History Manga / KatteniKaizo

%%* KansaiRegionalAccent: Jun gets teased for having this.

* UnbuiltTrope: The premise sounds an awful lot like [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya a certain popular series]], but not only was it made before it, but [[spoiler: the main character is really just an insane whackjob and none of the weirdness going on is actually happening.]]

%%* ADateWithRosiePalms: Depicted pretty often. The ending song gives Chitan superpowers from doing this.

%%* HotTeacher: Yoshiko-sensei, despite being a ChristmasCake.

%%* ChristmasCake: Yoshiko-sensei. Kaizo likes to call attention to it, much to her distress.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Satan, though he might just be very tanned.
* ArtEvolution: Creator/KojiKumeta's style changed in the interim between this and ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''.
** The anime goes through it too, at the same sort of pace as the manga did.
* AuthorAvatar: His first appearance, known as "The Neighbourhood Mangaka Who Doesn't Sell". Apparently likes to [[NippleAndDimed draw nipples on women from old manga]] and [[DrivenToSuicide attempt suicide when]] [[MythologyGag things don't go his way]].
* BeachEpisode: With [[ClothingDamage disappearing]] swimsuits!

* BreakingTheFourthWall: A few times, though not nearly as much as [[Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei its successor]].

* ButtMonkey: Chitan Tsubouchi all the way.

* CampGay: Mario "Fashionable" Biyoshino

* ChristmasCake: Yoshiko-sensei. Kaizo likes to call attention to it, much to her distress.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Kaizo lives, breathes and sweats this trope.
** TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[OnceAnEpisode Every time.]]

* CuteLittleFangs: Jun has one.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Depicted pretty often. The ending song gives Chitan superpowers from doing this.

* DissonantSerenity: Nothing has the power to faze Suzu Saien.

* {{Gonk}}: Every single VillainOfTheWeek.
* HotTeacher: Yoshiko-sensei, despite being a ChristmasCake.
* HomoeroticSubtext: Played up between Kaizo and Satan.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Jun gets teased for having this.

* LargeHam: Kaizo all the way. Many of his fellow Cram School students are also this.
* [[MagicSkirt Magic Skirt/Labcoat]]: Played with. During the end theme for the OVA, initially Umi and Suzu's hair follows the rule of gravity while their clothes don't. Then after a couple seconds, the clothes start being affected by gravity as well. Shots change before the [[PantyShot inevitable]] though. Kinda.

** Umi demonstrates a particularly violent one in episode 5.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny

* NerdGlasses: Chitan of course.
* NoIndoorVoice: The mysterious (naked) poets.
* NonUniformUniform: Kaizo's ever present purple stripy t-shirt.
* OnlySaneMan: Umi. [[spoiler:At least until it turns out that she's just as nuts as Kaizo]].

* PeekABangs: Kaizo, mostly.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Chitan and Satan.

* PunnyName: Kaizo's first name can be interpreted as 'cyborg'. His last name can mean 'victory' which befits a HotBlooded hero.

* ReferenceOverdosed

* SayItWithHearts: Apparently doing this at the office is sexual harassment.
* {{Seppuku}}: Chitan is forced to commit this in episode 4 as punishment for being too eccentric.

* ScarfOfAsskicking: Kaizo's imaginary badass cyborg action hero counterpart wears one.

* TeenIdol: Suzu and Jun (previously).

* [[spoiler:ThroughTheEyesOfMadness]]

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yamada-san and yakisoba bread.

* VoodooDoll: Thanks to all her grudges, [[spoiler:Umi]] owns a lot of these.
* [[WackyWaysideTribe Wacky Wayside Cram School Student]]: The genius pupils from Kaizo's old school. They show up to make funny stuff happen.

* ShoutOut: Chitan is thinking of [[Franchise/MetalGear Big Boss]] when discussing camouflage, only for both to find out that [[ItMakesSenseInContext camouflage is not for disguising]].

A {{Shonen}} {{Manga}} by Creator/KojiKumeta (of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' fame) that ran between 1998 and 2004 before being canceled for various reasons.

