History WesternAnimation / NeoYokio

Alongside his robotic butler Charles (Creator/JudeLaw), best friends [[ThoseTwoGuys Lexy and Gottlieb]], arch-rival Arcangelo Corelli, and disaffected fashion-blogging former flame Helena St. Tesoro, Kaz will have to juggle both his high society image and an increase in demonic activity that could threaten Neo Yokio once again.

* CapitalismIsBad: Sailor Pellegrino and Helena Saint Tesoro both have beef with the upper-class of Neo Yokio.

* DemonicPossession: Popular fashion blogger Helena St. Tesoro is seemingly possessed by a demon in the first episode, [[spoiler:though it turns out it's actually her custom-made suit that's possessed.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Helena Saint Tesoro blew up the Bachelor Ranking Board in the center of Neo Yokio.]] She saw the board as part of Neo Yokio's culture of greed and subjugation of the working class.

** Sailor Pellegrino and Helena St. Tesoro both have blue hair.

* ElementalPowers: Kaz's cousin Jeffery can use Water Magic, although we only see him use it to [[spoiler:transform Lexy into a woman, Gottlieb into a panda, his hood friends into butterflies, and his father into a raccoon.]]
* EnemyMine: Exaggerated. Arcangelo, in the face of the Bachelor Board's [[spoiler: destruction]], immediately calls off the feud to become Kaz's "homie" and is outrageously friendly and ''sincerely'' supportive to him. As soon as its fixed, he's turns on Kaz once again.

* FantasticSlurs: Arcangelo repeatedly calls Kaz a "Ratcatcher" in reference to his Magistocratic heritage. The tourism video at the start of the first episode helpfully informs us that the magicians and occultists who came to Neo Yokio to deal the the demon problem in the 1800's were "colloquially called ratcatchers." (The voiceover that announces this factoid accompanies footage of a magician blasting several large rats with a bolt of purple energy, though whether his actions are purely for pest control purposes or to stamp out diseases like the plague is left vague).

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* {{Animesque}}: Co-Animated by Creator/StudioDeen and Creator/MoiAnimation to boot. The style imitates anime of the early 2000s, complete with frequently [[OffModel off-model]] characters, flat coloring, and many hallmarks of the genre that have fallen out of favor like {{sweat drop}}s, {{nosebleed}}s, and chibification. It also seems to reference low budget anime dubbing, with poor lip synching and voice acting of varying quality.

* AlternateHistory: Aside from the history of demon slaying.
** The World Trade Center is still standing in "Neo Yokio" and everything south of 14th street seems to have been consumed by rising sea levels or sunken into the Atlantic (though people still live there in waterproofed townhouses accessible by bubble vehicles).
** The Soviet Union is still a nation, suggesting that either A.) the Soviet Union did not dissolve in 1991 like in our timeline or B.) technology was more advanced than our own timeline.
** Japan and Italy seem to have been combined into a single nation called "Giappone." The flag is a white field with a bifurcated red-green circle in the center. Similarly, our world's Quebec is implied to be a separate nation called French Canada (its flag is the same design as the Canadian flag but the left stripe is colored blue to resemble the French flag).
** Additionally, Neo Yokio itself appears to be a sort of independent city-state, with its own participant in the international races and no reference to influence from the U.S. government.
** There's evidently a place in the Southern US called North Cackalacka. Considering the implied politics of Neo Yokio, it's possible that it's an independent entity or that it's a U.S. state. (It might also be a region akin to UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, if Sailor Pellegrino's twangy accent is anything to go by. Cackalacka is another way of saying Carolina, so she could be saying she's from North Carolina.)

Alongside his robotic butler Charles (Creator/JudeLaw), best friends [[ThoseTwoGuys Lexy and Gottlieb]], arch-rival Arcangelo, and disaffected former hookup Helena St. Tesoro, Kaz will have to juggle both his high society image and an increase in demonic activity that could threaten Neo Yokio once again.

