Visual Novel / Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!

aka: Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai

Yukie, Miyako, Momoyo, Kazuko aka Wanko, and Chris. Not shown: Matsukaze.

Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!, known in Japan as Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! ("Seriously, Fall in Love with Me!" in English, abbreviated ''MajiKoi'') is a Visual Novel H-Game, and Minato Soft's second work. Released in 2009, MajiKoi tells the rather light-hearted tale of the adventures of seven Childhood Friends, the self-styled Kazama Family, and the group's two newest additions as they run amok in their School of Hard Knocks. A Slice of Life work chock full of comedic tropes, MajiKoi nevertheless manages to drop a Drama Bomb here and there, and tackles some somewhat serious subjects like life goals, the meaning of friendship, and redemption.

The anime aired in Fall 2011 and a sequel, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! S, was released in January 2012. The sequel adds more heroines, and more scenes to the already existing heroines. A second fandisc sequel, Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai! A, will be released in five parts featuring new heroines and after routes for Monshiro, Tsubame and Margit. A packaged version named A+ was released in Fall of 2016, and has three additional mini-routes for Thelma Muller, Bushou, and Aki.

After the success of all three games (the A fandisk being merged as a full game for packaged release), Takahiro, the series creator, clarifies that while doing other projects, they are not quite yet finished with the series.

Minato-Soft also created another game called Majikoi SPARK, another all-ages game where Jun Inoue is the protagonist (yes, that Jun), and has various cameos from Minato-soft's other games, Tsujidou-san no Jun'ai/Virgin Road, Anekouji Naoko to Gin'iro no Shinigami, Girls Beyond the Wasteland, and They Are My Noble Masters.

There was once an English fanpatch in the works, and it was nearly complete before work on it unfortunately stopped. It was then saved by these fine gentlemen and released in March of 2015. The same team would later complete an English patch for Majikoi S, create Maji Translations, and from there move on to making English patches for Majikoi A as well.

It is currently being officially translated by JAST USA, who has confirmed a US distribution.

US residents can view the anime legally at Crunchyroll.

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Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! provides examples of:

