History WebAnimation / SparkleOnRaven

** The list of clubs at the cultural festival in episode 5 is so long that the list spills out off-screen when Dark Shi opens it up, causing Raven and Berrycream to give an AsideGlance to the camera.

* SavingTheOrphanage: Parodied in episode 3, where Raven and her friends try to save a local beach bar, Cooters, from being closed down due to a lack of business and the owner being heavily indebted to Michaelsoft. They don't want to save it because it's culturally significant or because it's being taken by a greedy developer -- it's because they really want their Christmas Crab Legs. Everyone else seems on board with the idea, to the point that they raise $357,000. This isn't enough to keep Cooters from closing, and even when they receive a Christmas miracle, the owner spends it on Internet security instead. Luckily, when everyone else shows up to have their Christmas Crab Legs, this ends up being the final push to keep Cooters open for another month -- maybe even two! [[AllForNothing ...And then it's shut down anyway.]] Thankfully, Milton Shake is seen running a Cooters food truck in episode 5, suggesting that their efforts didn't go ''totally'' to waste.

* SpoofAesop: When Raven tries to confront a boy who's bullying her in episode 2, the guidance counselor suggests that he may be lashing out for some deeper reason, and Raven should just try talking to him, suggesting a "[[BullyTurnedBuddy bullies are people too]]" aesop. [[BloodKnight Raven immediately asks if she can just fight him.]] The guidance counselor sees this as an equally valid option; it works, and the bully even becomes Raven's friend.

* CutawayGag: In episode 5, Berrycream wails about not being normal like the other students. We cut away to the class bake sale, where -- in an immediate contradiction -- [=DrillGirl=] rings out someone up for $1,700.38 and then Omen bursts through the wall with a plate of sweets.

** Episode 5 features [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Red Saber]] and Lesbian [[Manga/OnePiece Roronoa Zoro]] as students at the cultural festival.

* LoopholeAbuse: In episode 5, Dawn explains that the school's Lost and Found was absorbed into Kipp's Collectors Club due to some obscure technicality, meaning that the Lost and Found is effectively powerless to stop Kipp from taking whatever he wants.

* SchoolFestival: Episode 5 takes place during the school's cultural festival, which Raven explains is bigger than ever thanks to how many students transferred over from the school down the road that blew up. Raven's class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for something (Raven giggles "I don't know!", and [=DrillGirl=] later says "Thank you for supporting local whatevers", suggesting that ''nobody'' is sure). Other activities seen include various food stands, a maid café hosted by the Room 424 World Domination Club, different kinds of stage performances, a haunted house, and an auction held by the Collector's Club (through a pachinko machine).

* {{Americasia}}: The show's setting is a deliberate parody of how fanime often [[CreatorsCultureCarryover assume Japan is more like America than it really is]]. Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooters being a real Floridian restaurant and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names. Episode 5 goes to the logical conclusion and features a hybrid Canadian-Japanese flag on the wall of the Collectors' Club, suggesting that the series ''literally'' is set in a combination of North America and Japan.

* LoopholeAbuse: In episode 5, Dawn explains that the school's Lost and Found was absorbed into Kipp's Collectors' Club due to some obscure technicality, meaning that the Lost and Found is effectively powerless to stop Kipp from taking whatever he wants.

** The Collectors' Club in episode 5 has a bunch of [[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Jinjos]] in it, for some reason.

* CulturalFestival: Episode 5 takes place during the school's cultural festival, which Raven explains is bigger than ever thanks to how many students transferred over from the school down the road that blew up. Raven's class is hosting a bake sale to raise money for something (Raven giggles "I don't know!", and [=DrillGirl=] later says "Thank you for supporting local whatevers", suggesting that ''nobody'' is sure). Other activities seen include various food stands, a maid café hosted by the Room 424 World Domination Club, different kinds of stage performances, a haunted house, and an auction held by the Collector's Club (through a pachinko machine).

* SavingTheOrphanage: Parodied in episode 3, where Raven and her friends try to save a local beach bar, Cooters, from being closed down due to a lack of business and the owner being heavily indebted to Michaelsoft. They don't want to save it because it's culturally significant or because it's being taken by a greedy developer -- it's because they really want their Christmas Crab Legs. Everyone else seems on board with the idea, to the point that they raise $357,000. This isn't enough to keep Cooters from closing, and even when they receive a Christmas miracle, the owner spends it on Internet security instead. Luckily, when everyone else shows up to have their Christmas Crab Legs, this ends up being the final push to keep Cooters open for another month -- maybe even two! [[AllForNothing ...And then it's shut down anyway.]]

* TeamSpirit: Raven consistently denies Berrycream and Dark Shi's offers to help her fend off the students who keep fighting her, likely out of concern for their safety. However, at the end of episode 4, she faces off against Locke, a burly opponent she can't defeat on her own; Berrycream and Dark Shi come in to distract him and they defeat him together. The episode ends as Berrycream and Dark Shi remind Raven that they'll always be there for her, and Raven, on the verge of tears, hugs them.

* {{Americasia}}: The show's setting is a deliberate parody of how fanime often [[CreatorsCultureCarryover assume Japan is more like America than it really is]]. Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooters being a real Floridian restaurant and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits feature chibi versions of the characters singing real songs while concept art of the characters is shown in the background. The characters and songs featured are different in each episode.[[labelnote:List of songs]]Episode 1 features "Let Me Clear My Throat" by DJ Cool, episode 2 features "This is My Happiness" from ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2'', episode 3 features "Shed Some Skin" by Slow Gherkin, and episode 4 features "Relight My Fire" by Dan Hartman.[[/labelnote]]

* IronicEcho: In episode 2, when [=DrillGirl=] knocks a dodgeball into the school and causes it to explode, she says "I ''love'' this school! I want to ''live'' here!" In episode 4, Locke says the same thing while he's beating up Raven.

