History VideoGame / TheWorldEndsWithYou

** Pins dropped by enemies are color-coded by which difficulty they require to drop: brown for Easy, blue for Normal, yellow for Hard, and red for Ultimate. One late-game boss also has a scripted grey pin drop as part of the fight.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: ...Where do we start?
** The thought-read titled "Missionary", where a girl is thinking enthusiastically about how she'll "[[Manga/BGataHKei make 100 people happy today!]]".
** "He's the latest superstar, people love his don't-give-a-damn attitude. His blog, [[ClusterFBomb F Everything]], gets 100,000 hits a day!" ([[SubvertedTrope Don't worry]], the F stands for something else.)
** The MC's comments on Joshua in the finals in the Tin Pin Slammer tournament in Another Day: "[[DoubleEntendre When he sees a hole, he knows how to fill it!]]"
** In a conversation with Sota in Another Day, who turns out to be [[spoiler: Neku's hairstylist]], he says that Neku used to bring clippings. Joshua immediately summarizes those conversations with the assumption that Neku used to say, and I quote, ''"Do me like this"''.
** The lyrics to ''Give Me All Your Love'':
-->[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Feel me when you come inside, Touch me when you want me anytime"]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Not only does Mitsuki Konishi have them, many equipable miniskirts and hot pants have flavor text that mentions that they would look killer with stockings in their descriptions and vice-versa in several stockings' descriptions.

** Noise is color-coded, which is taught to you in-game. Red noise is "regular" noise, yellow is negative noise that has to be cleared from a person, noise with a "background" color is Taboo, blue is a boss, and green is pig noise. ''Final Remix'' adds purple "dissonant" Noise, exclusive to A New Day. Red noise symbols and, later, Taboo ones are the most common forms. Shapes generally indicate what you'll be expected to battle, but it varies based on which day of the game you're playing and difficulty level -- so the same symbol can represent the jellyfish sequence and kangaroos.

* OneHundredAndEight: Joshua is Entry #108 in Another Day's Tin Pin Slammer tourney. And Pin #108 is "Eyes Full of Light".

In November 2020, a follow-up known as ''VideoGame/NEOTheWorldEndsWithYou'' was announced for a Summer 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Taking place in Shibuya once more, the game follows a cast of new characters in a new version of the Reapers' Game, with appearances from classic characters like Sho Minamimoto and Koki Kariya. Graphically, the game makes the VideoGame3DLeap with {{cel shad|ing}}ed graphics vs the original's 2D sprites.

In November 2020, a follow-up known as ''[[VideoGame/NEOTheWorldEndsWithYou NEO: The World Ends With You]]'' was announced for a Summer 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Taking place in Shibuya once more, the game follows a cast of new characters in a new version of the Reapers' Game, with appearances from classic characters like Sho Minamimoto and Koki Kariya. Graphically, the game makes the VideoGame3DLeap with {{cel shad|ing}}ed graphics vs the original's 2D sprites.

In November 2020, a follow-up known as ''[[VideoGame/NEOTheWorldEndsWithYou NEO: The World Ends With You]]'' was announced for a Summer 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Taking place in Shibuya once more, the game follows a cast of new characters in a new version of the Reapers' Game, with appearances from classic characters like Sho Minamimoto and Koki Kariya.

In November 2020, a follow-up known as ''NEO: The World Ends With You'' was announced for a Summer 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Taking place in Shibuya once more, the game follows a cast of new characters in a new version of the Reapers' Game, with appearances from classic characters like Sho Minamimoto and Koki Kariya.

In November 2020, a follow-up known as ''NEO: The World Ends With You'' was announced for a summer 2021 release on UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4. Taking place in Shibuya once more, the game follows a cast of new characters in a new version of the Reapers' Game, with appearances from classic characters like Sho Minamimoto and Koki Kariya.

** Big Bang and Big Crunch together give access to the [[FrickinLaserBeams Nexus Ray]] Psych, a rare psych that only two other pins can use.

