History Manga / UndeadUnluck

* ArcHero: Most of the time, Andy and Fuuko are followed with one more companion in their quests - though this can change from arc to arc.
** Shen and Mui are the most frequent companions, being focus characters in the Spoil, Summer and Untruth arcs [[spoiler: though the latter happens when Shen has yet to attain his Negation.)]]
** In the middle of the Unrepair arc, Chikara joins forces with the Union as they attempt to save Fuuko from bleeding to death by the effects of Unrepair, with a significant portion of the arc exploring his past.
** The Autumn Arc has Anno Un as the centerpiece, being the TricksterMentor for both of the protagonists as [[spoiler: he searches to avert the dark future shown by his Negation.]]
** The Union takes the centerpiece in quite a few arcs, mostly in the conjoint engagement with the forces of Under, first seen in the Spoil arc and then flowing into the Unbelievable. After some more individual showdowns, their next big match happens during the Spring arc as they search to get the kill before the enemy, which also doubles as expansions in the backgrounds of Top and Isshin.
** Ragnarok has a few: first is the wielder of Unhealthy, Lucy, who helps Andy [[spoiler: track [=UMA=] Ghost in his journey to save Fuuko. Then, after that, Rip and Latla take that spot before then turning their backs on Andy and reveal their intention to collect his points to get to the next loop with the Ark.]]
** The first arcs of the [[spoiler: 101st loop have Nico serving as Fuuko's second in her journey to gather all the Negators and avert their tragedies, with Gina taking an important support paper.]]

** Chapter 94: [[spoiler: Just after a tender moment, where Andy reaffirms his wish to make Fuuko fall truly in love with him, she's stabbed from behind by a mysterious figure popping out of her shadow!]]

* ArcNumber: 101. Union can only handle 100 punishments before the 101st sets off Ragnarok, ''To You, From Me'' is an 101 volume book series that [[spoiler:chronicles pretty much the cast's entire journey]], and while the world is on its 100th loop, [[spoiler:the endgame one takes place in the 101st]].

* DeathOrGloryAttack: [[spoiler: Upon realizing that the new and improved Nico has attained a deep understanding of the anamoty of the soul in-between surviving Apocalypse's information attack and forcing her to reveal truths about it, Language decides to go for this by summoning a supernova in order to wipe all of the party facing her.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: When you put the Union of the 101st loop against the one from the 100th, it blows their previous interaction out of the water. While Fuuko is not as strong as Juiz, she still is by far one of the strongest members in-between centuries to perfect the usage of Unluck and her efforts to recruit every single Negator available - and that's without accounting for Andy, who is heavily implied to have gotten a significant power boost if he fending the Master Rules for years is any indication.]]

* TheDragon: Of the 10 Master Rules, the one who leads them in their crusade against the Union is the first among them, the [[spoiler:Soul]] rule. What is noteworthy, however, is that [[spoiler: rather than being a creation of the Sun, he was created by the ''Moon'', who is supposedly aligned with humanity]]. He proves to be a competent leader as he [[spoiler: tries to escape the sun while Andy is blocking the way, and once he realizes Fuuko realized the hidden truth of Negations, he guides Language to put a stop to the one member of the Union who could give further insight on the matter - Ichico.]]

* BarrierMaiden: Juiz, in a roundabout way. [[spoiler: It's revealed in the 101st Loop that she constantly kept the Master Rules in check with her abilities with her blade and Unjustice, allowing the Union to deal with relatively weaker UMAs in comparison.]]

* CosmicRetcon: {{Downplayed}} with the introduction of new UMA's. The memories and culture of every non-Negator on earth are [[FakeMemories altered]] to believe that reality had always been influenced by UMA's rules, even if they'd only been added to the world seconds prior.

** The first episode adds an expansion on the final scene of ''To You, From Me'', showing the main characters embracing alone in a ruined and abandoned city in winter before the heroine has multiple visions including skulls, blood, and a statue shrouded in light, [[spoiler: many which hint toward later events and reveals and gives a more explicit hint about the true nature of the manga being a record of the future.]]