An hour-long Christmas special, entitled ''Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas'', was released on December 7, 2018.

** Japan and Italy seem to have been combined into a single nation called "Giappone." The flag is a white field with a bifurcated red-green circle in the center. Similarly, our world's Quebec is implied to be a separate nation called French Canada (its flag is the same as the Canadian flag but the left stripe is colored blue to resemble the French flag).

** In episode 5 the password to the Tiger Bar is [[Creator/WilliamBlake "fearful symmetry."]]

Alongside his robotic butler Charles (Creator/JudeLaw), best friends [[ThoseTwoGuys Lexy and Gottlieb]], arch rival Arcangelo, and disaffected former hookup Helena St. Tesoro, Kaz will have to juggle both his high society image and an increase in demonic activity that could threaten Neo Yokio once again.

* AerithAndBob: You have Jeffrey, Agatha, Charles, Lexy, Helena, and Sadie. Then you have Kaz Kaan, Arcangelo, Sailor Pellegrino and Gottleib, just to name a few.

** Aunt Agatha is always referred to by her assonant title, rather than "Agatha Kaan."

** Japan and Italy seem to have been combined into a single nation called "Giappone." The flag is a white field with a bifurcated red/ green circle in the center.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The diamond-encrusted demon skull [[spoiler:that Sailor Pellegrino turns into]] in episode 2 is based off an actual art piece, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God For the Love of God]]. Created by Damien Hirst, it is a platinum cast of a skull embedded with 8,601 diamonds. It is £10,000,000 or $13,500,000. He created a similar diamond skull using a child's skull named [[http://www.damienhirst.com/for-heavenas-sake For Heaven's Sake]].

* IndecisiveParody: It's not known if the show is meant to be a true parody of anime, given that most of the anime tropes it uses are generally played straight.

* AlternateHistory: Aside from the history of demon slaying, the World Trade Center is still standing in "Neo Yokio" and everything south of 14th street seems to have been consumed by rising sea levels or sunken into the Atlantic (though people still live there in waterproofed townhouses accessible by bubble vehicles).

** There's evidently a place in the Southern US called North Cackalacka. Considering the implied politics of Neo Yokio, it's possible that it's an independent entity or that it's a U.S. state. (It might also be a region akin to UsefulNotes/{{Appalachia}}, if Sailor Pellegrino's twangy accent is anything to go by.)
*** Cackalacka is another way of saying Carolina, so she could be saying she's from North Carolina.

* GangOfHats: The East-side Gentlemen. They sport Suit jackets,dress shirts, black sunglasses, colored shorts.

* ProductPlacement: The show's bizarre fascination with giant Tolberones.

* TheHorseshoeEffect: The East-siders vs the West-siders and Magistocracy. Besides the fact that the [[OldMoney East-side]] see the Magistocracy as NouveauRiche, there is very little difference between the two groups beyond their geographic location.
* TheJeeves: Charles.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The diamond-encrusted demon skull [[spoiler:that Sailor Pellegrino turns into]] in episode 2 is based off an actual art piece, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God For the Love of God]].

* LatexSpaceSuit: Sadie's pilot suit.
** Mila Malevich's racing jumpsuit. It was also worn by [[spoiler:both Helena and Kaz to use as a disguise, and a fat fisherman Mila paid to wear to help her escape from Kaz.]]

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: In episode 4, Charles just says "Oh dear" after accidentally blowing himself trying to find a charger.

* BadassGrandma: Sadie. She's a [[spoiler:Mecha pilot]] after all.

* LoonyFan: The Helenists big time. They follow Helena's blog religiously, send her a lot of letters, and start imitating her behavior. While not wearing their school uniforms aren't a real issue, becoming {{Hikikomori}} and [[spoiler:letting themselves becomes possessed by demons ''are''. The latter is more significant because they call their possession a "tribute to their queen".]]

** Kaz has a conversation with an old man while he pours a perfume by the name of [[BabylonFive Babylon (No.) 5]] on a grave.