Web Video / Anime House

You know we had to do it! We've brought some of the most famous anime characters such as Goku, Vegeta, Light Yagami, Spike Spiegel, Ichigo, and more all living in one house together to bring you Anime House!

—The description for the first episode

Anime House is a Web Series made by the Youtube group RDCworld1. Similar to their other series Video Game House, Anime House is a Reality TV based Massive Multiplayer Crossover involving numerous anime characters from various series living together in one house, the anime villains living in another, and a couple of cartoon characters living the Cartoon House, with a mix of both comedy and action with a steadily ongoing plot behind the scenes. The first episode premiered on January 20, 2019, and the sixth and final episode of the first season aired on September 27, 2022. An OVA continuing after the first season premiered on August 7, 2023.

This web series also gets an animated adaptation, Anime House the Animated Series, by @A-R0N, with a teaser released on March 2, 2022, and the first episode airing on May 26, 2022.

Note: All spoilers regarding Episode 6 and beyond are marked!

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Tropes in the series include:

• Adaptational Intelligence: Due to the self-aware nature of the show, many characters are a certain level smarter than their canon counterparts.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Much like Video Game House, all of the anime characters act much differently than how they were portrayed in their own respective series, especially due to a combination of their self-aware nature and Deliberate Values Dissonance between American and Japanese culture.
• Anyone Can Die: The sixth episode ramps up the body count INCREDIBLY high, starting with Madara killing both Askeladd and Ryou Shimazaki when he and Light walk up on the Villain House, and later on, protagonists like Naruto and Tanjiro being explicitly killed onscreen, along with a ton of other characters being killed at the Anime House during its destruction such as Spike, Nami, and Sailor Moon.
• Ascended Extra: After being mostly a side character throughout the whole series, Luffy ends up getting a focus role in the OVA as he turns out to have survived his duel with Madara, and proceeds to invade the New Villain House with Gear 5 now activated.
• Back from the Dead: Thanks to Orochimaru's Reanimation Jutsu, several characters who get killed by Light's Death Note are brought back, in particular L after he died in the third episode, and several of the Villain House members after Light's rampage.
• Berserk Button: Plenty of the characters have one or more of these:
  • With Vegeta, do NOT prey on his Saiyan pride or joke about him getting his ass handed to him constantly. It even led to him performing a Heel–Face Turn to join the Villain House!
  • Don't threaten Nezuko in Tanjiro's presence, he was ready to get into a brawl with Yusuke after the latter did so in a heated argument with other characters.
  • With Yugi, don't threaten or disrespect him in general, Yami will pop out to threaten ANYONE who does it, pretty much threatening to kill the entire Seirin basketball team for not helping Yugi up after he got dunked on, to the point the others had to hold him back and drag him away the second he took over.
    Yami: Lets see if they're good at dueling! I'll take all your Life Points away! I'll take ALL your Life Points away!
  • For Yusuke, do not attempt to mess with Keiko, he will lay people out for it.
• Big Bad: Light Yagami fulfills this role, as his arc as The Chessmaster and attempting to take down L starts to culminate in the show's mainline plot between the Anime and Villain Houses.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Delivered by Thorfinn in the fourth episode as he charges at Tanjiro, who was explaining the former's odd situation with his dad's death and Askeladd with him in earshot to Yuji, with Tanjiro and Yuji immediately booking it out of the room.
• Bloodless Carnage: None of the heroes' fatal defeats in the sixth episode show any blood in their defeats, in particular, Zenitsu and Tengen being tricked into impaling Tanjiro, as well as Frieza killing Naruto with a Death Beam. Meanwhile, the other heroes that take more serious injuries such as Ichigo end up having the scene cut to black before the strike lands.
• Boring, but Practical: How Light finds L's full name to write in the Death Note in the second episode: Rather than using some extremely elaborate plan, he accidentally learns it when he's checking the mail, seeing a letter addressed to L using his full name.
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: A good lot so thanks to the show's nature of having a lot of self-awareness, resulting in plenty of Take That! and Self-Deprecation moments. There's even a point where Spike gets pissed off by the narrator following around Gon and Killua, especially in the middle of the night.
• Brutal Honesty: Yusuke Urameshi. He is very much unafraid of stating his opinion, however blunt or insensitive it is to those he's talking to and is also just as willing to throw hands with those who want to fight him on it, regardless of if it's someone weak or powerful such as Vegeta and even Goku early on in the latter case.
