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* [[Action Girl]]: Merry and Engi.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Merry. You get in her way? Prepared to be pummeled. You mess with her when she's enjoying her [[Trademark Favorite Food|doughnuts]]? Run. Hurt her friends? She will break the frikkin moon.

** {{spoiler|Also could be played with for John. When he's in [[Fun Size|Reality]] he takes the form of an adorable kitten with a cape. In the Dream World, he is very [[Badass]].}}

* [[Badass Longcoat]]: John Doe.

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Merry. The animators seem to be actively ''trying'' to put in as many shots of Merry's bellybutton as they can.

* [[Bathtub Bonding]]: Isana and Merry get to know each other in the bath when [[Accidental Pervert|Yumeji walks in]]. Isana notes this is the fifteenth time he's done that.

** Sometimes he's wrong though, except for...

** '''Black''': Is 100% nightmares and daydreams when a Dream Demon tries to take over a host.

** Mr. Ijima, Yumeji's teacher in the anime, could be seen as this as well. Sure he has an extreme liking of rice, but his speeches to his students are quite inspirational. {{spoiler|Of course, it's all a ruse, but...}}

* [[Compressed Hair]]: Minato

* [[Cry Cute]]: Merry, in her more vulnerable moments.

** {{spoiler|Isana in chapter 33.}}

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Merry. Chaser John Doe notes how much strength Merry can invest in [[Muscles Are Meaningless|those flimsy little arms.]]

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Merry {{spoiler|and John Doe}}.

* [[Dojikko]]: [[Victim of the Week]] Minato

* [[Demonic Possession]]: What some dream demons attempt with their vessels.

* [[Evil Eye]]: Yumeji's [[Aura Vision|dream-seeing ability]].

* [[Finger Gun]]: Chizuru does this a few times, saying "bang" as she does it.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Isana, Mei.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Isana's dad has a scar down one side of his face.

** All Dream Demons and people who are possessed by those demons have an unusual pattern in their eyes.

*** {{spoiler|The first time we see Yumeji doing his aura-reading trick in the manga, a shape similar to Merry's pupils appears in his eye.}}

*** It ''is'' deliberate. Word of God says that Merry <s> had a little lamb</s> <s> is a little lamb</s> was designed with a sheep in mind.

*** Also they change color from black to white in a Daydream.

** Is John Doe a [[Hellsing|badass vampire dressing in red]]?

* [[Hime Cut]]: [[Monster of the Week|Ichima]], [[Victim of the Week|Minato]], Yui and her mom too.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Isana's dad is one [http://www.mangareader.net/yumekui-merry/22/13 in-universe].

{{quote|So manly! *blush*}}

* [[I Don't Know Mortal Kombat]]: Merry loses 383 games of a Wii fighting game to Yumeji.

* [[Idiot Hair]]: Yumeji's most recognizable physical trait. Merry remembers him almost solely by seeing it again -- she refers to it as an "antenna".

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Engi's hair is shaped like wings.

** It's also [[Prehensile Hair]] since Engi can move them.

** {{spoiler|The [[New Transfer Student]] in volume 5 has his hair combed back where it spikes into [[Anime Hair]].}}

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: John Doe has something that the author said was a cross between a saw and a guillotine. {{spoiler|Yumeji, using his Lucid Gadget, creates a smaller version to use against Chain Noir.}}

* [[Large Ham]]: Chaser John Doe

** {{spoiler|Hercules seems to be one as well. ''It's SHOW TIME!''}}

*** [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/yumekui_merry/v04/c020/3.html This is her family looking forward to her cooking].

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Heracles is described as the guiding light (the kanji of his name make up the word for lighthouse), drawing other Dream Demons to Reality. Because of that, the whole balance between the worlds has been thrown out of whack. {{spoiler|And then there's [[Complete Monster|his personality]]...}}

** Yui Konagi, {{spoiler|Engi's vessel.}} When Yumeji does a diving save for a doll she drops, he saves the doll, but catches a glimpse. The audience also gets a peek in the manga..

** {{spoiler|[[Playing with a Trope|Played]] in the manga by villain Maze Landsborough. At one point he winds up on the floor between Merry's feet, looking up; we see stripes reflected in his one eye, but not from her stockings. Yoshitake Ushiki's inventiveness and subtlety - establishing what kind of panties the heroine wears WITHOUT a single [[Panty Shot]] - is to be admired.}}

* [[Meganekko]]: Mei with her [[Nerd Glasses]].