** "Another Day".

* AssimilationPlot: ''[[spoiler:To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world such would be...]]''

* TheBaroness: Mitsuki Konishi is pretty much the embodiment of the trope.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto]], who gets crunched before you can actually fight to the death. [[spoiler: He comes back as Blue Noise during the postgame.]]

* BattleCouple: Sota and Nao. Possibly Uzuki and Kariya as well, [[{{Shipping}} depending on interpretation.]]
* TheBattleDidntCount: [[spoiler:Reaper Beat]]. Even if you land a significant number of hits (or manage to defeat him in New Game+), Neku will be gasping and mocked for being too weak to be worth fighting. [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto]] as well.

* BeehiveBarrier: The Reaper walls.
* BerserkButton: Beat's [[EmbarrassingFirstName real name]]; also, mentioning Ramen Don owner Ken Doi's past involvement in [[spoiler:the development of Tin Pin]].
** On the note of Ken Doi in Another Day. '''''"...What? Who told you that name?"'''''
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Kitaniji and/or Joshua]]. One was a god-like figure who wanted to destroy Shibuya because of its dire problems, and the other was trying to start an AssimilationPlot to convince him otherwise. Well, only if you believe that [[spoiler:Joshua]] didn't actually arrange things so that he'd lose from the beginning. It's just [[GambitRoulette that]] [[ChessMaster kind of]] [[GambitPileup situation]]. In the short chapter [[AlternateUniverse Another Day]] the Big Bad [[spoiler:initially appears to be [[PunchClockVillain Uzuki]], who didn't really have a big role in the main story]]. [[spoiler:However, during the final confrontation [[DiscOneFinalBoss Higashizawa]], who had an even smaller part in the main story pulls a [[TheStarscream Starscream]] on her.]]

* BishonenLine: [[spoiler:Taboo Minamimoto.]]

** Another Day. For starters, Neku apparently sleeps in the Scramble Crossing ''on purpose'', and begins each day with a heartfelt prayer to God for the next day to be "even sweeter than yesterday" -- quite the contrast to mister "Outta my face! You're blocking my view! Shut up!" from the main game's intro. And the whole place is [[SeriousBusiness positively obsessed with Tin Pin]].

* BoisterousBruiser: [[PunnyName Beat]].
** Higashizawa shows some shades of BoisterousBruiser in Another Day. His boss battle is also the most straightforward and fits this trope.
* BondVillainStupidity: Subverted. CantKillYouStillNeedYou and GambitPileup are in effect, but it's not until much later that the player will understand.
* BonusDungeon: The entirety of Another Day could count, considering the Noise found there surpass the ones found in the endgame, but if you want to be pickier, Another Day's Pork City definitely counts, with 13 floors of extremely hard Noise, a different brand requirement on each floor, annoying Pig Noise to kill, and a BonusBoss at the top.

** [[spoiler:Reaper Beat and Taboo Minamimoto. You are required to fight them in the main story, but not defeat them: surviving for a sufficient amount of time is enough. However, they can be fought as Blue Noise in the post-game (with no time limit), and defeating them is necessary for 100% completion. Or just for the sweet, sweet taste of victory.]]

* BossInMookClothing: Woolly and Drake Noise, in spades.

** It's possible to collect a ''significant'' number of items (pins and equipment with ability unlocked) before ''Another Day'', thanks to strategy guides and combat grinding.
** Fully averted in the ''Final Remix'', as all of the high-end equipment pays itself off in A New Day. Of course, A New Day has its own difficult-to-claim high-end gear... but it's also entirely possible to see A New Day through before Another Day, so availability and possible use go both ways.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Kariya in the second manga chapter. "Since we showed up in silhouette last time, you probably thought we were up to something dastardly. We're totally not." He also acknowledges his status as a minor villain in the third week of the game by saying "Uh, villain? It's my job to screw with you."
** Joshua does this as well in Another Day. "...Excuse me? I'm up against an unnamed character? What a waste."

