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* GoldenEnding: The true ending is accomplished by clearing all the other four routes and continues from the climax of Iria's route.


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* LastEpisodeThemeReprise: [[spoiler:In the true ending during the final battle against Milgram, the main theme "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKquzM71Sy8 Tokyo Requiem]]" starts playing]].


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* SourceMusic: [[spoiler:During the final battle against Milgram in the true ending, the VN's main theme "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKquzM71Sy8 Tokyo Requiem]]" starts blaring in-universe as So'un's printer starts creating a special bullet specifically made to counter Milgram with the time taking for it to be completed is the same that it takes for the theme to play out]].


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* WhereItAllBegan: Both figuratively and literally. [[spoiler:The church seen in the opening is the same place where So'un's father Takeyuki broke down and begged Milgram to revive his wife Sakiko which kicked off everything else in the plot. This same church, or rather a recreation of it, becomes the location for the final battle against Milgram in the true ending]].
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** [[spoiler:Con Su's route ends as perhaps the bleakest while also being the most hopeful. Half of the cast is dead, including Ethica and So'un, but a new ideal of restoring Tokyo has been conceived and Iria and Con Su finally manages to properly reconnect with each other. Additionally, Sub-Con has attained a newfound understanding of humanity and becomes the beacon to pave the way forward]].
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* AttractiveZombie: A real danger is that some Living Dead known as Hi-Fi are near impossible to tell apart from living people thanks to preservation efforts on part of the necromancer and can thus look perfectly normal and beautiful before one has a chance to realize the truth.


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* EmotionEater: [[spoiler:It is revealed that the Lemures, the core of all necromancy, uses the victims emotions as fuel to power the undead. This is also the reason for the emotional degradation that happen to all Living Dead. As time goes on the conversation from emotion to energy becomes more and more efficient leading to less being left over for the undead, something that continues until only the most basal instincts are left to function]].
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* ArtificialAfterlife: [[spoiler:Beyond pretty much everyone's knowledge, the mesh network can become an afterlife for the dead under the right circumstances, allowing their minds to live on in a spiritual manner within the digital world]].
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** [[spoiler:Mitsumi's route ends more on the sweet side. Tokyo is badly ravaged from Milgram's attack and Ethica is dead, but the Tokyo Rebirth Project is able to progress and So'un and Mitsumi leave Tokyo together to start a new life somewhere else]].


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* TheHeroDies: Depending on the route, various main characters might bite it.
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* WarIsHell: The Sino-Amercian war was nothing short of a nightmare in the waking world with soldiers not only killing other humans, but even having to kill their own loved ones and their reanimated corpses, often creating swamps of corpses. Needless to say, this whole event left deep emotional scars among the survivors.
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* EliteZombie: Known as Hi-Fi living dead, they are often undead that have had more work put into them by a necromancer to make them far more capable and dangerous than the usual shambling corpses. This is especially true for those that still retains their sense of self allowing them to make tactical decisions on the fly without any input from their master.


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* FearlessUndead: As most Living Dead are simply mindless corpses they have no concept of things such as fear. Even some Hi-Fi's that still have their sense of self decide to deliberately ditch their fear and take full advantage of their undead nature and the perks it comes with for as long as they can.
* FeelNoPain: The Living dead have all completely lost their sense of pain. Some recently turned Hi-Fi Living dead take full advantage of this to fight in ways no living person would be able to.


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* PerpetualMotionMonster: The undead have no need for food or sleep and know not fatigue allowing them to keep going endlessly until they eventually rot away.


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* YouCantKillWhatsAlreadyDead: All the living dead are quite difficult to put down as they don't care for pain and suffer nothing from any injuries or blood-loss. The only way to put them down is to destroy the brain.
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* DumbMuscle: Regular Lo-Fi living dead are as dumb as a bunch of rocks, able to do little more than moan and stumble around, but they compensate with large numbers and raw brute strength.
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* {{Gorn}}: As is the calling card of Nitro+, there is plenty of blood and gore to be had as the undead and living are moved down left right and center in all manner of gruesome detail.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Iria's route ends with Milgram finally defeated but at the cost of Iria's life. So'un is heartbroken but thanks to his friends and the digital memories of Iria he is able to accept and move on from her death]].

