History VisualNovel / Happiness

* CatSmile: Koyuki's magical device Tama, while the former is tricking students into visiting the cafe to increase their luck.

* BleachedUnderpants: The original PC game is an HGame; the UsefulNotes/PlayStation port and the manga/anime are cleaned up for the general public.

* ExcitedShowTitle: The proper title is "Happiness!", with a "!" at the end.

%% * DetachedSleeves: Both Haruhi's and Anri's mage outfits include these.

%% * {{Gainaxing}}: Most of the female characters during the beach episode.

Originally a 2005 VisualNovel, ''Happiness!'' was [[TheAnimeOfTheGame adapted into an anime]] for the fall 2006 season.

%%* DetachedSleeves: Both Haruhi's and Anri's mage outfits include these.

* {{Expy}}: Yuuma is a dead ringer in appearance of Makoto Itou of School Days fame, though their personality is the direct opposite.

%%* {{Gainaxing}}: Most of the female characters during the beach episode.

* MesACrowd: Anri's solution to there being too many customers at the cafe for her to handle. This being Anri, they went haywire.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The cast has ''mostly'' normal hair colours, with the exception of Shikimori (white hair) and Jun (purple).

* {{Transgender}}: Jun is a girl so flawlessly that her friends sometimes forget that she used to be a boy.

* ActionBomb: When everybody attempts to create their own Tama-chan, Anri's attempts to blow everybody up. According to Koyuki, this is an ability that all Tamas have (thus she was able to realize what was going on in time to send it far away), but had never had one that actually tried to do it before. [[spoiler: Later, the result of the failed attempt to recreate the Ancestor Sphere-tom does the same thing.]]

* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Ibuki attacks Haruhi in an attempt to get her to remove the barrier around the Shikimori treasure.]]

* BleachedUnderpants: the original PC game is an HGame; the UsefulNotes/PlayStation port and the manga/anime are cleaned up for the general public.
* {{Brainwashed}}: [[spoiler: Ibuki tries to do this on Haruhi, but is interrupted by Anri. She then decides that [[HostageSituation taking a hostage]] would work better.]]

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Saya and Shinya's father tried to resurrect their mother. He accidentally released a horde of demons.]]

* ClothingDamage: [[spoiler: When Natsume is killed by demons, their attacks shred her clothing.]]

* CuteGhostGirl: One is encountered by Hachisuke one night when he went to school to retrieve his porn magazine from his desk. [[spoiler: It's not really a ghost, just Saya.]]

* ForeignLanguageTitle: Happiness! is english.

* GenderBender: The plot of the [=OVA=] is that several people's spells accidentally combine and turn Jun into a biological girl. [[spoiler: The end reveals that Yuuma also got hit by the spell.]]

* GiveHimANormalLife: [[spoiler: This was Miinagi's reasoning when she erased Yuuma's memories and sent him to live with Otoha, because she knew that she had to remain at school at all times to protect the Shikimori treasure and couldn't make enough time to properly raise him.]]

** [[spoiler: The 984th Tama pushes a giant exploding tama out of the city before it goes and he goes with it.]]
** [[spoiler: Shikimori Natsume gave her life to seal the Shikimori treasure in the backstory because it was summoning an endless horde of demons.]]
* HostageSituation: [[spoiler: Ibuki tries to take Yuuma hostage in order to force Haruhi to retrieve the Shikimori treasure, but Yuumo manages to free himself.]]

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Happens twice to Yuuma: once in his backstory, where he could have (but didn't) hurt the boys he used magic on to save Haruhi, and once towards the end of the series, where his magic almost kills Sumomo.]]

* MagicMisfire: Done for laughs several times with Anri. [[spoiler: Used more seriously when Yuuma's inability to control his magic almost results in Sumomo's death.]]

* NotBloodSiblings: [[spoiler: Yuuma is adopted and so he's not Sumomo's biological elder brother.]]
* OneDegreeOfSeparation: Only to a certain extent, but Anri accidentally hits Yuuma with a spell, who just happens to be the boy Haruhi met recently, the brother of Haruhi's childhood friend, and the son of one of the cafeteria workers. [[spoiler: The truth is he's actually adopted, his real mother is a teacher at the school. Yuuma is also the boy who saved Haruhi when she was young and inspired her to be a mage.]] In addition, Yuuma's mother, Koyuki's mother, Ibuki's sister, and Saya and Shinya's father were all acquainted with each other.

** [[spoiler: Yuuma's mother put him up for adoption because she was too busy to raise him.]]
* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler: Yuuma has incredibly powerful magic, but it goes out of control whenever he uses it.]]

* SelfFulfillingProphecy: A fortune teller tells Haruhi as a child that she would someday give chocolates on Valentine's Day to the boy who inspired her to become a mage. She ends up buying chocolates every year, so she'll be prepared for that day. On Valentine's Day, she watches Yuuma try to protect a young girl against bullies, but is unsure he is the same boy because he didn't use magic. Still, as she as amassed so many chocolates over the years, which have gone to waste, she gives this year's chocolates to Yuuma, unknowningly fulfilling the prophecy.
* ShowerOfAngst: [[spoiler: After he almost kills Sumomo, Yuuma broods in a shower.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonUnique: The 984th Tama becomes depressed because it thinks that all Tamas are the same and that it can be easily replaced. [[spoiler: This turns out to be not true; Every Tama has it's own unique personality and Koyuki remembers the things that make each one unique, and can identify them on sight.]]
* WhoYouGonnaCall: The fifth episode revolves around hunting the mysterious ghost girl that Hachisuke encountered in the school one night. [[spoiler: It's really Saya, who is not really a ghost.]]

Not to be confused with the Creator/ToddSolondz film and/or the [[Manga/{{Happiness}} manga]] of the same name. Or the emotion (see HappinessTropes for that).