History Manga / ZatchBell2

** When Folgore is cornered by two beasts summoned by Levy, the Yellow Spellbook appears before him and Kanchome to allow them to put up a proper fight against the villains.
* BrickJoke: Folgore fends off Gozer while repeatedly asking people to hit the beast with a car or something. After Levy transforms into a giant monster, somebody does hit her with an ambulance but is unfortunately wrecked for his troubles.

* TheVirus: Kanchome's initial spell in the story, Mo Poroku, turns him into a giant Franchise/{{Kirby}}-like WaddlingHead. He can chomp his enemies and spit them back out with parts of their bodies transformed into his own appearance, compromising their ability to fight.

* ProductionThrowback: The bonus chapter in volume 1 has Kiyomaro reading to a girl a story about the llamas from Raiku's ''Manga/AnimalLand'' manga getting swept away by a river.

* FailedAttemptAtDrama: When Levy asks Folgore who he is after he slams one of her beasts onto the ground. Folgore declares himself "the hero of Italy" but can barely hide the muscular pain he feels from suddenly exerting so much effort. Kanchome also boastfully introduces himself... while collapsed on the floor. Levy [[TheComicallySerious still takes them seriously]], introduces herself and points at her partner... who is also splattered on the ground. After being healed, said partner proudly introduces himself as [[UnfortunateName "Bristly Prickly Nosehair Boo"]]. Both Folgore and Kanchome can't help but laugh at him.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: As established in the first series, the demons awaken spells according to their needs and personal growth. When Kanchome becomes ready to fight and summons his Yellow Spellbook, it comes with the new Mo Poroku spell. It can be used to transform enemies into clones of himself piece-by-piece to disrupt their movements and this also conveniently prevents Levy from retracting her beasts back to her hair.

** Kanchome is spoken of like he's still a coward when in truth he, with only a few uses of a Poruku bottle left, manages to nearly kill the team that pursues him by tricking them into the path of a train and stands his ground until Folgore arrives to save him.

* TheAssimilator: Kanchome's initial spell in the story, Mo Poroku, turns him into a giant Franchise/{{Kirby}}-like WaddlingHead. He can chomp his enemies and spit them back out with parts of their bodies transformed into his own appearance, compromising their ability to fight.

* AlienInvasion: The story's premise is the sudden invasion of the demon world by monstruous beings from a third dimension who start destroying and killing everyone indiscriminately while the heroes are unable to fight back due to having their spell powers drained.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: While transformed, Waig is a cyclops with an exposed brain and some human traffickers try shooting him on the eye [[GunsAreWorthless to no avail]]. Later, Kiyomaro subconsciously knows the monster's weakness isn't the eye or the brain but rather the mouth area covered by his mask and hacks at it with a pickaxe. With repeated Zakeruga blows, Gash then uncovers some kind of core behind the mask and pierces through it to defeat the villain.

** Kanchome heavily injures the assassins sent after him by tricking them into the path of a train. The human of the pair has a long winged monologue about what Kanchome just did, how much the train weighted and how fast it was going... [[SubvertedTrope just to say it hurts a lot]], not actually bothering to calculate how much force they were just hit with.

** Downplayed with the revived Gash. He starts out with only Zakeru but also retains his inhuman strength and the BadassCape that allows him to cover from attacks and fly while Kiyomaro rides on it. The duo soon regain control over Rashield and Zakeruga, and on top of each spell being powered up, Rashield can now be summoned wherever Gash points at.
* TheCameo: Out of all characters, Hige (Zoboron's former partner) makes a brief appearance at Egypt working at the village Kiyomaro was living in. Kiyomaro doesn't have the faintest memory of who he is.

* ChekhovsGun: The paper with a scribble of Kiyomaro that Ziggy hands out to Zelie is actually the first page of Gash's spellbook. It allows Kiyomaro to summon Gash from a mummified body hidden inside a temple and cast Zakeru at Waig.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Kiyomaro's great athleticism, combat experience and his Answer Talker precognition ability let him face a giant monster like Waig with no fear. He brings a pickaxe for their second fight and actually dishes out damage with a well aimed stab to the face.

* GratuitousItalian: Folgore speaks in his mother tongue in certain scenes, such as shouting "Nuova pagina!! Nuovo incantesimo!!" (A new page!! A new spell!!) upon reacquiring his spellbook. That particular scene was also mispelled as "nuova" in both sentences even though "incantesimo" is a male noun.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gill and Waig set a last-ditch attack upon Kiyomaro and Gash, holding them between massive claws covered in a sea of flames. Gill believes there is no way the duo will be able to defend for long or retaliate with Gash's cape, all the fire and the debris of Rashield in the way, but in a split-second they do while ''he's'' the one whose vision is fully obscured.

** Kiyomaro has gone from (graduating) middleschool student to highly respected globe trotting archeologist in the intervening years between the original story and this one.
** Gash looks like a teenager but is actually a 19 years old adult. Over the years, Gash has become [[TheGoodKing a responsible and beloved king]] to the demon world and is determined to save it from the alien invaders.