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[[spoiler:Iria's route ends with Milgram finally defeated but at the cost of Iria's life. So'un is heartbroken but thanks to his friends and the digital memories of Iria he is able to accept and move on from her death]].death]].
** [[spoiler:Kiriri route is more on the bitter side with many characters dead and the Military Police in shambles. However, Ethica and Kiriri are finally together while Tokyo is slowly beginning to heal from all the mayhem]].
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* EvolvingCredits: The credits theme starts out as a rather simple song with some rather glitchy vocals sung by Sub-Con. But with each route cleared the song becomes more complex and the lyric less glitchy and more clear.
* EvolvingTitleScreen: With each route cleared, the main menu starts to change little by little, first starting out as little more than a wireframe map of Tokyo but with more and more detail being added with each new clear.
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* JustKeepDriving: When out driving it is common for people to just ignore all the crime and stuff going on around them, even running over corpses and the like if they litter the street as it is just such a common sight in Tokyo.
* KeystoneArmy: The Living Dead are bound to the necromancer that made them. If said necromancer is killed then the undead become uncontrollable and go on a rampage.


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* PsychicLink: Necromancers and the Living Dead share a kind of mental link that allows for both to be aware of the other and what they experiences with the necromancer even being able to convey orders without having to be present.
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* AnyoneCanDie: The story is not shy about killing important characters with named characters dropping dead for all manner of reasons. And depending on the route, not even the main characters are safe.
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* BlackBox: The Lemures are the core of the necromancers toolbox and what allows for the creation of the Living Dead. However despite the recipe being known, no one actually understands how the whole thing actually works and why the undead become loyal to the one who raised them. The only thing anyone really knows is that it works.
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* SociallyScoredSociety: The culture of the Tokyo Megafloat is one that encourages positivity and creativity and thus, doing things that gains likes within their social media system also gains one proper social standing, functioning almost like a currency.
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In 2023 the original visual novel was finally translated and brought over to the west thanks to Creator/{{JAST}} and is available on the JAST Store and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} with a Website/GOGDotCom release being planned though it has slipped quite a bit behind schedule.

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In 2023 the original visual novel was finally translated and brought over to the west thanks to Creator/{{JAST}} and is available on the JAST Store and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Platform/{{Steam}} with a Website/GOGDotCom Platform/GOGDotCom release being planned though it has slipped quite a bit behind schedule.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:At the end of Iria's route, Milgram is killed, So'un is brought out of his funk and is able to move on from Iria's death and Rorschach escapes from the Military Police leading to the Living Dead Stalkers deploying once again as the credits roll]].
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Iria's route ends with Milgram finally defeated but at the cost of Iria's life. So'un is heartbroken but thanks to his friends and the digital memories of Iria he is able to accept and move on from her death]].

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* SpiderTank: The Strider model 88 is a kind of tank than has articulated treads that allow to either use them to move quickly over flat ground or to shift them into a leg like configuration to move over rougher terrain.

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** The Tank-Class living dead is made from several corpses and metallic parts into a heavily armored and armed spider like monstrosity and, as the name implies, serves a similar role to a tank.
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* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: Whenever someone accesses the Highway it is shown as a wild collection of vivid colors and shapes that all represents packets of data or various pathways within the mesh network.

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* DeadlineNews: In Iria's route as the head of the Empire Energy Corp, Sophia Kawarazaki, delivers the news of [[spoiler:Milgrams capture and her future plans with the Tokyo Restoration Project, Milgram suddenly breaks free and one of Sophia's bodyguards shoots her dead with the signal cutting right after]].



* EverythingIsOnline: Pretty much everything within Tokyo is connected to the mesh grid in some way. While this allows for a lot of shared information and functions, it also allows hackers to access pretty much everything as well. As a result, some places that are really keen on keeping their secrets store their files using good old paper storage to keep it out of the hands of any potential hackers.

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* EverythingIsOnline: Pretty much everything within Tokyo is connected to the mesh grid in some way. While this allows for a lot of shared information and functions, it also allows hackers to access pretty much everything as well. As a result, some places that are really keen on keeping their secrets store their files using good old paper storage to keep it out of the hands of any potential hackers. That said, that online functionality is only really connected to within Tokyo's boundaries as there are no connections to other cities in the world, meaning the internet is more like a collection of islands rather than a world wide web.

