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* ActionGirl: Kimiko and Lady Light both practically ooze badass
* AdultFear: imagine your son has been out all day, it's the middle of the night and he's not come home yet. Then you hear a knock at the door and answer it only to find said son unconscious in a heap on the doorstep. The next day, you're called into his school to pick him up because he has a concussion and he remembers nothing. It almost seems as if Matsuda's poor mother exists solely to drive this trope home.
** Lady Light can kill you with ease. If she decides she wants to kill someone, they're probably dead.
* AdultFear: imagine your son has been out all day, it's the middle of the night and he's not come home yet. Then you hear a knock at the door and answer it only to find said son unconscious in a heap on the doorstep. The next day, you're called into his school to pick him up because he has a concussion and he remembers nothing. It almost seems as if Matsuda's poor mother exists solely to drive this trope home.
** Lady Light can kill you with ease. If she decides she wants to kill someone, they're probably dead.
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* AdultFear: imagine your son has been out all day, it's the middle of the night and he's not come home yet. Then you hear a knock at the door and answer it only to find said son unconscious in a heap on the doorstep. The next day, you're called into his school to pick him up because he has a concussion and he remembers nothing. It almost seems as if Matsuda's poor mother exists solely to drive this trope home.
** Lady Light can kill you with ease. If she decides she wants to kill someone, they're probably dead.
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* RealityEnsues: Matsuda gets a concussion from being thrown around in his duel with Lady Light.
** Miranda has a gun, and she seems prepared to use that before resorting to card games.
** Miranda has a gun, and she seems prepared to use that before resorting to card games.
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''Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain'' is a ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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* CallingYourAttacks: it's a YuGiOh story.
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* CallingYourAttacks: it's a YuGiOh ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' story.
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* WhamEpisode: Chapter 8 literally throws Kimiko to the wolves and reveals the legitimate threat of another villain who drives two heroes into a wall before Matsuda shows up and we get a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Kimiko finally decides to stop being a JerkAss.
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* WhamEpisode: Chapter 8 literally throws Kimiko to the wolves and reveals the legitimate threat of another villain who drives two heroes into a wall before Matsuda shows up and we get a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Kimiko finally decides to stop being a JerkAss.
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* DarkerAndEdgier/BloodierAndGorier: than the source material, at least as far as graphic violence is concerned. Though YuGiOhArcV IS incredibly dark, it is still {{shounen}}. This story, however, makes the content seem much more adult. See Lady Light blowing a guy's brains out in chapter 3.
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* DarkerAndEdgier/BloodierAndGorier: than the source material, at least as far as graphic violence is concerned. Though YuGiOhArcV ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' IS incredibly dark, it is still {{shounen}}. This story, however, makes the content seem much more adult. See Lady Light blowing a guy's brains out in chapter 3.
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** there's one to YuGiOhArcV itself in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in chapter 4.
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** there's one to YuGiOhArcV ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' itself in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in chapter 4.
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is a Anime/YuGiOhArcV fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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''Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain'' is a Anime/YuGiOhArcV ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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** Kenta's name is a shout-out in and of itself: Kenta is taken from KentaKobayashi, with Miyano taken from seiyuu MamoruMiyano.
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** Kenta's name is a shout-out in and of itself: Kenta is taken from KentaKobayashi, Wrestling/KentaKobayashi, with Miyano taken from seiyuu MamoruMiyano.Creator/MamoruMiyano.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain is a Anime/YuGiOhArcV fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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*** Motivator is [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], with Giga-Mech being Gurren.
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*** Motivator is [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], with Giga-Mech being Gurren.
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* {{Sadist}}: Kimiko shows shades in chapter 9 when she curb-stomps Brock and looks positively 'delighted' as she does so. In the same chapter she had also made several threats with regards to making he and Hiro "suffer" that reek of sadism.
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* {{Sadist}}: Kimiko shows shades in chapter 9 when she curb-stomps Brock and looks positively 'delighted' ''delighted'' as she does so. In the same chapter she had also made several threats with regards to making he and Hiro "suffer" that reek of sadism.
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* TheSadist: Kimiko appears to be this after chapter 9, and Lady Light shows hints of it in chapter 1.
