Dragon Knights

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Rath: Hey, ugly! We are the slayers of the unholy, the keepers of justice, the guardians of truth!
Thatz: We cannot be defeated! We are the Dragon Knights, scourge of demonkind! And, uh... we're kinda lost.

A manga series by Mineko Ohkami, Dragon Knights tells the tale of the war between the Dragon tribe led by Lykouleon, who seeks to protect the world, and the Demon tribe led by Nadil, who wants to take it over. To help save the day Lykouleon sends out his best fighters, the Dragon Knights. Traveling to Nadil's dark castle they cut of his head, ending his reign of terror.

And all of this happens before the first chapter.

Now that the heroes have the head of the Demon Lord, they must protect it from everybody else who might seek to bring Nadil Back from the Dead, or simply claim his power as their own. Of course things are never easy, and with evil plots, foul monsters, and shiny distractions around every corner, the Knights will have their hands full trying to keep their victory as such.

Tropes used in Dragon Knights include:
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: When the specter needs to have a talk with Kitchel, because she refused to talk to a "ghost" he took the physical form of a small, squirrel like creature instead, known as Sacreds in their world, to get her to listen.
  • Affably Evil: Can apply to Kharl, he even unknowingly buys flowers from one of the heroes and accepts his invite to lunch. Also Sabel.
  • Alien Sky: In the Demon World, the sky's a shade of purple.
  • All-Encompassing Mantle: The preferred attire of Shydeman, Shyrendora, and Kharl.
  • All Just a Dream: When Rune wakes up from his crossdressing contest nightmare in the Gaiden.
  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us
  • All Your Colors Combined: Not used in battle, but the five Dragon Officers (represented by different colors) were suppose to use their powers together to seal away Nadil's head.
  • Almost-Dead Guy: Alfeegi, Kaistern, and Lykouleon are all able to do a few final tasks or past some last words before expiring.
  • Amplifier Artifact: The Wind Staff allows Cesia more control over her already potent powers.
    • Cesia herself is an example; it's why she's so desirable to both sides.
  • Animal Motifs
  • Animate Dead: Sabel's primary power.
  • Anime Hair: Kharl's odd, winged bird hair style. Other than that, most of the hairstyles are quite tame.
    • The women (and Gil) often have impossibly long hair.
  • Animorphism
  • Anticlimax
  • Anyone Can Die
  • Art Evolution: Ohkami changed her style practically from book to book until the later half of the series when it stabilized a little...
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: There's Varawoo, the fish, and then the giant one-eye monster. And then Diamond Clover and Yusurugi
  • Attractive Bent Gender
  • Awful Truth
  • Back from the Dead: Happens quite a lot.
    • Not exactly willy-nilly - someone else's sacrifice so you can use their body - and sometimes more than one body - is usually required.
    • But... Only about half the characters that die end up staying dead, and even then, some of them make reappearances.
  • Badass Longcoat: Worn by Tetheus for most of the series.
  • Battle Couple: Rune and Tintlet to a certain extent. Rath and Cesia.
  • The Bartender
  • Bare Your Midriff: Kitchel, for most of her outfits. Eventually Cesia joins in on the fun too.
  • Bathe Her and Bring Her to Me: How Nadil decides to welcome Cesia back to his castle.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: While he's the most polite and courteous of the knights, Rune's got the worst temper.
  • Big Bad: Nadil, of course. And he also doubles as the Evil Overlord.
  • Big Eater: Thatz. Food is one of his two great obsessions, the other of course being money.
  • Big Good: Lykouleon
  • Blind Idiot Translation: Tokyopop's translation work is... less then consistent at times.
  • Black Magic
  • Bond One-Liner

Tetheus: Just a thought... but you may want to throw this fish back.

Rune: Rath! I told you not to kill 'em all!
Rath: You mean that's all of 'em?

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