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* CheerfulChild: Raya is by far the most hyperactive and happy child in the comic.
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* CheerfulChild: Raya is by far the most hyperactive and happy child in the comic.comic, even while her little brother has gone missing.
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* CensorshipBySpelling: Mao says "What the helck", a portmanteau of hell and heck, when he finds out that Kalliv was in his pocket for his journey to the Darkness Clan.
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* PardonMyKlingon: Mao says "What the helck", a portmanteau of hell and heck, when he finds out that Kalliv was in his pocket for his journey to the Darkness Clan.
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Cat Girl is apparently for boys too, added Mao
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* CatGirl: Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1.
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* CatGirl: Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1. Mao becomes a catboy shortly after this, though seems to have lost the cat ears and tail as of chapter 9.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Mao gets scary black sclera with red irises at a couple of points when he fights Yokoka in chapter 2.
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* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Mao gets scary black sclera sclerae with red irises at a couple of points when he fights Yokoka in chapter 2.
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case consistency (demon, Clan)
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* AllThereInTheManual: Details such as Mao's immunity to poison, Yokoka's clan, Yokoka and Grace's elements, and so on, are detailed on the between-chapter status screens long before they become relevant to the comics.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Details such as Mao's immunity to poison, Yokoka's clan, Clan allegiance, Yokoka and Grace's elements, and so on, are detailed on the between-chapter status screens long before they become relevant to the comics.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Vivi is introduced as the [[{{Courier}} guy who delivers the mail]] and Yfa's friend. It later transpires that he was [[TrackingDevice keeping track]] of Yokoka, Yfa, and Mao after they left Betel's Forest.]]
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Vivi is introduced as the [[{{Courier}} guy who delivers the mail]] and Yfa's friend. It later transpires that he was [[TrackingDevice keeping track]] of Yokoka, Yfa, and Mao after they left Betel's Forest.]]Forest]].
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* InterspeciesRomance: Humans and Demons are able to produce HalfHumanHybrid offspring, such as Yokoka and Mao. Beasts and Spirits are able to produce hybrid offspring, such as Yfa and his siblings, though it hasn't quite been explained how that works.
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* InterspeciesRomance: Humans and Demons demons are able to produce HalfHumanHybrid offspring, such as Yokoka and Mao. Beasts and Spirits are able to produce hybrid offspring, such as Yfa and his siblings, though it hasn't quite been explained how that works.
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* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan associated with it, with the possible exception of the Dreams Clan, which is said to only exist in myths and legends.
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* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan Clan associated with it, with the possible exception of the Dreams Clan, which is said to only exist in myths and legends.
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* SolarAndLunar: Sun and Moon clans, elements, and languages.
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* SolarAndLunar: Sun and Moon clans, Clans, elements, and languages.
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* FireIceDuo: Yang and Yin respectively, though only seen together in bonus artworks
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* FireIceDuo: Yang and Yin respectively, though only seen together in bonus artworksartworks (such as free/Patreon wallpapers).
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* RedOniBlueOni: Yang and Yin respectively. Yang is lively, restless, happy to interact with his customers, and has a red horn and eyes. Yin is lazy, calm, likes to plan things out. and has blue horns and eyes.
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* RedOniBlueOni: Yang and Yin respectively. Yang is lively, restless, happy to interact with his customers, and has a red horn and eyes. Yin is lazy, calm, likes to plan things out. out, and has blue horns and eyes.
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* SniffSniffNom: Yokoka sniffs and licks mud off her hand in a Q&A strip, thinking it might be chocolate. She then does exactly the same again with the mud on her other hand.
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* SniffSniffNom: Yokoka sniffs and licks mud off her hand in a Q&A strip, thinking it might be chocolate. She then does exactly the same again ''again'' with the mud on her other hand.
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* ThreeActStructure: The comic has 3 parts to it in total, each 8 chapters long. So far the first part is complete, and the second part is just starting.
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* ThreeActStructure: The comic has 3 parts to it in total, each 8 chapters long. So far the first part is complete, and the second part is (chapter 9) has just starting.started.
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* BlueMeansCold: Yin, has blue horns and wields ice magic. Her voice is also described as sounding cold by Yokoka on first hearing it.
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* BlueMeansCold: Yin, has blue horns and wields ice magic. Her voice is also described as sounding cold by Yokoka on when she first hearing hears it.
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* {{Cameo}}: Haro and Lee from the webcomic A Mirror's Tale appear as background characters (and as demons rather than humans) in the village that Mao and Kalliv visit in chapter 4.
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* {{Cameo}}: Haro and Lee from the webcomic ''[[https://amirrorstale.com/ A Mirror's Tale Tale]]'' appear as background characters (and as demons rather than humans) in the village that Mao and Kalliv visit in chapter 4.
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* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Yfa is seen carrying Raya when he tells her "Never do that again", after she launches herself at a frog to retrieve a mushroom from its back.
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* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
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* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.anything.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Grace requires a coffee when waking up, and stops at Starbucks for another, before arriving at school. She's also heartbroken to discover that Cisum doesn't have coffee (but later finds out that it does, and Yokoka just had no idea what coffee was
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Grace requires a coffee when waking up, and stops at Starbucks for another, before arriving at school. She's also heartbroken to discover that Cisum doesn't have coffee (but later finds out that it does, and Yokoka just had no idea what coffee waswas.
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* SniffSniffNom: Yokoka sniffs and licks mud off her hand in a Q&A strip, thinking it might be chocolate. She then does exactly the same again with the mud on her other hand.
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* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan associated with it, with the exception of the Dreams Clan.
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* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan associated with it, with the possible exception of the Dreams Clan.Clan, which is said to only exist in myths and legends.
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* NotAGame: Lady Pachi says "What do you think this is, a game?" when Yokoka asks Lady Pachi to TookALevelInBadass "teach me to be this badass!"
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* NotAGame: Lady Pachi says "What do you think this is, a game?" when Yokoka asks Lady Pachi to TookALevelInBadass [[TookALevelInBadass "teach me to be this badass!"badass!"]].
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obtained higher quality cover pic
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-->-- '''[[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-2-page-9/ Yokoka]]''', who doesn't know the half of it.
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-->-- '''[[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-2-page-9/ Yokoka]]''', who doesn't know the half of it.
Yokoka]]'''
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Raya especially fits this label to a tee. {{YMMV}} as to whether other critters are ridiculously cute, or just regularly cute.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Raya especially fits this label to a tee. {{YMMV}} as to whether other critters are ridiculously cute, or just regularly cute.
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* {{Retcon}}: The comic is being retouched in preparation for being printed in book form, with some of the changes essentially being retcons. So far, Yokoka and Yfa's home has gone from an empty room to being furnished with a rug, cushions, and a pile of leaves for sleeping on.
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* {{Retcon}}: The comic is being retouched in preparation for being printed in book form, with some of the changes essentially being retcons. So far, Yokoka and Yfa's home has gone from an empty room to being furnished with a rug, cushions, pillows, and a pile of leaves for sleeping feathers that Yfa sleeps on.
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* ResidualSelfImage: When Copycat enters Mao's dream, Mao is wearing a recently acquired set of clothes that Copycat hadn't seen before, and that Mao wasn't currently wearing (as he's asleep in his nightwear and bandages).
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* ResidualSelfImage: When Copycat enters Mao's dream, Mao is wearing a recently acquired set of clothes that Copycat hadn't seen before, and that Mao wasn't currently wearing (as he's asleep in his nightwear and bandages).nightwear).
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse (of Orion) and Meissa [[note]]Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name[[/note]] are both stars in the Orion [[{{Constellations}} constellation]]. Azha (of Eridanus) is a star in the Eridanus constellation. Polaris is the name of the North Star.
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse (of Orion) and Meissa [[note]]Mao's [[note]](Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name[[/note]] name)[[/note]] are both stars in the Orion [[{{Constellations}} constellation]]. Azha (of Eridanus) is a star in the Eridanus constellation. Polaris is the name of the North Star.
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* ThroughaFaceFullOfFur: Any animal character who has a Luminescent Blush.
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* ThroughaFaceFullOfFur: ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Any animal character who has a Luminescent Blush.LuminescentBlush.
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* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging when Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (she was also the cause of the storm).
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* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging when Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (she was also the [[WeatherManipulation cause of the storm).storm]]).
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges [[spoiler:Hurricane, ''a dragon'', to a fight]]. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges [[spoiler:Hurricane, ''a dragon'', to a fight]]. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone [[WeatherManipulation able to control the weather weather]] is a bad idea.
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* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane was controlling, in the lead up to and during [[spoiler:Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks]].
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* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane [[WeatherManipulation was controlling, controlling]], in the lead up to and during [[spoiler:Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks]].
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse (of Orion) and Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, are both stars in the Orion constellation. Azha (of Eridanus) is a star in the Eridanus constellation. Polaris is also a star name.
