History WebAnimation / SparkleOnRaven

* BreakingTheFourthWall:
** Raven starts episode 1 by addressing the audience directly to explain the premise.
** Later in episode 1, Ryan Sasuke tells Raven to meet him on the roof "after the cafeteria scene".

* BossSubtitles: Every new student introduced in episode 4 has their name pop up on screen when they first appear.

* {{Americasia}}: Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooters being an American-style dive bar and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

* BlandNameProduct: Raven, Berrycream, and Dark Shi go to "Cooters Restaurant and Bar" and its owner, Milton Shake, is apparently in debt with "Michaelsoft", a parody of Microsoft.

* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Cooters in episode 3 subverts the "breastaurant" style associated with Hooters; while the first thing we see is a waitress with big boobs, Raven and her friends brush her off, and it turns out the place is more like a local dive bar everyone enjoys for the actual food.

* JapaneseSchoolClub: Raven's "opponents" are from the school's various clubs. They range from normal things like the yearbook committee and the martial arts club, to slightly absurd ones like the "after-school blades club" and "varsity darts club", to the patently ridiculous ones like the "4th period pirate club" and "4th period ninja club". The main antagonist of the series, Room 424, is a ''world domination'' club.

* NoNameGiven: Ryan Sasuke's name never is mentioned in episode 1, only being listed in the credits. It's lampshaded in episode 2, where Berrycream finally mentions it and Dark Shi replies "Oh, was that his name?"

* NoNameGiven: Ryan Sasuke's name never mentioned in episode 1, only being listed in the credits. It's lampshaded in episode 2, where Berrycream finally mentions it and Dark Shi replies "Oh, was that his name?"

* BlandNameProduct: Raven, Berrycream, and Dark Shi go to "Cooters Restaurant and Bar", a parody of the American chain Hooters. The owner, Milton Shake, is apparently in debt with "Michaelsoft", a parody of Microsoft.

* BigDamnHeroes: Happens twice in episode 4. The first time, when Raven is fighting Paul Phoenix, Berrycream and Dark Shi come in to hold down him down, giving Raven enough time to escape. The second time, Berrycream and Dark Shi come in to distract Locke when Raven is cornered by him, allowing her to hit him with a giant hammer.

* BadBadActing: As part of the series' fanime styling, a lot of the voice actors either [[LargeHam over-act]] (like Ryan Sasuke) or [[DullSurprise under-act]] (like Mr. Ryu).

* BadBadActing: As part of the joke, all of the voice actors either [[LargeHam over-act]] (like Ryan Sasuke) or [[DullSurprise under-act]] (like Mr. Ryu).

* AnimationBump: While most of the series features LimitedAnimation, some parts are animated surprisingly smoothly, mostly in the fight scenes.

* LimitedAnimation: Since it's made to look like an old MS Paint animation, it's really more like a slideshow, with most characters not even having MouthFlaps.

* StylisticSuck: The whole thing. The animation is drawn in MS Paint; the only colors used are the default palette, and there is occasionally visible anti-aliasing from use of the fill bucket tool. The voice acting is all over the place, and some actors have ''really'' bad microphone quality.

** In episode 2, a montage shows Slash cutting things while Raven is going about her day, to disastrous results. In the middle of a montage, there's a lingering scene of Raven [[HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet helping an old lady cross the street]]... and then it jumps to the next scene.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Raven befriends both Ryan Sasuke and Slash by defeating them in a fight. While Ryan Sasuke maintains a disaffected {{tsundere}} attitude, Slash realizes the error of his ways because he was being led astray by Room 424.

* AllForNothing: After Raven spends the entirety of episode 3 attempting to save Cooters from being closed down and apparently succeeded, the episode ends by revealing that Cooters closed down anyway. They even hold a funeral for it.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Raven can change her magical girl wand into a sword or a hammer when the situation calls for it. She seemingly forgets she can until Berrycream and Dark Shi remind her that she's in a sword fight.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: In episode 2, when Raven vents about her day being ruined by Slash, Berrycream offers to get him to stop bothering her, pulling about various knives as she says this. Raven declines and says that she needs to figure it out on her own. Something similar happens in episode 4, where Berrycream and Dark Shi offer to help Raven fend off the students who keep fighting her, and she replies that she can handle it on her own. In both cases, Berrycream and Dark Shi ultimately come to help Raven anyway, supporting her from the sidelines.

