History Anime / YukiYunaIsAHero

-->--[[ArcWords The Five Tenets of the Sanshu Middle School Hero Club]]

* ''Yuki Yuna is a Hero: Memories of the Forest'' [[note]] ''Yuki Yuna wa Yuusha de aru: Jukai no Kioku''[[/note]] -- A video game released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation Vita}} that takes place between episodes 3 and 5 of the anime, centered around the Hero Club meeting a mysterious girl within the Jukai.

* CoolGuns: Togo's arsenal of sniper rifle and dual magical pistols.

** Karin [[serves on the Taisha's rapid-response team, often rescuing people who try to go out to sea beyond the former barrier.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler: Becoming a Hero means that the girls will live forever, but using Mankai in battle will mean that they'll become progressively more crippled.]]
* WorldOfSilence: Takama-ga-hara, the realm where the heavenly gods reside, is a completely grayscale world devoid of life, and so pure that the soul gets physically separated from the body upon entering. Yuna enters it in ''Hero Chapter'' to rescue Togo, and it's later revealed that [[spoiler:Yuna's soul was trapped there after defeating the Leo Vertex at the climax of Season 1.]]

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* AHouseDivided: The premise of ''Hanayui no Kirameki'': some of the gods within the Shinju have begun to rebel, causing it to lose power, and it's up to the various Heroes and Miko across history to quell the rebellion and reunify the Shinju.

* AndManGrewProud: It's never stated exactly why [[spoiler:the Heavenly Gods decided to purge mankind]], but Sonoko compares it to the story of the Tower of Babel, while Hinata was told by the Shinju that it was due to mankind's "impudence".

* DueToTheDead: In Episode 1 of ''Hero Chapter'', Sonoko visits Gin's grave, which is housed at the Monument to the Fallen Legends which also contains the graves of Wakaba, Tamako and Anzu (and possibly Yuna Takashima) from ''[=NoWaYu=]'', along with hundreds of other graves. It's also where Sonoko [[spoiler:remembers Togo's existence]].
* DwindlingParty: [=NoWaYu=] bills itself as the "cruelest chapter," and it's not kidding. Main characters die, and they die horribly. By the end of Chapter 18, [[spoiler:only Wakaba and Hinata are left alive.]]

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Both played straight and averted, in different ways. [[spoiler: They became heroes and thwart the vertexes, at times for the price of their bodily functions. However, Taisha gave them luxuries (and eventually worship) as recompense.]]

* StellarName:
** Each of the 12 Vertexes has a name corresponding to one of the 12 constellations of the western zodiac. Additionally, the Leo Vertex can fuse with the other Vertex to become the Leo Starcluster.
** The most basic form of Vertex are called Stardust.

* TheFaceless: Most background characters don't get their faces shown.
* TheMagicGoesAway:
** By the end, [[spoiler:the girls have lost their Hero powers, seeing as how the Vertex attacks have been "postponed indefinitely" and so the Shinju no longer needs sacrifices. This is [[TheMagicComesBack inverted by]] ''Sonoko After'', which reveals that soon ''any'' girl who wants to become a Hero will be able to when the Vertex attack again.]]
** The conclusion of ''Hero Chapter'' has [[spoiler:The Shinju use the last of its power to help Yuna annihilate the heavenly gods and restore the world. Without the Vertex threat or the Shinju's protection, the Hero Club returns to their normal civilian life.]]
* TheMutiny: After learning the truth about the world and their mission as Heroes, [[spoiler:Togo turns against the Shinju, whom she should be worshipping and protecting. Refusing to see her friends fight, suffer and lose bodily functions any longer, and her eventually losing memories of them, she instead decides to destroy everything. She is however stopped by Yuna who [[DefeatMeansFriendship beats some sense into her]].]]
* TheStinger: After the end credits of a few episodes.

* TragicDream: [[spoiler:Itsuki wishes to be a singer but loses her voice halfway through the anime. This is subverted by the finale, when her voice returns.]]