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• Accidental Pervert:
  • Yamato, toward Chris, about four times.
  • Episode 4 of the anime has Chris stripping to use the bath right as Yamato walks out of it. This time it's Yamato who screams, covers himself, and calls Chris a pervert.
• The Ace: Momoyo. If she's giving it her all, no one can beat her in a fight one-on-one.
• Action Girl: Just about every female character, major and minor alike.
• Actor Allusion:
  • Momoyo thinks she should be able to ride a white horse, Gen needs to practice his archery and Usami goes to prepare his mapo tofu. Gen makes note of his Archery skills in Momoyo's route as well, but never even gets close to a bow.
  • A notable one has the pervert Ikurou suddenly speaking in a monotone, turning serious, developing an incredible intellect, and introducing himself thus:
  Ikurou: ''I am... Ero.'^note "eru" ("L") and "ero" ("pervert") are pronounced almost identically.
  • One of Gakuto's attacks is called "Burning Attack''.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Takae in the anime bears little resemblance to how she is in S and even that much is tossed away in the fandisks, which don't seem to be using the same version of her character. By A-5, she's almost completely different. Whether you want to say the anime changed her personality to make her a villain or the fandisks changed her to make her more sympathetic is probably a matter of personal opinion.
• Affectionate Nickname: Gen-san's actual name is Tadakatsu Minamoto, which doesn't come up very often. The whole family calls Shouichi "Cap", short for Captain, and Momoyo, being a year older than everyone else, is "Momo-senpai". Yukie is called Mayucchi by her friends and Mayumayu by Momoyo; Kazuko is known by all as Wanko, but she's also in the habit of doling out nicknames herself - Tacchan for Gen-san, for instance, and Kuri for Chris. Subverted later on in the latter two's respective routes, where Yamato starts calling them by their given names instead - in particular, in Wanko's path, Momoyo catches on to their Relationship Upgrade via a sudden lack of this trope.
• The Aggressive Drug Dealer: A drug dealer sells Chika some Utopia for cheap because the drug is addictive enough that she'd likely come back for more, but with prompting from Mayo she throws it away and resolves never to be so stupid again. He later approaches her to sell to her again, with a promise for a discount if she brings her friends. Sensible enough, but the aggressive part comes after she refuses, when he blackmails her and then physically attacks her. And this isn't even for some new purpose like flat-out stealing her money off of her; he just really wants to sell her the drugs.
• The All-Concealing "I": In a flashback at the start of the Agave route, a child wishes to join the Kazama Family to escape horrible treatment from family and classmates. Even if the player realizes this is not Miyako (as the pronoun used for "I" is different, and the speaker eventually asks to join the group while Miyako never did), they are unlikely to guess that it's Koyuki.
• All Love Is Unrequited:
  • Moro loves Miyako, and due to Miyako's crush on Yamato it will never amount to anything.
  • Hideo loves Kazuko, but on the routes where he tells her as much, she turns him down for being so rambunctious.
  • Most notably, Miyako is completely in love with Yamato, and while it isn't completely unrequited, outside of her route he always tells her that he'd prefer to stay just friends.
  • And the one time Cap experiences any romantic or sexual feelings, they are for Momoyo, at the end of Momoyo's route when she'd already fallen for Yamato.
• All Men Are Perverts: Except if they're Cap.
• All There in the Manual
  • An ending skit tells us about how the five great archers match up to each other even though only three of them are in the story. They lament that all their relative strengths are probably never going to come up.
  • Inverted during the end of S in a way. The brief Takae side route in Majikoi S assumes you’ve watched the anime. Some of the details may be different, however, given that Saki is mentioned, but does not appear and is only referred to as a subordinate.
• Alternate Character Reading: When Yamato refers to himself and Mayo looking like siblings, the kanji are for older brother and little sister. Mayo nods and says they probably do look like siblings, except she reverses the ages because she’s convinced she’s a big sister character.
• Amazon Brigade
  • Margit's unit walks into a bar that Benkei and Yamato are tending for drinks after work. He notes that they're all beautiful women.
  • Apart from their master, all the Ryouzanpaku warriors appear to be girls. Including Kousonshou, who spent most of her screentime in S possessing Lu.
• Ambiguous Syntax: At one point in Agave Shakadou tells Tatsuko that she has the most potential of the Itagaki siblings and that she needs to work harder, which she mostly blows off. He drily notes that the gap between her and her siblings is growing larger by the day. Now, how are you supposed to read this? Is she squandering her potential to the point where she’s the weakest while they keep getting better and better, or is she just so much better that they can’t hope to catch up?
• Animal Motifs: Wanko as a dog most notably, though at one point Mayucchi comes up with one for everybody.
• The Anime of the Game
• Annoying Arrows: Averted: Even if blocked, they still generally cause a great deal of disorder. They also hurt like hell even if using arrows not designed to pierce skin. Yamato is fond of making use of archers as a result, though having Miyako as his constant ally helps his decision to always have an archer on hand.
• Anticlimax: Tsubame, Momoyo and Mayucchi all charge the Ryouzanpaku camp and call out their challenge but they aren’t even there to hear it.
• Archnemesis Dad: Aoi Touma hates his father, but still tries his best to continue the 'family business.' In the Agave route he eventually gives up, is arrested and testifies against his father while in S and presumably all following routes the Kuki's uncover what his father has been doing and threaten him into cleaning up his act, freeing up Touma to be the good person he is at his core.
• Ascended Extra
  • Oodles and oodles of characters get their own standing drawings and voice actors/actresses in the sequel, such as the Ninja Maid contingent, assistant instructor Lu, and Gale and Gates, to name but a few. A handful also get the vaunted heroine treatment. Further, when characters like Kyougoku, Stacy and Lee became more important and got actual characters sprites, they also got new (and better) voice actors.
  • By the fan discs, almost the entire cast has their own portraits.
  • Margit's group were occasionally been referred to, but not much more than noting that they're all beautiful women. In A-5 they become part of a harem ending for Margit's afterstory.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Assuming you pass the competency test to hold a higher rank, the way you get promoted among the Kuki attendants during Stacy’s route is to be stronger than someone of a higher rank and challenge them to a fight. Everyone is aiming for spot 11 because Azumi is going to retire to focus on being Hideo’s attendant while spots 2-10 are held by older staff who will neither get the position nor have their own position challenged. Whoever holds rank 11 at the end because the new number 1 attendant. Shown to perhaps not be the smartest system when Stacy wins: She's irresponsible and skips out on her duties when she gets the chance.
• Author Appeal: Takahiro's love for military women became pronounced when this series was made. His later visual novel works and Akame ga Kill! definitely shows this appeal.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: How the Sibling Team Gale and Gates got their reputation. Subverted in that while Gates is able to successfully predict Momoyo's first attack, it's so overwhelming that Gale is unable to defend against it.
• Badass Creed: The Kawakami Soul.
  "The path I shall follow is an endless wasteland. There are no miracles or signs. Only the night extends before me. I feed on the unwavering spirit. And forge my way through the dark journey. Push, foward!"
• Badass Crew: The Kazama Family. While the girls are by far the best fighters, Yamato is a fantastic Chessmaster and Capt and Gakuto are certainly no slouches. The only one who doesn't quite fit is Moro, though even he has his moments.
  • Also Class 2-S. All of them are elite fighters and always give Class F a run for their money. Taken further in the routes where Yamato is in 2-S, because along with Touma, they now have the two best strategists in the school, meaning they pretty much can't be beaten as far as tactics go.
• Badass Family: The Itagaki siblings Ami, Tatsuko, Ryuuhei, and Angel are all very capable fighters.
• Baseball Episode: "Kawakami Ball".
• Battle Harem: More true for the anime with Miyako, Wanko, Yukie & Chris already in Yamato's harem from the start, and the Momoyo (and others) in play. In the game, each girl has her own route, though in the Agave route, you get a Momoyo and Miyako scene following one with Tatsuko and Angel. The after story has you decide whether to pursue the Itagakis or Kazama family. If the former, Ami gets roped in as well. If the latter, Momoyo hints that she might try to bring in the other girls.
• Berserk Button:
  • Do NOT play around with Yamato's pet hermit crabs.
  • And in the manga's case, ruining Cap's breakfast is a very bad idea. And so is calling Cookie "annoying".
• Big Bad: The Mallord, a mysterious figure who drives the plot of the Agave route. Ryuuhei reports directly to them, which confuses everyone since Ryuuhei is not the type to submit to anyone. It's Aoi Touma using a code name based off the kanji in his own name.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Usually Momoyo thanks to her in-universe status as the World's Strongest Woman, though occasionally invoked to lesser degrees by other members of the family, as well as Hideo in the Agave storyline.
  • Practically all of the side characters from the earlier episodes show up to help Yamato and his crew in episode 12.
  • Yukie in the Kawakami War of Momoyo's route, appears to save Mayo the army commander, at the last second, ultimately winning a chunk of time for successful base-race.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Musashi clan is heavily implied to be a bunch of ambitious, backstabbing jerks. Kosugi and especially Bunta show occasional signs of decency, but with that upbringing they'll find it hard to be anything but complete pricks.
• Black Comedy Rape: Due largely in part to Momoyo, plenty of Double Standard Rape: Female on Male abounds. Except when it's not treated lightly. Near the end of her route Mayucchi has to throw Momoyo, addled by battle lust, out a window to get her off Yamato.
• Black Eyes of Evil:
  • The otherwise harmless looking Centipede has completely black eyes.
  • Shibunkyo has jet black eyes and eerie yellow pupils. That said, despite first appearances she’s actually no eviler than the likes of Bushou given that she avoids involving bystanders just as much as they do and makes sure to take care of her subordinates. Presumably, her eyes only look like that because she has a similar ability to Rinchuu.
• Blatant Lies: The narration has a way of blatantly lying to the reader about things of dubious legality like underage drinking or people's ages.
• Blood Knight: As the series is about overpowered fighters there's a number of them:
  • Shakadou: Naturally born a genius fighter, feared where he lived, and reveled in it. Tenshin brought him into the Kawakami Temple to guide him to a better path, which did not work, and he was banished. Lu welcomes him back at the end of the Agave route, deciding to try embracing Shakadou's natural understanding of people like Momo and the Itagaki family.
  • Momoyo: Loved the rush of a good battle since she was little. She was the only member of the Kawakami Temple to ask to train under Shakadou while he was teaching there, relating more to his mindset than to Lu's.
  • Margit: Eager to challenge anyone she deems worthy. Her job comes first, though; she prioritizes her orders should they specifically mention not fighting certain people.
• Book Ends: The first fight shown in full: Kazuko vs Chris. The last fight of Kazuko's route shown in full: Kazuko vs Chris.
• Born Winner: A-4 establishes that some people are just born with special superpowers, though these abilities had appeared as far back as S without explanation. For example, Bushou has the ability to generate flames naturally, Kousonshou can possess the willing or unconscious and Sigrun has the ability to heal the injuries of those she touches. Some of these abilities can be replicated and some cannot: Creation of fire is nothing special, but there are few ways to heal others with chi and they're not as effective.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Just like Touma warned they might be, the Magatsu Cookies that Kuki placed around the school are hacked the day before Carnival begins. Mayucchi is basically the one who has to fight them all, but she's reluctant since to stop them she needs to inflict what would be lethal damage if her opponent were human. Since it's not their fault, Cookie has to reassure her that as long as their memory cores stay intact they'll be fine.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: During Stacy's route after she and Yamato flirt for awhile they return to their hotel room. Yamato commands the sexy music to start and Stacy panics and tells it to stop again. They spent more time playing around instead.
• Broad Strokes: Takae's A-5 route is surprisingly unrelated to her mini route in S. However, a number of pieces were largely pulled out intact, such as danger from meteorites, getting scolded for fishing in a forbidden area and eventually having her bad luck neutralized while in the Shimazu dorm.
• Bromantic Foil: Every male member of the Kazama Family is one to Yamato in different ways. Capt is his ever-supportive polar opposite best friend, Gakuto is the perverted skirt chaser and Moro is his meek sidekick. Gen also takes up the role pretty much immediately after joining the group, being Yamato's only male friend caable of providing sound relationship advice.
• Bullying a Dragon: Downplayed. A bunch of thugs run into Cookie near the secret base and note that they've heard of the terrifying abandoned building guarded by a robot, but decide Cookie looks harmless and pick a fight. It ends poorly for them.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite basically the entire cast being rather flaky, they also all happen to be highly intelligent and martially skilled.
• But Thou Must!: If Yamato marries Monshiro, Ageha won't accept being called anything but onee-chan, no matter how out of place it sounds.
• Call-Back
  • During Monshiro's route in S there's a call back to a scene from Mayucchi's route in the original. Everyone drew a tarot card there and Koyuki pulled out the tower, symbolizing ruin. Yamato takes out tarot cards again in S and says that sometimes if your fortune changes your arcana changes as well. Koyuki begins to reach for one card that Yamato bets is the Tower, which generally symbolizes ruin and disaster. However, changes her mind and grabs a Star card instead, representing faith, hope and peace.
  • At the climax of Agave, just like at the beginning, Hideo invites Touma to join the Kuki conglomerate. First, he he’ll have to go to prison for his crimes but as soon as that is finished, they’re still friends no matter what Touma says to the contrary. To not use Touma in the future would be a waste of his abilities.
• Call-Forward: The first fandisc has a call forward to the second one with Yamato finding porn magazines about ‘The invincible overlord (Haou) and the perverted tactician.’
• Calling Your Attacks: In the Visual Novel, Assistant Master Lu spends time brainstorming names for his new special moves.
• The Cameo: The Colonel from They Are My Noble Masters appears in the Koyuki route of S, confirming that the mercenary group they worked for is the same.
• Camp Gay: Apart from Ryuuhei, a rather dangerous but still masculine rapist, all gay men are extremely campy perverts. There's one exception to the perversion with an unnamed class S first year who's actually pretty nice, but he still speaks with a falsetto, has feminine body language and wears lipstick and purple hair dye.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Chris pretty much gets instantly inebriated whenever the Kawakami Water comes out. Played for hilarious effect in her own route, where it leads to a threesome with Margit. Miyako isn't that good with it either whereas Mayucchi is basically impossible to inebriate.
• Catchphrase: Miyako's "... Shoumonai", roughly "There's no helping it." She gets rather happy when she hears Yamato use it.
• Cerebus Retcon
  • Most scenes involving Touma, Jun, and Koyuki after clearing the Agave path. Most notably, the ending of Chris's route is the only one where Touma opts not to continue in their family's line of work and instead decides to "live for love", a choice that the Agave route's reveals really puts into perspective.
  • Takae's route rather brutally kills off any ability to laugh at her misfortune. They didn't even have to change anything about it beyond changing her reaction to it and showing the actual consequences. It's hard to laugh at someone who's writhing in agony after eating a poisonous mushroom that should have been safe.
• Cerebus Syndrome: The games are generally lighthearted throughout, with some drama here and there, but generally have a final route much darker than anything before it.
• Character Development: All of the heroines, some of the antagonists. Only really happens to Yamato in the paths where his childhood dream is brought up.
• The Chessmaster: Yamato, a rarity among eroge male leads. Touma is the 2-S equivalent, and the two have a small rivalry.
• Chick Magnet: Cap, Gen and Touma, and also arguably Momoyo.
  • Technically, Yamato is the biggest one considering he manages to win over the hearts of every girl with a character portrait with but "very few" exceptions. He even manages to make robots and ninjas like him. There even instances where he makes the heroines blush, and it's not even their route. It gets lampshaded by Usami/Beard-sensei when he suggests calling Yamato the Prince of the Night in Sayaka's route in A-1 while Momoyo calls him a gigolo in a few other routes while almost every girl he's in a relationship with calls him a bed yakuza.
• Childhood Friend Romance: Any of Miyako, Momoyo, or Wanko qualify for this. Miyako, in particular, is the Patient Childhood Love Interest, to whom Yamato has been maintaining a Just Friends stance to for the last several years(!).
• Childhood Friends: The Kazama Family minus Yukie & Chris. The 2-S trio, as well.
• Childhood Memory Demolition Team: The secret base is demolished at the conclusion of the Agave route, with the Friday gatherings temporarily suspended, though the plant itself is OK.
• Child Prodigy: Monshiro has skipped grades to enter Kawakami High. She also accepts challenges from, and bests, everybody in her class (1-S, so no pushovers) at everything from running a race to a cooking duel. The only thing she's no good at is fighting, for which she has her overwhelmingly powerful bodyguard to cover for.
• Class Representative: 2-F's Token Mini-Moe Mayo, who volunteered for the position when nobody else would come forward. Hideo serves the same role for 2-S.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Momoyo is the biggest user of this trope, but all of the other girls begin portraying it as well later in the season, to the point where they're actively fighting each other or at least attempting to undermine their rivals. The ending of episode 12 just makes it worse with Yamato's confession.
• Cloudcuckoolander:
  • Koyuki. The reason why is expanded upon in the Agave route.
  • Miyako seems to act like one at times.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The members of the Kazama Family are each associated with a color, which appears as the color of their text and as a battle aura of sorts when they're doing something cool.
• Compressed Adaptation: The anime cuts out most of the common route and drops the story into what is essentially Momoyo's route (more specifically, seemingly the version where Yamato manages to screw up so badly she rejects his confession a second time. Yeah.), cutting out all the other routes and adding in some new material to turn the story into more of an Unwanted Harem.
• Conflicting Loyalty: Comes up a few times - Jun between Touma and his own wishes in the Agave route, Chris between Yamato and her father in her own route, the entire group between Miyako and Wanko in Miyako's route, so on and so forth.
• Continuity Cavalcade: During the final battle during Carnival, all the minor characters get to show up and help defend the town. Even all of Momoyo’s random challengers (or at least, the ones that aren’t jerks) and Deniro for no apparent reason.
• Conversational Troping: Suguru and Jun, both otaku of varying levels, talk about gender flips. Suguru naturally thinks the idea is awesome while Jun is mildly offended… until he realizes that the gender flips can include flips to underaged girls.
• Crash-Into Hello: Yamato literally bumps into Mayucchi at the start of the Visual Novel, and already takes advantage of it by snapping shots of her thighs while she's down.
• Credits Running Sequence: Matsukaze provides most of the dynamics in the anime ending credits.
• Crossover: More than a simple Shout-Out, members of the Kuonji household shows up in several places, as they live in the neighbouring area. In one of the routes they even spend the night in that mansion. Naturally, one of them mentions that Yukie has a nice voice.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Plenty. Generally, if a character seems harmless and is suspiciously left out of fighting for a long period of time, they'll be revealed to be one of the biggest badasses in the entire universe. The two best examples are Mayucchi and Tatsuko, but they're far from the only ones.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Momoyo regularly defeats all her challengers instantly, leading to her becoming bored and more bloodthirsty.
  • The brief "battle" between the Kazama family boys and girls ends up like this. The boys don't even get a hit in before they're beaten to a pulp, and Moro goes down in a single attack. The guys still technically end up winning, due to achieving their intended goal of rescuing Yamato from the girls, thanks to some trickery courtesy of Capt.
  • In Momoyo's route when the Azumi squad attacks the headquarters, they instantly destroy all the defenses until Mayucchi appears to completely and almost effortlessly reverse the battle.
  • Saki effortlessly holds off Mayucchi, Miyako, Chris, and Wanko al by herself in episode 10.
  • In one Underestimating Badassery moments on part of Kosugi Musashi, she challenges Yukie, who's not happy with Kosugi spreading certain rumors, to a fight without weapons, apparently sure of Yukie's reliance on katana. The fight ends with the first puch finding its target and the duel-overseeing headmaster drops a comment on how long it'll take Kosugi to recover.
• Curtains Match the Window: Several of the characters have (mostly) matching hair and eye colors (Examples: Mayo, Touma, Umeko, Margit, Tadakatsu, Chika)
• Cuteness Proximity: Momoyo has strong reactions to any cute girl she happens upon.
• Dark Horse Victory: While initially a favorite in the war games, her team becomes a laughingstock after four pathetic losses in a row. After that, all the attention is on Tsubame, Hideo and Yoshitsune's teams. However, she manages to secure six consecutive victories, netting a four way tie that ends in a free for all among the four commanders. Given that she's easily the strongest of the four, she wipes out all the competition despite Yoshitsune and Tsubame double teaming her.
• A Day in the Limelight: Episode 3 focuses on Miyako's and Yukie's relationships with Yamato and their motives for wanting him.
• Defeat Means Friendship
  • Irritated with Chris' condemnation of his dishonest ways, Yamato challenges her to a straightforward duel. Despite being sick, he manages to beat her and get her to acknowledge that his methods are valid.
  • Standard operating procedure for the Kuki corporation. Stacy came to Japan to make fun of Azumi and was beaten by Hume while Lee attempted to assassinate Mikado and was caught by Claudio. Even Tsubame is similarly recruited when they lay out some tempting bait for her.
• Demoted to Extra: Every character who isn't one of the five main heroines or Yamato suffered from this in the anime, due to its nature of a Compressed Adaptation. As such, part of the game's charm of having a well rounded cast is dampened considerably.
• Denser and Wackier: Majikoi was never exactly well-grounded in reality, but has gotten increasingly more outlandish as time has gone by. Majikoi S begins with historical clones, for example, while the fandiscs introduce robot love interests and people born with essentially magic abilities.
• Designated Girl Fight: Gender-inverted. As most of the strongest warriors in the setting are female, most of the major fights are between girls. Generally, every major villain team has at least one male member for Gakuto to face off against, however.
• Didn't Think This Through: Yamato shouts out “I will peep with all my might!” to prove his resolve to an old man in Azumi’s village. Obviously Azumi heard him and intercepts him the moment he even tries.
• Dirty Old Man: The village elder in Azumi's village tests Yamato's physique and get irritated when Yamato is unhappy about it. He doesn't want to be groping guys, you know?
• Distracted by the Sexy: Episode 4 has a scene where Momoyo uses one of her ki attacks to deliberately flip her skirt, causing Yamato to drop his guard (because he easily dodged her attacks before this), and she subsequently puts him in an arm bar.
• Divided We Fall: Yoshitsune and Tsubame vs Haou starts off promising for their side, but after injuring Haou, Tsubame turns on Yoshitsune and the two begin infighting. Haou, meanwhile, had already recovered before Yoshitsune even got back up. So she sits back and gathers power while those two squabble before oneshotting both of them.
• Diving Kick: Culmination of Chris route, her rescue from the overprotective father's clutches involves Chris and Yamato delivering a twin variation of such kick at one point. The aesthetic of the move is near-alien to the rest of the action, and Yamato wouldn't contribute much power-wise, only Rule of Cool.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Tsubame's marketing of her natto products sometimes comes across like the stereotypical drug dealer pushing their product onto an unsuspecting dupe and then raising the price once they're hooked. She even has a stall during a festival where you get a discount by bringing a friend!
• Door Stopper: 5 heroines, 3 sub-heroines, 3 friend ends, and 1 true end. The sequel adds after-stories for all five original heroines, as well as including 2 brand new heroines and 3 paths for characters who got the Promotion to Love Interest.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: In episode 2, the girls chase after a dog in the bath house naked. They then catch it when it runs into Yamato's room. After some initial embarassment and screaming, the next scene shows Yamato all bruised up as they continue chasing after the dog.
• Downer Ending: In-Universe, it's noted that Koyuki's short stories end badly. In the Itagaki branch of Agave After Yamato offers to help her write one with a happier ending for Jun and Touma.
• Down to the Last Play: The Kawakami Ball game, Yamato's duel with Chris, and more.
• Dramatic Irony: Played for laughs. Frank calls up Yamato to give him relationship advice, namely that they should start with holding hands. Considering what they did on their first date and what they’ve been doing since then and are in fact doing right now maybe Margit and Yamato are a little bolder than he expected?
• Dude, She's Like in a Coma: Having run out of ideas, Yamato's last desperate gamble to keep Chris in Japan is this. She wakes up partway through, and they end up going all night long. Surprisingly, it works!