  Goku: (After Yusuke gave a "Reason You Suck" Speech to Vegeta in Episode 4) Yusuke, why'd you do that?
  Yusuke: I mean, someone gotta tell him something! He's just sitting there, thinking he knows everything. Bastard.
• Catchphrase: Yusuke sure loves the word, bastard. Oh, the irony.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • Oh poor, poor Vegeta. He got laid out by Goku in the first episode, Saitama in the second episode, and Frieza in the sixth episode without a problem.
  • Several in Episode 6's climax:
    • During the duels between the heroes and villains, Luffy VS Madara, Tanjiro (Along with Tengen and Zenitsu) VS Aizen, and ESPECIALLY Naruto VS Frieza, all end in the villain's swift, decisive victory. Sukuna and Madara's raid on the Anime House also leads to the duo wiping out numerous heroes without any effort.
    • On the other hand, Yusuke manages to utterly layout Akaza in their duel, only being stopped from winning thanks to Hisoka tagging in to give Akaza the chance to wipe him out.
  • In the OVA, due to the cartoonish, common logic-defying Reality Warper nature of Gear 5, NONE of the villains are prepared for a Not Quite Dead Luffy to return with Gear 5 active as he blindsides Madara, steals the Death Note from Light, takes out Aizen with his own sword, and prepares to counter Sukuna's Domain Expansion with a Gum Gum version of his own Domain Expansion as the OVA ends on a To Be Continued.
• Curse Cut Short: Light by the end of Episode 2 after he finds L's full name in the mail:
  Light: (Thinking) L... Lawliet? I'm about to murder this-! (Episode ends)
• Darker and Edgier: What initially starts out as a comedic Reality TV like a parody of various anime similar to RDCworld1's other work Video Game House ends up veering into more serious territory compared to it, as the plot of Light trying to finally put an end to L ends up steadily leading up to a war between the Anime and Villain Houses, culminating in the plot all coming together for the massive Wham Episode that is Episode 6 and the finale with the death of numerous heroes occurring in the plot and the villains successfully shattering the status quo, compared to the latter series simply having a feud between Mario and Sonic by this time of writing (Albeit Episode 6 has things being taken slightly more seriously with Shadow shooting people up), with death simply being treated as something characters can just respawn from, either with Video-Game Lives, respawn mechanics, or just Unexplained Recovery.
• Demonic Possession: In Anime House 6, Yuji gets possessed by Sukuna, a cursed spirit that's sealed inside of him, in his sleep halfway through the episode. This allows Sukuna to give insider information to the villains about where the Dragon Balls are and the identity of the people safeguarding them individually, as well as getting a free Dragon Ball due to Yuji being one of the guardians.
• Dictionary Opening: The opener for the OVA opens up with this line overlaid with Luffy awakening and activating Gear 5:
  "pro-tag-on-ist: The protagonist is the character who drives the action - the character whose fate matters most."
• Disproportionate Retribution: Light's response to Goku and Luffy eating all of the food in the first episode? Plan to write the name of every protagonist in the Anime House (Even including those who haven't shown up onscreen yet like Asta and Killua) in the Death Note if the whole Imagine Spot he has is any indication. The only thing stopping him from pulling it off is the fact that L would survive since Light doesn't know his name yet, and thus would catch on that Light is Kira.
• Divide and Conquer: One of the factors that leads to Light and the Villain House winning in the sixth and final episode of Season 1 is by strategically separating the powerhouses (who are also guardians of the Dragon Balls) of the Anime House so they can easily kill them off one-by-one while leaving the less strongest, Badass Normals, and Muggles unable to unite and turn things around as well as taking control over two other powerful characters (i.e. Majin Vegeta and Yuji Itadori) for further victory.
• Downer Ending: The sixth episode and the finale ends on Light finally managing to fulfill his plan, with the villains managing to thoroughly defeat the seven chosen heroes protecting the Dragon Balls (With the exception of Saitama whose fate is unknown), Madara destroying the Anime House and killing everyone who was there at the time, and the villains managing to use the Dragon Balls to wish for all of the main villains to become protagonists.
