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''Karin-dou 4koma'' (菓厘堂４コマ) is an ongoing UrbanFantasy comic by Rakurakutei Ramen about crazy lesbian youkai and ancient sorceresses -- and the other crazy lesbians who love them -- [[SliceOfLife going about their everyday lives]]. The starting characters live at Karin-dou, a supposed antique store.

A pair of 4koma are released on Website/{{Pixiv}} every Saturday. Translations can be found on Website/{{Danbooru}}; specific comic references below use their post numbers there.
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Residents of Karin-dou:
* Seren: Immortal mage of immense power; Tamaryu's mother by adoption
* Kinka and Ginka, Youkai twin sisters who manifested from a gold and a silver coin respectively (with the hair colors to match); they live as Seren's maids as well as Tamaryu's elder sisters
* Tamaryu: Reincarnation of an ancient dragon Seren killed; her current life is as young as she looks.
* Eldelita "Elly": A "Demon Lord" who lived in the dungeon in one of Seren's storage spaces; she now goes to school with Tamaryuu even though she looks older than her schoolmates
* The Kinru and Ginru: A group of six pint-sized, animal-eared clones of Kinka and Ginka; the Kinru have cat ears and the Ginru have rabbit ears; they serve as Seren's defense system against Elza's night raids as well as a great source of HNNNNG.[[labelnote:*]]post #841670[[/labelnote]]

Elza's House:
* Elza: Also an immortal mage of immense power and Seren's Master/Adoptive Mother; she also happens to be a sex-crazed {{hermaphrodite}}.
* Mifilynah[[labelnote:*]]post #2388675[[/labelnote]] "Mifi": Native American woman adopted by Elza at a young age as she became [[LastOfHisKind the last of her tribe]]; she currently lives as Elza's maid.
* Ran: Ghost of a girl who was raped and murdered on Halloween; ironically, she now lives as Elza's half-sister.

Teachers & Friends:
* Shizuki: 330-year-old fox youkai and self-declared "Miko of Justice". She usually shares Tamaryu's apparent age but takes the form of an adult when teaching at the youkai school.
* Meguru: A younger mage who currently lives as Seren's pupil; she participated in [[NoodleIncident the fight against the Evil Organization]] prior to the start of the series.
** Genyuu: A version of Meguru from 240 years in the future with the power of TimeTravel, who [[TimeTravelTenseTrouble came/will come]] to the past so she can be herself in the present and transfer her title to the present Meguru.
* Sachi: An ancient fox youkai who elevated to the level of a divinity as well as a self-declared "Miko of Justice"; she is one of the three heavenly youkai of the west as well as the school's principal
* Rindou: An eastern blue dragon; she is one of the three heavenly youkai of the west, the school's PR teacher as well as a paedophile.
* Shigure: The ghost of a courtesan who fell in love and died together with an aristocrat; she is also one of the three heavenly youkai of the west as well as the school's nurse and the one who keeps Rindou in check.
* Haruno: "Miko-type ability user" and Shizuki's master; has periodic appearances
* Catherine: Half fire-eating bird and half dog youkai; she is in Tamaryu's class
* Sara: White snake youkai; has the [[SnakePeople lower body of a snake]] and is in love with a toad youkai
* Aiina: Elza's classmate from when she attended a university abroad. She appears in six pages while visiting Elza.

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!!This 4koma provides examples of:

* TwentyPercentMoreAwesome: Seren will kill you 70% dead.[[labelnote:*]]post #841555, post #842445[[/labelnote]]
* AccidentalKiss: While ice-skating with Ran and Tamaryu, Shizuki daydreams about a stumble causing her to kiss Tamaryu. Ran promptly stumbles and ''she'' kisses Tamaryu instead.[[labelnote:*]]post #898453[[/labelnote]]
* ACupAngst: Seren and Tamaryu. For Seren, this is actually ''intentional''.[[labelnote:*]]post #1148918, #1179514[[/labelnote]]
* AllWomenAreLustful: To be more specific, All Women Are Loveable Lustful Lesbians.
