History Manga / TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK

*** Kaidou's appearance and the set-up of the Jet Black Wing is an invoked ClicheStorm straight from the Battle Shounen genre.

* ClicheStorm: InUniverse, Saiki discusses the fact that PK Academy's baseball team is a hodgepodge of SportsStory cliches -- from characters[[note]]an energetic captain, an aloof prodigy pitcher, an ace who's currently absent, etc.[[/note]] to plot details[[note]]on the school team chopping block, up against a powerhouse during the first game, etc.[[/note]]. Nendou and Kuboyasu joining the team derail the cliche plot, forcing Saiki to step in. Saiki also disclaims that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, since even the most cliche baseball drama contains plenty of inspiration and character growth.

* ComicBookTime: Bizarrely, ''justified''. No matter how long the series runs, Saiki and his friends are still going to be 2nd year high-schoolers. The reason? He uses his time reversal ability restore Earth's life "a year behind the present" to prevent a catastrophic volcanic eruption that can destroy the entirety of Japan and keeps repeating the process every year until his powers are strong enough to fully neutralize the disaster. Then, he brainwashes the populace into thinking it is still the same year. As a result, even though memories of many of those past events and seasons remain, the time spent doesn't change ''at all''.

** Hell, the comparison between Saiki himself and Kaidou is a deconstruction of {{Chuunibyou}} tendencies; Saiki's amazing powers, how he uses them for everyday life, his aloofness, and even his internal monologues about why he can't use them all the time sound remarkably like chuuni daydreaming on paper-- everything Kaidou already thinks he does. It's even telling that his closest aquaintences are part of the "losers" bracket. The key difference is that Saiki keeps his mouth shut so nobody figures out while Kaidou blurts his delusions out for everyone to hear and shrinks when he has to back them up.

* RealityWarper: It's revealed that many of the outlandish anime and manga tropes that happen in this setting are actually the result of Saiki's powers warping the world around him to suit what were originally suppose to be mundane acts of power. When he was younger, he tried using MindManipulation to make it so that his bright pink hair wouldn't attract the attention, this having the unintended effect of making [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair bright, unrealistic hair color]] commonplace. When he used his powers to heal another kid's skimmed knee, this resulted in ToonPhysics that allow people to shrug off things that would normally debilitate them (like a baseball to the face). Other effects include [[TalkingIsAFreeAction people thinking at an unrealistically fast pace]], easy ClothingDamage while [[SceneryCensor the crotch remains censored]], MusclesAreMeaningless and knocking someone out with a neck-chop.

* ThemeTuneCameo: During the school festival, Toritsuka and his band play the anime's first opening theme "Seishun wa Zankoku ja nai".

* BitingTheHandHumor: At the time that ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'', ''Pajama na Kanojo'' and ''Koisome Momiji'' were all being serialized, Saiki monologues about as lately everything was about love and that romance wasn't an interesting matter, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial but clarifies he's not talking about]] ''Magazine/ShonenJump''. ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Twice]]''.

-->'''Saiki:''' I guess it really is the thought that counts.

[[caption-width-right:350:Does [[OnlySaneMan common sense]] also count as a {{psychic power|s}}?[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom: [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Kusuo Saiki]], [[CloudCuckooLander Kaidou]], [[LoveableSexManiac Toritsuka]], [[InLoveWithLove Yumehara]], [[BigEater Mera]], [[ManChild Kuniharu Saiki]], [[ThePollyanna Kurumi Saiki]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Teruhashi]], [[LovableJock Hairo]], and [[DumbIsGood Nendou]]. Not pictured: [[HairTriggerTemper Kuboyasu]], [[{{Fanboy}} Yuuta]], and [[CombatSadomasochist Kusuke Saiki]][[/note]]]]

* MagicPants: Saiki uses his powers to {{invoke|dTrope}} this in-universe. Because it's much better for this trope to happen than to have the [[RealityEnsues fabric between the legs tear during an action sequence]], right?

* CreatorCameo : In the last segment of the 20th episode of the disastrous life of Saiki K which is the adaptation of the 100th chapter, Shuuichi Asou the creator of the manga voiced his author avatar god persona telling Saiki that it’s the 100th segment and is airing on its 100th week only for Saiki to correct him stating that it’s the 20th week
** He does it again in the season 2 finale which is the adaptation of chapter 275 ,he tells Saiki that it’s the season finale but that it will be renewed for an anime conclusion special and later continue as a Netflix series
** He again does it for the third time in the live aciton movie adaptation as a student of the PK academy

-->'''Kuboyasu''': ''if you’re going to keep being stubborn. THEN WE’LL HAVE TO BE STUBBORN ABOUT MAKING YOU EAT!!''

* BookEnds :The quote from the beginning (the pilot) to the end that is the epilogue
-->'''Saiki''':"My name is Saiki Kusou and I am an Esper.

* CreatorCameo : In the last segment of the 20th episode of the disastrous life of Saiki K which is the adaptation of the 100th chapter ,Shuuichi Asou the creator of the manga voiced his author avatar god persona telling Saiki that it’s the 100th segment and is airing on its 100th week only for saiki to correct him stating that it’s the 20th week

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[[caption-width-right:319:Does [[OnlySaneMan common sense]] also count as a {{psychic power|s}}?[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom: [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Kusuo Saiki]], [[CloudCuckooLander Kaidou]], [[LoveableSexManiac Toritsuka]], [[InLoveWithLove Yumehara]], [[BigEater Mera]], [[ManChild Kuniharu Saiki]], [[ThePollyanna Kurumi Saiki]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Teruhashi]], [[LovableJock Hairo]], and [[DumbIsGood Nendou]]. Not pictured: [[HairTriggerTemper Kuboyasu]], [[{{Fanboy}} Yuuta]], and [[CombatSadomasochist Kusuke Saiki]][[/note]]]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Some characters have unrealistic hair colors, including Saiki, who was born with pink hair. [[PlayingWithATrope It turns out that]] he brainwashed the entire world into thinking that "[[InvokedTrope pink is not an unnatural hair color]]" in an attempt to [[ExploitedTrope not stand out]] from his naturally black haired peers. The result? Every color of the rainbow is now considered a "natural" hair color in this world.