* [[Meido]]: Merry has to dress the part when she works for Isana's dad. {{spoiler|Later Yui starts working there part-time as well.}}

* [[Monster Clown]]: Maze Landsborough, the one-eyed imp-like Dream Demon could be seen as this. His Mooks, however, are this without a doubt.

* [[Most Writers Are Writers]]: Yumeji, and the rest of the Literature Club, by extension.

** {{spoiler|Also Taka's story about his little sister where he talks about how she was sickly when she was little and kept being bounced from hospital to hospital until she could no longer smile. At least until Taka started with those ridiculous poems of his, sparking his dream of wanting to make everyone he meets laugh through his poems. He then pauses before saying that she's completely healthy now and even working part-time at a burger joint.}}

*** {{spoiler|And you get another one from Chapter 36, when it is revealed that Takateru is Hercule's host, and his little sister being healthier is due to Hercules putting a dream demon in her, to use her as an hostage on Takateru}}

* [[Noble Demon]]: John Doe and his cats.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Merry can't get by without it. It might be a covert [[Shout-Out]] to [[Touhou]], since the author also writes Touhou doujinshi.

** Minato the [[Victim of the Week]].

** Leon as well.

* [[POV Boy, Poster Girl]]: Yumeji is the main protagonist and a decent fighter in his own right, but without Merry, there would be no plot.

* [[Prehensile Hair]]: Engi's hair is [[Improbable Hairstyle|styled as wings]] [[Winged Humanoid|which she can move]].

* [[Redheaded Hero|Red Headed Heroine]]: Merry. Well more of a Burgundy. Yumeji's a straight example.

* [[Rocket Punch]]: Since he has [[Raymanian Limbs]], Chris Evergreen does this. {{spoiler|Yumeji is also able to do it later.}}

* [[Running Gag]]: Two so far. Yumeji walking into the bath...and someone's already there, usually it's Isana. She notes that he's done this fourteen times before the two that we see in story. Later, Merry walks in on HIM. Also Yui telling people to depend on her as an older sister, and then being told she's younger than they are.

* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: Poor, poor Delga.

* {{spoiler|[[Self-Sacrifice Scheme]]}}: {{spoiler|Leon's plan on defeating Treesea}}

* [[Show Within a Show]]: ''Full Hell Boarder Glitchou'', a [[Tokusatsu]] series that Yumeji is a fan of.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Do we go with Engi or its translation "Play"? Most say Engi.

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Arguably Merry, but {{spoiler|Chain Noir}}'s costume fits this to a T.

** Definitely John's cat girls.

* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: Yui: ''"I am not going to carve your name into a voodoo doll or anything"''.

** Engi Threepiece is this to Yui.

** {{spoiler|Treesea and Mr Ijima.}}

** Chris Evergreen is existing as a Symbiote to Mei, but he's about to take the [[Demonic Possession|next step]] when Yumeji and Merry intervene.

** This actually the most productive way for Dream Demons and humans to interact. If a Dream Demon tries to take over full time, the host will wake up, possibly at the worst possible moment.

* [[The Nicknamer]]: Merry gives nicknames to some of the characters.

** She calls Engi Threepiece "Eggplant Lady".

** She calls Mistilteinn Treesea "Wood Lady"

* [[There's No Place Like Home]]: Merry's main motivation. Curiously (it may be a plot point), Merry doesn't have enough of her memory intact to understand ''why'' she wants to go back -- she only knows ''that'' she wants to go back.

* [[Too Much Information]]: Fear not, Yumeji, Yui totally does ''not'' make voodoo dolls of people.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Merry loves donuts.

** Yumeji likes tomatoes. This is because Tomato is a palindrome and Yumeji thinks that has a manly feel to it.

* [[Unwanted Harem]]: Arguably. Isana's feelings towards Yumeji are as plain as day, and both Merry and Yui have given some hints of having feelings towards him as well, Merry more so.

* [[Waif Fu]]: Merry.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Engi. Subverted since her [[Hair Wings|wings]] are made up of [[Prehensile Hair|her hair, but she can move them]].

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Engi and Treesea.

 

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