* AnimalEaredHeadband: Seren's PowerLimiter: bunny ears for her normal form, and cat ears for her child form.
* AsianFoxSpirit: Shizuki and Sachi are both ''kitsune'', or Japanese fox spirits.
* AuthorAppeal: [[{{Meido}} Maids]]. Three major characters are maids. Two other maids appears in a doujin[[labelnote:*]]Cover: post #1401368[[/labelnote]] and one of them is alluded to in a previous comic[[labelnote:*]]post #842418[[/labelnote]]. Meguru and Sachi all have been disguised as Maids in seperate strips[[labelnote:*]]Meguru: post #1154268, Sachi: post #1362356[[/labelnote]], a large portion of the newcomer cast of Ghostrick Live are maids and if we go further with one-off characters, a Tengu maid.[[labelnote:*]]post #1463179[[/labelnote]]
* BeachEpisode: A few strips happen in a PocketDimension beach inside of a closet within Karin-dou.[[labelnote:*]]posts #842420, #965606 and #1478369[[/labelnote]]
* BigEater: Tamaryu quickly consumes an entire gigantic swimming pool of pudding created by Seren.[[labelnote:*]]post #842428[[/labelnote]] She accepts as a worthy challenge the large mounds of kaarage Meguru makes, but this time she loses.[[labelnote:*]]post #1231470[[/labelnote]]
* BiggerOnTheInside: Karin-dou's supposed storerooms, on account of having been expanded into {{pocket dimension}}s by Seren.
* BlessedWithSuck: A backstory strip reveals that, not only Sachi actually has blue eyes, she has the power to see great distances through them since she became a kuuko. However, this also destroyed her physical strength, explaining why she has very poor endurance. [[labelnote:*]]post #1728803[[/labelnote]]
* BlindWithoutEm: After Elly shatters Meguru's glasses, Meguru mistakes a scale for Shizuki and begs it for help.[[labelnote:*]]post #1374086[[/labelnote]] 3_3
* BodySushi: Tamaryu draws her "personalized winning ticket" during the school lunch lottery and is baffled to find this specified. Ran and Shizuki are delighted and quickly take her to an unused classroom to do their part, but all three are caught and punished.[[labelnote:*]]post #1344578 [[/labelnote]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall: A complete strip in #199 was dedicated to Elza breaking the fourth wall. The first line attributed the return of the kimono with her complaining that when she changes clothes, they turn into rough drafts. The other line has her exclaiming that there might be [[{{Foreshadowing}} new development coming #200]].[[note]]#200 reveals [[TimeTravel the nature]] of the guest that appears in the second strip.[[/note]] Everytime, Mifi says that [[LampshadeHanging she's being too meta]] as well as the artist being apologic. [[labelnote:*]]post #1519753[[/labelnote]]
* {{Callback}}: There's several, thanks to the series' high level of continuity.
** Mifi going with Seren to meet Elly[[labelnote:*]]#134, post #1111411[[/labelnote]] comes from a promise Seren made a few years earlier as an aside.[[labelnote:*]]#46, post #842033[[/labelnote]]
* CardCarryingVillain: ''Seren has a demon lord license''. It expired more than twenty years ago after she forgot to renew it, but she's thinking about reapplying now that she has free time. (Actually just a {{LARP}} thing, though.)[[labelnote:*]]post #842033[[/labelnote]]
* CastFullOfGay: Outside of a single frog/snake straight couple in Tamaryu's class,[[labelnote:*]] post #1164379[[/labelnote]] nearly everyone else is lesbian.
* CerebusSyndrome: the more dramatic Ghostrick Live extra story which, despite some more light-hearted content near the beginning (more in the spirit of the 4koma), becomes rapidly darker as [[spoiler:Ran is kidnapped.]]