* BlandNameProduct: Raven, Berrycream, and Dark Shi go to "Cooters Restaurant and Bar", a parody of the American chain Hooter's. The owner, Milton Shake, is apparently in debt with "Michaelsoft", a parody of Microsoft.

* ChristmasEpisode: Episode 3, "[=DrillGirl Saves Santa Claus=]", takes place on "Christmas Eve Eve" (or maybe just Christmas Eve). Apparently the series takes place in the southern hemisphere, since Christmas is during the summer, though there's a comically confusing mix of tropical and wintery elements: "We're all bundled up but it's a hundred degrees!" Despite what the name implies, it's not a SavingChristmas plot.

* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Cooters in episode 3 subverts the "breastaurant" style associated with Hooter's; while the first thing we see is a waitress with big boobs, Raven and her friends brush her off, and it turns out the place is more like a local dive bar everyone enjoys for the actual food.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Parodied. [=DrillGirl=] immediately declares that she's "the real star of this show!" when she shows up, and this is a RunningGag through the whole series: the show's title implies it's about her life, she shows up first in the credits, and episode 3 is titled "[=DrillGirl Saves Santa Claus!=]" even though this happens entirely off-screen.

* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Cooters in episode 3 subverts the "breastaurant" style associated with Hooter's; while the first thing we see a waitress with big boobs, Raven and her friends brush her off, and it turns out the place is more like a local dive bar everyone enjoys for the actual food.

* ToastOfTardiness: Raven is seen running with a piece of toast in her mouth in the first scene of episode 1. It disappears in the shot immediately following it.

* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: [=DrillGirl=] saves Santa Claus at the end of episode 3. We don't know how it went down, since we followed Raven saving Cooters for the whole episode.

* {{Americasia}}: Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooter's being an American-style dive bar and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

** In episode 3, Milton Shake uses his one wish to make sure everyone has unique passwords that are different for every website. Later, when everyone is showing up to eat at Cooter's, one person yells "WHO THE HELL CHANGED THE PASSWORD ON MY PHONE?!"

** The main characters all mourn Cooter's shutting down at the end of episode 3 with a funeral, complete with an in-universe InMemoriam card showing up. [[invoked]]

* SavingChristmas: Subverted in episode 3, which is called "[=DrillGirl Saves Christmas=]"; the actual plot is that Raven wants to save her local beach bar after the owner, Milton Shake, reveals he doesn't have enough money to keep it open for Christmas. [=DrillGirl=] ends up saving Christmas off-screen, incidental to the whole thing.

** Raven's TransformationSequence is clearly inspired by ''Anime/SailorMoon'', even using "Moon Prism Power, Make Up!" as the music (just with the chorus replaced with "Sparkle on!")

* BlandNameProduct: Raven, Berrycream, and Dark Shi go to "Cooters Restaurant and Bar", a parody of the American chain Hooter's. The owner, Milton Shake, is apparently in debt with "Michealsoft", a parody of Microsoft.

* SavingTheOrphanage: Parodied in episode 3, where Raven and her friends try to save a local beach bar, Cooters, from being closed down due to a lack of business and the owner being heavily indebted to Michealsoft. It isn't because it's culturally significant or because it's being taken by a greedy developer -- it's because they really want their Christmas Crab Legs. Everyone else seems on board with the idea, to the point that they raise $357,000. This isn't enough to keep Cooters from closing, and even when they receive a Christmas miracle, the owner spends it on Internet security instead. Luckily, when everyone else shows up to have their Christmas Crab Legs, this ends up being the final push to keep Cooters open for another month -- maybe even two! [[AllForNothing ...And then it's shut down anyway.]]

* ImmediateSelfContradiction:
** In episode 4, when Raven asks where Room 424 is located:
--->'''Shinji:''' Its location is shrouded in mystery, but some believe it's somewhere on the fourth floor of the school, next to the men's bathroom.\\

** In episode 2, a montage shows Slash cutting things while Raven is going about her day, to disastrous results. In the middle of a montage, there's a lingering scene of [[HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet helping an old lady cross the street]]... and then it jumps to the next scene.
** In episode 3, Raven laments that they didn't raise enough money to save Cooters, when suddenly she hears sleigh bells nearby. We see a sleigh pulled by reindeer, and something crashes through the side of the building... and it turns out to be Chupachups the Christmas Alien.