* NotMeThisTime: The first place Raven and Dark Shi check for Berrycream's bell in episode 5 is Room 424, but Tensai has nothing to do with its disappearance since he was more preoccupied with converting the club into a maid cafe for the cultural festival.

* TheStinger: After the credits of episode 3, there's an additional scene where Albert Tensai, covered in snow, muses about his evil plan while eating a crab.

** Chase appears as himself at the end of episode 1 through green-screening. His credits are listed as "Design - Chase, Voice - 'Chase'".

** Chase appears AsHimself at the end of episode 1, and is portrayed by being green-screened into the animation.

->''Nothing will stop me from having the perfect perfect school year!''
-->--'''Raven'''

* {{Animesque}}: The series is an American-Canadian coproduction that's clearly inspired by anime, taking largely from MagicalGirl plot tropes and also featuring anime-inspired designs (notably how Ryan Sasuke and Shinji Yuu respectively resemble [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Bakugo Katsuki]] and [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Shinji Ikari) and JapaneseVisualArtsTropes (such as {{Sweat Drop}}s and CrossPoppingVeins).

* {{Animesque}}: The series is an American-Canadian coproduction that's clearly inspired by anime, taking largely from MagicalGirl plot tropes and also featuring anime-inspired designs and JapaneseVisualArtsTropes.

* {{Americasia}}: Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooters being a real Floridian restaurant and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Raven can change her magical girl wand into a sword or a hammer when the situation calls for it. She seemingly forgets she can until her fight with Slash in episode 2, when Berrycream and Dark Shi remind her that she's in a sword fight.

** Episode 3's credits are a shot-by-shot recreation of the credits of ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'', using black-and-white Flash animation rather than full-color MS Paint animation and also featuring the same song, "Shed Some Skin".

** Parodied with Omen, who is credits as being voiced by themselves. They're voiced using text-to-speech software.

** In episode 3, Raven laments that they didn't raise enough money to save Cooters, when suddenly she hears sleigh bells nearby. We see a sleigh pulled by reindeer, and something crashes through the side of the building. It turns out to be Chupachups the Christmas Alien.

** The opening features live action footage underneath the three main character being introduced: a train station for Raven, a flower blooming for Berrycream Frosting, and a skateboarder wiping out for Dark Shi.

* CerberusRetcon: The school down the road blowing up is treated as a one-off joke in episode 1. Episode 4 reveals that the explosion is the entire reason the series' main villain, the Room 424 World Domination Club, even exists. Lord Albert Tensai was being kept in the school's basement, and awoke from his 1,000 year slumber when it blew up.

* SingleStrokeBattle: Subverted in episode 3, when Raven and Slash fight; Slash opens with the standard DelayedCausality move, but then it turns out he ''missed''. He just has really bad aim.

* {{Animesque}}: An American-Canadian coproduction that's clearly inspired by anime, which is mostly apparent in the character designs and format.

* {{Rotoscoping}}: Berrycream pulling out a butterfly knife in episode 2 is rotoscoped from the Spy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. It's PlayedForLaughs, as the camera angle switches awkwardly to accommodate for the animation being from a first-person perspective.

** One of Raven's opponents in episode 4 is [[Franchise/{{Tekken}} Paul Phoenix]]. Not a parody of Paul Phoenix, the actual article. His {{boss subtitle|s}} implies that he doesn't even go to Raven's school.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: In episode 2, when Raven vents about her day being ruined by Slash, Berrycream offers to get him to stop bothering her, pulling out various knives as she says this. Raven declines and says that she needs to figure it out on her own. Something similar happens in episode 4, where Berrycream and Dark Shi offer to help Raven fend off the students who keep fighting her, and she replies that she can handle it on her own. In both cases, Berrycream and Dark Shi ultimately come to help Raven anyway, supporting her from the sidelines.

Reflecting the often-inconsistent nature of many fanime, the animation style changes very often thanks to the many artists, with the only real linking factor being that it's all drawn in MS Paint. Even the actors' ''microphone quality'' varies wildly. Despite that, it's presented with a steadfast earnestness, forging its own identity in spite of all the anime tropes and clichés it borrows from.

* TheStinger: After the credits of episode 3, there's an additional scene where Albert Tensai, covered in snow, muses about his evil plan while eating crab legs.

* BossSubtitles: Every new student introduced in episode 4 has their name and club pop up on screen when they first appear (for example, "Shino Bee - Period 4 Ninja Club" and "Crabella - Period 4 Pirate Club").

* KilledMidSentence: The sandman in episode 3 gets killed by Dark Shi snowboarding through him while he's wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

* MadeOfExplodium: The schools in this universe explode easily; first the school down the road blew up sometime before episode 1, then Raven's school explodes in episode 2 when [=DrillGirl=] tosses a volleyball into it, then it explodes ''again'' in the same episode when Raven fails to disarm a bomb.

** The opening features live action footage over the three main character being introduced: a train station for Raven, a flower blooming for Berrycream Frosting, and a skateboarder wiping out for Dark Shi.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Parodied. [=DrillGirl=] immediately declares that she's "the real star of this show!" when she shows up, and this is a RunningGag through the whole series: the show's title implies it's about her life, she's always listed first in the credits, and episode 3 is titled "[=DrillGirl Saves Santa Claus!=]" even though this happens entirely off-screen.