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* BoobsOfSteel:
** Togo owns by far the largest chest of the cast and carries [[MoreDakka enough]] [[FriendlySniper firepower]] to completely shift the tide of the battle in the second episode. Later material demonstrates that she's also very physically tough to boot.
** Fu is the oldest girl, has the second biggest rack, and swings a {{BFS}} that puts the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Buster Sword]] to shame.

** Fu asking Togo how she got so "[[GagBoobs Megalopolis]]" is a reference to ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'', a visual novel created by [=YuYuYu=]'s main writer Takahiro, in which one character is said to have a "megalopolis-style" bust.

* UnusualEuphemism: During episode 7's FuroScene, Fu asks Togo how she got so [[GagBoobs "megalopolis."]] Fans haven't let Togo forget about it.

* OffModel: Noticeable in episode 8; the way that Sonoko's lower body is drawn made many fans believe that her legs had been amputated.

* AlternativeCalendar: The series takes place in Year of Shinju 300, marking the time when the Shinju appeared during the apocalypse of the "Anno Domini" era.

* BlandNameProduct: "Pooky" instead if "Pocky".

* BuxomIsBetter: The subject of one of the VisualNovel scenarios (Fu's Determination) is Fu, Itsuki and Yuna trying to come up with ways to make their breasts bigger to compete with [[BoobsOfSteel Togo]]. This leads to some... interesting lines:
--> [[{{Determinator}} Yuna]]: '''I WILL BECOME BIG-BREASTED!'''

* CosyCatastrophe: The series takes place on something of a post-apocalyptic Earth where the section of Japan the girls live on is the only surviving area. Aside from the Shinju-sama worship you wouldn't notice it as everyone and everything is pretty normal. Notably, they still code mobile websites in (English) HTML and ''Jquery''. Also, the mall offers Gelato.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:After lots of hardship and painful battles, all Heroes recover from their wounds (even Sonoko) and lose contact with the Taisha, meaning they won't have to fight anymore. While ''Hero Chapter'' undoes several of the Heroes' efforts and puts them through another round of hardships, they are eventually rewarded with the restoration of the world and elimination of the Vertex, at the cost of the Shinju's life.]]

** [[spoiler:As of ''Sonoko After'', the Taisha have begun trying to avert this by mass-producing the Hero terminals and going on the offensive to reclaim the outside world.]]

* ImpossibleTask: In the ''Sonoko in Reminiscence" short chapter, Sonoko, becoming fed up with the Taisha's reverential treatment of her while still refusing to let her see Sumi, orders the Taisha for things that would normally be impossible, such as: A Manchu Han Imperial Feast [[note]]A series of over 100 extravagant meals served in 6 banquets across 3 days accompanied by entertainment, a luxury normally reserved for emperors in Imperial China whose modern equivalents still cost many thousands of dollars[[/note]]; playing mahjong (while she has no use of any of her limbs), and traditional entertainment such as Rakugo, Manzai and Noh theater performed right in her hospital room. The Taisha fulfill all of these, but they still refuse to let her see her friend.

** [[spoiler:''Sonoko After'' reveals that the Taisha eventually plan to break the masquerade, revealing the truth about the outside world and mass-producing terminals to open the Hero system to the general public.]]

** The Heroes' [[SuperMode Mankai forms]] have this appearance, with detached sleeves and all. In-universe, Miko are [[WaifProphet girls who are able to hear Shinju's voice directly]], and the Taisha get their information through their interpretations.
** [[spoiler:Togo has the powers of both a Hero and a Miko. ''Sonoko After'' states that such people are called "Messiah."]]

** The curse of the Heavenly Gods is able to negate this protection. When Fu [[spoiler:is hit by a car]] in Episode 3 of ''Hero Chapter'', Inugami attempts to block it but its barrier is burned away.

* StellarName: On Togo's tactical screen, each of the 12 Vertexes has a name corresponding to one of the 12 constellations of the zodiac.