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Kagerou is an ongoing Web Comic about an androgynous young man who is transported to a fantastical Alternate Universe, where he, as the Chosen One, teams up with the rest of the Five Man Band to save the princess and vanquish the Big Bad in the process. What? You've heard this one before? Oh, I forgot: the hero is a mentally unsound hippie-nerd with several alternate personalities, one of which is his neurotic 8-year-old self (maybe), another of which is actually a psychopathic, serial murder-rapist vengeful ghost. And it's entirely plausible that the entire thing might just be a head-trauma induced hallucination...
This comic provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Cho is a far more competent fighter than Kano. And now that she's got the magic weapon of one of the gods too...
- Archive Panic: When the archive page keeps expanding to show the over 45 chapters with 850+ pages, it can definitely get a little intimidating.
- Art Evolution: And how!
- Attempted Rape: Red usually gets away with it, but Kano distracted him just once... long enough for his victim to steal his gun.
- Badass Long Coat: Red is quite pleased when he finds one stashed in Cho's closet. Despite expressing disdain for said coat, Kano has yet to get rid of it.
- Big Bad: Kuroyama, Tcaolin, and Red are all vying for this position.
- Big Beautiful Woman: Though not as extreme as some examples, Cho is intentionally drawn with a few extra pounds, and it doesn't diminish her hotness at all.
- Big Damn Heroes: Cho had one of these recently when saving the team from the zombies.
- Black Bug Room: Kano's mind seems to be composed primarily of them. The only section we've seen that isn't completely horrible (so far) is the warehouse room where Kid resides. And even that place has its problems.
- The Chosen One: The Champion is an integral part of the Triad Bond. Unfortunately, Tcaolin and Tonbo each choose a separate Champion, resulting in... some confusion. Neither of them seems terribly intent on being a very useful Champion, besides.
- Common Eye Colors: Kano's eyes are green, Kid's are blue and Red's are.... red. Both Kano's and Kid's eyes eventually change to orange, though.
- Complete Monster: Red is pretty close to this trope, as he's shown no redeeming qualities whatsoever so far. The aptly named Monster probably deserves honorable mention as well, although Red manages to out-monster her at every opportunity.
- Cool Sword: The Blade of Sigmr Ch'k, no question. It's a floating magic katana, the handle of which is covered in teeth. When Kano uses it, it hovers six inches away from his hand, connected to his arm by the quetzacoatlic personification of the dragon-god of war. If that's not a Cool Sword, I don't know what is.
- Couldn't Find A Pen: Dark scribbles the names of Red's victims on glass using blood leaking from his empty eye sockets, which he had scratched out on the journey there.
- Creepy Monotone: According to Word Of God, Kano's regular voice is an example of this.
- Crouching Moron Hidden Badass: When Kano gets angry, shit gets real. Of course, this happens VERY rarely, and Kano tends to get interrupted (read: stabbed) before he can do any real damage.
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Red gets one when he kills Monster. It's also a Crowning Moment of Creepy.
Monster(currently being choked by Red's hair): Aren't... you... the Champion?
Red: Sure. What's your point?
Monster: You're... supposed to be... the GOOD guy!
Red: Oh. I'll keep that in mind.
He snaps her neck.
- Kano receives one all his own a little later: he snaps out of his Heroic BSOD just in time to stop Red from raping Fuuka, which he accomplishes by beating Red half to death (...again) with a tire iron.
- Don't forget Tonbo, who before then had been a Distressed Damsel, telling Tcaolin exactly where to shove it after getting her speech back:
- Dark has one in the form of setting Red on fire after making him read the names of every person he had ever killed. And then stabbing him with giant fiery fingers.
- Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: Kano's impulsive, awkward, adorable hand-on-the-shoulder-comfort moment with Cho. It's especially heartwarming because Kano despises physical contact.
- Cute Bruiser: Cho may barely hit 5 feet, but she will happily kick your ass from here to Sunday.
- Dead Little Sister: Nadia
- Draco In Leather Pants: If Red weren't so damn pretty, we'd hate him a lot more.
- Dude Looks Like A Lady: Kano.
- Embarrassing Middle Name: Red's whole name, in fact: James Valentine Beethoven. Yes, you may laugh at him.
- Enemy Within: Red fits this trope pretty much to a T.
- Everythings Better With Princesses: Princess Tonbo, who looks a lot like a someone Kano used to know... from a mental hospital.
- Evil Is Sexy: Red. Dear God, Red.
- Eye Scream: Oh dear God. (Spoilers, NSFW.)
- The Fair Folk: Fae in Gray World are severely persecuted by humans, and treated as third-class citizens. Everyone thinks of them as thieves and tricksters, a stereotype The Nick... plays into perfectly happily. Whoops.
- Fetish Fuel: Monster. Somehow, the longer the battle wears on, the more this is amped up. (It's implied that her true form is actually a hideous demon, but Kano never battles this form.)
- Five Man Band: Could be configured various ways. Kano as the Hero, The Nick as the Lancer, Cho as the Big Guy, Starless as the Smart One, and Tonbo as the Chick tends to work out pretty nicely, though Kano's not a very effective Hero.
- Genre Savvy: Red has made several jabs at the plot, mentioning once that it sounds like a "really bad anime."