• Enemy Mine:
  • In the Villain House, everyone is at odds with one another, and if it weren't for them following the rules established by the reality TV show hosts, then it's very possible for them to have an all-out Evil Versus Evil civil war or go out of their way to launch a campaign against the heroes of the Anime House and failed miserably due to them being the "villains". Light, along with Madara's assistance, united everyone together in order to effectively cripple the Anime House through Divide and Conquer and steal the Dragon Balls to wish for themselves to become the protagonists of their own shows, which makes them invincible thanks to Plot Armor.
  • Averted. In the OVA, Light tries to make this sort of alliance with the Cartoon House in order for him to become the only Villain Protagonist there is, as well as getting back at the Villain House for treating him as a servant. Unsurprisingly, the Cartoon House outright refuses due to being fully aware of Light being an opportunistic, Manipulative Bastard with a Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
• Evasive Fight-Thread Episode: Downplayed for Episode 4, as while the sparring matches between the heroes and villains have Izuku VS Hisoka end in the latter's victory, the fights between Sasuke and Aizen and Meliodas and Pain end with no conclusion, the former's end not being shown at all (Implied to have been cut off due to both fighters getting too serious), and the latter being cut off by the producers calling everyone back to the Anime House for Near to have Orochimaru revive L.
• Even Evil Has Standards: None of the Pains, despite all the pain they caused to the Naruto cast, are supportive of Hisoka’s… interest in Gon and Killua. The moment Hisoka irritates him or he thinks he has a chance to get rid of him, Pain's already ready to nuke him into the ground with a Shinra Tensei with the other villains having to remind him to refrain from doing so. In addition, they also extend this special hatred towards Orochimaru due to the latter's excessive use of Body Surf on teenagers and the implications behind it.
  Pain: Hisoka's always on that pedophile shit. We don't fuck with that. Not one of us. (Looking to the other Paths of Pain) Y'all fuck with that? (They all shake their heads in disapproval) Exactly.
• Failed a Spot Check: As seen in the OVA; Light's master plan to make all of the villains become The Protagonist worked like a charm, but despite him being Taught by Experience, he's still incredibly arrogant and tends to be too smart for his own good, leading him to overlook minor details to which Robin pointed out two key flaws that would be his, and the Villain House by extension, undoing:
  • While Light knows that he's a villain, he also forgot that he was already a protagonist in Death Note while L was the Hero Antagonist. This means that his victory over L was potentially the result of his own Plot Armor than any effort on his part, and since he no longer has plot armor thanks to the wish, and instead his Arch-Enemy, it means that L is now capable of undoing the villains' victory.
  • Despite trusting the villains to kill the strongest heroes of the Anime House, Light didn't anticipate the idea that some of them might not Double Tap to Make Sure He's Dead. Madara made this mistake and arrogantly assumes that Luffy won't be a problem if he lived. Unsurprisingly, Luffy survives the battle thanks to his Plot Armor (especially since Madara didn't make the "character narrative-switching" wish till night time) and not soon after, awakens Gear 5, which gives Luffy reality warping abilities that can beat plot armor. By the end of the OVA, Luffy starts administering a Curb-Stomp Battle on the villains.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • The Anime House's treatment of the Cartoon House has shades of this. Even to those whose shows have many references and inspiration of Japanese anime (Aang, Korra, Robin and Beast Boy, and Samurai Jack).
  Aang: Tanjiro, stay down! We just want your respect!
  Tanjiro: Respect? You guys are cartoons, we're anime, there's no comparison.
  • Yusuke tends to get easily pissed off by the oversaturation of new anime characters just flooding in to live in the Anime House, especially Netflix anime characters, to the point he was ready to pop a Spirit Gun in Shinji's head when they first met in the car.
  • Like in the original Dragon Ball series, Freiza has this towards the Saiyans. As seen in his constant "Monkey" slur towards Vegeta during their "villain basketball" game, but with a dash of Reality Subtext. Not helping is that Frieza using his new Black Frieza form from the manga to claim he's half-black, much to Vegeta's rapidly increasing irritation.
• Faux Affably Evil: The villains. While they may be willing to abide by rules, act quite comical in the Villain House with their squabbles, and some are even willing to hang out with the heroes sometimes in secret, when they proceed to get to work, they do not hold back.
• Genre Savvy: When L is killed by Light via Death Note in Episode 3, Spike's immediately on Light's case, stating "Have y'all not seen the show?! [Light] did this!" Unfortunately, none of the others believe him and he's unable to prove it any further on his own end.