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While some Negations are incredibly useful in-on itself - like Unjustice and Undead - others like Unluck are hard to use by a myriad of reasons - just not being that powerful at first glance or having a handicap that makes them hard to use at their best. However, as the Negation [[SemanticSuperpower can be affected by the perspective of the Negator]], having the right mindset can make even some of the more mundane ones incredibly powerful. One of the prime examples of this is Unburn, [[spoiler: which is used to temporarily ''suppress'' the fire in the sun so the Union can land on it to find Andy.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: Shen sacrifices himself [[spoiler: but [[SubvertedTrope it's a subversion]]: he knows that with Game of Death he can return to life as a jiangshi, and letting Mui inherit Untruth means the Union will get a net neutral gain from that fight and allow his group to beat Feng and Summer.]]

* LoopholeAbuse: Fuuko uses quite a bit during [[spoiler: the 101th loop]] mainly with Apocalypse. [[spoiler: The book punishes passing over all the tasks given by him not only by enforcing the punishments, but also by jumping a year in the clock. However, this ''works'' for Fuuko, as she needs to find a way to gather as many Negators as possible while keeping them in their prime, and those inside the Round Table are not affected by the repeated TimeSkips.]]
** Only people selected to a quest can finish it. [[spoiler: It doesn't mean more members can't be added or that other people can't help with the quest, however - which Fuuko gleefully abuses in many occasions.]]
** Language's deadly shiritori favors the usage of more conceptual objects than physical ones. [[spoiler: However, Ichico figures she can, with some help of Fuuko, to use those rules to call a ''person'' to help her and Nico against the UMA - which leads to her playing the word Unfade to summon Feng to protect them.]]

* NonStandardGameOver: In the Unbelievable arc, it's revealed by Juiz that having the Revolution UMA added to the game means that the planet will start to rotate closer and closer to the sun, leading to the beginning of the Ragnarok. [[spoiler: However, what Juiz ''didn't'' know is that killing at least three of the UMAs representing the stations applies a similar effect, which makes Apocalypse ordering the Union to target them for quests a situation of HeadsIWinTailsYouLose.]]

* TragicKeepsake: Negations. No, really. Their meaning in the lives of their respective Negators cannot be understated, and it serves as a constant reminder of what they lost in past, as they tend to manifest right when something important for the user happens - i.e, [[spoiler: Rip's surgery on Laila that ended in tragedy as Unrepair manifested right at that moment, meaning the slices he did inside her body couldn't be healed.]]

* CosmicRetcon: {{Downplayed}} with the introduction of new UMA's. The memories and culture of every non-Negator on earth are [[FakeMemories altered]] to believe that reality had always been influenced by that UMA's rules, even if they'd only been added to the world seconds prior.

** As well as being the EpisodeOfTheDead, the Spoil arc is set in a small town in Nevada with an Old West aesthetic that Andy notes was used as a set for a lot of cowboy movies. Chapter 11's cover even sees Fuuko and Andy dressed in genre appropriate attire.

* CreatorProvincialism: A mixed example - Fuuko is Japanese, but Andy's nationality is unknown, and the rest of the Union is a MultinationalTeam who go on missions all over the world.

* ADayInTheLimelight: While most Negators do get an arc putting major focus on them, many did not before the endgame was set in motion. Gina, Nico, and Void go on to get major roles at the beginning of the [[spoiler:101st loop]] after their battles against Andy and co. Even Sean Datz, who was [[spoiler: unceremoniously killed]] in a previous loop, gets a dedicated mini-arc.

* TheDragon: Of the 10 Master Rules, the one who leads them in their crusade against the Union is the first among them, the [[spoiler:Soul]] rule. What is noteworthy, however, is that [[spoiler: rather than being a creation of the Sun, he was actually created by the ''Moon'', who is supposedly aligned with humanity]]. He proves to be a competent leader as he [[spoiler: tries to escape the sun while Andy is blocking the way, and once he realizes Fuuko understood the hidden truth of Negations, he guides Language to put a stop to the one member of the Union who could give further insight on the matter - Ichico.]]

