Da Capo II: Difference between revisions

** Anzu too, {{spoiler|once her memory problem comes back}} in the visual novel.

* [[Bromantic Foil]] - Wataru

** Worth mentioning is that canonically, Junichi and Nemu ended up together, and that Sakura is Junichi's cousin and [[Kissing Cousins|really wanted to be together with him]] as well. Thank goodness for [[Not Blood Siblings]] being in play or all this incest could get problematic.

*** On the other hand, Yoshiyuki {{spoiler|is the son Sakura and Junichi never had. Sakura would be both his mother and first cousin once removed, while Yoshiyuki himself would be Otome and Yume's half uncle.}}

* [[Debut Queue]] - Done very obviously and with an appropriate [[Establishing Character Moment]] for each heroine in the game.

* [[Deceptively Human Robots]] - The Miaki and Mifuyu robot lines are not as human as they look. The movements are wrong and they have inhuman mannerisms, though not in a creepy way. Some details from Minatsu's route more or less confirm that this is intentional as people do not like robots that are too human.

* [[Demoted to Extra]] - Nanaka of all people, has the least screentime among Yoshiyuki's friends in the second season. Also Maika Mizukoshi, who was deeply involved with Yoshiyuki due to Minatsu, is hardly seen in the second season.

** Practically all of Yoshiyuki's classmates take a backseat in Season 2 to make room for Yume and Otome. While they have more screentime than Nanaka, they don't play as big a role as they did in season 1. Anzu is the sole exception, but after the first 4 episodes, she's not as vital except during a few scenes late in Season 2.

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] - The result of impure wishes being granted by the sakura tree. Blatantly impossible things happen.

* [[Disappears Into Light]] - {{spoiler|Yoshiyuki, [[Player Punch|in front of Otome]].}}

* [[Doting Parent|Doting Older Sister]] - Yoshiyuki is pretty much Otome's favorite person in the world, and she will not hesitate to show it no matter how embarassing he may find it.

* [[Dream Sequence]]

* [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] - Anzu

* [[Hair Decorations]] - The entire female cast has something in their hair.

* [[Expy]] - Most of the characters are reminiscent of characters in the original ''[[Da Capo]]'', with some of them being descended from characters in ''[[Da Capo]]'', though the only genealogies that are confirmed is that Yume and Otome are Junichi and Nemu's grandchildren, and Nanaka is related to Kotori, {{spoiler|though it's been said that Nanaka also blood-related to Junichi.}}

** Specifically, Yoshiyuki is an [[Expy]] of Junichi, Minatsu is a combination of Miharu and Mako, Nanaka takes over for Kotori, since she's also a Shirakawa, while Yume is a combination of both Junichi and Nemu (though Otome also resembles Nemu whenever she has her hair up). Most blatantly is Suginami, who [[Epileptic Trees|may very well be the same Suginami from 53 years ago]].

* [[Gag Boobs]] - Some of the ladies of [[Da Capo II]] are pretty well stacked (Koko, Mizukoshi...), but Akane tops them all easily.

* [[Gaiden Game]] - There are 3 without crossover: ''Spring Celebration'' for girls in original game, ''To You'' as some prequel, and ''Fall in Love'' for girls added in ''Plus Situation/Plus Communication''. Put them together with original game, and you have complete four seasons!

* [[Generation Xerox]] - For obvious reasons, though some of the characteristics were shuffled around.

* [[Genki Girl]] - Yuzu, one of the characters in Nanaka's route, pretty much ''defines'' this trope.

** Also:

{{quote| '''Maya''': Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.}}

* [[Happily Adopted]] - {{spoiler|Anzu. Yoshiyuki in the present may or may not count depending on how you look at it.}}

** Yoshiyuki in the backstory - when he was brought into the Asakura household after Sakura found him, the Asakura siblings' mother, [[Missing Mom|Yuki]], treated him as one of her own children without hesitation and he remembers her quite fondly.

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]] - Contrary to the first game, Junichi insists to Yoshiyuki that being able to magically produce sweets is a pretty great magical power when teaching it to him. Considering that Yoshiyuki gets surprisingly good use of it, he's not exactly wrong.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - Done by {{spoiler|Sakura, Junichi, and Yoshiyuki, in that order.}}

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]

* [[Identical Grandson]]: Suginami in this series looks and sounds suspiciously like the Suginami from the first [[Da Capo]].

* [[Large Ham]] - Suginami.

** Wataru as well, particularly when lamenting Yoshiyuki's [[Unwanted Harem]] and [[A Man Is Not a Virgin|his own virginity.]]

* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]] - "Oh God, please! Let me make a different decision! [[Save Scumming|I want to go back to a few minutes ago!]]"

* [[Lethal Chef]] - Yume seems to have inherited Nemu's bad cooking; however, just like Nemu, she improves drastically after one season.

* [[Nice Hat]] - Minatsu's black-and-white hat.

* [[No Ontological Inertia]] - {{spoiler|The effects of wishes granted by the magical sakura tree are cancelled out when the tree dies, most dramatically applying to the protagonist himself.}}

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]] - If you have enough points with Nanaka, in what should be the Koko route you can instead choose to end up with Nanaka instead due to Yoshiyuki feeling guilty for being an ass earlier and sympathy due to her {{spoiler|being in the hospital because of him.}} The story ends with this instead of continuing.

* [[No Sense of Personal Space]] - Nanaka has a tendency to get very hands on with people she barely knows, which has causes some misunderstandings. Otome is also very touchy-feely with Yoshiyuki, though not with anybody else.

* [[Not So Different]] - Minatsu actually notes at one point that she probably doesn't have the right to get ''too'' angry at [[Fantastic Racism|how she's being treated]] considering her attitude towards humans when she first woke up.

* [[No Name Given]] / [[Only One Name]] - Like many things about him, what Suginami's full name may be, or even if he has one beyond "Suginami", is a mystery.

* [[Older Than They Look]]- Sakura doesn't look like she's aged at all since [[Da Capo]].

* [[The Other Darrin]] - Just like its [[Da Capo|predecessor]], cast swap-outs were in order for the all-ages versions and adaptations, although not to the same degree. A good number of characters kept their original voice talents.

* [[Panty Shot]] - Nanaka's introductory CG.

* [[Parental Abandonment]] - Anzu, who was abandoned by her parents {{spoiler|because of her terrible memory. She then made a wish on the sakura tree to have excellent memory. When Otome withers the tree, she loses this ability.}}

** To be specific, in the original Japanese versions, his name was obscured with a random string of kanji that made no literal sense whatsoever (think transliteration of foreign languages into Chinese, or the stuff that was pulled in Musha Gundam). The trick here is that when said string is read out loud, [[Mondegreen|it SOUNDS like "Garrison"]].

* [[Show Within a Show]] - Anzu's play.

* [[Snow Means Love]]

* [[Spirited Competitor]] - Mayuki. She enjoys Suginami's pranks because of the challenge foiling him presents and at one point challenges Yoshiyuki to a literal [[Cooking Duel]] when she learns he knows how to cook.

* [[Stepford Smiler]] - {{spoiler|Sakura. She is genuinely happy most of the time, but she hides darker secrets}}.

* [[Theme Naming]] - The robot series. Miharu (spring) and Minatsu (summer) followed by the more robotic Miaki (autumn) and Mifuyu (winter) lines of robots.

* [[They Do]] - Koko and Yoshiyuki, in the first episode. {{spoiler|They break up late into the first season.}}

* [[Third Person Person]] - Minatsu.

* [[Time Skip]] - ''[[Da Capo II]]'' takes place 53 years after the events of ''[[Da Capo]]''.

** Hilariously, Sakura is the [[Older Than They Look|oldest]] member of the cast, but ''still'' looks like she should be the youngest.

** And let's go to ''Plus Situation/Plus Communication'' to find {{spoiler|Aisia, yes, the one shown before.}}

* [[Wham Episode]] - The episode where it's revealed that {{spoiler|Yoshiyuki was the result of a wish made by Sakura 10 years prior to the beginning of the series.}}

* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway]] - Subverted by Yoshiyuki's magical sweets making ability, as mentioned under [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]. On the other hand, he's pretty down on his ability to see other people's dreams, since from his perspective it gets in the way of having restful sleep, not to mention that he's terrible at determining whose dreams he's seeing, especially when they're being had by people very close to him and giving away important information about their back story.

* [[Wistful Amnesia]] - When {{spoiler|Otome withers the sakura tree, people begin to forget Yoshiyuki, because his existence was the result of a wish made by Sakura.}}

** {{spoiler|Anzu also has difficulty remembering Yoshiyuki, but is very comfortable and familiar around him after the cherry tree dies.}}

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]] - {{spoiler|Yume's visions of the future always come true no matter how she tries to stop them. However, no one said she saw ''everything'' that would happen, did they?}}

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]] - Minatsu is blue, Nanaka and Akane are pink