* CheshireCatGrin: Mifi when she catches Elza masturbating, and again when Seren asks how she knew.[[labelnote:*]]post #841969[[/labelnote]]
* CrossPoppingVeins
* CrotchGrabSexCheck: Aiina only knows [[{{Hermaphrodite}} Elza]] as a standard for magicians, so when she first sits down with Seren, she checks if Seren is similarly equipped.[[labelnote:*]]post #842413[[/labelnote]]
* CuteClumsyGirl: When Meguru does laundry, she fills the room with suds. When she vacuums, she breaks sliding doors. She burns everything she cooks [[OneNoteCook except for karaage]] -- but the karaage always turns out in massive quantities for some reason. But she is still cute.[[labelnote:*]]post #1231470[[/labelnote]]
* CuteGhostGirl: Ran starts out as the vengeful ghost of a girl who was raped and murdered on Halloween. Seren confronts her after she kills a psychopathic pedophile and forcefully convinces her to drop her grudge and become a CuteGhostGirl instead.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Seren ''killing'' Tamaryu's previous incarnation.[[labelnote:*]]post #842002 [[/labelnote]]
* DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength: Tamaryu:
** Her attempt at bowling sends her ball into orbit.[[labelnote:*]]post #841537[[/labelnote]]
** Her attempt at [[SmashingWatermelons smashing a watermelon]] rends it into a fine pink spray.[[labelnote:*]]post #841557[[/labelnote]]
** Her attempt at filling up an inflatable pool causes a blast that knocks Kinka out. Seren makes a note to not teach Tamaryu CPR until she's learned to take it easy.[[labelnote:*]]post #842420[[/labelnote]]
** After Kinka explains her token attempts at PercussiveMaintenance on a fan that just stopped working, Tamaryu decides to help out with a "light chop" that splits the fan in half.[[labelnote:*]]post #842422[[/labelnote]]
** Seren and Ginka worry that Tamaryu might smash the jack-o-lantern Ran is staying in while she turns from a vengeful spirit into a CuteGhostGirl.[[labelnote:*]]post #842440[[/labelnote]]
* TheDreaded / RedBaron: Seren is infamous as a brutal PersonOfMassDestruction, with nicknames such as "The Human Solar Cannon" and "The Bomb Princess". Before Meguru actually met Seren, her mental image of Seren featured a SlasherSmile and glowing eyes.[[labelnote:*]]post #1453138 [[/labelnote]] She's really not a bad person. She ''is'' still a PersonOfMassDestruction, however.
* EasyAmnesia: Shigure and Sachi remove Elza from Rindou's memory by smashing her in the head ten times with Shigure's golden hammer.[[labelnote:*]]post #1411738[[/labelnote]]
* ElementalPowers: Appears in various forms, such as Meguru's affinity for [[ShockAndAwe Lightning magic]] and Catherine appearing to be half [[PlayingWithFire fire]]-[[ElementalEmbodiment elemental]].
* EnsembleCast: Comes with the SliceOfLife nature of the comic. Although, the series mostly revolves around Karin-dou and Elza's household.
* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: When Rindou first met Seren, she expected her to be more menacing, according to her reputation as TheDreaded. It didn't helped that she was in child form at that moment. [[labelnote:*]]post #1095426[[/labelnote]]
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Tamaryu's eyes become slits when she switches to her dragon form. Elza's square pupils indicate her ability to become a sage -- a moot point due to her less than enlightened behavior.[[labelnote:*]]post #947317[[/labelnote]] Shigure and Ran have no pupils, appearing to be a side effect of being ghosts, whereas Pink-chan's pupils become loveheart-shaped when excited or lustful on account of being a succubus.[[labelnote:*]]first seen depicted in post #1829380, clarified in the narrative to post #1988398[[/labelnote]]
* EyesAlwaysShut: Sachi.
* FountainOfYouth: Seren's[[labelnote:*]]post #1044698[[/labelnote]] and Elza's[[labelnote:*]]post #1057443[[/labelnote]] independent attempts at weight-loss magic actually turn them into children. Seren eventually turns back, but Elza prefers her new form.
