History VisualNovel / JackJeanne

* InSeriesNickname: Takashina Sarafumi simply prefers to be called Fumi.

* RealMenWearPink: The Rhodonite class students are filled with students who specialized as a Jeanne (With only two named Jack students in the class), many of the known students in that class (That are seen introduced on screen) are shown to be more than happy to wear feminine clothing because it's cute.

* AxCrazy: In "Mary Jane", when Charles—played by Kisa—is killed by the ghosts, Soshiro playing Figaro goes absolutely apeshit, attempting to go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He doesn't succeed.

* CantCatchUp: When Kisa and Suzu get cast as prominent characters in the fall performance, Soshiro starts to feel insecure about his lack of improvement on his acting, starting from when he gets relegated to a nameless background character

-> I wanted to get into Univer too, Tsuki-nii...

''Jack Jeanne'' has you be in the shoes of [[PlayerCharacter Tachibana]] [[HelloInsertNameHere Kisa]], who dreams to be an actor following her brother, Tachibana Tsuki's footsteps and enroll into Univer Theater Academy. However, her hopes were dashed as Univer Theater Academy is [[OneGenderSchool an all boys theater school]] and was about to give up on her dream.

That is, until she was found by the School director of Univer Theater Academy, who recognized her as the talented Tachibana Tsuki's sister, and soon enlisted her to be enrolled into the school to change the age old tradition of the theater academy, and accomplish her dream.

* TheMusical: Due to being set in a Theater Academy, musical plays occur annually and there are five plays that students must participate throughout the year. The Newbie Performance, which is used for new first year students to show off what they can do and takes place in Spring, the Summer Performance, Autumn Performance, Winter Performance, and finally, the Univer Performance, the last play of the year. The Performances' Quartz did throughout the game are:

Univer Performance: [[spoiler:Cicia of the Central]]

* OneGenderSchool: Univer Theater Academy is an all boys theater academy.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The school director and Enishi, Kisa's homeroom teacher are this as they help to make Kisa's academy life in Univer to transition as well as they possibly could.
* RockThemeNaming: The classes in Univer Theater Academy are named after gems. Quartz, Onyx, Rhodonite, and Amber.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Tachibana Tsuki, Kisa's brother, while not directly involved in the plot when Kisa comes to Univer, his impact is felt all over with Kai and Fumi being heavily inspired by him, his fame and achievements being well known and he is why Kisa and Soushirou wanted to join Univer.
* SweetPollyOliver: One of the conditions that Kisa has to accept in order to be enrolled and succeed in Univer is that she has to disguise herself as a boy, and that no one should know of her true relation with her brother. Given that it's an Otome game, [[SweetOnPollyOliver that doesn't stop the love interests from falling in love with her]].

** Kyoji Otori, a first year in Quartz, is arrogant and prideful, looks down on everyone around him, openly insults his classmates to their faces, and claims he's deserving of starring roles, though he always gets delegated to minor roles, which informs his ButtMonkey status.

* ThemeNaming: The classes in Univer Theater Academy are named after gems. Quartz, Onyx, Rhodonite, and Amber.

** In-game, the lead and top Jack and Jeanne actors are referred to as a "Jack Ace" and "Arjeanne" respectively, with each class having at least one of the two actors. To note:
--> Quartz: Takashina Sarafumi (Arjeanne), Mutsumi Kai (Jack Ace)\\
Onyx: Kaidou Dakeshin (Jack Ace), Sugachi Kiyoharu (Arjeanne)\\
Rhodonite: Oshinari Tsukasa (Arjeanne), Minorikawa Kiito (Jack Ace)\\

* ButtMonkey: Kyoji Otori is constantly insulting the other first years and proclaims that he's the best actor there is...but he always gets delegated to every role that's not the main character, much to his infuriation.

** Kyoji Otori, a first year in Quartz, is an ArrogantKungFuGuy who looks down on everyone around him, openly insults his classmates to their faces, and claims he's deserving of starring roles, though he always gets delegated to minor roles, which informs his ButtMonkey status.

* JackOfAllTrades: What makes Tachibana Tsuki famous is his ability of being able to play as both Jack and a Jeanne. [[InTheBlood And Kisa can follow suit should you play your cards right]]. [[spoiler:This makes Kisa a potential prospect by other seniors to get her to transfer out of class Quartz. Class Onyx wanted her as their Jeanne, while Rhodenight wanted Kisa to join as a new Jack. Class Amber, specifically, Tanakamigi Chui, wanted Kisa to join Amber for the sheer potential of her talent]].
* {{Jerkass}}: The Amber first year students, Momonashi Kakuto and Kamiya Utsuri aren't pleasant towards the other first year students, especially Kisa, since she had caught the interest of Tanakamigi. This is in contrast to Rhodonite and Onyx's own 1st year student ensemble who were all a FriendlyRival to Kisa, Suzu and Soushirou.

In the first year anniversary at March 18, 2022, Jack Jeanne is announced to be having an English localization by Creator/AksysGames. It was released on July 15, 2023.

