--->'''Kyousuke''': What's with that cheap tsundere reaction? What have you been reading?

* WhamLine: The end of chapter 62. [[spoiler:"...Hey. Isn't there one more Nana-gou than usual?"]]

** Yuhi looking more like a cute kid.
** Touka looking more like a female Kyosuke without the glasses.

* [[HumanSacrifice Youkai Sacrifice]]: [[spoiler:The Senate's plan for dealing with the blooming of the Nana-gou.]] Implied by Enjin that it would really be a SenselessSacrifice because [[spoiler:the use of tuning is bringing the worlds closer together anyway and this would just speed it up]].