* FreudianExcuse: Rindou apparently became a paedophile due to the trauma of [[GenderBender his/her]] 10-year-old younger sister dying, explaining her BSOD over child-form Elza, who looks very similar.[[labelnote:*]] post #1728802[[/labelnote]]
* GenderBender: Before she became a Dragon, Rindou was actually a guy. The process that turned human Rindou into a dragon also changed her sex, at the same time multiplying her power output to be on par with Sachi.[[labelnote:*]] post #1728802 [[/labelnote]]
* GenerationXerox: Shigure → Ran (former vengeful ghosts), Rindou → Tamaryu (blue dragons), Sachi → Shizuki (miko foxes).
* GivingUpTheGhost:
** Elza, after she slips a disc trying to pick up a heavy box without using strength magic.[[labelnote:*]]post #841941[[/labelnote]]
** Mifi, after Elza says she's going on a date. Seren urges Mifi to put her soul back in before she dies. Mifi's speech bubbles come from the soul until Mifi sucks it back in.[[labelnote:*]]post #842036[[/labelnote]]
** Elza-as-Mifi, after Seren burns her ultra deliciously.[[labelnote:*]]post #847831 [[/labelnote]]
** Sachi, out of simple exhaustion from climbing all the stairs to the shrine.[[labelnote:*]]post #983591[[/labelnote]]
** Tamaryu, during a forced study session.[[labelnote:*]]post #1031228[[/labelnote]]
** Catherine, after getting hit at the end of the No Laughing Game.[[labelnote:*]]post #1382731[[/labelnote]]
* GoingColdTurkey: Under threat of having [[{{Hermaphrodite}} her penis]] snipped off by Aiina, Elza spends 9 pages (7 weeks realtime) without sex.[[labelnote:*]]post #842415 [[/labelnote]] By the end of Aiina's visit, she has bloodshot eyes and wanders around aimlessly.[[labelnote:*]]post #842418 [[/labelnote]] After a hypersensitive Elza collapses from an explosive nosebleed, a letter from Aiina finally arrives explaining that she had just been joking.[[labelnote:*]]post #842427[[/labelnote]]
* GrandTheftMe: Mifi uses one of Seren's potions to swap bodies with Elza, with the intent of ''raping Elza with her own body.''[[labelnote:*]]post #847831[[/labelnote]]
* {{Hatsuyume}}: Tamaryu dreams of being partially-trapped under one-eyed Mt. Fuji while a hawk tugs at her cheek and a gigantic one-eyed eggplant rains eggplants down upon her.[[labelnote:*]]post #842578,842579,842581[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Giant Eggplant:''' No need for logic! Eat eggplants!
* HenshinHero: There is a Henshin Hero youkai. Somehow. That is, not a youkai who is a Henshin Hero but rather the ''concept'' of "Henshin Hero" in human form. He doesn't look like anything other than an ordinary schoolboy, but then, just being ''male'' [[ImprobablyFemaleCast is extraordinary enough as it is in this comic]].
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Elza is a hermaphrodite with fully functional male and female genitals, meaning she can simultaneously mother ''and'' father children. Case in point: during the hiatus, she has her own baby while Aiina and Mifi have their own, with Elza being implied to be the father.[[labelnote:*]]post #2930286[[/labelnote]]
* {{Homage}}: One StoryArc is a dedicated homage to ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'', with all the students spending 24 hours at the school trying not to laugh.[[labelnote:*]]starting with post #1271459[[/labelnote]]
* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Only six males have been (briefly) shown: a frog, a crow, an anonymous customer, and a trio of schoolboys (radio/camera tsukumogami and HenshinHero). Elza, while a {{hermaphrodite}}, presents female. This trope doesn't apply to Ghostrick Live, which introduces more male supporting characters and antagonists, although the protagonists are still all female.
* InformedAbility: Mifi's shaman power.
