History Series / MajisukaGakuen

* TheHerosBirthday: A common trick for hostesses is asking for birthday treats from the customer, regardless of whether it's actually her birthday. The Aquarium girls also celebrate Uonome/Iwashi's birthday in an episode.
--> '''Kusogaki/Ankou, on the phone''': Can you come today? It's my birthday! ... Ah, you can't come? Then please come next weekend, it's my birthday too!

* PowerWalk: The first direct confrontation between Hana-gumi and Kaiser is when they [[spoiler:(minus Sumire, who is hospitalized)]], in contrast with the other students, ignore her order to look down and kneel and simply power walked past her.

* PowerWalk: Happens often. The biggest one is in the season 5 finale, [[spoiler:where Sakura walks with the spirits of all the fallen yankees away from the final battle and finally commits SuicideByCop]].

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Otabe speaks Kyoto dialect (''Kyo-kotoba''), which makes her sound very polite. Most of the Gekioko student speak Osaka dialect, being portrayed by Music/NMB48 members.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Otabe still speaks in Kyoto-ben and most of Ike Ike Tattoo are Kansai girls played by Music/NMB48 members.

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Which leads to BilingualDialogue.
** In season 3, Jovijovich, played by the half-Russian Murashige Anna, speaks Russian [[spoiler:although she can speak Japanese]].
** In a season 4 side story, Michelle, a transfer student from Jakarta, talks to Team Hinabe in Indonesian until they teach her some Japanese tough talk. Uonome tries to communicate in Japanese mixed with {{Engrish}}, making it a ''trilingual'' dialogue in which neither actually understands what the other is saying but manage to get along anyway.
---> '''Michelle''': ''Hai, nama saya Michelle'' (Hi, I'm Michelle).\\
'''Uonome''': I am Uonome. You are ''tenkousei'' (exchange student)? Never ''namenna'' (don't look down on us - yes, a double negative)! If you ''iikinatara'' (full of yourself), you are ''bokoboko da'' (beaten up).\\
'''Michelle''': ''Ah, nggak ngerti dia ngomong apa!'' (Argh, I don't understand a word she said!)\\
'''Uonome, mistaking her frustration for fear''': ''Bibittenara'' (If you're scared), [then we're] okay!
** In season 5, Sakura is revealed to speak Chinese.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The simple way of the yankee world.

* TotallyEighteen: Although they're high school students, the girls have repeated grades so often that all of them are 18 or older. [[spoiler:The Aquarium later gets in trouble when a new girl turns out to be faking her age and is actually still 17]].

* AlternateCharacterReading: The second stage play's WordSequel title, RAI (蕾), is normally read with the ''kunyomi'' reading, ''tsubomi''. The romanized reading is included in the title card.

* IllGirl - [[spoiler: Yuuko.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: The first two seasons show quite a bit of subtext, but the third takes it UpToEleven. Uruseeyo and Tatsuo are really masculine girls who are obsessed with each other, and Peace gets described by the guard as "the girl who loves Paru".

** Season 5 takes this UpToEleven.

** Kyouken was fired from the Shin Schutzstaffel by the previous administration for being a violent KnifeNut. However, Kaiser calls him back to deal with the Hana-gumi.

* KnifeNut:
** Kyouken is one with BloodLust to match.
** In the stage play, Queen Bee and her minions also fight with knives.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - The first season alone features at least 30 girls from Music/AKB48 or their sister groups. Even more are added on latter seasons.

* ThemeTuneRollCall: Since Season 4, as there are LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. Season 5 onwards uses Roman alphabet instead of Japanese script, probably to accommodate international viewers (even though the series isn't officially exported) and because it feels exotic for domestic viewers.

* {{Qipao}}: Karei wears a blue halterneck qipao.

The series was renewed for two other seasons: ''Majisuka Gakuen 2'', set in the same school but a year after the original, where the new Rappappa has to face both an inner rebellion and the attack of Yabakune, now led by a former ally. ''Majisuka Gakuen 3'' [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent is set in the future on a prison for young girls and features a new cast of characters.]] New main character is now Paru, the newest convict in Hope Prison, a girls' prison built TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture after the Juvenile Deliquency Law is passed. Paru will have to survive in a harsh environment full of fights and crime.

* FiveManBand:
** Rappappa.
*** TheLeader: Yuko, top of the school. Replaced by Atsuko in the second and Salt in the fourth.
*** TheLancer: Sado. Replaced in the second and fourth by Otabe.
*** TheChick: Shibuya and Torigoya. Replaced in the second by the Kabuki Sisters and by Yoga in the fourth.
*** TheSmartGuy: Black. Replaced in the second by Shaku and by Magic in the fourth.
*** TheBigGuy: Gekikara. Replaced in the fourth by Bakamono.
** Team Hinabe.
*** TheLeader: Uonome.
*** TheLancer: Jisedai.
*** TheChick: Dodobusu, the girliest of the bunch.
*** TheSmartGuy: Kenpou, whose head is overflowing with the Japanese Constitution.
*** TheBigGuy: Kusogaki (the only one in the team to have held her own against Bakamono).
* FireForgedFriends: [[spoiler: Sado and Maeda]].

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The third season is the only one not to take place in Majisuka High.
** The sixth season starts with the girls temporarily quitting the school to work as hostesses in order to raise funds to prevent the school from being closed, and most of the story takes place at the hostess club. There are very few fight scenes compared to other seasons.

* FakeActionPrologue: The first episode opening is similar to previous seasons where a student, revealed to be Nishino Nanase from Music/AKB48's rival group Music/Nogizaka46, demonstrates her strength and appears to seek to challenge Majijo's leaders, setting up a plot involving conflict with Nogi High School briefly featured in season 5... Until she simply walks away and an OpeningScroll appears to inform us that this season will be SomethingCompletelyDifferent.

* IAteWhat: There's always someone in each season's cooking squad who puts a questionable ingredient or two into the pot.