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse (of Orion) and Mao's Meissa [[note]]Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, name[[/note]] are both stars in the Orion constellation.[[{{Constellations}} constellation]]. Azha (of Eridanus) is a star in the Eridanus constellation. Polaris is also a star name.the name of the North Star.
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* WeatherManipulation: Hurricane is the cause of the storm at the end of chapter 8.
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:Vivi is introduced as the [[{{Courier}} guy who delivers the mail]] and Yfa's friend. It later transpires that he was [[TrackingDevice keeping track]] of Yokoka, Yfa, and Mao after they left Betel's Forest.]]
* {{Courier}}: Vivi is the cute critter who delivers the mail in Betel's Forest.
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* FunwithHomophones: Yfa talks about the "sea". Yokoka doesn't know what this is, and thinks he's talking about the "see" (which she later misremembers as the "sight").
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* FunwithHomophones: FunWithHomophones: Yfa talks about the "sea". Yokoka doesn't know what this is, and thinks he's talking about the "see" (which she later misremembers as the "sight").
* LettersToTheEditor: The author has taken questions from the readers for two anniversary events. The answers to these were made into Q&A strips, with either the characters or the AuthorAvatar giving the answers.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Yokoka gets sent flying [[spoiler:by Hurricane]]. She just gets back up and charges into the fight again.
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* WreckedWeapon: Mao's ribbon weapon being dissolved by a snake-centipede's poison, and [[spoiler: Yokoka's ribbon weapon being slashed to pieces by Hurricane]].
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* WreckedWeapon: Mao's ribbon weapon being [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation in the form of a dagger]] is dissolved by a snake-centipede's poison, and [[spoiler: Yokoka's ribbon weapon being in the form of a sword gets slashed to pieces by Hurricane]].
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* AxCrazy: Hurricane, after Yokoka challenges her to a fight.
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* AxCrazy: Hurricane, after [[spoiler:after Yokoka challenges her to a fight.fight, which promptly becomes a CurbStompBattle]].
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* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging during Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (and is the reason for said encounter).
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* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging during when Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (and is (she was also the reason for said encounter).cause of the storm).
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* {{Constellations}}: The constellation Orion appears numerous times in the comic [[note]][[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-cover/ Yokoka's regular dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-pages-18-19/ Yokoka's unfamiliar dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-5-page-14/ Mao's dreamscape]][[/note]] and related non-comic works [[note]][[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clefdesoll/yokokas-quest-volume-1 the Kickstarter video]][[/note]]. Constellations and their stars are also used for ThemeNaming.
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* {{Constellations}}: The constellation Orion appears numerous times in the comic [[note]][[https://yokokasquest.[[note]]([[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-cover/ Yokoka's regular dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-pages-18-19/ Yokoka's unfamiliar dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-5-page-14/ Mao's dreamscape]][[/note]] dreamscape]])[[/note]] and related non-comic works [[note]][[https://www.[[note]]([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clefdesoll/yokokas-quest-volume-1 the Kickstarter video]][[/note]].video]])[[/note]]. Constellations and their stars are also used for ThemeNaming.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, ''a dragon'', to a fight. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, [[spoiler:Hurricane, ''a dragon'', to a fight.fight]]. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
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* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane was controlling, in the lead up to and during Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks.
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* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane was controlling, in the lead up to and during Yokoka's [[spoiler:Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks.attacks]].
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* SlasherSmile: Hurricane wears a wide, sharp-toothed grin as she's mauling Yokoka.
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* SlasherSmile: Hurricane wears a wide, sharp-toothed grin as [[spoiler:as she's mauling Yokoka.Yokoka]].
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* {{Constellations}}: The constellation Orion appears numerous times in the comic [[note]][[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-cover/ Yokoka's regular dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-pages-18-19/ Yokoka's unfamiliar dreamscape]], [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-5-page-14/ Mao's dreamscape]][[/note]] and related non-comic works [[note]][[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/clefdesoll/yokokas-quest-volume-1 the Kickstarter video]][[/note]]. Constellations and their stars are also used for ThemeNaming.
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* TheUnintelligible: If the perspective character doesn't understand a particular language, its speech bubble is shown as [The Illegible] illegible markings (with each language having a corresponding style of markings).
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* TheUnintelligible: If the perspective character doesn't understand a particular language, its speech bubble is shown as [The Illegible] illegible [[TheIllegible illegible]] markings (with each language having a corresponding style of markings).
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* HeroicAlbino: In a Q&A strip, Yokoka explains that she has white hair because she's special! Mao explains that it's a type of albinism.
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* NiceGuy: Yfa and Grace in particular have been shown to always nice and never even playfully mean to others.
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* OnlyOneName: Most characters have only ever used one name (Grace's bio being the exception), though a few have titles such as "of Eridanus" or "the Reaper".
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* WhiteMagic: Inky is shown using Light elemental magic to heal his allies and bind enemies in chains of light.
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->''"Wow, our first quest! This is it, isn't it? The start of our adventure! We already get to help someone out!"''
-->-- '''[[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-2-page-9/ Yokoka]]''', who doesn't know the half of it.
-->-- '''[[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-2-page-9/ Yokoka]]''', who doesn't know the half of it.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha slowly enunciates Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), after which Yokoka compares his speech to a kid's [[note]]even though it's already been mentioned that he's learning the language)[[/note]].
** A form of AllThereInTheManual, as Azha provides this phonetic pronunciation guide due to the author repeatedly being how to pronounce Yfa. Their pronunciations can be also be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
** A form of AllThereInTheManual, as Azha provides this phonetic pronunciation guide due to the author repeatedly being how to pronounce Yfa. Their pronunciations can be also be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha slowly enunciates Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), after which Yokoka compares his speech to a kid's [[note]]even [[note]](even though it's already been mentioned that he's learning the language)[[/note]].
** A form of AllThereInTheManual, as Azha providesthis the reader with a phonetic pronunciation guide due to the author repeatedly being asked how to pronounce Yfa. Their pronunciations can be also be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
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* AliceAllusion: Grace wanders down a basement (rabbit hole equivalent) into another world, meets a catgirl (Cheshire Cat equivalent), and has recurring card suit motifs.
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* AliceAllusion: Grace wanders down a basement (rabbit [[note]](rabbit hole equivalent) analogue)[[/note]] into another world, meets a catgirl (Cheshire [[note]](Cheshire Cat equivalent), analogue)[[/note]], and has recurring card suit motifs.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [AttackTheMouth mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. Mao's method of doing this is to goad it into biting him, and then FeedItABomb.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [AttackTheMouth mouth], [[AttackTheMouth mouth]], as its insides would be more vulnerable. Mao's method of doing this is to goad it into biting him, and then FeedItABomb.
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* ChekhovsGun: The ribbons that Vivi gave to Yokoka and Yfa [[spoiler: and Mao - he cast a spell on the ribbons which allowed him to keep track of them outside of Betel's Forest]].
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* ChekhovsGun: The ribbons that Vivi gave to Yokoka and Yfa [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:and Mao - he cast a spell on the ribbons which allowed him are used by Vivi to magically [[TrackingDevice keep track of them them]] outside of Betel's Forest]].Forest]], which is only revealed 7 chapters later.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Darkness Clan isn't *evil*, though their society does seem to have lax attitudes to violence.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Darkness Clan isn't *evil*, ''evil'', though their society does seem to have lax attitudes to violence.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, *a dragon*, to a fight. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
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* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, *a dragon*, ''a dragon'', to a fight. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
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* DoubleTake: Raya [[TheGlomp glomps]] Yfa when she first meets him, but then realizes Yfa wasn't the brother she was looking for. Cue the double take when she realizes that he's the brother who's been *missing for two years*.
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* DoubleTake: Raya [[TheGlomp glomps]] Yfa when she first meets him, but then realizes Yfa wasn't the brother she was looking for. Cue the double take when she realizes that he's the brother who's been *missing ''missing for two years*.years''.
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* DreamWalker: Copycat was able to enter Mao's dream and converse with him. Mao recognizes that he's an intruder, but Copycat implies that others might have accepted him as being a regular part of their dream.
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* DreamWalker: Copycat was able to enter Mao's dream and converse with him. Mao recognizes that he's an intruder, but Copycat implies that others other people might have accepted him his appearance as being a regular part of their dream.dream, or might have forgotten him after waking.
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* FacialMarkings: Demon characters feature a variety of facial (and body) markings - it's unclear as to whether these are natural or tattoos.
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* FacialMarkings: Demon characters feature a variety of facial (and body) markings - it's unclear it hasn't been made clear as to whether these are natural or tattoos.
* FearlessFool: After Yokoka has trained the in the underground village, she [[BloodKnight just wants to fight]], without regard for how dangerous the opponent is.
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* TheFool: Yokoka.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Subverted: Yang gives Yokoka some Lava Powder, which is a medicine to cure fevers - she then forgets to use it when she gets a fever in the next chapter, and it is ruined [[note]](the inventory listing is updated to Soggy Powder)[[/note]] in a fight a few chapters later.