* EasilyThwartedAlienInvasion: After UMA Galaxy is unleashed, an invasion of aliens called Acks arrive to attack the Earth. Juiz takes off her helmet and forces the fleet to fire at themselves with Unjustice, putting a swift end to the invasion.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While some Negations are incredibly useful in-on itself - like Unjustice and Undead - others like Unluck are hard to use by a myriad of reasons - just not being that powerful at first glance or having a handicap that makes them hard to use at their best. However, as the Negation [[SemanticSuperpower can be affected by the perspective of the Negator]], having the right mindset can make even some of the more mundane ones be incredibly powerful. One of the prime examples of this is Unburn, [[spoiler: which is used to temporarily ''suppress'' the fire in the sun so the Union can land on it to find Andy.]]

** When Andy takes the card out of his forehead for a few moments in Chapter 1 to draw on the experiences sealed away, his hair looks much more unruly and spiky in a way that resembles [[spoiler:Victor's.]]
** The pages of You-Me's final chapter shown have the heroine lead the hero away by the hand before kissing him on the cheek. The framing of the kiss mirrors later in the chapter where Fuuko kisses Andy on the cheek to summon a meteorite and save him from getting captured for her safety. [[spoiler:Both hint that the manga is actually a disguised record of the future by its author.]]

** Chapter 26 confirms that Billy is blind, but there were several hints to this fact in past chapters. Notably, he doesn't realize Tatiana is aiming her weapons at him under Juiz' power and instead just notes that the room has gotten hotter in chapter 9, he doesn't know what's going on when Fuuko wraps her shirt around [[spoiler:Victor]] in chapter 17, he could only tell that Fuuko had a good gun based on the sound of the gunshot in chapter 18, and he has no idea what was going on when Juiz destroyed the alien spaceships in Chapter 20.

** Top is shown wearing a cast on his arm multiple times throughout the series, and after the Union retreats from the battle with [[spoiler:Victor]], his right arm is shown to be broken despite not having been shown to injure it at any point during the preceding battle. Moments later, he mentions having reset his acceleration. Chapter 32 reveals that his many broken arms are due to his power, as his body must go through a dramatic change in shape, such as a bone suddenly snapping, in order to deactivate the ability.
** In his first appearance, [[spoiler:Victhor]] asks Shen about what day it is. But not the date, but rather the day of the week, much to Shen's confusion. [[spoiler: This hints to the fact that Victor knew of UMA Galaxy (the reason days of the week exist due to celestial bodies) prior to its addition later on, which further hints to the fact the world exists on a loop of creation and destruction by God's hand, and that Galaxy was a prior UMA that Victor had experienced before in a prior loop.]]

** Shen's Untruth is revealed to only work on targets the user is fond of. [[spoiler:Billy never uses Untruth despite using the abilities of the other Negators that attacked him (Undead, Unjustice, and Unstoppable) during his betrayal, likely because it working on the Union would have immediately raised suspicions on his actions.]]

** The cover page for Chapter 52 features the current roundtable members, Rip, Latla, Backs, Anno and Mui, the latter being the only individual in the artwork that isn't a Negator. [[spoiler:She ends up becoming the new Untruth in Chapter 63 after Shen dies and becomes a Jiang Shi]].
** The first episode adds an expansion on the final scene of ''To You, From Me'', showing the main characters embracing alone in a ruined and abandoned city in winter before the heroine multiple visions including skulls, blood, and a statue shrouded in light, [[spoiler:many which hint toward later events and reveals and gives a more explicit hint about the true nature of the manga being a record of the future.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Even after obtaining Clothy, there are still several panels where Andy's pecker preposterously peeks past his pants, though they're easy to miss if one isn't paying attention. There are several bonus sketches posted to the series's official Twitter that features Fuuko and other members of the cast pointing out all of these instances.

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler:Fuuko's goal in the 101st Loop is to create "The Ultimate Union", a combination of the original Union and Under, as well as Ruin and Lucy, as a single group at a much larger roundtable, so as to be at their best when fighting off Ragnarok. To this end, she travels across the globe and time locating the various Negators ''before'' the tragedies that resulted from gaining their powers occurred, working to prevent those tragedies from happening and giving them better lives. Only after the entire group is brought together will Fuuko use the artifact "Remember" to restore everyone's memories of the prior Loops, giving them the experience of their {{past li|feMemories}}ves at the cost of reliving the trauma, by which point they'll be well adjusted enough to withstand.]]

