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''Medaka Box'' has gone from a quirky [[Slice of Life]] high school comedy to a fighting manga, then [[Serial Escalation]] as each [[Big Bad]]'s defeat brings a newer, more dangerous one onto the scene. Whatever the author's original intentions, the series has become more and more popular with each [[Genre Shift]], and an anime adaptation by [[Gainax]] was announced and began airing on April 4, 2012.
Making use of [[Cool Loser|Misogi Kumagawa's]] ground-breaking popularity in the manga, Nisio and Akira announced a [[Spin
According to its own wiki, the manga has contained six completed story arcs so far, with a seventh starting around the same time as the anime. At the same time, the anime is expected to include several filler arcs.
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* [[Genki Girl]]: Applies to many of the female characters who appear in the series.
* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]: Everyone in the student council. The default student council uniform itself is black rather than the regular student white, supposedly to symbolize that the student council is meant to be servants to the student body. However, all the student council members have made their own modifications to the uniform:
** Medaka's uniform is [[Form
{{quote| '''Medaka:''' I'm not exposing my breasts, I'm covering every other part of my body.}}
** Zenkichi wore his jersey under his uniform jacket in an effort to look cool. The other members of the student council thought it was anything but.
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* [[Badass Normal]]: Specials seem to be this by virtue of the fact they're not born with Abnormal talents, but can keep up with Abnormals due to training. Zenkichi also qualifies by virtue of actually belonging to the "Normal" category.
** Hell, Unzen says that Zenkichi might be second only to Medaka in terms of fighting ability.
* [[Bad Powers, Good People]]: Munakata, whose Abnormal ability is being an assassin savant. He is ''really'' good at killing people and constantly feels the urge to do it. He isn't considered a "Minus" because he actually has a conscience and isolates himself with a fake criminal record to avoid hurting other people.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Zenkichi and Naze's battles during the Flask Plan Arc and the Student Council Battle Arc seem to hinge around this.
* [[Battle Strip]]: Kumagawa and Munakata randomly decide to take their shirts off for their big showdown.
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Medaka makes a habit of this. One example had her ''kicking through a cement wall'' just because she heard a name that sounded familiar. Through several rooms and at least one floor down in a subterranean research lab.
** And in Chapter 44, "The Loser Team" {{spoiler|consisted of several defeated opponents, including two from Class 13 and Myouri Unzen}}.
** Special mention goes to Medaka in Chapter 73, wherein she shows up to save /Koga Itami off screen... But only after {{spoiler|Shiranui}} warned her, complete with a very mild [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech when she initially refused to interfere.
* [[Big Damn Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Chapter 140, Medaka and Zenkichi, in front of the whole school.}}
* [[Big Damn Villains]]: The Plus Six. Also, the Minus 13 Class.
* [[BFS|Big 'Effing Knife]]: Mera "The Chef" Konomi, co-Chair(wo)man of the Diet Education Committee.
* [[Bishie Sparkle]]: Invoked in Chapter 36 of the manga by Maguro, Medaka's [[Brother
* [[Blindfolded Vision]]: Chojabaru. Seems to be a [[Shout Out]] to Lady Justice
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Subverted: {{spoiler|"Medaka II"}} may be brainwashed but she's certainly not crazy, and thanks to Zenkichi it doesn't take.
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* [[Break the Haughty]]/[[Villainous Breakdown]]: Misogi Kumagawa in Chapter 70 {{spoiler|after Zenkichi decides to [[Taking You With Me|kill him, even if he has to kill himself at the same time.]]}}
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Taken to extremes by Tachirai Kiruko, the head of the election committee who sleeps for 22 hours a day, has never been seen standing or even sitting, and is so opposed to doing work (her sleep mask even has "I CANNOT WORK" on it) that she was placed in Class A because no one knew what to do with her. When the treasure hunters reach her she doesn't even take off her sleep mask but instantly comes up with a difficult challenge for them.
* [[Brother
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: The effects of Naze Youka's "Normalize" serum on Abnormals.
* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Several examples include: Aka Aoki doing this with Kumagawa {{spoiler|only to discover who is actually [[The Dragon]]}}, and Unzen of the Enforcement squad does the same when Medaka is restrained by being lashed to a building {{spoiler|only to find she's strong enough to move the building and break through the restraints}}.
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* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: In his debut, Kumagawa manages to defeat the Plus 6 and the Loser Team with relative ease. {{spoiler|Later, Munakata manages to hold his own, and even kill Kumagawa by himself. Though Kumagawa was holding back}}.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: {{spoiler|"Devil Style", the power Ajimu gave Zenkichi negates this}}:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Ajimu''': [[Million
* [[Cooldown Hug]]: Medaka gets two of these; one by Zenkichi {{spoiler|when she's going berserk after being brainwashed}}, and the whole Student Council {{spoiler|when she's about to kill Unzen}}.
* [[CPR Clean Pretty Reliable]]: Comes up in chapter {{spoiler|121, along with bits of [[You Fail Biology Forever]]. Not only is the CPR unable to revive Kumagawa, but the fact that Kikaijima even considered performing CPR on a person with a crushed throat is baffling. This is given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] by Munakata.}}
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* [[Fighting Dirty]]: Nekomi Nabeshima loves this trope. Both Shibushi and Kujira during their battle.
