History Manga / RisingXRydeen

* CryCute: After failing a mission for the first time Mikan goes to the roof of the headquarters and cries. Which is one of the few moments she's shown her vulnerable side. This is shocking to Takara who spots her and is at a loss of how to help her. Lucky Ruri knows what to say (see YouAreNotAlone).

* SexySpectacles: The first thing Takara notices about Aria is how attractive she is, mentioning her large breasts, long black straight hair and glasses.

As luck would have it, he is approached by a woman named Aria. Aria is the lab chief of the government approved stranger disaster prevention office and informs Takara that he may be a stranger.

This news excites Takara but his excitement doesn't last very long as he soon discovers his strange ability. He can release a white slippery gel of unknown properties from any part of his body. [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway It's as embarrassing and useless as it sounds]] and gets him evaluated as a Rank E stranger, the lowest rank.

In spite of this, Aria sees potential in him. She wants him to join a team with other low level strangers to go on missions to capture outlaws. Outlaws are strangers who use their strange abilities for nefarious purposes. They're incredibly dangerous, so the government only recruits high-ranking strangers to go on solo missions to capture them. Unfortunately, the government is understaffed when it comes to dealing with outlaws, so Aria is using Takara's team as an experiment to see if low-level strangers [[TeamSpirit using teamwork]] can effectively capture outlaws.

Takara Shimonone is an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent who [[IJustWantToBeSpecial wants to be extraordinary]]. He wants to be a stranger. Strangers are individuals who have developed superhuman powers called strange abilities. Takara wants a strange ability so he can become a superhero.

In spite of this Aria sees potential in him. She wants him to join a team with other low level strangers to go on missions to capture outlaws. Outlaws are strangers who use their strange abilities for nefarious purposes. They're incredibly dangerous so the government only recruits high ranking strangers to go on solo missions to capture them. Unfortunately, the government is understaffed when it comes to dealing with outlaws so Aria is using Takara's team as a experiment to see if low level strangers [[TeamSpirit using teamwork]] can effectively capture outlaws.

* TheAce: Mikan's been a government stranger since she was child and hasn't failed a mission to capture outlaws since. [[BrokenAce That is until she finally does fail a mission by only capturing two of the three outlaws. She privately breaks down in tears afterwards.]]

* AffectionateNickname: [[TheNicknamer Aria likes to give cute nicknames to the outlaws Takara's team has to capture]]. For their first mission she names the two outlaws "Gorrilla-san" and "Frog-san", [[BeastMan fitting given their appearance]]. Mikan calls them by their actual names "Strength" and "Agility". On another mission to catch an outlaw named "Bullet Girl Thief" Aria nicknames her "Tama-chan". She nicknames the outlaws to make them easier to bond with but in both cases Sanagi points out the faulty logic in trying to make them bond with the people they're supposed to be capturing.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: While the identity of the leader of Re-birthday is a mystery, Aria tells the team that whoever it is must be a very powerful stranger. With the exception of Takara's team, strangers don't usually work in teams so someone very powerful must be keeping the outlaws under control.

** Oddly enough Ruri tells Mikan she's jealous that Mikan has friends like Takara, Yowabi, and Sanagi despite the latter three not too long ago telling Ruri they consider her a friend too.

* SomethingElseAlsoRises: As if Takara's powers aren't suggestive enough, it also activates when he's extremely aroused. This usually happens when he's getting {{Glomp}}ed by a girl or on top of them in a suggestive manner so the end result is both him and [[VisualInnuendo the girl being cover in his gel]].

* SuperPowerMeltdown: For Mikan the stress of losing to Takara and her inability to state her true feelings for him during her fight with his team causes her to become emotionally unstable. Which resulted in her to lose control of her strange ability, by turning her legs and arms into electricity simultaneously, something Aria previously said she wasn't able to do. The end result is most of the warehouse the fight took place in being demolished and Mikan and Takara knockout.

** Team work is also what makes re-birthday so dangerous. Wind child, along with just two low ranking outlaws were able to take out four government strangers before being confronted by Takara's team. While most government strangers work alone, they're supposed to be very powerful. The two low ranking outlaws by themselves give Mikan some trouble, and she's supposed to be one of the best.

* TimeMaster: Ruri's strange ability, "chain of lost memory" allows her to revert anything or anyone she touches or has touched with her right hand back to the state it was five minutes ago. This allows her to fix broken items and heal people provided they were damaged within five minutes. She notes, however, it makes cutting her own hair is a pain as it returns to the old style.

* VaporWear: Mikan doesn't wear a bra under her school uniform. Were it not for the fact that clothes in this series behave like their stuck on female character's breasts a WardrobeMalfunction would be a given with her.

** HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Though later it's reveal that Takara's and Sanagi's powers may not be completely useless.
*** Takara's gel is slippery, so if he produces some gel around his feet he can slide at high speeds. It's later revealed that his gel and his entire body have highly insulative properties, meaning he can take multiple lightning blasts from Mikan, and only end up with minor injurys whereas most people are usually unconscious after just one. This discovery gets him reevaluated as a rank D stranger.

* WhatTheHellHero: Mikan calls out Aria for sending Takara, Yowabi, and Sanagi on a mission to capture two outlaws, despite knowing the three were ill-prepared for such a mission and was really just gambling on Mikan to save the three. Had Mikan not done so the three probably would have been grievously injured or killed. Aria agrees and apologies for her recklessness. However, to make sure that never happens again she decides to have Mikan join Takara's team, much to both Mikan's and Takara's dismay.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Takara has always thought of himself as a big shot hero who's better than everyone else even before his strange ability awoken.

* ShockAndAwe: Mikan's strange ability lets her turn her arms and legs into lightning. "Lightning dust" turns her arms into electricity allowing her to fire powerful lightning blasts that usually take out most of her enemies with one shot. "Lightning dash" lets her turn her legs into lightning letting her travel at SuperSpeed. She also technique that lets her create orbs of electricity that surround her and most of the area and electrocute anyone they touch.

* SexSells: It turns out Aria has had plans to form teams of strangers for a while, however Eden rejected all of her proposals. It wasn't until she proposed forming an female team did they accept her proposal.

*** She does apologize to them moments later for being so harsh but she does want them to take what she to heart.
* RescueRomance: Fumi falls in love with Takara after he saves her (really her underlings. See DepravedHomosexual) from "Gorilla-san" and "Frog-san"

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Mikan gives one to Takara's team after Takara tells her that they didn't need her to save them on their first mission. Mikan then points out the mistakes they made and calls the team a disgrace and full of flaws from the beginning to end of the mission. It's no wonder they aren't grateful to her for rescuing them.
** Aria gives one to the whole team even though they accomplished their mission. She criticizes Mikan and Takara for not following the mission plan and confronting the outlaw head on and she criticizes Sanagi and Yowabi for not arriving on the scene in time. She state that doing things like that only create unnecessary risks and will get the team in a lot of trouble if they don't change their methods.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Takara's team started of with just him, Yowabi, and Sanagi. Despite being three low ranking strangers who's powers just awoken, and have had no training Aria wants them to capture outlaws.

* PowerIncontinence: A lot of strangers don't have full control of their powers and intentionally activate them.

** Mikan has a more serious version. When she was younger she was shunned by all of her classmate including her best friend, (everyone except Takara) because her powers would constantly activate shocking things and people. In the current story she has more control over her powers thanks to training and specially made rubber gloves and socks but Aria tells Takara in private that her powers are still dangerous, not just to other people but also to Mikan herself. If her powers activate when she's asleep, unconscious, or emotional unstable she could end shocking herself which could result in her losing her limbs or dying. This is why she's rarely seen not wearing her rubber gloves.

* OverlyLongName: Aria's actual name is Aria Kurumu Elinor Walter. She prefers most people just call her Aria.

* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: Eden is a group of men that are the government's highest executive council and Aria's superiors, so she reports to them. Each member appears through video screens as dark Silhouettes, they refer to Aria as their daughter, and Aria refers to them as her fathers. Despite the mysterious vibe of their introduction, most of it is quickly undone when they reveal their big plan, "The Government beautiful all-girl stranger idolization plan", the goal of which is to have a team of cute female government strangers. While it's unclear how Takara fits in all this, it's not exactly a lofty goal. It's quickly revealed after their introduction that aria is manipulating them and has plans of her own. Eden, may have known about that since they sent Ruri to spy on Aria, but it's revealed that Ruri is really working for someone else and is spying on Eden as well.
** It turns out Aria doesn't have as much control of them has she would like, as they email her orders to capture a mentally unstable little girl who's a rank A stranger. It angers Aria that they would treat a unstable little girl like a criminal and they didn't even bother to inform her about the situation earlier.

* NonAnswer: After her match with Takara's team Mikan wakes up on a hospital bed with Aria at her bedside. When she ask what happened Takara after the match Aria simply apologizes for setting up the match in the first place. This causes Mikan to think Aria is hiding an awful truth about what happened to Takara she rushes to his room. Turns out he's fine and celebrating his teams victory over her. Aria comes in the room annoyed that Mikan didn't let her finish talking.

* MasterOfIllusion: The unnamed female outlaw with Golden Lion King and Wind Child has the ability to Holograms of people. She makes a hologram of Golden Lion King which has Miken fooled into believing her her attacks don't work on him, when the were just going though the hologram, and she almost leads Yowabi and Ruri on a endless chase capture a hologram of her they couldn't catch up with. Fortunately, Ruri is able to deduce what her powers are.

