Dragon Crisis!



Ryuuji Kisaragi is an Ordinary High School Student, living a peaceful life. Until his second cousin Eriko comes home from America, forcibly enlisting him in Seven Tails, her (unapproved) organization dedicated to hunting down Lost Precious, powerful artifacts from around the world. One of these artifacts is being traded that night, and she wants his help.

After seizing the box with the artifact, the box opens to reveal a young girl (later named Rose) who's both attached to Ryuuji and able to throw fire. She is a dragon, and her very presence sets off a chain of events that will decide both Ryuuji and Rose's future.

Based on a series of Light Novels, Dragon Crisis! was adapted into an anime in the winter of 2010/11.

The anime can be viewed legally at Crunchyroll here.

Tropes in Dragon Crisis! include:

 * Absolute Cleavage: Some of Eriko's outfits have this, like her dress in episode 6.
 * Adult Child: Eriko is irresponsible, messy, and can't cook to save her life. It seems Ryuuji is the adult most of the time, not Eriko.
 * Adventurer Archaeologist: Ryuuji's parents, to the point of Parental Abandonment.
 * A Protagonist Is Ryu
 * Artifact Collection Agency: The Society. Eriko also started her own Lost Precious collection/recovery business called Seven Tails.
 * Badass Driver: Eriko
 * Badass Transplant:
 * Bare Your Midriff: Ai
 * Beach Episode/Festival Episode: Episodes four and five.
 * Beergasm: Eriko does this in one episode
 * Bland Name Product: The researcher towards the end of #7 uses a computer sporting a "Doors 7" wallpaper.
 * Big Damn Heroes: A truly awesome one in the final episode in which
 * Ryuuji's parents, particularly his dad, get these once in a while.
 * Bob Haircut: Misaki
 * Bokukko: Bianca.
 * Bottle Fairy: Eriko.
 * Breather Episode: Episode 4, which is pretty light-hearted compared to the previous episodes.
 * Bromantic Foil: Masato
 * Butt Monkey: Masato's main role seems to be something for Mao to hit when things don't go her way, particularly with trying to hook up Ryuuji and Misaki.
 * Car Fu: Eriko crashes a car into
 * Chained Heat: Ryuuji and Ai get trapped by a Lost Precious, which is only able to reduce itself to a pair of handcuffs. This includes when Ai has to clean herself off in the bath.
 * Chase Scene: With a Take the Wheel moment.
 * Chekhov's Gun: The ice cream becomes very important in the last episode.
 * Clingy Jealous Girl:
 * Rose, towards Ryuuji, but in a totally adorable way. Rose gets jealous of Maruga when the latter mentions that they're not married, and gives Ryuuji a kiss (while blocking Rose's view of it with an umbrella) as thanks for him helping her resolve her issue in episode 5. Which then prompts Rose to repeatedly suggest they get married, giving poor Misaki another Heroic BSOD moment.
 * Ai leans this way towards the end.
 * Cool Older Cousin: Eriko
 * Conspicuous CG: The super-deformed Eriko (see Dancing Theme below); Also used for various vehicles.
 * Crash Into Hello: Ai meets Ryuuji this way when he tries to catch her after she jumped off a tree branch to save a falling cat.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: Onyx kills several security guards, breaks gates open, kills some more security guards and takes Rose for a walk.
 * Curtains Match the Window: Practically everyone except Bianca, Rose and Saphie.
 * Cute Little Fangs: Ai and Rose.
 * Dancing Theme: A Super Deformed number featuring Eriko with the rest of the cast.
 * The ending theme itself is also a super-adorable Ear Worm!
 * Do It Yourself Theme Tune: The intro Immortalist is sung by Maruga's seiyuu.
 * Drives Like Crazy: Eriko at times.
 * Hair Decorations: Maruga's ribbon.
 * Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: The Ax Crazy painter, who believes that all women are liars, even after the girls tell the truth to his questions (all of which involve Ryuuji in some way). Although they manage to escape, he's still convinced they're all liars, and tries to kill them anyway.
 * Fantastic Arousal: Ai's ears and tail are very sensitive.
 * Fantastic Racism: Onyx regularly and casually compares humans to ants and insects not worthy of any consideration, and yet oddly enough Would Not Hit a Girl who is human.
 * Five Man Band: The main characters!
 * The Hero: Ryuuji
 * The Lancer: Eriko
 * The Smart Guy: Maruga/Bianca
 * The Big Guy: Rose
 * The Chick: Misaki
 * Sixth Ranger: Ai
 * Friendly Enemy: Sapphie. The worst she does to the main characters is get them wet. Then later she "attacks" Rose, but only gets herself wet, and the next scene is at Ryuuji's apartment where Rose is helping dry her clothing, giving her a bath, and feeding her. Even when Rose is kidnapped, she helps out the main characters and never truly acts intentionally malicious towards them.