- Good People Have Good Sex: The Nick and the Princess. Whenever they can.
- Gorn: The author actually apologizes when things get especially bloody, claiming to dislike all the blood. Given how often and how copious the bleeding is, however, this is most likely bullshit.
- Hair Of Gold: Kid has the blondest hair out of all Kano's alternate personalities.
- Head Pet: Djinko and Djanko tend to ride in Kano's hair.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: Pretty much anything that happens in Kano's head qualifies. The horrible tentacle creatures? Hung from the ceiling with pipes through his chest? The Breaking Noise Monster? Yeesh.
- Journey To The Center Of The Mind: Fuuka's entire story arc to date has been one long journey through Kano's mind, meeting and dealing with the various denizens therein, while looking for a way out.
- Kick The Dog: Red.
- Locked Out Of The Loop: For most of the comic, Kano is unaware of his other personalities, though he's slowly figuring it out. Dark's entire purpose is to keep Kano from remembering a bunch of things about his past.
- Hammerspace: Justified in-world by the presence of Grims, a floating talking cloud, who seems to serve no purpose in the story other than to carry around the characters' changes of clothes and Kano's sword.
- Mad Eye: Kano's pupils are often drastically different sizes. Kid has it too, inside Kano's head.
- Mental World: A good chunk of the story is Fuuka's journey through Kano's chaotic, nightmarish mind, and the horrible things that happen while she is there.
- Mind Screw: And how.
- Mind Rape: Poor, poor Kano...
- Mismatched Eyes: Moko.
- Mood Dissonance: Look at all the pretty colors! Even the blood... and gore... is... nice and vivid... dear god.
- Mood Whiplash: During the middle of an intense fight between Monster and Kano... we cut to a chibi Monty Python reference and an apologetic note from the author. At the time it was a semi-joke page to cover for an extended hiatus, but in an archive read it... feels very out of place.
- Mysterious Parent: It's been implied that Kano's father (known so far only as The Doctor) is very important somehow.
- No Holds Barred Beatdown: Kano's Crowning Moment Of Awesome, which manages to instill a strange mixture of triumph and pure horror in readers.
- Physical God: Very much so. Tcaolin loves showing up to taunt people in person, and Firefox and Dreamwalker seem to have joined the party.
- Rebellious Princess: As Tonbo's soul, Fuuka is very much this.
- Sanity Slippage
- Schedule Slip: Unfortunately, our beloved author isn't very consistent with updates. This is somewhat forgivable, due to the author not exactly having the most comfortable lifestyle.
- Screw Destiny: The Nick quite openly turns his back on his role as Tcaolin's Champion to save Tonbo. Red seems to have taken his place in that role, somehow.
- Serial Killer: Guess who.
- Series Hiatus: Kagerou has gone on a few of these over the years, often over the summer (aka Con Season).
- Speech Bubbles: While everyone sticks to the same font in bubbles, their font color changes. Quite a few characters who communicate without speech bubbles (Dark comes to mind) have rather creepier fonts. This is often one of the only ways you can tell who's talking, and who's in control of Kano's body.
- Split Personality: The premise of the series centers around this. The main character has quite a few folk living in his head at this point. It's taken quite seriously, as the author is rather a crazy person himself, and VERY knowledgeable about DID.
- Split Personality Takeover: Red seems quite intent on doing this to Kano.
- Star Crossed Lovers: Tonbo and The Nick.
- They don't look that star-crossed now.
- And by that we mean they mate like rabbits.
- Stripperiffic: Cho, who usually claims skimpy clothes are better for fighting in... but does eventually admit she wears it just because she can. Her half-sister Moko also mocks her for it.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Red has magic. Kano doesn't. It's unclear as to whether or not Dark does, or if that was just Red getting an early start on his takeover.
- Kano has magic, he just doesn't seem to know how to use it. The most he seems capable of is making lights flicker out. Kid seems to have his own set of powers.
- Oh, Dark has magic. Just ask Justin.
- Something that Red has just experienced.
- Sword In The Stone: Kano has to go to Ir to retrieve the Blade from a statue. There is some conflict over who should've drawn it, though, as The Nick shows up claiming to the title of Champion.
- Talking To Themself: Kano's introduction to Red is when Red hangs him from the ceiling for a little chit-chat, inside the skull they both live in.
- Took A Level In Badass: ... in theory. We have yet to see Kano's sword practice be very useful. On the other hand, Cho has wasted no time putting her new god-backed fisticuffs to use.
- Transsexual: Heyoka is genderqueer. Again, played very realistically, as the author is genderqueer as well. In Heyoka's case, she got put in a mental hospital by her parents for it. Fortunately, the staff at the hospital seem very friendly and are fine with letting her right back out. (Though she does dress considerably more masculine for her release hearing...)
- Trapped In Another World: Kano in the Gray World.
- Webcomic Time: Kagerou started in 2001. Kano has been in Gray World... a few months?
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Heyoka.
- The Woobie: Pretty much all of the main characters take a turn as The Woobie, but Kano, Kid, and Tonbo/Fuuka come out on top.
- Dark blows them all out of the water.
- Word Of God: The author enjoys throwing readers a bone by revealing trivial (yet entertaining) information about various characters, including their favorite foods, what their voices sound like, and what kind of underwear they prefer.
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