E — L

• Earn Your Happy Ending: In every route, but particularly Agave, where even Invincible Hero Momoyo comes close to biting it at one point and the town might have been burned to the ground if preparations for Carnival hadn't been made.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with in Agave after. At first it seems that Angel and Ami just get sent off to some mountain training while Tatsuko can just hang around the temple, but the Afterstory shows that all three of them were basically conscripted into the Kawakami temple to forcibly reform them. It’s made clear that mouthing off is not going to be tolerated and Angel’s drugs are taken away, leaving her in the middle of some severe withdrawal symptoms. However, in the end it seems they really do have a lot of freedom for people who were helping to run a drug empire.
  • Averted in S when it's revealed that their mentor, Shakadou, had actually taken most of the blame to ensure they could continue with their lives after a enduring a much lighter sentence while he is closely supervised by Kuki corp. The Kawakami temple decides to supervise their rehab and ensure they avoid making similar mistakes. In Agave after, Yamato is asked to help after Lu sees how Tatsuko is attached to him and the player must decide whether to focus on them or focus on the Kazama family, basically choosing which harem he ends up with.
• Easter Egg: That "Minato Soft" call in random character's voice is not just some questionable attempt at enforcing catchiness.
  • On April 13, game starts with Momoyo's congratulations to Miyako, announcing her birthday present to be a Jidaigeki DVD.
  • On May 4, Tadakatsu asks whether it's really Kumagai's birthday and tells him not to overeat.
• 11th-Hour Ranger: Gen-san in the Agave path.
• Enemy Mine: At the end of Rinchuu’s route she teams up with Shibunkyo to fight off a third mercenary group. The temporary cooperation ends up leading to improved relations with Souichizoku as they hunt down their mutual enemy together, the first time the two groups have cooperated in a thousand years.
• Ensemble Cast: Impressive for both an H-Game and a game with such a large cast, but practically every character gets a moment in the spotlight and some depth.
• Entendre Failure: Miyako's attempts at acting scared of the storm outside to get into Yamato's bed just inspire Chris to offer to sleep together with her. Miyako is actually happy enough with that outcome, so she might have been scared for real.
• Erotic Eating: The lollipops in episode 6. Momoyo evens lectures the other heroines on how to "eat" the lollipop, while lots of guys watch them as if they could actually feel it themselves. Then she tells them to take a bite off. All the guys immediately collapse in pain. Kokoro does a similar thing, but without the lecture.
• Even the Girls Want Her: Momoyo has legions of fans of both genders.
• Everyone Can See It
  • Hooking up with Miyako raises nary an eyebrow from, well, anyone. In fact, most of the other students at school (2-F notwithstanding) naturally assumed that Yamato and Miyako were already dating, and even before the game starts Miyako has already earned a reputation as "Yamato's girl".
  • Subverted in one instance. It's noted at multiple points that Cap and Wanko would go well together and that people are kind of expecting it, but it never happens and they never show any interest in each other.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Touma respected his father for being a kind, respectful man, but as far as his father was concerned the only reason anyone would act like that is to make it easier to get away with committing crimes.
• Evolving Credits:
  • In the opening, Momoyo is seen punching a silhouette. Starting with episode 8, the silhouette turns out to be Takae Tachibana, one of the original Big Four.
  • The ending shows a different girl each episode, and the ending for episode 12 shows all five of them.
• Exact Words: The rules of the Kawakami War include not being allowed to torture or interrogate soldiers from the enemy army. When Yamato uncovers a spy at his group's first meeting, he declares that since everyone at the gathering said that they were part of his own army, the rule does not apply to his victim.
• Excuse Plot: According to the summer 2014 poll, Rinchuu is the third most popular Majikoi girl and was the prime attraction for the A-4 fandisc. However, the Ryuuzanpaku dojo is in the mountains of China and has little reason to get involved with Kawakami unless hired, so a rival mercenary group is invented to try to kidnap Yamato but then barely appears throughout the route while Rinchuu "guards" Yamato.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: When Seiso and Haou switch places, her hairstyle changes between being very neat and tidy and being quite wild.
• Expy:
  • The Prime Minister possesses more than just a passing resemblance to Mr. Taro Aso. In Mayucchi's route it's revealed that in addition to being a badass, he's also a crack shot with a rifle, which just seals the deal.
  • Tesshin Kawakami, the principal, is also a clear expy of Genryusai Yamamoto, especially in his design.
• Eyes Always Shut:
  • Tatsuko is perpetually sleepy, and thus, her eyes are almost always shut. They occasionally open to show green eyes and if she happens to berserk, then they'll be glowing green.
  • One of Lee's former comrades, the Centipede, always keeps his eyes shut to look like a normal, harmless old man. When they open, turns out they're ridiculously evil looking.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Azumi’s route starts up with Yamato trying to assist her with winning Hideo’s heart. Given that Hideo is not the protagonist, their efforts are doomed.
• Family Business: The Kuki Financial Conglomerate, exactly as described on the tin. This also gives Ageha, Hideo, and Monshiro rather... distinct personalities.
• Fan Disservice: Some of the bonus sketches have the various cast members talking like cats, nya! Yamato approves until the huge, muscled guy who constantly oils himself is dragged out to participate.
• Fangirl: Chris is a huge Jidaigeki fan, and in particularly loves the Show Within A Game Yamato-maru Nikki series, an interest she bonds with Yamato, a casual watcher of the series, over.
• Fanservice: The anime has more of this than the visual novel.
• Fantastic Drug: Utopia was a drug developed as an antidepressant and is quite effective. However, it also makes the person taking it feel fantastic. Unfortunately, it also happens to be highly addictive, it’s easy to overdose on and has side effects increasing aggression and loss of rational thought. Unfortunately, the drug is legal with a prescription and appears to be quite cheap.
• Final Speech: Matsukaze "dies" in Mayucchi's route, though she uses the speech as an opportunity to finally accept another part of herself.
• First Girl Wins: Momoyo is the first girl to appear in-game and takes front and center in most of the game's group shots and associated media, and is as close as the game gets to a "main" heroine. In the game's timeline, though, Wanko is the first girl, and Yamato mentions her having taken many of his "firsts" (first Valentine's chocolate, first time seeing a girl "down there", first time sleeping next to a girl, etc). The anime begins in the middle of Momoyo's route, making it true for the adaptation if nothing else.
• First-Name Basis: Like everybody else in the family, Yamato calls Kazuko "Wanko" and Yukie "Mayucchi", but in their respective paths he takes to calling them by their first name post-Relationship Upgrade.
• Fishing for Sole: In Kazuko's route, as the flashback to Kazuko's adoption into Kawakami family comes to an end, a few main characters are river fishing. Chris "catches" a rainboot and gets teased about it, like she made a poor joke on purpose.
• Flashback: Interspersed between routes as necessary; no single path gives a complete background on the family, with each person's pertinent set of flashbacks happening in their own storyline.
  • In Yukie's route, when the group takes plane for a trip to Okinawa, a brief flashback introduces the chameleon sandwich that Yamato procured. What immediately follows is a choice, whether to go peeping armed with its concealing effect.
• Forceful Kiss: Shibunkyo gives up on recruiting Yamato, but then kisses him before leaving before Rinchuu can stop her.
• Foreshadowing
  • Early in the Agave route, a first year beaten up by Wanko walks about how the Argentinian martial artist Messi was recently in town, entered into an underground fight and lost to a girl named Itagaki, after which he claimed she was on the same level as Momoyo. The girl was only a year or two older than the first year. Angel is too young for that. Ami is too old. Ignore Tatsuko's lackluster battle performance early in Agave: That's not how she fights normally.
  • During Wanko's route in a flashback, Yamato muses that it's good that her only living relative was obviously scum and everyone knew not to trust him or let him get custody of her. What happens to kids who have parents who are secretly terrible? Like, say, Touma?
• For Want Of A Nail: Despite the narration telling us everything is basically the same with the premise of Yamato accepting Koyuki as a friend ten years ago in the true route of S, there are quite a few differences, some of them fairly major. Remember in the original storyline when Cookie was a robot girl? No? Too bad, Cookie is 90% of the way to robomeido now. And the Agave route never had to happen either Because Reasons.
• Friends with Benefits: In Stacy's route Yamato starts out in a relationship with Chika of all people. After sleeping together once, Chika suggested they continue until one of them found someone they actually love. Chika is enthusiastic, but Yamato has a tendency to space out. Though it was her suggestion to have this kind of relationship, in the end she falls for him and when he has to break up with her, she cries.
• Frothy Mugs of Water: Kawakami Water, which is a clear stand in for alcohol despite repeated and not terribly convincing assurances that it's not.
• Funny Background Event: While Yamato is catching up with Gen and Usami, screams of pain can be heard in the background while Stacy beats up thugs.
• Gay Option:
  • The game doesn't really have one, though not for lack of characters — Touma is quite open about his preferences, and Ryuuhei is straight up just gay.
  • One of the Bad Ends has Ryuuhei dragging Yamato to a toilet and "Piercing him with his spear", Yamato realizes that he might have been swinging that way after all.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: If you count Cookie as a male, then the Kazama Family has five men and five women in it. Even if you don't, Gen joins later on in the game, making it this any way. This actually seems to be enforced by Capt, who immediately declares that the group should get another guy after Chris and Mayucchi join.
• Genre Savvy: The entire cast are all well versed in anime, manga and eroge and thus are very aware of the classic cliches.
• Genre Shift: The games are primarily a Slice of Life story, but frequently dips into either an Affectionate Parody of a Shonen fighting series or a completely straight Shonen fighting series.
• Give Him a Normal Life: An accomplished assassin, the Snake, picked up a crying, abandoned baby on the streets of Hong Kong after a mission and decided he would name her Jinchu and raise her to be a normal girl. However, one day he was attacked by two assassins at home. He dealt with one, but the other tried to take Lee hostage. When he got inside and found this out, he saw that Lee had already killed the man. Lee then chose to become an assassin herself, though all her father had wanted was to leave something good in this world to balance out all the evil he put into it.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Momo and Tatsuko, when they get serious.
• Goal in Life: A central plot point in Wanko's route. Seeing her working so hard for the sake of her goal inspires Yamato to revive his own childhood dream of becoming a man capable of moving Japan itself, i.e. the Prime Minister. In the epilogue ten years later, he's shown to have worked his way up to becoming a city council member.
• Go-Karting with Bowser:
  • Despite their very clearly intense rivalry, members Class F and Class S casually hang out more than once. Even Hideo and Capt, who play up their rivalry for all it's worth, have no problem spending time at the arcade with each other.
  • The Itagaki siblings. Initially the main antagonists, after preforming a Heel–Face Turn of sorts they continue to act as hired thugs for whoever wants them while remaining chummy with the Kazama Family.
• Gratuitous English: Much of the cast enjoys peppering their dialogue with English.
  Miyako: "I rub yu!"
• Green-Eyed Monster: Yamato’s second opponent in Stacy’s route hates him because he feels Yamato monopolizes Monshiro’s time as her personal attendant. He’s surprised that Yamato is quite polite, but still tries to pick a fight.
• Hand Wave: The story acknowledges that Miyako shouldn’t be able to stand against Koyuki in Agave, but it makes a dirty joke and then ignores it.
• Happily Ever After: Invoked in a couple of different ways. In their respective routes Wanko is Happily Married, Miyako gets Babies Ever After, and Mayucchi Grow Old with Me, to name a few examples. At the end of the Agave route, the agave itself is transplanted to the Kawakami School of Martial Arts, the family has gotten a new member and is still going strong, and even the villains are getting a shot at redemption.
• Happily Married
  • The entirety of Monshiro’s afterstory has her and Yamato already married. The months and possibly years just skip along while they stay a lovey dovey couple.
  • Kagekiyo and Saki's relationship is perhaps a little, uh, nonstandard, but they both seem to be very happy together nonetheless with no apparent problems in their marriage.
• Hard Truth Aesop: Koyuki's stories have a tendency to end with these, such as the moral of 'The Squid Who Said A Bad Thing' being not to encourage people to do things they're not capable of since it's irresponsible and a story about how a My Master, Right or Wrong/Yes-Man attitude is little more than the attitude of a tool, not a person. These stories tend to depress anyone who hears them. The first story has a lot to do with Wanko's route. No matter how much she tries to become an Assistant Master she'll never be able to do it. The other story comes into play with Jun's unhesitating support for Touma even when he knows he's wrong, for which he is criticized and eventually punished. Koyuki gets away with it though.
• Hard Work Hardly Works: If you work hard, you'll get results. If you're talented and work hard, you'll get far better results. If you're talented and don't work hard, the normal person could very well beat you.
  • Wanko simply can't catch up to any of the best fighters because she doesn't have the talent required.
  • Shakadou used to beat Lu nine times out of ten despite Lu working far harder, but when he stopped training properly Lu came back and crushed him.
  • In S, Momoyo has been slacking and more importantly isn't taking fights seriously, which gets her beaten by Tsubame in her route despite her vast inferiority.
  • Yamato, Cap and Gakuto all have talent for martial arts, but don't pursue it at all. They're way behind when it comes to combat as a result.
• Harem Genre: The anime features a typical setup, with all five girls being into Yamato and competing for him. But this is not the case for the visual novel outside of arguably the Agave route, as all other routes contain at most a Love Triangle with Miyako.
• Have You Told Anyone Else?: When Yamato confronts and uncovers the Mallord on the school roof, he's asked if he's told anyone else about the Mallord's true identity. Yamato says only the people in the Kazama Family because he wants to keep the incident small and doesn't believe his opponent can do anything about it. Though an unexpected enemy attacks Yamato, he's bailed out by Mayucchi, though they can't stop the Mallord's escape. Neither party got what they wanted and the final confrontation is now inevitable.
• Heel Realization: The Kazama family are at one point hired to hunt down a pack of thugs that killed a cat and attack people. When the second one is about to be beaten up, he realizes what it’s like to be hunted instead of hunting and how terrible of a person he is. The rest lack his self awareness, though, and all get beaten up while he may have gotten off without punishment from Momoyo.
• Heroic BSoD:
  • Wanko after losing via double KO in the tournament, thus having to give up on her dream. Miyako when Yamato decides to temporarily put their relationship on hold. In both cases Cooldown Hugs are eventually involved.
  • In the anime, Momoyo in episode 8 when during her heated battle against a cyborg opponent, one of the missiles fired by the opponent and deflected by her ends up hitting Yamato and putting him in a coma. She even lets out a Skyward Scream after seeing him in the ICU.
• Heroic Rematch: Depending on who is on the protagonist side, an earlier match can be reversed in favor of the character who originally lost.
  • In Koyuki route, Shakadou goes up against Lu like he did in Agave but this time wins in approximately ten seconds.
  • Seiso's route has another fight between Tsubame and Haou, except with Yoshitsune also working with her. Haou, not playing around now, beats them both in a single blow when they stop pressing her.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A couple. Gakuto for Chika, Momoyo for Moro, etc

