History Music / Tsukiuta

* HomoeroticSubtext:
** The pairs often seem more like couples than like just friends. This is especially true in their stories in the game Tsukipara, and for both middle pairs in their respective versions of the Yumemigusa stage plays.
** Hajime and Haru's performance of their duet song "Koiwasuregusa" takes this beyond subtext.
** On top of his relationship with Kai, Shun has a massive crush on Hajime. He goes on and on about how much he loves him, constantly interrupting important conversations to ask Hajime to pet him on the head, or call him "onii-san".
** Rui's admiration of Iku is decidedly romantic.
** The stage actors and voice actors have also described several of the pairs' relationships as romantic.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: Well, [[ChineseVampire Chinese Vampires]], at least. The Gokuzoku are pretty much like this, with Kakeru, Arata, and Shun being the biggest examples, since they make their selling point their friendliness. After Haru and You's HeelFaceTurn, they end up like this, though less so than the other three due to their... [[AbhorrentAdmirer respective]] [[{{Tsundere}} quirks]].

** Hajime in a bad mood is this to the Tsukiuta. squad in general. It happens typically when Haru, Arata, Koi, Shun, or Kai tick him off by doing something stupid and purposely pushing his BerserkButton.

** When Mizuki stopped Nebutan's rampage in Reina's introductory CD, she shoots him down with a DeathGlare so bad that he calms down, implying this.

** In a variant, cross-dimensional references to other mediums get made from time to time. When Kai and Haru describe how they get tossed into another world for Urazanshin, they mention that it hasn't been the first time they've done so: namely, Yumemigusa preceded this situation.

** For more dramatic backstories, one can check out the backstories of their alternate worlds' versions, too. Of note are Taikyoku Denki, where Rui, Aoi, and Yoru are ConvenientlyAnOrphan. Of particular note is [[HalfHumanHybrid Rui]], who deals with FantasticRacism.

* CuttingOffTheBranches: [[JidaiGeki Yumemigusa]] featured two endings: one with [[spoiler:Arata dying]] in Cherry Blossom, and one with [[spoiler:You dying]] in Moon. It's heavily implied that the former is the canon one, due to Yumemigusa itself being an alternate name for "[[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom]]", but it's all but confirmed later on in Urazanshin, where Hajime makes a CallBack that [[spoiler:he remembers someone who lived with all his life, the best he could. Hajime looks directly at Arata for this.]]

* CuttingOffTheBranches: [[Jidaigeki Yumemigusa]] featured two endings: one with [[spoiler:Arata dying]] in Cherry Blossom, and one with [[spoiler:You dying]] in Moon. It's heavily implied that the former is the canon one, due to Yumemigusa itself being an alternate name for "[[CherryBlossoms cherry blossom]]", but it's all but confirmed later on in Urazanshin, where Hajime makes a CallBack that [[spoiler:he remembers someone who lived with all his life, the best he could. Hajime looks directly at Arata for this.]]

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The cast also performs separate concerts: Lunatic Live in 2017, Memorial Tour in February and March 2018, and Lunatic Live in Omiya in December 2018 (together with the cast of [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} SQS]]). In contrast to the drama [=CDs=] and anime, the stage plays often feature fantasy AU stories with elaborate costumes. The final performances of each play are filmed for Blu-ray.

The characters play minor roles and sometimes cameo in the other ''Music/{{Tsukipro}}'' series, including ''Tsukipro the Animation'' as the ''senpai'' groups of all of the main characters in that adaptation.

* AllThereInTheManual: Part of why it's so hard to get into - there's ''way'' more manual than main story. There isn't really even one "main story" - there's the drama [=CDs=], but they don't make up the majority of what's been made, either. If you're interested, starting with the anime wouldn't be a bad idea. Just keep a wiki on hand for reference!

