History Manga / YozakuraQuartet

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' and a large amount of ''{{Franchise/Digimon}}'' games since ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize''. 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.

* {{Fanservice}}: Happens to every female character and often goes to ridiculous extremes. [[UpToEleven The 2013 anime goes out of its way to shoehorn in as much of it as they can at any given opportunity.]]

* {{Meganekko}}: Kotoha, though the glasses are fake. While she also wears real contacts.

* AdultFear: Given the lighthearted tone of the series, the danger that supernatural goings-on and just being a youkai in general pose is rarely addressed. But they are hinted at and discussed every now and then.
** Both Touka and Kyousuke are born into the world without any parents or guardians to look after them. Until they were found by Hime, they were discriminated against and were forced to grow up with limited resources. In addition, thanks to the [[PowerIncontinence nature of]] [[SuperStrength their powers]], both are confronted with how ''just going outside'' means that they'll pose a danger to everyone around them. Kyousuke takes this further at one point, deciding that staying away from everyone would be safer for them.
** The bulk of Kyousuke's character motivation is this. Kyousuke's concerns for Touka as a her older brother would mirror that of a parent in many respects, such as Kyousuke being the closest thing Touka could count on as a guardian during their childhood resulting in him being overprotective, even in a safe environment like Sakura-shin. This left Kyousuke with a deep-seated anxiety of not being able to protect her and others close to him. [[spoiler:This is eventually turned around in the climax of "Oni Tale" when Touka watches ''what amounts to Kyousuke dying.'' Right in front of her.]]
** What kicks off the plot of "Crying in the Moonlight" is Kana being kidnapped while she and Mina are left with a caretaker, while Shidou thought he could afford to delay going home so he could eat with a coworker and that the girls would be safe in the meantime. Taken even further for Shidou, as he realizes the very real possibility of them dying, [[spoiler: as well as how he failed to protect their parents in the past]] thanks to his incompetence.

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl: Hime, who [[spoiler:even with the vast majority of her power sealed, is still much more powerful than anyone else in the manga]].
** Land Gods easily qualify. Holy crap, Yae.

* ActionGirl: The majority of the named female cast is this.
** DarkActionGirl: Zakuro and Iruka.

* BadassBeard: Shidou

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

* ZettaiRyouiki: Hime. It could also be the case with Yae, since the socks go up to her thighs, but you sometimes don't see them under her really long skirt.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' and a large amount of {{Franchise/Digimon}} games since ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize''. 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.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' and a large amount of {{Franchise/Digimon}} games since VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize. 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.

* CityOfWeirdos: The citizens have SeenItAll for centuries now. They're completely confident in the mayor and the Hiizumi family's ability to take care of things.
** Demonstrated in its ideal state in the 2013 anime's first episode, where a giant, fallen goldfish is bouncing around in the middle of a festival and in danger of crushing everything, and only Touka is freaking out. One random bystander just tells Touka to say hi to Hime and the others.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: [[spoiler: Hime is a dragon, not a human]]. Literally a first-episode spoiler as the first episode 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.

* StrayShotsStrikeNothing: Averted in Hime and Kotoha's sparring match. When Kotoha's bullets miss Hime, they instead threaten to hit Kyousuke, Akina, and Ao, with the latter only being saved thanks to Kyousuke's intervention. Averted further in the same fight, when Kotoha upgrades to her 88mm, as she also comes close to hitting two children paying nearby when Hime narrowly dodges the blasts.

* ManInWhite: Shinozuka and Yuuhi in his adult form.

* ThreeDEffectsTwoDCartoon: Can be spotted, like when Shinozuka is lifting and throwing objects from the street at Kyousuke and Akina.

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

* ConspicuousCG: Can be spotted, like when Shinozuka is lifting and throwing objects from the street at Kyousuke and Akina.

* {{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! [[TropesAreNotBad However, these things are generally played well in terms of story and character development.]]

* WeaponTwirling: In most of her combat scenes in ''Hana no Uta'', Hime twirls her weapon several times before striking a pose or attacking. [[AnimationBump Thanks to the increased budget,]] [[TropesAreNotBad it looks amazing]].

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' and every {{Franchise/Digimon}} game since VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize. 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.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/KamisamaKazoku'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' and every Franchise/Digimon game since VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize. 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.

Debut manga of Yasuda Suzuhito, character designer of ''Anime/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.

* BlessedWithSuck: A recurring conflict with several characters, such as Kyousuke and Zakuro, is knowing where each trope ends and CursedWithAwesome begins. On the one hand, there's the social stigmata and bad experiences associated with those powers, but characters are encouraged to see their powers as the latter trope due to how they can be used to help others.

