History Anime / CorrectorYui

* NarniaTime: The sceond season establishes that the time in the [=ComNet=] is different than the real world. The time in the cyberspace marches at 256 times the speed of real time, allowing people to do tasks that would normally last days (or months) into a few hours.

* ThemeTuneCameo:
** When Yui and her friends are going to participate in the SchoolFestival, 'Eien to iu Basho (A Place Called Eternity)', the first opening, is the song they would be going to sing. [[spoiler: It is also used as a PlotDevice to the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight with Haruna after Grosser corrupts her.]]
** 'Mirai (Future)', the first ending, is also thrown as well (sung by Control), when the correctors are having their last relaxing moments before the fight with Grosser in the first season.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The faces that the Correctors make in their transformation sequences are very... ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything well]]''...

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: Standard for Yui and Haruna's school uniforms.

* MissingMom: Azusa Shinozaki is there in body, but not in mind for most of the series, thanks to her ConvenientComa, [[spoiler: though by the end of the series, she is freed from =[ComNet]= and thus she recovers from her coma]].

* MissingMom: Azusa Shinozaki is there in body, but not in mind for most of the series, thanks to her ConvenientComa, [[spoiler: though by the end of the series, she is freed from ComNet and thus she recovers from her coma]].

* MissingMom: Azusa Shinozaki is there in body, but not in mind for most of the series, thanks to her ConvenientComa, [[spoiler: though by the end of the series she recovers from it]].

* MissingMom: Azusa Shinozaki is there in body, but not in mind thanks to her ConvenientComa.

** Ai's father died when she was a child. Her mom is comatose in the present, so her aunt is seen as her ward and caretaker.

* PaperThinDisguise: None of the villains can tell Corrector Yui from her civilian identity, even after seeing her de-transform. The fact she looks, sounds, and has the ''same name'' in both identities notwithstanding.

* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Played straight by Freeze on Episode 37.

* ActionGirl: Freeze in the second season, mixed with {{Dojikko}} traits.

* AffectionateNickname: Yui likes to call War Wolf, to his disgust, as "Doggie" without any teasing from her side (originally it was because she couldn’t remember his name). [[spoiler:It eventually gets carried on when Synchro returns to his Fearsome Four self-appearance during the second season, something that he initially didn’t like it either]].
* AIIsACrapshoot: The [=ComNet=] computer host, Grosser, rebels against his creator's original purposes and wishes, is [[spoiler:obsessed in wondering what was life and what were humans' emotions]].
* AloofAlly: Corrector Ai.
* ArtificialHuman: Both Correctors and Corruptors were created with feelings, personalities, and thoughts of their own, similar to humans'.

* BodyHorror: Second anime season: The Boggler Virus not only [[spoiler: forcibly turns Synchro into War Wolf]], but at some point [[spoiler: it briefly forces a struggling, panicking Corrector Haruna to beat up Yui with her rod, until Corrector Ai comes in a BigDamnHeroes entry]].

** [[spoiler:Synchro as War Wolf during the first series]].
** [[spoiler:Haruna was under the influence of Grosser in the first season]].

** The Boggles Virus often manages to change the sites’ [=NPCs=] personalities to aggressive ones (to the point of also transform them into monsters), and some of the humans that would get trapped in the infected sites can be affected as well... Freeze not only falls once but twice [[spoiler:(the latter being controlled returning to her corruptor persona, but more dangerous, when the minion of the BigBad of the second season revealed their real intentions about her "part time job")]].
* BrokenBird: Ai Shinozaki is shown as a loner without any friends, ever since her father died. [[spoiler: She was more closer to her mother, though, because she hardly saw her dad at home... and she wanted to be stronger in front of her after his death. So, one needs to wonder why she is much more affected by her mother's coma.]]
* {{Chickification}}: Played straight with [[spoiler: Freeze]], subverted with [[spoiler: Haruna]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: An exclusive character from Asamiya's retelling, there's Chiaki, a girl who Shun is tutoring, and she is slightly jealous of his attention to Yui.
* ComicBookAdaptation: Not only one, but ''two'', actually. The first is the companion manga series (drawn by Keiko Okamoto) that was released by NHK Publishing (and [[NoExportForYou partly]] by Creator/{{Tokyopop}} in the US) simulatenously with the anime series. The second one, drawn by Asamiya, is the retelling of the events of the first season released not so long after it ended.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Yui, Freeze in the second season.
* DarkActionGirl: Freeze in the first season.

