History Manga / Nightschool

* DarkerAndEdgier: The artist's previous work, ''{{Manga/Dramacon}}'', was a fluffy romantic comedy about finding love at an anime convention.

An OELManga by Svetlana Chmakova, who also wrote ''{{Manga/Dramacon}}'', and is being published by Creator/YenPress.

-->"Hey, I just figured out what happens in the next volume. [[KillEmAll Everyone accidentally]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim gets run over by a truck."]]

The world of ''Nightschool'' is very much like our own, at least during the day. But by night, all sorts of creatures from vampires to demons to Weirns (a kind of WitchSpecies with [[BondCreature Astral]] partners) roam the streets. Aside from the physical differences, they’re a lot like us, really—including the fact that their kids still have to go to school.

** WitchSpecies: Weirns each have an Astral partner, basically seen as an extension of their own self. They’re also very personal about them; asking to see or touch a stranger’s Astral is a huge faux pas.

* ZombieAdvocate: Again, Nic’s girlfriend, a "vampire rights activist" who goes so far as to defend a vampire who had just tried to make a meal out of her. "She can't help it! She's hungry!"

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Mr. Roi. He’s a brilliant spell scientist and semi-retired adventurer, but his standoffish attitude and disregard for minor matters such as maintaining the school’s structural integrity drive everyone who works with him crazy. It’s worth noting that all of Madam Chen’s rants about him tend to include something akin to, “of course, we’re so lucky he’s teaching here.”

* DemonicPossession: Alex is the unwitting host of a spirit of destruction that tends to “borrow” control every so often to gloat about how she’s going to “be the power that shapes the world,” [[spoiler: or to curse a trio of young Hunters who were apparently threatening her host body.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While Sarah is playfully flirting with a vampire coworker, she reminds him that, “[[MyEyesAreUpHere My face is up here]].”

* FantasticRacism: Between Hunters and most of the denizens of the night. There’s an uneasy treaty between them which boils down to "Hunters may only attack you if you attack a human first," but that doesn’t always go so well (see VanHelsingHateCrimes).
** FantasticSlurs: “Nozzies” for vampires, “Buffies” for Hunters.

** OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Their tails change into legs on dry land, though Nic playfully comments that he’s “never checked” to see if a third-year mermaid student has a tail in class.
** OurVampiresAreDifferent: They don’t show up in photographs, which makes getting a school yearbook near impossible (until Sarah comes up with the idea of using drawn portraits instead). However, a vampire who’s been very recently turned still has a reflection, which means they can still regain their humanity if they’re taken to a healer quickly enough. Particularly old vampires face losing their minds and turning into “rippers”—mindless, withered husks with insatiable appetites.
** OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: They’re called “shifters,” have a tenuous alliance with Hunters, and their packs seem to translate into high finance corporations.

* RageAgainstTheAuthor: In the spirit of ''{{Manga/Dramacon}}'', the cast gets a kick out of ditching the author to go party in the {{Omake}} sections. She’s less than amused.

* ShoutOut: Hunters are nicknamed “[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffies]]” by vampires. Similarly, “Nozzies” comes from “Nosferatu.”

* VanHelsingHateCrimes: Despite the treaty, some Hunters are perfectly willing to attack vampires and the like just for existing. When a pair of Weirns tell each other, “Be safe from Hunters” the same way most humans would say, “Have a safe trip” when they part ways...
* ViewerGenderConfusion: In-universe with Ten’s [[{{Manhwa}} "Korean language homework."]]
-->'''Daemon:''' This is the warrior?
-->'''Ten:''' Yes.
-->'''Daemon:''' [[DudeLooksLikeALady ...Thought it was a girl.]]
-->'''Ten:''' No, the girl is the one with the boobs.

--> '''Teresa:''' Remind me never to get a brother.
--> '''Ten:''' Sister.
--> '''Teresa:''' Whatever. A Jaq. I'm never getting a Jaq.

* WaifProphet: Marina. Seers tend to go insane more often than not, and she has to regularly take special medication in order to stay lucid. It messes with her visions, however, and her TrueCompanions were ''not'' happy to find out that the werewolves she’d been working for hadn’t been reminding her to take it just so they could ensure a profit during a rough patch in the stock market.

* ZombieAdvocate: Again, Nic’s girlfriend, a “vampire rights activist" who goes so far as to defend a vampire who had just tried to make a meal out of her. "She can't help it! She's hungry!"

* JerkassFacade: Alex. [[spoiler: It’s really hard to be friendly and sociable when anything or anyone she says that she likes or loves ''blows up,'' after all.]]

** In-universe, again, with Jaq, within his own TrueCompanions!

Meanwhile, Daemon, one of the city’s [[TheHunter Hunters]], receives a frightened message from one of his students, a [[WaifProphet young seer]] named Marina, about a vision she’s had. [[SealedEvilInACan Something that was sealed away]] has broken free, and she and six other children quietly walk away as death and destruction befall the land. But while Marina and five of the other children are "still walking," one of these harbingers is "already here..." in the form of one Alex Treveney.

* TheHunter: Plenty of them, usually found in teams of one mentor and several younger students.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While Sarah is playfully flirting with a vampire coworker, she reminds him that, “My face is up here.”

* [[spoiler:ApocalypseHow]]: In the fourth book. [[spoiler:Followed by a RealityWarper spell to RetGone it.]]

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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The Nereshai or Night Lords are the setting's resident uber {{Badass}}es. As such, they seem to be so powerful that as a rule, bragging about themselves is pointless. [[spoiler:Eron trying to become one is actually [[DisasterDominoes what sets off the plot]].]]

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