Hyakuji High School is a long running anime based RPG game, based, believe it or not, on High School life. Unlike normal high schools in Japan, the students have various gifts. Typically in the forms of superpowers. Students from across the world (and sometimes even further) come to learn how to control their gifts, and Hijinx naturally ensue.Running for 6 years, this Play By Post RPG has a long history, and is always accepting new members. It has no set genre, allowing for everything from Mad Scientists to Kamen Rider to Magiciansofmanytypes to be played.
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Aborted Arc: Wo Shing, the crime syndicate that didn't really do anything.
Badass Biker: While the Kamen Rider characters are mostly this, there are also some relatively non-Kamen Rider characters who are also badass and ride bikes like Nickle to name one.
Badass Normal: Though rare, there are some relatively normal characters with little or no powers at all that sometimes shares the limelight with their super-powered friends.
Beach Episode: The WDA'S [V] threads were this. A number of players did try to use it for actual character development though.
BFS: Mayu's Axebreaker and Nickle's Kaneryuu, as well as the claymore wielded by Selene's summoned Valkyrie.
Big Damn Heroes: Often, whether with Humongous Mecha, or through their own abilities, students at the school have an uncanny nack to arrive just in the nick of time to save the day. However, given the variance on this site, its easily subverted by the Big Damn Heroes not quite proving to be as useful as one would hope.
Big Good: While the site doesn't have any single main character, Hiro tends to be a central figure in most plots and is the founder and original leader of Arcadia.
Broken Ace: Rin Kimiko, also known as the Kaimu Student Council President. Not only did she have high level psychic powers, but she designed a machine that was, from a statistical point of view, not only more powerful than Hyakuzor, but was constructed in a significantly reduced time scale. Unfortunately for her (and everyone else of course), she was batshit crazy.
Determinator: A good number of characters get things done by sheer force of will.
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Various extra dimensional entities have gotten this treatment, up to and including Cthulhu himself.
Doing It for the Art: Remember, this site has been running for six years now, and features a wide array of plots and character archetypes. Whilst some members do it solely out of fun or wish fulfillment, others work painstakingly to craft a truly good narrative, managing to tie various ideas together into a coherent plot, despite so many things that might otherwise conflict with each other.
Dysfunction Junction: Most characters come in with issues. Those that don't usually get them.
Expy: Takamachi Miyuki shares a host of appearance and personality traits that are clearly inspired by several established characters, but most notably Archer, Bazett and Ein.
Fanservice: Almost certainly present, given how heavily influenced by anime the site is. Just how much depends on the roleplayers and characters involved.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink: The very nature of the setting where Hyakuji High School takes place is an embodiment of this trope.
Heroes R Us: Arcadia, which serves to not only recruit new members, but train, equip, and use them to fight supernatural menaces in Japan. The BPRD is their American counterpart. It helps that many of its members are either students or teachers at the High School.
There's also BOARD, which designs, tests, and utilises Kamen Rider suits that are used to help save the day by many a character.
For a smaller scale operation, there's the Willicott Detective Agency. Whilst probably not as well funded as the previous two examples, they've still got enough skill and equipment to be of help if one needs it.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Sometimes justified, sometimes not. Due to there being no real main character for the site, and thus no guarantee someone will get to save the day, its indeed quite possible for some characters to prove themselves unable to help, as was the main source of Angst for Star after the end of Season 3. Whether or not they do anything about it, or if anyone tries to show where they actually have helped, of course, depends on the writer.
Hiro Did It: The explanation of how everyone forgot about Arcadia between the Kingdom Hearts season and the current one.
Hotblooded: Several characters, to the point that amongst the awards given to members, there is one for the most testorone prone poster.
Hyakuzor meanwhile just seems to make those piloting it suddenly get immensely hotblooded. Perhaps its a requirement to move it?
Instant Awesome, Just Add Mecha: The high school has an adjoining Photon Laboratory holding several mechas of both Super Robot and Real Robot varieties, just for kicks and the occasional mecha related battles.
Joshikousei: A good percentage of the female students.
Late for School: Averted. Due to rules stating that people who miss the start of topics should act like their characters have been there all along, nobody is EVER late for school. (Granted, this may just be because detention is a very scary place.)