* InterspeciesRomance: Elza (human->magician) wonders if having sex with Kinka (youkai) counts as this.[[labelnote:*]]post #933970[[/labelnote]]
* LastOfHerKind: Mifi is the shaman of a tribe that no longer exists.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At one point during the 24 hours arc, Tamaryu notes that she felt that 2 months have passed while less than 5 hours actually passed. 2 months indeed passed between the releases of the start of the arc and that strip.[[labelnote:*]]post #1344578[[/labelnote]]
* LimitedWardrobe: While this is averted for most characters (even Kinka and Ginka wears other things than their maid uniforms from time to time for non-plot reasons), Shizuki almost always wears a miko uniform, Elza (until she became a child) had always worn the same kimono, Rindou always wears the same get-up and Mifi always wears her uniform unless the plot needs otherwise.
* LineOfSightName: Seren happened to be eating Ujikintoki (a type of shaved ice) when she needed a surname for Ginka and Kinka.[[labelnote:*]]post #842029[[/labelnote]]
* LovableSexManiac: Elza the nymphomaniac {{hermaphrodite}} and Rindou the shameless ComedicLolicon in particular.
* LoveAtFirstPunch: Rindou falls for Elza after Elza (in child form) suddenly confronts Rindou for "stealing her role" and punches her in the face.[[labelnote:*]]post #1396891[[/labelnote]] It's more than her usual declarations of love since she spends her time afterwards zoning out and eating bananas. Shigure and Sachi promptly [[EasyAmnesia correct the issue]].[[labelnote:*]]again, post #1411738[[/labelnote]]
* LoveTriangle: Seren suggests Ran and Shizuki resolve their argument over marrying Tamaryu by having Shizuki become Tamaryu's wife and Tamaryu becoming Ran's wife.[[labelnote:*]]post #903585[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Seren:''' Then it's settled. Fox becomes Tamaryu's wife, and Ran-tan receives Tamaryu as a wife.\\
'''Shizuki:''' T-Then if I receive Ran-chan as a wife, it's all fair.\\
'''Ran:''' Please make me happy...\\
'''Tamaryu:''' Let's think about this calmly! Can we all realize this story is getting even crazier!? And where's my say!?
* LysistrataGambit: When Aiina visits, she decides to withhold sex while walking around in a NakedApron and such until Elza properly answers Mifi's feelings. It doesn't go anywhere, but Elza is zoning out and in tears by the time Aiina departs.[[labelnote:*]]post #842415,#842418[[/labelnote]]
* MalfunctionMalady: When allergy season hits, Tamaryu sneezes ''fire''.[[labelnote:*]]post #841998[[/labelnote]]
* {{Masquerade}}
* MeasuringDay: With the usual breast size comparisons. Ran briefly becomes a skeleton with glowing eyes to terrify some boys trying to peek.[[labelnote:*]]post #1252782[[/labelnote]]
* {{Miko}}: Shizuki (The miko of justice!), as well as Haruno and Sachi.
* MundaneUtility:
** The main reason for Seren's PowerLimiter is so she can put her own powers to mundane use.
** During her tenure as director of the International Mages' Alliance, Seren wrote a slew of joke magic books just for fun, like "Magic to Make Cats Be Friendly" and "The Encyclopedia of Magic to Make People Laugh". However, Meguru found them to be full of informative explanations of magical theory.[[labelnote:*]]post #1453138[[/labelnote]]
** Tamaryu attempts to use her fire breath to cook but ends up setting the kitchen on fire.[[labelnote:*]]post #863590[[/labelnote]]
* NakedApron: Used by just Mifi in one strip[[labelnote:*]]post #841965[[/labelnote]] and together with Aiina in two others.[[labelnote:*]]post #842415[[/labelnote]]
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Discussed then revealed to be completely averted, as she had/will have [[ScrewYourself sex with her own self]].
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Catherine. Her mother is a fire-eating bird, her father is some sort of dog youkai. The result is a dog-eared girl with wings for arms that she can [[FeatherFingers somehow use]] as large beefy hands who also have a weakness to water.
