History VideoGame / Rakugakids

* CaptainSpaceDefenderOfEarth: Astronots is an astronaut clearly based on ''Franchise/BuckRogers'' and uses a RayGun.

* AnimalMotifs: Technically {{downplayed|Trope}}(?) -- Marsa is a little witch who wears a chicken for a hat. She's also the only character who has her tease animation being her combing her own hair, uses regular household items for her attacks, and does relatively normal things for her Magic.

** And another is where smacks the opponent with a large frying pan, serves them in a giant sandwich, eats them and farts them out the other end across the screen... ''yeah.''

* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: Win the game without losing a single round and Inuzo will appear to challenge your fighter after Darkness.]]

* TokenMinority: D.D.J. is the only character of the cast of artistic kids who is black.

* AmusingInjuries: Darkness's Magic abilities.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Following the staff roll, an unnamed boy moves into town alongside a pair of twins. What follows is a skateboarder and an alien riding a four-legged UFO in the same style of the playable fighters creating and erasing ToBeContinued from the screen respectively]].
* {{Sleepyhead}}: Beartank's idle animation is of him just sitting there and dozing off. One of his win poses even has him pull out a fancy pink bed to take a victory nap in!

** Every fighter gets eight color palettes along with their base palette, each palette corresponding to the six main attacking buttons, the Start button, and a mirror palette if two players attempt to pick the same color on the same character. The "Drawing" visual style uses its own pool of palette swaps.

** Every fighter gets eight color palettes along with their base palette, each palette corresponding to the six main attacking buttons, the Start button, and a mirror palette if two players attempt to pick the same color on the same character. The "Drawing" visual style uses its own pool of colors
** For full characters, we have Inuzo. He's essentially Mamezo but with gray skin, a blue cape and different idle and walking animations. He also gets his own set of color palettes that are much darker than Mamezo's. To drive the point home, they even share the same slot on the CSS.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Altough there are two girls in the group of kids, Marsa's the only playable female character.

* BigBadEnsemble: While Val and George (and by extent, Mamezo and Darkness) are both antagonists, they don't really interact much with each other, unless you [[VillainProtagonist choose to play with either one of their creations]].
* BonusBoss: [[spoiler: Win the game without continuing and Inuzo will appear to challenge your fighter.]]
* BreakoutCharacter: Of all the characters present in the game, only the Bear Tank has any significance outside of this game of origin, making appearances in VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon, VideoGame/KonamiKrazyRacers, and VideoGame/PopnMusic!

* IronicName: Darkness is a ghost-dog creature who is pure white in color and doesn't have any moves related to darkness. He gets a line of bright pastel alternate colors with only one fitting his name: a charcoal black alt.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Following the staff roll, an unnamed boy moves into town alongside a pair of twins. What follows is a skateboarder and an alien riding a four-legged UFO creating and erasing ToBeContinued from the screen]].

* BigBadEnsemble: While Val and George are both antagonists, they don't really interact much with each other.

** Every fighter gets eight color palettes along with their base palette, each palette corresponding to the six main attacking buttons, the Start button, and a mirror palette if two players attempt to pick the same color on the same character. On top of that, there is an equivalent set of "Drawing" palettes that uses only two colors total if that visual mode is chosen in the Options mode.

** Darkness, the game's FinalBoss, is unlocked [[spoiler:after [[DefeatMeansPlayable finishing the game]] or playing the game for five hours total.]]

** One is where he calls out for other dogs to come up. They technically pretty much clutter and harm the opponent.

** And another is where he serves the opponent in a sandwich, eats them and farts them out... ''yeah.''

* OddNameOut: Out of the group of children, D.D.J. is the only one whose name seems to be an acronym. On the other end, we have Darkness -- while he ''is'' unlockable [[spoiler:once the game is completed or after five hours of total palytime]], he's the only playable character whose name is a word!

** Every fighter gets a set number of color palettes along with their base palette, each corresponding to a different button. On top of that, for every palette they have, there is an equivalent "Drawing" palette that uses only two colors total if that visual mode is chosen in the Options mode.

** Inuzo, a PaletteSwap of Mamezo controlled by Val's dog Mudgas, is unlocked [[spoiler:after two hours of playing the game.]]

* InterferenceSpoiler: The game's two secret characters can still be drawn from the random character select option even before they become directly selectable.

** For full characters, we have Inuzo. He's essentially Mamezo but with gray skin, a blue cape and different idle and walking animations. He also gets his own set of color palettes that are much darker than Mamezo's.

** Every fighter gets a set number of color palettes along with their base palette. On top of that, for every palette they have, there is an equivalent "Drawing" palette that uses only two colors total.

* IronicName: Darkness is a ghost-dog creature who is pure white (for his default appearance) in color and doesn't really have any moves related to darkness.

* PaletteSwap: Inuzo, even if he's secret. He's essentially Mamezo but with gray skin and a blue cape.. even then, some of his animations are different, but especially the ones when he walks (where he walks on all fours and acts like he's a dog).

* {{Sleepyhead}}: Beartank's idle animation is of him just sitting there and dozing off. Oh, and one of his win animations is when he goes into bed!

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Out of the playable roster, Marsa's the only girl in it.

* {{Expy}}: Captain.Cat.Kit is an obvious '"VideoGame/ParappaTheRapper'' reference.

* Sleepyhead: Beartank's idle animation is of him just sitting there and dozing off. Oh, and one of his win animations is when he goes into bed!

* OddNameOut: Out of the group of children, D.D.J. is the only one whose name seems to be an acronym. On the other end, we have Darkness -- while he ''is'' unlockable [[spoiler:once the game is completed]], he's the only playable character whose name is a word!