* MoodDissonance: In the bonus pages for volume 1, Kiyomaro reads to an unnamed little girl a picture book about llamas getting swept away by a river. He calls the book depressing for how the all the llamas seemingly die, but its visuals are comical, [[DissonantSerenity the llamas don't seem to care]] and he mostly narrates the story with his [[CharacterTic signature look of apathy]] because the girl keeps making him read it over and over just for the funny faces he makes.

* NeverFoundTheBody: Zelie assumes Gash has been killed when she sees her pursuer using Rashield, but as Gash isn't shown dead to readers, the stolen spell could be from Zeon or their father instead. Chapter 2 shows a DeadHatShot and Kiyomaro does recognize Waig's stolen Zakeruga as the yellow-colored one that Gash could perform, but the next chapter also establishes all the demons had their spells stolen while they were still alive. Chapter 4 then shows Gash might have been killed after all, but he left his essence inside both Zelie and Olmo and this allows Kiyomaro to revive him in a temple that contains sarcophagi matching several of the demon children seem throughout the series.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Waig and Gill are threatening villains with a laid back and goofy side to them. The latter is the one with a more cold and calculated personality, but while hunting Zelie and Olmo he wastes time sightseeing in Egypt and even picks up a silly pyramid hat. Then Gill drives a motorcycle ''[[DrivesLikeCrazy right off a cliff]]'' in their pursuit of Kiyomaro and Zahara who were descending into a cave hidden on its side, to Waig's exasperation and the heroes' complete confusion.

** Kiyomaro is an interesting example, as in the first series he was around 14 years-old but was drawn tall and mature like he was in his late teens. As an adult, his appearance has barely changed and Gash is two heads shorter than him.

* PapaWolf: Folgore learns that his outworldly surrogate duck son that he hasn't seen in years sent his little brother to him while planning to sacrifice his own life to not let them be found by their enemies. The popstar wastes no time in channelling his inner hippo, locating Kanchome and saving him.

* ProlongedPrologue: The first four chapters have Kiyomaro looking for the truth behind Gash's supposed death and a means to fight against Waig and Gill. On chapter 5, when Kiyomaro reunites with Gash and both overwhelm the villains with their spells and tactics, a title card comes up at the end to indicate that the story has started for real.
* PowerParasite: The villains this time have stolen the spells from most, if not all, the demons in the Demon World, represented as spheres reflecting specific demons and their powers being swallowed up a gigantic dragonic ''thing'' flying through the skies. These powers are further divided up into jars filled with liquid that can hold a few spells at a time, seemingly letting them be used without limit. After Kiyomaro takes back a jar holding Gash's Rashirudo and Zakeruga and pours it over their spell book, they regain the ability to use those spells.

* SpoilerCover: The volume 1 cover as seen above immediately shows what adult Gash looks like, when in the story itself he only makes his dramatic appearance in chapter 4. It also shows a cutefied young version of Baou Zakeruga. At the time the cover was revealed, this version of Gash's ultimate spell hadn't even shown up in the story.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Ted, Cherish and Rein are seen lying dead after being defeated by the new villains. Gash is also said to have been killed off somehow, but then it's explained that he sacrificed his life force to revive several demons, which likely includes the aforementioned three. Kiyomaro then revives Gash at the end of chapter 4.

* TitleDrop: On chapter 5, as Gill realizes Gash and Kiyomaro together are stronger than he could've ever imagined, he refers to the boy as "Golden Gash" (''Konjiki no Gash'') and Kiyomaro's casting of Zakeruga to defeat Waig is followed a dramatic title card.

** Waig casts Zakeruga, a condensed beam of lightning, against Gash but the boy blocks it with a basic Zakeru burst, leading Gill to wonder if he's able to it because of those being his natural spells or because of Kiyomaro's heart power boosting the Zakeru.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Gill still atempts to fight Gash and Kiyomaro after Waig is killed, but is teleported away by Beliel to not waste away any more spell powers. The frustrated boy has the gall to ask Beliel for ''Baou Zakeruga'' of all things to fight the heroes, so the villain forces him to stand down with a powerful hit from an invisible force.

* CowardlyLion: Kanchome is said to have been the first to flee from the alien invasion, but he is spurred by his family into doing so to protect his little brother Consomme and make it to Folgore. He still has a bottle with his Poruku spell and manages to trick his pursuers into getting hit by a train, only being outplayed because they possess Saifojio, Tio's healing spell.

* GratuitousItalian: Folgore speaks in his mother tongue in certain scenes, such as shouting "Nuova pagina!! Nuovo incantesimo!!" (A new page!! A new spell!!) upon reacquiring his spellbook.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Upon starting their new journey, Kiyomaro asks Gash if there are any living demons they can meet as soon as possible. Gash replies there is one -- the first who fled from the war. Cue a baffled Kiyomaro muttering ''"Kanchome"'' under his breath.

''Zatch Bell! 2'', or ''Konjiki no Gash!! 2'' (''Golden Gash!! 2''), is the 2022 sequel to the [[Manga/ZatchBell original manga]] from 2001, written and illustrated by Creator/MakotoRaiku with chapters published online on the 14th of each month in Japan. The compiled volumes will be published by Birgdin Board Corp.