* NoodleIncident: Seren and friends' fight against an "evil organization", cited as what caused Shizuki to fall in love with Tamaryu.[[labelnote:*]]post #1026651[[/labelnote]]
* NotBloodSiblings: Ginka and Kinka are coin youkai, not actual sisters. Kinka based her human form on her previous owner, and Ginka just copied Kinka's.
* OneNoteCook: The only food Meguru can cook without burning to a crisp is karaage, but when she does make karaage it always turns out in massive quantities for some reason.[[labelnote:*]]post #1231470 [[/labelnote]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Catherine; see PunnyName, below.
* PaintingTheMedium: Ran used semi-transparent speech bubbles, a different font and, from her debut to her accidental kiss with Tamaryu, her speech bubbles lacked outlines.[[labelnote:*]]posts #898453, #903585[[/labelnote]] After the events of Ghostrick Live, which changed the nature of what she is, she uses the same bubbles and font as everyone else.
* PaperFanOfDoom: The punishment for laughing during the ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' arc is getting smacked in the ass by "Smacking-kun", an enchanted paper fan provided by Seren that deals no damage but makes a loud sound and causes great pain.[[labelnote:*]]post #1280108[[/labelnote]]
* ParentalIncest: Elza and Seren[[labelnote:*]]post #841565[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Mifi:''' You perpetrated such acts upon your adopted daughter? Even a thousand years ago, wouldn't that just seem plain wrong on a personal level?\\
'''Elza:''' Well, try to think of it as a parent, though. When raising a magician, it's practically indisputably essential that you train them in the Lustful Arts. Their practical benefits cannot be honestly denied.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Kinka explains the idea after Tamaryu sees her slapping a fan that just stopped working. Tamaryu's attempt to assist splits the fan in half.[[labelnote:*]]post #842422 [[/labelnote]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction / PowerIncontinence: Seren is an immortal magician of immense power with a "Spell Booster" predisposition that automatically, drastically boosts any spells she casts, rendering low-level magic impossible without her PowerLimiter on.[[labelnote:*]]post #1052841,1169783[[/labelnote]] Her nicknames as TheDreaded emphasize the destruction she can cause.[[labelnote:*]] post #1453138[[/labelnote]]
* {{Polyamory}}: Ran/Shizuki/Tamaryu, though Tamaryu isn't too happy with the actual lesbian aspect.[[labelnote:*]]post #1164379[[/labelnote]] When Eldelita attends a sleepover with them, she feels as awkward as someone invited to play and stay overnight at a newlywed's house.[[labelnote:*]]post #1159324[[/labelnote]]
* PottyFailure:
** Tamaryu voids herself on the fifth page after imagining something scary.[[labelnote:*]]post #841532[[/labelnote]]
** Tamaryu and Shizuki void themselves in terror when Ran's attempt at a laugh turns into something like a SlasherSmile. [[labelnote:*]]post #1003232[[/labelnote]]
** Catherine pisses herself laughing when her rush to the bathroom is interrupted by Ran floating through the bathroom wall with a bald cap on her head.[[labelnote:*]]post #1358195[[/labelnote]]
** Catherine [[UrineTrouble voids herself on Tamaryu]] after Tamaryu interrupts another rush with a caressing session.[[labelnote:*]]post #1483462[[/labelnote]]
* PowerLimiter: Seren has to wear one to contain her immense power and allow her to use magic for trivial things. Without it, focusing even a little bit of magical energy would make it become a high class magic.[[labelnote:*]]post #1052841[[/labelnote]]
* PunnyName: Catherine is half fire-eating bird and half dog. "Fire-bird-dog" —> "Ka-Tori-Inu" —> "Catherine". Her real name is Inukai Suzume, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname but no-one calls her that]].[[labelnote:*]]post #1164379 [[/labelnote]]
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Much of the cast. They're youkai, after all. Cranked up another notch when Seren and Elza get aged down to children.
* RealTime: Outside of a few [[StoryArc Story Arcs]], most of the strips' events happens roughly when the strips are released. This is reflected with Tamaryu slow growth in the strips and, thanks for Ghostrick Live, a recap of all the main events that happened during the comic's 3 year hiatus.