• Interactive Narrator: The narrator in Episode 2 turns out to be this as he's following around and narrating Gon and Killua's lives, even when they're asleep, much to Spike's ire and the narrator's amusement.
  Spike: (Entering the room) Bro, yo turn that down, please.
  Narrator: Spike is clearly irritated by the sound of my voice, and is even looking around as if he's searching for me. But I'm not here. Nor will I ever be. Clearly distressed, Spike slams the door close. But I ain't worried.
• Killed Offscreen: Around the start of the OVA, Light internally monologues that L is dead along with the other heroes while contemplating his new life with the villains, implying the villains executed L once they made their wish on the Dragon Balls. However, this could possibly be subverted as Robin discusses the possibility that L could now have Plot Armor instead of Light and survived his execution.
• Last Episode, New Character: The sixth and final episode of the series introduces several characters to the Anime House series that impact the plot, in particular; Madara Uchiha, Frieza, Misa (Along with several other female characters), and Akaza.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: Hoo boy, there are a lot of them. Whether brought up as a joke or being integral to the plot will depend on the context, but either way, if you're into any of the anime that are in the spotlight, expect spoilers for the manga or later episodes of them, specifically the Dragon Ball Super manga having Black Frieza be brought up as a joke, and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba which has Rengoku's death brought up briefly.
• Lucky Seven: While there're plenty of strong heroes in the Anime House, the select 7 strongest of them were chosen to protect the Dragon Balls; Son Goku, Yuji Itadori, Monkey D. Luffy, Ichigo Kurosaki, Tanjiro Kamado, Yusuke Urameshi, Saitama. Unfortunately, they (Alongside Naruto Uzumaki) all end up dead (Except for Yuji who was taken over by Sukuna, while Saitama's fate remains uncertain) near the end of episode 6.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: Discussed as Goku and Naruto are both firm believers of this, believing that you can't just judge someone at the Anime House based on their actions in their show. Unfortunately subverted as they're talking about Light who's just as dangerous and sadistic of a manipulator as he is in-canon.
• The Mole: Two of them on the villains' front as revealed in Episode 6:
  • Lelouch ends up serving as one of the Anime House's smartest people, seeking out to help Light attain his goal of making all of the villains into Villain Protagonists in order to further his own goals.
  • Yuji Itadori, or rather Sukuna, ends up serving as the villains' trump card, with Sukuna managing to use Yuji's hero status to sneak around and take people out for the villains. And not only that, Yuji was one of the representatives that protected one of the Dragon Balls, meaning the villains basically got a free Dragon Ball thanks to Sukuna.
• Mood Whiplash: The whole series can be this, one minute a comedic skit between the characters could be going on, and the next the show is focusing on its developing plot involving Light and the villains.
• My Parents Are Dead: To which Tanjiro sums it up In-Universe.
  Tanjiro: (To Yuji) But I mean, like, in anime, whose parents don't die? Y'know what I'm saying?
• Never Live It Down: In-Universe, some cast members, unfortunately, haven't had some of their infamous moments among their peers forgotten. In particular, Orochimaru constantly calls out Pain for having been talked down from his plans by Naruto, while Pain won't let Orochimaru forget he's a part of Boruto's show.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: While no one is left alive to tell Saitama this, his "forgetting" to take the Dragon Ball he was tasked with to protect ends up giving the villains the last key in completing their plan. Then again, even if he did, the villains would still find a way to steal off of him.
• No-Respect Guy: Various anime characters end up in this role due to just having no respect from the other characters, in particular Boruto who's constantly met with disdain from recent anime protagonists due to the reputation of his show and the idea Naruto's always bailing him out of stuff, as well as being a Spoiled Brat to the others as well, and Shinji who's constantly berated by Yusuke for being from an extremely obscure (and fictional for reference, doesn't exist in real life) Netflix anime, Shinji Adventures. Izuku also finds himself in this position every now and then with My Hero Academia being looked down on by the veteran anime protagonists, though he at least has more respect from others in comparison to Boruto and Shinji.
  • Played for Drama with Vegeta, as constantly being disrespected by those in the Anime House, the In-Universe writers of Dragon Ball Super, and people in online comments in clips of him ends up driving him to perform a Face–Heel Turn and work with the Villain House so he can finally defeat Goku.
