History Manga / DetroitMetalCity

* KarmaManager: The Manager tying Negishi up and throwing him into a river is considered inspirational.

* WhilePlotReference: Chapter 92 is presented like something from ''Mnaga/InitialD''.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Krauser II is a legenday rapist and murderer from hell, but off-stage Negishi is a very shy NiceGuy.

* MeanBoss: The President is a hardcore DeathMetal fan and couldn't care less about who Krauser is off-stage, often threatening Negishi with a knife to not underperform, provoking him into doing something that's technically illegal and interfering with his personal life.

%%* ButtMonkey: Poor Yuri, [[BlessedWithSuck the only character in the series with any degree of common sense.]]

* AchillesInHisTent: Negishi goes through a phase of this in the final arc of the manga. He quits DMC and moves to France, refusing to return even when he catches news that DMC is struggling without him.

* AffectionateParody: Believe it or not, this show is really a comedy.
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Nishida/Camus, the DMC drummer. While the quietest member of the band, everything that ''does'' pass his lips (which is when he's off-stage) tends to be very perverted and/or disturbing.
* AndThisIsFor: "''...And this is for [[Manga/DragonBall Kuririn]]!!''"
* AssShove: Krauser frequently inflicts this on people throughout the manga. [[spoiler:The irony is not lost on Negishi when in the final arc [[TasteOfTheirOwnMedicine Death Metal God inflicts this on him]].]]
* AxeCrazy: The lead singer of Pipanic Chainsaw is named for good reason.

* BecomingTheMask: Played for laughs.
* BlackComedyRape: Played repeatedly as one of the series's defining jokes.
** Krauser's "Ten Rapes a Second", anyone?
** Negishi tries to show his love 'everything' in the last chapter. This results in "something small just went into my mouth!"
** Gets a bit less comedic when Negishi comes scarily close to realistically raping his love object in the "Kyushu Boy" chapter of the manga.

* ButtMonkey: Poor Yuri, [[BlessedWithSuck the only character in the series with any degree of common sense.]]

* CannotSpitItOut: Negishi cannot bring himself to tell Aikawa that he wants to date her exclusively. At one point when Aikawa calls him to say Asato wants to invite her to an amusement park wondering if its okay with Negishi, Negishi can only stammer out that it's fine only for it to hit him that it isn't as soon as he hangs up.

* CastingGag: Anime only: It's not the first time Creator/YujiUeda (as Krauser) voiced a heavy metal singer, except [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} that metal singer was an Australian, undead one]].
* ChainsawGood: The lead singer of Pipanic Chainsaw. She is all too willing to use it.

** Later on, it is revealed that Gaylord's temporary absence from the metal scene was because he was imprisoned for indecent assault after groping women on trains.

** The manager speaks in this as well.
* CombatCommentator: This is how DMC's fans describe Krauser's theatrics and antics, and speak as though he's done them before. All his actions have some overblown name attached to them like a special move from Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar

* ComedicLolicon: Parodied in one episode when a toddler begins singing DMC songs, and picks up a large - and perverted - fandom; much to Negishi's dismay.

* CrossOver: Would you believe that ''Detroit Metal City'' crossed over with ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' [[VideoGame/CapcomVs of all things]]? There was a Street Fighter PC game called ''VideoGame/StreetFighterOnlineMouseGeneration'' that featured Krauser II as a playable character.
* DarkWorld / EvilTwin: Applied to music, as some D.M.C. lyrics happen to be an inverted version of Negishi's lyrics.
* DeathMetal: Detroit Metal City is considered this in universe, however, if the songs heard in the anime and the live-action film are anything to go by, it has little to do with the genre. They are more like a Japanese and edgier version of ThrashMetal or GrooveMetal than anything.

* {{Expy}}: Krauser himself is an expy of Gene Simmons from KISS, though it's likely he is also a reference to heavily image-based metal artists such as Mortiis.

* ExtremeDoormat: The job of the Capitalist Pig (not that he doesn't like it). Negishi to some extent as well, specially at the expense of the manager.
* ExtremeOmnisexual: Krauser's legendary feats include raping the Tokyo Tower and ''the air''.

* {{Fanservice}}: Negishi's job is basically to be Krauser II, to please the fans. Said fans are mostly really vulgar, to Negishi's dismay.
* FangsAreEvil: Krauser. Either they're part of Negishi's stage costume, or he inexplicably grows them when he becomes the Krauser persona.