Mega Manning: Currently banned as an actual power, though only for new characters. Preexisting examples of this include Yuki Unsere, a demon that is currently bound as Hiro's servant, who can learn any spell, so long as she watches it long enough.
The trope is also how Hyakuzor tends to even the playing field against tougher opponents. Sure, the machine itself can't really take on people's powers (not unless that is part of the powers themselves), but that doesn't mean people can't up the scale of how they use them to Humongous Mecha size.
Minored In Asskicking: You get all your high school education...And...let's just say that instead of issuing safety warnings saying not to walk home alone at night, the city has to send the gangs safety warnings saying you will be walking home alone at night.
Though not always played straight; see Super Loser below.
A good number of inactive characters are assumed to be dead since The Heartless attacked. Their bodies were never found, making this a convenient Hand Wave if they ever decide to come back.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Played painfully straight many a time. Where shall we begin? Despite being at the forefront of many potentially apcalyptic scenarios and narrowly saving the world, the school was considered a danger to the city by Japanese authorities, who saw it fit to slash the government budget for Hyakuji High, eventually setting into motion the events of Season 3.
And while we're at it, teen prodigydeejayDominique's full name is Dominique Quintessa Reine Dieudonnee Rosenblade.
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Selene Frostfire's bodyguards. Their job is to keep their charge safe and often show up in threads from time to time, but they're never around when actually needed, such as in serious battle threads. So their job in a sense is pretty much just to stand around and look badass in their Armani suits and Cool Shades.
Power Incontinence: This trope tends to happen to new students, particularly those who have just discovered their powers. Pyromancers are frequent targets.
In this thread it was decided that if Jonny was ever voiced, both his English dub actor and Seiyuu would be the men who voice Simon the Digger. Subsequently, Jonny can be found quoting or adapting some of Simon's best lines.
Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Whilst the site as a whole currently sits towards the idealistic side of things (The Power of Love and Heroic Willpower are often more than capable of getting a job done), it has and still does swing towards cynicism. Indeed, struggling to decide where exactly one sits on the scale is often a plot for characters.
Super Loser: See Dysfunction Junction as above, which is a very common cause for this trope. But kinda expected given the nature of a school setting, since everyone knows that in a school setting, you will always see your fair share of cool kids and losers.
The Worf Effect - Hiro Tsukasa is possibly the strongest character on the site. So when a threat shows up for the students to deal with, it's either this or he happens to be conveniently elsewhere.
Transformation Sequence: Yes, some Kamen Riders or other such heroes do manage to have sequence that occurs every time they Henshin. For some, its simply the picture of their transformed state, whilst others actually have bits of soundtrack in the post, along with special sprites to simulate the show's own effects.
They Clean Up Nicely: The prom held to celebrate the school's continued survival after a series of financial troubles and rival schools is this for many of the students, and even a few of the teachers.
Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny:invoked Given the site's 'anything-goes-rpg' status, and how a number of anime characters are used as the basis of profiles, there's a lot of room to work with. Would you like to see Zorc versus Granteed? Zack Fair versus The Heartless? Its happened folks!
Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World: Applies for most characters, given that a large number are students at the school, and a fair few others are teachers. The two sides aren't always mutually exclusive either.
World of Badass: Whilst by no means are most, or even the majority of the cast fighters, a good portion of the site's IC population are certainly good at kicking ass and taking names. And as for theexceptions? They learn, well at least most of them do. It's almost like if you aren't a badass when you enrolled, you will almost surely become one by the time you graduate.
Whatever Mancy: In addition to pyromancers, cryomancers, etc, general mastery of elemental powers is referred to as 'elemancery' as an umbrella term.
is a long running anime based RPG game, based, believe it or not, on High School life. Unlike normal high schools in Japan, the students have various gifts. Typically in the forms of superpowers. Students from across the world (and sometimes even further) come to learn how to control their gifts, and Hijinx naturally ensue.Running for 6 years, this Play By Post RPG has a long history, and is always accepting new members. It has no set genre, allowing for everything from Mad Scientists to Kamen Rider to Magicians of many types to be played.
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