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* TheSadist: {{Sadist}}: Kimiko appears to be this after chapter 9, and Lady Light shows hints of it shades in chapter 1.9 when she curb-stomps Brock and looks positively 'delighted' as she does so. In the same chapter she had also made several threats with regards to making he and Hiro "suffer" that reek of sadism.
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*** Data Dog is Ein from CowboyBebop
*** Alien is possibly Garrus from the MassEffect games
*** Alien is possibly Garrus from the MassEffect games
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*** Data Dog is Ein from CowboyBebop
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*** Alien is possibly Garrus from theMassEffect Franchise/MassEffect games
*** Alien is possibly Garrus from the
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* DefrostingIceQueen: ZigZagged. Kimiko appears to start defrosting for Matsuda, only to give him a very cold shoulder. She seems to be opening up again after chapter 8, however.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: ZigZagged. Kimiko appears to start defrosting for Matsuda, only to give him a very cold shoulder. She seems to be begins opening up again after chapter 8, however.
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* TheSadist: Kimiko appears to be this after chapter 9, and Lady Light shows hints of it in chapter 1.
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* SociopathicHero: Kimiko decides to PayEvilUntoEvil at Brock's VillainousBreakdown, curb stomping him, utterly humiliating him and taking pleasure in it, all while having declared her desire to protect reality and Matsuda and fighting on the side of the heroes.
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* RedHerring: When Kenta is introduced, he is pretty heavily implied to be working with the villains right after Miranda has been revealed to have an unspecified agent watching Matsuda. The very next chapter shows him to be decidedly against them, even saving Kimiko from Miranda.
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* KudzuPlot: has the potential to become one is the proposed reveal in chapter 9 when [[spoiler:Kimiko tells Matsuda "what he needs to know"]] if that raises more questions than it answers (which is likely). At the conclusion of the first arc we learned Kimiko's reason for being so unsociable, but that just made us question what happened to make her feel that way.
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* KudzuPlot: has the potential to become one is the proposed reveal in chapter 9 when [[spoiler:Kimiko tells Matsuda "what he needs to know"]] if We learned that raises the [[MacGuffin items]] the villains were after are called the Key to Reality and the Chaos Altar, and that Kimiko had been opposing them for a while, but that still just raised more questions than it answers (which as to what they actually do, who the villains actually are and what their plans and motivations are. Chapter 9 also reveals the name of Kenta's employer, but also raises the questions as to who he is likely).and what the hell the "Keeper" is. At the conclusion of the first arc we learned Kimiko's reason for being so unsociable, but that just made us question what happened to make her feel that way.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain is a YuGiOhArcV fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain is a YuGiOhArcV Anime/YuGiOhArcV fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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* SaidBookism: averted with EXTREME prejudice. Most lines of dialogue are attributed either with said or some action by the speaker, and they are only used sparingly in a way that actually serves to accentuate the speech.
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* ActionGirl: Kimiko and Lady Light both practically ooze badass
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* BewareTheQuietOnes: Kaneko's not so shy when you threaten her brother.
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* HotBlooded: Daitaro
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* BadAss: Kimiko and Lady Light are both competent duelists AND incredible fighters, along with Daitaro, Kaneko and Matsuda who can all duel really well.
** Kenta knocks Miranda's gun out of her hand by throwing a card at it.
** Kenta knocks Miranda's gun out of her hand by throwing a card at it.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain is a YuGiOhArcV fanfiction written by Master of [=Anime224=], which can be found [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11026157/1/Yu-Gi-Oh-Reality-s-Curtain here]]. The story follows the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent seemingly]] [[TheEveryman normal]] Matsuda Yukaro as he's dragged into a [[JigsawPuzzlePlot mass of endless confusion]] by the appearance of a cloaked woman going by the name of Lady Light, transfer student Kimiko Kimura and a whole host of baddies.
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!![Yu-Gi-Oh Reality's Curtain] contains examples of:
* AdultFear: imagine your son has been out all day, it's the middle of the night and he's not come home yet. Then you hear a knock at the door and answer it only to find said son unconscious in a heap on the doorstep. The next day, you're called into his school to pick him up because he has a concussion and he remembers nothing. It almost seems as if Matsuda's poor mother exists solely to drive this trope home.
