Line #33 Manga/DetroitMetalCity


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:RUN, TWO, DMC!!]]
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4	''Detroit Metal City'' is an anime/manga series about the life of Souichi Negishi, a young man who makes a living as a musician. He is very successful, but not in the genre of his dreams: while he loves to play relaxing music, his job demands that he play groove/thrash metal in the titular band as "Demon King Johannes Krauser II". Most of the story revolves around Negishi trying to balance being Krauser II, his love life, and his family responsibilities, [[HilarityEnsues with mostly hilarious results]].
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6	The title is a reference to the Music/{{KISS}} song, "Detroit Rock City". The manga was written by Kiminori Wakasugi and was serialized from 2005 to 2010 in the magazine Young Animal. An OVA, developed by [[Manga/{{Mushishi}} Hiroshi]] [[Manga/TheFlowersOfEvil Nagahama]] and animated by Creator/Studio4C, was given twelve episodes in 2008. A live action film, directed by Toshio Lee, premiered fifteen days after the OVA.
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8	Not to be confused with ''{{that\|OneLevel}}'' [[VideoGame/DrillDozer Metal City]], nor with the similarly-abbreviated ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', or with Music/RunDMC for that matter.
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11	!!Tropes murdered and brought back from hell:
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13	%%* AchillesInHisTent: Negishi goes through a phase of this in the final arc of the manga. He quits DMC and moves to France, refusing to return even when he catches news that DMC is struggling without him.
14	* ADayInTheLimelight: Some chapters focus on other DMC members' lives, like Wada's aspirations to join and play in a visual key band and Nishida's competition in taiko arcade scene.
15	* AesopAmnesia: Almost all chapters end with Negishi failing at normal acitivities due to his own HairTriggerTemper or being dragged into performing for DMC. When he feels appreciated in DMC while his normal music is ridiculed, he doesn't commit to DMC. When DMC makes his life miserable, he suddenly doesn't have enough courage to speak up. StatusQuoIsGod and he continues to complain about things never going his way despite not doing anything about it.
16	%%* AffectionateParody: Believe it or not, this show is really a comedy.
17	* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Nishida/Camus, the DMC drummer, while the quietest member of the band, everything that ''does'' pass his lips (which is when he's off-stage) tends to be very perverted and/or disturbing.
18	* AmbiguouslyEvil: Negishi is a NiceGuy who has to pretend being a {{Jerkass}}. Some of his inner thoughts show him being rather possessive of Aikawa and he gets angry for fairly minor reasons, with the later half of the manga having cases bordering on him instead being a {{Jerkass}} who pretends to be a NiceGuy.
19	%%* AndThisIsFor: "''...And this is for [[Manga/DragonBall Kuririn]]!!''"
20	%%* AssShove: Krauser frequently inflicts this on people throughout the manga. [[spoiler:The irony is not lost on Negishi when in the final arc [[TasteOfTheirOwnMedicine Death Metal God inflicts this on him]].]]
21	%%* AxeCrazy: The lead singer of Pipanic Chainsaw is named for good reason.
22	* BaitAndSwitch: When Negishi in France receives a letter from Wada begging him to return, he is seen turning away from airport, seemingly relapsing into his desire to break away from DMC and stay in France against all odds. [[spoiler: He actually stays to enact and record some more antics as Krauser (including raping the Eiffel Tower) to make his comeback even stronger.]]
23	* BattleOfTheBands: A lot of major performances involve DMC dueling against other rock bands, generally ending with the other band being OutGambitted and Krauser somehow humiliating them on-stage.
24	* TheBeastmaster: Negishi being a farm boy, Krauser is very good at handling cattle, including Jack Ill Dark's Demon Bull.
25	%%* BecomingTheMask: Played for laughs.
26	%%* BlackComedyRape: Played repeatedly as one of the series's defining jokes.
27	%%** Krauser's "Ten Rapes a Second", anyone?
28	%%** Negishi tries to show his love 'everything' in the last chapter. This results in "something small just went into my mouth!"
29	%%** Gets a bit less comedic when Negishi comes scarily close to realistically raping his love object in the "Kyushu Boy" chapter of the manga.
30	* BookEnds: The manga begins and ends with DMC performing "Satsugai", followed with a shot of Negishi cleaning his makeup. The monologue is also similar.