* AnimalMotifs: Rabbits, as befitting the [[MoonRabbit lunar theme]] the project has. Procellarum has a small white pet rabbit and Six Gravity has a big black one, and the {{Mascot}}, the Tsukiusa, is also one.
* AudienceParticipationSong:
** Gravitic Love's chorus - "So Fast!" "So Vast!"/ "So High!" "Turn Round!"
** During the dance portions of the stage plays, during "tsukinouta", fans will call out the characters' names at their line in the SingerNamedrop song.
* BreakUpSong: A 2D idol magazine once had a series of polls for readers' favorite songs on various topics. For "Best Heartbreak Song", ''three'' Tsukiuta songs took the top spots, and number 1 was Arata's "Sakura to tomo ni, kimi dake wo". So of course, Arata being Arata, he decides that they are now the Heartbreak Rangers, and he's the leader, Heartbreak Red. Since then, Heartbreak Red has appeared in many places around the franchise - in the stage plays, in especially in any April Fools related post, since Arata is the April representative. In summer 2018's Tsukipro Bunkasai, they even made a Heartbreak Red escape game.
* CastOfPersonifications: The groups consist of idols who each personify a month of the year, with each month being represented by both a boy and a girl.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: For simplicity's sake, the motif colors of each month's representative are the same. December is gold, January is purple, February is pink, March is green, April is orange, May is light blue, June is teal, July is dark blue, August is red, September is yellow, October is dark brown, and November is silver.
* ComicBookTime: Averted, surprisingly. Each year the project goes on means the characters age and grow accordingly, and so do their circumstances.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Procellarum has a few members that have some sad backstories. Rui, for example, had a terrible home life and went homeless, while Kai lost his childhood friend at a young age and still gets hung up over it around the time she died.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The group with black as their unit color, and with "the Black King" Hajime, with his dark-toned solo songs, as their leader, is one of the two main groups - arguably ''the'' main group, as they come before Procella - as opposed to being the "hardcore rival" trio or quartet that competes against the sparkly, bright, rainbow-colored, intoxicatingly-plucky 7-9 member main unit, which is the pattern that many of the more popular idol series go with. In that pattern, the darker unit might become friends later on, but rarely are they the main characters.
* DreamIntro: Hajime's first drama CD begins with him performing with Six Gravity as their leader, as he does, then reveals that the scene was a dream he had before being scouted. He wakes up remarking that the dream was very realistic, but he can't remember it.
* EliteSchoolMeansEliteBrain: In the first drama CD, Hajime and Haru mention the high school that they go to--a private school that's said to be the top in the country, though it isn't named, for the sake of the series' "this takes place in real life" cred. The other Gravi members are amazed, and Kakeru tells Koi, "He's like the final boss, and you're Villager C!"

** Almost all of their costumes, but the boys' first season covers costumes take this to a questionable extreme. Almost all of them are wearing what looks to be opposite halves of two different jackets. It works for some of them, like Hajime's one kimono sleeve, but others...
** In Rabbits Kingdom, Arata wears an eyepatch, because he has two different color eyes. Why? Because it's cool, that's all.

* GhostlyGlide: How Diablo moves around.
* GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: The Angels' costumes in the "Origins" Angels and Demons AU.

* HairContrastDuo: The two leaders for both the male and female teams have this going on, with both having a white hair/black hair theme. Hajime is more parental and serious, while Shun is more laid back and likes to nap. Meanwhile, Yuki is an {{Ojou}} through and through, with Tsubaki as a free-spirit.

* ImageSong: The series consists of more solos and duets than unit songs. Each of the boys has 4+ solos, and 2 duets, while there are only 5 unit songs (two for each group, and "Tsukinouta" with both groups). All 24 members are getting new solo songs in 2018-19, and Fluna and Seleas are getting their first unit songs.
* KiGo: The core of the whole concept, essentially. Also, one of the many areas where this series is surprisingly full of traditional motifs.

** The 2018 April Fools Day joke had some of the boys become magical girls for the day.
* MagicRealism: People who have only seen the anime series are often surprised by how much of the supernatural there is in the rest of this franchise.
* MoeAnthropomorphism: Of the months of the year.
* {{Lunarians}}: The female units. According to their backstory, they are all candidates for ruler of the moon (called Goddess Candidates), and have to [[MagicalGirlQueenlinessTest undergo training and prove themselves]] in order to be picked. They make base up there, but easily travel from the moon to Earth. And as for why they look human-- well, Humanity and the Moon People are one and the same. It's just that Humanity decided to leave the Moon at one point.
* OdeToFood: You's special single "Hee! Hee! Foo! Foo!" is about his favourite food, curry. The B-side, "Layla, you call me splendour" uses melting curry as a metaphor for love.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The Origins AU has some of the more mythologically accurate terminology, and the multiple wings thing, but it also creates a lot of its mythology from scratch. The angels and demons are also not enemies, they get along quite well.

* RedStringOfFate: The "en" that binds the twelve members together is described as this. It's also, apparently, what makes them a WeirdnessMagnet.
** To use the more general metaphorical version, in Kurenai Enishi, Kakeru says that the red string of fate that binds them all together is more like a steel wire.