• Hidden Eyes: This game being what it is, the Ecchi CGs all feature this, though this is not the case with the "regular" CGs.
• Hint System: During the bonus sketches at the end, Touma will occasionally give some advice. For example, during Momoy’s route choices that would be trivial in other routes can result in a bad end if you consistently pick the wrong choices. You also need to display trust in Miyako or you will once again get a bad end, though that one is more obvious.
• Hollywood Hacking: Deniro easily hacks into the Kuki database, but it turns out to be because the security is incredibly bad. Even Stacey is embarrassed at how easily he did it.
• Hot Teacher: Umeko-sensei, a sub-heroine with her own "ending".
• Hotter and Sexier: While the original game's an eroge, S ramps up the number of sex scenes.
• How We Got Here: Takae's route starts off after a plane crash strands Yamato, Takae, Dominguez and Sheila in the middle of the desert. She got too far from Cap's influence, it seems.
• Humiliating Wager: Haou bets Yamato’s clothing for every ten meal tickets she doesn't have to wager and then throws him out of the room before he can stop her. She loses fifteen times by the time Yamato gets back and Cap has to bail him out. He's not very happy and drags her aside.
• Hypocritical Humor: Stacy makes fun of Lee when the latter picks a Kawakami cherry and outs herself as a virgin, but then pointedly refuses to pick one herself until Lee walks away. She then picks one and the cherry swells up just like it did for Lee, who asks her why she bothered to pretend otherwise. Stacy thinks it's lame.
• I Coulda Been a Contender!: Hideo of all people, who was apparently a genius baseball pitcher before getting caught up in a terrorist attack and suffering a career-ending injury. Particularly of significance in the Wanko and Agave routes.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The anime episode titles are shaping up to take the form of "Seriously _______!" ("Maji de _____ nasai!")
• Idiot Hair: Momoyo, Tatsuko, Koyuki.
• Imagine Spot: Happens a couple of times in-game, such as when a joke choice involving Miyako is chosen.

