Shitsurakuen: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|[[Grey and Gray Morality]]}}: What the series really is.

* [[Boarding School of Horrors]]

* [[Broken Bird]]: Yuki before Sora makes her believe that things can get better.

* [[Bully Hunter]]: Sora, a particularly overloaded one.

* [[Dragon With an Agenda]]: Although he's initially presented as the [[Big Bad]], El is this for the man in charge of Utopia Academy. His plots [[Kick the Dog|are unforgivably cruel]] but he has goals that others aren't privy to.

* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Sora quickly finds out that most of the girls are mice, and all of the boys are {{spoiler|([[Despair Event Horizon|force]][[Heel Realization|fully]])}} jackals.

* [[Ears As Hair]]: Inverted. Tomoko has hair which, according to Sora, looks like ears.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]

* [[Faceless Goons]]: Most male students are drawn with their faces partly obscured, [[Eyeless Face|especially their eyes]] -- probably to emphasize their [[Complete Monster|monstrosity and to further dehumanise them]]. {{spoiler|Most of the guys who were drawn with full faces are either complex enough not to be a [[Complete Monster]], have good motivations, or are actually decent people- Akane, who interestingly enough gets some [[Character Development]] when he takes off his glasses and reveals his eyes.}}

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]]: Knights and princesses.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Not so much that it's incomprehensible, but the story suddenly pulls a [[Shocking Swerve]] by {{spoiler|revealing Tsuki was actually the [[Big Bad]]}}. After this sudden revelation, {{spoiler|[[The Unfought|Sora doesn't fight either El or Tsuki]] (though that may be the point), but instead announces an ending to "Paradise Story" over the school's PA system -- an ending that she just made up. [[The Un-Reveal|And we don't even get to hear what that ending was]] (but again, that may be the point)}}. Makes more sense when you realize the manga was [[Cut Short]]. To make things more confusing, an extra chapter was added at the end of the collected version.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: There are a bunch of these --

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Yes Sora, challenging one of the Student Council's top members (let alone one who is fanatically loyal to the president) when you've barely started is [[Sarcasm Mode|such]] a great idea.

** Shoujou admits to El later that the only reason he was able to win was that Sora was so lost in rage that she became very easy to read.

** And [[Inverted]]. Most the boys '''haven't''' read the documentation, which allows Sora to exploit a few loopholes to her advantage.

* [[Humans Are Bastards]]: This manga kind of makes you wonder how far the male characters can really go into bastard territory. {{spoiler|[[Deconstructed Trope|And they themselves HATED it.]]}}

* [[Magikarp Power]]: {{spoiler|[[Katanas Are Just Better|Yuki's weapon]]}}.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Tsuki is the moon in Sora's sky.

* [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|My Gender Doth Protest Too Much]]: Akane is a guy. He also happens to be (so far as we know) as sweet and kind as Sora, just lacking a bit in the courage department.

* [[Mysterious Protector]]: X. Though by all indications she's just as much of a victim as anyone else {{spoiler|and she's forcibly working for El; it's all but outright stated she's Tsuki. Interestingly the series played with this trope when X was impersonated by a [[Villainous Crossdresser]]}}.

* [[Neutral No Longer]]: Tomoko.

* [[Not Just a Tournament]]: Whoever collects all six seals in Exaclan will... actually, never mind, the ending is [[Cut Short|too confusing to tell]], but it's certainly not about rounding up a six-girl harem.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: {{spoiler|El is able to gain Sora's trust by ruffling his hair and putting on an eyepatch.}} [[Justified Trope|Justified]], because she had never met him before in the first place, and the disguise doesn't fool others who know his identity.

* [[Person of Holding]]: The female students.