* {{Badass}}
** BadassAdorable: Ao, Touka... pretty much any female who looks under their mid-twenties.
** BadassBeard: Shidou
** BadassBystander: Some of the town's residents are willing to risk their lives in order to help their fellow neighbours, whether they are human or youkai.
** BadassCrew: Though only Hime, Akina, Ao, and Kotoha actually work for the Hiizumi Life Counselling Office, Kyousuke and his sister Touka pretty much count as being part of the crew as well.
** BadassLongcoat: Gin/Enjin
** BadassNormal:
*** '''JULI'''. 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''.
*** [[spoiler:Lila, even more than her sister. She can shapeshift, levitate, make formerly solid buildings fall apart like paper, and conjure objects from nowhere — including a [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon freaking skyscraper-sized sword]]. She would outdo Kotoha for sheer reality warping, were it not all just human skill and ingenuity.]]

* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome: A recurring conflict with several characters, such as Kyousuke and Zakuro, is knowing where each trope begins and ends. On the one hand, there's the social stigmata and bad experiences associated with those powers, but characters are encouraged to see their powers as the latter trope due to how they can be used to help others.

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

* ShoutOut: While Hime's recovering from her injuries in Episode 6, she eats rice balls as she's sobbing, just like [[SpiritedAway Chihiro]].

* BlandNameProduct: Hidagyu from [[{{Pokemon}} Rocket Monsters]] is a frequent recurring mascot in the series.

* DeadlyFireworksDisplay: Although it's not a real fireworks show, it's invoked when Great Fireworks is the name for the final formation of Hime's Dragon Spear techniques.

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.

** DarkActionGirl: Zakuro and Lila.

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: In order to release the demonic energy possessing the gunman from the first chapter, Ao...just headbutts him.

* BlessedWithSuck/CursedWithAwesome: A recurring conflict with several characters, such as Kyousuke and Zakuro, is knowing where each trope begins and ends. On the one hand, there's the social stigmata and bad experiences associated with those powers, but characters are encouraged to see their powers as the latter trope due to how they can be used to help others.

* BrickJoke: Hime kicks a shotgun into the air to prevent the gunman from using it halfway through the chapter. It later lands on Akina's head at the end of the chapter.

* Foreshadowing:
** Ao wondering why Kotoha sounds so excited to know the number 8 in German. [[spoiler: It hints at Kotoha being able to create an 88mm cannon with the shortcut "8-8."

* LetsYouAndHimFight: A short-lived example between Zakuro and Shinozuka, and a narrowly-averted instance with Zakuro again. That time, with Midoriko and Uzu.

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

* [[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]].

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.

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

** The opening chapter to the "Hana no Uta" arc focused on Juri's history and her reasons for coming to the town.

*** '''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''.

* BumblingDad: Shidou is this to his foster kids, Mina and Kana, in spite of his best efforts. It's a JustifiedTrope, as [[spoiler: they became his responsibility after he failed to protect their parents, and his taking them in so abruptly left him inadequately prepared for parenthood.]]

* CombatMedic: Juri's a doctor, but that doesn't mean she can't kick your ass.

* {{Expy}}: Kotoha bears more than a passing resemblance to [[RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]].
** Actually, this would be an inversion. The manga started serialization in 2006, whereas Mari's appearance in the first Rebuild Film dates back to 2007.

** 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]].
* ForegoneConclusion: In the "Hoshi no Umi" arc, Juri states that Makiharu is the first Oyakume to be able to safely exorcise excess demonic power from a fallen being and avoid sending it to the Otherworld. Therefore, this makes it impossible for Chiaki, the Oyakume from 200 years ago, to [[spoiler: save Akane and get around his fear of killing for the sake of protecting Sakura-shin.]] [[spoiler: However, this is actually narrowly averted by Yuuhi's ability to ''purify'' a fallen creature of most, if not all demonic power.]]

** Hime's vehement attachment to her scarf.
** Juri making the observation that the sign that Zakuro kicked down was unusually rotted. The ''Hoshi no Umi'' OVA changes this to crushing a stone shrine for a similar effect.
* FurAndLoathing: Enjin's pimpsational fur-trimmed trenchcoat.

* 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. Becomes a source of angst for Hime (and to a lesser extent Touka) as emblematic 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."

** 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.

* NiceHat: Ao wears one with cat ears occasionally.

* SuperStrength: Hime, Kyousuke, Touka, Shidou. Also, the fully human Juri.

* {{Yandere}}: One of the possible side-effects of felling as positive relationships are quickly twisted and soured. So far both Zakuro and Lila have acted this way during their times as villains, Zakuro toward Rin and Lila toward [[spoiler:Juri, despite never having been felled, but just desperately wanting Juri's attention and love]].

** After a psychotically-fallen Zakuro kidnaps Rin for the second time, the main cast pursue them in Juri's ambulance. During the chase, Hime tries calling out to Rin, but is constantly battered and visibly injured by the trees Zakuro commands to stop them. As a result, Rin tries to convince Hime that she hates her so she would stop going after them and getting hurt even more. In ''Hoshi no Umi'', Rin immediately shouts at Hime after being captured by Zakuro without any prompting.

* WeaponTwirling: In most of her combat scenes in ''Hana no Uta'', Hime twirls her weapon several times before striking a pose or attacking. [[AnimationBump Thanks to the increased budget,]] [[TropesAreNotBad it looks amazing]].