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* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{xxxHoLic}}'']]: Smug witch makes a WeirdnessMagnet her bitch.
** Alternatively: A nutcase tries to woo a girl away from a stoic archer, and gets involved in weird magic-y stuff.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/YakitateJapan'']]: A [[IdiotHero brave but dim]] young man with [[IdiotHair a goofy haircut]] enters the [[SeriousBusiness high-stakes world]] of [[CookingDuel bread-making]].
** Or, an [[IdiotHero Idiotic Farm Boy]], a [[JerkWithAHeartofGold Man of Many Hairdos]], an [[AntiHero Emotionally Disturbed Guy With a Sword]], and a [[TeenGenius Rich Bishounen Son of a Yakuza Boss]] may or may not survive [[CookingDuel making magic bread]] for homosexuals.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'']]: An apathetic high school guy helps a bunch of high school girls with magic powers.
* [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'']]: An alpha schoolgirl travels through books in pursuit of her lover - they're [[NotBloodSiblings not blood related]], which, of course, makes it okay that they're siblings. They fight for people who have strange speaking problems.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'']]: A woman robot runs a coffee shop in beautiful, post-apocalyptic Japan.
* [[spoiler:''Yomigaeru Sora -Rescue Wings-'']]: A guy doesn't get to be a fighter pilot.
* [[spoiler: ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'']]: A FallenPrincess decides not to take back her kingdom and instead does community service.
** or, after her childhood crush breaks her heart, a young girl begins collecting extremely attractive young men for a public service world tour.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'']]: Young girl moves to a new town and spends her days [[SliceOfLife doing nothing]] with three sisters and a [[HugeGuyTinyGirl really big guy]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YourName'']]: A guy and a girl get very annoyed at each other and communicate by writing on each other. They never actually meet until the third act. There is also a literal case of RocksFallEveryoneDies, though not the trope itself.
** Or: a guy and a girl who never check the calendar get angry at each other for writing on each other's bodies.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/YoureMyPet'']]: A woman makes a 20-year-old man her pet.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/Yuria100Shiki'']]: {{Hentai}} about a SexBot not having sex.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YuriKumaArashi'']]: Alien bears infiltrate the Earth to eat depressed lesbians.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YuriOnIce'']]: A chubby figure skater gets to meet his idol thanks to a viral video. [[HoYay Homoeroticism ensues.]]
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YuruYuri'']]: Four school girls take over an abandoned school club and use it to do whatever they please. LesYay and BreakingTheFourthWall humor ensues.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/YuYuHakusho'']]: Guy dies trying to save a little boy from a car. Becomes a detective for the son of (a) god. Meets up with demons and lots of HoYay. Many {{Genre Shift}}s ensue.
** Alternately, a boy dies twice. The first time to save a kid from a car,which results in taking orders from [[OlderThanTheyLook an authority that looks like a toddler and sucks a pacifier]]. He fights alongside a team consisting of: [[DudeLooksLikeALady pretty guy with a rose]],an [[PluckyComicRelief oaf]], and old geezer, and a [[TokenEvilTeammate psycho with a creepy third eye]].
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOh'']]: Children's card games are SeriousBusiness, though [[NewRulesAsThePlotDemands nobody seems to have a clear grasp of the rules]].
** Alternatively, the story of a boy, his magic growth pyramid[[note]]Which actually just makes him more confident, making him look taller[[/note]], evil spirits, dragons, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a collectible card game]].
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOh'' "Season Zero" and the first part of the manga]]: A boy's split personality plays with his enemies before he {{mind rape}}s them.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOhGX'']]: Learning how to play children's card games is SeriousBusiness.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'']]: [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries In the future, card games will be played on motorbikes.]]
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOhBondsBeyondTime'']]: The three protagonists from the above series fight a time traveler in order to save a children's card game. IN 3D!
*** Or: [[MemeticMutation An epic battle between marine invertebrates.]]
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'']]: A stubborn boy cheats at children's card games with an invisible, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia amnesiac]] alien.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'']]: People fight over ''how'' serious a children's card game should be.
*** Or: [[MemeticMutation A sad tomato]] [[BreakTheCutie has a hard life]] filled with children's card games and [[MythologyGag Mythology Gags]], and [[RecycledPremise the entire plot revolves around the four previous series]].
*** Or: People use a children's card game to fight over which of the previous shows is the best.
*** Or: Young man wishes to play a children's card game with the hopes of entertaining people to make them smile. Earns the metaphorical equivalent of getting kicked in the teeth. Repeatedly. With a steel-toed boot. On fire.
** [[spoiler:''Anime/YuGiOhSevens'']]: Big Brother uses his absolute control over society to stop a kid from playing the children's card game with his HouseRules.
** [[spoiler:''Manga/YuGiOhR'']]: ''[[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard]]'' [[MundaneMadeAwesome with a collectible card game.]]
** For all of them: Various ancient mythologies and/or powerful supernatural forces are dragged kicking and screaming into the modern age, where they are made into a card game that is sometimes played by people who are dead or possessed by monsters from another dimension. The fate of the world frequently depends on the result.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'']]: {{Magical Girl}}s defend the world from evil constellations, and are rewarded with [[BlessedWithSuck random disabilities]]. About half the show is SliceOfLife.
* [[spoiler:''[[Anime/YumeiroPatissiere Yumeiro Patissiere!]]'']]: A girl likes to cook sweets and goes to a school with candy fairies and three boys that are really good at cooking.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ZatchBell'']]: A emo genius gets a shotaro prince boy from another world that can spit lightning from his mouth as gift from his dad for his fourteenth birthday.
** Or: Lazy genius high school student receives a six year old for his birthday and goes on a book-burning spree.
** Or: A high school student, a pop idol, and a movie star exploit small children to fight their battles.
* [[spoiler: ''Anime/{{Zegapain}}'']]: High school student meets a mysterious beauty who wants him to play a mecha video game. Except the game is real and the real world is the video game.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/ZeroIn'']]: High School students work part-time as Super-badass Rent-A-Cops.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/{{Zipang}}'']]: The most powerful ship in [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Pacific theater]] is an AEGIS destroyer.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury'']]: A boy awakens a metal dinosaur and a naked girl. They team up and travel on a giant metal beast to find their place of birth. War ensues.
** [[spoiler: ''Anime/ZoidsNewCentury'']]: Wandering junk dealer gets suckered by a battle group to work for them to ride their sentient beast. A Team Rocket esque group harasses the team leader out of rivalry.
* [[spoiler:''Manga/Zom100BucketListOfTheDead'']]: A guy's job sucks so bad he considers the ZombieApocalypse an improvement.
* [[spoiler:''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'']]: Dead teenagers get drafted into a pop group.
** Or: LargeHam BunnyEarsLawyer resurrects [[CuteClumsyGirl clumsy]] amnesiac, HotBlooded FearlessFool, {{Workaholic}} BrokenBird, ShrinkingViolet who's scared of meeting the public, [[TheStoic stoic]] FishOutOfTemporalWater, TokenMiniMoe with parental issues and half-feral [[TheUnintelligible non-verbal]] ExtremeOmnivore as zombies, expects them to form a band.
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