History Manga / AfterschoolCharisma

* AlmostKiss: [[http://www.mangadog.com/manga/houkago_no_charisma/10/4/ Here]].
* AnyoneCanDie: Especially evident during a certain arc.
* BigNo: Shiro [[spoiler: after Joan is burnt at the stake]].

** Not to mention all the crap Shiro goes through.

* ClonesArePeopleToo: Shiro and Kuroe take this view.

* EroticDream: Shiro has one of Marie Curie at the start of chapter 4, he gets rudely and amusingly awakened by Ikyuu.

* HimeCut: Himiko, being a clone of ''the'' Queen Himiko (who was a Japanese shaman queen) would of course wear her hair like this.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Explained/lampshaded at the end of volume 3.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sort of.

* LaughingMad: Mozart, several times. [[spoiler:Particularly after his suicide attempt.]]
* LockedInARoom: Shiro and Mozart (plus Pandora), before the expo. It's more to keep them safe than to force them to get along, though.
* MarshmallowHell: InnocentFanserviceGirl that she is, Florence Nightingale probably didn't get that she was subjecting Shiro to this.

* {{Miko}}: Himiko.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Marie Curie]] in volume 7.
* PimpedOutDress: Elizabeth during the expo, fitting for someone living up to a historical queen.

* ReplacementGoldfish: The clones, arguably, for their originals. [[spoiler: Hinted in a lot of ways with Shiro]].

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Flat-out stated by Dr. Kamiya. Shiro is basically the closest thing they've got.

* YaoiFangirl: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu Murasaki Shikibu]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sei_Sh%C5%8Dnagon Sei Shonagon]] in the Afterschool Charichuma omake.
** Basically, the clones of first female writers in Japanese history have been re-animated into [[MostFanficWritersAreGirls Yaoi fanfic writers.]]

St. Kleio is, in every sense of the word, a special school. It doesn't just have [[ElaborateUniversityHigh great facilities]] and a high standard education - it's far more special than that. It's a school for [[CloningBlues clones]]. A group of scientists have decided to clone history's most brilliant characters (and not just the good guys, they've also cloned people who were [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler morally]] [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk ambiguous]] to say the least) to see if they would live up to their originals' standards - complete, of course, with HistoricalBeautyUpdate.

* CloningBlues: Most of the angst in this series comes from the teenage clones forced to live up to their clone parent's legacies. Mozart hangs himself while Marie Curie transfers to another school when she'd prefer to study music instead of chemistry.

* EvilKnockoff We find out that almost every clone has one in volume 3 and 4. Except for Joan of Arc, [[spoiler:whose clone is actually a good person.]]

* SchoolFestival: a festival is planned to showcase the talents of the clones, and to raise funds.

* CloningBlues

* {{Irony}}: By the bucket-loads.

* PimpedOutDress: Elizabeth during the expo.

* SayMyName: JOAAAAAAAAAN!

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Director Rockswell looks like one, but it's hard to tell without color.

Enter Shiro Kamiya, TheEveryman, NiceGuy protagonist, who is the son of the school's director and [[FishOutOfWater the only non-clone in a school full of clones]]. ([[spoiler:Or is he?]].) He immediately forms a [[TrueCompanions friendship]] of sorts consisting of the clones of UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkyu Ikyuu]], UsefulNotes/ElizabethI, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale Florence Nightingale]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Marie Curie]].

In the United States, Viz is releasing the manga [[http://www.sigikki.com/series/afterschoolcharisma/index.shtml online]], and as each volume goes to print, corresponding online chapters are taken down. Similar in concept to ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' (only with less humor and more angst).

* {{Megane}}: Ikyuu and Einstein.

* FullNameBasis / LastNameBasis: A lot of the clones are referred to by what they are commonly called today - eg. Marie Cure, Mozart.

* [[spoiler: NotQuiteDead: Marie Curie in volume 7.]]

In the United States, Viz is releasing the manga [[http://www.sigikki.com/series/afterschoolcharisma/index.shtml online]], and as each volume goes to print, corresponding online chapters are taken down. Similar in concept to ''CloneHigh'' (only with less humor and more angst).

** St. Kleio Academy is actually named after [[UsefulNotes/GreekMythology Clio]], the Muse of History.

St. Kleio is, in every sense of the word, a special school. It doesn't just have [[ElaborateUniversityHigh great facilities]] and a high standard education - it's far more special than that. It's a school for [[CloningBlues clones]]. A group of scientists have decided to clone history's most brilliant characters (and not just the good guys, they've also cloned people who were [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler morally]] [[RasputinTheMadMonk ambiguous]] to say the least) to see if they would live up to their originals' standards - complete, of course, with HistoricalBeautyUpdate.

Enter Shiro Kamiya, TheEveryman, NiceGuy protagonist, who is the son of the school's director and [[FishOutOfWater the only non-clone in a school full of clones]]. ([[spoiler:Or is he?]].) He immediately forms a [[TrueCompanions friendship]] of sorts consisting of the clones of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud Sigmund Freud]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkyu Ikyuu]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England Elizabeth I]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale Florence Nightingale]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie Marie Curie]].