** Lady Light can kill you with ease. If she decides she wants to kill someone, they're probably dead.
* AdultsAreUseless: subverted and played with. Adults tend not to appear except on the villain's side, what with the story focusing almost entirely on the small core cast, but that core cast are all older teenagers.
* AntiHero: Kimiko and Lady Light. Kenta could also count, but his moral slant is more ambiguous at the moment.
* BadAss: Kimiko and Lady Light are both competent duelists AND incredible fighters, along with Daitaro, Kaneko and Matsuda who can all duel really well.
** Kenta knocks Miranda's gun out of her hand by throwing a card at it.
* BigDamnHeroes: Matsuda in chapter 8.
-> '''Matsuda''': you won't have to.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: the shade the main conflict appears to be taking. Kimiko and Lady Light are definitely darker gray, with Yamato and Miranda being seemingly black and Enzo just a darker gray BloodKnight. However, since the villains' intentions aren't really all that clear at the moment, this could change.
* ButtMonkey: Daitaro gets a significant amount of abuse.
* CallingYourAttacks: it's a YuGiOh story.
* CassandraTruth: played with and ultimately subverted. Matsuda considers telling his mother about the HardLight that led to his concussion, but concludes that this would be the outcome. Then he decides it was AllJustADream.
* TheConspiracy: there appears to be one on the villains' side, but due to the nature of the story we know precisely nothing about it yet.
* CuttingTheKnot: in chapter 8, Miranda threatens to shoot Kimiko into giving up the location of the Key. She then later decides to just shoot Kenta, who forces her to subvert it and duel them.
** Lady Light in the first chapter just beats a guy up for information.
** subverted with Yamato in chapter 2. He could just shoot Matsuda and rifle through his deck, but decides to duel him instead.
* DarkerAndEdgier/BloodierAndGorier: than the source material, at least as far as graphic violence is concerned. Though YuGiOhArcV IS incredibly dark, it is still {{shounen}}. This story, however, makes the content seem much more adult. See Lady Light blowing a guy's brains out in chapter 3.
* DeadpanSnarker: literally everyone, though points have to go to Kenta for the "Shadow Bitch" line.
** Matsuda makes it look easy, mainly using it to pick on Daitaro.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: averted. The story's so dark that no-one even TRIES to play WarriorTherapist and most duels are simply for the purpose of beating an opponent into submission. The one time this could apply, in chapter 5, the two duelists were already on friendly terms.
* DefrostingIceQueen: ZigZagged. Kimiko appears to start defrosting for Matsuda, only to give him a very cold shoulder. She seems to be opening up again after chapter 8, however.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Miranda goes up against [[spoiler:Kenta and Kimiko]] in chapter 8 in a battle royal that pits her against two opponents. Due to the nature of her deck, she'd have won had [[spoiler:Matsuda]] not gotten involved.
* DuelsDecideEverything: almost subverted in chapter 8, but played straight the rest of the time.
* EvilPlan: there is one, involving the key and starting a huge war. Not much else is known due to the [[KudzuPlot nature of the plot]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yamato calling himself Kimiko's friend early on foreshadows that he betrayed her and Lady Light.
* GunsAreUseless: subverted and played straight. Lady Light and Yamato are both shown quite effectively killing people, but when Miranda tries it Kenta just knocks the gun out of her hand.
* HardLight: appears from chapter 1, to Matsuda's great confusion.
* InTheHood: Lady Light.
* {{Jerkass}}: there are a few, but Yamato takes the cake [[MemeticMutation and eats it too]].
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: okay, so first we have Lady Light showing up, and the mystery surrounding who she is and why there is hard light. Then enter Kimiko, more questions are raised surrounding her, namely where she came from, what relation she has to Lady Light and why she's so unsociable, after which Yamato enters the fray making us wonder why Kimiko and Lady Light both seem to hate him so much, and the rest of his villainous organisation join in searching for some "key" which no-one seems to know the location of. Several flashbacks and interactions raise even more questions about Kimiko and Yamato's past, and we're only on the eighth chapter.
* KudzuPlot: has the potential to become one is the proposed reveal in chapter 9 when [[spoiler:Kimiko tells Matsuda "what he needs to know"]] if that raises more questions than it answers (which is likely). At the conclusion of the first arc we learned Kimiko's reason for being so unsociable, but that just made us question what happened to make her feel that way.
