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[[File:Nurarihyon_no_Mago_Ayashi_Hiroku_8251.jpg|frame|In days of old, people feared ''youkai''...]]

 

 

At first the series is an [[Monster of the Week]] series dealing with the boy [[I Just Want to Be Normal|trying to live a normal life]], and [[The Masquerade|keeping the truth about himself and his family from getting out to his normal school friends]]. His friends include Kana, his [[Love Interest]] who is afraid of youkai, and Kiyotsugu, the class president who is a wannabe demonologist and major fanboy of Rikuo's youkai side. He often has to handle threats to his friends and school, and deal with occasional assassination attempts by yokai who want to take over his clan. The cast is rounded out by the yokai retainers who live in his family's mansion and his own personal bodyguards.

 

 

 

 

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]: Rikuo's mother is said in the debut one shot of the series to be 30, which can be assumed to be true in the main series, since nothing has contradicted it, yet she doesn't look like it.

** Hagoromo Gitsune is absurdly youthful even [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|approximately 400 years ago]] due to her constant switching of hosts.

* [[Art Shift]]: The art changes into Sumi-e style whenever a yokai reveals a power.

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: This applies to anyone who is the Master of All Spirits.

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Kejouro and Kubinashi in chapter 102

* [[Badass]]: Name any Keikain. Name any youkai.

* [[Badass Army]]: The Nura Clan.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Nurarihyon, period.

* [[Big Bad]]: Formerly Harogomo Gitsune, and now her child, the Nue {{spoiler|AKA her son Abe no Seimei, whose first act after being reborn is ''dropping her into hell''.}}

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Kurotabou is, quite ''literally'', ''made'' for this trope, having saved not a few human, onmyouji, and youkai asses just when they needed help most.

* [[Body Horror]]: Anything to do with Sanmoto Gorōzaemon {{spoiler|, who is freaking huge and ugly and fat even as a normal human, and when he transform into a yokai, his flesh MELTED AND SPLIT INTO A HUNDRED PARTS, which in turn become grotesque Yokai themselves.}}

** Minagoroshi Jizou, can possess and control others by going into them and taking the shape of a small eyeball in the back of the body. When {{spoiler|Minagoroshi Jizou left Akifusa's body, the small eyeball in the back of Akifusa's body burst out and became Minagoroshi Jizou's head. Now, considering Minagoroshi Jizou is the left eye of Sanmoto...}}

* [[Blood Knight]]: Tsuchigumo.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: In the latest chapters, the people are really pushing {{spoiler|Rikuo}} despite knowing the fact that {{spoiler|he could easily kill them all (if he was evil, instead of trying to save them).}}

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Used straight by just about everyone who does any fighting, but actually subverted by {{spoiler|Ryuuji, who uses a different name for his shikigami and his attacks, in order to fool his opponent.}}

* [[The Cavalry]]: The arrival of Nura Clan to Kyoto. Before, the Onmyouji of the Keikain Clan was on the verge of collapse.

* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: The mansion's cherry blossom tree is Night Rikuo's favorite [[Incredibly Lame Pun|haunt]].

* [[Cool Airship]]: {{spoiler|The Nura clan has a fleet of demonic air ships}}.

* [[Dancing Theme]]

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: The Yaso branch [[Demonic Possession]] Technique that Akifusa Keikain uses against Hagoromo Gitsune.

** And now we have the {{spoiler|Hundred Tales Clan, who, having decided that they can't beat the Nura clan in a straight fight, decide to undercut them by taking aim straight at the [[Masquerade]], outing Rikuo as a Yokai to the humans and actually forcing him to transform in public, in front of his childhood friend for that matter.}}

* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Thirteenth Birthday]]: It's not only the age of adulthood in the youkai world, but Kana was cursed by the Purple Mirror to die at that age.

** Kurotabou. {{spoiler|At first tasked to assassinate Rihan, Kurotabou learns he has been brainwashed by Sanmoto Gorozaemon and joins the Nura Clan after helping Rihan dispose of Sanmoto and his former group, the Hyakku Monogatari}}.

* [[Delinquents]]: Aotabou falls ass backwards into becoming the leader of a Japanese delinquent biker gang.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]?: {{spoiler|After Rikuo uses his new Matoi ability with Tsurara, allowing them to combine their attacks, other characters talk about using it with him, and the conversation makes it seem like they all want to sleep with him. This comes complete with Tsurara becoming angry that Rikuo has already used Matoi with other people and refusing to do it with him again when he asks.}}

** {{spoiler|Also, after he uses the Matoi ability, when he asks Itaku to use the Matoi ability with him, the dialogue sounds like he wants him to sleep with him.}}

{{spoiler|Itaku: ....huh? Rikuo: * clarifies* }} }}

** In chapter 158, Rihan explains how the Matoi works and makes an...interesting observation on Kurotabou. May overlap with [[Foe Yay]]

Kuro: {{spoiler|Will you stop it! And you're drinking already?!}} }}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Implied with {{spoiler|Rihan first wife, Yamabuki Otome who couldn't bear his children due to Gitsune's curse. When her memory returns after the Kyoto battle, she tells Rikuo that he's the son they should've had.}}

* [[Dungeon Bypass]]: Chapter 170 {{spoiler|Torii and Maki display [[Genre Savvy]] by hiding with a group of girls in a place where Mook Youkai can't enter without permission. So, the one making the Youkai simply turns the walls and windows into Youkai, bypassing the permission thing.}}

** [[The Big Guy]]: Aotabou, who else?

** [[The Smart Guy]]: Kubinashi, although a somewhat hot-headed version of the trope. Zen can also be considered as [[The Medic]] alternate (when healthy anyway).