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* LessonsInSophistication: Grace ends up dressing up Yokoka for a wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff like how to brush her hair.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
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* LessonsInSophistication: Grace ends up dressing dresses up Yokoka for a Clyde and Blinky's wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff grooming skills like how to brush her hair.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltTexta a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText
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* TrackingDevice: Yokoka, Yfa, and Mao are tracked using [[spoiler:the ribbon weapons that Vivi gives them]].
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha slowly enunciates Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), to which Yokoka compares his speech to a kid's (though it had already been mentioned that he's learning the language).
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha slowly enunciates Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), to after which Yokoka compares his speech to a kid's (though it had [[note]]even though it's already been mentioned that he's learning the language).language)[[/note]].
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [AttackTheMouth|mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. Mao's method of doing this is to goad it into biting him, and then FeedItABomb.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [AttackTheMouth|mouth], [AttackTheMouth mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. Mao's method of doing this is to goad it into biting him, and then FeedItABomb.
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* AmnesiacResonance: Yokoka surprises herself when she instinctively remembers how to put on clothes.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [Attack the Mouth|mouth], [AttackTheMouth|mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. His Mao's method of doing this is getting bitten to goad it into biting him, and then FeedItABomb.
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* LessonsinSophistication: Grace ends up dressing up Yokoka for a wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff like how to brush her hair.
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* LessonsinSophistication: LessonsInSophistication: Grace ends up dressing up Yokoka for a wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff like how to brush her hair.
* NonHumanSidekick: Yfa acts as the animal sidekick to Yokoka a lot of the time, though he's fully capable of acting independently of her too.
* SetAMookToKillAMook: Mao happens to position himself such that the King Centipede attacking him bites and kills a smaller snake-centipede.
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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, are named after the four ghosts in {{Pacman}}.
* SiblingYinYang: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]].
* SiblingYinYang: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]].
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* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, are named after the four ghosts in {{Pacman}}.
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* SiblingYinYang: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]]. They're opposites in terms of [[RedOniBlueOni personalities]] and [[FireIceDuo elemental magic]].
* SiblingYinYang: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]]. They're opposites in terms of [[RedOniBlueOni personalities]] and [[FireIceDuo elemental magic]].
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse and Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, are both stars in the Orion constellation. The cast page lists Betelgeuse's full name as Betelgeuse of Orion. Polaris and Methuselah are also both star names.
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* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse (of Orion) and Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, are both stars in the Orion constellation. The cast page lists Betelgeuse's full name as Betelgeuse of Orion. Azha (of Eridanus) is a star in the Eridanus constellation. Polaris and Methuselah are is also both a star names.name.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Yokoka wants to get into a fight after leaving the underground village, despite advice not to. Unfortunately the first fight she picks is against Hurricane, which turns into a CurbStompBattle.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Yokoka wants is looking forward to get getting into a fight fights after leaving the underground village, despite advice not to. Unfortunately the first fight Within a few pages she picks is a fight against Hurricane, [[spoiler: which turns into a CurbStompBattle.CurbStompBattle]].
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* SiblingYinYang: [[[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]].
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* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Tomo is a small critter who is mute. He still has speech bubbles ([[TranslationConvention in forest language colours!), which have so far contained either a circle of dashes, or an exclamation mark.
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* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Tomo is a small critter who is mute. He still has speech bubbles ([[TranslationConvention in forest language colours!), colours!]]), which have so far contained either a circle of dashes, or an exclamation mark.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha mispronounces Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), though it's spoken in a second language that he's still learning. Their English language pronounciations can be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
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* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha mispronounces slowly enunciates Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), though it's spoken in to which Yokoka compares his speech to a second language kid's (though it had already been mentioned that he's still learning. learning the language).
** A form of AllThereInTheManual, as Azha provides this phonetic pronunciation guide due to the author repeatedly being how to pronounce Yfa. TheirEnglish language pronounciations pronunciations can be also be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
** A form of AllThereInTheManual, as Azha provides this phonetic pronunciation guide due to the author repeatedly being how to pronounce Yfa. Their
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* StumbledIntothePlot: Grace wanders into a basement, which just happens to contain the mirror path, the focus of her conspiracy, and route into Cisum.
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''[[https://yokokasquest.com/ Yokoka's Quest]]'' is a {{Fantasy}} Drama webcomic written and drawn by Chris Riley, aka [=ClefdeSoll=]. The story follows [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Half-Demon]] CatGirl Yokoka, and separately her broody twin brother Mao, along with their companions as they travel across the world of Cisum. While there has been a lot of {{foreshadowing}} of a [[GambitPileup complex overarching plot]], the titular character has [[IdiotHero yet to become aware of it]], though only 8 chapters have been completed out of a planned 24.
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''[[https://yokokasquest.com/ Yokoka's Quest]]'' is a an [[RolePlayingGame RPG-themed]] {{Fantasy}} Drama webcomic written and drawn by Chris Riley, aka [=ClefdeSoll=]. The story separately follows [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Half-Demon]] CatGirl Yokoka, Yokoka discovering the larger world for the first time, and separately her broody twin brother Mao, along with their companions as they travel across the world of Cisum. in a [[TwoLinesNoWaiting duel-perspective story]]. While there has been a lot is plenty of {{foreshadowing}} of a [[GambitPileup complex bigger overarching plot]], the titular character has [[IdiotHero yet to become aware of it]], though only 8 chapters have been completed out of a planned 24.
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''[[https://yokokasquest.com/ Yokoka's Quest]]'' is a {{Fantasy}} Drama webcomic written and drawn by Chris Riley, aka [=ClefdeSoll=]. The story follows [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Half-Demon]] CatGirl Yokoka, and separately her broody twin brother Mao, along with their companions as they travel across the world of Cisum. While there has been a lot of {{foreshadowing}} of a [[GambitPileup complex overarching plot]], the titular character has [[IdiotHero yet to become aware of it]], though only 8 chapters have been completed out of a planned 24.
Yokoka's Quest is available on its [[https://yokokasquest.com/ own website]], [[https://tapas.io/series/yokokasquest Tapas]], and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/yokokas-quest/list?title_no=131205 WEBTOON]]. The webcomic began in September 2015, and has been regularly updating on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays since, with the exception of short planned hiatuses between chapters.
There will also be some upcoming marked and unmarked spoilers, so if you've not read the comic yet, read this article at your own risk!
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!!''Yokoka's Quest'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalKidnapping: Anyone who wanders through Betel's barrier ends up settling in the village and forgetting their previous lives. After leaving the barrier, Mao resents being taken against his will, Kalliv just wants to go home (but can't remember where it is), and Yfa's family are shocked that Yfa has returned after disappearing for years.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha mispronounces Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), though it's spoken in a second language that he's still learning. Their English language pronounciations can be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
* AdventureRebuff: Valyn refuses to take Yokoka with him on his journeys. Yokoka heads home and almost immediately decides to run away on an adventure anyway.
* AerithAndBob: Cisum has characters named Yokoka, Yfa, and Betelgeuse, alongside characters named Grace and Clyde. Some of the more regular names belong to humans, while others could plausibly have been human-influenced.
* TheAgeless: Spirits don't age in the conventional sense - they don't even have an age listed on their bio pages.
* AliceAllusion: Grace wanders down a basement (rabbit hole equivalent) into another world, meets a catgirl (Cheshire Cat equivalent), and has recurring card suit motifs.
* AllThereInTheManual: Details such as Mao's immunity to poison, Yokoka's clan, Yokoka and Grace's elements, and so on, are detailed on the between-chapter status screens long before they become relevant to the comics.
* AltText: Most comic pages on the main yokokasquest.com site have alt text. The same comic pages on Webtoons and Tapastic lack this feature.
* AnimalEyes: Demons, including the half-demon Yokoka and Mao, have slit pupils.
* {{Animorphism}}: The beast/demon and demon/beast characters are able to switch between their demon (humanoid) forms and a beast form. They mostly appear to be able to do this freely, though Kalliv is shown to be unable to switch to demon form when scared.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Implied InterfaceSpoiler that Yokoka's and Mao's parties will max out at 5 characters, as this is the number of slots shown for characters at the end of each chapter, though there doesn't appear to be any in-universe reason not to exceed this.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [Attack the Mouth|mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. His method of doing this is getting bitten and then FeedItABomb.
* AuthorAvatar: Chris appeared in the third Q&A strip (but not in the actual comic) to answer reader questions. The author uses some of their characters, particularly Copycat, for their profile pic across a number of sites, but these aren't author avatars.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Hurricane, Betelgeuse of Orion, and Fahrin the Reaper.
* AxCrazy: Hurricane after Yokoka challenges her to a fight.
* BagOfHolding: Subverted, in that Misha retrieves a bag containing food from a "storage dimension", but there is no indication that the bag itself is special.
* BalefulPolymorph: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, turns people into animals as they pass through it.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Yokoka wants to get into a fight after leaving the underground village, despite advice not to. Unfortunately the first fight she picks is against Hurricane, which turns into a CurbStompBattle.