* MrsRobinson: Subverted when Aria tells Takara she's open to the idea of being in a relationship with him. Takara thinks she's joking since she's much older than him but she informs him that she's only 18 years old, three years older than him [[OlderThanTheyLook She just looks a lot older]].

* TheLoad: Takara, Yowabi, and Sanagi, due to not having any powers that are helpful in capturing outlaws. Takara, in particular has a bad habit running into fights with no plan of attack against strangers with abilities far powerful that his. Most of their missions end with Mikan subduing the outlaws and saving them in the process.
** Later with Takara who proves that he may not be useful in a fight but he is a very good strategist. His planning is instrumental in defeating a group of Re-birthday outlaws.

* LightningBruiser: At the start of his first mission, Takara is warned by Aria to be careful of the Outlaw "Gorrilla-san" a large muscular outlaw whose strange ability lets him increase his physical power. Takara almost learns the hard way that Gorrilla-san's strange ability gives him more than just superhuman strength. When, "Gorrilla-san" tries to punch Sanagi, Takara uses his strange ability to produce gel around his feet, letting him slide at high speeds, grab Sanagi and move them a good distance away from "Gorrilla-san". However in an instant Gorrilla-san appears right behind Takara ready to punch him. Luckily, Mikan electrocutes "Gorrilla-san" and reveals his true power to Takara. It turns out his strange ability lets him increase his muscular strength. So anything using muscles, like punching or moving, is increased to superhuman levels.

* LightIsNotGood:[[spoiler: Toya's power seems to be light based, yet he is a ruthless anti hero that tried to kill Takara for caring for an enemies health]]

* TheLeader: Officially Takara is the leader of the team. Unfortunately, he doesn't act like one. He's more concerned with looking heroic than accomplishing the mission. However, when does act like a leader, plan for the situation, and coordinate with his team he can accomplish a lot.

* LateForSchool: Fumi tries to set up a MeetCute scenario with Takara by pretending to be late for school and [[CrashIntoHello accidentally bumping into Takara]]. Her underlings point out the glaring flaw with her plan in that she's doing it ''after school'' but she goes with it anyway. Takara actually see's her running towards him, though unaware of her plan, he also sees it as an opportunity to have a MeetCute scenario and runs towards her. Things go hilariously wrong when Ruri, who decides to visit Takara's school comes right in the middle of the two's paths. Takara bumps into Ruri face first into her breasts, bouncing off her, and Fumi bumps into Ruri from behind causing the two girls to fall on Takara ending up in a very sexually suggestive position. Takara, gets aroused by this causing his powers to activate covering the two girls in gel and prompting a very angry Mikan, who saw the whole thing, to electrocute him.

* IneffectualLoner: Mikan's refusal to work as a team ends up causing her to fail a mission for the first time. Takara tells her to leave Golden Lion king to him and go after Wind child since the later can fly and Mikan is the only one with the abilities to catch up with her. She refuses, stating that she'll take on Golden Lion king then go after Wind child. Unfortunately by the time she defeats Golden Lion King Wind Child is long gone. Later on she notes that had she listen to Takara, they would have most likely caught all the outlaws on her mission

* ItsAllMyFault: After hearing about the HostageSituation which involve outlaws from Re-Birthday one of whom is Wind Child. Mikan blames herself for failing to capture Wind Child when she had a chance. Takara flicks her on the head and tells her the whole team is at fault not just just her.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Ruri defeats an unnamed female outlaw with a small hoop. She throws hoop at the outlaw, who breaks it to pieces using her whip. However, Ruri threw the whip with her right hand, which means she can use her strange ability revert the hoop back to it's original state. The pieces fly back together around the outlaw pulling her and Takara, who spinning right next to her the whole time (see HumanShield) together and binding them together so she couldn't move properly. It's unclear whether she meant to bind Takara as well.

* HumanShield: Takara gets used as one by a female outlaw how wraps him with her whip and uses him as a hostage to deter Mikan from attack her. She quickly unwraps Takara (which leaves him spinning for a while) to attack Ruri, who's seems to have figured out what her strange ability is.

* GlassesPull: When Golden lion king activates his strange ability and emits a blinding light both Wind child and Aria, who's watching the fight via monitor put on sunglasses.

* FightsLikeANormal: Golden Lion King has a rank E strange ability but he's not entirely weak since Re-birthday taught him how to fight so he can rely on hand-to-hand combat. Still though, while he puts up a good fight against Takara he's no match Mikan.
* FirstNameBasis: Aria pouts when Takara refers to her as "Aria-san" despite her just telling him to refer to as Aria. When Takara corrects himself and calls her Aria she enthusiastically refers to him as "darling".

--> All-out brawl between the pitiful and the ultimate! Is ther any chance of victory against such an overwhelming power difference?!
** They actually manage to win by exploiting Mikan fear on cockroaches, her lack of knowledge of Sanagi and Yowabi's ability and flaws with her strange ability (see NecessaryDrawback)