* {{Americasia}}: Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Slash and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooter's being a very American-style dive bar and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

* {{Americasia}}: Raven and her friends seem to attend a Japanese-style high school with the requisite school uniforms and clubs, and several characters (such as Blade and the old lady in episode 2) are seen wearing kimono, but the setting otherwise has very western styling, such as Cooter's being a very American-style dive bar and the local currency being explicitly referred to as dollars. This even extends to the characters' names, with Ryan Sasuke and Albert Tensai having American first names and Japanese last names.

* ArtShift: Every now and then, the characters shift into a completely different style. When Raven and Blade confront each other in episode 2, for example, the art suddenly becomes a lot higher-quality and more angular.

** In episode 2, a montage shows Blade cutting things while Raven is going about her day, to disastrous results. In the middle of a montage, there's a lingering scene of [[HelpingGrannyCrossTheStreet helping an old lady cross the street]]... and then it jumps to the next scene.

* BladeLock: Raven and Blade lock blades at the end of episode 2. Raven ends up winning by cutting Blade's sword in half.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Raven befriends both Ryan Sasuke and Blade by defeating them in a fight. While Ryan Sasuke maintains a disaffected {{tsundere}} attitude, Blade realizes the error of his ways because he was being led astray by Room 424.

* HighPressureBlood: Blade's ''sword'' somehow spurts out high-pressure blood when Raven cuts it in half.

** The credits of episode 2 show Blade mourning his sword, which is cut in half by Raven. It turns out it's an AnimateInanimateObject, though; it was bleeding profusely when Raven cut it, and then it wakes up at the funeral.

* SingleStrokeBattle: Subverted in episode 3, when Raven and Blade fight; Blade opens with the standard DelayedCausality move, but then it turns out he ''missed''. He just has really bad aim.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: In episode 2, when Raven vents about her day being ruined by Blade, Berrycream offers to get him to stop bothering her, pulling about various knives as she says this. Raven declines and says that she needs to figure it out on her own. Something similar happens in episode 4, where Berrycream and Dark Shi offer to help Raven fend off the students who keep fighting her, and she replies that she can handle it on her own. In both cases, Berrycream and Dark Shi ultimately come to help Raven anyway, supporting her from the sidelines.

* StylisticSuck: All over the place. The series is drawn in MS Paint; the only colors used are the default palette, and there is occasionally visible anti-aliasing from use of the fill bucket tool. The voice acting is all over the place, and some actors have ''really'' bad microphone quality.

* SliceOfLife: The series takes a look into the life of Raven and is generally laid-back and low-stakes.
* SoundtrackDissonance: While the background music for most of the series is fitting, the opening theme is a heavy HardcorePunk song that clashes with the series' laidback tone, and the ending themes vary from HipHop to PowerBallad to {{Ska}}.

** The main characters all mourn Cooter's shutting down at the end of episode 3 with a funeral, complete with an in-universe InMemoriam card showing up. {{invoked}}

** The main characters all mourn Cooter's shutting down at the end of episode 3 with a funeral, complete with an InMemoriam card showing up.

* SpoofAesop: When Raven tries to confront a boy who's bullying her in episode 2, the guidance counselor suggests that he may be lashing out for som deeper reason, and Raven should just try talking to him, suggesting a "[[BullyTurnedBuddy bullies are people too]]" aesop. [[BloodKnight Raven immediately asks if she can just fight him.]] The guidance counselor sees this as an equally valid option, and it works.

* CreativeClosingCredits: The credits feature chibi versions of the characters singing real songs while concept art of the characters is shown in the background. The characters and songs featured are different in each episode.

* RealSongThemeTune: The music used in the series is taken from real sources, usually anime and video games. Notably, the opening theme is "Omoide in my Head" by Number Girl. The credits theme is different in each episode.[[labelnote:List of songs]]Episode 1 features "Let Me Clear My Throat" by DJ Cool, episode 2 features "This is My Happiness" from ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2'', episode 3 features "Shed Some Skin" by Slow Gherkin, and episode 4 features "Relight My Fire" by Dan Hartman.[[/labelnote]]