* HardWorkMontage: In the Autumn Arc, The Union provides assistance with the creation of Fuuko's manga while having lots of [[KlatchianCoffee energy drinks]] to make it by. The other members take an interest in the book Fuuko talked about just as Shen is lifting weights during the montage because his ability would get in the way.

* HeroicWillpower: The children of Longing are able to counter Spoil's zombification curse by focusing on their dreams. Whenever they do so, their [[DeathsHourglass numbers]] go up instead of down. Fuuko and Shen later do this as well.

* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Played with when Fuuko begins to understand [[spoiler:SoulPower in the Union's fight with Beast]]. Separate from events, the First Master Rule has a conversation in which it's revealed that it takes at least two centuries of diligent effort to start to learn the ability, but otherwise almost anyone can do it. The two people who ''can't'' are Juiz and Victor, the two who had prior to this point been the leaders of the fight against God. This is because part of what helps Fuuko, and later [[spoiler:Haruka and Top]], to understand Soul Power is learning to [[spoiler:commune with the past users of their respective powers]], but Juiz and Victor were first generation Negators who, for all the time they had from [[spoiler:repeating and living through the Loops, respectively, never ''had'' predecessors to learn from]]. In short, Fuuko's [[spoiler:becoming leader of the Union and going into the 101st Loop instead of Juiz]] put her in a position to begin to understand the power that would most likely become a GameChanger when the only other people in a position to do so couldn't.

* YouCantFightFate: Negators are fated to get their powers even if circumstances surrounding their past change. [[spoiler: Fuuko was even willing to prevent Billy from becoming Unfair if it meant averting his betrayal, but he still became a Negator regardless. However, there are factors that can change concerning their abilities and activation requirements from their original counterparts, such as Sean's Unseen being able to render other people invisible and Billy's activation requirement for Unfair completely changing due to Fuuko's interference]].

** During the Unbelievable arc, [[spoiler: Billy outs himself as the leader of Under and immediately cuts tie with the Union by trying to steal the Round Table and Apocalypse. However, things are more complex than it seemed at first glance.]]
** [[spoiler: In the end of the 100th loop, Nico does one, as he's promised the chance to meet with Ichico one last time if he sets off the Ragnarok and defeats Andy. However, the actions of Andy and the UMA Ghost during the arc make him perform a HeelFaceTurn in order to defeat the latter.]]

* FixingTheGame: Language has an indirect one: [[spoiler: her main method of fighting other people is to challenge them to deadly games of shiritori, where the winner is decided by who says a word that ends with n in Japanese first or the loser gets killed by the materialized constructs. However, the additional rules of adding more languages as turns go on means that, as time goes on, she gets more and more words to use while others get less and less as they go through their whole vocabularies. It's implied that Unforgettable's ability to remember everything is what allows Nico to beat her in the 100th loop.]]

** Fuuko wears the same dress she wore during the Unrepair arc to infiltrate the black market auction [[spoiler:to Rip's wedding in the 101st loop.]]

** During the Autumn Arc, Anno Un inserts Fuuko's soul into Andy's memories in an effort to make the duo stronger, resulting in a new version of said memories with Fuuko present it them being created in Andy's mind. Thankfully, the new, "fake" memories don't override the real ones.

** [[spoiler: Extreme example with Andy. To stop the Master Rules from interfering with Fuuko's efforts in empowering the Union, he goes to the sun and, for centuries, stops them from leaving unless there's a mission happening, which allows the Union to fight the Rules in a more controlled manner rather than fighting all of them at once.]]

* BequeathedPower: According to Rip, when a Negator dies, their powers will transfer to a random different person. This is later confirmed with the location of the Negator with [[spoiler: Unchange after Gina]], who originally had the power, died. [[spoiler: However, the Beast arc reveals that the truth is not quite that: the past users of the Negation decide who is the next wielder, which explains why Mui just happened to receive Untruth when Shen dies during the 100st loop.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: Early on the story, while Andy and Fuuko dealt with their first UMA, one of the tasks related to have been completed is the subjugation of UMA Language. Not only the Union has to deal with it again in [[spoiler: the 101st loop]], but it's out for Nico's blood.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Pick a Negator. ''Any'' Negator. The degree of issue is rather diverse, though: those lower in the scale became unable to pursue their passions. However, the majority of them has at least one skeleton in the coffin - like Fuuko's parents or Gina's entire town.