* BeastMan: Demons can range from just having AnimalEyes and PointyEars, to being a LittleBitBeastly, to full-on Beast Man.
* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging during Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (and is the reason for said encounter).
* {{Bishonen}}: Azha, Mao, and the forms that Copycat has imitated so far.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Mao gets scary black sclera with red irises at a couple of points when he fights Yokoka in chapter 2.
* BlackSpeech: Darkness Clan language appears as jagged grey text on a black background, or as jagged markings if the perspective character doesn't understand it. It's described as sounding screechy and hurts the throats of those not used to speaking it. It's also the language of curses.
* BlindingBangs: Kalliv's eyes aren't visible beneath his hair.
* BloodKnight: Yokoka begins turning into this after her training in the underground village, wanting to get into fights for fun, despite advice to the contrary.
* BlueMeansCold: Yin, has blue horns and wields ice magic. Her voice is also described as sounding cold by Yokoka on first hearing it.
* BlushSticker: Raya sports this together with PuppyDogEyes, when convincing both Kaga and Yfa to let her go out to look for a mushroom with Yfa.
* BornLucky: Yokoka and Grace are shown to have high Luck on their stats pages.
* BornUnlucky: Mao is shown to have incredibly low or zero luck on his stats page.
* BreakTheCutie: Mao is shown as a cute child in the prologue and as a cute cat in the first chapter. As a young adult, he's very angry and messed up over being kidnapped.
* BubblegloopSwamp: Yokoka's party travels through a colourful swamp in chapter 4.
* CainAndAbel: When Mao fights Yokoka in chapter 2, he gets BlackEyesOfCrazy and talks about "getting rid" of his sister.
* {{Cameo}}: Haro and Lee from the webcomic A Mirror's Tale appear as background characters (and as demons rather than humans) in the village that Mao and Kalliv visit in chapter 4.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Kalliv, maybe. He is seen being offered a drink at the end of chapter 4, then appears to be hungover when woken up in chapter 5.
* CatGirl: Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1.
* CatSmile: A lot of characters have a cat smile (to no surprise, including the cats). Often leads to showing their CuteLittleFangs.
* CensorshipBySpelling: Mao says "What the helck", a portmanteau of hell and heck, when he finds out that Kalliv was in his pocket for his journey to the Darkness Clan.
* CheerfulChild: Raya is by far the most hyperactive and happy child in the comic.
* ChekhovsGun: The ribbons that Vivi gave to Yokoka and Yfa [[spoiler: and Mao - he cast a spell on the ribbons which allowed him to keep track of them outside of Betel's Forest]].
* ConstantlyCurious: Grace is constantly trying to learn about the new world she's found herself in. Yokoka has her curious moments, but can't hold her interest in topics which don't interest her.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: When Yokoka enters a volcano to visit Yang's shop she walks dangerously close (and barefoot) to lava, and suffers no physical harm.
* CounterAttack: Yokoka blocks and reflects a stream of water fired at her, using her sword, back at an attacking tunnel dweller in chapter 8.
* CrystalLandscape: The underground village and caves leading to it in chapters 6-8 feature glowing crystals protruding from the ground and walls.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Grace is treated by her Las Vegas friends as a nutty conspiracy theorist who could go on to do great things if only she applied herself more seriously. It turns out that she was right about Cisum though.
* CurbStompBattle: Hurricane breaks [[spoiler: Yokoka's sword, then proceeds to mauls her into a bloodied mess between pages]]. It probably would've gone a lot worse if [[spoiler: Grace hadn't teleported her out of the battle]].
* CursedWithAwesome: Yokoka and Mao. Mao wants to remove his curse, at the expense of his cat-like features (which Copycat thinks look good, and nobody else has ever mentioned as being out of the ordinary), and sharper instincts. Yokoka either doesn't know or doesn't care that she's similarly cursed.
* CuteLittleFangs: Practically the default for demons, beasts, and spirits. Notably, the human Grace and HalfHumanHybrid Yokoka and Mao lack fangs.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Darkness Clan isn't *evil*, though their society does seem to have lax attitudes to violence.
* DeathWorld: Yokoka and Mao's original home had toxic air, which have given them an immunity to poison through long exposure.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Yokoka on the status page after chapter 8, [[spoiler: after having her HP reduced to zero]].
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, *a dragon*, to a fight. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Yokoka says in the first Q&A strip that she goes barefoot because she was never given any shoes, but she likes walking barefoot anyway.
* DoubleTake: Raya [[TheGlomp glomps]] Yfa when she first meets him, but then realizes Yfa wasn't the brother she was looking for. Cue the double take when she realizes that he's the brother who's been *missing for two years*.
* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane was controlling, in the lead up to and during Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks.
* DreamWalker: Copycat was able to enter Mao's dream and converse with him. Mao recognizes that he's an intruder, but Copycat implies that others might have accepted him as being a regular part of their dream.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yokoka says she thought the LonghairedPrettyBoy Azha was a girl at first. Grace mistakenly refers to Yfa as "she" when first meeting him, though this may have been based on his voice.
* EasyAmnesia: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, makes people forget about their life prior to entering the barrier. Different characters seem to recover their memories at different rates after leaving.
* ElementalNation: Each character (aside from Grace, due to coming from Earth) has allegiance to a particular elemental Clan.
* EquipmentSpoiler: Yfa's feathers and Grace's lucky card deck appearing in their weapon slots on the status screens give indications of how they fight before this is ever shown in the comic itself.
* EyeColourChange: Copycat's eyes occasionally turn purple, rather than remaining the colour of the person whose form he's copied.
* FacialMarkings: Demon characters feature a variety of facial (and body) markings - it's unclear as to whether these are natural or tattoos.
* FantasyWorldMap: A map covering the portion of the Cisum that Yokoka's Quest takes place in is planned to be included as an extra in the Yokoka's Quest printed book.
* FeedItABomb: Mao casts a fireball while his arm is already inside the King Centipede's mouth, leading to this. This doesn't immediately kill it, however.
* FetchQuest: Yin asks Yokoka to deliver a letter to Yang. Yokoka and Yfa even refer to it as their "first quest".
* FindTheCure: Raya and Yfa have to find a mushroom which grows on the back of a frog, to make medicine for Yokoka.
* FingerSnapLighter: Mao does this to light a cigarette he was given by Grace.
* FireIsRed: Yang, has a red horn and wields fire magic (and runs a shop in a volcano).
* FireIceDuo: Yang and Yin respectively, though only seen together in bonus artworks
* FlippingTheBird: Mao to Yokoka, in a Q&A strip.
* TheFool: Yokoka.
* TheFullNameAdventures: The name of the webcomic is Yokoka's Quest.
* FunwithHomophones: Yfa talks about the "sea". Yokoka doesn't know what this is, and thinks he's talking about the "see" (which she later misremembers as the "sight").
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Yfa and Kalliv playing hide-and-seek in the background while Grace is talking with Mao.
* GambitPileup: Multiple parties appear to have plans which involve Yokoka, at a minimum Betel and Yokoka's mother (who isn't Betel).
* GiveHimANormalLife: Yin suggests that Mao can go back to a normal life with his real mother. He opts not to.
* TheGlomp: The first panel that Raya appears in has her glomping Yfa. After a DoubleTake, she glomps him again two pages later.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Copycat is able to shapeshift into different outfits, and Yfa also does this when transforming into a human. It is implied that this is a spirit bird ability; other characters shapeshift into the clothes they were wearing when they were last in that form.
* GuestStarPartyMember: The high level Azha and Misha appear in Yokoka's party's status screen at the end of chapter 3.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Yokoka and Mao have one human parent and one demon parent.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Misha has access to a "storage dimension", and is shown keeping a bag and a small parcel there (the bag itself is presumably a normal bag and not a BagOfHolding. Suggested to be a common ability, by Misha stating that familiars are expected to do use this to carry their master's belongings, and her presumption that Yfa can also do this (he can't). Clothing seems to also go into hammerspace during most shapeshifting.
* HappilyAdopted: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, makes people believe that Betelgeuse is their mother, and in turn that everyone else is their sibling. Combined with EasyAmnesia, most inhabitants end up living there with their new family in blissful ignorance.
* HealingPotion: Blinky pulls out a healing potion after Pinky and Inky are knocked out at the start of their fight against two tunnel dwellers in chapter 8.
* HiddenElfVillage: Kaga states that he knows most locations in the Forest Clan but has never heard of the village in Betel's Forest. This is likely due to the magic of the barrier around it.
* HorrorHunger: Kalliv frequently worries that other people or creatures want to eat him in his mouse form. Justified, as some of them do.
* HumansAreUgly: Copycat thinks Mao looks better with the cat ears from his curse.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Mao wants to be rid of his curse. As indicated by Copycat and Fahrin, this would mean losing his cat-like features and sharper instincts.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: After passing through Betel's barrier and losing his memories, Yfa tells Yokoka that he doesn't know where he is and he doesn't have any friends. While still lacking his memories, he then went on to make a lot of friends in the forest.