31	* ButtMonkey: Whenever Negishi tries to do something outside of DMC, either some metalhead prevents him from doing so, or something pisses him off and he blows his chance.
32	* CallingYourOrgasms: DMC's Manager gets a lot of milage out of describing in ixcruciating detail how wet or dry their latest performance has made her.
33	-->"Goddamn, you guys were great! I was turning into clam chowder out there! Fucking crazy guys, DMC!"
34	* CameraAbuse: The opening credits end with Krauser II seizing the camera and spinning it violently around to face ... the show's logo.
35	* CannotSpitItOut:
36	** Negishi cannot bring himself to tell Aikawa that he wants to date her exclusively. At one point when Aikawa calls him to say Asato wants to invite her to an amusement park wondering if its okay with Negishi, Negishi can only stammer out that it's fine only for it to hit him that it isn't as soon as he hangs up.
37	** In chapter 3 when Negishi first reunites with Aikawa in a record store, he's eventually bullied by his own fans into imitating Krauser via AirGuitar, and complies in an effort to protect Aikawa. It dawns on him that [[TheOneThatGotAway he regrets never having told her his true feelings before they graduated college]], so ThePowerOfRock lets the following words escape his lips.
38	--->'''Negishi''': LET ME RAPE YOU, YOU FUCKING SOW!
39	* CastingGag: For anime, it's not the first time Creator/YujiUeda (as Krauser) voiced a heavy metal singer, except [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} that metal singer was an Australian, undead one]].
40	%%* ChainsawGood: The lead singer of Pipanic Chainsaw. She is all too willing to use it.
41	* TheChikan:
42	** Negishi is falsely accused of subway groping in an early chapter.
43	** It is revealed that Gaylord's temporary absence from the metal scene was because he was imprisoned for indecent assault after groping women on trains.
44	* ChildrenAreInnocent:
45	** A fan couple takes their infant daughter to a DMC concert in Krauser cosplay, complete with BabyTalk writing of "murder" ("shashu" from "satsugai") on her forehead, to the delight of all the other fans. Negishi is horrified.
46	** Krauser is challenged to a wrestling match with a wrestler fan as his tag partner. Negishi refuses to do this, even planning to leave the city to avoid it, until he finds the wrestler's little daughter waiting for Krauser outside their office, sincerely believing he'll help her father.
47	* ClusterFBomb: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Pju2-r10U Fuckingham Palace]], the chorus/hook is just "Fuck" being repeated over and over and over and over...
48	%%** The manager speaks in this as well.
49	* CombatCommentator: DMC's fans describe all of Krauser's theatrics and antics as though he's done them before. All his actions have some overblown name attached to them like a special move.
50	-->''There it is! Krauser's "Vocalized Ten Rapes A Second"!
51	%%* ComedicLolicon: Parodied in one episode when a toddler begins singing DMC songs, and picks up a large - and perverted - fandom; much to Negishi's dismay.
52	* CommonalityConnection [[spoiler:Hideki Karls / God]] and Negishi bond over using their costumes to deal with their frustrations while keeping it a secret they hate rock.
53	* CrazyEnoughToWork: Negishi is a natural improviser and is aware how deluded his fans can be. To avoid sleeping with his fangirls, he chooses to have sex with ''the air'' instead, and they treat it as something Krauser would obviously do.
54	* CrossOver:
55	** ''Detroit Metal City'' crossed over with ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' in ''VideoGame/CapcomVs''.
56	** ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' PC game called ''VideoGame/StreetFighterOnlineMouseGeneration'' featured Krauser II as a playable character.
57	%%* DarkWorld / EvilTwin: Applied to music, as some D.M.C. lyrics happen to be an inverted version of Negishi's lyrics.
58	* DeathMetal: Detroit Metal City is considered to be death metal in universe, however, if the songs heard in the anime and the live-action film are anything to go by, it has little to do with the genre. They are more like a Japanese and edgier version of ThrashMetal or GrooveMetal than anything.
59	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: "My whipped cream on your face" seems a little... suggestive.
60	* EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: Negishi's idea of "fashionable" is very French-oriented, even though he describes his music as Swedish pop. His favorite movie is ''{{Film/Amelie}}''.
61	* {{Expy}}:
62	** Krauser himself is an expy of Gene Simmons from Music/{{KISS}}, though it's likely he is also a reference to heavily image-based metal artists such as Mortiis.