Came within an inch of having an anime adaption, but ended up being rejected. Fortunately, Creator/StudioShaft (where Kumeta's better-known manga was adapted) gave it a second lease of life as an {{OVA}} series.

->''[[AnimeThemeSong You can upgrade me however you like.]]''

* HotTeacher[=/=]HelloNurse: Yoshiko-sensei, despite being a ChristmasCake.

* UnCancelled: There was supposed to be an anime adaptation when the manga was still running, but then Shogakukan pulled the plug; now thanks to the kanzenban releases and Creator/StudioShaft, it's getting a second chance at life as an OVA.

* PoolEpisode: With [[ClothingDamage disappearing]] swimsuits!

* XMeetsY: Some sort of a GenderFlipped version of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' on drugs; alternatively, Haruhi is a GenderFlipped version of this on antidepressants.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: And most of them Creator/StudioShaft regulars.
** Creator/TakahiroSakurai: Kaizo Katsu
** Creator/EriKitamura: Umi Natori
** Creator/AkiToyosaki: Suzu Saien
** Creator/ChiwaSaito: Chitan Tsubouchi
** Creator/YuiHorie: Yamada-san
** Creator/ShinichiroMiki: Mario-sensei
** Creator/FumihikoTachiki: Narrator

* XMeetsY: Some sort of a GenderFlipped version of ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' on drugs; alternatively, Haruhi is a GenderFlipped version of this on antidepressants.

A {{Shonen}} {{Manga}} by KojiKumeta (of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' fame) that ran between 1998 and 2004 before being canceled for various reasons.

* ArtEvolution: KojiKumeta's style changed in the interim between this and ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''.

Came within an inch of having an anime adaption, but ended up being rejected. Fortunately, Creator/StudioShaft (where Kumeta's better-known manga was adapted) is also giving it a second lease of life as an {{OVA}} series.

* AuthorAvatar: His first appearance, known as 'The Neighbourhood Mangaka Who Doesn't Sell'. Apparently likes to [[NippleAndDimed draw nipples on women from old manga]] and [[DrivenToSuicide attempt suicide when]] [[MythologyGag things don't go his way]].

A {{Shonen}} {{Manga}} by KojiKumeta (of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' fame) that ran between 1998 and 2004 before being canceled for various reasons.

* ArtEvolution: KojiKumeta's style changed in the interim between this and ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei''.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: A few times, though not nearly as much as [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei its successor]].
* BrickJoke: One starts when a woman gets sealed behind a wall, it didn't pay off for '''seven years''' and when it did it was in a completely different [[SayonaraZetsubouSensei work]].

* UnlimitedWardrobe: Outside of school the characters are shown in various (and often detailed) casual outfits, something which Kumeta continued to do in ''SayonaraZetsuboSensei''.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Yamada-san and yakisoba bread.

** FumihikoTachiki: Narrator

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Though her character is only a minor one, Creator/StudioSHAFT stalwart RyokoShintani sings the end tune.

** ShinichiroMiki: Mario-sensei

** TakahiroSakurai: Kaizo Katsu

** ChiwaSaitou: Chitan Tsubouchi

** EriKitamura: Umi Natori

** AkiToyosaki: Suzu Saien

* AuthorAvatar: His first appearance, known as 'The Neighbourhood Mangaka Who Doesn't Sell'. Apparently likes to [[NippledAndDimed draw nipples on women from old manga]] and [[DrivenToSuicide attempt suicide when]] [[MythologyGag things don't go his way]].

* RefugeInAudacity[=/=]RefugeInVulgarity: Much of the humor comes from the whole thing going ''so far'' into the obscene.

Came within an inch of having an anime adaption, but ended up being rejected. Fortunately, StudioShaft (where Kumeta's better-known manga was adapted) is also giving it a second lease of life as an {{OVA}} series.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Though her character is only a minor one, StudioSHAFT stalwart RyokoShintani sings the end tune.

* NamesToKnowInAnime: And most of them StudioShaft regulars.

* UnCancelled: There was supposed to be an anime adaptation when the manga was still running, but then Shogakukan pulled the plug; now thanks to the kanzenban releases and StudioShaft, it's getting a second chance at life as an OVA.