NQDC
is an
Animesque Meta
Life Embellished Webcomic that is also available in print. It focuses heavily on
Parody, and
Breaking The Fourth Wall. It advertises itself as plotless, but there have been several
Story Arcs, interspersed with one-off "Intermezzo" episodes. Despite the presence of aliens, ninjas, sky pirates, zombies, demons, and magic, the
Not Quite Daily Comic features very little conflict and instead concentrates on interpersonal relationships and philosophical questions.
NQDC follows an occasionally expanding cast of recurring characters:
The default setting appears to be
Belgium, with occasional travel elsewhere.
NQDC provides examples of:
- Adventurer Archaeologist: : as a Shout Out to Tomb Raider here and Indiana Jones, complete with Fedora.
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Lea sometimes
- Are They Still On Namek
- Art Evolution
- Author Appeal: girls, cats,swords, armor, goth costumes...
- Badass Longcoat: Irene
- Beam Of Enlightenment: lampooned as a Shout Out to Dragon Ball here
- Bilingual Bonus
- Brother Chuck: Irene's husband Alex
- Cat Fight: Irene and S-ko, Kazuma and Malène
- Cat Smile: Myshka, duh
- Character Development
- Commedia Dell Arte Troupe: particularly in The Canterbury Tales arc
- Convenient Coma
- Cool Airship: Millennium Snowball
- Cross Popping Veins
- Cut And Paste Comic
- Cute Little Fangs: Myshka, Malène
- Cute Monster Girl: Myshka, Lulu
- Demon Head: Kazuma does this
- Demonic Possession: S-ko
- Disappeared Dad: Lea's
- Dual Wielding: Kazuma
- Elephants Child: Lea
- Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting
- Exposition Party: it's worse; Exposition Sex Scene
- Face On A Milk Carton: Kirika from Noir makes an appearance on one in a meta-joke.
- Faceless Masses: like here
- Fan Disservice: unless you're into that sort of thing
- Fanservice
- Fetish Fuel: like here
- Fetish Fuel Station Attendant: Malène
- Fiery Redhead (inverted): Tam
- Foe Yay: Malène and everybody else
- Fourth Wall Observer
- Framing Device
- Furo Scene here
- Genre Savvy
- Genre Shift
- Gratuitous Foreign Language (Japanese)
- The Grim Reaper: Kira has appeared as such
- Handwave: often lampshaded
- Harem Anime: lampooned in its own story arc
- Harmless Villain: Malène
- Hellish Pupils: Malène
- Hermetic Magic
- Ho Yay
- Hot Amazon: Kazuma
- Hot Springs Episode
- Human Aliens
- Humans Are Ugly: S-ko regularly refers to humans as "slimy aliens"
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: episode titles go "Not Quite x" or "Intermezzo"
- Indy Escape: averted
- Immortal Immaturity: Malène
- Important Haircut: Irene
- Innocent Fanservice Girl: Myshka and Lulu
- Instant Awesome Just Add Ninja: Irene
- Involuntary Shapeshifting: almost everyone at some point
- It Runs On Nonsensoleum
- Katanas Are Just Better: averted
- Les Yay
- Lightning Glare
- Lolicon: Mocked as well
- Love Dodecahedron
- Magical Girlfriend: Referenced by name and lampooned in its own story arc, making fun of such things as the You Suck nature of the male protagonists of said series.
- Mandys Law Of Anime Gender Bending
- Man In A Kilt: Mr. Artist
- Meganekko: Kazuma
- Ms Fanservice: everyone, including the men
- Naked On Arrival: the Henshin incident
- Non Mammal Mammaries: averted by Lulu
- Not Distracted By The Sexy: Karl
- Obligatory War Crime Scene
- Older Than They Look: Malène, Lulu
- One Hour Work Week
- Our Zombies Are Different: Shout Out to Silent Hill here
- Panty Shot: Too many to count, though Malene does it on purpose
- Peeka Boo: used so inconsistently that it's presumably for laughs, such as with a speech bubble.
- Planet Eris
- Pretty Freeloaders
- Pretty In Mink
- Psychic Powers: Kazuma
- Quirky Household
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Malène
- Red Eyes Take Warning: Malène
- Reverse Grip: both Kazuma and Mr. Artist use it occasionally
- Rule Thirty Four: explicitly called out
- Samus Is A Girl: Kazuma
- Sdrawkcab Name: Mat's name change to Tam, Cos to S-ko.
- Self Insert Fic: With predictable Lampshade Hanging
- She Fu
- Ship Tease
- Shirtless Scene: lots of them
- Shout Out: the comic is highly intertextual, and has many references. Like to Revolutionary Girl Utena here
- Show Within A Show: at one point they watch themselves in a movie they made earlier
- Space Opera
- Speech Bubbles: interacting with characters
- Spot The Imposter: Malène does Voluntary Shapeshifting
- Stripperiffic: Mocked
- Super Deformed
- Sword Fight
- Tarot Motifs here or here
- Temple Of Doom: several times, as a Shout Out to Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider
- Tentacle Rope here
- The Four Gods: Malène's mother mistakes Lulu for Genbu
- The Sweat Drop
- Tuckerization: several characters are based on real life people, including one who is a troper
- Two Gamers On A Couch: subverted, they sit on the floor
- Unusual Ears: Malène
- Viewers Are Geniuses
- Write Who You Know
- Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe lampooned here