* DebutQueue: The first season developed at first for Yui and IR to find the other 7 software programs, each one of them having their introductory episode, while being hidden in websites that were adapted to their personalities and quirks.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Ai starts defrosting after meeting Yui, who was completely the opposite to her, and her perseverance on being friends even after Ai's insistence to refuse her friendship.

* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Tie Suit in the manga [[spoiler: which serves to reboot Grosser]], and the Ultimate Elemental Suit in the anime's finale.

** Yui not only teams up with War Wolf once, but ''twice'' during the first season to either save their own skins or other people’s. [[spoiler:This [[{{foreshadowing}} foreshadows]] the fact that War Wolf wasn't like his teammates, who wanted to cause chaos and destruction, and what strengths up the relationship that he, as Synchro, has with Yui]].
** When Yui considered Ai as her enemy due to clashing and mysterious motives, both teamed up some times to eliminate viruses.
* EnigmaticMinion: War Wolf.

* EvilCostumeSwitch: When normal, [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]]'s white, turuqoise, and pink suit makes her look like an angel, white bird wings included. When she's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy under control]] of the Grosser, it becomes red and black, with devil-bat wings and a devil's tail.
** PaintItBlack: The Angel and Devil Suits might be separate, but their user's alignment summons one or the other, rather than the switch being intentional.

* GeniusBruiser: Yagi, Peace.
* GeniusDitz: Yui, Rescue.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: The Elemental Suits.
* InsideAComputerSystem
* JapanesePronouns: IR prominently uses the old suffix "–dono" when referring to Yui or any other of his comrades, as if they were their masters, making it sound like if he has high respect to them.

* LivingWithTheVillain: While not being exactly a villain, Ai moves next door to Yui. They aren't just neighbors, but their schools also joined together in a Theater drama showcase. At some point, Ai finds out on her own that Yui is Corrector Yui, and Yui also realizes that Corrector Ai and her are the same person.

* MailerDaemon: [[spoiler:Grosser]]'s subconscious met Yui and became amazed by (and obsessed with) her when she was a little girl. This developed into him becoming somewhat of a StalkerWithACrush when he saw her again, although even he didn't know why for a long while.
* MinionShipping: Does Jaggy care ''too'' much of Freeze? She even trusts him more than Virus, and he knows some of her secrets, as well. [[spoiler: He is also the first one to defend her when it looked like she went [[ForcedIntoEvil "bad"]] again]].

* PairTheSpares: Besides the romance existing in Takashi and Haruna, and the sometimes BelligerentSexualTension that Reiko and Ichitaro have [[spoiler:(they become a real couple in the second season)]], Akiko and Hideto are the only ones that don't have a development or any romantic reference to their relationship.

** Haruna's parents are implied to be {{workaholic}}s who aren't usually at home. Little is known about them, even though Haruna's dad was with her on the "Princess Net" site as her prince, and he didn't appeared. It's much more noticeable in the manga though, when Haruna reveals to Yui that her parents even bought her a big computer just for her and that she is alone almost the entire time at home, [[spoiler: and they do appear when Haruna falls into a coma because Grosser took her as "hostage"]].

* ShipTease: Yui has it with Shun; Synchro with [[LesYay Ai]].
* ShrinkingViolet: Haruna start as one, slowly gets better...
* SilkHidingSteel: Haruna, Anti, Rescue in a more child-like way.
* TheSnarkKnight: Ai Shinozaki, sometimes.

* TeamMom: Anti, sometimes Haruna.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Yui and Haruna's friends Reiko and Akiko, as well as Takashi's buddies Ichitaro and Hideto.

* {{Tsundere}}: Reiko is a Type B towards Ichitaro.

* TheUnchosenOne: Yui.

* WeaselMascot: IR.

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman
* YourMindMakesItReal
* ZettaiRyouiki: Standard for Yui and Haruna's school uniforms.

With Grosser's threat gone in the second season, the Correctors stumble upon a new threat in the form of a mysterious virus that ''heavily'' corrupts anything that touches that's apparently connected to a virtual little girl wandering the net. As the chaos of this virus occurs, a mysterious human Corrector named Ai fends off the threat, having her own agenda to achieve...

* EyeCatch: Rather than using some simple bump cards, the eye catches simulate [[Yonkoma 4-Panel manga]] (as if they were drawn by Yui) that sometimes reflect some of the events of the episode in course. When it came back from commercials in Japan, it featured FanArt sent by the viewers.