* IdiotHero: Yokoka, though currently more idiot than hero.
* ImagineSpot: Yokoka wonders how Yin knows Betel (a giant manticore who can't really move around without wrecking her forest), and mentally pictures a younger Betel as a bipedal, sword-and-shield-wielding, famous explorer.
* InterspeciesAdoption: The inhabitants of Betel's Forest all believe that they are Betel's children, despite Betel being a manticore and the rest being a wide variety of different species.
* InterspeciesRomance: Humans and Demons are able to produce HalfHumanHybrid offspring, such as Yokoka and Mao. Beasts and Spirits are able to produce hybrid offspring, such as Yfa and his siblings, though it hasn't quite been explained how that works.
* InvincibilityPowerUp: Mao instinctively used a skill when he thought he was about to die against the King Centipede, which provided him a surge of adrenaline and allowed him to continue fighting for longer.
* LanguageBarrier: Each of the 12 elements has its own language associated with it, in addition to the humans who speak regular English. Different characters know and learn different languages, with some only able to speak and/or understand a particular language, without learning how to read/write it, leading to frequent language barriers.
* LargeAndInCharge: Betelgeuse is a giant manticore and in charge of the village in Betel's Forest. Fahrin can transform into a large bat dragon and is leader of the Darkness Clan.
* LessonsinSophistication: Grace ends up dressing up Yokoka for a wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff like how to brush her hair.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
* LittleBitBeastly: Demons can range from just having AnimalEyes and PointyEars, to being a Little Bit Beastly, to full-on BeastMan.
* LonghairedPrettyBoy: Azha, who Yokoka [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistakes for a girl]], and Copycat's initial form, who Mao correctly identifies as "he".
* LuminescentBlush: Yokoka, Mao, and Azha feature this at times.
* MagicKnight: Mao fights with a whip and dagger, and also by throwing fireballs.
* MagicalIncantation: A lot of spells are accompanied by an incantation. Being able to speak the incantation in its respective language is all that's needed to cast at least some of these spells, though both Yokoka and Yfa have been shown to struggle with learning spells due to LanguageBarrier.
* {{Mana}}: At the end of each chapter is an RPG style status screen listing Yokoka's and Mao's parties, including their MP gauges.
* ManlyTears: Pinky, at Blinky and Clyde's wedding.
* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan associated with it, with the exception of the Dreams Clan.
* MixAndMatchCritter: A lot of the critters and creatures are a mix of two things: snake-centipede, mushroom-frog, hawk-wolf, red panda-sloth, to name a few.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Grace requires a coffee when waking up, and stops at Starbucks for another, before arriving at school. She's also heartbroken to discover that Cisum doesn't have coffee (but later finds out that it does, and Yokoka just had no idea what coffee was
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Fahrin the Reaper.
* TheNapoleon: Azha is teased about his height by his familiar, Misha, and more rudely called out as being short by Yokoka.
* NonHumansLackAttributes: Critters with fur have no attributes to show (the comic is PG-13).
* NotAGame: Lady Pachi says "What do you think this is, a game?" when Yokoka asks Lady Pachi to TookALevelInBadass "teach me to be this badass!"
* OcularGushers: Kalliv cries massive tears after reuniting with Mao, after believing that Mao had abandoned him.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Grace is an ordinary (aside from being a conspiracy theorist) student at the University of Las Vegas before she travels to Cisum.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The people of Cisum were first called "demons" by the humans who wandered in, and the name stuck. There's nothing traditionally demonic about them.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Fahrin is a bat-like dragon. Hurricane is an eastern-style dragon. Betelgeuse is a somewhat dragon-looking manticore. And all of them are people who change into these as their beast forms.
* PaintingTheMedium: Each spoken language has its own speech bubble and font style and colour, to make them easily distinguishable.
* PaletteSwap: Mao and Yokoka are basically palette-swaps of each other in cat form, and would be this normally if not for hair length and clothing differences. A Q&A strip explains the colour differences as Yokoka having a type of [[HeroicAlbino albinism]].
* PantheraAwesome: Misha can transform into a saber-tooth cat, large enough for Azha to ride as a mount.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Subverted: Yokoka has pink streaks in her fur/hair, but she rarely acts feminine.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Yfa, despite his small size, is able to pick up heavy objects and Yokoka with ease. His high strength also shows on his stat page.
* PointyEars: Demons, including the half-demon Yokoka and Mao, have pointy ears.
* PrettyInMink: Hurricane's fur cape.
* ProneToTears: Kalliv cries a lot, sometimes OcularGushers.
* PuppyDogEyes: Raya sports this together with BlushSticker, when convincing Kaga and Yfa to let her go out to look for a mushroom with Yfa.
* TheQuest: Presumably Yokoka has one, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin judging from the webcomic title]], but it's not revealed what the quest is yet (unless it was the FetchQuest started in chapter 2 and resolved by chapter 3).
* RatStomp: Subverted; Mao takes on a quest to drive out 'some kind of vermin', but the vermin in question turn out to be giant poisonous snake-centipedes, rather than the rats he was expecting.
* RedOniBlueOni: Yang and Yin respectively. Yang is lively, restless, happy to interact with his customers, and has a red horn and eyes. Yin is lazy, calm, likes to plan things out. and has blue horns and eyes.
* ResidualSelfImage: When Copycat enters Mao's dream, Mao is wearing a recently acquired set of clothes that Copycat hadn't seen before, and that Mao wasn't currently wearing (as he's asleep in his nightwear and bandages).
* {{Retcon}}: The comic is being retouched in preparation for being printed in book form, with some of the changes essentially being retcons. So far, Yokoka and Yfa's home has gone from an empty room to being furnished with a rug, cushions, and a pile of leaves for sleeping on.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Raya especially fits this label to a tee. {{YMMV}} as to whether other critters are ridiculously cute, or just regularly cute.
* SceneryCensor: Yfa manages to conveniently place himself between Yokoka and the reader when she wakes up naked in Yin's house.
* SceneryPorn: The backgrounds generally look great anyway, but this is especially the case for the two-page spreads.
* SdrawkcabName: The world is named Cisum, which is music backwards.
* ShirtlessScene: Mao and Kalliv both appear shirtless in chapter 5, justifiably, as they were in bed.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, are named after the four ghosts in {{Pacman}}.
* SiblingYinYang: [[[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]].
* SlasherSmile: Hurricane wears a wide, sharp-toothed grin as she's mauling Yokoka.
* SolarAndLunar: Sun and Moon clans, elements, and languages.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Tomo is a small critter who is mute. He still has speech bubbles ([[TranslationConvention in forest language colours!), which have so far contained either a circle of dashes, or an exclamation mark.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Yokoka and Mao wear ribbons which they can transform into weapons at will. Yokoka changes hers into a sword, and Mao changes his into both a whip and a dagger.
* SpoofAesop: Mao at the end of chapter 4: "So much for trying not to kill them... but I guess... they almost got me, so... it's fair."
* StringTheory: Grace has a conspiracy board, complete with red strings, in her house. Presumably this relates to her Cisum theories.
* StumbledIntothePlot: Grace wanders into a basement, which just happens to contain the mirror path, the focus of her conspiracy, and route into Cisum.
* SummonMagic: Grace forms a pact with spirits born from her lucky deck, and used the spirits to teleport herself and Yokoka away from a fight.
* TalkingAnimal: Most of the animals shown in Betel's Forest can talk, including Yokoka and Mao, though in some (or perhaps all) cases they weren't always animals. Misha is a domesticated cat who can talk.
* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Copycat may be this, as he uses shapeshifting to change his outfits, while other characters change clothes normally.
* ThatCloudLooksLike: While Yokoka and Yfa are lying on the grass to relax at the start of chapter 5, Yfa points out a heart-shaped and a person-shaped cloud.
* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse and Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, are both stars in the Orion constellation. The cast page lists Betelgeuse's full name as Betelgeuse of Orion. Polaris and Methuselah are also both star names.
* ThreeActStructure: The comic has 3 parts to it in total, each 8 chapters long. So far the first part is complete, and the second part is just starting.
* ThroughaFaceFullOfFur: Any animal character who has a Luminescent Blush.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yfa is frequently seen eating apples, and only apples, both in comic and in other artwork. Raya similarly has this for grapes, but only in works outside of the comic itself so far.
* TrainingBoss: Mao asks Yokoka to transform her ribbon into a sword, before he begins battling her. After throwing fireballs and whip attacks at Yokoka, he proclaims defeat and leaves after merely tripping over. The end of chapter status screen following this shows Yokoka on low HP and Mao with nearly full HP.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Yin teaches Yokoka the MagicalIncantation for a spell to see in the dark, and Yfa fails to learn it due to not knowing the language for that spell. Yokoka offers to teach Mao the spell later, but he already knows it. Inky also fails to teach Yokoka a Light language word, which was presumably an attempt at teaching her a new spell.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Transformations appear to be instantaneous, with characters often transforming in a single panel.