• Improbable Age
  • There are 999 primary attendants in the Kuki ranks and apart from rank 0 and ranks 2-9 all of them seem to be under 30. They're all trained fighters, administrators, servants and more. Yamato enters the organization at age 17 in Monshiro based branches of the story and manages to climb several hundred ranks pretty quickly if he tries.
  • Most but not all of the best male fighters are old men, but almost every single competent woman is under 25. Limiting it to under 20 still nets you about 90% of them.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Miyako and Yoichi (one of the new characters in the sequel), who are both members of the "Five Bows Under Heaven".
• Improbably Female Cast: Surprisingly for an Eroge, averted! The cast is about 50/50 in terms of men and women and the male characters get just as much personality as the females do.
• Indecisive Parody: Majikoi constantly mocks various Shonen tropes while immediately playing them straight during serious scenes.
• Inevitable Tournament
  • The war game arc of Seiso's route ends in a four way tie, so to decide places they go with a tournament.
  • The competition in Lee's route turns into a gigantic self parody of Majikoi itself with a super serious tournament devoted to... playing dead. They even mock how Wanko can never win at anything and she shows up for the sole purpose of losing to someone who doesn't even do well in the tournament.
• Informed Ability:
  • Pretty much every random guy who challenges Momoyo is supposedly an excellent fighter but ends up losing in a couple of seconds at best, making their alleged skill this. The lucky ones get a chance to fight someone who isn't Momoyo to show that they actually do know what they're doing.
  • The Warriors of the West from S are pretty much all about this. They're allegedly the strongest fighters from their school but proceed to get utterly destroyed by Kawakami Academy's student body, with some even losing to non-combatant characters. Once again, they get a few instances later on to genuinely shine.
• Informed Loner: Mocked by Gen-san, allegedly the toughest delinquent at Kawakami Academy who, beyond being kind of a grouch, regularly hangs out with the Kazama Family, to the point where he already lives with them at the beginning of the first game. Beyond this, he spends most of his screen time doing everything Yamato asks him to while also giving him various gifts and snacks. Other than looking and sort of acting like a delinquent, Gen is probably the most straight-laced guy in the cast.
• In-Joke: With a serious face, Wanko declares Lu to be the mastermind of the Agave route and then she and Momoyo burst out laughing at the sheer implausibility. Yamato tells them to knock it off with the private jokes.
• In-Series Nickname: Kazuko is called Wanko by just about everyone, and the producers often refer to her by the latter name instead. "Wan" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a dog makes, but the obvious Embarrassing Nickname conceals a Stealth Pun - the "Kazu" in "Kazuko" is written as the Japanese kanji for "one", hence "one-ko".
• Intimate Healing: After Momoyo passes out at the end of episode 12, Yamato gives her a kiss, thinking she made a Heroic Sacrifice. Shortly after, she immediately gets up, and claims that his kiss restored all of her energy, and then also claims to be in the lead since he kissed her first. None of the other girls take that very well, and they all force him to choose which girl he wants, so he decides that he loves his hermit crabs.
• Irony:
  • Of Situational variety. In Azumi’s route the Love Dodecahedron goes Yamato -> Azumi -> Kuki ->Wanko and immediately after Yamato realizes he likes Azumi, there’s a scene where she half drunkenly asks if he knows how painful unrequited love is.
  • After Benkei trashes a bunch of puppet warriors, Yamato offers to walk her home like a proper gentleman. Further, when he gets back and starts heading for home himself, he runs into infamous gay rapist Ryuuhei and has to flee in terror and ask for help from Margit.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Reiko, the dorm manager and Gakuto's mom in a flashback.
• Kamehame Hadoken: "KA-WA-KA-MI-HA!"
• Karma Houdini:
  • Both Saki and Tachibana receive no real punishment for all the destruction they caused. While Ageha does try to come up with an excuse, in which the Prime Minister gets justifiably blamed for much of the damage caused, they don't serve any jail time at all.
  • Averted with the weapon smugglers, who also manage to steal the money the Prime Minister hid away thanks to some hacking from Saki. However, the leader throws his cigar at a box of ammunition, and the shack they're in explodes. Even if they didn't die, they likely lost the financial information they needed from the laptop.
• Kick the Dog: When the topic of Carnival comes up, all three of the active Itagakis look forward to the mindless violence ahead while Tatsuko just sits back unconcerned. If you’re not an Itagaki, you can suffer and die for all they care. Yamato had just forgotten that he was with the villains until this point, which scared him.
• Kids Are Cruel: The ones who bullied Miyako in her childhood, both physically and emotionally. They even stooped to the point of killing Miyako's pets and tell her to drop dead, which made Yamato, who had tried to hide his association with Miyako until then, stand up for her.
• Kill Sat: In Matsunaga Tsubame's route in the sequel S, she uses one guided by her power suit, to defeat Momoyo.
• Lampshade Hanging
  • Yamato can’t help but find it a marvelous coincidence that in a tournament filled with his acquaintances, every single one (except Wanko!) wins their first round. Lee’s route in general comes off as a huge self parody at multiple points during the tournament.
  • By A-4, the story admits it’s becoming Denser and Wackier with the ridiculous increase in increasingly strange girls. Clones? Robots? Foreign mercenaries?
  • Rudy, a minor character in the Agave route, speaks in katakana/all capital letters. After running into Chika for the third time, he points out how annoying it is to read his speech.
• Large Ham: Pretty much the entire cast. Even mellow guys like Moro can start passionately screaming at the drop of a hat.
• Last Confession Wins: Apparently being set up by the anime if one is to happen - in the very first episode, Yamato confesses his feelings to Momoyo twice (one in a flashback, then again at the end of the episode), and ends up rejected on both cases, leaving him free for the other girls to take.
• Last Episode, New Character: The Hounds are mentioned only as a group of beautiful women that went drinking with Margit. A-5 is their first and only real appearance.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Later versions of the game don't even try to hide the fact that Gen joins the Kazama Family, despite it getting treated like a major event when it happened.
• Legacy Character: At Ryuuzanpaku, names like Rinchuu or Bushou are handed down through the generations. Originally, they were known as Fan and Sun.
• Leitmotif: Each of the heroines gets their own, of course, and Yamato has one himself as well. Various remixes of the two ending songs and the insert song are also used sparsely, and to good effect.
• Lightning Can Do Anything. Electricity is noted to be a counter to Momoyo's self healing ability because that definitely makes sense, right?
• Like Brother and Sister: While all of the original seven members of the Kazama family have shades of this, Momoyo and Yamato actually call each other "bro" and "Nee-san", respectively. One of the main goals of Momoyo's route is breaking out of this and having Momoyo acknowledge Yamato as a man.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • The Kuki battle royale’s only rule is that there are no rules, so Frank Friedrich brings in a missile barrage via helicopter. He’s immediately disqualified despite his protests because no matter what the rules are, it’s still a four man team battle in a free for all competition, so bringing in outside assistance is cheating.
  • Double subverted when it comes to Kawakami Ball. Azumi basically dopes herself up with consomme soup, but after doing it a second time they check the rules and find out that not only is there a rule about it, the rule specifically says that it's allowed.
  • In episode 12, a large group of thugs begins to march on the Prime Minister's office. There are armed soldiers outside, but they're told not to fire on unarmed civilians, despite the fact that said civilians are fist fighting them. One random thug picks up a rifle dropped by a soldier, but is immediately told to drop it, as it would then justify the JDF soldiers firing on them. So he drops it and they continue fighting against the soldiers, until Yamato and his crew show up to help, since they're not held back by the same restrictions.
• Loophole Abuse: Momoyo joins Class 2-S side during the Kawakami War while boasting there was no way 2-F could win with her allied with 2-S. In other routes, Momoyo is shown to be invincible, and the chances of beating her are made out to be slim even with Yamato making plans, and her presence represents a constant threat hanging over 2-F when the war begins. But because Momoyo was sitting around for so long, whether or not Yamato's could defeat proved a moot point. While none of Yamato's plan was able to defeat her, Momoyo spent so much time sitting the war out that Class 2-F was able to win while Momoyo was busy fighting the opponents Yamato send against her. Defeating her wasn't neccessary, just stalling her.
• Love Dodecahedron
  • The anime eventually escalates things to this, particularly in episode 10 when Yamato gets knocked out during a fight with one of the cyborgs, and all the girls tearfully admit their feelings for him. Momoyo wouldn't have it though, and shoves the other girls aside, declaring Yamato to be hers alone.
  • Lampshaded in Azumi’s route by Miyako since it now includes a link of five different people starting with Miyako and ending with Kazuko. Of course, if you include Moro it would actually be six links long, all unrequited.
• Love Potion:
  • When the village elder and Yamato are bonding or whatever, he attempts random zany schemes to get the two together. One of the ones that Yamato is kind of hesitant about is when the elder gives Azumi an aphrodisiac. That was the plan, anyway, but Azumi is a better ninja than he is and switches the drinks.
  • In Miyako route, the local fat gourmet Kumagai discovers a recipe for food that makes a person irresistible to women. A few secondary characters try it out to little good (one entices someone he'd rather not, the others have the effect run out too early to mean anything).
• Love Triangle:
  • In all of the paths other than her own, the only competition is Miyako, limiting the game as a whole to love triangles at best. Although from S onwards, Momoyo tends to get more jealous and has difficulty telling if it's jealousy as his sister or jealousy as a potential lover.
  • A short one during the end of Momoyo's route between Yamato, Capt, and Momoyo. Unfortunately for Capt, he grew up way too late to be of any real threat to Yamato.
  • In manga, based mostly (but not exclusively) on Momoyo Route, Capt falls in love with her much earlier. He is still so immature, that his first attempt of confession resulted in him being knocked out by her. Nonetheless, he is more competent rival to Yamato than in Visual Novel.
  • A silent one between Yamato, Miyako, and Moro. Due to his personality, and the fact that he knows its hopeless, Moro pretty much stays quiet about it.
  • Late in Yukie's route, Kokoro develops crush on Yamato. Yamato might become her butler, if player is so inclined. If not, she decides to step back because of her friendship with Mayucchi.
  • In S, there is some rivalry between Momoyo and Tsubame in latters route for Yamato affection. Eventually the former decides to just stay his big sister.
  • Agave's afterstory, which follows a route where Yamato slept with two of the Itagaki sisters and when he got home had oral with Momoyo and Miyako has some triangle aspects to it, though between groups rather than individuals. Is Yamato more romantically invested with the Itagakis or the Kazama Family? This can take two paths as well, both of which seem to end in a harem ending.
  • In Stacy's route, she gains a rival named Sheila that really hates her guts. She tries to seduce Yamato, who isn't very keen on the idea. Eventually she ends up falling for him.
  • In the background of Yoshitsune's route is Aki flirting with Yamato while it's, you know, Yoshitsune's route. Aki gets an ending if you side with her during the election, otherwise he starts dating Yoshitsune immediately afterward. Then you get Benkei unhappy because her best friend/little sister/boss is dating the guy she likes. In this case, there's a normal ending a threesome ending.

