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
Light Novels, 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.
Tropes include:
- A Boy And His X — A boy and his Ghost.
- Absurdly Powerful Student Council — 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.
- Anti Magic — 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.
- Boat Lights — Kanade normally has blue eyes, but if she "powers up" one of her eyes changes to green. This may change if she takes a level in badass and has both eyes go green.
- Cute Ghost Girl — Misao, though she's not quite a ghost. She's a projected existence, which is close enough.
- Aine and Shuri's sister Yukari also count. In fact although some are rarely seen, every Asura Machina in the show has one related to it.
- Cybernetics Eat Your Soul — Explained as a last word at the last episode.
- Dead All Along — Tomoharu's older brother is dead all along.
- Defeat Means Friendship — Half of the casts halfway to the end were once enemies at the beginning of the series.
- Downer Ending — The last episode unceremoniously took a darker turn and kill the Cute Ghost Girl as listed above. Besides, although the hero saves the day, the Big Bad took Karma Houdini Villain Exit Stage Left and The Bad Guy Wins.
- Second season though makes you question whether he really was a Big Bad or not since he just lost TWO important people in his life.
- Dude Shes Like In A Coma — When Shuri passes out (also, she 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.
- Freud Was Right — These jokes unexpectedly thrown on the last parts of episode 11 and the beginning of episode 12.
- Future Badass — From another world, but Tomoharu-1 is a much more serious version of Tomoharu-2.
- Gone Horribly Right — Black hole experiments in the first world destroyed it and caused a collision of multiple dimensions.
- The Gunslinger — 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.
- Hollywood Cyborg — Shuri, whose body is loaded with guns. More Dakka!
- Humongous Mecha — The Asura Machina, which is at least mecha-like.
- Jacob Marley Apparel — 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.
- Melee A Trois — The first episode.
- Mood Whiplash — Mild version happened at Episode 11, a comedy interspersed with Tear Jerker.
- Miko — Kanade.
- Nightmare Fuel — Episode 9... It's all goes Eversion for one character...
- New Transfer Student — Misao, which gets treated as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
- Ordinary High School Student — Tomoharu
- People Jars — The Burial Dolls within the Asura Machina.
- Playing With Fire — Kanade's powers, once put to use in helping Tomoharu recover from a cold.
- The Power Of Love — 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.
- Red String Of Fate — 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...
- Smug Snake — Kagakagari Takaya.
- Try Kiyomi from the 1st Student Government. He's WAAAAY more of a Smug Snake than Kagakagari
- Soul Jar —Hisui Reishirou's/ Aine's Asura Machina in Episode 12.
- Tear Jerker — Episode 11
- Second season presents us with episode 17. At the end of the episode, they managed to kill Kagakagari's TWO friends Christina and Kotori, Kagakagari's Machina.
- Those Two Guys — Higuchi and An.
- We Could Have Avoided All This — 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.
- Well Intentioned Extremist — Kagakagari, in light of things.
- Winds Of Destiny Change — The power of Ania and her family. She can give and take luck at will.