* RockThemeNaming: Kinka and Ginka get their name from appending "-ka"[[note]]The character "香"[[/note]] before their namesake metals. At one point, Mifi wonders if the naming scheme would have continued if Tamaryu were a coin youkai instead of a dragon, with "Douka" (corresponding to copper) or even "Pearl-ka". Ginka and Kinka deem it quite likely.[[labelnote:*]] post #842029[[/labelnote]]
* ScrewYourself: As it seems, Genyuu will/had, in the future, make/made our Meguru into a woman. They finally did it in our timeline in February '15, during the hiatus.[[labelnote:*]]post #2930277, 4th panel[[/labelnote]]
* ShoutOut:
** There are numerous ''Videogame/MonsterHunter'' references sprinkled all over the place. Of course, all of Karin-dou have played the game at once at one point.[[labelnote:*]]post #841983[[/labelnote]]
*** The Kinru and Ginru's names as well as being collectively called the Otomos is a reference to the Felyne Comrade (or "Otomo Airu") feature of the portable games.
*** Mifi's body being "burnt ultra-deliciously" or "Hmmm! So tasty!"[[labelnote:*]]yet again, post #847831[[/labelnote]]
*** A text box like the ones you see in Monster Hunter shows up after Tamaryu [[SmashingWatermelons smashes a watermelon]] [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength into a fine pink spray]].[[labelnote:*]]post #841557[[/labelnote]]
** There's an entire story arc dedicated as an homage to ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende''.
* SlasherSmile: Ran pulls one off when trying to force a laugh ([[PottyFailure causing Tamaryu and Shisuki to void themselves]])[[labelnote:*]]post #1003232 [[/labelnote]] and again when groping Tamaryu.[[labelnote:*]]post #1421656[[/labelnote]]
* SleepsWithEveryoneButYou: Elza refuses to have sex with Mifi because of Mifi's VirginPower as shaman of her [[LastOfHisKind perished tribe]].[[labelnote:*]]post #841668[[/labelnote]] The result is an extremely sexually-frustrated maid who constantly begs her master for sex, with the occasional ''attempted rape''.[[labelnote:*]]post #847831, #925309[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Elza''': That tribe perished, leaving Mifi as the last priestess. That said, she must stay pure, or else her powers will disappear. If she loses her purity, just to satisfy myself, Mifi's tribe will perish in a different meaning. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't be showing any restraint...\\
'''Seren''': (Why is she a good person under this circumstance?)
** In the aftermath of Ghostrick Live, during the hiatus, Mifi finally got deflowered by her master, as a request to have her own children.[[labelnote:*]]post #2930291, result in #2930286[[/labelnote]]
* SmashingWatermelons: Held by the Karin-dou four. They really should know better than to hand the bat to ''[[DoesNotKnowHerOwnStrength Tamaryu]]''.
* SnakePeople: Sara, the white snake youkai. She has the lower body of a snake, and on one occasion Sara gets slit pupils and a snake tongue while angry.[[labelnote:*]]post #1488133[[/labelnote]] Ironically, her boyfriend is a toad youkai, who's a little unsettled by Sara's regular, loving remarks about him looking delicious and wanting to eat him up... [[labelnote:*]]post #1164379 [[/labelnote]]
* SpeculativeFictionLGBT: A bit of sci-fi, a bit of fantasy, providing a lesbian relationship with a sorceress.
* SpringtimeForHitler: Kinka challenges Tamaryu to a ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game with the intention of going easy on her but ends up crushing Tamaryu because her hands instinctively cheat. Ginka -- who doesn't even know how to play and makes a deck out of whatever catches her eyes -- takes over to cheer her up, but ''also'' ends up crushing Tamaryu because her great luck keeps giving her good cards.[[labelnote:*]]post #841527[[/labelnote]]
-->'''Seren:''' You two hardly ever cry, she's bawling up a storm... what the hell happened here?
