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Tomoharu Natsume one day receives a mysterious package from Shuri, a friend of his older brother. This box, called the Extractor, is sought after by many. At the same time, Tomoharu has to keep the fact that his childhood friend, Misao, is constantly hovering, ghostlike, beside hm. Then a miko with heterochromia breaks into his house searching for the Extractor. After a fight breaks out in his house, he opens the box. What lies within is a mecha-like creature called the Asura Machina. That is only the beginning.

''Asura [=Cryin'=]'' is based on a series of LightNovels, animated by Seven Arcs in the spring of 2009, with a second season to follow this October; and Crunchyroll has decided to have a simulcast on it.
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Tropes include:

* ABoyAndHisX -- A boy and his Ghost.
* AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil -- Because ''one'' isn't enough, the school has ''three'':
** The First/Holy Guards: The Saeki siblings . {{Knight Templar}}-like disposition and clothing, and guns...Lots and lots of guns! Demon Hunters.
** The Second/Pilgrim Union: Rikka and Shuu. The Mercenary Company.
** The Third/Royal Dark Society: Tooru, Shuri and the Science Club. Demon Protectors.
* AntiMagic -- Every ex-handler is immune to both the science of the Asura Machina and the magic of the demons. It comes at a terrible price, though.
* BoatLights -- Kanade normally has blue eyes, but if she "[[TransformationSequence powers up]]" one of her eyes changes to green. This may change if she [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in badass]] and has both eyes go green.
* CuteGhostGirl -- Misao, though she's not ''quite'' a ghost. She's a projected existence, which is close enough.
**Aine and [[spoiler: Shuri's sister Yukari]] also count. In fact [[spoiler: although some are rarely seen, ''every'' Asura Machina in the show has one related to it]].
* [[spoiler: CyberneticsEatYourSoul]] -- [[spoiler: Explained as a last word at the last episode.]]
* [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong -- Tomoharu's older brother is dead all along.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship -- Half of the casts halfway to the end were once enemies at the beginning of the series.
* DownerEnding -- The last episode unceremoniously [[MoodWhiplash took a darker turn]] and kill [[spoiler: the CuteGhostGirl as listed above. Except Misao. She's got better.]] Besides, although the hero saves the day, [[spoiler: the BigBad took KarmaHoudini VillainExitStageLeft and TheBadGuyWins.]]
** Second season though makes you question whether he really was a Big Bad or not [[spoiler: since he just lost TWO important people in his life.]]
* DudeShesLikeInAComa -- When Shuri passes out (also, she [[LaserGuidedAmnesia has amnesia]]) Tomo wants to help her get into bed, but he wears a blindfold and has Misao guide him what to do with her voice so she makes sure he doesn't see or touch anything he's not supposed to. He still gets a {{nosebleed}} when she wakes up, though.
* FaceHeelTurn -- [[spoiler:Club president and Toru]]
* FreudWasRight -- These jokes unexpectedly thrown on the last parts of episode 11 and the beginning of episode 12.
* FutureBadass -- [[spoiler:From another world, but Tomoharu-1 is a much more serious version of Tomoharu-2.]]
* GoneHorriblyRight -- [[spoiler:Black hole experiments in the first world destroyed it and caused a collision of multiple dimensions.]]
* TheGunslinger -- Shuri and several others. The word "guns" is going to show up a lot on this page.
* {{Hikikomori}} -- Tokiya Kagayaki, who prefers to communicate through a stuffed koala.
* HollywoodCyborg -- Shuri, whose body is loaded with guns. MoreDakka!
* HotChickWithASword -- Toru for most of the series, but Aki looks to be where she got it from.
* HumongousMecha -- The Asura Machina, which is at least mecha-like.
* JacobMarleyApparel -- Tomoharu questions Misao on why this trope doesn't apply to her. Her only response is that "it'd be boring". So, somehow, she can change her clothes.
** Although she never changes her Victorian Alpine look--even on the beaches of Hawaii!--Aine's outfit is also not what she was wearing when impaled.
* [[spoiler: KilledMidSentence: Tomoharu-1. Killed by a gunshot.]]
* LoveMakesYouEvil -- [[spoiler:While Kagakagari seems to be this way at first, it's Kagayaki who's gone from doing questionable things to being outright insane.]]
* MeleeATrois -- The first episode.
* MoodWhiplash -- Mild version happened at Episode 11, a comedy interspersed with TearJerker. Episode 20 goes to ModernWarfare style KillEmAll.
* {{Miko}} -- Kanade.
* {{Nanomachines}} -- Apparently both the ability to be a handler and the anti-magic of an ex-handler stem from these machines.
* NightmareFuel -- Episode 9... It's all goes {{Eversion}} for one character...
* NewTransferStudent -- Misao, which gets treated as an UnusuallyUninterestingSight.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent -- Tomoharu
* PeopleJars -- The Burial Dolls within the Asura Machina.
* PlayingWithFire -- Kanade's powers, once put to [[MundaneUtility use]] in helping Tomoharu recover from a cold.
* ThePowerOfLove -- A twisted version. Demons, when they find a contractor, get their power by sapping their contractor's ''ability to love''. Not that the alternative is any better.
* RedStringOfFate -- A variation. A red ribbon ties together Kanade and Tomoharu as they're practicing for a three-legged race. Then Kanade ties it really tight. Then a superglue splashes on it, forcing them to stay together. Even when Kanade needs to take a shower...
* SmugSnake -- Kagakagari Takaya.
** Try Kiyomi from the 1st Student Government. He's WAAAAY more of a SmugSnake than Kagakagari.
*** And now, presenting [[spoiler: THE CLUB PRESIDENT in episode 20. Yeah, killing Shuri, Yo, and Tomoharu-1. And his reason is that he wants the Hagane just to live in a world where his girlfriend is. Could have done a KillEmAll if it wasn't for a minor complication.]]
* SoulJar --Hisui [[spoiler: Reishirou's/ Aine's Asura Machina]] in Episode 12.
* TearJerker -- Episode 11
** Second season presents us with episode 17. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, they managed to kill Kagakagari's TWO friends Christina and Kotori, Kagakagari's Machina.]]
* ThoseTwoGuys -- Higuchi and An.
* TookALevelInBadass -- Nia, after five years fending for herself in the first world.
* WeCouldHaveAvoidedAllThis -- Nia asks why Kanade couldn't have just burned the ribbon off earlier. It's implied that she knows she could've, but wanted to spend some time with Tomo instead.
* WellIntentionedExtremist -- Kagakagari, in light of things.
* WindsOfDestinyChange -- The power of Ania and her family. She can give and take luck at will.
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