** Also, (young, prettier versions of) Elizabeth I and Florence Nightingale shirtless. And Florence and Elizabeth bathing together. And generally more HoYay than you can shake a stick at.

* TheNapoleon: Actually inverted with NapoleonBonaparte's clone - he's a cheerful, easygoing guy. Shiro also comments that he gets taller every physical exam.
* NapoleonDelusion: Played with for many of the characters, being the clones of famous historical people who have varying amounts of acceptance of this. In Volume 8, we meet "Jesus Christ" who is most assuredly ''not'' a clone, and [[spoiler: Leonardo da Vinci]] is believed to be suffering from this by passersby when that person is "un-personed" by St. Kleio's secret backer.

* ProperLady: Elizabeth may be a little too forceful to be a textbook example, but all she really wants is to be a housewife and settle down with a husband and family the way the original [[TheVirginQueen Virgin Queen]] never got to.

All's fine and good, of course, until Marie Curie decides she wants to ScrewDestiny and transfers out of the school to [[ElegantClassicalMusician study music]], the clone of {{John F Kennedy}} is assassinated, Freud investigates a bunch of anti-clone groups, and there's a secret {{cult}} devoted to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_%28sheep%29 the Almighty Dolly]] and is dedicated to [[ScrewDestiny screwing destiny]] over...

St. Kleio is, in every sense of the word, a special school. It doesn't just have [[ElaborateUniversityHigh great facilities]] and a high standard education - it's far more special than that. It's a school for [[CloningBlues clones]]. A group of scientists have decided to clone history's most brilliant characters (and not just the good guys, they've also cloned people who were [[AdolfHitler morally]] [[RasputinTheMadMonk ambiguous]] to say the least) to see if they would live up to their originals' standards - complete, of course, with HistoricalBeautyUpdate.

* MeaningfulName: Shiro's name is written with the characters for "history" and "good". It's not yet certain exactly ''what'' it means, but in a series with a lot of characters trying to either force history to repeat itself or prevent it from doing so, it can't be an accident.

* FiveManBand: Shiro and his friends.
** TheHero: Shiro.
** TheLancer: Freud
** TheBigGuy: Napoleon.
** TheSmartGuy: Ikkyu
** TheChick: Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth.

** TheLancer: Freud (doubles as TheSmartGuy)

* [[spoiler:FaceHeelTurn: Elizabeth and Hitler at the end of volume 6.]]

* OdangoHair: Marie Curie.

* ScholarshipStudent: Shiro fills this role in a lot of ways: he's allowed to attend the school only because his father is headmaster, he's a bit of an outcast amongst the students, and he provides an everyman for readers to identify with. However, obviously, this isn't because of money but because he's not a clone. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks.]]

* StrangerInAStrangeSchool: Shiro's the only non-clone in a school for clones. [[spoiler: Or not. He is, in fact, a clone of the school's founder.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Joan of Arc, hinted. She even gets a WhenSheSmiles moment!

* TheAtoner: Hitler feels obligated to accept punishment for the sins of his original. He's oddly cheerful about it.

* BiTheWay:
-->'''Rockswell:''' I was just wondering because I figured you'd be bummed if I was the first person you ever kissed... I mean, you probably wanted it to be a girl the first time, right? I think kissing boys is just as fun, to be totally honest...

* CheerfulChild: Hitler. No, [[http://www.mangadog.com/manga/houkago_no_charisma/4/31/ ''really!'']]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Mozart]] can't take the pressure of living up to [[spoiler:his]] original. [[spoiler:His attempt to hang himself fails.]]
* TheEveryman: Shiro.

* FishOutOfWater: Shiro.

* HatesBeingTouched: Mozart, at least by non-clones. As the only non-clone around, Shiro's the one most likely to be hit. [[spoiler:Once he discovers that Shiro might be a clone after, Mozart's [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace sense of personal space]] goes out the window in order to taunt him.]]

* HospitalHottie: Florence Nightingale.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Oh, ''Florence Nightingale''.
* InsufferableGenius: Mozart, although [[spoiler:his belief in his own genius turns out to be the source of the insecurity that drives him to suicide]].

* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Mozart.
* MadArtist: Mozart.

* AlphaBitch: Empress Cixi.

* ScholarshipStudent: Shiro fills this role in a lot of ways: he's allowed to attend the school only because his father is headmaster, he's a bit of an outcast amongst the students, and he provides an everyman for readers to identify with. However, obviously, this isn't because of money but because he's not a clone.

* StrangerInAStrangeSchool: Shiro's the only non-clone in a school for clones. [[spoiler: Or is he?]]

* TheNapoleon: Actually inverted with NapoleonBonaparte's clone - he's a cheerful, easygoing guy. Shiro also comments that he gets taller every physical exam.