63	** DMC owe quite a lot to metal band Music/SeikimaII right down to their mythos and get-up.
64	* ExtremeDoormat: The job of the Capitalist Pig (not that he doesn't like it) is to be a masochist on-stage
65	%%** Negishi to some extent as well, specially at the expense of the manager.
66	* ExtremeOmnisexual: Krauser's legendary feats include raping ''the Tokyo Tower'' and ''the air''.
67	* FaceHeelTurn: Incidentally, one of Krauser's fans is working as the Red Ranger of a [[{{Tokusatsu}} Hero Show]] when Krauser decides to crash it, and [[OffTheRails he goes off-script to raise terror in his name]] and even fill in for air guitar.
68	* FanDumb: An in-universe example. Much of DMC's fanbase is depicted as dimwitted, violent and gullible, believing that Krauser II is a real person instead of a stage persona and often picking fights with other people. They're often the instigator of whatever wacky shenanigans happen in a particular chapter.
69	* FangsAreEvil: Krauser has vampire fangs. Either they're part of Negishi's stage costume, or he inexplicably grows them when he becomes the Krauser persona.
70	* FarmBoy: Played surprisingly straight, as Negishi's parents own a small family farm in the Oita prefecture. The whiny part of the farmboy trope for Negishi comes after he's already departed for the greener grass of Tokyo, as DMC is ''not'' how he wanted to find fame as an indie musician. Luckily for him, [[ChekhovsSkill growing up as a farmhand has come in handy more than once,]] such as when he tamed Jack Ill Dark's Demon Bull onstage without any trouble at all.
71	* GenderBlenderName: Jack Ill Dark has a daughter named Kenni.
72	%%* GoodIsNotNice: Most of DMC's fans are regular people who turn to them for emotional support via fan mails and other channels, despite their evil reputation. The band, particularly Negishi as Krauser, tries to help out within reason.
73	%%** Negishi manages to motivate his younger brother as Krauser II to help out at the family farm by telling him it's good training for stealing cars, taming beasts, and chopping off heads, and to work harder at school by stating that an aspiring demon king has to master all knowledge.
74	%%** As Negishi's mother puts it in TheMovie:
75	%%---> External appearance and word choice don't matter. Anyone who can give dreams to others are great people!
76	* GratuitousEnglish: DMC's songs are splattered with words like "rape", "kill", or "pig" without care for proper grammar.
77	%%** Also, the manager. Coupled with {{Cluster F Bomb}}s.
78	* GratuitousFrench: The stray dog Merci, Amore Amour magazine, etc. Negishi [[spoiler:actually moves to Paris to escape from [=DMC=] and focus on his own music at one point]], and peppers his new songs with French words.
79	* GreenEyedMonster: Negishi doesn't appreciate Aikawa showing affection to other men, and his frustrations at her sometimes fuel his rage.
80	* GrooveMetal: Despite being advertised as DeathMetal, Detroit Metal City's sound judging by the music we hear from them is closer to Groove with some influences from actual DeathMetal and {{Metalcore}}.
81	* HardWorkFallacy: Negishi's answer to people not liking his french music is to just sing harder until people "get it", which is never.
82	* HisOwnWorstEnemy: Quite a lot of times what causes Negishi to snap are either his own fans or his ExtremeDoormat nature. Any time there's a problem with his personal life, he tries to dismiss it until changing into Krauser is the only way to deal with it.
83	* HollywoodToneDeaf: Negishi trying to work his way into the "normal" music has one issue, he's so bad pretty much everyone who hears it tries to shut him up. Negishi just can't see that and thinks it's just another challenge to overcome.
84	* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler:Kitahara Genki / Johannes Krauser I]] was sent to jail by the Manager for accidental groping. By the woman who consistently promotes lustful and violent behavior, and has done quite a lot of illegal stuff herself.
85	* IdenticalStranger: Negishi and Syse from Helvete look the same out of costumes. Which comes in handy when Syse tries to take Krauser's wig off and "gets hit with the Doppelgänger (Kupperauser) curse". [[spoiler:But Negishi can't keep up the stress and {{Rage Quit}}s, temporarily.]]
