Webcomic / Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki

Never send a man to do a girl's job... unless you change him into a girl first.

"Repeat after me: Despite what magical girl anime has taught me, the monster does not go down with the first strike."

— Hermod, Messenger of the Gods

Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki is a webcomic by Kittyhawk that began in 2002. A shameless parody of the Magical Girl genre, it follows Kanazuchi Yuuki, a male middle school student who's been hit with a Gender Bender and now must fight evil with a phallic-shaped smiting hammer in the hopes of getting his/her manhood back. It ain't no Sailor Moon, that's for sure.

Kittyhawk attributes her art style to Japanese mangaka group CLAMP and American cartoonists like Tex Avery. The comic is updated infrequently, but provides a whole episode with each update. Updates news about convention tours and merchandise far more frequently, if you're interested! (Although Kittyhawk has also started to do semi-regular sketch parties, so there's that.) Now has a Character Page in much need of help. Please make sure to add character tropes there instead.

A mirror of the comic can be found here.

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The comic provides examples of the following tropes:

• And Your Reward Is Clothes: After knocking out (and stripping) Otsana, Yuuki's costume grows armbands.
• Animesque: The comic looks surprisingly like one that actually came from Japan and even has a typical Manga feeling to it, despite being a parody. Given that parodies and deconstructions of genres are actually everything but rare in the modern Japanese Manga industry, this comic might actually fare rather well if it was published in Japan...

• Bifauxnen: Averted. Yuuki tried to achieve this effect by binding his breasts and wearing a boy's uniform. It didn't work due to his Most Common Superpower

• Big "NO!": When Yuuki discovers he's now a woman full-time.
• Bilingual Bonus: For one thing, those runes on Yuuki's belt? That's a contraceptive spell. Never mentioned or used in the comic. Word of God is this was unintentional but funny - the runes were supposed to signify things about Yuuki corresponding to their associated meanings.
• Black Comedy Rape: Ah Freya. Ripping off Yuki's clothing and putting a finger up his/"her" skirt.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: Loki does this once- "Excuse me, but for the sake of the viewers, can we make this battle not last 50 billion pages like the wolves battle?"

• Destructo-Nookie: Two frost giants fall to the ground with amorous intentions. Cut to a nearby location where someone is screaming "Earthquake!"

• Dirty Old Man: Loki, a pervert and one of oldest beings in existence.
• Disappeared Dad: Yuuki, whose father is constantly away on business

• E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: Okay, not exactly aliens, but Hermod did inspire people to develop better ways of communication, due to being tired from having to run around delivering messages all the time.

• Fanservice: Looooooooaaaaaads of it. Hell, it'd be easier to list what isn't Fanservice. A quick look through indicates a ratio of around three fanservicey pages to one non-fanservicey page.

• Fun Size: The giant bull that Yuuki fights in the beginning. Is now a cute little critter, barely bigger than a house cat.
• Fun T-Shirt: Guess which norse god is depicted at one point with a t-shirt saying "Lightning, Fuck yeah!"?

• Gender Bender: One of the main character's primary motivations is reversing the effect of this.
• Gender-Blender Name: Yuuki (Courage), while a male name, is very similar to the feminine Yuki (Hope or snow, depending on the characters).
• Generic Doomsday Villain: ironically averted with Surtur, who was this in the original mythology; this version of the character does have a reason (if a silly one) to hate the Aesir and try to kill them.

• Grand Theft Me: In Edda 8, it is revealed that the nerd from Yuuki's new school who's interested in her/him has been possessed by the Frost Giant Hyrm.

• Happy Holidays Dress: Yuuki and Chaiki wear them as part of a seasonal job in this mini arc.

• Hidden Buxom: Yuuki tries to invoke this, only to realize that tightening one's bindings that much tends to prevent one from inhaling.
• Hikikomori: The man who Otsana and Shebi forced to house them seems to be one of these.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Yuuki zapping Hermod in the fight with the auroch. He did deserve that though, for not telling.
• Human Shield: Yuuki used Otsana as a shield when Shebi attacked Yuuki
• Hypocritical Humor: Upon learning that it was a guy who played the "Sparkling Generation Valkyrie" DVD, Hermod calls Yuuki a pervert. But Hermod designed the DVD case, which advertises the panty shots...

• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Thor becomes very protective of Chiaki. When Yuuki forgot about their date, let's just say the God of Thunder got kinda angry, the "going-to-hammer-your-face-for-hurting-her-feelings" angry.
• Kid with the Leash: Subverted - it may look like this to a Gunnerkrigg Court reader because Loki can only manifest through a stuffed kitty that Yuuki owns, but Yuuki doesn't really have any control over him.
• Killer Rabbit: A facet of the above - the doll may seem harmless, but it's still Loki...

• Le Parkour: Chiaki briefly demonstrates it when she runs toward Yuuki and clears a fence without slowing down.

• Male Gaze: Lampshaded in a strip where Otsana is wearing only a large t-shirt while ordering around their "host", all the frames from his perspective go up to her shoulders.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Provides the page image. Later taken to extremes.