 * Gainaxing: Eriko, at least in the OP.
 * Girl in A Box: Rose
 * Girl of My Dreams: Rose is, in Ryuuji's dreams.
 * Ghost Town: In episode 9, several of the girls get sucked into a Cursed Precious painting of one. An Ax Crazy murderer also happens to live in this painting and chases after them.
 * Hair Antennae: Rose and Eriko.
 * Half Human Hybrid:
 * Harem Hero: Ryuuji is a Type 2A.
 * Healing Hands: A dragon's breath can heal humans, like when Rose heals Ryuji after their fight with Onyx.
 * Heel Face Turn: Ai,
 * Heroic BSOD: Misaki suffers one after hearing Rose mention being engaged to Ryuuji. It ticks her friend Mao off so much that she tries to hit Masato on the head during a watermelon smashing event at the beach.
 * Ryuuji seems to suffer this about halfway through episode 11. It takes Misaki and Maruga talking to him to snap him out of it.
 * Hopeless Suitor: Poor Misaki, it seems she never really had a chance with Ryuuji, since he was snatched up by his cousin within the first 5 minutes of being introduced, then Rose clings onto him before she ever gets an opportunity to express her feelings. It doesn't stop Mao from trying to hook them up however.
 * Hot Scientist: Bianca, especially when she gears up.
 * An Ice Person: Margarite, aka Maruga, as well as a wielder of the Ice Rage.
 * Idiot Ball: Ryuuji has the poor sense to believe everything Onyx says to him,  This happens despite he knows that Onyx is a lying douchebag and more importantly he didn't even try to ask help from Maruga.
 * If I Can't Have You: When Rose made it absolutely clear that she will never consent to being engaged to him, Onyx assumes his draconic form and proceeds to attack her and Ryuuji. He wanted
 * Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Sapphie tries really hard to be an antagonist to Rose, but ends up as more of a Friendly Enemy.
 * Interspecies Romance: Dragons and humans. But other than some markings on their hand, dragons look indistinguishable from humans while not in dragon mode.
 * I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Misaki seems to lean towards this at the end, but Mao refuses to accept this for her, and immediately plans "Operation Take back Ryuuji", much to Misaki's dismay.
 * I Will Protect Her: Part of Ryuuji's motivation for helping out the various women in the series, particularly Ai and Rose.
 * Line of Sight Name: Ryuuji decided on Rose's name after seeing the scale markings on her hand.
 * Learnt Japanese From Watching Television: Rose learned a few basic words from Ryuuji and Eriko, but by episode two she's able to speak Japanese pretty fluently.
 * Love Makes You Crazy:
 * who justifies his actions because he thought the society wanted him to perform dangerous experiments to . When a female friend of his got sick, he tried to get an item that would cure her, but was repeatedly denied by the society member who owned said item.
 * The Ax murderer/painter fits this as well, since after being cheated on, he feels all women are liars.
 * Love Makes You Dumb: Ryuuji, see the Idiot Ball for details.
 * Mad Scientist: Tokura and Bianca. With Bianca, it only really fits in her introduction episode, what with firing a Ryuuji-seeking missile at him in a classroom, then having a giant robot attack him (which in a flashback apparently didn't work the first time either). After that, she more or less acts somewhat normal.
 * Magic Contract Romance: Ryuuji and Rose.
 * Making a Splash: Sapphie. She's so hilariously bad with her water-based powers that the best she's ever done is to drop a ball of water on someone's head. She's pretty obviously the Inept Mage as far as dragons go.
 * Marshmallow Hell: Eriko does this to Ryuuji in the first episode.
 * The Masquerade: Considering Bianca fired a bazooka in the middle of a classroom, and then smashed part of it with a giant robot, it's startling how few people seem to catch on. Misaki notices, but only after being sucked into a painting, seeing Rose shoot fire, watching Saphi sprout wings, and even then has to be told outright.
 * Meaningful Name:
 * The "Ryuu" in "Ryuuji" means dragon, the "ji" means to govern or rule.
 * George the Dragon slayer is an obvious allusion to Saint George, the Dragon Slayer.
 * Mismatched Eyes: Ai in wolf form.
 * Mission Control: Tokura does this a lot, often providing information to Eriko.
 * Nice Guy:
 * Father George, who is far too sweet and kind-hearted to ever be good dragon slayer.
 * Ryuuji too. He even stops a guard from hitting Ai with a nightstick, even though she was stealing stuff at the time. In fact, almost every main girl is attracted to him due to this trope, with the exception of his cousin.