* GoodIsNotNice: Most of DMC's fans are regular people who turn to them for emotional support via fan mails and other channels, despite their evil reputation. The band, particularly Negishi as Krauser, tries to help out within reason.
** Negishi manages to motivate his younger brother as Krauser II to help out at the family farm by telling him it's good training for stealing cars, taming beasts, and chopping off heads, and to work harder at school by stating that an aspiring demon king has to master all knowledge.
** As Negishi's mother puts it in TheMovie:
---> External appearance and word choice don't matter. Anyone who can give dreams to others are great people!

** Also, the manager. Coupled with {{Cluster F Bomb}}s.

* GrooveMetal: Despite being advertised as DeathMetal, Detroit Metal City's sound judging by the music we hear from them is closer to this with some influences from actual DeathMetal and {{Metalcore}}.
* IdenticalStranger: Negishi and Syse from Helvete look the same out of costumes. Which comes in handy when Syse tries to take Krauser's wig off and "gets hit with the Doppelgänger (Kupperauser) curse".

** KafkaKomedy: And you can bet your hiney he'll never be able to stop with it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Negishi thinks that one of his fan is afflicted by this, [[spoiler: but it's subverted by showing that the boy had a simple cold, and the surgery was just a circumcision]].

* TheLadette: DMC's manager (and how!)
* LargeHam: A prerequisite. Of special note, Kenichi Matsuyama in TheMovie treats ''both'' Negishi and Krauser this way.
* LawOfDisproportionateResponse: Half of Negishi's Krauser episodes could've been avoided if he didn't overreact to damn near everything, [[RuleOfFunny but then again...]]
* LegacyCharacter: Negishi on-stage persona, Johannes Krauser '''II''', is technically this, and during one arc he has to deal with the guy who used to be Krauser '''I'''. [[spoiler:In a later arc where Negishi temporarily quits the band they get Johannes Krauser III. ]]

* LoonyFan: The entire DMC fanbase from where Negishi is standing.

* MadeOfIron: The manager, who stubs out cigarettes on her tongue.

* ManInABikini: the Capitalist Pig

* MeanBoss: The President is a hardcore DeathMetal fan and couldn't care less about who Krauser is off-stage, often threatening Negishi to not underperform, provoking him into doing something that's technically illegal and interfering with his personal life.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Krauser II and Negishi, respectively.

* MonsterClown: Nishida/Camus' drummer getup.

* NobodyPoops: Averted to hell and back, and used for laughs.
* NoblewomansLaugh: DMC's manager--''especially'' noteworthy in the movie.

* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: Krauser knows how to do this, but Negishi recognizes that it's not very good for himself.
* [[OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase On the Next Episode of FUCK!!!]]
* PainfulPersona: Souchi Negishi is a laid-back NiceGuy who likes romantic music and dreams of joining a pop music band, but currently can't because he ended up joining the infamous ThrashMetal band [[TitleDrop Detroit Metal City]] taking on the name Demon King Johannes Krauser II. The series follows Souchi as [[HilarityEnsues he tries, and fails]], to live the modest, easygoing life he wants while performing as the obscene Demon King who loves blood and gore and has a penchant for raping anyone or anything that catches his eye (despite the fact that Souchi himself is a virgin).

* PowerBornOfMadness: The only reason Negishi gets away with half of what he does. He's just so crazy that nobody can quite figure out what to do with him. That, and the legions of insane fans who do his bidding.

* ShoutOut: When filming the band's first promotional video, Negishi (as Krauser) [[Music/OzzyOsbourne eats several bats all at once]].

* SliceOfLife: Negishi's.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Played with hilariously.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''{{WesternAnimation/Metalocalypse}}'', sorta.

* SureLetsGoWithThat: A lot of times Negishi just says whatever's on his mind without trying to sound threatening. Krauser II's reputation is so strong, that fans start anticipating the next demonic feat, giving Negishi ideas what to do next. He also often stumbles on rivals or their equipment on stage, which is seen as him attacking, which works out.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Technically more than two - a bunch of rabid DMC fans who go to every one of their concerts.
* TokyoTower: Krauser lights it up.
* TooDumbToLive: Any [[FanDumb fans]] of any of the bands featured in the manga, especially DMC and Helvete's. Not to mention many of the people throughout the DMC universe...
* TournamentArc: ''Satanic Emperor'', a death metal version of UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} on the surface, turns out to be more like this.