** The episodes of the anime, and the stage plays, feature different leads each time, giving each character some amount of focus.
** The official twitter does this quite literally, with the boy for each month managing the account, and passing it to the next month's representative on the first of the month.
* SealedEvilInACan: Diablo, in a box of oranges.
* SecondYearProtagonist: Sort of. When the series started, the middle pairs were this, while the senior pairs were third-years, and the junior pairs were first-years. (This is why Hajime, Haru, and Shun are seniors even though they're only a few months older than the middle pairs). The reasons cited on the trope page apply, though - the middle pairs as characters do feel like a balance between the seniors and juniors, which is likely why they're featured as mains for such compelling stories as Yumemigusa and Kurenai Enishi.
* SideStoryBonusArt: At various events, particularly Animate Girls' Fest, new AlternateUniverse situations are created to sell merchandise. As for the story, usually just a brief outline of the worldbuilding is given. However, several of these have since become full stage plays with complex stories, and more detail to the worlds than was present in the original pamphlets.
* ThemeNaming: The boys' family names are all the poetic names of the months they represent. The girls are the same, but they take a couple of liberties with the names and what they represent.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Koi and Ai, the male and female representatives for February. They have pink hair, and their birthday is Valentine's day.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: All the [=AUs=] that place the cast in different scenarios, from fantasy situations to turning them all into cats.
* WingedHumanoid: The angels and demons in the Origins AU.

** [[SpaceOpera Tsukino Empire]] takes place in space civilizations, where contracts with soul beasts allow the characters to fight off unidentified mysterious invaders.
** [[{{Youkai}} Tsukino Hyakkiyakou]], a world very close to the normal universe, where the talents are the youkai themselves. The [[AsianFoxSpirit Black and White Celestial foxes]] create the world in their slumber.
** [[{{Steampunk}} Machine Elements, or Kisosekai]], is a world filled with mysterious ruins, with the individual units forming guilds that seek to quench their curiosity by uncovering the ruins' mysteries.
** [[DancingIsSeriousBusiness Tsukihana Kagura]], a beautifully traditional universe that focuses on the beauty of dancing to rule, rather than using the harshness of war.

** [[KatanasAreJustBetter Zanshin]], a timeline populated by [[LightIsNotGood white monsters by the name of Regret]]. Regret can only be cut down with the power of one's heart, which is represented by a sword.

* Procellarum (male) and Selas (female), for June-November

For the most part, the franchise consists of albums and Drama [=CDs=], each explaining the characters and their motivations more clearly. An anime about the male groups, ''Tsukiuta the Animation'', aired in the summer of 2016 animated by Creator/StudioPierrot, while a mobile RhythmGame, VideoGame/TsukinoParadise, debuted in 2017. A second anime season was announced at Animate Girls Festival 2018, this time focusing on the 2019 era of Tsukiuta and produced by Children's Playground Entertainment. This season would not air until Fall 2020 due to delays. The ''Tsukitsui'' {{Yonkoma}} manga began around the same time in 2016, and ran on the webcomic host ''Yuruyon''.

The cast also performs separate concerts: Lunatic Live in 2017, Memorial Tour in February and March 2018, and Lunatic Live in Omiya in December 2018 (together with the cast of [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} SQS]]). In contrast to the drama [=CDs=] and anime, the stage plays often feature fantasy AU stories with elaborate costumes. The final performances of each play are filmed for bluray.

The characters play minor roles and sometimes cameo in the other ''Music/{{Tsukipro}}'' series, including ''Tsukipro the Animation'' as the ''sempai'' groups of all of the main characters in that adaptation.

* BareYourMidriff: Almost ''everyone'' has a bit of this area showing in the Origins AU, whether that's cutouts on the side like Aoi has, or a costume like Kakeru's with more fabric in the sleeves than in the legs and torso.

For the most part, the franchise consists of albums and Drama [=CDs=], each explaining the characters and their motivations more clearly. An anime about the male groups, ''Tsukiuta the Animation'', aired in the Summer2016Anime season animated by Creator/StudioPierrot, while a mobile RhythmGame, VideoGame/TsukinoParadise, debuted in 2017. A second anime season was announced at Animate Girls Festival 2018, this time focusing on the 2019 era of Tsukiuta and produced by Children's Playground Entertainment. This season would not air until Fall 2020 due to delays. The ''Tsukitsui'' {{Yonkoma}} manga began around the same time in 2016, and ran on the webcomic host ''Yuruyon''.

''[[http://tsukiuta.com/ Tsukiuta。]]'' is a project under the fictional [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} Tsukino Talent Productions]] agency, a group of Music/{{Vocaloid}} and Niconico producers working together to produce songs for individual characters. Beginning in 2012, it consists of four idol units representing the months of the year, with the male half of the project being the main focus.

