History Manga / GoodNightWorld

** Kojiro is shown to get physically violent with his children when he considers they deserve punishment in flashbacks. The shown causes of punishment are accidentally spilling a drink on a computer keyboard and the breaking of a coffee mug that is implied to also be accidental.

* AcquaintedInRealLife: Part of the tension comes from how likely the member of the Arima family are to find about each other, with Kojiro's position as a ''PLANET'' administrator being balanced out by his assisstant Hana actively hiding things from him. The first discovery the audience knows of happens when [[spoiler:Asuma needs to rely on Taichiro to call an ambulance for him and Taichiro notices AAAAA on his computer while in his room]].

** The Black Bird can cause the purely mental variant of this trope to happen to actual players, in a way that can be best summed up as them hallucinating that they've logged off, only to be promptly put through various mental trials in a mental version of the real world that would put the entire SlasherMovie genre to shame. It eventually kills them from a mix of the psychological of killing the person inside their mind repeatedly and the person being unable to meet their real-world needs in that state.

** In the first episode, the montage of all members of Taichiro's donning Virtual Reality visors similar to his own, logging into PLANET and spawning into to the Akabane Family's house.

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame: The Black Bird sends ''the player'' to the hospital the first time it kills an avatar.

** The Black Bird can cause the purely mental variant of this trope to happen to actual players. It eventually kills them from a mix of killing the person inside their mind repeatedly and the person being unable to meet their real-world needs.

* TheGameNeverStopped: Some AIs are made to look like ordinary players to the audience [[TomatoInTheMirror and themselves]] via this trope, with any instance of them seemingly being in the real world actually being an extension of ''PLANET'' that exists only for them.

* TheGameNeverStopped: Some AIs are made to look like ordinary players to the audience [[TomatoInTheMirror and themselves]] via this trope, with any instance of them being seemingly being in the real world actually being an extension of ''PLANET'' that exists only for them.

** Kojiro is shown to get physically violent with his children when he considers they deserve punishment in flashbacks. The shown causes of punishment are accidentally spilling a drink on a keyboard and the breaking of a coffee mug that is implied to also be accidental.

** The mother of Hinako, Pico's player[[spoiler:, more accurately the real person who served as her template]], is shown to be the controlling variant. She asks her to be home as soon as she's done with her classes while holding her arm and not letting go before she agrees.

* AcquaintedInRealLife: Part of the tension comes from how likely the member of the Arima family are to find about each other, with Kojiro's position as a ''PLANET'' administrator being balanced by his assisstant Hana actively hiding things from him. The first discovery the audience knows of happens when [[spoiler:Asuma needs to rely on Taichiro to call an ambulance for him and Taichiro notices AAAAA on his computer while in his room]].

* AcquaintedInRealLife: Part of the tension comes from how likely the member of the Arima are to find about each other, with Kojiro's position as a ''PLANET'' administrator being balanced by his assisstant Hana actively hiding things from him. The first discovery the audience knows of happens when [[spoiler:Asuma needs to realy on Taichiro to call an ambulance for him and Taichiro notices AAAAA on his computer while in his room]].

* BigLittleBrother: The size difference between Asuma and Taichiro is such that it's easy to make incorrect assumptions about their relative ages in both worlds. Taichiro also has much smoother features than Asuma, resulting him always looking baby-faced by comparison. Maturity-wise, the mere fact that Asuma is both still attending school and taking it seriously, while Taichiro has been a {{{{Hikikomori}} for six years, gives him the upper hand.

* BigLittleBrother: The size difference between Asuma and Taichiro is such that it's easy to make incorrect assumptions about their relative ages in both worlds. Taichiro also has much smoother features than Asuma, resulting him always looking baby-faced by comparison. Maturity-wise, the mere fact that Asuma is both still attending school and taking it seriously gives him the upper hand.

* BigLittleBrother: The size difference between Asuma and Taichiro is such that it's easy to make incorrect assumptions about their relative ages in both worlds. It may not even not be entirely due to Taichiro's six-year {{Hikikomori}} phase, as Asuma is tall enough to me mistaken for the family's oldest child even in a flashback from back when Aya was still alive. Taichiro also has much smoother features than Asuma, resulting him always looking baby-faced by comparison. Maturity-wise, the mere fact that Asuma is both still attending school and taking it seriously gives him the upper hand.

A piece of in-game land held by the Akabane Family gets announced as the spawn area of the "Black Bird of Happiness," a {{Superboss}} with a big bounty of both real and in-game currency on its head. The game's large Pirate guild, led by Ichi's old friend from his early gaming years, has no plans to let it fall right into Akabane's lap without a fight. Hidden motives both on the part of the Pirate guild's own leadership and that of the game's main peacekeeper guild, Granada, get overshadowed by the Black Bird turning out to be a danger not only to avatars, but their players. What little mending the Arima family's situation has allowed for might very well be in jeopardy, also.

