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''[[The Legend of the Overfiend]]'' (in the original Japanese ''Chōjin Densetsu Urotsukidōji'', sometimes seen as ''Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend'' in English, and often simply called ''Urotsukidōji'') is a series of horror [[hentai]] manga and anime, created by [[Toshio Maeda]]. It is the [[Trope Codifier]] of the [[Naughty Tentacles]] genre, and for quite a while was [[Animation Age Ghetto|an unfortunately popular candidate for being unwittingly placed]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|in or around the kids section of DVD stores and libraries.]]
'''There are six installments of the [[Anime]] version, all of them [[OVA]]s:'''
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Niki's father is an abusive drunk who beats him, and his mother actively encourages it. This is partially subverted in the manga, where Niki's mother is kind to him.
* [[Adaptational Heroism]]: Amano Jaku's manga counterpart is a sociopathic and hedonistic asshole who only cares about himself, and is even proud of it; he practically never does anything heroic at all, unless it benefits him. His anime counterpart, however, is much more heroic and less sociopathic, though in the sequels he still has his jerkass moments.
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** Kuroko is a lot less obnoxious and more friendly in the anime than his manga counterpart, though he's still a pervert.▼
** Suikakujyu was a thuggish and aggresive demon in the manga who only wanted revenge on Amano for tearing his arm off. In the anime, however, Suikakujyu was rewritten
▲**Kuroko is a lot less obnoxious and more friendly in the anime than his manga counterpart, though he's still a pervert.
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▲**Suikakujyu was a thuggish and aggresive demon in the manga who only wanted revenge on Amano for tearing his arm off. In the anime, however, Suikakujyu was rewritten as an anti-villain/well-intentioned extremist who wanted to protect the demon realm by any means necessary. He was also redesigned to the point where he was a completely new character altogether.
▲**Niki, while he isn't a hero in either the manga or anime, was altered into a more sympathetic and tragic character than his manga counterpart.
* [[After the End]]: The series setting after the second episode.
* [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles]]: Due to frequently being placed in children's sections by mistake, there's a good chance this is the series that caused the trope.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Amano Jyaku.
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Suikakajyu.
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: The manga, while having its fair share of violence and death, was very light on the gore. The anime, however, ramps it [[Up to Eleven]] by adding [[Gorn]] that wasn't originally present.
* [[Body Horror]]
* [[Caught with Your Pants Down]]: Nagumo is caught by the school jock Ozaki masturbating in the ball pit
* [[Coitus Uninterruptus]]: In ''Legend of the Demon Womb'', Amano Jyaku holds a long conversation while having sex with Mimi. In a lava pool.
* [[Crapsack World]]: It was a pretty harsh world to live in even before [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. The rampaging demons and bloodthirsty cults that came after didn't help things.
* [[Cut Short]]: ''Urotsukidouji: New Saga'' was a retelling of the original ''Legend of the Overfiend'', but the project was cut short three episodes in, leaving a ton of unresolved plot points and inconsistent
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Every installment compared to the one before
** In general, the anime is a lot darker and more violent than the manga.
* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: Anyone who tastes the Chojin's blood (or [[Squick|other bodily fluids]]) gets a portion of
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Niki. He resorts to killing his abusive parents, and replacing his penis with a demon phallus (with some nasty DIY surgery), all because the demons promise him the power to steal Akemi from Nagumo.
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: Ozaki. Although he's introduced as the jock that the other protagonist, Amamo, has his eyes on, he bites it after his first fight. The nerdy kid that was in the beginning? He's the actual protagonist. Well, asides from Amamo.
* [[Deus Angst Machina]]: Niki, again. He's a friendless loser, rejected by his love interest, women call him a dickless wonder, and his father beats him while his mother cheers his father on.
* {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending]]: At the end of ''Legend of the Overfiend'', the Choujin pretty much destroys the three realms.}}
* [[Earth Is Young]]:
* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: Happens at the end of ''Legend of the Overfiend'', and the Overfiend keeps threatening to bring about an even more thorough end to the
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Münchhausen does this ''a lot'' in ''Legend of the Demon Womb'', to the point of [[Narm]].
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: [[Evil Overlord|Caesar]] and the [[Exclusively Evil|Makemonos]] in ''Return''. [[Crapsack World|The other factions are not much better.]]
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Caesar displays this toward the Makemono, herding them into concentration camps and generally regarding them as depraved beasts (not without justification, in many a case).
* [[Fan Disservice]]:
* [[Faux Symbolism]]: Many a film critic has tried explaining this one in terms of Freudian symbolism, Japanese sociological issues, and the legacy of the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings. Sooner or later, they all give up.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: This series (and pretty much the entire "naughty tentacles" hentai genre) was conceived predominantly to get around the strict ban in Japan on depictions of genitalia. [[Blatant Lies|Those are totally tentacles and not penises...]]
* [[God Is Evil]]: Once the fully awakened Nagumo begins destroying cities and shattering the dimensional barriers, Amano and his people realize that maybe their prophecies of the Chojin delivering Paradise were mistaken.
* [[Gorn]]: Apparently, a woman being [[Naughty Tentacles|raped]] so hard she explodes in a shower of blood and intestines is erotic to some people.
* [[Grey and Gray Morality]]: Few of the characters are purely black or white
* [[The Grunting Orgasm]]: Every time the Chojin
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Megumi Amano. Not literally a hooker, but otherwise follows the trope to the T.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Niki in ''Legend of the Overfiend'', whose unrequited love for Akemi drives him to {{spoiler|chop off his own dick and turn into a rampaging monster}}.