* ArtificialHuman: Both Correctors and Corruptors have feelings and thoughts of their own.

* BeachEpisode: Also counting as a BreatherEpisode after a whole [[WhamEpisode wham arc]] and just before the first season’s climax. In it, Control decides to take a break with his teammates as an excuse to prepare an attack plan against Grosser, while looking for his whereabouts.

** [[spoiler:Grosser ALSO manipulates Shun before the big battle in the first season (and then he possesses him)]].
** The Boggles Virus often manages to change the sites’ [=NPCs=] personalities to aggressive ones, and some of the humans that would get trapped in the infected sites would be affected as well... Freeze not only falls once but twice [[spoiler:(the latter more dangerous than her previous Fearsome Four role, when the main villain of the second season revealed their real intentions about her "part time job")]].
* BrokenBird: Ai Shinozaki suffered a lot ever since her father died. [[spoiler: Not only she lost her cheerful attitude, but also became a loner. And then, her mom falls into a coma because on an accident.]]

* ComicBookAdaptation: Not only one, but''two'', actually. The first is the companion manga series (drawn by Keiko Okamoto) that was released by NHK Publishing (and [[NoExportForYou partly]] by Creator/{{Tokyopop}} in the US) simulatenously with the anime series. The second one, drawn by Asamiya, is the retelling of the events of the first season released not so long after it ended.

** Ai has her own secret motives to be a corrector, that can seen as "selfish" such as [[spoiler:wanting to localize the Mysterious Little Girl because she is the only clue to know where her comatose mother's conscience is.]]

* DefrostingIceQueen: Ai, in the end.
* DoingInTheWizard: The magic in this show is a part of [[BigGood Dr. Inukai]]'s Corrector Software which is designed to counter and reverse [[BifBad Grosser]]'s influence.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: The Tie Suit.

** Yui not only teams up with War Wolf once, but ''twice'' during the first season to either save their own skins or other people’s. [[spoiler:This {{foreshadows}} the fact that War Wolf wasn't like his teammates, who wanted to cause chaos and destruction, and what strengths up the relationship that he, as Synchro, has with Yui]].
** When Yui considered Ai as her enemy due to clashing motives, both teamed up some times to eliminate viruses.

* EverythingIsOnline: Rather literally.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When normal, [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]]'s white and pink suit makes her look like an angel, white bird wings included. When she's BrainwashedAndCrazy, it becomes red and black, with bat wings and a devil's tail.

* EyeCatch: Rather than using some simple bump cards, the eye catches simulate 4-Panel manga (as if they were drawn by Yui) that sometimes reflect some of the events of the episode in course. When it came back from commercials, sometimes it featured FanArt sent by the viewers.
* {{Fanservice}}: In the anime, Yui's ''very'' detailed {{Transformation Sequence}}s have quite the MaleGaze directed towards either [[{{Gainaxing}} her breasts]], feet, hips and butt. This is [[UpToEleven amped up to]] ''[[UpToEleven eleven]]'' in the second season.
* EyeCatch : Rather than using some simple bump cards, the eye-catches simulate 4-Panel manga (as if they were drawn by Yui) which sometimes reflects some of the events of the episode in course.

** It is implied that Azusa and Shintaro Shinozaki were quite happy together when he was still alive, even more since they shared the same interests, and it was also reflected on Ai's childhood. Heck, [[spoiler:Azusa defended her husband's work against their old colleague [[TheResenter Ryo Kurokawa]].]]

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: Yui, to [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]], and later to [[spoiler:Grosser/Shun]].
* IllGirl: Azusa Shinozaki, Corrector Ai's mother, who's in a ConvenientComa after [[spoiler:her mind is trapped inside the Web by the BigBad]].

* LivingWithTheVillain: While not being exactly a villain, Ai moves next door to Yui. They aren't just neighbors, but their schools also participated together in a Festival. At some point, Ai finds out on her own that Yui is Corrector Yui, and she also realizes that Corrector Ai and her are the same person.
* MagicalGirl: The three Corrector girls: Yui, Haruna and Ai.

* TheMedic: Rescue.

* MissingMom: Azusa is there in body, but not in mind thanks to her ConvenientComa.
* MysteriousWaif: The Little Girl from the second anime season.
* OverprotectiveDad: Yui's father.