* TranslationConvention: Each spoken language has its own speech bubble and font style and colour, to make them easily distinguishable.
* TroubledButCute: Mao is this. Copycat even judges from his dreamscape that he's tormenting himself, and calls him cute.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Yokoka and Mao are protagonist and deuteragonist, who the comics follow separately aside from when their paths occasionally intersect.
* UnderwaterBossBattle: Yokoka wrestles a giant koi catfish in a river, though it happens entirely off-panel.
* TheUnintelligible: If the perspective character doesn't understand a particular language, its speech bubble is shown as [The Illegible] illegible markings (with each language having a corresponding style of markings).
* UnreliableNarrator: Yokoka is an unreliable narrator at the start of chapter 1, opening with "My name is Yokoka. I've lived here all my life!"... though the prologue immediately prior tells the reader that this isn't actually true.
* VariantChess: Fahrin is playing a solo game of what appears to be chess with unorthodox pieces, when first introduced at the end of chapter 4.
* VillainousCrush: Copycat is introduced as a villain, raising snake-centipede pets which would have preyed on the nearby village, and [[DreamWalker entering Mao's dream]] to get revenge on him for killing said pets. He seems to develop a crush on Mao and stops doing anything particularly villainous.
* VisibleSilence: Many characters use ellipses in speech bubbles to indicate silence. Tomo uses a circle of dashed marks to indicate being mute. in both cases, the speech bubbles are still colour-coded according to the language.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The beast/demon and demon/beast characters are able to switch between their demon (humanoid) forms and a beast form. They mostly appear to be able to do this freely, though Kalliv is shown to be unable to switch to demon form when scared. Misha was also able to shapeshift into a big sabre-tooth cat.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Yokoka when she awakes in Yin's home at the start of chapter 2.
* WhipItGood: Mao's weapon of choice is a whip.
* WreckedWeapon: Mao's ribbon weapon being dissolved by a snake-centipede's poison, and [[spoiler: Yokoka's ribbon weapon being slashed to pieces by Hurricane]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Yfa describes human hair is usually earthy, after demonstrating what one looks like by transforming into a blue-haired human. Demons have a full spectrum of hair colours, included two-tone gradient hair.
Yokoka's Quest is available on its [[https://yokokasquest.com/ own website]], [[https://tapas.io/series/yokokasquest Tapas]], and [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/yokokas-quest/list?title_no=131205 WEBTOON]]. The webcomic began in September 2015, and has been regularly updating on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays since, with the exception of short planned hiatuses between chapters.
There will also be some upcoming marked and unmarked spoilers, so if you've not read the comic yet, read this article at your own risk!
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!!''Yokoka's Quest'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* AccidentalKidnapping: Anyone who wanders through Betel's barrier ends up settling in the village and forgetting their previous lives. After leaving the barrier, Mao resents being taken against his will, Kalliv just wants to go home (but can't remember where it is), and Yfa's family are shocked that Yfa has returned after disappearing for years.
* AccidentalMisnaming: Azha mispronounces Yokoka and Yfa's names (saying "Yoko... kah and ee-fah, right?"), though it's spoken in a second language that he's still learning. Their English language pronounciations can be heard in the [[https://kickstarter.yokokasquest.com/ Kickstarter video]].
* AdventureRebuff: Valyn refuses to take Yokoka with him on his journeys. Yokoka heads home and almost immediately decides to run away on an adventure anyway.
* AerithAndBob: Cisum has characters named Yokoka, Yfa, and Betelgeuse, alongside characters named Grace and Clyde. Some of the more regular names belong to humans, while others could plausibly have been human-influenced.
* TheAgeless: Spirits don't age in the conventional sense - they don't even have an age listed on their bio pages.
* AliceAllusion: Grace wanders down a basement (rabbit hole equivalent) into another world, meets a catgirl (Cheshire Cat equivalent), and has recurring card suit motifs.
* AllThereInTheManual: Details such as Mao's immunity to poison, Yokoka's clan, Yokoka and Grace's elements, and so on, are detailed on the between-chapter status screens long before they become relevant to the comics.
* AltText: Most comic pages on the main yokokasquest.com site have alt text. The same comic pages on Webtoons and Tapastic lack this feature.
* AnimalEyes: Demons, including the half-demon Yokoka and Mao, have slit pupils.
* {{Animorphism}}: The beast/demon and demon/beast characters are able to switch between their demon (humanoid) forms and a beast form. They mostly appear to be able to do this freely, though Kalliv is shown to be unable to switch to demon form when scared.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Implied InterfaceSpoiler that Yokoka's and Mao's parties will max out at 5 characters, as this is the number of slots shown for characters at the end of each chapter, though there doesn't appear to be any in-universe reason not to exceed this.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Kalliv suggests to Mao to shoot a fireball inside the King Centipede's [Attack the Mouth|mouth], as its insides would be more vulnerable. His method of doing this is getting bitten and then FeedItABomb.
* AuthorAvatar: Chris appeared in the third Q&A strip (but not in the actual comic) to answer reader questions. The author uses some of their characters, particularly Copycat, for their profile pic across a number of sites, but these aren't author avatars.
* AwesomeMcCoolname: Hurricane, Betelgeuse of Orion, and Fahrin the Reaper.
* AxCrazy: Hurricane after Yokoka challenges her to a fight.
* BagOfHolding: Subverted, in that Misha retrieves a bag containing food from a "storage dimension", but there is no indication that the bag itself is special.
* BalefulPolymorph: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, turns people into animals as they pass through it.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Yokoka wants to get into a fight after leaving the underground village, despite advice not to. Unfortunately the first fight she picks is against Hurricane, which turns into a CurbStompBattle.
* BeastMan: Demons can range from just having AnimalEyes and PointyEars, to being a LittleBitBeastly, to full-on Beast Man.
* BigStormEpisode: There is a storm raging during Yokoka's encounter with Hurricane (and is the reason for said encounter).
* {{Bishonen}}: Azha, Mao, and the forms that Copycat has imitated so far.
* BlackEyesOfCrazy: Mao gets scary black sclera with red irises at a couple of points when he fights Yokoka in chapter 2.
* BlackSpeech: Darkness Clan language appears as jagged grey text on a black background, or as jagged markings if the perspective character doesn't understand it. It's described as sounding screechy and hurts the throats of those not used to speaking it. It's also the language of curses.
* BlindingBangs: Kalliv's eyes aren't visible beneath his hair.
* BloodKnight: Yokoka begins turning into this after her training in the underground village, wanting to get into fights for fun, despite advice to the contrary.
* BlueMeansCold: Yin, has blue horns and wields ice magic. Her voice is also described as sounding cold by Yokoka on first hearing it.
* BlushSticker: Raya sports this together with PuppyDogEyes, when convincing both Kaga and Yfa to let her go out to look for a mushroom with Yfa.
* BornLucky: Yokoka and Grace are shown to have high Luck on their stats pages.
* BornUnlucky: Mao is shown to have incredibly low or zero luck on his stats page.
* BreakTheCutie: Mao is shown as a cute child in the prologue and as a cute cat in the first chapter. As a young adult, he's very angry and messed up over being kidnapped.
* BubblegloopSwamp: Yokoka's party travels through a colourful swamp in chapter 4.
* CainAndAbel: When Mao fights Yokoka in chapter 2, he gets BlackEyesOfCrazy and talks about "getting rid" of his sister.
* {{Cameo}}: Haro and Lee from the webcomic A Mirror's Tale appear as background characters (and as demons rather than humans) in the village that Mao and Kalliv visit in chapter 4.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: Kalliv, maybe. He is seen being offered a drink at the end of chapter 4, then appears to be hungover when woken up in chapter 5.
* CatGirl: Yokoka becomes a catgirl after leaving Betel's Forest at the end of chapter 1.
* CatSmile: A lot of characters have a cat smile (to no surprise, including the cats). Often leads to showing their CuteLittleFangs.
* CensorshipBySpelling: Mao says "What the helck", a portmanteau of hell and heck, when he finds out that Kalliv was in his pocket for his journey to the Darkness Clan.
* CheerfulChild: Raya is by far the most hyperactive and happy child in the comic.
* ChekhovsGun: The ribbons that Vivi gave to Yokoka and Yfa [[spoiler: and Mao - he cast a spell on the ribbons which allowed him to keep track of them outside of Betel's Forest]].
* ConstantlyCurious: Grace is constantly trying to learn about the new world she's found herself in. Yokoka has her curious moments, but can't hold her interest in topics which don't interest her.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: When Yokoka enters a volcano to visit Yang's shop she walks dangerously close (and barefoot) to lava, and suffers no physical harm.
* CounterAttack: Yokoka blocks and reflects a stream of water fired at her, using her sword, back at an attacking tunnel dweller in chapter 8.