There is also an ongoing [[{{Theatre/Tsukiuta}} stage play series]] that started in 2016, with multiple plays every year since. Most of them are done with two sides in repertory, a "black" side focusing on the Six Gravity members, and a "white" side focusing on the Procellarum members.

''[[http://tsukiuta.com/ Tsukiuta。]]'' is a project under the fictional [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} Tsukino Talent Productions]] agency, a group of Music/{{Vocaloid}} and Niconico producers working together to produce songs for individual characters. Beginning in 2012, it consists of four idol units representing the months of the year, with the male half of the project being the main focus. The men came first in 2012, while the women debuted in 2014.

** Including the standard English in idol pop songs like the rest of the discography has, "Genau!" is peppered with German. The title itself is German for "I agree".

* {{Familiar}}: in the Empires AU. The SQ and Alive members have the same familiars, but the Tsukiuta members all have unique ones.

* AllThereInTheManual: Part of why it's so hard to get into - there's ''way'' more manual than main story. There isn't really even one "main story" - there's the drama [=CDs=], but they don't make up the majority of what's been made, either.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Except for Shun and Koi, both of whom have a connection to the supernatural, only the goddess candidates provide examples of this. In the larger franchise, [=SolidS=] and some members of [=VazzRock=] have unusual hair colors, but they mostly stay natural.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Despite the franchise having tons of magical elements, this series is very low key with such as detailed in SliceOfLife below. Episode 8 is the most explicitly fantastic in nature, however, due to focusing on the Goddess Candidates and their shenanigans.

* DuoTropes: All units have their idols work in pairs, no exceptions.

[[folder:List of performances]]
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta - Side Black and Side White - 2016/4/23-5/1
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 2: Yumemigusa - Sakura no Sho[[note]]CherryBlossom chapter[[/note]] and Tsuki no Sho[[note]]Moon chapter[[/note]] 2016/10/27-31
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta TRI! SCHOOL REVOLUTION! - ver.BLACK and ver.WHITE - 2017/3/8-12 and 3/17-26
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 4: Lunatic Party[[note]]Only one side[[/note]] - 2017/10/11-15
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 5: Rabbits Kingdom - Kurousagi-oukoku and Shirousagi-oukoku - 2017/11/30-12/3
* ''Natsuyumesai'', a {{youkai}}-AU side story performed 2018/7/28-29 at Tsukipro Bunkasai 2018, featuring Rui and Kai from Procellarum with Ichiru and Issei from [[Music/{{Tsukipro}} Quell]].
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 6: Kurenai Enishi[[note]]Crimson Fate[[/note]] Kuro no Sho and Aka no Sho [[note]] red instead of white for Procella this time[[/note]]- 2018/10/18-11/4
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 7: Cyber-Dive-Connection - 2018/12/5-9 in Tokyo and 2018/12/13-16 in Osaka.
* 2.5 Dimension Dance Live Tsukiuta Act 8: Tsukino Empire - 2019/03/26-31 in Tokyo (guest starring [=SolidS=] and Quell)
[[/folder]]

* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: The first season takes place during the 2014 era of ''Tsukiuta'', while the anime ran in 2016. This is averted for the second season, which aired and took place in 2019.

For the most part, the franchise consists of albums and Drama [=CDs=], each explaining the characters and their motivations more clearly. An anime about the male groups, ''Tsukiuta the Animation'', aired in the Summer2016Anime season animated by Creator/StudioPierrot, while a mobile RhythmGame, VideoGame/TsukinoParadise, debuted in 2017. A second anime season was announced at Animate Girls Festival 2018, this time focusing on the 2019 era of Tsukiuta and produced by Children's Playground Entertainment. The ''Tsukitsui'' {{Yonkoma}} manga began around the same time in 2016, and ran on the webcomic host ''Yuruyon''.

* ConspicuousCGI: The anime's three idol performances, "Gravitic Love", "LOLV -Lots of Love-", and "Tsukinouta", are a large case of this compared to the rest of the show.

For the most part, the franchise consists of albums and Drama [=CDs=], each explaining the characters and their motivations more clearly. An anime about the male groups, ''Tsukiuta the Animation'', aired in the Summer2016Anime season animated by Creator/StudioPierrot, while a mobile RhythmGame, VideoGame/TsukinoParadise, debuted in 2017. A second anime season was announced at Animate Girls Festival 2018, this time focusing on the 2019 era of Tsukiuta and produced by Children's Playground Entertainment. The ''Tsukitsui'' {{Yonkoma}} manga began around the same t iki me in 2016, and ran on the webcomic host ''Yuruyon''.