  • Meanwhile on the villains' front, All For One has lost a lot of respect from the others after getting arrested, having apparently been kicked out prior to Vegeta joining the Villain House.
  • The Cartoon House ends up having this role as well entirely due to those in the Anime House looking down on western cartoon characters in general. And when they try to revolt against the Anime House in a raid, they find themselves being taken down rather swiftly, even when Goku ends up distracted (And eliminated) from his fight with Ben as Alien X thanks to Vegeta performing a Face–Heel Turn, with Saitama showing up to fight and take down Alien X in Goku's steed.
  • After the events of Episode 6, Light has become this to the villains, becoming the villains' chef, waterboy, and garbage boy. It drives him to seek out to murder the villains to take over as the only Villain Protagonist, seeking out the Cartoon House's help to take them out.
• Not So Above It All: Aizen, who's shown in Episode 6 to actually have a good bit of respect for Ichigo, as he excitedly hangs out with the Big Three in secret from the villains to celebrate Bleach finally getting its final arc adapted into the anime, even tagging in with the Big Three as they're live streaming their reaction.
• N-Word Privileges: Discussed in Episode 6, as after Vegeta calls out Frieza for constantly calling him a monkey, Frieza states it's perfectly fine since he's half black now, thanks to his new Black Frieza form from the Dragon Ball Super manga.
• Oh, Crap!: L has this reaction at the start of Episode 3 after seeing Light suspiciously looking at him (After having written his name in the Death Note), leading to him attempting to warn everyone only to die before he could.
  • During the OVA, during his discussion with the Cartoon House residents, Robin makes Light realize something critical, much to the latter's horror: By wishing that all villains would become protagonists of their shows, Light could have unintentionally lost his own Villain Protagonist status, Plot Armor included, because L was technically the villain of Death Note, thus granting him the plot armor instead. And then Robin proceeds to make Light drop this reaction at the implied possibility of a hero still being alive that could take on the Villain House. Afterward, the entire Villain House ends up steadily collectively having this reaction once Luffy not only turned out to be alive but invaded the house with Gear 5 now active, completely catching the villains by surprise.
• Only One Name: Exploited by Orochimaru in Episode 4 when Light goes on a Death Note-induced killing spree to hunt him down, as, without a last name, Light cannot kill him with the Death Note.
  Light: (Thinking) He doesn't have a last name? What the fuck?! Why do they make niggas without last names!?
• Pædo Hunt: While The Pains are not above harming and killing children to accomplish their goal of creating true peace, they vehemently draw the line at pedophilia and child molestation. This makes Hisoka a walking Berserk Button for them due to his "interest" in Gon and Killua, and they're one step away from firing a Shinra Tensei at him if it weren't for the other villains holding him back. In addition to Hisoka, The Pains also extend this trope to Orochimaru due to the obvious implications of the nature of his Body Surf.
• Parody: Very much so. Don't expect the various anime characters to act exactly like their canon counterparts.
• Pervert Revenge Mode: Yusuke ends up delivering this on the girls' behalf after a cameraman tries to perform a Male Gaze on all of the anime girls, especially being disgusted when he tries to perform one on Keiko. And when said cameraman tries to go on a rant about how dumb the concept of not having any Fanservice in an anime is in an interview, Yusuke shows up and gives him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown for not getting out of the Anime House, topping it off with a few offscreen Spirit Guns to ensure they're down for the count.
• Plot Armor: Discussed rather often between Pain and Orochimaru, with Pain excusing his own loss to Naruto as plot armor and bad writing when Orochimaru tries to talk smack to him. And it comes back as a critical plot point in the OVA when Light realizes that since villains are all protagonists, L, who was Light's villain, very well could be the protagonist now while Light was already the protagonist of Death Note, and thus meaning Light no longer has his own Plot Armor.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: Ends up coming into play a few times due to the show's nature of being a Massive Multiplayer Crossover with characters ranging from simple swordsmen to superhuman ninjas with supernatural abilities, to the full-on planet or universe busters. It especially comes up in Episode 6 when Tanjiro, Luffy, and Naruto find themselves massively out of their league against Aizen, Madara, and Frieza respectively in the duels with the villains, with the villains easily dispatching of them once they got serious (And in Frieza's case landing a One-Hit Kill on Naruto). Meanwhile, Ichigo, Yusuke, and Goku have to be ganged up on and outwitted or tricked into letting their guard down for the less powerful Orochimaru Pain & Kabuto, Akaza & Hisoka, and Vegeta & Aizen respectively, to have the chance to take them out.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: A Tranquil Fury variant in Episode 4, as after Orochimaru revives L, Light takes up the deal for the Shinigami Eyes, and proceeds to kill everyone in the Villain House that he passes by on his hunt for Orochimaru, not even bothering to hide the fact he's writing in the Death Note.
