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* GeckoEnding: Because the anime was produced before the manga was finished, it wound up diverging from the way the first half of the manga ended. [[spoiler:The final confrontation with Shinryu happens in the D-Zone instead of in Rikyu, Chibi never unlocks his full power and instead relies on Shinsaber and the ThePowerOfFriendship, and Kohei fuses with Shinryu to be sealed away along with it after killing his father, while in the manga it's Kohei who dies and Saizo who controls Shinryu instead.]]

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* GeckoEnding: Because the anime was produced before the manga was finished, it wound up diverging from the way the first half of the manga ended. [[spoiler:The final confrontation with Shinryu happens in the D-Zone instead of in Rikyu, Chibi never unlocks his full power and instead relies on Shinsaber and the ThePowerOfFriendship, and Kohei fuses with Shinryu to be sealed away along with it after killing his father, while in the manga it's Kohei who dies and Saizo who controls Shinryu instead.]]

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* AloofAlly: Himuro after his HeelFaceTurn

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%% * AloofAlly: Himuro after his HeelFaceTurn



* AnIcePerson: Kanpa, Hagiwara's dragon.

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%% * AnIcePerson: Kanpa, Hagiwara's dragon.



* AxCrazy: Himuro in the anime and first half of the manga.

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%% * AxCrazy: Himuro in the anime and first half of the manga.



* TheBerserker: Rokkaku, generally when he's had a little too much to drink.

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%% * TheBerserker: Rokkaku, generally when he's had a little too much to drink.



* BloodKnight:
** ''Himuro''.
---> '''Toki Kouhei''': Hikaru's just a crazy battle freak!
** Rokkaku has his moments.

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%% * BloodKnight:
%% ** ''Himuro''.
%% ---> '''Toki Kouhei''': Hikaru's just a crazy battle freak!
%% ** Rokkaku has his moments.



* BreathWeapon: A lot of the dragons.

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%% * BreathWeapon: A lot of the dragons.



* ClingyJealousGirl: Yukino Maiko, although this is shown much more in the anime than in the manga.

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%% * ClingyJealousGirl: Yukino Maiko, although this is shown much more in the anime than in the manga.



* DarkIsEvil

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%% * DarkIsEvil



* GenerationXerox: The kids in the epilogue. Practically ''everyone'' has one.

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%% * GenerationXerox: The kids in the epilogue. Practically ''everyone'' has one.



* IdiotHero: Oozora Reiji. So, so much.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: Shinsaber
* InVinoVeritas: Meguru, coupled with not remembering a thing the morning afterwards.

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%% * IdiotHero: Oozora Reiji. So, so much.
%% * InfinityPlusOneSword: Shinsaber
%% * InVinoVeritas: Meguru, coupled with not remembering a thing the morning afterwards.



* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Himuro and Sumishiba

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%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Himuro and Sumishiba



* LaserBlade: Himuro's first dragon's primary attack
* LightIsGood
* LightningBruiser: Chibi in giant-awesome-beast-mode on occasion, both of Himuro's dragons, Shinsaber in the anime

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%% * LaserBlade: Himuro's first dragon's primary attack
%% * LightIsGood
%% * LightningBruiser: Chibi in giant-awesome-beast-mode on occasion, both of Himuro's dragons, Shinsaber in the anime



* MakeMeWannaShout: Maiko's dragon's attack.



* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Hikaru is this about Reiji.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Reiji, before the Dragon Drive thing. But he doesn't actually miss it.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent

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%% * TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Hikaru is this about Reiji.
%% * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Reiji, before the Dragon Drive thing. But he doesn't actually miss it.
%% * OurDragonsAreDifferent



* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Chibi in his smaller form.
* TheRival: Himuro Hikaru.
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Sumishiba has a couple of moments [[spoiler: before his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Sumishiba about Meguru in the anime.
* SlasherSmile:
** Toki, while speaking for Shinryu
** Himuro has at least one.