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''Tokyo Necro'' (凍京NECRO[[note]]The "Tokyo" here isn't written with the standard 東京 but instead in the slightly different 凍京, shifting its meaning slightly from "Eastern Capital" to "Frozen Capital".[[/note]]) marks a noticeable artistic shift for Nitro+. While the use of 3D CGI has not been uncommon for them, this entry marks the first time that it is used extensively not only for mechanical designs and backgrounds, but also for the human characters, with entire fight scenes fully animated using 3D models and CGI. But even if some things have changed, one thing has stayed the same. As with other Nitro+ works, Tokyo Necro is not for the faint of heart with blood and gore being both plentiful and gratuitous. Mixed with intense action, it is sure to satisfy fans.

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''Tokyo Necro'' (凍京NECRO[[note]]The "Tokyo" here isn't written with the standard 東京 but instead in the slightly different 凍京, shifting its meaning slightly from "Eastern Capital" to "Frozen Capital".[[/note]]) marks a noticeable artistic shift for Nitro+. While the use of 3D CGI has not been uncommon for them, this entry marks the first time that it is used extensively not only for mechanical designs and backgrounds, but also for the human characters, with entire fight scenes fully animated using 3D models and CGI. The story is also told through the viewpoint of two main characters this time, with the POV shifting over the course of the story. But even if some things have changed, one thing has stayed the same. As with other Nitro+ works, Tokyo Necro is not for the faint of heart with blood and gore being both plentiful and gratuitous. Mixed with intense action, it is sure to satisfy fans.



* CameraAbuse: As a lot of the story is shot through first person through either So'uns or Ethicas perspective, the whole interface will start to shake and react to what is going on to them, doubly so if they are using their Ex-Brains with any damage sustained to it reflecting on the camera.



* DiegeticInterface: The whole visual novel is designed to mimic the computer programs and gadgets that the characters use. Whenever a scene is shot through first person the the whole interface mimics whatever information the characters have access to and whatever they are seeing from their equipment. This even extends to the text boxes with the boxes done from So'un's perspective being rectangular with sharp corners whereas Ethica's are rounded and smooth.

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* DiegeticInterface: The whole visual novel is designed to mimic the computer programs and gadgets that the characters use. Whenever a scene is shot through first person the the whole interface mimics whatever information the characters have access to and whatever they are seeing from their equipment. This even extends to the text boxes with the boxes done from So'un's perspective being rectangular with sharp corners whereas Ethica's are rounded and smooth.


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* PaintingTheMedium: Depending on which main character is the current POV, the text boxes will change to match. So'uns are clean and minimalistic with straight edges and sharp corners. Ethica's meanwhile are more stylized with plenty of odd angles and rounded corners.

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* SyntheticPlague: An infective agent known as RUBB was used by the US army in 2185 during the Sino-American war in Malaysia. It was a modified version of a facultative anaerobe fungus known simply as RU-318 that was discovered in the Siberian permafrost that was highly dangerous to animal life by interfering with protein biosynthesis. Unfortunately for everyone, it mutated, becoming to dreaded disease known as MARE (Microbial Augmentation Repeat Element) which was responsible for the worst pandemic in human history with a mortality rate of 90%. Worse still, it can survive seemingly indefinitely in the soil as spores resulting in the whole world population having to retreat from the warmer equator due to it becoming active in any temperature above 10 degrees Celsius. This was what ultimately put an end to the Sino-American war.

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** A more targeted type is Scavenger, a type of genetically altered bacteria designed to break down dead tissue that is loaded up into bullets to be used against the undead. It is so effective that it can reduce a corpse to sludge in just seconds. And even though it doesn't target living tissue, it is genetically designed to undergo apoptosis after about a minute of activity in order to prevent it potentially targeting the living.
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* CoolBoat: Milgram makes use of a retired class of warship known as the Hawaii that has been upgraded to be able to deal with more modern foes.


