History Manga / BrynhildrInTheDarkness

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Sure, let's just wait for [[EldritchAbomination Hatsuna's Drasil]] to hatch instead of ejecting her straight away, because when it does we'd just have to work her willpower back with that good ol' IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. [[TemptingFate No way she'd stay a monster, right?]] [[spoiler: She does. She regains her will for a couple seconds, bring the Drasil to a pause, but that's all she could ever manage. ThePowerOfLove just doesn't work on EldritchAbomination.]]
** Making matters worse, thanks to Kana's foresight, Ryouta and the Astronomy Club have more or less already known when Hatsuna is going to hatch. Yet they consciously chose not to act upon that foresight despite Hexenjagd's warning that they wouldn't be able to intervene in the event of her hatching due to their inconveniently-timed loss of magic.
---> '''Miki (when Ryouta asks her if they can stop hatching from happening)'''': If you want to prevent the hatching, you'll have to eject the witch. The only thing we can do is to kill the Drasil as it hatches.\\

** The very first episode/chapter has Neko's "[[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Urusai! Urusai! Urusai!]]" This reappears later again.

* SpiritualSuccessor: Should be [[Manga/ElfenLied pretty obvious]] by now.

* CensorSteam: Used a lot in episode 4, both to hide gruesome stuff in the first half, and to hide the usual female nudity in the second half. Used again in episode 6 when the girls are outside with a garden hose due to it being really hot that day.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The third button on the witches' harnests. They don't know what it does, because nobody's ever been brave enough to press it, considering [[{{Squick}} what the other]] [[PowerNullifier two buttons do]]. [[spoiler:According to Nanami, Kuroha's will unleash her true power if pressed, but has a 99.9% chance of ejecting her. Even Ichijiku himself says it'll eject her... but when she presses it, sure enough, her true power is unleashed]].
** [[spoiler:Kana also gets hers pressed, and while it removes her forecasting ability, it cures her paralysis, allowing her to run in and protect Kuroha from Valkyria]].

* GovernmentConspiracy: The villains are implied to have powerful contacts in the government because in episode 6 Ryouta is warned that the police will be on the lookout for a Harnessed, meaning they must be in on the whole deal.
** While the police are shown being unwitting pawns by Nanami's introduction, the manga's Skaadi arc reveals that Vingulf does have powerful contacts in the government that can actually '''order''' scientists to join the Japanese branch facility, and at gun point.

* MsFanservice: Most significantly Neko and Kotori which together are two big breasted [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Girls]] with beautiful, very long hair.

-->*something remotely sexual happens to Ryouta*\\

--> '''Miki (when Ryouta asks her if they can stop hatching from happening)'''': If you want to prevent the hatching, you'll have to eject the witch. The only thing we can do is to kill the Drasil as it hatches.\\

** ShownTheirWork: On the other hand, a similar situation in which Ryouta asks Kougorou, a head chemist at a research facility, on the process how the "anti-death pills" are made (this field is known as "organic chemistry") is done using ''extremely basic'' terms, which is TechnoBabble at best for those who may or may not know the topic itself. It's useless to explain a concept that would take several pages when the audience only needs to know the basic idea to understand. Plus, [[{{Justified}} we're talking about a kid who's listening to a topic very outside of his field of research and he only heard about it briefly, if barely at all]]. [[GeniusBonus You may need to know some of it already in order to understand the entire concept]].

''Brynhildr in the Darkness'', known in Japanese as ''Gokukoku no Brynhildr'', is a manga by Creator/LynnOkamoto, which was serialized in ''Weekly Young Jump'' from 2012 to 2016 and compiled into 18 volumes. It shares the science-fiction horror tone and {{Gorn}} of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. A 13 episode {{anime}} adaptation aired [[Spring2014Anime as part of the Spring 2014 season]], covering the first half of the series. The animation studio behind it is Arms, already responsible for the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' anime.