* StableTimeLoop: Genyuu's back story involves this as well as a complete aversion of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet.
* SuddenSchoolUniform: During the ''Series/GakiNoTsukaiYaArahende'' StoryArc, the students were forced to wear uniforms while they didn't before. [[labelnote:*]]post #1275465[[/labelnote]]
* SuperStrongChild: Tamaryu, by virtue of being a dragon.
* TearsOfBlood: On Valentine's Day, Mifi plans to surprise Elza with a NakedApron and chocolate lipstick. However, she then talks in on Elza expressing her happiness over receiving simple chocolates from Seren instead of "getting weirdly gimmicked" and immediately starts screaming and crying tears of blood...[[labelnote:*]]post #841965 [[/labelnote]]
* TechnicalVirgin: Mifi's VirginPower still leaves some alternatives for Elza.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Shizuki is this in the untranslated dialog, even in adult mode.
* TeleportationSickness: Tamaryu's entire class collapses with nausea after Seren mass-teleports them, with the exception of Tamaryu and Elly, who are used to it.[[labelnote:*]]post #1189201[[/labelnote]]
* [[TooKinkyToTorture Too Kinka To Torture]]: A furious Seren hangs Kinka from the ceiling in apparent rope bondage off-panel for a perceived wrong. When she realizes her mistake and returns to release her, she finds a ''very'' happy Kinka saying that she could get used to this as a ''reward''...[[labelnote:*]]post #841559[[/labelnote]]
* TranslationConvention: When the characters are conversing in english, the dialogue goes from top-bottom to left-right.
* TwoTeacherSchool: Justified, as Tamaryu's group is actually a test group. However, all five employees are people that Tamaryu know.[[labelnote:note]]Sachi = Principal, Shizuki = Homeroom teacher, Meguru = All-purpose teacher, Rindou = PR teacher, Shigure = Nurse. Haruno also appears as a filler teacher for a story arc.[[/labelnote]]
* UnusualEars: Unsurprisingly, several characters, as youkai, have unusual ears.
** PointyEars: Tamaryu and Sara have pointy elfish ears that are usually hidden by their hair. Elly, however, has longer and pointier ears that sprout perpendicularly from her head.
** LittleBitBeastly: Shizuki in half-demon mode (fox ears) and Catherine (Dog ears).
* UnwantedHarem: Tamaryu's slowly building a small harem around her. First Shizuki, then a triangle with Ran, then a tetrahedron with Catherine.[[labelnote:*]]post #1488133[[/labelnote]]
* UrbanFantasy: The series takes place in modern Japan.
* UrineTrouble: Catherine voids herself on Tamaryu after Tamaryu interrupts her rush to the bathroom with a caressing session.[[labelnote:*]]post #1483462 [[/labelnote]]
* VirginPower: Mifi's shaman power, which was only ever demonstrated and used in Ghostrick Live. [[spoiler: She has the ability of talking to nature. Plants, animals, rocks and even man-made objects can be communicated with for information. Her first use was to inquire birds about Ran's kidnapping.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Elza and WordOfGod reveals that the former's [[{{Hermaphrodite}} "additional appendage"]] and Seren's ACupAngst is actually their way to defy this trope.
* WorthyOpponent: Seren's explanation for why Tamaryu's previous incarnation didn't hold a grudge for Seren killing her.[[labelnote:*]] post #842002[[/labelnote]]
* {{Youkai}}: Most of the cast are either magicians or some kind of youkai, generally either tsukumogami (coin, camera, ...) or animal (fox, bird/dog, snake, toad, crow, ...). This includes -- somehow -- a ''HenshinHero youkai''. In one strip, Seren/Kinka/Ginka discuss the possibility of virtual idols becoming youkai, with Seren dismissing them as too fleeting to take hold and a moment later suggesting that {{god}} is the original virtual idol.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Despite looking like a busty young woman, Eldelita is actually only five years old when first introduced... counting from when she became Seren's familiar.

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