* [[Foe Yay]]: [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nurarihyon_no_mago/c115/3.html Just look at the color spread of chapter 115].

* [[Friendly Enemy]]: The Nurarihyon and Hidemoto of the Onmyouji.

* [[Friend to All Children]]: Aotabou and Kurotabou.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]] / [[Dismantled MacGuffin]]: Maybe: {{spoiler|Minagososhi Jizou is just one of a hundred scattered body parts of a legendary evil youkai, specifically one of his eyes - er, make that ''was''.}}

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: Rihan (half-youkai, half-human) and Rikuo (1/4th youkai).

** And where the hell does Kurotabou store all that weapons?

* [[Happily Married]]: Nurarihyon and Youhime, especially evident in omake chapters and novels.

** [[Tomokazu Sugita|Gintoki]] is Zen.

** [[Relationship Voice Actor]]: [[Yui Horie]] and [[Hiroki Yasumoto]] get to voice together again (as Rikuo's loyal bodyguards) in years since [[School Rumble]], where Horie was [[Tsundere]] [[Ojou]] Eri Sawachika and Yasumoto was [[Hot-Blooded]] [[Large Ham]] Masakazu Tougou.

* [[Hot Mom]]: Rikuo's mom is pretty hot. Also, Hagoromo-Gitsune.

** Youhime was renowned as the most beautiful woman in all of Kyoto.

* [[Hot Teacher]]: During the Hundred Tales arc, Yamabuki-Otome could arguably qualify as this.

 

{{spoiler|'''Kurotabou:''' Wear... me?}} }}

* [[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]: Both [[Half-Human Hybrid|Rihan]] and Rikuo's parents .

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Averted, Rikuo is something of a proto [[Magnificent Bastard]]. He uses his cunning as his main weapon while in human form. The conference to {{spoiler|determine the Nura clan successor, where Rikuo manipulates his main opponent into embarrassing himself, is a particularly good example}}.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: The last 400 years weren't very kind on Nurarihyon

* [[Knight Templar]] : Some of the Onmyouji.

** {{spoiler|The humans who attack Rikuo thinking that killing him will save the world.}}

* [[Out of Focus]]: Advice to new readers: don't get attached to Kiyo Cross Squad. After the series [[Growing the Beard|Grows The Beard]] they quickly start to lose importance until in the last two arcs they show up three panels once in 40 chapters ''at best'' and even then don't do or say anything important. {{spoiler|Then comes the 100 Tales arc and the Tag game during the night where they come back into focus and seek to help Rikuo.}}

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]: Kejouro

* [[Playing Drunk]]: Rihan, once, during the Hundred Tales arc.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Rihan. He is dead by the time the series start, yet he is an important point in the plot.

* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Hagoromo-Gitsune, arguably.

* [[Rule 34]]: Hits Tsurara pretty hard. If there are smutty fanarts all over Pixiv about her, it's out of question there is NO porn somewhere.

* [[Sacred Hospitality]]: The [[Enemy Mine|capacity]] in which [[Rivals Team Up|sworn enemies]] visit your home is important to the [[Yakuza]]-esque yokai clans.

* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: Hagoromo Gitsune takes it literally and [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nurarihyon_no_mago/c124/12.html beyond]:

* [[Ship Tease]]: Rikuo and Tsurara has a few of them, but chapter 136 in particular is really strong, {{spoiler|Rikuo appears to pick her up while it was snowing and [[Together Umbrella|share an umbrella]] together}}

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Young Nurarihyon is naked from the torso up while fighting against Hagoromo Gitsune. Rikuo also does this in his fight against Tsuchigumo

* [[Snakes Are Sexy]]: Averted with Hebidayu's human-like form.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: Rikuo and the Nura clan marches on Nijou Castle in chapter 117.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Subverted. Demon Rikuo is simply a bit more [[Hot-Blooded]] and more mature than Human Rikuo.

* [[Take Me Instead!]]: {{spoiler|Torii offers herself to save her friend Saori from being turned into a youkai. However, her plan backfires when the bad guy tells her that she will be the one who will devour Saori.}}

** In the case of the Kikyo Paranormal Patrol, it seems to be mostly the club president that suffers from this with the others more or less following for either for the fun stuff that goes on when they're just humoring him, or when they're trying to keep him from getting killed.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Ri''han'' and Ri''kuo'' are half and one quarter youkai respectively.<ref>for those confused han is Japanese for half.</ref>

* [[Transhuman Treachery]]: {{spoiler|Akifusa of the Onmyouji seems to be on the side of the youkai, but it turns out a yokai was controlling his mind}}.

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: Rikuo, his grandpa and many youkai fit this. Naturally.

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: {{spoiler|The first thing Abe no Seimei does after being reborn is toss his mother, who has endured countless reincarnations, ''into hell''. Apparently becoming leader of all the Youkai in Japan requires you to be just ''that'' evil.}}

** The humans that Rikuo saves in chapter 162.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: {{spoiler|Rikuo and his [[Nakama]] arrive too late to prevent Nue's birth}}.

** {{spoiler|Rikuo failed to stop the Hundred Tales plan for revenge's first part by being outed as one and now will be hunted by crazy humans.}}

** But then in the latest chapter, she seemed kinda surprised when Rikuo confronts her about killing his father. And then [http://www.mangareader.net/456-58003-9/nurarihyon-no-mago/chapter-126.html this page] shows up.

** And now there's [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nurarihyon_no_mago/c129/19.html this...]

 

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