* TheDragon: Of the 10 Master Rules, the one who leads them in their crusade against the Union is the Soul rule. What is noteworthy, however, is that [[spoiler: rather than being a creation of the Sun, he was actually created by the ''Moon'', who is supposedly aligned with humanity]]. He proves to be a competent leader as he [[spoiler: tries to escape the sun while Andy is blocking the way, and once he realizes Fuuko understood the hidden truth of Negations, he guides Language to put an stop to the one member of the Union who could give further insight on the matter - Ichico.]]

* FlingALightIntoTheFuture: [[spoiler: Rather than following the world in it's final loop, Juiz allows Fuuko, with her optimistic vision and key power to defeat God, to take the Ark and stay behind [[HeroicSacrifice with the rest of the 100th loop Union to stop God from destroying everyone.]]]]

* ADayInTheLimelight: While most Negators do get an arc putting major focus on them, many did not before the endgame was set in motion. Gina, Nico, and Void go on to get major roles at the beginning of the [[spoiler:101st loop]] after their battles against Andy and co. Even Sean Datz, who was [[spoiler:unceremoniously killed]] in a previous loop, gets a dedicated mini arc.

* NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:Effectively, what all the loops are for the loopers. They are able to retain their physical form from when they took the Ark and any knowledge they obtained over the last game, allowing them to build up a better resistance for Ragnarok.]]

* OminousVisualGlitch: When [[spoiler:Billy]] uses the powers he's copied from other negators, the name of the power is shown, but with an ominous glitch.

** At one point, Nico [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisects]] [[spoiler:Victor]] with a laser, which also cuts his speech balloon in half.

* PublicDomainArtifact: [[spoiler:Luna]]'s three best artifacts are analogous to Japan's Three Sacred Treasures and are collectively named as such. The shield, Aegis, reflects the Yata no Kagami; Rebellion reflects the Kusanagi no Tsurugi; and the elusive and never-before-seen artifact Heart reflects the Yasagani no Magatama.

* BequeathedPower: According to Rip, when a Negator dies, their powers will transfer to a random different person. This is later confirmed with the location of the Negator with [[spoiler:Unchange after Gina]], who originally had the power, died.
* TheBigDamnKiss: One occurs between Andy and Fuuko during the battle with [[spoiler:Victor, after Fuuko manages to temporarily bring out Andy by shooting him in the head. While the kiss meant to simply bring upon a giant bout of Unluck that could disable Victor long enough for the others to put that card back into his head, Fuuko's reaction to it implies that she enjoyed it beyond that, even if she doesn't admit it outright.]]

* ColorFailure: In Episode 19, Fuuko goes blank upon being hit with WritersBlock when she's tasked with making a manga.

* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Played with when Fuuko begins to understand [[spoiler:SoulPower in the Union's fight with Beast]]. Separate from events, Soul has a conversation in which it's revealed that it takes at least two centuries of diligent effort to start to learn the ability, but otherwise almost anyone can do it. The two people who ''can't'' are Juiz and Victor, the two who had prior to this point been the leaders of the fight against God. This is because part of what helps Fuuko, and later [[spoiler:Haruka and Top]], to understand Soul Power is learning to [[spoiler:commune with the past users of their respective powers]], but Juiz and Victor were first generation Negators who, for all the time they had from [[spoiler:repeating and living through the Loops, respectively, never ''had'' predecessors to learn from]]. In short, Fuuko's [[spoiler:becoming leader of the Union and going into the 101st Loop instead of Juiz]] put her in a position to begin to understand the power that would most likely become a GameChanger when the only other people in a position to do so couldn't.

* WhatYearIsThis: Played with when Victor makes his first appearance. When Victor first arrives, it's after having been sealed within Andy for several centuries. Unsurprisingly, his first question upon encountering Shen and Fuuko is to ask what day it is. Shen tells him but is left confused when Victor clarifies he isn't interested in the exact date but rather what day of the week it is. This is because "days of the week" were literally not a Thing that existed until shortly after the arc and the release of the UMA "Galaxy", which adds celestial bodies to the world, from which mythology and, by extension, days of the week are derived.

** The Unfeel Arc has [[spoiler: the aliens invading the space station that Phil and his mother are, as they try to hinder the evacuation efforts of the Union.]]