• Sequel Hook: In Episode 6, after the Downer Ending which seems to have sufficiently ended in the heroes' defeat, The Stinger shows those at the Cartoon House witnessing the aftermath of the Anime House's destruction on the news before being met by Itachi at their doorstep, along with a few of the surviving anime heroes, including Shinji and Denji.
• Show Within a Show: All of the shows exist in the Anime House universe, with characters even doing rehearsals (Deku attempting to practice the Delaware Detroit Smash) and filming (Goku and Vegeta acting for footage for Dragon Ball Super) for moments of their series. Though apparently, the characters aren't supposed to use the shows to judge people in the Anime House if Spike's interview in Episode 3 is any indication, as no one judges Light In-Universe for his actions in Death Note despite L's death that just happened.
  • Shinji Adventures, is apparently a fictional obscure live-action Netflix series in the Anime House universe where the Original Character Shinji comes from. Not many seem too fond of it, especially Yusuke.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Perhaps fitting for a Reality TV parody, Orochimaru and Pain both serve as this to each other with the duo (Plus the other Paths of Pain) constantly bickering, both constantly invoking Never Live It Down with Pain being spoken down by Naruto and Orochimaru being a protagonist in Boruto. It's to the point that when the duo are in a duel with Ichigo in Episode 6, the two are still snarking at each other.
• Sore Loser: The Anime House really didn't take their "loss" against the Cartoon House's invasion well. Hell, even the narrator for the recap of Episode 5 in the Season Finale says that the Cartoon House failed miserably when trying to get the Anime House's respect.
• Speak Ill of the Dead: In Episode 6, as Yusuke's in the middle of clobbering Akaza in the duel to take Yusuke's Dragon Ball, Yusuke, albeit with a bit of respect towards the incident, calls out how the hell Akaza managed to kill Rengoku in the demon's show when he's doing just fine against him.
• Spoiled Brat: Boruto ends up taking this role among the new anime protagonists, often calling for Naruto to back him up if the others aren't letting him join in due to the lack of respect he has going for him, with Naruto himself constantly trying to keep things going well for Boruto and saying people should be able to see that his son's show is just as good as his own.
  • To a lesser extent, Asta is this in relation to music, as despite having a ton of openings for Black Clover, whenever the music composer is around he just keeps demanding that the composer makes more opening songs for his show.
• Spoiler Title: The title of the OVA, Villains VS Gear 5 is pretty much a dead ringer that Luffy survived his battle with Madara.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: L, Light, Goku, Vegeta, and Yusuke clearly get the lion’s share of focus, causing basically everyone else to be left dwindling in the void.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • As seen in Episode 1, Goku's Blood Knight and Challenge Seeker tendencies tend to get on everyone's nerves as some of them are tired of always going up against him on a daily basis.
  • Everyone gets rightfully angry with Goku and Luffy for eating all of the food that took half a day to make.
  • The Generation of Miracles' one-sided victory over Yugi, Inuyashi, Mob, Ichigo, and Afro in a basketball game makes sense given that their show focuses on basketball while the other team aren't great with the sport.
  • Izuku losing Hisoka makes sense given the level of power and fighting experience he had up to that point while the latter has years of experience and greater and more versatile powers.
  • Talking Is a Free Action is averted with Sukuna knocking out Sailor Moon as she transformed.
• Theme Song Power Up: Subverted In the sixth episode, as Ichigo preparing to take down Orochimaru and Pain as he's backed by his theme song Number One, he gets cut off by Kabuto paralyzing him from behind, allowing for Orochimaru to kill him effortlessly through decapitation.
• Transformation Is a Free Action: Subverted with Sailor Moon, as Sukuna ends up knocking her out in the middle of her Transformation Sequence in Episode 6.