** Haruna's parents are more interested in work than their daughter and ignore her almost completely.
** Haruna's father was on the "Princess Net" site as the prince (According to Haruna herself) but we never see him or know who is him
** [[spoiler:Ai]]'s father died when she was a little girl and her mom is comatose, so her paternal aunt is her ward and caretaker.

* RecapEpisode: Episode 13 of the first season resumes everything that happens upon that point of the series, acting as mid-point for the viewer.

* WrenchWench: Rescue.

* VillainEpisode: Episode 17, instead of focusing in Yui and her friends, [[ADayIntheLimelight focuses mostly]] on War Wolf and the other corruptors' relationship until an accident occurs. At the end, it makes it clear that War Wolf does worry about his comrades, no matter how much atrocities happen in between them.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Grosser

* BelligerentSexualTension: Reiko and Ichitaro.
* BodyguardCrush: It's hinted that Synchro ''might'' be in love with Yui.

* BrokenBird: Corrector Ai.

* ClingyJealousGirl: From the Asamiya's adaptation, there is Chiaki, a girl who Shun is tutoring and who is slightly jealous of Shun's attention to Yui.

** [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]], when controlled by Grosser.
** Corrector Ai, later.

* DoingInTheWizard: The magic in this show is a part of [[TheProfessor Dr]]. [[BigGood Inukai's]] Corrector Software which is designed to counter and reverse [[AIIsACrapshoot Gros]][[BigBad ser's]] influence.

** It also takes it the "Four" name more symbolic given that their [[spoiler:eventual vacant]] last recruited member was an EnigmaticMinion, replaced by a DarkMagicalGirl and later by a last minute added member [[spoiler:who was [[DemonicPossession possessed by Grosser]]]]. The catch? [[spoiler:Everyone was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]]]].

* GottaCatchThemAll

* [[LivingWithTheVillain Living Next Door To The]] {{Anti Hero}}ine: Yui and Ai are next-door neighbors.

* PutOnABus: [[spoiler:Shun]], in the second season.

* TallDarkAndSnarky: Synchro.

* ThemeTuneCameo: When Yui and her friends are going to participate in the SchoolFestival, 'Eien to iu Basho (A Place Called Eternity)', the first opening, is the song they would be going to sing. [[spoiler: It is also used as a PlotDevice to the IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight with Haruna after Grosser corrupts her.]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Year 2020.

* BatmanGambit: How [[spoiler:Grosser]] manipulates [[spoiler:Haruna]] to separate Yui from her Corrector friends and then controlling her. The planner knew their mark would do it to keep Yui out of danger
* BeachEpisode: Also counting as a BreatherEpisode after a whole [[WhamEpisode wham arc]] and just before the first season’s climax. Control decides to take a break with his teammates as an excuse to prepare an attack plan against Grosser, while looking for his whereabouts.

* BodyguardCrush: It's hinted a bit that [[spoiler:Synchro]] might be in love with Yui.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Chiaki from the Asamiya manga.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The faces that the Correctors make in their transformation sequences are very... ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything orgasmic]]'' indeed.

After Kia Asamiya created ''SteamDetectives'' for his son, he looked yet again into an unfamiliar genre, this time for his daughter, who was a fan of {{Magical Girl}}s. He came up with a story that brought the typical wand-waving, miniskirt-wearing junior high girl TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture by making her a regular girl in the real world and a magical girl online.

The original manga was commissioned to a mangaka named Keiko Okamoto which adapted the two seasons in a 9-volume manga series of two parts (5 for the first, 4 for the second). Asamiya later wrote his own version.

* AffectionateNickname: Yui calls War Wolf 'Doggie' or 'Wan-chan', she obviously doesn't do that (later, at least) to tease him... [[spoiler: and it is carried on when Synchro returns to his Fearsome Four self during the second season. He doesn't like the nickname but after a while, he gets used to it.]]

** [[spoiler:Synchro as War Wolf during the first season]] until TheReveal.
** [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]], in the first season.
** In the end of the first season, it's hinted that [[spoiler:Grosser]] recruited his QuirkyMinibossSquad similarly.
** In the second season, Control and Freeze.

* EnemyMine: Yui and War Wolf have to team up at least ''thrice'' in the first season to either save their skins or other people.

* FiveManBand: In the second season, four Correctors join Yui more frequently than the others and form a team with her.
** TheHero: Corrector Yui.
** TheLancer: Control.
** TheBigGuy: Synchro.
** TheSmartGuy: IR.
** TheChick: Rescue.
** SixthRanger: [[spoiler:Corrector Haruna]] and Corrector Ai.