** The Unmove Arc is the first one with no antagonists, as it's more of slice of life series [[spoiler: with Fuuko and co. being part of Chikara's school as they wait for the manifestation of his Negation and solve the tasks given by Apocalypse in the background. Even UMA Color is more of a nuisance than a proper BigBad.]]

** The Unjustice Arc has [[spoiler: [[AvertedTrope no antagonists]] as it focus in the new life Juiz has in the 101st loop.]]
** The Unstoppable Arc has [[spoiler: the Master Rule Beast, who attacks while they try to recruit Top and has to be dealt with if they want to survive.]]

** Chapter 5: With Gina and Fuuko's talk, we are revealed that the world of Undead Unluck is way different from ours, as there are no stars in the sky.

** During Chapter 177, we are revealed about the [[spoiler: the existence of the Master Rules, [=UMAs=] that are always added at the beginning of a loop and never disappear. At the same time, [=UMA=] Sick, the tenth rule, starts his attack against the Union.]]

*** Both Juiz and Under's Leader (a.k.a. [[spoiler:Billy]]) lead their respective organizations with the goal of killing God, recruiting other Negators to help achieve their goal and sometimes doing unsavory things to achieve what they want. That said, Juiz ultimately wants to protect the entire Earth from God and its rules and does what she does for the sake of everyone, while [[spoiler:Billy]] only cares for Negators and is perfectly willing to sacrifice the masses to do so.

*** Shen and Feng are both Chinese martial artists who fight using staffs who enjoy good fights. But while Shen is a talkative BloodKnight whose desire to fight trumps his own self preservation at times, Feng is TheQuietOne who [[KnowWhenToFoldEm will retreat when necessary]]. Also, while Shen chastises Mui for using too many artifacts due to their power being bad for one's mind, Feng is an avid collector of them.

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:Andy (well, his clone, at least) comes to help save the day as the Union fight Sick in Chapter 180.]]

** In [[spoiler:the 101st and final loop]], Fuuko inspires Anno Un to make the story of ''Undead Unluck'' as Fuuko told it to him.

* MeaningfulEcho: In the first chapter when asked about his name, Andy tells Fuuko she could call him "Undead" since he doesn't have a name, prompting her to give him the name "Andy", which he clearly isn't keen on and just accepts for convenience. [[spoiler:In Chapter 99, when Lucy asks who Andy is after he saves her from a Junior, he at first calls himself "Undead" before nixing it and introducing himself as Andy instead.]]

** UMA Spoil attempts to fire a "Disintegration Beam" at the heroes, but Shen makes it fly off into the distance, where it ends up hitting and thus decaying the Statue of Liberty. It's downplayed though, as the Volume 2 extras reveal that it was only the Las Vegas replica that was hit.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Combined with FailureIsTheOnlyOption as well for the loop the manga is set in for most of the series. Juiz wants to prevent the rule "Revolution" from being created, since it actually refers to Earth's revolution around the sun - not in a stable orbit, but rather a spiral that ends up with the Earth falling into the sun. However, defeating enough of the season [=UMAs=] will do ''the exact same thing'', since the seasons depend on the planet's position relative to the Sun. Upon defeating Spring, Summer, and Winter, Earth is destined for destruction in three months.]]

** Juiz' Unjustice lets her "negate justice". It's about as vague as it sounds - when used, it causes her opponent to act in direct opposition to their righteous moral inclinations in that moment (a race of aliens who believe others must die for their survival will instead kill themselves).

* UnwinnableByDesign: Implied. [[spoiler:Luna mentions that they made three ultra powerful artifacts that would help aid the Negators in the final battle against Sun, but even in their strongest showing, only two of them were able to appear and at best stall Sun's assault. Fuuko hypothesizes that they can't win because the third relic never appeared in any of the previous 100 loops (aka 455.52 ''billion'' years), and will only manifest in the 101st.]]

** What starts off as another UMA hunt takes a drastic turn when [[spoiler:Billy]] says this:

** During Chapter 177, we are revealed about the [[spoiler: existence of the Master Rules, UMAs that are always added at the beginning of a loop and never disappear. At the same time, {{UMA}} Sick, the tenth rule, starts his attack against the Union.]]