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Sho Minamimoto. He's a [[GoodWithNumbers math]] [[MadMathematician fetishist]] who spends much of his time either lazying around or building piles of junk, and during his time as GM, he doesn't even issue missions some days. Despite this, his player erasure rate is impeccable and he's a high-ranking Reaper and GM. [[spoiler:He betrays just about ''everybody'' in the end, but damn, does he excel at it. He didn't even need to bother coming up with a cover for his plans -- as one of the Secret Reports points out, he's ''always'' up to something, so "out of the ordinary" behavior is actually completely ordinary for him.]]

* CallARabbitASmeerp: Averted with things like frogs, wolves, and pigs. Played straight with the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins popguins]] and corehogs.

* ClimaxBoss: The Game Masters, fought at the end of each week.

* ColbertBump: %% In-universe examples only here. Out-of-universe examples go on the Trivia subpage.
** In-universe, Joshua claims that this happens whenever The Prince mentions something on his blog. This is most likely why Shadow Ramen is so popular the day it takes central stage.
** This is also a gameplay mechanic; Fighting battles with branded pins equipped makes those respective brands more popular in your given area. If a given brand makes the popularity chart's Top 3, all of that brand's pins are given a boost in power in that area.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: ''Everything''.

** Neku's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome final fusion attack]].
** Also Minamimoto's [[spoiler:Level ''i'' Flare "erasing" Joshua]].

* CreditsRunningSequence: The opening cinematic.

* {{Crossdresser}}: You can, if dedicated enough, increase the male Player's "bravery" stat so that they'll be enabled to wear women's clothing. Reading minds will also occasionally turn up a man disguised as a woman -- and totally pulling it off.

* CrosshairAware: The Kangaroo Noise, along with the shark and the elephant.

* CrutchCharacter: Since female clothing has high bravery requirements, Shiki begins with a high bravery stat, making her easier to equip than Neku, Joshua, and Beat. Her attack chain also has frames of invincibility at the end, making ButtonMashing for the top screen a more viable strategy.

* CutsceneIncompetence: A few examples, but in particular is Week 2, Day 2, during the Tin Pin Slammer Tournament. You can know how to play Tin Pin and cruise through the tutorial and the first round with Yammer, but in the second round Shooter whips out his "Inn-PINCIBLE" ultimate pin Red Kaiser, and Neku loses instantly. The player has no say in this.

** Neku [[spoiler:force-chokes Shiki]] using Psychokinesis early on, but you cannot invoke this power in battle later, even against Reapers. You ''can'' get Psychokinesis pins that let you grab enemies as well as obstacles, but the first Psychokinesis pin is ''not'' one of them, and none of them damage the enemy just by lifting them. Lifting an enemy and shaking it violently, however, is both cathartic and a form of attack.

* DamageSpongeBoss: [[spoiler:Pig Butoh, a unique pig that does not run away and can headbutt Players for a sizable amount of damage, although it only has that one attack and no special tricks besides that.]]
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Nao and Sota.

* DeadpanSnarker: Joshua, along with his {{Jerkass}} status. Neku's also good at this.

** [[spoiler:The last time we see Sho Minamimoto, he has been "crunched" by some unknown attacker and made a part of one of his signature [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible garbage heap "sculptures"]].]]

* DeathsHourglass: The timers for each mission.

* DemonicDummy: Mr. Mew, but only implied. Since all the media related to the game make him out to be cute, we'll tell you the creepy part now--Shiki just levitates Mr. Mew; she ''does not'' control the thing. And why is that? Shiki animated him via a pin called Groove Pawn with the Psychokinesis psych to animate Mr. Mew, according to the Japanese manual.