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* MagneticWeapons: The tanks used by the Empire Energy Corporation are armed with huge 70-calibre 90 millimeter railguns that fire 15 kilogram shells at a velocity of 2500 m/s. They even cart around additional batteries and generators to help power these things.


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* OneNationUnderCopyright: The Empire Energy Corporation are effectively the rulers over Tokyo. While officially they have very little control, the fact that they are the ones who control and maintain the citys heating system means that they can hold the whole city hostage if need be to get their way. Due to this, they and the Military Police do not get along.


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* PrecautionaryCorpseDisposal: Due to the presence of necromancers it has become a common practice to blow out the brains of fallen comrades to make sure that they can't be reanimated under the necromancers service.


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* RecursiveAmmo: The Three Stage Cluster Smartbomb is a weapon made to primarily deal with large swats of drones. As the name indicates, it is divide up into three stages that split into increasingly smaller missiles with it eventually releasing a total of 240 separate explosive projectiles and is thus able to cover a radius of around 300 meters.


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* ZergRush: One thing that can make fighting the living dead so difficult is that they are often deployed en masse. While they can be slow and stupid they can still overwhelm even well equipped troops from the weight of sheer numbers.
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* AntiHeroTeam: While the team that make up the main characters are fighting necromancers and the like, they are also the kind of people who won't bat an eye on much of the cruelty going on in Tokyo and are not above using more illicit means of getting work done, including things such as torture.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: While Pavlov isn't necessarily fat, he is definitely on the more heavy set side. That said, he is also far more agile than his build would have you believe.



* DramaticDislocation: In his battle with Mitsumi when she managed to catch him in a powerful chokehold, Pavlov intentionally allows her to dislocate his arm which suddenly throws her off balance allowing him to get out of her grasp to make a retreat.



* RazorFloss: Pavlovs weapon of choice is something known as a CNT Wire, a string made from carbon nanotubes that can also make use of remote Joule heating to sever an opponent or their weapons.

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* CombatTentacles:
** The minor villain Tang Yunshan makes use of a weird polearm with tentacles shooting out of one end that are able to stab or crush and enemy or even intercept their bullets.
** A flying kind of living dead make use of a kind of magnetized tentacles that can act as both a whip and [[WhipSword a sword]] if need be.

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CombatTentacles: A flying kind of living dead make use of a kind of magnetized tentacles that can act as both a whip and [[WhipSword a sword]] if need be.



* DisneyVillainDeath: As Tang Yunshan is defeated he falls to his death onto the pavement below, but not before stabbing So'un with a hidden blade [[TakingYouWithMe and dragging him along]]. So'un however manages to survive by using Tang's body to cushion the blow.



* WolverineClaws: Minor villain Tang Yunshan make use of a pair of three bladed claws that can be electrified to stun and even kill and opponent. They can even generate a blinding flash if need be.
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* BottomlessMagazines: When fighting Neck Hanger everyone is left wondering where the hell that thing is getting all of its ammunition as it just seems to spray and pray endlessly with no openings to close the gap. They eventually figure out that it is storing extra munitions within its body as the undead don't need vital organs and the like. They still have to fight it for quite a while before it ''finally'' runs dry.


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* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: A downside of arming the living dead with ranged weaponry is that they are extremely limited is how to execute their functions and as such are lousy shots. This is often compensated for by [[MoreDakka sheer volume instead]].


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* MoreDakka: As the living dead aren't exactly the brightest things around, when tasked with using firearms they are usually equipped to basically vomit bullets to make up for their lack of accuracy.
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* MultiArmedAndDangerous: A kind of android known as Neck Hanger that Juichirou puts to use comes with a set of eight arms with a weapon in each, making it quite the dangerous opponent.

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** Juichirou's personal DenOfIniquity is meant to be a place of pure lust yet it ends up so overdone that not even Ethica can stomach it for long, being more repulsed than anything. And the stuff going on in the deeper levels of is more the stuff of nightmares rather than anything remotely sexy as some of the most twisted fetishes imaginable are practiced.


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* MultipleEndings: There are a total of four regular endings that are gotten depending on the players choices at one key juncture in the story, each focusing on a different character as well as a GoldenEnding that can be accessed once all the other endings have been cleared.

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