History Series / TheHeroYoshihikoAndTheDevilKingsCastle

%%* FiveManBand:
%%** TheHero - Yoshihiko
%%** TheChick - Murasaki
%%** TheBigGuy - Danjo
%%** TheSmartGuy - Melub
%%** BigGood - Buddha

* AffectionateParody: The whole show is this towards JRPG's in general, but more specifically Dragons Quest. The plot of the show also deliberately subverts many elements of TheHerosJourney: for example, the epic quest that Yoshihiko sets out to do in the first episode (find his dad and the miracle herb) [[spoiler: is solved for him by the end of the episode when he ''accidentally bumps into his dad on the side of the road'']].

* AnachronismStew: All over the damn place.
* ArtShift: The show switches to a (bad) anime style during some boss fights where costumes won't cut it.

* TheBigGuy: Danjo.

* BittersweetEnding: The ending of season 3, [[spoiler:In the final battle against the demon king. Danjo,Murasaki and Melub are killed and cannot be revived anymore but Yoshihiko managed to kill the demon king with the help of [[MesaCrowd various other Yoshihikos]]. In the end Hotoke decide to send Yoshihiko back at the beginning of his quest in Season 1 Episode 1 where he recruit his party without any knowledge of the final battle, but he still know what will happen but maybe some other things will change, he then says that they might return for a special 6 hour dorama saying that just incase.]]

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Melub and the Buddha are frequent offenders.

* ChivalrousPervert: Yoshihiko. This nature comes forth once he loses his spirit.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The second season OP has a lovely part with all the lead characters shopped into monochrome and one extra color - Yoshihiko is green, Murasaki is purple, Melub is gold, Hisa is pink, the Buddha is bronze, and Danjo is reddish.

* TheComicallySerious: Yoshihiko.

* DeadpanSnarker: Most of the characters, aside from Yoshihiko.
* DisappearedDad: Yoshihiko's dad who is missing from looking for the miracle herb. Turns out he had another woman; all happening at episode 1.

* EveryJapaneseSwordIsAKatana: ''Averted'', surprisingly. Yoshihiko's sword is a ''tsurugi''.

* FetchQuest: The party have to collect various trinkets in aid them against the Demon King.

* TheFinalTemptation: They wait till season 3 for the Demon King to pull this on Yoshihiko.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Yoshihiko
** TheChick - Murasaki
** TheBigGuy - Danjo
** TheSmartGuy - Melub
** BigGood - Buddha

* GagSeries
* GenreBlind: Yoshihiko.

** Melub, who functions as the MetaGuy of the team. Buddha too, sometimes.
** Invoked and enforced in season 3 for the high school shojo episode - Yoshihiko is told to be the {{Tsundere}} by Melub and Murasaki, who find out that the one competing with Yoshihiko for the GirlOfTheWeek is secretly a Demon King monster. Unfortunately exposing him as such just doesn't cut it - they have to expose him as a BitchInSheepsClothing instead.

* InformedFlaw: [[spoiler:Oshina]] is nowhere near as hideous as Yoshihiko or [[spoiler:the Mountain God]] would lead you to believe.

* IdiotHero: Yoshihiko takes his mission really seriously, but is not very bright.
* IneptMage: Melub. It's not so much that he ''can't cast'' spells, more that his spells are either weak or (apparently) useless in combat. [[spoiler:Subverted when Murasaki learns her first spell - not only does she not know what it is, but it has no effect on Yoshihiko, who's normally very susceptible to magic. This turns out to be because it was Kazing, the spell that raises someone from the dead at full strength, making her the only party member with a useful healing ability.]]
* IrrelevantSidequest: The party is guilty of this, much to the Buddha's annoyance.
* {{Kawaiiko}}: Murasaki. This nature comes forth when her spirit's removed.

* LampshadeHanging: Courtesy of Mereb.

* LickingTheBlade: PlayedWith beautifully [[http://i.imgur.com/G3qokFu.jpg in this scene]], where a bandit threatens the group with a poison knife, licking the knife while showing off... and shortly after drops dead.

* OffTheShelfFX: All over the place, of course. Like the flying carpet which looks more like a ''doormat''.

* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:The Demon King in season 3, natch.]]

*** In The Key of Evil Spirits, that gag has evolved into Hisa attempting to join Yoshihiko's party after learning a different martial art, only to be knocked out by a bandit and dragged away.

* PunchClockVillain: The bandits at episode two do this literally, who work from nine to five.

* RecycledPlot: The second season has a gag involving a {{Gonk}} much like the first one did.
** The second season recycles ''a lot'' of ideas from the first, down to [[spoiler:the final arc taking place in modern Japan.]] Not so much in the third season - [[spoiler:they just have one scene in a modern apartment.]]
* RewardingVandalism

* SeriousBusiness: Yoshihiko, about ''everything''.
* SetSwordsToStun: The Beckoning Sword.
* ShoutOut: Plenty.

** They get their references a little crosswired in season 3 episode 10 - our heroes find an abandoned castle, but the manservant looks more like [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast LeFou than Cogsworth.]]
** At the end of season 3, a Dark Buddha [[spoiler:actually the Demon Lord pulling TheFinalTemptation]] convinces Yoshihiko to pick an alternate end to his adventure. One is the ending of ''Anime/GraveOfTheFireflies''. The other one is the now infamous "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Congratulations]]" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFw8Z0US5AU scene]].

* StableTimeLoop: The end of season 3. [[spoiler:Our heroes are sent back in time to when Yoshihiko first got his sword, and learn that it was really part of a prank so that the JerkAss villagers could sent Yoshihiko off to his doom. Except the sword in the stone is a completely different one. Yoshihiko ends up putting the Beckoning Sword ''back into the stone'' (making sure he gets that one ''in the series premiere'') while taking the original sword to the final battle. It goes a long way into explaining how the Beckoning Sword just flops out loosely - he's strong enough to pull out the real sword ''by now'', while the Beckoning Sword ended up a loose fit in its place.]]

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Danjo tries to do this trope to Yoshihiko, who is having none of it.

* TheSmartGuy: Melub, supposedly, being the party wizard. He's as dumb as the others, though, even if he displays some moments of [[GenreSavvy Genre savviness]] to comment on whatever's happening around them.

* TooDumbToLive: Yoshihiko.
** The bandit who licked his highly poisoned knife to look intimidating. Shame he only had about 5 seconds to realize how stupid that was before it killed him.

* TournamentArc: Season 2 has a Tournament Episode (to win the PlotCoupon, of course).
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Implied between Murasaki and Yoshihiko (despite him having a descendant otherwise).

* VirginSacrifice: Oshina for the Mountain God.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Hisa's RunningGag for season 3 - she finds a magic staff that turns her into a different celebrity cameo each time.

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Melub's spells range from: changing a person's nose to that of a pig; to giving someone an irresistible urge for sweets; to making a person ''slightly'' cold, among other useless spells. Only Yoshihiko is impressed. They do become of some use during the course of their adventure.
* WhatTheHellHero: When are heroes are apparently affected by a LotusEaterMachine, Yoshihiko tries to snap them out of it, and Murasaki points out that he's abandoned their quest ''dozens of times''.

* QuickDrawDecision: Which is funny (but sad on itself) when Yoshihiko was {{Wangst}}ing on a decision to continue his quest or help a girl and her brother (who really isn't) to help their surfing and radio business. Buddha does it for him.

* KnifeNut: Murasaki, to the annoyance of Yoshihiko when he confiscates her knife. It doesn't stop her from trying to stab him with a ''prop knife''.

** They get their references a little crosswired in season 3 episode 10 - our heroes find an abandoned castle, but the manservant looks more like [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast LeFou than Cogsworth.]]

** Once again in episode 4 of season 3 with a killer [[VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster taiko drum.]]

* TomatoSurprise: Episode 6. Yoshihiko falls in love with a typical HelloNurse, who's cursed with something that prevents her from falling in love, and Yoshihiko sets out to undo it. [[spoiler:It turns out the curse is what turned her ''from a typical old geezer into a HelloNurse'', while preventing her from falling in love ''on the side.'']]

* HelloNurse: Done in ep. 6, with an actual nurse too.