* LampshadeHanging: there's plenty. One example being:
-> '''Matsuda''': who has hair like us?
-> '''Daitaro''': dude, we're in Japan. [[AnimeHair Everyone and their dog has hair like us]].
* LargeHam: Daitaro practically embodies this trope.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lady Light's remark that some card designers watch too much anime is quite clearly the [[SelfDeprecatingHumor author taking a jab at himself]].
* MacGuffin: The Key, whatever it is.
* TheMagicPokerEquation: part and parcel of being a Franchise/YuGiOh story. Special mention goes to Matsuda in the duel against [[spoiler:Miranda]], when he manages to open exactly the right cards to use in his situation.
* MagicVersusScience: discussed lightly by Matsuda in-universe. He concludes that supernatural powers using dueling are ridiculous and leaves it at that.
* MythArc: driven by one from the first chapter. If if the main events of a chapter don't seem relevant, there is something in there to drive the arc along.
* RealityEnsues: Matsuda gets a concussion from being thrown around in his duel with Lady Light.
** Miranda has a gun, and she seems prepared to use that before resorting to card games.
* SeriousBusiness: it's a Franchise/YuGiOh {{fanfic}}, what did you expect?
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Matsuda's stock reaction to Daitaro and Kaneko's (frequent) claims that he and Kimiko are going out.
* ShipTease: a couple between Matsuda and Kaneko in chapters 2 and 6.
* ShoutOut: the story is rife with them.
** there's one to YuGiOhArcV itself in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in chapter 4.
** Chapter 5 has a nice number of wrestling references:
*** The Bad Influence, aka Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian
*** Kenta Kobashi
*** Kenta Kobashi's Burning Hammer
** Kenta's name is a shout-out in and of itself: Kenta is taken from KentaKobayashi, with Miyano taken from seiyuu MamoruMiyano.
** The Cosmic [=HEROes=] are a string of shout-out after shout-out.
*** While Andromeda itself is not a shout-out, the effect and attack names, Neutron Star Collision and Black Hole Sun are obvious references to the {{Muse}} and {{Soundgarden}} songs of the same names.
*** Motivator is [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], with Giga-Mech being Gurren.
*** Galactic Guardian is Peter Quill/Star-Lord from Movie/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.
*** Data Dog is Ein from CowboyBebop
*** Alien is possibly Garrus from the MassEffect games
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: heavily cynical, though it does seem to sway towards idealism a couple of times, especially with Matsuda's attitude towards Kimiko despite her JerkAss tendencies.
* SmugSnake: Yamato is either this or a MagnificentBastard, no-one's quite sure yet.
* ThemeNaming: follows the trend of all source which came before by putting the "Yu" syllable in the protagonist's name. WordOfGod confirms that it IS the elongated "Yuu" syllable, but in a subversion is actually spelled with the kanji for "courage" rather than "friendship".
** The Cosmic HERO synchro monsters are all named after constellations.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Matsuda, Daitaro and Kaneko.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 8 literally throws Kimiko to the wolves and reveals the legitimate threat of another villain who drives two heroes into a wall before Matsuda shows up and we get a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Kimiko finally decides to stop being a JerkAss.
* WhamLine: "I REFUSE TO BURY ANYBODY ELSE!"
* TheWorfEffect: Happens to Kimiko and Kenta in chapter 8 as Miranda corners them despite the 2-on-1 situation and it having been shown that the two of them are very capable duelists. Justified as Miranda uses [[spoiler:Shaddolls]], which naturally shut down the kind of plays those two would be likely to make.
* WorldOfSnark: most character interactions contain sarcasm, to the point that the vast majority of the story's humour is just Matsuda and Daitaro being dicks to each other.
* WouldHurtAChild: though Kenta's actual age is up in the air, Miranda seems to think he's a child and has no problem shooting him, or Kimiko for that matter.
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!![Yu-Gi-Oh Reality's Curtain] contains examples of:
* AdultFear: imagine your son has been out all day, it's the middle of the night and he's not come home yet. Then you hear a knock at the door and answer it only to find said son unconscious in a heap on the doorstep. The next day, you're called into his school to pick him up because he has a concussion and he remembers nothing. It almost seems as if Matsuda's poor mother exists solely to drive this trope home.