• Trash the Set: Episode 6 ends on the destruction of the Anime House with Madara performing his signature Colony Drop on it. Though as the OVA shows, the house was rebuilt as the New Villain House.
• Uncertain Doom: While Episode 6 ends with the death of numerous characters due to the duels with the villains and the Colony Drop on the Anime House, it's uncertain just how many of them actually died as a result of the villains' plan, or how many protagonists were at the Anime House during its destruction. The fact that some protagonists were still alive with Itachi does imply that some heroes weren't caught in the incident. And as the OVA reveals, Luffy survived his battle with Madara, so it's possible that other heroes may have survived their defeats as well.
• Villain Protagonist: The successful endgame of Light's plan, with the intention to use the Dragon Balls to grant protagonist status to all of the main anime villains after they took down as many of the anime heroes as possible. And as the OVA discusses, this comes with the hero protagonists' healthy dose of Plot Armor... But with the caveat of potentially reversing the roles of the Villain Protagonist and Hero Antagonist, Plot Armor included, as Robin discusses Light and L respectively.
• Wham Episode: Episode 6. Light's plan finally comes to fruition as The Anime House is destroyed and a major amount of heroes were killed off, the villains have Shenron grant a wish to make the villains the protagonists, and Itachi arrives on the scene with some of the surviving heroes to seemingly ask for help from the Cartoon House.
  • The OVA reveals two things: As a result of granting all villains Villain Protagonist status, Light has possibly swapped his role with L, unintentionally stripping himself of his Plot Armor, and Luffy survived what seemed to be his death to Madara, the episode ending with him invading the Villain House with Gear 5 activated.
• Wham Line: In Episode 6, Tanjiro is stuck in a hopeless battle against Aizen, until Tengen and Zenitsu manage to show up and seem to help turn the tide, even managing to impale Aizen from both sides. Until Giyu shows up, realizing something...
  Giyu: Tengen, Zenitsu?! Why are you fighting Tanjiro?!
  (Cut to the scene, revealing the two Demon Slayers have lethally impaled Tanjiro as a result of Aizen's illusions)
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: In Episode 6, the seven heroes (Goku, Ichigo, Luffy, Yuji, Yusuke, Tanjiro, and Saitama) protecting each of the Dragon Balls, along with Naruto, are caught in duels against the strongest characters from the Villain House. However, while almost all of them are wiped out by their respective opponent(s) (Or in Yuji’s case possessed by Sukuna), there's no word on what happened to Saitama or who he even fought in his duel, if he even fought one at all, with Misa taking his Dragon Ball from his room after he forgot to bring it with him.
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Upon reading a script for an Dragon Ball Super episode they're in the middle of filming (Against the wishes of the director), Vegeta is not happy about the script to say the least, let alone with Super in its entirety.
  Vegeta: WHAT?! I get beat by Cabba!? This is the dumb shit I'm talking about, they're always writing this shit!
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: Discussed In-Universe by Yusuke and the various anime girls about Sakura's relationship with Sasuke, with them trying to convince her that Sasuke doesn't care about his relationship with her, to not much avail.
• The Worf Effect: Expect this to be in play a good bit in some of the fights. Regardless of a character's status or powerset in their own series, it's still possible for them to be taken out by characters from other series. Even characters like Alien X and Vegeta find themselves in deep shit against Saitama.

Tropes in the animated series include:

• Adaptation Expansion: The animated series includes additional scenes that weren't present in Episode 5, including the physical appearances of other Anime and Cartoon characters that were only mentioned in the original web series or didn't appear at all. Furthermore, Word of God states that in the second core, the storyline will be a different one than Anime House.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Like with the original web series, nearly everyone in the Anime House looks down upon the Cartoon House to the point of Fantastic Racism. But the animated adaptation makes this much more explicit, to the point that characters such as Roy Mustang and Rin Okumura are portrayed as arrogant and haughty one-note bigots towards the Cartoon characters, a complete opposite to their canon counterparts who were against discrimination in Fullmetal Alchemist and Blue Exorcist respectively.
• Alternate Continuity: Word of God states that it originally started out as an animated version of Anime House, but with a few extra scenes. Then, it soon became its own continuity.
• Ascended Extra: In the original web series, Beast Boy was The Ghost. Here, he's one of the main viewpoint characters.