86	* IgnoredEpiphany: During the whole manga Negishi struggles with his goal of getting people to appreciate songs he writes and performs as himself, angsting over how little appreciation his music receives and hating being part of DMC. But throughout the final arc and during his ultimate performance Negishi realises that DMC actually gives him exactly what he wants; sure, he may not be playing saccharine pop-songs, but as he's the main creative force behind DMC' lyrics, music and image, he plays ''his'' music, and it's ''him'' and ''his'' music that are adored by countless fans of DMC - so he is exactly where he wants to be. This realisation fades as soon as Negishi leaves the spotlight and he starts fussing over how horrible this all is before he can even fully wash the make-up off.
87	* IJustWantToBeNormal: Negishi actually hates being Krauser II, despite his popularity.
88	* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Negishi thinks that one of his fan has a terrible pneumonia, [[spoiler: but it's subverted by showing that the boy had a simple cold, and the surgery was just a circumcision]].
89	%%* KafkaKomedy: And you can bet your hiney he'll never be able to stop with it.
90	* KarmaHoudini: The Manager tying Negishi up and throwing him into a river is considered inspirational.
91	* {{Kayfabe}}: In-universe. A lot of the comedy comes from most of the fans being genuinely convinced that the band is just as crazy off-stage as on-stage, and that they are genuine demons from hell. The concept that the group's members are just regular joes in RealLife never occur to them.
92	%%* TheLadette: DMC's manager (and how!)
93	%%* LargeHam: A prerequisite. Of special note, Kenichi Matsuyama in TheMovie treats ''both'' Negishi and Krauser this way.
94	%%* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: Half of Negishi's Krauser episodes could've been avoided if he didn't overreact to damn near everything, [[RuleOfFunny but then again...]]
95	* LegacyCharacter: Negishi on-stage persona, Johannes Krauser '''II''' implies there was one before, and during one arc he has to deal with the guy who used to be Krauser '''I'''. [[spoiler:In a later arc where Negishi temporarily quits the band they get Johannes Krauser III. ]]
96	* LetsGetDangerous: As much as Negishi hates his Krauser identity, when something really upsets him, he gets scarily competent on stage and can perform vulgar or dangerous feats without overthinking.
97	* LivingADoubleLife: The main premise is Negishi wanting to live a normal life, but has to perform as a provocative rock singer with memetic public reputation, which always causes problems and his friends have no clue he's not what they think he is.
98	* LoonyFan: The entire DMC fanbase from where Negishi is standing are just crazy and see demonic influences in anything Krauser says. Krauser himself sometimes has to step up so deter them from getting violent.
99	* LostInTranslation: Chapter 21 in the manga has Krauser starring in an indie film. At the climax, he ends up spitting into the mouth of the male co-star and ad-libs the line "You are already... Unfashionable.", a bastardization of [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar Kenshiro's]] [[YouAreAlreadyDead well-known]] CatchPhrase. The film's director, following suit, [[YourHeadASplode makes the man's head explode in post-production]]. Sadly, the official translators completely failed at picking up the reference, mistranslated it as "chic doesn't suit you anymore" and ruined the effect.
100	* McGuffin: Karl Murder's guitar is treatet as a symbol of status in the metal world and has been passed from Jack Ill Dark to Krauser II, with many wanting to get their hand on it.
101	* MadLibsCatchphrase: "I am a terrorist from Hell! Yesterday I raped X, tomorrow I'm gonna carve up Y! I am a terrorist straight outta Hell!"
102	%%* MadeOfIron: The manager, who stubs out cigarettes on her tongue.
103	* MagnumOpusDissonance: InUniverse, Negishi is mortified that he's having any success with the DMC at all, while he's rather try and get his career with Swedish Pop inspired music happening.
104	%%* ManInABikini: the Capitalist Pig
105	%%* MediumAwareness
106	* MeanBoss: The Manager is a hardcore DeathMetal fan and couldn't care less about who Krauser is off-stage, often threatening Negishi with a knife to not underperform, provoking him into doing something that's technically illegal and interfering with his personal life.
107	* MeanCharacterNiceActor:
108	** Krauser II is a legenday rapist and murderer from hell, but off-stage Negishi is a very shy NiceGuy.
109	** Wada plays Jagi, a fire-spewing demon. Aside being a bassist, he doesn't know much what to do, and his politeness confsues the fans.