** During Chapter 177, we are revealed about the [[spoiler: existence of the Master Rules, UMAs that are always added at the beginning of a loop and never disappear. At the same time, UMA Sick, the tenth rule, starts his attack against the Union.]]

** In chapter 5, Fuuko and Gina have a discussion about the fact that there's nothing in space except the sun and the moon, casually revealing that there's no such thing as stars in the ''Undead Unluck'' universe's sky. This is the first obvious sign that there's more to the ''Undead Unluck'' universe than meets the eye.

* YouCantFightFate: Negators are fated to get their powers even if circumstances surrounding their past change. [[spoiler:Fuuko was even willing to prevent Billy from becoming Unfair if it meant averting his betrayal, but he still became a Negator regardless. However, there are factors that can change concerning their abilities and activation requirements from their original counterparts, such as Sean's Unseen being able to render other people invisible and Billy's activation requirement for Unfair completely changing due to Fuuko's interference]].
* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Extreme example with Andy. To stop the Master Rules from interfering with Fuuko's efforts in empowering the Union, he goes to the sun and, for centuries, stops them from leaving unless there's a mission happening, which allows the Union to fight the Rules in a more controlled manner rather than fighting all of them at once.]]

* YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Extreme examples with Andy. To stop the Master Rules of interfering with Fuuko's efforts in powering the Union, he goes to the sun and, for centuries, stops them from leaving unless there's a mission happening, which allows the Union to fight the Rules in a more controlled manner rather than fighting all of them at once.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Initially, the "card" in Andy's head just seems to be a RestrainingBolt, locking away his hundreds of years worth of memories so he doesn't "lose control"[[spoiler:/let Victor out]], but it has a much bigger purpose. Chapter 31 reveals the reward for the neutralization of UMA Winter is the location of an Artifact called "Remember". [spoiler:The Ragnarok Arc reveals "Remember" is the card's true identity and it's the reason for Andy's existence, as Juiz used one of its functions to seal Victor's memories away, his body then creating the "Andy" personality thanks to "Undead". Its second function is the more important one though: the ability to restore the memories of prior Loops to all members of Roundtable, which Juiz wanted to use it for before Victor tried to kill her, and now Fuuko wishes to use in the 101st Loop since Andy no longer needs it.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Initially, the "card" in Andy's head just seems to be a RestrainingBolt, locking away his hundreds of years worth of memories so he doesn't "lose control"[[spoiler:/let Victor out]], but it has a much bigger purpose. Chapter 31 reveals the reward for the neutralization of UMA Winter is the location ''of'' the card, its true name being Artifact: "Remember". [[spoiler:The Ragnarok Arc likewise reveals it's the reason for Andy's existence, as Juiz used one of its functions to seal Victor's memories away, his body then creating the "Andy" personality thanks to "Undead". Its second function is the more important one though: the ability to restore the memories of prior Loops to all members of Roundtable, which Juiz wanted to use it for before Victor tried to kill her, and now Fuuko wishes to use in the 101st Loop since Andy no longer needs it.]]

* HardWorkMontage: In the Autumn Arc, The Union provides assistance with the creation of Fuuko's manga while having lots of [[KlatchianCoffee energy drinks]] to make it by. The other members take an interest in the book Fuuko talked about just as Shen is lifting weights during the montage.

* SoftReboot: Chapter 133 onward is essentially an entirely new series, with the only holdovers from the previous 132 chapters being Fuuko and Andy. [[spoiler:Reflective of this being the beginning of the 101st Loop, all the previous characters aside from those two, Sol, Luna, and Apocalypse are ''dead'', their new incarnations existing in the 101st Loop but fundamentally being different characters than their 100th Loop incarnations, best demonstrated with Juiz and her 101st incarnation Julia. While the events of the 100th Loop still occurred and often inform the general characterization of the cast and Fuuko's decisions going forward, the series effectively started over.]] This is even reflected in the ''genre'' of the series, as the first 132 chapters were a sci-fi/fantasy Battle Shonen, focused primarily on progressing the MythArc over characterization, whereas chapters 133 and on are a GenreRoulette ranging from SliceOfLife to a MedicalDrama to even a TournamentArc, with characterization now taking center stage thanks to the MythArc being long established.