* BettyAndVeronica: In a parody of this trope, Teruhashi and Mikoto would be this respectively to Saiki's Archie, except that Saiki is not interested in being an Archie AT ALL. Teruhashi is the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman that plays up a sweet and supposedly relatable side that makes people fawn over her, while the haughty Mikoto is a more traditional MsFanservice with her revealing getup and voluptuous figure, while also sporting actual psychic powers she uses for her own ends. That said, in terms of social status the two invert this as Teruhashi is wealthy while Mikoto is from an average family. This is parodied in the [[https://youtu.be/ZHDhzmoHTsA?t=1m29s second credits music video from season 2]] where Teruhashi and Aiura try to flirt with Saiki in their different ways, Aiura appealing to her psychic powers and Teruhashi to her innocence. Saiki doesn't care.

* ShipTease: Despite Saiki having very little interest in Teruhashi, the story deliberately tries to make her the main heroine of his life. Even considering all that, there are a few moments where there is genuine teasing of the ship; for example, the very last thought Saiki hears before [[spoiler:returning to his daily grind after getting his powers back]] in the final epilogue chapter is hearing Teruhashi regret her inability to make Saiki charmed by her.

** The physical education teacher has the students play dodgeball because [[Manga/KurokoNoBasuke basketball]], [[Manga/{{Kurogane2011}} kendo]] and [[Manga/{{Haikyuu}} volleyball]] are already being played ''somewhere''.

* AbandonedPetInABox: Discussed as a cliche method of humanizing JapaneseDelinquent-type characters when the truth about Kuboyasu's past comes to light.

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[[caption-width-right:320:Does [[OnlySaneMan common sense]] also count as a {{psychic power|s}}?[[note]]Clockwise from the bottom: [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Kusuo Saiki]], [[CloudCuckooLander Kaidou]], [[LoveableSexManiac Toritsuka]], [[InLoveWithLove Yumehara]], [[BigEater Mera]], [[ManChild Kuniharu Saiki]], [[ThePollyanna Kurumi Saiki]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing Teruhashi]], [[LovableJock Hairo]], and [[DumbIsGood Nendou]]. Not pictured: [[HairTriggerTemper Kuboyasu]], [[{{Fanboy}} Yuuta]], and [[CombatSadomasochist Kusuke Saiki]][[/note]]]]

The series concluded in 2018, followed by a short series of {{Yonkoma}} and then two final chapters published in Jump Giga. It has a couple of anime adaptations: a 2013 web-anime developed for the Jump LIVE app, and a TV anime for the Summer2016Anime season, this time produced by Creator/JCStaff and directed by Hiroaki Sakurai. A second season of the anime premiered on January 17, 2018. The last anime adaptation is currently licensed by Creator/FUNimation in the U.S. and is divided in four minutes "shorts" that are aired daily during the weekdays, and collected in twenty minutes "episodes" every Sunday. This anime wrapped up with a special covering the last few chapters of the manga, released in 2019.

A Live Action movie adaptation was released in October 2017, starring Kento Yamazaki as Kusuo Saiki.

* MediumAwareness: Saiki can read the captions with expository text.

** Chiyo is often aware of being in a manga/anime. This isn't unusual for a comedy series, but no other character comments on it.

It sounds like [[GodModeSue he is perfect and has everything]], right? [[BlessedWithSuck Wrong!]]. He can't [[PowerIncontinence shut off his powers]], therefore his life is void of [[SpiderSense surprises]], [[NoChallengeEqualsNoSatisfaction challenges]], or [[ComicallyInvincibleHero sense of accomplishment]]. He also needs to avoid [[FriendlessBackground social]] [[CelibateHero interaction]], both because he wants to keep his powers secret and because he thinks of himself [[EvolutionaryLevels as too different]] to relate to normal people.

** There is a two-page Jump special where Saiki and his dad visit Soma (from ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma'') at the Yukihara restaurant for a bite to eat. Unfortunately, Saiki's psychic powers grant him the ability to view every mental "[[OrgasmicallyDelicious foodgasm]]" at the restaurant. He promptly loses his appetite after seeing [[FanDisservice what his father's looks like]].

* BettyAndVeronica: In a parody of this trope, Teruhashi and Mikoto would be this respectively to Saiki's Archie, except that Saiki is not interested in being an Archie AT ALL. Teruhashi is the WorldsMostBeautifulWoman that plays up a sweet and supposedly relatable side that makes people fawn over her, while the haughty Mikoto is a more traditional MsFanservice with her revealing get up and figure, while also sporting actual psychic powers she uses for her own ends. That said, in terms of social status the two invert this as Teruhashi is wealthy while Mikoto is from an average family. This is parodied in the [[https://youtu.be/ZHDhzmoHTsA?t=1m29s second credits music video from season 2]] where Teruhashi and Aiura try to flirt with Saiki in their different ways, Aiura appealing to her psychic powers and Teruhashi to her innocence. Saiki doesn't care.

* ChristmasEpisode: Multiple, due to ComicBookTime, and usually followed by [[NewYearHasCome a New Years' Episode]]. One focuses on Nendou spending Christmas with Saiki's family, another follows Saiki dressing up as Santa for the neighborhood, and yet another has the cast visiting him at Christmas.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Kokomi Teruhashi and Aiura Mikoto fill these roles respectively.