** Lady Light can kill you with ease. If she decides she wants to kill someone, they're probably dead.
* AdultsAreUseless: subverted and played with. Adults tend not to appear except on the villain's side, what with the story focusing almost entirely on the small core cast, but that core cast are all older teenagers.
* AntiHero: Kimiko and Lady Light. Kenta could also count, but his moral slant is more ambiguous at the moment.
* BadAss: Kimiko and Lady Light are both competent duelists AND incredible fighters, along with Daitaro, Kaneko and Matsuda who can all duel really well.
** Kenta knocks Miranda's gun out of her hand by throwing a card at it.
* BigDamnHeroes: Matsuda in chapter 8.
-> '''Matsuda''': you won't have to.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: the shade the main conflict appears to be taking. Kimiko and Lady Light are definitely darker gray, with Yamato and Miranda being seemingly black and Enzo just a darker gray BloodKnight. However, since the villains' intentions aren't really all that clear at the moment, this could change.
* ButtMonkey: Daitaro gets a significant amount of abuse.
* CallingYourAttacks: it's a YuGiOh story.
* CassandraTruth: played with and ultimately subverted. Matsuda considers telling his mother about the HardLight that led to his concussion, but concludes that this would be the outcome. Then he decides it was AllJustADream.
* TheConspiracy: there appears to be one on the villains' side, but due to the nature of the story we know precisely nothing about it yet.
* CuttingTheKnot: in chapter 8, Miranda threatens to shoot Kimiko into giving up the location of the Key. She then later decides to just shoot Kenta, who forces her to subvert it and duel them.
** Lady Light in the first chapter just beats a guy up for information.
** subverted with Yamato in chapter 2. He could just shoot Matsuda and rifle through his deck, but decides to duel him instead.
* DarkerAndEdgier/BloodierAndGorier: than the source material, at least as far as graphic violence is concerned. Though YuGiOhArcV IS incredibly dark, it is still {{shounen}}. This story, however, makes the content seem much more adult. See Lady Light blowing a guy's brains out in chapter 3.
* DeadpanSnarker: literally everyone, though points have to go to Kenta for the "Shadow Bitch" line.
** Matsuda makes it look easy, mainly using it to pick on Daitaro.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: averted. The story's so dark that no-one even TRIES to play WarriorTherapist and most duels are simply for the purpose of beating an opponent into submission. The one time this could apply, in chapter 5, the two duelists were already on friendly terms.
* DefrostingIceQueen: ZigZagged. Kimiko appears to start defrosting for Matsuda, only to give him a very cold shoulder. She seems to be opening up again after chapter 8, however.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Miranda goes up against [[spoiler:Kenta and Kimiko]] in chapter 8 in a battle royal that pits her against two opponents. Due to the nature of her deck, she'd have won had [[spoiler:Matsuda]] not gotten involved.
* DuelsDecideEverything: almost subverted in chapter 8, but played straight the rest of the time.
* EvilPlan: there is one, involving the key and starting a huge war. Not much else is known due to the [[KudzuPlot nature of the plot]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yamato calling himself Kimiko's friend early on foreshadows that he betrayed her and Lady Light.
* GunsAreUseless: subverted and played straight. Lady Light and Yamato are both shown quite effectively killing people, but when Miranda tries it Kenta just knocks the gun out of her hand.
* HardLight: appears from chapter 1, to Matsuda's great confusion.
* InTheHood: Lady Light.
* {{Jerkass}}: there are a few, but Yamato takes the cake [[MemeticMutation and eats it too]].
* JigsawPuzzlePlot: okay, so first we have Lady Light showing up, and the mystery surrounding who she is and why there is hard light. Then enter Kimiko, more questions are raised surrounding her, namely where she came from, what relation she has to Lady Light and why she's so unsociable, after which Yamato enters the fray making us wonder why Kimiko and Lady Light both seem to hate him so much, and the rest of his villainous organisation join in searching for some "key" which no-one seems to know the location of. Several flashbacks and interactions raise even more questions about Kimiko and Yamato's past, and we're only on the eighth chapter.