* BigLittleBrother: The size difference between Asuma and Taichiro is such that it's easy to make incorrect assumptions about their relative ages in both worlds. It may not even not be entirely due to Taichiro's six-year {{Hikikomori}} phase, as Asuma is tall enough to me mistaken for the family's oldest child even in a flashback from when Aya was still alive. Taichiro also has much smoother features than Asuma, resulting him always looking baby-faced by comparison. Maturity-wise, the mere fact that Asuma is both still attending school and taking it seriously gives him the upper hand.

* BigLittleBrother: The size difference between Asuma and Taichiro is such that it's easy to make incorrect assumptions about their relative ages in both worlds. It may not even not be entirely due to Taichiro's six-year {{Hikikomori}} phase, as Asuma is tall and old-looking enough to me mistaken for the family's oldest child even in a flashback from when Aya was still alive.

Taichiro, the player behind Ichi, one of the guild's members, has a quite poor home life back in reality: he's a {{Hikikomori}} of six years with utter disdain for his younger brother Asuma and his distant father Kojiro, while his mother Miyabi seems very much absent. The family also used to have a younger daughter, who is now dead. Unbeknownst to Taichiro, every single member of his family also regularly escapes to ''PLANET''. And he interacts with them every single day has his guild junior AAAAA, guild master Shiro and TeamMom May respectively.

A piece of in-game land held by the Akabane Family gets announced as the spawn area of the "Black Bird of Happiness," a {{Superboss}} with a big bounty of both real and in-game currency on its head. The game's large Pirate guild, led by Ichi's old friend from early gaming years, has no plan to let it fall right into to Akabane's lap without a fight. Hidden motives both on the part of the Pirate guild's own leadership and that of the game's main peacekeeper guild, Granada, get overshadowed by the Black Bird turning out to be a danger not only to avatars, but their players. What little mending the family's situation has allowed for might very well be in jeopardy, also.

** In the first episode, the montage of all members of Taichiro's donning Virtual Reality vizors similar to his own, logging into PLANET and spawning into to the Akabane Family's house.
** In the third episode, sparks coming out of [[spoiler:Asuma]]'s VR vizor and the latter collapsing after getting his avatar stomped to death by the Black Bird of Happiness, suddenly making the latter a much bigger deal.

* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Asuma, Kojiro and Miyabi are only shown logging into ''PLANET'' and revealed to be AAAAA, Shiro and May respectively at the end of the first episode.

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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Asuma, Kojiro and Miyabi are only shown logging into ''PLANET'' and revealed to be AAAAA, Shiro and May at the end of the first episode.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are a couple hintst towards the reveal about Shiro and AAAAA in the first episode:
** Kojiro is established to be having back pain bad enough to make changing a lighbulb a burden in his debut scene. May later needs to tell Ichi and AAAAA that Shiro won't be logging in due to needing to go to the hospital.
** Soon after AAAAA needs to log off to do something, Taichiro gets interrupted by Asuma informing him that Kojiro had to go to the hospital for a hernia.

Taichiro, the player behind Ichi, one of the guild's members, has a quite poor home life back in reality: he's a {{Hikikomori}} of six years with utter disdain for his younger brother Asuma and his distant father Kojiro, while his mother Miyabi seems very much absent. The family also used to have a younger daughter, who is now dead. Unbeknownst to Taichiro, every single member of his family also regularly escapes to ''PLANET''. And he interacts with them every single day has his guild junior, guild master and TeamMom respectively.

A piece of in-game land held by the Akabane Family gets announced as the spawn area of the "Black Bird of Happiness," a {{Superboss}} with a big bounty of both real and in-game currency on its head. The game's large Pirate guild, led by Ichi's old friend from early gaming years, has no plan to let it fall right into to Akabane's lap without a fight. Hidden motives both on the part of the Pirate guild's own leadership and that of the game's main peacekeeper guild, Granada, get overshadowed by the Black Bird turning out to be a danger not only to avatars, but their players.

When a piece of in-game land held by the Akabane Family gets announced as the spawn area of a BonusBoss with a big bounty of both real and in-game currency on its head, the largest PlayerKiller guild, led by Ichi's old friend from early gaming years, has no plan to let them have it without a fight.

In a popular virtual reality [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]] named ''PLANET'', four of the top players have formed a guild named the "Akabane Family" and have become a FamilyOfChoice to each other. One of the guild's ironclad rules is that its members shall never try to meet each other in the real world. Taichiro, the player behind Ichi, one of the guild's members, has a quite poor home life back in reality: he's a {{Hikikomori}} of six years with utter disdain for his younger brother Asuma and his distant father Kojiro, while his mother Miyabi seems very much absent. The family also used to have a younger daughter, who is now dead. Unbeknownst to Taichiro, every single member of his family regularly escapes to ''PLANET'', as well.

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In a popular virtual reality [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMORPG]] named ''PLANET'', four of the top players have formed a guild named the "Akabane Family" and have become a FamilyOfChoice to each other. One of the guild's ironclad rules is that its members shall never try to meet each other in the real world. Taichiro, the player behind Ichi, one of the guild's members, has quite poor home life back in reality:.