• Mister Seahorse: In a nod to the original legends, Slepnir always calls Loki 'Mommy', much to the Trickster God's embarrassment.
• Missing Mom: Yuuki never knew his/"her" mother
• Most Common Super Power:
  • Virtually mandatory for a Magical Girl, much to Yuuki's embarassment. And since Kittyhawk draws a lot of fanservice one-offs, it's abundantly clear that Yuuki's breasts are just... plain... enormous. Monica enormous. Power Girl enormous.
  • As of Edda 14, it's established that any Valkyrie, whether they are the current holder of the Jewel Hnoss or not get a cupsize and general body shape upgrade together with their armour and individual weapon.
• Naked Apron: A variant — a leather blacksmith/engineering apron (instead of a frilly cooking apron). Used in the store to advertise the new DIY USB archives.

• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Yuuki turning the attack around on Otsana, then flinging her naked and powerless at Shebi's onslaught of magic missiles.

• The Nudifier: It seems that a Valkyrie's power and her costume are one and the same.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Inverted, in a way. Yuuki in-narrative is never quite comfortable with his/her gender change. However, Kittyhawk has also talked about "Promo Yuuki", the side of Yuuki that appears in pictures and promotional materials; she is a proud booth babe with little to no nudity taboo, who embraces her role as Ms. Fanservice. (And is apparently a bit of a diva, if OOC Shebi and Otsana are to be believed.)

• Palette Swap: The two ex-Valkyries in the "Love and War" sidestory are Yuuki and Chiaki with different clothes and, in the case of Yuuki, red hair.
• Parental Abandonment: Yuuki, in the classic anime/manga tradition of totally unsupervised adolescence.
• Pixellation: The latest comics have been using this for Otsana. However this Trope is averted at the same time as there is an option available to get rid of it.

• Public Domain Character: When the Norse gods and their animal friends show up, so does this trope.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Yuuki does this in the chapter Game Changer in a way reminiscent of a Split-Personality Takeover. Or indeed in a way reminiscent to Freya's eyes when she was trying to kill Yuuki directly.

• Sacred Hospitality for Pretty Freeloaders: Thor, Hermod, and Loki moving into Yuuki's house. And valkyries Otsana and Shebi who barge into some random Japanese guy's apartment. In both cases, the host refuses until the requests are backed up with sheer terror.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: averted in rather brutal fashion when Yuuki tears Otsana's (already minimal) costume off.

• Shout-Out:
  • Keep an eye out for anime characters in the background. For examble, within three consequtive pages, we have Kamina on a poster, and Tomo and Osaka.
  • And naturally, there are plenty to Norse Mythology.
  • At one point, Yuuki says "fsck" instead of fuck.
  • Edda 12 is entitled "Ladyflash" which is the name of a song by The Go Team.

• Shown Their Work: While the story takes a lot of liberties, there are frequent shoutouts to Norse mythology that shows that the author clearly knows their stuff. Among other things, Loki mentions that the Aesir's favorite passtime was "throw-shit-at-Baldur," referring to Baldur's invulnerability and the other Aesir's exploitation of it for entertainment.
• Skinship Grope: The entirety of the appropriately-named chapter "Rub-a-Dub-Dub"
• Sleep-Mode Size: the Auroch turns into a doll-sized calf when it isn't rampaging.
• Standard Female Grab Area: No Transformation for you! Until...
• Stealth Mentor: Odin, who sent the Auroch, Slepnir, and his ravens after her as tests
• Stripperiffic: Freya. Every valkyrie frankly. Shebi in particular seems to have taken the Chun-Li skirt to a new level.
• Super Gender-Bender: The entire premise.

• The Unintelligible: Myu-Myu-chan can only say "Myu", but the Norse gods are perfectly able to understand what he's saying. The humans in the cast, though, have absolutely no idea.
• Unsound Effect: Non-squish, non-squish and many others.
• Unstoppable Rage: Freya, to the point that the gods decide to hide Yuuki for a few weeks and train him to a level Freya finds acceptable rather than face her head-on.

• Weak, but Skilled: Yuuki continually impresses Thor and Hermod by quickly mastering abilities other Valkries never even knew they had, but since everyone else s/he fights is either a legendary hero, a mythological monster, part-god, or some combination thereof, s/he's always outclassed in terms of strength. Lampshaded by Yuuki. "Why is everybody I meet stronger than me!?" indeed.
• Weirdness Censor: Mundanes seeing valkyries fighting tend to look for the camera crew, expecting that someone is making a film.
• Wham Episode: Quite a few.
  • Yuuki cannot stop being a valkyrie without dying.
  • Not even Odin can revert Yuuki to male.
  • Taki, the one person who might be able to make Yuuki comfortable with the gender switch, turns out to be Hrym, the Frost Giant — a mortal enemy of the Aesir, and somehow able to keep Hermod from warning anyone. The real Taki may be dead, or at least has never been involved in any of this.

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