110	* MemeticBadass: In-universe. A major contributing factor to the success of Krauser and co. is the way the details of their various fan-pleasing exploits (e.g., the Tokyo Tower incident) are exaggerated to divine proportions (e.g., Krauser becoming the supposed father of the Roppongi Hills) by their more rabid followers.
111	%%* MonsterClown: Nishida/Camus' drummer getup.
112	* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Wada/Jagi, the bassist, is the closest to the OnlySaneMan in the trio by being neither as loony as the drummer or as reluctant as Negishi. His one chapter in the limelight regards how his popularity amongst the fans is slipping compared to Krauser and Camus.
113	%%* NobodyPoops: Averted to hell and back, and used for laughs.
114	%%* NoblewomansLaugh: DMC's manager -- ''especially'' noteworthy in the movie.
115	* NonindicativeName: The story does not take place in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}.
116	* TheNotableNumeral: DMC fans like to make up names for Krauser's (usually unintentionally) aggressive moves, for example the "48 Cop-killing Moves".
117	%%* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Krauser knows how to do this, but Negishi recognizes that it's not very good for himself.
118	* OneWingedAngel: During the final confrontation God changes his costume to include [[SpikesOfVillainy more spikes]] and brings a double-guitar. Then he removes his armor, twice.
119	* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: "On the Next Episode of FUCK!!!"
120	* PainfulPersona: Souchi Negishi is a laid-back NiceGuy who likes romantic music and dreams of joining a pop music band, but currently can't because he ended up joining the infamous ThrashMetal band "Detroit Metal City" taking on the name Demon King Johannes Krauser II. The series follows Souchi as [[HilarityEnsues he tries, and fails]], to live the modest, easygoing life he wants while performing as the obscene Demon King who loves blood and gore and has a penchant for raping anyone or anything that catches his eye (despite the fact that Souchi himself is a virgin).
121	* PanderingToTheBase: InUniverse Negishi's job is basically to be Krauser II to please the fans. Said fans are mostly really vulgar, to Negishi's dismay.
122	* PoliceAreUseless: Krauser II often causes public unrest or harasses people (unintentionally or intentionally), yet the officers always fail to reach him through the crowd and never pursue him.
123	%%* PowerBornOfMadness: The only reason Negishi gets away with half of what he does. He's just so crazy that nobody can quite figure out what to do with him. That, and the legions of insane fans who do his bidding.
124	* PsychoRangers: Black Death DMC consists of the predecessor Johannes Krauser I and other talents with a grudge against Detroit Metal City, who managed to outperform DMC until Krauser II has returned from a retirement.
125	* SatelliteLoveInterest: Aikawa is only present to show Negishi having a goal outside of DMC, with her own goals remaining unknown.
126	* SelfMadeMan: What ultimately allows Krauser to triumph over Death Metal God: [[spoiler: when Death Metal God was [[InTheBlood "handed"]] his talent from his legendary father and got catapulted into fame, Negishi had to forge his talent and popularity himself, making him ultimately stronger of the two]].
127	* {{Sentai}}: Krauser ends up crashing a Sentai show in an amusement part. Most people assume it's AllPartOfTheShow, up until the point when he starts harassing the audience.
128	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: Parodied. Negishi is dumped into a world that thrives on this, but it's all PlayedForLaughs. Negishi himself is a timid loser, a virgin, and never partakes of anything heavier than sake.
129	* SerialEscalation: As things go on, not only does DMC has to stand it's ground against more and more brutal and famous metal musicians, but their antics get progressively more crazy. Also Negishi becomes more unhinged in later chapters of the manga - when early on he has to adorn Krauser's persona before coming down on whatever caused his rage in that particular case, later he starts doing it this as himself.
130	* ShoutOut:
131	** When filming the band's first promotional video, Negishi (as Krauser) [[Music/OzzyOsbourne eats several bats all at once]].
132	** The band's bassist Jagi [[Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar is always referred to as "Jagi-sama"]].
133	%%* SliceOfLife: Negishi's.
134	%%* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Played with hilariously.
135	* StatusQuoIsGod: For the majority of the series, Negishi has no courage to say that he doesn't really like his own band. Even when he tries to quit, something provokes him to instinctively don his Krauser costume and stop complaining.
136	* StylisticSuck: Only Yuri Aikawa seems to like Souichi's cornball indie pop music. Everyone else, like Asato the editor of the magazine Aikawa works for feel absolutely nothing for it at best.