* CrystalLandscape: The underground village and caves leading to it in chapters 6-8 feature glowing crystals protruding from the ground and walls.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Grace is treated by her Las Vegas friends as a nutty conspiracy theorist who could go on to do great things if only she applied herself more seriously. It turns out that she was right about Cisum though.
* CurbStompBattle: Hurricane breaks [[spoiler: Yokoka's sword, then proceeds to mauls her into a bloodied mess between pages]]. It probably would've gone a lot worse if [[spoiler: Grace hadn't teleported her out of the battle]].
* CursedWithAwesome: Yokoka and Mao. Mao wants to remove his curse, at the expense of his cat-like features (which Copycat thinks look good, and nobody else has ever mentioned as being out of the ordinary), and sharper instincts. Yokoka either doesn't know or doesn't care that she's similarly cursed.
* CuteLittleFangs: Practically the default for demons, beasts, and spirits. Notably, the human Grace and HalfHumanHybrid Yokoka and Mao lack fangs.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Darkness Clan isn't *evil*, though their society does seem to have lax attitudes to violence.
* DeathWorld: Yokoka and Mao's original home had toxic air, which have given them an immunity to poison through long exposure.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Yokoka on the status page after chapter 8, [[spoiler: after having her HP reduced to zero]].
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: Yokoka challenges Hurricane, *a dragon*, to a fight. Yfa even tells her that messing with someone able to control the weather is a bad idea.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Yokoka says in the first Q&A strip that she goes barefoot because she was never given any shoes, but she likes walking barefoot anyway.
* DoubleTake: Raya [[TheGlomp glomps]] Yfa when she first meets him, but then realizes Yfa wasn't the brother she was looking for. Cue the double take when she realizes that he's the brother who's been *missing for two years*.
* DramaticThunder: The storm that Hurricane was controlling, in the lead up to and during Yokoka's fight against her. Thunder and lightning accompanied most of Hurricane's attacks.
* DreamWalker: Copycat was able to enter Mao's dream and converse with him. Mao recognizes that he's an intruder, but Copycat implies that others might have accepted him as being a regular part of their dream.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Yokoka says she thought the LonghairedPrettyBoy Azha was a girl at first. Grace mistakenly refers to Yfa as "she" when first meeting him, though this may have been based on his voice.
* EasyAmnesia: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, makes people forget about their life prior to entering the barrier. Different characters seem to recover their memories at different rates after leaving.
* ElementalNation: Each character (aside from Grace, due to coming from Earth) has allegiance to a particular elemental Clan.
* EquipmentSpoiler: Yfa's feathers and Grace's lucky card deck appearing in their weapon slots on the status screens give indications of how they fight before this is ever shown in the comic itself.
* EyeColourChange: Copycat's eyes occasionally turn purple, rather than remaining the colour of the person whose form he's copied.
* FacialMarkings: Demon characters feature a variety of facial (and body) markings - it's unclear as to whether these are natural or tattoos.
* FantasyWorldMap: A map covering the portion of the Cisum that Yokoka's Quest takes place in is planned to be included as an extra in the Yokoka's Quest printed book.
* FeedItABomb: Mao casts a fireball while his arm is already inside the King Centipede's mouth, leading to this. This doesn't immediately kill it, however.
* FetchQuest: Yin asks Yokoka to deliver a letter to Yang. Yokoka and Yfa even refer to it as their "first quest".
* FindTheCure: Raya and Yfa have to find a mushroom which grows on the back of a frog, to make medicine for Yokoka.
* FingerSnapLighter: Mao does this to light a cigarette he was given by Grace.
* FireIsRed: Yang, has a red horn and wields fire magic (and runs a shop in a volcano).
* FireIceDuo: Yang and Yin respectively, though only seen together in bonus artworks
* FlippingTheBird: Mao to Yokoka, in a Q&A strip.
* TheFool: Yokoka.
* TheFullNameAdventures: The name of the webcomic is Yokoka's Quest.
* FunwithHomophones: Yfa talks about the "sea". Yokoka doesn't know what this is, and thinks he's talking about the "see" (which she later misremembers as the "sight").
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Yfa and Kalliv playing hide-and-seek in the background while Grace is talking with Mao.
* GambitPileup: Multiple parties appear to have plans which involve Yokoka, at a minimum Betel and Yokoka's mother (who isn't Betel).
* GiveHimANormalLife: Yin suggests that Mao can go back to a normal life with his real mother. He opts not to.
* TheGlomp: The first panel that Raya appears in has her glomping Yfa. After a DoubleTake, she glomps him again two pages later.
* GorgeousGarmentGeneration: Copycat is able to shapeshift into different outfits, and Yfa also does this when transforming into a human. It is implied that this is a spirit bird ability; other characters shapeshift into the clothes they were wearing when they were last in that form.
* GuestStarPartyMember: The high level Azha and Misha appear in Yokoka's party's status screen at the end of chapter 3.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Yokoka and Mao have one human parent and one demon parent.
* {{Hammerspace}}: Misha has access to a "storage dimension", and is shown keeping a bag and a small parcel there (the bag itself is presumably a normal bag and not a BagOfHolding. Suggested to be a common ability, by Misha stating that familiars are expected to do use this to carry their master's belongings, and her presumption that Yfa can also do this (he can't). Clothing seems to also go into hammerspace during most shapeshifting.
* HappilyAdopted: The barrier around Betel's Forest, among other things, makes people believe that Betelgeuse is their mother, and in turn that everyone else is their sibling. Combined with EasyAmnesia, most inhabitants end up living there with their new family in blissful ignorance.
* HealingPotion: Blinky pulls out a healing potion after Pinky and Inky are knocked out at the start of their fight against two tunnel dwellers in chapter 8.
* HiddenElfVillage: Kaga states that he knows most locations in the Forest Clan but has never heard of the village in Betel's Forest. This is likely due to the magic of the barrier around it.
* HorrorHunger: Kalliv frequently worries that other people or creatures want to eat him in his mouse form. Justified, as some of them do.
* HumansAreUgly: Copycat thinks Mao looks better with the cat ears from his curse.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Mao wants to be rid of his curse. As indicated by Copycat and Fahrin, this would mean losing his cat-like features and sharper instincts.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: After passing through Betel's barrier and losing his memories, Yfa tells Yokoka that he doesn't know where he is and he doesn't have any friends. While still lacking his memories, he then went on to make a lot of friends in the forest.
* IdiotHero: Yokoka, though currently more idiot than hero.
* ImagineSpot: Yokoka wonders how Yin knows Betel (a giant manticore who can't really move around without wrecking her forest), and mentally pictures a younger Betel as a bipedal, sword-and-shield-wielding, famous explorer.
* InterspeciesAdoption: The inhabitants of Betel's Forest all believe that they are Betel's children, despite Betel being a manticore and the rest being a wide variety of different species.
* InterspeciesRomance: Humans and Demons are able to produce HalfHumanHybrid offspring, such as Yokoka and Mao. Beasts and Spirits are able to produce hybrid offspring, such as Yfa and his siblings, though it hasn't quite been explained how that works.
* InvincibilityPowerUp: Mao instinctively used a skill when he thought he was about to die against the King Centipede, which provided him a surge of adrenaline and allowed him to continue fighting for longer.
* LanguageBarrier: Each of the 12 elements has its own language associated with it, in addition to the humans who speak regular English. Different characters know and learn different languages, with some only able to speak and/or understand a particular language, without learning how to read/write it, leading to frequent language barriers.
* LargeAndInCharge: Betelgeuse is a giant manticore and in charge of the village in Betel's Forest. Fahrin can transform into a large bat dragon and is leader of the Darkness Clan.
* LessonsinSophistication: Grace ends up dressing up Yokoka for a wedding, as Yokoka has no idea how to dress for a wedding, what a wedding even is, or even basic stuff like how to brush her hair.
* LintValue: When Kalliv reveals a single coin and tries to buy fruit from a market stall with it. The AltText a a few pages later indicates that he failed to buy anything with it.
* LittleBitBeastly: Demons can range from just having AnimalEyes and PointyEars, to being a Little Bit Beastly, to full-on BeastMan.
* LonghairedPrettyBoy: Azha, who Yokoka [[DudeLooksLikeALady mistakes for a girl]], and Copycat's initial form, who Mao correctly identifies as "he".
* LuminescentBlush: Yokoka, Mao, and Azha feature this at times.
* MagicKnight: Mao fights with a whip and dagger, and also by throwing fireballs.
* MagicalIncantation: A lot of spells are accompanied by an incantation. Being able to speak the incantation in its respective language is all that's needed to cast at least some of these spells, though both Yokoka and Yfa have been shown to struggle with learning spells due to LanguageBarrier.
* {{Mana}}: At the end of each chapter is an RPG style status screen listing Yokoka's and Mao's parties, including their MP gauges.
* ManlyTears: Pinky, at Blinky and Clyde's wedding.
* TheMissingFaction: Each element has its own clan associated with it, with the exception of the Dreams Clan.
* MixAndMatchCritter: A lot of the critters and creatures are a mix of two things: snake-centipede, mushroom-frog, hawk-wolf, red panda-sloth, to name a few.