* DePower: [[spoiler:Joshua, to make the "game" he's playing fair.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss:
** Everything in the game seems to build up to it being done when you defeat [[spoiler:Higashizawa]]. After all, it's [[spoiler:the 7th day, when the Reaper's Game is supposed to be done]]. However, after defeating him, [[spoiler:Neku wakes up on the first day... of a ''new'' Reaper's Game]]. Finished? [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Not at all]]. [[spoiler: Yet ironically enough, he IS the Final Boss of Another Day, not including the two True Final Bosses.]]
%% [[spoiler:Pig Butoh on Pork City's 13th floor is a Disc One Bonus Boss. A unique Pig that can fight back on its own; seems fitting for the final Pig in the game? No; once you beat him, you need to beat the king: Pig Mazurka, a {{Flunky|Boss}} MetalSlime who can get away pretty quick on the bottom screen. Oh, and after beating him? You fight ''Panthera Cantus''.]]
%% Pig Butoh and Pig Mazurka can be fought in either order in the Final Remix. If this is untrue for earlier versions, please specify; if this is simply an oversight by the original writer of this point, please delete.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: [[spoiler:It may have been noticed Joshua was fishy, but it was not expected for him to be ''the Composer''.]]

* DoomyDoomsOfDoom: Higashizawa's infamous "Pudding of Their Doom." Perhaps he's related to [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Fawful]].
* DoubleEntendre: Joshua uses these frequently. Usually doubles with HoYay. One among many, many cases:

* TheDragon:
** Konishi, and depending on how you slice it, [[spoiler:Neku]].
** Subverted with Megumi Kitaniji: at first, the Game Masters seem to be TheDragon to his BigBad, but as you progress through the storyline, it seems that he himself is TheDragon to the Composer. At the end of the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, you fight Kitaniji, enter a suitably ominous room for the final boss fight, and do battle with [[spoiler:Kitaniji's OneWingedAngel form]]. [[spoiler:Once he's gone, the Composer turns out to be TheUnfought.]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: The ending reveals (nearly) everything about the enigmatic [[spoiler: Joshua]] and explains that the plot of the game was [[spoiler: a "game" over whether or not Shibuya should be Erased. And you just won for the side that was "for" Erasing Shibuya. It's only because Joshua had a last minute change of heart that he didn't go through with it.]]

* EyeBeams: Shiki's max fusion level, Mr. Mew becomes a giant and shoots eye beams from below.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Instant sign of being [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy.]]]]
* RedFilterOfDoom: Neku's flashback.
* RedOniBlueOni: In Another Day, "Red and Blue, eternal rivals..."
** Also, Neku wears blue headphones and Kitaniji wears red headphones.

* SelfImposedChallenge: You can lower your level at will, as well as eventually be able to change the battle difficulty on a whim. Turning down your level ups your drop multiplier, though, so it can be downright necessary to get the rarer pins.

* SeriousBusiness: Pin Collection, justified in that they actually give you psychic powers. In the real world, they're just another fashion accessory.
** They then parody the whole concept with the bonus chapter, "Another Day" which takes the minigame, Tin-Pin Slammer, the characters, and transports them all into a ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''-type setting in which the game is all-important. Lampshaded in the Secret Reports:

* SharedLifeMeter: Both Neku and his partner share a life meter that stretches across both screens of the DS. It even empties at both ends depending on who's getting hurt, with one character displaying their injured idle animation if his or her half of the life bar is completely empty.

* SinisterShades: Kitaniji's glasses.
* SixthRangerTraitor: [[spoiler:Rhyme]] in ''Another Day''.

* SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: A really, really grating example; Neku changes partners each week, and any stat boosts you've given them via food or any equipment they had are taken with them. You don't get to use them again until [[spoiler:after you've ''beaten the game'']]. To make it worse, you can't just unequip them, since the last time you can do so is right before a ClimaxBoss.
** With the exceptions of food boosts, this is generally less painful than it could be. The better clothes have higher BRV requirements, and each partner has a lower starting BRV than the last. In particular, Shiki is the only female partner(and girls' clothing generally has higher BRV requirements), and so even Neku can't use her assortments.
** However, this ends up making the endgame more seamless. Because [[spoiler:all your partners come back in the endgame, the fact that they are still equipped with all the items they left with means they'll still have all their advantages in the endgame without having to re-equip them.]]

