The Devil on G-String: Difference between revisions

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*** Subverted in that she is aware of her [[Yakuza|family's business]] and her father will throw both her and her mother away if Kanon were to lose her fame.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Yuki to Haru, though despite initial appearances she actually isn't older. {{spoiler|Also serves as one for Mizuha.}}

* [[Colour Coded for Your Convenience]]: You can change the color of the text for each of the main characters on the config menu.

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: You can change the color of the text for each of the main characters on the config menu.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Director Shiratori, aka Mizuha's father.

** Also, Director Someya, CEO of the Sannou Corporation.

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* [[Fake Out Make Out]]: {{spoiler|A more extreme version happens when Maou unleashes hell upon the city. Usami and Kyousuke seek shelter from the mobs by running into a department store and are discovered quickly enough. Rather than pretending to make out, he pretends to be about to ''rape'' her.}}

* [[Fan Translation]]: The TLWiki translation group released a full English patch on December 25 2010.

* [[Four Temperament Ensemble]]: The girls are a picture-perfect example: Tsubaki is phlegmatic, Kanon is sanguine, Mizuha is melancholic, and Haru is choleric.

* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: The girls are a picture-perfect example: Tsubaki is phlegmatic, Kanon is sanguine, Mizuha is melancholic, and Haru is choleric.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Maou gets one, which is {{spoiler|actually the same thing as Kyousuke's backstory, based around them feeling that their father was in the right for killing Usami's father and several of his associates. His grudge against Gonzou stems from his harassment of her as a debt collector.}} However, it's acknowledged that by this point he's crossed the series ''internal'' [[Moral Event Horizon]].

* [[Friend to All Children]]: According to the Devil, children are not familiar with impure motives and thus are easily manipulated. He recruits children to commit crimes regularly.

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* [[I Will Protect Her]]: {{spoiler|The whole point of Kyosuke's confession scene during Haru's epilogue.}}

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: {{spoiler|Subverted. Tsubaki is definitely set up to seem like this, but in the end Maou does manage to halfway break her. Easily too. Only the help of her little brother saves her. Even then, she knows more about the world than she did before and as such really can't be the same as she was.}}

* [[In Series Nickname]]: Haru's self given 'Hero'.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Haru's self given 'Hero'.

* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Practically all of the background music used is a variant of famous classical music pieces, ranging from Bach to Wagner to Grieg.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Exploited by Maou -- his mafia consists of children because it's easier to manipulate them into doing evil because ''they haven't learned that it's wrong yet''.

* [[Last Name Basis]]: Justified on {{spoiler|Mizuha's route, where she claims to call him by his last name because she believes it was the cause for sending him to the hospital, along with her selfishness.}}

* [[Last-Name Basis]]: Justified on {{spoiler|Mizuha's route, where she claims to call him by his last name because she believes it was the cause for sending him to the hospital, along with her selfishness.}}

* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]: So bad you can practically hear it groan.

{{quote| '''Eiichi:''' "Reality my ass. Didn't you get the memo? The world we live in is a virtual reality. Everything is just a computer simulation."<br />

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* [[Likes Older Women]]: Eiichi. Apparently it's not so much an age thing as not like immature girls, meaning he still likes the more adult seeming Yuki and has a high opinion of Tsubaki.

* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]]: Leads to a subversion of [[Did Not Do the Research]]. The story claims that no woman figure skater has ever done a quad jump, but then notes after the epilogue that it happened in 2002 and that in ''their'' world this simply didn't happen.

* {{spoiler|[[Luke I Am Your Father|Luke I Am Your Brother]]: Maou turns out to be Kyousuke's long-lost brother, Kyouhei.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Luke, I Am Your Father|Luke I Am Your Brother]]: Maou turns out to be Kyousuke's long-lost brother, Kyouhei.}}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: The Devil manipulates children to work for him.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Haru's stagename, Haruna, contains the Kanji for spring. To quote from the final lines of the ending, {{spoiler|And then, when Haru told him the name of his daughter, the powdery snow suddenly came to a halt. Almost as if it were a harbinger for an early ''spring''...}}

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* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: {{spoiler|Kyousuke kills Maou to protect Haru's future and during the prosecution plays the role of a cold and evil manipulator to draw attention away from Haru. He even tries to push away Tsubaki, Kanon, and Mizuha when they visit him.}}

* [[No Campaign for The Wicked|No Route For The Wicked]]: {{spoiler|Despite being featured on the box art like the actual four heroines and showing some interest in Kyousuke, Yuki does not have a route. Not that she's truly bad or anything, but since she's been working for Maou and is obsessed with revenge, there's no route for her. Probably because there's nowhere for one to split off plausibly.}}

** This does not stop the game from having one CG of her laying in bed that lets you catch a peek at her breasts. {{spoiler|Too bad it ends with Kyousuke having to lethally shoot her only to have her get up and stab him to death before dying herself. [[What the Hell Hero|That's what you get]] for breaking Mizuha, Kyousuke.}}

** This does not stop the game from having one CG of her laying in bed that lets you catch a peek at her breasts. {{spoiler|Too bad it ends with Kyousuke having to lethally shoot her only to have her get up and stab him to death before dying herself. [[What the Hell, Hero?|That's what you get]] for breaking Mizuha, Kyousuke.}}

* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: {{spoiler|Kyosuke on the receiving end on two instances (end of Tsubaki's route and during his captivity time from Hashimoto during chapter 5) and on the giving end on another (against the same Hashimoto).}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Nearly everyone has a different side to them that only comes out in their chosen arena.