In the first year anniversary at March 18, 2022, Jack Jeanne is announced to be having an English localization by Creator/AksysGames. It is set for a July 15, 2023 release.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: The game's opening theme is sung by the voice actors of the game's love interests and [[{{Creator/Yuka Terasaki}} voice actress of Kisa]].

In the first year anniversary at March 18, 2022, Jack Jeanne is announced to be having an English localization by Creator/AksysGames in the works.

* HelloInsertNameHere: The PlayerCharacter's default name is Kisa, but you can change her name however you please.

* NoAntagonist: There are no major villains in the story no matter the route chosen, though Amber's Kakuto and Utsuri occasionally act as minor antagonists for being complete [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] towards Quartz, with Kisa being their primary target of ridicule and vitriol for most of the routes thanks to Takanamigi favoring her over them. [[spoiler:While the closest contender in all the routes available seem to be Tanakamigi due to his interest in making Kisa his Arjeanne, he is more an AntiVillain as he otherwise actually helped Kisa in some instances despite his ulterior motive behind it]].

* NoAntagonist: There are no major antagonist in the story no matter the route chosen. [[spoiler:While the closest contender in all the routes available seem to be Tanakamigi due to his interest in making Kisa his Arjeanne, he is more an AntiVillain as he otherwise actually helped Kisa in some instances despite his ulterior motive behind it]].

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Jeanne actors in general would crossdress for their roles. The Rhodonite class students introduced (Except for Minorikawa and Ichinomae), however, played this more straight in contrast to the other Jeanne's, with the Rhodonite Jeanne's happily crossdressing and wearing typically girly clothes and enjoy fashion in general.

In the first year anniversary at March 18 2022, Jack Jeanne is announced to be having an English localization in the works.

** In general, Tanakamigi Chui is TheAce that overtook Tachibana Tsuki due to his raw talent and some of the other students find Tanakamigi intimidating for it.

* TheAce: In-game, the lead and top Jack and Jeanne actors are referred to as a "Jack Ace" and "Arjeanne" respectively, with each class having at least one of the two actors. To note:

* NoAntagonist: There are no major antagonist in the story no matter the route chosen.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Pursuing further in his route reveals that [[spoiler:Fumi knew Kisa is a girl right from the start since the entrance exam, simply through seeing Kisa dance. This also implies that Fumi is a SecretSecretKeeper in the other routes regarding her true gender. The ending of his route also has the Quartz homeroom teacher, Enishi and the Director lampshade this, mentioning that Fumi is one of the more intuitive and smart students and thus there's no fooling him]].

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Kisa and Soushiro can be this if you pursue him.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Pursuing further in his route reveals that [[spoiler:Fumi knew Kisa is a girl right from the start since the entrance exam, simply through seeing Kisa dance. This also implies that Fumi is a SecretSecretKeeper in the other routes regarding her true gender.]]

* RealMenWearPink: The Rhodonite class students are filled with students who specialized as a Jeanne (With only two named Jack students in the class), many of the known students are shown to be more than happy to wear feminine clothing because it's cute.
* SecretKeeper: Early in the game, only the homeroom teacher, Enishi, the director and ChildhoodFriend love interest Soushiro knows of Kisa's true gender. [[spoiler:If you chose to date the other boys outside of Soushiro, then they too can become this to Kisa]].

''Jack Jeanne'' has you be in the shoes of [[PlayerCharacter Tachibana]] [[HelloInsertNameHere Kisa]], who dreams to be an actor following her brother, Tachibana Tsuki's footsteps and enroll into Univer Theater Academy.
However, her hopes were dashed as Univer Theater Academy is [[OneGenderSchool an all boys theater school]] and was about to give up on her dream.

* RealMenWearPink: The Rhodonite class students are filled with students who specialized as a Jeanne (With only two Jack in the class), many of the known students are shown to be more than happy to wear feminine clothing because it's cute.

''Jack Jeanne'' is an Otome game VisualNovel developed by {{Creator/Broccoli}}, with Ishida Sui (Of Manga/TokyoGhoul fame) at the helm for the game's visual and character design, and story.

!! Jack Jeanne contains an example of:

Onyx: Kaidou Dakeshin (Jack Ace)\\

** Depending on which of the love interests you have done the most events with throughout the play, certain events and character dynamics will be affected based on it. For an example, [[spoiler:Quartz's Winter Performance, "Oh Rama Havenna", will have a more profound and meaningful impact on Kisa's relationship with Mitsuki should you choose to pursue him throughout the game, as Mitsuki and Kisa are the lead Arjeanne's of the performance and they are both still dealing with the awkwardness between each other over the secrets Kisa kept and Mitsuki believing that he seemed unreliable to her over it that she couldn't trust her secret to him. The play itself centers around the friendship of the characters they play as and how the secret Kisa's character kept could affect their friendship]].

''Jack Jeanne'' is an Otome game VisualNovel developed by Creator/Broccoli, with Ishida Sui (Of Manga/TokyoGhoul fame) at the helm for the game's visual and character design, and story.