M — S

• Magical Eye: Shibunkyou’s eyes can see a little into the future as well as having an impossible good field of vision.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Yamato has few reservations about sex as long as no one else is watching. It varies from girl to girl but Miyako in particular is perfectly okay with him screwing her on a crowded train.
• Male Gaze:
  • Yamato isn't called the "Ero Strategist" for nothing.
  • However, he pales in comparision to Ikurou.
• Marry Them All
  • Apparently the Itagakis are okay with sharing Yamato. His internal monologue apologizes to Gakuto and Moro, who were not only interested in Ami and Angel but actually get along with them, though Chika's route makes it clear that it wouldn't have worked out for them anyway.
  • Ending up with both Momoyo and Miyako is also a thing that can happen as a continuation of the same scenario. They even hint about bring in the other girls, Wanko aside. This doesn’t really sink in until after they’ve finished already.
  • If Yamato accepts the position of Ryouzanpaku talent manager, it’s hinted that the group would perhaps be his harem. On the other hand, it cuts off the possibility of an exclusive relationship with any of them, in this case meaning Rinchuu in particular. After a six year time skip, they’re on the verge of taking out the Shoichizoku and his harem has expanded to include Miyako and probably Shishin at the very least on top of Kousonshou and Bushou.
  • One of the two Margit After endings has Yamato in a relationship with Margit while Margit agrees to let the Hounds sleep with him. This is actually the ending that the latter half of the story is built around.
  • In the Yoshitsune route, he can end up with Aki, Yoshitsune or both Yoshitsune or Benkei, who had spent much of the route drinking whenever she noticed Yoshitsune crushing on Yamato.
• Marshmallow Hell: Momoyo sometimes subjects Yamato to this.
• Master of Disguise: Shibunkyo sends a subordinate disguised as Rinchuu while the real Rinchuu is making a report and tries to lure away Yamato. Her hip measurements are off, though, so he sees through the disguise.
• Maybe Ever After: The Kazama Family branch of the Agave afterstory hints that not only is Yamato in a relationship with Momoyo and Miyako, but the pair both intend to drag in the other three main heroines if possible.
• Meaningful Echo: Together, the Kazama family is invincible! Then, Yamato gets kidnapped, Momoyo is incapacitated, and this becomes "Weren't we supposed to be invincible when together?" But when all hope seems lost Yamato manages to escape, and during the Final Battle the original line is dropped once more.
• Meaningful Name: "Kawakami" uses the kanji for "God" as opposed to the more commonplace "Above" - a fitting name for the fighting style known as Japan's ultimate secret weapon.
• MegaCorp: The Kuki Corporation, whose implied investments include advanced robotics, AI, airlines, refineries, hotels, real estate, even cloning. And all of it protected by a private army of Ninja Maids and Battle Butlers recruited from the ranks of the world's greatest martial artists and deadliest mercenaries. It's a good thing that the owning Kuki Family appears, in spite of their arrogance, to have a strong sense of public duty and a firm moral compass.
• Mexican Standoff: Played for Laughs in episode 9. Mayucchi, Miyako, Chris, and Wanko all want to check up on Yamato in the hospital, after they all accidentally gave him a Love Confession while he was unconscious. However, no matter what any of them say, the others refuse to let them leave. Particularly hilarious with Mayucchi, who simply wanted to go to the bathroom, but the other three girls immediately assumed she was using it as an excuse to get to Yamato alone. A few moments later, she attempts to go anyway, only to have the other three girls jump on top of her to prevent her from leaving the room. Meanwhile, the three guys who were discussing seeing Yamato nearby just shiver in fear at the auras the girls seem to be emitting.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: Well, technically its the last episode, but Cookie is rebuilt by Hideo in episode 12, and becomes a Mini-Mecha, which allows Yamato to finally take down Saki.
• Missing Steps Plan: Haou doesn't even realize it without having it pointed out to her, but her plan of taking over the world basically amounts to things like 'take over the White House' → 'I now rule America' → 'Repeat until I've taken over the world.' She's oblivious to all the intermediate steps.
• Mood Whiplash: Frequently. A scene can jump from serious to silly in the blink of an eye.
• Moral Myopia: During Agave, the Itagakis only care about the Itagakis. During Agave after… well, they try to avoid that point.
• More Deadly Than the Male: More or less the series premise. Natural lead-in to Action Girlfriend, which invariably happens every route.
• Morton's Fork: When asked if Yamato is aiming for Chris, he sees ahead to know what the outcomes will be for saying yes or no. If he says yes, he’s getting above his place to be attracted to his daughter so Frank shoots him. If he says no, Frank is insulted that he disrespected his daughter and shoots him. The only way to avoid punishment is saying he likes Margit instead while at the same time praising Chris.
• Most Common Superpower: Among the five female members of the Kazama family, the only difference between a strength ranking and a bust size ranking is a swap of Yukie and Miyako in second & third place. The Itagaki family also qualifies, as does Koyuki.
• Mr. Fanservice: Rather surprisingly for an H-Game, there are quite a few handsome young men frequently shown in various states of undress and there's no limit to the Ho Yay. The most notable examples are Cap, Gen and Touma.
• Mugging the Monster: In S, a poor robber tries to hold up a restaurant. Who's currently in the restaurant? Among others, Momoyo, Combat Pragmatist Tsubame, Yoshitsune, Benkei, Shakadou, Tesshin, Lu, Hume & Claudio. Basically, all the absolutely strongest fighters in the game. Oh, and the girl he took hostage, Seiso, just sent him flying out the door with a light shove too. Poor bastard then gets run over by her robot bike.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Lee's Inevitable Tournament is not a fighting tournament. It's a playing dead tournament. And it is hilariously serious.
• Musicalis Interruptus: While light music is playing for Seiso, Kojuurou tries to reassure her that she can’t be that strong and tells her to try hitting him to prove it. He figures he can bear it well since Ageha hits him all the time… but the music instantly stops and he goes flying so hard the entire Kuki building shakes. All Seiso did was give him a light shove.
• Naked Apron: The heroine in "Yukie after" short extra story, spurred by friend's advice on worries over Yamato's looking at other girls.
• Named Weapon: Haou prefers to use the large halberd Houtengeki when she fights, though she seems to have others.
• New Transfer Student:
  • Chris is a transfer student from Germany, early on in the storyline.
  • Why, the perfect way to add all of the sequel's new characters in, of course! Yoshitsune, Benkei, and Yoichi transfer into 2-S, Seiso transfers into 3-S, Monshiro and Battle Butler Hume transfer into 1-S, and Tsubame drops into 3-F shortly thereafter.
  • All five Ryouzanpaku girls transfer in under the excuse of wanting to studying the Kawakami style in A-4, but actually because they’ve heard that Yamato has strange abilities when it comes to getting along with warrior girls and because another rival clan is scouting him. Rinchuu in particular has to use the embarrassing excuse that she fell in love with him while researching his father.
• Ninja: Azumi hails from a village of them, which is hidden out in the middle of nowhere and almost impossible to find. The village elder decides Yamato has talent for ninjutsu and begins training him.
• Ninja Log: Yamato puts one in his futon in episode 2.
• No Communities Were Harmed: Kawakami, the game series' main setting, is based on Kawasaki, Kanagawa prefecture. Its neighboring city Nanahama is a not-so-subtle reference to Yokohama.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
  • At the beginning of Agave Gakuto is double teamed by Angel and Ryuuhei, leaving him barely able to move when Ruby, a guy he knocked out in one blow earlier, returns in a drug frenzy intent on raping Chika. Gakuto is beaten so badly that he requires two months of hospitalization, which would have been more for anyone not as strong as Gakuto. He gets repaid in kind by Momoyo, who shatters all his teeth on top of the normal beating and gets kicked by Moro until Yamato has to stop him before he kills the thug.
  • Not long after, Momoyo beats up a bunch of thugs and then turns her back on them. While she isn't looking, Shakadou sneaks in and performs some of the nastier Kawakami secret techniques on them, framing Momoyo for the complete overkill and getting her power sealed.
• No Name Given
  • The Fuuma clan elder is never properly introduced. Yamato just calls him Boss.
  • Monshiro's classmates don't get names or sprites apart from Kosugi, who doesn't really get a full sprite either. Still, there are a few recognizable personalities, including a girl who talks like a geisha and the one non creep gay guy in the story.
• Nonlethal Warfare: Kamikami War, the most extreme of actions two feuding classes can take. Weapons are non lethal, no broken bones, no punctures, no holes!
• Nonstandard Game Over: There is a number of these.
  • You should always beware of what you say around Miyako. Never ever joke about being attracted to her or let your guard down.
  • If you keep picking options in the original that express interest in guys, Yamato might get raped by Ryuuhei.
  • If you keep choosing to stay at home during the heroine picking stage Yamato eventually goes crazy and falls in love with his hermit crabs.
  • In Mayucchi's route you can end up working for Kokoro when she gets a crush on Yamato.
  • Stacy's route has three different endings. You can end up with Miyako again if you're not careful, you can fail to break up with Chika and you can choose to go out with Stacy's rival Sheila.
• Noodle Incident: Several, but the most recurring one is a traumatic experience Yamato and Capt had at summer camp as kids. All we know is that it involved trying to remove Yamato's foreskin and resulted in him being unable to walk for weeks.
• No Romantic Resolution: In the anime. Averted in the game.
• Not So Above It All: The only one that tries to refrain from the Monshiro After snowball fight is Stacy. Even Azumi willingly joins in. That means Tsubone, Mikado, Hume, Claudio and Miss Marple are all having a superpowered snowball fight.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: When Seiso swaps in for Haou in the war games in A-2 all her soldiers reassure her that they have no problem with her and that they're only mad at that jerk Haou. She just looks uncomfortable because she and Haou do not consider themselves to be different people, which is something that only Kyougoku and maybe Yamato seem to accept.
• Odd Friendship: Perhaps the most interesting part about Homura's route is seeing random pairs like Ukita and Miyako or Hachiya and Gen making friends.
• Oddly Visible Eyebrows
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Shiina managing to get a free walk to base in Kawakami Ball (baseball match with martial arts enforced) in Wanko's route, by fouling an ace pitcher.
• Older Than They Look
  • Token Mini-Moe Mayo, 2-F's Class Representative. Joined by Monshiro Kuki, Hideo's younger sister, in the sequel.
  • Maro’s father, Daimaro, has to be in his 50s at the very least and more likely his 70s, but looks young enough that Chika considers him hot.
• One-Steve Limit: Very much in effect, even with the sequel's 70+ character count.
  • In S Yamato points out that Yoshitsune and Tadakatsu have the same family name, he inmediately replies that the weird part is that in such a large school, nobody else does.
• Only Sane Man: Moro and Gen are indisputably the two most normal guys around, and even they have their own quirks (Moro's severe shyness and fear of girls and Gen's ridiculous Tsundere personality. Not even Yamato can fit this due to his OCD tendencies and borderline hermit crab fetish.
• Opposite-Sex Clone: Yoshitsune and Benkei, as per their namesakes, are the female clones of the famous historical figures. Seiso is this as well, she however does not share her name with who she's cloned from: Xiang Yu.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Pretty much all the male leads. Gakuto in particular is shown to be able to hold off 70 people attacking him at once with a broken leg, but is hopelessly outclassed against almost all the characters.
  • Kazama and Gakuto are at the very least stated to have the potential to reach the girls' level, while Gen is stated to be around Chris' level in terms of ability, making him avert this.
• Overused Running Gag: The students are starting to get sick of all the transfer students by the time A-4 rolls around.
• Pair the Spares: Happens to Yamato in Chika's route, oddly enough. She invites him to a mixer along with Gakuto, Moro and Yonpachi with the remaining three spots filled with the Itagaki sisters. Moro and Gakuto actually do well for a change and get Ami and Angel's numbers while Tatsuko is too sleepy to cling to Yamato like normal, so he ends up on a date with Chika afterward given that both are rather annoyed at how poorly they did. They end up dating for real after finding out they have a lot in common. Meanwhile, the Itagakis get bored with Moro and Gakuto and drop them.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: Ms. Kishido in Kazuko route. The only different thing she's wearing is the mask. This might have worked had she not been a blonde-haired, blue-eyed foreigner in Japan. Some characters are idi—.. unable to see through it regardless.
• Parental Abandonment
  • Yamato's parents moved overseas because his father lost hope in Japan. Cap's dad is an adventurer who doesn't mind his son doing the same. Wanko is Conveniently an Orphan, Miyako has a not-particularly-missed Mom. Mayucchi's parents live in another province, and she stays at the dormitory.
  • The Itagaki’s parents apparently stayed together long enough to have kids three different times and to give Angel her name in the hopes she'd be more gentle than her siblings, but as of the present have been gone so long that the siblings rarely even think about them anymore.
• Personality Swap: Improperly prepared, Kawakami mushrooms cause personality flips. Monshiro becomes a bully, Tsubame GETS bullied and Jun abandons the kingdom of Loliconia among other changes. The one that gets the most focus is that Benkei gives drinking Kawakami water, becomes hard working and tries to overthrow Yoshitsune. She also begins worshipping Yoichi, who is only irritated considering that if this is an inversion of her normal opinion, she must consider him lower than dirt. It's too bad Yamato didn't eat one.
• Phrase Catcher: Yamato gets called a bed yakuza quite a lot.
• Piggyback Cute: Momoyo does this for Yamato at the end of episode 5.
• Place of Power: There are places where Takae's bad luck can be mitigated or outright neutralized, but one the rare occasions where one works she doesn't like depending on them. Capt's room and the dorm happen to be one such place both thanks to his own natural fortune and the various artifacts in his room, so she moves into it after she decides to stop running away from her problems.
• Platonic Life-Partners: The original seven members of the Kazama family are closer than most real families but, barring, Miyako towards Yamato, show no attraction to each other, with even Lovable Sex Maniac Gakuto expressing disinterest in both Wanko and Miyako. Yamato can choose to break it by having a Relationship Upgrade with one of the girls or continue it by pursuing someone outside of the original Kazama family.