* [[First Kiss]]: Apparently Medaka was the first for almost her entire middle-school class, boys and girls. {{spoiler|Najimi}} has her first kiss (and probably his) with {{spoiler|Misogi}}, and she may have been {{spoiler|Zenkichi}}'s first too.
* [[Five
*** Against the Thirteen Party:
** [[Big Bad]]: Oudo.
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** [[The Brute]]: Shibuki.
** [[The Dark Chick]]: Mukae.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Medaka
** [[The Lancer]]: Zenkichi
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* [[It Amused Me]]: The motivation which drives Hansode Shiranui's actions.
* [[Landslide Election]]: The election to determine the 100th Student Council president ends with {{spoiler|Zenkichi receiving 62% of the votes, the Successors receiving 36%, and Medaka receiving only 2%. Medaka doesn't take it well.}}
* [[Laser
** And Naze herself, having used her serums on herself first to separate herself from the past.
* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]] / [[This Is Reality]]: Kumagawa does this a lot, referring to the fact that "this isn't a manga" or "If we were published in ''Shounen Jump''...", plus making fun of ''Shounen Jump's'' mottoes. This becomes a bit of a running gag, as the latest two villains also do the exact same thing (with one taking it up to madness mantras -- mentioning ''twenty one'' different Jump serieses and their protagonists in an attempt to tempt someone).
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* {{spoiler|[[Reality Warper]]}}: Chapter 71 confirms that ''this'' is the true nature of Kumagawa's "All-Fiction". Comes with a hitch, though: {{spoiler|anything he takes away with it such as Zenkichi's eyesight, his own "aura" or Emukae's Raffrafflesia 'becomes nothing'.}}
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Sukinasaki}} is this to {{spoiler|the student council president, Jakago}}, in the short story "Good Loser Kumagawa".
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Megusuno delivers a harsh one to {{spoiler|Kumagawa}} in chapter 111 when he loses a contest of imagination to her. {{spoiler|She explains that someone like Kumagawa can never beat her in such a contest because he ''honestly can't imagine that he can win'' -- he has a self-defeating personality. She's basically calling him a loser in the most brutal way possible. This speech actually drives Kumagawa to ''tears''.}}
* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|It takes him 140 chapters, but Medaka finally realizes her feelings for Zenkichi after he defeats her in the new student council election.}}
* [[Right Makes Might]]: Subverted.
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* [[Shonen]]: The series becomes a more typical shonen fighting manga after the [[Genre Shift]].
* [[Shout Out]]: Maybe, when Tsugiha-- sorry, '''The Magical ? Wonder Tsugiha''' -- renames the final scavanger hunt challenger "Koyabashi" after [[Star Trek (Film)|reprogramming her challenge]] and [[The Usual Suspects|taking over "Kobayashi's" narrative]].
** More blatantly, Anshin'in references ''21'' famous Shonen Jump series in the span of one page (chapter 116) when she {{spoiler|tries to convince Zenkichi to join her side}}. (Following in Misogi's footsteps?) <ref>If you're curious...:''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]], Cobra, [[City Hunter]], [[Fist of the North Star]], [[Slam Dunk]], [[The Prince of Tennis]], [[Captain Tsubasa]], Sexy Commando Gaiden, [[Video Girl Ai (Manga)|Video Girl Ai]], [[Hikaru no Go]], [[Rokudenashi Blues]], Sakigake Otokojuku, [[Yu-Gi-Oh (Anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]], [[Dai no Daibouken]], [[Ultimate Muscle]], [[Rurouni Kenshin]], [[Jo
** It may just be a reference the Translator, Editor, or Scanlator popped in, but on page 12 & 13 of chapter 36, Zenkichi asks for some encouraging words, so Medaka says "GO GET HIM TIGER!", something a certain Mary Jane character used to say to Peter Parker. Whether or not this is an actual example though, I am not too sure.
* [[Slasher Smile]]: Several characters get these, including Medaka.
* [[So Bad
* [[Spanner in The Works]]: Zenkichi defeating and befriending {{spoiler|Munekata}} after taking over for Medaka. The leader of the Flask Plan had intended for Medaka to be the one doing the befriending.
* [[Stepford Smiler]]: Kumagawa. It's so creepy that [[Not So Stoic|his rare expression of unbridled rage and hate]] is actually less disturbing. Also [[Walking Wasteland|Emukae]]. {{spoiler|Kumagawa ditches the smile after getting his original power back.}}
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* [[Walking Wasteland]]: Mukae Emukae, who can rot anything with her Minus power "Raffrafflesia" (named after the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia corpse-flower]). {{spoiler|She has since gained a greater control of her power, being able to adjust their effects by manipulating plant growth - and since being hit with Kumagawa's All-Fiction, can turn said powers on and off at will.}}
* [[Wall Crawl]]: Koga Itami, Miyakonojou Oudo, Medaka Kurokami, and Zenkichi Hitoyoshi, although it severely winded the latter.
* [[Well
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Kikaijima calls out Medaka on her actions {{spoiler|towards Zenkichi}} in chapters 115-117, and tells Medaka that she should apologize. Medaka's response makes Kikaijima realize that Medaka doesn't understand other peoples' hearts.
** The battle of the bands is called [[Dude, Not Funny|"School Shooting"]]. ''Seriously?''
* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Averted. When Munakata starts to lose the fight, he draws pistols instead.
* [[Wingding Eyes]]: Loup the android has crosses in her eyes and mysterious musician Furousan (Frozen?) Zomeki has a musical note in each of hers.
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