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* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: A few examples. First, {{spoiler|Maou claims to be a ''professional'' kidnapper}} and therefore doesn't mind {{spoiler|letting Hiroaki go once the ransom has been paid}} because {{spoiler|killing the boy}} would just involve the police, who would hunt him even more seriously than they had {{spoiler|for the kidnapping.}} The truth is actually slightly more complicated, but it's an invocation. A second example is Usami's analysis of Azai Gonzou. First she says that he's a wild beast, but one who restrains himself. She corrects this to restraining himself until there's something worth getting violent over.

* [[Pride]]: The Devil looks down on the heroes, and takes unnecessary risks during his plans just to test their abilities. Most of the time, [[Magnificent Bastard|he gets away with it.]]

* [[Rant Inducing Slight]]: In Kanon's route after a great deal of stress on her part due to her selfish and slightly unhinged mother {{spoiler|this trope is ultimately subverted when instead of going on a rant (which the story implies would have resulted in Ikuko killing herself) she admits that she still loves her mother despite her off kilter and self centered behavior. The net result is kind of the same, however, and results in Ikuko realizing what she's been doing ''but'' because she's family, Kanon still loves her. Reconciliation ensues.}}

* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]: In Kanon's route after a great deal of stress on her part due to her selfish and slightly unhinged mother {{spoiler|this trope is ultimately subverted when instead of going on a rant (which the story implies would have resulted in Ikuko killing herself) she admits that she still loves her mother despite her off kilter and self centered behavior. The net result is kind of the same, however, and results in Ikuko realizing what she's been doing ''but'' because she's family, Kanon still loves her. Reconciliation ensues.}}

* [[Rapunzel Hair]]: Haru's defining physical characteristic is the absurd length of her hair, described as reaching her knees. Even the bangs are long enough to cover almost her entire face. Everyone else has much more reasonable hair and she admits in passing that it takes her forever to keep it clean. It is outright stated that she grew her hair out so long because {{spoiler|Kyousuke told her that he liked girls with long hair when they were children, but neglected to mention how long. She didn't cut it because she wasn't sure how long he liked it.}}

* [[Reality Retcon]]: At the end of Kanon's route, the very last line that appears on the screen is a disclaimer on a black background, saying that the quad jump that {{spoiler|Kanon used to nearly win the Japan Championships}} had actually been done in 2002 by someone, unlike what the game had implied. It was also revealed that Kanon's revealing skating outfit would have gotten a penalty to her score, and that the depiction of figure skating was merely a projection of it into the world of G-Senjou no Maou.

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* [[The Reveal]]: The Devil {{spoiler|is Kyousuke's older brother.}}

* [[Revenge Before Reason]]: A major theme of the game. The story more or less flat out states people need to move on from the past, but the cast in general seems really bad at it. {{spoiler|Kyousuke is the only apparent aversion of someone who has grounds to have a heavy grudge, but doesn't risk self destruction for revenge. Maou, Usami and Yuki's desire for revenge drive them into actions that severely risk ruining their lives and what they care about, though in the end only Maou is destroyed by it. Kyousuke's father's need for revenge set the plot in motion as well, though he and his family were screwed either way.}}

* [[~~Schrodingers~~ Gun]]: {{spoiler|The identity of The Devil, if you ''don't'' pick Haru, is heavily implied to have been Kyosuke's alternate personality all along. Nothing else comes of him and none of his subsequent plots are played out, and in Kanon's route he remarks to have quit due to increased headaches and having "discovered love". However, as this is the implication throughout the entire story and none of the three earlier girls is the main heroine, the question is less 'Was it Kyousuke all along in those routes' and more 'Why did Maou give up in those routes?'}}

* [[Schrodinger's Gun]]: {{spoiler|The identity of The Devil, if you ''don't'' pick Haru, is heavily implied to have been Kyosuke's alternate personality all along. Nothing else comes of him and none of his subsequent plots are played out, and in Kanon's route he remarks to have quit due to increased headaches and having "discovered love". However, as this is the implication throughout the entire story and none of the three earlier girls is the main heroine, the question is less 'Was it Kyousuke all along in those routes' and more 'Why did Maou give up in those routes?'}}

** In Kanon's route though, it's implied {{spoiler|that Maou, who has always shown that the last remnants of his humanity is his affection for his brother in Haru's route, stops because of love for his brother. So, ironically and rather cruelly, it's only in the route where the player never figures out the truth of Maou's identity that Maou stops himself because he still loves Kyousuke. It's pretty heavily hinted that the events that occur in Haru's route are the ones that send him past the brink of no return where even his love for his brother couldn't bring him back.}}

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: {{spoiler|It's not that Kyousuke doesn't remember Haru or at least recognize the name. It's that he's trying very hard not to think about it. Which is probably part of the reason the idea of having her affection always makes him remark that the idea is disgusting.}}

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* [[Taking the Bullet]]: {{spoiler|Azai Gonzou meets his end when he makes himself a target to keep Kyousuke safe from Maou's sniping.}}

** [[Ambiguous Situation|Or was he?]] Its never stated outright what he was truly doing when this happened and its so out of character for him that {{spoiler|the uncertainty of the theory greatly torments Kyousuke. Good thing he had Haru to comfort him by then.}}

* [[Tall Dark and Bishoujo]]: Haru and Yuki.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Haru and Yuki.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: On two instances.

** “Not even some poorly translated porno game would have such a convenient plot development.”

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