* [[Hotter and Sexier]]: Inverted with the movie version of the anime, where most sex scenes were watered-down to
* [[In the Blood]]: In the most literal sense. A transfusion of Nagumo's blood (or [[Squick|sperm]]) will transform the recipient into a monster.
* [[Kaiju]]: The giant demon-thing Nagumo turns into to destroy the world, the giant sea demon the Makai prince summons to try to fight him, and several other giant monsters conjured up by different factions against one another.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Niki's parents beat and humiliate him shortly before they die. Münchhausen's teacher and principal beat and humiliate him right before they die. Ozaki publicly humiliates Nagumo right before he dies. Let's just say dogs are very well-protected in the Urotsukidouji universe.
* [[Love Triangle]]: Akemi, Nagumo and Niki.
* [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]: Niki tries to literally do this to Nagumo.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]
* [[Negative Continuity]]: By the end of Legend of the Overfiend, the three realms have
* [[Nuke'Em]]: Münchhausen plans to destroy the Chojin by launching a whole fleet of ICBM's against Osaka. Amano stops them, not so much to save the Chojin as
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: Nagumo
* [[Out with a Bang]]: Tons of times. Literally with a ''bang''. Those poor women...
** [[Your Head Asplode]]
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* [[Reality Ensues]]: {{Spoiler|A morally questionable [[Humanoid Abomination]] [[Physical God]] said to be capable of uniting all three worlds yet [[Well Intentioned Extremist|creates tons of destruction, total chaos,]] and does [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|jack-shit whenever hell breaks loose until he's "born"?]] [[Downer Ending|Yeah, it's no surprise he'd end up being the bad guy and tried to destroy the worlds by the end]].}}
* [[Red Herring]]: Popular school jock Ozaki is presented as the obvious incarnation of the Chojin, though [[Genre Savvy]] viewers will probably see through it the moment they find out there's a shy, lovesick nerd in the running too. A more effective red herring is that {{spoiler|Nagumo isn't the Chojin either, he's the Chojin's father}}.
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Legend of the Overfiend. Think about it. Amano and the Makai spend the whole time trying to find the Chojin and sparring with each other; but in the end Nagumo just turns into the destructor when he has sex and destroys the world. Nothing that either Amano or the Makai did really had any effect on anything; the world would still be destroyed if they had done nothing. (Assuming that despite the events of saga not occurring Nagumo did eventually have sex at some point in his life...)▼
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: There's something utterly ridiculous about being raped by a demon and exploding.
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* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Amano's expecting the Chojin's human incarnation to be a powerful, charismatic figure, since his culture basically worships the Chojin. Ironically, his sister Megumi had the answer right all along (at least, she kinda did).
* [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]]/[[Those Wacky Nazis]]:
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Nagumo
* [[The Tokyo Fireball]]: Happens all the time.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The Chojin's justification for destroying the three worlds.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Suikakajyu. He resorts to extreme lengths to prevent the Chojin being born (even causing the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923). By the end of the movie, we find out his actions were justified.
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=== Examples
* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Even moreso than the original OVA if you can believe it.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Genyo and her daughter, Ozaki's lover, Yuri, Naomi, etc. One can even argue for some the nameless women.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Used by Dorkakuryu.
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* [[Panty Shot]]: There are several scenes where viewers can see up a woman's skirt. The first episode has a doctor's female assistant masturbate to herself by rubbing her panties underneath her purple miniskirt, and there is a scene Nagumo films another student's panties up her school uniform.
** In her office, when Ozaki becomes the Chojin {{spoiler|due to tasting Nagumo's blood}}, Genyo apparently becomes sexually aroused and starts to masturbate
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Ozaki's lover in the first two episodes wore a pink suit complete with a pink skirt. Genyo, for some reason, also wears a pink suit, albeit in a darker shade.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Unlike most cases of [[Improbable Species Compatibility]] and monster sex scenes in general, {{spoiler|the woman who Ozaki rapes in his demon form has her vagina ''clearly and painfully bleeding'' due to how large his demonic penis is, and possibly from how vigorously he's been violating her sexual organs during the whole event. The scene ends with the woman being accidentally(?) killed and torn in half because of how enormously strong the demon who's raping her is, as said demon has little to no control over their sex-drive or orgasm like a normal human would.}}
** The whole build up to the scene in general. {{Spoiler|The woman was minding her own business, trying to call for help when she accidentally ran over Ozaki, but then a huge monster twice her size comes and attacks her. Does anyone come to her aid? Nope, nobody else is around and probably wouldn't even be able to help (the creature can just kill them), Amano and Kuroko are busy finding the Chojin, and the villains perhaps wouldn't give a damn. She's all alone, completely helpless to save herself and at the mercy to being sexually assaulted. The fact she's crying, begging, and protesting throughout the whole thing is exactly what a rape victim would do and makes it clear that she's ''not'' enjoying this, unlike in most hentai anime where rape victims
** When seeing {{spoiler|Nagumo, the real Ultra God}} on a video tape, Kuroko tries to tell Amano
** When Nagumo is caught spying on a bunch of girls and trying to take a video up their miniskirts, he gets caught by a bunch of punks, dragged into their hideout and gets the tar beaten out of him for being a pervert.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Several females, even the background ones, have very attractive legs, and are the focus of some scenes. The fact they're mostly seen naked or wearing skirts probably helps.
* [[Tertiary Sexual Characteristics]]/[[Cute Monster Girl]]: All female demons have breasts and feminine figures similar to human females
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