• The Points Mean Nothing: Lee gets a point for providing fake blood, two points for a dynamic fall and a point for keeping her eye open bringing her total at the end tooooo… about 9100. Wait, what? Later, Youshi gets a perfect 100 score during the final rounds, but then Lee does better and gets 120.
• Police Are Useless: The police are contacted in the Agave route to help deal with Carnival, but all the police cars get blown up seconds into the event.
• Poor Communication Kills: Yamato and Wanko specifically choose not to tell the Family how important the upcoming tournament is for her so they won't get depressed. Miyako figures it out anyway, but Chris is as dumb as a box of rocks. So she decides to enter since it sounds fun and while Wanko's improved training regimen and new move do allow her to win, she's injured so badly in the match that she doesn't even get to the end of the tournament let alone face off against Momoyo in an exhibition match.
• Popcultured Badass: Almost every character is a big fan of anime and manga, and frequently make references to them. Yamato himself makes a point of becoming a casual fan of several different series so he can have an easy casual conversation topic for just about everyone he talks to.
• Precocious Crush: A little girl in Azumi’s village says she’ll marry Yamato when she grows up.
• Pretty Boy: Cap, Gen and Touma have their own fan clubs at school due to their pretiness.
• Privileged Rival: While being wealthy is not a requirement to get into Class S, pretty much every student in it is to some degree a snooty rich kid.
• Promotion to Love Interest
  • In the sequel, Majikoi S, Tatsuko, Margit, and Kokoro all get bumped up to heroine status with Tatsuko's route being one of two possible continuations to Agave. There are also joke routes for Kosugi, Iyo and Yumiko. Koyuki also gets the True route of S... technically. She actually appears very little in it, but has an optional sex scene at the end.
  • The fandiscs Majikoi A 1-5 also give routes to Azumi, Sayaka (Mayucchi's little sister), Benkei, Cookie 4, Hazakura Seiso, Stacy and Lee, Rinchuu, Homura, Yoshitsune and finally Takae Tachibana, meaning just about every single female character in the story minus Haguro, whom Yamato dislikes.
• Punch-Clock Hero: In the fandisk, rather than being hired to support the Kuki rebellion the Ryuuzanpaku master gets a tip that a rival clan plans to kidnap Yamato. Given that he has a lot of connection and a strange ability to get along with powerful girls like Momoyo or Mayucchi they decide it would be a tactical blunder to allow him to fall into enemy hands. Youshi is still something of a borderline rapist, however, and Shishin hospitalizes Chris and Miyako when challenged to a fight. They also pretend that they aren’t there purely for their own benefit, playing up the heroism angle.
• Punched Across the Room: Again, with this game being what it is, this tends to happen all the time (replace room with street, field, riverbank etc as necessary).
• Rain of Arrows: Utilized by the Haou army to net their first victory. While the arrows are blunted and therefore not that hard to block, it still slows their movements and causes increasing confusion among the Kuki army and eventually leads to them becoming too disorganized to react properly.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Momoyo goes into Clingy Jealous Girl mode at the end of episode 10 after Yamato is again in danger. She tries to keep the other girls away from him, stating that he belongs to her, and that the other girls have no romantic role in his life. However, Matsukaze immediately points out Momoyo's hypocrisy by stating that she's already rejected him twice, but at the same time refusing to let the other girls have a shot with him either.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: The Dark Cookies brought in by Hideo are all black with red joints and red glowing lights. With a color scheme like that, is it any surprise that they get hacked by the bad guy?
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Momoyo, Haou and the Centipede.
• Relationship Upgrade: Each heroine's path, of course.
• Relationship Values: Not only are a certain number of points required to get the endings, but there's also usually an optional scene at the end if you get most of the available points. Said scenes are generally fanservice shots of the girls.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: During the Kawakami War a unit of first years comprising about ten percent of Yamato’s army turns on him, but he knew it was coming because of his collaborator Ryuhei and Chris’ unit defeats them all before they can do anything. Ryuhei is also beaten, however, because Yamato doesn’t trust people that betray their friends.
• Right Behind Me: Yamato often acts and talks as if Miyako is right behind him, even when he's alone in his room - because she usually is. In one particular storyline, when Gakuto and Moro are complaining to Yamato about how scary girls are, Yamato wisely keeps quiet, predicting - accurately - the imminent arrival (and subsequent beatdown initiated by) the girls of the family. Of course, it certainly helps that at that point, he was still going steady with his girlfriend.
• The Rival:
  • Class 2-S and 2-F have a strong rivalry going in all competitions, being roughly equal in terms of tactics and ability, though 2-S generally has a lead on ability. Balancing that is that they don't put as much effort into it. All the other classes are left way behind.
  • An immediate rival to Yamato is Touma Aoi, Class 2-S' strategist and one of the only guys around capable of beating him in a battle of wits.
• Running Gag: Several.
  • One such example would be the dog whistles that each member of the family carries which, when blown, will have Wanko come running if she is within earshot. Unfortunately, this response is so deeply ingrained that her feet respond automatically, causing it to often be used against her, particularly when exam time comes around and there's studying to be done. Exploited for Mood Dissonance during her route, when Yamato uses it to locate her after she's run away from home.
  • The anime has one for Miyako starting episode 2 — each episode begins with an attempt by her to win Yamato's heart through increasingly ridiculous means, all of which fail.
  • In Stacy's route, everyone that knows that Yamato is training wants to see how well he can tie people up now with his wire based attacks. So he does. Miyako, Cookie and Tatsuko seem suspiciously eager about the idea. Eventually, Chris declares that there's no way he can get her and he says he already did and makes fun of her briefly while she struggles.
  • Wanko always loses. Always. It seems to have been an accident on first or perhaps foreshadowing for her route's conflict, but by A-3 the writers seem to have embraced the joke. She shows up in Lee's route just so she can lose in the first round of a joke tournament and then disappear again.
  Miyako: Wanko, don't get discouraged.
  Yamato: She's right. You always lose anyway.
  • Throughout Benkei's route, whenever a group is envying Yamato for dating her, there's always one gay student from class E who's jealous of Benkei.
  • Ageha is still as arrogant but good natured as always, except when it comes to Kojuurou, who gets beaten mercilessly for the most minor of slip ups.
  • Wanko always seems to dream about fighting other dogs. Usually small, harmless ones.
• Saying Too Much: Aoi Touma doesn’t watch his subordinates words carefully enough, meaning they slip up and reveal that Maroudo is male, gay or bisexual, calls Yamato by first name and has connections to the medical industry.
• Say My Name: Numerous instances, but worthy of mention is Tatsuko, who at one point during the Agave route is reduced to repeating "Yamato-kun" over and over again while fighting.
• School of Hard Knocks: Kawakami High School, where official duels are sanctioned and all manners of replica weaponry are kept in every classroom for such occasions.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Miyako's route has Maro start to become an even bigger jerk than usual who torments everyone he meets while bragging about how his powerful family makes him untouchable. Late in the route, Kazama hits Maro when everyone has had enough of him, and the family Maro bragged would back him up does nothing of the sort. Turns out that they didn't approve of him being such a jerk while bragging about his famial connections would let him get away with everything.
• Second Place Is for Winners: Openly, from the start, challenging the favorite Hideo for the win in stamp race event in Mayucchi route, Yamato makes use of several tricks to secure the lead. His prize is what every participant wanted, the prestigious autographs, for his team 2nd place. The first place taken by immense effort of Hideo combi nets them a mayor's statue. Hideo didn't factor in the mayor's meddlesome prize assignment, but Yamato admits to have realized it long before.
• Secret Relationship: Yamato publicly admits he's dating someone in Margit After, but both of them keep it quiet that they're going out together. They don't go to great effort to hide it, though, so much as having Yamato avoid naming names.
• Sequel Hook: Takae Tachibana gets a tiny mini route at the end of the S visual novel which basically serves as a springboard for her eventual route in A-5.
• Serial Escalation: The first game starts with the main group facing off against their snooty rich rivals from Class S in various squabbles of varying intensity and ends with them busting a national drug ring. The second game begins with a feud between rival schools and ends with the group foiling a corporate conspiracy involving cloning historical figures.
• Serious Business: The world class death feigning competition instantly goes from the ridiculously small and unimportant event it should be to being attended by half of Kawakami and being organized by the Kuki corporation. Yoshitsune is the judge, Momoyo provides fireworks with martial arts and Zobuza gives an elegant history of the event. It even has a magazine!
• Sex Starts, Story Stops: The justification for all the Hounds' sex scenes are pretty weak. By the end Margit just throws all pretense out the window and says 'Screw it, if you want to sleep with Yamato and are one of the Hounds feel free.'
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: Yamato regarding Miyako, repeatedly, as a single indication toward anything remotely different causes Miyako to appear out of nowhere and seize the opportunity.
• Shiny New Australia: As thanks for awakening her, Haou offers Japan to the Kazama Family once she's done taking over the world. Presumably the offer is retracted when they try and fail to stop her.
• Ship Tease
  • Barring the main heroines who of course each got their own ending, many hints were also dropped for a number of side characters such as Kokoro in Mayucchi's path, leading to their promotion to heroine in the sequel.
  • Miss Marple occasionally alludes to using her youthful beauty to recruit Hume many years ago. When she uses a rejuvenation technique in A-2 he's left momentarily speechless and actually gets hit with a few snowballs before he can recover. Claudio even makes an excuse to take a picture of them together and Hume is uncharacteristically ill at ease through the whole thing. It's almost cute.
• Sick Episode: Invoked by the village elder. He convinces Yamato to take a drug that will fake a minor illness so Azumi will take care of him, but in the end Azumi is just professional about the matter while administering medicine and Yamato falls for her even more.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Miyako in the Visual Novel, to the point that in all of the endings where she doesn't end up with Yamato, she's still shown to be waiting for him even decades later. If you do enter her route, she and Yamato sleep together pretty much immediately.
• Situational Sexuality: Given an aphrodisiac and with Azumi behind a locked door, the elder tries to chase down Yamato for relief.
• Sleeping Dummy: Episode 2 of the anime begins with Miyako sneaking into Yamato's futon in the middle of the night hoping to have her way with him, but instead she finds this, much to her chargin.
• Sliding Scale of Gameplay and Story Integration: Deliberate integration. To determine which route you enter in the visual novel, the player has to pick a number of events from a rotating pool of characters. On average this runs to about half a dozen events but two girls stand out. Chris, a knight wannabe, requires a lot of events since she's opposed to Yamato's craftiness and tendency to tease her. Miyako, who is already crazily in love with Yamato, just needs *two* events before entering her route. Momoyo scares away every other girl if you choose her enough times while Mayucchi's events disappear if she shares a day with someone with a lot of points built up.
• Spam Attack: All the heroines, at some point — even Miyako gets in on the action with her pachinko balls.
• Spell My Name With An S: The fan translation of S uses the actual Chinese reading of the various names, so you see Lin Chong rather than Rinchuu and Xiang Yu rather than Kouu.
• Standing Between the Enemies: During Miyako's storyline, in order to atone for having let things get so far out of hand while Cap was away, Yamato stops a four-way fight between Wanko, Miyako, Mayucchi, and Chris — with his body. Mayucchi reacts fast enough to pull back at the last moment, but between the other three, Yamato is very much Not OK.
• Staying with Friends: Wanko lives with Miyako at the dorm, and later with Yamato on a mountain while undergoing her Training from Hell.
• Story and Gameplay Segregation: Manages to occur in a visual novel with no actual gameplay. When you’ve hit enough events to land on someone’s route, Yamato always claims that he’s become somewhat interested in that person, but in most cases he explicitly isn’t. Yet. It’s just to let the player know that they’ve successfully entered a certain route.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Right when Yamato begins teasing Monshiro while he’s talking to Yamato’s mother, Kagekiyo is obviously doing the same on the other end of the line to Saki.
• Stranger Behind the Mask: M's true identity is someone that had never even appeared up until the point they became a full fledged character in A-5.
• Stripperiffic: Of the five Ryouzanpaku girls, only two bother to cover much skin.
• Strong, but Unskilled: Both Kazama and Gakuto are said to be strong fighters, but neither of them has taken the severe level of training that all of the girls have and are thus completely outmatched.
• Student Council President: Torako, the captain of the ropes club. Since she's irresponsible and speaks broken Japanese for some reason, Hideo basically usurps her role in Agave when the plot gets serious. She doesn't mind.
• Supporting Harem: Yamato is always trying to have a good relationship with people to expand his contacts network, usually doing favors, information exchange or even casual chatting, aside his "Little Brother Aura" that make older woman warm towards him faster. At many points through the visual novel, girls other than the route's heroine affirm they are/were aiming or liked Yamato.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • The story goes to great length to assure us that Kawakami Water is totally not alcohol. At all. Even though it gets you drunk.
  • Chris in her route has little reaction to pictures of local male-genitalia-worshipping festival, not exploding in embarrassment until Miyako tells her what the "mushroom thing" is about. Yukie is called out on getting embarrassed from the start, and Matsukaze (meaning, Yukie herself) follows-up with denial: getting to see that on the internet in the past was definitely not a result of deliberate searches.