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%% * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Chibi in his smaller form.
%% * TheRival: Himuro Hikaru.
%% * ScaryShinyGlasses: Sumishiba has a couple of moments [[spoiler: before his HeelFaceTurn.]]
%% * SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Sumishiba about Meguru in the anime.
%% * SlasherSmile:
%% ** Toki, while speaking for Shinryu
%% ** Himuro has at least one.



* TheStoic: Himuro Hikaru. When he's not being AxCrazy or a BloodKnight. Falls more under this in the second half of the manga.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Sumishiba and Himuro.

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%% * TheStoic: Himuro Hikaru. When he's not being AxCrazy or a BloodKnight. Falls more under this in the second half of the manga.
%% * TallDarkAndSnarky: Sumishiba and Himuro.



* TwinTails: Maiko sports them to go with her tsundere-tude.

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* TwinTails: Maiko sports them two pigtails to go with her tsundere-tude.



* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Maiko.]]

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%% * VictoriousChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Maiko.]]
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* TheThingThatGoesDoink: Shows up a couple of times
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* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Hideaki is an artificial intelligence given physical form through the link between Earth and Rikyu, created by Saizo to assist in his plans.]]


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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: In the manga there's nothing to imply that Kohei and Saizo aren't biologically father and son, but in the anime Kohei surmises that Saizo adopted him to use for his own ends.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Before his introduction in the present, Mahiru isn't shown or mentioned in the first series of flashbacks explaining Rokkaku's backstory despite said backstory being the whole reason for his vendetta against Rokkaku.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Towa's hair is pink, Kohei's is blue. There are a few other slightly odd hair colors, but those two stand out.
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* AdaptationExpansion: To compensate for some things being AdaptedOut from the manga, other things were added in the anime:
** Sun Wols is given much more screen time than he gets in the manga, joining up with the main characters more or less permanently instead of just being a recurring ally of theirs.
** The task of finding the shrine of Shinryu is fairly simplistic in the manga, but in the anime it's expanded into its own subplot that spans multiple episodes. As well, the dragons guarding the shrine were long dead in the manga and only appear as crystalized corpses, while in the anime they're still alive and have to be fought before anyone can access the shrine.
** Rokkaku's backstory is fleshed out a bit more, namely with the addition of Mahiru to serve as a rival for him [[spoiler:and also the younger brother of his dead companion Yako, who blames Rokkaku for his brother's death and wants revenge]].
** Meguru never fights in the manga, mostly because Jigen Jouka can only be active for short periods of time. In the anime she at the very least gets to use Jigen Jouka to help fight [[spoiler:in the final battle against Shinryu]].

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** Silver and her entire subplot are gone.

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** Silver and her entire subplot are gone.gone, as well as Hysteric Rose and the auction for Shinsaber.



* GenreShift: The story starts as a fairly standard virtual reality battle series with Reiji as the promising underdog rising in the ranks, then shifts into a fantasy-based TrappedInAnotherWorld plot once he, Maiko and Daisuke are transported to Rikyu.

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* GenreShift: The story starts as a fairly standard virtual reality battle series with Reiji as the promising underdog rising in the ranks, then shifts into a fantasy-based TrappedInAnotherWorld plot once he, Maiko and Daisuke are transported to Rikyu. The second half of the manga has a similar shift, except there the perspective is flipped with the dragons coming into ''our'' world.


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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Ensui, Gwonku, and Kohei in the manga. Mukai and Saizo in the anime.]]


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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: An inevitable result of the anime and manga being localized separately from each other. For example, Daisuke's and Maiko's dragons are respectively called Kanpa and Gorao in the manga, but in the anime they're called Kan'''per''' and Go'''l'''ao. In general the manga's localization sticks closer to the original Japanese.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
** Anime-only character Shiro Kurosawa, another human from Earth who was transported to Rikyu by unspecified means. Despite being in a similar predicament to the main characters, being sought out by them as a potential ally, and even implying he'll return after making amends with his dragon, he never does so and simply drops from the plot completely after being in one episode.
** While Darx is [[spoiler:implied to have died along with Kohei in the manga]], in the anime he's simply gone for no apparent reason after Kohei uses him to hijack the Dragonic Heaven tournament.

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