** "What's [[StreetFighter Tetsuzanko]]?"

''Brynhildr in the Darkness'', known in Japanese as ''Gokukoku no Brynhildr'', is a manga by Creator/LynnOkamoto. It shares the science-fiction horror tone and {{Gorn}} of ''Manga/ElfenLied''. A 13 episode {{anime}} adaptation aired [[Spring2014Anime as part of the Spring 2014 season]], covering the first half of the series. The animation studio behind it is Arms, already responsible for the ''Manga/ElfenLied'' anime. The manga began serialization in 2012 in the Weekly Young Jump and ended in April 2016, with 18 volumes.

* RuleOfSymbolism: Myth/NorseMythology gets thrown around by the researchers. The closest to any sort of explicit information is "Skadi", a AAA magic user with the ability to see, predict, and ''[[UpToEleven interfere]]'' with the future, at the cost of her life. Another one is "Drasill", which is briefly mentioned twice, never explained entirely, and said to have some kind of horrendous power. One head researcher states that if 1107 [[spoiler:(i.e. Kotori)]] is not captured, it would initiate [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt via Drasill.]] Also, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brynhildr the title of the series]] (Brynhildr is the name of a famous Valkyrie).

* MsFanservice: Most significantly Neko and Kotori which together are two big breasted [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Innocent Fanservice Girls]] with beautiful [[RapunzelHair very long hairs]].

* RapunzelHair: Neko and Kotori have gorgeous manes, which cover their whole backs way down to their waists. [[http://i.imgur.com/0wwHjAh.jpg See.]]

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[[caption-width-right:236:[-Neko Kuroha, the childhood friend you don't wanna mess with.-] ]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: During the hospital arc, the nameless security guard, seeing that the hatched Drasil is ImmuneToBullets, [[GodzillaThreshold punches it, out of desperation.]] [[HopeSpot Surprisingly, this actually works.]] He comes to the conclusion, that he's a protagonist in a Shonen Jump manga, and begins charging up a powerful KiManipulation, complete with BattleAura. [[RealityEnsues Unfortunately, ravenous creatures are not known for being very patient.]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe CHOMP!!]]

* RealityEnsues:
** Sure, let's just wait for [[EldritchAbomination Hatsuna's Drasil]] to hatch instead of ejecting her straight away, because when it does we'd just have to work her willpower back with that good ol' IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight. [[TemptingFate No way she'd stay a monster, right?]] [[spoiler: She does. She regains her will for a couple seconds, bring the Drasil to a pause, but that's all she could ever manage. ThePowerOfLove just doesn't work on EldritchAbomination.]]
** Making matters worse, thanks to Kana's foresight, Ryouta and the Astronomy Club have more or less already known when Hatsuna is going to hatch. Yet they consciously chose not to act upon that foresight despite Hexenjagd's warning that they wouldn't be able to intervene in the event of her hatching due to their inconveniently-timed loss of magic.
--> '''Miki (when Ryouta asks her if they can stop hatching from happening)'''': If you want to prevent the hatching, you'll have to eject the witch. The only thing we can do is to kill the Drasil as it hatches.\\
'''Miki (when Hatsuna's Drasil is about to devour Ryouta):''' You brought it upon yourself...Serves you right...It's all because you didn't eject her when you had the chance.
** In Murakami's defense, he had no way of knowing strong emotions can cause witches to hatch ''early,'' and was giving Hatsuna a chance to say "goodbye," unlike a great many of Vingulf's victims, especially Kotori Tokori.
** In chapter 164, Aphrodite explains to Ryouta that the capacity of a person's brain is fixed and that there is a balance of what is remembered and forgotten. As Ryouta is unable to forget anything, [[spoiler:this causes his brain to exceed its storage limit and it to suspend its functions, taking a toll and even killing off his brain]].

* BittersweetEnding: The anime's GeckoEnding. The BigBad and TheDragon have been stopped, the apocalypse has been cancelled, [[spoiler:and Kogorou has managed to synthesise the death suppressants, meaning the remaining witches with Ryouta will live. However, Kotori sacrificed herself to do said cancelling, Kuroha has lost all her memories again, and the OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness is still out there presumably creating and hunting down more witches.]]