* SequelEscalation: The story involves a new race of invaders who are mighty enough to have destroyed Gash's homeworld. They can steal the spells of demons for their own use and can be further empowered by humans who learned to cast spells without the need of the spellbooks. Each of those monsters can manipulate at least ''four'' kinds of spell families from the bottles carried by their retainers.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: The new villains were first alluded to by the former demon king in the final "Gash Café" chapter as "those not of this world". Kiyomaro asks Waig what he is, stating the man doesn't give the same feeling as the demons he's seen before. Waig actually doesn't know what exactly he is, and just explains his name is what's written on his "card". His partner Gill looks like a completely mundane child and calls himself a former human. Something's off about him too and Zahara can tell from his KillingIntent that she shouldn't get anywhere close to him.

** Averted with the destruction of the Demon Kingdom, as it happened without Kiyomaro or any of the book holders knowing, even though the spellbooks' god-like creators had previously summoned Kiyomaro to help a depowered Gash before. This ties to their ominous remark from the final "Gash Café" side chapter that they would eventually be unable to help the Demon World against alien threats.

** Kanchome attempts uses himself as bait to lure his pursuers away from Consomme and runs as far as he can from Folgore's house, expecting to die as he only has a few uses of Poruku left to try to hide or trap his enemies. When he's cornered and on the brink of death, Folgore arrives to rescue him.

* AlienInvasion: The story's premise is the demon world is suddenly invaded by monstruous beings from a third dimension who start destroying and killing everyone indiscriminately while the heroes are unable to fight back due to having their spell powers drained.

* TheArtifact: Kiyomaro doesn't need to point and shout "Set" as a trigger word every time he wants Gash to focus on a target because the boy doesn't lose consciousness from using his powers anymore. He does it as much as possible anyway [[RuleOfCool because it's freaking cool]].

* AudienceSurrogate: The story dramatizes the reunions between the bookkeepers and their grown-up demon partners for all their worth, which is enhanced by the 14 years-long gap between the original series and this sequel. Returning readers are as happy to see Gash and Kanchome again as are Kiyomaro and Folgore.

** Folgore saves Kanchome from being devoured by a demonic hound in a most ludicrously badass fashion, pulling its jaws wide open while once again boasting being a [[AngryAngryHippos hippo-man]] and a protector of children.

* HeroicSacrifice: The reason Gash is said to have died in the beginning is because he split his soul between Zelie and Olmo, as well as other unseen demons, to bring them back from death. Gash's "fragments of life" are later brought out of Zelie and Olmo to revive him from a mummified body.

** Gash looks like a teenager but is actually a 19 years old adult. He did become TheGoodKing and looks well enough despite the current crisis.

* SweetTooth: Folgore is shown a picture of Kanchome and his family stuffing themselves with sweets.

* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Kanchoke's recollection of escaping from the demon world with Consomme reveals there were skyscraper-sized monsters tearing the whole place apart, on top of the giant dragon who stole everyone's spells.

* DueToTheDead: Gash and Kiyomaro pay respects at the makeshift grave where Zelie buried Ziggy before leaving Egypt, emphasizing the darker tone of the sequel by how Ziggy died ''for real''.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Upon starting their new journey, Kiyomaro asks Gash if there are any living demons they can meet as soon as possible. Gash replies there is one -- the first who fled from the war. Cue a baffled Kiyomaro muttering ''"Kanchome"'' under his breath and the scene changing to a new pair of villains arriving on Italy.

* CowardlyLion: Kanchome is said to have been the first to flee from the alien invasion, but he is spurred by his family into doing so to protect his little brother Konsome and make it to Folgore. He still has a bottle with his Poruku spell and manages to trick his pursuers into getting hit by a train, only being outplayed because they possess Saifojio, Tio's healing spell.

** Kanchome fled from the demon world with only his brother Konsome and has no idea of what happened to his parents or his older brother.
* TheUnreveal: Chapter 6 establishes the kids from the original series are roughly 19 years old now and that Kanchome is alive and well somewhere. It then cuts off not to him but instead to Folgore at Italy, leaving it up in the air just what the duck-boy looks like as a young adult.

** Kanchome is spoken of like he's still a coward when in truth he, with only a few uses of a Poruku bottle left, manages to nearly kill the team that pursues him by tricking them into the path of a train.

* UncertainDoom: Gash mentions that Zeon was never seen after he stormed the enemy stronghold during the alien invasion.

** Folgore saves Kanchome from being devoured by a demonic hound in a most ludicrously badass fashion, pulling its jaws open while once again boasting being a [[AngryAngryHippos hippo-man]] and a protector of children.

* CowardlyLion: Kanchome is said to have been the first to flee from the alien invasion, but he is spurred by his family into doing so to protect his little brother and make it to Folgore. He still has a bottle with his Poruku spell and manages to trick his pursuers into getting hit by a train, only being outplayed because they possess Saifojio, Tio's healing spell.

** Kanchome grew taller than Gash but is also as baby-faced as before.