T — Z

• Taking You with Me: Cookie, the robot, gets ensnared in several ropes against class S in episode 1. As a last ditch move, he releases his remaining energy to shock the students holding the ropes, then shuts down.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Averted with Yoichi's ridiculous chuunibyou speeches. In the past, he challenged Benkei to a duel and at the start instantly started blathering on about the attack he was going to use. She did let him finish the incredibly long attack speeches so he couldn't use her interrupting him as an excuse, but she still just beat him up afterward anyway.
• Tamer and Chaster: Shakadou-san no Jun'ai Road is the first and only non-h-game in the series, centering around Punch-Clock Villain Gyobu Shakadou and Innocent Flower Girl Sakura Kugenuma.
• Tarot Motifs: In one of Mayucchi's events, most of the second year students draw a single Major Arcana card to show their personalities.
  • The Fool: Capt, representing his free spirit and generally heroic nature.
  • The Magician: Azumi, representing her scheming personality.
  • The High Priestess: Mayo, representing her wisdom and innocence.
  • The Empress: Umeko, representing her domineering nature, position of power and appearance.
  • The Emperor: Hideo, representing his power, position, wealth and entitlement.
  • The Hierophant: Moro, representing his intelligence, composure and maturity.
  • The Lovers: Chika, representing her love of romance and generally affectionate personality.
  • The Chariot: Margit, representing her obsession with honor and conquest.
  • Justice: Chris, representing her severe and critical personality.
  • The Hermit: Suguru, representing his reclusive and introspective otaku personality.
  • The Wheel Of Fortune: Kyojin, for his Wild Card nature.
  • Strength: Gakuto, for obvious reasons.
  • The Hanged Man: Miyako, representing her refusal to let go of Yamato and otherwise passive personality.
  • The Devil: Gen, representing his overly restrained and pessimistic personality.
  • The Star: Yonpachi, representing his optimistic personality.
  • The Moon: Kokoro, representing her deceptive nature.
  • The Sun: Wanko, representing her optimistic personality and seemingly endless vitality.
  • The World: Yamato, representing his awareness and understanding of both himself and others.
  • Koyuki gets the Tower and Touma and Jun both get Death, which foreshadow their involvement in the Agave route. Koyuki later switches to the Star in ''S.''
• Technicolor Eyes: All four of the Itagaki siblings have the same bright emerald green eyes, though it's a bit hard to tell with the way Ryuuhei's eyes are. And the implications for the eye color of "spitfire or an untrustworthy person" is not lost for each of them.
• The Dragon: There are a few instances of Dragons through the series like
  • In Momoyo's route she's a soldier of Yamato's enemy army, while Kuki Hideo was the Leader that had to be defeated.
  • In Agave's route there are multiple dragons including Koyuki, Jun, Tatsuko, Ami, Ryuuhei and Angel.
  • In Koyuki's route, Seiso, in the form of Haou, serves as Marple's dragon.
• Theme Music Power-Up: The game version shows several example of this trope example of this including
  • Men Are About Courage, bgm that was played each time Yamato or any other male character get their Moment of Awesome.
  • Sword Dance, played each time Mayucchi gets serious.
  • Bushi, song that was played during the battle between Momoyo against three deva of the martial art which is played when Otome, the last of four devas appears to help Mayucchi and Ageha to defeat Momoyo
• Those Two Guys: Gakuto and Moro fit this role to a tee, though they occasionally do get some time to shine.
  • Suguru and Yonpachi are a better example. While they're sometimes seen apart, they're generally cast as Gakuto and Moro's even more pathetic friends.
• Three Laws-Compliant:
  • Invoked in Episode 3 of the anime, where Miyako orders Cookie to taze Yamato into submission, while Yamato orders the robot to get Miyako off him. Cookie considers this dilemma out loud, where he has to obey a human command, yet isn't allowed to seriously hurt a human, yet also cannot allow a human to come to harm through his inaction.
  • In Momoyo's route prior to Kawakami War event, to make assessment swordfight against Yukie possible, Cookie has only to spend a few moments reprogramming himself away from the restriction that prohibits him to attack a friend. Some restriction, as Capt lampshades.
• Through His Stomach:
  • Mayucchi usually makes, or offers to make food on the days when the dorm mother is off. In her route, she does this all the time for Yamato.
  • Miyako also attempts this on a regular basis, but unfortunately for her, her usual choice of fare is not exactly popular with Yamato.
• Time Skip
  • Between Carnival and the last few scenes of Agave there's a six month timeskip plus seeing the eventual reunion of Koyuki, Jun and Touma.
  • If you pick choices focusing on the idea that Yamato is waiting for Monshiro to grow up, you get an ending with a timeskip that shows she did exactly that.
  • There's a three year time skip in Stacy's route, during which Yamato becomes a halfway decent fighter but is still low in the ranks. We get an update on just about every character and apart from everyone somehow still being single apart from Yamato himself, Haou is awake, Takae seems like she might be one of the big four again and Yoichi is still a chuunibyou. Yamato no longer has the heart to even fake being one anymore.
• Tin-Can Robot Cookie in his first form
• Title Drop:
  • At the end of the series by all the girls, when Yamato tells them that his most important ones are... his hermit crabs.
  • During Azumi’s route, Yamato actually says not just the title of the series, but even the fandisc’s little A as though it referred to Azumi.
• Title Theme Drop: Takae and Yamato go sing karaoke while on a date. Naturally, she sings a song that's very nearly the Majikoi A theme song. The lyrics are a bit different, but the tune is the same.
• Totally 18:
  • All of the under aged-looking girls are explicitly stated to be eighteen. Multiple times. Over and over and over again.
  • To a degree, this applies to all of the high school-aged cast, the majority of whom are only in their second year and yet engage in plenty of adult activities.
  • Monshiro, who skipped a few grades and is a first year high school student.
• Tournament Arc: Yes, they go there in S, in Tsubame's route. Paired team battle, where the 1st fighter to lose, loses for the whole team. The prize? A chance to fight Momoyo, who isn't participating, because that'd be unfair. But Yamato is!
• Tragic Dream: Kazuko has maintained a grueling daily training schedule for over a decade to close the gap in strength between her & her sister and take a position as assistant instructor at the family's temple (which is likened to winning an Olympic gold medal) to support her, but no matter what she tries she remains leagues behind the rest of the staff. When the time comes to prove herself, she fails miserably, and even when she is offered another chance should she win an upcoming tournament, a month of training in the mountains and a significant emotional epiphany during that time are not enough for her to even reach the finals. She suffers an Identity Breakdown and runs away.
• True Companions: The Kazama Family, although their willingness to allow others to join them varies from member to member. Capt is perfectly willing to let anyone who interests him in, while Miyako fights tooth and nail to keep anyone outside the initial seven from joining.
  • Touma, Koyuki and Jun are also an example, though things get a bit more complicated for them.
• Tsundere: Gen-san, as Lampshaded by others in the family. He claims I Was Just Passing Through nearly every time he lends a hand. The only heroine who comes close to being one is Chris, and even she starts dere-ing it up rather quickly.
• Two-Teacher School: Well, four-teacher, but most of Lu's screentime is at the temple, while Maro does very little outside of Miyako's route.
• Underestimating Badassery
  • The Kazama Family assumes that the presence of Momoyo alone will allow them to clear up the enemy stronghold instantly.
  • On the other side of things, Shakudou and Aoi Touma completely fail to realize that proof of Shakudou’s presence proves Momoyo’s innocence, meaning her powers are restored and she can heal instantly.
  • Several of the fighters that challenge Momoyo scoff at how the legendary demon of Kawakami is a high school girl. The strongest ones manage to detect how powerful she is not long after and immediately backpedal on their previous claims. The weaker ones... aren't so lucky.
• Unequal Pairing
  • Yamato is a normal high school student. Monshiro is the daughter of a family so influential that multiple presidents and prime ministers attend her wedding. Her wedding to Yamato, that is. Fortunately, the Kuki family isn’t bothered at all and Ageha forces him to call her onee-chan.
  • In Margit After, Yamato starts getting interested in joining the Hounds. That would make Margit his boss. By this point, the rest of the Hounds that actually matter have accepted him apart from Thelma and Frank says he'd probably make a good backup for Margit as they don't have anyone else with both physical and tactical ability.
• Unprovoked Pervert Payback: In episode 2, the girls all come running out of the bath, bare ass naked after a dog they were hired to catch, and all come crashing into Yamato's room. They proceed to beat Yamato up, because of that.
• Unrequited Love Lasts Forever: There's a long list here. Miyako never gets over Yamato, Hideo will always love Kazuko, Azumi will always love Hideo^note Or least love him for almost a full ten years after getting rejected and only then with a constant persistent suitor and so on. The only exception seems to be Gen, who is one of the only people confirmed to be in a relationship in the story epilogues or after time skips.
• Unwanted Harem: Thanks to Momoyo's rejection of Yamato's feelings for her at the start of the anime, wanting to stay as Just Friends (see Last Confession Wins above), all the other girls look like they want a shot at taking him.
• Valentine's Day Episode: Monshiro's after story finally has a Majikoi valentines event with a bunch of different groups and their different reactions. People like Cap, Kyougoku and Suguru don't care, Lu and Kuma get a surprisingly large amount and Jun tries to pretend her got a bunch from little girls, though they're actually just Aoi Touma's. Yamato also gets a lot, which makes Monshiro jealous. One of them is from a guy and a similarly jealous Yonpachi steals it and then gets puzzled when Yamato makes no effort to retrieve it. It had a cream filling. Don't think about it too much.
• Verbal Tic: Haguro likes to add -kei in random places.
• Villain Song: March of the Beast is a rarely used track and is heard most often in the Agave route when the villains are going wild and out of control. It’s not just villain music, it’s berserking villain music.
• Villains Out Shopping: Immediately after Yamato wakes up after being captured he’s treated to an extensive Boke and Tsukkomi Routine from the Itagaki siblings while goofy music plays in the background.
• Virgin-Shaming: Kawakami cherries swell up if picked by a virgin with the example used being Yonpachi, who is immediately the butt of jokes. That said, Stacy is embarrassed when Lee catches her picking the cherries and also having them swell up while those like Chika are too embarrassed to touch them.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Lisa and Margit used to be rivals, but now they're best friends. Margit still beats the crap out of her after finding out she accidentally slept with Yamato and it doesn't sound like this is unusual for them.
• Voodoo Shark: Played for laughs with the Kawakami water. Minors can’t drink alcohol, so this is water that is so pure and refreshing that you get drunk on the atmosphere around you. As people get increasingly plastered on it this explanation is repeated over and over with decreasing intelligibility.
• Wall of Weapons: A small example in 2F's classroom - a bunch of melee weapons are on permanent display above the blackboard.
• Watching the Sunset: Miyako, from her favorite spot on the roof of the secret base.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: Wanko uses a naginata because she relies on her agility, Miyako is an archer, Chris favors the rapier and Mayucchi uses a standard katana. Other characters use other weapons, but just about everyone can fight decently unarmed as well, particularly Mayucchi.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: No human characters are ever hurt too badly, but robots just like Cookie have a way of being exploded or cut to pieces. Mayucchi seems to be the only one that has a problem with killing robots though of course she has to do just that for basically all of Agave's climax.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The six main endings each get you one, though the contents don't really vary from one to another.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: More than once, Moro has had to suffer the indignity of crossdressing for some greater cause. Some members of the family would rather him do it more often.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Monshiro, who has skipped grades, acts extremely mature and is considerate of others' feelings - arguably moreso than her brother Hideo, who seems to lack an "off" switch.
• Worf Effect
  • Wanko tends to act a measuring stick to show how good someone is when they beat her which is taken to its logical conclusion in her route because she really just isn't that good. The writers may have decided they overdid it because they decide to run with it in A-3 and have her unable to even get through the first round of Lee's super serious playing dead tournament.
  • In the beginning of S, Benkei and Yoshitsune each get a quick chance to worf fighters from the first installment. Yoshitsune beating Wanko is par for the course while Benkei gets to match up against Margit. To make up for her rather lacking opponent here, Yoshitsune also gets to beat someone that is totally not a Super Saiyan in her introduction.
  • Not long after, Shakadou is beaten by Hume offscreen and the story implies he would pretty easily beat Momoyo, though in both cases it's acknowledged that this is because they haven't been training or planning properly.
  • In the True route of S, Marple's dragon Haou appears and takes out Tesshin after tanking his best move, unlike Momoyo who had to use a special healing technique to survive it. It wasn't without cost, however, and it was one of many factors that finally let Tsubame triumph over her despite her vast inferiority.
• World of Action Girls
• World of Badass
• World of Ham: Seriously. Expect characters to randomly start screaming, breaking out into ridiculous martial arts techniques or some combination of the two on a regular basis regardless of how appropriate it is to the situation. Considering a typical school event involves a near perfect replication of feudal Japanese warfare, it's expected that the characters are pretty intense.
• World's Best Warrior
  • The title of Sword Saint refers to the world's strongest swordsman and is held by Mayucchi's father. However, he states that Mayucchi has already surpassed him. She's not on the same level as Momoyo, but she's still very good.
  • Miyako and Yoichi are among the five greatest archers with Miyako having a narrow edge in accuracy but losing in power and range. A third member of the five archers appears, but he's not really on the same level and simply prides himself on knowing many techniques.
• World's Strongest Woman: Momoyo is literally referred to as a martial arts god and nobody stronger than her has appeared, though there are a few that can match her. She holds the first position in the Big Four, which is the group of the country's strongest recognized martial artists, though the title is not necessarily indicative of actual strength. For example, Tatsuko and Haou are around the same level as Momoyo, but apparently uninterested in the titles. Thus, the other three titles are held by Otome from Tsuyokiss, Ageha Kuki and Mayucchi after she beat Takae Tachibana. Otome retires in between the original game and S, passing her title down to Tsubame Matsunaga.
• You Can't Thwart Stage One: The Kazama Family twice attempt to shut down the villain's plans during Agave. The first attempt was a trap that gets Momoyo's power sealed and Yamato captured with no significant enemy damage while the second causes no damage to either side due to Yamato confronting Touma without sufficient backup.
• Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: In Agave, the Kazama Family sends Momoyo in to deal with the person they assume is the Big Bad and she wipes the floor with everyone there. Everyone is all ready to go home on their own, content with a job well done. Yamato feels a familiar Marshmallow Hell from behind, assumes it’s Momoyo and turns around to find Tatsuko, who takes him hostage while Momoyo is framed for a brutal beatdown on the local mooks, something she simply would not do, despite Lu's prejudices against her.

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