 * Nuns Are Mikos In a broad sense, anyway. The business with George and the sword and the mysteriously crossless church doesn't actually fit very well into major Christian denominations, but does seem to match depictions of Shinto tropes.
 * Official Couple: Rose and Ryuuji, but the end of the anime hints that the other girls aren't going to give up that easily.
 * Onion Tears: Episode 10 starts with Ai, Rose, and Misaki all crying because they're chopping onions.
 * Opera Gloves: Maruga often wears these.
 * Ordinary High School Student: Ryuuji chooses to be this, at least until Rose shows up. Played straight with his two female and one male classmates however.
 * Our Dragons Are Different: Except for the scale markings and the superpowers, dragons look like normal humans. Until they transform.
 * Our Werewolves Are Different: Ai is some sort of werewolf-like creature, though she never goes full wolf.
 * Parasol of Prettiness: Maruga almost always has a parasol with her, even at night.
 * Patient Childhood Love Interest: Misaki.
 * Playing With Fire: Rose
 * Power Tattoo: The markings on Ai's shoulder.
 * Pretty Freeloader: Rose for the most part. Eriko sometimes, although she does drive Ryuuji around once in a while too. Interestingly enough for a harem anime, it's averted for every other main girl, as they have their own places to live, although they do show up at his apartment from time to time.
 * Rapunzel Hair: Rose's hair reaches her waist.
 * Red Right Hand: All Dragon have scales on their hand.
 * Really 700 Years Old: Maruga and Onyx. Maruga knew her uncle, who died a hundred years ago, so she has to be over a hundred years old despite appearing to be in her late teens/early twenties. Onyx and Maruga were childhood friends so he has to be over a hundred as well.
 * Rose Haired Girl: Bianca
 * Secret Keeper: Ryuuji and Eriko have to keep the existence of dragons a secret from their human friends.
 * Shipper On Deck: Mao is trying to ship Misaki and Ryuuji. Even when it seems obvious Misaki doesn't stand a chance, Mao still attempts to do this.
 * Shout Out: In episode 9 the killer bears a slight resemblance to Michael Myers
 * The town itself in Episode 9 is a reference to the Stephen King novel Desperation.
 * Shrinking Violet: Misaki Etou.
 * Sinister Scythe: Ryuuji's dad was seen with one in Bianca's traumatic flashback.
 * Stealth Hi Bye: Bianca seems able to vanish and appear to characters no matter if they're in a classroom, or on top of a flight control tower.
 * Supporting Harem: Rose and Ryuuji are "engaged", magically and otherwise. The rest of the harem does stand a fighting chance, but none of them live with him.
 * Tempting Fate: When the girls escape from the painting in episode 9, Eriko comments that if this was like a horror movie, something bad should happen next. Cue the Ax Crazy murderer escaping into their bathroom mirror.
 * Tickle Torture: Eriko uses this on a captured Ai to get her to find out more about her.
 * The Big Damn Kiss:
 * The Power of Love: dragon "engagements" require both parties to trust each other completely and have feelings for each other, and give both a massive temporary boost in magical power. At one point this power was even used directly to
 * The Reveal: is a Lost Precious. Later subverted because,
 * Those Two Guys: More like that one guy and girl, but Masato and Mao, Ryuuji and Misaki's school friends, are this.
 * Title Drop:
 * Token Mini Moe: Rose, and Sapphie.
 * Tomato in The Mirror:
 * Tomboy and Girly Girl: A good description of Misaki and Maho.
 * Transformation Trinket: The Lost Precious inside Ai.
 * Urban Fantasy
 * Vapor Wear:
 * Bianca is clearly not wearing any normal panties.
 * Literal example is Maruga's Melting Bikini-top in the Beach Episode (...don't ask).
 * Eriko doesn't always wear a bra either, such as her dress from episode 6.
 * Violently Protective Girlfriend: Rose doesn't like it when Ryuuji is threatened.
 * Well Intentioned Extremist: Furumori.
 * When It All Began:
 * Why Did It Have To Be Frogs: Ryuuji hates them it seems. He even gets warts just by holding onto a box with a picture of them on it.
 * Winged Humanoid: Dragons
 * Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Ryuuji. Subverted with Onyx, who claims this, although he does try to attack Rose and Ryuuji. However, he does only use a spell to knock out Eriko.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Maruga and Sapphie
 * Younger Than They Look:
 * George is only nineteen.
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Maruga and Sapphie
 * Younger Than They Look:
 * George is only nineteen.