• Berserk Button: For Beast Boy, being looked down upon by the Anime House for being a Cartoon character is a sore spot for him.
• Bloodier and Gorier: Unlike the Bloodless Carnage of the original web series, the animated adaptation pulls no punches showing characters bleeding from wounds and more explicit violence.
• The Chain of Harm: One of the Central Themes of the animated adaptation. Many of the Anime characters dealt with tragedies and hardships involving abuse and they, in turn, whether actively or passively, pass this abuse onto the Cartoon characters through discriminatory and segregational policies. This causes the Cartoon characters to rise up and try to throw the abuse back at them, creating a Vicious Cycle of Revenge between them.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: While it's usually inverted with Seto Kaiba, he plays this straight with the "Crossover Festival"; barring the entry of Cartoon characters despite the implication that he made no such rule in the advertisement, and will ignore any complaint filed against him, including ones for refunds.
• David vs. Goliath: The Cartoon House vs. the Anime House.
• Did You Actually Believe...?: As Rin smugly puts it to Beast Boy, Danny, and Jack, they shouldn't be surprised for their denied entry to the "Crossover Festival", or even showing up to the event in the first place, since they're cartoons. He also does this again in response to Beast Boy's "threat" of forcing his way in, saying that if he believes that he could stand a chance against the Anime characters, who can literally kill him in the blink of an eye?
• Evil Laugh: Inverted. Both Rin and Mustang give this sort of laugh when hearing Beast Boy's seething suggestion of "forcing [their] way in the Crossover Festival" while changing into a rhino at the same time.
• Evil Versus Evil: While the Cartoon House is having their own war against the Anime House, Light and Madara are going up against the Villain House in the Anime House 6 RDC Special: The Menace of Madara Uchiha.
• Fantastic Racism: The discrimination displayed by the Anime Characters towards the Cartoon ones is much more explicit in the animated series, in which Episode 4 reveals that they would even exclude them from entering the "Crossover Festival". According to Beast Boy, it's the biggest event on the planet and yet, they still don't include cartoons, and worse of all, they won't give refunds for the Cartoon characters who already bought the tickets (especially with Seto Kaiba running the event).
• Festival Episode: Most of Episode 4 takes place during the "Crossover Festival" event that happened two months before Episode 1, and it shows all the Anime characters having fun and bonding with each other while also sparking the animosity of the Cartoon characters.
• Give Me a Reason: Although Rin looks down on Beast Boy as he denies him entry, it's implied that he's also intentionally riling him into attacking him first so he can administer a brutal and possibly fatal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in self-defense.
• Good Versus Good: The main conflict of the animated series is the Cartoon House invading the Anime House and trashing the place after being discriminated against for so long and hoping to prove their worth to them. At the same time, the Anime characters aren't truly bad as seen in episode 4, with the Crossover Festival bringing them together, putting their differences aside, and generally enjoying each other's company.
• Official Couple: Like in Sword Art Online, we have Kirito and Asuna.
• Punch Catch: Danny does this to Beast Boy to prevent him from punching Rin out of rage for being denied entry to the "Crossover Festival" and his taunts, as doing so would only end in a death sentence for them and Jack.
• Smug Super: The Anime House looked down upon the Cartoon House for being below them in strength, and for good reason given their usual feats. Even Danny points this out to Beast Boy in the teaser.
• Very False Advertising: Played for Drama in Episode 4 during the flashback. Despite the biggest event in the world being called the "Crossover Festival", Cartoon characters aren't allowed entry even though it's implied that no such rule officially exists in the advertisement. Oh, and there are no refunds for the tickets, which is bad luck for a Cartoon character who already bought a ticket.
• Vigilante Man: Like in the original web series, Robin, Aang, Ben, and Jack temporarily took this role in order to storm the Anime House for payback. Furthermore, Beast Boy is included in the group this time around.
• White-and-Grey Morality: The conflict between the Cartoon House and the Anime House runs on this narrative. The Cartoon House's grievances against Anime House are justifiable; from the lack of respect towards them and the discrimination they suffer from being barred entry into the latter house and the Crossover Festival, cultivating a vigilante group of cartoon characters to storm the Anime House and cause as much of a ruckus as possible as a way to earn their respect. On the other side, the Anime House isn't really the "bad guys" (as the Villain House exists) and is liable for self-defense as the cartoon characters are technically committing home invasion and assault.