* ImmuneToBullets: A security guard fires some bullets at a drasil that's awakened inside the hospital in chapter 111. Said bullets don't even seem to faze it at all, and the monster simply eats the guard.

* DeconReconSwitch: Teenager attemps to protect escaped lab experiments against the evil, all-powerful organization that created them by hiding them in a school clubhouse and passing them as simple students: [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong That goes about as well as you'd expect]], as the main character is powerless child [[note]]Although extremely smart, resourceful and dedicated[[/note]], the institute is absolutely ruthless and unrelenting in its hunt for the escapees and the witches themselves [[spoiler: are living on borrowed time anyway, condemned to either die a gruesome death in the ensuing purge or to utimately become mindless eldrich abominations.]]

* WrongGenreSavvy: During the hospital arc, the nameless security guard, seeing that the hatched Drasil is ImmuneToBullets, [[GodzillaThreshold punches it, out of desperation.]] [[HopeSpot Surprisingly, this actually works.]] He comes to the conclusion, that he's a protagonist in a Shonen Jump manga, and begins charging up a powerful KiAttack, complete with BattleAura. [[RealityEnsues Unfortunately, ravenous creatures are not known for being very patient.]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe CHOMP!!]]

** In the manga, Director Takachiho is the leader of Vingulf labs who oversees their experiments to turn girls into witches, and seeks to capture [[TheHero Ryota Murakami]] and [[LoveInterest Neko Kuroha]] to accomplish his plan of [[spoiler:replacing humanity with a newer, better species. [[DiscOneFinalBoss However, he is killed in the finale by Loki, an alien under study who takes the position of FinalBoss when he decides to KillAllHumans]].
** In the anime, Chisato Ichijiku is the Chief of Vingulf who [[DeagonInChief directly carries out their operations]] and antagonizes Ryota and Kuroha, as Takachiho is [[GreaterScopeVillain more in the background]].

** In the anime, Chisato Ichijiku is the Chief of Vingulf who directly carries out their operations and antagonizes Ryota and Kuroha, as Takachiho is [[GreaterScopeVillain more in the background]].

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication[=/=]AdaptationInducedPlotHole: There are so many instances in the last few episodes of the anime that it would take a separate page to list them all. Squishing a 40-chapter arc in 3-4 episodes can do this.
* AnimalMotifs: The witches seem to be associated with cats a lot (AllWitchesHaveCats, perhaps?). Neko Kuroha's name literally ''means'' "black cat", Shino sacrifices her life to save one, and Kazumi shows some stereotypically cat-like personality traits and mannerisms. There's even [[https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=2418696 official artwork]] of the two main girls in cat costumes.

* HateSink: Though [[BigBad Director Tachachiko]] and [[TheDragon Chisato Ichijiku]] have their good qualities, the same cannot be said for these subordinates:

One day, Neko Kuroha, a lookalike of Kuroneko appears. He begins to bond with her, and several other girls who show up, before discovering that they are super-powered beings known as 'witches', who have escaped from the labs of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Vingulf]], where they were experimented on. Now, the wicked [[BigBad Director Takachiko]], head of Vingulf, wants to recapture the escaped witches for his mysterious plans, and Ryota must help protect the girls from his minions. Thus begins a story of horror, experiments, human communication, and despair.

One day, Neko Kuroha, a lookalike of Kuroneko appears. He begins to bond with her, and several other girls who show up, before discovering that they are super-powered beings known as 'witches', who have escaped from the labs of [[NebulousEvilOrganization Vingulf]], where they were experimented on. Now, the wicked [[BigBad Director Tachachiko]], head of Vingulf, wants to recapture the escaped witches for his mysterious plans, and Ryota must help protect the girls from his minions. Thus begins a story of horror, experiments, human communication, and despair.

One day, Neko Kuroha, a lookalike of Kuroneko appears. This begins a story of horror, experiments, human communication, and despair.