* MustHaveCaffeine: Grace requires a coffee when waking up, and stops at Starbucks for another, before arriving at school. She's also heartbroken to discover that Cisum doesn't have coffee (but later finds out that it does, and Yokoka just had no idea what coffee was
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Fahrin the Reaper.
* TheNapoleon: Azha is teased about his height by his familiar, Misha, and more rudely called out as being short by Yokoka.
* NonHumansLackAttributes: Critters with fur have no attributes to show (the comic is PG-13).
* NotAGame: Lady Pachi says "What do you think this is, a game?" when Yokoka asks Lady Pachi to TookALevelInBadass "teach me to be this badass!"
* OcularGushers: Kalliv cries massive tears after reuniting with Mao, after believing that Mao had abandoned him.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Grace is an ordinary (aside from being a conspiracy theorist) student at the University of Las Vegas before she travels to Cisum.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: The people of Cisum were first called "demons" by the humans who wandered in, and the name stuck. There's nothing traditionally demonic about them.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Fahrin is a bat-like dragon. Hurricane is an eastern-style dragon. Betelgeuse is a somewhat dragon-looking manticore. And all of them are people who change into these as their beast forms.
* PaintingTheMedium: Each spoken language has its own speech bubble and font style and colour, to make them easily distinguishable.
* PaletteSwap: Mao and Yokoka are basically palette-swaps of each other in cat form, and would be this normally if not for hair length and clothing differences. A Q&A strip explains the colour differences as Yokoka having a type of [[HeroicAlbino albinism]].
* PantheraAwesome: Misha can transform into a saber-tooth cat, large enough for Azha to ride as a mount.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Subverted: Yokoka has pink streaks in her fur/hair, but she rarely acts feminine.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Yfa, despite his small size, is able to pick up heavy objects and Yokoka with ease. His high strength also shows on his stat page.
* PointyEars: Demons, including the half-demon Yokoka and Mao, have pointy ears.
* PrettyInMink: Hurricane's fur cape.
* ProneToTears: Kalliv cries a lot, sometimes OcularGushers.
* PuppyDogEyes: Raya sports this together with BlushSticker, when convincing Kaga and Yfa to let her go out to look for a mushroom with Yfa.
* TheQuest: Presumably Yokoka has one, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin judging from the webcomic title]], but it's not revealed what the quest is yet (unless it was the FetchQuest started in chapter 2 and resolved by chapter 3).
* RatStomp: Subverted; Mao takes on a quest to drive out 'some kind of vermin', but the vermin in question turn out to be giant poisonous snake-centipedes, rather than the rats he was expecting.
* RedOniBlueOni: Yang and Yin respectively. Yang is lively, restless, happy to interact with his customers, and has a red horn and eyes. Yin is lazy, calm, likes to plan things out. and has blue horns and eyes.
* ResidualSelfImage: When Copycat enters Mao's dream, Mao is wearing a recently acquired set of clothes that Copycat hadn't seen before, and that Mao wasn't currently wearing (as he's asleep in his nightwear and bandages).
* {{Retcon}}: The comic is being retouched in preparation for being printed in book form, with some of the changes essentially being retcons. So far, Yokoka and Yfa's home has gone from an empty room to being furnished with a rug, cushions, and a pile of leaves for sleeping on.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Raya especially fits this label to a tee. {{YMMV}} as to whether other critters are ridiculously cute, or just regularly cute.
* SceneryCensor: Yfa manages to conveniently place himself between Yokoka and the reader when she wakes up naked in Yin's house.
* SceneryPorn: The backgrounds generally look great anyway, but this is especially the case for the two-page spreads.
* SdrawkcabName: The world is named Cisum, which is music backwards.
* ShirtlessScene: Mao and Kalliv both appear shirtless in chapter 5, justifiably, as they were in bed.
* ShoutOutThemeNaming: Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, are named after the four ghosts in {{Pacman}}.
* SiblingYinYang: [[[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The siblings, Yin and Yang]].
* SlasherSmile: Hurricane wears a wide, sharp-toothed grin as she's mauling Yokoka.
* SolarAndLunar: Sun and Moon clans, elements, and languages.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: Tomo is a small critter who is mute. He still has speech bubbles ([[TranslationConvention in forest language colours!), which have so far contained either a circle of dashes, or an exclamation mark.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: Yokoka and Mao wear ribbons which they can transform into weapons at will. Yokoka changes hers into a sword, and Mao changes his into both a whip and a dagger.
* SpoofAesop: Mao at the end of chapter 4: "So much for trying not to kill them... but I guess... they almost got me, so... it's fair."
* StringTheory: Grace has a conspiracy board, complete with red strings, in her house. Presumably this relates to her Cisum theories.
* StumbledIntothePlot: Grace wanders into a basement, which just happens to contain the mirror path, the focus of her conspiracy, and route into Cisum.
* SummonMagic: Grace forms a pact with spirits born from her lucky deck, and used the spirits to teleport herself and Yokoka away from a fight.
* TalkingAnimal: Most of the animals shown in Betel's Forest can talk, including Yokoka and Mao, though in some (or perhaps all) cases they weren't always animals. Misha is a domesticated cat who can talk.
* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Copycat may be this, as he uses shapeshifting to change his outfits, while other characters change clothes normally.
* ThatCloudLooksLike: While Yokoka and Yfa are lying on the grass to relax at the start of chapter 5, Yfa points out a heart-shaped and a person-shaped cloud.
* ThemeNaming: Betelgeuse and Mao's pre-[[IdentityAmnesia amnesia]] name, Meissa, are both stars in the Orion constellation. The cast page lists Betelgeuse's full name as Betelgeuse of Orion. Polaris and Methuselah are also both star names.
* ThreeActStructure: The comic has 3 parts to it in total, each 8 chapters long. So far the first part is complete, and the second part is just starting.
* ThroughaFaceFullOfFur: Any animal character who has a Luminescent Blush.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yfa is frequently seen eating apples, and only apples, both in comic and in other artwork. Raya similarly has this for grapes, but only in works outside of the comic itself so far.
* TrainingBoss: Mao asks Yokoka to transform her ribbon into a sword, before he begins battling her. After throwing fireballs and whip attacks at Yokoka, he proclaims defeat and leaves after merely tripping over. The end of chapter status screen following this shows Yokoka on low HP and Mao with nearly full HP.
* TrainingTheGiftOfMagic: Yin teaches Yokoka the MagicalIncantation for a spell to see in the dark, and Yfa fails to learn it due to not knowing the language for that spell. Yokoka offers to teach Mao the spell later, but he already knows it. Inky also fails to teach Yokoka a Light language word, which was presumably an attempt at teaching her a new spell.
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Transformations appear to be instantaneous, with characters often transforming in a single panel.
* TranslationConvention: Each spoken language has its own speech bubble and font style and colour, to make them easily distinguishable.
* TroubledButCute: Mao is this. Copycat even judges from his dreamscape that he's tormenting himself, and calls him cute.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Yokoka and Mao are protagonist and deuteragonist, who the comics follow separately aside from when their paths occasionally intersect.
* UnderwaterBossBattle: Yokoka wrestles a giant koi catfish in a river, though it happens entirely off-panel.
* TheUnintelligible: If the perspective character doesn't understand a particular language, its speech bubble is shown as [The Illegible] illegible markings (with each language having a corresponding style of markings).
* UnreliableNarrator: Yokoka is an unreliable narrator at the start of chapter 1, opening with "My name is Yokoka. I've lived here all my life!"... though the prologue immediately prior tells the reader that this isn't actually true.
* VariantChess: Fahrin is playing a solo game of what appears to be chess with unorthodox pieces, when first introduced at the end of chapter 4.
* VillainousCrush: Copycat is introduced as a villain, raising snake-centipede pets which would have preyed on the nearby village, and [[DreamWalker entering Mao's dream]] to get revenge on him for killing said pets. He seems to develop a crush on Mao and stops doing anything particularly villainous.
* VisibleSilence: Many characters use ellipses in speech bubbles to indicate silence. Tomo uses a circle of dashed marks to indicate being mute. in both cases, the speech bubbles are still colour-coded according to the language.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: The beast/demon and demon/beast characters are able to switch between their demon (humanoid) forms and a beast form. They mostly appear to be able to do this freely, though Kalliv is shown to be unable to switch to demon form when scared. Misha was also able to shapeshift into a big sabre-tooth cat.
* WakingUpElsewhere: Yokoka when she awakes in Yin's home at the start of chapter 2.
* WhipItGood: Mao's weapon of choice is a whip.
* WreckedWeapon: Mao's ribbon weapon being dissolved by a snake-centipede's poison, and [[spoiler: Yokoka's ribbon weapon being slashed to pieces by Hurricane]].
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Yfa describes human hair is usually earthy, after demonstrating what one looks like by transforming into a blue-haired human. Demons have a full spectrum of hair colours, included two-tone gradient hair.