* SurrealThemeTune: "Twister".
** By the end, practically the entire song seemed to be an ExpositoryThemeTune, even a SpoilerOpening except done in such an overly stylish way that the exposition was unrecognizable.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Princess K.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Kariya and Uzuki.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Shooter and Yammer (except in Another Day), Ai and Mina.

* TimeStandsStill: One of Kitaniji's abilities.

* TheUnFavorite: Beat, compared to [[spoiler:his sister Rhyme]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Or rather, [[CallARabbitASmeerp popguins]].

** [[LetsGetDangerous "We've preheated LONG ENOUGH!!"]]
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: [[spoiler:Kitaniji's motivation on his AssimilationPlot.]]
* EvilVersusEvil: [[spoiler:Kitaniji vs. Joshua, arguably.]]

* GigglingVillain: Konishi and, arguably, [[spoiler:Joshua]].
* GiveMeYourInventoryItem: Averted. While Wall Reapers will sometimes demand food, they'll never take it, usually being disgusted by what you brought them.

* TheGlassesComeOff: When Konishi transforms into Tigris Cantus.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: [[spoiler:When everyone in Shibuya is possessed by the O-Pins.]] And mentioning Ken Doi's involvement in [[spoiler:the development of Tin Pin]].

* NewAgeRetroHippie:
** Shinta Iwata, the owner of the Cosmic Corner shop.
** Arguably Kitaniji, who looks like a 70's businessman with a double life smoking pot.

* OneWingedAngel: Cantus form; every Game Master, along with [[spoiler:Hanekoma and arguably Joshua]], achieves it at some point. The FinalBoss takes it UpToEleven. [[spoiler: You beat Kitaniji and he comes back and goes One Winged Angel like every other officer... only for Joshua to arrive after he's beaten, giving Kitaniji the idea to use Joshua to give his One Winged Angel form its own One Winged Angel: Draco Cantus.]]

* RhinoRampage: The Rhino Noise, naturally.

* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:Rhyme]], but [[spoiler:she gets revived in the end]].
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Triple 7.]]

* SequentialBoss: Tigris Cantus, Konishi's Noise form.

* SpoilerOpening: Done magnificently - you won't realize it until after you've beaten the game, but [[spoiler:the opening cinematic spoils ''the entire plot.'' Joshua, the "two Shikis," Rhyme's fate, Kitaniji's AssimilationPlot, the reason behind Neku's death... it's all there.]]

* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler:Shiki]] in the first arc.
** Arguably [[spoiler:Joshua, considering the game heavily implies he not only killed himself to enter the UG, but that as the Composer, he essentially IS Shibuya itself. Wanting to destroy it could be considered a form of suicide, given that he'd take himself out with it.]] In addition, certain sprites showing up at different times in a conversation and even the idle animation, if watched long enough, indicate that the constant smirking is not all that it appears to be.

** [[Girly Bruiser Shiki Misaki]] is no slouch in this apartment as well, being adorable young lady with a love for [[TheFashionista fashion]] and [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals her stuffed cat]]...who also has no problem tearing apart multiple [[TheHeartless Noise]] with [[MarionetteMaster said stuffed cat.]] On top of that, her stuffed cat can also [[MesACrowd clone itself]], and [[MegaNeko grow into a giant version of itself]] that’s even able to shoot EyeBeams.
** Once you get past the already-thin tough-guy exterior, [[IdiotHero Beat]] is a warm, honest, kindhearted sweetheart who is fiercely devoted to the people he loves and will take on what is essentially the afterlife in order to protect them. He also has some of the fastest DPS combos in the game and his DifficulButAwesome Fusion system can help make for some potent damaging attacks provided you set it up right.