* KudzuPlot: has the potential to become one is the proposed reveal in chapter 9 when [[spoiler:Kimiko tells Matsuda "what he needs to know"]] if that raises more questions than it answers (which is likely). At the conclusion of the first arc we learned Kimiko's reason for being so unsociable, but that just made us question what happened to make her feel that way.
* LampshadeHanging: there's plenty. One example being:
-> '''Matsuda''': who has hair like us?
-> '''Daitaro''': dude, we're in Japan. [[AnimeHair Everyone and their dog has hair like us]].
* LargeHam: Daitaro practically embodies this trope.
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Lady Light's remark that some card designers watch too much anime is quite clearly the [[SelfDeprecatingHumor author taking a jab at himself]].
* MacGuffin: The Key, whatever it is.
* TheMagicPokerEquation: part and parcel of being a Franchise/YuGiOh story. Special mention goes to Matsuda in the duel against [[spoiler:Miranda]], when he manages to open exactly the right cards to use in his situation.
* MagicVersusScience: discussed lightly by Matsuda in-universe. He concludes that supernatural powers using dueling are ridiculous and leaves it at that.
* MythArc: driven by one from the first chapter. If if the main events of a chapter don't seem relevant, there is something in there to drive the arc along.
* RealityEnsues: Matsuda gets a concussion from being thrown around in his duel with Lady Light.
** Miranda has a gun, and she seems prepared to use that before resorting to card games.
* SeriousBusiness: it's a Franchise/YuGiOh {{fanfic}}, what did you expect?
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Matsuda's stock reaction to Daitaro and Kaneko's (frequent) claims that he and Kimiko are going out.
* ShipTease: a couple between Matsuda and Kaneko in chapters 2 and 6.
* ShoutOut: the story is rife with them.
** there's one to YuGiOhArcV itself in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment in chapter 4.
** Chapter 5 has a nice number of wrestling references:
*** The Bad Influence, aka Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian
*** Kenta Kobashi
*** Kenta Kobashi's Burning Hammer
** Kenta's name is a shout-out in and of itself: Kenta is taken from KentaKobayashi, with Miyano taken from seiyuu MamoruMiyano.
** The Cosmic [=HEROes=] are a string of shout-out after shout-out.
*** While Andromeda itself is not a shout-out, the effect and attack names, Neutron Star Collision and Black Hole Sun are obvious references to the {{Muse}} and {{Soundgarden}} songs of the same names.
*** Motivator is [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]], with Giga-Mech being Gurren.
*** Galactic Guardian is Peter Quill/Star-Lord from Movie/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.
*** Data Dog is Ein from CowboyBebop
*** Alien is possibly Garrus from the MassEffect games
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: heavily cynical, though it does seem to sway towards idealism a couple of times, especially with Matsuda's attitude towards Kimiko despite her JerkAss tendencies.
* SmugSnake: Yamato is either this or a MagnificentBastard, no-one's quite sure yet.
* ThemeNaming: follows the trend of all source which came before by putting the "Yu" syllable in the protagonist's name. WordOfGod confirms that it IS the elongated "Yuu" syllable, but in a subversion is actually spelled with the kanji for "courage" rather than "friendship".
** The Cosmic HERO synchro monsters are all named after constellations.
* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Matsuda, Daitaro and Kaneko.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 8 literally throws Kimiko to the wolves and reveals the legitimate threat of another villain who drives two heroes into a wall before Matsuda shows up and we get a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Kimiko finally decides to stop being a JerkAss.
* WhamLine: "I REFUSE TO BURY ANYBODY ELSE!"
* TheWorfEffect: Happens to Kimiko and Kenta in chapter 8 as Miranda corners them despite the 2-on-1 situation and it having been shown that the two of them are very capable duelists. Justified as Miranda uses [[spoiler:Shaddolls]], which naturally shut down the kind of plays those two would be likely to make.
* WorldOfSnark: most character interactions contain sarcasm, to the point that the vast majority of the story's humour is just Matsuda and Daitaro being dicks to each other.
* WouldHurtAChild: though Kenta's actual age is up in the air, Miranda seems to think he's a child and has no problem shooting him, or Kimiko for that matter.
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