* TrueCompanions: Played straight with the DMC fans, and hilariously for laughs with scatolo-metal band Deathism/Deazm.
* TwoTimerDate

* WeirdnessCensor: Usually inverted; DMC's fans seem to have a Normalcy Censor. In one case they ignore a radio report of an incoming storm, only to later attribute the storm to [[spoiler: the original]] Krauser's demonic powers.

* [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief Willing Suspension Of Disbelief]]: DMC are [[DeathMetal Death Metal]], the [[PoliceAreUseless police will neglect looking for someone who obviously sticks out and reportedly caused much suffering and committed many crimes]], you can [[ThePowerOfRock play an electric guitar unplugged and successfully perform songs with said unplugged guitar without the rest of the band]], you can leave concerts that YOU are playing in without being mauled by disappointed fans, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
** RefugeInAudacity and the Japanese public's version of the WeirdnessCensor tending to be "ignore and shun as if it does not exist" as opposed to the American version of MediaScaremongering (and the {{Yakuza}} connections of some VisualKei labels and management) meant VisualKei artists could, for a while, get away with some activities that would have a "normal" Japanese arrested instantly. So this is arguably TruthInTelevision to some degree.
** [[ScienceMarchesOn The unplugged electric guitar is also]] TruthInTelevision [[ScienceMarchesOn to some degree now]], though you could not play full songs without the rest of the band with it in RealLife. Battery power and a wireless amp (or an amp wired into a guitar itself) could allow for such - though the sound would definitely be weaker.
** Leaving concerts you are playing in without being mauled by disappointed fans? Also TruthInTelevision. See Music/GunsNRoses or Music/XJapan for quite a few examples of this. It depends on how much the audience understands the reason and how good the band is at getting out of there fast (or canceling at first)

* TheCameo: Gene Simmons plays Jack ill Dark.
* GirlyRun: Negishi in TheMovie for some reason.
* TheMovie: Starring Creator/KenichiMatsuyama (Live Action [[Manga/DeathNote L]]) in the lead role and Gene Simmons of Music/{{KISS}} as Jack ill Dark, the reigning Demon God of Rock and Roll.

* {{Too Dumb To Live}}: Any [[FanDumb fans]] of any of the bands featured in the manga, especially DMC and Helvete's. Not to mention many of the people throughout the DMC universe...

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Negishi is a natural improviser and is aware how deluded his fans can be. To avoid sleeping with his fangirls, he chooses to have sex with ''the air'' instead, and they treat is as something Krauser would obviously do.

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* MediumAwareness

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Only Yuri Aikawa seems to like Souichi's cornball indie pop music. Everyone else, like Asato the editor of the magazine Aikawa works for feel absolutely nothing for it at best.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Played with hilariously.

* ZeroApprovalRating: Only Yuri Aikawa seems to like Souichi's cornball indie pop music. Everyone else, like Asato the editor of the magazine Aikawa works for feel absolutely nothing for it at best.

* MadLibsCatchphrase: "I am a terrorist straight outta Hell! Yesterday I raped X, tomorrow I'm gonna carve up Y, I am a terrorist straight outta Hell!

* FarmBoy: Played surprisingly straight, as Negishi's parents own a small family farm in the Oita prefecture. Unlike most examples, the whiny part of the farmboy trope for Negishi comes after he's already departed for the greener grass of Tokyo, as DMC is ''not'' how he wanted to find fame as an indie musician. Luckily for him, [[ChekhovsSkill growing up as a farmhand has come in handy more than once.]]

* FarmBoy: Played surprisingly straight, as Negishi's parents own a small family farm in the Oita prefecture. Unlike most examples, the whiny part of the farmboy trope for Negishi comes after he's already departed for the greener grass of Tokyo, as DMC is ''not'' how he wanted to find fame as an indie musician. Luckily for him, [[ChekovsSkill growing up as a farmhand has come in handy more than once.]]

-->'''Translator: "Wait, I think I'm in love with your ass."

-->'''Translator: "If you don't want me to fuck your ass, then I will cum inside your mouth."