137	* SuperpoweredEvilSide: When Negishi can't solve his problems as himself, he changes to his alter ego Krauser II. Most of the time, it actually works.
138	* SureLetsGoWithThat: A lot of times Negishi just says whatever's on his mind without trying to sound threatening. Krauser II's reputation is so strong, that fans start anticipating the next demonic feat, giving Negishi ideas what to do next. He also often stumbles on rivals or their equipment on stage, which is seen as him attacking them, which works out.
139	%%* ThoseTwoGuys: Technically more than two - a bunch of rabid DMC fans who go to every one of their concerts.
140	%%* TokyoTower: Krauser lights it up.
141	* TournamentArc: ''Satanic Emperor'', a death metal version of UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} on the surface, turns out to be not only a very long concert, but a series of duels metween metal bands.
142	* TrollingTranslator: Jack Ill Dark's assistant and translator seems to be taking the piss out of him, perhaps to help freak Negishi out.
143	-->'''Jack Ill Dark''': Hey kid, I'm gonna shove it up your ass!
144	-->'''Translator''': "I'm going to jam it in your ass!"
145	-->'''Jack Ill Dark''': C'mon.
146	-->'''Translator''': "Loosen up, and it might start to feel good."
147	-->'''Jack Ill Dark''': Just joking! I'm not into fucking guys.
148	-->'''Translator''': "Wait, I think I'm in love with your ass."
149	-->'''Jack Ill Dark''': You tell DMC I'm gonna shove it up their asses on stage.
150	-->'''Translator''': "If you don't want me to fuck your ass, then I will cum inside your mouth."
151	%%* TrueCompanions: Played straight with the DMC fans, and hilariously for laughs with scatolo-metal band Deathism/Deazm.
152	%%* TwoTimerDate
153	* UnConfession: [[spoiler:In the final Chapter, Krauser confesses to Aikawa that he is Negishi. She thinks he's playing some trick on her and tries to say she only likes Negishi. Negishi himself misses who is she referring to and assults her.]]
154	* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Every time Negishi is unavailable for one reason or another DMC's affairs quickly go downhill. Most prominently seen in the final arc.
155	* WeirdnessCensor:
156	** Usually inverted; DMC's fans seem to have a Normalcy Censor. In one case they ignore a radio report of an incoming storm, only to later attribute the storm to [[spoiler: the original]] Krauser's demonic powers.
157	** When Krauser sings Negishi's sugary-pop love song to Aikawa after defeating Jack Ill Dark, his fans eventually resolve the massive cognitive dissonance by interpreting it as Krauser punishing them and testing their endurance.
158	* WholePlotReference: Chapter 92 is presented like something from ''Manga/InitialD''.
159	* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The [[PoliceAreUseless police will neglect looking for someone who obviously sticks out like Krauser and reportedly caused much suffering and committed many crimes]], you can [[ThePowerOfRock play an electric guitar unplugged and successfully perform songs with said unplugged guitar without the rest of the band]], you can leave concerts that YOU are playing in without being mauled by disappointed fans, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
160	* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Negishi finally quits in Chapter 101, disbanding DMC]].
161	* WordSaladHorror: Parodied. After a show, Krauser delivers an enigmatic speech, which according to Negishi was just a bunch of random words that sounded scary and prophetic to him. The fans, however, interpreted it as "Krauser is going to rape the Tokyo Tower".
162	* VisualKei: DMC is arguably a Visual Shock or Ero-Guro VisualKei band, taking major inspiration primarily from SEIKIMA-II, from Music/{{KISS}}, and to a lesser degree from other early VisualKei.
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164	!!Tropes carved to the LiveActionAdaptation:
165	* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The manager's henchmen Guri and Gura are a pair of Dobermanns instead of two very similar looking guys in leather.
166	* TheCameo: Music/{{Kiss}} Gene Simmons himself plays Jack Ill Dark.
167	%%* GirlyRun: Negishi in TheMovie for some reason.
168	* TheMovie: Starring Creator/KenichiMatsuyama (Live Action [[Manga/DeathNote L]]) in the lead role and Gene Simmons of Music/{{KISS}} as Jack Ill Dark, the reigning Demon God of Rock and Roll.
169	----
170	-> ''"GO TO DMC!"''

Context Manga / DetroitMetalCity